Celtics-Mavs is “JV vs Varsity,” Caitlin Clark’s Team USA snub is an opportunity wasted | THE HERD

Celtics-Mavs is “JV vs Varsity,” Caitlin Clark’s Team USA snub is an opportunity wasted | THE HERD

I do not believe this is a difficult finals to explain number one it’s why I picked the Celtics in six uh they’ve got a much deeper roster especially offensively they just got more guys that could score 22 points secondly Kyrie is projecting that it doesn’t bother him clearly it does the fans in Boston are in his head he’s played like garbage the first two games another thing is the Celtics are hunting Luca this is one of the things we talked about before the series make Luca work on the defensive end he will eventually wear down I didn’t think he’d wear down by game two but he looks tired fatigued and beat up and porzingis when he’s healthy I’m sorry he’s just different he matters a lot this has become a one-man team Luca against a much deeper roster it reminds me of some of those LeBron James finals where he was overmatched the difference is Luc is not getting blamed LeBron always took all the heat the Celtics right now have five different players five averaging 16 or more Dallas has one you could walk into a YMCA and say see the talent disparity here the Celtics bigs Horford porzingis are just much more experienced and more skilled than the Mavericks bigs sometimes in sports you just get bad matchups even in the national championship we’ve seen it in college football a lot Denver Boston what everybody thought would happen didn’t happen because the Nuggets blew a 20-point lead in game seven that would be a great finals I mean to sum it up Luca had a bad second half yesterday just a bad second half more turnovers than field goals made and Dallas Circle the Drain Jason Tatum’s been off for two straight games in the finals and they’ve rolled in both it’s just different rosters Boston got a lot more dudes now the West has been deeper than the East for the last two decades or more but that doesn’t mean the best team can’t come out of the East I mean porzingis didn’t play at all in those playoffs in the East and they they rolled over everybody and I think if he was missing this would be a much more competitive series but it should be noted as much as Boston dominated the Eastern Conference regular season and playoffs they also had a record of 25- seven in the regular season against the West so they’re the best team best point differential we said this last week the NBA would prefer you not be able to do what the Celtics did which is add two excellent players to already two three really good players it feels lopsided it feels like a mismatch so if you go back and look at the playoffs you’ve seen sweeps gentleman sweeps and mismatches and the Celtics have been involved in most of them it’s got a very rock paper scissors feel to it Varsity versus JV they said this last week the Celtics are too good and Too Deep not to win at least one finals they’re a little too odd and historically weird to be a dynasty and by the end of next year Derek white they won’t be able to afford him I imagine uh you know porzingis is Health Drew holidays getting older but for this year this looks like easily the best team and next year my guess is they win it again in the East and meet the Denver Nuggets again but right now you’ve got yourself a mismatch The Bigs for Boston more skilled older defensive Wings Boston’s got more offensive fluidity Boston’s better it’s not close so a big story over the weekend Caitlyn Clark who is not one of the top 12 to 15 WNBA players did not make the Olympic team I hear that all the time but Christian lner wasn’t one of the top 100 players in the NBA and he made an Olympic team jayen Brown for the record is not on this Olympic team he’s one of the top 15 players he’s going to win Finals MVP potentially Diana terasi is not one of the 15 best players in the women’s game she’s making the team Olympic basketball team men’s and women’s has always been subjective and very Pol political at the end of the roster Isaiah Thomas didn’t make it why Michael Jordan didn’t like him to me it feels like an opportunity wasted when Conor McGregor came into the UFC there were Fighters over the last five six years who passed up immediate title fights to fight Conor mcgreer why eyeballs yeah um you don’t think when Tiger Woods had that 10 12 year historic run guys didn’t fight to be in his forsome eyeballs the WNBA finals had 700,000 viewers the draft that included Caitlyn Clark had three times as many I would make the argument like a Tiger Woods or a Conor McGregor in their Prime she’ll make other people money Beyond herself Rising tide lifts all boats instead of getting 7 million viewers you’ll get 14 to 18 with Caitlyn Clark maybe more the fifth sixth seven eighth ninth best player on the women’s Olympic team would make six or seven figures in endorsements the Women’s Basketball team does not lose in the Olympics I think they’ve won seven straight goals you probably didn’t know that because you didn’t watch and you would life whether it’s a relationship business Sports life gives you so few big waves when they do grab your surfboard Bryce Harper boxing’s never had another Muhammad Ali Tiger Woods Conor McGregor Caitlyn Clark I’m hearing all this rigidity I know women’s basketball I’ve covered the women’s Olympics Nobody Knows It Like Me Oh God you sound like an old baseball writer stop being precious stop being rigid stop telling us how much you know here’s what I know WNBA now is flying chartered flights she would triple the TV ratings again life doesn’t give you Sports doesn’t give you business doesn’t give you a lot of these kind of waves grab the surfboard she’s here for you by the way the NBA would die to have a domestic star nearly as popular as Caitlyn Clark oh wait they do Anthony Edwards they put on the team Anthony Edwards today is not as good as Jaylen Brown I think he could be by the end of next year and I think after the trade deadline I’ve said this he and wemi could be surging as faces of the league but an Edwards isn’t as good as Jaylen Brown now ant is unrefined he’s up and down he’s hot and cold Jaylen Brown’s great every night they found a spot for him on the team women’s basketball feels like it’s suffering from spite or historically low self-esteem where they want to prove that they know more than you do here’s what I know Caitlyn Clark would make all the other women on the Olympic team Money she’d make them more famous she’d give them opportunities they’d become potentially more household names it’s not just about Caitlyn Clark in fact I’d argue it’s very little about Caitlyn Clark it’s an opportunity wasted you go ahead and lecture us about how you know the game and you’ve covered the Olympics good for you but some stuff is business 101 this is a layup and you blew it it’s not a 360 it’s not a no look pass it’s not beating the Celtics this was a layup and you bricked it hi everybody it’s me Uncle Colin subscribe here to get the latest from the herd including exclusive behind the scenes videos and more wherever you may be however you may be watching 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The Boston Celtics are up 2-0 in the NBA Finals after a 105-98 win over the Dallas Mavericks. Jrue Holiday led the Celtics in scoring with 26 points, while Luka Dončić had 32 with eight turnovers. Dallas also shot 23.1 percent from three and Kyrie Irving is 0-for-8 from behind the arc. Watch as Colin explains why he is not surprised by this 2-0 start and breaks down how the Finals is a “JV vs. Varsity” matchup. Meanwhile, Caitlin Clark was notably snubbed from Team USA’s 2024 Summer Olympics roster. She later said that the decision added a “little more motivation” and reportedly told Indiana Fever coach Christie Sides they “woke up a monster.” Colin sounds off on the committee’s decision to not include Clark on its roster for Paris.

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