Kyrie Shines with 24 Points in First Half of Game 1

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:03 - Why don't we start, looks like we'll do Kyrie first

00:06 here, Scotty, very proud of his team

00:09 and the way that they performed.

00:10 Like you said, big first for him with 24 points.

00:13 Luca cleaned it up at the end, here's Kyrie.

00:15 - Yeah, I think JK's right.

00:16 You know, we didn't play our best game.

00:17 We had moments throughout the game where we looked

00:20 a little lackadaisical energy wise

00:22 and in terms of our rotations and they got in a transition

00:25 and they hit some big threes that we wanted

00:26 to take away from them.

00:27 So we have some correctables.

00:29 We have some things that we can talk about tomorrow,

00:32 but the object of the series is to get as many wins

00:35 as possible first to four while also respecting

00:38 your opponent, understanding that they're gonna give you

00:40 their best shot in game two.

00:41 So we did something great tonight,

00:43 but we didn't win the series and we understand that.

00:45 And we know that they're gonna be highly motivated

00:47 to beat us next game as they were tonight,

00:49 but it just wasn't their night, it was ours.

00:51 And we gotta continue to do the little things

00:53 that got us this win tonight.

00:55 - So I thought that he and his backcourt mate

00:58 were the show and I thought everyone else was on Minnesota

01:03 was relatively fair to Midland average, right?

01:08 Like I thought McDaniels played a good game

01:11 and then I'm gonna give average.

01:12 Towns was average, 16.

01:14 Gobert was average, 12.

01:16 Edwards was definitely average at 19.

01:18 That's not his game.

01:19 His game is 30 plus.

01:21 And then Conley was terrible.

01:23 Anderson had 11 and Reed had 15.

01:27 But to me, that's normal for Nas Reed, about 15, right?

01:32 So I think they played average basketball

01:36 for a game one of a Western final

01:39 to show up and play average is fairly weak if you ask me.

01:42 They showed up and played average basketball.

01:44 They didn't do anything exceptionally well

01:47 at all in that game.

01:48 At one point it was 102, 101, they were up,

01:51 but I thought overall they were really fair to Midland.

01:55 - And you also can't have this if you're Minnesota.

01:57 And I noticed this right away last night.

02:00 You cannot get outboarded by eight against Dallas

02:03 when you have Gobert and Kat.

02:05 You just can't.

02:05 You can't get out rebounded by that much.

02:08 Gobert has seven boards.

02:09 Yeah, that's just, you can't have Edwards

02:12 be the leading board guy on your team.

02:14 You gotta get more from the glass than Gobert, Scott.

02:16 That's why he's out there.

02:17 - I agree.

02:18 - He's out there to clean up the glass.

02:20 - But he is soft.

02:21 He's not a violent seven footer.

02:24 He's not a, he's not jokic.

02:27 And he's, you know, he's there, I think,

02:30 to get long rebounds and block shots and alter shots.

02:33 I'm scared to death when he shoots, which is rare.

02:37 And I'm also scared to death when he's at the line

02:39 with that funky ass free throw delivery of his.

02:42 He and Anderson have the two worst free throw shooting forms

02:45 I think I've ever seen.

02:46 (upbeat music)

02:49 (bells chiming)

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