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Speaker 1: Pierces your so many crises, so little time, Leader Fan

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Speaker 1: Fan Radio Network, what do you mean?

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Speaker 2: And k FA and dot Com two minutes fifteen seconds

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Speaker 2: past three o'clock Central daylight time, Welcome back. It is

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Speaker 2: a Monday edition of the Afternoon Ardvark on a calm

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Speaker 2: after the snow nami weekend here in the twin cities

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Speaker 2: of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. I hope you survived it.

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Speaker 2: I hope you got through it. I hope you'll learned

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Speaker 2: to lie about it. Frankly, like, twenty years from now,

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Speaker 2: when your kid or your kid's kid or your kid's

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Speaker 2: kids kids kid says, dad, grandpa, great grand great great grandpa,

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Speaker 2: what was the blizzard of March of two thy twenty six?

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Speaker 3: Like?

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Speaker 2: And then what you do is you allow, very slowly

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Speaker 2: a smile to form on your face, and you say, Johnny,

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Speaker 2: do you really want to know? Do you really want

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Speaker 2: to know how bad it was on that weekend? And

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Speaker 2: of course the kid's like, yeah, what was it? Like, Well,

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Speaker 2: let me tell you a story. And the story you'll

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Speaker 2: probably have to tell is a lie. But that's okay

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Speaker 2: because nobody's gonna care twenty years later, right, it's sort

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Speaker 2: of like Bam out of Bayo scoring eighty three points

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Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago. A lot of debate right

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Speaker 2: now over how he did it, whether it was fair,

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Speaker 2: whether it was too circus like, whether it mattered that

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Speaker 2: it happened against a team that is one of the

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Speaker 2: worst in the history of professional franchise, that's one of

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Speaker 2: the worst in the history of the sport. Was it

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Speaker 2: ethical basketball? Ethical basketball? Was is Miami ethical in continually

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Speaker 2: following to get the ball back, to give their guy

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Speaker 2: another chance to get another basket, another couple of points.

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Speaker 2: Twenty years nobody's gonna care, just like there were some

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Speaker 2: interesting developments late in the Kobe game where he scored

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Speaker 2: eighty one, interesting developments in the Wilt game, and when

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Speaker 2: he scored one hundred in Hershey, Pennsylvania, where the game

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Speaker 2: was witnessed by can you name the Danny Green? Danny Green? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I was going to say, I know this one Danny

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Speaker 2: Green hundred point game. I wonder if he ever told

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Speaker 2: the story in depth. I think it was played in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 2: But my point is, twenty years from now, you can

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Speaker 2: make up whatever you want about the Blizzard of March

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Speaker 2: of twenty twenty six, and no one's gonna be the wiser,

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Speaker 2: because by then nobody's even gonna bother look stuff up,

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Speaker 2: you know, like, well, let mean, does what great Grandpa

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Speaker 2: tell me? Does that? Does that really jibe with the truth.

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna bother with that, because to a certain extent,

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Speaker 2: for the sake of the story and for the sake

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Speaker 2: of your enjoyment of the of the anecdotes being spun,

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Speaker 2: you want to believe it anyway. So you're not gonna

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Speaker 2: double check that it wasn't thirty two inches of snow

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Speaker 2: in three days. I'm gonna check that. I gotta check

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Speaker 2: whether great Grandpa actually got the old sled out because

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Speaker 2: there was no other way to travel right to get

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Speaker 2: to the grocery store. You're stranded, your your you're stocks.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be that's going to be the case.

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Speaker 2: So whatever works for you, I guess, is what I'm

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Speaker 2: trying to say. We we have very short memories, and

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Speaker 2: we tend to want to believe what we want to

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Speaker 2: believe in that. To that end, we will name the

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Speaker 2: Great Snomy of mid March twenty twenty six. A bit

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Speaker 2: later in the broadcast, a lot of good suggestions came in.

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Speaker 2: I'll ask again, what's dumb to ask? Because the moment

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Speaker 2: I reiterated the fact that the naming committee, which has

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Speaker 2: been naming snonamis I estimated seventeen years, I won where

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Speaker 2: you got that. I have no idea. Yeah, maybe it's right,

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Speaker 2: And because we all know Lloy Fisher does, yes, Oh

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Speaker 2: She loves puns. We're not interested. Puns have their place,

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Speaker 2: they do, but not they're not. And immediately upon reminding

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Speaker 2: people that guess what happened Kyler Flurry, there were a

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Speaker 2: stories mythic tales of desolation, devastation, followed ultimately by renewal

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Speaker 2: six four six eight six. Very busy program today will

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Speaker 2: include Monday regular John Athletic. I'm assuming back. I'm assuming

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Speaker 2: he got safely back from Oklahoma City because I think

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Speaker 2: the flights are starting to round into shape again here

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Speaker 2: in the in our airport. He's at three point thirty

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Speaker 2: because he was tracking the wolves in Oklahoma City. Kyle

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Speaker 2: Potter speaking of the airport, travel issues, security issues not

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Speaker 2: necessarily related to the weather. Thrifty traveler Guy Kyle Potter

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Speaker 2: will join us at five point thirty. There'll be a

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Speaker 2: very special Oh to a Dead Guy today as well

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Speaker 2: before we are done. Yesterday's program on Sunday Sermons was

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Speaker 2: historic in nature for a couple of reasons. It was

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Speaker 2: the first show I think we figured out we just

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Speaker 2: passed the twenty five year anniversary. In anniversary of a Bumper Bumper,

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Speaker 2: Sunday Sermons goes back even further. I don't even remember

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Speaker 2: what came first. Did sermons come first, or did Bumper

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Speaker 2: to Bumper come first?

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Speaker 4: Sermons came second? You had a weekend, you had Barrero Unplugged?

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Speaker 4: Didn't you was it? Wasn't there a Saturday show before?

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Speaker 4: It might have been, Yeah, that was called like Barrero

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Speaker 2: I feel like Sam Siegelman did that show. I actually

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Speaker 2: you would know. I don't remember was after Bumper to bumper.

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Speaker 2: I know that the actual I've been on the air

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Speaker 2: on KFE and since nineteen ninety two in one form

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Speaker 2: or another, and we made history yesterday. It's the first

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Speaker 2: time I've ever done a show in which I was

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Speaker 2: literally the only person in any of these studios.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: I looked to my left where you are, and it

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Speaker 2: night before. I told programming director Chad Abbott, I'm stubborn

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Speaker 2: and he said, well, let's just check in the morning

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Speaker 2: say it's doable. It's gettable in fact, when I got

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Speaker 2: to the bit. Then he warned me at first and said, well, okay,

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Speaker 2: you can do it, but it doesn't look like Blake

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Speaker 4: Able to get in. You spent the night in Apple Valley.

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Speaker 4: They're still digging themselves out, correct.

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Speaker 2: Ye, And we will be able. The other thing we'll

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Speaker 2: like technically speaking, get you on the air and then

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Speaker 2: you could obviously fire the brakes from here, but you

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Speaker 2: will not have a single other person to speak with.

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Speaker 2: The phones won't work. There's no you know, fake laughter

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Speaker 2: you're gonna get from Blake Moore in the Ed mcmahonschair.

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Speaker 2: You are literally going to fill a buster for two hours.

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Speaker 2: And I still said, by god, I don't care, but

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Speaker 2: Then something changed between that conversation yes and a text

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Speaker 2: I got on my way in which was, well, Blake

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Speaker 2: Moore is going to be on. It's still his place,

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Speaker 2: clicked in, connected and also connected in a way in

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Speaker 4: Very smart thinking by Brett blakemore on how to get

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Speaker 2: He know more than Chad Abott did about how to

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Speaker 2: get that done? I think so that's fascinating.

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Speaker 4: Chad's not here to defend them, but Brett is the

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Speaker 4: one that yes, and it makes what he did. It's

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Speaker 4: not like it was rocket science, but it was smart

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Speaker 2: But that's only one of the two reasons yesterday's program

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Speaker 2: was historic. I don't know if you heard about this yet.

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Speaker 2: So I know you have thousands of your own fans

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Speaker 2: going My mom told me about it. I issued the

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Speaker 2: I think we've ever done that for a colleague. So

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Speaker 2: it was historic on two fronts. After your yeoman effort,

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Speaker 2: how many were there four or five or six championship

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Speaker 2: on forty five on Saturday Saturday? There were four? Four? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: voice didn't get no, didn't go Halvey on the bit

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Speaker 2: they had they had that game one until they didn't.

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Speaker 2: The voice didn't seem it did not get tested that

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Speaker 2: way the way hal they But basically from one class

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Speaker 2: to another, Halvey went from sounding pretty clear throated to

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Speaker 2: having this raspy smoker's voice. Yeah by the time he's

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Speaker 2: celebrating the last game. The beautiful part about TV, which

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Speaker 2: I learned, is less is more. You don't have to

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Speaker 2: have to talk. Well, that's still I would always have

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Speaker 2: you don't even have to keep up. You can just

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Speaker 2: I appreciate all the pun nominations that continue to come

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Speaker 2: into the brash. I'm buying it. You went through the

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Speaker 2: Will he be able to sustain it? And will it

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Speaker 2: matter if the Wolves don't make one lineup change. I

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Speaker 2: believe they are required to make stake. It's time right now.

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Speaker 2: Brought to you by RBC Wealth Management. Indeed, Johnny is

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Speaker 2: in and not in, but with us via the Kinetical

432
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Speaker 2: Water Systems hotline. A lot of questions already coming in

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Speaker 2: via the six four six eight six text line. Johnny,

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Speaker 2: did you make it back on time from Oklahoma City?

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Speaker 2: I did?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: The the uh. The whole commute for down and back

438
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Speaker 3: was not as bad as I was fearing, and I

439
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Speaker 3: did not see any super long TSA lines. We had

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Speaker 3: no delays, thankfully, and got down and back safe and sounds,

441
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Speaker 3: so everything went great.

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Speaker 2: Did you consider going Glenn Mason on the bit and driving?

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Speaker 2: I did not.

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Speaker 3: I actually did. I was supposed to leave Saturday evening

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Speaker 3: around six, and then I bumped my flight up about

446
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Speaker 3: four hours so to make sure I missed any kind

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Speaker 3: of late evening snow on Saturday, which I think was

448
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Speaker 3: a good choice. Probably true, that's the heck of a

449
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Speaker 3: drive from Minnesota to ok See, so and it would

450
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Speaker 3: have been an even worse one coming back, I think,

451
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Speaker 3: because the roads aren't great out there right now.

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Speaker 2: Still, No, there's still some iffy patches in there that

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Speaker 2: that part is true. You go to see. I think

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Speaker 2: it almost predict pattern, or it felt like, even with

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Speaker 2: the Wolves seemingly surviving a terrible start by getting back

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Speaker 2: in the game and then leading in the game, I

457
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Speaker 2: almost felt that it was one of those games that

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Speaker 2: inevitably Oklahoma City was going to shoot better and come

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Speaker 2: back in it, and eventually they pretty much took over

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Speaker 2: the game. Your favorite club has now lost four of

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Speaker 2: its last five by a combined seventy nine points. So

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Speaker 2: is it enough that Julius Randall might have found himself

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Speaker 2: or at least shown signs of it. Does that compensate

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Speaker 2: for all of the other breakdowns and pretty fundamental issues

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Speaker 2: that this team is dealing with right now?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I wrote it at the Athletic this morning, Dan,

467
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Speaker 3: But like I don't think it compensates by any means,

468
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Speaker 3: because there still are enormous concerns about turnovers, about kind

469
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Speaker 3: of defensive breakdowns, about a lot of things that are

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Speaker 3: going on with the team. But the way that I

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Speaker 3: worded it, or the way that I framed it was

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Speaker 3: I think the most The biggest takeaway I had from

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Speaker 3: the game was that Julius Randall did show signs of

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Speaker 3: returning to form. Because we have seen Julius Randall play

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Speaker 3: incredibly well for this team for long stretches, including the

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Speaker 3: first two rounds of the playoffs last year, including the

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Speaker 3: first month or so of this season, and the last

478
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Speaker 3: month and a half of last season as well. So

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Speaker 3: we've seen it. We know that as a realistic goal.

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Speaker 3: To say that Julius Randall getting back in a groove

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Speaker 3: is attainable, I don't know at this point, Dan that

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Speaker 3: asking this team to play a cleaner, more disciplined game

483
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Speaker 3: is attainable. They just continue to have these mind numbing turnovers,

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Speaker 3: They continue to have game plan mistake and so it

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Speaker 3: feels more like their best chance is to have Randall

486
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Speaker 3: hitting on all cylinders and then just out talent people

487
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Speaker 3: if they get to the playoffs. You know, in the

488
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Speaker 3: first round matchup?

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Speaker 2: Can I argue with you? It's extremely concerning, interesting question

490
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Speaker 2: raised by one of the callers or texters speaking of

491
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Speaker 2: the sloppiness, the either inability or unwillingness to, you know,

492
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Speaker 2: do what I think. Really, Championship teams not teams that

493
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Speaker 2: just want to go to the final four. But championship

494
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Speaker 2: teams do prize possessions, treasure possessions. Don't just assume, wow,

495
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Speaker 2: we're going to get the ball back anyway. What's a

496
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Speaker 2: big difference? Was it twenty four to twenty five turnovers

497
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Speaker 2: yesterday and three to two? Ozero guy asks that many

498
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Speaker 2: turnovers and know Conley, why bring him back? Is there

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Speaker 2: any reason to believe that that's the kind of performance

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Speaker 2: in terms of ball handling that might convince the head

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Speaker 2: coach to find a way to see if there's still

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Speaker 2: a little bit of life left in the Conley legs.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it is certainly possible, Dan. Certainly, we know

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Speaker 3: that Chris Finch loves Mike Conley, trusts Mike Conley, wants

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Speaker 3: to have Mike Conley on the floor. But I just

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Speaker 3: think that so far this season, the evidence has shown

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Speaker 3: that it might be passing him by. Now, I do

508
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Speaker 3: think it is feasible that maybe against Phoenix on Tuesday night,

509
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Speaker 3: in a very important game, maybe you do go back

510
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Speaker 3: to Conley. Hopingly he can give you like one game,

511
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Speaker 3: just get you through, and then you go back to

512
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Speaker 3: kind of your normal rotation after that. But I don't

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Speaker 3: think that there is a viable argument you made that

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Speaker 3: if you put Mike Conley back in the starting road

515
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Speaker 3: or in the starting rotation, but in the rotation for

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Speaker 3: the final fourteen games of this season and then into

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Speaker 3: the playoffs, that that is a sustainable thing for him

518
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Speaker 3: to do at a relatively high level, even for like,

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Speaker 3: let's say, twenty minutes tonight. It just doesn't seem like

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Speaker 3: his body will allow him to do that. And we're

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Speaker 3: certainly not against the really good, really aggressive defenses like

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Speaker 3: Oklahoma City. So I think they have to figure out

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Speaker 3: another way. I think it's got to be maybe a

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Speaker 3: little more io tossume move and just getting Anthony Edwards

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Speaker 3: a little bit more locked in on that side of

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Speaker 3: things and kind of hope that something some clarity arrives

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Speaker 3: that has not arrived from the last year.

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Speaker 2: Plug to your point on turnovers, as you know this

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Speaker 2: well off of the game, you were at in Oklahoma City.

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Speaker 2: Randall one turnover, which is low for him lately, McDaniels

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Speaker 2: two in sixteen minutes, Rudy four in twenty nine minutes,

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Speaker 2: Dante won in thirty minutes, Edwards six in thirty seven minutes,

533
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Speaker 2: Nas Red four in twenty eight minutes. That's just again,

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Speaker 2: we know this has always been a team that's been

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Speaker 2: a little sloppy, and they've able, they are able to

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Speaker 2: overcome it other ways. But as I'm watching it yesterday again,

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Speaker 2: I just there are a couple of times I was

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Speaker 2: ready to leave it and just say, why am I

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Speaker 2: bothering with this? This is not professional because I'm not

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Speaker 2: even convinced they're all forced, some of them. More like

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Speaker 2: when we decide one of our two main scorers decides to,

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Speaker 2: you know, dribble into triple teams, which doesn't seem very

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Speaker 2: advisable to me, especially against a team like this that's

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Speaker 2: waiting for that. But those numbers are, like I said,

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Speaker 2: that's really not big league, is it.

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Speaker 3: No, it's it's definitely amateur hour stuff. Dan, when you

547
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Speaker 3: watch the way that blake Because to your point, I

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Speaker 3: want to say, I haven't I haven't rewatched the game yet.

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Speaker 3: But I would venture to guess that five or six,

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Speaker 3: minimum of those twenty five turnovers were in the backcourt

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Speaker 3: just bringing the ball up or just changing from defense

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Speaker 3: to offense. And those are absolute backbreakers because it generally

553
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Speaker 3: gives the opposing team a very easy shot to score,

554
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Speaker 3: and it also just gives the Thunder so many more possessions.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I really really liked the Wolves' first shot defense.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yesterday good.

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Speaker 3: I thought Anthony Edwards was great on Shay gil Jess Alexander,

558
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Speaker 3: making him work, making him take tough shots. I thought

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Speaker 3: he fought him as well as you possibly could. I

560
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Speaker 3: think Shay was three for fourteen to start. Some of

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Speaker 3: it was misshots, but a lot of it was Ant

562
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Speaker 3: was really pressuring him, and Julius Randad was working hard,

563
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Speaker 3: and a lot of the guys were really getting into them.

564
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Speaker 3: But then they were giving up offensive rebounds on the

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Speaker 3: misshot and so they were. It was halfway through the

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Speaker 3: first quarter down and the Thunder already had seventeen more

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Speaker 3: shots than the Wolves did. And that's just unbelievable. Like that,

568
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Speaker 3: that's a level of ineptitude that goes well beyond hey,

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Speaker 3: we're turning it over here or there, or we're not

570
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Speaker 3: blocking out here or there and midst this Simon. It

571
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Speaker 3: was really quite embarrassing for them to be playing that

572
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Speaker 3: way when they do fancy themselves as a team that

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Speaker 3: can challenge them, and they have earlier this season. They

574
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Speaker 3: beat them twice already this year. But in a moment

575
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Speaker 3: where they really needed to play better and just be

576
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Speaker 3: more disciplined, they completely lost their heads and it came

577
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Speaker 3: back to bite them.

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Speaker 2: I would you mentioned Io earlier. I mentioned this yesterday

579
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Speaker 2: on sermons, even before that debacle of a finish. I'd

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Speaker 2: start them. I know this is a you know, Finchy's

581
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Speaker 2: a guy who loves the stability of the same people.

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Speaker 2: I absolutely would put him in the starting lineup. Who

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Speaker 2: do you take out, I assume it would be would

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Speaker 2: be Dante. I don't know if his feeling is going

585
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Speaker 2: to be hurt. I don't think that matters. I think

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Speaker 2: I'm not pretending that Io Dessuma was a first ballot

587
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Speaker 2: Hall of Fame point guard. But what I do believe

588
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 2: is he will start games with greater urgency. He will

589
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 2: almost force other players, I think, to play with more pace,

590
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:30,280
Speaker 2: little greater urgency, And I think he had true turnovers yesterday.

591
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Speaker 2: But I think he's a guy who can handle the

592
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Speaker 2: ball enough. And I again I'm not saying that turns

593
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Speaker 2: everything around, but I'd like to see it. I think

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Speaker 2: it would give this team a different feel and look

595
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Speaker 2: at the start of games, and who knows what you

596
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,560
Speaker 2: can build on from there? Maybe not much, you know,

597
00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 2: maybe it ends up being fools gold if you have

598
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 2: other issues, like again, Rudy was a non factor yesterday.

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00:34:55,680 --> 00:35:00,040
Speaker 2: Your guy Jaden was miserable yesterday. We'll get to the

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Speaker 2: foul stuff in a minute. But is that something you

601
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:05,319
Speaker 2: think they'd even talk about? Are we too locked in

602
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 2: on the stability of we got moody guys, and we

603
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:10,840
Speaker 2: make a change like that, we could hurt feelings. I

604
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:12,800
Speaker 2: don't really think we should worry about hurt feelings. And

605
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 2: I think I owe his the glimpses we've seen of him.

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Speaker 2: Forget hitting shots yesterday. I'm not even really talking about that.

607
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Speaker 2: I'm just talking about approach, sensibility on the court. I'd

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Speaker 2: like to see it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, here's yes, I think it's a totally valid point.

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Speaker 3: Here is the complicating factor about this is that if

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Speaker 3: you're right, if he is in the starting lineup, you

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00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:41,760
Speaker 3: would put Dante DiVincenzo in the second unit. Dante really

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Speaker 3: likes yeah start, I know, and it really is important

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Speaker 3: to him. There's a reason he's played better this year

615
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Speaker 3: than last year, and I think it's because he feels

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Speaker 3: valued in that starting live. Here's the second part of that, though,

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Speaker 3: Dan Dante is playing really well. Yes, that's your plays

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Speaker 3: with four. That's okay, he brings all of that stuff. No,

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Speaker 3: you're right, But the guy right now, that is the

620
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Speaker 3: biggest issue outside of Rudy. Let's just take him off

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Speaker 3: for a second, because but Jaden is a problem right now,

622
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:17,720
Speaker 3: and he is giving you nothing on offense and on defense.

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Speaker 3: He is far below the lofty standards that he has set.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what the problem is. We have focus

625
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:28,239
Speaker 3: wise where his head is at. But this is a

626
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:32,919
Speaker 3: real problem that the Wolves have to figure out because

627
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:35,719
Speaker 3: he's in follow trouble. Every game he's scoring like two

628
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:39,280
Speaker 3: points and he's only grabbing one rebound or two rebounds

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Speaker 3: a game. And this has been like a seven or

630
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Speaker 3: eight game stample now of really poor play from him.

631
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Speaker 3: And they need to get him going. And so if

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Speaker 3: you want to take one guy out of the starting lineup,

633
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Speaker 3: Jaden is the guy right now, but he's just like,

634
00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 3: he just plays a different position. So it's just really complex,

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Speaker 3: and that's why I don't anticipate that that Finch will

636
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 3: make a move. But yeah, I couldn't argue with trying

637
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 3: something new because I always playing really well, plays with speed,

638
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 3: plays with fours, and could just keep a little bit

639
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 3: more of the ball handling pressure off of Anti.

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Speaker 2: Well, you have a quote. I'll give you another example

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Speaker 2: of what I like about him. He's basically been here

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Speaker 2: like five minutes and the best quote you had in

643
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Speaker 2: your piece that largely was, you know, talking about the

644
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Speaker 2: the Randall ascension finally after a miserable stretch since the

645
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Speaker 2: beginning of March. For him, here's what what Dsumo told you.

646
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Speaker 2: When he plays to heat being Julius Randall, when he

647
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 2: plays decisive, whether it's quick reads or shooting the three

648
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 2: or driving it or getting to the next action, that

649
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 2: really keeps our offense popping and keeps our offense live.

650
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 2: We need that because sometimes we get bogged down, the

651
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 2: ball isn't moving and we're taking one pass shots. For

652
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:57,319
Speaker 2: us to be at our best, I think we have

653
00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 2: to play with pace. Ding ding ding he's been, like

654
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,759
Speaker 2: I said, for a minute, and he's already articulating that

655
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 2: he's got the understanding and sensibility to know exactly what

656
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 2: works well for this team and what doesn't.

657
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:11,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the other really important part of that, Dan

658
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 3: is I can't remember if I had this part in

659
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 3: there and not. I may have cut it out, but

660
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 3: he told me that it was in the first quarter,

661
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:22,880
Speaker 3: during the first time out that he pulled Julius Randall

662
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 3: aside and told him all of this directly to him.

663
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Speaker 3: And so that tells you that he is a vocal

664
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Speaker 3: member of this group already. And we've talked all year

665
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 3: long about this group being largely quiet, little sullen iowe

666
00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:40,919
Speaker 3: is not that way, and they need that energy, they

667
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:44,919
Speaker 3: need that perspective. I do think he has some high

668
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,799
Speaker 3: basketball IQ, which is another thing that is in short

669
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:51,359
Speaker 3: supply on this team right now. And so you know

670
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:55,359
Speaker 3: when you look at the boxes that he's checking, they

671
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:57,440
Speaker 3: are there's a ton of them. And that's why he

672
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 3: played thirty three minutes last night, and I think you

673
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:02,880
Speaker 3: will continue to get those minutes whether he starts or not.

674
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 3: He's going to be playing a lot because he just

675
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:10,200
Speaker 3: is doing a lot of things well for this team

676
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 3: right now.

677
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:16,319
Speaker 2: Here's a controversial text that came in much earlier. This

678
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 2: is from Retire kg's number guy. We asked Johnny if

679
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 2: there is a locker room schism between Rudy and the

680
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:27,400
Speaker 2: rest of the Wolves, based on Rudy's continued comments in

681
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 2: the media as of late, that may explain the lackluster

682
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:31,800
Speaker 2: performance of the team in the last four or five games.

683
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:34,880
Speaker 2: Is there any we we blame Rudy for a lot

684
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:38,879
Speaker 2: And by the way, I was reminded by somebody that

685
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 2: on the pregame show broadcast, what was it on yesterday?

686
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 2: Was it ABC? The game?

687
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:44,840
Speaker 3: ABC?

688
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:47,759
Speaker 2: They guy who's the guy who used to cover who's

689
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:51,440
Speaker 2: kind of the lebron James biographer Windy Windy windors that

690
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:54,560
Speaker 2: Windy and I didn't hear this, but I was told

691
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 2: he basically said something it's hard to like Rudy Gobert.

692
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:00,960
Speaker 2: So it's on and on on Rudy. By Is there

693
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:04,799
Speaker 2: any there there that you're paying attention to, any underlying

694
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:07,959
Speaker 2: tension that goes beyond the obvious stuff that even within

695
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 2: is a locker room, there's some people who are bored

696
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:11,480
Speaker 2: with Rudy.

697
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Speaker 3: So I'll put it this way. I don't think that

698
00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 3: there is a tension where there's any kind of confrontational

699
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:23,920
Speaker 3: or rank or they're directed his way from a personality standpoint,

700
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:26,759
Speaker 3: because I do think some of those some of his

701
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:29,719
Speaker 3: comments about passing the ball and moving the ball have

702
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:33,799
Speaker 3: been misconstrued because all he's saying is we just need

703
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:37,040
Speaker 3: to get the ball moving, yes, which he is correct about,

704
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 3: and that's yeah, there cannot be any of this isolation stuff.

705
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:46,080
Speaker 3: It doesn't work. Move the ball, get going. The problem

706
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:50,960
Speaker 3: that he has is he is an imperfect messenger. Because

707
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:54,759
Speaker 3: last night, in particular, was I think the worst game

708
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 3: I've seen him play in a Timberwolves uniform. I'm talking

709
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:04,360
Speaker 3: about not catching easy passes that came to him, fumbling

710
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:08,759
Speaker 3: everything that was in, you know, within arm's reach of

711
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 3: his And so I do think that there is a

712
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:19,279
Speaker 3: an exasperation with his teammates of we are trying to

713
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:23,400
Speaker 3: get you the ball, but when we do half of

714
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 3: the time more more you drop the ball. And because

715
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:30,120
Speaker 3: he's not getting the ball, then you're seeing, you know,

716
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:33,279
Speaker 3: less effort on defense and not rebounding as much. And

717
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:35,799
Speaker 3: so there's a lot of things that are going around.

718
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:39,360
Speaker 3: Rudy is a winning player. He knows what he is,

719
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:41,759
Speaker 3: he knows what he is in He is very accountable.

720
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Speaker 3: There's a lot of things that he has going for him,

721
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 3: but right now there isn't a lot of trust that

722
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Speaker 3: he's going to handle things the right way offensively. If

723
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:55,239
Speaker 3: you watch the thunder yesterday, Dan and what they were

724
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:58,759
Speaker 3: able to do with Isaiah hart Hartenstein on the offensive end,

725
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 3: in terms of the death that he has with the

726
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:04,880
Speaker 3: ball in his hands, setting screens and moving, catching, passing,

727
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 3: all of those things, Like, they just don't feel like

728
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:10,760
Speaker 3: they have that with Rudy right now. And it takes

729
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:13,920
Speaker 3: a lot of trust to get him the ball, and

730
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 3: when he's turning it over four times in twenty eight minutes, like, man,

731
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:20,720
Speaker 3: that's just a really tough look for him in this moment.

732
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:23,680
Speaker 3: So yeah, he's he's going through it right now, and

733
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:27,360
Speaker 3: he's trying to earn back kind of the faith from

734
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Speaker 3: Ant and Julius and all these guys just in terms

735
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:31,880
Speaker 3: of making plays. I don't I do not think that

736
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Speaker 3: there's anything like man, we don't like this guy, but

737
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:37,560
Speaker 3: there certainly is in the performance end of things. A

738
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Speaker 3: lot he's leaven a lot to be desired, like he.

739
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Speaker 2: Had two dunks blocked too, you know for sewing feet

740
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Speaker 2: you're never see.

741
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the one he got fooled on, the one he

742
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:47,120
Speaker 3: got filed on. But yeah, yeah, he's just he's got

743
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:48,319
Speaker 3: to be stronger with the ball too.

744
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:50,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that. That's not necessarily been a strength of

745
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 2: his ever. On dunch, one could say, and it all

746
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 2: kind of fits together if you want to be the

747
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:56,720
Speaker 2: guy who doesn't like him or so he's not giving

748
00:42:56,719 --> 00:43:01,080
Speaker 2: you enough to the one other thing regarding the turnovers

749
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:07,880
Speaker 2: and you know, moving the ball, if you have several players,

750
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:12,160
Speaker 2: I mean, we know Nasried is incredibly mobile for a size, right,

751
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 2: but he's loose with the ball when he's going into

752
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 2: double teams or when he's trying to drive. Sometimes Anthony

753
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:21,440
Speaker 2: Edwards can be loose with the ball. We know Julius

754
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:23,800
Speaker 2: Randall can be loose with the ball. That to me

755
00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 2: should make it an easy message in the locker room

756
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:29,399
Speaker 2: to say, guys, we love that we got some people

757
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:33,120
Speaker 2: who can try to to to you know, break down

758
00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 2: the defense and get to the basket because you want that.

759
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 2: But if it's not there, you guys aren't good at

760
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 2: ball possession. The ball can be taken away from you

761
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:44,520
Speaker 2: all the more reason, I think to try to double

762
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:46,440
Speaker 2: down on the idea we just in those situations, we

763
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:47,279
Speaker 2: got to keep it moving.

764
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:50,160
Speaker 3: Yeah. I want to bring up one other thing that

765
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:53,359
Speaker 3: iOS told me last night in the game in the

766
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:57,480
Speaker 3: locker room that didn't make the story, but he said,

767
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:00,960
Speaker 3: the thing that you have to do against Oklahoma City

768
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:02,360
Speaker 3: to beat them, that you have to do at a

769
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 3: high level, is you have to go three, four, five.

770
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 3: You have to make the simple play every single time.

771
00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:11,800
Speaker 3: When you go three or four minutes of not making

772
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:14,879
Speaker 3: the simple play, they feed off that and that's how

773
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:18,360
Speaker 3: they make their runs. They test your ability to trust

774
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:21,080
Speaker 3: in the offense that you have and to do the

775
00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:24,440
Speaker 3: simple thing right over and over and over again, and

776
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:27,600
Speaker 3: that has been a problem for this team. I think

777
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:31,640
Speaker 3: that you have a lot of really individually talented players

778
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:35,719
Speaker 3: who whether it's not whether it's whether it's Julius, whether

779
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:39,359
Speaker 3: any of these guys that can conjure a highlight out

780
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:43,520
Speaker 3: of thin air and can do really impressive things. But

781
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:46,839
Speaker 3: when you try to do that against high level defenses

782
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:50,560
Speaker 3: that are built to capitalize on your mistakes, they feast

783
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:52,919
Speaker 3: on those. When the ball just slips out your hand

784
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:55,399
Speaker 3: a little bit or you're you're a little bit late

785
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:58,320
Speaker 3: on your on your pivot, or your you're a little

786
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:01,120
Speaker 3: tunnel vision. That's what they wait for. But if you

787
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:03,799
Speaker 3: just make the simple play that is not going to

788
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:06,600
Speaker 3: get you on a highlight reel, you're going to create

789
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 3: open shots for yourself or your teammates a lot more.

790
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:13,799
Speaker 3: But it is hard to be patient and disciplined for

791
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 3: forty eight minutes because there's just a natural inclination for

792
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 3: guys to want to do something fancy, and that is

793
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:24,960
Speaker 3: something that this team has been fighting for a long time,

794
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:28,080
Speaker 3: and certainly with something that they struggled with yesterday in

795
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:29,080
Speaker 3: Oklahoma City.

796
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:31,760
Speaker 2: Must win tomorrow night at home against Phoenix.

797
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:34,680
Speaker 3: It feels like it. I mean, I know, there's fourteen

798
00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:38,439
Speaker 3: games left, and yes, technically they can win or lose

799
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:40,839
Speaker 3: and they'd still be in front of the Suns and

800
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 3: all those things, but there are not a lot of

801
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:47,879
Speaker 3: home games left. They need to stabilize themselves, and they

802
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:52,480
Speaker 3: have this kind of upstart team that is believing in

803
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:56,360
Speaker 3: itself and really, you know, wants all of the smoke

804
00:45:56,440 --> 00:46:00,920
Speaker 3: and so these guys, the Wolves have to come together

805
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:04,320
Speaker 3: and they have to play good basketball. Even the Warriors

806
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:07,759
Speaker 3: win was bad basketball for much of the game, and

807
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:11,279
Speaker 3: so I do think that they have to win. I

808
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:14,319
Speaker 3: think that they have to start to release some of

809
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:17,400
Speaker 3: the pressure that they are all feeling and get a

810
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:20,479
Speaker 3: smile on their face or otherwise, you know, you could

811
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:23,279
Speaker 3: really kareem right off the cliff if it's if you

812
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:23,960
Speaker 3: keep this up.

813
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:26,520
Speaker 2: Dylan Brooks is still out right, He's not going to

814
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:27,880
Speaker 2: be available for tomorrow. Correct.

815
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 3: I don't believe so, yeah, I don't believe. So.

816
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:32,919
Speaker 2: Okay, Well that's too bad, because that's always one more fun,

817
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 2: right with all the things he's had to say. I

818
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:37,759
Speaker 2: assume he'll be there though, at least razzing and trying

819
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:41,040
Speaker 2: to to get some heat going right on the bench.

820
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:42,319
Speaker 2: For sure.

821
00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:44,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he was. Maybe it was just last

822
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 3: week he was interviewed and asked who he wanted in

823
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:49,760
Speaker 3: the first round of the PLAYFFS, and he said the Wolves.

824
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:53,360
Speaker 3: That he does believe that he can win sort of

825
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:57,760
Speaker 3: a battle of you know, a mental war against the Wolves.

826
00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:00,759
Speaker 3: He believes that, and hey, he's done a hell of

827
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:03,759
Speaker 3: a job in Phoenix this year. I hate watching him.

828
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:08,480
Speaker 3: I think he is a cheap, dirty player, but he

829
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 3: has galvanized those suns and he can get under the skin. Yes,

830
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:14,799
Speaker 3: we can of the Timberwolves, and so that's something that

831
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:16,279
Speaker 3: they have to watch out for for sure.

832
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:19,799
Speaker 2: Thank you, Johnny. We'll talk next week. Appreciate you all right,

833
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:24,000
Speaker 2: Thanks Dan, Johnny Athletic brought to you by RBC Wealth Management.

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