Name: Stephen A.: Blake Griffin to the Nets is a big deal | First Take
Uploaded: 2021-03-08T18:51:36.000Z
Duration: 4 min 38 s
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there are guys who reinvented themselves.

I don't know that Blake can do that on a level to make him a big deal.

But who he's replacing in this lineup, really, or when he's on the floor.

What you're really asking is, what premium does this version of Blake Griffin in a small ball lineup playing the five give you over?

You yourself said when they traded for James Harden, Where's your additional?

Big and your words were just a big body, just somebody that that can guard somebody in the front court that can rebound occasionally.

You said you got him, but but you got a guy in him that can also give you 20 or 25 to on sporadically.

And again if you are the number one of the number two option, which he has been throughout his basketball career and suddenly you're not even a third option.

Oh, by the way, because they got the they got lethal Weapon three in Brooklyn, and there's no way you can leave any of them alone you're literally talking about.

I mean, you're not the fourth option one because of how lethal KD Kyrie and James Harden is.

How did DeAndre Jordan and Blake Griffin's of the work?

People like to go ahead and shoot, cause we ain't leaving these dudes along.

I mean, think about think about what you're saying.

The whole point of my big body thing that the Nets need to make a deal by the deadline was on defense.

Blake Griffin's not gonna mean marginally, maybe just because of his, because he's big and strong, but he's not a defender.

And I'm not a really remember what I told you?

They can get the 23rd or 24th on defense, and they're good and what have they done?

I told you before, Brooklyn, that's the favorite to win it all.

You know, the Brooklyn Nets, and the only thing to me that could derail the Brooklyn Nets at this point in time, you can throw Anthony Davis is a possibility, of course, Anthony Davis.

Let me tell you something with or without James Harden, with or without Kyrie, as long as it's not both of them.

As long as you got one of them and k d with this crew, they're going to the finals.

And if you, if all three are healthy, Brooklyn's within the chip.

The way they got their defense together that quickly was like a miraculous, practically like what?

You went from the worst ever to kind of solid defensively in a couple of weeks without making a move.

Blake moves the needle a very little bit at this point in his career on this team?

Nothing you can't say definitively compared to what we're accustomed to seeing from him.

But we have to take into account the fact that you're you're on a squad that was going absolutely nowhere and you were never interested in being there to begin with and you were not motivated.

And now that you're with a championship squad buffered by a bomb squad and Oh, by the way, reuniting with your teammate in a media market because Brooklyn is still New York media capital of the world with and you've never won a chip, he's never even been to a conference finals break.

You know what Blake does, however, many minutes Jeff Green gives you in that position.

Whatever it's gonna be of Jeff Green level play, you're hoping I got news for you, Blake.

I like Jeff Green a lot, so when you say he's an extension of Jeff Green, I see no problem with it.

It's marginal improvement on the team because you get minutes from a big body, you can play some basket.

It's a big deal I think that I think that helps you win a series Instead of going six games, you sweep.

Well, what a drastic turn out of circumstances for Blake Griffin.

You got to be happy for the guy, and we talk about players constantly having to reinvent themselves.

Blake Griffin going to have to do the same with the Nets.

He has started every every regular season game of his career.

That's at 642 games, obviously, as well as reporting right now, that will not be the case with the Nets.

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