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Speaker 1: Blake bore by my side. We were talking about the

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Speaker 2: He had like a two week stretch this season we

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Speaker 1: the absurdity of the Pro Bowl. Both of our teams

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Speaker 1: I noticed that Mel Kuiper's very first mock draft came out.

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Speaker 1: welcome our first guest of the day again at eleven o'clock,

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Speaker 1: Pete Bursich to chat all things NFL, and the bottom

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Speaker 1: of the hour will chat with Britt Robson to talk

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Speaker 1: from here. But now we welcome friend of the fan,

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Speaker 1: lavell E Neil the Third. I much prefer talking to

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Lavel, good morning, good Moring.

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Speaker 4: Great to hear your voice.

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Speaker 3: Yeah so great. I appreciate you joining me.

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Speaker 1: I haven't caught up with you since your team's final

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Speaker 1: How'd you feel about the performance against the Rams? Obviously

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Speaker 1: the late pick by Caleb was a dagger, but general

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Speaker 4: Oh, I think if you told me that the Bears

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Speaker 4: that and would have said, like, my Bear's chances to

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Speaker 4: performance by Dennis Allen. And there's actually video of McVeigh

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Speaker 4: i'm gonna use my I'm gonna be in dining for

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Speaker 4: But I leave this season, which is a really good

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Speaker 3: At, as you should.

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Speaker 3: What's the to do list?

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Speaker 1: What's the short list that your organization needs to do

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Speaker 4: they make those decisions, and if they decided to trade more,

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Speaker 1: Peter left tackle. Green Bay's left tackle will be on

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Speaker 3: Let's let's talk super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: The obvious Vikings connection with the quarterbacks Donald and Drake May,

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Speaker 4: That means And that means Cardi B's at the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 4: I've got a picture on my phone, someone said to me.

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Speaker 4: So it's gonna be armageddon. Enjoy this twenty twenty sixth season.

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Speaker 4: I just don't expect baseball to be played. I just

437
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Speaker 4: don't think opening Day twenty twenty seven is going to

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Speaker 4: happen anytime on schedule, on time, and I think we

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Speaker 4: have to look at the possibility of the whole season

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Speaker 4: getting whacked and majure. Baseball just went through this with

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Speaker 4: COVID basically playing a sixty game season, so they know

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Speaker 4: how to deal with this. The Twins just brought in

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Speaker 4: minority partners. They to pay down their five hundred million

444
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Speaker 4: in debt so they can absorb another hit in twenty

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Speaker 4: twenty seven better. They're very equipped to handle that type

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Speaker 4: of hit. My only concern is that there are some

447
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Speaker 4: teams that took some drastic majors during the COVID year,

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Speaker 4: like the Cubs, you know, laid off one hundred of

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Speaker 4: em plays and other teams did. The Twins did not.

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Speaker 4: They didn't want to treat their employees like that. But

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Speaker 4: I believe that if there's no base on twenty twenty seven,

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Speaker 4: you'll may see like every every team layoff a bunch

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Speaker 4: of employees just to cut costs as much as possible.

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Speaker 4: So there's going to be pain felt, yeah, in twenty

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Speaker 4: twenty seven, right.

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Speaker 1: Which you don't think about when you think about the

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Speaker 1: big picture. I would say virtually every fan would be

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Speaker 1: in favor of a salary cap, unless you're a fan

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Speaker 1: of the haves, right, Dodgers, the Cubs, the Mats, the Yankees, Cubs.

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Speaker 1: Outside of that, we see how it works in other leagues.

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Speaker 1: We see the competitive balance, the hope that springs eternal

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Speaker 1: for teams in the NBA and NFL and NHL because

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Speaker 1: it's a fair playing field. I understand the players being

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Speaker 1: against it, But don't you think the public support might

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Speaker 1: help move this thing along or do you think that's

466
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Speaker 1: sort of overblown.

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Speaker 4: I think when there's billions of dollars a steak, public

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Speaker 4: opinion is not taking as seriously as it should be.

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Speaker 4: The other factor about this, to sending is that owners

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Speaker 4: have to clean up their own house. There is something

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Speaker 4: they can do on their own in terms of stair sharing,

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Speaker 4: local television revenue. I believe right now they only share

473
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Speaker 4: like thirty eight percent of local TV revenues, and so

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Speaker 4: teams like the Dodgers and the Yankees Angels, who are

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Speaker 4: getting nice television packages, you know, are able to spend

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Speaker 4: freely outspend other teams. And you know, I think there's

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Speaker 4: a belief now, a growing belief amongst some owners that

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Speaker 4: all that money should be put in one pot and

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Speaker 4: split thirty ways. And I think that's the discussion they

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Speaker 4: need to have amongst themselves before in addition to either

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Speaker 4: before or in addition to approaching the players Association about

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Speaker 4: a salary cap. Yes, the fans lose out on this, definitely.

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Speaker 4: We saw the backlash a couple of years ago when

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Speaker 4: the local television provider was going through bankruptcy protection and

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Speaker 4: no one communicated that to fans and everyone was left.

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Speaker 4: All of a sudden, we had purple screens saying that

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Speaker 4: the team's not going to be broadcasted, and we saw

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Speaker 4: the backlash deead, you know, and that affected a lot

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Speaker 4: of people, a lot of elderly twins, fans who spend

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Speaker 4: their summers watching baseball games, you know, were deprived of that. So, yeah,

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Speaker 4: but I'm telling you, baseball wants to become that fifteen billion,

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Speaker 4: sixteen billion, eighteen billion dollar a year industry that you know,

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Speaker 4: the NFL is they want what the NBA is. The

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Speaker 4: NBA is just starting a eleven year, seventy seven billion

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Speaker 4: dollar streaming television package. And which games are on different platforms.

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Speaker 4: You know, you got to figure out who's on Peacock

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Speaker 4: now and who's not who on other services. But the

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Speaker 4: NBA is getting seventy seven billion over the next eleven

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Speaker 4: years because of that, you know, that's what baseball wants.

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Speaker 4: And when the money's getting that big and that and

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Speaker 4: that much opulence as possible, fan sentiment kind of goes

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Speaker 4: by the wayside, and that sucks.

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Speaker 3: That does suck.

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Speaker 1: And when you can only watch a Wolves game on Peacock,

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Speaker 1: you know, that's not great for the Cave right now.

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Speaker 1: It's just not I don't think it serves the best purpose.

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Speaker 1: But that's where we are. It's not going anywhere. We

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Speaker 1: get that. Uh, you sent me a text before you

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Speaker 1: came on this morning that you wanted to talk Olympics.

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Speaker 1: So I'm curious, what has you excited, what are you

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Speaker 1: looking forward to?

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Speaker 3: What you to send that text that you want to

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Speaker 3: have a little conversation.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the Olympics start next week, lady and gentlemen, I

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Speaker 4: think that there's matter. There's a competitions on February fourth

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Speaker 4: or fifth, so it's coming. Having covered Beijing and spending

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Speaker 4: a month, nearly a month in China, my my sports patriotism,

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Speaker 4: you know, shot upward just to see be at the

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Speaker 4: Pinnacle International Competition and watching all that a fold and

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Speaker 4: and you know, the great thing about the Elympicians that

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Speaker 4: a lot of a lot of Olympic athletes I just

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Speaker 4: kind of like regular people with jobs. You know, it's

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Speaker 4: it's a it's a sport where a chunkment is still

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Speaker 4: you know, common every day folk. You know, who are

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Speaker 4: curling or who are snowboarding? You know, yes, you do

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Speaker 4: have the hockey players evolved, and that's a big deal.

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Speaker 4: But it was just really neat and the Olympic the

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Speaker 4: full Olympic team was announced yesterday. It's two hundred and

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Speaker 4: thirty two uh leet's going from the United States, which

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Speaker 4: is the largest ever, and roughly fifteen percent of them

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Speaker 4: from Minnesota. You know, Minnesota's gonna have about thirty two,

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Speaker 4: maybe thirty three Olympic athletes. They had thirty one, four

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Speaker 4: years ago, So there is something to write every day

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Speaker 4: about someone from Minnesota at the Olympics, and it's going

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Speaker 4: to be the same way this year. You know, the

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Speaker 4: men's the hockey teams, you know, you know, the Frosts

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Speaker 4: have like five or six players going, and we know

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Speaker 4: what the Robberies. We gets Canada. We get to see

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Speaker 4: that USA Canada rivalry of men's hockey. You know, it's

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Speaker 4: right up there as well. All the all the curling

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Speaker 4: teams have Minnesota flavor. The men's curling team is from Minnesota.

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Speaker 4: The women's curling team, know the peers and sisters grew

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Speaker 4: up in Egan. The mixed doubles team of Corey Dropkin

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Speaker 4: and Corey tc is from Duluth. You know, Minnesota is

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Speaker 4: like the capitol of curling in this country, and that's

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Speaker 4: going to be on display here. So there's a lot

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Speaker 4: of reasons to watch this and get fired up about

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Speaker 4: of watching these people compete. And you're gonna be able

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Speaker 4: to get up at seven am and have your morning

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Speaker 4: coffee and it's gonna be one or two o'clock in Italy,

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Speaker 4: and you're gonna be able to have the Olympics ton

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Speaker 4: in the morning before you go to work, and then

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Speaker 4: you'll be able to watch the replace when you come

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Speaker 4: home and the starts. Rebute is gonna have a running blog,

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Speaker 4: So make sure you click on the start Tribute dot

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Speaker 4: com daily because we're gonna be updating stuff all day

557
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Speaker 4: long about how Minnesota and Sultans were doing an Olympics.

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Speaker 4: Jesse Diggins about to retire, ending a story career, one

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Speaker 4: of the most decorated ski is ever. Now she's one

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Speaker 4: of us. And I say that now I've looked her

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Speaker 4: over twenty something years. I guess I can admit that

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Speaker 4: Minnesota is my adopted home now. Lindsay Vaughan forty one

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Speaker 4: years old. She made the Downstall skiing team with a

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Speaker 4: with half her need made out of titanium. There's some

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Speaker 4: great stories in there, Minnesotan stories. So this is gonna

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Speaker 4: be a great three weeks, three to four weeks of

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Speaker 4: watching Minnesota athletes go for gold.

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Speaker 1: Well, with all those Minnesotans competing, I'd love to think

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Speaker 1: to Start Tribute setting a great contingent of reporters to

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Speaker 1: cover all these athletes.

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Speaker 3: Is that happening now?

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Speaker 4: It's not in the budget this year. It was expensive

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Speaker 4: to go to Beijing. It's even more expensive to go

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Speaker 4: to Italy, and they just couldn't handle it because last

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Speaker 4: four years ago is myself and Rachel Blount going to Beijing.

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Speaker 4: But it's just we're gonna try to do the best

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Speaker 4: we can from here, and it's not gonna be the same,

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Speaker 4: and there's gonna be some instances where we have to

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Speaker 4: rely on the Associated Press to provide concept for the

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Speaker 4: paper and online, but we're gonna be writing occasional stories

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Speaker 4: from here too. I'm planning on going out to one

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Speaker 4: of the local curling clubs and going to watch I

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Speaker 4: believe the St. Paul Curling Club is going to have

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Speaker 4: a watch party either February fourteenth or fifteenth. We're probably

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Speaker 4: gonna be out there among the folks. And I actually

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Speaker 4: went to three curling clubs last week while doing preview stories.

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Speaker 4: There's be a boat load of previews in the paper

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Speaker 4: next week, ladies and gentlemen, because I've been out talking

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Speaker 4: to hockey players and curlers for the last week two weeks.

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Speaker 4: But I went to the Sat. Paul Curling Club for

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Speaker 4: the first time last week and it was two o'clock

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Speaker 4: on a Friday. They were having a tournament and the

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Speaker 4: beers were flowing. I was like, wow, people to mess

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Speaker 4: around with curling, you know. Then I went to the

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Speaker 4: Frogtown Curling Club at seven am to talk to Danny

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Speaker 4: Casper who was practicing there. And then Sunday, before I

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Speaker 4: went to the Bears game, I went out to the

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Speaker 4: Chaska Curling Club, which is next to the Crook and

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Speaker 4: Fine Lhouse. Yeah, I've been there and talked to some

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Speaker 4: of the curlers there, and Danny Casper was there that

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Speaker 4: I had my Bear sweatshirt because I was leaving the

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Speaker 4: Chaska Club to goes straight to the alley to watch

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Speaker 4: the Bears game. I forgot that Danny Casper has got

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Speaker 4: roots in Wisconsin and he saw me and said, what

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Speaker 4: the hell are you wearing? So I was going through

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Speaker 4: that as well. But it's been cool to getting around

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Speaker 4: to check out the curling vibe in this town. And

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Speaker 4: I'm sure all the Crows and town gonna be fired

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Speaker 4: up to watch the three teams compete in Italy over

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Speaker 4: the next month.

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Speaker 1: Sweet Well, look forward to all your coverage from AFAR.

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Speaker 1: Really glad you're gonna provide all that for all of

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Speaker 1: us in the Star Tribune, So enjoy all of that.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy watching and thanks for your time on a Tuesday morning, Lavel.

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Speaker 3: Great to catch up with you, my Fred. We'll do

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Speaker 3: it again soon anytime, man.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Lavelle Eneil the Third read his stuff, of

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Speaker 1: course at Star Tribune and Star Tribune dot com.

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Speaker 3: Turn the page.

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Speaker 1: Turn our attention to the Minnesota Timberwolves five game losing

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Speaker 1: streak ends last night against the JV squad that the

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Speaker 1: Warriors put on the court. Britt Robson, who covers the

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Speaker 1: Wolves very well at Midpost dot com. He is next

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Speaker 1: nine to noon. I'm the fan.

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Speaker 2: The fan welcome some great shows the Mystic Lake Amphitheater. Leonard,

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Speaker 2: skinnerd and Forner will be there August sixteenth, Motley Crue

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Speaker 2: August twenty first. Get complete details and all for upcoming

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Speaker 3: Keywre Calendar. We're back ten forty two.

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Speaker 1: A couple of quick NFL coaching news items before we

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Speaker 1: welcome Britt Robson to the program. The Buffalo Bills have

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Speaker 1: the new head coach. They didn't go far, They went

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Speaker 1: inside their own locker room. Offensive coordinator Joe Brady, according

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Speaker 1: to Ian Rappaport, will be the next Buffalo Bill's head

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Speaker 1: football coach, and Vikings fans might be old enough to

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Speaker 1: remember backup quarterback Sean Manyon, who was a backup two

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Speaker 1: years ago for the Vikings went to Green.

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Speaker 3: Bay to be a quarterback coach.

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Speaker 1: He is interviewing for the offensive coordinator job for the

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles today. That's quite a meteoric rise for young

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Speaker 1: Sean Manyon, who, as I said two years ago, is

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Speaker 1: backing up Kirk Cousins and now has a shot at

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Speaker 1: the Eagles OC job. We'll get back into football next

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Speaker 1: hour when Pete Burst joins Top of the Hour. For now, though,

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Speaker 1: very pleased to welcome a favorite of mine, Britt Robson,

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Speaker 1: who has covered the Wolves forever, most recently and currently

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Speaker 1: with Minpost dot Com. Britt, great to have you on

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Speaker 1: this morning. I want to get your thoughts on what

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Speaker 1: is going on with our favorite basketball team. Yes, the

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Speaker 1: end of their five game losing streak last night, but

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Speaker 1: I'm curious to hear from you what has concerned you

652
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Speaker 1: most by what you've watched the last I don't know, week,

653
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Speaker 1: ten days, two weeks, as this team has sort of

654
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Speaker 1: struggled to figure out what to do with themselves.

655
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Speaker 6: Well, it looks like some chickens are coming home to roost.

656
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Speaker 5: I didn't think it would be.

657
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Speaker 6: As damaging as it has been, But their bench is really,

658
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 6: really thin, and a lot of that has to do

659
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Speaker 6: with the fact that their trio of young players, their

660
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Speaker 6: young cores of Chris Finch called them at the beginning

661
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Speaker 6: of the season, have not panned out nearly as well

662
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Speaker 6: as expected, and they've gone to some contingency plans that

663
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Speaker 6: initially looked good and may still actually work out. But

664
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Speaker 6: you know, Bones Island is the backup point guard. Essentially.

665
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Speaker 6: He's a guy who was a two way signing last

666
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Speaker 6: year and is signed for relatively you know, two million

667
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Speaker 6: dollars this year and of the roster type salary, and

668
00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:09,840
Speaker 6: his contribution is going to be pretty important. Mike Conley,

669
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Speaker 6: his decline and skills, the aging has caught up to him,

670
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Speaker 6: has been a huge factor. So specifically, I think the

671
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Speaker 6: backcourt and the three players I was referred to obviously

672
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Speaker 6: are Rob Dillingham, Terren Shannon Junior, and Jaln Clark. If

673
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Speaker 6: you talk about those people that I just mentioned, the

674
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Speaker 6: three young guys, and then Bones and Mike Conley, those

675
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:42,359
Speaker 6: five people are supposed to be the supplements to the

676
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Speaker 6: top six, which are the starters, and then Oz Reed,

677
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Speaker 6: who is a six man at the year candidate. But

678
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Speaker 6: right now, that is I think the biggest weakness. Having

679
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Speaker 6: a five game losing streak less than two weeks before

680
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Speaker 6: the trade deadline for a team that went to the

681
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Speaker 6: Western Conference finals two years in a row is really

682
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Speaker 6: situational slam dunk for some kind of roster tweak. But again,

683
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Speaker 6: you know, salaries is strange. The Wolves do pride themselves

684
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Speaker 6: on their continuity to the extent that they can make it.

685
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Speaker 5: They do have a solid roster.

686
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Speaker 6: They're you know, sixth in the West again, seventh before

687
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Speaker 6: last night. But it's a concerning situation, no doubt.

688
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Speaker 1: Fans watched the team play, and you know, I'm just

689
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 1: like all of them. I watched the sloppiness, the turnovers.

690
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Speaker 1: I think we'll give them a pass on Sunday. We

691
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Speaker 1: know how difficult it had to be to concentrate on

692
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Speaker 1: basketball on Sunday where they had nine turnovers in the

693
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Speaker 1: first quarter. That kind of tells you something's up. And

694
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Speaker 1: they come back last night and what twenty two more

695
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Speaker 1: turnovers And I understand, you know, you're not dealing with

696
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Speaker 1: a team that's got great point guard play. But I

697
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Speaker 1: just look ahead, Brett, if this is the roster in

698
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 1: April and May, and if I'm facing the Timberls in

699
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Speaker 1: the playoffs, job number one is to pressure this team

700
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Speaker 1: and see if they can handle the basketball. I just

701
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Speaker 1: I watched this team play and get so sloppy with

702
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Speaker 1: the ball.

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Speaker 3: It's just if it infuriates me.

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine what the coaching staff feels when they

705
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Speaker 1: watch it. How do they how do they get past

706
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Speaker 1: the turnover conundrum right now?

707
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Speaker 5: Yeah?

708
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Speaker 6: It Unfortunately, part of the problem is is that they're

709
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 6: pushing in transition a lot more, and I really do

710
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 6: think that helps their offensive efficiency. Transition points are some

711
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Speaker 6: of the most efficient in basketball, and they were notoriously

712
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Speaker 6: disinclined to push the pace after a defensive rebound or

713
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Speaker 6: a turnover last season and this season before that. So

714
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Speaker 6: some of that is turnovers are up, and so are

715
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Speaker 6: fast breakpoints and points off of turnovers. They had the

716
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Speaker 6: twenty nine fast breakpoints last night and twenty three turnovers.

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Speaker 5: I asked fans.

718
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Speaker 6: After the game if he'd prefer to have that both

719
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Speaker 6: of those things cut in half. You know, whether that

720
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Speaker 6: would be a worthy trade for him, and he seemed

721
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Speaker 6: to indicate that he would that he thinks that the

722
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Speaker 6: desire to get out and push the pace has tilted

723
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Speaker 6: into a little bit too much foolhardy stuff. But what

724
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Speaker 6: I see in what bothers me more, quite frankly, are

725
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Speaker 6: just the careless turnovers in the half court dribble handoffs

726
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Speaker 6: or the pedestrian perimeter pass to your teammate just to

727
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Speaker 6: work the side of the floor a little bit differently,

728
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Speaker 6: not taking enough care with those, I believe is the

729
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Speaker 6: bigger problem, because you are going to risk higher turnovers

730
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Speaker 6: if you have a faster pace, and I do think

731
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Speaker 6: you're also going to risk higher turnovers in my opinion,

732
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Speaker 6: when you are playing iso basketball and getting trapped rather

733
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Speaker 6: than playing the kind of quick ball movement that they

734
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Speaker 6: were playing in the first seven games of January when

735
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Speaker 6: they were six and one, which was their best stretch

736
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Speaker 6: of the season by far. Finding a balance between those things.

737
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Speaker 6: You know, Anthony Edwards and Julius Randall are marvelous passers.

738
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Speaker 6: They do very well off of isolation. They do their

739
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:21,319
Speaker 6: points per play and isolation are very high. But there

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Speaker 6: is a tendency when you have that kind of thing

741
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Speaker 6: for the other three or four guys on the court

742
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Speaker 6: to get stagnant, and you do have a situation where

743
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Speaker 6: people are trying to take the game into their own

744
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Speaker 6: hands a little bit too much. And again getting back

745
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Speaker 6: to square on, some of that is the lack of

746
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Speaker 6: the kind of flaw general that is going to be

747
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Speaker 6: able to regulate order a little bit more. Conley used

748
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Speaker 6: to fill that role and Conley occasionally still does fill

749
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Speaker 6: that role when he's on the court. Now Stevincenzo has

750
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Speaker 6: actually played very very well considering he's a combo garden,

751
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Speaker 6: not a point guard. But then you sacrifice off the

752
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Speaker 6: bench and you've got bones Hyland, who has actually been

753
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Speaker 6: a pleasant surprise. But when he can't muster up use,

754
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 6: it's pretty obvious. And so again we get back to okay,

755
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Speaker 6: who do you get?

756
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Speaker 5: You get a Kobe.

757
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Speaker 6: White out of Chicago, which is one of the hot rumors.

758
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Speaker 5: What will that take.

759
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Speaker 6: One of the things that's been published is Mike Conley

760
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Speaker 6: Terrence Shannon in a couple of second round picks. That

761
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Speaker 6: sounds to me like not enough for Kobe White.

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Speaker 5: Although Kobe White, you know, we'll be.

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Speaker 6: Needing to get paid soon, and so maybe Chicago would

764
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Speaker 6: want to do that because Conley's inexpiring and Terren Shannon

765
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Speaker 6: is young on a rookie contract. But again, these are

766
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Speaker 6: the types of things. And then how does Kobe White fit?

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Speaker 6: Is he a six man? I know Dante DiVincenzo does

768
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Speaker 6: not want to go back to the bench. Kobe White,

769
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Speaker 6: for that matter, is not really a pure point guard either,

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Speaker 6: So you know, I don't know where you go.

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Speaker 5: If it were up to me, I.

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Speaker 6: Guess I would try to find something like Memphis has

773
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Speaker 6: got a guy, you know, Gardy Piffen junior, Scardi Pippin's kid,

774
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Speaker 6: making relatively small money. Does Memphis want to part with him?

775
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Speaker 6: Probably not. But these are the types of things. I

776
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Speaker 6: think you need to work around the margins because it

777
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Speaker 6: is late in the season. They've got you know, thirty

778
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Speaker 6: three or four games to go or whatever, and they

779
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Speaker 6: need to try to go for it now. And some

780
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Speaker 6: of that is continuity, some of it is you have

781
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Speaker 6: to go with who brought you. But if they can

782
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Speaker 6: tweak that backcourt depth and rely on a little bit

783
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Speaker 6: better playmaking, I think that that would make a big difference.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's funny we went into January.

785
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Speaker 1: I think a lot of Wolves fans thought, this is

786
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Speaker 1: going to be a really key month for this team

787
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:44,920
Speaker 1: here heading into the trade deadline. They've got what nineteen games,

788
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Speaker 1: a lot against winning teams. We're going to know a

789
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:50,239
Speaker 1: lot more about this team as we inch closer to

790
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Speaker 1: the trade deadline. In the first couple weeks in January,

791
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Speaker 1: I sat here a Saturday and a half ago and

792
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Speaker 1: I said to Trent, I love the way this.

793
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Speaker 3: Team's playing right now.

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Speaker 1: When they went down that six and one star like

795
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 1: they don't need to do anything, and then last Saturday,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, trade everybody.

797
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Speaker 3: I mean, something has to be done.

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Speaker 1: So it feels like something will be done, and as

799
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Speaker 1: I as you said, I do think it's going to

800
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Speaker 1: be more around the margins. I am a guy that's

801
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:18,000
Speaker 1: always been a fan of kolbe White, but again, as

802
00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:21,279
Speaker 1: you say, he's not the floor general point guard that

803
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 1: you might covet, and he's a free agent after this year.

804
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:25,279
Speaker 1: So are you going to give up a lot of

805
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Speaker 1: assets for a guy that may want to get paid

806
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:29,360
Speaker 1: and this team may not be willing or able to

807
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 1: and he might be a rental player, So you have

808
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Speaker 1: to weigh all of that. I mean, the Bulls have

809
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Speaker 1: three guards that would look good on this roster. It

810
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 1: feels like Brett that they are going to have to

811
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Speaker 1: do something to inject some kind of life into the

812
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Speaker 1: second unit because it's clear that if Nas isn't given

813
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:50,200
Speaker 1: you twenty five off the bench, you can't count on

814
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:52,359
Speaker 1: bones night in night out. He looked great without at

815
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:55,080
Speaker 1: last night. With the three previous games, you know, he

816
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 1: was a rumor. That's I think who he is. So

817
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Speaker 1: I feel like we all believe something is going to

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Speaker 1: get done on whatever level that is, right.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess so, I mean, and I do. One

820
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Speaker 5: of the things, I.

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Speaker 6: Have faith in Tim Connolly's acumen at the trade deadline.

822
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Speaker 6: I mean, getting you know, Mike Conley and Nikhil Alexander

823
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Speaker 6: Walker and the second round pick for Dillo a few

824
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:25,160
Speaker 6: years ago really almost swung the fate of this team

825
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:29,840
Speaker 6: in any respects. And you know he has been willing

826
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:34,720
Speaker 6: to get off mistakes sometimes. He traded Bryn Forbes and

827
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Speaker 6: Shake Milton right after he had signed him as a

828
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Speaker 6: free agent in the offseason during the trade deadline. So

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Speaker 6: I think if there is a credible deal to be

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Speaker 6: had out there, I think Tim Conley is the guy

831
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Speaker 6: to swing it. He's incredibly well connected around the NBA.

832
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Speaker 6: It really helps him in the draft when he knows

833
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Speaker 6: what other almost every other team is coveting in the draft.

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Speaker 6: And I think that to a slightly different extent, it will,

835
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Speaker 6: you know, help the Wolves in this trade deadline, because

836
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Speaker 6: he does know what the roster, you know, he knows

837
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Speaker 6: what the personnel in the front office, who they undervalue

838
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Speaker 6: and overvalue in his opinion. So I do think that

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Speaker 6: I also and maybe this is overly conservative, but I

840
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:29,279
Speaker 6: do think that when the need is that obvious, you're

841
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 6: liable to overreach and give up more than you should

842
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 6: give up, and that will hurt you in the long run.

843
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:41,080
Speaker 6: This team is still a very good team even if

844
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Speaker 6: they stand pat. I understand what you're saying about pressuring

845
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Speaker 6: the ball, but I also feel like in the playoffs,

846
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 6: you know, it does become down to reduced rosters. They

847
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:55,479
Speaker 6: do have a few tweaks left, I believe in terms

848
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 6: of you know, getting knas more minutes at the three

849
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 6: and spreading out those it's on the top six a

850
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:04,800
Speaker 6: little bit more siphoning in guys. I didn't think Johann

851
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Speaker 6: Berengjier maybe getting ready for a little bit more minutes.

852
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Speaker 5: I mean it'll be a skilled BIGS heavy rotation.

853
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Speaker 6: If they kind of stand pat and then you know,

854
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:20,480
Speaker 6: you do have the dangers. You have weaknesses in every

855
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:22,920
Speaker 6: team and a lot of the playoffs, as we know,

856
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 6: are matchups. And you know, to argue against myself for

857
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:30,760
Speaker 6: a minute, Oklahoma City is a team that pressures people

858
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:35,360
Speaker 6: and is successfully pressured, especially Julius Randall in the past,

859
00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 6: and they would be a bad matchup for this team

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Speaker 6: as it's currently constituted.

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Speaker 1: A couple more for Brett Robson read his stuff at

862
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Speaker 1: Minpost dot com. You will not be sorry. A couple

863
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:47,400
Speaker 1: of texts have come in for a wish list, A

864
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Speaker 1: couple of names they want me to throw out at you,

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Speaker 1: Jose Alvarado and TJ McConnell. As you look at veteran

866
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Speaker 1: point guard stabilizing type play, do either of those players

867
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Speaker 1: who are playing for team that are having lost seasons

868
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 1: do they do anything for you?

869
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 6: I do like both of them, actually, you know they're both.

870
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:11,080
Speaker 6: McConnell obviously had a great playoffs last year. He was

871
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 6: a real spark plug as Indiana went all the way

872
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:18,000
Speaker 6: to the finals and Coach's son really had he fits

873
00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:22,320
Speaker 6: the classic point guard mode. I don't know what Indiana

874
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:25,160
Speaker 6: would want for him. I do think Indiana has obviously

875
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:27,000
Speaker 6: been keeping its powder dry. They're going to have a

876
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:30,080
Speaker 6: really high draft pick, which is obviously going to really

877
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:32,839
Speaker 6: help them, and you know, when Haliburton comes back, they

878
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:36,120
Speaker 6: may be fine at the point, So maybe there's something there.

879
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:39,760
Speaker 6: And then with New Orleans, Albarado is a defensive beast.

880
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:42,239
Speaker 6: He is the kind of guy who gets on and

881
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 6: pressures the ball. He's not the kind of guy that

882
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:47,680
Speaker 6: is going to be able to stabilize your half court

883
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:51,920
Speaker 6: that well. I don't see him even as good of

884
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:56,360
Speaker 6: a half court offensive table setter as Bones is, but

885
00:45:57,320 --> 00:45:59,560
Speaker 6: he certainly is in somebody I would not want on

886
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:02,440
Speaker 6: the rush. I think he would be a valuable addition

887
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:05,240
Speaker 6: of the roster of forming for the defense. But again

888
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:07,879
Speaker 6: it's always you know, what do they want? What does

889
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:10,719
Speaker 6: Indiana want? The thing about the Wolves is because of

890
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:13,239
Speaker 6: the go Bear trade, there is not a lot of

891
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:17,920
Speaker 6: draft capital, they'd be looking at second round picks and

892
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:21,160
Speaker 6: maybe do you want to you know, is Rob Dillingham

893
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:23,759
Speaker 6: a mistake? After two years in precious little minutes at

894
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:25,720
Speaker 6: least a year and a half in precious little minutes.

895
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 6: Does Tim Conley believe that Rob Dillingham is a mistake?

896
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:33,440
Speaker 6: If so, then you know that may be somebody who

897
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:37,360
Speaker 6: would appeal to teams. Terren Shannon Jr. Was highly coveted

898
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 6: and raided by the Wolves at the beginning of the season.

899
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:43,640
Speaker 6: He was kind of plugged into the Nikaiel Alexander spot

900
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 6: as an eighth man. And you know, it's it just has.

901
00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:49,080
Speaker 4: Not worked out.

902
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:53,280
Speaker 6: It's been a spectacular fail. But you know, the NBA

903
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:57,720
Speaker 6: is full of reclamation projects and people that just needed

904
00:46:57,719 --> 00:47:01,360
Speaker 6: to change of scenery. I don't know what happened to TJ.

905
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 6: He has effectively played himself out of the rotation. He's

906
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:09,600
Speaker 6: been hurt for a while, so you know that. But

907
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:12,399
Speaker 6: they're not, you know, clamoring necessarily to get him back,

908
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 6: and then you know you've got You're not. Baron jay

909
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 6: I believe is untouchable. Dante DiVincenzo has a wonderful contract.

910
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:23,520
Speaker 6: He's set to make like twenty five million dollars over

911
00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:27,200
Speaker 6: the next two seasons. It's I mean this season the

912
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:31,839
Speaker 6: next and but again there's a guy who is a

913
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:34,319
Speaker 6: really nice fit on the team. Was part of a

914
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:37,959
Speaker 6: great bench group with Nasried and Nikil Alexander Walker last year.

915
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:39,880
Speaker 6: It's not somebody you want to get rid of. So

916
00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 6: all these trades are you know, they're fun. Everybody likes

917
00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:47,840
Speaker 6: to work the trade machine, but almost always the temptation

918
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:51,319
Speaker 6: is to get a deal. It's just a little bit

919
00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 6: better for the Wolves than it is for another team, right,

920
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 6: And if everybody's doing that, then no deals get made.

921
00:47:57,239 --> 00:47:59,680
Speaker 6: So you know, we'll see what Tim Connley comes up with.

922
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:04,560
Speaker 6: I don't think either of those names is ridiculous. It's

923
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:07,680
Speaker 6: credible because, as you say, both of those teams are

924
00:48:07,719 --> 00:48:10,240
Speaker 6: at the bottom of the standings and looking to get better,

925
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:13,960
Speaker 6: not immediately, so that may be a situation where some

926
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:16,120
Speaker 6: of the Wolf's bench pieces might work out.

927
00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:19,440
Speaker 1: Last one for Britt sounded like coach Finch was a

928
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 1: bit surprised that Ant was a late scratch after warming up.

929
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:23,960
Speaker 1: I don't know if you were out there early enough

930
00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:27,760
Speaker 1: to watch him getting shots up. But that's ten games

931
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 1: he's missed with the right foot soreness. That was obviously

932
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:33,400
Speaker 1: an unforeseen back to back, but they got another one

933
00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:36,440
Speaker 1: tomorrow and Thursday with OKC B in the back half

934
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:40,240
Speaker 1: of the most recent back to back. Level of concern

935
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 1: that this foot thing might become an issue, and is

936
00:48:42,560 --> 00:48:45,560
Speaker 1: it something with an All Star game approaching that it

937
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:48,360
Speaker 1: might be worth kind of shutting him down a little

938
00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:50,279
Speaker 1: bit for a couple of games to make sure that

939
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:52,760
Speaker 1: they come out of the break with Aunt as healthy

940
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:56,200
Speaker 1: as possible. How concerned do you think, from your vantage point,

941
00:48:56,680 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 1: Vans should be about Edward's foot injury.

942
00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:03,160
Speaker 6: Well, I wasn't out there for the pregame warm ups,

943
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:06,239
Speaker 6: but some of my fellow media members were, and the

944
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:11,200
Speaker 6: chatter among us was that Aunt looked fine and was

945
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 6: even that kind of taunting Gary Payton Junior that he might,

946
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:18,880
Speaker 6: you know, dunk on him or score on him, you know,

947
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:23,560
Speaker 6: later on in that game. So he may have I

948
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:26,759
Speaker 6: don't know anything other than this is pure speculation. He

949
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:30,920
Speaker 6: may have looked and seen no Draymond, no Steph Curry.

950
00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:33,759
Speaker 6: You know, the best player on the floor last night

951
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:37,400
Speaker 6: for the Warriors is probably Pasinski or you know, Moses

952
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:40,480
Speaker 6: Moody or somebody, and he just thought, Okay, you know,

953
00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:43,320
Speaker 6: my knee is a little bit sore. I'm going to

954
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:48,040
Speaker 6: take this one off. Finch is notoriously in favor of

955
00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:50,880
Speaker 6: players playing as much as they can. I think he

956
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:56,200
Speaker 6: was legitimately surprised. I would not think that it would

957
00:49:56,239 --> 00:50:00,279
Speaker 6: be a concern going forward. I've heard that infection in

958
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:03,600
Speaker 6: toes can be It's one of those things that sounds

959
00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:08,040
Speaker 6: really benign but can be things that are pretty intrusive

960
00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:12,960
Speaker 6: on a player's abilities. So I don't want to minimize

961
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:15,200
Speaker 6: the fact that he has had an infection in his

962
00:50:15,239 --> 00:50:17,400
Speaker 6: toe and that has cost him some games.

963
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:20,600
Speaker 5: But from just for what I heard from my fellow.

964
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Speaker 6: Media members and what I've seen from Mant and what

965
00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:27,920
Speaker 6: I know advanced competitiveness when he does have a challenge

966
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:29,640
Speaker 6: in front of him rather than a husk of a

967
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:32,360
Speaker 6: Golden State team, I think that we'll see him in

968
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 6: fine form, probably for both of those games on the

969
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:35,680
Speaker 6: back to back.

970
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:37,080
Speaker 3: Sounds good, Brett.

971
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Speaker 1: Appreciate the time as always on a Tuesday morning. Keep

972
00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:42,439
Speaker 1: up the great work, Stay warm, look forward to talking

973
00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:46,040
Speaker 1: to you again soon, my man. All right then, Britt Robson,

974
00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:48,920
Speaker 1: please read his stuff at Minpost dot com. The man

975
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:51,160
Speaker 1: has a weight with words. We'll pause here turn our

976
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:55,480
Speaker 1: retention to the National Football League. Pete Persich joins the

977
00:50:55,520 --> 00:50:57,759
Speaker 1: program next for a couple of segments to at chat

978
00:50:57,840 --> 00:50:58,560
Speaker 1: all things football.

979
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Speaker 3: When we're back now to noon,