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Speaker 2: mere Monday afternoon here in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis

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Speaker 2: and Saint Paul. My name is Dan Barrero, former Ingsaint

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Speaker 2: Retch newspaper the Twin Cities Guards. He produces the show,

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Speaker 2: and there it is again. It won't they won't stop?

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Speaker 2: Jj NFL combine Buzz Intel on free agency, Will Vikings

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Speaker 2: They can't get enough of us. Right now, there's no

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Speaker 2: other story that matters. And I had somebody yesterday at

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Speaker 2: leave the radio to the professionals. Secondly, I would say

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Speaker 2: of Vikings fans aren't because too much is at stake.

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Speaker 2: I don't intend to start the show with this. We

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Speaker 2: will get to it, though, and it may even come

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Speaker 2: up with our three thirty guests. Johnny Athletic will join

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Speaker 2: then a former CIA officer, and idna's own Michael Hurley

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Speaker 2: show lineup for today. Welcome to uglydeck dot Com to

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Speaker 2: this aspect, at least of the bumper off a program. I

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Speaker 2: we appreciate their support as well. Are you familiar with

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Speaker 2: an ancient comedy duo known as Cheech and Chong.

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Speaker 4: I am, yes, not a huge Cheach and Chong guy,

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Speaker 2: I want to say it was might have been either

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Speaker 1: They had on.

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Speaker 2: You know FM, Classic rock radio of the day, they

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Speaker 2: Basketball Jones. It's when I think the lyric was you

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Speaker 2: love basketball so much you are like a junkie. That's

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Speaker 2: one of the key lines in it. And I was

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Speaker 2: thinking about that earlier today dated reference for sure, but

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Speaker 2: maybe it's time to revive it, and maybe this should

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Speaker 2: be the media market that does so a basketball Jones

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Speaker 2: where you love basketball so much you are like a junkie.

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Speaker 1: Why well, take a look. I want to start with.

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Speaker 2: Guardsis team go to go for women's basketball team. I

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Speaker 2: the Gopher women hold them off to win seventy eight, No,

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Speaker 1: You got at the final.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And so the Gopher women end the regular season

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Speaker 2: the Big Ten Tournament in Guardie's favorite town where he'll

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Speaker 1: We have not made the tournament since is it twenty eighteen?

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Speaker 2: Correct, so it's been eight years since we've even made

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Speaker 4: Right now, they have slid back into the fourth spot

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Speaker 2: It's been a tremendous year and maybe you missed it.

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Speaker 2: Ball tends to move a lot of balance a lot

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Speaker 2: They're not where the women seemingly have gotten to. But

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Speaker 1: Anywhere this year in the United States of America.

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Speaker 2: Now, ultimately he'll have to prove will Nico that he

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Speaker 2: the Minnesota Timberwolves, in a showdown game in the I

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Speaker 1: So what you do with this game is, let's get

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Speaker 1: They win in Denver.

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Speaker 2: Good performances all over the map, both offensively and defensively.

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Speaker 2: Look up at the standings and at least for the moment,

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Speaker 2: For those reasons, I've got a basketball jones. I feel

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Speaker 2: If today's not the day, we can celebrate. Like I said,

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Speaker 1: We are there and the Wolves.

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Speaker 2: Again, nothing's guaranteed after a victory like that, but that's

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Speaker 1: Much the same. You had a bunch of Wolves.

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Speaker 2: Uh, many our of our in our audience will not

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Speaker 4: Your thoughts and it's the month of March. You just

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Speaker 4: everything feels better in March when it's talking about basketball.

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Speaker 1: There's no question.

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Speaker 4: The calendar turns and all of a sudden you're thinking

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Speaker 2: At the college level, we haven't able to think of

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Speaker 1: We We do not.

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Speaker 2: They even need to get.

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Speaker 1: Near the wbit. We do not.

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Speaker 4: So it's like a made for TV go to Vegas

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Speaker 2: Outstanding ratch on Brian Kafan text line is open at

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Speaker 2: Right on time, guardsy, we got these, I get guards.

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Speaker 2: He is a paid shill for the golfers. But good grief,

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Speaker 2: Saint Thomas has a great shot at the tournament this

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Speaker 2: going without mentioning the Tommy's. Oh, I knew Johnny was good.

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Speaker 2: You know, Johnny Athletic was going to bring it up.

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Speaker 2: No, he didn't, and he made sure everybody knew he

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Speaker 2: Sat Thomas games I've been to this year, I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: I'm also jonesing for both the men's and women's Who's

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Speaker 2: team to the year. The future does look bright. I

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Speaker 2: love that both coaches are not only talented but genuine,

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Speaker 1: Patino?

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Speaker 2: No, no, no? Who are we talking to the football coach?

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Speaker 2: Ohj Man? Mike from Plymouth, Dan and Justin? Can you

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Speaker 2: believe it? The women's basketball collapse against Maryland in December

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Speaker 2: coffinity in conference all season long. That's Mike in Plymouth

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Speaker 2: don't sleep on the Tommies hoop squad number two seed

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Speaker 1: That's true. We love Somenning League hoops. I know I do.

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Speaker 2: You can't even get in the door at Grand Casino

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Speaker 1: It's frustrating. One hundred. I find that a little hard

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Speaker 4: It's actually not as far off as yeah right, it's expensive.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm worried about our club. What happened to us?

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Speaker 1: All of us?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 4: I think do we want to be TV stars or

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Speaker 4: Guys like, do we really need fallon? I love them.

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Speaker 2: SNL I got you know, we need to bring in

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Speaker 2: who's that Patel? We need cash Patel back to give

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Speaker 1: I have a lunch?

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Speaker 1: I think he might be Dan. I'm thirty eight.

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Speaker 2: My dad has been taking me to go for basketball

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Speaker 2: And in some ways that's true, they've had to do that,

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Speaker 2: It's a very pleasing as you you had told me

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Speaker 2: that's another thing we've talked about this before. It should

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Speaker 2: it's also about aesthetics in a town where there's so

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Speaker 2: Is his offense when it's going good, is pretty basketball. Yes,

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Speaker 2: it's very pretty. Yes, you know, it's not a grinded

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Speaker 2: And the women have done that pretty consistently all season long,

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Speaker 2: It's just it's been fun on both sides. It's been

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Speaker 2: Now again in the case of the Wolves, we're now

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Speaker 2: taken for granted the history of this franchise. They're the anchor,

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Speaker 2: They're the Basketball Jones anchor right now, been refreshing to

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Speaker 1: Maybe ever. I don't know if I'm ready to go

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Speaker 1: that far, but maybe across the board. He's right.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I looked it up I think the last

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Speaker 2: Probably actually I didn't look it up, but no, that

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Speaker 1: It's believable. That is believable.

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Speaker 2: In two thousand and four, the Wolves with the Big

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Speaker 2: three and the women Gophers with Whalen and mccarvill were excellent,

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Speaker 2: but the men were mired in the months and years.

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Speaker 2: I think, I think we're gonna we are in uncharted

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Speaker 1: Yeah, in the Big Ten Tournament. Big Ten Tournament, Yeah, bizarre.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to let you know that Basketball Jones is

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Speaker 2: and I require them all to listen to Basketball Jones.

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Speaker 2: Tyrone Shoelaces remains the best player out there. He can

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Speaker 2: and leave fifteen since I love that change. I love

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Speaker 2: that too, very very well played. Thanks for the coaching

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Speaker 2: forty years. Traveling. It's a long time magtime. That's that's meaty.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's do this bottom the hour break. John Athletic,

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Speaker 2: I do want to talk, believe it or not, football

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Speaker 2: with him.

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Speaker 4: He wasn't in Denver, was he? I don't think so

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Speaker 4: because he had a basketball committed again.

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Speaker 1: But we will talk.

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Speaker 2: About Wolves, Nuggets and what might be coming down the road.

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Speaker 2: I guess we could say football and who knows what

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Speaker 2: else with our guy, Johnny. If you have questions, bratch

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Speaker 2: on Brian Kafan text line six four six six.

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Speaker 3: It's time I didn't be talking about right now.

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Speaker 2: It is that time again. Brought to you by RBC

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Speaker 2: Wealth Management. Johnny Athletic is with us via the Connectico

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Speaker 2: Water Systems Hotline. Are you at all familiar with the

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Speaker 2: the Cheech and Chong hit song that goes all the

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Speaker 2: way back to the mids seventy three?

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Speaker 1: Technically basketball Jones?

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Speaker 3: Boy, I'm not I and I really could be. It

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Speaker 3: feels like it's a little before my time. But I'm

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Speaker 3: a I'm a fan of the classics, but I don't

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Speaker 3: know that one.

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Speaker 2: It's brilliant they give We've been given some of the lyrics.

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Speaker 2: I'll give you a couple more, singing out like you're

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Speaker 2: proud all right, everybody watching Coast to coast, sing along

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Speaker 2: with us. Bill Russell, sing along with US. Chick Hern

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Speaker 2: sing along with us. Chris Shankle, don't sing nothing. He

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Speaker 2: was an announcer play by play guy from back in

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Speaker 2: the day who apparently they didn't think had a particularly

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Speaker 2: good musical voice. As a Texter reminded us basketball Jones

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Speaker 2: could jump on top of the backboard, take off a

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Speaker 2: quarterly fifteen cents change. Could dribble behind my back. I

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Speaker 2: got more moves than X slacks I'm bad. Could dribble

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Speaker 2: with my tongue. Here I go down court. Try to

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Speaker 2: stop me. You can't stop me because I got a

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Speaker 2: basketball jones. And I suggested early even in the state

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Speaker 2: of hockey, that there might be some basketball Jones. And

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Speaker 2: going on on the basis of this past weekend, the

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Speaker 2: go for women win their final regular season game to

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Speaker 2: clinch a top four spot in the Big Ten, meaning

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Speaker 2: a double by in tournament.

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Speaker 1: A tremendous record.

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Speaker 2: They have now a fashion for the season twenty two

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Speaker 2: and seven, overall thirteen and fifteen, right, they should say

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Speaker 2: thirteen and five in the Big ten Gopher men beat

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Speaker 2: UCLA seventy eight to seventy three somehow with like four

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Speaker 2: and a half players. There's seven to eleven in the

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Speaker 2: Big Ten, and your Wolves club in Denver without you

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Speaker 2: being there, apparently, Yeah, make a statement, deliver a statement

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Speaker 2: win against the Nuggets to at least for this moment,

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Speaker 2: move ahead of them into fourth place, virtually third place

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Speaker 2: in the Western Conference standings.

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Speaker 3: Your thoughts, Yeah, the Revolution is being televised, and thankfully

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Speaker 3: because I was at the St. Anthony Village fifth grade

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Speaker 3: state tournament appearance all weekend, so I couldn't make it

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Speaker 3: to Denver, but certainly watch it on TV. And it's

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Speaker 3: a good time to be a basketball fan in the

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Speaker 3: cities for sure, in this state because even when you

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Speaker 3: look at the Gopher men who have been so down

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Speaker 3: for so long, any anytime that you got even just

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Speaker 3: a little bit of unexpected success like that's always really fun.

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Speaker 3: And now it looks like the Wolves are starting to

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Speaker 3: maybe find themselves down the stretch here into the playoffs,

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Speaker 3: as they always do under Chris Finch. And then you

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Speaker 3: got the women getting ready. Maybe they could, you know,

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Speaker 3: host a tournament game that'd be super fun. And yeah,

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Speaker 3: all of that evolved is great. It's a great time

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Speaker 3: to be a hoops fan here. We love to see it.

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Speaker 2: What did we take out of the victory? What stood

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Speaker 2: out to you in Denver.

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Speaker 1: With the Wolves?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is gonna sound really basic, Dan, but they've

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Speaker 3: played well, and that was something that they have not

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Speaker 3: done for a long time. I mean, you're talking about

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Speaker 3: even in wins, and you know, they're eleven and four

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Speaker 3: in their last fifteen, seven and three in their last ten,

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Speaker 3: six and one in their last seven. So many of

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Speaker 3: even those victories have been very unconvincing, kind of muddled

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Speaker 3: wins against really shorthanded teams, and so you're just kind

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Speaker 3: of waiting for them to play a really good game

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Speaker 3: and play solid on both ends and just stay in

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Speaker 3: it all the way. And I'm not surprised that it

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Speaker 3: was at Denver that got this out of them. I've

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Speaker 3: kind of been wondering all season if they're really bored

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Speaker 3: with the regular season and just not kind of giving

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Speaker 3: the requisite effort and edge, and they finally got an

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Speaker 3: opponent that really kind of grabs their attention, and lo

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Speaker 3: and behold, they go in there and they just play

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Speaker 3: excellent basketball for like three and a half quarters and

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Speaker 3: come up with the victory. So it's just good to

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Speaker 3: see them find another level of play in a victory

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Speaker 3: to make you think that there is more there, because

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Speaker 3: even when they're beating Portland and Los Angele and the

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Speaker 3: Clippers in Dallas and a bunch of these really short

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Speaker 3: handed teams, it was all very met. But that was

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Speaker 3: not a met game on Sunday and Denver no. I.

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Speaker 2: Now, again, it's not like Joker had no assists. I

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Speaker 2: think he finished with nine. But I did feel like

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Speaker 2: it was one of those games where the Walls followed

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Speaker 2: a strategy that historically has been pretty good for them

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Speaker 2: most of the time, and that that is, let not

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Speaker 2: let but tolerate and deal with Joker scoring big numbers,

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Speaker 2: right because he took twenty six shots, but make it

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Speaker 2: where he's not getting a lot of the ancillary players out. Now,

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Speaker 2: they had at least one big time starter out obviously,

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Speaker 2: But to me, that's the way it kind of played out.

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Speaker 1: Was he was really good, scoring more.

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Speaker 2: Than I thought we saw him at his best setting

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Speaker 2: up other players.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I mean he did have nine to fiss, so

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Speaker 3: that's still good, but by Joker standard, that's human and

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Speaker 3: and I think the other big key Dan was that

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Speaker 3: joker at five turnovers, which means that, yeah, true, this

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Speaker 3: defense was swarming at a level that we haven't seen

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Speaker 3: for a while. They've been to top ten defense all year,

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Speaker 3: but we are we've seen the timberwel defense become overpowering,

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Speaker 3: become suffocating, and that has not been the version of

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Speaker 3: defense that we've seen for most of this season. And instead,

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Speaker 3: finally we saw that on Sunday and Denver. We saw

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Speaker 3: them rotating, we saw them covering for each other. We

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Speaker 3: saw Dante DiVincenzo kind of you know, sinking up from

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Speaker 3: behind Joki and poking the ball away and creating turnovers

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Speaker 3: that way. Actually saw some pretty good defense from Julius Randall,

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Speaker 3: which he's been a big culprit lately of the malaise,

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Speaker 3: and so I think that that was the closest thing

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Speaker 3: to Okay, here is the what has been so successful

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Speaker 3: for the world the past couple of years. You look

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Speaker 3: at Cam Johnson's zero points, Strather two points. Murray had

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Speaker 3: twenty five, but it took twenty two shots to get there.

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Speaker 3: He had to work hard for it. And so this

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Speaker 3: was a team that was finally kind of really locking

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Speaker 3: in defensively to kind of create a lot of opportunities

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Speaker 3: for themselves in transition, and then they were able to

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Speaker 3: really kind of run away with it.

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Speaker 2: I liked in fact, I liked Desumu on Murray several

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Speaker 2: times I saw where he did make him work pretty hard.

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Speaker 1: Are we getting Do you think the.

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Speaker 2: Team yet has gotten a handle on how to best

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Speaker 2: use and get the most out of what Io might represent.

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Speaker 3: I think it's taken time, Dan, and I think that

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Speaker 3: you know Sunday was the closest thing that we have

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Speaker 3: seen to it yet. Nine points four a six, four

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Speaker 3: a six from the field, your good defense getting out

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Speaker 3: in transition. But it has been clear to me that

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Speaker 3: Iowa is used to playing at another gear and the Wolves,

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Speaker 3: while they have improved their pace much of this season,

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Speaker 3: are not yet on that level. And so I thought

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Speaker 3: that yesterday against Denver was the closest thing they have

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Speaker 3: gotten to embracing that breakneck speed that Io wants to

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Speaker 3: play with, and when you pair him with bones Island,

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Speaker 3: that's a really exciting combination, and you have another player

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Speaker 3: that just wants to go, go, go, And so those

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Speaker 3: two really did spearhead the comeback because the first quarter

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Speaker 3: was pretty bad by the Wolves. They were really sleepy,

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Speaker 3: they were not moving their feet on either end of

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Speaker 3: the court. And then Bones and Io come in the

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Speaker 3: game and they just turn it into a track meet

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Speaker 3: and that really kind of got the Wolves going. And

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Speaker 3: that is part of the adjustment that the team is

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Speaker 3: making to him that and secondly, then Io also is

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Speaker 3: trying to adjust to the Wolves as well. He's coming

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Speaker 3: from a bad sea. He's trying to fit in here,

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Speaker 3: and they need him to be aggressive, like they really

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Speaker 3: need him to look for a shot and kind of

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Speaker 3: get going and not wait for anyone else. And I

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Speaker 3: think he's trying to be polite early on here, and

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Speaker 3: I think the more he plays, the more he'll feel

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Speaker 3: comfortable asserting himself and not deferring this to everyone else.

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Speaker 3: On two times Western Conference finalists Team.

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Speaker 2: John Athletic joining us courtesy of RBC Wealth Management, we'll

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Speaker 2: have Michael Hurley to talk real world stuff the Iran.

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Speaker 2: I guess you could say uh war for want of

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Speaker 2: a better term. It's largely what it's been that broke

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Speaker 2: over the weekend. Lots with him or lots. We'll get

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Speaker 2: a lot of good stuff from early on that subject,

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Speaker 2: I'm sure when he joins at about four point thirty

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Speaker 2: this afternoon as well, Texter wants this is from looks

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Speaker 2: like Texter, Mike, when you ask Johnny about Nasri's defense, please,

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Speaker 2: I think he is a liability, writes Mike, what do

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Speaker 2: you think?

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Speaker 3: I don't think I'd go that far. I mean, certainly

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Speaker 3: there have been some matchups that he has struggled with,

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Speaker 3: and I wouldn't call him a lockdown defender by any means,

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Speaker 3: but especially in games like Denver, when you is fully engaged,

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Speaker 3: and even when they've moved him to the three a

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Speaker 3: little bit for the very kind of little time that

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Speaker 3: they put three bigs out there, I think he holds

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Speaker 3: his own and we've seen him. First of all, he's

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Speaker 3: rebounding at a really high level, which part of defense

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Speaker 3: is ending possessions and so getting rebounds is great. Secondly,

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Speaker 3: he does block shots at the rim, especially when smaller

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Speaker 3: defenders try to test him. He's able to come up

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Speaker 3: with with some rim protection. I think that Julius has

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Speaker 3: been the far more inconsistent defender. These again, neither one

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Speaker 3: are going to be all NBA defensive players, but I

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Speaker 3: do think that nas has shown more ability to be

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Speaker 3: a difference maker or at least a factor on that

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Speaker 3: end of the floor, whereas Randall has often, especially in transition,

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Speaker 3: really fallen short. And that's why I was encouraged by

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Speaker 3: yesterday's game was I think that as the game went on,

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Speaker 3: he started to show a little bit more energy and

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Speaker 3: effort on that end. Nasa isn't perfect defensively, but but

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Speaker 3: I actually think that he is capable of being a

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Speaker 3: good defender, and so that's not really something that I'm

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Speaker 3: terribly worried about about this team going forward.

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Speaker 2: Where does small fit in the rest of the season.

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Speaker 3: So, I mean it's going to be very interesting how

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Speaker 3: Chris Finch works him in because the you know, the

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Speaker 3: Kyle Anderson had a lot of different options to go

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Speaker 3: to once it was clear that he was going to

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Speaker 3: get bought out, including Denver. But I think the Wolves,

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Speaker 3: Tim Connelly and Chris Finch really did a good job

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Speaker 3: of convincing him that he will have a role here

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Speaker 3: down the stretch, and there's clear need for him. They

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Speaker 3: need another ball handler who can bring the ball up

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Speaker 3: the court and take some of pressure off of Anthony Edwards.

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Speaker 3: They need another defensive minded forward who can guard as

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Speaker 3: eventually one through four or five switch a lot and

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Speaker 3: can be someone who can step in and help this

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Speaker 3: defense when Rudy Gobert is off the court. One of

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Speaker 3: their biggest issues has been to the previous Texters kind

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Speaker 3: of question is when Rudy comes off the court, generally speaking,

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Speaker 3: the defense is really faltered. And I think that Kyle

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Speaker 3: Anderson can help in the front court with some of that,

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Speaker 3: and finally just having some real basketball IQ out there

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Speaker 3: is going to be beneficial as well. This team can

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Speaker 3: often struggle against zone defenses, and Kyle Anderson is his

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Speaker 3: zone defense quarterback. He can kill it, he can get

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Speaker 3: to the right spots, he can pass it, can hit

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Speaker 3: that little floater, and just organize this team in ways

654
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Speaker 3: that they do need. And so you know, on the

655
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 3: nights when bone Tyland doesn't have it offensively, I could

656
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:59,280
Speaker 3: see Kyle getting a few more minutes. I can certainly.

657
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 3: I think that you're not going to see much of

658
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 3: Karen Shannon Junior down the stretch and it's going to

659
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:06,920
Speaker 3: be more of Kyle in that spot. But he's just

660
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 3: a versatile guy that will be able to play I

661
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 3: don't know, somewhere between probably ten and twenty minutes on

662
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:15,920
Speaker 3: a night, depending on what you need out there, and

663
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 3: just can steady them in different stretches of games that

664
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Speaker 3: I think will be helpful to them. I don't think

665
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 3: he's just gonna come here and be some kind of

666
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 3: voice in the locker room. I think he's going to

667
00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:28,839
Speaker 3: really try to contribute on the court as well.

668
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Speaker 2: The lou Dor trip of Joker Friday Night egregious or

669
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 2: simply should have been a flagrant one and not the

670
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 2: production it's been turned into.

671
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Speaker 3: I'm glad that they did make it a flagrant too. Dan.

672
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 3: I was watching the game live when it happened, and

673
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 3: my immediate reaction was, that was a terrible play by Dork.

674
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:55,759
Speaker 3: It was nothing, There's nothing basketball about it. It was

675
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:58,759
Speaker 3: against a Marquee player who had just come back from

676
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 3: injury and was a very dangerous play. He has Ludor

677
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 3: has a history of dirty plays, and they haven't gotten

678
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 3: the same kind of attention that say, Draymond Green or

679
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 3: Dylan Brooks gets, but he is in that category of

680
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 3: player now. I did not think in the moment they

681
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,319
Speaker 3: were going to give him a flagrant too. I thought

682
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:22,360
Speaker 3: it was going to be a flagrant one and go forward,

683
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 3: but given I think his history had given the you know,

684
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:30,920
Speaker 3: kind of just straight up dirty nature of it. I

685
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:33,280
Speaker 3: think they were kind of trying to send a message

686
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 3: to him of like, hey, we're not going to let

687
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 3: you go full on Draymond here, and so they were

688
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 3: trying to deliver, you know, a kind of a hard

689
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 3: message to him, and we'll see if he changes things

690
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 3: going forward. But I thought it was completely unnecessary. And

691
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 3: it is a player who has a history of those

692
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Speaker 3: kinds of plays, and so if it does bring attention

693
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Speaker 3: to it, I think that's a good thing.

694
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Speaker 2: Does Johnny Athletic cared away in same I guess you

695
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Speaker 2: could say ask I could ask the question same way.

696
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Speaker 2: Egregious or no big deal? The Dane Moore versus ESPN

697
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:12,799
Speaker 2: dust up.

698
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Speaker 3: I loved it. I mean, Dane is a good friend

699
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 3: of mine, and he is a guy who has kind

700
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 3: of pulled himself up by his own bootstraps in this business,

701
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:26,839
Speaker 3: like he did not have kind of going up through

702
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:30,000
Speaker 3: the legacy media pass like I have and many others have.

703
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Speaker 3: And so I do think that there is a bit

704
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Speaker 3: of a chip on his shoulder, which is great. I mean,

705
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,160
Speaker 3: he did, you know, and he was the only to

706
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Speaker 3: his credit, he was the only local reporter in that

707
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 3: Timberwolves locker room. In the athletic they'd have two people

708
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 3: at the game. Just wasn't me. But Dane is protective

709
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:56,960
Speaker 3: of the work that he does, and ESPN is exploitative

710
00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 3: of that sometimes. And so you know when he wants

711
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:05,319
Speaker 3: to say, like, hey, look, man, if you know you

712
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:07,840
Speaker 3: cannot use this content that I spent my own money

713
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:11,400
Speaker 3: for and that I want to use for myself to

714
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Speaker 3: promote my podcast, and he does a good job with it,

715
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 3: and so you know him, Yeah, you know me, like,

716
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:20,919
Speaker 3: I don't mind kind of the little rivalries that happen

717
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 3: in this industry. And if you want to puff your

718
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:25,239
Speaker 3: chest out a little bit when something goes your way

719
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 3: against the big bad bullies, go for it.

720
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Speaker 1: Well, so what are the I guess we should mention.

721
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Speaker 2: Apparently ESPN DMed him asking permission right to use and

722
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:40,440
Speaker 2: I assume credit with credit some of his content.

723
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Speaker 3: Right.

724
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Speaker 2: So, I it's been a long time since I spent,

725
00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:46,920
Speaker 2: you know, time in locker rooms and around players in

726
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:50,400
Speaker 2: that setting. What are the rules these days in terms

727
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 2: of group settings, one on one settings, all that stuff.

728
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Speaker 3: It's a great question, Dan, because there. I don't know

729
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 3: that there are hard and fast rules. Now, I will

730
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:04,320
Speaker 3: give ESPN credit for this. They did actually ask Dane

731
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 3: Moore permission to use this. And we have seen aggregators

732
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:13,399
Speaker 3: the world over just take content from the athletics from day,

733
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Speaker 3: from anywhere and everywhere and just heal it and put

734
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Speaker 3: it up there themselves. Maybe they'll give you a little

735
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Speaker 3: bit of a tiny fonted credit in the corner of

736
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Speaker 3: whatever post they do. Sometimes they don't do that at all,

737
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:30,959
Speaker 3: but you yeah, I think that you should. I think

738
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Speaker 3: whether it's ethical or whether it's written in stone, the

739
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:37,320
Speaker 3: right thing to do is to ask whoever did produce

740
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:43,960
Speaker 3: said video, said quote, to credit that person and ask

741
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Speaker 3: permission to retransmit it. And and so so often these

742
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 3: days no one asks permission. They just grab and and do,

743
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Speaker 3: And then that does hurt the independent creator who is

744
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:58,319
Speaker 3: just trying to justify as existence and trying to draw

745
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:02,960
Speaker 3: people to his social pages, to his podcast, to you

746
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:05,880
Speaker 3: to my athletic stuff. Behind the paywall. We're all trying

747
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:08,839
Speaker 3: to carve own niches and to protect the stuff that

748
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 3: we gather independently, and so it is wild west out there,

749
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:18,279
Speaker 3: and it is frustrating when outlets, especially big outlets, just

750
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 3: prey upon kind of the stuff that is out there

751
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:24,359
Speaker 3: through sheer laziness and not having any one of their

752
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Speaker 3: own at a particular event.

753
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Speaker 2: Such a different world, that's for sure. I do have

754
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 2: a Vikings question I want to run by you. I'm

755
00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:35,720
Speaker 2: getting more and more of the feeling from the Jackals,

756
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:39,720
Speaker 2: well not all of them, but some of them seem

757
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 2: to be reporting a belief and this is maybe more

758
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 2: than a belief.

759
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 1: One would hope that it's based on some of the reporting.

760
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Speaker 2: That when it comes to the Vikings adding depth to

761
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:54,080
Speaker 2: the quarterback room, so to speak, that it may well

762
00:41:54,120 --> 00:42:00,279
Speaker 2: come down to either Kyler Murray or Geno Smith. And

763
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Speaker 2: my question is this, if indeed, for whatever reason, that's

764
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:10,759
Speaker 2: what it comes down to, are you inspired by either

765
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:12,319
Speaker 2: of them? Because I'm not sure I am.

766
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean not really, Dan. I will say

767
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:22,120
Speaker 3: that I could see scenarios where either quarterback does come

768
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:25,839
Speaker 3: in and has a good season and the Vikings win

769
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 3: with him. But the either one is a is the

770
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,799
Speaker 3: evokes the kind of reaction that says, oh, now you

771
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:37,840
Speaker 3: have to take the Vikings seriously. They have this guy,

772
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:41,759
Speaker 3: and now all of their issues are solved. I think

773
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:46,400
Speaker 3: Kyler Murray in particular, a high ceiling, low floor quarterback.

774
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 3: There's a lot of variants in there to be had.

775
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 3: I think Gino Smith is a solid quarterback. I'm trying

776
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 3: to decide if I grade him on a curve because

777
00:42:57,120 --> 00:42:59,800
Speaker 3: he was with the Raiders last year when he was terrible,

778
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 3: and the Raiders just are are terrible, and so do

779
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:04,880
Speaker 3: I kind of give cut him some slack there? But

780
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:08,520
Speaker 3: either way, or you take any other right, if it's

781
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:11,560
Speaker 3: Malik Willis, if it's Mac Jones, if it's you know,

782
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:15,600
Speaker 3: any of these other options. I think they all inherently

783
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:19,719
Speaker 3: are underwhelming. And you'd have to see what Kevin O'Connell

784
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:23,040
Speaker 3: does with them in this system, and maybe they go.

785
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:25,440
Speaker 3: Maybe he pulls a Sam Darnold season out of them

786
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 3: and and they do go. But if they if that happens,

787
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:32,319
Speaker 3: it will be a little bit unexpected. It's not going

788
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:35,319
Speaker 3: to be like, all right, that this is it. Now

789
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:38,960
Speaker 3: They've got their guy and no no more questions to

790
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:41,839
Speaker 3: worry about here they're often running. It's going to take

791
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 3: some creativity and and they're gonna have to kind of

792
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:48,399
Speaker 3: earn that benefit of the doubt because they all have

793
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 3: issues on their resume that make you worry about their

794
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 3: viability over one or two or three seasons going forward.

795
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Speaker 2: Here, yeah, would Cousins, Would you put Cousins on the

796
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 2: stame level or would you actually be well, maybe a

797
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 2: better way to ask it, would you be less or

798
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 2: more interested if they end up landing on Cousins rather

799
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Speaker 2: than either of those other two choices.

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Speaker 3: So Cousins, for me, Dan feels like, and I could

801
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:17,000
Speaker 3: be wrong here, but it feels like if you go

802
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:24,280
Speaker 3: Kirk Cousins, you're kind of really going more toward a

803
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 3: quarterback competition in the training camp in the preseason, and

804
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:33,600
Speaker 3: maybe even having a JJ's our guy. Cousins is our

805
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:37,240
Speaker 3: safe backup, and if JJ falters, you go to Kirk.

806
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 3: I feel like with where Gino Smith and Kyler Murray are,

807
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 3: maybe that's more the opposite. Where they're they're the front

808
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 3: runner for the starter. McCarthy is the backup if you

809
00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:52,840
Speaker 3: keep if you if you keep him, and then you

810
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 3: see what happens as the year goes along. And so

811
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Speaker 3: I don't know what the right answer is there in

812
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:04,400
Speaker 3: terms of what is the better situation. I'm still intrigued

813
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:07,239
Speaker 3: by JJ McCarthy. I still want to see him get

814
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:10,439
Speaker 3: a chance to earn that spot, and I do think

815
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Speaker 3: Cousins would be a better safety net than anyone they

816
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 3: had on the roster last season. But I do think

817
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 3: that if you want a full time starter from week

818
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 3: one through Week seventeen and into the playoffs, maybe a

819
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:29,800
Speaker 3: slightly better chance to have that is the other two guys,

820
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:32,440
Speaker 3: even if both of them have a little bit higher

821
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:35,799
Speaker 3: probability of just blowing up and not being viable at all.

822
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Speaker 2: I am perhaps most gobsmacked that in discussing the basketball

823
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:46,719
Speaker 2: Jones early you did not make a single mention of

824
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 2: your Tommy's like about twenty five Texters from the Tommy

825
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:53,720
Speaker 2: the Saint Thomas mafia did because I didn't mention them.

826
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:57,760
Speaker 3: How dare you? Dan? How dare you?

827
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Speaker 2: You didn't mention it either, And by the way, court

828
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 2: side seats, you had to make sure everybody knew you

829
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:06,359
Speaker 2: were court side, didn't you.

830
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:09,360
Speaker 3: You know, I've given so much to that university that

831
00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm deserved of those court side seats.

832
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:19,200
Speaker 3: Actually so, But uh, what I wanted in ignoring or

833
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 3: not acknowledging the time is I want to keep them

834
00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 3: hungry kids over there. They got to have some motivation.

835
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 3: We're selling beer at the venue now to everyone, So

836
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:31,799
Speaker 3: I think you got the chance for it to be

837
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:35,840
Speaker 3: a hornet's nest over there going forward into the postseason

838
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:40,279
Speaker 3: in the next season. And and I'm still clinging to

839
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:42,480
Speaker 3: my prediction that the Tommys will be in the tournament

840
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 3: before the gopher Men, So I think we have a

841
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:47,000
Speaker 3: good shot at that. And I want to keep them

842
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:49,800
Speaker 3: hungry and I want to keep that that that chip

843
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:52,000
Speaker 3: on their shoulders. So I'm glad that you overlooked us

844
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 3: stand And I wasn't about to just bring them back

845
00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:57,560
Speaker 3: into the spotlight because I want Coach Tower and everyone

846
00:46:57,680 --> 00:47:01,000
Speaker 3: to keep feeling slighted over there and prove the world wrong.

847
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:04,120
Speaker 2: Guardy, I thought you had something you going over to

848
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 2: Sue Falls for the Summer League tournament this week.

849
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Speaker 1: It's a big one.

850
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 3: It's gonna be tough. We got we got a bunch

851
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:12,680
Speaker 3: of games here. Uh, we got home games for the Wolves.

852
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:14,560
Speaker 3: They're they're chasing down the playoffs. So I got to

853
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:19,279
Speaker 3: stick with my day job. But kay, tournament, I'm gonna

854
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:21,240
Speaker 3: have to look long and hard at flights and tickets

855
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:21,560
Speaker 3: and all that.

856
00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 2: You have to throw the geek into the mix. Let

857
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:25,480
Speaker 2: Alex Lewis do a sidebar.

858
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:29,560
Speaker 3: He likes the wolves, Yeah, he would, he would happily

859
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:31,920
Speaker 3: step in. I know that. So, uh. He was just

860
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 3: in Indianapolis though, so he might have to relax a

861
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 3: little bit. You know, he's got the get the girlfriend

862
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:40,480
Speaker 3: they's spending time with and to facilitate that relationship and

863
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:43,239
Speaker 3: make sure that that stays on solid ground. So we'll

864
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:44,719
Speaker 3: we'll see how all that shakes out.

865
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Johnny. All Right, guys, Athletic joining us almost

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Speaker 2: had Durant dort Is a o K. C. Stant Slow

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Speaker 2: all back with aunt was in fire