Jason Kidd Believes Mavericks Can Revive Their NBA Season
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 Last one before the numbers.
00:06 Here's Jason Kidd.
00:07 He believes, Scotty, as well, that the Mavericks
00:10 can turn this season around.
00:12 What do we always say around here?
00:13 One game at a time.
00:14 That's all it takes.
00:16 What can you build on going on to games three and four,
00:19 like the positives that you could emphasize to your players
00:21 to encourage them instead of being down?
00:24 Yeah, we're not down.
00:25 We're positive.
00:26 This is a group that believes.
00:28 We didn't get an opportunity to get a split
00:30 or win two here on the road.
00:32 So now Boston held serve.
00:34 Now we've got to go home and hold serve.
00:38 Was that-- honestly, that was Bugs Bunny.
00:41 I think it was.
00:42 I don't know.
00:43 What is happening there?
00:45 Maybe he was in some of those Space Jam movies.
00:47 I have no idea.
00:48 Was Kidd ever in any of those?
00:49 As one of the guys in one of those Space Jam films?
00:53 It's possible.
00:53 I guess anything for us.
00:55 The Mavericks will be favored in game three on Wednesday night
01:01 down in Dallas.
01:02 Minus 1 and 1/2 right now.
01:04 2, 12 and 1/2 the total.
01:06 Both of these games so far, Scotty, dead unders.
01:10 Not even close getting to the line.
01:13 You sent me a clip of every single-- it's 12 in a row.
01:18 Yes.
01:20 Eight games with Brooklyn and four games with Dallas.
01:24 He's lost every single time he's played the Boston Celtics,
01:28 no matter where the game is.
01:30 No matter where the game is, Kyrie Irving
01:32 has never beaten him once.
01:35 I'm starting to think they're going to lose game three.
01:38 Right in the American Airlines Center,
01:39 Boston is going to go down there and beat him.
01:41 Hasn't Boston not lost on the road either in the playoffs?
01:46 Correct.
01:47 They're going to go down there and beat their ass.
01:49 That's what they're going to do.
01:51 Well, if we want any hope, a glimmer of hope--
01:56 How do you stop them?
01:57 --that this could maybe be some distance to this series, which
02:01 I was hoping there was going to be,
02:04 they have to win this game on Wednesday.
02:05 Because obviously--
02:06 And then Friday, the US Open will be on longer
02:11 than the NBA finals.
02:13 How's that for a bet?
02:14 Yeah.
02:15 Look, no doubt.
02:17 Because this is it.
02:19 They go up 3-0, nobody cares.
02:21 It's over.
02:22 They're not-- at least you get a little juice, maybe,
02:26 if you can get this to 2-1 on Wednesday night.
02:28 And you get a little juice.
02:30 Can we get two wins?
02:31 Can the Mavericks plus 2 and 1/2 come in for me?
02:34 I have that in a big bar.
02:37 I said that I wanted to see him go home and win two,
02:40 and make it 2-2, and then 5-6 and 7.
02:42 That's not happening either.
02:44 You know why?
02:44 Because all you have to do is watch the games.
02:47 All you have to do is know something about basketball,
02:49 to know that one team is so deep and so talented at scoring
02:56 from every single place on the floor.
02:58 There is not a spot on the floor they don't score from.
03:01 I mean, they own the corners, the wings, the perimeter,
03:04 top of the key, top of the paint, bottom of the paint,
03:08 low block, baseline, free throw line.
03:11 What were they, 19 of 20 from the line?
03:13 I mean, they dominate every single area of the court.
03:18 Transition, domination, defense, steals, free throws,
03:23 field goals, three-point field goals, free throw.
03:25 I mean, they are dominating them because they
03:27 have so many good players.
03:29 And Dallas has one good player, one.
03:32 And I won't deny that Kyrie's a badass.
03:35 But in this series, he has gone Calypso Bay.
03:39 He is gone.
03:41 He's already in Cancun fishing.
03:43 He's schnook fishing, actually, in low water,
03:47 right on-- like in low water, like five feet deep water.
03:50 He just nailed a schnook and bring him right on the boat.
03:53 He's done.
03:54 Put a fork in him.
03:55 He can't even score.
03:57 I mean, he's done nothing.
03:59 Like, it's too late.
04:00 What's he going to all of a sudden turn it on and start
04:03 beating the Celtics?
04:05 Wrong.
04:06 It's not happening.
04:07 They have one player.
04:08 And you know what?
04:09 Everyone else is finally getting exposed.
04:11 Washington, Gafford, Jones, they're
04:14 just all getting exposed.
04:16 And I've never thought that Kleber was anything more
04:18 than a hack, white, three-point chucker.
04:21 That's all he is, just a white guy that can't--
04:24 he can't move any better than I can.
04:27 The Celtics are now minus 1,000 for the series.
04:31 The Mavericks are plus 650.
04:33 Honestly, I would need more than that at this point, down 2-0.
04:36 I would need more than plus 650 if I was going to get involved.
04:38 Can we get the Stanley Cup, Mike,
04:41 to be better than this crappy series?
04:43 Oh, I think it will be.
04:44 And it will be.
04:45 And there's a chance by the end of this week,
04:49 Stanley Cup's going to have the stage for itself.
04:51 The Dodger-Yankee series was better than this series.
04:54 It was.
04:55 That's typical-- typical with the NBA.
04:57 That happens a lot to them.
04:59 Because the games are--
05:00 sometimes there's a lot of blowouts.
05:02 These playoffs have not been great.
05:04 Let's be fair.
05:05 They really haven't.
05:06 You can make a case, guy.
05:07 The Knicks' Sixers series in the first round
05:09 was probably the best series in the entire playoffs,
05:12 just in terms of--
05:13 I would say you're right.
05:14 --intensity and the close games.
05:16 I would say you're right.
05:18 And maybe that's in Minnesota-Denver.
05:21 Yes, that was a good--
05:22 those two series, far and away the best two series that we've
05:26 had.
05:27 The rest have mostly been bunk.
05:28 Odds to win finals MVP after two games.
05:31 I mean, they have Tatum as the favorite.
05:33 Like, honestly, I don't think--
05:35 It's got to be Holiday at 7-1.
05:36 I think Holiday-- and you're still getting 7-1 for him
05:41 to be the MVP.
05:42 I think he's been the best player for them
05:44 through the first two games.
05:47 Without a doubt.
05:47 There's nothing else to say.
05:50 Yeah, but they're going to give it to Tatum.
05:52 You watch.
05:53 Tatum's going to get it.
05:54 Because he's their leader.
05:55 And he's having double doubles and near triple doubles.
05:58 And when it's all said and done, he's
06:00 going to have all these great games stacked,
06:05 you know, double doubles and near triple doubles
06:08 are good games.
06:09 Anyone else has a game like he had last night,
06:12 I mean, they're front page news.
06:13 Anyone else has a game like that, like he had last--
06:16 you're getting laid.
06:18 OK?
06:18 Anyone else does that game, it's the greatest game
06:21 of their life.
06:21 With him, they talk about how crappy a game he had.
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