So to your point going into this Siri's, I think people would have had a conversation about whether Luca is above Paul.

George is the quote best player in the Siri's CO I first, definitely.

But then, where you would put Luca or Paul George?

Going into the Siri's might have been more question.

I know for the first four games we'll talk about that in a second.

What about around the league?

So if I was gonna say you had to win a game tonight, I'm not talking about building for the future.

You have to win a game tonight.

How many players are you taking ahead of Lucca?

Don t.

H?

Because he's a 21 year old in his first ever playoff.

Siri's.

And if you give me anything less than five or 10 guys Oh, no, I think you know.

Let's take K D and staff Clay.

Like guys that aren't in.

No, no, no, I'm just saying, Well, yes, because clay in game wins, we talked about Game six.

Plays don't get six plays.

That man has done some absurd thing.

He has made a lot of people taking him over anyone but my thing is this.

He hasn't facing elimination game.

He that was a very important win, but he hasn't facing elimination game, so I'm not being critical of him.

I'm just saying that he's still top five.

I think there's the bronze.

There's a co wise.

There's a few guys that you would take over him.

But he has yet to face an elimination.

Just saying, though, he's up there, I think I think based on your question, what's going on inside of the bubble?

There's not too many players that you would take over him.

There's obviously guys they're playing well.

Donovan Mitchell letter.

But it's gonna be hard to look over his heart, all right?

I do want to circle back to Paul George.

After struggling in Games two and three of the Siris in another rough day yesterday, guys scoring nine points, three of 14 from the field now, earlier today, Doc Rivers says that he wants George to shoot even Mawr quote.

I feel very confident about PG Scotty.

You weren't worried about Paul George when I asked you about him on Friday.

You were saying Just focus on the defense.

Are you starting to worry about him now.

Well, I'm still thinking that if he get his defense going, he'll be better offensively.

I think Luca Donkey is dominating him.

I mean, I don't think neither him or Kawai has taken on that challenge to say, Hey, we're gonna stop this kid, you know, using your files up, telling your big man's how to clog the lane.

I mean, to me, he passes the ball when he wants Thio.

And he's laughing at him when he passed it because it takes two or three of them to stop him.

E I completely agree with Scotty.

It's like he is by far the second best player in in this series.

Luca is Luca is and the if you're not shooting the ball well, just like all right, I'm playing defense nonstop.

Like my goal is to try and slow this kid down, cause I don't think anybody's gonna be able to stop him.

But Paul George right now it's either physical or mental or both, which is a bad combination if if you're not there mentally, you're not there physically, so I I don't know what it is.

Do I believe in Paul George?

Yes.

I believe it, and I believe that over the course of winning a championship, you're gonna have to three bad games.

Bad has foul trouble, but right now I think there's some mental aspects to it, and I don't know about physically, but definitely mental.

All right.

Scottie Pippen says that he can see Luca smiling of Paul George.

When Paul George comes to defend him, that's that's not what you want.

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