Surprise Turnarounds and Struggles in NBA: Boston and Cleveland

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00:00Are you surprised Boston's last eight games?

00:08Are you surprised that Cleveland's in front of them?

00:11I'm more surprised Cleveland's in front of them just because I wasn't, I mean, Cleveland's

00:15always been good, but I didn't think Kenny Atkinson was going to have this kind of turnaround.

00:18I didn't think we were going to, I don't know that I ever thought we'd get this out of Evan

00:21Mobley where like he's an offensive force now, but I thought Boston might get bored

00:26with the regular season a little.

00:27As much as Joe Mazzullo talks about it and shows some animal videos or, you know, some

00:33lion hunting videos at the end of the day, man, like they're going to get motivated when

00:38the playoffs come, they'll look good then as long as they're healthy.

00:42But the combination of like they missed Brasingus for a while and the grind of the regular season,

00:47I just don't, I think they're, I don't want to say they're going to flip the switch.

00:51I just think their champions get bored.

00:54I think the Knicks are really good, man.

00:57And I think that Bridges is coming into his own.

01:00They've already got Kat and Brunson and Ananoby.

01:05And listen, if they ever play defense, they're going to be dangerous.

01:09That's going to be the trick.

01:10Right.

01:11And they should be better on defense than they are.

01:12Look, Kat's not a great drop back defender, how they're using him, but, and then we'll

01:16get Mitchell Robinson back at some point, knock on wood and like, hopefully they get

01:20back and back.

01:21But when you've got Ananoby and Bridges on the perimeter, you should be able to stay

01:25in front of guys better than they have been so far.

01:27I still think there'll be better on that end.

01:30And their offense is so good, Scott.

01:32They don't need to be great on defense.

01:34They just need to be, it's like Denver when they won, you just need to be good enough.

01:39How does this one throw you for a loop?

01:40Are you surprised that the Kings have fallen off like they have with Sabonis and Fox, et

01:46cetera?

01:47They were really tough and now they kind of suck.

01:51It's been surprising.

01:52And then they've been unlucky.

01:53They've lost.

01:54They've been really unlucky in close games, but I'm with you.

01:56Like they're not this bad.

01:58They're not like, I didn't think they were going to make some deep playoff run with these

02:01guys, but they're not like miss the play in bad with these guys either.

02:06And they're just, they're just in a streak right now.

02:08They're just losing everything to everybody.

02:11And in, it's hard in the West to turn it around, Scott, you and I've talked about this, that

02:15like the team's missing the plan right now, or like Phoenix and, and Sacramento, like

02:21it's going to be really tough to find the winds to turn this around, but they've got

02:25to find it fast.

02:26Cause they, they just don't look good.

02:28They just look off.

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