WEBVTT - Kyrie Irving Drops 60 As The NBA's Wild Scoring Binge Continues 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:09.840 Beans on toast, Beans on toast. I'm a madman. I 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:11.399 have beans of the roast. I'm a bad man. 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:13.200 I send beans in the post, Beans in my coat, 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:15.360 two beans on the pizza, Beans in the fridge, Beans 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:17.279 in the freeze, Beans for the tons, things for the 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:18.079 bean bean. 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:20.040 Who put the keys to my bean of sea? Bag beans? 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:22.400 When while I'm sitting on the bean. 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:26.200 Of Colado, spread the beans, connect the beans, inject the beans. 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:28.880 Do be accepting beans? 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:30.880 Extra beans. I'm obsessed with beans. If you see what 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:33.000 I mean? 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Somehow this took an 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:55.080 hour to do, which I don't know if I'm impressed 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:57.080 that it only took us an hour or that it 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:00.360 was an hour long just too obviously fill out a 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:02.200 bracket where we have no clue who's going to win 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:04.440 any of these games, but we had some larfs and 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:07.400 we encourage you to watch that video on YouTube. 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So yeah, get 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:42.919 in there. I think we're close to like two hundred people. 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:46.720 To sixty three as of right now, and including names 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:52.919 such as Uncooked Carrots, Potus ORP, well Mark Gasaldridge, and 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:55.840 Uncle Larry. It would be a good bring it on. 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:58.600 Like use the call like a college team, or use 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:00.679 something from the college game and add beans to it. 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:04.359 You know what would be a good name for your brad? Yeah, 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:11.480 stay beaters. They're not in it unfortunately. 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:15.280 Isn't there a team that's called the Green Wave like 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:18.639 Tulsa or tu Lane? The Bean Wave would be pretty good. 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:19.720 I don't know if they're. 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:27.560 Take the same. 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:31.160 Take anyway, get in there. 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:34.760 I guess you got wh When is it locked tomorrow? 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:36.040 Yeah? 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:39.080 We have two more games the final first four. I 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:41.600 guess I should say tonight. Oh had on some last night. 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:43.920 Did you watch any of Indiana Wyoming? No? 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:44.400 I didn't. 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:46.280 Oh we're going to start the show with that. 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:50.240 Ah yeah, okay, okay, now yeah they locked tomorrow tomorrow, 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:53.000 twelve pm East on Thursday, March seventeenth, there was an 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:56.520 NBA tie in last night. Lee Mike Woodson, the coach 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:58.920 of Indiana, had his eyebrows. 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:01.360 I notice, yeah, they were right, they'd beat Wyoming. 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:04.480 They did, they did, they did, they did, and shout 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:07.720 out to Texas Southern. Yeah, taking down the Corpus Christie's 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:10.680 corpses our Battle of Texas. 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:13.440 Okay, that's all the college hoops were here on today's show. 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.960 Let's get into the NBA games, and well, you know 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:20.120 where we're starting. Kyrie here ups for a career high 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:23.320 sixty points as the Nets roll over the Magic twenty 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:27.320 four Hours tray. After Towns goes for sixty, here's Kyrie 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:29.560 going for sixty of his own. He's got the new 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:34.400 franchise mark for the Nets out to eclipsing Darren Williams 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:37.040 who had it fifty seven back in twenty twelve. It 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:40.200 copied my surprisect that game. But anyway, Well, what did 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:41.040 you think of the Kyrie Show? 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:42.719 Sorry, we got to do a little bit more college 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:45.719 basketball here. I see that Wyoming scored fifty eight points 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:49.920 last night, So Kyrie Irving outscored the Wyoming Cowboys. 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:53.280 I think perhaps got a shootout. Not a shootout with 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:53.880 those capitals. 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:56.360 Oh a rock fight, they were saying. 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:57.800 I I don't know. 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:01.599 Anyways. Fifty point games are the old busted sixty point games. 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.200 These are the new hotness. I don't know which is crazier. 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:07.279 Sixty point games on back to back nights Karl Anthony 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:10.960 Towns followed by Kyrie Irving or fifty plus point games 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:13.279 in back to back games for the Nets. Kevin Durant 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:16.440 went for fifty three. Obviously, Kyrie sixty last night. That's 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:19.279 the first time in NBA history that teammates have scored 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:23.560 fifty or more in consecutive games. I also considered Kyrie 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:26.599 going for fifty plus twice in three games, but Lebron 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:28.640 just did that as well, So that one's out of here. 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.960 Pick your poison. It's all awesome stuff. From Kyrie sixty 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:34.240 points on twenty to thirty one, shooting eight of twelve 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:37.000 from three. This was way different than the fifty against 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:39.160 the Hornets. I remember talking after that when we were saying, 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:41.400 when Kyrie has a huge game, you think you're gonna 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:45.040 see a whole bunch of drives to the basket, fancy handles, 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:47.719 tricky finishes. That was not the case against the Hornets, 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:51.120 but that was definitely the case last night in he 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:54.039 did hit the threes as well, hit eight threes, threw 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:57.080 in six boards, four assists, and for steals because why not, 0:05:57.279 --> 0:05:59.960 had forty one points in the first half. This was 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:02.080 a huge blowout. So when he got the fifty one 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:04.159 in the third, I'm like, Kyrie's done. 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:04.800 That's too bad. 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.560 Only able to get ten points here in the third quarter, 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:10.080 there's no reason to bring him back in the forth. 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:12.200 Yeah, it was weird. I flipped away. I thought, that's 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:12.760 it same. 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:16.360 But he's a part time player, so he can't play 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:18.760 in tonight's game. Get him back out there, get that 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:21.400 big six zero, which he did. The bench went crazy. 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:23.560 It was very fun to watch. My main takeaway on 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:27.800 this one, rest is a superpower. Kyrie's playing half the time, 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:29.720 so he's got to score double the points, but he's 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:31.960 the freshest guy out there, which gives him a chance, 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.520 and honestly, the Nets need it. John Human made a 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:36.640 great point last night on Twitter, this was the perfect 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:38.640 time for an explosion for Kyrie because the rest of 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:40.360 the team has to play tonight. 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:40.760 And he's not. 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:44.440 It's kind of like, hey man, just go be our offense. Yeah, 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:48.200 and that's exactly what he did. Uh, just letting Kyrie 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:50.120 do all the work. It was fun to watch. I 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:52.600 much preferred the sixty points to the fifty points. The 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:55.000 three pointers are cool, but he had that take where 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:57.440 he like body checked Cole Anthony out of the way 0:06:57.440 --> 0:06:59.400 at the free throw line, somehow throws it up off 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:03.000 the glass. That's classic Kyrie's stuff. Awesome to watch. What 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:04.200 do you think, Lely, Yeah it is. 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:07.280 I mean there's no doubt about Kyrie's talent and his 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:11.160 skill and his watchability. You know, he's automatic when he's 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:12.920 in this zone. You want to watch him because he 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:15.160 looks cool out there doing it. He can get that 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:16.800 shot off. I mean the one that got the sixty 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:18.800 was a little like on Wagner. I think it was 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:20.320 he sort of faked and then stepped in and just 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:20.840 knocked it in. 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:22.200 It looks great. 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:26.920 It's an incredible performance. Sixty points after having fifty not 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:30.400 long ago, and their offense when they have someone like 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:33.280 that available is really really different. 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:37.280 I mean he's only played in nineteen games. 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:39.720 Yeah yeah, he's you know, twenty seven a game. He's 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:42.920 averaging there and so he's kept himself in ready game 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:45.840 shape of course, you know, which is great for him. 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.440 But I'm not sure it's sort of where to go 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:50.160 with this because the Magic it was a blowout and 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:52.600 the game was over, wasn't really close there. The Magic 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:55.080 had been fighting and it was just then Kyrie. I thought, 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:56.440 when he had forty one and a half time though, 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:58.600 we might see seventy tonight. You know, why not? 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:00.640 You know, oh he's got it. 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:03.120 Yeah yeah, I mean he could have if he chose to. 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:06.440 And you know, he ends up with a nice, big 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:08.680 fat sixty and a very efficient sixty as well. 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:10.680 It was pretty cool. I don't care who it is 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:13.560 to see the you know, when he's on the road, 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:16.040 he can only play on road games. They're cheering for him, 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:19.480 they're giving them standing ovations. You know, they're Magic fans there. 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.800 They're probably going out to the arena to maybe see 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:25.320 a Magic win. You know, few and far between, but 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:27.120 that's what they're hoping for a good performance from the 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:27.600 young guys. 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:28.480 But then you're there. 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:30.080 It's like going to a baseball game. If I go 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:32.240 to a Baseball Blue Jays game, I want the Jays 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:34.760 to win, but if the other guy has got a 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:37.040 no hitter going through eight, well suddenly I'm cheering for 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:37.520 no hitter. 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:38.280 Like that's it. 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:40.360 You know, for the most part, maybe not the playoff 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:41.679 game or something like that, but you just want to 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:44.160 see like quote unquote, like history or something special, be like, oh, 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:47.400 I was there in this case when Kyrie went for sixty, 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:50.000 they were like he was getting standing Oh's I'm not 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:51.480 really exaggerating, but. 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:53.839 I think there's been a lot of scenarios where we 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:56.920 see road guys getting ovations no matter what arena, no 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:59.480 matter what team, even if they are a strong fan base. 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:01.480 Say a lot of the Magic fans are just there 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:07.160 just because there's a something going on in Orlando. But yeah, 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:10.920 another funny thing on Twitter last night, Toronto Raptors fans 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:13.719 who are currently in seventh place, saying let's get the 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:16.120 hell out of the play in tournament. This is not 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:18.199 good for us. We do not want to play the 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:21.960 Brooklyn Nets yeah, it seems like a consensus across the league. 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:24.160 You don't want to play an eighth place team in 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:28.200 the freaking play in tournament, which is like this, no, sir, 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:30.679 And yeah, it'll be a good story if they get 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.559 into the postseason, a headline will be, you know, they're 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:36.040 trying to replicate what the Knicks did back in ninety 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:37.679 nine as an eight scene and go to the finals. 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:39.839 And so there's a little New York tie in, but 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:43.080 everybody wants to get the hell away from these Brooklyn nets, 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:46.000 which yeah, it is a little a little wild, but yeah, 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:50.640 watching these two guys fifty points consecutive games with Durant 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:52.839 and Kyrie, it's hard not to think of the twenty 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:56.200 sixteen finals for me, where they finished the job Bron 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:59.160 and Kyrie did five, six, seven, where in game five 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:02.199 they had a combined and then they got a forty 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:05.000 one from Lebron in game six, and then they got 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:07.040 it done in game seven, and and we could say 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:09.719 that it's you know, all this theater going on with 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:12.640 them playing home games and Kyrie sitting in the stands 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:14.880 and them getting a fine and all that and make 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:17.959 fun of it, but you know, I bring up the Calves, 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:20.920 because I don't think that these guys like each other 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:22.760 are less than that Cavs team. Like this is a 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:25.520 good locker room when they play basketball, as weird as 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:28.800 it is from on the outside for us. But this 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:31.360 guy's playing only half the games. If he does end 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:33.360 up playing in all the games, I mean, they have 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:35.679 as good a shot as anybody to go win the thing. 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:38.319 And that's that's the bottom line. You know, the Calves 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:40.559 had some issues even though you know the Trey was 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:42.040 in the locker room when they won and they were 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:45.959 all buds. Kyrie and Lebron definitely had a bit of 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:48.960 a thing going on. Kyrie got the heck out of there. 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:51.400 It seems like going back to last year, Steve Nash 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:53.640 has this team together. So that's why the Raptors, that's 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:57.480 why everybody wants to avoid this team, because they're that good. 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.120 Who's going to go for sixty tonight? There's twelve games 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:04.319 on Can this streak continue? You know he said it 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:08.880 Towns two nights ago, Kyrie last night. Best guesses is 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:12.240 it Trey Young versus the Hornets? Is that someone else? 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:12.560 Yeah? 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:14.839 I was gonna say, why not Kevin Durant, you know, 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:16.520 but then I was like sure. Then I was like, 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:17.920 that's a bit of a boring pick. So I was 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:21.200 gonna actually say, Trey Young in Charlotte, they need both 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:23.880 teams desperately need this win. Tray's been pretty hot lightly, 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:27.400 so maybe he could go out in there and grab sixty. 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:28.839 Be great, everybody's hot. 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:29.400 Listen to this. 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:34.040 Over the last two weeks alone, we've had seven games 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:37.199 of fifty points or more, two of those, of course 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:39.400 being sixty. So Kyrie with two of them fifty and sixty, 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:42.720 Karl Anthony Town's with the sixty, Lebron with two fifty 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.400 plus games, the fifty and the fifty six, Tatum fifty four, 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:48.880 Kat fifty three. You add to that forty seven for 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.599 Curry the other night, forty seven and forty six for 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:54.959 Trey Young, forty five for Jordan Clarkson, forty four for 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:59.160 Jo and Dearon Fox who also had forty one, forty 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.439 three for you Honis and Embeid, forty one for Darius Garland, 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:05.960 a forty piece for the Joker the last two weeks. Yeah, 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:08.280 and I'm not sure this is going to stop either here, 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:10.800 Like I think this is going to continue. These forty 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.959 forty fives fifties, maybe not sixty, maybe not even. 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.120 Sixty tonight, but who knows. We could get three fifty 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:19.800 point games tonight. That sounds ridiculous, but it's certainly possible. 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.120 Atlanta at Charlotte Trey Young, like you're saying, back to 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:24.920 back forty seven and forty six, he likes to be 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:28.080 elevated to what about this guy's status? A massive game 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:30.319 between those two teams in terms of big time court 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:33.600 advantage of a big time game. We've also got Denver 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:36.560 at Washington. That'd be a nice little tick on Jokic's 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:40.800 season long his resume throwing up a sixty point game 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.600 against them. And then we've got the Milwaukee Bucks against 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:46.559 the Sacramento Kings. That could be a Yannis fifty point 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:47.720 game easily right there. 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:48.920 So I don't know. 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.520 If we're talking about one hundred and fifty points between 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:53.480 three players tomorrow, that'd be pretty cool. 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:54.640 Yeah, And I think a big part of it is 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:57.160 just guys gearing up for the postseason and playing their 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.679 best basketball. And that's what makes me think, like, drop 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:03.120 it to fifty fifty games per season, maybe we see 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:06.320 a lot more of this, like huge numbers because these 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:08.360 guys are just performing because they need to get ready 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:09.320 for the playoffs. 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:11.840 You sort of think that's what's going on here maybe, 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:13.880 but also maybe hand in hands some of the teams 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:15.920 that these guys are putting up monster numbers against. 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:16.800 I think it's a double. 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:20.200 Games are a little bit like, yeah, we're we're slowing 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:22.520 down because we're not really anything to play for right now. 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:24.439 And I'm not saying it's easy no matter who the 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:26.080 hell you're playing to score fifty or sixty points. 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:29.960 It was easy for Kyrie against the Hornets, that one easy. 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:31.880 That was the easiest fifty of the season, right. 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.400 I think the Orlando Magic we're still the Orlando Magic 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:36.439 in November and December and no one was dropping fifty 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:38.760 on them. I mean, I think we're seeing a two 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:42.040 week span here because yeah, guys are just the nets. 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:45.400 Look at them. They are ready to go into the post. 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.240 They know that the first sixty games, what does it 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:50.920 really really mean to them? I mean, I think that's 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:52.839 the part of it. We're seeing it. And Lebron we 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:56.000 desperately need wins in Los Angeles, so he's doing all 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:57.360 he can. And you know, you saw it in the 0:13:57.360 --> 0:13:59.000 play in tournament last year. Yeah, I think that's part 0:13:59.040 --> 0:13:59.520 of it for sure. 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:01.959 I know we were talking about the Nets, what we've 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:03.480 been talking about them a lot of courses, and you 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:06.559 were not convinced that they're like, yeah, they're a total contender. 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:08.360 Are you coming around on that? 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:10.080 Still have your h. 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:14.320 Yeah they can be, but they've still got a tough 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:17.640 road to get through here. So you know, one slip up, 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:21.240 one injury, and they're in trouble. When Kevin Durant is 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:25.160 out there, it's certainly they elevate that team, but right now, 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:27.960 you know, against having to get through potentially say Miami 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:33.280 and a Milwaukee and who else, maybe a Philadelphia, probably 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:34.920 not one. You know, you're gonna have to pick one 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:37.440 of those two teams. So the path is very very 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:39.640 tough for them. If they are coming from the eighth seed, 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:42.880 a contender, maybe the seventh seat, Yeah yeah it's seventh, right, 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.000 doesn't really matter. They've got no home court advantage, they 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:48.040 may not have Kyrie for the entire playoffs, so they're 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:51.200 they're a more a contender than not a contender. But 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:52.880 I don't I'm not convinced they're going to get there 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:55.760 just just because it despite the brilliance of Kevin Durant. 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:57.680 He's still got to do that time and time and 0:14:57.760 --> 0:14:58.880 time again on the road. 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:01.880 We still have NBA guy to like fold into the 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:02.360 mix here. 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:04.640 Yes, Ben Simmons, never heard of that name. 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:09.080 Well, Steve Nash says he's extremely hopeful that Ben Simmons 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:11.680 can play for the Nets before the regular season ends. 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:14.720 But this is a little shocking, right, tass. I mean 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:19.560 there was this back issue. Some of us definitely me thought, hmm, 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:23.120 seems a little suspect it's the timing of going to 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:26.040 play in Philadelphia that he's got this back issue. But 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:28.120 they're saying it's more serious than maybe it was first 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:31.160 led to believe. Like he's not doing anything outside of 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:34.560 individual work. He's you know, he's around the team film 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:36.600 session and all that, trying to learn like sets are 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:38.520 running and stuff. But he's not doing, from what I 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.920 can tell, practice with them five on five action. And 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:43.800 we are running out of games here in the regular season. 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:45.720 Yeah, it's surprising. He's been there a month, he hasn't 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:48.120 practiced yet. So yeah, something serious going on, whether it's 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:50.880 the mental health issue or just the back issue, but yes, 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:53.960 we are running out of games, and even the way 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:58.400 Gordon Dragic was asked about it. His response was more like, yeah, 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:00.760 we're folding a guy who's gonna be a defensive player 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:03.200 and rebound for us, like they know where the bread 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:03.640 is buttered. 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:06.520 Then to fold in a guy that needs. 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:10.120 You know, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean he's going to 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:15.480 be the distributor for Kyrie and uh for KD. And 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:19.080 you know it's wild to think that, Like, let's say this, 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:23.320 the mandates continue into the postseason. Kyrie is still going 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:25.960 to be available for more than half the games because 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:27.920 they're playing on the road. 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:30.360 Every single We joked about that. 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:34.880 It is crazy, it is bonkers. But yes, Kevin Durant 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:36.640 is still the best player in the world. And I 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:39.520 think it's fair to call him that because I said 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:43.000 to Compo, every time he plays against the Brooklyn Nets, 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:45.400 he says that guy after the game, after they win 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:47.240 or lose, that guy over there, he's the best player 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:48.920 in the world. And I don't think there's another scenario 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:51.200 where one of the best players in the world calls 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:52.920 one of the other players in the world the best 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:54.280 player in the world. So I think it's fair to 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:57.600 call KD that. And we see, yeah, that he can 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:00.720 carry a team and whether it Ben's means is there not, 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:04.879 which is yeah, it is, it's a it's a I 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:07.240 don't get it. I don't get it. We're at, yeah, 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:09.400 thirteen games remaining for the Brooklyn Nets, and he's still 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.280 not going to be playing for the next few so yeah, 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:14.000 just before the postseason, the guy is going to come 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:15.960 in and be your starting point guard. It's it's wild. 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:20.000 KD disagreed that he and Kirry are the greatest duel 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.199 of all time, and he said, quote, there's a lot 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:24.320 of great artists that played together. 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:26.040 Fun quote. 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:28.640 I'm just curious if you have a favorite artist duo 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:30.000 actual music. 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:36.040 H hmm. I really liked Luth Vandrus and Mariah Carey 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:36.840 and I put together. 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:41.720 I was not expecting that answer, because that's a great answer. 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:42.680 I'm glad I asked. 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:46.080 Your favorite artist du. 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:54.600 Due A very very small field, though, isn't there. I mean, 0:17:54.720 --> 0:18:00.879 wham right, George monkl Andrew rich Lee, they faced Georgia, 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:03.160 good one. Yeah, who else we got? 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:03.320 Who? 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:04.959