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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Best of the Week for What's Right

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Speaker 1: with Nick Right the best takes and moments from this

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Speaker 1: week on the show. Enjoy, Demanda, I was pulling for

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Speaker 1: Houston because of our ties to Houston. I also like

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Speaker 1: Kelvin Sampson, tell us what happened?

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean Houston went from winning that crazy

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Speaker 2: one against Duke on Saturday. I mean we have I've

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Speaker 2: been pulling them for Houston, but that rev should be

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Speaker 2: investigated from that game on Saturday. Okay, but yeah, so

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Speaker 2: they lost the crazy one to Florida yesterday off of

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Speaker 2: the potential double dribb or whatever. What are your thoughts

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Speaker 2: on the tournament and how it ended?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I have a lot of thoughts here. Houston

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Speaker 1: did not get a shot up, not on the final possession,

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Speaker 1: on their final four possessions. They didn't hit the rim

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Speaker 1: seemingly for the last two minutes of that game. And

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Speaker 1: somebody had a tweet that I wish I could give

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Speaker 1: them credit because I thought it was really funny and

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Speaker 1: actually pretty kind of profound, almost talking about Houston's style

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Speaker 1: because they're just such a ferocious, relentless, tough defensive team,

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Speaker 1: where they said I imagine Houston's practices are just three

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Speaker 1: hours of suicides and punching each other in the face,

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Speaker 1: and that kind of is how they played. But there's

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Speaker 1: downside to that, which is they never you never felt

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Speaker 1: like they were against a great team going to be

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Speaker 1: able to definitively put them away. And they had opportunities

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Speaker 1: against Florida to put them away when that defense was

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Speaker 1: just giving Florida fits, and Florida's stuck around just like

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Speaker 1: Houston did against Duke, just long enough to where you

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Speaker 1: see the college kids tighten up and Houston's kids tightened up.

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Speaker 1: Walter Clayton junior, you know, had a great final flourish

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Speaker 1: in this game after you know, with five minutes left

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Speaker 1: in this game, it looked like this was gonna be

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Speaker 1: the first game in two years he had a sixty

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Speaker 1: one game streak of hitting a three. He didn't hit

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Speaker 1: one until late in the game. He obviously didn't score

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Speaker 1: his first basket until late late in the first half

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Speaker 1: but Florida was able to stick around and then steal

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Speaker 1: it was if you just look at what Houston did

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Speaker 1: they did get a shot up, it was essentially an

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Speaker 1: air balled layup. They were getting no good looks. And

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Speaker 1: when you go to the waning moments of the game,

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Speaker 1: after LJ. Cryer made missed a layup and then tipped

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Speaker 1: Houston's possessions. Made a free throw, then missed a free throw,

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Speaker 1: badly missed a three, offensive rebound miss jumper, offensive rebound, turnover, turnover, turnover, turnover.

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Speaker 1: To not get a shot on the rim in the

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Speaker 1: is just so crushing, and you feel so sick for

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Speaker 1: Kelvin Sampson. And yeah, but might I mean because again

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Speaker 1: he's aultist seventy say it again that, oh yeah, well

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Speaker 1: about the coach you're talking about LJ. Cryer Now LJ.

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Speaker 1: Cryer at the back to back turnovers and then Emmanuel

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Speaker 1: both there, But for Kelvin, who was a great coach,

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Speaker 1: college basketball for a while, came back, and what he's

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Speaker 1: our buddy. Buddy's probably too strong. But the kid we

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Speaker 1: Sampson took over a mediocre team. His first year, they're

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Speaker 1: n and then since then, this is what they've done.

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Speaker 1: Twenty seven wins, and they won a tournament game, thirty

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Speaker 1: and you know, you you hope he has another great shot.

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Speaker 1: He turned seventy next season. You'll keep coaching, but man,

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Speaker 1: And I bring up every time, you know what also matters,

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Speaker 1: But set that aside. My other takeaway from really this

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Speaker 1: all playing, and despite that, you've never seen a better

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Speaker 1: illustration for the glaring and massive gap between the talent

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Speaker 1: The gap between that and the skill and talent and

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Speaker 1: Walter Clayton junior who is going to be goes into

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Speaker 1: it to the league. But congrats of Florida Walter Clayton junior.

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Speaker 1: Going into this year Demonse on most mock drafts was

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Speaker 1: now he's probably going to be a late lottery pick.

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Speaker 1: He's a little older, he's not that athletic man. Oh

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Speaker 1: man that say it again.

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Speaker 2: Late lottery pick.

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Speaker 1: No, it's awesome, it's great what he has working against

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Speaker 2: So things are gonna come down to the wire. On

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Speaker 2: so do you how do you think it's gonna go?

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Speaker 1: So, first of all, credit to the Rockets for removing

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Speaker 1: I think they have a great team championships that's fair

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Speaker 2: Very emotional game Last Night It was Lucas first time

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Speaker 1: I was amazed by what Luca did. And one of

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Speaker 1: And for Luca to be able to do that, and

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Speaker 1: for the Lakers to embrace him the way they have

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Speaker 1: Lebron is, you know, cheering on the crowd when they're

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Speaker 1: chanting Luca. Luca the embrace with his teammates right after

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Speaker 1: the introductions, everybody kind of taking a step back and saying,

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Speaker 1: this is Luca's moment. If you're a vibes reader, the

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Speaker 1: Lakers vibes are absolutely off the charts right now. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's go to the other side of this game for

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Speaker 1: a moment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw on the other side of it Anthony

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Speaker 2: Davis was playing his ex team as well. That doesn't

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Speaker 2: really seem to be making noise.

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Speaker 1: Well, so here's why I think, because it wasn't in

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Speaker 1: LA I think because nobody felt like I don't think

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Speaker 1: anybody felt like the Lakers betrayed Ad because it's just

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Speaker 1: a trade you have to make. I also think this

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Speaker 1: last night was a great example of why AD is

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Speaker 1: such a frustrating great player. And last night was also

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Speaker 1: a good example of the gap between all time great

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Speaker 1: and legend because Anthony Davis in that game, with the

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Speaker 1: Lakers not having a real sinner and him fully healthy,

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Speaker 1: you would have liked to see him be like, listen,

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Speaker 1: one way or another, I'm getting my thirty or at

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Speaker 1: least twenty five and putting my imprint on the game. Instead. Listen,

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Speaker 1: he was good defensively, and he had thirteen points. And

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Speaker 1: it's why AD is, again as great as he is,

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Speaker 1: a frustrating guy at times because he doesn't seem to

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Speaker 1: always have that extra gear that you would want and

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Speaker 1: the right He is not a guy that you can

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Speaker 1: just say, oh, the moment calls for it. Therefore, he's

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Speaker 1: going to be brilliant, at least on the offensive end. Now, defensively,

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Speaker 1: everybody still brings up the Lakers free throw edge over

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Speaker 1: the last few years and all of these things. That's

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Speaker 1: an Anthony Davis stat not because he's drawing so many fouls,

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Speaker 1: but because he is and has been, and it's criminal.

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Speaker 1: This guy's going to go his whole career without winning

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Speaker 1: a Defensive Player of the Year. But he has been

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Speaker 1: the best rim protector in the league for a half

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Speaker 1: decade plus now, and he can protect the rim without fouling,

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Speaker 1: which is what led to those free throw discrepancies, and

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Speaker 1: he was able to do a lot of that live

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Speaker 1: last night, But thirteen points in that moment is just

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Speaker 1: a just a bummer.