🔥 Lakers & Celtics are on fire, should Bucks avoid 76ers in playoffs? | Get Up

🔥 Lakers & Celtics are on fire, should Bucks avoid 76ers in playoffs? | Get Up

Back on get up and down the stretch we go in the NBA let’s run the floor with Austin Rivers and Monica mcnut Austin I’ll start with you LeBron ad combined for 60 and a win over the Wizards the Lakers have won eight out of nine how far can this team

Go I mean this is exactly what we wanted to see we wanted to see the Lakers play this type of basketball early in the season you look at their starting lineup the numbers were spread out across the board Reeves Russell Davis Haim Moore and LeBron James rounding it out they

Were all dominant last night I don’t want to take too much from it they played probably the worst defense that I’ve seen in in 10 15 years the Washington Wizards are a team that you really go out there to get your confidence verse at this point but this

Is what we want to see on the Lakers side we want to see this team compete and play at a high level and they are dangerous this is not a team you want to play first round in the NBA Playoffs out of the last nine if I’m telling you the

Lakers are going to make things very interesting again in the Western Conference playoffs are you buying W one very not very veryy like we got to see what happens with the play and look if things ended right now they still have to win two games just to get

To a series and the series would be the Nuggets like you never know that’s the point the Nuggets could end up anywhere from first to third everyone has to try and avoid them and right now you don’t really know how to do it meanwhile on the other side we know where the Celtics

Are going to wind up they’ve already clinched the one seed in the East can anyone challenge them in that conference I don’t think so greeny this team to me they’ve been Far and Away the best team in the Eastern Conference you look at the way that they can play basketball

The versatility that christas porzingis gives Jason Tatum having an MVP caliber year I do not think that this is a fluke what’s going to be the key obviously is can they allow this to roll into their postseason play like do they continue to play with confidence and efficiency in

Terms of not letting series drag on yeah because there will be such high expectations I mean there always are with this team but obviously practically unprecedented in Austin I’ll set up asking you a similar question by showing you what happened with the Bucks again last night you talk about the Wizards

And how that’s a team that everyone should beat up on well Milwaukee just somehow lost to them the other night and now they lose to the Grizzlies by 10 so Austin the Bucks are supposed to be the biggest threat to the Celtics in the Eastern Conference and they remain right

Now in the second position what is going on with them it’s a good question greeny um well for one Health you know last night they played Without Damen lard and Chris Middleton they they will go nowhere in these playoffs if they don’t have their full roster and if they’re not in full

Health uh secondly they have to get better on Perimeter defense uh and even without those two last night they should have enough to beat teams like Memphis I know Memphis has guys that are playing hard and some young talent but we see teams all the time when we talk about

The top tier teams whether it’s Boston Denver whoever if they have a guy or two missing even if they are key guys they’re able to go out there and get those big wins must wins and we’ve seen them drop too many games now this late

In the season where it is a cause for concern you know we we need to see more consistent with them I don’t know who can rival Boston at this point I it looks like Boston is a shuin again we got to see it in the playoffs we got to

See him beat teams like Miami uh but I don’t know this is it’s not looking good in Milwaukee right now let me present you one possibility Monica and that is with a healthy Joel embiid they have six games left I will remind everyone that in games in which embiid has played this

Year the Sixers have the second best record in the entire NBA only behind Boston so am I sitting here telling you I would pick the Sixers to beat them in a best of seven series no certainly not am I saying that’s the one I could see if you’re telling me right now someone’s

Going to beat them in a best of seven I think I’m leaning in that direction mcnut greeny and I’m leaning with you the boat might tip over because I agree and you look at Joel embiid and his return if he can use the next I think

It’s eight games or so to get a lather and get good momentum and then he’ll have a series before he would run into the Boston Southeast potentially if that team gets back to the way that he was playing before the injury then yeah that was the matchup that we were all

Anticipating the scenario that it it looks like it could give us now they have six regular season games left and then most likely to play in against Miami the 78 game if the Sixers win that game Austin it would most likely be a matchup between the Sixers and the Bucks

In that first round that is a terrible just a terrible way for things to work out I would think for Milwaukee and yeah imagine having a good season where you put a decent record together and you’re rewarded by a Sixers team that’s has been depleted but uh oh

Now they have jool and beid back in the lineup I mean that is not the reward you you know you really want you they’re dangerous they’re obviously a totally different team with Joel and beid as you alluded to that is not a team you want to play first round at all uh Philly’s

Dangerous I mean it is what it is it Miami is always punches above their weight as well so whoever comes out of that s eight game in the East is not going to be a picnic [Applause] [Applause] n

On Get Up, Mike Greenberg is joined by Austin Rivers and Monica McNutt to Run The Floor with hot takes from top contenders in the NBA:

0:00 How far can Los Angeles Lakers go?
1:17 Can anyone catch the Boston Celtics?
2:00 Milwaukee Bucks lose to Memphis Grizzlies
3:11 Philadelphia 76ers’ ceiling with Joel Embiid return
4:02 Should Bucks avoid 76ers in playoffs?

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