NBA One Guy (the East!), a Man City Punishment Primer, and Tom Cruise’s Bomb
Oct 6, 2026 · 2h 13m · take 32 of 41
- The Raptors' small-ball 3-4-5 lineup is going to be a defensive nightmare.
“I just think that defensively, that 3 -4 -5 in a small ball lineup… It's going to be a nightmare”
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who you could guard. Scotty has, year in and year out, been really at the top of that.
I think Murray Boyles and Scotty together are going to take off some of the traditional
assignment kind of difficulty that Kawhi has had in the past, where it's just like, we're going to have Kawhi guard this tough guy. It was just kind of implied. It's going to settle him into a role, I think, that suits his age a little bit better.
So you're right. I just think that defensively, that 3 -4 -5 in a small ball lineup, a lot of people have talked about it. It's going to be a nightmare.
BillI really want to watch Miami play Toronto in particular. I think that's going to be just a bloodbath. But Kawhi, I think, will help them offensively, too, in a lot of different ways, because he's just an improvement in every possible way over Brandon Ingram. Well, they turned Brandon Ingram, who had apparently a partially torn Achilles and a couple of picks down the road into a guy who was really good last year who, you know, left wreckage behind.
BillBut you figure Murray Boyles, Kawhi, and Barnes, just the three of them together.
BillPretty nice foundation. And then Graves is the wild card.
From the episode transcript around 01:06:39. Speaker names are recognized by voice.

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