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Nerder, She Wrote with Dave DuFour, Seth Partnow and Mo Dakhil
Rundown
Refereeing in the playoffs. Too many flagrant fouls.
Golden State/Memphis
Both teams should feel lucky to be 1-1 in the series
Guarding Ja
Who starts for Gary Payton?
Klay expectations / Draymond a little sloppy
Desmond Bane injury
Mavs/Suns
Suns shooting is scorching hot
Luka was hunted on defense
Too much usage on offense?
Not a Brunson series
Dallas’ offense can’t target guys
Devin Booker defends
James Jones has been great as GM
Miami/Philly
Bam has been ridiculous
He’s supposed to be
Philly is toast without Embiid
Even if Embiid comes back
What is up with Harden?
Celtics/Bucks
Celtics offense no points in the paint, but does it matter?
Bucks defense struggling to run Boston off the 3 ball
Bucks offense
Can’t generate 3s
Middleton / Smart
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Andrew Schlecht and Law Murray discuss the 2 second round playoff games from Wednesday, May 4th, Heat vs. 76ers and Suns vs. Mavs.
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Former NBA'er Eddie Johnson stops by to talk to DA and Marcus about the Suns playoff run, stats vs wins and the MVP debate, and being real vs being on Twitter.
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Mo Dakhil and Dave DuFour recap a couple of Game 2s in the second round of the NBA playoffs. Ja Morant scores 47 to help Memphis even their series with Golden State. The Celtics respond to a poor showing in Game 1 with a crushing victory over the Bucks.
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Sam Amick, Fred Katz and Anthony Slater discuss the 2nd round of the playoffs including:
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Jared Weiss and Mark Schindler break down the top NBA Playoff games and stories from Monday, May 2nd. The guys talk about the Heat beating the 76ers in Game 1 and the Suns beating the Mavericks, despite Luka dropping 45.
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The Basketball Buds. Zach Harper, Tray Edwards, Jay King and Mo Dakhil.
Rundown:
— Bucks win Game 1. Change / thoughts about outcome? Smart status?
— result of Warriors-Grizzlies Game. Draymond ejection.
— preview Heat-Sixers. Embiid injury. Wtf Doc.
— preview Suns-Mavs
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Keith Parish and Dave DuFour recap the weekend in the NBA playoffs. On Friday, the Grizzlies punched their ticket to the second round by winning their series against the Wolves 4 games to 2. The second round started off with a Bango as the Bucks trucked the Celtics. In spite of Draymond Green's second quarter ejection, the Golden State Warriors manage to steal home court from the Memphis Grizzlies in game one of their second round series.
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Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers are joined by Antonio Daniels to discuss the Pelicans, Willie Green's job this season, Zion's status with the franchise, and BI's progress.
After a quick break, the guys are joined by Eric Nehm, Bucks beat writer for The Athletic, to discuss the Bucks Celtics series, do an NBA Playoff Team Draft, and then play another rousing rendition of Andrew vs. the Beat
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Rundown:
Memphis and Minnesota is chaos
Favorite things: Rudy Gobert bee sting "There’s a few things. It’s good for the environment, it’s good for the landscape, the flowers, the fruits. And I love honey, so I always wanted to have my own. It’s great. Sometimes there’s some casualties."
Draymond passing the ball off guys heads
Mutual respect in the playoffs Dallas/Phoenix similarities and differences winning without their stars
Matchups
Players who have changed our perspectives
Tatum is a dude
Jalen Brunson broke Utah’s defense
Herb Jones may have breakout potential
Brandon Ingram as a number 1 option
Can you trust D’Angelo Russell?
Donovan Mitchell was bad Steph back?
Jaren Jackson is a foul machine
KAT complains too much
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