Chris Broussard on Harden and CP3's Rockets ready to challenge the injured Warriors | UNDISPUTED

Who is the biggest threat to go to state in the West? The West, like you said, the West is phenomenal. This reminds me of Oh 809 when AC to Denver 150 games. I mean, that's how good the conference was and that's how good it is now. I mean, Utah is the fifth seat they've won nine in a row, 21 of 23, when you mentioned Portland, we know where OKC pushes San Antonio to seventh if they get Kauai back, it's a big seventh seat, well that's important if Minnesota it's probably a guy Jimmy Butler says he hopes to be back maybe before the playoffs even start, so if they finish eighth or seventh, whatever it is, the West is a monster, so I think the first round, the second round , Golden State will have some problems.

No, I don't want to say problems, they still win, but I think they're going to have a very difficult series mm-hmm Portland if they get caught in the second round because Lillard all the point guards when they go against things because they? It's like everyone says he's better than me, but he doesn't even try to defend me on the defensive end, so they come at him hard. Kyrie had that mentality. I know Lillas had that mentality, so I think it's going to be a tough series, but I'm sticking with all this, I said the Houston Rockets are still the biggest threat to the Warriors.

Here are some reasons why one is rated the best offense in NBA history, number one, the other, the next three Showtime Lakers 87 won a title the last. The Warriors of the year won a title, Jordan's Bulls and I think '92 won a title, so it's a good time for this is not your typical Mike D'Antoni, no running, shooting, type defense team, his eighth in the league in defensive efficiency, we know they're pretty good, they're just slightly behind Golden State, you know, at that rim and then their pace, their pace is 14th in the league, not only are they playing at this breakneck speed, 14th in the league, I think that will bode well. them in a playoff when we know it slows down, I think when teams try to take away the three of them and make them drive with Chris Paul, now you have a mid-range shooter, so it won't be that we don't know what we have to do. go to the rim or we shoot a three, he can shoot from mid-range, it's ten and three against the other first five or six first classified in the West.

I mean, this is a legit team, I think they would do it. It's going to be a problem for the Warriors even if the Warriors don't have health issues, so definitely with the Warriors banged up, I think Houston has a great chance. That's my point: the Warriors helped, it's the biggest obstacle now if I have to pick a team I agree with. You, I'll take the Houston Rockets because they can play defense. Chris Paul can play defense with your point guard. PJ Tucker plays defense. Trevor Ariza plays defense, so they got three of the five capellas.

Okay, he'll block some shots. He would protect the rim he's not no he's not Anthony Davis but he's a solid defender around the rim he makes you alter your shots but when you get in the game this is what you know about them they're going up 33mm they get up I'm going to go down but in the regular season they are getting forty a game, they are winning fifteen. I still think when playoff time comes they will go up 33 and be between 10 and 12, but 12 3 makes 12 3. night in the playoff game, you make it very difficult for your opponent, not so good, Portland plays a damn incredulous, Lillard, when two guys jump, they have two guys who scored 50 points in less than 30 minutes on the roster.

CJ McCollum can go. Dame Lillard is finally starting to get the recognition she deserves, she's a superstar, easy, I'll come see you, we'll find you back, we'll keep going, I'm pushing you, you're going to go take me, she needs to win something in Portland. LaMarcus Aldridge left him. I'm glad you're going, yeah, so don't think that if Golden State was completely healthy, oh, not really, Houston wouldn't have a chance, no, I have a chance, I give him a fortune, he cares about time if the word Now it's cut like this, oh, them. I could make it easy easily it couldn't be it could be the other way around it could be five one if the words are hit because you know a long time that's going to be okay these ribs I mean what it is is it's real real bone for me you see that's Kenny, yeah, It was raining the other day, I had an umbrella and galoshes, I'm soaked, he's standing on the clothesline, not a drop of water, that really happens, yeah wow, why did you take a photo of the biggest canoes submerged in gum?

Turn biggest concern for me, there goes, skill, but I know who is not a threat. There is a team that plays in Riverwalk, they are no longer in RIT because their daughter team did not clarify it anymore. Her doctor did not clarify it. If you were ever right, you'd be in trouble because Golden State would be in trouble for the way my team just blew the last three games and stayed there in that seventh place, oh you, Lamarcus Aldridge, you jump on the bandwagon to get into the solid different of Denver, yeah, me. I don't know what to say about it, you know, I just smell it in the air, it smells like rain because I think of a storm and I feel it in my bones.

I think it will be Russ' revenge this year. I think everything is set for Russell. Westbrook will break the way Kevin Durant broke through a year ago, so the last NBA Finals posted that he was back in his small TV room watching Sister Act. Well, KD was proving that he was now the best part , I wasn't showing it. This could be a brother act right now for Russ because this could be his turn, one of the old, you know, brothers, the ex-brothers that he and KD were for a long time, it was a good run together, but he was just doomed to failure.

I started because KD just wanted more shots and adopted a style in a system he loves. He now he has fractured ribs. Clay has a broken thumb and as you know, the injury gods often just dictate what will happen and they dictated that to LeBron. before he lost, obviously, loving Kevin and Kyrie and the overtime of the first game. Just every time I see the Thunder play a good team, they don't play well, they played very well, they went up a level and yesterday was impressive because Toronto has been on a roll and you mentioned it last week, they're just better than they were, they added something that they don't have Van Vleet right now and he's been very good off the bench, but he's been great, yeah, but, again.

For the Thunder to get in there and then sweep it during the year is impressive and they beat Golden State by 17 at home and then they went to Gold State and beat them by 20. I know they're different times of the year, but I beat Houston by five on Christmas Day again, that was in Oklahoma City, then they put a hundred and forty-eight on LeBrons team before the trades came, but you still see the explosiveness and Utah is really what I've been trying to tell him all year . Utah is legitimately a threat to someone right off the bat, so someone is going to have a hard time with you, yeah, they're going to win a game with two and get excited because they're good and Oklahoma City is three of four against them, so right now they would. play in the first round no, I wouldn't be mad if this was Russ' revenge.

I mean, I think it would be exciting, it would be a great story, it would be great for his legacy because you know there is a myth to this narrative. Now that, oh, he's just this Allen Iverson, his height amazes me, you know, kid, but they can't win, this is what I see, if OKC could get to Golden State, you know, maybe it would have to be the Finals conference, yes, if they could do it. them for the conference finals, I think they will be a legitimate threat because they would have momentum, they would be playing well if you look, you mentioned you're right, they played very well against some great teams, but there are nine and twelve total against the playoffs. teams in the West, so my concern for them would be the first round, maybe the second round, some of you al

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know, Utah or someone like that, wait, maybe they will get to that day, this is what happened lately, obviously they lost Roberson and suddenly they got a player back from the Lakers' scrap heap in Cory Brewer are six years old and Oh, since he joined their starting lineup he's six nine, he's long, he's smart, he's around sixteen, he's one one of those guys who knows how to play on both ends of the floor because he can cause you some problems on defense and averages 14 per game on offense, which obviously Robertson just couldn't do for you.

He is hitting fifty percent of his three-point shots since he joined Oklahoma City. It's just a boost, they're getting some veterans. a smart tough guy who plays, he's a tough guy and he fits well in this group because they know he knows how to play and all of a sudden what Russ has now that he didn't have last year and I don't love where he is. The games are Melo and Paul George right now, but they have prestige, they have star power when they walk the court, all three of them know, you know, Melo has been to ten all-star games and Paul George has been to five, they have prestige. with each other like they know we know how to do this, we've done it before.

Melo shoots 36 percent of his three-pointers and is all a spot-up shooter, but for him that's pretty good, you should be glad they're not what they are. used to because this would never have worked this would never have worked Carmelo Anthony from the Nuggets Carmelo from the next no Paul George Paul George went to another team normally when you go to another team and there is a superstar, you automatically take a backseat because that's what LeBron he did it when he went to Miami and is willing to take a backseat until other ways they brought you much better than me, you need to drive an hour for the cat to see and that's what they got.

No, I didn't know I cheated on LeBron. What LeBron did he wanted nobody's feather ruff, but we could see it mmm well, you're probably an interesting point in this whole conversation about LeBron's decision this summer. You have to think about this when you make this decision. You can't make a dynasty. I mean, he saw it. in Miami they were thinking not five, not six, and I said they won two, which was good, but still, in 43 hours, it has happened to me, yes, Golden State, now I mean, we thought that Andrew Durant there could win Who knows how many and maybe they will go ahead, but it will never be manufactured.

These other things have improved now, so he's clear, let me tell you what's going to happen. I know what's going to happen, I predicted it. DeAndre Jordan is coming to Cleveland and LeBron isn't moving anywhere. DeAndre Kevin low in save we will have to get rid of jr. Sorry, we have to get your cell phone off the throne. Well, they take DeAndre before this final. I don't know, so how are they going to deal with Steven Adams in the next finale? All of you will not be in the final. He will be in all of you, yes, well, OKC Thunder will not be in the finals, the war.

Adams, you realize he's having a career, he's a monster, fourteen-nine shots in his career, 64% of them coming from the field, which is better than any of the 120 players that. I've taken 600 more shots, he leads the league, yes, in shooting, warm up, jump, you have 17 brothers and sisters, yes, he's supposed to win the gold medal and lipids in the shot block Valerie Adams, well, so y'all, I'm big like him or a fan, he might be the smallest woman, it's true mmm, but don't worry if he states my case, don't worry, jump, don't worry about him, we got some, first of all, you have in the West, go and I say I have to go eat steak, but I need it to be healthy.

I think so, the way things are looking now, I've got a full truck or meals in and out, burgers on the way to Katie, right now, I'm going to fatten it up, cut it out, right? now it's real, they rub each other like that to Chris's original point in this discussion. Houston is playing flat, yeah, they're like it's revolutionary cool what they're doing. I just that coach in the postseason James Chris. I just look. in their postseason, you know, in New Orleans, they were against the Spurs, they were great in the playoffs, now they obviously have some problems, you know, recently with the Clippers, but I'm not going to hold that against them if I see it in these playoffs, if they bow out .

In these playoffs, so that could just be that Houston has seven, it's evident that it has I guess the team's T, yeah, seventy-seven in the half against the team of Teebs and D'Antoni, here it is, I think you have to admit this about D'Antoni. that year against the Spurs when their guys are Mari and Boris Diaw were suspended, jump, you know, hammer the bench, Robert or did that like they could have won that series, it was close, I mean, that was a great team too San Antonio, but it was obviously close. if they were in that series, they would win it because whoever was winning in the West was winning, so I think this notion that their teams can't win it and I don't think if Adam Silver had been the Commissioner, they would have done that. been suspended, the next ones run away, well he didn't agree with why it was over because LeBron would have gotten him a title, you better start glorying in the past because I don't know what the future will be.