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Speaker 2: Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the No Dunks

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Speaker 2: Podcast on the Athletic Network. It's Tuesday, November thirtieth.

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Speaker 2: lots to get to. On today's show, we're gonna recap

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Speaker 2: a few of last night's games by playing a little

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Speaker 2: what you Got. We'll discuss the Knicks, saying Kemba Walker

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Speaker 2: is out of the rotation? H Whoa and Leley you

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Speaker 2: got tweeted the night you got a good one for us.

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Speaker 4: I've got two good ones for you. Yeah, oh too.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if we can do to today. We

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Speaker 2: got too much in today's show. Pick one.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I couldn't pick one because one gave me the

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Speaker 4: second one. So one's a throwback, one's a current day,

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Speaker 4: and one's a throwback, So something for everyone.

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Speaker 2: All right, great, But before all of that, we have

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Speaker 2: officially reached the end of the first quarter of the

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Speaker 2: twenty one twenty two NBA season, and seeing as though

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Speaker 2: all but I believe two teams, the Spurs and the Mavericks,

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Speaker 2: have played twenty or more games, we figured now was

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Speaker 2: a good time to look around the league and assess

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Speaker 2: the award races baby, from MVP to ROI to Most

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Speaker 2: Improved six Man and Defensive Player of the Year. Are

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Speaker 2: we doing Coach of the Year? No, we're not. Side.

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Speaker 2: We're not gonna do it on today's show. We'll save

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Speaker 2: it for another podcast. A quick note with these these

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Speaker 2: are not meant to be predictions, right like looking forward

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Speaker 2: rewarding the best players from the season so far. So

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Speaker 2: what I'm gonna do, guys, is give you three nominees

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Speaker 2: for each award, you're gonna cast your vote, make your

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Speaker 2: I'm sure we'll do a little hey what about this guy?

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Speaker 2: team to who gets your votes. First, one task you're

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Speaker 1: Them all, Coach of the Year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's MVP. I'll give you three guys right now.

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Speaker 2: Usually put them in alphabetical order. We'll go with Giannis,

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Speaker 2: Steph Curry, or Kevin Durant MVP a quarter season the

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Speaker 1: It's got to go to Stephan Curry because he's got

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Speaker 1: And I bring up the team stats more importantly, not

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Speaker 1: And they're eighteen and frickin two through twenty games. So

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Speaker 1: which is exciting. This is Stef's to lose at this point.

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Speaker 1: Because of how good he's made everybody around him. It

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Speaker 5: He is the Tim Duncan of the NBA right now.

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Speaker 5: He just makes everybody better with his presence. His presence

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Speaker 2: You will lee Steph Curry for you or anyone else.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Steph's running away with it right now. I think

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Speaker 4: He's at the table shore. But Steph's got the menu.

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Speaker 4: Steph's the mattero. He's ordered the he's got the pick

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Speaker 4: We all just have to wait and see what he

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Speaker 2: Okay, if if Mattio is Curry at the restaurant, like

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Speaker 1: Manio is kind of like Steph. Like when he when

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Speaker 1: the balls shoot going through the hoop, he's looking away.

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Speaker 1: He already knows it's going in. He already knows it's it.

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Speaker 2: It's a back bucket, that's true. It's already a delicious meal.

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Speaker 2: It's already been had. Okay, So everybody's saying Curry. There's

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Speaker 2: saying Curry basketball references, MVP tracker. They do have Curry

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Speaker 2: like a dark horse MVP pick that you could like

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would go with Joker. Yeah, he was my

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Speaker 5: You know you're not gonna pour a red wine into

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, let's keep it going here. Sixth Man

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Speaker 4: Pretty good, race here. I'm going with Tyler hero though.

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Speaker 4: But that's kind of what he did, and that's what

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this usually goes to a guard, right Trey. I

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Speaker 5: The guy was getting MVP chance at the free throw line,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess you could make a case for like

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Speaker 4: It helps, Oh my god, they love to have him back.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's keep it going. The next one Rookie

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Speaker 5: I think this is still Evan Mobley's award to lose.

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Speaker 5: His versatility next to Jared Allen is something that I

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Speaker 1: came back in twelve days, as Trey said, really helps him.

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Speaker 1: Supposed to be two to four weeks. The guy is

432
00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:05,760
Speaker 1: comes back and they blew out the Mavericks yesterday on

433
00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:09,880
Speaker 1: the road, in part because him and Jared Allen are

434
00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:12,920
Speaker 1: able to cover so much ground. As Tray said, they're

435
00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:16,240
Speaker 1: playing such a unique style with essentially three seven footers

436
00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:19,280
Speaker 1: on the floor and they're still winning games. They've had

437
00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:23,439
Speaker 1: so many injuries, and I think that will factor in

438
00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:25,880
Speaker 1: if they can keep up this above five hundred record.

439
00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:28,200
Speaker 1: The fact that they're eleven to ten with Mobile going

440
00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:33,760
Speaker 1: down and everybody else, it's phenomenal. And he is. Yeah,

441
00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:36,199
Speaker 1: he's the guy that, Yeah, the GMS picked as the

442
00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:38,879
Speaker 1: best rookie in five years, and it's already happening in

443
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Speaker 1: the first couple months. Of the season. You'd expect him

444
00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:43,160
Speaker 1: to drop off after an injury, but he just comes

445
00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:46,639
Speaker 1: back and he's he's too fricking good. It's it's weird

446
00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:50,480
Speaker 1: watching him out there and then watching Scottie Barnes, you know,

447
00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:53,320
Speaker 1: wearing number four out there with the Raptors and thinking

448
00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:55,600
Speaker 1: those two dudes look like both look like Chris Bosh

449
00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:57,760
Speaker 1: kind of Scotty Barnes in the post looking like Chris

450
00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:01,119
Speaker 1: Bosh and and Mobile kind of looking like Chris. But

451
00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:06,119
Speaker 1: I think the guy who's got just more touch and

452
00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:09,239
Speaker 1: more talent out there right now on both ends, it's

453
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Speaker 1: seven Mobley. I mean, he's just I don't think he's

454
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Speaker 1: going to slow down. I don't know if this wall

455
00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:15,200
Speaker 1: is common, if he can come back from an injury

456
00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:18,800
Speaker 1: like that and play so well, I don't know. I

457
00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:19,600
Speaker 1: think he's got it.

458
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Speaker 2: That is a great point that task brings up lately.

459
00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:24,159
Speaker 2: I mean, we are talking about just through twenty games,

460
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Speaker 2: who gets your vote, and we're not trying to like

461
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Speaker 2: look to the future, but who does hit the wall

462
00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:31,840
Speaker 2: that always comes into play. Can any of these rookies

463
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Speaker 2: sort of like power through it, climb over it and

464
00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:36,520
Speaker 2: sort of sustain this level that they're playing at or

465
00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:38,800
Speaker 2: will they crash back to Earth, which happens a lot

466
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Speaker 2: of times, especially when you get to around twenty or

467
00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:44,800
Speaker 2: thirty around the college season type of schedule there. But

468
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Speaker 2: what do you think you got Mobile Barnes or Cade

469
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Speaker 2: or somebody else.

470
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Speaker 4: No, I think it's down to Mobili and Scotty Bonds.

471
00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,480
Speaker 4: I think Scotty Barnes is being fantastic and if Mobley

472
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Speaker 4: was to miss significant more time than Scotty Bonds could

473
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Speaker 4: take it because their numbers are very very similar there.

474
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Speaker 4: But I just think Evan Mobley has been a better

475
00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:03,560
Speaker 4: player for his team than Scotty Barnes has to this point.

476
00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:06,000
Speaker 4: Scott Scotty's been good, but Evan got off to a

477
00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:08,720
Speaker 4: great start, the Caves started winning, and then they felt

478
00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:10,800
Speaker 4: his absence when he was out there, And you know,

479
00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:12,640
Speaker 4: I think that that plays a role in it, when

480
00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:14,520
Speaker 4: when you have to sort of split hairs when the

481
00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:17,120
Speaker 4: numbers are tight like this, I think it just comes

482
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Speaker 4: down to the impact, and I think Mobley's had a

483
00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:22,200
Speaker 4: greater impact on his team than Scotty Barnes has so far.

484
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Speaker 2: For the Raptors, Yeah, I think it's really really close. Actually,

485
00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:29,800
Speaker 2: this one for sure if the Calves and Raptors records

486
00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:32,359
Speaker 2: were swapped, I think there might be more buzz for

487
00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:34,680
Speaker 2: Scotty at this point, maybe being the leader of the

488
00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:36,720
Speaker 2: Rookie of the Year race. But maybe that's what it

489
00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:38,600
Speaker 2: will come down to. When we get to two games,

490
00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:40,199
Speaker 2: you know, seventy five and eighty and stuff like that.

491
00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:43,520
Speaker 2: It's like, are the Raptors still floundering? Have they blown

492
00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:45,480
Speaker 2: up their team at the trade deadline? Have they gone

493
00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:48,520
Speaker 2: all in on the development? And if the Calves maintained

494
00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:50,280
Speaker 2: like sort of five hundred ball or are they fallen off?

495
00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:52,360
Speaker 2: It could come down to that. We kept saying kid

496
00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:55,199
Speaker 2: could get back into this you know, not efficient right

497
00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:57,080
Speaker 2: now as a rook and there's some other guys too

498
00:22:57,119 --> 00:22:58,800
Speaker 2: that have played really well. We've talked about this class

499
00:22:58,800 --> 00:22:59,920
Speaker 2: a lot, so we don't need to go over it at

500
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Speaker 2: all again. But feels like it's gonna be Barnes or

501
00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:05,960
Speaker 2: Mobiley as long as they stay healthy. At the end.

502
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Speaker 1: The weird stat Scottie Barnes already played seventy five more

503
00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:12,520
Speaker 1: minutes than he played last season. He's played six hundred

504
00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:13,000
Speaker 1: and seventy minutes.

505
00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:13,800
Speaker 2: Yeah year, he.

506
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Speaker 1: Played only five ninety five.

507
00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:18,520
Speaker 2: Last year, wild Man, that's crazy. He's playing a lot

508
00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:20,400
Speaker 2: of minutes for the Raptors play. He's like nearly thirty

509
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,040
Speaker 2: five minutes per game. I mean Mobley plays a lot too.

510
00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:24,080
Speaker 2: It makes sense because he's great defensively. It's wild that

511
00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:25,760
Speaker 2: the Cavs were like one of the worst defensive teams

512
00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:29,000
Speaker 2: last year and then but they're like top five. No

513
00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:31,280
Speaker 2: one would have expected that, and he is a huge part.

514
00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:33,000
Speaker 2: Like Task keeps talking about, all right, our next one here,

515
00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:37,320
Speaker 2: most improved. Sort of tough to pick just three names

516
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:39,640
Speaker 2: for this. I went with Miles Bridges, John Morant because

517
00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:41,439
Speaker 2: there is that buzz right before the injury of like

518
00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:43,879
Speaker 2: this guy that was like really good, if not great,

519
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:47,320
Speaker 2: going to another level. And then Jordan Poole, who's gonna

520
00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:50,600
Speaker 2: eventually win a finals MVP later this season. So m

521
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Speaker 2: ip Task right now, who gets your vote?

522
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:57,159
Speaker 1: Lots of surprises, like Miles Bridges didn't expect to be

523
00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:00,720
Speaker 1: this good, but this is an opportunity for a vote

524
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,160
Speaker 1: for a guy that has gone from great to even greater.

525
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:05,560
Speaker 1: As you said about John Morant, you know there's a

526
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:08,400
Speaker 1: lot of guys go from good to great. Miles Bridge

527
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:10,800
Speaker 1: is sort of in that category. But this is a

528
00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:13,959
Speaker 1: special year for John Morant, even though he's injured right now.

529
00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:16,479
Speaker 1: From nineteen to twenty four points per game, he's gotten

530
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:20,600
Speaker 1: a better three point shot, stand steady and better finisher

531
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:23,399
Speaker 1: at the rim. He's become a like a different player.

532
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:26,840
Speaker 1: He sort of changed his makeup as a player, and

533
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:29,920
Speaker 1: that's just a special thing to do when you're already

534
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,320
Speaker 1: that freaking good to go to a next level. So

535
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Speaker 1: joh would have my vote because he's sort of in

536
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:38,639
Speaker 1: a different stratosphere. I guess it's a little like j

537
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:41,240
Speaker 1: D and Lee sitting at the same table with Miles

538
00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:45,800
Speaker 1: Bridges and Jordan Poole, like guys who have improved. I

539
00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:48,399
Speaker 1: guess I don't know why I'm comparing them to j

540
00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:50,719
Speaker 1: D and Lee, but I mean, just like guys who

541
00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 1: are in the same category have gone from good to

542
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:54,840
Speaker 1: even better. Well, John Moran is in a different stratosphere.

543
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:56,679
Speaker 1: I guess he's in the medio. He's in the kitchen

544
00:24:57,560 --> 00:24:59,959
Speaker 1: instructing people how to cook. Like that's just a different

545
00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:03,560
Speaker 1: type of most improved. So I would probably give it

546
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Speaker 1: to John Morant because I didn't see it coming.

547
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:10,520
Speaker 2: Trey. Yeah, I'm actually with Tass and Skeets.

548
00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:12,600
Speaker 5: You kind of convinced me on this one yesterday talking

549
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,560
Speaker 5: top shot because I would have fought Miles Bridges because

550
00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:19,520
Speaker 5: I'm always kind of drawn to the decent player becomes

551
00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:22,399
Speaker 5: good slash building block kind of player, and that's definitely

552
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 5: what Miles Bridges has become, improving his three point shot,

553
00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:27,440
Speaker 5: getting to the line a bunch, just attacking all the time,

554
00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:31,040
Speaker 5: and looking like a perfect fit next to LaMelo. But basically,

555
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:34,600
Speaker 5: since Yannis won Most Improved Player, it's been the player

556
00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 5: who is good who becomes an all star level player,

557
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,520
Speaker 5: and that's exactly what's happened with John Morant. He's a takeover,

558
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,520
Speaker 5: go to superstar kind of player at this point. He's

559
00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:45,960
Speaker 5: gonna make an All Star team as long as he

560
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:48,040
Speaker 5: has enough games played.

561
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:49,480
Speaker 2: By February or whatever.

562
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:53,200
Speaker 5: So I think that the voting for Most Improved Player

563
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:55,920
Speaker 5: has changed a little bit in the past five seasons.

564
00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:58,840
Speaker 5: Now it is good to great, and that's definitely jaw

565
00:25:58,880 --> 00:25:59,200
Speaker 5: this year.

566
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:03,520
Speaker 4: Lee, You agree, I do, yes, because it depends on

567
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:06,560
Speaker 4: really how you value this award. If you sort of

568
00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:08,200
Speaker 4: look at it like, well, we sort of know jar

569
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 4: is going to be a superstar, so it's almost like

570
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:13,119
Speaker 4: he's sort of disqualified from winning this because that's his

571
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:15,160
Speaker 4: natural trajectory. But if then you look at a guy

572
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,359
Speaker 4: like Jordan Poole or Miles Bridges, they just have improved

573
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:20,280
Speaker 4: as players this season. But then I'm also going to

574
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 4: dock Jordan Pool a few points because he's playing with

575
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:25,160
Speaker 4: Steph Curry. I will say Jordan Poole has actually improved

576
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:27,960
Speaker 4: within the season. He started off a little bit spotty,

577
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,520
Speaker 4: but he's improved his consistency there. And I just think

578
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 4: Miles Bridges has sort of been consistent himself in being

579
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:36,480
Speaker 4: the second best player there, I think for the Hornets.

580
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:38,640
Speaker 4: So they all have a different case, But I think

581
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:41,160
Speaker 4: jar will win this award where he is right now

582
00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:43,200
Speaker 4: because it would be I mean, he won Rookie of

583
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,000
Speaker 4: the Year, but then it would be another award for him.

584
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:46,879
Speaker 4: But I think there's so many more that he's going

585
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,119
Speaker 4: to win down the road that it almost feels like

586
00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:51,360
Speaker 4: he's too good for this award, if that's such a thing.

587
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:54,320
Speaker 4: So you know, that's just the way I feel about it.

588
00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:58,399
Speaker 2: I think you can make a case to include at

589
00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:00,520
Speaker 2: least on the nominees. Lest I see some people bringing

590
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,359
Speaker 2: up his name in the stream team Dejonte Murray for

591
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:06,879
Speaker 2: the San Antonio Spurs. It's an interesting one because, like

592
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:10,480
Speaker 2: the raw stats have definitely ticked up and he's becoming

593
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:12,399
Speaker 2: a bit of a triple double machine. I believe he

594
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,960
Speaker 2: has three already on the season, and four total last

595
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:20,320
Speaker 2: year nineteen eight and a half rebounds, eight assists. I mean,

596
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:24,960
Speaker 2: that is really really impressive. The efficiency is not as

597
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:26,479
Speaker 2: great as it was last year. No, he was never

598
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:28,440
Speaker 2: really a great three point shooter, and that's still around

599
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:30,280
Speaker 2: thirty percent. You'd like to see that go a little

600
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 2: bit higher overall forty five percent from the floor. Okay,

601
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:34,320
Speaker 2: you know has to do a lot there as the

602
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 2: point guard on the Spurs. But yeah, he's he's in

603
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:39,200
Speaker 2: the running here, and I think it would be tough

604
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,160
Speaker 2: for him to get the buzz playing on a sort

605
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 2: of a bad San Antonio team. But I guess you

606
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:45,560
Speaker 2: keep putting up triple doubles. That gets people's attention ly,

607
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:48,719
Speaker 2: I mean, whether you know, I know your opinion, like

608
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 2: we know your opinion on the Westbrook triple doubles and

609
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:55,199
Speaker 2: all that, but it does get headlines and it does

610
00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:57,640
Speaker 2: draw eyeballs to a guy like him, and he's improved

611
00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 2: for sure too.

612
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:01,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Spurs were really bad though they've won a

613
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,480
Speaker 4: couple here, but they were bad at the start. The

614
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:05,600
Speaker 4: other guy who I think has really drawn a lot

615
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,919
Speaker 4: of eyeballs and attention is Anthony Edwards in Minnesota because

616
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 4: it's the highlight reel plays, but also he's up to

617
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:14,159
Speaker 4: twenty two points a game, forty three percent from the field,

618
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,200
Speaker 4: thirty five percent from three. But you know, he's doing

619
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 4: everything I think there for Minnesota. So I think he's

620
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,200
Speaker 4: another guy. And he won Rookie of the Year last year.

621
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:24,159
Speaker 4: He's a second year player. I know that doesn't you

622
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,040
Speaker 4: don't really like that, skisy, but when you look at

623
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 4: a guy who isn't just been a minutes bump, he's

624
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,919
Speaker 4: actually like, hey, I it was good last season and

625
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,119
Speaker 4: now I'm even better this season. I think that's certainly

626
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:36,399
Speaker 4: helping his case, especially if the Timberwolves can just string

627
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,200
Speaker 4: together a few They've actually been playing better lately, and

628
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:41,000
Speaker 4: I think he's a huge reason because of that.

629
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 2: All Right, our next award, as we keep going here,

630
00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 2: Defensive Player of the Year Rudy Golbert, Dreamond Green or

631
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 2: Miles Turner. And I'll get a started with my first

632
00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 2: vote because I think most of you are going to

633
00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 2: agree that it's dream on green. Right now, after twenty games,

634
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 2: the Warriors have the best statistical defense the league has

635
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 2: seen since the twenty sixteen Spurs. They're at or near

636
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 2: the top in net rating opponents, field goal percentage, defensive

637
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 2: rebound percentage, shots contested deflections, on and on and on,

638
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 2: and Draymon is a huge reason why. He's like the

639
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:21,360
Speaker 2: defensive engine and real attitude for that Warrior squad. To

640
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 2: quote Draymond, I saw from an Anthony Slater Athletic article,

641
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 2: I fuck up opposing offenses. It's like whoa, And I

642
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 2: mean he really does be it in ISO. He's gonna

643
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 2: take care of his guy. He's gonna break up two

644
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 2: on ones. He's smarter than everybody out there defensively, Like

645
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 2: he knows what you're running, he knows where you want

646
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 2: to go. He wants to like blow it up and

647
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 2: get you going somewhere else. He's been pretty special. You

648
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 2: said Curry's gotten better tasks. There's no doubt this is

649
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 2: like a great curR defensive system, really a Mike Brown

650
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,600
Speaker 2: defensive system there as an assistant coach for the Warriors,

651
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 2: But is there anyway this isn't Draymond's and I think

652
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:58,920
Speaker 2: you can even almost like lock this one in that

653
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 2: he's gonna win his second dpoy. Do you agree with

654
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 2: that test.

655
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially because this team has won seventy three games

656
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 1: and sixty seven games the year after that, back to

657
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 1: back in the era when the Spurs had that incredible defense.

658
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 1: So I don't think they fall off. I think they

659
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 1: know how to go for eighty two games essentially. So yeah,

660
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 1: I don't see Draymond falling off, especially because, Yea, his

661
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 1: REP has taken a hit the last couple of years.

662
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:28,959
Speaker 1: People were wondering, as he's getting older, is he not

663
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:30,719
Speaker 1: going to be able to do what he did in

664
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 1: those years. So I think he's he's on a mission.

665
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 1: He's on a mission to be the best Draymond he

666
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 1: can be. He's got his own TV show. He's saying,

667
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 1: I fucked up defenses. You know he's he's full on

668
00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 1: Draymond defenses. He can do that defenses too. I guess

669
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:51,000
Speaker 1: you're right, But.

670
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 5: He sounds a little bit like Santa Claus. He's easier

671
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 5: when you're cutting, he knows when you're running pick and roll.

672
00:30:58,240 --> 00:30:59,840
Speaker 2: I don't know the rest of it. Right now. But

673
00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:01,120
Speaker 2: he definitely seems like that.

674
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 5: If you want to know why Draymond Green is Defensive

675
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 5: Player of the Year, watch the second half of Warriors

676
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,960
Speaker 5: versus Nets. Kevin Durant had sixteen in the first half

677
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 5: over eight in the second half, and it was basically

678
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 5: Draymond saying, I'm guarding this guy, I'm not switching. Took

679
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 5: him completely out of the game. And this is Kevin

680
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 5: Durant we're talking about.

681
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 2: And it always helps lee if you want to win

682
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:23,720
Speaker 2: this award, talk about winning this award, and Draymond Green

683
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,040
Speaker 2: never stops talking about winning this award, how he should

684
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 2: have like Tennedy's already and stuff like that. And it

685
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 2: sounds silly, but it can work when you have an elite,

686
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 2: all time looking defense. Right now, we'll see if the

687
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 2: Warriors can sustain it.

688
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's also a very strong case that

689
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:40,440
Speaker 4: he makes, is like the Warriors do have the best defense.

690
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:42,520
Speaker 4: We know that that's where he makes his money on

691
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:45,240
Speaker 4: the defensive end. He loves to make those highlight reel plays,

692
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 4: even though he says, not enough people know what they're

693
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 4: even looking at when you see a highlight defensive play.

694
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 4: So yeah, he's definitely in a good spot right now.

695
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 4: The other thing is, I think Rudy Gobert is a

696
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:56,400
Speaker 4: three time winner, almost a bit of fatigue is setting

697
00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 4: in and the Jazz haven't been that good so far

698
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,000
Speaker 4: as we know them to be defensively, so I think

699
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 4: that's going against him and Myles Turner, you know, good

700
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:06,520
Speaker 4: shot block I just don't think he gets the recognition.

701
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 4: People sort of just don't. You know, Seem is a

702
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 4: great defender. I don't think he's a great pick and

703
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 4: roll defender. I think he's a great help defend, a

704
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 4: great shot blocker, but he just doesn't seem to have

705
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 4: that buzz. So Draymond and the Warriors playing well again,

706
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 4: when you're playing well and you're the best team in

707
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 4: the league, you just tend to be in the running

708
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 4: for a lot of awards, and that is one that

709
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 4: Draymond is probably in the box seat for right now.

710
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 1: Remember last year, at the end of the season, Duck

711
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 1: Rivers was saying Ben Simmons is the defensive player of

712
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 1: the Year over and over and over again. It didn't

713
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 1: work out. So maybe the Warriors should stop saying.

714
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, it wasn't Ben Simmons saying he's

715
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 2: defensive player of the Year over and over again. Draymond

716
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 2: is saying, I'm the defensive player of there. It doesn't

717
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 2: matter who else is coming from. No matter what it's

718
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:50,960
Speaker 2: coming from us the coaches, it's got to come from

719
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:54,480
Speaker 2: yourself and Draymond will let us know. Just quick trivia question.

720
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 2: Last year's NBA All Defensive Squads. Gobert there and Draymond

721
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 2: Green there on the first team. Can you name the

722
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:06,040
Speaker 2: other three? Other three? Give me a Drew Holiday that's right. Yeah,

723
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 2: I thought that would be the tough one. You already

724
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 2: said the one names one, Yeah, honest. And then Ben Simmons. Okay, well, okay,

725
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 2: you guys are smart at this. Let's see if you

726
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 2: can name the second for the true sios did to

727
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 2: make it. He did not make it last year. He

728
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:24,560
Speaker 2: has made one before.

729
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:28,240
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll go in for a bam out of bio.

730
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 2: That's correct. Why don't you stick with the Miami.

731
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 4: Jimmy Butler, Jim Jimmy.

732
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 2: Think about a giant, big guy who was out unfortunately

733
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:37,920
Speaker 2: for a while, he's back. He put up like a

734
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 2: four Joelle Emband classic. Think about a teammate of his

735
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:44,719
Speaker 2: lee that you were very high on coming into this. Yeah,

736
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 2: table made it despite playing like I don't know, something

737
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:52,320
Speaker 2: like that. And then one more he's not playing this season,

738
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 2: so that's the tough part. He's out of sight, out

739
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 2: of there. You go, yeah he's good. Yeah, yeah, he's

740
00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 2: pretty good defense when he all right, So we're not

741
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:03,719
Speaker 2: doing Coach of the Year just to piss off all

742
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 2: you coach fans out there, which is weird timing. I

743
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:10,839
Speaker 2: coached my first practice for six year olds last night.

744
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:11,760
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm in the running.

745
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 1: Tell them, man, tell them.

746
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:15,719
Speaker 2: It's tell everybody your coach of the year.

747
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 1: You're winning.

748
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:19,520
Speaker 2: Oh, it's pure pandemonium trying to coach a bunch of

749
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 2: six and seven year olds. Oh, there's a lot going

750
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,399
Speaker 2: on out there. There's a lot of fun. Yeah yeah,

751
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 2: leave that you've experienced this.

752
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,120
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, like not in an official capacity, just when

753
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:32,600
Speaker 4: you get a few of the kids together and you're like,

754
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 4: all right, let's play a game. And I owed it.

755
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:37,200
Speaker 4: This travel leg, this double dribble not what cools fails

756
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:38,439
Speaker 4: to be honest. I just want to get a shot

757
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 4: up and I just keep running on it.

758
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,279
Speaker 2: There's too much contact though with our we got a

759
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:45,799
Speaker 2: bunch of football players. I think like our defense, I

760
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 2: mean we're gonna every guy's gonna foul out like the

761
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 2: first three. The defense is just like hammering the other guy,

762
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 2: Like you can't do that, guys, But the team spirits there.

763
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:56,879
Speaker 2: The tenacity is there. We just gonna we're gonna mold them.

764
00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 5: I don't know, if you're a Coach of the Year candidate.

765
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:00,920
Speaker 5: Sounds like Ris is on the hot seat.

766
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, if we can't do these guys gotta dribble

767
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 2: and you gotta move your feet on defense, he might

768
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:09,720
Speaker 2: be out of there. I mean it's only one practice

769
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 2: in I wonder if they're gonna call a players only

770
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 2: meeting over juice boxes and pizza.

771
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, tough to have a player's only meeting when you

772
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 5: can't drive anywhere on your own.

773
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,879
Speaker 2: These are kids going up in twenty twenty one here.

774
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:28,400
Speaker 2: I mean they jump on a on a on a

775
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 2: zoom meeting.

776
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 4: For sure, they'll put it on TikTok. Yeah, they'll just

777
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:35,360
Speaker 4: they'll just trash you on TikTok. Yeah, this guy's junk.

778
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 2: Anyway, A fun first practice. It was a blast. Okay,

779
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:40,759
Speaker 2: we're gonna take our first break when we come back.

780
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 2: We'll get into a little what you got. What's weird

781
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 2: is you say you leave your phone at home, But

782
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 2: then who takes those photos of you always standing outside

783
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 2: of an establishment with Yeah, guess your brother does.

784
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, hey does just a you know someone else walking by?

785
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 4: Well yeah, I mean yeah.

786
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:02,399
Speaker 2: The photo of me standing outside this pub? Yeah, no problem.

787
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:06,960
Speaker 2: Where's your phone? I don't cares on me. Yeah, could

788
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:08,720
Speaker 2: you just use your just send.

789
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:09,799
Speaker 4: What buddle have you got there?

790
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 2: Yeah?

791
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:13,319
Speaker 4: Actually, actually joke on Fellow'll get somebody else.

792
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:18,800
Speaker 2: Jug fella. All right, let's get into a little what

793
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,560
Speaker 2: you get? What's it?

794
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 6: Good?

795
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:28,319
Speaker 2: Yeah? Little what you got? To help us recap some

796
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 2: of the games last night, start with this first one.

797
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:33,840
Speaker 2: Jonas Valentiunas scored twenty nine of his career high thirty

798
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:38,319
Speaker 2: nine points in a spectacular first half as the Pelicans

799
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 2: beat the Clippers one twenty three to one oh four.

800
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 5: Uh.

801
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 2: Valentun has hit seven sloppy steak three pointers in the

802
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:49,320
Speaker 2: first half, to the increasing delight of his teammates. So

803
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 2: that was wild. Then in Minnesota, Karl Anthony town scored

804
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:54,360
Speaker 2: sixteen of his thirty two points in the third quarter,

805
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,280
Speaker 2: and Anthony Edwards added twenty one as the Wolves rallied

806
00:36:57,320 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 2: for the one hundred to ninety eight win against the

807
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 2: These are two good wins, So task the what you

808
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 2: got more impressive win from last night, the Pelicans led

809
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 2: by jv there or the Wolves led by Kat and

810
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:10,360
Speaker 2: Ant what you Got?

811
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,759
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the Wolves because this is a

812
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 1: bit of a trend right now. They lost six games

813
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:18,319
Speaker 1: in a row earlier in the season, but now they've

814
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 1: won seven of eight and that's Unwolves like. They're in

815
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 1: the playoffs right now. If the playoffs ended today, they'd

816
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 1: be in the playoffs, not in a play in tournament.

817
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:30,040
Speaker 1: In the playoffs, they're sitting in six. They're actually tied

818
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 1: for fifth, so the Wolves are not looking like those

819
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 1: old Timber Wolves. This is a game that they would

820
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 1: usually lose. They're down to the Pacers by nine and

821
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 1: a half and they're missing a lot of their energy guys.

822
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 1: Two of their starters Jared Vanderbilt, Patrick Beverley, and then

823
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:47,359
Speaker 1: a third rotation player they started, Josha Kozi. They're playing

824
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 1: guys named Jalen Noel and Leandro Balmorro, who guys that

825
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 1: are subbing in and getting the energy going by the

826
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 1: energy is from Anthony Edwards and Karl Anthony Towns. That's

827
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:01,800
Speaker 1: what I have in the third quarter there, their defense

828
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 1: got them going. Their eighth ranked defense. The Minnesota Timberwolves.

829
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,319
Speaker 1: Are they combining a little bit more effort along with

830
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:11,439
Speaker 1: that talent they have been in this seven of eight

831
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:13,360
Speaker 1: game streak that they got going on. It was the

832
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,400
Speaker 1: Pacers that crumbled in the second half to the Wolves defense,

833
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:19,840
Speaker 1: and the Wolves turned it on. And yeah, so Town's

834
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:23,360
Speaker 1: thirty two, many many turnovers in that game, but it

835
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 1: was an ugly, ugly game that usually they would lose.

836
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 1: So for this time of year, quarterway through the season,

837
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 1: you wouldn't expect the Timberwolves to be up there in

838
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:38,560
Speaker 1: the above five hundred. So I want to give JV

839
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: some love and talk about those sloppy threes because I

840
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 1: don't know what the heck is going on with that dude.

841
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 1: But as far as the team performance, yeah, the Minnesota

842
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:50,400
Speaker 1: Timberwolves shocking right now, shocking the world. Sitting in sixth.

843
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, what a huge block from Josha Kogi there to

844
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 2: save the game. Really like that little sort of st

845
00:38:57,640 --> 00:38:59,839
Speaker 2: come from behind. I guess holiday thought he was clear

846
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,440
Speaker 2: and made the huge play, totally clean too. All right,

847
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 2: the same question, are you going Pelicans or Walls from

848
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:05,880
Speaker 2: last night more impressive?

849
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 4: Well, anytime you have a player being called Dirk Valentunis

850
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:11,799
Speaker 4: by his teammates, I think you have to just go

851
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:14,360
Speaker 4: with that, really, because Valentinis, yeah, hit hit seven for

852
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:16,720
Speaker 4: seven at one point in that first half. Only finished

853
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 4: with seven though, so dissapported he didn't try to just

854
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:21,560
Speaker 4: go and try to hit double digits with the freeze.

855
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:25,440
Speaker 2: But you imagine Valentinis and the all time record.

856
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:30,799
Speaker 4: For yeah, and you could just tell he knew he

857
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 4: was hot. He was just flinging away there at the

858
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:33,920
Speaker 4: end and they were going in. But this was an

859
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 4: incredibly dominant performance from the Pelicans, who have started to

860
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 4: at least show some competitiveness recently had a big win

861
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:42,839
Speaker 4: in Utah. Of course over the weekend. We talked about

862
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,840
Speaker 4: that yesterday, because early in the season the Pelicans just

863
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:48,400
Speaker 4: weren't competitive, and now they're at least going out there

864
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:48,800
Speaker 4: and battling.

865
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:48,920
Speaker 2: Now.

866
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 4: I wonder if teams are sort of saying, man, this

867
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 4: is the Pelicans on the roster or the schedule tonight.

868
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:55,880
Speaker 4: You know, this is probably a win for us, And

869
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 4: maybe that's what the Clippers did last night. They just

870
00:39:57,680 --> 00:39:59,279
Speaker 4: thought they were going to get back into this, but

871
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:01,759
Speaker 4: this was over early on. Well, the Repelicans had a

872
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 4: big lead early on. I just didn't give it back.

873
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 4: So I'm going with them. The Clippers have been a

874
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:10,320
Speaker 4: little bit up and down recently, but for New Orleans

875
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:12,960
Speaker 4: to get thirty nine out of Valentidis last night, it

876
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 4: was a fun watch. So give me the pals. Why not?

877
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:18,840
Speaker 2: All right, Trey, You're the deciding factor here. Where are

878
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:19,800
Speaker 2: you going? Well?

879
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:23,400
Speaker 5: I ultimately think that the timber Wolves win was a

880
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 5: better win because, like tass is saying, very unwolvesian to

881
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:30,320
Speaker 5: win back to back games that were one possession games.

882
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:33,319
Speaker 5: Most of their wins this season have been blowout so

883
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 5: to see them when a sloppy stakes kind of game

884
00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 5: was really impressive. Got a big three from the leak

885
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 5: Beasley in the last minute. You mentioned the Joshakog block,

886
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:45,040
Speaker 5: eleven assists for D'Angelo Russell. This was a complete team win.

887
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 5: But if I am the Clippers, I'm a little bit

888
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 5: nervous about what happened with the Pelicans last night. The

889
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:55,839
Speaker 5: rebounding advantage for New Orleans was forty seven to thirty five.

890
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 5: Postgame Paul George said that rebounding is the clippers kryptonite,

891
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,400
Speaker 5: and even say they're clipped to night if you're a

892
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 5: straight up herb.

893
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 2: But that's a problem.

894
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:09,319
Speaker 5: They play small and they're gonna be able to be

895
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 5: taken advantage of inside and on the glass. Fourteen offensive

896
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 5: rebounds for the Pelicans last night, which is why you

897
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:18,680
Speaker 5: get a whole bunch more shots, which is why you're

898
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 5: comfortable with Yonis. Valentiunas looking like Dirk out there knocking

899
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 5: down seven threes in the first half. So that's something

900
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:26,759
Speaker 5: the Clippers are gonna have to figure out. They just

901
00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 5: don't have a lot of rebounders on their team. And

902
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 5: if you're a small ball kind of team, there are

903
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 5: gonna be games where you get smashed on the glass.

904
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:34,800
Speaker 2: But great stuff from the Pels.

905
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 5: I think Valentiunis has a quicker release now, like he

906
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:40,319
Speaker 5: used to take him two seconds to get the ball

907
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 5: from his waist to the top of his head. These

908
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 5: ones look like lightning fast, the trigger threes for Valentunis.

909
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 5: So I guess the pump fake's gonna keep working, you know,

910
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 5: like people will be like, hey, he hit seven threes

911
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 5: in the first half. Yeah, do not give him a

912
00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:58,120
Speaker 5: wide open one great game from jv all right, next

913
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:00,279
Speaker 5: one here, I had to get a little create with

914
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 5: this one.

915
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 2: It's a bit of a stretch, I'll be honest. Jo

916
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 2: Kich with his two brothers behind the bench. He returned

917
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 2: to action last night, scored twenty four points as the

918
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,719
Speaker 2: Nuggets snapped their longest losing streak in nearly six years

919
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:14,800
Speaker 2: by beating the shorthanded Heat one eleven. Meanwhile, the Bulls

920
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 2: took the latest battle of the ball brothers, writing an

921
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:23,359
Speaker 2: unbelievable performance from Vucevich to a one thirty three one

922
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:30,239
Speaker 2: nineteen victory over the Hornet. So the better nikolay they

923
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:32,240
Speaker 2: sort of they do pronounce it a little bit differently,

924
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:34,799
Speaker 2: both of them, but you get the joke here, the

925
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:37,280
Speaker 2: better Nikola from last night? Is it Yokich the joker

926
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:40,480
Speaker 2: or vouch Lee get it started? Which you got.

927
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 4: Vucci with those six to six threes? Really clouds this answer,

928
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:47,680
Speaker 4: But I'm going with Jokich because the Nuggets just desperately

929
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:50,319
Speaker 4: naded him back and they desperately needed win. And what

930
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:53,920
Speaker 4: was a pretty anti climatic rematch, the young Kitch brothers

931
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 4: turned up Jimmy Butler thought everyone to turn up. Jimmy

932
00:42:56,600 --> 00:43:01,640
Speaker 4: Butler didn't even turn up. So I mean, who says, hey,

933
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 4: we're gonna show you a thing or two when you

934
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 4: come to our house and then you don't even show

935
00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:07,760
Speaker 4: up and then you go out and get absolutely pumped

936
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:10,680
Speaker 4: by the other team. So no, Look, I mean, Yo

937
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 4: Kich just showed last night obviously how important an MVP

938
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:16,480
Speaker 4: is to any team. They had lost six in a row,

939
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 4: and they actually won this game very easily in the end.

940
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:22,600
Speaker 4: This was this basically was a blowout. In that first half,

941
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:25,440
Speaker 4: Yo Kitch, the twenty four to fifteen, the seven assists,

942
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 4: their offense just looked so much better, and it was

943
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:30,040
Speaker 4: like a release valve I think for Michael Malone there

944
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:32,240
Speaker 4: where he's like, thank God, I've got him back, because

945
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 4: now we can start to look a little bit more

946
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:36,840
Speaker 4: like the team we hope to be. We'll talk a

947
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:39,560
Speaker 4: little bit more about Michael Porter Junior later on, because

948
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 4: this is you know, they're still in a bit of

949
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:43,600
Speaker 4: trouble here as far as personnel, but when you have

950
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 4: Yo Kitch out there playing the way that he did,

951
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 4: making some of those crazy passes again, the Nuggets just

952
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:50,880
Speaker 4: look a much better team much more enjoyable to watch,

953
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 4: so I'll take yo kitch, although I was impressed with

954
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:55,480
Speaker 4: a Vucci baby with the six for six.

955
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:58,040
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to the Bulls fan Trey Hood.

956
00:43:58,080 --> 00:43:58,799
Speaker 2: You got yeah.

957
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:01,320
Speaker 5: I saw a post game that we're calling him Niko

958
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 5: la Valanciunis.

959
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:04,239
Speaker 4: Vucci was shooting the ball.

960
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:07,720
Speaker 5: So last night six ver six from three to thirty points,

961
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:11,319
Speaker 5: fourteen boards, five assists. The Hornets are pretty thin in

962
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:14,920
Speaker 5: the front court. Regardless, they didn't have Plumbley last night.

963
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:17,960
Speaker 5: Nick Richards was running out there, so this seemed like

964
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:20,879
Speaker 5: the game that Vucci really needed to make some sort

965
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 5: of uh impression, and it was great to see he

966
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:25,880
Speaker 5: did because he's really struggled to start the season. Hornets

967
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 5: made a nice run in this one, and the fourth

968
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:30,440
Speaker 5: quarter cut it to single digits. Vucci checks back in,

969
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:33,400
Speaker 5: gets a layup, blocks a shot, hits a three, grabs

970
00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:35,799
Speaker 5: a few rebounds. He was really a studying influence for

971
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:39,520
Speaker 5: them last night. These Bulls Hornets games always fun. For

972
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:42,400
Speaker 5: some reason. The Bulls team last night looked like what

973
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:47,080
Speaker 5: everybody assumed they would be in the preseason. Absolutely zero defense,

974
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 5: but thirty from Vouch, twenty eight from duros and twenty

975
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 5: five from Leavin thirty five assists.

976
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:52,799
Speaker 2: I love it.

977
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 5: Sometimes you just have to say, we're not playing defense tonight.

978
00:44:56,360 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 5: It's ball versus ball, one hundred percent offense. We're having fun.

979
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:02,840
Speaker 5: And that's exactly what this was. It's, uh, you know,

980
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:06,480
Speaker 5: Vouch's really had a tough time figuring out where he

981
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 5: fits with this team. But last night he was hitting

982
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:10,680
Speaker 5: the threes, he was hitting from mid range, and he

983
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:12,960
Speaker 5: was finishing inside, Like that's been the biggest concern for me.

984
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:14,759
Speaker 5: The guy's seven feet tall and hasn't been able to

985
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:16,880
Speaker 5: make a layup. He was hitting him last night, not

986
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:19,920
Speaker 5: to mention stepping out. So a great win for the Balls,

987
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:22,840
Speaker 5: but definitely Yokic returning from injury to beat the heat.

988
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 5: That's for sure the most important Nikola moment last night.

989
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:30,799
Speaker 5: Nuggets have been struggling, but they got their MVP back.

990
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 5: Suddenly they're not struggling. And I also do like how

991
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:38,799
Speaker 5: basically everybody tried to downplay the Brothers thing. Michael Malone said,

992
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 5: they're just here to come to Miami. I know they

993
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:46,280
Speaker 5: came down here every time before COVID. They're just having fun. Obviously,

994
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:48,200
Speaker 5: Jokic didn't want to talk about it either he's like,

995
00:45:48,239 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 5: that's in the past. Whatever, So it's in the past.

996
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:53,239
Speaker 5: Maybe if they meet up in the finals, something will

997
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:53,880
Speaker 5: go down again.

998
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:56,759
Speaker 2: And also, like Morris was not playing in this game,

999
00:45:56,840 --> 00:46:00,640
Speaker 2: he's actually still out with the neck injury, the stinger

1000
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:03,600
Speaker 2: in his neck there from the push tasks. So maybe

1001
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:05,919
Speaker 2: it's a little different if he's if he's in there,

1002
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:08,800
Speaker 2: because he does not shy away from any confrontation. I

1003
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:10,640
Speaker 2: think it's fair to say, but who do you got

1004
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:12,799
Speaker 2: for the question there? Who is uh? You know had

1005
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:14,920
Speaker 2: the better game between Joker and Booch.

1006
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:18,400
Speaker 1: Well, I was very pumped for this game when I

1007
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:21,640
Speaker 1: saw the the Kic brothers were sitting directly behind the

1008
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:26,840
Speaker 1: Nuggets bench, great seats. This was a family affair, looking

1009
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:27,359
Speaker 1: forward to.

1010
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:31,640
Speaker 2: That, just like our cold open family family.

1011
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:36,240
Speaker 1: Family, family, family. And then and then I was listening

1012
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 1: to the Miami Heat broadcast and as always, Eric Reid

1013
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 1: play by play man, always starts the broadcast off with

1014
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:44,440
Speaker 1: as soon as the ball is tipped, and here we

1015
00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:47,800
Speaker 1: go on another Miami Heat NBA adventure.

1016
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:49,600
Speaker 4: You know.

1017
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:54,759
Speaker 1: It's you know, I can't believe he still does that,

1018
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:58,200
Speaker 1: but he's still doing it. And then all downhill from

1019
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:01,799
Speaker 1: there all downhill. It was just not an entertaining game.

1020
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:04,800
Speaker 1: Jimmy not in the lineup, as you guys said. And

1021
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 1: I guess from the Nuggets perspective of getting Yakich back

1022
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:10,400
Speaker 1: and all that, the Bones Highland game was good. He

1023
00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:14,239
Speaker 1: got the postgame interview, Bones Highland of the Denver Nights,

1024
00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:16,720
Speaker 1: the shooting guard just letting it fly, hit five threes,

1025
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:19,880
Speaker 1: and the Bones are their dollars. So they need guys

1026
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:23,080
Speaker 1: like that to chip in while they don't have Jamal

1027
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:27,120
Speaker 1: Murray and Michael Porter Junior. So I don't know that's

1028
00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:31,279
Speaker 1: where the Jokic MVP a narrative can start. If he

1029
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:33,839
Speaker 1: can pull this team together the five hundred now, if

1030
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:35,680
Speaker 1: he can get him up there, because you know there's

1031
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:39,840
Speaker 1: there's a drop off after the Warriors and the Suns.

1032
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 1: The Jazz haven't been playing great, and obviously the Lakers

1033
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:46,040
Speaker 1: haven't been playing great. The Clippers, there's lots of worry

1034
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:48,640
Speaker 1: there as we're talking about now. So the Nuggets, they

1035
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:51,319
Speaker 1: could do this. They could do this if Jokic can

1036
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:53,799
Speaker 1: carry a whole fricking team without the number two and

1037
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:54,399
Speaker 1: number three.

1038
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, all right, our final one. I'm just

1039
00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:59,680
Speaker 2: gonna ask it right away here TK, just to set

1040
00:47:59,719 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 2: you up, man, tasty your beef, Sobonas or would what

1041
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:05,120
Speaker 2: you got? Trey?

1042
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:07,200
Speaker 5: Well, what kind of butcher would I be if I

1043
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:08,680
Speaker 5: didn't let you beat my meat?

1044
00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 2: JD.

1045
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:13,920
Speaker 5: We've got some hungry customers here, so please roll that

1046
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:16,720
Speaker 5: beautiful beef footage.

1047
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:23,840
Speaker 3: Christian Wood had twenty one rebounds, but wait, there's more.

1048
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 3: Demantas Sibonis had twenty five rebounds. That's a lot of

1049
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:58,800
Speaker 3: roast beef, which is rebounds.

1050
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:03,000
Speaker 5: Yeah better, first big beef of the season for both

1051
00:49:03,080 --> 00:49:07,000
Speaker 5: Christian Wood and Demonte Sabonis. That's the first twenty plus

1052
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:11,360
Speaker 5: rebound game of Christian Wood's career. Sabonis had three beefs

1053
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:13,400
Speaker 5: last year, five in his career, but that was a

1054
00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:16,840
Speaker 5: career high twenty five boards for him. He added sixteen

1055
00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:19,319
Speaker 5: points and ten assists. That's a nice line if you're

1056
00:49:19,320 --> 00:49:24,640
Speaker 5: a fantasy basketball player. From a rebound perspective, Sir Bonus,

1057
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:29,120
Speaker 5: much much tastier. A lot of the christian Wood rebounds

1058
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:31,600
Speaker 5: are you are the tallest guy in the court and

1059
00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:34,560
Speaker 5: the other nine guys are running back to get back

1060
00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 5: on defense. But Woods came in a win. It's a

1061
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:40,160
Speaker 5: little bit more of a milestone.

1062
00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:41,960
Speaker 2: So it just kind of comes down to what are

1063
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:43,399
Speaker 2: you looking for in a cut of meat?

1064
00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:44,440
Speaker 1: Oh?

1065
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:46,880
Speaker 2: I thought you were also gonna bring up the uh,

1066
00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:51,279
Speaker 2: the one particular small piece of beef that Kevin Porter

1067
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:54,640
Speaker 2: Junior got that the Rockets basically gave to him to

1068
00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:55,760
Speaker 2: get to the triple double.

1069
00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:56,240
Speaker 1: Ah.

1070
00:49:56,360 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 2: Yes, indeed they may for rebounds there in Houston. Yeah,

1071
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:00,680
Speaker 2: all right, well.

1072
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:03,040
Speaker 1: Task that was awesome though. We're getting on a deep

1073
00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:05,280
Speaker 1: part of the track there because we had a double

1074
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:07,360
Speaker 1: deep on the track.

1075
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:12,799
Speaker 2: What do you think, Tasks? Is it Sir Bonus as

1076
00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:15,560
Speaker 2: Lee calls him, or mister Wood there?

1077
00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 1: Well, I guess the Rockets thing is cool. They're winning

1078
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:24,439
Speaker 1: games now, especially because Christian Wood is they're lone big.

1079
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:26,439
Speaker 1: They've gone away from the two big lineups and they're

1080
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:28,680
Speaker 1: just playing Christian Wood and so he's got space out

1081
00:50:28,719 --> 00:50:33,799
Speaker 1: there to roam. They're figuring things. I'm a Steven Silas fan.

1082
00:50:34,239 --> 00:50:37,759
Speaker 1: I don't like how he's been pegged as a guy

1083
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:39,959
Speaker 1: on the hot seat as a Houston Rockets head coach.

1084
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:43,040
Speaker 1: That's a pile of whoy. So I'm glad they're winning games.

1085
00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:46,440
Speaker 2: Lee, finish it off here, Taste your beef in your opinion.

1086
00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:47,759
Speaker 2: You watch the highlights, so you're going.

1087
00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 4: On, yeah, well that Kevin Porter rebound wasn't really a

1088
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:53,880
Speaker 4: rebound though it was tipped to him. So yeah, touches

1089
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:57,080
Speaker 4: at first, is the rebounder the poker or the grad

1090
00:50:57,520 --> 00:51:01,080
Speaker 4: exactly exactly. So I don't want to be that guy,

1091
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:02,880
Speaker 4: but I'm going to be that guy. Take that reband

1092
00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:05,320
Speaker 4: off and he doesn't deserve it. But twenty five for

1093
00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:12,200
Speaker 4: royalty there in Minnesota last night, the sir sir bonus. Yeah, yeah,

1094
00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:14,279
Speaker 4: he finished with a triple double two, I believe. So

1095
00:51:16,160 --> 00:51:19,080
Speaker 4: if that helps, if that helps the beef shure, why not?

1096
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:22,520
Speaker 1: Okay, I imagine Kevin porter House gets a beef one day.

1097
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:24,040
Speaker 1: That would be amazing.

1098
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:29,040
Speaker 2: Wow, that's good. Well, from one quarter to another, let's

1099
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:31,080
Speaker 2: talk about this in a little more detail. That happened

1100
00:51:31,160 --> 00:51:33,960
Speaker 2: right at the end of yesterday's show. Michael Porter Junior

1101
00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:36,239
Speaker 2: is expected to miss the rest of the season due

1102
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:39,240
Speaker 2: to back surgery. Second time a back injury has seriously

1103
00:51:39,239 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 2: impacted his career. Here he missed the entire eighteen nineteen

1104
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:45,400
Speaker 2: season while recovering from back surgery. After being selected fourteenth

1105
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:48,600
Speaker 2: in the draft. Porter last played this year. In remember

1106
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:51,920
Speaker 2: sixth against the Rockets. I think we even showed that clip, right,

1107
00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:56,799
Speaker 2: We remember he had the breakaway dunk possibility and came

1108
00:51:56,880 --> 00:51:59,040
Speaker 2: up way short and then he was grabbing his back there.

1109
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:02,960
Speaker 2: So I mean, this sucks. But how concerning is this

1110
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:06,120
Speaker 2: for Michael Burger Junior and the Nuggets here? What do

1111
00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:06,919
Speaker 2: you think? Yeah?

1112
00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:10,440
Speaker 1: You know, I go back and forth. I was extremely

1113
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:12,720
Speaker 1: worried at first, and then I'm at like a seven

1114
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:16,240
Speaker 1: out of ten on the worry scale, because the worrisome

1115
00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:19,719
Speaker 1: part is they pursued a non surgical alternative. They looked

1116
00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:22,799
Speaker 1: at it and tried to find another way, but they

1117
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:26,600
Speaker 1: had to go this route. And I guess the positive

1118
00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:30,040
Speaker 1: is when they gave him this contract that they obviously

1119
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:33,920
Speaker 1: looked into his medicals and were comfortable at the beginning

1120
00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:36,759
Speaker 1: of this season saying, we don't even have to have

1121
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:41,439
Speaker 1: an injury clause in there. And then this happens when

1122
00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:43,400
Speaker 1: you look back at the surgery he had when he

1123
00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:45,560
Speaker 1: was in college. He was playing with Missouri, got injured

1124
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 1: the first game that he played, and then he did

1125
00:52:48,239 --> 00:52:51,719
Speaker 1: return later that season and then had to miss that

1126
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:54,160
Speaker 1: the first season with the Nuggets. So I guess if

1127
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:55,840
Speaker 1: you're looking at a positive. When he had that surgery

1128
00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:57,399
Speaker 1: with Missouri, went out in the first game, he came

1129
00:52:57,440 --> 00:52:59,759
Speaker 1: back and played in the SEC tournament, So it was

1130
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:06,000
Speaker 1: like almost similar timelines here. November twenty second, Wikipedia thank

1131
00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:07,680
Speaker 1: You was when he had that surgery, and then he

1132
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:09,520
Speaker 1: came back on March eighth. So I guess if you're

1133
00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:12,280
Speaker 1: positive he could be back. If guess if you're positive,

1134
00:53:12,280 --> 00:53:15,480
Speaker 1: the Nuggets did their research, and you'd think that they

1135
00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:17,759
Speaker 1: would know that his back was sound and that he

1136
00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:21,480
Speaker 1: could be back this year. But I guess it's impossible

1137
00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:24,359
Speaker 1: to really know until he comes back how he's going

1138
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:28,080
Speaker 1: to look. I guess with the reports though, the fact

1139
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:31,040
Speaker 1: that there is a scenario that he comes back this year,

1140
00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:34,080
Speaker 1: and every report says that it's not like a year

1141
00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 1: or two years that there is a likeliness that he'll

1142
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:39,760
Speaker 1: be at least, you know, working out in March April

1143
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:41,840
Speaker 1: and seeing if he could come back. I guess you

1144
00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:44,319
Speaker 1: got to stay positive at this point.

1145
00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:46,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, Lee, what do you think?

1146
00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:46,319
Speaker 1: Oh?

1147
00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:49,200
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, but horrible news obviously for a young guy

1148
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:51,040
Speaker 4: to have so many back problems early on. He's a

1149
00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:53,080
Speaker 4: huge part of what the Nuggets need in terms of

1150
00:53:53,080 --> 00:53:56,120
Speaker 4: the offense needs to work on his defense, but they're

1151
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:57,840
Speaker 4: going to miss him, and yeah, you just hope that

1152
00:53:57,880 --> 00:53:59,520
Speaker 4: he can recover and get out there and play, because

1153
00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:02,120
Speaker 4: he's a very very good offense. He play very good

1154
00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:05,680
Speaker 4: score and shooter. But back injuries they just they just

1155
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:08,719
Speaker 4: gross to hear about, because this is something that has

1156
00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:12,480
Speaker 4: already affected his early career and if he can't, you know,

1157
00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:14,239
Speaker 4: really get on top of it, then he may have

1158
00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:16,960
Speaker 4: a shortened you know outlook here in the NBA. So

1159
00:54:17,280 --> 00:54:18,239
Speaker 4: just hope he can get back.

1160
00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:21,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, and this sort of got lost in the shortened

1161
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:24,719
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving week there last week Tray, but the Nuggets are

1162
00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:28,040
Speaker 2: running really low on healthy perimeter players because not only

1163
00:54:28,120 --> 00:54:30,560
Speaker 2: are they without Jamal Murray, now Michael Porter Junior PJ

1164
00:54:30,680 --> 00:54:33,400
Speaker 2: Dojer also sidelined with a long term injury. He suffered

1165
00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:35,440
Speaker 2: an ecl tear last week and he was one of

1166
00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:38,120
Speaker 2: the replacements for Michael Porter Junior, and he was playing

1167
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:40,240
Speaker 2: like twenty minutes a game and he's not a bad player,

1168
00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:44,080
Speaker 2: but he's out. So this is a really really tough

1169
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:46,640
Speaker 2: blow here for the Nuggets and whether you'll can keep

1170
00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 2: him in like a playoff position or a fourth, fifth,

1171
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:51,879
Speaker 2: sixth seeds something like that would be amazing. But yeah,

1172
00:54:51,880 --> 00:54:54,319
Speaker 2: anything to add to MPJ here. Unfortunately having to going

1173
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:56,960
Speaker 2: to knife under Knight underneath the knife again, excuse.

1174
00:54:56,640 --> 00:54:59,319
Speaker 5: Me, Well, task said that the bones are the Nuggets money,

1175
00:54:59,320 --> 00:55:01,520
Speaker 5: and honestly it's kind of true right now there four

1176
00:55:01,520 --> 00:55:04,080
Speaker 5: and oh when he bones Highland scores ten or more

1177
00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:07,240
Speaker 5: points and they're gonna need him to produce from the perimeter.

1178
00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:08,799
Speaker 5: They just need somebody else who can handle the ball,

1179
00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:11,960
Speaker 5: especially with Porter gonna be out for the season. But

1180
00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:14,600
Speaker 5: I mean, the Nuggets have got to be super worried

1181
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:18,640
Speaker 5: about this. Obviously, losing Porter this season is a huge

1182
00:55:18,640 --> 00:55:21,120
Speaker 5: blow to their chances in the first place with Murray

1183
00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:24,560
Speaker 5: being out, but his humongous contract doesn't even kick in

1184
00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:26,480
Speaker 5: until next year. So you're looking at a guy who

1185
00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:29,799
Speaker 5: has missed his rookie season, missed the majority of his

1186
00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:32,880
Speaker 5: one college season, and has had two back surgeries before

1187
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:35,600
Speaker 5: you're going to be paying him thirty million dollars. That

1188
00:55:35,880 --> 00:55:40,040
Speaker 5: is nerve racking, no doubt about it. Hopefully he recovers

1189
00:55:40,080 --> 00:55:42,319
Speaker 5: and hopefully he's able to put something together and at

1190
00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:44,120
Speaker 5: least get back on the court working out, getting ready

1191
00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:45,120
Speaker 5: to get ready for next season.

1192
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:47,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I saw a tweet from Nuggets Nation that

1193
00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:50,239
Speaker 2: I just wanted to reiterate here. You know a lot

1194
00:55:50,239 --> 00:55:53,520
Speaker 2: of people yesterday making the joke, especially on Twitter, lely

1195
00:55:53,760 --> 00:55:56,360
Speaker 2: like oh, Porter Junior, he got his money, then he dipped,

1196
00:55:57,040 --> 00:55:58,960
Speaker 2: you know, like it's not really all that funny. And

1197
00:56:00,040 --> 00:56:02,760
Speaker 2: the guy is having unplanned surgery. This is not calling

1198
00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:05,240
Speaker 2: in sick because you have a sore throat, as Against

1199
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:08,000
Speaker 2: Nation wrote, you know, this is he's going under the knife.

1200
00:56:09,239 --> 00:56:11,360
Speaker 2: What to miswork Like he's like, oh, I got paid,

1201
00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:13,880
Speaker 2: let's go get back story, Like come on, this is

1202
00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:16,680
Speaker 2: just really really unfortunate and hopefully he's young enough and

1203
00:56:17,200 --> 00:56:19,080
Speaker 2: can get back out there again and played like he

1204
00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:20,960
Speaker 2: did at the end of last season into the playoffs

1205
00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:23,240
Speaker 2: a little bit. Uh go go ahead?

1206
00:56:23,239 --> 00:56:24,880
Speaker 4: Oh I no, just yeah. I mean like that's the

1207
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 4: stupidity of Twitter though. I mean, as if a guy's

1208
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:30,120
Speaker 4: just gonna say, yeah, sweet, I've got paid. Now you

1209
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:32,160
Speaker 4: can do some surgery in my back. I mean, of

1210
00:56:32,200 --> 00:56:34,399
Speaker 4: all the injury, of all the injuries, I think back

1211
00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:36,200
Speaker 4: would be the top of the ones you don't want

1212
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 4: to have. I think you take an ACL injury over

1213
00:56:38,280 --> 00:56:40,799
Speaker 4: a back injury because it can be just so debilitating

1214
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:44,120
Speaker 4: for everything you do. So, yeah, it's Twitter.

1215
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:49,920
Speaker 2: In other NBA news, this is a little surprising. Knicks

1216
00:56:49,960 --> 00:56:53,640
Speaker 2: coach Tom Thibodeaux told reporters on Monday that Kemba Walker

1217
00:56:54,040 --> 00:56:57,160
Speaker 2: is no longer a part of the team's rotation. Quote

1218
00:56:57,239 --> 00:57:00,560
Speaker 2: as of right now end quote. Alec Burks Alec who

1219
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:03,680
Speaker 2: started Saturday against Atlanta in the second of a back

1220
00:57:03,719 --> 00:57:06,920
Speaker 2: to back situation. There he will remain the starter. More

1221
00:57:06,920 --> 00:57:10,160
Speaker 2: from Tibbs Hereies said quote, It's a tough decision to make,

1222
00:57:10,280 --> 00:57:12,080
Speaker 2: but you always have to do what you think is

1223
00:57:12,160 --> 00:57:16,960
Speaker 2: best for the team. So again, this is not Tibbs

1224
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:20,480
Speaker 2: Trey saying Kemba's out of the starting lineup. Coming off

1225
00:57:20,520 --> 00:57:23,240
Speaker 2: the bench, he was saying he is out of the rotation.

1226
00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:25,240
Speaker 2: I don't know whether that means he's gonna dress or not.

1227
00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:29,280
Speaker 2: I'm not sure Kemba is. But were you shocked by

1228
00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:32,360
Speaker 2: Tibbs saying especially that part. Not that you're just out

1229
00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:34,000
Speaker 2: at starting lineup because we've been struggling, but you're not

1230
00:57:34,040 --> 00:57:35,400
Speaker 2: even in the rotation one.

1231
00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:38,080
Speaker 5: Hundred percent, Skates, I'm totally shocked by this one. Tom

1232
00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:41,200
Speaker 5: Thibodeau started Keith Bogan's eighty two games a year, would

1233
00:57:41,200 --> 00:57:43,040
Speaker 5: only play him like the first six minutes of the

1234
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:46,240
Speaker 5: half before pulling him. Tims is very much if it

1235
00:57:46,240 --> 00:57:49,360
Speaker 5: ain't broke, don't fix it kind of coach. But Knick's

1236
00:57:49,360 --> 00:57:51,959
Speaker 5: starting lineup has been broke. It just kind of felt

1237
00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:55,560
Speaker 5: like they wouldn't make a change because the two players

1238
00:57:55,600 --> 00:57:58,400
Speaker 5: you would think would be making a move, whether it

1239
00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:01,920
Speaker 5: be Kemba Walker or Evan Forney, both were their big

1240
00:58:01,960 --> 00:58:05,360
Speaker 5: offseason acquisitions. And it kind of seems like maybe the

1241
00:58:05,400 --> 00:58:07,280
Speaker 5: reason Kemba is going to the bench is because his

1242
00:58:07,360 --> 00:58:11,120
Speaker 5: contract is a little bit smaller than Fournier's. Weird stuff,

1243
00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:13,600
Speaker 5: But I mean, when you look at the disparity between

1244
00:58:14,080 --> 00:58:16,240
Speaker 5: the Knicks starting lineup and the Knicks bench, you can

1245
00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:18,520
Speaker 5: see that a change needs to be made. The Knicks

1246
00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:21,760
Speaker 5: are getting lit up defensively when the starters are out there,

1247
00:58:21,800 --> 00:58:24,320
Speaker 5: and it's basically because they have no resistance at the

1248
00:58:24,360 --> 00:58:27,120
Speaker 5: point of attack. So maybe bringing Alec Burks in a

1249
00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:31,680
Speaker 5: little bit bigger defender, a little bit switchier, perhaps that helps.

1250
00:58:31,680 --> 00:58:34,760
Speaker 5: Because the offense that Kemba Walker would theoretically bring, he

1251
00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:37,120
Speaker 5: hasn't really brought it this year. He's been turning the

1252
00:58:37,120 --> 00:58:39,520
Speaker 5: ball over quite a bit. He's been cutting into Julius

1253
00:58:39,600 --> 00:58:45,120
Speaker 5: Randalls handles time. So yeah, to me, shocking that Tibbs

1254
00:58:45,240 --> 00:58:49,040
Speaker 5: actually made the change. A change was needed, but Tibbs,

1255
00:58:49,080 --> 00:58:52,200
Speaker 5: it seems like, would want to not rock the boat,

1256
00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:55,800
Speaker 5: and he usually defers to the veteran players. You see

1257
00:58:55,840 --> 00:58:58,240
Speaker 5: when he's talking about Kemba He's like, this guy is

1258
00:58:58,280 --> 00:59:00,760
Speaker 5: a great person. I want to say that first and foremost.

1259
00:59:00,960 --> 00:59:03,040
Speaker 5: That's how you know a player is really struggling. It's

1260
00:59:03,080 --> 00:59:05,880
Speaker 5: not surprising that he would want to go for more defense.

1261
00:59:06,560 --> 00:59:10,120
Speaker 5: But I mean, twenty two games into Kemba Walker's career,

1262
00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:13,760
Speaker 5: they're saying, you're not playing for our team anymore. That's

1263
00:59:13,840 --> 00:59:16,880
Speaker 5: wild to me. Going for him worth the gamble, but

1264
00:59:17,280 --> 00:59:18,880
Speaker 5: not looking like it's paying off at this point.

1265
00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:22,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, Teas, what did you think of this? You know,

1266
00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:24,400
Speaker 2: this report, not really report. TIB's telling us this is

1267
00:59:24,400 --> 00:59:25,000
Speaker 2: the way it's going to be.

1268
00:59:25,040 --> 00:59:30,000
Speaker 1: What do you think people can change? I guess I'm surprising. Look,

1269
00:59:30,080 --> 00:59:32,360
Speaker 1: the Keith Bogan's example is a good win. Last year,

1270
00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:35,760
Speaker 1: they stuck with Alfred Peyton in that lineup at the

1271
00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:38,000
Speaker 1: starting lineup over and over and over and over and

1272
00:59:38,040 --> 00:59:41,160
Speaker 1: over until the playoffs when they needed desperately to have

1273
00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:44,600
Speaker 1: some offense out there, so they inserted Derrick Rose. Tibbs

1274
00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:47,560
Speaker 1: loves his Vets, but a quarterway through the season he

1275
00:59:47,680 --> 00:59:50,040
Speaker 1: saw what Alec Burks was able to do. On the

1276
00:59:50,080 --> 00:59:56,160
Speaker 1: weekend in Atlanta. It was a really good win, probably

1277
00:59:56,160 --> 00:59:59,919
Speaker 1: the knicks best win, destroying the Hawks with a sick

1278
01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:03,560
Speaker 1: six point guard out there and Alec Burks, who you know,

1279
01:00:03,600 --> 01:00:06,480
Speaker 1: I've always liked. This is year eleven for him. He's

1280
01:00:06,480 --> 01:00:08,560
Speaker 1: been around for a long time. He had eight years

1281
01:00:08,560 --> 01:00:11,080
Speaker 1: with Utah and then he kind of bounced around a

1282
01:00:11,080 --> 01:00:13,120
Speaker 1: little bit, got traded to the Calves and couldn't find

1283
01:00:13,120 --> 01:00:15,640
Speaker 1: his way. So it's good for him. It's good for

1284
01:00:15,680 --> 01:00:18,480
Speaker 1: the Knicks that if Alec Burks, you know, is able

1285
01:00:18,560 --> 01:00:21,080
Speaker 1: to jump into the starting lineup, that you know, one

1286
01:00:21,120 --> 01:00:22,960
Speaker 1: of those big contracts that they handed out in the

1287
01:00:22,960 --> 01:00:25,720
Speaker 1: offseason is going to work out. Because the Evan Fournier

1288
01:00:25,800 --> 01:00:28,640
Speaker 1: one not looking too great. The Newlands Noel one man,

1289
01:00:29,080 --> 01:00:32,240
Speaker 1: it's a little much for a backup big, but they

1290
01:00:32,280 --> 01:00:35,120
Speaker 1: are looking for a guy who can switch and play

1291
01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:40,280
Speaker 1: defense because yeah, Kemba just hasn't been doing enough on

1292
01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:42,680
Speaker 1: either end to keep him out there on the floor.

1293
01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:44,720
Speaker 1: They thought coming into the season, all right, you know,

1294
01:00:44,760 --> 01:00:47,320
Speaker 1: our back court's going to be entirely different with Kemba

1295
01:00:47,360 --> 01:00:51,200
Speaker 1: Walker and Evan Fournier over Peyton and Reggie Bullock, but

1296
01:00:51,560 --> 01:00:53,959
Speaker 1: often should be better. Well, that ain't happening with Kemba

1297
01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:56,000
Speaker 1: Walker out there. Their defense has gotten a heck of

1298
01:00:56,040 --> 01:00:59,959
Speaker 1: a lot worse, as our man Fred Katz has out

1299
01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:02,800
Speaker 1: lined on the Athletic Their You know, their defense with

1300
01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:05,240
Speaker 1: Keimba Walker on the floor would be the worst defense

1301
01:01:05,240 --> 01:01:07,200
Speaker 1: in the NBA, but without him it would be the

1302
01:01:07,200 --> 01:01:11,439
Speaker 1: best defense in the NBA. So good for TIBs, I guess,

1303
01:01:11,560 --> 01:01:14,920
Speaker 1: willing to try something. It is strange that Kemba's gone

1304
01:01:15,240 --> 01:01:18,240
Speaker 1: from the rotation. Yeah, that's the party in rows or

1305
01:01:18,280 --> 01:01:19,160
Speaker 1: the backup guards.

1306
01:01:19,480 --> 01:01:21,680
Speaker 2: Yeah. And he even said like, I don't you know,

1307
01:01:21,720 --> 01:01:25,040
Speaker 2: I won't be playing three smaller guards together. You know,

1308
01:01:25,080 --> 01:01:27,480
Speaker 2: he was basically like addressing that before the question could

1309
01:01:27,480 --> 01:01:29,280
Speaker 2: be asked, like, well, why wouldn't you just take kem

1310
01:01:29,320 --> 01:01:32,000
Speaker 2: back out of the starting lineup and maybe plug him

1311
01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:33,920
Speaker 2: in as a sixth seventh man stuff like that, like

1312
01:01:33,920 --> 01:01:36,040
Speaker 2: a little instant offense. And he's like, I don't I

1313
01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:38,919
Speaker 2: don't want to be playing him with quickly, and Derek

1314
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:40,840
Speaker 2: Rose out there and he's saying, those guys are deserving

1315
01:01:40,840 --> 01:01:43,320
Speaker 2: the minutes, and I think they are lee So it

1316
01:01:43,400 --> 01:01:45,320
Speaker 2: is wild that he's going from starting to like completely

1317
01:01:45,360 --> 01:01:45,960
Speaker 2: have a rotation.

1318
01:01:46,240 --> 01:01:48,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean I think with Tibbs, it's not like, well,

1319
01:01:48,800 --> 01:01:51,480
Speaker 4: you never get another opportunity, but I think for right now,

1320
01:01:51,520 --> 01:01:53,600
Speaker 4: because we've seen the Knicks are a better team on

1321
01:01:53,680 --> 01:01:55,760
Speaker 4: the road and their reserves have had a better sort

1322
01:01:55,800 --> 01:01:58,280
Speaker 4: of plus minus than they startup. So Tibbs had to

1323
01:01:58,280 --> 01:02:00,480
Speaker 4: do something, and kem Back kind of was in the

1324
01:02:00,480 --> 01:02:04,120
Speaker 4: firing line because defensively, his is just too small and

1325
01:02:04,160 --> 01:02:06,439
Speaker 4: he can get exploited. And I think, as Tats says

1326
01:02:06,440 --> 01:02:09,520
Speaker 4: there with our friend fast Freddy Katz's article on the Knicks,

1327
01:02:09,920 --> 01:02:12,920
Speaker 4: that game in Atlanta where Kember didn't play, almost like

1328
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:15,480
Speaker 4: cost him because it was like, well, Burke's is bigger, taller,

1329
01:02:15,640 --> 01:02:17,640
Speaker 4: a little bit more athletic. He can defend better, they

1330
01:02:17,640 --> 01:02:19,800
Speaker 4: can switch better with him, and you just can't be

1331
01:02:19,880 --> 01:02:22,120
Speaker 4: exploited as much when Kember's out on the floor. So

1332
01:02:22,680 --> 01:02:25,560
Speaker 4: you know that's TIBs kind of had to say, all right, well,

1333
01:02:25,680 --> 01:02:29,560
Speaker 4: unfortunately you're the one who's getting getting us roasted out there.

1334
01:02:29,560 --> 01:02:30,680
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna have to put you on the bench

1335
01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:33,040
Speaker 4: for now. But he'll get another chance at some point.

1336
01:02:33,080 --> 01:02:35,480
Speaker 4: It's just might. He might be on the sidelines here

1337
01:02:35,480 --> 01:02:37,040
Speaker 4: for a few games or even a few weeks.

1338
01:02:37,720 --> 01:02:42,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, And who knows what his you know, his knees

1339
01:02:42,080 --> 01:02:43,720
Speaker 2: have to do with all of this, and you know

1340
01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:46,040
Speaker 2: he's obviously suffered from injury over the last little bit.

1341
01:02:46,200 --> 01:02:50,440
Speaker 2: I don't know, And maybe the whole thing, like it

1342
01:02:50,480 --> 01:02:52,360
Speaker 2: would be weird you out of character. I feel like

1343
01:02:52,360 --> 01:02:55,400
Speaker 2: for Kember, for if Tis had gone to him and said,

1344
01:02:55,560 --> 01:02:57,200
Speaker 2: we're going to take out the string lineup, but we'll

1345
01:02:57,200 --> 01:02:58,960
Speaker 2: have you coming off the bench for X amount of

1346
01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:02,000
Speaker 2: men's game, and for Ken to say no to that, like,

1347
01:03:02,720 --> 01:03:05,000
Speaker 2: you know, like almost like a John Wall situation in Houston,

1348
01:03:05,040 --> 01:03:07,280
Speaker 2: like I'm either starting or I'm not. I just don't

1349
01:03:07,320 --> 01:03:09,240
Speaker 2: see that being the case. But maybe we don't know

1350
01:03:09,240 --> 01:03:11,320
Speaker 2: the whole story with this. But Tims was telling us

1351
01:03:11,320 --> 01:03:14,560
Speaker 2: he's out for now. Those were his exact words. And

1352
01:03:14,640 --> 01:03:17,280
Speaker 2: we're gonna take a quick break and when we come back,

1353
01:03:17,840 --> 01:03:21,160
Speaker 2: Lee's got two tweets of the night. As he teased earlier,

1354
01:03:21,520 --> 01:03:23,680
Speaker 2: we've got pick him results. So I'm none too happy

1355
01:03:23,680 --> 01:03:26,160
Speaker 2: about him, and we'll set you up for tonight's Warriors

1356
01:03:26,320 --> 01:03:30,560
Speaker 2: Suns games. Don't go anywhere. Okay, let's get to tweet

1357
01:03:30,720 --> 01:03:31,280
Speaker 2: of the night.

1358
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:34,200
Speaker 1: Just go.

1359
01:03:34,280 --> 01:03:40,280
Speaker 6: It's not working for him. It is seems to be

1360
01:03:40,360 --> 01:03:41,920
Speaker 6: back here. It is tweet of the night.

1361
01:03:44,080 --> 01:03:45,120
Speaker 1: Tweet of the night.

1362
01:03:45,880 --> 01:03:52,480
Speaker 2: Wow, we're just listening to other music while we're doing

1363
01:03:52,480 --> 01:03:52,919
Speaker 2: this show.

1364
01:03:53,200 --> 01:03:58,480
Speaker 6: The pretty much yeah, pretty much task set off my Alexis.

1365
01:03:58,520 --> 01:04:02,960
Speaker 6: So it was playing yesterday, so I was very confusing.

1366
01:04:04,800 --> 01:04:06,360
Speaker 2: Wow, all right, well Lee, what do you got from?

1367
01:04:06,640 --> 01:04:09,760
Speaker 4: Well, I've just got a tweet to start with, and

1368
01:04:09,800 --> 01:04:15,160
Speaker 4: it came from Dane Moore, who covers the Minnesota Timberwolves.

1369
01:04:15,160 --> 01:04:17,160
Speaker 4: There for blue wire pods. After the game last night,

1370
01:04:17,520 --> 01:04:21,040
Speaker 4: Anthony Edwards flip phone just rang. During his post game

1371
01:04:21,120 --> 01:04:23,640
Speaker 4: press conference, he answered it. Asked if he has a

1372
01:04:23,640 --> 01:04:27,840
Speaker 4: flip flone, he said, yeah, that's my baby. I mean,

1373
01:04:28,880 --> 01:04:31,200
Speaker 4: Anthony Edwards with a flip phone. Would he have even

1374
01:04:31,280 --> 01:04:34,160
Speaker 4: been born when the last flip floanes went out of rotation?

1375
01:04:35,920 --> 01:04:36,520
Speaker 2: I don't think so.

1376
01:04:36,680 --> 01:04:38,400
Speaker 4: I just thought that was hilarious and then he owned it,

1377
01:04:38,440 --> 01:04:41,720
Speaker 4: so good on him for that. Now, I teach you

1378
01:04:41,760 --> 01:04:43,800
Speaker 4: because I said I had a second tweet because this

1379
01:04:43,840 --> 01:04:46,560
Speaker 4: is actually also from Daye Moore and it's from earlier

1380
01:04:46,600 --> 01:04:48,840
Speaker 4: in the season, because I had this in the chamber

1381
01:04:49,320 --> 01:04:50,760
Speaker 4: but I didn't actually get to use it and got

1382
01:04:50,840 --> 01:04:54,080
Speaker 4: bumped one night, and here it is. Patrick Beverly's routine

1383
01:04:54,240 --> 01:04:59,120
Speaker 4: after the national Anthem included screaming fake gunshots and smacking

1384
01:04:59,120 --> 01:05:00,320
Speaker 4: Glenn Taylor on the but.

1385
01:05:00,960 --> 01:05:08,360
Speaker 2: Hard you've just been sitting on that one.

1386
01:05:08,920 --> 01:05:11,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was was it was in the train because

1387
01:05:11,320 --> 01:05:13,000
Speaker 4: I thought it was funny, and then I can't remember

1388
01:05:13,040 --> 01:05:14,800
Speaker 4: why I got bumped. And then I saw Dane had

1389
01:05:14,800 --> 01:05:16,360
Speaker 4: another good tweet, and I thought, all right, there's a

1390
01:05:16,360 --> 01:05:19,400
Speaker 4: time to shoehorn it him. So great stuff. I could

1391
01:05:19,400 --> 01:05:21,600
Speaker 4: just imagine. You can just see Patrick Beverley, can't you

1392
01:05:21,680 --> 01:05:24,160
Speaker 4: like all energy? Yeah, wax the owner on the bum

1393
01:05:24,440 --> 01:05:25,240
Speaker 4: and then he just like.

1394
01:05:27,720 --> 01:05:29,560
Speaker 2: I thought your second clear was going to be like

1395
01:05:29,600 --> 01:05:32,560
Speaker 2: a follow up to more Anthony Edwards gold from his

1396
01:05:32,680 --> 01:05:35,160
Speaker 2: press conferences. But yeah, you really, yes.

1397
01:05:36,160 --> 01:05:39,640
Speaker 4: I mean like, I just can't imagine a young person

1398
01:05:39,720 --> 01:05:40,960
Speaker 4: these days with a flip phone.

1399
01:05:41,360 --> 01:05:43,920
Speaker 2: They had. They're sort of coming back in star. I'm

1400
01:05:43,960 --> 01:05:45,800
Speaker 2: assuming it's a new expensive one.

1401
01:05:46,000 --> 01:05:48,320
Speaker 4: H Yeah, I guess, I guess in that sense they are,

1402
01:05:48,400 --> 01:05:50,400
Speaker 4: but it just seems when you say flip phone, you

1403
01:05:50,440 --> 01:05:53,880
Speaker 4: think of like, you know, two thousand and three or something,

1404
01:05:53,880 --> 01:05:54,720
Speaker 4: when someone's got those.

1405
01:05:54,760 --> 01:05:56,640
Speaker 2: Did you used to leave your flip phone at home

1406
01:05:56,640 --> 01:05:58,960
Speaker 2: when you would go out for Waksna?

1407
01:05:59,160 --> 01:06:00,800
Speaker 4: No, I don't think I ever she had a flip phone.

1408
01:06:00,800 --> 01:06:03,280
Speaker 4: Oh I was a big nokier man, but not the

1409
01:06:03,880 --> 01:06:05,000
Speaker 4: not the flippy.

1410
01:06:05,360 --> 01:06:08,000
Speaker 2: Okay task, Did you have a flip phone or No?

1411
01:06:08,520 --> 01:06:11,280
Speaker 1: No, I never did. I mean the razors were cool,

1412
01:06:11,960 --> 01:06:16,040
Speaker 1: those those hot pink razors were super nice. But why

1413
01:06:16,040 --> 01:06:17,200
Speaker 1: would you have a flip phone?

1414
01:06:17,240 --> 01:06:22,760
Speaker 2: You know, of course smaller? Yeah, yeah, yeah I had.

1415
01:06:22,840 --> 01:06:25,280
Speaker 5: I think I had a qual com if I'm not mistaken,

1416
01:06:25,480 --> 01:06:28,480
Speaker 5: Uh not that I'll hold the candle to the sidekick though,

1417
01:06:28,520 --> 01:06:31,280
Speaker 5: still the greatest phone that's ever been invented, Almost like

1418
01:06:31,320 --> 01:06:34,000
Speaker 5: a flip phone, right and then you flip it back down.

1419
01:06:34,240 --> 01:06:36,600
Speaker 5: Still the coolest. Those are going to come back eventually,

1420
01:06:36,640 --> 01:06:37,200
Speaker 5: just wait.

1421
01:06:37,600 --> 01:06:40,439
Speaker 2: Yeah for sure? All right? Good stuff there from Lely

1422
01:06:40,520 --> 01:06:42,680
Speaker 2: with two tweets of the night, one from the past,

1423
01:06:42,840 --> 01:06:48,200
Speaker 2: and one last night pick of results Man thunder Rockets

1424
01:06:48,200 --> 01:06:49,880
Speaker 2: game Houston was favored by two and a half. This

1425
01:06:50,040 --> 01:06:53,040
Speaker 2: is brought to you by MGM. Of course I say,

1426
01:06:53,040 --> 01:06:55,680
Speaker 2: oh man, because I needed it. I needed a victory.

1427
01:06:55,720 --> 01:06:58,560
Speaker 2: I needed to cover at least from Okac. Task went

1428
01:06:58,560 --> 01:07:00,800
Speaker 2: with the Thunder as well, and they got They got

1429
01:07:00,840 --> 01:07:04,280
Speaker 2: crushed this. They were missing a lot of guys, a

1430
01:07:04,320 --> 01:07:06,160
Speaker 2: lot of their big guys at least, and they just

1431
01:07:06,160 --> 01:07:08,680
Speaker 2: couldn't score at all. And I'm not really sure it

1432
01:07:08,680 --> 01:07:10,640
Speaker 2: was the Rockets defense. It was more than the Thunder

1433
01:07:10,680 --> 01:07:13,560
Speaker 2: could not put the ball through the hoop. But Houston

1434
01:07:13,680 --> 01:07:17,680
Speaker 2: wins their third straight. Trey gets the victory and he

1435
01:07:17,800 --> 01:07:20,720
Speaker 2: wraps up not finishing last in the month of November.

1436
01:07:20,760 --> 01:07:24,440
Speaker 2: That will go to me once again. So I now, oh,

1437
01:07:24,720 --> 01:07:27,400
Speaker 2: I'm back to owing three pick on payoffs. I owed

1438
01:07:27,440 --> 01:07:31,720
Speaker 2: three pick on payoffs. I waxed my nosehairs, got down

1439
01:07:31,720 --> 01:07:34,800
Speaker 2: to two, but now I'm back to three. So a

1440
01:07:34,800 --> 01:07:37,720
Speaker 2: lot of these we have things in mind, but they'll

1441
01:07:37,760 --> 01:07:40,440
Speaker 2: play much funnier if we're in person together, and hopefully

1442
01:07:40,440 --> 01:07:42,480
Speaker 2: we're getting closer and closer to that. So there's a

1443
01:07:42,480 --> 01:07:44,680
Speaker 2: couple chambered here that we're gonna be doing. Don't worry,

1444
01:07:44,680 --> 01:07:47,280
Speaker 2: I'll pay them off. I'm like a lanister. I always

1445
01:07:47,320 --> 01:07:51,560
Speaker 2: pay off my pick'ems, but sucks that I'm at three. Anyway, Lee,

1446
01:07:51,600 --> 01:07:53,200
Speaker 2: you also picked up the victory, so we don't need

1447
01:07:53,240 --> 01:07:57,160
Speaker 2: to pick tonight because November's over. Let's just enjoy this

1448
01:07:57,280 --> 01:08:00,640
Speaker 2: game tonight task this Warriors Suns game. Now, it's a

1449
01:08:00,640 --> 01:08:03,240
Speaker 2: ten o'clock start. You can be taking a power nap

1450
01:08:03,280 --> 01:08:05,880
Speaker 2: today so you can be watching this one live. You're

1451
01:08:05,880 --> 01:08:07,600
Speaker 2: gonna watch the first half, watch the second half of

1452
01:08:07,600 --> 01:08:10,280
Speaker 2: the morning. What's your play on here heading into tonight's test, M.

1453
01:08:11,120 --> 01:08:13,680
Speaker 1: I always play it by feet. I live in the moment,

1454
01:08:13,920 --> 01:08:17,479
Speaker 1: So I don't know, not gonna nap and that's definitely

1455
01:08:17,520 --> 01:08:21,200
Speaker 1: not not not I don't do that. But uh yeah,

1456
01:08:21,240 --> 01:08:24,400
Speaker 1: I can't can't mess with the night's sleep. But we'll see,

1457
01:08:24,479 --> 01:08:26,400
Speaker 1: We'll see what I do. I am just looking forward

1458
01:08:26,400 --> 01:08:28,680
Speaker 1: to this game and maybe, as you said, yeah, that

1459
01:08:28,720 --> 01:08:31,599
Speaker 1: pick and payoffs way better in person. Should we pull

1460
01:08:31,640 --> 01:08:36,000
Speaker 1: off Patrick Beverley just a real hard smack smack.

1461
01:08:37,920 --> 01:08:40,080
Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, I'm fine with it. I just want

1462
01:08:40,120 --> 01:08:45,000
Speaker 2: to get them done with. You got big old farmer hair.

1463
01:08:45,280 --> 01:08:47,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm just trying to think he's got them as

1464
01:08:48,040 --> 01:08:49,439
Speaker 4: energetic slap out.

1465
01:08:49,400 --> 01:08:52,120
Speaker 2: There between two three.

1466
01:08:52,280 --> 01:08:54,080
Speaker 4: No, Well, yeah, it doesn't have to be one of us.

1467
01:08:54,160 --> 01:08:56,800
Speaker 2: Just laugh just someone at that. You saw me throw

1468
01:08:57,040 --> 01:09:00,880
Speaker 2: ice cubes ice chest. I mean, I'll whip it. I'll

1469
01:09:00,920 --> 01:09:03,080
Speaker 2: wa you know who flap myself in the as.

1470
01:09:03,400 --> 01:09:05,519
Speaker 4: I want Rick kamlt To slap you on that button.

1471
01:09:05,520 --> 01:09:07,160
Speaker 4: I've been hit. I have a nice old slap with

1472
01:09:08,240 --> 01:09:09,080
Speaker 4: last skeats.

1473
01:09:09,160 --> 01:09:16,120
Speaker 2: My man, whack and let my pick them payoff to

1474
01:09:16,200 --> 01:09:20,760
Speaker 2: be Rick Hamlas slapping. Absolutely, we've done dumber ones.

1475
01:09:20,960 --> 01:09:22,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, Ricky, how you doing?

1476
01:09:22,720 --> 01:09:23,040
Speaker 2: My man?

1477
01:09:23,120 --> 01:09:23,639
Speaker 4: What's up?

1478
01:09:24,360 --> 01:09:26,439
Speaker 2: Good? Ricky? Listen? I got a little tough fight to ask.

1479
01:09:27,160 --> 01:09:29,400
Speaker 4: Just wondering if you wouldn't mind giving out skeetz, if

1480
01:09:29,400 --> 01:09:30,559
Speaker 4: you would slap on the butt.

1481
01:09:32,720 --> 01:09:34,080
Speaker 2: You got it, my man, you got it.

1482
01:09:34,120 --> 01:09:36,920
Speaker 4: He wouldn't ask why, like he just said, yep, let's

1483
01:09:36,960 --> 01:09:38,000
Speaker 4: do it all right.

1484
01:09:38,840 --> 01:09:41,639
Speaker 2: Yeah. People are saying shock would be a rough one

1485
01:09:43,120 --> 01:09:47,840
Speaker 2: to take knock me over. Okay, anyway, if you have

1486
01:09:47,920 --> 01:09:49,680
Speaker 2: other ideas, let us know in the stream team, let

1487
01:09:49,760 --> 01:09:51,400
Speaker 2: us know in the YouTube comments. I do have a

1488
01:09:51,640 --> 01:09:52,760
Speaker 2: couple of these to pay off.

1489
01:09:52,920 --> 01:09:53,120
Speaker 5: J D.

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Speaker 2: I do really want to do uh the shot callar

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Speaker 2: we're doing the shot collar. I said you did some

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Speaker 2: research on it.

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01:10:01,080 --> 01:10:03,160
Speaker 6: I lied, I was totally lied about Theresa.

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01:10:04,400 --> 01:10:04,880
Speaker 5: That was just for.

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01:10:06,360 --> 01:10:10,320
Speaker 2: I don't think anything that's happen. Yeah, a little dog

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Speaker 2: shot collar and JD can operate it while I'm trying

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Speaker 2: to do a show with you. Guys. See, that's one

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01:10:15,640 --> 01:10:17,000
Speaker 2: that will be way funny in personally.

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Speaker 6: We got to give it to a child like somebody

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Speaker 6: would reckless abandoned Rick Campbell.

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01:10:23,240 --> 01:10:26,360
Speaker 2: We really don't. We don't have to do that in fact,

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01:10:26,400 --> 01:10:29,400
Speaker 2: but okay, yeah, maybe we'll get We'll get Jackson R.

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01:10:29,479 --> 01:10:33,040
Speaker 2: Lincoln to man, you don't want Lincoln, you do not want?

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01:10:33,760 --> 01:10:35,960
Speaker 2: Oh my, just do it twenty four to seven.

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01:10:36,080 --> 01:10:37,880
Speaker 1: Yep, he just hold his.

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01:10:40,960 --> 01:10:42,400
Speaker 2: Creating psychos over there.

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01:10:42,400 --> 01:10:43,040
Speaker 5: What do you do it?

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01:10:43,160 --> 01:10:45,120
Speaker 6: I know they're born now, I don't know.

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01:10:46,920 --> 01:10:49,120
Speaker 2: All right, So a bunch of payoffs to uh to

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01:10:49,200 --> 01:10:51,840
Speaker 2: come in the coming months. Don't worry, I'll lose another

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01:10:51,880 --> 01:10:55,360
Speaker 2: month when we get into December. Here just predictions for tonight, though, guys.

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01:10:55,439 --> 01:10:57,800
Speaker 2: Let's get him on record. Warrior Sons eighteen and two

1513
01:10:57,840 --> 01:11:00,559
Speaker 2: Golden State versus the seventeen and three Phoenix Suns. Phoenix

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01:11:00,560 --> 01:11:03,840
Speaker 2: has won sixteenth straight. Let's not forget about that. Who

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01:11:03,840 --> 01:11:05,840
Speaker 2: you got Lee Warriors?

1516
01:11:06,320 --> 01:11:11,080
Speaker 1: Okay, tasks quadruprol Overtime Warriors TK.

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01:11:12,439 --> 01:11:14,160
Speaker 2: I hate to say it after these guys, but it's

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01:11:14,160 --> 01:11:17,040
Speaker 2: gonna be Warriors. Oh, I think you guys are wrong,

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01:11:17,360 --> 01:11:22,720
Speaker 2: which means I'm thinking the Phoenix Suns. I don't even

1520
01:11:22,760 --> 01:11:24,200
Speaker 2: know what the line is on this test. Did you

1521
01:11:24,240 --> 01:11:25,080
Speaker 2: haven't see it?

1522
01:11:25,160 --> 01:11:27,559
Speaker 4: Suns are probably they.

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Speaker 2: Won sixteen Yeah in New York. Did you think there's

1524
01:11:31,240 --> 01:11:33,719
Speaker 2: reports of them saying like we own New York, saying

1525
01:11:33,800 --> 01:11:35,559
Speaker 2: after beating the Knicks and the nets and all that

1526
01:11:36,040 --> 01:11:38,040
Speaker 2: they're feeling good. Give me Phoenix. I think Phoenix is

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01:11:38,040 --> 01:11:40,599
Speaker 2: gonna win tonight. It looks like two and a half points.

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01:11:40,920 --> 01:11:43,040
Speaker 5: The Suns are favored by two and a half on

1529
01:11:43,120 --> 01:11:44,400
Speaker 5: bed EDGM right now.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's interesting because they play tonight and then they

1531
01:11:47,040 --> 01:11:50,639
Speaker 2: play what on Friday in the banksday Thursday or Friday

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01:11:50,680 --> 01:11:54,360
Speaker 2: in the Bank. Yeah, okay, all right, Well there's only

1533
01:11:54,760 --> 01:11:56,439
Speaker 2: five games on in total, so hopefully you get some

1534
01:11:56,439 --> 01:11:58,400
Speaker 2: really close ones to really break down in detail on

1535
01:11:58,400 --> 01:12:02,120
Speaker 2: tomorrow show Got Knicks, Nets, Grizzlies, Raptors, task you know

1536
01:12:02,160 --> 01:12:02,599
Speaker 2: what that is?

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Speaker 1: The what's it called?

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01:12:05,960 --> 01:12:11,600
Speaker 2: May Smith cuff? American guy Tassie. You forgot about the

1539
01:12:11,640 --> 01:12:15,040
Speaker 2: niece Smith Cuff and then more of your son's Pistons,

1540
01:12:15,040 --> 01:12:17,120
Speaker 2: Blazers and Lakers Kings. Actually a lot of late games

1541
01:12:17,160 --> 01:12:19,479
Speaker 2: on tonight, but we'll be back tomorrow to break them

1542
01:12:19,479 --> 01:12:22,519
Speaker 2: all down. Email us your questions probably get to Beach

1543
01:12:22,520 --> 01:12:25,800
Speaker 2: Step in either tomorrow or Thursday, so send in your

1544
01:12:25,880 --> 01:12:27,800
Speaker 2: NBA or your non NBA questions to No Dunks at

1545
01:12:27,840 --> 01:12:29,320
Speaker 2: the Athletic dot Com. You can hit us up on

1546
01:12:29,320 --> 01:12:32,599
Speaker 2: Twitter at No dunk Sinc. Or you can always drop

1547
01:12:32,640 --> 01:12:36,400
Speaker 2: your questions in the comments below the YouTube vid. And finally,

1548
01:12:36,400 --> 01:12:38,479
Speaker 2: go grab yourself an athletic subscription. Go to the Athletic

1549
01:12:38,560 --> 01:12:41,960
Speaker 2: dot com slash No Dunks. All right, boys, fun show.

1550
01:12:42,240 --> 01:12:44,280
Speaker 2: We will see you guys soon. Till then, Clipper bros.

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Speaker 5: You heard it here first, have a great time, turn up,

1552
01:12:47,439 --> 01:12:48,679
Speaker 5: love you guys awesome.

1553
01:12:49,439 --> 01:12:52,519
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us, and remember listen to No Ducks.

1554
01:12:52,960 --> 01:12:54,120
Speaker 1: It slaps.

1555
01:12:56,439 --> 01:12:58,280
Speaker 2: Praise the day people you.

1556
01:12:58,600 --> 01:13:06,879
Speaker 6: Say every day and that you happy every minute.

1557
01:13:08,800 --> 01:13:12,439
Speaker 2: It's been so long that you're the fun of waiting for.

1558
01:13:14,439 --> 01:13:15,600
Speaker 5: It's happened already.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be gravy