NBA Finals Preview: Dallas vs. Boston Game One Insights

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00:00Let's go to Dallas and Boston first, Joe.

00:05Of course, Game 1 of the NBA Finals is tomorrow night, finally, in Beantown.

00:12And Luka Doncic, of course, will do the zinger first here, Joe.

00:15The zinger, Kristaps Porzingis, is going to be back for Boston.

00:20He has not played since early in round number one.

00:23He has been injured.

00:24He's been resting.

00:25But he is ready to go now.

00:28And he's got some history, as we know, with Luka and the Mavericks.

00:32We've talked a lot about Kyrie's history with Boston.

00:36What about KP's history with Dallas?

00:39Here is the zinger.

00:40I think it's going to be great.

00:41Oh, great.

00:42I've played there for two and a half years, and I'm happy for everybody in Dallas.

00:47Yeah, you're so happy.

00:48A lot of, like, great relationships I have there.

00:51Yeah, yeah.

00:52You're showing them roses.

00:53And, yeah, I cannot say, like, I think they deserve to, you know, to have some success

00:59like they've had this season.

01:03And it's going to be fun going up against my old team, going back to Dallas, playing

01:07some games there.

01:09So I'm looking forward to it.

01:11Yeah, OK.

01:12I hope we smash him.

01:14Smash him.

01:15That's a P.J.

01:16Washington.

01:17Get a body on it.

01:18Smash him.

01:19I can't say he's such a nice guy.

01:24Well, if Dallas is so great, then stay there.

01:26Why'd you want to go to Boston?

01:28You played your way right out of Dallas into Boston.

01:31To be fair, to be fair, Joe, Dallas ran, you know, they ran him out.

01:37He didn't want to be there probably, but they, I mean, they sent him to Washington of all

01:41places.

01:42I mean, that is the last place you want to go in the NBA.

01:45It wasn't like he was lightening up in Dallas, though, Carver.

01:48I mean, he was the best player.

01:50He had the same problems he's had everywhere.

01:53He don't play enough.

01:54That was his problem in Dallas.

01:55He never played.

01:56Well, hire a different trainer.

01:58Whose problem is that?

02:00Now, the stories of, like, once again, have been kicked around this week about how him

02:05and Luka didn't get along, right?

02:07Him and Luka didn't get along.

02:09Luka said yesterday, that's completely not true.

02:11I don't know why anybody would think that.

02:12I got along with him just fine.

02:14I got no problems with K.P., me and K.P. are tight.

02:18Believe that for whatever you want, Joe.

02:20But here is Luka, not talking about that, but talking about his Maverick team gelling

02:27together here in the spring and getting themselves to an NBA Finals.

02:30I always say that 2022 run, you know, we got great chemistry.

02:35We stayed together.

02:36And I feel the same thing with this team.

02:38You know, we've been together for five months, four or five months, and we made the NBA Finals.

02:43You know, like I said, it's been really hard.

02:46It ain't over yet, Luka.

02:47Don't start, you know, fighting.

02:48Like I said, we deserve this.

02:49We deserve this.

02:50And our chemistry is great.

02:51And we stayed together.

02:52Why are you getting on him?

02:53He's going to carry us home, Joe.

02:54Why are you getting on Luka?

02:55Kyrie's going to carry us home.

02:56Kyrie's going to carry us home.

02:57All of a sudden, he looks like Bright Lights, Big City.

02:58Hell, we made it to the NBA Finals.

02:59That's only half the battle.

03:00You got to win it now, guy.

03:01J.S.

03:02Jason Tatum.

03:03How it's like.

03:04You know, he's still trying to win something.

03:05Two players have added to the roster.

03:06in their playoff career.

03:07Luka is 9-1 to score 30 or more in every game.

03:08Now, me and you have that, Joe, for Kyrie, for 25, to score in

03:09every game.

03:10So, you know, we're going to win.

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03:57If Dallas wins and it's because of Luka, you'll be okay too, Joe.

04:02I'm just saying.

04:03You'll be all right, as long as Dallas wins.

04:05I know that you're loaded up with a lot of Kyrie stuff, but our main objective is getting

04:09Dallas across the line, isn't it?

04:11Isn't that our main objective here in these NBA finals?

04:14That's a quarter of the work.

04:18I mean, we have to count—

04:20That's a no.

04:21That'd be a no.

04:22Joe's—

04:23Yeah.

04:24He wants the Kyrie stuff.

04:25That's it.

04:26He wants the Kyrie stuff.

04:28Kyrie for me at 24-1.

04:29Yes.

04:30I want Kyrie.

04:31I have Kyrie for game one, 40-plus tomorrow night.

04:36Yes.

04:3740-plus.

04:38I think it's 25-1.

04:41This has not changed as I didn't think that it would.

04:43Six and a half and 214 and a half.

04:46That is for tomorrow night.

04:47Finally, game number one.

04:49Series has not changed either, Joe, at this point.

04:54As they're still going, minus 225 and plus $1.80 for the Mavs.

05:00We said last night, and I was saying to Coach before, the X-Acta, Dallas in six, which is

05:06at, I believe, plus—correct series result—Dallas in six, plus 400 now.

05:13I got it at five last week.

05:14It's plus 400, Joe.

05:15That's not bad.

05:16I like Dallas in six.

05:17I think that's it.

05:19Again, I know that in the regular season, Jalen Brown and Tatum made against Luka and

05:25Kyrie, but now all the chips are in the middle of the table.

05:28I sort of like Jason Kidd in terms of Missoula.

05:32We don't bring that up, I don't think, enough.

05:34I know Missoula beat Indiana, but there were some games he was a little spot—okay.

05:39All right.

05:40You're going to shake your head no.

05:44No.

05:45Here's why.

05:46Here's why.

05:47It's a similar thing as what I—kind of what I brought up with you yesterday with—what

05:51was it?

05:52Skinner we were talking about?

05:53Yeah, Skinner after the first series, the second series.

05:56The problem was they weren't tested in the first three series.

06:00Yeah, but I thought that he would get severely outcoached by Carlisle in the Indiana series,

06:08because Carlisle, obviously, been around a very long time.

06:10He's won an NBA title.

06:11I thought that he would run circles around Missoula, and it was actually, Joe, precisely

06:16the opposite.

06:17I thought that Carlisle did a bad job, especially late in the game in that series, and Missoula—now,

06:22maybe he was just autopilot, Joe, and he didn't have to do much, and Carlisle made the mistakes.

06:25If you want to say that, that's fine, too.

06:28I don't think there's that big of a gap between—in the coaching aspect, between Jason Kidd and

06:36Joe Missoula, and I also don't think coaching means as much, Joe, in this league, in this

06:42championship series, as it does in maybe some others.

06:44I don't think it's that big of a deal.

06:47You got the blueprint already written out.

06:49I mean, there you go.

06:50Yeah, play is play, Joe.

06:51Play is play.

06:52You got the answers to the test.

06:53I mean, why even take it?

06:54More in the NBA than anywhere else.

06:56I think it matters more in the NFL.

06:58You bashed Missoula.

07:00You were bashing Missoula for how long?

07:03All right.

07:04So now that we—

07:09The way that he outcoached Carlisle in the last series was impressive to me.

07:12I thought that he outcoached.

07:14I thought those players for Indiana were gutless.

07:16How about that?

07:17They were gutless.

07:19That's another way that you could look at it.

07:21I know they were gutless as well.

07:23Once they lost that overtime game, they were deer in the headlights.

07:27Big mistakes.

07:28Right.

07:29Big mistakes, but the players caved after game one.

07:32You know that.

07:33I think the coach means the least in the NBA.

07:37The least.

07:38I think having star players in the NBA is more important than having a star coach, as

07:43far as I'm concerned.

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