GET UP | “Golden State is a playoffs threat”- Tim Legler breaks Warriors shut down Doncic, Mavericks

GET UP | “Golden State is a playoffs threat”- Tim Legler breaks Warriors shut down Doncic, Mavericks

And here it is again which team won the NBA championship in the only year that both the Lakers and Warriors missed the playoffs going to go with the percentages of teams that won a ton of titles I’m going to go with the Boston Celtics this is a straight up guess the

Boston Celtics is a good guess for that reason it isn’t correct however the answer is San Antonio in 2005 that was the year after Phil Jackson Sha Gary Payton and car Malone all left the Lakers the Lakers in Golden State tied for last in the division that year at 34

And 48 Duncan and Company won the championship it’s hard to believe because with Kobe you didn’t expect the Lakers to ever miss the playoffs in that run well they would of course regroup and win two more championships down the road okay let’s watch uh the Warriors

Here from last night how about you want to see a little fun before the game starts Allan how about Luca donic and Steph Curry trading pregame half court shots can we replace the dunk contest with this at all-star weekend because the stuff you saw Lucas shoot one off

The scoreboard in Houston a couple of nights ago this would be more fun to watch than the dunk contest has ever been yeah then they’re arguing playfully over whose shot was actually longer all good now nine minutes to go in the game Mavs down by nine Luca had 30 12 and 11

Luka magic and as the Warriors looked like they were going to roll to a win he kept putting pressure on them Steph Curry didn’t have a great game but he had a lot of help from others including Draymond Green who really had a terrific game defensively this right here is a goalen

Though it is a good attempt but a goalen and watch watch this block right here from Draymond Green Chris Paul called it one of the greatest defensive plays he’s ever seen catching him on Gafford going for what should have been an easy two on a dunk and Draymond flexing that’s good

Draymond for the I mean after the week he had last week he’s played so well there he is driving he had 11 points eight rebounds six assists four steals a typical Draymond Knight uh and and typical perhaps only for him and so Chan I mean the Warriors are the most

Expensive roster in the history of basketball and they have one of the greatest players in the history of basketball and Steph Curry but they’re fighting just to stay in the play in do they constitute any significant threat in your mind when the playoffs begin look playin versus playoffs first

The Warriors have to be a threat in the playin which is crazy to say but this season they’ve really been playing with five here being in the playin is a recipe to get burned because pulling off what the Miami Heat did last year is easier said than done now you never bet

Against Steph Curry and last night they looked great if you watch the game Draymond was back to defending on one end pushing in transition applying pressure on the rim Wiggins their X Factor two years ago when they won the championship giving you 23 points but the only thing that has been consistent

About this version this iteration of the Golden State Warriors is that that they’ve had inconsistent performances by players not named Steph Curry yesterday I Got Confidence but the confidence is only in the playin and you’re going to have to string together multiple wins to get to the playoffs yeah one more thing

To add to that sure even if they get to the postseason the actual playoffs they are one in 10 against the top three teams in the west so they have not fared well against those teams to be a threat in the playoffs you got to be able to

Beat some teams especially get out of the first round and the matchups tell you they will not there are going to be some big decisions to be made in Golden State whenever it is their season comes to an end meanwhile let’s run the floor through the NBA Chen LeBron had 23 last

Night Lakers beat the Raptors they’ve been hot are you buying the Lakers as legit in the west look as we just mentioned you never bet against Steph you also never been against LeBron James who shot 83% from the field last night and they have finally found a strong starting lineup

Now the West is Saed the Lakers can play defense they can win a round or two they can win in the play but honestly everyone is just right now trying to dodge the nuggets as long as possible well last night wmi didn’t dodge Nicole yic or the nuggets and while Denver won

What was a close game wanyama was spectacular you see the statline on your screen against joic is is he getting close to being in the MVP conversation I don’t mean for this year no not this year but I think it’s close I think within two years you can hell be in the

Conversation just based on the numbers he’s putting up look at his All-Star break numbers since then he has put putting up a stat line that we haven’t seen since Kareem back in 79 and to me that’s what’s going to put in the conversation the Spurs have the assets

And the ability to build a a winning team around him which then puts him in that conversation in the meantime we see the Wizards last night inexplicably beating Milwaukee a Milwaukee team that has been awful on the road this year and that is an inexcusable loss listen to their coach after the

Game we don’t bring the necessary um professionalism seriousness on the road um and and that’s something that we can fix um that’s something we’re going to have to fix I’m sorry wait a minute what we don’t bring the necessary professionalism on the road seriousness

And in the final week and a half of the regular season with a team that has Championship aspirations and also a team that hasn’t locked up second place yet it’s one thing if you’ve already got that spot locked and you’re kind of just you know going through the motions

Because you know you’re locked in two they’re not the Cavs I’ll tell you what if not for the injuries for the Cavs and the Knicks the Bucks would be in fourth place in the East that’s a legit thing I mean they are up one game over 500 with

Doc Rivers as the coach they have not been playing a like a house on fire so if not for injuries they’d be a fourth place team in the East so they are in second but they aren’t there locked in the Cavs are only two games back of them

And when you talk about professionalism and seriousness and being 18 and 20 on the road that’s leadership throw another one at you if Joel embiid hadn’t gotten hurt they might have the fif best they would have the fifth best record in the East that said they have yanis DMO and

They have Dame Lillard and they they have an experienced veteran coach in in in Doc Rivers is this a team that you think is a legitimate threat to Boston in a seven game series CH look when you have two of the better players in the NBA you always have a

Chance and I’m talking about Giannis and Dame but as you were talking to Allan I was kind of laughing because I feel like the Bucks they have been playing with their food they ate it but they still have been able to remain skinny and be at that number two seed it’s like how

Does that make it make sense to me it’s wild the Bucks have been playing to the level of their competition and the NBA at this point is too deep for one star to save you I mean without Dame there’s still no answer for Giannis putting up a

35o triple double and but there is though an answer for an entire team that can’t get back on defense they struggle in transition defense and to me that is the carinal sin of defense and that’s something that coach Doc Rivers was brought to fix and so I think he’s right

Professionalism if you go out there you’re expected to do those things when they fall below the standard still remaining at two has been like wild to me they going need to get a whole lot better 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 fascinating Insight

From one of the great players of all time and one of the great Champions and so here’s Cho gumuk herself one of the great players in recent college basketball memory so how about that there were so many people look again 12.3 million people watched the game the

Other night with when and you and Andrea and El sitting there uh you know hosting the coverage and everything and that means there were a lot of new people who are coming to the sport who don’t know much about the history of it so when they say hey Chan is Caitlyn Clark the

Best player ever what is the answer I will say respectfully no and that is not to disc credit what Caitlyn Clark has done so far but as Rebecca mentioned through my personal experience as someone who has played against Diana terasi countless times who has played against Candace Parker who changed the

Culture by dunking in the tournament mayam Moore literally the hardest player in my career that I’ve ever had to guard and defend and Brianna Stewart who beat me in my final final four game in route to four national championships respectfully Caitlyn Clark is not the greatest player of all time but she does

Have an invite to the conversation if she wins a championship but she is absolutely the greatest most prolific scorer the college game has ever seen she is an offensive Juggernaut the greatest three-point shooter the women’s game has seen in college and she is a beneficiary of the game that has been

Changed by the likes of Steph Curry and she’s applying that in a very similar way to the women’s game but right now respectfully know and guess what that’s fine because she is the most impactful player that we have seen in generations and that might actually matter even more

Yeah the evidence of that was on display with among other things the television ratings and and and maybe the beginning of something that has been completely uh different from what we had seen in the past so that that said do you think she gets it there were a lot of Skeptics

About this Iowa team and whether they would even get through Colorado and certainly whether they would get through LSU now they’ve got to play Yukon and then we would assume if they get there unbeaten South Carolina do you expect IA to win this thing and put her in that

Discussion do I expect Iowa to win this thing now two rounds prior I was very nervous I said that they were in the danger zone because teams that rely on one star player she accounted for 71% of Iowa’s points versus LSU those teams typically do not win but this matchup

Versus Yukon is spicy because of what coach Gino arama said he said he believes that Paige in some ways is better than Caitlyn now that’s the right thing for your coach to say but why does coach Gino think so it’s because Paige is scoring and rebounding and assisting

Plus has a post game which differs from klin’s you know typical threes and layups which he expertly crafts on a night toight basis but still if Caitlyn were to beat a juggernaut in Yukon perennially that we have seen the last 10 to 20 years and then beat an

Undefeated South Carolina that invite to the greatest of all conversation like that’s delivered at her at her house not saying she is but she has done tremendous things that have inspired winning I I’m with you that that would be an unbelievable way to cap what will

Be one of the great careers in the history of the sport no matter how you slice it all right stay Spee spee Spee [Applause] Good Now go Ahead Yeah Spe Spee Are Y Oh Spee spee he Let me check got my for time to be kid yeah for told

GET UP | “Golden State is a playoffs threat” – Tim Legler breaks Warriors shut down Doncic, Mavericks