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Speaker 2: Good morning, sweearl, and welcome to the No Dumps podcast

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Speaker 2: on the Athletic Network. It's Tuesday, January nineteenth. Thum J.

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Speaker 2: Skeet's rolling this morning with the bass Master, Ribond, M Lips,

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Speaker 2: Trey Kirby, hel Heyo. We got the international man of

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Speaker 2: last but not least, making the magic happen. It's JD. Hello,

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Speaker 2: there is, and here we are. I'm gonna save the

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Speaker 2: in to five games. One thing here. We got some

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Speaker 2: news as well, of course, have tweeted the night. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we're sharing some of our big takeaways from yesterday's MLK

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Speaker 2: Day slate of games. We'll get to at least five

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Speaker 2: one of the better games from the season. Let's be

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Speaker 2: Hold on, who's got the leaf blower blow? Oh? Hey, congrats, good.

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Speaker 1: Win, good Win, Lily. I think the leaf blowers must

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Speaker 1: be listening to the show, and they're like, I think

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Speaker 1: Ten? I three? Okay, and stop blowing right now for it.

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Speaker 2: Guys, you think the leaf Blowers are in the stream

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Speaker 1: It's it's too much of a coincidence that that that

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Speaker 2: Yes, Okay, well, congratulations on your wing. Usually Tray Turvey

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Speaker 1: Well, potential Eastern Conference final matchup, and it lived up

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Speaker 1: Nets defense of Yannis was largely like, we're going to

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Speaker 2: That's a great take. Yeah, like Lee said that that

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Speaker 2: Tasa is already counting his money, as you saw on

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Speaker 2: That's why they call him money mellis exactly exactly. I

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Speaker 3: a waste of Yannis's talent to be guarding Jeff Green

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you think about that Lee. I know

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Speaker 3: And that was the criticism of Jannis last year during

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Speaker 3: at the last five minutes. Giannis took one shot, it

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Speaker 3: That's it. He didn't do hardly anything the last five

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Speaker 3: He's just got to be better, because that is going

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Speaker 3: going to get to the next level. Jannis has been

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with that, and I could see why

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Speaker 2: with Tassie. Yeah money Melose is going to spend it

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, Kevin Durant had another chance to close

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Speaker 2: Middleton shot too close to going down. Oh yeah, not

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Speaker 2: bad about him taking that shot at all. Some of

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Speaker 2: But yeah, that final shot, man, it almost drops and

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Speaker 3: He went ten for twenty from the field, five of

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Speaker 3: bad shooting percentages from Chris Middleton. At this point, that

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Speaker 3: man was absolutely cooking. So yeah, he should get the shot.

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Speaker 3: There should just be a way that they can both

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Speaker 3: Thing I would ask after this game, is Joe Harris

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Speaker 3: He's only averaging fifteen a game, but he's also shooting

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Speaker 2: Happen m far fetch, But I see what you're thinking there,

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Speaker 2: All Star selections. I don't know why we wouldn't. Are

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Speaker 2: Like? Why not? Like the I mean, the dunk contest

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Speaker 1: Why not, you know, he come on, Yeah, let's go

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Speaker 2: virtual three point contests. Yeah, rights obviously get them access

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Speaker 2: It always delivers. Joe Harris will be in it for

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Speaker 2: one fifteen, one thirteen. This was a morning watch for me.

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Speaker 2: I didn't stay uplast night to watch this one train.

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Speaker 3: I was up skeets, unlike the Lakers. I was not sleepwalking.

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Speaker 3: Finally caught up to the Lakers. Though last night they

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Speaker 3: He kind of snoozed through the first three quarters. Lebron

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Speaker 3: Didn't happen like that.

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Speaker 3: He hit that massive three over Anthony Davis, dancing on him,

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Speaker 3: There was a huge second half from the Rascal Eric Pascal,

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Speaker 1: Hey, give me the confidence, Kelly, you bray junr. Who's

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Speaker 2: Tell ya that's the energy you need in twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: I mean thirty nine, I think at least. But but

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because this happened early in the game, and I

428
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Speaker 1: was ready to tweet something, and I thought the more

429
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Speaker 1: I watched him, like, actually what he did, he didn't

430
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Speaker 1: have a bad game. He actually got it together. He

431
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Speaker 1: played well enough that he doesn't deserve much more ridicule

432
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Speaker 1: than just a little bit here on the show. But

433
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Speaker 1: talk about beautiful shots. That's Steph Curry one that the

434
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Speaker 1: seiler right at the end there where he just shook

435
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Speaker 1: off Anthony Davis and then launched that bomb. I mean

436
00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:55,760
Speaker 1: the ability to create space. I mean he got Anthony Davis.

437
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Speaker 1: I don't know if Anthony Davis was expecting him maybe

438
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Speaker 1: to drive, but instead Steph's steps Steph steps back even

439
00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:04,280
Speaker 1: further and just has to shoot it over those gigantic

440
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Speaker 1: arms of Davis and knocks it in and then he

441
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Speaker 1: does a little dance at the end. He was feeling

442
00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:10,600
Speaker 1: so good about it he couldn't and then he missed

443
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Speaker 1: one on the next play down, so they couldn't sort

444
00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:14,600
Speaker 1: of finish the Lakers off, and they kept it close enough.

445
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Speaker 1: But man, when you see Steph Curry hitting those sort

446
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Speaker 1: of shots, it's it's a beautiful game to watch, a

447
00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:24,040
Speaker 1: beautiful thing to watch, but it's the Lakers and it's Lebron.

448
00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:26,560
Speaker 1: So unfortunately you have to flush this game down the

449
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Speaker 1: toilet as well.

450
00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:29,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, flash it.

451
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Speaker 1: This was a game you have to because it's just

452
00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:36,159
Speaker 1: Lebron and the Lakers really botched that final possession to

453
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Speaker 1: the point where a coach Vogel call a time out

454
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Speaker 1: to try to get something going there and Lebron he

455
00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:43,800
Speaker 1: missed that one by a fair bit in the end, but.

456
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Speaker 2: A three pointer at the end game.

457
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's it's Lebron and it's the Lakers, and

458
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Speaker 1: they're just sort of like, yeah, you can't take anything

459
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Speaker 1: out of it. You just cannot. But good comeback from

460
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Speaker 1: the Warriors anyway.

461
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's crazy they won this game. They

462
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Speaker 2: got out rebounded by eighteen. The Warriors did fifty to

463
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Speaker 2: thirty two. You know, Tray said it. Steph did not

464
00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:03,800
Speaker 2: have like an incredible Steph game by any means. He

465
00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:06,600
Speaker 2: shot eight of twenty two from the floor and three

466
00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:08,879
Speaker 2: to twelve from deep and he was great, you know,

467
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Speaker 2: hitting that big shot late. But this wasn't like a

468
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Speaker 2: forty or fifty point Curry. And I hear, yeah, this

469
00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:15,520
Speaker 2: was just like all these other guys contributing Wiggins Uber,

470
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Speaker 2: I mean, Draymond Green hitting layups in the final couple

471
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Speaker 2: minutes like it. It felt like a layup party there

472
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Speaker 2: at the end for the Warriors just getting inside. And

473
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Speaker 2: the Lakers in the fourth quarter shot six and nineteen,

474
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Speaker 2: you know, after shooting fifty three percent over the first

475
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Speaker 2: three quarters, so they just like they fell asleep. But yeah, Warriors,

476
00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:35,680
Speaker 2: they're not going to care whether or not the Lakers

477
00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:38,720
Speaker 2: were trying up to you know, their capabilities or not.

478
00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:41,240
Speaker 2: And so win's a win, and that's a good one,

479
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Speaker 2: especially for that strengthen numbers mantra that Steve Kurr is

480
00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:47,960
Speaker 2: always pushing, like he said TK, like everybody's got a

481
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Speaker 2: contribute and we can get the victory. So that's a

482
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Speaker 2: nice way. And I also like the I'm sure you

483
00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:55,200
Speaker 2: guys caught this, the Draymond Green coaching up James Wiseman,

484
00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:56,720
Speaker 2: who did not have a good game as a rookie

485
00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:58,600
Speaker 2: in this one, but you know, he's miked up and

486
00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:00,840
Speaker 2: we were getting some of those Oh I mean, I

487
00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:03,520
Speaker 2: love that stuff. I mean, we're basketball geeks, so of

488
00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:05,560
Speaker 2: course we're gonna love that. But it's cool here and

489
00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:07,879
Speaker 2: Draymond telling him like what to do and what he

490
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Speaker 2: should be doing, or why you're not looking at you?

491
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Speaker 2: What's going on there? I thought that was really neat.

492
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Speaker 3: I'd love to buy a Draymond Green Defensive Instruction DVD

493
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Speaker 3: cent like, that's the kind of thing, like remember back

494
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Speaker 3: in the day, You're like, oh, I gotta learn these

495
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Speaker 3: post moves. I'm gonna watch two hours of an old

496
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Speaker 3: man alone in a basketball gym doing post moves, doing

497
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Speaker 3: how to play defense. Draymond teaches it in a way

498
00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:29,600
Speaker 3: that's so accessible, even when you're just getting little snippets,

499
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Speaker 3: little snippets here and there. I remember on the broadcast

500
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Speaker 3: last year he knocked Nikola Jokic for his defensive effort

501
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Speaker 3: during the Nuggets first round series, and Jokic obviously must

502
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Speaker 3: have been listening because he turned it around. Suddenly they

503
00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:43,800
Speaker 3: were playing great defense. They pull off a couple of

504
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Speaker 3: three one comebacks. Everybody can learn from Draymond. Another hilarious

505
00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:51,040
Speaker 3: miked up moment was in this first game that we

506
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Speaker 3: were just talking about DeAndre Jordan.

507
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Speaker 2: They did have miked up.

508
00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:56,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he was over there chatting up everybody about

509
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Speaker 3: how to play defense, even Marv and Chris Webber. After

510
00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:02,879
Speaker 3: we were like, everybody looking at DeAndre like, this is

511
00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:04,520
Speaker 3: the first time he's been talking to me.

512
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I thought that was hilarious. Yeah, he's turned it

513
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Speaker 2: on for the mics for sure, for the cameras. All right,

514
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Speaker 2: our next game on hold on one last note, one

515
00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:13,439
Speaker 2: last note.

516
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Speaker 3: Dennis Shrewder an epic flop in this game. Andrew Wiggins

517
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Speaker 3: has them posted up, gives him a couple of bumps.

518
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Speaker 2: Shrewder goes down, lays in the lane.

519
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Speaker 3: For a four count.

520
00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:26,960
Speaker 2: Maybe he was just laying there.

521
00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:29,720
Speaker 3: Wiggins kicks it out. Eventually the ball goes down the

522
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Speaker 3: other way, But I don't know. I was at first,

523
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Speaker 3: I was like, is Dennis Shrewder actually hurt here? No,

524
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Speaker 3: he was just pouting that he didn't get the charge call.

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Speaker 3: But wow, flop of.

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Speaker 2: The season so far. Oh wow, Phantom of the flop, right,

527
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Speaker 2: you want to get that? Excellent. Our next game was

528
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Speaker 2: the first game of the TNT tripleheader, and it was

529
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Speaker 2: John Morant seventeen points, ten assists helping the Grizzlies top

530
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Speaker 2: the Suns one, one oh four. This was back to

531
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Speaker 2: back to back good games on TNT last night. You know,

532
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Speaker 2: all close games down the stretch. Grizzlies won their fifth straight. Lee.

533
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Speaker 2: You had set it on Monday's show because we were

534
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Speaker 2: doing weekend winners and losers. John Morant coming back on

535
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Speaker 2: the weekend. You gave the Grizzlies and Jaw a winner

536
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Speaker 2: of the weekend because he said this Leak's just better

537
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Speaker 2: when he's in it, because he's that talented, he's that

538
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,200
Speaker 2: fun to watch, and he was awesome down the stretch

539
00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,600
Speaker 2: in this game. Again, it's only seventeen to ten, but

540
00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:19,080
Speaker 2: it was the plays in a tight game that were incredible.

541
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Speaker 2: He had the assist to Grayson Allen in the corner

542
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Speaker 2: with about a minute and change left that gave Memphis

543
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Speaker 2: to three point ly, just Gorgon like going through bodies,

544
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Speaker 2: just contorting his body and then wrapping around to Grayson

545
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Speaker 2: Allen who knocked it down and then he had an

546
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Speaker 2: unbelievable drive. And you had pointed this out, Lee, where

547
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Speaker 2: he does that Nash like thing where he doesn't put

548
00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:39,760
Speaker 2: this other hand on the ball, he just drove around

549
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Speaker 2: I guess it was eighting on the left hand side

550
00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:44,239
Speaker 2: and just never putting his right hand on it, just

551
00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:47,520
Speaker 2: scooped it up off the glass and got the layup

552
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Speaker 2: to drop And that was like with thirty seconds left.

553
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Speaker 2: And then on the ensuing possession, Morant out Chris Paul's

554
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Speaker 2: Chris Paul by taking a charge against Chris Paul to

555
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Speaker 2: maintain the Memphis late. It was one of those ones

556
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Speaker 2: where it's like, you know, he's backing up, he's not stationary,

557
00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:04,840
Speaker 2: he's like moving his feet trying to stand in front

558
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:06,800
Speaker 2: of the ball handler and Chris Paul and you know,

559
00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:08,960
Speaker 2: a little chicken wing maybe from CP three. Didn't Moran

560
00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:11,000
Speaker 2: sell it or not, or was he just off balanced? Anyway,

561
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,240
Speaker 2: he gets the call and again very Chris Paul Lake

562
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Speaker 2: the way he finished this game, John Morant.

563
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't love that charge, corp. But again because

564
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Speaker 1: it was Chris Paul, it was like fair enough, you know,

565
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Speaker 1: because that's exactly what he does, that sort of flailing.

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Speaker 1: He went like about ten feet outside the court as

567
00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:31,000
Speaker 1: well afterwards to really sell it. But yeah, the great

568
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,399
Speaker 1: thing about Moran here is again he's not lighting up

569
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Speaker 1: the box score by any means by having to carry

570
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Speaker 1: and drag the Grizzlies here to victory. Like they're getting

571
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Speaker 1: a great contribution from so many players on their team.

572
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Speaker 1: But in those crucial moments that played by Moran where

573
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Speaker 1: he broke down the defense and then fired it out

574
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Speaker 1: to Grace and another that was a Chris Paul type

575
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Speaker 1: sort of player, well to hit the guy in the

576
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Speaker 1: perfect spot with that pass and he knocked down the

577
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Speaker 1: three pointer. And then he did he came back and

578
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Speaker 1: he was like, well, I see a little opening him

579
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Speaker 1: and he went in and floated it up high off

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Speaker 1: the glass. You asked me to even clip that one, skitzy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I did, because you had clipped the you had

582
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:10,160
Speaker 2: clipped the Gres and Allen. But uh give me give

583
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Speaker 2: me that smooth layup. Yeah, you were right there. That

584
00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:12,520
Speaker 2: was quick.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, it's just it's just fun to watch.

586
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Speaker 1: So a really good win here from the from the Grizzlies,

587
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:21,000
Speaker 1: And I'm not sure what to sort of make of

588
00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:23,959
Speaker 1: their ceiling. I think they're a playoff caliber team. I'm

589
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:25,720
Speaker 1: not sure they can get past the first round yet.

590
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 1: I think this is still a young team with plenty

591
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Speaker 1: of growth. But you like the fact that Jenkins has

592
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Speaker 1: all of those guys out there working. Doesn't really matter

593
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,919
Speaker 1: what combination is out there. Guys work hard on the

594
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Speaker 1: defensive end and on the offensive end. That ball just

595
00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:40,760
Speaker 1: keeps on moving around to try to find whoever's open

596
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:43,280
Speaker 1: or whoever can knock down the shot. And I don't

597
00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:45,760
Speaker 1: know if you guys remember I mentioned the Xavier Tilman

598
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:48,000
Speaker 1: looks a little bit like Larry Johnson out there. Yeah,

599
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you if you notice that, because

600
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:52,000
Speaker 1: he's also got the big sort of arm sleeve as well.

601
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:55,040
Speaker 1: Out there, he's got the scrubby, he's got the scruffy beard.

602
00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:57,679
Speaker 1: It's like, man, Grandmama is back in the league. This

603
00:25:57,760 --> 00:25:58,440
Speaker 1: is incredible.

604
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:00,880
Speaker 2: He was pumped a star the skin too, and Pass

605
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:03,359
Speaker 2: addressed it on What You Need to Know on his

606
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:05,520
Speaker 2: little mini podcast there this morning. That was great. I

607
00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:07,640
Speaker 2: was happy for him and Grayson Allen Man hitting those

608
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:10,120
Speaker 2: four free throws down the stretch Ley, you know, I mean,

609
00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:12,920
Speaker 2: you got to seal the game, and he preserved the

610
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:14,280
Speaker 2: win for them there by knocking them down. He had

611
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:16,879
Speaker 2: a good game. He's been playing actually pretty well. Yeah,

612
00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:19,880
Speaker 2: greats and Ellen well, he can never not look at

613
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:21,879
Speaker 2: that kid and say, man, he looked like Ted Cruz,

614
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:26,879
Speaker 2: tries me, I can't look at him. I just can't.

615
00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:30,439
Speaker 2: I hate him because he looks like Ted Cruz. But

616
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:32,960
Speaker 2: he's playing really, really well in this game too. I

617
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,560
Speaker 2: mean it turned when Devin Booker missed a dunk. It's

618
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:38,600
Speaker 2: like two minutes. It was like two minutes ago he

619
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Speaker 2: puts that down. They were up two at the time.

620
00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:43,600
Speaker 2: That puts it to four and he just came up

621
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Speaker 2: short on it, just put it in the front of

622
00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:48,320
Speaker 2: the rim, like me at tempting a dunk. And yeah,

623
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Speaker 2: that was a bit of a game changer there, because

624
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:52,120
Speaker 2: he had a stinker, massive run.

625
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 1: He had a stinker of a knot. Anyway, Devin book

626
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:57,960
Speaker 1: Are only twelve points, couldn't shoot last night? Oh yeah,

627
00:26:57,960 --> 00:26:59,199
Speaker 1: he had a bit of a rough one, but just

628
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:01,440
Speaker 1: wanted to think quickly. Back to the Grizzlies, Tye Jones

629
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 1: again off the bench as well. He was very good

630
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 1: for them, hitting some of those floaters down the stretch too. Yep,

631
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:08,159
Speaker 1: he's yeah, he's sort of playing his way into a

632
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:10,960
Speaker 1: very nice role with that team. So I like the

633
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 1: Grizzly Like I say, their combinations keep sort of changing,

634
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:15,959
Speaker 1: but that's good. It's a good problem there for Jenkins

635
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 1: to have because Dylan Brooks didn't really have it himself

636
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,239
Speaker 1: last night, So they got someone else who can come

637
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 1: in and hit some shots and make some play for

638
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:25,639
Speaker 1: that team. So yeah, fun win, fun win for the Grizz.

639
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,679
Speaker 2: Yeah. Anything to add trade from this one, Nope. I

640
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,439
Speaker 2: will say this, Devin Booker, I'm glad you brought that up.

641
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:34,400
Speaker 2: Five or twenty one last night. Zero free throw attempts,

642
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:36,879
Speaker 2: and he has not had a great start to this season.

643
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:39,439
Speaker 2: He's only averaging twenty two points per game, which is

644
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 2: very low for him. He's had you know, two or

645
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:45,480
Speaker 2: three duds. Actually had he had this this game last night.

646
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,240
Speaker 2: I think he has an eight point performance under his belt.

647
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 2: I know he didn't play huge minutes on that one,

648
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 2: but I'm not freaking out. Yeah. I thought I saw Espo,

649
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 2: who was a diehard Suns fan. I saw him tweet

650
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 2: this last night, and I think he's right. Dean book

651
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:00,840
Speaker 2: is going to be fine. Him and Chris Paul are

652
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 2: still learning how to get on the same page here,

653
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:05,879
Speaker 2: and that Booker will very likely get back to that

654
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:07,800
Speaker 2: all star level when it comes to score and shooting

655
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 2: the ball and a little reminder that Espel had out

656
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:13,040
Speaker 2: there was that, Okay, see with Chris Paul last year

657
00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:15,359
Speaker 2: started eight and twelve. Last year, you know, they didn't

658
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:18,160
Speaker 2: come out, you know, surprising people right out of the gate.

659
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:20,480
Speaker 2: It took a little while for Chris Paul to you know,

660
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,680
Speaker 2: probably get comfortable himself working around at the time Shay

661
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 2: and Intruder and stuff like that. So maybe that's happening here.

662
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:27,919
Speaker 2: And by the way, the Sons are still you know,

663
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,640
Speaker 2: have a great record getting wins, but kill Bridges looks great,

664
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:33,480
Speaker 2: Cameron Johnson's impressed me. And then Eyton. The real reason

665
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:35,119
Speaker 2: they went and got Chris Paul, I think was to

666
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 2: like take Eyton's game to the next level. And I

667
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,520
Speaker 2: think that's getting there. So I don't think you got

668
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 2: a freak out if you're a Devin Booker fan or

669
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 2: a Suns fan, just quite yet.

670
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, Ayton stuff is weird though, Ayton when he does

671
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,000
Speaker 3: not look as much of an offensive player this year,

672
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 3: he almost looks like a defensive center out there who's

673
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 3: learning his way on the offensive end, which is the

674
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 3: complete inverse of what it's been going for a couple

675
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 3: of seasons of his career. He just doesn't really look

676
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 3: for his shot anymore. I think it's probably tough for

677
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 3: him to figure out exactly he fit in around Devin Booker,

678
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 3: who has a high usage player campball, who likes to

679
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 3: control the ball, but big guys usually succeed playing alongside

680
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:08,920
Speaker 3: Chris Paull, it's weird to see him taking a little

681
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 3: bit step backwards on the offensive end.

682
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe a little bit. Yeah. A hell of a

683
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:16,239
Speaker 2: dunk there last night. You got shock excited on the

684
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:19,400
Speaker 2: TNT broadcast. There he was looking like young Shack with

685
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:20,960
Speaker 2: that dunk, the one where he went baseline and then

686
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 2: threw it down there side was awesome. So big, big

687
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 2: win for the Grizzlies. And man, my final thought with

688
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 2: John Moran, I know I've said this before, but I

689
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,320
Speaker 2: gotta keep saying it. I'm so damn impressed when I

690
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 2: watch him play, right, He's a star, as we just

691
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 2: talked about, like he just he just has that something

692
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 2: special within him, like to sort of take over games,

693
00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 2: set guys up, and then you hear him in the

694
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 2: postgame interviews and stuff like that, and I'm even more impressed.

695
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:47,720
Speaker 2: He just like is like feels like the epitome of

696
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 2: just a leader at a crazy young age. It's just

697
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 2: like always like blows my mind talking to the guys

698
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:56,400
Speaker 2: obviously back in the TNT studio and just like he

699
00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 2: just he just gets it. That's the easiest way for

700
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 2: me to put it. And man, I hope he stays healthy.

701
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 2: I know you're always worried lately because you should have

702
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 2: an incredible, incredible career ahead of him. It's crazy, all right,

703
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 2: Trey had to get this one in for you. A

704
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 2: big guy. Bulls beat the Rockets one twenty five, one

705
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 2: twenty high score an affair. Oladipo did look solid in

706
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 2: his Houston debut. But what's your big takeaway? The Bulls

707
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 2: are back?

708
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,640
Speaker 3: No, I know what you're thinking, Skates, Weren't.

709
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:23,600
Speaker 2: The Bulls already back? Are they back to five hundred?

710
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:27,160
Speaker 3: They were? Then they were not back, but now they're

711
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 3: back again because the Bulls finally closed out a fourth quarter.

712
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:35,640
Speaker 3: JD hit that celebration music. No, no, oh, yeah, I

713
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:37,440
Speaker 3: guess I probably should have asked for it before, but

714
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 3: we talked about it briefly yesterday. The Bulls lost four

715
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 3: to row last week by a total of eleven points.

716
00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 3: Fourth quarters have been a struggle for Chicago. It could

717
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 3: have been the same script last night. The Balls got

718
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 3: off to a big lead. They're up by almost twenty

719
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:53,880
Speaker 3: after the first quarter. It got tight again in the fourth.

720
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 3: I had a nets Bucks on the big screen, the

721
00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 3: Bulls on the small screen. I'm just counting down the

722
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 3: points to Laura. Six point game, four point game. Oh boy,

723
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:05,239
Speaker 3: put on my hood, tucked in my shirt, said this

724
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 3: is the one in the fourth quarter. Because for once,

725
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 3: it wasn't all on Zach Levine. He was magnificent. I

726
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 3: thought thirty three points, seven assists. He had a nice

727
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 3: dunk on a fast break, a little two hand er.

728
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 3: He was making big plays, but the big plays involved everybody.

729
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 3: For it felt like the first time all season. Three

730
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 3: minutes left, Levine gets trapped. They are getting the ball

731
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 3: out of his hands because he's on fire. He dumps

732
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 3: it to Thad Young. He hits a three one minute left,

733
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 3: not o. Lavine stepped back for the first time in forever,

734
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 3: four passes before a lowery market in three from the

735
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 3: right side, from the right wing, he knocks it down

736
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 3: on a night where he was struggling huge to see

737
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 3: a clutch shot. The ball was fizzing all night. There

738
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 3: were multiple vsps least tweeting at me, I appreciate your

739
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 3: team for this.

740
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 2: I appreciate you too, Lee.

741
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 3: Seven balls in double figures, a backbreaking play that involved everybody.

742
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 3: This is like young team that just honestly doesn't know

743
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 3: how to win. They would get so close in these

744
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 3: fourth quarters.

745
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 2: Last week.

746
00:31:57,400 --> 00:31:59,720
Speaker 3: They beat the Maps pretty easily on Sunday, but they

747
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:01,280
Speaker 3: got so close in.

748
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 2: These fourth quarters. They just were one play away.

749
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 3: There were one play away from pulling off any of

750
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 3: these kind of wins, and they were unable to make

751
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 3: it until last night when Markinen hit the huge three,

752
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 3: and it just had to be a huge relief for everybody.

753
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 3: It had to be nice for Zach Levine to dish

754
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 3: the ball away. It goes to Kobe White, I think

755
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:19,959
Speaker 3: in the corner, he drives baseline, He kicks it back

756
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 3: up to the levine. He says, not this time again.

757
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 3: Marking In steps up and hit the three. It's got

758
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 3: to be great for Zach Levine to say I don't

759
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:27,320
Speaker 3: have to do it all on my own, and it's

760
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 3: great for marketing to say, yeah, I'm struggling, but I'm

761
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:31,400
Speaker 3: still part of this team. They still trust me to

762
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:33,520
Speaker 3: hit the huge shots. That's how you build trust amongst

763
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 3: your teammates. This is a team that has had a

764
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,959
Speaker 3: lot of decent pieces, a lot of pieces that could pop,

765
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 3: and last night it felt like they were a team actually,

766
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 3: So shout out to the Bulls.

767
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 2: They are back. Well, let me ask you this tray

768
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 2: because I saw you tweeting about it. I listened to

769
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 2: it as well the Daily Ding Our guy Dave Defour,

770
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,800
Speaker 2: we've had him on throwing out that idea of the

771
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 2: Bulls looking to trade Zach Levine, you know, should they

772
00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 2: thrown it out there? And he's not alone. I've seen

773
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 2: other peace you know, suggesting this. What does Trey Kirby

774
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 2: say to the idea of the Bulls, you know, cashing in?

775
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 2: I guess now, Zach Lavine playing at an all star

776
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 2: like level, what do you think?

777
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 3: I think you mean all star level skeets. You can

778
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 3: book him for this game. That's not going to be

779
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 3: happening the announcement, though it will be made. It's understandable

780
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 3: Levine has been ballin. He's been one of the best

781
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 3: players in the Eastern Conference for the past week. He's

782
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 3: putting up like thirty five a game. But you were

783
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:28,640
Speaker 3: definitely starting to see the free Zach Lavine sort of things.

784
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 3: And he's definitely got to be a target for a

785
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 3: team like the Sixers, who could use his ability to

786
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 3: score off the dribble, his ability to space the court,

787
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:38,640
Speaker 3: and he's just an athletic marvel. So you wonder if

788
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 3: maybe there's something more to tap into defensively as well.

789
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 3: But I don't know.

790
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 1: To me, the time the.

791
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 3: Bulls are really going to need to trade Levine is

792
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 3: when they have reached a status where it seems like

793
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 3: they can't go any further. To me, he is a

794
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 3: DeMar de Rosen on the Toronto Raptors, a multiple time

795
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 3: All Star. But when the Bulls, or when the Raptors

796
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 3: really got serious about winning, they had to trade DeMar

797
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 3: to bring in Kawhi Leonard. And I think that's going

798
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 3: to be the same thing for the Bulls. They need

799
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 3: to build around Levine, they need to get in some

800
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 3: All Star appearances, and then when it becomes clear that

801
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:10,680
Speaker 3: they've reached their ceiling with him as the go to guy,

802
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 3: maybe everybody else has grown enough that you can entice

803
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:16,880
Speaker 3: a star to come there, a real star, because Levine,

804
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:19,400
Speaker 3: he's going to be in the All Star conversations. You know,

805
00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 3: he's not going.

806
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 2: To be a lock.

807
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 3: He's not going to be a guaranteed guy, and he's

808
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 3: not necessarily going to take you to the next level.

809
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:26,240
Speaker 3: I think he can take you to the good level.

810
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 3: Somebody else will take the Bulls to the great level.

811
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 3: But right now I'm just riding the way. That guy

812
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 3: was on fire. He has been for the entire time,

813
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 3: and last night he was passing the ball and it

814
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:36,880
Speaker 3: worked out crazy.

815
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:40,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's averaging twenty seven and a half points per

816
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:42,279
Speaker 2: game basically, and five and five and a steal and

817
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 2: a half. Yeah, he's played great this year for the Bulls.

818
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 2: And there's Bulls are six and eight. I mean they're

819
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 2: back almost a five hundred, getting very very close to

820
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 2: only three games out of a playoff spot. I think too,

821
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:55,520
Speaker 2: it's so jammed up there. But anything to add there?

822
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:57,720
Speaker 1: Lee, Well, he's shooting a good ball too. Zach Lavine

823
00:34:57,719 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 1: thirty good?

824
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 2: Is he a beautiful shooter of basketball? Is that's safe

825
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:01,359
Speaker 2: to say?

826
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: Hey, we had a real life jar rule meme there

827
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:08,759
Speaker 1: when Trey said hit the music and JD wasn't ready.

828
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 2: It's like, Oh, you gave, you gave, you gave g

829
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:15,840
Speaker 2: a heart attack. You can't do that. You gave me

830
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 2: a heart attack too, So I was like, is this

831
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:19,919
Speaker 2: in the dark. I don't know we're doing this. Let's

832
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:20,319
Speaker 2: go on.

833
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:25,240
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean all those bulls points are very valid.

834
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:27,880
Speaker 1: I just thought Victor Oladepot, Yeah, he looked very, very

835
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 1: good for his first game with the Ruckets. So yeah,

836
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:32,719
Speaker 1: this is this is a great first situation for Rolla

837
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 1: Deepot if he could really sort of get to that position. Though,

838
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 1: John Wall again there last night, he's like, hey, I'm

839
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:39,560
Speaker 1: still a pretty good play. You might want to invest

840
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:41,799
Speaker 1: in me some big bucks. I mean he's got a

841
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:43,840
Speaker 1: similar actually to Zack Lavine. It's like he's not a

842
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 1: number one guy, but a very solid sort of one A,

843
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:48,920
Speaker 1: you know, two guy whichever however you want to sort

844
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:51,480
Speaker 1: of frame it there, because I think playing along the

845
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 1: right guy, those those sort of guys can really thrive.

846
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:57,319
Speaker 1: So yeah, I follow Deepe stays healthy. He's in a

847
00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:59,800
Speaker 1: good spot to earn himself some big bucks next season.

848
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 2: So do you do the thing where the number one

849
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 2: guy is one and then the second guy is one A,

850
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:06,320
Speaker 2: or do you make the number one guy one A

851
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 2: and the second guy one B. Or do you just

852
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 2: got one too.

853
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, it depends, doesn't it. I mean, like like

854
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn, for example, Kevin Durant's number one. It's Kevin

855
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 1: Durant's number one, one A or one. He's number one.

856
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:21,840
Speaker 1: He's like he's there's there's like only a handful of

857
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 1: guys in the NBA who are like number one guy, right,

858
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:28,319
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant's one, Lebron's the other, Steph's probably the other.

859
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:34,400
Speaker 1: And that's probably about all for now for now. Wow, Okay,

860
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:36,759
Speaker 1: I mean I don't know, I can't put him in that.

861
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:39,400
Speaker 2: Same as a one A. I think Jannis is a

862
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 2: one A right now. James Harden is.

863
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 1: A one A. James Harden is a one A. You know,

864
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:46,400
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis is a one A.

865
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis is Okay, see where you're going here now? Okay? Yeah,

866
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:54,319
Speaker 2: and then you've got you go one B to go two.

867
00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:00,880
Speaker 2: Let's go to next came pick that one over final

868
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 2: game that we're gonna touch on. Unfortunately we're not getting

869
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,279
Speaker 2: to the mall. We're gonna go with the heat. Though

870
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:08,720
Speaker 2: they rallied from nineteen down to beat the Pistons one thirteen,

871
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 2: one oh seven to end a bit of a slide. Okay,

872
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 2: people are probably going, what are you talking about the

873
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 2: Heat's Pistons game. Why aren't you talking about the Hawks

874
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 2: getting a win and the Raptors getting their third straightway. Well, look,

875
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 2: here's why with this game. First off, it was supposed

876
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 2: to start at three PM, and it didn't start until

877
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 2: like eight because it was delayed by the NBA to

878
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:29,160
Speaker 2: allow time for COVID nineteen test to be a process.

879
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:31,399
Speaker 2: So that had to be in a weird day game

880
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 2: or game. Excuse me for both of these teams heading

881
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:37,880
Speaker 2: into the game. Jeremy Grant, JD. I know you have

882
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,320
Speaker 2: this because I told you about it in advance. Jeremy Grant,

883
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:44,239
Speaker 2: did you guys see him in the Gold Pistons throwback? Yeah?

884
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:47,440
Speaker 2: Just a beautiful jersey, now, Trey, I don't think the

885
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 2: Pistons ever actually wore this jersey, right, This is just

886
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:52,800
Speaker 2: like one of those yeah, like fashion jerseys that gold metallic.

887
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 2: I remember seeing a Utah Jazz like this too, that

888
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 2: Donovan Mitchell was wearing once playing time. Anyway, Jeremy Grant,

889
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 2: I want to point that out because cool looking people

890
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:03,360
Speaker 2: think that he's uh, you know, he's sending a message

891
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 2: to the Pistons organization, like, hey, let's bring back not

892
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:08,480
Speaker 2: the gold version because they never wore that, but that

893
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:12,400
Speaker 2: that Grant Hill teal horse like Pistons Jersey. You know,

894
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:14,359
Speaker 2: I'll get it back in the mix. Looks pretty cool. Like,

895
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 2: but he's averaging twenty five six and three Jeremy Grant

896
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 2: is over a block and a steel per game. He's

897
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:21,479
Speaker 2: shooting forty seven percent on the floor, thirty nine percent

898
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 2: from three, eighty six percent of the line. Yeah, his

899
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:27,279
Speaker 2: minutes are up from last year in Denver, like ten

900
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:29,799
Speaker 2: minutes per game more. I get that. But his per

901
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 2: thirty six stats they're up as well still, you know,

902
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 2: exceeding expectations there in Detroit as a as the one

903
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 2: Hmmm is he a one A guy or a one

904
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 2: B guy? I don't even know where to put him anyway,

905
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:43,880
Speaker 2: his usage percentage is extremely high, but he is delivering,

906
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 2: and uh I think, I mean, it's going to be

907
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 2: hard pressed for anybody to catch him for most Improved, right, Like,

908
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 2: I know there are guys like there are other guys

909
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:56,239
Speaker 2: that a Bouchet is definitely in the mix. He's played

910
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:59,800
Speaker 2: incredibly well here for the Raptors, but it's his numbers

911
00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:03,680
Speaker 2: are just like they're twice as good and he's like

912
00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 2: the star out Now will he be well? People hould

913
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 2: his numbers against him? If the Pistons have fifteen wins,

914
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:13,359
Speaker 2: does that matter for most improved? Do you guys care?

915
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:16,319
Speaker 2: Does a team need to be good? I don't know

916
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 2: the team.

917
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:19,319
Speaker 1: The team doesn't need to be good, but they need

918
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:22,320
Speaker 1: to be watchable. And outside of Jeremy Grant, the Pistons

919
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 1: are a tough watch. No, they're a tough watch. I mean,

920
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:26,800
Speaker 1: you know, we talked a lot about Kevin Durant on

921
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 1: the Nets and John Moran on the Grizzlies. If Jeremy

922
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:31,960
Speaker 1: Grant isn't on the Pistons, it's tough to watch them

923
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 1: too excited. I mean, Myles Plonny had a huge dunk

924
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:36,719
Speaker 1: last night doing bam, nice dunk, but it was like

925
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:40,960
Speaker 1: other than that, it's like it's just rough. I mean,

926
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:43,799
Speaker 1: they don't have that superstar talent, and I mean that's

927
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 1: that's what people tune in for. It's like you can

928
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 1: watch a team lose if they've got like a fun

929
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 1: player to watch, and Jeremy Grants a fun player. He's

930
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 1: not that sort of like, oh, you must tune in

931
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:55,959
Speaker 1: and watch him. But you know, if you are watching

932
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:57,319
Speaker 1: the Pistons game, you want to see a good one

933
00:39:57,360 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 1: from Jeremy Grant was he was fun last night.

934
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:02,360
Speaker 2: But yeah, well, I think he's running away with this

935
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 2: award unless people are just like they hold it against

936
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 2: him because they just look at the ten more minutes

937
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:08,560
Speaker 2: per game. But that happens a lot. Like that's like

938
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 2: a Turkolu thing and stuff like that, Like that happens

939
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 2: all the time with this award. Anyway, he's playing really

940
00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 2: really well. Yeah, but Miami got the win. Still without

941
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler, still without Avery Bradley, no Tyler hero in

942
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:20,080
Speaker 2: this one. He had a neck injury, no Meers Leonard.

943
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 2: But Bam is back. Bam is back twenty eight and eleven.

944
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:27,719
Speaker 2: BAM's hitting jumpers now like little fadeaway jumpers. He's out

945
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 2: of that dragas is back to He scored twenty two

946
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:32,200
Speaker 2: and I saw spools draft at the game. He said,

947
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:34,240
Speaker 2: In some ways, it feels like this was two wins,

948
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 2: just because we are preserving through a lot of different

949
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:41,000
Speaker 2: things without feeling sorry for ourselves or making excuses, persevering

950
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:43,799
Speaker 2: excuse me as they can jam on my mind. There,

951
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:48,160
Speaker 2: But I just keep thinking about this Heat team. We

952
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:50,520
Speaker 2: barely talked about them. They're a weird team. I mean,

953
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 2: they went to the finals last year, but they've been

954
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:54,279
Speaker 2: tough to talk about because they haven't had their team

955
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 2: at all. It feels like all season long with guys

956
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:59,200
Speaker 2: in and out, COVID protocols and injuries and stuff like that,

957
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:01,239
Speaker 2: and it's like, I just don't know what to think

958
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:04,440
Speaker 2: of the Miami Heat at all, Like they don't really

959
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:06,239
Speaker 2: get included. It feels like still in a lot of

960
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:08,000
Speaker 2: the conversation about who's going to be the best team

961
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,440
Speaker 2: in the East, but then no one's like, well, they're done,

962
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 2: Like everybody knows they're still a good team. I don't

963
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 2: know what you got. If you do you have an

964
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:15,720
Speaker 2: opinion even on the Miami Heat of this season, trade

965
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:17,520
Speaker 2: or am I sort of on the right page here?

966
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:19,720
Speaker 3: It's tough to have an opinion on them this season

967
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 3: because some of the biggest highlights I've seen have been

968
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:24,319
Speaker 3: from a guy like Gabe Vincent, Like you're saying, they've

969
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:27,920
Speaker 3: been playing shorthanded for the majority of the season. Even

970
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:31,319
Speaker 3: last year during the season before everything was stopped for

971
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:34,160
Speaker 3: the pandemic, the Heat were very up and down. Remember,

972
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:35,759
Speaker 3: they were getting a bunch of wins at home, they

973
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 3: were struggling on the road. They were a team that

974
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:39,880
Speaker 3: was in the middle of the pack in the Eastern Conference.

975
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:42,840
Speaker 3: Everybody gelled in the bubble, and they took it to

976
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:45,239
Speaker 3: another level. I think that it's hard to have an

977
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:47,600
Speaker 3: opinion on the Heat right now because we're not seeing

978
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:49,759
Speaker 3: them full strength, and we're also kind of assuming once

979
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:52,400
Speaker 3: it comes down to the pressure cooker of the playoffs, Jimmy,

980
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:54,880
Speaker 3: I'll be back and the team will kind of, you know,

981
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:57,239
Speaker 3: be focused on the same path together, and they'll be

982
00:41:57,239 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 3: able to out culture some teams when it comes down

983
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 3: to it. They just haven't looked like themselves right now

984
00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:04,399
Speaker 3: because they've been having to shuffle people in and out.

985
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:06,480
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, it's a very very odd season for

986
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:09,040
Speaker 2: the Heat right now. But from this game final takeaway,

987
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:15,200
Speaker 2: we got Weggie number ten though though though though Heat

988
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 2: broadcaster Eric Reid on the call really drop the ball

989
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:20,360
Speaker 2: on this one in my opinion, Let's play the clip

990
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:23,719
Speaker 2: dragage turns the corners.

991
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:29,719
Speaker 1: Jump on with two of eight left, you're in the third.

992
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 2: Quarterdink from Eric Reed. Yeah, now, and everything about this

993
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:39,720
Speaker 2: wedgie was beautiful. I love a little layup soft weggie

994
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:44,520
Speaker 2: that sticks like that. Dragic well done. I loved Kelly

995
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 2: olenok letting it breathe. Did you see that he was

996
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:49,200
Speaker 2: having a good old like let's leave it. I think

997
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:51,239
Speaker 2: he was joking with Dragis for a second of like hey,

998
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 2: do you want to jump up and get it? Or

999
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:54,239
Speaker 2: do you want me to get it? But he let

1000
00:42:54,280 --> 00:43:00,200
Speaker 2: it breathe? But doink? Come on, Eric Reid, I can't

1001
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 2: believe Eric, he didn't drop. Well that's the twenty second

1002
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:08,640
Speaker 2: Legends third year doink. I mean, I'm actually I'm okay

1003
00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 2: with the doink call. But then you come on, say

1004
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:11,879
Speaker 2: it's a leggie like.

1005
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:17,280
Speaker 3: The To me, a doink involves something bouncing off course,

1006
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 3: like you know, for us when it was when we

1007
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 3: were back in the whoopsies days. A classic donker was

1008
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:24,799
Speaker 3: a guy taking a ball off the face. I saw.

1009
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:27,640
Speaker 3: Jamie Matram had a tweet earlier this week where he

1010
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:31,640
Speaker 3: said doink is reserved for when a football hits the upright.

1011
00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:33,720
Speaker 3: The famous one is the Chicago Bears had the double

1012
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 3: doink two playoffs to go both sides. Like I'm saying,

1013
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 3: everything involved with the doink involves a bouncing of some sort. Yeah,

1014
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:44,080
Speaker 3: there's got to be a bounce to have a doink.

1015
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:47,960
Speaker 3: A wedgie, it's wedged in there. It's in the name, Eric.

1016
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:49,440
Speaker 3: But like you're saying, skets, we got to hook him

1017
00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:51,200
Speaker 3: up with the stats because you know he will drop

1018
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:53,120
Speaker 3: them next time they got a doink there.

1019
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:54,080
Speaker 1: Oh yeah he will.

1020
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll give him like the pace we're on, the

1021
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:59,399
Speaker 2: highest we've ever done. He loves a stout, Eric, right,

1022
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 2: He just I couldn't believe you dropped a doink. And again,

1023
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:05,279
Speaker 2: not that he dropped a doink. Okay, sort of fun

1024
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:06,960
Speaker 2: to say. I get it. I like saying it. Doink

1025
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:09,359
Speaker 2: doink the clown one of my favorite wrestlers of all time,

1026
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:12,839
Speaker 2: but dropped the wedgie after that and that matrum thing

1027
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 2: you reminded me Trey. I saw that tweet too. He said,

1028
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:17,399
Speaker 2: doink in football, when you hit the uprights, one hundred

1029
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:20,520
Speaker 2: percent agree. But he said in baseball, when you hit

1030
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:24,839
Speaker 2: the uh like the foul pole down the line, that's

1031
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 2: not a doink, he said, that's a clang. I think

1032
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 2: he said interesting.

1033
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:34,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I actually do agree. Are foul poles made

1034
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:36,640
Speaker 3: of metal? It seems like they are. And then when

1035
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:39,200
Speaker 3: you have the hard baseball hit it, it's gonna make

1036
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:41,920
Speaker 3: a clank sound. In football, you got the metal goal posts,

1037
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:44,400
Speaker 3: but they have an inflated ball just like in basketball.

1038
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:47,080
Speaker 2: That's a doink. It's kind of smart. Okay, Yeah, what

1039
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:50,360
Speaker 2: do you you you you wanna you're on board with that.

1040
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:54,360
Speaker 2: Ley'll get that donks and doinks and clangs and stuff

1041
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:54,600
Speaker 2: like that.

1042
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:57,000
Speaker 1: Yeah. We've had a good run though with the play

1043
00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:59,600
Speaker 1: by play commentator, so we're not gonna We're not gonna

1044
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 1: speak back a thousand with them. It's all right, we'll

1045
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:02,839
Speaker 1: educate everyone.

1046
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:05,880
Speaker 2: I think you don't think theron a WhatsApp group chat. Okay,

1047
00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:08,880
Speaker 2: all these guys calling these games and women they got

1048
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:12,839
Speaker 2: to be and somebody let them know. Somebody's gotta let

1049
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 2: her know.

1050
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:16,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Eric, Eric, Yeah, he's been around forever too.

1051
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:18,920
Speaker 1: He would have definitely seen, you know, the wedgies in

1052
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:19,400
Speaker 1: the past.

1053
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:21,840
Speaker 2: So yeah, now I'm trying to remember has Eric Reid

1054
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:23,160
Speaker 2: ever called it a weggie?

1055
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:26,279
Speaker 1: I think so, I'm almost certain he has.

1056
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:30,440
Speaker 2: Wow, So this is I tried effort not to give

1057
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 2: us a shout out, just kidding, just kidding. I can't

1058
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:36,719
Speaker 2: wait for the next Weggie in Miami. Eric Creed will

1059
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:38,800
Speaker 2: be all over it. I have faith. I have faith. Okay,

1060
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:41,719
Speaker 2: so that's five games. One thing. Let's get to some

1061
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 2: news though. This first news item is crazy. Kevin Porter,

1062
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:48,520
Speaker 2: junior guys appears to be on his way out of Cleveland.

1063
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 2: The Cavs are expected to trade or wave Porter following

1064
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 2: the twenty year old's recent locker room outburst. Now this

1065
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:57,799
Speaker 2: is according to the Athletic and it's been confirmed by

1066
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 2: other other Porter reportedly began yelling and at one point

1067
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:06,560
Speaker 2: through food after he entered the locker room on Friday,

1068
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:08,239
Speaker 2: and he learned that the team had given his old

1069
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:10,520
Speaker 2: locker to Torrian Prince, who was acquired by Cleveland as

1070
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 2: part of that blockbuster hard and trade. So it comes in.

1071
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:15,719
Speaker 2: He sees that his locker Porter, by the way, hasn't

1072
00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:18,120
Speaker 2: played this season, and we'll get to that, but he

1073
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:20,239
Speaker 2: sees that his locker has been given to Prince and

1074
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:22,080
Speaker 2: he and he's sort of been moved over to like

1075
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:24,160
Speaker 2: where the you know, the younger kids are on the

1076
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:26,160
Speaker 2: team or whatever, another part of the locker room, and

1077
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:28,440
Speaker 2: he just flips out. I guess I'm not sure we

1078
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:32,880
Speaker 2: know what food item he's throwing. We can we have

1079
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:35,760
Speaker 2: confirmed it's not tortilla soup like j R. Smith and Cleveland,

1080
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:37,800
Speaker 2: but we don't know what exactly. And after the episode,

1081
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 2: Porter was told to clean out his locker and basically

1082
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 2: get out of here. You know, we got into, you know,

1083
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 2: a verbal altercation with Kobe Altman and maybe even Bickerstaff

1084
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:47,920
Speaker 2: as well if I read that correctly. So, yeah, this

1085
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:50,319
Speaker 2: is wild Ken Porter Junior is twenty years oldly and

1086
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:52,239
Speaker 2: he's basically being told like, we're gonna trade you, We're

1087
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:53,879
Speaker 2: just gonna straight up waveew. What do you think?

1088
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:56,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'm mainly going on what we've read,

1089
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:59,200
Speaker 1: and he obviously got you know, very opposite that. He

1090
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:02,600
Speaker 1: was felt that he was maybe being disrespected and reacted

1091
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:05,480
Speaker 1: like a twenty year old can react in that situation.

1092
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:08,279
Speaker 1: I'll sort of give him that little pass there that

1093
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, when you're twenty years old and

1094
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:12,600
Speaker 1: things haven't gone your way, Like he had some talent,

1095
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:14,839
Speaker 1: He showed some talent last season. He hasn't been able

1096
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:16,400
Speaker 1: to get on the court so far this season, so

1097
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:19,959
Speaker 1: he's probably frustrated, and then he feels that he's being

1098
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 1: marginalized maybe in the locker room and that's how he reacted.

1099
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:26,120
Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens. I mean, if they're prepared

1100
00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 1: to just straight up wave him, then perhaps they don't

1101
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:32,280
Speaker 1: feel that he's going to last in the NBA anyway,

1102
00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 1: you know, because if you're not going to get anything

1103
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:36,200
Speaker 1: in return for a player who throws a tantrum, and

1104
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:38,319
Speaker 1: then perhaps they just don't see he has a future here.

1105
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:41,480
Speaker 1: So we'll see how it plays out. But you know,

1106
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:44,959
Speaker 1: twenty year old kids sometimes do react in a bad way,

1107
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:47,600
Speaker 1: and you can give them a little pass in that

1108
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:49,919
Speaker 1: sense because I know as an eyes at twenty year old,

1109
00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:52,440
Speaker 1: you know, you get yourself a little worked up over

1110
00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:54,600
Speaker 1: things that aren't that big, and you don't handle things

1111
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:56,919
Speaker 1: as maturely as you probably do when you're a little

1112
00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:58,319
Speaker 1: bit older and you've been in the league a little

1113
00:47:58,360 --> 00:47:58,760
Speaker 1: bit longer.

1114
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:01,759
Speaker 2: So have you ever thrown any food at a you know,

1115
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:06,960
Speaker 2: a trigger or big mad or all a toes, chucked

1116
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:08,280
Speaker 2: any handbasing anybody.

1117
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:13,879
Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't have thrown any trigger maybe at eight Yeah, yeah,

1118
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 1: I'm probably thrown a little something at eight toes, you know,

1119
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:20,040
Speaker 1: But yeah, you know, when we were twenty, I mean

1120
00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:22,919
Speaker 1: when when atoes and I used to play NBA Live.

1121
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:25,279
Speaker 1: I mean, you know that that's that's really where you

1122
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:27,799
Speaker 1: test your friendship. You know, Oh, it starts out as

1123
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:29,479
Speaker 1: fun and then you're just like, I want to beat

1124
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 1: this guy or kill him I don't care whichever one

1125
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 1: happens first. But you know, video games are bad like that.

1126
00:48:34,719 --> 00:48:36,960
Speaker 1: They really bring out the worst behavior in people.

1127
00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:45,680
Speaker 2: You probably threw a bag of Durnos or something. Okay, probably, yeah, okay,

1128
00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:48,839
Speaker 2: so you're you're saying, now here's the thing, Lee and Trey,

1129
00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:51,560
Speaker 2: maybe you're going to talk to us too. This is

1130
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:53,960
Speaker 2: a twenty year old kid, You're right, maybe just overreacting

1131
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:55,920
Speaker 2: because he's like, what's going on here? That was my

1132
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:58,279
Speaker 2: locker all that. It's a bad luck regardless. But he

1133
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:02,400
Speaker 2: does have a bit of history in terms of things

1134
00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:05,080
Speaker 2: both on the floor and off the floor when it

1135
00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:07,680
Speaker 2: comes in college and UH and in the NBA. I mean,

1136
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:10,200
Speaker 2: just this past what was it November? I think it

1137
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:14,439
Speaker 2: was last not I can't trying to keep you off. Yeah,

1138
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:19,480
Speaker 2: last year he was Porter junior. He was arrested and

1139
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:21,440
Speaker 2: charged with UH. It was sort of like a one

1140
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:23,719
Speaker 2: car accident, but improper handling of a firearm in a

1141
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:25,759
Speaker 2: motor vehicle and failure to control the vehicle and a

1142
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 2: misdemeanor possession of marijuana. Now I think all those charges

1143
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:31,440
Speaker 2: were dismissed. But again, he hasn't played this year for

1144
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:34,600
Speaker 2: the cas tray. They've said for personal reasons. I know

1145
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:37,319
Speaker 2: he did have an incident back in usc too, So like,

1146
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:39,719
Speaker 2: is this sort of just like hey man, sort of

1147
00:49:39,719 --> 00:49:42,279
Speaker 2: like you know, three strikes and you're you're out type

1148
00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:44,600
Speaker 2: of thing, or are the Calves overreacting themselves?

1149
00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:48,440
Speaker 3: Probably both, but I think it's understandable that they are.

1150
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:50,640
Speaker 3: He was a guy that dropped to thirtieth in the

1151
00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:54,319
Speaker 3: draft because of these questions about off court conduct. As

1152
00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:56,520
Speaker 3: you can see in his rookie season, he's a pretty

1153
00:49:56,520 --> 00:49:58,279
Speaker 3: solid player. If you would have asked me who is

1154
00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:00,239
Speaker 3: the best of the Cleveland Cavaliers at the and the

1155
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:02,399
Speaker 3: last season coming into this year, I would have had

1156
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:07,200
Speaker 3: Porter ahead of both Sexton and Garland. So yeah, it'll

1157
00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:09,839
Speaker 3: be interesting to see what actually goes down here because

1158
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:12,080
Speaker 3: I can definitely see a team taking a chance on

1159
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:14,920
Speaker 3: Kevin Porter junior if he can get his off court

1160
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:17,840
Speaker 3: issues handled, because obviously that's the big question. He's a

1161
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:19,880
Speaker 3: quality young player. He can create off the dribble. This

1162
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:22,680
Speaker 3: is things that basically every team is looking for. Teams

1163
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:25,799
Speaker 3: like the Grizzlies, Pelicans, Nicks, Thunder, they'd got extra picks

1164
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:27,960
Speaker 3: if they want to add a young guy. The Nuggets,

1165
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 3: the Celtics are contending teams that could maybe work something

1166
00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:34,359
Speaker 3: out to add Kevin Porter Junior. But I don't know,

1167
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:37,600
Speaker 3: when you are on the fringes of the NBA and

1168
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:40,640
Speaker 3: you have an outburst like this, it's understandable when a

1169
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:43,239
Speaker 3: team decides that we're done with you. You know, things

1170
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 3: have been going pretty well for the Cleveland Cavaliers this year.

1171
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:48,319
Speaker 3: They seem to be on the upswing, seem to be

1172
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:50,560
Speaker 3: having a lot of optimism around him. Maybe they'll be

1173
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:53,160
Speaker 3: abel to pull off a trade for Andre Drummond in

1174
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:57,160
Speaker 3: the next couple of months. We shall see. But you know,

1175
00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:00,879
Speaker 3: you don't want this on your franchise. Basically when things

1176
00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:04,719
Speaker 3: are going well, so understandable that the Calves are making

1177
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:06,719
Speaker 3: this decision. It's too bad for Porter. But like you're saying,

1178
00:51:06,719 --> 00:51:08,160
Speaker 3: skis we got to find out what this food is.

1179
00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:09,959
Speaker 3: I would not be surprised if it's roast beef.

1180
00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:13,879
Speaker 2: Wow, Well, Drummonds had Drummonds had so much roast beef

1181
00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:15,719
Speaker 2: in the time over the last little while. Yeah, he's

1182
00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:18,759
Speaker 2: just flinging roast beef around. Oh wow, if it's a

1183
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:22,080
Speaker 2: roast beef, it's makes this story even crazier. Yeah, I

1184
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:24,520
Speaker 2: hear you, though. I think the calves are like, this

1185
00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:26,879
Speaker 2: isn't worth the distraction, man, or you're you're not worth

1186
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:29,840
Speaker 2: the headache. So you know, now they're saying, either just

1187
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:31,880
Speaker 2: stay away from the team and we'll try and trade you,

1188
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:34,040
Speaker 2: or we'll just end up waving it, which just seems crazy.

1189
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:35,960
Speaker 2: I mean, it feels like you could get even if

1190
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:38,400
Speaker 2: it's a small asset back. Yeah, like you said, some

1191
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:40,399
Speaker 2: team will maybe take a chance on him and think

1192
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:42,360
Speaker 2: they can, you know, help him out in terms of

1193
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 2: maybe his personal troubles and stuff like that, or maybe not.

1194
00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:48,120
Speaker 2: Maybe this is Yeah, this is a professional basketball league.

1195
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:50,640
Speaker 2: You got to be a professional, and a lot of

1196
00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:53,200
Speaker 2: these organizations don't have time for this nonsense. So crazy.

1197
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:55,640
Speaker 2: Hopefully he's only twenty, I mean, it's not like his

1198
00:51:55,640 --> 00:51:57,480
Speaker 2: his his career is over, So hopefully he gets it

1199
00:51:57,520 --> 00:52:00,440
Speaker 2: together all right. Some other bad news here, According to

1200
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:02,960
Speaker 2: The Blazer's Late Last Night guards CJ. McCollum will miss

1201
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:05,520
Speaker 2: an extended period of time after suffering a small hairline

1202
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:08,560
Speaker 2: fracture and a spring in his left foot. McCollum will

1203
00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:13,080
Speaker 2: wear a walking boot and will be reevaluated in four weeks. Lead.

1204
00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:17,960
Speaker 2: This stinks because that first Terry starts on the Blazers like, yeah, okay,

1205
00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:21,840
Speaker 2: you hurt himself, We'll reevaluate McCollum in a week. So

1206
00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:24,480
Speaker 2: much for that, you know, a da later, Charms is

1207
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:25,960
Speaker 2: all over it, and now it sounds like he's going

1208
00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:28,520
Speaker 2: to be well. He's going to be able a month minimum.

1209
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:32,280
Speaker 1: They can't afford to lose him. He's having his best season,

1210
00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:34,879
Speaker 1: you know, talking about All Star potential. I know that

1211
00:52:35,040 --> 00:52:37,319
Speaker 1: the Blazers record isn't great and Lilard's sort of their

1212
00:52:37,360 --> 00:52:40,480
Speaker 1: default All Star, but I think McCollum was really forcing

1213
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:44,000
Speaker 1: his way into that conversation and most improved for him.

1214
00:52:44,040 --> 00:52:45,560
Speaker 1: I mean, look at the numbers that he's putting up

1215
00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:48,160
Speaker 1: this year. Twenty seven points a game, shooting forty seven

1216
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:51,600
Speaker 1: percent from from the field, forty four eleven to three

1217
00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:55,440
Speaker 1: pointers a game, five assists and four rebounds a game,

1218
00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:56,880
Speaker 1: and a steal in a half a game. I mean,

1219
00:52:56,920 --> 00:53:00,000
Speaker 1: he was just playing incredible basketball. And now he's out

1220
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:01,960
Speaker 1: for a month, and I just don't think the Blazers

1221
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:04,360
Speaker 1: will be able to survive too much without him, because

1222
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:06,960
Speaker 1: he really can go out there and carry the offensive

1223
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:09,200
Speaker 1: load when they need him to. He's been incredible. He

1224
00:53:09,239 --> 00:53:11,080
Speaker 1: knows how to get to his spot and score, and

1225
00:53:11,120 --> 00:53:13,240
Speaker 1: you can just see the confidence in his game this season,

1226
00:53:13,239 --> 00:53:15,520
Speaker 1: where he's like, I can do anything I want. I

1227
00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:17,240
Speaker 1: can go out on the court and get a basket

1228
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:20,479
Speaker 1: anytime I need to. And now I'm just not sure

1229
00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:22,040
Speaker 1: how they cover. And they've got some guys, you know.

1230
00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:23,640
Speaker 1: Of course, Gary Trent Junior is one of the ones

1231
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:25,680
Speaker 1: who's probably going to get more shots now, but he

1232
00:53:25,719 --> 00:53:28,799
Speaker 1: can't create for himself in the same way that CJ can.

1233
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:32,040
Speaker 1: So I'm not sure what the Blazers do. They're obviously

1234
00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:36,400
Speaker 1: hurting they've lost Nurkic as well. Do they make a trade,

1235
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:38,520
Speaker 1: I mean, Zach Levine, maybe he goes to the Bulls.

1236
00:53:38,560 --> 00:53:40,319
Speaker 1: I don't know. I haven't worked that one in the

1237
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:43,400
Speaker 1: trade machine yet, but certainly they need someone who can

1238
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:45,000
Speaker 1: sort of go out there and get their own basket.

1239
00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:47,319
Speaker 1: And it's going to be really tough to see how

1240
00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 1: the Blazers can handle missing two of their starters for

1241
00:53:51,239 --> 00:53:53,439
Speaker 1: at least the next month here, and just a blow

1242
00:53:53,480 --> 00:53:57,200
Speaker 1: for CJ because he's been such a consistent player and

1243
00:53:57,560 --> 00:54:00,080
Speaker 1: again he really stepped his game up this season and

1244
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:02,759
Speaker 1: took that next level. I'm not sure what level I'm

1245
00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:03,560
Speaker 1: gonna put him in.

1246
00:54:03,480 --> 00:54:06,000
Speaker 2: Just a what I'm just gonna ask you that, Yeah,

1247
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:07,799
Speaker 2: falls one be.

1248
00:54:08,719 --> 00:54:10,799
Speaker 1: He's a one bee, He's a one be, he's a

1249
00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:13,600
Speaker 1: one B. Yeah, But you know, like that, that backcourt

1250
00:54:13,600 --> 00:54:15,479
Speaker 1: has been together for so long, and I've talked about

1251
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:17,120
Speaker 1: it that I wonder how much longer they go with

1252
00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:19,600
Speaker 1: it because their ceiling I don't think was sort of

1253
00:54:19,640 --> 00:54:21,319
Speaker 1: much more than a wrap about the second round in

1254
00:54:21,320 --> 00:54:23,960
Speaker 1: the Western Conference anyway. But now I think they'll just

1255
00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:25,759
Speaker 1: be in a struggle just to sort of keep their

1256
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:27,960
Speaker 1: heads above water for this for this next month, because

1257
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:30,520
Speaker 1: I just don't think they've got the depth that other

1258
00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:32,360
Speaker 1: teams have, especially in the Western Conference.

1259
00:54:33,160 --> 00:54:36,000
Speaker 2: This maybe bodes well for my Lillard MVP pick. That's

1260
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:37,680
Speaker 2: the only good news to come out of this. Maybe

1261
00:54:37,719 --> 00:54:40,240
Speaker 2: Lillard just goes bonkers here for three or four weeks

1262
00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:43,160
Speaker 2: without two of the stars. No, I'm kidding, but CJ

1263
00:54:43,280 --> 00:54:45,720
Speaker 2: has broken his foot I think twice now this foot

1264
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:48,120
Speaker 2: in his career, so that I mean, you're gonna be

1265
00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:50,919
Speaker 2: cautious with it. That just sucks. What do you think, Trey?

1266
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:53,560
Speaker 2: I mean, a Blazer's in deep, deep trouble here with

1267
00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:55,759
Speaker 2: no CJ because he's been They're gonna gotta take out

1268
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:57,680
Speaker 2: twenty five twenty six points a game out of your lineup.

1269
00:54:58,080 --> 00:55:00,600
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they're in big trouble, no siege and likely

1270
00:55:00,640 --> 00:55:03,440
Speaker 3: saying no nurk You know Nurkic. You don't think of

1271
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:05,759
Speaker 3: him as a big loss on the offensive end, but

1272
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:07,359
Speaker 3: he's a guy who can make plays in a pinch

1273
00:55:07,400 --> 00:55:09,840
Speaker 3: as well. So now there's so much pressure on Damian

1274
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:12,239
Speaker 3: Lillard to basically do everything. The good thing for the Blazers,

1275
00:55:12,680 --> 00:55:15,360
Speaker 3: they're scheduled the next ten days isn't too bad. Grizzlies

1276
00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:18,239
Speaker 3: back to back, Knicks, Thunder Rockets Bowls. There's only one

1277
00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:21,040
Speaker 3: Lossumpcy in there, that's against the Balls. You know, after that,

1278
00:55:21,080 --> 00:55:22,640
Speaker 3: it does get a bit tougher. They got the Bucks,

1279
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:25,279
Speaker 3: the Sixers, but they don't have the toughest schedule they

1280
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:27,440
Speaker 3: could possibly have right now. It's not like they're running

1281
00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:30,120
Speaker 3: the Lakers, than the Clippers, than the Nuggets. All back

1282
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:31,680
Speaker 3: to back to back to back to back to back back.

1283
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:34,440
Speaker 3: So if Damian Lillard's able to really catch fire here,

1284
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:36,520
Speaker 3: if he's able to keep putting the team on his back,

1285
00:55:36,880 --> 00:55:38,360
Speaker 3: We're gonna get some Players of the Week here, and

1286
00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:40,560
Speaker 3: not too long, the guy can ball out. We've seen

1287
00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:42,799
Speaker 3: that so many times. That's why I'm willing to say

1288
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:46,120
Speaker 3: that CJ McCollum is actually a two here because Damian

1289
00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:48,680
Speaker 3: Lillard is established as a one if you ask me,

1290
00:55:49,120 --> 00:55:51,600
Speaker 3: but he's gonna have to be a zero point five.

1291
00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:55,040
Speaker 3: He's gonna have to be even more extreme than he

1292
00:55:55,120 --> 00:55:57,520
Speaker 3: has been to start this season because CJ has been

1293
00:55:57,680 --> 00:56:01,319
Speaker 3: a huge help to Damian Lillard throughout the season. I'm

1294
00:56:01,719 --> 00:56:03,759
Speaker 3: in the midst of cutting these seven days for the NBA,

1295
00:56:03,840 --> 00:56:06,200
Speaker 3: and there is every game it feels like Damian Lillard

1296
00:56:06,239 --> 00:56:08,319
Speaker 3: has a huge game, He'll have forty and fifteen, but

1297
00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:11,000
Speaker 3: then CJ mccollins right there with thirty and ten as well.

1298
00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:14,879
Speaker 3: So he's been making plays. He's stepped up his three

1299
00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:17,920
Speaker 3: point shooting, he stepped up his playmaking. And now losing

1300
00:56:17,960 --> 00:56:20,759
Speaker 3: CJ and Nurk with a team that has already brought

1301
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:23,439
Speaker 3: into starters, now you're bringing in two backup guys. There's

1302
00:56:23,480 --> 00:56:25,360
Speaker 3: a lot to figure out for the Blazers, and it

1303
00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:27,560
Speaker 3: just kind of feels like every single year is like this.

1304
00:56:27,680 --> 00:56:30,480
Speaker 3: Damian Lillard seems to stay healthy for the entirety of

1305
00:56:30,520 --> 00:56:32,799
Speaker 3: the season, and they're just shuffling players in and out

1306
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:35,880
Speaker 3: of the lineup, trying to get their best team on

1307
00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:39,720
Speaker 3: the court when they can. I guess the silver lining

1308
00:56:39,760 --> 00:56:42,319
Speaker 3: of this is that it's still only January. You know.

1309
00:56:42,360 --> 00:56:44,319
Speaker 3: If the Blazers are able to kind of keep their

1310
00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:46,560
Speaker 3: head above water here for the next month while CJ

1311
00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:49,279
Speaker 3: is out, if they're able to figure out something with

1312
00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:52,759
Speaker 3: the center spot with a use of Nurkic going down,

1313
00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:54,879
Speaker 3: if they're able to just stay in the mix once

1314
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:57,600
Speaker 3: everybody's back, maybe then they're able to go on a streak.

1315
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:00,399
Speaker 2: Didn't start well on Monday, I suffered a one point

1316
00:57:00,440 --> 00:57:02,040
Speaker 2: lost to the Spurs with that MC call him there

1317
00:57:02,040 --> 00:57:05,160
Speaker 2: of course and nurk so rough start. But I hear you,

1318
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:09,040
Speaker 2: Lillard's gonna have to put up some insane, insane numbers

1319
00:57:09,360 --> 00:57:11,480
Speaker 2: which he can, which he can, and he did this

1320
00:57:11,600 --> 00:57:13,279
Speaker 2: last week. Our final piece of news here you said it,

1321
00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:16,080
Speaker 2: Damian Lillard and Kevin Durant named NBA Players of the

1322
00:57:16,080 --> 00:57:18,520
Speaker 2: Week for Week four. If you're keeping track of the

1323
00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:20,760
Speaker 2: NBA season, yeah, we're basically a month in here, guys.

1324
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:24,240
Speaker 2: Lillard averaged thirty point three points per game, seven point

1325
00:57:24,240 --> 00:57:26,280
Speaker 2: three assists, and five point three boards as the Blazers

1326
00:57:26,320 --> 00:57:29,400
Speaker 2: went three and one. Katie averaged thirty four and eight

1327
00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:32,680
Speaker 2: on incredible shooting percentages as the Nets went three and

1328
00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:35,800
Speaker 2: oh over that week. A little trivia, I like to

1329
00:57:35,840 --> 00:57:38,560
Speaker 2: do this with you, Lee, So Katie winning an Eastern

1330
00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:41,880
Speaker 2: Conference Player of the week first one, how many times

1331
00:57:41,880 --> 00:57:43,400
Speaker 2: did he win the Western Conference Player of the.

1332
00:57:43,400 --> 00:57:45,360
Speaker 1: Week twenty five?

1333
00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:51,320
Speaker 2: Oh, you almost did it again, twenty six, twenty six,

1334
00:57:52,120 --> 00:57:58,439
Speaker 2: very close. I think I think he ranks third all time.

1335
00:57:58,480 --> 00:57:59,560
Speaker 2: I think Kevin Durant does.

1336
00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:01,560
Speaker 1: Lebron would have to be number one.

1337
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:04,280
Speaker 2: Le Bron is like a miles ahead of whoever is

1338
00:58:04,280 --> 00:58:06,320
Speaker 2: in second. I can't think of second right now. So

1339
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:08,120
Speaker 2: if you got Pops into your mind, let.

1340
00:58:08,080 --> 00:58:10,920
Speaker 1: Me maybe James Hotton could be.

1341
00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:13,240
Speaker 2: It could be. But there's a weird thing with this too,

1342
00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:16,880
Speaker 2: because not until like two thousand, two thousand and one

1343
00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:20,720
Speaker 2: season did they start giving it to both conferences. Like Jordan.

1344
00:58:21,160 --> 00:58:23,480
Speaker 2: Jordan I think is fourth all time like he's behind

1345
00:58:23,560 --> 00:58:26,280
Speaker 2: Kevin Durant. But it's like they only gave it to

1346
00:58:27,240 --> 00:58:30,080
Speaker 2: one player for the entire for the entire league, right,

1347
00:58:30,400 --> 00:58:31,400
Speaker 2: why why are you laughing?

1348
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:34,680
Speaker 1: Well, of all the accolades, you know, the the week.

1349
00:58:34,520 --> 00:58:37,320
Speaker 2: That's so well. I think that's gonna ultimately when it

1350
00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:39,600
Speaker 2: comes down to goat talk at the end of it all.

1351
00:58:40,120 --> 00:58:43,840
Speaker 2: How many did Jordan? How many did Lebron? No? So yeah,

1352
00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:46,320
Speaker 2: mj was at a disadvantage there, even though we got

1353
00:58:46,320 --> 00:58:47,800
Speaker 2: a ton of them still, but they were only giving

1354
00:58:47,840 --> 00:58:49,959
Speaker 2: one out. And I think this thing only came around

1355
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:52,680
Speaker 2: in the eighties too, So how many would will to that?

1356
00:58:53,080 --> 00:58:57,640
Speaker 2: Who knows? Who knows? Like one of my biggest what ifs?

1357
00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:00,920
Speaker 3: How many players of the week would will chap number two?

1358
00:59:00,920 --> 00:59:02,840
Speaker 3: Though on your list, skates, you would have guessed that

1359
00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:04,000
Speaker 3: if you got around to it.

1360
00:59:05,080 --> 00:59:07,920
Speaker 2: Oh, Coby, thank you, thank you. I know Mellow's got

1361
00:59:07,920 --> 00:59:08,400
Speaker 2: a lot too.

1362
00:59:08,480 --> 00:59:09,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's up there.

1363
00:59:09,960 --> 00:59:13,160
Speaker 2: He's got probably close to twenty. Anyway, fun little trivia

1364
00:59:13,160 --> 00:59:15,440
Speaker 2: with players of the week. Congrats to Katie and Lillard.

1365
00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:20,560
Speaker 2: See Lillard especially can do it in back to back weeks. Okay,

1366
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:27,680
Speaker 2: let's get to tweet of the night. Tweet of the night. Wow,

1367
00:59:29,400 --> 00:59:31,680
Speaker 2: loved this tweet of the night because if you were

1368
00:59:31,720 --> 00:59:34,640
Speaker 2: on NBA Twitter last night during the Nets Bucks game,

1369
00:59:34,760 --> 00:59:38,800
Speaker 2: you saw a lot of people tweeting about the look

1370
00:59:39,160 --> 00:59:41,640
Speaker 2: of the court and the look of the teams on

1371
00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:46,640
Speaker 2: that Nets court and at Jessica Smet Nana. Excuse me

1372
00:59:46,640 --> 00:59:50,760
Speaker 2: if I'm saying that wrong, Smet Donna, Jessica, Let'll just

1373
00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:52,880
Speaker 2: call her Jessica. She tweeted, the best part about watching

1374
00:59:52,920 --> 00:59:54,720
Speaker 2: the Nets home games is knowing that me and my

1375
00:59:54,840 --> 00:59:57,360
Speaker 2: dog see the exact same thing. Now, this I thought

1376
00:59:57,480 --> 01:00:00,440
Speaker 2: was the best tweet about this because here's a look

1377
01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:02,520
Speaker 2: at I just took a quick screen grab. JD posted

1378
01:00:02,520 --> 01:00:06,080
Speaker 2: it for everybody joining us on YouTube right now. Yeah,

1379
01:00:06,240 --> 01:00:09,720
Speaker 2: you know it's it's very black and whitish, very very

1380
01:00:09,800 --> 01:00:12,320
Speaker 2: dog like. That's what they are seeing when they're watching

1381
01:00:12,800 --> 01:00:15,439
Speaker 2: this game, and so were we because you just saw

1382
01:00:15,600 --> 01:00:18,640
Speaker 2: so many people, myself included. By the way, I made

1383
01:00:18,640 --> 01:00:21,360
Speaker 2: a WandaVision joke. I don't know if you guys have

1384
01:00:21,400 --> 01:00:24,600
Speaker 2: started WandaVision, JD, have you dipped into those first two episodes.

1385
01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:29,600
Speaker 2: I've seen the first episode. Yeah, okay, well yeah, anyway, Yeah,

1386
01:00:30,080 --> 01:00:34,280
Speaker 2: Rachel sat there and complained the entire time, like about

1387
01:00:34,400 --> 01:00:36,040
Speaker 2: it going to be the whole thing, The whole thing's

1388
01:00:36,080 --> 01:00:39,120
Speaker 2: gonna be like this, okay.

1389
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:40,240
Speaker 3: And I was just yeah, exactly, that was my reaction,

1390
01:00:40,280 --> 01:00:41,440
Speaker 3: ex actly, just we'll let.

1391
01:00:41,400 --> 01:00:43,760
Speaker 2: People catch up on one division and we'll eventually do

1392
01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:45,240
Speaker 2: a deep time. But yeah, a lot of people making

1393
01:00:45,320 --> 01:00:47,760
Speaker 2: the Pleasantville jokes and just like the straight up black

1394
01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:50,080
Speaker 2: and white jokes. But I like that one from Jessica there,

1395
01:00:50,360 --> 01:00:53,040
Speaker 2: that tweet about, uh, that's what lunas seeing when she's

1396
01:00:53,080 --> 01:00:53,520
Speaker 2: watching the.

1397
01:00:53,520 --> 01:00:54,760
Speaker 3: Game with somebody as a dog.

1398
01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:59,480
Speaker 2: Now that's right, that's right, now, I understand dogs. I

1399
01:00:59,560 --> 01:01:00,520
Speaker 2: really did. All right.

1400
01:01:00,720 --> 01:01:03,320
Speaker 3: That was great though, because because of the uniforms that

1401
01:01:03,320 --> 01:01:05,680
Speaker 3: they were wearing, and for some reason, it felt like

1402
01:01:05,840 --> 01:01:09,120
Speaker 3: the players were wearing the drabest shoes they could, Like

1403
01:01:09,200 --> 01:01:11,400
Speaker 3: everybody was wearing a white and black shoe except for

1404
01:01:11,440 --> 01:01:14,560
Speaker 3: basically Kevin Durant. He had on He's not in this picture,

1405
01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:18,200
Speaker 3: but he had on like a Texas Longhorns orange shoes.

1406
01:01:18,240 --> 01:01:21,240
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, So it really felt like the Pleasantville the

1407
01:01:21,320 --> 01:01:24,000
Speaker 3: color is returning scene right like it just started with

1408
01:01:24,120 --> 01:01:27,960
Speaker 3: Kevin Durant's feet still an unusual look. Like I said earlier,

1409
01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:29,880
Speaker 3: I had this on the big screen. I had the

1410
01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:32,440
Speaker 3: balls going on a small screen. At halftime, I switched

1411
01:01:32,480 --> 01:01:34,360
Speaker 3: to the balls on the big screen. Boup going back

1412
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:37,000
Speaker 3: and forth. So when you go from a very colorful

1413
01:01:37,040 --> 01:01:40,960
Speaker 3: game like like the Bulls versus the Rockets, you know

1414
01:01:41,120 --> 01:01:43,200
Speaker 3: a lot of red happening there, and then you go

1415
01:01:43,240 --> 01:01:44,959
Speaker 3: to a game where it's all in black and white,

1416
01:01:45,000 --> 01:01:46,640
Speaker 3: it's throwing you for your loopy.

1417
01:01:46,840 --> 01:01:49,400
Speaker 2: Oh, especially when you go from yeah on TNT. If

1418
01:01:49,400 --> 01:01:52,880
Speaker 2: you just go from Nets Bucks to then Warriors Lakers,

1419
01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:56,000
Speaker 2: which is like diplosion of color, like colors. Yeah, you

1420
01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:58,000
Speaker 2: feel drunk on color when you go from that one

1421
01:01:58,040 --> 01:01:58,400
Speaker 2: to that one.

1422
01:01:58,480 --> 01:01:58,600
Speaker 1: Uh.

1423
01:01:58,840 --> 01:02:01,440
Speaker 2: Anyway, great, sweet Jessica, I wish I knew how to

1424
01:02:01,440 --> 01:02:04,040
Speaker 2: pronounce your last name. I'll figure it out. Pick them

1425
01:02:04,040 --> 01:02:07,160
Speaker 2: results Bucks Nets. It was the game we were betting

1426
01:02:07,200 --> 01:02:09,200
Speaker 2: on there last night, and Lelely I went with you.

1427
01:02:09,320 --> 01:02:11,120
Speaker 2: We took the nets. You talked to me and you

1428
01:02:11,200 --> 01:02:15,080
Speaker 2: just said, they got Kevin Durant, Man, they got Kevin Durant.

1429
01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:18,200
Speaker 2: You ended up being right simple as that. Sometimes because

1430
01:02:18,240 --> 01:02:20,240
Speaker 2: the nets covered, they got to win. So that's a

1431
01:02:20,280 --> 01:02:22,560
Speaker 2: win for me and you, a loss for Task and Trey,

1432
01:02:22,560 --> 01:02:25,560
Speaker 2: who had Milwaukee to win by three or more. Tass

1433
01:02:25,600 --> 01:02:28,520
Speaker 2: and Trey are eight to nine. Lee, you're in last still,

1434
01:02:28,560 --> 01:02:30,640
Speaker 2: but you're seven and ten. You really needed that victory.

1435
01:02:30,880 --> 01:02:32,800
Speaker 2: And I'm nine and eight the only guy over five

1436
01:02:32,880 --> 01:02:37,120
Speaker 2: hundred here tonight's game. Incredibly, there's only two games on tonight.

1437
01:02:37,840 --> 01:02:42,640
Speaker 2: What very weird. Ok see Denver and New Orleans Utah

1438
01:02:42,840 --> 01:02:46,960
Speaker 2: even weirder. They both start at nine o'clock. Just really

1439
01:02:47,040 --> 01:02:49,439
Speaker 2: strange schedule here on a Tuesday night. But we're gonna

1440
01:02:49,440 --> 01:02:52,240
Speaker 2: go with that Pelicans Jazz game Utah favored by six

1441
01:02:52,280 --> 01:02:55,000
Speaker 2: and a half. Lee, we'll go to you first. Yes,

1442
01:02:55,400 --> 01:02:56,880
Speaker 2: do you like the Jazz to win by seven or

1443
01:02:56,880 --> 01:02:58,880
Speaker 2: more or Repelicans? Keep it close? This is the second winder?

1444
01:02:58,920 --> 01:02:59,480
Speaker 1: Is it in Utah?

1445
01:02:59,560 --> 01:02:59,760
Speaker 2: Is it?

1446
01:03:00,480 --> 01:03:02,160
Speaker 1: I don't know if that makes any difference, he tays,

1447
01:03:02,200 --> 01:03:03,760
Speaker 1: or not. I know the Pelicans just had a very

1448
01:03:03,840 --> 01:03:07,280
Speaker 1: nice we and over the Kings, but it was the Kings. Yes,

1449
01:03:08,560 --> 01:03:11,720
Speaker 1: the Jazz have been playing better. Seven points. I af

1450
01:03:11,720 --> 01:03:13,760
Speaker 1: to win by I'll take the Jazz.

1451
01:03:13,960 --> 01:03:17,440
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, Trey, what do you think this is tough?

1452
01:03:17,480 --> 01:03:19,440
Speaker 3: I'm with you, Ala, the Jazz have been balling, but

1453
01:03:19,480 --> 01:03:22,200
Speaker 3: that seems like a big chunk of cheese right there.

1454
01:03:22,840 --> 01:03:25,360
Speaker 3: Give me the Pelicans to keep it close.

1455
01:03:25,480 --> 01:03:25,920
Speaker 2: I don't know.

1456
01:03:26,040 --> 01:03:28,720
Speaker 3: Perhaps the Jazz pull it off, but I don't know.

1457
01:03:28,760 --> 01:03:32,120
Speaker 3: I just keep thinking back to Zion in the preseason

1458
01:03:32,200 --> 01:03:35,360
Speaker 3: when he was a rookie, going up against Rudy Gobert,

1459
01:03:35,600 --> 01:03:38,400
Speaker 3: knocking him back, putting him in the basket, finishing at

1460
01:03:39,520 --> 01:03:42,439
Speaker 3: the rim. Zion was awesome against the Kings. It felt

1461
01:03:42,440 --> 01:03:43,840
Speaker 3: like he wasn't gonna miss a shot. He ended up

1462
01:03:43,880 --> 01:03:46,560
Speaker 3: thirteen for fifteen. He's been balling right now. It seemed

1463
01:03:46,640 --> 01:03:50,000
Speaker 3: like his coming out party. Jay Skeetz was loving the highlights.

1464
01:03:50,280 --> 01:03:52,520
Speaker 3: So I'm encouraged by what I've seen from the Pelicans.

1465
01:03:52,520 --> 01:03:54,520
Speaker 3: I think they'll keep it close. Give me New Orleans.

1466
01:03:54,480 --> 01:03:57,920
Speaker 2: We'll hope. Man. Let's hope Zion dunks on Rudy Gobert tonight.

1467
01:03:57,920 --> 01:04:00,280
Speaker 2: Then we're talking. I actually like the Jazz to win

1468
01:04:00,320 --> 01:04:03,000
Speaker 2: this one, you know. I think again, they're one of

1469
01:04:03,040 --> 01:04:04,720
Speaker 2: these teams that's going a little bit under the radar

1470
01:04:04,800 --> 01:04:07,080
Speaker 2: right now. They always do, so it's no surprise. But

1471
01:04:07,520 --> 01:04:09,080
Speaker 2: give me the Jazz to win by seven or more.

1472
01:04:09,160 --> 01:04:09,880
Speaker 2: Let's hear from task.

1473
01:04:10,720 --> 01:04:13,040
Speaker 3: I'll take the Pelicans plus six and a half and

1474
01:04:13,040 --> 01:04:15,480
Speaker 3: I'll take six and a half plus collisions between Zion

1475
01:04:15,560 --> 01:04:18,040
Speaker 3: Williamson and Rudy Gobert at the rim.

1476
01:04:18,400 --> 01:04:22,280
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, there you go, there you go, there you go. Wow,

1477
01:04:22,320 --> 01:04:25,040
Speaker 2: we are split again the same way. It's me and

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01:04:25,120 --> 01:04:27,320
Speaker 2: Lee taking Utah to win by seven or more, and

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Speaker 2: it's Task and Tray taking the Pelicans to cover the spread. There.

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Speaker 2: Good luck to everybody, but especially to Lee. Just a

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Speaker 2: little bit more luck to Lee and then me. Okay, guys,

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Speaker 2: that's it for today's show. Only two games on tonight.

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Speaker 2: Will be back tomorrow to maybe talk about them. We

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Speaker 2: might do something else. I did say we are a

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Speaker 2: month into the season here, we could start looking at

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Speaker 2: some awards, early awards. If we want to do it.

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Speaker 2: We gotta do that at some point this week for sure,

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Speaker 2: So maybe we'll start diving into that. Coming up later today,

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Speaker 2: it's Tuesday, TK, You're gonna have your seven Days in

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Speaker 2: the NBA Fun video series you and ged are working on,

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Speaker 2: So keep your eyes on our YouTube feed for that.

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Speaker 1: Just make sure you also also well, I've got a

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Speaker 1: little a little treat for for mainly our Australian audience

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Speaker 1: out there. I'm going to be having a little podcast

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Speaker 1: with a former Australian NBA coming up in the next

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Speaker 1: few days. Sometimes I look out for that one.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Wow, I hope your WiFi is working well.

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Speaker 1: Am I lagging a little bit?

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Speaker 2: Lag for me? Every day? Am I alone? He likes,

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Speaker 2: we'read of got around the twenty twenty five minute mark,

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Speaker 2: you start lagging for me. But I mean you're powering through.

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Speaker 2: I can understand everything you're saying. So yeah, just one okay,

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Speaker 2: if you looked into your Wi Fi? I mean, what

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Speaker 2: are you working with?

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Speaker 1: My WiFi seems fine these days, so I don't know what.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure it does.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, look, maybe it's just my week. You know,

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Speaker 1: I've had the leaf blowers out here this morning, I've

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Speaker 1: got the Wi Fi lagging. You know, we sort of

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Speaker 1: just seem to pass it around. So maybe it's just

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Speaker 1: my time for it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe it is all right. Guys like comment and

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Speaker 2: subscribe to No Dunks on YouTube again seven days in

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Speaker 2: the NBA tk's weekly recap along with JD of course

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Speaker 2: come in later today, so that's always a lot of fun.

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Speaker 2: Email us your NBA questions for tomorrow. My god, it's

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Speaker 2: already Wednesday, tomorrow tomorrow's Beach step In podcast. We'll do

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Speaker 2: that one in the afternoon, after the morning daily show

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Speaker 2: anything else to add, gentlemen before we say goodbye here today?

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Speaker 2: Nah Lee Na Trey JD one division. I liked it, Okay,

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Speaker 2: I like it. Hey, I liked it too, all right,

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Speaker 2: great Clipper bros. You heard it here first. Have a

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Speaker 2: great time, turn up. Love you guys awesome.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us, and remember No Dunks is a

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Speaker 2: Embrace the day people, you kund stay oh every day

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Speaker 2: and day happy every minute. It's been so long that

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Speaker 2: you're the one a way for.

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Speaker 3: It's happened already. It's gonna be gravy