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Speaker 1: Good morning, SWEETERLD and welcome to the No Dunks podcast

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Speaker 1: on the Athletic Network. It's Monday, December twenty sixth, twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two. Happy Boxing Day to all of our Canadian fans,

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Speaker 1: big box fans up in Canada. I'm j E. Skeis

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Speaker 1: here in the yard, and alongside me, thanks to the

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Speaker 1: power of technology, is.

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Speaker 2: Tas Mos podcast listeners. This is most likely for you.

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Speaker 2: Most likely we'll be flipped into a pod. YouTube viewers,

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Speaker 2: this is definitely for you.

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Speaker 1: Yes, that is the plan.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: We were saying all last week, Okay, on the twenty sixth,

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Speaker 1: we'll jump on stream. We'll maybe do a YouTube show.

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Speaker 1: We won't flip it into a pod because no JD

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Speaker 1: no TK. Hell, we gave Jerome the day off, but

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Speaker 1: then Jerome said, you know what, record your files, send

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Speaker 1: them to me. I'll step away from the family for

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Speaker 1: thirty to forty five minutes, however long it takes them

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Speaker 2: And I say, you're in the streams, I see your

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Speaker 2: home in the streams already jump in And yesterday the

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Speaker 2: basketball made it easier I think to jump on today. Skeets,

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Speaker 2: what do you mean I think the quality of ball,

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Speaker 2: just the excitement.

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Speaker 1: All right, it was a good day. I thought it

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Speaker 1: was a good day. I mean it ended with a bang,

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Speaker 1: that's for sure. It went into Boxing day if you

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Speaker 1: were on the East Coast. Yeah, we're gonna break it

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Speaker 1: all down here. Shout out to the stream team. Joining

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Speaker 1: Our goal now sixty k by All Star Weekend in

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Speaker 1: doing a live show. Let's just speak that into existence.

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Speaker 1: It's been a while since we did one of those

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Speaker 1: Chicago All Star Weekend in fact, twenty twenty.

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Speaker 2: Is that right, That's right.

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Speaker 1: It'll be three years if we can make one happen

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Speaker 1: in Salt Lake City for All Star Weekend. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: comments to no Dunks at the Athletic dot Com. The

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Speaker 1: plan here very simple, you know, bare bones. I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to produce in the background here with my man task.

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Speaker 1: But we're talking about all five Christmas Day games, and

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Speaker 1: I thought, look, we could just jump on here tasks

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Speaker 1: and just talk about them, give our takeaways and all that,

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Speaker 1: and share some larfs. But I came up with a

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Speaker 1: new system to sort of grade these and I'm going

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Speaker 1: to present it to everybody here on YouTube. It is

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Speaker 1: the Christmas Gift rating Scale. So how does this work? Well,

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Speaker 1: if you thought the game was brutal, that's a level

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Speaker 1: one one being bad here, of course, that's basically like

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Speaker 1: getting a lump of coal.

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Speaker 2: Okay, not Cole Anthony, No, actually.

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Speaker 1: Straight up straight up coal in your stocking because Santa

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Speaker 1: thought you were a bad bad boy. Level two the

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Speaker 1: game you thought it was fine? Yeah, man, you know, okay,

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Speaker 1: still basketball, but nothing crazy. That to me is like

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Speaker 1: getting It's especially like socks and underwear. It's like as

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Speaker 1: just quality. I thought books as a gift as a child,

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, I don't.

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Speaker 1: Socks and underwear as a kid. Task Mills was not

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Speaker 2: You right now, but I've been wearing this Raptor sweater

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Speaker 2: for literally thirty six hours straight that I'm wearing right now,

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Speaker 2: so that's true. I guess I've changed since I was a.

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Speaker 1: Gift level four, very entertaining game. Okay. I thought that

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Speaker 1: Christmas gift reading skill, it's a classic the game itself,

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Speaker 1: twelve o'clock start. Twelve o'clock start. Yeah, right, what was it?

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Speaker 2: Level I'm going video games? And maybe it's low expectations

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Speaker 2: And really what it comes down to is the fourth

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Speaker 2: But this is George Niang getting placed essentially called for him.

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Speaker 2: When Harden and Embiid, you'd see them every single possession,

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Speaker 2: usually pick and roll. Here we go. But Embiid knew

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Speaker 2: that George Nang was so hot. He was coming down

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Speaker 2: said you you, sir, fourth quarter Christmas Day, you come

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Speaker 2: George Nyang gang came through. My family that I was

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Speaker 2: George Niang and I had the you know, the story

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Speaker 2: went deep into the George Niang conversation that I with you.

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Speaker 2: We called the the d League Showcase. We announced the

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Speaker 2: I'm going deepte. But that dude just getting the most

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Speaker 2: Shout up to Rich Hofman on the Athletic who pointed

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Speaker 2: out that literally coming down to the floor, Joel Andby said,

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Speaker 2: got better in the second half. That's how good George.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Joel embiid Is. He got better. But I

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Speaker 2: just thought that the Knicks were doing a good job.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to go a level down from you. I

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Speaker 1: books category, but I'm like upgrading the books category to

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Speaker 1: Sports Illustrated, you know, a year subscription for for Christmas.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty good. That's you know, it's again it's a

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Speaker 1: a fun, fun toy, but you know that's coming every month.

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Speaker 1: And I was a huge sports fan, So that's where

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Speaker 1: I'm going. Just a brutal fourth quarter for the Knicks, though,

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Speaker 1: You said a lot of it in Yang because the Knicks, wisely,

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Speaker 1: So fun game, good start to the day. I thought

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Speaker 1: And it's in Madison Square Guarden too, so the crowd

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Speaker 1: twenty sixth combined free throw attempts for Harden and Embid

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Speaker 1: them the way they're playing right now too. Em beads

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Speaker 2: and yeah, the Anthony Melton and the George Niang gang

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Speaker 2: hitting six shots in this game to come out and

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Speaker 2: bad you mentioned John Brunson going out of the game.

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Speaker 2: He basically gave away the game against the Bulls on

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Speaker 2: and tamorw hit it right in Quentin Grime's eye. So

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Speaker 2: Man, I like it. That's cool. It's cool that they

430
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Speaker 2: didn't force it upon us and say, hey, we did

431
00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:57,879
Speaker 2: that on purpose. Even though they did it on purpose,

432
00:21:57,960 --> 00:21:58,320
Speaker 2: I'm sure.

433
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Speaker 1: Well, and the fade away right, yeah.

434
00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:06,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Christian Wood, Christian Wood is has been big

435
00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:08,720
Speaker 2: entering the starting lineup for them. They have to because

436
00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:15,440
Speaker 2: even though Dwight Powell is promising and and Max Cleeve

437
00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:17,720
Speaker 2: is out, Javai McGee just out of the rotation there

438
00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:20,440
Speaker 2: they're offseason signing, Christian Wood has to come up big

439
00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:24,119
Speaker 2: and he has been. Jason Kidd has been pressing the

440
00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:28,240
Speaker 2: right buttons, that's for sure. And uh what thirty eight

441
00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:32,240
Speaker 2: and seven as you mentioned in his Christmas Day debut,

442
00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:35,320
Speaker 2: there's only three other players to have those numbers in

443
00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:39,800
Speaker 2: their Christmas Day debut. Wow, those are big numbers.

444
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Speaker 1: Can I can. I guess yeah, maybe.

445
00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:49,560
Speaker 2: No, we just the statue is one surprising Dirk, Yeah,

446
00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:53,480
Speaker 2: thirty eight seven assists for Dirk. That's kind of surprising.

447
00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:55,920
Speaker 2: And then a big man and a point guard who

448
00:22:56,040 --> 00:23:02,320
Speaker 2: known for his triple doubles. So kid, no, no, way back,

449
00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:06,160
Speaker 2: way back, way back, triple double man Robert Yeah, yeah ok.

450
00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:09,119
Speaker 2: And then a big man surprised, very surprising to have

451
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:12,520
Speaker 2: seven asis scoring. Of course, he was probably that Christmas

452
00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:15,520
Speaker 2: Day leader for a while, one of the greats.

453
00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,320
Speaker 1: Oh look either Kareem or.

454
00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:19,280
Speaker 2: Kareem Kareem Kareem.

455
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Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, there go, those are numbers Christian would on

456
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Speaker 1: that list. Yes, that was Christmas Debuts.

457
00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:28,720
Speaker 2: Christmas Day debuts thirty eight seven, only the fourth player

458
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Speaker 2: in NBA history to go to go thirty five and five.

459
00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:32,040
Speaker 2: So big numbers.

460
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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, our next game here, third game. You know,

461
00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,520
Speaker 1: some people start to get a little tired, but we

462
00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:40,560
Speaker 1: had this one circled like this was the game that

463
00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:43,199
Speaker 1: a lot of people were pumped up about. And in

464
00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:46,000
Speaker 1: the end it turned into a bit of a yawner

465
00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:48,960
Speaker 1: because the Celtics crushed the Bucks Tatum with forty one

466
00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:52,240
Speaker 1: massive third quarter for him. Brown in the fourth quarter

467
00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:55,040
Speaker 1: was money. They pushed back on Gianni. Still there were

468
00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:58,679
Speaker 1: some fireworks. Bucks win one. Excuse me, Celtics win one.

469
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:04,719
Speaker 1: What level does task Milliss? What gift does he give it?

470
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,360
Speaker 2: The eggnog has worn off? I can't I can't even

471
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:10,359
Speaker 2: go video games level on this one. It was just

472
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:12,960
Speaker 2: too much of a blowt So we will I'll go

473
00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:18,360
Speaker 2: with the the books. The level of books. Yeah, gorgeous,

474
00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:23,640
Speaker 2: mid tier three out of five. Obviously, Tatum was ridiculous,

475
00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:28,359
Speaker 2: and it's hard, it's it's hard to even, you know,

476
00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:31,000
Speaker 2: knock it down a level just because of what Tatum

477
00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:33,800
Speaker 2: was doing out there, and the dunk on yn Is

478
00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:37,600
Speaker 2: in the first half, which it kind of peaked the

479
00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:39,280
Speaker 2: game to me, sort of peaked then. And I know

480
00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:42,159
Speaker 2: Jalen Brown finished it off in the fourth quarter. He

481
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:44,600
Speaker 2: had a great night in the first and the fourth quarters.

482
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:47,800
Speaker 2: And and that was the debate going on around the

483
00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:51,800
Speaker 2: couch was that Tatum is unlike a lot of superstars

484
00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:54,080
Speaker 2: in the NBA where he can allow another guy to

485
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:58,520
Speaker 2: sort of be the superstar. Yeah, it got to that

486
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:01,560
Speaker 2: barbershop level the living room where it was like, what

487
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:08,000
Speaker 2: can Tatum have another superstar beside him? Absolutely and then

488
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:10,200
Speaker 2: Jalen Brown did it in the fourth quarter. It put

489
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:12,600
Speaker 2: the Bucks away. And then there was the yeah, the

490
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:15,320
Speaker 2: quick elbow from Jannis and Thanasis, who's always going to

491
00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:18,439
Speaker 2: be there stepping up for his bro. But that Tatum

492
00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 2: dunk was was monstrous, and Tatum jumping ahead if he

493
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:29,320
Speaker 2: already wasn't. Uh, this solidified him as the MVP front

494
00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:31,800
Speaker 2: runner with what they did to the Milwaukee Bucks because

495
00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:33,480
Speaker 2: it felt like the Bucks were coming on. It was

496
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:38,440
Speaker 2: disappointing that Chris Middleton wasn't playing again, and I think

497
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:40,960
Speaker 2: that's the worry for them going forward. If they're just

498
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 2: a little aged in the playoffs, a little too old,

499
00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:45,919
Speaker 2: I won't be able to play every game. So that

500
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 2: was a little disappointing, I think, which knocked it down

501
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:49,680
Speaker 2: the level. And then just the fact that it really

502
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,920
Speaker 2: was a blow and it was phenomenal from those two

503
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:58,280
Speaker 2: dudes putting together that combined effort, the forty one from

504
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:04,120
Speaker 2: Tatum and obviously seventy combined. Yeah said it's forty one

505
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:07,439
Speaker 2: twenty nine. They did a great job of slowing Giannis,

506
00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 2: That's that's for sure. That was also disappointing of how

507
00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:12,920
Speaker 2: how they really just held them in check even though

508
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:16,399
Speaker 2: it and box score is fine. It's good for you,

509
00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:19,160
Speaker 2: it's good for everybody. But still they slowed him down.

510
00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:21,600
Speaker 1: I don't want to derail the conversation here, but you

511
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:25,120
Speaker 1: said Tatum front runner for MVP. I thought you were

512
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:28,280
Speaker 1: going to say, maybe this game bump Tatum ahead of

513
00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:31,359
Speaker 1: Giannis in terms of seating at the MVP table, or

514
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:33,000
Speaker 1: if you want to talk about the old MVP letter,

515
00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:34,320
Speaker 1: But then you just went straight to the top.

516
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:37,040
Speaker 2: I went straight to this up. I don't want to

517
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 2: get to you, a guy that.

518
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Speaker 1: Had a pretty damn good game on Christmas Day later.

519
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:43,960
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, just the problem with the three peat,

520
00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:46,840
Speaker 2: even though they are the Nugs are now the one

521
00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:49,439
Speaker 2: seed in the West. It's not a one seed like

522
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:53,800
Speaker 2: the East is a one seed. But anyway, anyway, anyway, anyway,

523
00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:56,440
Speaker 2: it sucked. It was a blow up. That's, frankly what

524
00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:59,680
Speaker 2: it comes down to. But the Celtics showed you when

525
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:01,960
Speaker 2: they're in what they did to Drint in the playoffs

526
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,399
Speaker 2: last year, what they can do to the Greats, especially

527
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:08,800
Speaker 2: if they can focus in on one guy like they

528
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:10,679
Speaker 2: did in the postseason with Annis last year, who was

529
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 2: still good in that playoff series, but it just sucks

530
00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 2: that there's no Chris Middleton in this game.

531
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Speaker 1: To be honest, Yeah, I mean that's a damper for sure.

532
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,119
Speaker 1: I went level two, so I went close, but like

533
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:24,560
Speaker 1: maybe not socks or underwear, like something nice, like maybe

534
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,639
Speaker 1: like that sweater you're wearing, or even a jersey, Like

535
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:30,120
Speaker 1: some clothes can be good even when you're a kid.

536
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:34,119
Speaker 1: But it was Tatum season control in the third quarter.

537
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:36,919
Speaker 1: He plays really well if you check it too, against

538
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 1: other MVP candidates. He has some monster games this year

539
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 1: against all these other guys sitting at the MVB table

540
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 1: with them. But he had that twenty point third quarter,

541
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:46,439
Speaker 1: he said Brown in the fourth closing the door. It

542
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 1: was just crazy to see the Celtics, you know, once

543
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:53,000
Speaker 1: again catch fire from deep, because over the last two

544
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:56,360
Speaker 1: weeks that had left them during their one in five

545
00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:58,240
Speaker 1: stretch there where they were losing a bunch of games.

546
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,320
Speaker 1: The Celtics had the worst off in the league. And

547
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:05,480
Speaker 1: we're shooting something like twenty nine percent on open or

548
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:08,119
Speaker 1: wide open three pointers. And this was after that incredible

549
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:09,920
Speaker 1: start this season where they were the best offense we'd

550
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 1: ever seen. So yesterday they make eight threes in the

551
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 1: first quarter, including that heave by Sam Hawser at the end,

552
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:20,399
Speaker 1: finished nineteen to thirty nine from deep, and you know,

553
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:23,480
Speaker 1: that's when they are like, that's when they're almost unbeatable

554
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:26,919
Speaker 1: in my opinion, when they are hitting threes at that clip,

555
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:29,320
Speaker 1: that's just nuts. When you have a guy, especially taintunc

556
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:31,120
Speaker 1: and sort of can take over a game, Brown can

557
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:32,479
Speaker 1: do his part, and then just a bunch of three

558
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:36,160
Speaker 1: point shooting. But I also thought Jack Maloney of CBS

559
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 1: T has had a good point about how they approached

560
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 1: once again playing Giannis, and he said that Sunday's game

561
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 1: like that Christmas Day game. It almost looked like Game

562
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 1: eight of last year's second Round series because the Celtics

563
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 1: length and their physicality and just the depth of defenders

564
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:56,480
Speaker 1: that they can throw at Giannis to frustrate him a

565
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 1: little bit. Final box score is fine, you know, twenty

566
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:02,120
Speaker 1: seven nine three, but he went nine to twenty two

567
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 1: from the field, and he only made two shots in

568
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 1: the paint, and that is the number one thing, right,

569
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 1: He's like he's not living inside there because they have

570
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 1: the defenders and the game plan to keep them out

571
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 1: as much as possible. So a good job, and it

572
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:21,080
Speaker 1: was eerily reminiscent of last year's second round series and

573
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 1: to the point even where Middleton's not playing totally.

574
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:27,480
Speaker 2: Grant Williams said it's his favorite matchup by far in

575
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 2: the NBA. Try and they do. Grant Williams is not long,

576
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:34,239
Speaker 2: but he's obviously really physical and all the way down

577
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 2: the line, including Tatum, why I think he could he

578
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:39,760
Speaker 2: could be the MVP front runner. Just all those guys.

579
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 2: There's so many of them to throw out. I'm not

580
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 2: really concerned about the Bucks, though they have lost three

581
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:48,600
Speaker 2: in a row. I know there's people chatting like Swish

582
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 2: rivera here saying the Bucks got smacked by the Nets

583
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 2: and the Celtics. That's concerning. If there was another playmaker,

584
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:56,400
Speaker 2: if Chris Milton was there, I think it'd be far different.

585
00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 2: And it's a road trip and they are struggling. This

586
00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 2: is their first three game losing streak of the season.

587
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 2: But yeah, this looked good against the Nets. I think

588
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 2: it's just a taxing time. If you take a step

589
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 2: back and you look at the way Yannis is going

590
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 2: into the lane over and over and over and over

591
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 2: and over again a lot. I think, I think, year

592
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:22,600
Speaker 2: like year over year compared to last year, he probably

593
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 2: is a little bit more exhausted at this point of

594
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 2: the season. Without Chris Middleton there, I think he is

595
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 2: just playing ridiculously hard. That's what he does. So I

596
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 2: think it is a little bit taxing on the body,

597
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 2: and I'm a little bit concerned about that. And the

598
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,200
Speaker 2: game against the Cavs before that also part of this

599
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 2: three game losing streak. Also a very difficult team for

600
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 2: the Bucks to match up against. I would like Yannis

601
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,000
Speaker 2: is one of the best obviously, or the best, but

602
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 2: there are good teams that you know, match up with length,

603
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:57,240
Speaker 2: and you know, Jared Allen and Evan Mobley frontline is

604
00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:00,240
Speaker 2: pretty damn good. Even Kevin Love came in and played well.

605
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 2: So I'm not too concerned overall. But you know, I

606
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 2: think the same worries about them being a little bit older.

607
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 2: Chris Middleton can't be healthy. That's obviously a huge concern,

608
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 2: but overall, yeah, it's still going to be amazing.

609
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 1: I agree with that. But I will say I think

610
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 1: the Bucks maybe they're fans. They wouldn't be upset with

611
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 1: some other team knocking out the Celtics in a playoff series, right,

612
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 1: I think the Celtics are their number one most difficult matchup.

613
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,000
Speaker 1: I mean they do make life again. He had like

614
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,520
Speaker 1: forty point games in last year series. But they make

615
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 1: it tough, and they have a lot of defenders that

616
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 1: you know, you can keep them in check a little

617
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:39,520
Speaker 1: bit or at least put up like that Stan Van Gundy,

618
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 1: f and Wall. So yeah, they're hoping. I think Bucks fans,

619
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:49,239
Speaker 1: a Calves, you know, a sixers, whatever, can take care

620
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:52,200
Speaker 1: of the Celtics if possible for them, because that's a

621
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 1: It would be another hell of a series. I imagine

622
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 1: if the Buck Celtics fully healthy, went head to head.

623
00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 1: But man, it's not easy.

624
00:31:59,080 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 2: Yeah.

625
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 1: They make it very differ, especially when they hit the threes.

626
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Al Horford, as I said, Grant Williams, you know,

627
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:07,680
Speaker 2: loves that matchup coming off the bench. He came off

628
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 2: the bench with Robert Williams. So those two guys came

629
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 2: off the bench and they allowed Al Horford to sort

630
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:14,400
Speaker 2: of be the primary guy at the rim to start.

631
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 2: And he's just so smart. And I did find it

632
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:21,600
Speaker 2: interesting that they they'd bring Robert Williams off the bench

633
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 2: with all that length. Was that just he's not in

634
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 2: complete shape quite yet, Let's bring him off the bench

635
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:30,480
Speaker 2: or was it a Horford is just so damn good

636
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:32,480
Speaker 2: and we were so good in the postseason last year

637
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 2: with it. I don't know, they've they've got so many

638
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 2: good options. Really, that's yeah, that's that's the number one team,

639
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 2: even though you know, I'm a Calvs fan and the

640
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 2: and the Sixers in EMBIID would be a very fun

641
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 2: for Yiannis versus EMBIID. The Celtics just have so much length.

642
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:51,560
Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: Our fourth game, here's the Christmas Gift rating scale again

644
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Speaker 1: for everybody on YouTube. It is the uh Grizzlies and

645
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 1: Warriors game at eight pm Eastern. No Curry, of course,

646
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 1: but Jordan Poole's course. Thirty two Warriors beat the grizz

647
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 1: pretty handedly, though there were some you know, some trash

648
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 1: talking going on, tasks, a lot of technicals. These teams

649
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 1: maybe forming a little bit of a rivalry here, But

650
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 1: is it a rivalry if the other teams never won

651
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:20,640
Speaker 1: a title or even really gone all that deep? Who

652
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 1: knows what level do you give this one of the

653
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 1: Warriors taking care of.

654
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 2: The Grizzlies video games? Okay, because we like to pretend

655
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 2: that we should be in the NBA League Office scheduling

656
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 2: Christmas Day, and that's why we're not doing its skeets

657
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 2: a result like this one, because I thought it was

658
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 2: really good and we were obviously very worried without Steph

659
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 2: being in the lineup No Wiggins as well, that the

660
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 2: Warriors would be taken down by this team that really

661
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 2: wants to knock them off. But we're super excited for

662
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:51,520
Speaker 2: when it was on the Christmas Day schedule back in

663
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 2: the summer. Okay, perfect they met in the playoffs, the

664
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 2: Grizzlies are coming for the Warriors spot, and then disappointing,

665
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:01,960
Speaker 2: it's a roller a dip when when Steph is not

666
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 2: part of the game, and then what a performance though

667
00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 2: I would I have it up at that video game

668
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,680
Speaker 2: level just because it was this was an upset even

669
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Speaker 2: though the Warriors were at home.

670
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 1: Champions.

671
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they're their best player, maybe their second

672
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:21,759
Speaker 2: most important player in Wiggans not being there, and you're

673
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 2: getting performances from guys on two way contracts Ty Jerome

674
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:29,320
Speaker 2: Ti Jerome six straight points, really important fourteen off the

675
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:33,280
Speaker 2: bench for them. Their young guys played really really well

676
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 2: off the bench. In the three draft picks that are

677
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:40,880
Speaker 2: coming in Kuminga and Moses Moody hit big three in

678
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 2: the fourth when Jordan Poole was ejected from the basketball

679
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 2: game and they needed somebody to step up. Yeah, ten

680
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:51,760
Speaker 2: minutes of no Steph, no Jordan Poole, no Andrew Wiggins,

681
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 2: and they were still able to hang on. And James

682
00:34:55,560 --> 00:35:00,319
Speaker 2: Wiseman eight minutes scoreless basketball, very good minutes. He really

683
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:03,319
Speaker 2: good defensively. He was just so so good there. He

684
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:05,279
Speaker 2: was just doing what they asked him to do. And

685
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 2: they bumped up the lead. Those starters, even though they're thin,

686
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 2: bumped up. I'm sorry the bench players bumped up the

687
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:15,000
Speaker 2: lead when the starters sat. And Yeah, the two things

688
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 2: that stick out to me, Jaron Jackson Junior got into

689
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 2: foul trouble and into the second half. It was the

690
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:24,839
Speaker 2: first play the second half, I do I do thick?

691
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 2: Where three fouls for Jaron Jackson Jr. He comes out.

692
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:31,319
Speaker 2: Draymond Green is doing a standard dribble hand off. It

693
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:34,879
Speaker 2: looks like but he saw Jaron Jackson Junior reach out

694
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:38,839
Speaker 2: and the vet went right into that arm and got

695
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 2: the fourth foul on Jaron Jackson Junior. He throws up

696
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:43,680
Speaker 2: the four to the Grizzlies bench. What are you gonna

697
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 2: do fourth foul. That was pretty cool. The young athletic

698
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:50,440
Speaker 2: dudes going up against the wise old vets, the wiley

699
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:53,399
Speaker 2: old vets, and forget about the wiley old vets. Jordan

700
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 2: Poole is phenomenal to watch. I know, it was fun

701
00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 2: watching Tatum and Giannis and Luca and I'll get to

702
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 2: the joker obviously, even the Aaron Gordon jam But Judy

703
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:06,840
Speaker 2: Pool's kind of one of a kind. Is he's different

704
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 2: than Steph. I think it's just the way that the backcuts,

705
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 2: the floaters, the mid rangers, the step back threes. He's

706
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,360
Speaker 2: just got that flair and that was that was really fun.

707
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:18,479
Speaker 2: His performance was great.

708
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna knock it down another level here, all right,

709
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 1: I'm going level three. I'm going books, but maybe like

710
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 1: a Choose your own adventure or something like that. Those

711
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:28,399
Speaker 1: were fun back in the day. It was like ten

712
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:33,040
Speaker 1: bucks in one. But the officiating was rough in this game.

713
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:34,919
Speaker 1: I mean it was, you know, I know, Grizzlies fans

714
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 1: were livid with the with the call they were getting,

715
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 1: and like you said, they got the officials a couple

716
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 1: of times on a couple Oh really, that's a tough one.

717
00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:44,759
Speaker 1: Jared Jackson Junior not playing a lot in this game,

718
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:47,800
Speaker 1: like being played with foul trouble. I thought, like completely

719
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:49,440
Speaker 1: changed the game. We know how important he is to

720
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:52,719
Speaker 1: that team. He only had eleven points, two blocks in

721
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:56,279
Speaker 1: twenty one minutes because he couldn't stay out there. But

722
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 1: you know it's a level three because there was spicy Yeah,

723
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,319
Speaker 1: Pool go and off you had. For all the talk

724
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:05,240
Speaker 1: about Kaminga and Moody and Wiseman like the young guys,

725
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:08,839
Speaker 1: it was Dante DiVincenzo who's playing really well for them

726
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 1: with nineteen points, hitting five threes and you already said

727
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 1: Ty Jerome six and nine from the field. So it

728
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:17,360
Speaker 1: was those guys really helping out Clay and Draymond like

729
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:20,320
Speaker 1: hilarious Draymond green line in this one. You know, great

730
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:22,760
Speaker 1: defense and not a lot of scoring, but doing everything

731
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:26,399
Speaker 1: else play making and rebounding and stuff like that. Yeah,

732
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:27,880
Speaker 1: it was fun. It was a fun game. We had

733
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 1: Pool getting tossed. We had Clay talking shit back to

734
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:33,759
Speaker 1: Dylan Brooks getting the taunting tech on that one. I

735
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:37,320
Speaker 1: do like that there's some animosity between these two teams,

736
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,800
Speaker 1: you know, the warrior side of things. Think you haven't

737
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 1: won anything, why do you keep talking and then the

738
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 1: young Grizzlies are like, We're coming for you. This this

739
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 1: is our moo. We play with this bravado. We talk

740
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:53,800
Speaker 1: a lot of shit. So that makes for a fun matchup.

741
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:55,880
Speaker 1: I mean, Draymond staring at Joahn Morant and all that

742
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:57,880
Speaker 1: after the block and stuff. It was good. It was

743
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:00,160
Speaker 1: a level three. Wasn't the best game of the day,

744
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:03,919
Speaker 1: but definitely not a dud. Nobody getting cold here yet.

745
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, the couple disappointing things on the Grizzly side. Obviously,

746
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 2: there was the John Morant line earlier in the week

747
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 2: about not being afraid of anyone in the West, not

748
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:19,360
Speaker 2: being concerned with anyone in the West, and then he

749
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:23,279
Speaker 2: did his part. Really, the disappointing part was besides his

750
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 2: thirty six, Desmond Bane was ice cold over seven from three.

751
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:31,319
Speaker 2: Jared Jackson Junior is supposed to be the other guy,

752
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:36,439
Speaker 2: couldn't play a lot. The Warriors obviously know that really

753
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:38,560
Speaker 2: helps them out. They as as much as we say

754
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:41,120
Speaker 2: they are a three point shooting team, and they absolutely are.

755
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 2: They like getting in the lane and they knew that

756
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:47,879
Speaker 2: Jaron Jackson Junior getting them getting him out of the game.

757
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:51,839
Speaker 2: He is unfortunately a bit foul prone in this. Yeah

758
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:54,800
Speaker 2: he's thinking about that right now. I'm sure just getting

759
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 2: in foul trouble because you're totally right. That changed the

760
00:38:57,080 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 2: game and the last thing. I kind of wanted jaw

761
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 2: to win on the day that his new shoes were announced.

762
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:07,399
Speaker 2: Those are nice, the Nike jaw one.

763
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 1: I like the look of those, very coolby like, but

764
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 1: they are. They're very nice, big fan of I forgot

765
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 1: to grab a photo of them for everybody here on YouTube,

766
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 1: but yeah, I like them at ones.

767
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he had a good game.

768
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 1: At least he had a good game in his new shoes. Also,

769
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Speaker 1: I got a little trivia question for you. I don't

770
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 1: know if you've heard me on the NBA Athletic Show.

771
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:32,560
Speaker 1: I made an appearance. I did a little trivia against

772
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Speaker 1: Andrew Schlecht. But okay, you didn't. No, Well, the Grizzlies.

773
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Speaker 1: I think I have this right. The Grizzlies are one

774
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Speaker 1: of three teams that have never won on Christmas Day.

775
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:52,720
Speaker 1: Do you know the other two teams?

776
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:53,879
Speaker 2: So have they?

777
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 1: I'm saying this slowly because right, okay, so one of

778
00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:01,279
Speaker 1: the other teams is zero for two on Christmas Day games,

779
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 1: and the other team hasn't played. Do you know the

780
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 1: team that hasn't played yet?

781
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:05,360
Speaker 2: Charlotte Charlotte Hornets.

782
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 1: Okay, so they're no. So they number won of course

783
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:09,879
Speaker 1: because they never played. Grizzlies are now oh in one

784
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:13,840
Speaker 1: because that was their first ever Christmas Day game? Do

785
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 1: you know the other team?

786
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 2: Tasks?

787
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: And I got it right when I was doing the

788
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 1: trivia on the podcast.

789
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Speaker 2: Is it Toronto Raptors?

790
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 1: It is the Toronto Raptors. Yeah. Twice have they ever

791
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:28,400
Speaker 1: played and they have not won a game on Christmas Day?

792
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 2: There. Yeah, so they only had one game post championship

793
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:33,920
Speaker 2: and then one game.

794
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Speaker 1: They played the Celtics and the Jaellen Brown kicked their

795
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:38,440
Speaker 1: ass in that one. And then they had one in

796
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 1: the Vince era. I don't know who they I can't

797
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:43,239
Speaker 1: remember who they played the Yeah, it feels like that.

798
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:45,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, that's a good one.

799
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Speaker 1: So we think that's right in fact check me if

800
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Speaker 1: you really want to. All right, final game. Yeah, here's

801
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:54,440
Speaker 1: the skill. I mean, are we going to get a

802
00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:57,160
Speaker 1: level five A big ticket item? Let's find out tas

803
00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:03,840
Speaker 1: melis the Joker Kitchen. The Nuggets out last the Suns

804
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:07,480
Speaker 1: in overtime. I will add Booker injured again pretty early

805
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:10,280
Speaker 1: in this game. What level? What gift does task millis

806
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 1: give this nightcap?

807
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:16,720
Speaker 2: Oh, this is the big ticket item package underneath the tree.

808
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:20,840
Speaker 2: This is the combination of video games and what you

809
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:24,480
Speaker 2: need video games to play or to play video games

810
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:28,240
Speaker 2: is a video game system. I mean a huge package. Yeah,

811
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:32,759
Speaker 2: montrous package. Doesn't get much better than that. Nuggets look

812
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:34,920
Speaker 2: like there's a chance that they could run away with

813
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 2: this game. With Devin Booker leaving four minutes in the

814
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 2: groin injury. Got that's that's worrisome for the Phoenix Suns.

815
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:44,799
Speaker 2: But come on with Landry Shammitt take it on the

816
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 2: Devin Booker roll and dropping thirty one with Booker down

817
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:54,080
Speaker 2: and getting performances from everybody. Damian Lee was big, Josha

818
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 2: Koji even his minutes beyond bo they just came together

819
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 2: along with Aydon who was really really solid. Twenty two

820
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 2: and sixteen. A phenomenal performance for the Suns. To take

821
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 2: it right into overtime. A little disappointing. I think that

822
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:09,799
Speaker 2: the Nuggets didn't put it away. If if you want

823
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:11,839
Speaker 2: to be from if you want to look at it

824
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:15,879
Speaker 2: with a you know, a critiquing eye, but at the

825
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:19,359
Speaker 2: same time. I was excited we got an overtime game

826
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:22,120
Speaker 2: to end it. Actually, I went to bed four games.

827
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Speaker 1: Wasn't enough that I watched this this morning?

828
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, I actually I woke up in the middle of

829
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:29,719
Speaker 2: the night. I woke up at three forty five, I think,

830
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:32,440
Speaker 2: and I thought I couldn't fall back asleep. I'm just

831
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 2: gonna do it right now. I opened the NBA app

832
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 2: at three forty five. I'm in bed and this stream

833
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:44,360
Speaker 2: had not ended. That's how long this game was. Like

834
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 2: they still had it going, like the game was over. Weird,

835
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:50,680
Speaker 2: the game was over off. Yeah, but I guess they're

836
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:53,880
Speaker 2: still editing. I think they because what I watch usually

837
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 2: is the All Possessions recap. It's yeah, it's forty two

838
00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:00,360
Speaker 2: minutes cut off the six minutes of guys bring it

839
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 2: up the ball, and that hadn't been edited to that point.

840
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:05,840
Speaker 2: So I had I'd come back in the app fifteen

841
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 2: minutes later. It was good to go. But yeah, I

842
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:12,920
Speaker 2: just watched yeah, because it was a long one, and

843
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 2: to to culminate with Aaron Gordon's jam, what that was?

844
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 2: That was cool. He got the runway, I mean, he

845
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 2: had a beautiful alley oop earlier. In the game.

846
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:27,239
Speaker 1: He had three great dunks in this game. He had

847
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:29,759
Speaker 1: the one where he caught the reversed alley oop off

848
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 1: like a slob the sidelines out of bounds play. But

849
00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 1: he had that huge roopie threw down like you said,

850
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:38,240
Speaker 1: uh was it? KCP through it like way too high

851
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 1: through to the mountaintops he went and got it. And

852
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:43,440
Speaker 1: then of course the dunk fast break dunk in overtime

853
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 1: originally called a charge My God banned the charge block

854
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:50,680
Speaker 1: and they looked at it and said, no, he just

855
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 1: just sort over This guy over sham it and nearly

856
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:56,359
Speaker 1: like you only killed him when he landed on him,

857
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:58,879
Speaker 1: I thought, But they counted it, so that wasn't done.

858
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:00,400
Speaker 1: Three amazing dunks from us.

859
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:03,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, kudos to the stream team coming through with the

860
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:06,879
Speaker 2: stat that I'm gonna confirm is correct because so many

861
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:10,880
Speaker 2: people are saying the same stat. Seven dunks overall for

862
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:16,760
Speaker 2: Aaron Gordon on Christmas Day. Yeah, culminating with that one

863
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:21,880
Speaker 2: obviously on Landry Shammitt, who I hate the charge block

864
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:25,440
Speaker 2: call on dunk situations like that. But that guy stepped

865
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 2: in on Aaron Gordon going full full steam from half

866
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:33,799
Speaker 2: gar and for him, I was just watching that for

867
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:36,239
Speaker 2: him just to take the knees in the chest and

868
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:38,560
Speaker 2: Aaron Gordon avoided it and you know, went to the

869
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:41,759
Speaker 2: side and shame it took the bront of it. You know,

870
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:43,960
Speaker 2: you kind of leaned in to try and get the

871
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,680
Speaker 2: call at a key time. But nice that it was

872
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:48,919
Speaker 2: overturned and a great game for Aaron Gordon. We're talking

873
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:52,759
Speaker 2: about the over the MVP race. Aaron Gordon playing the

874
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:55,600
Speaker 2: best basketball of his career, would not be upset if

875
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:58,320
Speaker 2: he's named an All Star. As the Nuggets propelled themselves

876
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:01,880
Speaker 2: here to the one seed. They've just steadily got themselves there.

877
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:06,719
Speaker 2: And now that Michael Porter Junior is back, so the

878
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:09,120
Speaker 2: scoring should be there. Jamal Murray should be coming along.

879
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 2: KCP had a good game. Even though they are a

880
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:16,400
Speaker 2: little thinned off the bench. They only played you know,

881
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:18,920
Speaker 2: nine guys essentially eight and a half guys in this game.

882
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:21,880
Speaker 2: Their starters are still good enough. They still have one

883
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:25,399
Speaker 2: of the best starting units. It's it's the five man

884
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 2: lineup that I mentioned there is fourth best in the NBA.

885
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 2: Only the Warriors, Celtics and Bucks have better five man units.

886
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:38,959
Speaker 2: So they are tough to deal with. And Michael Porter

887
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 2: junior coming back, Yeah, should strengthen them. Maybe not defensively

888
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:45,200
Speaker 2: all the time. But Aaron Gorton just coming out of

889
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:48,520
Speaker 2: the gate man playing great defense. He's just he's just

890
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:51,759
Speaker 2: so so important to this team. But a great game

891
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:54,160
Speaker 2: you got. You gotta go top of the charts with

892
00:45:54,239 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 2: this one.

893
00:45:54,719 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 1: Even Scrooge Skeets has to give this a level five

894
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 1: Christmas Day class, especially being the nightcap, even though I

895
00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:04,920
Speaker 1: watched it in the morning. The big ticket item for me,

896
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:08,319
Speaker 1: you know, a basketball net was great. If you got

897
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:11,640
Speaker 1: the giant dollhouse, if you got yeah, like a video

898
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:13,920
Speaker 1: game system. You know, maybe not the biggest of boxes,

899
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:16,800
Speaker 1: but still an awesome gift. How about the GT snow

900
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 1: Racer test?

901
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:18,800
Speaker 2: Oh that one?

902
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:22,360
Speaker 1: Oh man, wasn't that a beauty gift? Remember the GT

903
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:26,080
Speaker 1: snow Racer. It's like that that hard plastic seat with

904
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 1: that one like ski at the front of it, and

905
00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:31,520
Speaker 1: you can just rip down those hills in Canada, go

906
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:34,359
Speaker 1: off ramps and just destroy your ass when you would

907
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:37,279
Speaker 1: like smack into the season. Like those would always get

908
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:39,920
Speaker 1: broken too, like the one ski on the front. Oh man,

909
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 1: I don't know they still make those those legal.

910
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:47,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, we saw saw some some friends, got their kids,

911
00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:52,759
Speaker 2: the Gnocers. Yeah, they're still alive, They're still kicking. Yeah,

912
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:53,239
Speaker 2: I love it.

913
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:56,440
Speaker 1: But we've gone this long without saying Yokich's line here too.

914
00:46:56,440 --> 00:47:00,520
Speaker 1: In this game, I mean, yeah, ag awesome. Murray had

915
00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:02,480
Speaker 1: a big donk to even get us into overtime. But

916
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:06,719
Speaker 1: ye'll Kitch had forty one points, fifteen boards, and fifteen assists. Everything,

917
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:10,239
Speaker 1: every single possession goes through this guy. It's only the

918
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:14,400
Speaker 1: fourth forty point, fifteen rebound, fifteen assist game in NBA history.

919
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:19,200
Speaker 1: Forget Christmas Day history. Oscar Robertson did it twice in

920
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:21,600
Speaker 1: the sixties and James Harden did it in twenty sixteen.

921
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:25,080
Speaker 1: Now You'll Kich has done it. Like we remember, we

922
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:27,920
Speaker 1: were like wondering coming into these Christmas Day games on

923
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:31,400
Speaker 1: Friday's Drop podcast, Like if yokicch has another one of

924
00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:34,319
Speaker 1: these like Wilt like monster lines and they win, maybe

925
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:38,120
Speaker 1: it's a close game, Like, is there is the support

926
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:41,719
Speaker 1: there for a back to back to back MVP. Will

927
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:45,520
Speaker 1: he be in the middle of the MVP table and

928
00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:47,319
Speaker 1: will some other people get on board. I know other

929
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:49,480
Speaker 1: people are already saying yeah, yeah, absolutely is the front

930
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:54,640
Speaker 1: runner right now, But will other people. I have to

931
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 1: argue man being the number one seed in the West

932
00:47:56,960 --> 00:48:00,200
Speaker 1: and these stupid stat lines. I mean, if there's there

933
00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:02,240
Speaker 1: at the end, if there is fifty five to sixty

934
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:05,439
Speaker 1: one team and they're number one, I'm not sure how

935
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:07,160
Speaker 1: I can't win it. I honestly don't see how you

936
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:08,520
Speaker 1: couldn't give it to him.

937
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:12,080
Speaker 2: I would not be met if Nicola okicch being the

938
00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:16,319
Speaker 2: centerpiece for that team being as banged up as they

939
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:19,359
Speaker 2: were to start the season, and that includes Jamal Murray

940
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:21,960
Speaker 2: coming back, and for him to propel this team to

941
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 2: the one seed, it is definitely theirs to lose. At

942
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:26,600
Speaker 2: the top of the Western Conference. That one seed is

943
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 2: theirs to lose. They should, after dealing with all these injuries,

944
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:32,000
Speaker 2: be up there. And if Yo kich is up there,

945
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:36,240
Speaker 2: you know that is a bit of a different narrative.

946
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:39,279
Speaker 2: The fact that they would win the one seed would

947
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:42,799
Speaker 2: be different than his previous MVP runs where he was

948
00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:46,959
Speaker 2: the sixth seed last season, So there's that. I will

949
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:52,760
Speaker 2: say the Celtics should have a pretty good gap between

950
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:54,920
Speaker 2: them and the Nuggets if they keep this up, because

951
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 2: the West is just so jam packed, or it's not

952
00:48:57,719 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 2: a huge gap but it's a gap. I think that's

953
00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 2: can be part of the Tatum narrative where they've got

954
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:06,239
Speaker 2: the best record in the NBA, and I think it

955
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:09,000
Speaker 2: will go to a one seed this year, whether it's

956
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:11,239
Speaker 2: the Nuggets or the Celtics. I think we're going to

957
00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:15,120
Speaker 2: swing back from just like what happened with Westbrook. The

958
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:17,680
Speaker 2: same thing happened when Harden got it the next year

959
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:20,440
Speaker 2: with the Rockets. It went from six to one. I

960
00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:23,320
Speaker 2: guess the seeds were if I'm correct, from six seeded

961
00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:25,640
Speaker 2: Thunder to the one seed Rockets. It'll go from the

962
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 2: six seed Nuggets to either the one seeded Nuggets or

963
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:33,080
Speaker 2: the one seeded Celtics. But dude is so fun to watch.

964
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:36,759
Speaker 2: I know we always say it, but the athleticism is there.

965
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:40,200
Speaker 2: You know, he looks it looks as fast as he's

966
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:44,280
Speaker 2: ever looked, and the way he gets into sets, and

967
00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:47,040
Speaker 2: he's obviously looks as good as he's ever looked pregame

968
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:50,920
Speaker 2: with the suits that he's rocking every single night, it

969
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:55,120
Speaker 2: looks great. He's wearing the sort of those those hot flowers.

970
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:56,839
Speaker 2: I don't know what else to call it, but like

971
00:49:56,880 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 2: the red you know, the red and black suit. It's

972
00:50:01,239 --> 00:50:03,480
Speaker 2: not like a I don't know what even to call it.

973
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:05,160
Speaker 2: You know, you know it when you see it.

974
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:06,960
Speaker 1: I know what you're talking about. I don't know what

975
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:08,200
Speaker 1: to call it either. We need trn care Me to

976
00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:08,680
Speaker 1: help us those.

977
00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 2: It's not a barke. I don't know what the hell

978
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:13,320
Speaker 2: it's called. But anyway, that's beautiful.

979
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:15,880
Speaker 1: Monster line from the Big Honey. Is he your MVP

980
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:18,480
Speaker 1: front runner right now? Is it Tatum? Is it honest?

981
00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:21,279
Speaker 1: Is it KD? I guess is it in bed for

982
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:24,520
Speaker 1: crying out loud? It's crowded at the table. Let us

983
00:50:24,560 --> 00:50:26,560
Speaker 1: know here in the stream team. But that's your Christmas

984
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:30,920
Speaker 1: Day recap, So I mean, in the end, Tass Mellows

985
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:33,600
Speaker 1: was handing. You were handing out video games and big

986
00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:37,640
Speaker 1: ticket items left and right. Really no duds, according.

987
00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:40,359
Speaker 2: To no duds, which which was good.

988
00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:43,960
Speaker 1: You know, I was a little harsher on my grading scale,

989
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:46,520
Speaker 1: but I'm not going to push back that much. I

990
00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:48,359
Speaker 1: was entertained for a good chunk of the day. Even

991
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:50,120
Speaker 1: then when I started getting super tired at the end

992
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:52,520
Speaker 1: and knew I didn't have I knew I couldn't fully

993
00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:55,799
Speaker 1: invest into the Sun's nuggets. So I was like, it's

994
00:50:55,840 --> 00:50:58,560
Speaker 1: better off. If I go to bed and really engage

995
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:01,280
Speaker 1: with it in the morning, I was happy I did banger.

996
00:51:01,640 --> 00:51:05,440
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, well let's call it there, simple as that. Guys,

997
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:08,160
Speaker 1: like I said, our guy Jerome gonna try and flip

998
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:10,440
Speaker 1: this into a podcast. So hello to everybody listening. Leave

999
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 1: your boys a five star rating and review. How many

1000
00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:15,399
Speaker 1: other NBA podcasts are coming at you on Boxing Day

1001
00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:18,880
Speaker 1: in Canada. I know we're not in Canada, but I

1002
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 1: mean it's a It's some people in Canada think Boxing

1003
00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:27,560
Speaker 1: Day is the number one holiday above Christmas, Easter, Halloween,

1004
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:34,280
Speaker 1: Canada's day Boxing Day. We love boxes everyone. You go around,

1005
00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:36,960
Speaker 1: you give your boxes to everybody, your favorite box.

1006
00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:38,040
Speaker 2: That's how you do.

1007
00:51:38,239 --> 00:51:40,440
Speaker 1: And then you sometimes throw on some gloves and kick

1008
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:41,640
Speaker 1: the shit out of each other. It's a lot of

1009
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:44,800
Speaker 1: fun in Canada. So happy Boxing Date everybody in Canada.

1010
00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:46,759
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us on the stream team. We love

1011
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:48,680
Speaker 1: to see it. Hit the like button, make sure you subscribe.

1012
00:51:48,719 --> 00:51:52,239
Speaker 1: Let's get to sixty k by SLC. Lots of games

1013
00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:55,120
Speaker 1: on tonight. Enjoy the basketball. So here's the plan for us.

1014
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:58,040
Speaker 1: We're taking the rest of the week off. Are you

1015
00:51:58,080 --> 00:51:58,960
Speaker 1: going to Alabama?

1016
00:51:59,120 --> 00:51:59,840
Speaker 2: That's what's happening.

1017
00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:02,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, did I see that right in the calendar? I

1018
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:03,680
Speaker 1: was like, what damn right?

1019
00:52:04,080 --> 00:52:07,359
Speaker 2: Felt good? Good road in there, felt great to throw

1020
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:11,720
Speaker 2: in tasks off Bracket Alabama.

1021
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:13,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's going on there?

1022
00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:17,320
Speaker 2: Going to the Rocket Center? Uh? Yeah, we love rockets

1023
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:18,000
Speaker 2: around here.

1024
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:18,440
Speaker 1: Are you really?

1025
00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:20,680
Speaker 2: Yeah? Oh cool? Yeah? Greaty.

1026
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:22,239
Speaker 1: Hey, make sure you drive the right way. Do you

1027
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:24,600
Speaker 1: want me to come up? So make sure you get there.

1028
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:27,240
Speaker 2: One road, it's pretty easy.

1029
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:28,279
Speaker 1: That's our favorite road.

1030
00:52:29,239 --> 00:52:33,719
Speaker 2: It's twenty right, Yeah, well that's what some say.

1031
00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:37,719
Speaker 1: It's twenty West. We think.

1032
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:39,399
Speaker 2: Anyway, let's take the week off.

1033
00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:43,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're taking the week off. Look, if something crazy happens,

1034
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:46,120
Speaker 1: if James Harden decides he wants to go back to

1035
00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:49,279
Speaker 1: the Houston Rockets, and yeah, I'll be right away there. Look,

1036
00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:51,480
Speaker 1: we'll jump on, I'll jump on. I'm not going up

1037
00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:53,720
Speaker 1: to Canada or anything. I'll be here in Atlanta. But unless

1038
00:52:53,719 --> 00:52:56,560
Speaker 1: something crazy happens, that's it for the rest of the

1039
00:52:56,600 --> 00:52:58,760
Speaker 1: week for No Dunks. We'll have some fun YouTube shorts

1040
00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:00,640
Speaker 1: that we're going to be dropping all week, so make

1041
00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:02,800
Speaker 1: sure you go check those out. But we'll be back

1042
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:07,440
Speaker 1: with the whole crew actually in theory, back in the

1043
00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:12,120
Speaker 1: Classic Factory on Monday, January second. I think JD will

1044
00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:14,759
Speaker 1: be back from Europe. Pretty sure TK will be back

1045
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:18,360
Speaker 1: from Chicago, and of course we'll be here in the

1046
00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:20,040
Speaker 1: in the South all together.

1047
00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:22,280
Speaker 2: In the Classic Factory. Yeah, and we'll be We drop

1048
00:53:22,320 --> 00:53:25,880
Speaker 2: in some social videos this week, some good social videos

1049
00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:29,200
Speaker 2: every single day this week. So check out every single

1050
00:53:29,239 --> 00:53:31,960
Speaker 2: platform where we make it. We make our magic tic

1051
00:53:32,080 --> 00:53:37,520
Speaker 2: Tac instagrams on YouTube, with our YouTube shorts on Twitter obviously, so.

1052
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:41,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, follow no ducks across all the social media platforms

1053
00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:44,160
Speaker 1: and we'll yeah drop some fun little videos for you

1054
00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:47,640
Speaker 1: all week long. All right, let's call it there, Tassie.

1055
00:53:47,719 --> 00:53:49,799
Speaker 1: Great to see you. How was your Christmas? By the way,

1056
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:52,040
Speaker 1: was what was the big ticket item for you yesterday?

1057
00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:53,960
Speaker 1: Would you get anything?

1058
00:53:54,239 --> 00:53:55,359
Speaker 2: No?

1059
00:53:55,719 --> 00:53:57,040
Speaker 1: Any dad doesn't get anything.

1060
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:00,000
Speaker 2: Did I get anything?

1061
00:54:00,600 --> 00:54:01,719
Speaker 1: Yeah?

1062
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:04,440
Speaker 2: Holdly, you tell me what you got first before I

1063
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:05,840
Speaker 2: try and recall with I'll.

1064
00:54:05,640 --> 00:54:09,279
Speaker 1: Tell you what I got. I got some clothes, ye,

1065
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 1: which was some nice like Columbia sort of like you know,

1066
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:17,000
Speaker 1: pull over sort of zip up sweater type things outerwear.

1067
00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:17,359
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1068
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:19,279
Speaker 1: I'm maybe doing some hiking here in the in the

1069
00:54:19,480 --> 00:54:21,640
Speaker 1: in the coming new year, so I need some layers.

1070
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:24,360
Speaker 1: So I got that. I got new wallet that was big.

1071
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:27,239
Speaker 1: Not sure how I feel about it though, You know,

1072
00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:30,680
Speaker 1: like get so used to your wal the size of it,

1073
00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:33,360
Speaker 1: the feel of it, and then you then you pivot

1074
00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:34,960
Speaker 1: to a new one. It takes I feel like it

1075
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:37,640
Speaker 1: takes weeks or months to realize that this is my wallet.

1076
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:43,160
Speaker 1: Is my I got that and a couple other things,

1077
00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:44,000
Speaker 1: but nothing crazy.

1078
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:47,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I got nothing actually, but congrats on the wallet.

1079
00:54:47,760 --> 00:54:50,520
Speaker 1: I don't believe you got nothing like nine.

1080
00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:54,000
Speaker 2: Sure because it and I definitely didn't open anything yesterday.

1081
00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:56,920
Speaker 2: I may have got like a pre Christmas gift last

1082
00:54:56,960 --> 00:55:01,600
Speaker 2: week that's obviously not that memorable. But wow, yeah, right

1083
00:55:01,640 --> 00:55:02,000
Speaker 2: with you.

1084
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:04,600
Speaker 1: Something I'm gonna show up on Monday, January second, or

1085
00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:05,120
Speaker 1: something for you?

1086
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:07,600
Speaker 2: Okay, go to a BUCkies for me?

1087
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:10,480
Speaker 1: Which is the you're the one going to bail?

1088
00:55:10,880 --> 00:55:13,200
Speaker 2: I know, well I'm not going unfortunately, I'm not going

1089
00:55:13,239 --> 00:55:16,000
Speaker 2: in that direction. So yeah. So it's a gas station

1090
00:55:16,120 --> 00:55:19,360
Speaker 2: with the biggest gas stations in America. But they have

1091
00:55:19,520 --> 00:55:23,120
Speaker 2: good food and they have good snacks. It's just yeah,

1092
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:26,359
Speaker 2: it's just you come on a nice chopped sandwich. That's

1093
00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:29,040
Speaker 2: a great sandwich, more tasty. Yeah, it's just like when

1094
00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:31,960
Speaker 2: you're obviously it's like it's like a mirage in the

1095
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:34,160
Speaker 2: desert when you're on a road trip and everything is

1096
00:55:34,239 --> 00:55:37,000
Speaker 2: kind of bland and you see up BUCkies. Yeah, it's

1097
00:55:37,080 --> 00:55:39,759
Speaker 2: it's better than feel Yeah, it feels like better than

1098
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:42,920
Speaker 2: what it is. But uh still, I'll take anything from

1099
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:43,440
Speaker 2: a BUCkies.

1100
00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:47,680
Speaker 1: But okay, okay, go for d You want some beaver nuggets,

1101
00:55:47,680 --> 00:55:52,479
Speaker 1: is what you're saying. Yeah for sure, okay, all right, Well, hey, look,

1102
00:55:52,520 --> 00:55:55,200
Speaker 1: we sometimes put the peel box our address for no

1103
00:55:55,320 --> 00:55:58,239
Speaker 1: dunks in the comments underneath the video, so maybe send

1104
00:55:58,560 --> 00:55:59,680
Speaker 1: tesstmel Is beleated.

1105
00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:03,120
Speaker 2: Here. Here's my Christmas gift. Actually, Jerome put this together.

1106
00:56:03,560 --> 00:56:06,880
Speaker 2: We're showing you on YouTube my game. My game rating

1107
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:11,440
Speaker 2: based on my eggnog level. So my eggnog level was

1108
00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:13,520
Speaker 2: a two out of five for six ers nixt but

1109
00:56:13,560 --> 00:56:16,160
Speaker 2: my game rating was a four. My eggnog level was

1110
00:56:16,160 --> 00:56:20,080
Speaker 2: a five during Lakers mass. That is accurate. Yeah, for sure,

1111
00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:23,760
Speaker 2: game rating was a four. And then the eggnog started

1112
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:26,120
Speaker 2: to dry out. I didn't make enough in the Buck

1113
00:56:26,160 --> 00:56:29,600
Speaker 2: Celtics game. I was done. Oh yeah, the eggnog is done.

1114
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:34,480
Speaker 2: I got to make a video thinking thanking mark was good. Yeah,

1115
00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:37,640
Speaker 2: it was very good. It was a little little too thick,

1116
00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:40,960
Speaker 2: but that's my fault. It was more of a custard.

1117
00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:44,040
Speaker 2: Gotta be honest. And then because that's my fault, that's

1118
00:56:44,880 --> 00:56:47,560
Speaker 2: also my wife's fault. But anyway, because she was she

1119
00:56:47,640 --> 00:56:50,319
Speaker 2: was overseeing the process. She was she told me to

1120
00:56:50,560 --> 00:56:52,960
Speaker 2: put it back. I took it off the heat. She said, well,

1121
00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:54,759
Speaker 2: put it back on. Put it back on, and then

1122
00:56:55,760 --> 00:56:57,759
Speaker 2: it evaporated a bit, so it was a little thick.

1123
00:56:57,840 --> 00:57:02,280
Speaker 2: So thanks Jerome. Anyway, my last ratings, I'm so positive,

1124
00:57:02,440 --> 00:57:06,000
Speaker 2: no eggnog in the system. Grizzlies and Warriors four out

1125
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:08,319
Speaker 2: of five and then Suns Nuggets five out of five.

1126
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:09,960
Speaker 1: You were a positive people.

1127
00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:13,520
Speaker 2: Come on one of the best Christmas days, I think,

1128
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:14,560
Speaker 2: front to back.

1129
00:57:14,640 --> 00:57:17,680
Speaker 1: It's hard to really, it's tough to remember, but it

1130
00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:21,360
Speaker 1: feels like of recent ones. Yes, I don't know. Are

1131
00:57:21,360 --> 00:57:24,560
Speaker 1: we just prisoners on them? I don't know. I don't know.

1132
00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:27,280
Speaker 1: There are usually some dun though, Yeah, and at least

1133
00:57:27,280 --> 00:57:30,880
Speaker 1: that even the ones that were blowout yesterday, they were

1134
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:32,640
Speaker 1: like close enough for a good chunk of the game,

1135
00:57:32,920 --> 00:57:36,080
Speaker 1: or they hated each other, so there were some spice levels. Yeah,

1136
00:57:36,160 --> 00:57:38,000
Speaker 1: and there was big plays. No doubt we had some

1137
00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:42,800
Speaker 1: massive dunks yesterday, so yeah, you're probably right. I also

1138
00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:45,240
Speaker 1: was reminded, I don't know why, maybe when you were

1139
00:57:45,240 --> 00:57:49,640
Speaker 1: saying the eggnog. I did get some ice molds yesterday.

1140
00:57:49,960 --> 00:57:50,120
Speaker 2: Oh.

1141
00:57:51,240 --> 00:57:54,320
Speaker 1: I was pumped when I got this one ice bold task.

1142
00:57:55,520 --> 00:57:58,880
Speaker 1: It's like, uh, I mean, I mean, I usually don't

1143
00:57:58,880 --> 00:58:00,480
Speaker 1: care about this stuff all this much, but you know,

1144
00:58:00,520 --> 00:58:02,680
Speaker 1: I like, I like a whiskey late at night, right,

1145
00:58:02,760 --> 00:58:05,080
Speaker 1: throw it on the rocks. It like, it looks like

1146
00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:08,640
Speaker 1: it looks like a high end cocktail. Ice like it's

1147
00:58:08,680 --> 00:58:11,800
Speaker 1: like a prism. Put it in the mold, pop it out.

1148
00:58:11,920 --> 00:58:17,320
Speaker 1: It's beautiful. It looks so expensive it makes your whiskey bet.

1149
00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:20,080
Speaker 2: But it just costs. It costs the price of water.

1150
00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:23,479
Speaker 2: It's not that price, the price of the mold. Yeah,

1151
00:58:23,520 --> 00:58:25,160
Speaker 2: I would say that's a good. That's a good. Cast

1152
00:58:26,240 --> 00:58:29,800
Speaker 2: is free? Is it you pay for it? Man?

1153
00:58:29,960 --> 00:58:32,320
Speaker 1: Yeah? Anyway, I felt like my buddy Grish, I getting

1154
00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:34,720
Speaker 1: pumped out, pumped about ice. That guy loves ice more

1155
00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:37,240
Speaker 1: than anybody. That guy loves cam Reddish and ice more

1156
00:58:37,280 --> 00:58:40,200
Speaker 1: than anybody. Shout out to Grish. All right, let's call

1157
00:58:40,240 --> 00:58:42,800
Speaker 1: it there Clipper bros. You heard it here first. Have

1158
00:58:42,840 --> 00:58:45,520
Speaker 1: a great time turn up. Love you guys awesome.

1159
00:58:45,760 --> 00:58:50,240
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us, and remember loyalty never fades away

1160
00:58:50,520 --> 00:58:54,040
Speaker 2: unless it fades away. But they needed a saying for

1161
00:58:54,080 --> 00:58:57,840
Speaker 2: the statue, so loyalty never fades away. For Direk, no doubt,

1162
00:58:57,840 --> 00:59:00,600
Speaker 2: and hopefully for the mass fans for Luke as well.

1163
00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:03,960
Speaker 1: Guys, will see you on January second, back from the

1164
00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:07,400
Speaker 1: classic factory. Happy New Year, Embrace the day people,