Haslem uses odd alligator analogy to describe Warriors’ playoff odds

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Haslem uses odd alligator analogy to describe Warriors’ playoff odds originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

Draymond Green believes in the new-look Warriors, but not everyone on the national stage is buying what he’s selling.

Former Miami Heat big man and current ESPN NBA analyst Udonis Haslem doesn’t see the Warriors getting out of the first round of the NBA playoffs, much less winning the championship in June, as Green guaranteed before Sunday’s NBA All-Star Game at Chase Center.

“Man, Draymond [is] smart as hell and crazy as hell at the same damn time man,” Haslem told Molly Qerim, Stephen A. Smith and Shannon Sharpe on “First Take” on Tuesday. “I mean I get it. [You’re] breathing life into that locker room. You’re breathing life into those guys. ]You’re] the guy that put the battery in the back, [you’re] the guy that leaves that locker room and keeps those guys connected.

“So I understand that but you got to be crazy as hell to think that [the] Memphis [Grizzlies], to think that [the Oklahoma City Thunder], to think that the [Los Angeles] Lakers, to think that all these teams above you just going to have a meltdown in this second half of the season with 26 [games] left. To think that all these teams in the second half of the season just going to have a meltdown. No this this is when everybody getting primed for the playoffs, this is when everybody about to pick it up and it’s going to get even harder now. I understand that you guys have the easiest [schedule] in the West going down the stretch but right now everybody is turning it on and sharpening their swords and getting ready for the playoffs.

“So ain’t nobody going to just let y’all come from the 10 spot move up to a six [or] seven seed and then go from there. And once again, if you’re in that playoff spot, you got to see OKC in the first round, you got to see [the] Denver [Nuggets] in the first round you got to see Memphis in the first round. You got a better chance of wrestling an alligator than beating any of those teams in a seven-game series right now.”

The Warriors (28-27) begin the second half of the season…

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Publish date : 2025-02-18 11:44:00

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