1
00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:04,840
Speaker 1: Welcome back, y'all. The Celtics remain one of the hottest

2
00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:07,120
Speaker 1: teams in the league, it turns out, and the Kings

3
00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,440
Speaker 1: might be right there with him. And we'll be checking

4
00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:11,680
Speaker 1: in with the state of all things in Orlando with

5
00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:15,960
Speaker 1: Orlando Sentinel Beat writer Kobe Price. On today's episode, I'm

6
00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:19,960
Speaker 1: Miles Gray with Davis. Oh look at that. We got

7
00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:22,800
Speaker 1: a guest host and this is Miles. Then Jack Barry

8
00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:29,200
Speaker 1: gotten Man nailed it so much. Jack is out this

9
00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:31,600
Speaker 1: having a little break for the Thanksgiving so he'll be

10
00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:33,839
Speaker 1: back next week. Worry not. So it would just be

11
00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:36,960
Speaker 1: Miles and Jabari today, but we are thrilled to be

12
00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:40,920
Speaker 1: joined by Like I said, Orlando Sentinel beat writer Kobe Price, Phobe,

13
00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:43,920
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you so much for coming on this show.

14
00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:46,720
Speaker 1: That's what I'm meant to see before. You know, it's

15
00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:50,040
Speaker 1: my pleasure. Appreciate having me. Gonna be fun, like the

16
00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:54,840
Speaker 1: energy like already, Oh yeah, we're a vesting anything you

17
00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:57,440
Speaker 1: have seen anything else yet. This is the least serious

18
00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:01,160
Speaker 1: basketball podcast you've ever heard or been apart part of um. Okay,

19
00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:03,520
Speaker 1: so I know you right for the Orlando Center. You're

20
00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:06,080
Speaker 1: covering the Magic. Are the Magic Your team. Who's your team?

21
00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:08,080
Speaker 1: Who'd you grew up with? I grew up a Bulls fan,

22
00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:10,800
Speaker 1: So I grew up in Chicago, Chrocotland area, so like

23
00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:13,759
Speaker 1: the Bulls, you know, throughout my childhood where my team

24
00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:18,120
Speaker 1: specifically like those baby Bulls like Blue all Day, Kirk Heinrich,

25
00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:21,160
Speaker 1: Ben Gordon, Christ John kind of transfer that over to

26
00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:25,720
Speaker 1: de Row joking, noah, yeah, all though those guys like

27
00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:28,600
Speaker 1: those those were marbles and my bad. I officially just

28
00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:31,559
Speaker 1: turned into that gift of Matt Damon from Saving Private

29
00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:34,280
Speaker 1: Ryan where just cages like I just became the oldest

30
00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:37,160
Speaker 1: person ever because he said his childhood and I was

31
00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:40,039
Speaker 1: definitely late twenties during that. So here we are. I

32
00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:45,640
Speaker 1: was outside, but okay, how are you feeling about him? Now? Hey?

33
00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:47,240
Speaker 1: Look you do you still you still catch up with

34
00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:49,040
Speaker 1: are you? One of these journalists that we have all

35
00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:50,920
Speaker 1: the time, was like, I mean, look, I'm professional, like

36
00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:52,440
Speaker 1: I love is you love the Bulls, but I'm not

37
00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:54,360
Speaker 1: getting too emotionally caught up in it. Do you still

38
00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:57,000
Speaker 1: get caught up swept up in it like a fan? No, yeah,

39
00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,240
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be I'm still all those journalist who was like, yeah,

40
00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:01,680
Speaker 1: that's the fall of just different. Like honestly, when you're

41
00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:04,440
Speaker 1: in this like this job, you just don't you don't

42
00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:06,840
Speaker 1: see like the team you may have growth watching like that,

43
00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:08,760
Speaker 1: Like you don't see them as much unless you cover

44
00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:13,080
Speaker 1: them right right, Like like honestly, like they just played

45
00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:14,960
Speaker 1: the Magic. Just put the Bulls that would have been

46
00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:18,720
Speaker 1: on Friday, and I can count on what they've played.

47
00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:21,840
Speaker 1: What are they? They're seven and ten the seventeen games

48
00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:23,800
Speaker 1: I can count on one hand, Like how many entire

49
00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:26,280
Speaker 1: Bulls games I've watched this season? And that's counted one

50
00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:30,040
Speaker 1: I just watched. I was physically at one, right, so

51
00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:32,640
Speaker 1: it oncet you like once that happens, like you kind

52
00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:35,799
Speaker 1: of like emotionally distanced yourself from the situation just because

53
00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:39,560
Speaker 1: you know he's like your priority change. Yeah, it's part

54
00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:42,839
Speaker 1: of this because you're a professional at that point rather

55
00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:45,640
Speaker 1: than like a hostile fan like I am with a podcast,

56
00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:48,320
Speaker 1: like I'd imagine right, one part is your professional because

57
00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:50,760
Speaker 1: obviously you're not gonna have your like Bulls fandom bleed

58
00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:52,960
Speaker 1: into your coverage of like the Magic. But also I'm

59
00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,320
Speaker 1: sure being around like once the veil is lifted and

60
00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:58,680
Speaker 1: you're actually up in it, every day, it probably does

61
00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:01,520
Speaker 1: take on a completely different text your hunh. Yeah, you're

62
00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:04,040
Speaker 1: right by that, and honestly, yeah, so both those things.

63
00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:06,079
Speaker 1: But also like more man, it just to come over

64
00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:08,919
Speaker 1: like a fan of the game period, just like you,

65
00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:13,760
Speaker 1: Like I appreciate broader, bigger like basketball, then probably I

66
00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:16,440
Speaker 1: did as a fan of the Bulls growing up. That

67
00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:21,160
Speaker 1: makes sense. Yeah, so everything you're hitting, yes, correct, but

68
00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:24,280
Speaker 1: there's also like a greater deeper appreciation for the actual sport.

69
00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:26,520
Speaker 1: Even I sort of like fandom like you become more

70
00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:27,960
Speaker 1: at least for me, I've become over a fan of

71
00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,520
Speaker 1: the sport or the game than the Actually I want

72
00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:34,760
Speaker 1: to I want to get zen like y'all. Yeah, I'm

73
00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:37,400
Speaker 1: telling you, man, it's like it's like a I mean,

74
00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:40,920
Speaker 1: I can't. I think I'm just like it seems far healthier.

75
00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:45,119
Speaker 1: It takes far healthier, you know. Standpoint, Yeah, you don't

76
00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:47,360
Speaker 1: want to cry holding a grown man's jersey in your hands,

77
00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:51,040
Speaker 1: not from the press box or the or the Crypto

78
00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:53,400
Speaker 1: dot Com parking lot because I asked you to leave

79
00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:57,640
Speaker 1: in the second quarter. But anyway, look, look here's another

80
00:03:57,640 --> 00:03:59,520
Speaker 1: way I put it. My fandom is in my checks.

81
00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:02,240
Speaker 1: So as long as my check cash. Then that's when

82
00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:04,119
Speaker 1: that's when I started crying. That's when I started crying

83
00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:06,960
Speaker 1: in a parking lot and they usually from there there

84
00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:12,680
Speaker 1: you the best ability, availability said, booked them, blessed. But yeah,

85
00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:16,040
Speaker 1: I mean, Kobe, we gotta talk about the magic mant

86
00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:19,520
Speaker 1: got a really nice team over there. I got admit,

87
00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:24,320
Speaker 1: I was telling Jabari earlier. You know, small market team.

88
00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:27,000
Speaker 1: I like in the shadows. I feel like I have

89
00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:30,200
Speaker 1: just been getting better and better, but like without the

90
00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:34,920
Speaker 1: attention of everybody, and man, my man, Franz Wagner over here,

91
00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:37,840
Speaker 1: we're just talking about Michigan basketball shorts. Shout out the uniforms.

92
00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:41,479
Speaker 1: Um like he's improving every single year in a way

93
00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:43,920
Speaker 1: that I think is really underrated. Yeah, I know France

94
00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:46,359
Speaker 1: has really so I think some of his h his

95
00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:49,880
Speaker 1: rookie season last year was when underrated or just maybe overlooked.

96
00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:52,800
Speaker 1: If you ask people, and I think I guess he

97
00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:54,920
Speaker 1: made the first seam all rookie, so I think at

98
00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,719
Speaker 1: least among media, he was respective for what you did.

99
00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:00,599
Speaker 1: But if you ask like most people most publicly, you

100
00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:03,680
Speaker 1: asked for the five best rookies from last season, I

101
00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:08,320
Speaker 1: don't know how many would have chosen Frands as as

102
00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:10,560
Speaker 1: in the top five, and honestly, like, even if you

103
00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:15,839
Speaker 1: would give me your top five players from class Frances class,

104
00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:18,240
Speaker 1: you know, I do wonder how many people would list

105
00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:20,320
Speaker 1: Fronds in the top three because at least to me,

106
00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:24,280
Speaker 1: I mean basically, just if you look based off of

107
00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:27,599
Speaker 1: last year and this season, like there's a better there's

108
00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:29,839
Speaker 1: a great argument that he has been, at the worst

109
00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:32,280
Speaker 1: the third best player in that draft class. And that's

110
00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:35,120
Speaker 1: a class that includes Jalen Green, Scottie Barnes, Evan mobile

111
00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:38,120
Speaker 1: k Cunningham till this goes on. I mean, what he's

112
00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:41,960
Speaker 1: doing as a driver is a sensational The passings there,

113
00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:45,040
Speaker 1: the defense is there. We spoke, but I asked for

114
00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:46,880
Speaker 1: Carlisle about him, and he said, like, this is a

115
00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:50,520
Speaker 1: two way wing that you just don't know. They don't

116
00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:52,720
Speaker 1: grow on trees, man Like, players like this are not

117
00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:57,360
Speaker 1: easy to find. So Franz to me, and I've said

118
00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:02,760
Speaker 1: this on other podcasts other platforms, all start to potential easily. Yeah,

119
00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:04,760
Speaker 1: It's it's interesting that you say that, because that's actually

120
00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:06,440
Speaker 1: where I was gonna go with it. You know, you know,

121
00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:08,920
Speaker 1: two miles point, you guys have a ton of young

122
00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:11,240
Speaker 1: talent there obviously with Ben Carroll who will come to

123
00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:14,320
Speaker 1: go here shortly. Uh, you know, Jalen Suggs, you know,

124
00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:17,240
Speaker 1: Franz Frans are already at a point where he's averaging

125
00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:19,280
Speaker 1: over nineteen points. He's getting you four and a half

126
00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:21,240
Speaker 1: and you know, just about four and a half. You know,

127
00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:24,039
Speaker 1: that's not far from all star level. Do you think

128
00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:25,479
Speaker 1: that you know, do you think that he has that

129
00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:28,360
Speaker 1: potential like over the next couple of seasons while developing

130
00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:31,920
Speaker 1: alongside those big guys. I mean, you look at this

131
00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:35,800
Speaker 1: season long numbers nineteen four and four. He's shooting, you know,

132
00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:38,640
Speaker 1: but almost fifty percent from the field, the three balls

133
00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:40,400
Speaker 1: coming along like he's a good comment. That just didn't

134
00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:42,200
Speaker 1: start off the season well. But you just want to

135
00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:44,839
Speaker 1: look at November like once you know, got the five

136
00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:48,920
Speaker 1: really just four shooting games happens every player, or get

137
00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:53,279
Speaker 1: the seven shooting games like it's what twenty two four

138
00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:57,400
Speaker 1: and a half and four shooting from the field on

139
00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:01,960
Speaker 1: threes like this is I guess said, that's just the offense,

140
00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:04,719
Speaker 1: Like you added the defensive ability to switch ability like this,

141
00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:07,440
Speaker 1: it's not it's not something you just take for granted.

142
00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:10,000
Speaker 1: So he definitely has to be all stark potential, a

143
00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:12,960
Speaker 1: guy who's gonna be a cornerstone for the magic, you know,

144
00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:15,280
Speaker 1: and what they're building, you know, with the next level,

145
00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:17,680
Speaker 1: alongside Hollow and alongside the other guys. They have them

146
00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:20,960
Speaker 1: the team, but all starts to meet. If if you

147
00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:24,200
Speaker 1: don't see all star potential with Franz, I don't. I

148
00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:26,000
Speaker 1: don't know if Mutch enough of film, because he's just

149
00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:29,360
Speaker 1: been that good. And it's not just it's the driving,

150
00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:31,240
Speaker 1: is the cutting when he's able to get off ball,

151
00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:34,280
Speaker 1: he's really he's shown a lot. Yeah, and he's and

152
00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:37,360
Speaker 1: he's creating for himself too. Yeah, there's I mean, like

153
00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:38,680
Speaker 1: it's like one of those things he was like, I

154
00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:41,120
Speaker 1: mean what he was drafted was the eighth pick, so

155
00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:44,880
Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, he's gonna be good. It's like one

156
00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:47,800
Speaker 1: of those things. It is wild how even like reflexively

157
00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:50,760
Speaker 1: I wouldn't immediately look to him, but in like just

158
00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:52,960
Speaker 1: you know, watching more and more of this season and

159
00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:55,480
Speaker 1: then you know, after doing a little bit of research

160
00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:57,680
Speaker 1: to prepare to like really talk about the magic, I'm like,

161
00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:02,160
Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, I was full you asleep, uh, you know,

162
00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:05,160
Speaker 1: to like what he was really doing um, But yeah,

163
00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:06,920
Speaker 1: it is. It is wild to watch that all come

164
00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:09,400
Speaker 1: together because I think, yeah, it's it's always nice to

165
00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:13,240
Speaker 1: see those those talents developed. Um. Speaking of talents, Paolo

166
00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:17,240
Speaker 1: Mr ban Caro, you know right now he's got a

167
00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:19,440
Speaker 1: little bit of injury. How long has been out? Almost

168
00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:22,840
Speaker 1: two weeks? Yeah, what's that been like for you? Because

169
00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:27,280
Speaker 1: we watched highlights over here and we're like, whoa, Okay,

170
00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:30,160
Speaker 1: he looks very confident. He looks very confident in his abilities,

171
00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:32,720
Speaker 1: very secure in his has a good sense of self

172
00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:35,400
Speaker 1: already as a rookie. What is that? I mean, give me,

173
00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:39,000
Speaker 1: what's it like up close on the daily basis you're there? What?

174
00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:41,319
Speaker 1: What like? Are we missing something or it's yeah, is

175
00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:44,200
Speaker 1: it's that good? No? Is that good? I don't know

176
00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:46,880
Speaker 1: if anything. I mean it's whether you see it from

177
00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:49,520
Speaker 1: afar where you see from up close. It's pretty obvious

178
00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:54,360
Speaker 1: the kids got it right. I mean, you hit me honestly,

179
00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:56,679
Speaker 1: like a summer league. It's not just like it's not

180
00:08:56,760 --> 00:08:59,040
Speaker 1: just the scoring, it's not just the past, it's just

181
00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:01,600
Speaker 1: the way he was. You're just kind of like, whoa, wait,

182
00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:04,320
Speaker 1: how the are you again? I'm sure you're rookie like

183
00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:06,800
Speaker 1: you're playing like your twenty five year old five year

184
00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:09,880
Speaker 1: NBA vet. It's just the maturity about his game, the

185
00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:13,120
Speaker 1: fluidity which he moves. You just kind of like, you're

186
00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:17,880
Speaker 1: this good already, but you can get better. So it's

187
00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:22,120
Speaker 1: it's super. I I knew he was. There was an

188
00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:24,960
Speaker 1: assistant coach from dude told me that when you see

189
00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:27,360
Speaker 1: him in person, he's gonna be bigger than you think.

190
00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:29,280
Speaker 1: I'm like, come on, man, Like I think I did

191
00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:30,960
Speaker 1: just say this about come on man, like he's listened

192
00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:32,560
Speaker 1: to six non six then, like, I don't know if

193
00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:34,800
Speaker 1: you toft Like, I know he's gonna be big, But

194
00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:38,240
Speaker 1: when I saw him in person, I was like, all right,

195
00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:42,160
Speaker 1: grown man, grown just cure grown man at whatever. He

196
00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:46,320
Speaker 1: he just turned twenty but twenty years old. And the size, strength,

197
00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:49,800
Speaker 1: the fluidity, the touch, the ability to just get to

198
00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:51,640
Speaker 1: the line over and over game like put reps in

199
00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:55,040
Speaker 1: that position. The passing, You're just like, uh, yeah, this

200
00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:58,200
Speaker 1: is a cornerstone. This is this is everything that you

201
00:09:58,240 --> 00:09:59,920
Speaker 1: know you kind of want to build. Like an off

202
00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,040
Speaker 1: it's a full come around on offensive hub Like he

203
00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:05,560
Speaker 1: has the skills, they're already, it's not just about building

204
00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:08,160
Speaker 1: upon those skills and if you have a tandem like

205
00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:10,839
Speaker 1: Franz and Pollo and build out from there, Like I

206
00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:14,040
Speaker 1: don't like you can mess up so much around that,

207
00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:18,120
Speaker 1: but you have those two, you're gonna get somewhere good. Yeah, seriously,

208
00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:21,000
Speaker 1: but I mean it's I mean, once like Franz gets

209
00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:23,319
Speaker 1: those those those three point numbers up, I saw him

210
00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:28,120
Speaker 1: getting nice with the step back recently, I was like, oh, right,

211
00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:31,880
Speaker 1: this all comes together. Yeah, it's it will be trouble. Guys.

212
00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:33,800
Speaker 1: We haven't even talked about one of the more exciting

213
00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:36,000
Speaker 1: stories from this season, at least from the outside looking in.

214
00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:40,120
Speaker 1: What about bull Bull Bull? Like, Okay, so there were

215
00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:42,720
Speaker 1: some and you know, I'm sure that you know Kobe

216
00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:45,360
Speaker 1: being tapped in with the Orlando fan base, there were

217
00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:47,679
Speaker 1: some that were I don't want to say questioning. They

218
00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:50,959
Speaker 1: were absolutely full on, wholeheartedly poop poo in that signing.

219
00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:52,880
Speaker 1: And if I'm not mistaken, you broke that news and

220
00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:56,840
Speaker 1: just this past summer. But over his last five games,

221
00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:00,240
Speaker 1: he's at eighteen points, eleven and a half rebounds, you know,

222
00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:03,000
Speaker 1: just under two blocks. He's shooting the ball from the

223
00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:06,040
Speaker 1: field from deep and eighty two percent from the free

224
00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:08,440
Speaker 1: throw line and you talk about his development and just

225
00:11:08,679 --> 00:11:11,160
Speaker 1: what you know, what type of player they have there. Yeah,

226
00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:13,439
Speaker 1: honestly when you asked me that, I'm still trying to

227
00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:16,920
Speaker 1: figure it out myself because it just seems like, you know,

228
00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:19,360
Speaker 1: he's a guy who he knew he was super talented.

229
00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:21,520
Speaker 1: You know, he was on the top one of the

230
00:11:21,559 --> 00:11:24,360
Speaker 1: top players. I think, what in the eighteen high school

231
00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:27,720
Speaker 1: recruiting class, and you know seven two guys who has

232
00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:30,040
Speaker 1: that handle? Who has you know, to score like that?

233
00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:33,560
Speaker 1: Like you see that immediately. But it seems like I

234
00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:37,400
Speaker 1: just wrote about this. Every few games she started to

235
00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:39,720
Speaker 1: show off a little bit more Like the first few games,

236
00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:42,680
Speaker 1: there's lots rebounding, you know, being the right position to

237
00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:46,560
Speaker 1: you know, putbacks or you know, dumball passes all like

238
00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:49,319
Speaker 1: all these little like simple things that you just be like, dude,

239
00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:51,600
Speaker 1: you're seven too, you can do all this like in

240
00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:55,240
Speaker 1: your sleep. Now, Like especially what said the past five

241
00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:59,320
Speaker 1: six seven games, like we're seeing some pull up, some

242
00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:02,000
Speaker 1: step backs, you know, even through all of this, we've

243
00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:06,280
Speaker 1: seen the coast to coast euro steps and just finishes

244
00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:08,760
Speaker 1: like he had to dump the other night against the Pacers,

245
00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:12,360
Speaker 1: where he like moved around a guy, he just like

246
00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:15,320
Speaker 1: extended his arms out and dunce, I'm like, how do

247
00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:18,760
Speaker 1: you do that? How are your arms at the basket already?

248
00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:20,840
Speaker 1: When the guys like fully, like not fully but like

249
00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:24,920
Speaker 1: partially still in front of you. So he and you

250
00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:27,120
Speaker 1: can tell like some things are like coming along for him.

251
00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:29,360
Speaker 1: He hasn't played a lot of Like before this season,

252
00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:32,360
Speaker 1: he had not played a lot of basketball. Um didn't

253
00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:35,280
Speaker 1: play a lot in Denver injuries. You know, this is

254
00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:38,560
Speaker 1: the most consistent basketball he's played since high school. So

255
00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:40,760
Speaker 1: you can see, which is a crazy thing to say, allowed,

256
00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:43,040
Speaker 1: but you can kind of see the game coming to him,

257
00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:45,400
Speaker 1: you know, day in and day out, you know from us,

258
00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:47,600
Speaker 1: not just from a score perspective, but understanding like all right,

259
00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:49,319
Speaker 1: I need to make a pass here. I don't need

260
00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:51,760
Speaker 1: to like it as to be full you know, full

261
00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:53,640
Speaker 1: force to score. So you can kind of see it,

262
00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:56,559
Speaker 1: you know, after what was that four or five years

263
00:12:56,600 --> 00:12:59,880
Speaker 1: and not consisting playing basketball things trying to you know,

264
00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:03,959
Speaker 1: put be put together for him. Yeah, it's I mean,

265
00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:08,160
Speaker 1: he's it's nice to see him him improving constantly. I

266
00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:10,120
Speaker 1: know some like a lot of magic fans like, man,

267
00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:13,160
Speaker 1: it's just most improved, right, here, but I mean there's

268
00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:15,120
Speaker 1: there's some competition there, but I do, like I said,

269
00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:16,760
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get in that man's way. I like,

270
00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:19,840
Speaker 1: I just love I love watching bo play. Like I

271
00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:23,120
Speaker 1: didn't really actually consider how little he's played in that sense,

272
00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:26,480
Speaker 1: and then it come out like this, Yeah it's something. Yeah, no,

273
00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:28,440
Speaker 1: it's I mean when you really I spoke with him

274
00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:30,880
Speaker 1: in the locker room about this, maybe before one of

275
00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:34,720
Speaker 1: the Indiana games. I forget which one, and like we

276
00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:36,199
Speaker 1: were just chatting up. I was like, yeah, this is

277
00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:38,600
Speaker 1: most in basketball you've probably played in a few years.

278
00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:41,200
Speaker 1: He's like not realized only played nine games in Oregon,

279
00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:44,320
Speaker 1: you know. Before in Orlando, I think he only played

280
00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:50,480
Speaker 1: like fifty three games. Fo so like every single like

281
00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:53,160
Speaker 1: the first four games he played of the season, like

282
00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:55,200
Speaker 1: the first it was the first time he played like

283
00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:57,720
Speaker 1: ten minutes to night in a row for connective games,

284
00:13:57,880 --> 00:14:00,280
Speaker 1: which is like a low benchmark. But then you think about, like,

285
00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:02,800
Speaker 1: wait a second, you haven't played at least ten minutes

286
00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:06,080
Speaker 1: in a game four secutive times. There's so much more

287
00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:08,040
Speaker 1: that you need, like so many more bitchmarks you need

288
00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:10,680
Speaker 1: to clear. Um. So he's kind of just scratching the

289
00:14:10,679 --> 00:14:12,720
Speaker 1: surface on what he can be, which is almost like

290
00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:19,240
Speaker 1: terrifying because he's already doing yeah, yeah, so doing some

291
00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:21,400
Speaker 1: the same stuff. When you're that tall, the ceiling must

292
00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:24,040
Speaker 1: be higher than you, so that's I think that's good news.

293
00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:26,400
Speaker 1: Like that the ceiling must be higher than seven too,

294
00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:29,920
Speaker 1: with a suddenly wingspan exactly at the at a bare minimum,

295
00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:33,080
Speaker 1: and that's yeah, that's a big room for sure. I mean,

296
00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:36,640
Speaker 1: quickly this. The Celtics also been doing quite well. You know,

297
00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:39,720
Speaker 1: as a people know my allegiances live on the West

298
00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:47,560
Speaker 1: coast with a story basketball. But man, they look real,

299
00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:53,840
Speaker 1: real good. I cannot deny it. I mean, it's jabar.

300
00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:56,320
Speaker 1: What are these stats we're looking at here? Well, what's

301
00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:58,560
Speaker 1: interesting to me? And I I'm intrigued to get Kobe's

302
00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:00,960
Speaker 1: opinion about it, because you know, last year they were

303
00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:04,080
Speaker 1: incredible defensively. This year they're just twenty three overall in

304
00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:06,600
Speaker 1: terms of the you know, team defensive efficiency, you know,

305
00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:08,720
Speaker 1: in the middle of the pack when it comes to rebounding.

306
00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:10,600
Speaker 1: But they're doing it really on the other end of

307
00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:12,760
Speaker 1: the court. You know, their second overall, you know, second

308
00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:15,640
Speaker 1: overall and team effective field goal percentage. You know, they've

309
00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:18,000
Speaker 1: got a great assistance to the turnover ratio their second

310
00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,400
Speaker 1: overall in the league, and that shoot the three ball well,

311
00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:22,560
Speaker 1: and they basically just take care of the ball. What

312
00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:24,720
Speaker 1: are your thoughts about the job that Joe, you know,

313
00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:27,520
Speaker 1: coach Joe Mazola has been doing. Yeah, I think he's

314
00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:29,320
Speaker 1: been I think he's not as good of a job

315
00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:32,080
Speaker 1: as you know, as you would hope for, um, considering

316
00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:35,120
Speaker 1: all the circumstances that he had coming into the season. Sure,

317
00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:39,400
Speaker 1: you know, kind of taking on this job what like

318
00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:42,960
Speaker 1: what two weeks before the people started, I want to say,

319
00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:46,160
Speaker 1: and maybe even less. I know it's in September, um,

320
00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:48,840
Speaker 1: but yeah, just to the you see, you know this,

321
00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:51,560
Speaker 1: the roster was never really a question, I think. You

322
00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:54,120
Speaker 1: know obviously you know they're they've been rout that uh

323
00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:57,680
Speaker 1: without Tom Lord for through the start of the season.

324
00:15:57,720 --> 00:15:59,680
Speaker 1: But you know, you saw the talent, you know, especially

325
00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:01,280
Speaker 1: at you know, they pick up a guy like'm not

326
00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:04,560
Speaker 1: from Brogden, Like the talent is there, so you just wanted, like,

327
00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:06,760
Speaker 1: how is he gonna be able to keep these guys together,

328
00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:09,480
Speaker 1: you know, keep the lock and room buying after the

329
00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:12,240
Speaker 1: the really strange off season they had, especially more so

330
00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:14,840
Speaker 1: in the August September part of it when you go

331
00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:16,640
Speaker 1: through what you know, what you went through with Dannylogan,

332
00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:19,720
Speaker 1: how are you getting injured? And obviously the whole email

333
00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:23,360
Speaker 1: you dog a situation and then Missoula like he's handled

334
00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:26,120
Speaker 1: it as well as you can. And I'm you know,

335
00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:29,520
Speaker 1: I think some of it there's been maybe a tabita slippage,

336
00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:31,680
Speaker 1: but I think some a lot of the defensive issues

337
00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:35,360
Speaker 1: will be fixed once they get you know, Rob Williams back,

338
00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:37,160
Speaker 1: just because he is just that kind of level of

339
00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:41,560
Speaker 1: defensive player. But I've been super I've been super impressed

340
00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:44,600
Speaker 1: by what they've done. It's super impressed by the Celtics.

341
00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:47,040
Speaker 1: And you know, before the season, I had them as

342
00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:48,840
Speaker 1: a team where I thought, you know, things break right,

343
00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:51,920
Speaker 1: they should be in that upper tier of Eastern Conference.

344
00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:55,040
Speaker 1: Continuous are just contenderous period throughout the league. And everything

345
00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:58,720
Speaker 1: I've seen so far has you know, backed that up? Yeah?

346
00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:02,280
Speaker 1: And I guess from another team that you know, the

347
00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:04,520
Speaker 1: Lakers have a bit of history with got to talk

348
00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:10,720
Speaker 1: about another team history, the Sacramento Kings, because my goodness,

349
00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:14,679
Speaker 1: they look really good in a way that like I

350
00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:21,280
Speaker 1: can't even front. I'm like, whoa they we were talking

351
00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:24,280
Speaker 1: about this before Jabari, it's hard to really see like

352
00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:28,320
Speaker 1: the gaps in here because they look deep. They got shooters.

353
00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:32,600
Speaker 1: I love to see that. And heard her is also, man,

354
00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:36,000
Speaker 1: I heard Kevin Durant bigging up. Heard her and he's like, man,

355
00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:38,600
Speaker 1: if you're not watching the way this man is shooting

356
00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:40,360
Speaker 1: the ball right now, He's like, you're not really a fan,

357
00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:42,360
Speaker 1: like you need to appreciate what he's doing right now.

358
00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:45,439
Speaker 1: I immediately got online. I was like, Okay, you know

359
00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:48,240
Speaker 1: what Katie told me. I'm again I'm gonna sleep on

360
00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:50,720
Speaker 1: something I need to watch. And yeah, he's He's right.

361
00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:53,919
Speaker 1: They look they look like something. Darren Fox too is

362
00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:56,919
Speaker 1: also it's a lot of a lot of a lot

363
00:17:56,960 --> 00:17:59,480
Speaker 1: of sweat, beads of sweat that are created palm my

364
00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:02,399
Speaker 1: forehead when I look at how they're playing. And to

365
00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:04,480
Speaker 1: that point, Kobe, is this in your opinion? It is

366
00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:06,240
Speaker 1: just a matter of like they were terrible for a

367
00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:08,520
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of years. And believe me, Kings fans,

368
00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:11,200
Speaker 1: I'm not piling on. I'm just being honest. And they

369
00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:14,400
Speaker 1: kept on, stop piling talent and finally found the right

370
00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:17,920
Speaker 1: mix with the right head coach. Yeah, I think that's

371
00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:20,480
Speaker 1: a good way to look at it. I mean, you know,

372
00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:22,359
Speaker 1: herders and then shooting likes out. I think it kind

373
00:18:22,359 --> 00:18:24,359
Speaker 1: of to me it kind of stulls with Fox like

374
00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:27,280
Speaker 1: he's been because he just he's coming off a Player

375
00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:29,600
Speaker 1: of the Week. He's been sensational, Like I just got

376
00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:31,760
Speaker 1: to see him. He's the guy I got to see

377
00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:33,440
Speaker 1: how close when you know, he had that buzzer beater

378
00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:37,280
Speaker 1: over the Magic and he was you know just in

379
00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:39,439
Speaker 1: certain parts of the game, he was just clinical, like

380
00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:41,919
Speaker 1: complete control of what he was when he wanted to

381
00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:44,679
Speaker 1: do what he was trying to do. So to me,

382
00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:46,679
Speaker 1: it kind of starts with him because the bones has

383
00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:50,639
Speaker 1: been effective. It's it's you know, Mike Brown, he's you know,

384
00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,600
Speaker 1: what he's doing is working. You know, there's the space

385
00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:56,199
Speaker 1: that there's scored that they've been scoring at is ridiculous.

386
00:18:56,720 --> 00:19:00,600
Speaker 1: But I think I think, yeah, say, I think they

387
00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:03,080
Speaker 1: just overtook the Celtics for the top offense in the league,

388
00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:06,040
Speaker 1: which I mean, you can see the talent, but the

389
00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:08,199
Speaker 1: fact that you know they put it all together in

390
00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:12,360
Speaker 1: this way is like credit. That's the kudos to Mike

391
00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:14,840
Speaker 1: Brown his staff and just also like it's a box

392
00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:18,560
Speaker 1: of bonus hurder you know month, you know it's down

393
00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:22,159
Speaker 1: the line just the it's not it's not because you

394
00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:25,320
Speaker 1: could just read the whole roster basic. Yeah. Yeah, it's

395
00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:28,359
Speaker 1: like it's like six different guys. You're just kind of like,

396
00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:31,400
Speaker 1: well this they're performing. You know, I didn't even say

397
00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:34,320
Speaker 1: Murray who. I think some people before the season thought,

398
00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:35,720
Speaker 1: you know, if it wasn't gonna be Polo, I think

399
00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:38,639
Speaker 1: some people would have had Murray as a as a

400
00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:41,400
Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year contender. So they're a fun team.

401
00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:43,080
Speaker 1: They're they're just a fun team too. Like it's not

402
00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:45,200
Speaker 1: just there. They've been good. They've been super fun to watch.

403
00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:48,200
Speaker 1: Of the of the teams like you know, like say

404
00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:51,480
Speaker 1: the Kings or like you know, the surprise teams. Uh,

405
00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:54,520
Speaker 1: you know out there, whether it's Portland or you know,

406
00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:59,560
Speaker 1: um you talk, are all of them real or do

407
00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:01,440
Speaker 1: you expect you know, any of them to you know,

408
00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:05,360
Speaker 1: kind of separate themselves from from the pack. I'm trying

409
00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:10,560
Speaker 1: to think of, Like so Portland's Utah, Indiana mm hmmm, uh,

410
00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:14,240
Speaker 1: good point on Indiana. We didn't even mention them. There

411
00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:15,720
Speaker 1: were six and two over the last eight. They're like

412
00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:17,640
Speaker 1: one of them, you know, hottest teams in the league

413
00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:21,080
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah six and two, shoot eight and two

414
00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:25,560
Speaker 1: over their last ten and then on the season, Um,

415
00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:28,600
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think. I think, you know what, Utah,

416
00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:31,000
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're gonna end up being the

417
00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:32,960
Speaker 1: number one seed for when the season is all said

418
00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:36,240
Speaker 1: and done. But my thing, what you saw before the

419
00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:38,280
Speaker 1: season was like there was it was clear that there

420
00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:39,800
Speaker 1: was a lot of talent there. And I think this

421
00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:41,160
Speaker 1: is the case with most of the things we were

422
00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:43,919
Speaker 1: talking about. It was clear that they had talent. You

423
00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,359
Speaker 1: just didn't think that the teams themselves would stick together

424
00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:48,800
Speaker 1: this long after This way by Indiana too, Like I

425
00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:50,639
Speaker 1: didn't think Uta is gonna keep all these guys around,

426
00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:53,440
Speaker 1: you know what, twenty games into the season, I didn't

427
00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:55,520
Speaker 1: think Turner and Heeld was still be on, you know,

428
00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:59,320
Speaker 1: in Indiana. But sixteen games to the season, you know,

429
00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:02,760
Speaker 1: maybe Sacramento you look at them just because you thought,

430
00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:04,879
Speaker 1: all right, yeah, this team is gonna be there. But

431
00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:06,840
Speaker 1: like a lot of the surprise teams, I guess a

432
00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:10,040
Speaker 1: couple of the surprise teams, um more so in Utah

433
00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:12,400
Speaker 1: and Indiana, it's just been like we thought these situations

434
00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:14,399
Speaker 1: gonna be different, but the fact that they're not, I

435
00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:15,879
Speaker 1: guess you tall you look at it's like, all right,

436
00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:19,040
Speaker 1: number one and did West? What's really going on over there?

437
00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:23,720
Speaker 1: Brian wentforse But yeah, I mean, I don't have no

438
00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:27,600
Speaker 1: reason to believe that what Indiana is doing or what

439
00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:30,439
Speaker 1: I guess Portland slipped a little bit, but you know, Dames,

440
00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:32,800
Speaker 1: I think with Dames out now, like I don't believe

441
00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:34,439
Speaker 1: that they were real. So I think of all the

442
00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:36,879
Speaker 1: teams who have played, I think Utah is probably the

443
00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:39,879
Speaker 1: most likely to slip down, just because the West is

444
00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:43,320
Speaker 1: so volatile and you still think you know something, You

445
00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:45,399
Speaker 1: still feel like something's gonna shape over there, even with

446
00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:49,600
Speaker 1: the right all right, well, let's take a quick break

447
00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:52,760
Speaker 1: and we'll come back to talk about some some outstanding

448
00:21:52,800 --> 00:22:05,360
Speaker 1: performances from the last week. We'll be right back. And

449
00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:12,240
Speaker 1: we're back, and so is Ben sim I just want

450
00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:15,679
Speaker 1: to say it, like I want to just I just

451
00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:18,080
Speaker 1: want to give it the space, you know, because the

452
00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:20,200
Speaker 1: man has had a lot of pressure on him. But

453
00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:23,600
Speaker 1: it would be remiss of me, uh to not point

454
00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:27,600
Speaker 1: out that he does seem to be on an upward trajectory. Again,

455
00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:29,480
Speaker 1: I know, if it seemed a little like if he's

456
00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:31,399
Speaker 1: here and there and we were laughing, and like started

457
00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,720
Speaker 1: early on in the seasons. But now it does feel

458
00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:38,320
Speaker 1: like the mind body connection is returning. Right for me

459
00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:41,919
Speaker 1: watching him of late, what I appreciate is he's getting

460
00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:44,280
Speaker 1: downhill again. It was because it was one thing that

461
00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:46,159
Speaker 1: you to not really shoot all all that much. And

462
00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:47,840
Speaker 1: I don't I'll be honest with you, I don't care

463
00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:49,679
Speaker 1: if he if he never shoots the three pointer, you know,

464
00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:51,720
Speaker 1: like at any point in his career. But it was

465
00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:53,399
Speaker 1: a whole other thing when he was it looked as

466
00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:55,720
Speaker 1: though he was afraid to get down hill. Uh, he

467
00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:59,479
Speaker 1: was avoiding contact and thinks and and things of that nature. Uh.

468
00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:03,520
Speaker 1: He he looks far more natural, or or as close

469
00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:06,639
Speaker 1: to natural as I've seen him what in three years. Honestly,

470
00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:09,159
Speaker 1: I think some of us would forget, like he not forgive.

471
00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:11,320
Speaker 1: But we overlooked the fact that no, he has not

472
00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:14,719
Speaker 1: played basketball, and you know, he missed the entire season.

473
00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:17,040
Speaker 1: You know that he missed the entire season. But he

474
00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:20,000
Speaker 1: walked into a completely different situation after that. So I

475
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:21,760
Speaker 1: think some of it is the mind body connection, but

476
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:25,000
Speaker 1: also you know, figuring out new teammates and figuring out,

477
00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:26,800
Speaker 1: like you know, new guys to play around. Yes, it

478
00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:28,440
Speaker 1: seems so easy to be like, oh yeah, just throw

479
00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:30,840
Speaker 1: missa Katie and throwings of Kyrie and all these guys

480
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,280
Speaker 1: and all these shooters will work out. But when you

481
00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:35,760
Speaker 1: get into a new team and new system and then

482
00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:39,240
Speaker 1: you have all the this is called a mess that

483
00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:45,920
Speaker 1: Brooklyn has brought since whenever, since uh July nineteen and

484
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,240
Speaker 1: just happens to go into it. It takes a minute

485
00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:50,040
Speaker 1: to find your rhythm, especially when you're dealing with stuff

486
00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:53,120
Speaker 1: like back and those kind of injuries, um or those

487
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:56,280
Speaker 1: kind of ailments. He is, you know, printing upward, and

488
00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:59,680
Speaker 1: I think there's plenty reasons to believe they'll continue. Yeah,

489
00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:01,800
Speaker 1: I mean he as he even said, he said quote

490
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:05,440
Speaker 1: my mind is telling me go be you, but then

491
00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:07,720
Speaker 1: my body is trying to catch up. So it feels

492
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:10,680
Speaker 1: like I'm just progressing each day, each game, just building up.

493
00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:12,800
Speaker 1: I'm still trying to get a rhythm and find my pace.

494
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:15,119
Speaker 1: Sounds like he has a good attitude to you know

495
00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:17,359
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like I feel like that's I feel

496
00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:19,560
Speaker 1: like so many times athletes will put themselves in like

497
00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:22,439
Speaker 1: absurd pressure situations that like you can't climb out of

498
00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:24,879
Speaker 1: and it seems like he's at least giving himself the

499
00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:27,960
Speaker 1: environment to do that. But yeah, I know Jack was

500
00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:30,959
Speaker 1: very very excited to see Him's like wow, like he was.

501
00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:32,879
Speaker 1: I remember when he saw that. He was like he

502
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:38,359
Speaker 1: didn't shy away from the contact, and you know that's

503
00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:40,840
Speaker 1: brings it tier and eye brings it tier to your eye. Yeah,

504
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:43,920
Speaker 1: he went and five over that win against the Grizzlies.

505
00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:48,200
Speaker 1: Clay Thompson is another one, and last week we were

506
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:53,400
Speaker 1: a little bit like, yo, what is going on with

507
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:57,200
Speaker 1: Clay Thompson. But then it's like he's heard the podcast

508
00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:00,840
Speaker 1: because I know he listens and he oh, you think

509
00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:03,480
Speaker 1: I just like boats now wearing captain's hats and looking

510
00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:11,680
Speaker 1: off into the sunset. Wrong forty one temperate thirteen from three. Wow, Okay,

511
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,840
Speaker 1: I was telling you Jabar. I said, well I was wrong,

512
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:16,879
Speaker 1: and I was like, that's egg on my face and

513
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:20,520
Speaker 1: he said, well, let's allow some consistency to build, which

514
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:22,520
Speaker 1: is true. Which is true. But it was wild to

515
00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:24,760
Speaker 1: watch that performance against the Rockets where it truly was

516
00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:27,199
Speaker 1: like oh it' it's it's doing that thing where it's

517
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:29,560
Speaker 1: not hitting any part of the rim anymore. Yeah, that

518
00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:31,760
Speaker 1: was vintage Clay. And and I'm not sure if you

519
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:33,480
Speaker 1: if you saw if you were able to catch that one, Kobe,

520
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:35,200
Speaker 1: I'm sure you saw at least the highlights of it.

521
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,200
Speaker 1: It was the first time this season where he looked

522
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,840
Speaker 1: like Clay Thompson. And I'll admit it, I'll acknowledge. On

523
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:42,920
Speaker 1: last week I was in the background saying, yeah, he

524
00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:44,440
Speaker 1: needs to come off the bench. They need to stop

525
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:46,840
Speaker 1: playing games with this stuff, you know, like you know that,

526
00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:49,879
Speaker 1: why are they ruining the situation with Jordan's pool? And

527
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:53,560
Speaker 1: I'll still stand by I think that probably is ultimately

528
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,480
Speaker 1: their best option, um, you know, moving forward. But you

529
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,240
Speaker 1: know I won't. I can't poopoo that. That was absolutely

530
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:02,359
Speaker 1: I wasn't able to watch the entire game, but I did.

531
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:04,199
Speaker 1: I was able to see highlights and it didn't just

532
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:07,600
Speaker 1: look like I had to say, because you know, he's

533
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:09,879
Speaker 1: not old, but like the old Clay that we're kind

534
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:11,800
Speaker 1: of play that we you know, there were a custom

535
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:13,720
Speaker 1: to him even against the game against I think they

536
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:18,520
Speaker 1: played the I think the Knicks before that game, I

537
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:20,760
Speaker 1: think like or two days before. I think he actually

538
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:22,680
Speaker 1: had a good game against the Knicks too, and for him,

539
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:27,399
Speaker 1: like again similar to been similar situation, but even like

540
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,560
Speaker 1: I guess, even more dramatic, like he missed with two

541
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:34,680
Speaker 1: seasons and like he admitted, like he didn't play pick

542
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:37,240
Speaker 1: up this all season just because of like the I

543
00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:39,360
Speaker 1: guess you can call it maybe the anxieties that come

544
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:40,879
Speaker 1: with you know, or the worries that come with him

545
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:43,520
Speaker 1: and maybe reinjure himself. So I think it's more than

546
00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 1: just like the actual physical stuff. Sometimes it's truly is

547
00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:49,359
Speaker 1: the mental stuff that you know, it takes a while

548
00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:52,639
Speaker 1: to get like have these breakthroughs where you just feel comfortable.

549
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:54,679
Speaker 1: And I think for him, having more of those moments

550
00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:57,359
Speaker 1: like we saw against the Rockets will help him mentally

551
00:26:57,440 --> 00:26:59,680
Speaker 1: just to get feel comfortable back on the floor because

552
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:02,680
Speaker 1: it musty as comfortable. Then that's when we starts seeing,

553
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 1: you know, games like that, or you know, he starts

554
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:06,399
Speaker 1: playing with a little bit more consistency. But I just

555
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:08,560
Speaker 1: don't think we've seen a comfortable play Thompson. But we've

556
00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:11,359
Speaker 1: seen a lot. Is that Clay Thompson that's pressing and

557
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,399
Speaker 1: that's not the Clay that you want to see, right, Yeah,

558
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:16,800
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, the performance was definitely like I got

559
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:18,439
Speaker 1: my back to the wall, and I kind of didn

560
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 1: remember like what I'm capable of, and definitely he reconnected

561
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 1: with that. I was. There was one shot in that

562
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:29,920
Speaker 1: game where like, I feel like Amost pumped baked and

563
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:31,560
Speaker 1: then he realized no one was on him. He's and

564
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 1: he was just like, you know what, I'm gonna just

565
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:35,919
Speaker 1: I'll just shoot it from here, like barely any like

566
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:37,440
Speaker 1: he didn't get the full motion into it. And I

567
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:43,360
Speaker 1: was like, oh, you just threw that in okay? Uh

568
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:45,040
Speaker 1: and quickly I do. I do want to shout out

569
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 1: my son, Kyle Kuzma turning into a cus Man over

570
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,399
Speaker 1: at Washington. I love to see a young man, you know,

571
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:55,200
Speaker 1: I see you posting stuff about man. These Lakers were like, yeah,

572
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 1: they work. I'll they were I missed you baby, Uh yeah,

573
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:04,639
Speaker 1: man and five against the Hornets, and man, there he is.

574
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:06,479
Speaker 1: He's part of their success. He's part of the formula.

575
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 1: Can I just say it. I think he's their best player.

576
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:10,919
Speaker 1: I recognized Bradley bill Is, you know obviously, you know,

577
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,719
Speaker 1: you know he's the big name there. Porzingis is there, uh,

578
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:17,920
Speaker 1: top to bottom, both sides of the court, you know, interchangeability, Uh,

579
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 1: you know, the capability to guard you know, some big twos,

580
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:23,840
Speaker 1: but definitely threes and some fours. I think he's there.

581
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:27,119
Speaker 1: I think he's actually their best player, you know. As ablazeing,

582
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 1: I would say, I might have a different opinion on

583
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 1: who the best player is on the Washington Wizards, but

584
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 1: that don't lie in this case. So I will agree

585
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:39,880
Speaker 1: it's my son, Kyle kuz Man. I mean, yeah, it's

586
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:42,160
Speaker 1: it is. It's it's wonderful to see. And I know

587
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 1: there's like there's so much like handwringing over on the

588
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 1: Lakers side about him, like what happen? What is? Yeah?

589
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 1: And while we're on the on the subjective Lakers fans, jabbar,

590
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 1: you're also a Laker fan from what I can gather,

591
00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,720
Speaker 1: I am both from the one eight, you know, faithfully,

592
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 1: Anthony David. We were saying last week too, if he

593
00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 1: is able to come into his own and really just

594
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 1: I don't know, like find that next level mentally and

595
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 1: just be consistent with his performances and that same intensity,

596
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,240
Speaker 1: we will we will begin to see some progress. And

597
00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 1: it looks like we are doing that um with the

598
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 1: lebron less Lakers and nothing but a d Lakers. I'm

599
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 1: interested in getting Kobe's opinion on this, But I think

600
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 1: and and believe me, I'm not making excuses for him,

601
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 1: you know, for whatever his reasons were, they you know

602
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 1: they were. But it almost feels like you're on a

603
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,600
Speaker 1: team with Lebron. You start you come up watching Lebron

604
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:35,960
Speaker 1: and appreciating this game. You know, you know, whether he's

605
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 1: your you know, the greatest or one of the greats,

606
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. You know he's still in

607
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 1: that level you're in. You're on the team with him,

608
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:44,600
Speaker 1: and he's still performing at an incredible level. I wonder

609
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 1: if it really was a matter of yeah, they can

610
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 1: you know, they can say, you know, a d is

611
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:50,600
Speaker 1: the guy. You know, they can say we want to

612
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 1: run things through him. But it was do you think

613
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 1: it was a matter of him like getting over that

614
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 1: mental block? And I don't, and I maybe mental block

615
00:29:57,720 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 1: isn't the right term, but you know what I mean,

616
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 1: like we'll just get and pass it mentally. I think

617
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 1: for him, part is just recognizing that in order for

618
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,480
Speaker 1: the Lakers too, like this is a part of the

619
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:08,520
Speaker 1: quote unquote planning from the game, in order for the

620
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 1: Lakers continues to be our guests to get back to

621
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 1: being like a true contender. They had to be some

622
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,720
Speaker 1: kind of passing of the torch from Lebron to a D.

623
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 1: Like a D, I maybe forget who the best player is,

624
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 1: like Lebron on you know, if you're talking about top

625
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 1: in like only your absolute best day, who's the best player?

626
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 1: It still maybe him? But Lebrons thirty eight years old, right, like,

627
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:32,960
Speaker 1: he can't be the best player every single night for

628
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 1: the Lakers. That's not what you want from a thirty

629
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 1: ye rule. A D, you are twenty nine, You're in

630
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:38,959
Speaker 1: the prime of your career. Night to night. You need

631
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 1: to be the guy. I can still be like the

632
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:42,800
Speaker 1: bron Is still be the guy in the moments for

633
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:45,480
Speaker 1: in certain moments, but a D, you are the lone

634
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:49,240
Speaker 1: star on this team who's in the prime their prime age.

635
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 1: You need to be that guy day to day. And

636
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 1: you if you're a Lakers fan, like like Jabar, you

637
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 1: can at least hope that this is the start of

638
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 1: the or continuation the process of a D. Excepting like

639
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 1: forgeting the best player is next to night, I'm the guy,

640
00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:05,400
Speaker 1: and then everything that's kind of falls down from me,

641
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 1: and that's gonna be you know, that's the process because

642
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:12,720
Speaker 1: Lebron for what since maybe like those early heat days,

643
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:16,960
Speaker 1: has been the guy um and you do wonder what

644
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 1: it's gonna look like once Lebron comes back and how

645
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 1: the office runs, but at loose for now, like this

646
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 1: is important process of a d getting back to being

647
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 1: the guy like he was when you know he was

648
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 1: in New Orlands. Yeah, I mean it is. It's a

649
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 1: double edged sword to have a player like Lebron James

650
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 1: like on your team, you know, because on one hand,

651
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 1: he can inspire a lot of the players around you

652
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 1: because they're like, man, I gotta get together and playing

653
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,200
Speaker 1: with Lebron. And then on the other there is like

654
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:45,719
Speaker 1: a psychological sort of shadow that you're just in inherently

655
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 1: because you're on the same team with him. And I think,

656
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 1: I don't think it's not to say that Lebron is

657
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:53,320
Speaker 1: the read like him not playing is the reason the

658
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 1: Lakers are doing better, But I think that it's allowing

659
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 1: these players to have an identity that isn't exclusively tied

660
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 1: to him, and they're stepping into that. I mean, like

661
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:06,520
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves, he is he is really like he's also

662
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 1: it looks he just looks more comfortable and like we

663
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 1: saw flashes of like what he's capable of, but it

664
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 1: feels like a lot of like I don't know, there's

665
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 1: just there's a little bit of breathing room and there

666
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 1: are certain players that now feel that it's there, like

667
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 1: I guess more comfortable stepping up. And yes, I needed

668
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 1: that because we were in a bit of a hole there.

669
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 1: I mean, there's still five and ten and to that point,

670
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 1: I know. But look, it was bad. It was bad.

671
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 1: Taking like three wins on the bounce. You're like, yeah, all,

672
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:37,240
Speaker 1: let's yes, please something because you know, we were talking

673
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 1: about how bad it could have got really could have been.

674
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 1: Uh and it luckily wasn't as bad. But yeah, it's

675
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 1: still again, like I said, I'm trying to be very

676
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 1: level headed here, and I was like, knowledge progress when

677
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 1: I see it, and I don't need to be like

678
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 1: talks and be like, man, this whole thing is trying

679
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 1: to blow it up. Man, we're trying to get a

680
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 1: t um well to that point one point, you know,

681
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 1: But but I'm interested. You know, we know how we

682
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 1: feel about it. Let's get it. You know, the outside

683
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 1: opinion yourself, someone that you know knows a thing or

684
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 1: two about this about this league completely ill emotionally from

685
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:13,440
Speaker 1: having to look at it like we do Cobe. No pressure,

686
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 1: you know, no pressure whatsoever. But no, Um, what do

687
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 1: you think the ultimate answer is for the Lakers. Is

688
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 1: it a matter of like, just try to get healthy

689
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 1: and stay healthy and see how that goes. Or do

690
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 1: you think they ultimately do make a move? I think

691
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:27,320
Speaker 1: for them, just get healthy where you go from there?

692
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 1: I don't you know even what they have made progress now.

693
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 1: I do want to also add, in the context that

694
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 1: some of this progress has come, you only play where

695
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,480
Speaker 1: you can play, right, Yeah, yeah, I got schedules ahead

696
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:41,120
Speaker 1: of you. Wow. Can't even let me have that. Wow.

697
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 1: But in Traelian's fact, okay, you did be the Brooklyn team.

698
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:47,960
Speaker 1: That's also like trying to figure themselves out as well. Detroit,

699
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 1: who I think as of mean unless I checked, they

700
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 1: were at the bottom of these maybe one of the

701
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 1: Bombos teams, and they were either one or two for

702
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 1: the worst in the league, and I know they're at

703
00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 1: the bottom of the East. And San Antonio, who have

704
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 1: take can like then they after their hot start, they

705
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 1: were a team that if we were this you had

706
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 1: me on like two weeks earlier I've been like, yeah,

707
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 1: and they're not passing my smell test in terms of

708
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:10,880
Speaker 1: like this is real and I think they've shown that.

709
00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 1: But even with that, you look at this team and

710
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 1: I asked myself, like, what's the ultimate? Like it was

711
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:19,879
Speaker 1: even if you can make like the this big move,

712
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 1: I don't know if they can make that move, and

713
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:24,080
Speaker 1: if it's out like a big move, I don't know

714
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:27,200
Speaker 1: how they can get to what they were expected to be. Um,

715
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:30,360
Speaker 1: but I think this is a year just the like

716
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:33,320
Speaker 1: I don't think you. I don't think you really have

717
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 1: the opportunity to like mortgage a bunch of your future

718
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:37,439
Speaker 1: in terms of this, Like I think I just play

719
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 1: it out with the guys that you have, and just

720
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 1: hope the guys you have turned around, Like you still

721
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:44,760
Speaker 1: have a team with Anthony Davis and whatever the Blebro

722
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 1: would be once he comes back, Like that is at

723
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:48,960
Speaker 1: least a team that should be competitive on the night

724
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:53,839
Speaker 1: now basis six oh yeah and six man yeah yeah yeah,

725
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:56,759
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. Now they put themselves into it. What a

726
00:34:56,840 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 1: two intent hole. So yeah, like that's what so hard

727
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 1: to overcome them at her of course, but yeah, you

728
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,759
Speaker 1: know from here you just want to say just see

729
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 1: how we can compete. And from there, I mean we

730
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 1: went from being like oh what is happening to like

731
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,879
Speaker 1: at least been like oh right yeah Anthony tap yeah, yeah,

732
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 1: I remember him. We went from like during the games

733
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,839
Speaker 1: texting each other like hey, maybe to not text each

734
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:29,719
Speaker 1: other at all. Anthony Davis. Yeah, they've they've they've pulled

735
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 1: us back. Yeah, yeah, no, I and I look, there's

736
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:36,960
Speaker 1: there's always promise on the horizon. I'd say, also got

737
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 1: a shout out Bones Island scoring twenty nine off the bench. Uh.

738
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:46,920
Speaker 1: Just he's like I'm trying to like, I'm trying to

739
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:51,040
Speaker 1: figure out who he reminds me of. I'm gonna say

740
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:53,960
Speaker 1: a name. Yeah, you can do you can clown me

741
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:56,840
Speaker 1: if you want, go ahead. A lanky er Nick van Exel.

742
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:01,800
Speaker 1: He's herky, jerky in the same type of got the flash,

743
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 1: get you get, you can put the ball on the floor,

744
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 1: you can do you do some things out there. It's

745
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:12,320
Speaker 1: maybe not the jerky that You're right, that's what it was,

746
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:16,919
Speaker 1: that quick little yeah. Yeah. Although like it's like it's

747
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 1: like he was playing like in a like a Kirkland

748
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 1: signature John Morant costume. You know you had to call

749
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 1: him the great value. I'm just saying. I'm just it's

750
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:27,879
Speaker 1: just a look. It has nothing to do with his game,

751
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But that's just that's my

752
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 1: comedic assessment of what I saw from a thousand feet

753
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 1: away on my TV screen. Okay, no shots of bones.

754
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:39,719
Speaker 1: I think he's fantastic. Uh yeah. And also we got

755
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:43,239
Speaker 1: just really quickly to all these women yama clips. I'm

756
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 1: tired of this guy tired. Well, it was worth my brain,

757
00:36:52,840 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 1: my brain. Yeah, he picked up his dribble Likett man.

758
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 1: He's girls, I know, honestly, the way he plays. We

759
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 1: always use this comparison of like when you're the uncle

760
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 1: playing against your nephew. We're like you're just bigger, and

761
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 1: you're like, yeah, you're gonna be in my way, but like,

762
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: watch me get this bucket. Like and also like you

763
00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 1: still try to block me, but I'll just I'll just

764
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:21,239
Speaker 1: put it up higher on the glass in the place

765
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,919
Speaker 1: you can't get to. And I feel like you're some huh.

766
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 1: It's that with a dunkball court, and it's playing against

767
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:31,359
Speaker 1: little kids on an eight ft on a foot rim.

768
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, guess what they might as well put

769
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:35,720
Speaker 1: your faces on milk cartons because you're gonna go missing

770
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 1: after this performance, I'll put in, uh yeah, but it is,

771
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: I mean like there's something about just his like I

772
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:43,759
Speaker 1: don't know every time I look at him, like, is

773
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:46,480
Speaker 1: it that he's a man among boys? Is it that

774
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 1: he's a mutant among humans? What is it? It's just

775
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:52,399
Speaker 1: that he's that big with all those skills, right, there's

776
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:56,680
Speaker 1: nothing else I'm missing. I was I was gonna defer

777
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,239
Speaker 1: to Kobe, but for b it's as simple as he's

778
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 1: not a big man that you has handles for a

779
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:05,320
Speaker 1: big man. No, he has big handless, absolute duard skills

780
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:09,279
Speaker 1: at seven foot whatever. And that's just ridiculous. Yeah. A

781
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 1: lot of times with like guys like this, we think,

782
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 1: oh yeah, these guys are so skilled for big man. No,

783
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 1: like Victor would be if he was like six seven

784
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 1: six eight, he would still be like ridiculous. The fact

785
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:23,839
Speaker 1: that he's seven four is just kind of like, oh,

786
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 1: you're just cheating now. This doesn't feel like you're you

787
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 1: don't need this. You just happen to have it, right,

788
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:34,560
Speaker 1: Like a lot of like these other unicorns like them

789
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 1: being whatever seven but whatever, it's just kind of like,

790
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:40,319
Speaker 1: oh yeah, you kind of need this to like help

791
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 1: your other skills, because no, this is where you're like,

792
00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:45,799
Speaker 1: oh yeah, this is just dude with the six seven

793
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:48,120
Speaker 1: skills that he just hasn't be seven four. He picked

794
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:51,759
Speaker 1: up his dribble like a little bit behind the three

795
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 1: point arc. He started to make his move like to

796
00:38:54,800 --> 00:39:00,239
Speaker 1: the basket. Yes, he and it's so fluid, like he

797
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 1: moves so fluently, like it's not it's not stiff, it's

798
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:09,439
Speaker 1: very it's grace control. Yeah, he has grace for being

799
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 1: a seven plus. But look, they called a da unicorn

800
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 1: and he is. They called he gets the unicorn. That's fine.

801
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:18,160
Speaker 1: You can call those guys unicorns. This guy's a dragon.

802
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 1: Yeah that's what if those guys are unicorns. This guy

803
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 1: this is a dragon coming Yeah, with with handles, it's

804
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:26,920
Speaker 1: a new thing. Like I say, he's your two K

805
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,759
Speaker 1: creative player with max now stats it just like I

806
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:33,000
Speaker 1: don't know, yeah, make him seven five yeah yeah, it

807
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:36,360
Speaker 1: makes like sure, I'm like, I've never seen anything like this,

808
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:39,319
Speaker 1: but it is fun to watch. Let's take another quick

809
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:43,120
Speaker 1: break and we'll come back and close this episode out

810
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 1: with the rapid fire round of questioning. I hope you're

811
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 1: ready Kobe, because this goes lightning quick, will be right

812
00:39:49,480 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 1: back and where back? And guess what, Kobe Price of

813
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:07,720
Speaker 1: the Orlando Sentinel. But you've wandered into the rapid fire

814
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:11,880
Speaker 1: round of questioning. This is the most high pace question

815
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 1: segment in all of sports history. Yeah, I said it.

816
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:20,240
Speaker 1: Prove me wrong. Show me the receipts because I cannot

817
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:22,759
Speaker 1: find any anyway. What we're gonna do is we're gonna

818
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:25,520
Speaker 1: ask you question. You just give us an answer, just quick,

819
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:28,000
Speaker 1: like I'm chest passing you chest pass right back. Don't

820
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:30,160
Speaker 1: think about it. Just give me the answer and do

821
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:32,160
Speaker 1: not take a long time because we have to keep

822
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:35,320
Speaker 1: the record in mind that this goes lightning quick and

823
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,920
Speaker 1: please keep us on pace. Jabari, thank you so much

824
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 1: for joining me. Because you are the guests, I will

825
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:46,080
Speaker 1: allow you to ask the first question. No debate, yes, Jabari,

826
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 1: of course, come on, man, all right, this is all right.

827
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,879
Speaker 1: You're gonna get Yeah. Well, actually, let me look, maybe

828
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 1: I want to go first. Want to think about it.

829
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 1: I didn't start the clock yet, so doesn't this can

830
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 1: this park can be? I mean you can't go. It's

831
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:03,440
Speaker 1: it's you know, I respected Let me um, your name

832
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:04,840
Speaker 1: is on the Mark, let me, let me, let me

833
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:06,879
Speaker 1: go get a couple of water real quick. Kobe. Look,

834
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:08,279
Speaker 1: this is what we're talking about here, this is what

835
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 1: we need you to keep us in line for. Yeah right, sorry, no, no, no, Jabari,

836
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 1: You're gonna go first, start the clock, all right, Kobe,

837
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 1: let's go. You can pick any three dunkers from history

838
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 1: or a contest, but you also get to pick any

839
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 1: defender from history that gets to go up and challenge

840
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:27,799
Speaker 1: each dunk. Give me your dunkers and give me your

841
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: defender clarification in game or just straight up just like

842
00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:34,440
Speaker 1: this is like a dunk concept. It's a contest conscience.

843
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:39,799
Speaker 1: Just attack the rim. Okay, my dunkers are MJ Vince

844
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 1: Carter and who are they dunk get on or who

845
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 1: are they trying to dunk? Are they trying to dunk on?

846
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 1: They are trying to dunk on Matumbo okay, Matumbobert and

847
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:03,720
Speaker 1: Patrick you Okay, so we got some George town flare

848
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:06,400
Speaker 1: and you know, the pride of France. Okay, I'm not

849
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:09,920
Speaker 1: mad at that, Miles. Would you have anybody else? No?

850
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 1: I mean, as long as Vince Carter was said, that's

851
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 1: all I was. I'm like I'll buy a ticket to

852
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 1: that show. Doesn't matter who ever anybody else is like,

853
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:20,319
Speaker 1: as long as Vince Carter's there, Yes, please please, alright,

854
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 1: I'll be old, so good, I'll be old man Kobe,

855
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:24,719
Speaker 1: what do we say about this? Man? You gotta keep

856
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 1: us going. Next question, you have the chance to win

857
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:31,359
Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars to make a layup with each hand,

858
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 1: twenty five thousand dollars to make at least four or

859
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 1: five free throws, or a hundred thousand dollars to make

860
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:41,560
Speaker 1: at least three of five from d Which challenge are

861
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 1: you taking? You know, Mike and Drill for the easy money? No, No,

862
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:49,279
Speaker 1: I'm going for the free throws? Are you? Are you

863
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:51,400
Speaker 1: nice with it at the line? Yeah? No, I mean

864
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:55,399
Speaker 1: it's free throws, man, like the free Wow. I've heard

865
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:58,920
Speaker 1: a lot of people say that before. Yeah, you know

866
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 1: you just gotta be like, look, you just say you

867
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:03,360
Speaker 1: just say five for five? You said four or five? Right?

868
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:05,960
Speaker 1: Four or five? Yeah? So I missed the first one

869
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:09,719
Speaker 1: and now I getting rhythm. Hey, fan, duel, fan, duel,

870
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:13,400
Speaker 1: Can y'all give us twenty five sacks to make this happen?

871
00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:16,600
Speaker 1: I want to see this happen. I get a little bit,

872
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:18,480
Speaker 1: I get a cushion, Like if you said five or five,

873
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:19,840
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, now let me get my mic con

874
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:22,040
Speaker 1: drol on. But if I get one, if I get

875
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:23,880
Speaker 1: the cushion of one, then like I'm going for it.

876
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:26,400
Speaker 1: If I missed, all right, bet at least I went

877
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 1: for something. Could you do five out of six? Yeah?

878
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 1: That's that's the one. Feeling like Mark Price anymore? Are

879
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:42,919
Speaker 1: you okay? I'm going to lay ups on that one. Yeah,

880
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:47,280
Speaker 1: that was liked well again that but again, the question

881
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:48,920
Speaker 1: was about the four out of five, So I don't

882
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:50,680
Speaker 1: mean to switch any one like you will take the

883
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 1: four for five challenge for twenty five thou dollars. If

884
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 1: you do not make it, you owe us twenty five

885
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:57,200
Speaker 1: tho dollars. I believe we agreed on that. Fans, please

886
00:43:57,239 --> 00:43:59,600
Speaker 1: put up the money. Okay, I'm sorry you Who got

887
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 1: Who's going next? It's oh yeah, all right, Kobe. You

888
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:06,319
Speaker 1: can travel back in time and tanty any debut from

889
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:11,400
Speaker 1: any player in history, which you choose. Michael Jordan's okay,

890
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 1: just as simple. Just Mike doesn't matter, just Michael Jordan's.

891
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 1: I want to see what it looks like in person

892
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:22,840
Speaker 1: when he's out here making layups using the air for

893
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 1: like ten seconds at a time. Now, Kobe Price from

894
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:28,320
Speaker 1: the Orlando Sentinel, tell me what is it about Michael

895
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:32,680
Speaker 1: Jordan's you know that makes Kobe wait, hold on, wait,

896
00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:37,279
Speaker 1: we're not supposed to be elaborating to keep us task

897
00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:41,800
Speaker 1: right here. Next question, Next question? Okay, next question? Thank you.

898
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:44,799
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll ask questions here and I will right now,

899
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 1: Kobe Price, what is a new rule you'd like to

900
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:52,480
Speaker 1: see implemented or altered effective immediately in the NBA. In

901
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:54,239
Speaker 1: the n b A. I think they do this in

902
00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 1: the g lee. Uh, it's the free rule. I'm forgetting

903
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:00,719
Speaker 1: how to drive right now. But they've been doing they've

904
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 1: done in the league for a while, and it's not

905
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:04,920
Speaker 1: just the take foul. I think they do something else

906
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 1: with the free throw and how they do it. Wait,

907
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 1: he says, under the new experimental NBA League rule, one

908
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:11,840
Speaker 1: free throw worth one, two or three points will be

909
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:14,400
Speaker 1: awards for the event of any foul that would typically

910
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:16,919
Speaker 1: result in one, two or three free throws being shot

911
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:20,279
Speaker 1: under standard NBA rule. Yes, I want to see Yeah, yeah,

912
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:23,120
Speaker 1: I think it's supposed to. Uh, that's a perfect I'm

913
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:25,360
Speaker 1: glad you found it. You're supposed to like help to

914
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:27,279
Speaker 1: speed the game up. I just want to see it.

915
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 1: I just want to see it. It's super gimmicky, I know,

916
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:33,240
Speaker 1: but I just want to see it. Is Yeah, that's okay,

917
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:37,719
Speaker 1: this is your rule. I'm I'd be perfectly fine if

918
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 1: they did it like one year, They're like, all right,

919
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:40,360
Speaker 1: we're taking it out. I was like, all right, I

920
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 1: just want to see it. Just getting rid of it,

921
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:44,800
Speaker 1: right right, Yeah, you just want I'm all here for

922
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:47,440
Speaker 1: just trying things out. Okay, fair enough. Don't you try

923
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:53,719
Speaker 1: this next question out? Kobe? Okay, sorry, sorry I wasn't

924
00:45:53,760 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 1: read that, young man. All right, Kobe, you know it's

925
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:02,400
Speaker 1: this time of year. As a matter of fact, this

926
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: episode will be released on Thanksgiving. What are your top

927
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 1: three Thanksgiving dishes? Uh? Dressing? Any potato dish? We are

928
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:16,839
Speaker 1: without marshmallows? M hmm, it doesn't matter. Okay, you happy

929
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:23,719
Speaker 1: with marshmallows tomorrow? Oh? Mac and cheese? Okay, you know,

930
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:26,719
Speaker 1: I don't know, but that's what makes it a tough choice.

931
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:30,759
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Okay, so you're dang it. I slept on

932
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:33,960
Speaker 1: mac and cheese. Yeah you know, yeah, this this is

933
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 1: this is rapid fire. I'm living with the mistake. Go ahead, no, no, no,

934
00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:39,200
Speaker 1: you can. You can revise your answer because this will

935
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 1: be recorded for all of history, so you might get

936
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:46,279
Speaker 1: right with you know, mac and cheese, potato dish and

937
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:52,120
Speaker 1: ham alright, dressing got dropped. Oh hey, you know what

938
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:55,640
Speaker 1: somebody had, somebody had to make it cut. Yeah. I

939
00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:58,760
Speaker 1: think I would pay gravy as one, just the gravy

940
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:02,080
Speaker 1: boat like grave you like to get in trouble man.

941
00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:04,960
Speaker 1: My grandmother yelled at me because I was I was

942
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:08,319
Speaker 1: flooding that dish with gravy. She's like, are you out

943
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:11,000
Speaker 1: your mind? I'm like, I don't know, it's turkey dry?

944
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:14,480
Speaker 1: What do you want me to do? Different conversation and

945
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:16,840
Speaker 1: then and that that kicked off the second phase of

946
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:19,160
Speaker 1: my thanksga piece of my grandparents. I missed you all

947
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 1: every day. Uh. And finally gotta ask you, Kobe Price,

948
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 1: what's a better name? Jack or Miles? Miles? All right?

949
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:33,440
Speaker 1: We heard the Sentinel has done it. He is a

950
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:36,920
Speaker 1: fantastic man with the plan and please follow his coverage

951
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:40,440
Speaker 1: on the Orlando Sentinel where he follows the Orlando Magic.

952
00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:43,319
Speaker 1: Kobe Price, thank you so much again for having us

953
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:45,600
Speaker 1: man Where can people follow you on the internet and

954
00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:47,239
Speaker 1: read you and all that good stuff? Where can they

955
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:49,560
Speaker 1: find you? Yeah, as long as Twitter is working, you

956
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:52,480
Speaker 1: can find me at Kobe Underscore price Cage over the

957
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 1: I Underscore pr I ce on Twitter. Uh, hit me

958
00:47:56,560 --> 00:48:00,839
Speaker 1: up there, Orlando Centinel dot com to reline the magic

959
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:03,680
Speaker 1: page to find all my work. Even got a little

960
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:05,800
Speaker 1: you know, dot, a little profile on there. It's my

961
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:11,279
Speaker 1: picture see my mother. Yeah, yeah, that's that's the next.

962
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 1: As long as it as working, you can find me

963
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:18,920
Speaker 1: on there. It's fine. My name is pretty unique, so yeah, okay, perfect.

964
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:22,240
Speaker 1: What about you, Jabari? Thanks again, man for for hopping

965
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:25,400
Speaker 1: on today. Man, where the the people find you and

966
00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:29,480
Speaker 1: to learn more about you? I don't I don't mean

967
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 1: to do the most long winded segue, but I have to.

968
00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:33,399
Speaker 1: That's the only thing I know to do. Yeah, it's okay.

969
00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:35,200
Speaker 1: It's almost like I've never done this before, so I'm

970
00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:37,799
Speaker 1: just stepping all over the entire time. That's okay, though.

971
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:41,359
Speaker 1: Thank you for this opportunity, you know, Jack, It's it's

972
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 1: been a it's been an honor. Even though I still

973
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:45,359
Speaker 1: couldn't get your name chosen at the end, we try.

974
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:48,319
Speaker 1: I'm easy Bari Davis NBA, like like Kobe said, as

975
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:51,239
Speaker 1: long as Twitter stor all right and you can find

976
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:53,759
Speaker 1: us at mad boost these b O O S T

977
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:56,799
Speaker 1: I E. S. Did That's about that right? Yes? I did?

978
00:48:57,360 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 1: Uh and shout out to this week's Boost He's listener

979
00:48:59,719 --> 00:49:02,359
Speaker 1: of the week. At hoop Realist, we were asking people,

980
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:04,080
Speaker 1: what you know, what games do you want to travel

981
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:07,120
Speaker 1: back in time to experience? Uh? And hoop Realist said,

982
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:10,760
Speaker 1: I already had the list, just locked the loaded, Jordan's

983
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:14,520
Speaker 1: sixty three versus Celtics in the playoffs, Kobe's eighty one

984
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:19,320
Speaker 1: uh two thousand one game one for AI's classic Okay

985
00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:22,480
Speaker 1: the Blue Game, and Triple O t Pistons verse Nuggets

986
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:25,759
Speaker 1: game that ended in four in December of eighty three.

987
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:29,799
Speaker 1: That's a pull, yes, Like, first of all, I don't

988
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:32,080
Speaker 1: think he's old enough to even have seen that game.

989
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:36,360
Speaker 1: So wow, that's that makes people. I'm sure would you

990
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:38,319
Speaker 1: saw that, Javar, You probably sen it because you've seen that, man,

991
00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:42,040
Speaker 1: I know. But you do like you do finals file

992
00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:43,880
Speaker 1: like you always you have some you look at the

993
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:48,759
Speaker 1: historical record, you have access to the clips. Is that

994
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:50,640
Speaker 1: one of the highest scoring games? Like what it has

995
00:49:52,640 --> 00:49:55,279
Speaker 1: especially combined love to see it, you'd love to see it,

996
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:56,920
Speaker 1: all right, Well, you already know where to find us.

997
00:49:57,160 --> 00:49:59,280
Speaker 1: Make sure you check back with us next week because

998
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:02,080
Speaker 1: we will be back with more mad boostiness. Uh. And

999
00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:05,000
Speaker 1: enjoy your holiday and all that, and don't eat too

1000
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 1: much and rest up all right, see you later, Bye

1001
00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:09,520
Speaker 1: bye peace. Appreciate y'all