It's a loaded Tuesday slate on PMT. The guys lined up Kirk Goldsberry to do basketball with them and pulled in Luke Loucks — the former Florida State guard turned Warriors assistant turned new FSU head coach — to talk hoops from both sides of the headset. With the NBA Finals tipping and the Browns-Vikings Myles Garrett trade still being relitigated league-wide, there was no shortage of material.
Mr. Cat laying out the case that the Myles Garrett deal somehow worked out for everyone involved.
The trade-grade segment is a PMT staple at this point, and the verdict was that both sides walked away fine — Cleveland recouping draft capital, the new team getting a wrecking ball off the edge. Big Cat backed it up with the official grades drop, which is the only ranking that matters in this building.
The official PMT trade grades for the Garrett move, as ruled from on high.
From there it shifted to the Finals, and Goldsberry brought the stat that's been quietly haunting San Antonio all year: teams post the league's worst offensive rating when Victor Wembanyama is patrolling the paint. He deters everything. It's the kind of number that doesn't show up in a box score but absolutely shows up on film, and it's why the rest of the league is already trying to figure out how you even attack him in a half-court set.
Goldsberry walking through why opposing offenses crater the second Wemby steps on the floor.
Then came the Loucks block, which doubled as a career origin story — an internship connection is what pulled him off an overseas playing career and into Steve Kerr's staff during a dynasty run. The boys, naturally, framed it as Loucks personally coaching up Steph, Klay, and Draymond, which is the exact kind of bit you get when you put a former NBA assistant in the PMT chair.
Loucks getting ribbed about his time on the Warriors bench during the Kerr era.
And because PMT can't help itself the day before a Finals tip, the show wrapped with a shot at the Game 1 officiating assignment — sarcastic 'crew chief of the year' energy aimed at a ref who's been a regular-season main character for all the wrong reasons. The Finals haven't even started and we already have a villain. Perfect.