GET UP | “Joel Embiid is BEASTS OF East” – Perk warns Bucks should aim to avoid 76ers in playoffs

GET UP | “Joel Embiid is BEASTS OF East” – Perk warns Bucks should aim to avoid 76ers in playoffs

Ba let’s run the floor with Austin Rivers and Monica mcnut Austin I’ll start with you LeBron ad combined for 60 and a win over the Wizards the Lakers have won eight out of nine how far can this team go I mean this is exactly what we wanted

To see we wanted to see the Lakers play this type of basketball early in the season you look at their starting lineup numbers were spread out across the board Reeves Russell Davis hasim Moore and LeBron James rounding it out they were all dominant last night I don’t want to

Take too much from it they played probably the worst defense that I’ve seen in in 10 15 years the Washington Wizards are a team that you really go out there to get your confidence verse at this point but this is what we want to see on the Lakers side we want to see

This team compete and play at a high level and they are dangerous this is not a team you want to play first round in the NBA Playoffs M the last n if I’m telling you the Lakers are going to make things very interesting again in the Western Conference playoffs are you

Buying W one very not very very like we got to see what happens with the play and look if things ended right now they still have to win two games just to get to a series right and the series would be the Nuggets like you never know

That’s the point the Nuggets could end up anywhere from first to third everyone has to try and avoid them and right now you don’t really know how to do it meanwhile on the other side we know where the Celtics are going to wind up they’ve already clinched the one seed in

The East can anyone challenge them in that conference I don’t think so greeny this team to me they’ve been Far and Away the best team in the Eastern Conference you look at the way that they can play back basketball the versatility that Christof porzingis gives Jason

Tatum having an MVP caliber year I do not think that this is a fluke what’s going to be the key obviously is can they allow this to roll into their postseason play like do they continue to play with confidence and efficiency in terms of not letting series drag on yeah

Because they will be such high expectations I mean there always are with this team but obviously practically unprecedented in Austin I’ll set up asking you a similar question by showing you what happened with the Bucks again last night you talk about the Wizards and how that’s a team that everyone

Should beat up on well Milwaukee just somehow lost to them the other night and now they lose to the Grizzlies by 10 so Austin the Bucks are supposed to be the biggest threat to the Celtics in the Eastern Conference and they remain right now in the second position what is going on with

Them it’s a good question greeny um well for one Health you know last night they played Without Damen lard and Chris Middleton they will go nowhere in these playoffs if they don’t have their full roster if they’re not in full health uh secondly they have to get better on

Perimeter defense uh and even without those two last night they should have enough to beat teams like Memphis I know Memphis has guys that are playing hard and some young talent but we see teams all the time when we talk about the top tier teams whether it’s Boston Denver

Whoever if they have a guy or two missing even if they are key guys they’re able to go out there and get those big wins must wins and we’ve seen them drop too many games now this late in the season where it is a cause for

Concern you know we we need to see more consistency with them I don’t know who can rival Boston at this point I it looks like Boston is a Sho in again we got to see it in the playoffs we got to see him beat teams like Miami uh but I

Don’t know this is it’s not looking good to Milwaukee right now let me present you one possibility Monica and that is with a healthy Joel embiid they have six games left I will remind everyone that in games in which embiid has played this year the Sixers have the second best

Record in the entire NBA only behind Boston so am I sitting here telling you I would pick the Sixers to beat them in a best of seven series no certainly not and am I saying that’s the one I could see if you’re telling me right now

Someone’s going to beat them in a best of seven I think I’m leaning in that direction mcnut greeny and I’m leaning with you the boat might tip over cuz I agree and you look at Joel embiid and his return if he can use the next I

Think it’s eight games or so to get a lather and get good momentum and then he’ll have a series before he would run into the Boston stics potentially if that team gets back to the way that he was playing before the injury then yes that was the matchup that we were all

Anticipating the scenario that it it looks like it could give us now they have six regular season games left and then most likely the play in against Miami the 78 game if the Sixers win that game Austin it would most likely be a matchup between the Sixers and the Bucks

In that first round that is a terrible just a terrible way for things to work out I would think for Milwaukee and yeah imagine having a good season where you put a decent record together and you’re awarded by a Sixers team that’s been depleted but uh oh now

They have jool and beid back in the lineup I mean that is not the reward you you know you really want they’re dangerous they’re obviously a totally different team with jool and beid as you alluded to that is not a team you want to play first round at all uh Philly’s

Dangerous I mean it is what it is and Miami is always punches above their weight as well so whoever comes out of that 78 game in the East is not going to be a picnic meanwhile the biggest story in basketball right now clearly comes from the women’s college game and that

Woman right there Caitlyn Clark named the 2020 4 naith National Player of the Year yesterday it’s the second straight year she wins that honor this after Iowa of course clinches a spot in the final for on Monday the following morning I had Rebecca Lobo here and I asked her

About Caitlyn Clark and the Goat debate in women’s basketball she had a fascinating answer listen when you get into the goat conversation does she need to win a National Championship in order to be considered the goat I don’t think so I think she needs to win multiple national

Championships to be in that kind of a conversation because when you look at the history of the game you know Candace Parker won two championships at Tennessee Diana terasi won three championships Brianna Stewart won four national championships not only won four championships she was the most outstanding performer in four final

Fours Caitlyn has is an incredible player she has done more in terms of bringing attention and eyeballs to the women’s game than any player we have ever seen that’s a mere fact but when you want to talk about the goat conversation and you add chip I ships to

The mix you have to understand the history of the game certainly no one does that better than Rebecca Lobo but you do as well Monica so when you hear this and and obviously everyone delighted with the attention that this has brought to the sport but this is the

Kind of conversation that comes with all of this increased detention I love it let’s do it if she wins on Sunday if she if she knocks off Connecticut on Friday night and then potentially an unbeaten South Carolina on Sunday night the who been the best team in the country all

Year long if you come in on Monday morning will you say to me Greenie she is the greatest of all time I will say that she has probably had the greatest of all time college career college year I I can sink boil it down to one year I

Get what Rebecca Lobo is saying and don’t get me wrong in a vacuum you probably would take every single one of the players that she just mentioned over Caitlyn Clark but I do think something is very unique that’s happening in the women’s game that you have to acknowledge the last five years we’ve

Had five different NCAA championships on the women’s side you got to go back to 92 through 96 for the last time that happened and so so the players that she just rattled off are at these historically excellent institutions for women’s basketball and dominated the landscape for so long Greenie we have

Clamored for this idea of parody in the women’s game and even Gino Ora last night talking to our guy Scott Van pelp admitted that where we are right now is a beautiful place and there is more parody Kaitlin is doing this largely with no other All-American no highly

Ranked teammate Diana terasi oh she got to play alongside Subert Brianna Stewart oh yeah nefisa ker was on that team Candace Parker you could go down that roster and pick your highly ranked women’s basketball standout athlete so I think I do understand what Rebecca Lobo is saying and I think that is probably

Why some folks have bristled um a little bit in terms of this conversation because there is so much history and so much star power prior to this moment but when you look at the team that Caitlyn Clark is potentially pulling you’d be hard pressed to say that this is not one

Of the greatest runs in a goat type qualifier from a single individual it’s going to be spectacular you’ll see it tomorrow night she back on the floor against one of those traditional powerhouses you mentioned it and the head-to-head matchup with Paige Beckers the women’s final8 let’s run the floor

With Austin Rivers and Monica mcnut Austin I’ll start with you LeBron ad combined for 60 and a win over the Wizards the Lakers have won eight out of nine how far can this team go I mean this is exactly what we wanted to see we wanted to see the Lakers play

This type of basketball early in the season you look at their starting lineup numbers were spread out across the board Reeves Russell D hasim Moore and LeBron James rounding it out they were all dominant last night I don’t want to take too much from it they played probably the worst defense that

I’ve seen in in 10 15 years the Washington Wizards are a team that you really go out there to get your confidence verse at this point but this is who we want to see on the Lakers side we want to see this team compete and play at a high level and they are

Dangerous this is not a team you want to play first round on the NBA Playoffs eight out of the last nine if I’m telling you the Lakers are going to make things very interesting again in the Western Conference playoffs are you bu f w one very not very very like we got

To see what happens with the play and look if things ended right now they still have to win two games just to get to a series right and the series would be the Nuggets like you never know that’s the point the Nuggets could end up anywhere from first to third everyone

Has to try and avoid them and right now you don’t really know how to do it meanwhile on the other side we know where the Celtics are going to wind up they’ve already clinched the one seed in the East can anyone challenge them in that conference I don’t think so greeny

This team to me they’ve been Far and Away the best team in the Eastern Conference you look at the way that they can play basketball the versatility that Chris as porzingis gives Jason Tatum having an MVP caliber year I do not think that this is a fluke what’s going

To be the key obviously is can they allow this to roll into their postseason play like do they continue to play with confidence and efficiency in terms of not letting series drag on yeah because there will be such high expectations I mean there always are with this team but obviously practically unprecedented in

Austin I’ll set up asking you a similar question by showing you what happened with the Bucks again last night you talk about the Wizards and how that’s a team that everyone should beat up on well Milwaukee just somehow lost to them the other night and now they lose to the

Grizzlies by 10 so Austin the Bucks are supposed to be the biggest threat to the Celtics in the Eastern Conference and they remain right now in the second position what is going on with them it’s a good question greeny um well for one Health you know last night they

Played Without d lard and Chris Middleton they they will go nowhere in these playoffs if they don’t have their full roster and if they’re not in full health uh secondly they have to get better on Perimeter defense uh and even without those two last night they should

Have enough to beat teams like Memphis I know Memphis has guys that are playing hard and some young talent but we see teams all the time when we talk about the top tier teams whether it’s Boston Denver whoever if they have a guy or two missing even if they are key guys

They’re able to go out there and get those big wins must wins and we’ve seen them drop too many games now this late in the season where it is a cause for concern you know we we need to see more consistency with them I don’t know who

Can rival Boston at this point I it looks like Boston is a shing again we got to see it in the playoffs we got to see him beat teams like Miami uh but I don’t know this is it’s not looking good in Milwaukee right now let me present

You one possibility Monica and that is with a healthy Joel embiid they have six games left I will remind everyone that in games in which embiid has played this year the Sixers have the second best record in the entire NBA only being behind Boston so am I sitting here

Telling you I would pick the Sixers to beat them in a best of seven series no certainly not am I saying that’s the one I could see if you’re telling me right now someone’s going to beat them in a best of seven I think I’m leaning in that direction mcnut greeny and I’m

Leaning with you the boat might tip over cuz I agree and you look at Joel embiid and his return if he can use the next I think it’s eight games or so to get a lather and get good momentum and then he’ll have a series before he would run

Into the Boston Southeast potentially if that team gets back to the way that he was playing before the injury then yes that was the matchup that we were all anticipating the scenario that it it looks like it could give us now they have six regular season games left and

Then most likely the play in against Miami the 78 game if the Sixers win that game Austin it would most likely be a matchup between the Sixers and the Bucks in that first round that is a terrible just a terrible way for things to work out I would think for

Milwaukee and yeah imagine having a good season where you put a decent record together and you’re awarded by a Sixers team that’s has been depleted but uh oh now they have jool and beid back in the lineup I mean that is not the reward you you know you really want you they’re

Dangerous they’re obviously a totally different team with Joel and beid as you alluded to that is not a team you want to play first round at all uh Philly is dangerous I mean it is what it is Miami is always punches above their weight as well so whoever comes out of that 78

Game in the East is not going to be a picnic meanwhile the biggest story in basketball right now clearly comes from the women’s college game and that woman right there Caitlyn Clark named the 2024 naith National Player of the Year yesterday it’s the second straight year

She wins that honor this after Iowa of course clinches a spot in the final four on Monday the following morning I had Rebecca Lobo here and I asked her about Caitlyn Clark and the Goat debate in women’s basketball she had a fascinating answer listen when you get into the goat

Conversation does she need to win win a National Championship in order to be considered the goat I don’t think so I think she needs to win multiple national championships to be in that kind of a conversation because when you look at the history of the game you know Candace

Parker won two championships at Tennessee Diana terasi won three championships Brianna Stewart won four national championships not only won four championships she was the most outstanding performer in four final fours Caitlyn has is an incredible player she has done more in terms of bringing attention and eyeballs to the

Women’s game than any player we have ever seen that’s a mere fact but when you want to talk about the goat conversation and you add championships to the mix you have to understand the history of the game certainly no one does that better than Rebecca Lobo but

You do as well Monica so when you hear this and and obviously everyone delighted with the attention that this has brought to the sport but this is the kind of conversation that comes with all of this increased attention I love it let’s do it if she wins on Sunday if she

If she knocks off Connecticut on Friday night and then pot in unbeaten South Carolina on Sunday night the who been the best team in the country all year long if you come in here on Monday morning will you say to me Greenie she is the greatest of all time I will say

That she has probably had the greatest all time college career college year if I can s boil it down to one year I get what Rebecca Lobo is saying and don’t get me wrong in a vacuum you probably would take every single one of the players that she just mentioned over

Caitlyn Clark but I do think something is very unique that’s happening in the women’s game that you have to acknowledge the last 5 years we’ve had five different NCAA championships on the women’s side you got to go back to 92 through 96 for the last time that

Happened and so the players that she just rattled off are at these historically excellent institutions for women’s basketball and dominated the landscape for so long greeny we have clamored for this idea of parody in the women’s game and even Gino Ora last night talking to our guy Scott Van pelp

Admitted that where we are right now is a beautiful place and there is more parody kin is doing this large with no other All-American no highly ranked teammate Diana terasi oh she got to play alongside Sue B Brianna Stewart oh yeah nefisa klier was on that team

Candace Parker you could go down that roster and pick your highly ranked women’s basketball standout athlete so I think I do understand what Rebecca Lobo is saying and I think that is probably why some folks have bristled um a little bit in terms of this conversation

Because there is so much history and so much star power prior to this moment but when you look at the team that Caitlyn Clark is potentially pulling you’d be hard pressed to say that this is not one of the greatest runs in a goat type qualifier from a single individual it’s

Going to be spectacular you’ll see it tomorrow night she’s back on the floor against one of those traditional powerhouses you mentioned it and the head-to-head matchup with Paige Becker the women’s final

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