Early Statement For Bucks & Clippers, Excitement For Knicks & Thunder | The Hoop Collective
Brian Windhorst is joined by Tim Bontemps and Tim MacMahon to react to all of the Game 1 action from Round 1 of the NBA Playoffs, including the Thunder escaping a nervy game against the Pelicans in OKC, the Clippers’ complete dismantling of the Mavs, Dame Lillard’s 1st half masterclass, the Celtics dominating, the Nuggets shutting down the Lakers late, a coming out party for Ant Edwards and the Cavs looking good with Donovan Mitchell.
0:00 Intro
1:15 OKC Outlasts Pels In Entertaining Game 1
13:41 Clippers Dominate Mavs
27:38 Big 1st Half For Dame Carries Bucks
35:40 Boston Looks Like Too Much For Miami
39:40 Knicks Take Down 76ers
49:55 Nuggets Handle Lakers
57:23 Ant Edwards Breaks Out VS. Suns
1:04:55 Cavs Dominate Magic To Start Series
1:09:51 Thanks For Watching!
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Just me or there's no audio?
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It's amazing how people can be so close to the game and still have no understanding of it.
The passion with which everyone defends their viewpoints is admirable. It's clear that this topic resonates deeply with us all.🔥
Just like I said BEFORE bucks pacers game 1.
-the bucks defense has changed under doc. Losing record is due to vets conserving their health and also injuries plagued the 2nd half of the season.
-Whenever the bucks feel like playing they will win
-experience matters and there’s no shortage of experience in Milwaukee.
I have NO IDEA why everyone was taking the little fresh pacers. It’s laughable. I said it then and I’ll say it again; with or without giannis this is the bucks series.
I enjoy Windy and Bontemps chippyness
Bojan averages 20 pts a game? He cant get 15 pts a game? Mcbride has been averaging 15+ in his last 20 games, but hes not expected to score 15 – 20 ? Cmon now, its like they dont even watch basketball. Just yapping..
The "Lakers shouldn't avoid Denver take" I mean… I get the sentiment in wanting to beat the Nuggets but maybe you should've played OKC and the Clips/Mavs instead😂
Knicks were up by 5 when Embiid went down. Can we stop this narrative that the Knicks didn’t have momentum before he went down?
You guys went so far outta pocket with the Bucks analysis prior that it makes me happy that they smoked the Pacers. The season the Bucks had was anything other than perfect, but to essentially be erased out of contention, to imply that this team wouldn't be able to find the right chemistry, to take the Doc record outta context, to even miscategorize the stats when it came to defensive rating improvements under Doc, to place the blame on players who had no responsibility with the decisions made for the team and how the team was performing, to never give them credit when they performed well and instead imply the other team under performed, to be selective with the team stats you choose for your crappy narratives, and to downplay Giannis's individual season and his relevance for MVP and other in season awards, All NBA, etc, was extremely gross and makes it so rewarding to see them win and stick it to all of you. Hopefully, the Bucks win this series and at least make conference finals. Would love to see you all eat your words
How about you give credit to the Bucks defense for Tyrese only taking 7 shots? We trapped him and forced him left and essentially shut down a lot of what he wanted to do scoring wise. We improved defensively under Doc, especially when the team was FULLY healthy, and so we were not going to guard them as poorly as we did in the regular season under Griffen who had us unorganized, confused with the gameplan, and unmotivated to do so. Also most of the threes were NOT wide open. We closed out on a lot of those threes, and we choose who to leave open to shut down the paint. If you knew the scouting report, and actually did your jobs, you'd realize thay the guys who were left open were the low volume three point shooters who were not a threat, and anyone who is a MAJOR threat from 3 was closed out on aggressively. Our defense was fantastic, and you continue to take credit away from our team. You continue to be disrespectful and disingenuous
Zubac looked like olojuwan. Unprofessional effort from mavericks
These Bucks takes on these “basketball” podcast are are honestly laughable. To have implied multiple times that the bucks are a first round exit team and to think they are going to lose to the Pacers is just dumb to keep it as plain as possible.
Coach mark doin it right n not cutting down 2 a 6man rotation I get it but y wear your players down
Miami tries to take out the best player on the other team. Miami targeted Giannis last year with a dirty defensive play.
Thunder uuuup
The only reason Jokic didn’t get a triple double was his teammates missed so many excellent open looks, from his passes, in the first half.
Refs helped the Thunder looked bad . Horrible fouls
Pulling pascal when they were down 2point in the first quarter was pretty dumb he was the only pacer going shot for shot with dame
I like how they just dismissed how Clips were putting Luka/Kyrie in actions
The clear confirmation bias babble… If the team they picked to lose the series won game 1, its "theyll make adjustments and come out more aggressive" if the team they picked to win, won game 1, "series over"
Baldy smoking coke 😂😂😂 the sixers are done. In 5 and im being nice
You guys talking over each other the whole time is hard to listen to.