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Speaker 1: Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the No Dungks

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Speaker 1: Podcast presented by Fan Duel. It's Monday, April sixth, twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty six. I'm Jay Skeetz here in the Classic Factory

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Speaker 1: along with me super producer JD. Hello there. He is

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Speaker 1: no task or tray here for a majority of the week.

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Speaker 1: Those boys and their families, they're on spring break. Where

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Speaker 1: are they? Dominican Republic, the Panhandle of Florida. But thankfully

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Speaker 1: I got lots of friends and one of them joins

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Speaker 1: me today thanks to the power of technology. He's the

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Speaker 1: host of the NBA Bit Podcast and Celtics Daily and

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Speaker 1: a whole lot more which I'm sure we'll get into

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Speaker 1: with the daily Fantasy Sports angle. Mike's a carry and

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Speaker 1: what's up, Mike.

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Speaker 2: Let's go.

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Speaker 3: It's going on, Skeets, Thanks thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 3: I got honored to lead off what is like friend Flex.

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Speaker 2: Week for you?

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Speaker 3: Yes, right's right. You get to showcase all of your friends.

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Speaker 1: That's right, A lot of friends, man, I got you.

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Speaker 1: I got Ben Golliver joining us on tomorrow's show. He'll

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Speaker 1: be back and then Eshua Kid the Kid is in

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Speaker 1: studio on Wednesday, So and then I think tasses back

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Speaker 1: on Thursday. So yeah, I'm excited though to have you

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Speaker 1: on first time. I talk to you all the time,

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Speaker 1: so it's weird that this is your first time on

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Speaker 1: No Dunks. But before we get into winters and losers,

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Speaker 1: because they're going to do a Monday staple here on

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Speaker 1: No Dunks, I alluded to you do daily fantasy sports

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Speaker 1: and you write about them and you play them, and

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Speaker 1: you went live last night. I suddenly get like a

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Speaker 1: YouTube alert that the NBA bit Zaccarian's channel is live

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Speaker 1: because somebody, I guess you know, is having a sweat

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Speaker 1: for one hundred thousand dollars in one of these daily

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Speaker 1: fantasy sports games.

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Speaker 2: Is that right?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so our guy from the NBA bit community. I figured,

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Speaker 3: if I wasn't going to win this contest, we should

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Speaker 3: have somebody else do it.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 3: So it was within an underdog and basically it's a

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Speaker 3: best ball format where you like draft a team at

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Speaker 3: the beginning of the year and then you just sit

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Speaker 3: there and wait. Okay, So last night he was sitting

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Speaker 3: in I believe it was ninth place as the last

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Speaker 3: game of.

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Speaker 2: The night started, which was Rockets and Warriors.

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Speaker 3: Okay, uh, and he had read Shepherd, I'm and Thompson

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Speaker 3: and Kevin Durant going, So we we fired up a

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Speaker 3: live stream.

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Speaker 2: We brought our guy Maddie.

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Speaker 3: On and he he won a hundred thousand dollars and

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Speaker 3: was whol as a cucumber. Like we kept trying to

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Speaker 3: get him to reacting. It was like, yeah, man, yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's pretty awesome. Huh, pretty awesome. And I'm like my

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Speaker 3: shirt would be off, it's like flying all over.

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Speaker 2: The place, so huge shouts to him.

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Speaker 3: That was it was really fun to see somebody who

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Speaker 3: uh he had We had been doing a lot of

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Speaker 3: those drafts, like on stream over the summer, so to

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Speaker 3: see him to participate in those and then at one

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Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars, it's crazy.

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Speaker 1: That's unbelievable. So he had all these rockets guys that

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Speaker 1: he just needed to come through with fantasy sport lines

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Speaker 1: like good luck.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly, and it was and it was funny

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Speaker 3: because there were a couple of guys in front of

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Speaker 3: him that would have like Kevin Durant, but they wouldn't

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Speaker 3: have Reed Shepherd, so so.

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Speaker 2: Every single thing and then he was into the fourth border.

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Speaker 3: He had like a three or four point lead, but

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Speaker 3: a turnover is a minus one, and so we were

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Speaker 3: just like sweating no turnovers the rest of the way

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Speaker 1: A good deal handle that. Yeah, if he played it

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Speaker 1: really cool like that, I'd.

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Speaker 3: Be's freaky now believe it. I was more stressed out

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Speaker 1: I think, Well, that's awesome. Congrats to what you said, was.

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Speaker 2: Maddie Maddie, Yeah, all right, Maddy Harrison.

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Speaker 1: One hundred thousand, just like that, drafted a bunch of

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Speaker 1: rockets want to move. Well, the rockets are, I think

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Speaker 1: are gonna come up here when we get into NBA

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Speaker 1: weekend winners. But let's jump into it because Mike, we

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Speaker 1: have a ton to talk about, and I know we'll

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Speaker 1: get to the Lakers and Luca and Giannis versus the

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Speaker 1: Bucks part ten thousand. That's in losers, though, we'll start

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Speaker 1: with winners here. The floor is yours. You're my guess

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Speaker 1: what was your big weekend winner for the NBA?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe maybe recency bias, but Cooper flag scoring what

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Speaker 3: was it ninety? Was it ninety six six points the

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Speaker 3: in the in the win against the Lakers and eight

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Speaker 3: thirty three from fifty seven, like from the field and

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Speaker 3: flipping the Rookie of the Year odds, right, He's now

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Speaker 3: jumped ahead of con which kind of felt inevitable as

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Speaker 3: the Mavericks decided like, hey, maybe we don't win basketball

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Speaker 3: games down the stretch, but let's just give Cooper the

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Speaker 3: ball as much as possible, right, But man, he looked

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Speaker 2: Like that's again. I know it's it's both like up.

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Speaker 3: And down for Dallas right now, but God, just to

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Speaker 3: last couple of weeks, but especially this weekend, and to

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Speaker 3: the first half, and then you just kept seeing Cooper

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Speaker 3: Flag's numbers go up in the second half, and Lebron

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Flag became the first teenager in NBA history to score

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Speaker 1: like Mike said, that was it a loss, but like

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Speaker 1: unbelievable game. He's in the record books. He shot sixty

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Speaker 1: three percent in that game, and then, as if that

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Speaker 1: Lakers on Sunday. And what's your take on suddenly flag

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Speaker 1: flipping Canipple in the Rookie of the Year odds as

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Speaker 1: the betting favorite, Like, if you had a vote, are

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Speaker 1: you now going Cooper because of what he's done in

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Speaker 1: is it more Canipple because of what he's done all season?

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Speaker 3: I think I'd probably, I think I would be be

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Speaker 3: swayed by the numbers.

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Speaker 2: I feel like the rookie year is usually just like.

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Speaker 3: You pump in some stats, you get it, and it's

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Speaker 3: not even like that Con is not putting up stats.

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Speaker 3: But right, just like the roles are so different where

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Speaker 3: we're like Con, we need you to do a very

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Speaker 3: specific thing while we win basketball games. And then the

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Speaker 3: other side of it is Cooper, you can do whatever

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Speaker 3: you want is we lose basketball games. And like, I

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Speaker 3: wonder if the roles were reversed, what would the output

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Speaker 3: look like from Conn? But I think I am fine

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Speaker 3: being swayed by it. I think the thing that I

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Speaker 3: like the most is that we're treating the Rookie of

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Speaker 3: the Year dialogue a lot different than the MVP dialogue

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Speaker 3: or I feel like we're not yelling at anybody if

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Speaker 3: you move your vote around like we're doing in the

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Speaker 3: MVP race right now. So it's just a good good

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Speaker 3: sign for Duke that both Cooper Flag and conn had

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Speaker 3: been awesome. But I do think i'd go Cooper, would

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Speaker 3: you what would you be doing here?

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I had a vote. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's tough, Like we just had the numbers up there

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Speaker 1: for everybody on YouTube. I guess you're more basic box

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Speaker 1: score numbers. It's a positive for Cooper and then more

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Speaker 1: of the you know, efficiency and obviously the impact on

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Speaker 1: winning games. So the Hornets obviously being a good team,

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Speaker 1: that's going to lean towards Canipple, Like you know, the race,

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Speaker 1: the Rookie of the race. It was like VJ. Edgecomb

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Speaker 1: he started the season, and then it felt like it

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Speaker 1: was con Canipples for the majority of the season, and

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Speaker 1: then now maybe over the last couple of weeks, Cooper

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Speaker 1: But I say all that to like, I'm not holding

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Speaker 1: that against him, Like, Okay, he is, he's hit a

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Speaker 1: little tiny part of the rookie wall. He's been lights out.

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Speaker 1: He's one of the best three point shooters in the league. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think I go Con. But I feel with Rookie

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Speaker 1: of the Year more than most awards voters fans whatever

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Speaker 1: they want to like. They want to like project this award,

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Speaker 1: do you know what I mean? They want to get

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Speaker 1: it right for like twelve years from now and go, well,

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Speaker 1: we gave it to Cooper. See that was the right

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Speaker 1: move because he has a better player. Because I don't

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Speaker 1: think most people even now would be like, oh, CON's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a better player than Cooper flag in their

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Speaker 1: NBA careers. I haven't heard a lot of that because

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Speaker 1: that's seems silly with Cooper's age. But there is that

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Speaker 1: thing where people like, Okay, CON's had a better season,

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Speaker 1: do you know what I mean?

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Speaker 3: I love that idea that voters are like I want

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Speaker 3: a decade who gets this award.

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Speaker 2: Just don't make me look dumb.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to be the guy that was voting

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Speaker 3: for con where Cooper Flag is going to go down

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Speaker 3: as like the fifth best player of all time, right right,

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Speaker 3: something like that. Right, that's funny.

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Speaker 1: But and the other part you said how it's different

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Speaker 1: than the MVP sort of battle. I think a part

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Speaker 1: of that is these guys are rooks, so their stands

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Speaker 1: have not built up the power and energy to go

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Speaker 1: to bat for them yet. You know, we've got Jokich

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Speaker 1: and even Wemby a couple of years in SGA obviously polarizing.

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Speaker 1: Uh there was Luca. The stands for those guys, I mean,

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Speaker 1: they like they're their final bosses, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 1: These rookies, they're people are building up their their stand them.

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Speaker 1: So I think that's the difference too.

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Speaker 2: I like that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're allowed to have fun with it right now,

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Speaker 3: but three years from now we're going to start yelling

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Speaker 1: So okay, Well, Mike lacerryon on the record he's going

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Speaker 1: Cooper Flag. I guess I'll stand for for Con. Still

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Speaker 1: we just had the uh Tim Bontemp's straphole for MVP,

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Speaker 1: but he did Rookie too. Con was running away with it. Now,

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Speaker 1: this was before these two games. So is it closer. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I definitely think if you did the revote, if if

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Speaker 1: Bontemps sent the tweet again this morning, I think it's

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Speaker 1: a lot closer than it was the first time he

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Speaker 1: did it here. But at least we have a race

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and Charlotte has a couple of big games coming

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Speaker 3: up too, and so I wonder, you know, he has

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Speaker 3: a couple of nice performances.

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Speaker 2: It probably flips, it flips right back again.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, all right, Well let's go to my first

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Speaker 1: winner of the weekend game of the year on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: I feel very confident in saying that Spurs Nuggets went

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Speaker 1: head to head. It was on Amazon Prime. They're gonna

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Speaker 1: write songs, Mike about this Wemby versus Yokitch matchup. What

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Speaker 1: a game, yo Kich forty points, thirteen assists, eight rebounds,

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Speaker 1: there with Bickerstaff. I guess getting the kiss of death.

435
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Speaker 1: You don't want to win Coach of the Year anymore,

436
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Speaker 1: do you?

437
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Speaker 2: That's true. But that's true.

438
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Speaker 1: I'm going to Kia.

439
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Speaker 2: It can't go to Missula because he'll be he'll just be.

440
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Speaker 1: So Picky's break it with Yeah he'd smash it.

441
00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:04,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, he'd be so upset.

442
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Speaker 3: But yeah, I was looking at this in the stretch

443
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Speaker 3: because I was you know, the Hawks have gone on

444
00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:10,359
Speaker 3: this run. Then if you like look at the schedule,

445
00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:12,520
Speaker 3: it's like, well, they did play the nets like nine times.

446
00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:14,679
Speaker 3: It feels like in this run, the Pistons in this

447
00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:17,359
Speaker 3: run without Kid in this like thirteen and or in

448
00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:20,480
Speaker 3: this most recent one they've got they've bet the Wolves twice,

449
00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:23,560
Speaker 3: the Sixers in there, the Raptors, the Lakers when they

450
00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:25,800
Speaker 3: had everybody. Ye, I mean these are like real wins.

451
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Speaker 3: It's not like they're just rolling over tank teams. They're

452
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Speaker 3: just showing up and they they're so physical and I

453
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Speaker 3: you know, the three point shooting is going to be

454
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Speaker 3: a question when they come into the postseason, but it

455
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Speaker 3: might not matter if they're just beating, like physically beating

456
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Speaker 3: everybody up the whole way through. But yeah, they've been

457
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Speaker 3: they've been fun and I'm with you give give Bickerstaff

458
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Speaker 3: needs to get Coach of the Year, Like the other

459
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Speaker 3: stories are great too. You're right, there's well tons of candidates,

460
00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:49,520
Speaker 3: but it's got to go to JB.

461
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so. And it sounded like you believe

462
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Speaker 1: the Pistons with Kate or without, like they're winning a

463
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Speaker 1: first round series. And I don't want to put words

464
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Speaker 1: in your mouth, but like, no matter who is the

465
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Speaker 1: eighth seed, you confidence the Pistons are beating them.

466
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Speaker 2: Is that right? I think so.

467
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Speaker 3: I have just stupid belief in Charlotte right now. And

468
00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,240
Speaker 3: so there is a world that if if Kate is

469
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Speaker 3: not there, I think Charlotte could hang around with Detroit.

470
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Speaker 2: But I think so.

471
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Speaker 3: I I you know, I'm not ready to put a

472
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Speaker 3: ton of faith in Philly yet until we see him

473
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Speaker 3: stay healthy and the state of Florida seems to have

474
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Speaker 3: given up on bas.

475
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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is true. And then like, okay, what if

476
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Speaker 1: we get Piston because it's basically one, two, three, four

477
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Speaker 1: in the East. We sort of know it, right, it's Pistons. Yes,

478
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Speaker 1: they're locked up the first seed. Celtics. I can't imagine

479
00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:35,560
Speaker 1: they're falling out of the second spot. Looks like the

480
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Speaker 1: Knicks are going to be third and then the Calves fourth.

481
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Speaker 1: If we get Piston's Calves in a second round. Let's

482
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Speaker 1: say Kate is back and I don't know, whatever percentage's

483
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Speaker 1: at ninety something, where's the kerryon leading a leaning there

484
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Speaker 1: in a Piston's Calves sort of series.

485
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Speaker 3: I think I think if Kate is close to healthy

486
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Speaker 3: and stew In Beef Stew's back, Isaiah Stewart's back, because

487
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Speaker 3: I think that they need both of those bodies to

488
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Speaker 3: deal with Alan And But I don't know. I've had

489
00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:03,960
Speaker 3: this take for a very long time that if you

490
00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,240
Speaker 3: need a guy to score thirty points in a playoff loss,

491
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Speaker 3: Donovan Mitchell as your guy.

492
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Speaker 2: And so I think I'm taking Detroit over Cleveland.

493
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Speaker 3: And I know everybody got very excited they got James Harden,

494
00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:15,960
Speaker 3: who famously does very well in the postseason. So I

495
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Speaker 3: don't know, I'm still leaning you give Detroit home court advantage.

496
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Speaker 2: I think I would still lean Detroit coming out of

497
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Speaker 2: that matchup.

498
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Speaker 3: And if they get somehow Atlanta got past Cleveland too,

499
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Speaker 3: I think I would still comfortably take Detroit there too.

500
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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, that is true. The Hawks are hot, man,

501
00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:32,440
Speaker 1: Maybe they could knock off the Cabs in a first

502
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Speaker 1: round if if they stay in the fifth spot. All right,

503
00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:36,520
Speaker 1: my next winner of the weekend, I'm gonna give it

504
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Speaker 1: to the Rockets because they spoiled Steph Curry's return Classic Rockets.

505
00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:45,119
Speaker 1: They nearly gave the game away, but they didn't, and

506
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Speaker 1: they had a huge play down the stretch and they

507
00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:51,520
Speaker 1: ran a play. The Rockets actually ran a play. Yeah,

508
00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:55,800
Speaker 1: it was Durant having the ball, but it wasn't handed

509
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Speaker 1: to him from out of the inbounds. It went to

510
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Speaker 1: Shngoon to then find Durant and it wasn't just like

511
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Speaker 1: given to him at mid court. They had Durant moving

512
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Speaker 1: in action where the little shovel came from Shengun and

513
00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:10,640
Speaker 1: then he went along the sidelines. Durant did, and Shengun

514
00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:13,280
Speaker 1: flashed toward the basket, and because the Warriors were so small,

515
00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:17,680
Speaker 1: Durant found him easy bucket inside. They can do it, Mike.

516
00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:19,680
Speaker 1: They can run a play at the end of a game.

517
00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:22,359
Speaker 1: And Katie obviously was big in the third quarter, but

518
00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:25,399
Speaker 1: Shengun put them ahead and then they held on and

519
00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:28,520
Speaker 1: survived a Curry missed bomb. I thought Jabari Smith did

520
00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:31,280
Speaker 1: a pretty damn good job moving his tootsies there out

521
00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:33,359
Speaker 1: on the perimeter to make it as difficult as possible,

522
00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:35,400
Speaker 1: Chris still got the shot off, it still nearly went

523
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Speaker 1: even durant after the game's like, yeah, I thought it

524
00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:41,120
Speaker 1: was going in soon as left Curry's hands. But they won,

525
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Speaker 1: and they continue this win streak, and I think I'm

526
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Speaker 1: like the last guy left on Earth believing the Rockets

527
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Speaker 1: can sort of make a special run in the postseason

528
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Speaker 1: because they've let us down a lot here in the

529
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Speaker 1: regular season. But any thoughts from that game and the

530
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Speaker 1: Rockets getting the win.

531
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Speaker 3: Well, there's something beautiful about setting the bar to a

532
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Speaker 3: place where we're like, they ran a play, yes, they

533
00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:04,119
Speaker 3: let's So things are like weirdly starting to fall for

534
00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:07,200
Speaker 3: Houston right now, and I have not been I thought

535
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Speaker 3: I thought they made a mistake by not making a

536
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:10,800
Speaker 3: move at the deadline of just kind of sharing up

537
00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:12,920
Speaker 3: some guard depth, like what you see what Io's doing

538
00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:14,919
Speaker 3: with Minnesota, Like I thought that would have made a

539
00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:17,040
Speaker 3: ton of sense in Houston. But whatever, with the squad

540
00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:19,880
Speaker 3: that they have, I do think some things are falling

541
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Speaker 3: into place for them because of this Lakers situation, which

542
00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:24,480
Speaker 3: we'll talk about, but it looks like the Lakers are

543
00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:26,680
Speaker 3: going to fall to the four seed and then all

544
00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,080
Speaker 3: of a sudden, Houston, who everyone's like, oh they're one

545
00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:32,040
Speaker 3: and done for sure, might match up against the Lakers

546
00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:36,160
Speaker 3: in the first round with a lukeless Lakers or reevesless Lakers,

547
00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:38,240
Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden, Houston's looking at the

548
00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:40,640
Speaker 3: at a second round matchup against most likely okay see

549
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Speaker 3: or whatever.

550
00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:43,639
Speaker 2: But but yeah, I mean I don't know.

551
00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:47,160
Speaker 3: When they look right, you know, they can defend very well,

552
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:49,879
Speaker 3: they can crash the glass. You've got KD who can

553
00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:52,800
Speaker 3: make the crazy shots out there. Read Shepherd shown some

554
00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:56,160
Speaker 3: flashes when he's not getting picked on on the defensive end.

555
00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:59,320
Speaker 3: So they look right, it's great, but then they like

556
00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:02,480
Speaker 3: struggled get past the Grizzlies, and you're like, what what

557
00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:05,639
Speaker 3: the hell is this team? And I think it, honestly,

558
00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:07,280
Speaker 3: it comes back to what you were saying, where it's like,

559
00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:09,680
Speaker 3: can you can we just run someplace in the last

560
00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:11,640
Speaker 3: four minutes of the game. Can we design a play

561
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:12,080
Speaker 3: and run it?

562
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Speaker 1: Yeah, They're gonna be a weird team to try and

563
00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:16,879
Speaker 1: like make a prediction when we get to the postseason

564
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:19,000
Speaker 1: on like you'll be able to like, I know they'll

565
00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 1: be helped out if they play the Lakers, who are

566
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Speaker 1: missing guys. I mean that, I think a lot of

567
00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:25,399
Speaker 1: people will probably take you soon, even despite maybe not

568
00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:28,639
Speaker 1: being convinced all season long in them. But you know,

569
00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:30,960
Speaker 1: any other matchup, It's like you could tell me the

570
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,840
Speaker 1: Rockets get swept, and I'd be like, yeah, yeah, I

571
00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:36,160
Speaker 1: could see that. Maybe competitive games, but swept, And then

572
00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:38,639
Speaker 1: you know, obviously maybe you could pull off an upset

573
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:40,520
Speaker 1: or beat some of these teams because they are good.

574
00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:42,639
Speaker 1: They're top ten on both sides of the ball. You

575
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Speaker 1: do have duranch Ang, goun Is still great, Reid's obviously

576
00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:47,920
Speaker 1: found more of a role here. You got Am and

577
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:51,120
Speaker 1: Thompson wreaking havoc on both ends. Like a good team.

578
00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:54,680
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, you dope has been there in postseason runs

579
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Speaker 1: with the Celtics and stuff. So they're just weird. They're

580
00:24:57,680 --> 00:24:59,320
Speaker 1: just like what are you getting from night tonight? But

581
00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:01,760
Speaker 1: at least they're timing this well here to end the

582
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:05,080
Speaker 1: season the wind streak. Obviously some luck going their way

583
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:07,199
Speaker 1: with injuries to other teams and then maybe moving up.

584
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:09,400
Speaker 1: But you are right that it feels like it's gonna

585
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:13,200
Speaker 1: be Denver three, four or five Lakers Rockets. I don't

586
00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:15,320
Speaker 1: know who will have home court there, and I think

587
00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:17,200
Speaker 1: the Wolves are basically guaranteed to be the sixth seed

588
00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,000
Speaker 1: at this point after losing a few games.

589
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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I think that's right. I think you mentioned

590
00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:23,960
Speaker 3: shen Gun to it. He does feel like almost the

591
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:26,840
Speaker 3: poster child for the Rockets. Were like, you catch shen

592
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:28,959
Speaker 3: Gun on the right night and he's putting up like

593
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,320
Speaker 3: twenty eight, sixteen and nine or something, and you're like,

594
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:32,760
Speaker 3: can anybody stop this guy?

595
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:33,040
Speaker 2: Right?

596
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:34,920
Speaker 3: And then you catch you on another night and he's

597
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,960
Speaker 3: just just three for eighteen and yeah, yeah, you're right,

598
00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 3: right exactly. So it is it's it is hard to

599
00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:43,080
Speaker 3: I think you put it well, like the range of

600
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Speaker 3: outcomes on this Rockets team, Like if you told me

601
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Speaker 3: they took Denver to seven games in the first round

602
00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:49,720
Speaker 3: and like, squeeze. But I'm like, yeah, of course, yeah,

603
00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:52,399
Speaker 3: he told me they got swept by the Lucalist Lakers

604
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 3: and they're like yeah, sure.

605
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, anything's on the table here for this Rockets team.

606
00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:58,480
Speaker 1: All right, one more round of winners? Who you got?

607
00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:00,240
Speaker 1: We talked about.

608
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Speaker 2: Hornets a little bit.

609
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:02,760
Speaker 3: They had a good weekend this weekend, and I thought

610
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:07,240
Speaker 3: they had a really good w against against Minnesota.

611
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:09,200
Speaker 2: I mean they put like a beating on Minnesota.

612
00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:11,640
Speaker 3: I know they were without Anthony Edwards, but they've got

613
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,520
Speaker 3: like on paper, the games look tough down the stretch.

614
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:16,399
Speaker 3: They've got three games left. I believe it's the Knicks,

615
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:19,679
Speaker 3: the Celtics, and the Pistons, But it could be at

616
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Speaker 3: the point where, like the Celtics are locked into the

617
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 3: two seed, Detroit has already clinched the one seed, light

618
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:25,920
Speaker 3: that we talked about, and then the Knicks have a

619
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Speaker 3: big game tonight against the Hawks, yep, and so the

620
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,640
Speaker 3: playoff seating couldn't be kind of squared away. And I believe,

621
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Speaker 3: I believe the way this works, and I feel like

622
00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:37,560
Speaker 3: Charlie Day mean, it's always sunny trying to figure out

623
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:39,879
Speaker 3: what the seedings would look like. But I think if

624
00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:44,560
Speaker 3: if they win out, Philly will need to be because

625
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,040
Speaker 3: Philly's got two easiest games, but then they have Spurs

626
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:48,840
Speaker 3: in Houston. They would have to win one of those

627
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 3: two games against San Antonio and Houston. But it's just

628
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,080
Speaker 3: what a story like even if they don't get to

629
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:55,240
Speaker 3: the sixth seed. I just can't believe we were in

630
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:57,880
Speaker 3: the last week of the regular season and we're saying

631
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Speaker 3: the Charlotte Hornets might be out of the play in

632
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 3: not because they're in the lottery, but because they were

633
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:05,000
Speaker 3: already locked.

634
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:06,280
Speaker 2: In in a first round matchup.

635
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:08,359
Speaker 3: And I bet, like if you had asked the teams

636
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:10,719
Speaker 3: that are in the top four right now, no one's

637
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,919
Speaker 3: excited to get Charlotte. I think they'd probably take the

638
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:18,000
Speaker 3: recent form of the Raptors. Anybody in Florida and Philly.

639
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:19,840
Speaker 3: I mean, Philly does look dangerous, but you just don't

640
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 3: know how healthy they're gonna be. But yeah, does Charlotte

641
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:23,879
Speaker 3: story has just been in a lot of fun and

642
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:25,359
Speaker 3: they're just a fun team to watch.

643
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 2: Yeah.

644
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 1: Joelo Ball had a massive game again. That was that

645
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:30,879
Speaker 1: Wolves game, right, We scored thirty five. He was great.

646
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,040
Speaker 1: I saw something like LaMelo Ball for the first time

647
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:37,879
Speaker 1: in his career is finally a positive in the plus

648
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:41,920
Speaker 1: minus yeah, for his entire career, which made me laugh.

649
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:43,080
Speaker 1: He's gotten there.

650
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:43,359
Speaker 2: Here.

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Speaker 1: This tweet from Tim Reynolds blew my mind this morning

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Speaker 1: about this East mess. Atlanta is number five in the East,

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Speaker 1: Miami is number ten. It's very unlikely, but they could

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Speaker 1: switch spots by Sunday, so there are possible. And he said,

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Speaker 1: we did not say probable paths for Atlanta, Philadelphia, Toronto, Charlotte, Orlando,

656
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Speaker 1: and Miami to all finish fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth,

657
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Speaker 1: or tenth, So meaning like they could all still from

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Speaker 1: five to ten be in one of those spots, which

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Speaker 1: is pretty wild now not probable again, but like crazy

660
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Speaker 1: or shit has happened and they could be bouncing around here.

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Speaker 1: But you like, of all those squads, and I'm with you,

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Speaker 1: the Hornets the way they're playing right now, and like

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Speaker 1: this isn't a one week stretcher. This is a couple

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Speaker 1: months now of like really solid Hornets pastball, they would

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Speaker 1: they feel like the them and the Hawks I guess

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Speaker 1: feel like the toughest outs right now from that bunch.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so.

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Speaker 3: I've been like slow to get on board with Atlanta,

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Speaker 3: but they just keep they just keep winning and Nikhail

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Speaker 3: Alexander Walker has been just amazing for the last.

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Speaker 2: Like month now. So yeah, I'm with you.

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Speaker 3: I think Atlanta, I think Charlotte, and again Philly when

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Speaker 3: they look right, Philly looks incredible, but I just don't know,

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Speaker 3: I just don't know what she they're going to be in.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I think Charlotte is super dangerous. You mentioned

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Speaker 3: the five through ten things been nuts too, because it's

677
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Speaker 3: been this type it feels like, for two months. Yeah,

678
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Speaker 3: and like no one is creating any sort of separation.

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Speaker 3: Like you'll see Orlando win a couple games in a

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Speaker 3: row and then they'll drop five. Saying with Miami, they

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Speaker 3: ripped off some w's and they they lost some grounds.

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Speaker 3: So it's been it's been a fun race. It's kept

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Speaker 3: the East pretty fun. I mean again, any sort of

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Speaker 3: the fact that, like we have no idea who's gonna

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Speaker 3: be five through ten with just three or four games

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Speaker 3: left is pretty wild.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right. There was that stretch where Miami was winning,

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Speaker 1: Orlando was winning. I thought, like we all thought they

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Speaker 1: were going to separate themselves sort of from the bunch,

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Speaker 1: and they didn't because then they would sweat on a

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Speaker 1: losing streak. And now they're at the back end of

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Speaker 1: this thing and they're probably gonna be playing. They might

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Speaker 1: be playing a nine to ten matchup Florida State championship.

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Speaker 1: I think McMahon called it to see who goes to play,

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Speaker 1: you know, in another chance to get in. I guess

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Speaker 1: the Raptors, Sixers could be Hawks, could be Hornets, like,

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Speaker 1: I don't think anybody has any confidence in those Florida

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Speaker 1: teams right now at all.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean it's crazy to see it, but like Miami's

701
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Speaker 3: just refusing to play defense. They're just like they're protesting,

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Speaker 3: they're not interested. So I yeah, I don't, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't.

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Speaker 3: I don't have any faith in either of those those teams,

705
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Speaker 3: and I don't like watching them either.

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Speaker 2: They've been like tough hangs.

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Speaker 3: I was trying to catch some of the end of

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Speaker 3: the Magic Pelicans game last night, and I'm like, I

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Speaker 3: don't want to do this.

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Speaker 2: This is not and I don't want to spend my

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Speaker 2: time like this.

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Speaker 1: Jamal Moseley, it's just a matter of time before he

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Speaker 1: is fired. I just wonder how quickly that's going to

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Speaker 1: come after the season's over for them, Like is it

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Speaker 1: like next day type thing or do they let it

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Speaker 1: go for a little bit.

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Speaker 2: We'll see, Yeah, half and halftime of the nine to

718
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Speaker 2: ten game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe maybe. All right, So Hornets was your final winner.

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Speaker 1: I got a few few winners here to sprinkle in

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Speaker 1: before we take a break. Twenty twenty six Basketball Hall

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Speaker 1: of Fame class was announced over the weekend. We've talked

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Speaker 1: about it like a million times by now, but Mike

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Speaker 1: D'Antoni was also inducted. I felt like that went like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, under the radar a little bit. There

726
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Speaker 1: was like a Mari when in the NBA side of it,

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Speaker 1: you know, Zamari Doc Rivers, Uh, who else am I forgetting?

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Speaker 1: And then well Mike D'Antoni another coach, am I forgetting?

729
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Speaker 1: Another player? No WNBA people were obviously Parker Della down.

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Speaker 1: So D'Antoni and his mustache is in.

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Speaker 3: I'll expose myself right now, just to help you make

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Speaker 3: your point. Also, I should have phrased that differently. I

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Speaker 3: won't expose myself right now.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 3: I uh, I am learning right now that D'Antoni got in.

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Speaker 2: I did not. I missed that. I missed that. Okay.

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Speaker 1: See that's why I brought it up. I like I

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Speaker 1: feel we, like I joked, we talk about this every

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Speaker 1: couple of months because it like whatever however they do it,

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Speaker 1: it's in the news, like Hall of Fame class, Hall

741
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Speaker 1: of Fame class. They could just like stretch this out. Yeah,

742
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Speaker 1: there was no talk of D'Antoni, but there he is.

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Speaker 1: He's in.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Good for him. Uh him Hawkes Junior Winner of the Weekend.

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Speaker 1: He scored a season high thirty two points from Miami

747
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Speaker 1: and Saturday's win over the Wizards. You know, he loved

748
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Speaker 1: playing the Wizards. First it was Bam and it was

749
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Speaker 1: Hawkes and Khalilware had a monster game before Hawkes Junior

750
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Speaker 1: apparently like dashed to the airport to catch a commercial flight.

751
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 1: That part, that little detail made me laugh. To Phoenix,

752
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Speaker 1: where he watched his sister, who plays for UCLA, defeats

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Speaker 1: South Carolina for the women's national title. So himy Hawk

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Speaker 1: is junior. What a weekend. That's the That's the definition

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Speaker 1: of a winner of the Weekend. He played well, season

756
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 1: high in a win, gets on the plane, goes and

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Speaker 1: watches his alma mater and his sister win the Natty.

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Speaker 2: That's awesome. I love that.

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Speaker 3: What a weird run to Like last year, I feel

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Speaker 3: like because he had a really solid rookie year, like

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Speaker 3: kind of disappeared a little bit last year. I was

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Speaker 3: like barely even getting run And he's been arguably like

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Speaker 3: one of their most important players this season. Like he

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Speaker 3: drives that entire second unit. He's been and I think

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Speaker 3: if I think if Miami was playing a little bit better,

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Speaker 3: he'd probably be front running at six Man of the

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Speaker 3: Year conversation. But the Keldon Johnson campaign has been strong.

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Speaker 1: Hmm. It's an interesting point. Yeah, yeah, he does come

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Speaker 1: off the bench. I think he had one start token

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Speaker 1: start this season, but he has played well. It's gone

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Speaker 1: under the radar just because maybe they're just sort of average,

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Speaker 1: and there's a lot of other storylines and guys that

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Speaker 1: have improved, like the kil Alexander Walker, MIP and I

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Speaker 1: remember Hawkins Junior was like he was getting a push

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Speaker 1: for that early on at one point. But he's been good,

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Speaker 1: great weekend. And then finally, Donovan Mitchell dropped two defenders

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Speaker 1: on one play, which is rare. They looked like bowling

778
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Speaker 1: pins falling over. Now they like forget who it was,

779
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Speaker 1: but they stepped on the other teammate's foot, which took

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Speaker 1: them both down. But like the sea's parted, and then Mitchell,

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Speaker 1: you got to finish the highlight and he hit the bucket.

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Speaker 1: So as much as you hate Donovan Mitchell, Mike, it

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Speaker 1: was a great highlight. Oh look, I'm just saying, I

784
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Speaker 1: know I gotta make it.

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Speaker 3: Do you not hate Donovan Mitchell I think Donovan Mitchell's awesome.

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Speaker 3: I just I feel like that happens a lot. The

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Speaker 3: thirty points in a playoff. Yeah, look, and maybe not

788
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Speaker 3: his fault, you know, no.

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Speaker 1: Nope, But my final winner, it's going to go to

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Speaker 1: Tyrese Maxi because he played in his sixty fifth game

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Speaker 1: on Friday night, which could have significant financial implications. So

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Speaker 1: in the scenario that Maxie is name to an All

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Speaker 1: NBA team this year, and I don't know why he

794
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 1: wouldn't be because who's left, I mean, like Cade gone, Anthony,

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Speaker 1: Edward's gone, Luca. I don't know we're going to arbitration

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00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:14,359
Speaker 1: for that one, but a lot of guys are going

797
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Speaker 1: to be ineligible. And Max he's been great too. I Mean,

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Speaker 1: the guy's like fifth in the league in points per game,

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Speaker 1: he's like fourth or fifth in total clutch points, like

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Speaker 1: when he plays, has been awesome. So he'll make an

801
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Speaker 1: All NBA team, pretty confident in that. But he will

802
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:32,720
Speaker 1: then become eligible to sign a four year, three hundred

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Speaker 1: million dollars super Max extension in the twenty seven offseason,

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Speaker 1: So the first year that extension would be in twenty

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Speaker 1: nine to thirty. And I know what you're thinking, didn't

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Speaker 1: this guy just sign a five year, two hundred million

807
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 1: dollar plus extension with Philly. Yeah, he sort of did.

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Speaker 1: It was July twenty twenty four, after he was named

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Speaker 1: Most Improved Player. But Bobby Marks notes that a player

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Speaker 1: with seven or eight years of NBA service is super

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Speaker 1: Max eligible if they are named All NBA in the

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Speaker 1: immediately preceding season or in two of the immediately preceding

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Speaker 1: three seasons. So, Maxy, would you have him on an

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Speaker 1: All NBA team?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's been awesome. He's been their best player. He's

816
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Speaker 3: been their most consistent player. And I think if we

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Speaker 3: can just if we create like the Clutch Player of

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Speaker 3: the Year award, we should be able to do just

819
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Speaker 3: like a Most Fun a Most Fun Player of the Year.

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Speaker 3: He's the best man. I love watching him play. It

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00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 3: feels like he's the fastest person in the league. It

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Speaker 3: seems like he's having a good time. That dunk on

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00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 3: Bridges and then when against in that Hornets game, and

824
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:32,600
Speaker 3: then when Bridges went in like acknowledge him or something,

825
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 3: and he just started pointing at him and laughing.

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Speaker 2: I was like, let's go, this is the best. That's

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Speaker 2: what I love him.

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Speaker 1: And since like sort of coming back to even nurses

829
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Speaker 1: like I don't know, maybe they like demanded he do it.

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Speaker 1: His minutes are actually reasonable right now for Maxi still

831
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Speaker 1: leads the league in minutes per game, but you know

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Speaker 1: he's not in those forty forty plus minutes over those

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00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 1: last little stretch, he's playing some like thirty five minute games,

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Speaker 1: thirty three minute games. So Maxi here is just like

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Speaker 1: this sort of surprised me. This Bobby Marks is like,

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Speaker 1: holy crap, four years, three hundred million for Tyrese Maxie.

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Speaker 1: That's an extension he'll be eligible to sign moving forward.

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00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:09,319
Speaker 1: That's a lot of money. So good for him.

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Speaker 2: Good for him.

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00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, and this will be his first All NBA team.

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00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 1: That sort of shock like surprised me. He's made a

842
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 1: couple of All Star teams but hasn't made the All

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00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:18,359
Speaker 1: NBA team. Should make it this year. Okay, those are

844
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Speaker 1: our winners. Let's take a quick break. When we come back,

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Speaker 1: we'll talk Luca Jannis and other losers of the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Who do you like tonight, Mike? In the championship game?

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Speaker 1: You like you Connor Michigan. I think if you win

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Speaker 1: by what was it a million?

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Speaker 3: In the final four game, I think I'm just gonna

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Speaker 3: keep riding with that team, Michigan, I'm gonna take you.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go to Michigan.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, go Blue, Go Blue. I think you're right.

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Speaker 1: That was our pick in our No Dunk's bracket. By

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Speaker 1: the way, we sit second. Wow, we sit second overall.

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00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,040
Speaker 1: But I don't think we can win. There's somebody else

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00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:10,959
Speaker 1: that has Michigan. They're just ahead of us. But best

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Speaker 1: showing we've ever had for a bunch of guys that

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Speaker 1: but then we're going to be dancing obviously a whole

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00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 1: bunch more after this. You get the point. Yeah, right,

878
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 1: So NBA Weekend losers, Mike, the floor is yours. Who

879
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:55,839
Speaker 1: do you want to start with?

880
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 3: I mean, we got to start with the team that's

881
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 3: just losing Obliques and Hammies and whatever else. Lakers, man, Yeah,

882
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:07,960
Speaker 3: just can't catch a break here. And I know they

883
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 3: were like the Lakers are taking a lot of flak

884
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:13,720
Speaker 3: with that that thunder game, Like why was Luca even

885
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:15,359
Speaker 3: out there to start the second half.

886
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 2: I feel like that's just what you do though, right when.

887
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 3: You're getting blown out, We're like, we'll give you one

888
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:21,719
Speaker 3: more rotation here to start the third quarter.

889
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:24,280
Speaker 2: We make some noise you we'll see what happens.

890
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:26,440
Speaker 3: And then if you did, if you did stays a

891
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:28,320
Speaker 3: thirty point deficit, you know you have the rest of

892
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:30,320
Speaker 3: the night off. So I didn't think that was that crazy,

893
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 3: but man to lose both Luca Luke. Luca's injury is

894
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:35,480
Speaker 3: so bad that they were like, we will send you

895
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:37,799
Speaker 3: to another country for a little while and just see

896
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 3: what happens.

897
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 1: Right, that was the report this week. It's going to

898
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:44,719
Speaker 1: Europe to get this thing checked out or another opinion,

899
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 1: I guess on how to fix it in quicker. What

900
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:49,319
Speaker 1: are they doing over there that we're not doing over here,

901
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 1: That's my question.

902
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it makes me like really concerned either way,

903
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:55,520
Speaker 3: Like if it works, I'm like, that makes me nervous.

904
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:57,400
Speaker 2: And if it doesn't work, I'm like, oh, this is

905
00:38:57,440 --> 00:38:57,959
Speaker 2: really bad.

906
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 3: And then the Reeves injury, I mean, they made it

907
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 3: seem like he was just gonna miss the end of

908
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 3: the regular season, but to have him ready for the

909
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 3: round one, right, but it doesn't sound like he's gonna

910
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:12,160
Speaker 3: be ready for round one based off of this, No, based.

911
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:14,040
Speaker 2: On the timelines anyways that were that were being outlined.

912
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 3: So if I mean, and then to drop a game

913
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,319
Speaker 3: to the Mavericks, who again are not trying to win

914
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:21,279
Speaker 3: games right now, and all of a sudden slipping to

915
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:23,719
Speaker 3: the four seed. It just seemed like they had really

916
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 3: figured things out. They were defending, Luca was playing at

917
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:30,360
Speaker 3: insane levels, and now it just it kind of seems

918
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 3: like that that moment has passed and it's a bummer.

919
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:35,800
Speaker 3: It's a bummer. I mean that changes the postseason a

920
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 3: little bit. I'm not a Laker fan, but it's more

921
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:39,880
Speaker 3: fun when they are. They are out there playing in

922
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:42,800
Speaker 3: the way that they are, and you know, keep playoff.

923
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:44,719
Speaker 2: Luca is a good time, sure, and now it just

924
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 2: it seems like this is gonna be uh. I don't know,

925
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:47,880
Speaker 2: is it?

926
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 3: Is it just setting up for forty one year old

927
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 3: Lebron James to put Deandrayton on his shoulders and get

928
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 3: them into round two.

929
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 2: But I don't know, I don't see it. How are

930
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 2: you feeling about it?

931
00:39:57,239 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 1: Oh man, Jesus? If Lebron can take eight and Rui Hachimura,

932
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:08,799
Speaker 1: Luke Canard, the Nard Dog and Jake who I didn't say,

933
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:12,680
Speaker 1: Jake Larevia. I guess to a playoff run here without

934
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:15,479
Speaker 1: Luca and Reeves, then maybe he is the goat. Maybe

935
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:17,799
Speaker 1: it is setting up for that, but no, don't have

936
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:19,400
Speaker 1: a lot of confidence in them getting out of the

937
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:22,520
Speaker 1: first round now because Luca's injury. It's worth noting just

938
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:27,120
Speaker 1: how long other guys have been out with similar injuries.

939
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 1: I mean, Peyton Watson recently missed twenty games over like

940
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:33,360
Speaker 1: forty six days because of the grade to right hamstring

941
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 1: strain and then he reaggravated it last week. J dub

942
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 1: Jalen Williams he missed ten games over three weeks with

943
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:45,319
Speaker 1: a right hamstring strain. He returned reinjured that cost him

944
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 1: another what seventeen games or something. Aaron Gordon continually dealing

945
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 1: with the hamstring injury. James Harden back in the day,

946
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 1: like even this idea goes to Europe and they pump

947
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 1: him full of like I don't know, horse steroids or something,

948
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,799
Speaker 1: and he comes back. It's like he could reinjure it.

949
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 1: So I think that's somewhat of a concern too. It's like,

950
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:08,000
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe maybe this is just unfortunately like

951
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 1: a lost season now here at the end and you're

952
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:13,359
Speaker 1: just like, all right, you know, we look great now

953
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:16,360
Speaker 1: he's out. Reasons out, whatever you can do lebron you know,

954
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:18,919
Speaker 1: don't kill yourself either, but what we'll see you next year,

955
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:21,120
Speaker 1: because I would, I would just be hesitant to even

956
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:23,200
Speaker 1: be rushing Luca back here.

957
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:26,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's one of the it's if we thought

958
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:29,880
Speaker 3: that they had like a reasonable shot at taking down Okay,

959
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 3: see you know what, maybe it's a different conversation, but

960
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:34,759
Speaker 3: are we really rushing Luca back to make sure that

961
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 3: you lose in six in the second round? Like is

962
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:39,759
Speaker 3: that is that worth it for what the next couple

963
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:42,240
Speaker 3: of years are going to look like for for the Lakers?

964
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean, listen, some good news.

965
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 3: We might get some Bronny James playoff minutes though, so

966
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:49,000
Speaker 3: we'll have some some father son storylines.

967
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:50,600
Speaker 2: He was out there last night, yep.

968
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:53,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, you're right, they're going to be relying on

969
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:55,400
Speaker 3: the triple double King Luke Canard.

970
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:57,359
Speaker 2: I think that right.

971
00:41:57,440 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 3: He have like, yeah, tens across the border or something

972
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:03,440
Speaker 3: and last night. But yeah, I think the Lakers are

973
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 3: in trouble. I think it's I think it's curtains.

974
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, and now they're playing Yeah, they're playing lineups that

975
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,759
Speaker 1: have never even played together. Suddenly, now like even like

976
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 1: that one I went through it Lebron Canard eight and

977
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:16,880
Speaker 1: Ruey Jake Laarravia they'd never played together this season. They started,

978
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 1: and then second quarter it's like Lebron Vanderbilt, Jackson, Hayes, Maxi, Kleiba,

979
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 1: Kobe Buffkin who we love here at no dunk. Kobe

980
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:29,319
Speaker 1: was the Skyhawks guy. They hadn't played together. Obviously, when

981
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:32,520
Speaker 1: I just said that, yeah, this is this is tough.

982
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:37,080
Speaker 1: This is yeah, unless miraculously these guys come back. Even

983
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:39,520
Speaker 1: even like if you heard Reddick, he was like, you know,

984
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:41,240
Speaker 1: our whole thing now is we just got to extend

985
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 1: the season to have maybe a chance of these guys

986
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:46,359
Speaker 1: coming back. Like to me, I'm reading into that, it's like, well,

987
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:49,239
Speaker 1: obviously not the regular season, and like maybe we got

988
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 1: to like pull off an upset or two in the

989
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:54,320
Speaker 1: postseason too, maybe then have them return.

990
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 3: Maybe this would be a fun take by JJ Reddick

991
00:42:57,160 --> 00:43:00,920
Speaker 3: of being like, actually, eighty two regular season games not enough? Wow?

992
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:02,320
Speaker 2: Extended forget?

993
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, get bringing it back to seventy ninety We did

994
00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 3: ninety two games.

995
00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:08,960
Speaker 1: Yeah. More money for the owners, Yeah, more money for

996
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:11,279
Speaker 1: the arenas. It's great, all right, So Lakers, I don't

997
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:13,200
Speaker 1: I don't think I don't have much else sad to that,

998
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 1: like this is it's unfortunate, like you said, obviously removes

999
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 1: Luca from potentially All NBA team And of course the

1000
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:23,640
Speaker 1: MVP conversation no matter where you had them, maybe you

1001
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:25,400
Speaker 1: had them second, third, fourth. I don't think a lot

1002
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 1: of people had him winning. But do you do you think? Uh,

1003
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:31,160
Speaker 1: you know, now these voters are going to just have

1004
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:33,799
Speaker 1: to wait weeks here while we wait for arbitration to

1005
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:37,360
Speaker 1: weigh in on whether him going for the birth of

1006
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 1: his child and missing two games like still keeps him

1007
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 1: in play. Like that's where we're at with this nonsense.

1008
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, does do does Adam Silver give us like a

1009
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 3: double feature? Do we get both the Aspiration conclusion and

1010
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:53,799
Speaker 3: all team first Team All NBA announcements in like the

1011
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 3: same in the same form letter, the form email that

1012
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:57,200
Speaker 3: goes out. Is that?

1013
00:43:57,239 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 2: Is that what we're getting?

1014
00:43:58,000 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 3: It?

1015
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 1: Is it the same law firm? Is the quest? Do

1016
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:04,120
Speaker 1: you have to get a whole other one pay for that? Yeah?

1017
00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:07,160
Speaker 1: I don't know, because I think Windhorse and them we're

1018
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:09,279
Speaker 1: talking about it, like, yeah, usually you start to get

1019
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 1: these ballots pretty soon, and then there used to be

1020
00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:14,640
Speaker 1: a quick turnarounds, like the season ended, and it's like

1021
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:16,480
Speaker 1: get them in. You got twenty four hours, get your

1022
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:18,279
Speaker 1: votes in for all the awards and all the All

1023
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:21,480
Speaker 1: NBA teams. But now with the sixty five game threshold,

1024
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:24,800
Speaker 1: and like the Willie or won't he play and stuff

1025
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 1: like that, or will they count these games or not?

1026
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:31,000
Speaker 1: Whatever this could I don't know. We could be sitting

1027
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 1: on these awards for a while here, depending on how

1028
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:34,960
Speaker 1: long this takes.

1029
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:37,880
Speaker 3: I know there's talk about like the sixty five games

1030
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:39,520
Speaker 3: and do we need to fix it. I think the

1031
00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:44,040
Speaker 3: answer is, if arbitration needs to be had in order

1032
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:46,799
Speaker 3: to find out a resolution of something, you need to

1033
00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 3: change the rule. Like I don't know if we need

1034
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:52,879
Speaker 3: lawyers to figure out who is first, second, and third

1035
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 3: team All NBA.

1036
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:54,920
Speaker 2: Like I think there's your answer.

1037
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:57,920
Speaker 1: I did. Like I think Simmons said, somebody emailed in

1038
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:04,720
Speaker 1: to his podcast Final Game Lakers Jazz, just put Luca

1039
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:08,360
Speaker 1: out there for twenty minutes. Don't move them, just literally

1040
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:12,160
Speaker 1: put them offensive end or even defensive end. Just have

1041
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:15,080
Speaker 1: them stand there for twenty minutes just to get the

1042
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 1: sixty fifth game. That'd be a real you know, spit

1043
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:20,120
Speaker 1: in the eye of silver. I sort of like it, like,

1044
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 1: here's the dumb rule here. We're just gonna like do

1045
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 1: this and complete make a mockery of the game.

1046
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:27,000
Speaker 3: If they do that, Will Hardy should match Luke a

1047
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 3: minutes with Kevin Love, Like, get Kevin Love out there

1048
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:31,440
Speaker 3: for those twenty as well, because he's not allowed to

1049
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:32,759
Speaker 3: play more ten minutes a night.

1050
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:33,160
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1051
00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:35,400
Speaker 1: I like it. I like it, so do it, do it?

1052
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 1: JJ he might do it, all right. My big loser

1053
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:41,480
Speaker 1: of the weekend is Bucks versus Jannis. I've called it

1054
00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:44,880
Speaker 1: volume twelve. I don't know what this is, but I

1055
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:47,040
Speaker 1: don't know when a different direction, I guess over the weekend,

1056
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:49,759
Speaker 1: the NBA is investigating the Bucks for their handling of

1057
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:54,400
Speaker 1: the player participation policy and potential and consistent statements regarding

1058
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:57,920
Speaker 1: the health of Giannis. Okay, let's try and clarify this.

1059
00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:00,359
Speaker 1: Yannis has informed the Bucks in the NBA he wants

1060
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:02,200
Speaker 1: to play. I think he just wants to play with

1061
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:04,640
Speaker 1: his brothers, if we're being completely honest. I think he's

1062
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:06,839
Speaker 1: seeing them throw oops to each other and he's like, Oh,

1063
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:09,080
Speaker 1: that'd be cool. I'd like to do that with my bros.

1064
00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:13,240
Speaker 1: But the team will not medically clear him. Milwaukee says

1065
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:17,120
Speaker 1: they told the league it doesn't believe Giannis is fully

1066
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:20,240
Speaker 1: healthy and ready and that he even maybe wants to play,

1067
00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:22,879
Speaker 1: because they're saying, look, we asked him go in these

1068
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:26,360
Speaker 1: three on three scrimmages, get your body right, get it going,

1069
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:30,120
Speaker 1: and he's declining to do that. This is where the

1070
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:33,440
Speaker 1: standstill is. And I think, I like, I don't know,

1071
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 1: what's your opinion on this? Are you as over this

1072
00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 1: as much as everybody else's this bucksy honest relationship?

1073
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:41,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, just break up already, you know, I just just

1074
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:42,319
Speaker 2: stop it.

1075
00:46:42,719 --> 00:46:45,200
Speaker 3: And I think if we didn't talk about this for

1076
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:47,759
Speaker 3: the first half of the year, and if Jannis wasn't

1077
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:50,440
Speaker 3: doing all these different interviews where he was saying, well,

1078
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:52,440
Speaker 3: I want to be here forever, I think, or I

1079
00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:54,880
Speaker 3: want like, I want to compete for championships, so as

1080
00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:56,399
Speaker 3: long as we're doing that, I'll be here. I think

1081
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:58,839
Speaker 3: if all that didn't happen, people would be a little

1082
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:00,799
Speaker 3: bit more sympathetic to Jannis being like, hey, man, I

1083
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:02,600
Speaker 3: just want to get back on the court, all right.

1084
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:06,719
Speaker 3: But instead, because we have done this all for months now,

1085
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:09,360
Speaker 3: I think everybody's just like, man, come on, come on,

1086
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 3: and also like jo honest, if you are. If you

1087
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:13,360
Speaker 3: want to stay in Milwaukee and you want to compete

1088
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:16,040
Speaker 3: for championships, the best thing for you to do right

1089
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:19,000
Speaker 3: now is to not play basketball, right like, go get

1090
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:21,360
Speaker 3: a better asset in the draft and then either trade

1091
00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 3: that or use it whatever to help build your team.

1092
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:25,920
Speaker 3: But I mean, it's just so clear now that it's

1093
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:29,200
Speaker 3: over and now we're just using third parties to share

1094
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 3: information to be like, well, actually he wouldn't show up

1095
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:34,319
Speaker 3: to three on three, so maybe he's not healthy, you know, like, yeah,

1096
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:34,800
Speaker 3: you're doing.

1097
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:38,320
Speaker 1: It does feel like Giannis is trying to act maybe

1098
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:40,719
Speaker 1: like the good guy in all of this still and

1099
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 1: it's not going maybe as he thought or planned, Like

1100
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:47,160
Speaker 1: he's trying to say this is all the Buck's fault.

1101
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 1: It just feels disingenuous though, because everybody knows or I

1102
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:52,839
Speaker 1: don't know. It feels like he does sort of want

1103
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 1: to be traded without saying trade me and the Bucks

1104
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:57,839
Speaker 1: are trying to be spark by not playing him here,

1105
00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:00,319
Speaker 1: either for lottery reasons or just for the very fact

1106
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:02,600
Speaker 1: of like, yeah, we're gonna trade you, man, but like

1107
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:05,480
Speaker 1: we don't want you injured because you've had two calf strains.

1108
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:10,880
Speaker 1: An aductor strain a hyper extended the like, we're just

1109
00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:13,040
Speaker 1: trying to keep you healthy here to then move you

1110
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 1: and you could quiet all of this noise if you

1111
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:18,239
Speaker 1: just said, I'm signing the extension. But he hasn't done that,

1112
00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:21,319
Speaker 1: and you're lucky doesn't have to It just people are

1113
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:22,239
Speaker 1: over this. I'm with you.

1114
00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:26,320
Speaker 3: We were just saying that we don't think Lucas should

1115
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:29,719
Speaker 3: rush back if it's gonna cause you know, more harm,

1116
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:32,200
Speaker 3: and that's for the playoffs. So now we're saying, if

1117
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 3: there is concern that Yanna still is dealing with some stuff,

1118
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:38,520
Speaker 3: why are we rushing him back to lose by twenty

1119
00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:41,440
Speaker 3: five in a meetingless regular season game here at the end,

1120
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:43,719
Speaker 3: Like it just and I know the like, yes, that

1121
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:45,840
Speaker 3: is cool that you get to play basketball with your brothers.

1122
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 3: I don't know if that means we need to rush

1123
00:48:48,719 --> 00:48:51,239
Speaker 3: you back, Like I don't know, I know it just

1124
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 3: but you I think you use the right word disingenuous.

1125
00:48:54,120 --> 00:48:58,200
Speaker 3: It does all feels it feels like orchestrated, feels manipulative

1126
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:00,239
Speaker 3: on both sides too. I don't think like the box

1127
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:02,600
Speaker 3: ownership is clean in any of this. I just it's

1128
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:06,919
Speaker 3: just just go away, just go get to another team now.

1129
00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:09,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, And the whole thing isn't helped out by the

1130
00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:11,680
Speaker 1: fact that Yannis when a microphone gets put in front

1131
00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:13,839
Speaker 1: of them, he just goes nuts and says like a

1132
00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:17,320
Speaker 1: lot and where it feels like the Bucks and Horse

1133
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:19,799
Speaker 1: in the front office like like crickets from them. So

1134
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:22,640
Speaker 1: it's like it's all Yannis saying, I don't know, I

1135
00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:24,719
Speaker 1: want to play, they won't let me play. I don't know. Yeah,

1136
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:27,600
Speaker 1: maybe they should be investigated. He's calling for another investigation.

1137
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:31,319
Speaker 1: Uh man, these lawyers are laughing that are working for

1138
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:34,240
Speaker 1: the NBA. But then we hear nothing from the Bucks

1139
00:49:34,239 --> 00:49:36,440
Speaker 1: and they're just like they just must be like, please

1140
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:37,720
Speaker 1: just end this season already.

1141
00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:40,200
Speaker 2: So yeah, and I can't. I'm trying to think that

1142
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:42,560
Speaker 2: there's another player. And this isn't extreme.

1143
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:46,360
Speaker 3: There's definitely examples of this when they actually did something terrible,

1144
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:49,799
Speaker 3: but like a player that has lost as much goodwill.

1145
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:50,120
Speaker 2: In the season.

1146
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:53,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, where it's almost like I think of almost

1147
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:55,759
Speaker 3: like a Kevin Hart where Kevin Hart first came out.

1148
00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:56,879
Speaker 2: Of the scene and it was like, oh my god,

1149
00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:57,760
Speaker 2: this dude's amazing.

1150
00:49:57,840 --> 00:50:00,279
Speaker 3: Let's get this guy everywhere, and then he's in four

1151
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:04,160
Speaker 3: thousand commercials in like one during one game, and we're like,

1152
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:06,919
Speaker 3: I'd be okay if I never saw this man again. Yeah,

1153
00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:08,920
Speaker 3: and it does that kind of feels like what's happening.

1154
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:10,640
Speaker 3: It's like we've got just too much, dude. It's like

1155
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:13,360
Speaker 3: we're drinking water through a fire hose. This is not fun.

1156
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 3: I don't like this. Just please go away for a

1157
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:16,680
Speaker 3: little while.

1158
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:19,560
Speaker 1: Yeah. The other part too. I saw Zilla write about

1159
00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:22,320
Speaker 1: this morning. The worst part about this ongoing Yannis trade

1160
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:24,640
Speaker 1: saga is the lack of a catchy name for it.

1161
00:50:25,239 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 1: Carmelo Anthony had the Mellow Drama. Dwight Howard gave us

1162
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:32,439
Speaker 1: the Dwight Mare. The options are meager this time around, though.

1163
00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:37,640
Speaker 1: I like this one that Zilla proposed, the yawness. Oh good. Yeah,

1164
00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 1: I was like that's pretty good. That's good. I mean,

1165
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:42,440
Speaker 1: it's like not as catchy as those other ones, but

1166
00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 1: it really encapsulates how we all feel about it. We're

1167
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:46,520
Speaker 1: all just yawning at this at this point.

1168
00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:53,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, intent, I don't know what to do. Yes, I

1169
00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:56,200
Speaker 3: think it's terrible. I mean it's healthful, but I see

1170
00:50:56,239 --> 00:50:59,279
Speaker 3: what you're doing. Yeah, okay, okay, we're trying. We're trying zilla.

1171
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:01,960
Speaker 1: All right, one more round of losers? Where do you

1172
00:51:01,960 --> 00:51:02,279
Speaker 1: want to go?

1173
00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:05,600
Speaker 3: I just the Philly one over the weekend was kind

1174
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:08,239
Speaker 3: of funny for those that are being introduced to me

1175
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:10,719
Speaker 3: for the first time. I hate April Fools Day. I

1176
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:13,839
Speaker 3: think it's terrible. It's just lying. It's not jokes, You're

1177
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:17,040
Speaker 3: just lying. So the injury report comes out for the

1178
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:21,680
Speaker 3: Philly game that was on April first, and Embiid is out. Yeah,

1179
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 3: And it was like, I think a back to back

1180
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:25,520
Speaker 3: and he kind of made sense that he wasn't gonna play,

1181
00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:28,520
Speaker 3: and then he tweets out like, oh, this must be

1182
00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:31,279
Speaker 3: April Fools or whatever, and then I thought he was

1183
00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:34,759
Speaker 3: just joking a little bit. But then he's talked to

1184
00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:36,520
Speaker 3: I don't know if it was after the game or

1185
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:39,160
Speaker 3: after practice or something, and addresses it a little bit

1186
00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:40,960
Speaker 3: about how he was held out, and he was like, yeah,

1187
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:43,120
Speaker 3: I wasn't feeling well, but I also wasn't feeling well

1188
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:44,480
Speaker 3: in the other game that I played, and I was

1189
00:51:44,520 --> 00:51:46,920
Speaker 3: feeling better that day. And these are important games and

1190
00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:49,560
Speaker 3: I want to be out there. But I guess name

1191
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:52,120
Speaker 3: drops Maury being like that, Darryl Morie is the one

1192
00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:54,280
Speaker 3: making these decisions of if I can.

1193
00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:56,240
Speaker 2: Play or they won't allow me to play.

1194
00:51:57,200 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 3: So I just with the vibe starting to get back

1195
00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:03,239
Speaker 3: and fit somehow. Darryl Moury seems to be the only

1196
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:06,920
Speaker 3: guy collecting l's over there, whether it's from the McCain

1197
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:10,400
Speaker 3: trade or now the best player on the team or

1198
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:12,359
Speaker 3: maybe the second best to shout out Tigers Maxy, but

1199
00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:15,080
Speaker 3: the leader of the team anyways, just being like, what

1200
00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:16,840
Speaker 3: are you doing while they're in the midst of this

1201
00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:19,440
Speaker 3: playoff push, also trying to get out of the plane.

1202
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:22,040
Speaker 3: I don't know, I just I thought it was I

1203
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:24,280
Speaker 3: was surprised to hear him name dropped.

1204
00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:25,960
Speaker 2: I don't know, what did you think of that?

1205
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:28,840
Speaker 1: Well, look, yeah, when you proposed this as a loser,

1206
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:30,800
Speaker 1: I was like, hold on, what did he do or

1207
00:52:30,840 --> 00:52:32,680
Speaker 1: what was said? Or what did Maury do? And so

1208
00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:35,359
Speaker 1: I did the deep dive obviously yesterday and like trying

1209
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:37,719
Speaker 1: to catch up with this story and maybe like what's

1210
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:40,520
Speaker 1: going on, and you know, reading the tea leaves, I

1211
00:52:40,520 --> 00:52:43,799
Speaker 1: saw Spike Eskin, who obviously follows the Sixers closely with

1212
00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:47,080
Speaker 1: his podcast The Rights Riikie Sanchiz like he thinks it's

1213
00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:49,239
Speaker 1: just one of these things. Like almost the Sixers are

1214
00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:52,480
Speaker 1: tired of the embid, like Willie or won't he and

1215
00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:55,200
Speaker 1: like it's got the team and the organization burned a

1216
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:59,120
Speaker 1: couple times with like having to announce when guys are

1217
00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:01,040
Speaker 1: playing how much they're going to play that type of

1218
00:53:01,040 --> 00:53:04,160
Speaker 1: thing where it's actually cost the money. So they were like, oh,

1219
00:53:04,239 --> 00:53:06,400
Speaker 1: he's sick, okay, then just rule them out, you know

1220
00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:09,040
Speaker 1: what I mean, like to cover their asses in a way.

1221
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:11,920
Speaker 1: But then Embiid flips it around like, well, you know,

1222
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:13,800
Speaker 1: I wasn't feeling good. I had so many problems. I

1223
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:17,239
Speaker 1: had the poops, but I'm okay to go like it's

1224
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:20,440
Speaker 1: just like it's such a mess, it's so silly. But

1225
00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:22,799
Speaker 1: I understand if that is what happened. And this was

1226
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:24,440
Speaker 1: like Spike's breakdown and you can go check it out

1227
00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:27,000
Speaker 1: on Twitter, and he went into great detail and I

1228
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:29,560
Speaker 1: won't like try and regurgitate it here, but like I

1229
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:32,680
Speaker 1: thought it made sense what he was saying. But like

1230
00:53:32,719 --> 00:53:35,520
Speaker 1: Giannis and the Bucks and maybe here's six Ers with Embiid,

1231
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:39,880
Speaker 1: it's like where is the communication at all between the

1232
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:43,480
Speaker 1: player and these teams? Sometimes like yeah, and that's what's weird.

1233
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:45,359
Speaker 3: Right, And I just think and I mean, I guess

1234
00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:47,680
Speaker 3: I could have included Embiid as the loser too, because

1235
00:53:47,719 --> 00:53:51,600
Speaker 3: I I think like to not understand. And again I'm

1236
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:53,719
Speaker 3: from the outside, so what do I know, but like

1237
00:53:53,760 --> 00:53:57,160
Speaker 3: to not understand the moment that you're in where you're like, man,

1238
00:53:57,239 --> 00:54:00,920
Speaker 3: Paul George's back, he looks incredible, Max's healthy again. You you,

1239
00:54:01,280 --> 00:54:03,959
Speaker 3: Joel Embiid are healthy again. Yeah, we're winning some games.

1240
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:06,839
Speaker 3: We're gonna playoff push. We don't need to do this, man, No,

1241
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:09,520
Speaker 3: like we don't. This is not helpful. I also thought

1242
00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:12,280
Speaker 3: there was one thing that I caught in the second

1243
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:15,600
Speaker 3: viewing of the the clip of him be talking about

1244
00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:19,080
Speaker 3: it where he does slip in that he uh did

1245
00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:22,239
Speaker 3: not sleep well the night before and missed morning shoot around. Yeah,

1246
00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:24,879
Speaker 3: and I was like, yeah, okay, this kind of makes

1247
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:26,480
Speaker 3: sense that they ruled you out then, man, And I

1248
00:54:26,480 --> 00:54:28,080
Speaker 3: think it was the game that was against the Wizards,

1249
00:54:28,120 --> 00:54:30,799
Speaker 3: and they're probably like, we can a deem Bona can

1250
00:54:30,840 --> 00:54:34,040
Speaker 3: take care of the Wizards. Download We'll be fine. But yeah,

1251
00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:36,400
Speaker 3: it's just like read the read the room here, guys,

1252
00:54:36,400 --> 00:54:37,600
Speaker 3: you're where things are.

1253
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:38,640
Speaker 2: Things are looking up.

1254
00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:41,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, like know that when you say you're pissed off.

1255
00:54:42,080 --> 00:54:44,719
Speaker 1: That's gonna be a headline, man, Like you're like when

1256
00:54:44,760 --> 00:54:47,200
Speaker 1: you just say that that you're pissed off that and

1257
00:54:47,239 --> 00:54:50,000
Speaker 1: you were like left out of the decision whether you're

1258
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:52,200
Speaker 1: gonna play or not. Like it's gonna be a story

1259
00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:54,480
Speaker 1: and you're gonna like draw a lot of attention to

1260
00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:56,120
Speaker 1: your team. Like you said that, it's like trying to

1261
00:54:56,120 --> 00:54:58,480
Speaker 1: get into the playoffs, try and obviously get in the

1262
00:54:58,520 --> 00:55:00,480
Speaker 1: play in standings or whatever in your playing Okay, and

1263
00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:02,919
Speaker 1: guys come back, it's like, yeah, read the room, good

1264
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:05,719
Speaker 1: way to put it. But again, at I guess at

1265
00:55:05,719 --> 00:55:07,799
Speaker 1: its core, it's like, what are you guys doing talk

1266
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:11,239
Speaker 1: to each other here? Is there so little like respect

1267
00:55:11,440 --> 00:55:15,600
Speaker 1: or faith in each other? Maybe that is the case. Weird,

1268
00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:20,120
Speaker 1: just ultimately weird that they're coming up here as a

1269
00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 1: loser of the weekend when they shouldn't be really, I mean,

1270
00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:26,040
Speaker 1: I know they lost one, but so strange final one

1271
00:55:26,160 --> 00:55:29,880
Speaker 1: for me. The National Blowout Association on Friday night. You

1272
00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:32,880
Speaker 1: already alluded to this mic. Friday's NBA games were decided

1273
00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:35,319
Speaker 1: by an average of twenty four point four points per game,

1274
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:39,320
Speaker 1: So that is the largest average margin of victory on

1275
00:55:39,360 --> 00:55:41,320
Speaker 1: a day with at least eight games in NBA history.

1276
00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:44,239
Speaker 1: The closest game was the Kings beating the Pelicans by four.

1277
00:55:44,520 --> 00:55:47,200
Speaker 1: Shout out to Dylan Cartwell, great defense down the stretch.

1278
00:55:47,719 --> 00:55:50,920
Speaker 1: The other eight games all decided by double digits, and

1279
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:54,279
Speaker 1: most of them by like twenty five thirty. There may

1280
00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:57,080
Speaker 1: have been a forty point blow in there. So just

1281
00:55:57,480 --> 00:56:00,279
Speaker 1: a bad look for the NBA on Friday Night. Tim

1282
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:02,600
Speaker 1: Reynolds another great tweet. There have been two days in

1283
00:56:02,719 --> 00:56:05,640
Speaker 1: NBA history, spanning eighty years where at least nine games

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00:56:05,640 --> 00:56:08,000
Speaker 1: were played with an average margin of victory being at

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00:56:08,080 --> 00:56:11,560
Speaker 1: least twenty four points. Only two such days eighty years.

1286
00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:15,600
Speaker 1: One was Friday night, April third, the other was last Sunday,

1287
00:56:16,239 --> 00:56:19,120
Speaker 1: March twenty ninth. So we've had two just nights on

1288
00:56:19,160 --> 00:56:22,600
Speaker 1: the NBA calendar because of matchups, because half the teams

1289
00:56:22,600 --> 00:56:24,919
Speaker 1: in the league suck and are like trying to maybe

1290
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:27,600
Speaker 1: lean into still being bad. Obviously, we have some good

1291
00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:30,360
Speaker 1: teams in this league, and we just had all these blowouts,

1292
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:34,239
Speaker 1: and you know, people were, you won't believe this, Mike,

1293
00:56:34,280 --> 00:56:37,839
Speaker 1: People were overreacting on Twitter about this and how washed

1294
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:41,040
Speaker 1: the NBA was because of this. I mean, I rolled

1295
00:56:41,080 --> 00:56:43,040
Speaker 1: my eyes out. It's not good, don't get me wrong.

1296
00:56:43,160 --> 00:56:46,799
Speaker 1: But Okay, Like what I said on Saturday with the

1297
00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:48,920
Speaker 1: Spurs Nuggets game is like, where were all those people

1298
00:56:48,960 --> 00:56:52,640
Speaker 1: bitching and moaning about Friday Nights games that I guarantee

1299
00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:56,480
Speaker 1: they weren't watching right, Where are they now saying, wow,

1300
00:56:56,520 --> 00:56:58,239
Speaker 1: this is such a great game, good bounce back. You know,

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00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:02,239
Speaker 1: they're nowhere to be heard. So but it did bad? Yeah?

1302
00:57:02,680 --> 00:57:04,720
Speaker 3: Yeah. On Friday morning, I was looking at this schedule

1303
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:06,920
Speaker 3: and was seeing that they like every spread looked like

1304
00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:09,520
Speaker 3: it was like a college football weekend. Yes, And I

1305
00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:11,720
Speaker 3: was like, oh, you know what I'm gonna do tonight.

1306
00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:12,920
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go out to dinner.

1307
00:57:13,080 --> 00:57:13,600
Speaker 1: There you go.

1308
00:57:13,719 --> 00:57:16,080
Speaker 3: Then I put the I didn't put the phone on silent,

1309
00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:19,200
Speaker 3: didn't didn't look at anything because I knew on Saturday

1310
00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:22,720
Speaker 3: I was gonna clear out and watch h Spurs Nuggets.

1311
00:57:22,720 --> 00:57:24,760
Speaker 2: So that's how we have to approach this.

1312
00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:26,880
Speaker 3: We get to the last two weeks of the regular season,

1313
00:57:27,160 --> 00:57:29,600
Speaker 3: and we have a bunch of teams who have absolutely

1314
00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:31,680
Speaker 3: nothing to play for except for maybe losing.

1315
00:57:31,920 --> 00:57:33,200
Speaker 2: They just you know, turn.

1316
00:57:33,040 --> 00:57:35,480
Speaker 3: The phone off, go go watch a movie, get outside,

1317
00:57:35,520 --> 00:57:38,040
Speaker 3: that's right, touch some grass, touch some grass.

1318
00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:39,480
Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah, a lot of people were comparing it

1319
00:57:39,520 --> 00:57:43,400
Speaker 1: to a non conference college hoopslate in November with those

1320
00:57:43,400 --> 00:57:46,720
Speaker 1: big spreads and just the teams that were playing. It's

1321
00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:49,200
Speaker 1: weird that Reynolds tweet that it's happened a couple times

1322
00:57:49,280 --> 00:57:51,320
Speaker 1: here over the last week. But yeah, I wouldn't overreact

1323
00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:51,800
Speaker 1: too much.

1324
00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:52,000
Speaker 2: This.

1325
00:57:52,640 --> 00:57:57,040
Speaker 1: We get weird results, weird player performances all the time

1326
00:57:57,160 --> 00:58:00,000
Speaker 1: in these April games. This is why I like these

1327
00:58:00,120 --> 00:58:02,720
Speaker 1: fantasy sports leagues that you're in and competing and like

1328
00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:07,520
Speaker 1: they don't they wrap up usually earlier than the actual season. Yeah.

1329
00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:09,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, they tend to try to to I mean yeah,

1330
00:58:09,640 --> 00:58:11,760
Speaker 3: in all sports they do in all sports, they they

1331
00:58:11,760 --> 00:58:14,320
Speaker 3: try to finish it before like so many teams have

1332
00:58:14,320 --> 00:58:16,560
Speaker 3: have nothing to play for. It has been kind of funny,

1333
00:58:16,640 --> 00:58:21,040
Speaker 3: just like learning people's names because they're like like Lucas

1334
00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:24,080
Speaker 3: Williamson or Williamson Lucas. I don't like there's just like

1335
00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:26,959
Speaker 3: random people playing and it's not random. They there worked

1336
00:58:26,960 --> 00:58:28,640
Speaker 3: really hard to be in the spot that they're random

1337
00:58:28,680 --> 00:58:31,120
Speaker 3: to me. Yeah, they're playing like twenty Like we had

1338
00:58:31,120 --> 00:58:33,840
Speaker 3: a forty plus minute game from Leaky Black over the weekend,

1339
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:37,880
Speaker 3: like you just it's just everybody's getting in time to Shoine.

1340
00:58:38,040 --> 00:58:41,040
Speaker 1: The Grizzlies right now, the guys they are rolling out,

1341
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:44,560
Speaker 1: it is unbelievable. It was something like a two way

1342
00:58:44,600 --> 00:58:47,240
Speaker 1: guy and then four like ten day guys. They had

1343
00:58:47,320 --> 00:58:49,720
Speaker 1: thirteen names on the injury reserve.

1344
00:58:49,800 --> 00:58:53,160
Speaker 3: Lestly, it's crazy that team their injury report as a

1345
00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:55,680
Speaker 3: CPS for seat now where it's just like, dude, you

1346
00:58:55,720 --> 00:58:58,920
Speaker 3: got Taj Gibson's out there, Tod Jerome is only allowed

1347
00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:00,960
Speaker 3: to play like nine minutes a week or something like.

1348
00:59:01,240 --> 00:59:03,760
Speaker 3: It's it is wild what Memphis is doing out there.

1349
00:59:03,840 --> 00:59:06,920
Speaker 3: The Memphis got God bless the people of Memphis. Man,

1350
00:59:06,960 --> 00:59:09,080
Speaker 3: this is this is a tough hang, a tough hang

1351
00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:09,520
Speaker 3: this year.

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00:59:09,840 --> 00:59:12,280
Speaker 1: I was kicking myself on Friday night though too. I

1353
00:59:12,400 --> 00:59:14,640
Speaker 1: was like before the game started, because I'm looking at

1354
00:59:14,640 --> 00:59:17,400
Speaker 1: the matchups, I'm going, holy crap, this this looks like

1355
00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:19,720
Speaker 1: it could be bad. And it was. I was gonna

1356
00:59:19,760 --> 00:59:23,560
Speaker 1: tweet tonight feels like the perfect night. Now. I was

1357
00:59:23,600 --> 00:59:27,160
Speaker 1: gonna say, for somebody to score sixty plus points. I

1358
00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:29,480
Speaker 1: just thought it was gonna happen. I was gonna tweet it,

1359
00:59:29,520 --> 00:59:30,960
Speaker 1: and I just I don't know. I got I was

1360
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:33,520
Speaker 1: doing something else. I forgot to tweet it. Nobody got

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00:59:33,560 --> 00:59:35,520
Speaker 1: to sixty. But that was the Cooper night, so I

1362
00:59:35,560 --> 00:59:37,360
Speaker 1: was like, oh man, I would have been on it.

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00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:39,640
Speaker 1: I would have called it basically or close, like a big,

1364
00:59:39,640 --> 00:59:42,200
Speaker 1: big scoring performance that was the only one for fifty one.

1365
00:59:42,240 --> 00:59:45,040
Speaker 1: But I left it in the drafts man.

1366
00:59:45,160 --> 00:59:46,840
Speaker 2: So yeah, what could have been?

1367
00:59:46,880 --> 00:59:48,439
Speaker 1: What could have been? What could have been? People would

1368
00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:49,919
Speaker 1: have been talking about it, man, It would have been

1369
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:52,840
Speaker 1: really a lot of engagement on that tweet. All right,

1370
00:59:52,880 --> 00:59:55,480
Speaker 1: So that's our winners and losers. You tell us who

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00:59:55,480 --> 00:59:58,520
Speaker 1: we missed in the stream team as you I'm sure

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00:59:58,560 --> 01:00:00,880
Speaker 1: are right now or in the comments. But let's go

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01:00:00,960 --> 01:00:05,600
Speaker 1: to litte of the night? Will it no sponsor? Unless

1374
01:00:05,600 --> 01:00:09,880
Speaker 1: somebody did sponsor in the stream team before the show

1375
01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:12,560
Speaker 1: or while I was talking, I don't see it, so no.

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01:00:12,760 --> 01:00:13,160
Speaker 2: I don't think.

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01:00:13,200 --> 01:00:16,000
Speaker 1: So okay, well, well you know what, NBA bit just

1378
01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:18,960
Speaker 1: sponsored this. Wow huge. Yeah, and the link is in

1379
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:20,760
Speaker 1: the show notes. I already put it there, So go

1380
01:00:20,880 --> 01:00:24,360
Speaker 1: check out Mike's uh generally daily podcasts. You do a

1381
01:00:24,360 --> 01:00:26,720
Speaker 1: great job. It's actually the perfect lead into No Dunks.

1382
01:00:26,760 --> 01:00:29,280
Speaker 1: I always have it on in the drive into the

1383
01:00:29,320 --> 01:00:31,480
Speaker 1: factory where you're live and you're going over the box

1384
01:00:31,480 --> 01:00:33,880
Speaker 1: scores and big storylines sort of what we do. So

1385
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:34,920
Speaker 1: good work on that.

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01:00:35,040 --> 01:00:37,960
Speaker 3: Honor and honor to be an opener for the headliner.

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01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:41,040
Speaker 1: A right, yeah, okay, look look, and then you're getting

1388
01:00:41,080 --> 01:00:44,680
Speaker 1: a free sponsorship here for whoa boy is gonna be

1389
01:00:44,720 --> 01:00:48,720
Speaker 1: pissed you might get an in.

1390
01:00:49,040 --> 01:00:50,720
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, I wish I had the YouTube

1391
01:00:50,760 --> 01:00:52,680
Speaker 3: stream up right now, but I was nervous about hearing

1392
01:00:52,960 --> 01:00:55,320
Speaker 3: the voice in the background. I was gonna get ready

1393
01:00:55,320 --> 01:00:57,000
Speaker 3: to go ahead and sponsor it in real time.

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01:00:57,080 --> 01:00:59,400
Speaker 1: Oh wow, No, no, you save your money, you save

1395
01:00:59,440 --> 01:01:02,040
Speaker 1: your YouTube. This one's on us, all right. So one

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01:01:02,080 --> 01:01:05,560
Speaker 1: boy in the night Cooper Flag forty five points, fourteen

1397
01:01:05,600 --> 01:01:07,840
Speaker 1: to twenty seven, shooting fifteen to seventeen at the line,

1398
01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:11,080
Speaker 1: eight boards, nine assists, one block, two steals in thirty

1399
01:01:11,160 --> 01:01:14,320
Speaker 1: nine minutes. Fourth time Flag has scored at least forty

1400
01:01:14,360 --> 01:01:16,960
Speaker 1: points as a rookie. So he is ending the season

1401
01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:19,480
Speaker 1: here on a sizzling note. Has he done enough to

1402
01:01:19,720 --> 01:01:22,440
Speaker 1: steal the Rookie of the Year back from Konka Nipple,

1403
01:01:22,720 --> 01:01:25,680
Speaker 1: his former duke teammate. Well we'll find out. I was

1404
01:01:25,680 --> 01:01:27,600
Speaker 1: gonna find i was gonna say, we'll find out soon enough,

1405
01:01:27,600 --> 01:01:29,480
Speaker 1: but who knows how long those ballots are going to

1406
01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:32,440
Speaker 1: sit there with the voters, with the whole Lucas situation

1407
01:01:32,640 --> 01:01:35,560
Speaker 1: of it all. But Cooper, Coop dog gets it. So

1408
01:01:35,680 --> 01:01:40,320
Speaker 1: congrats to him. National Championship Game on tonight eight point

1409
01:01:40,320 --> 01:01:44,680
Speaker 1: fifty pm Eastern on TBS, T and T True TV, HBO, Max,

1410
01:01:45,040 --> 01:01:47,360
Speaker 1: you already said you like Michigan in this one because

1411
01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:49,360
Speaker 1: they are rolling. They are putting up a lot of points.

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01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:50,040
Speaker 2: I think.

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01:01:50,080 --> 01:01:51,680
Speaker 3: So. I think I'm at the point too where I

1414
01:01:52,240 --> 01:01:56,360
Speaker 3: just can't support Dan Hurley. I think there's many antics

1415
01:01:56,360 --> 01:01:58,640
Speaker 3: for the coach that I'm like, it's too much about

1416
01:01:58,680 --> 01:02:00,880
Speaker 3: you right now, man, So I think I'm just out.

1417
01:02:00,920 --> 01:02:02,600
Speaker 2: I think I'm just going. I'm going Michigan.

1418
01:02:02,600 --> 01:02:05,280
Speaker 3: We saw the Fab five get back together. Yeah, give me,

1419
01:02:05,320 --> 01:02:07,640
Speaker 3: give me the Wolverines. So the Fab five were like

1420
01:02:07,720 --> 01:02:11,160
Speaker 3: they were doing a broadcast. I saw there was an

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01:02:11,160 --> 01:02:13,600
Speaker 3: old cast, I guess as you would call it. Yeah, yeah,

1422
01:02:13,720 --> 01:02:15,160
Speaker 3: do you know what's so funny you say that?

1423
01:02:15,200 --> 01:02:15,440
Speaker 2: I was.

1424
01:02:15,840 --> 01:02:19,040
Speaker 3: I was watching the last bit I believe of Magic

1425
01:02:19,080 --> 01:02:21,760
Speaker 3: Pelicans last night, and it was brought up and the

1426
01:02:23,080 --> 01:02:27,640
Speaker 3: main the main broadcaster for the Pelicans made sure to

1427
01:02:27,680 --> 01:02:29,600
Speaker 3: be like, yes, I believe it was an alt cast.

1428
01:02:30,000 --> 01:02:31,800
Speaker 3: I was not giving him the credit for like it

1429
01:02:31,840 --> 01:02:34,280
Speaker 3: being a full broadcast. Like, made sure to correct which

1430
01:02:34,280 --> 01:02:34,840
Speaker 3: I loved it was?

1431
01:02:35,200 --> 01:02:35,480
Speaker 1: It was.

1432
01:02:35,840 --> 01:02:36,320
Speaker 2: It was great.

1433
01:02:36,480 --> 01:02:38,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw I think it was left co Adam

1434
01:02:38,440 --> 01:02:41,320
Speaker 1: left Coo our guy with the Fab five, because I

1435
01:02:41,320 --> 01:02:43,480
Speaker 1: think they did. They did obviously the game in the

1436
01:02:43,480 --> 01:02:45,200
Speaker 1: middle of the screen, taking up a lot of the screen,

1437
01:02:45,240 --> 01:02:48,600
Speaker 1: and then three guys down the left, three guys down

1438
01:02:48,640 --> 01:02:50,200
Speaker 1: the right because the Fab five and then left go

1439
01:02:50,440 --> 01:02:51,320
Speaker 1: so three on each side.

1440
01:02:51,400 --> 01:02:53,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that just led their back together.

1441
01:02:54,160 --> 01:02:57,680
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was happy to see them so hopefully this

1442
01:02:57,760 --> 01:03:00,280
Speaker 1: game was entertaining. I mean, that's really what we're hopeful,

1443
01:03:00,680 --> 01:03:03,920
Speaker 1: hopeful for. As a casual college fan, that's all I want.

1444
01:03:03,960 --> 01:03:06,560
Speaker 1: But Yukon could win a third title in four seasons

1445
01:03:06,560 --> 01:03:09,520
Speaker 1: here if they do it again. And Michigan's seeking their

1446
01:03:09,520 --> 01:03:12,640
Speaker 1: first title since nineteen eighty nine and the Big Tens

1447
01:03:12,960 --> 01:03:14,800
Speaker 1: first since two thousand.

1448
01:03:15,200 --> 01:03:15,480
Speaker 2: Wow.

1449
01:03:15,520 --> 01:03:18,000
Speaker 1: So always a fascinating thing to me as a Canadian.

1450
01:03:18,120 --> 01:03:22,360
Speaker 1: People caring about the conferences just don't care.

1451
01:03:22,960 --> 01:03:24,880
Speaker 3: It used to be a big I like I was

1452
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:27,760
Speaker 3: when I was growing up, like a big Big East fan,

1453
01:03:27,960 --> 01:03:30,960
Speaker 3: like that was a big deal, so weird to me.

1454
01:03:31,560 --> 01:03:34,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was just like region, baby, it's regional.

1455
01:03:34,680 --> 01:03:37,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, but now it's all it doesn't matter because they're

1456
01:03:37,120 --> 01:03:38,800
Speaker 1: all playing and they're all over the place.

1457
01:03:38,840 --> 01:03:41,520
Speaker 3: Now, yeah, it's garbage now. Once the I was like,

1458
01:03:41,560 --> 01:03:43,880
Speaker 3: I've followed Boston College because that was like the only

1459
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:46,960
Speaker 3: team in the Northeast or in Massachusetts that would pretend

1460
01:03:47,040 --> 01:03:47,840
Speaker 3: to be good at sports.

1461
01:03:47,920 --> 01:03:50,960
Speaker 2: Right, And they switched from the Big East to the.

1462
01:03:52,600 --> 01:03:55,840
Speaker 3: Atlanta the AC eight Oh my god, AC yeah yeah,

1463
01:03:55,880 --> 01:03:57,320
Speaker 3: And I was like once they did that, I was like,

1464
01:03:57,320 --> 01:03:59,360
Speaker 3: come on, yeah, what are we doing? I want to

1465
01:03:59,360 --> 01:04:01,680
Speaker 3: fight New Hampton. Sure that again, I don't wanna. I

1466
01:04:01,680 --> 01:04:03,800
Speaker 3: don't want to deal with down South.

1467
01:04:04,000 --> 01:04:05,920
Speaker 1: But imagine we did this in the NBA. Like, I'm

1468
01:04:05,920 --> 01:04:09,280
Speaker 1: obviously a Raptors fan. They're going to lose. I've been

1469
01:04:09,280 --> 01:04:11,160
Speaker 1: saying it all season long. They're probably just not gonna

1470
01:04:11,160 --> 01:04:12,600
Speaker 1: lose in the play and because they're back there, but

1471
01:04:13,640 --> 01:04:17,280
Speaker 1: as soon as they're out of the playoff running, I'm like, hey,

1472
01:04:17,920 --> 01:04:22,040
Speaker 1: let's go Atlantic Division baby, come on in Celtics, come on, Nicks,

1473
01:04:22,080 --> 01:04:25,720
Speaker 1: you gotta rep for the division. That's my squads, Like what, No,

1474
01:04:26,120 --> 01:04:28,440
Speaker 1: the opposite to cheer against them. I don't you know,

1475
01:04:28,520 --> 01:04:30,520
Speaker 1: it's so funny to me. Yeah, that is true.

1476
01:04:30,520 --> 01:04:32,000
Speaker 3: I guess I've never thought about it because like, if

1477
01:04:32,040 --> 01:04:34,520
Speaker 3: the Knicks got eliminated, and let's say the Nets are

1478
01:04:34,520 --> 01:04:36,479
Speaker 3: on a playoff run, it's not like the Knicks fans

1479
01:04:36,480 --> 01:04:38,360
Speaker 3: are like, well, we're gonna rep our city, baby.

1480
01:04:38,560 --> 01:04:42,800
Speaker 1: No, it's so strange. College sports are just they're really strange.

1481
01:04:42,920 --> 01:04:45,160
Speaker 1: That's really as a foreign Canadian when I came down here.

1482
01:04:45,200 --> 01:04:48,280
Speaker 1: But well, hopefully we're get a good game. Anything else

1483
01:04:48,320 --> 01:04:50,520
Speaker 1: you want to plug Mike before we let you go,

1484
01:04:50,560 --> 01:04:54,400
Speaker 1: really appreciate you joining me and sticking to the Monday schedule.

1485
01:04:54,480 --> 01:04:56,000
Speaker 1: I put you in a tough spot. It wasn't just

1486
01:04:56,080 --> 01:04:57,880
Speaker 1: questions and answers, it was winners losers.

1487
01:04:58,320 --> 01:04:59,720
Speaker 2: No, this is great, this is great.

1488
01:04:59,760 --> 01:05:02,440
Speaker 3: It was Listen, I've told you this in person before,

1489
01:05:02,520 --> 01:05:04,400
Speaker 3: but it's been just a huge fan of you guys

1490
01:05:04,400 --> 01:05:07,000
Speaker 3: for a very long time now. So for the opportunity

1491
01:05:07,040 --> 01:05:09,360
Speaker 3: to come hang out and do this has been a

1492
01:05:09,360 --> 01:05:12,720
Speaker 3: lot of fun. So I appreciate you you asking, and yeah,

1493
01:05:12,760 --> 01:05:15,320
Speaker 3: I was sweating out a little bit with this being

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Speaker 3: winners and losers, Like there did. Like yesterday, I a

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Speaker 3: little little flop sweat while I was trying to be like,

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Speaker 3: all right, what are we gonna do?

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Speaker 1: I saw you in the documento adding stuff. I was Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I was.

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Speaker 2: Like mostly just staring at it for a while. There's

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Speaker 2: a lot of looking, a lot of looking for a while.

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Speaker 3: But no, this is this has been great and yeah,

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Speaker 3: if you enjoyed any of this, Yeah, do the NBA

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Speaker 3: bit Monday through Friday at nine am, nine am live

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Speaker 3: on YouTube, nine am live on YouTube. And it's a

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Speaker 3: lot of this. There's a lot of yelling, it's a

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Speaker 3: lot of well you have the drops, so too, we

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Speaker 3: do some drops.

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Speaker 1: What's your favorite drop report?

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Speaker 2: Door Report is probably my favorite one. Yeah, the door Report.

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Speaker 2: The Door Report is a banger. And then PJ.

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Speaker 3: Washington, Like I just I'll have Washington and then the

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Speaker 3: first one we did too.

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Speaker 2: So I'll have a soft spot for that for a

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Speaker 2: long time.

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Speaker 1: Well, check out those bits on NBA bit. That link

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Speaker 1: is in the show notes. Do me a solid, do

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Speaker 1: it for Mike, hit the like button, subscribe to No Dunks,

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Speaker 1: then go do that for NBA bit. I'll be back

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Speaker 1: tomorrow with Ben Golliver, who is a Michigan fan. So

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Speaker 1: he's either going to be on Cloud nine because blue

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Speaker 1: Winds go Blue or the opposite as team loses it.

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Speaker 1: We'll get it, might get cranky Ben Gulliver, which't. I

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Speaker 1: don't even know if it's possible.

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Speaker 2: So wow, Yeah, hopefully he shares me and Dan Hurley thoughts.

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Speaker 2: If that don't. Yeah, man, I'll be tutored in.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure well, so join us tomorrow for that at

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Speaker 1: ten am Eastern. Mike think of a quote to sign

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Speaker 1: us off, because I will say, Clipper Bros. You heard

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Speaker 1: it here first. Have a great time, turn up, Love

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Speaker 1: you guys.

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Speaker 3: Awesome.

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Speaker 2: Hug a friend, Just go hug a friend.

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Speaker 1: Short and sweet, Mike, I like it. Appreciate man. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk soon. Embrace the day, people,