I have a change of heart, and now I feel like he's under the most pressure because he's the one without a ring.

Alright, I don't you know you're right, cause I didn't recall you saying that about why my bad look, the difference is co wise should.

There's pressure to get to the conference finals for sure, for kuai, but we just saw it last season and Loco I choked in Game seven that wasn't normal for him in the playoffs.

Get a very good playoff series, an excellent one.

Until then, it was Paul George who choked and have they done.

That's what Paul George has done throughout his career in the playoffs.

Have they added anyone that would change that?

We were all talking about?

What if they got Chris Paul?

What if they got Rondo right?

They didn't get any of that stuff.

No, they replaced Montrezl Harrell with Serge Ibaka.

That's nice, but that's not the kind of in addition that team needed to be considered the favorite.

Let's be honest about this, and you guys were saying because he's the best player on the team.

Hold on, time out.

K D.

Is the best player on a team that already had Kyrie and is adding James Harden.

He has to get to the finals.

Guys, you got to get to the finals.

Max.

Max, You know what?

You something else?

Because about a month ago, or maybe even less less than that you were just sitting up here, arguing me down, telling me how Serge Ibaka was a huge upgrade from my trash.

Harold.

Now you sitting up marginal, Always nice, marginal, a huge.

It's a huge, a marginal upgrade.

And by the way, LeBron James got a d right a d.

How did he play throughout the playoffs?

Like an M V P.

LeBron is with another M v P Co.

I'm not with another M V P.

Let's be honest, but guess what?

Que de not only has Kyrie, who's been a killer in the playoffs, he's got another M V p.

At least in the regular season.

No one else has a big three like Brooklyn.

You're gonna tell me that the best player on that team?

The team ah guy who joined already a championship team 73 win team to kind of reverse engineer his rings.

That dude's not under pressure.

Your your You know what, Max?

And here's my issue, you know?

First of all, you dissecting basketball with people who know more basketball than you.

That's nothing but number two.

And more importantly, this is the biggest thing that I'm gonna bring up.

Max, you're ignoring.

You're ignoring this.

You're ignoring the storyline in all seriousness, Max, you're ignoring the storyline and I get what you're saying about K.

Do you understand?

I get with Kendrick.

Perkins is saying even more about James Harden Koala, 29 years old man.

He's 29.

You calling out a cat?

That was 35 years of age at at the time.

What does LEBRON do?

He answers the call and delivers a chip toe.

L.

A.

And he's now They're the prohibitive favorite.

You still in town?

You think you've got Doc Rivers is out of there is no longer the coach.

Montreal's Harold is gone.

Okay, Lou Williams is on the bench last night.

I don't know why I gotta ask Ty Lue about that.

But I'm just saying we got a look at To me.

To not focus on Kawai is to completely let him off the hook about competing with LeBron.

We want that confrontation, Do we not?

Do we not want that confrontation?

Don't wanna hold up.

I want to see that I want to see oh, doubt, But we're talking about the most pressure.

And how can you?

On the day after James Harden is traded to Kevin Durant's team, who already has Kyrie.

How can you sit here and talk about I'm missing the storyline?

It's CO I Yeah, that is a storyline.

Kuai is not playing with another M V P caliber player.

They did not drastically address what the team needed to address that way.

First, you talked about a vocal leader of Floor General, but that's not what the Clippers did.

They had marginal improvement at power forward.

That's their big move.

James Harden's coming to Brooklyn off course.

That puts me coming to Brooklyn.

He's coming to Brooklyn.

But the focus is also on what koala?

I mean, sorry Kyrie Irving is going to do, and how is Kevin Durant gonna help manage all of that in L.

A.

It's about that Do ultimately going against LeBron.

I mean, enough, Enough.

I love Kawai.

Lending is a play.

I mean, my God, he's one of the people.

I want to see him against King James.

You said you were coming to take the crown, okay?

LeBron got the crowd.

Now you gonna get it?

Or what?

You gonna go after him or what?

What you're gonna dio?

That's what I want to see from Quad.

That's all I'm saying.

That's all I'm saying.

No.

And Stephen A You have You have a valid point.

But here's my thing.

If Katie Kawai, LeBron James, Anthony Davis, Kyrie Irving if they If those five guys decide toe, shut it down and retire tomorrow they're gonna be sleeping well at night with no regrets, because they have champion.

That's fair.

That's fair.

James Harden.

James Harden.

If he retired tomorrow, he's still gonna have that old.

But I got a report that he never won a title.

That I got a report that I got you and I respond by saying this is it possible?

Stay with me on This is it possible that James Harden and K D are flowing and then, potentially, Coop.

Kyrie Irving becomes a disruptive force at the most inopportune time, and it could compromise this success off course.

That's possible.

What?

Hold on.

What I'm saying is, there's no such thing in L.

A.

It's about Quad.

It's about It is.

Yeah, it is because the way just witnessed Paul George shut down on the Clippers last season and I don't wanna look, I don't wanna be deep into it because he said he was dealing with mental health, and that's a sensible way.

That was the first round.

But he addressed it and then came out.

It was boiling for the most part for the first few games against Denver before the collapse.

He said that in the first round, Yeah, but But Stephen eight.

They wouldn't have got through the first round if it wasn't for cool.

While I grew, I had one bad game because I had one bad game.

77 Game seven, Game seven.

Yeah, and they haven't made.

They haven't addressed the issue on the team.

The issue on the team is not Kawhi Leonard.

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