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Speaker 2: I'm in it.

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Speaker 1: Please no who know?

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Speaker 2: Lay there?

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Speaker 1: Oh no no, lay the no t on the inn.

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Speaker 2: Lay that deal.

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Speaker 3: I mean now lay that at think.

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Speaker 1: I'm good A meal at.

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Speaker 3: Lay that at the.

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Speaker 1: Way.

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Speaker 2: You gotta slay it. Save in no no I bet.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the new Dungks

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Speaker 1: podcast on the Athletic Network. It's Wednesday, March twentieth, twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty four. I'm jay E Skeats here in the Classic

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Speaker 1: Factory and alongside me as always tas.

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Speaker 3: Melis podcast listeners.

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Speaker 2: Is that box out kid?

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Speaker 3: This was for you?

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Speaker 1: Next to him, it's the bearded woman, a top shot boy,

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Speaker 1: Trey Kirby.

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Speaker 2: Hey yo.

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Speaker 1: And last but not least, back from a well deserved vacation,

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Speaker 1: it's super producer JD.

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Speaker 2: Hello, there he is.

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Speaker 1: How was it, big guy?

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Speaker 4: Amazing? Yeah, Pickleball Beach Happy Hour repeat.

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Speaker 1: T shirt you can buy those later Breaking Tea dot Com.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's great to have you back. Ash held it down.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, shout out to Ash for a stepping in. Uh

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Speaker 4: much appreciated, and yeah it was great.

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Speaker 1: You feel recharged.

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Speaker 4: I feel I do feel charged. I feel new.

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Speaker 2: Lisaan life. Here we go.

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Speaker 4: Yes, vacations.

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Speaker 2: Who knew.

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Speaker 1: I didn't see a single photo of that. Goddam it

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Speaker 1: was a real vacation, exactly right. Not a single photo

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Speaker 1: of a beach or a pickle ball, cord drink.

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Speaker 4: No float, no flexing here, just straight up enjoying myself.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for not taking a photo of your feet on

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Speaker 1: a beach chair.

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Speaker 2: You see those a lot. I'm guilty. I know I've

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Speaker 2: got one two out there, your little hot dog legs.

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Speaker 2: You just see the people's knees sticking out of there, say,

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Speaker 2: just like two little hot dogs. Yeah, hot dogs or knees.

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Speaker 2: Definitely was the thing for a while.

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Speaker 1: All right, jab's back, let's get into it. Shout out

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Speaker 1: to the stream team joining us live on YouTube. Hit

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Speaker 1: star rating and review a couple of games on last night.

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Speaker 1: A little bit later in the show, Trey's going to

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Speaker 1: take us through his all most improved teams and uh,

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Speaker 1: you teased it at the end of it yesterday's show.

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Speaker 1: This idea of like micro betting coming to the league pass.

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Speaker 1: We'll get into all that, but games Big one Yokic

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Speaker 1: thirty five points helping the Nuggets to the one fifteen

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Speaker 1: one to twelve win over de shorthanded Timberwolves, missing a

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Speaker 1: lot of their big guys, but a really close game.

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Speaker 1: They fought back in the third quarter Anthony Edwards with

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Speaker 1: the takeover. Then they started hitting a bunch of threes

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Speaker 1: at the end and it was still a game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and the Nuggets pull it out.

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Speaker 2: What'd you think?

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Speaker 3: I was excited, Anthony Edwards playing the showman. He said

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Speaker 3: before the game, he told Taylor Rooks, I will be

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Speaker 3: one of the first players to take the Timberwolves to

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Speaker 3: the finals. Then he jumps ball at center against Nikola Jokic.

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Speaker 3: Why did you do that? Because they're playing without their

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Speaker 3: Kyle Anderson, of all people, Nikola Jokic at the beginning

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Speaker 3: of this game. Jokic literally was just putting one hand

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Speaker 3: the bench to try and guard Jokic. Now they played

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Speaker 3: scored a ton against Rudy Gobert, but he's gonna score

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Speaker 3: against everybody, and he did in this one thirty five points,

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Speaker 1: And it was a back to back situation for Minnesota

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Speaker 2: MPJ? Was huge? Absolutely, and he's part of the reason

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Speaker 2: the Nuggets have been so good coming out of the

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Speaker 2: All Star Break. Before the All Star Break, sixteen points

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Speaker 2: He's just coming into his own and he's peaking at

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Speaker 2: the right time. He had a pretty bad Finals last year,

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Speaker 2: and the Nuggets were still able to win. But you

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Speaker 2: I watched Wagner versus Howard in the first four last night,

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Speaker 2: final ten seconds, couldn't knock it down. That's exactly what

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Speaker 2: But uh what My main takeaway from this was something

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Speaker 2: second key play at the game was KCP grabbing that rebound.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad you brought up that one bucket there

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Speaker 1: Murray and Jokic just kept running high picking rolls to

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Speaker 2: He just helbow him in the face this time. No,

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Speaker 1: He just backed him up a couple times there, you know,

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Speaker 1: a few backdown dribbles. McDaniels didn't come in enough. You know,

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Speaker 1: you gotta worry about Jamal Murray and you know Yoki

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Speaker 1: call it over Conley. So that was a huge bucket.

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Speaker 1: But that's right down the stretch. That's like those two,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was cool to see Michael Porter Junior basically

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Speaker 3: running around a screen. That's how Duncan Robinson did in

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Speaker 3: the finals. We'll see I Michael Porter Junior can maybe

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Speaker 3: do that in the finals if the Nuggets get there,

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Speaker 3: just literally running around just waiting for Yokic to find him.

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Speaker 3: A weird game for Yokch because they didn't double him,

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Speaker 3: so he couldn't get the passes he usually does. Only

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Speaker 3: two assists from him. That's kind of strange, but that's

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Speaker 3: what the Wolves are gonna do. Jamal Murray did the

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Speaker 3: rest of it, eleven assists for him when they were

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Speaker 3: just doing their thing at the end of the game.

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Speaker 3: They're just a damn damn good squad and even though

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Speaker 3: like you mentioned, all those Reggie Jackson down the stretch,

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Speaker 1: I didn't think Jamal Murray played a particularly great game

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Speaker 1: up the assists like you said, but he made one

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Speaker 1: extremely heads up play late. The Wolves had just hit

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Speaker 1: Jamal you know, didn't tap it or he taps it

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Speaker 2: Got to be that team four times in seven games.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's why I'm not picking against them. So

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Speaker 1: I think he has eleven offensive rebounds over his last

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Speaker 2: You know, it's exciting.

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Speaker 1: We have all these other playoff races that we've got

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I saw some Wizards fans saying that last night's

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Speaker 3: Forget who their four was, Baldwin Patrick.

434
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Speaker 2: Every team's got a starting five of guys. You're like, whoa,

435
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Speaker 2: that guy's starting and he's the best player right now.

436
00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:23,960
Speaker 2: It was Paul Zipser for the Balls. Rafters are doing

437
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Speaker 2: it now too.

438
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah we are. Nobody's playing right now. Let's go

439
00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:30,240
Speaker 1: to Kyrie Irving leading the Mavericks past the Spurs close

440
00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:33,800
Speaker 1: game one thirteen, one o seven. Really bad game for

441
00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:36,199
Speaker 1: Luca shooting the ball, still got his tripped up, but

442
00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:41,679
Speaker 1: they sweep the season series. Any big takeaways from MAVs Spurs.

443
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Speaker 1: I don't have a whole lot of notes on this one,

444
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Speaker 1: if I'm being honest.

445
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Speaker 3: No, there shouldn't be many notes. I did find it

446
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Speaker 3: odd they gave Daniel Gafford three post ups to start

447
00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:52,920
Speaker 3: this game against Wemby. Of all people, he went first.

448
00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:55,679
Speaker 3: Of all, Daniel gaffer doesn't do that ever, never he

449
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Speaker 3: doesn't get a post up. But he went for the

450
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Speaker 3: first three they gave the ball. He was just going

451
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Speaker 3: at when he scored once. He scored the first one.

452
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Speaker 3: I don't know why they kept going to but uh.

453
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Speaker 2: Luca yat he started one once.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, one of one. Luca his worst shooting night ever ever.

455
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they assume so six for twenty seven is it?

456
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Speaker 3: Yeah?

457
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Speaker 1: Really?

458
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Speaker 3: Yeah? Nine for twenty nine was yeah, that's bad? Was

459
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Speaker 3: that twenty two point two? There you go? Yeah, so

460
00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:23,479
Speaker 3: that's pretty bad. But Kyri was good and uh, I

461
00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:27,080
Speaker 3: like watching Dante Exum support this team because he could

462
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Speaker 3: be he They went to him a lot. You know,

463
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Speaker 3: he had four threes in this one off the bench,

464
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Speaker 3: but he can be there third guy if they want

465
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Speaker 3: to go to uh to somebody else starting because he

466
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Speaker 3: got hurt, so they put him on the bench to

467
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Speaker 3: come back. But j Kid can decide if things are weird,

468
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Speaker 3: Exam can help. So you know, that's it.

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Speaker 2: Anything else to that, nah, I mean you pretty much

470
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Speaker 2: nailed that. Luca had a terrible shooting game and still

471
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Speaker 2: dominated finished with the triple double, only eighteen points on

472
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Speaker 2: his twenty seven shots, but he threw a seventy five

473
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Speaker 2: foot alley oop and he also threw another no look

474
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Speaker 2: over the head pass with three guys around him for

475
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Speaker 2: a wide open XM three. I did think it was

476
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Speaker 2: an other win for the mav Action fourth race. He

477
00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:05,600
Speaker 2: hit the dagger and then Kyrie was just Kyrie down

478
00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:07,720
Speaker 2: the stretch four of five in the last six minutes.

479
00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:09,840
Speaker 2: Luca didn't have it going. Good thing. He got another

480
00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:11,600
Speaker 2: one of the best clutch players ever over there.

481
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Speaker 1: That's right, Well, let's go to Zion Williamson with the

482
00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:17,359
Speaker 1: high flying slam to lead the Pelicans past the nets.

483
00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,520
Speaker 1: One oh four ninety one. New Orleans clinched its second

484
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Speaker 1: consecutive winning season, something the franchise hadn't done since two

485
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Speaker 1: thousand and nine when they were the Old Hornets, So

486
00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:30,240
Speaker 1: it's been a while since. Back to back consecutive winning seasons.

487
00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:32,920
Speaker 1: Zion twenty eight points on sixteen shots, seven boards for

488
00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:36,679
Speaker 1: sis and the highlight, we've got the photo where he

489
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Speaker 1: gets thrown the alley oop and he reaches back and

490
00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:46,200
Speaker 1: thunders home the alley oop dunk inredible pick from the Pelicans.

491
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Speaker 1: A lot of people comparing it to I guess this

492
00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:54,360
Speaker 1: was Bupkiss from Monstars. Very similar, even sort of New

493
00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:58,280
Speaker 1: Orleans Pelicans colors there on Bupkiss the monster throw down.

494
00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:01,760
Speaker 1: SCJ Toledano tweeting that and a lot of people were.

495
00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:05,879
Speaker 1: But now they're just kick ass victory here from the Pels,

496
00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:08,840
Speaker 1: and and you know, Zion, it's just like, hold your breath.

497
00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:10,760
Speaker 1: Let's just hope this guy's healthy and good to go

498
00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:13,480
Speaker 1: in the postseason because he's rolling right now.

499
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Speaker 3: What was Dorian Finney Smith looking at in that picture?

500
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Speaker 3: He's looking at different direction.

501
00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:18,520
Speaker 1: I know.

502
00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:22,040
Speaker 3: Zion came out of absolutely nowhere to come in just

503
00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:25,720
Speaker 3: after the the you know, semi circle. Basically that is

504
00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:28,840
Speaker 3: a long jump and a terrible pass.

505
00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:30,480
Speaker 2: It was a bad marshall.

506
00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:32,479
Speaker 3: Yeah, well it was a good pass. It worked out

507
00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:36,000
Speaker 3: for us. Yeah, because that guy looks amazing. ESPN with

508
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Speaker 3: a report that he's lost twenty five pounds during the

509
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Speaker 3: regular season.

510
00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:43,200
Speaker 1: Since the end season tournament. Is that what they were saying.

511
00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:46,159
Speaker 2: Probably DJ McCollum said he had a talk with him

512
00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:49,239
Speaker 2: and he's been doing extra conditioning for months and it

513
00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:49,880
Speaker 2: looks like it.

514
00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:53,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you remember the photos from the beginning of

515
00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:55,600
Speaker 3: the season, he looks different. There's no doubt.

516
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Speaker 1: Absolutely.

517
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Speaker 3: I don't know if there's a scale under the wood

518
00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:00,639
Speaker 3: somewhere where you could actually like what they should do.

519
00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:05,640
Speaker 3: They should get a scale, you know, still somewhere exactly exactly, Yeah,

520
00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:07,639
Speaker 3: just so you know, from the beginning of the season

521
00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:10,040
Speaker 3: to now, how much he's lost. Yeah, he looks like

522
00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:14,120
Speaker 3: a different guy. Obviously, he's there a point guard at times. Oh, sure,

523
00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:15,879
Speaker 3: that's the way they finished the game the other night

524
00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:19,000
Speaker 3: and they said, CJ sit down. CJ would be great

525
00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:22,080
Speaker 3: as a support three ball shooter, even if Zion is

526
00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:25,080
Speaker 3: the point guard. But they kind of ran a different

527
00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:27,560
Speaker 3: system the other night, and in this one it was

528
00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:32,439
Speaker 3: super easy. When he's playing like that, I mean he was.

529
00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:34,080
Speaker 3: I felt like the nets were too small for that

530
00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:37,800
Speaker 3: guy at the rim. Yeah, Nick Clackson has got hype,

531
00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:40,480
Speaker 3: but not the girth. Even though he's lost twenty five pounds.

532
00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:42,640
Speaker 3: The Zion's way bigger than that guy.

533
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Speaker 2: He could lose another probably fifty to be down classic.

534
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,320
Speaker 2: To be quite honest, I did like the mint look

535
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Speaker 2: from the next Last night, they were doing something with

536
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Speaker 2: the New York Liberty.

537
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Speaker 3: I don't know.

538
00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:55,720
Speaker 2: International Women's Day was like a week ago, but maybe

539
00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:58,800
Speaker 2: this was just New York City had they not been home.

540
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Speaker 1: In a while.

541
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Speaker 2: I don't know what it was, but they look cool.

542
00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:03,439
Speaker 2: If you're a bad team, though, you're gonna lose to

543
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:06,719
Speaker 2: the Pelicans. I saw the stat from Karthika Uthia Kumar,

544
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:11,160
Speaker 2: who follows the Raptors most closely, but set she tweeted

545
00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:13,840
Speaker 2: yesterday Since December twenty eighth, heading into this game, the

546
00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:16,600
Speaker 2: Pelicans are fourteen to one against teams with losing records,

547
00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:18,960
Speaker 2: and they've beat sub five hundred teams by an average

548
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Speaker 2: of eighteen points. Run it up now, I guess it

549
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:23,600
Speaker 2: would be fifteen in one and still almost an average

550
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:26,640
Speaker 2: of eighteen points. They forced ten first half turnovers, got

551
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:28,600
Speaker 2: up by twenty four, and I was over. The Pelicans

552
00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:30,640
Speaker 2: are taking care of business right now, and they're such

553
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:33,280
Speaker 2: an unselfish team. They scored twenty six baskets in the

554
00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:36,280
Speaker 2: first half, twenty assists on those ones. The ball moves

555
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:40,200
Speaker 2: like crazy. Zion is a point forward for him, brandon

556
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,639
Speaker 2: Ingram is a point forward for him. Obviously McCollum can

557
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:44,719
Speaker 2: handle the ball, but it doesn't seem like they care

558
00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:46,960
Speaker 2: who's getting the shots right now. I saw a Pelicans

559
00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:50,200
Speaker 2: beat reporter say that this is the never I've never

560
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:54,120
Speaker 2: seen a closer knit locker room. They feel like they're

561
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Speaker 2: locked in together right now, and they're obviously as healthy

562
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Speaker 2: as they've been in the past three seasons. So just

563
00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:03,320
Speaker 2: a other month of staying healthy and the Pelicans are

564
00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:04,600
Speaker 2: gonna be fun in the playoffs.

565
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Speaker 1: Let's show you the Western Conference standings as we went

566
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:12,600
Speaker 1: through all those Western Conference wins, thunder Nuggets basically tied

567
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Speaker 1: at the top, but ok see, still has the better

568
00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:17,879
Speaker 1: win percentage, so we'll put them at one. The Wolves

569
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 1: drop a game back with that loss to the Nuggets,

570
00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 1: clips pels right there. I mean we were joking, maybe

571
00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:26,960
Speaker 1: you want the fifth seed in that matchup, steal one

572
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,520
Speaker 1: on the road early in that potential series. And then

573
00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:32,320
Speaker 1: the Kings, MAVs, Sons, Lakers, and Warriors, and we have

574
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Speaker 1: to include the Rockets now, who are only two and

575
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:38,160
Speaker 1: a half back from the tenth seeded Golden State Warriors.

576
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:39,000
Speaker 2: Man, this is.

577
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,800
Speaker 1: Our march maddeness, this right here.

578
00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:45,280
Speaker 3: Come on, you're excited for actual march madness. I see

579
00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:47,159
Speaker 3: you making brackets and stuff.

580
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:50,320
Speaker 1: I made some brackets. Yeah, I did make some brackets.

581
00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:53,720
Speaker 1: Didn't watch a single second of the first four I

582
00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:57,120
Speaker 1: just saw people laughing at Virginia, who apparently are piece

583
00:25:57,119 --> 00:25:57,720
Speaker 1: of shit.

584
00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:00,760
Speaker 2: And kids points in the first half, and people are.

585
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:02,040
Speaker 1: Like, why were they even in this thing? Wait?

586
00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:03,960
Speaker 2: We could have got a cream at bull Jabbar, could

587
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:04,640
Speaker 2: have got creamy.

588
00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm with those people on that one.

589
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, they went in an hour I heard without a field.

590
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:12,440
Speaker 3: That's a lot of time.

591
00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:14,600
Speaker 2: Come on, I don't think they scored the last nine

592
00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:17,879
Speaker 2: minutes of the first half, and they're pretty good at defense.

593
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:22,639
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was disappointed at is it?

594
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:26,000
Speaker 1: I think Virginia is that John Hollingers a matter? And

595
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:28,159
Speaker 1: he even said, like why is this team in his

596
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:30,640
Speaker 1: own team? He's like they stink anybody?

597
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 3: But then yeah, it sucks because my corn holes, my

598
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,760
Speaker 3: actual my corn holes, my cornhole game.

599
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:41,640
Speaker 2: Talking about my corn my corn hole.

600
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Speaker 3: They have the cover or the sleeve. You know you

601
00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:49,800
Speaker 3: can get anything underneath the cover. It's the Virginia Cavaliers.

602
00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:50,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's great.

603
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 3: They got the swords and that's disappointing. So now I'm

604
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:56,240
Speaker 3: just gonna play. I'm just gonna miss like I'm a

605
00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:57,199
Speaker 3: real cavalier.

606
00:26:57,960 --> 00:26:59,359
Speaker 2: He hasn't sunk one in an hour.

607
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 1: Loyal to Virginia Cavaliers, just.

608
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 3: Like John Hollinger. What does he say every time?

609
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 2: Isn't that their things? Yeah, it's like a roll timee. Yeah,

610
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 2: those guysing's gonna happen.

611
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,400
Speaker 1: First we played Bago slash Cornhole or spike ball. Now

612
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:18,360
Speaker 1: that the weather's turn in here, you.

613
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,119
Speaker 3: Know you can play spike ball. Sorry to do this,

614
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:23,760
Speaker 3: but I'm JD remind me you can play. They're selling

615
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:25,920
Speaker 3: pickleball rackets to play spike ball.

616
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:26,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, I see that.

617
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,000
Speaker 2: That's weird. Spike us your hand.

618
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:32,200
Speaker 4: Man, even I am Ariti.

619
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so weird. We cannot cross no way, ridiculous.

620
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Speaker 1: Okay, let's uh, let's wrap up our game recaps here

621
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:46,200
Speaker 1: by slipping in the magic, clinching at least a playing

622
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 1: spot with the one twelve ninety two win over the Hornets.

623
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:53,600
Speaker 1: I guess Orlando had Charlotte looking like Virginia in this

624
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:57,639
Speaker 1: game because they went on a forty to nine run

625
00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:01,320
Speaker 1: Orlando did in the second quarter, and then I guess

626
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:03,080
Speaker 1: michich hit a couple threes at the end of the

627
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:06,040
Speaker 1: quarter to make it a little more respectable forty to fifteen.

628
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:09,479
Speaker 1: But awesome win here from Orlando, and they're taking care

629
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:12,560
Speaker 1: of business, playing like really crappy teams, but they're winning

630
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,119
Speaker 1: all these games, and they are going to be in

631
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 1: the at least in the play in because the Brooklyn

632
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 1: Nets in the eleven spot can't catch them out of

633
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Speaker 1: If you have any notes on this.

634
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Speaker 3: One, well you mentioned, excuse me, the look of Virginia

635
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:27,679
Speaker 3: there because of the defense of the Ortlanta Magic. You know,

636
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:30,359
Speaker 3: we just watched the Pelicans game They've been the best

637
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 3: defense since January one, so they're going to be tough

638
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 3: in the postseason. Magic are the same, They're awesome. They

639
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 3: allowed thirty two points in the first half against this

640
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 3: Hornets team. They had a great answer for Brandon Miller

641
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:44,560
Speaker 3: in this game because they're so big. They're so big

642
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 3: with Ben Carroll was guarding him. And I know the

643
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 3: Hornets don't have all their guys in the mellow ball

644
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 3: and all that, but this team looks like they're going

645
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:54,480
Speaker 3: to play playoff defense and then on offense. They're baseline

646
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 3: cutting off the ball for everybody. And they had forty

647
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 3: one assists because they like passing. Palaba Carroll. That beautiful

648
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:02,800
Speaker 3: behind the back pass there and in the middle of

649
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:04,840
Speaker 3: the lane to go all the way to the corner

650
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 3: was pretty cool. They're just looking for somebody to make

651
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:11,440
Speaker 3: some shots. And I don't know, I don't know how

652
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 3: much you're gonna buy in Gary into Gary Harris here

653
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 3: as like the help out guy to help be their

654
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 3: three point shooter guy, the guy that came there for

655
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 3: Aaron Gordon in that trade from Denver. He come on

656
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 3: late this season because he's been injured. He can hit shots,

657
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 3: so they just they just need somebody to splash. So anyways,

658
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 3: Magic can play defense, they can pass, They got bigs,

659
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 3: they need a guard. That's all. That's all that really

660
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 3: matters right now.

661
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 1: Watch the Magic over basically the next week here because

662
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 1: they play good teams now and we'll really see, like,

663
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 1: you know, how real this is and how the possibility

664
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:45,080
Speaker 1: of them trying to win a playoff series is because

665
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 1: their last ten wins have come against losing teams. But

666
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 1: they play now, the Pelicans, the Kings, the Warriors, and

667
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:54,200
Speaker 1: the Clippers. They're all playing for seating over there. They

668
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 1: all want the wins just as much, but they're all

669
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:58,120
Speaker 1: at home. So this will be a good little litmus

670
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 1: test here for the Atlanta Magic, you know, with Jael

671
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 1: and Suggs getting into it with everyone. They play hard,

672
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 1: they're fun, they really you know, they have an identity,

673
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 1: which is the best part. But there are gonna be

674
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:07,840
Speaker 1: some big games here this.

675
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 2: Week, absolutely right. Seventeen to five in their last twenty two,

676
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 2: the Magic are. They had a huge run, whether when

677
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 2: nine straight at one point then they kind of fell

678
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 2: off for a little bit, thought, oh maybe the tide

679
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 2: is turning with the Magic, but no, they have stuck

680
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,400
Speaker 2: with it and like it's not uncommon to see somebody

681
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 2: in their second season eventually I hit a wall and

682
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:28,040
Speaker 2: get figured out a little bit. I don't feel like

683
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:31,840
Speaker 2: that's happened with Polo at all, But you mentioned that pass.

684
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 2: We are just on an epic highlight run. Oh right now.

685
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 2: We had the ant block and the ant dunk. We

686
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 2: had Jalen Green's triple game breaker, also his dunk. We

687
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:42,959
Speaker 2: had the Zion dunk. Andre Jackson Junior almost decapitated himself

688
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,840
Speaker 2: on the rims and then this pollow to Suggs play.

689
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:47,640
Speaker 2: It was incredible, the behind the back pass to the

690
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 2: corner and he looks away for so long that he

691
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 2: never looks back. He waits to hear the roar of

692
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 2: the crowd to know that the shot went in, and

693
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,280
Speaker 2: then he's like celebrating with people. While everybody's going back

694
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:00,840
Speaker 2: to time out, he's still looking at the crowd, a

695
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 2: true lookaway. I was loving that one.

696
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought that was a guard literally the first

697
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 3: time I saw that. To be able to do that

698
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 3: from the middle of the lane, that's a long, long

699
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 3: pass to go behind the back like that.

700
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 1: So the Magic have secured their second non losing season

701
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 1: since twenty eleven twelve. That's a lot of years there

702
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:21,479
Speaker 1: by Howard trade, and this will be only their second

703
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:24,960
Speaker 1: again non losing season. They went forty to forty in

704
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,480
Speaker 1: the twenty eighteen nineteen season. They played the Toronto Raptors

705
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 1: in the first round, and you can bet your ass.

706
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 3: They won Game one DJ Augusty.

707
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,959
Speaker 1: DJ Augustine, twenty five points, hit a bunch of big threes.

708
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 1: They pulled off that game one victory in Toronto, but

709
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:40,600
Speaker 1: the Raps went on to win the next four and

710
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 1: then the championship. Of course, so good stuff from Orlando.

711
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 1: Those are last night's games. Unless you have any more.

712
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: Howard Wagner takes.

713
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 2: No more, no more. There was a guy named Counsel.

714
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 2: He was tough to guard. The first name or last name,

715
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:59,720
Speaker 2: last name? Oh was he counseled the fifth no junior,

716
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 2: So Ricky Conseil's grandfather.

717
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 1: I think, oh, interesting, interesting, Okay, we'll take a quick break.

718
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 2: When we come back, we'll get into some news.

719
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 1: And the all most improved teams don't go anywhere all

720
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 1: right back here in the Classic Factory. Got some news

721
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 1: that again sort of teased right at the end of

722
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 1: yesterday's show, and said an article at The Athletic, we

723
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 1: learned that the NBA is going to be infusing betting

724
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:26,280
Speaker 1: into live games on League Pass, which will soon feature

725
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 1: the option for fans to wager on games in real

726
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 1: time through the league's sports gambling partners. Options will be

727
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 1: limited right now to points, spreads, money lines, and over unders.

728
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:39,959
Speaker 1: The new betting integration will be an opt in function,

729
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:42,600
Speaker 1: So it's going to pop up I guess once on

730
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 1: League Pass for the viewer, and you can choose whether

731
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:48,120
Speaker 1: you want the odds overlay, and it's only going to

732
00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 1: be available for now on your phone mobile. What do

733
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 1: you think about this, this micro betting and NBA League

734
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:58,920
Speaker 1: Pass incorporating it? Takeaways?

735
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 2: Think it's good that it's an option, because I'm gonna.

736
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 1: Turn it off right right.

737
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 2: I can't imagine watching a game on my phone to

738
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 2: begin with, and then having to go in the vertical

739
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 2: look and having it take up the entire thing. You're

740
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:12,959
Speaker 2: gonna get hardly any game watching.

741
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 1: But I don't know.

742
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:17,360
Speaker 2: It started with polls like I remember back, who do

743
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 2: you think is gonna score the next basket? Yeah, just

744
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 2: get in for fun. They put that on League Pass. Oh, yeah, MARKL.

745
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 2: Fultz is gonna do it, Markel Folts scores.

746
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 1: You're just happy, man.

747
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 2: And now suddenly it's betting just like that.

748
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's becoming more and more a part of every experience,

749
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 3: that's for sure. You Know, when I heard about the

750
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 3: beginning of the season, when it just showed up on

751
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 3: everybody's television, every commercial was coming from Draft Gings or whoever,

752
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 3: I thought, well, this is kind of like Europe, like

753
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 3: that's what happens in soccer over there, and me being

754
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 3: a Greek kid, that's what I saw when I was

755
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 3: a youngster. WHOA, you can bet on this, WHOA, you

756
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 3: can bet on this. You can bet on this game.

757
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 3: I don't know who the heck this soccer team is,

758
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 3: but you can bet on them. And the funny thing

759
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 3: is Europe, although they have made it a huge part

760
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 3: of every single sport, they're trying to reverse those methods

761
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 3: now because gambling has become a problem for people. It

762
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 3: has become an ultimate addiction and it is an issue.

763
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:16,799
Speaker 3: And I find it strange that like DraftKings, FanDuel, they

764
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:19,720
Speaker 3: allow you to bet with your credit card, so money

765
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:24,080
Speaker 3: you do not have, because that is a problem. I mean,

766
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:28,400
Speaker 3: that that is where unfortunately you see kids like eleven

767
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 3: to fifteen, literally that young in other places have problems.

768
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:36,040
Speaker 3: So that's the scary part is that it could have

769
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 3: an age requirement. Number one. It could be money you

770
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:43,600
Speaker 3: actually have where you you know, fund an account. I

771
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:45,719
Speaker 3: saw Miles Brown to you about it. He said he

772
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:47,880
Speaker 3: lost a lot of money because you just put it

773
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,960
Speaker 3: on a credit card and he's he's of age. But

774
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 3: the thing is, yeah, yeah, the opt in sure, I

775
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,400
Speaker 3: guess that's good for League Past users. I think this

776
00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 3: is just sort of a trial because you can't This

777
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:01,800
Speaker 3: isn't as you said, it's not only on mobile, and

778
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 3: it's only for if you have League Pass, so man, it's.

779
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 1: Only if you can legally gamble in your state too.

780
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:11,920
Speaker 1: There's that, But like, I mean, this is like this

781
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:14,399
Speaker 1: is the definition of a slippery slope, and we've seen

782
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 1: it coming for a long time and you're right. I mean,

783
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:20,319
Speaker 1: it feels like every second commercial in any broadcast is

784
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,360
Speaker 1: it's from a gambling company with all the money pumped

785
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:25,840
Speaker 1: into it. And that's what's happened here with legalized gambling

786
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:27,840
Speaker 1: over the last little while in this country. It's like,

787
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:30,920
Speaker 1: well there was all this money that was illegally being gambled.

788
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,239
Speaker 1: Let's get a portion of it. Let's get some of that.

789
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 1: And you know, some of this does go to the

790
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:38,200
Speaker 1: players too, of course, But man, that micro betting, which

791
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 1: I believe has a pretty small share here in the US,

792
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:45,480
Speaker 1: but you said it tasks big market in Europe that

793
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 1: end game betting on the next goal or whatever, the

794
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 1: next play, that idea. Yeah, it doesn't feel like a

795
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 1: fun way for me. I don't mind sports betting, but

796
00:35:56,560 --> 00:36:00,920
Speaker 1: I don't love how aggressive the marketing is. And I'm

797
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:03,400
Speaker 1: not the biggest fan of like like live betting, like

798
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 1: that micro betting, whatever you want to call it. But

799
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:06,880
Speaker 1: I guess there's obviously a market for it, or they

800
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:08,320
Speaker 1: at least want to grow that sure.

801
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:11,279
Speaker 3: But it's it's that that part is.

802
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 1: This is going to burst, like this little bubble here,

803
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:15,359
Speaker 1: because it starts it starts to feel like the league

804
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:18,400
Speaker 1: is like held up by all of this gambling money.

805
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:21,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, that part's interesting with the live betting because you're

806
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 3: watching a stream and then you have to go to

807
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:28,600
Speaker 3: the DraftKings or FanDuel website right to make the purchase.

808
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:30,360
Speaker 3: So you're watching it and you're saying, oh, right, this

809
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:33,359
Speaker 3: team is minus whatever. They're down seventeen, so I'm gonna

810
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:36,840
Speaker 3: make it a pick. But when you go to that

811
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 3: pick and you're watching on this live stream, it could

812
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,320
Speaker 3: be even it's far later. It'll be far later anyway,

813
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 3: So that part's weird.

814
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 1: But that's right now. You know they're going to want

815
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 1: to integrate it so seamlessly that it's like it's right

816
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 1: there on your phone. You just click, Oh, they're down ten.

817
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 1: Oh I like them to come back. Let me bet that.

818
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 3: Yeah.

819
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:52,719
Speaker 1: Wow, let's hear from you on this. I'm sure there's

820
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 1: a lot of opinions on the micro betting and just

821
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:57,200
Speaker 1: where we're going with all of this gambling uh on

822
00:36:57,239 --> 00:37:00,440
Speaker 1: the NBA. But let's pivot to our I t K.

823
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:04,920
Speaker 1: Who's put together some all most improved teams? What inspired

824
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:05,359
Speaker 1: this tray?

825
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 2: Well, almost every award gets a set of teams along

826
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:11,879
Speaker 2: with it. MVP, you got the all NBA teams, All

827
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:15,200
Speaker 2: Defense or Defensive Player of the Year, All Defense teams. Yeah,

828
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 2: Rookie of the Year, we got all rookie teams.

829
00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:17,760
Speaker 1: Good point.

830
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:20,160
Speaker 2: There is one that I'm not that I'm thinking about

831
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:21,959
Speaker 2: six Man of the Year. It would be too weird

832
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:25,719
Speaker 2: to make a team out of six then coach. Yeah,

833
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:29,160
Speaker 2: I guess there's not a all Coaches TV either, but

834
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:33,240
Speaker 2: there could be if we need content later down the line. Nonetheless,

835
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:34,960
Speaker 2: there's been a lot of players who improved, So why

836
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 2: not make a couple of teams out? Okay, yeah, so

837
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 2: I come. I came up with. I told Jase Skates

838
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:40,520
Speaker 2: two and a half teams because once we get to

839
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 2: the third team, I'm just gonna list some names. I'm

840
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:44,400
Speaker 2: gonna give you cases for the first couple of guys

841
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 2: for a couple of teams. First call. The first team

842
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,279
Speaker 2: is basically all the favorites right now, and it broke

843
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 2: down nicely to be guard, guard, forward, forward, center. Oh

844
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 2: so that was just nice. That's just a nice happenstance.

845
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:57,839
Speaker 2: Tyres Max. He makes the team ye year four. He's

846
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 2: averaging twenty six points per game for rebound, six assists.

847
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:04,440
Speaker 2: Those are career highs for him. Also, his per thirty

848
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:06,800
Speaker 2: six career high in points, which I think is important

849
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,239
Speaker 2: because you know, he's getting a lot more opportunity now,

850
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 2: it makes sense that he would get boosted in scoring.

851
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 2: But per thirty six when they even him all out,

852
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:17,360
Speaker 2: still up three points per game on his career high plus.

853
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:19,439
Speaker 2: The assists are there, He's got a career high free

854
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:23,759
Speaker 2: throw rate per usage and assist percentage. His shooting percentages

855
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 2: are down because he has to take a lot more

856
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:27,880
Speaker 2: tough shots. He's got James Harden setting him up, so

857
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 2: he's doing some other stuff out there. Maxie, you're making

858
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 2: my team.

859
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, And he's either going to win this award or

860
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 1: at the very least come runner up.

861
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 2: He's going to be a finalist, absolutely sure. Yeah. Another

862
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:39,000
Speaker 2: guy who's going to be a finalist. Kobe White. Year five.

863
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:42,879
Speaker 2: For Kobe White, he's averaging nineteen points per game, career

864
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 2: highs and points, rebounds, and assists. This is his best season,

865
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 2: quite clearly per thirty six career high in points plus

866
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:51,440
Speaker 2: four point two when he was a younger player and

867
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 2: not getting as much time. His field goal percentage is

868
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 2: a career high, as three point percentage is a career high.

869
00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 2: His usage per true shooting, they're all career highs. Best

870
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 2: season of his career. Kobe White, you're making my all

871
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:03,520
Speaker 2: most improved team.

872
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:04,760
Speaker 1: Okay, those are the guards.

873
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:08,399
Speaker 2: Let's move on to the forwards. Jalen big Johnson year three.

874
00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 2: He's finally playing basically didn't play at all his rookie

875
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:13,959
Speaker 2: and second season, to the point where this year people

876
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 2: are like, it's not a second year. No, there was

877
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:18,160
Speaker 2: even one year prior to last year when he never

878
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:20,760
Speaker 2: got in, So no surprise. Career high in points, rebounds,

879
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 2: and assists, career highs and field goal shooting fifty one

880
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:26,880
Speaker 2: from the field and three point shooting thirty five percent

881
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 2: from the field. His scoring is up, but his other

882
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:32,320
Speaker 2: numbers are basically in line with his career per thirty

883
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:36,840
Speaker 2: six is so he would actually probably be below Maxi

884
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 2: and Kobe White. For me, yeah, we're making a belt.

885
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 1: Definitely opportunity. Finally, I mean, this guy plays thirty four

886
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:44,719
Speaker 1: minutes a game and played what fifteen minutes a game

887
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 1: something like that last year. If that, yeah, garbage.

888
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 3: John Collins was there and at first I think this

889
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 3: Hawks team hasn't done anything the last couple of seasons.

890
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 3: Is in try to get try to get better, you know,

891
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 3: rather other than jean Ty Murray. The John Collins felt

892
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 3: like they're not getting anything back for him. At the

893
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 3: same time, it has worked out because this guy is good.

894
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:08,279
Speaker 3: Jaime Johnson is very very good and he's the guy

895
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:11,600
Speaker 3: who high fives Tree Young the most. They seem like bros.

896
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:15,840
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's the Actually, I take it back. They

897
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:18,279
Speaker 3: don't high five. It's a full handshake on the which

898
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:20,840
Speaker 3: is weird to me. Full handshakes on the floor is

899
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:21,440
Speaker 3: always weird to me.

900
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 2: I wonder if they're gonna keep doing that now that

901
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:24,240
Speaker 2: Trey Young had to have hand surgery.

902
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:25,480
Speaker 3: Great call.

903
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:29,440
Speaker 2: I heard Brian Windhorst talking about Jalen Johnson's legs on

904
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:30,920
Speaker 2: today's Who Collected podcast?

905
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:32,200
Speaker 3: What do I have to say? Like him?

906
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:36,240
Speaker 2: He was made for jumping? No, he says he's shorter

907
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,680
Speaker 2: than Lebron, but his waist is two to three inches

908
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 2: taller than Lebron.

909
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 1: Wow, what a breakdown.

910
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:43,360
Speaker 2: Now there's some legs e fact for you in respect

911
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:45,920
Speaker 2: to that most improved legs Johnson.

912
00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 1: He's only twenty two too. He just turned twenty two.

913
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 2: Likes get even longer what you're saying.

914
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:52,239
Speaker 1: He hasn't stopped growing. Keep an eye on that on us?

915
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 2: All right? All right? Other forward on the all most

916
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:57,879
Speaker 2: Improved first team, it's Jonathan kaminga year three for him,

917
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 2: career high and points, rebounds and assists your theme. He's

918
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:02,799
Speaker 2: also shooting the best he ever has from the field

919
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 2: and from the free throw line, just like Jalen Johnson.

920
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 2: All of his other numbers are basically the same as

921
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 2: his career per the thirty six is but the scoring

922
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:11,759
Speaker 2: is up and he doesn't take as many threes, so

923
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:14,640
Speaker 2: he's having his most efficient season. Kamika just knows how

924
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:16,279
Speaker 2: to play now. I think he's become a real guy.

925
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:18,799
Speaker 1: He's awesome. Yeah, he's gonna All four of those guys

926
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:21,120
Speaker 1: I feel like are gonna be obviously getting votes, if

927
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 1: not winning it, and just on ballots there when MIP

928
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 1: is actually voted on.

929
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 2: Our center is Alperin she gon m He's down. He's

930
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 2: hurt right now, probably out for the season, but we'll

931
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 2: see if he needs to come back for one last

932
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:35,960
Speaker 2: play and push for the Rockets. Nonetheless, in his third season,

933
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 2: he's career high in points, rebounds, and assist. His scoring

934
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:42,080
Speaker 2: is up five points per thirty six minutes, which is

935
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:45,799
Speaker 2: pretty good, drastically higher usage. He's improved his efficiency and

936
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 2: he's just a number one guy. Also the lowest turnover

937
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:50,200
Speaker 2: percentage of his career. So he takes care of the

938
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 2: ball and he scores it really well. And he's just

939
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:53,480
Speaker 2: a hub, just a hub. Out there.

940
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't get decided like you know, some people

941
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:57,760
Speaker 1: saw it, they visioned it, and they're like, you should

942
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 1: be running more things through this guy, you know, like

943
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:02,960
Speaker 1: your YO kitchen, your sabonuses and stuff like that. He

944
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,680
Speaker 1: delivered this year before the injury, so makes sense that

945
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 1: he's a starter on your almost improved team.

946
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:10,200
Speaker 2: Let's move to the second team. Start with the guards.

947
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 2: Jalen Suggs, Welcome to the squad, buddy. Year three for

948
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 2: him a career high and scoring, field goal percentage, and

949
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:21,120
Speaker 2: most importantly, three point Percentage's shooting forty percent from three,

950
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:24,920
Speaker 2: taking by far the most threes he ever has in

951
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,960
Speaker 2: his career. The defense hasn't taken a step back at all.

952
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:30,319
Speaker 2: He's finally put into three in three and D. So,

953
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:31,839
Speaker 2: Jalen Suggs, you make my team.

954
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:32,239
Speaker 3: I like that.

955
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 1: And he shoots with that one.

956
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 3: He looks awesome. He just looks great.

957
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:37,480
Speaker 1: That's the best way to put it. The defense, he's

958
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:39,920
Speaker 1: gonna be an all first defense guy, or at least

959
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:41,919
Speaker 1: second team. He's gonna be on that for a long time.

960
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:44,279
Speaker 1: He'll be you know, he's Marcus smart vibes, right, ye,

961
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:46,640
Speaker 1: But you gotta add the shot you gotta you can't

962
00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 1: hurt your team on the other end, forty percent from three.

963
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:50,440
Speaker 1: That surprised me. On like you said, five point two

964
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:52,760
Speaker 1: attempts per game, he shoot decent clip.

965
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:54,719
Speaker 3: You know he's gone better as the season has gone

966
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 3: on shooting the ball, that's for sure. I think there

967
00:42:56,560 --> 00:43:00,279
Speaker 3: will be some people who just think defense. Sure, he's

968
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 3: gotten a lot better defense. I mean, he's just always

969
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:03,920
Speaker 3: been good. Maybe there might be some shave votes even

970
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:07,239
Speaker 3: though he's just awesome. Whoa. I mean there could be

971
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:10,360
Speaker 3: some votes just because he's he's taken. He was an

972
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:12,560
Speaker 3: All MBA first team last year, so how much can

973
00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 3: you get improved? But yeah, he's definitely not gonna win anything,

974
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:18,919
Speaker 3: but I think there will be some votes just because

975
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:22,360
Speaker 3: he's he's gotten even better in the MVP rating, I

976
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:27,560
Speaker 3: would say MVP. Look MVP, he's close winning MVP this

977
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 3: year then last year where he's fifth.

978
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:31,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, he gets zero votes on my team, though our

979
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:34,960
Speaker 2: second guard on the second team almost improved and basically

980
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 2: the entire reason I came up with this Io Desumu.

981
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:39,920
Speaker 2: I think he's improved a lot year three. For him,

982
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 2: it's his best scoring season. He's taking and making more

983
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:44,959
Speaker 2: threes than ever, the highest three point rate of his career,

984
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:47,920
Speaker 2: and he's shooting thirty nine percent. He also had his

985
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:50,799
Speaker 2: career high twice like in the second half of the season. Here.

986
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:52,840
Speaker 2: I like to see that from a guy who's most improved,

987
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:54,960
Speaker 2: having your best career games as the season goes on.

988
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 2: Great stuff.

989
00:43:56,320 --> 00:44:00,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think it was the Michael tweeted

990
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 1: the other day when doing most improved, it shouldn't be

991
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:08,719
Speaker 1: seasoned season. It should just be that season. So from

992
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 1: the start of game one to the start of eighty

993
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:12,800
Speaker 1: to the end of eighty two, how much do you

994
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:16,640
Speaker 1: actually improve within that year? And then I said, oh God,

995
00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:18,680
Speaker 1: so now rookies are gonna win Most Improved?

996
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:19,799
Speaker 2: He could? Oh we could.

997
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:21,920
Speaker 1: I was joking when I tweeted that back to him,

998
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:24,880
Speaker 1: But okay, ioh, it's on your squad.

999
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 2: Controversial one for U Skeets, but I had to do it.

1000
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:30,719
Speaker 2: Jalen Williams, Oh, we got a second year guy. It's

1001
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:33,879
Speaker 2: only a second year, but scoring and assists are both

1002
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:36,640
Speaker 2: up per thirty six minutes and he's shooting forty five

1003
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:39,120
Speaker 2: percent from three. He just got so good that I

1004
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:40,799
Speaker 2: couldn't ignore it, even though I didn't want to put

1005
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:42,000
Speaker 2: a second year guy on it either.

1006
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:44,600
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, so you sort of signed with Yeah, but

1007
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:48,239
Speaker 1: this guy's badass. Yeah, he's got a clutch. You see

1008
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:50,080
Speaker 1: how different they are even when he plays, and he

1009
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:53,880
Speaker 1: doesn't huge fan of Joel Williams game. So I have

1010
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 1: no issues, especially we're talking second second teams improved.

1011
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:01,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, Talla Bankaro didn't get a sniff though, I'll tell

1012
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:02,640
Speaker 2: you that much. Oh, even though I do think he's

1013
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:04,440
Speaker 2: gotten better, there's.

1014
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 3: A yes, small chance that Jalmens will be on the

1015
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:10,120
Speaker 3: first team. I know Jalen Johnson should be better than him,

1016
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:12,399
Speaker 3: but just because the Hawks have not gotten a lot

1017
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:14,680
Speaker 3: of headlines while Jalen Williams is part of one of

1018
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 3: the best teams in the league. And if you look

1019
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:19,719
Speaker 3: at the odds, he's up there, you know he's I

1020
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:22,360
Speaker 3: guess people are betting on him because he's currently third

1021
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:24,800
Speaker 3: in odds for most Improved Player overall.

1022
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:27,360
Speaker 1: I was thinking when you were bringing up Shay because

1023
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:29,600
Speaker 1: I was like, he was on most improved lists last year,

1024
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:33,880
Speaker 1: finished second, ah shadeed And then you know how Basketball

1025
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:37,920
Speaker 1: Reference now shows awards when you go through every year, Uh,

1026
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:42,520
Speaker 1: he's appeared on three different most improved lists through a season.

1027
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:44,640
Speaker 1: I wonder what the record is like. You'd have to

1028
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:46,560
Speaker 1: almost go through guy by guy or figure out a

1029
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 1: way to do it, like who has appeared on the

1030
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 1: most most improved question balance? And would that number be

1031
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 1: like five six? I don't know.

1032
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 2: I think Maxi Maxie was. He got some most Improved

1033
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:59,759
Speaker 2: votes his second year. He'll get some this year as well. More.

1034
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:03,600
Speaker 2: That's gonna be tough. Yeah, that is Siako. I think

1035
00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:05,719
Speaker 2: might be in the mix for a guy who showed up,

1036
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:08,520
Speaker 2: Julius Randall, probably because he's an upsy, downsy kind of guy.

1037
00:46:08,719 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 2: We're shooming at we needed a most most Improved ballots

1038
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 2: up here. That's a great status.

1039
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:18,480
Speaker 3: Got to because his points increased for seven seasons.

1040
00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, it ain't.

1041
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:23,280
Speaker 3: It ain't just three for him.

1042
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:24,640
Speaker 1: Three in a row, though. Is impressed.

1043
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:30,840
Speaker 3: That's impressed, impressed, impresident. Some some schmuck somewhere said, you

1044
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:32,560
Speaker 3: know what this guy's on there? You know it's just

1045
00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:33,440
Speaker 3: a voter. A.

1046
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:35,799
Speaker 1: Well, that's the thing. It's like the one year for

1047
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:39,400
Speaker 1: a f most Improved he finished twenty fourth, so he

1048
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:42,839
Speaker 1: got one vote, but still he's on a ballot.

1049
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:46,479
Speaker 2: All right. Back to the other forward on the second team.

1050
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:49,960
Speaker 2: Almost improved is Duncan Robinson dunk because he got good

1051
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:52,319
Speaker 2: at one specific thing. He can do two pointers. Now

1052
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:56,480
Speaker 2: he's taking more attempts inside ten feet this season than

1053
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:58,759
Speaker 2: he has in any season the rest of his career,

1054
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:01,600
Speaker 2: shooting pretty good percentage, playmaking is a little better, and

1055
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:03,880
Speaker 2: he's still shooting forty percent from three. This guy barely

1056
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:06,120
Speaker 2: could play for the Heat last season. They were talking

1057
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:07,840
Speaker 2: about him as one of the most or one of

1058
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:10,239
Speaker 2: the worst contracts in the league. Then he obviously got

1059
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:11,920
Speaker 2: it going in the second half of the year, was

1060
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:14,799
Speaker 2: pretty solid throughout the playoffs for Miami, and now we

1061
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:17,399
Speaker 2: got him doing like hot sauce moves on the base.

1062
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:21,600
Speaker 2: Duncan Robinson, Okay, he stamped his place on the team

1063
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:23,400
Speaker 2: when he did that behind the back on the baseline,

1064
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:25,239
Speaker 2: said he has only done it twice in his life

1065
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:26,319
Speaker 2: and was in the NBA.

1066
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 1: He's improved his ball handling. That's attacking.

1067
00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 2: Final guy, I don't know. This one's a confusing one.

1068
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:37,040
Speaker 2: Is he a center sometimes? Did he improve? Yeah? But

1069
00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:38,040
Speaker 2: did he win Rookie of the Year?

1070
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:38,319
Speaker 1: Yeah?

1071
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:43,600
Speaker 2: Year three? Scottie Barnes good bad good clear highs though

1072
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:46,840
Speaker 2: in points, redounds, and assists thirty four percent from three

1073
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:49,640
Speaker 2: on way more attempts. He jacked up his usage. He's

1074
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:52,320
Speaker 2: got a high assist percentage. He's done for the season

1075
00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:55,280
Speaker 2: as well. But I do feel like Scottie Barnes certainly

1076
00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:57,319
Speaker 2: is better than he was in his second year, and

1077
00:47:57,360 --> 00:47:59,040
Speaker 2: he's still way better than he was in his rookie

1078
00:47:59,080 --> 00:47:59,480
Speaker 2: year as well.

1079
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:01,800
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, and he's a number one that's grown he is.

1080
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:02,719
Speaker 2: I think that's good.

1081
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:05,400
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, yeah, the spot minut's at the center position.

1082
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:08,080
Speaker 2: Sure, spot minutes at the exactly. I'm like, he blocks

1083
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:10,200
Speaker 2: a lot of shots and it was hard to find

1084
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:13,200
Speaker 2: another center because I'll tell you my third team really quick.

1085
00:48:13,239 --> 00:48:17,200
Speaker 2: It's Dante DiVincenzo, Nikhil Alexander Woh I like that, good

1086
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:21,280
Speaker 2: Herb Jones, who was my final cut for the second team,

1087
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:23,280
Speaker 2: Denny Avdia, and Mo Wagner.

1088
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:27,240
Speaker 1: Mo Wagner gets some love. Wagner's been hitting the glass.

1089
00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:29,440
Speaker 1: I was when you said you were going to do this.

1090
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:31,440
Speaker 1: I was like, I wonder if Nikhil Alexander Walker is

1091
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:35,719
Speaker 1: gonna get a little Trey Kirby love. So but no,

1092
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:37,640
Speaker 1: we didn't even talk about him much from last night's game.

1093
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:40,399
Speaker 1: I thought he was good? All right? Any any names

1094
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:42,120
Speaker 1: missing from those fifteen?

1095
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:47,279
Speaker 3: Are there any games most player in the league? No,

1096
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:53,759
Speaker 3: I've been scouring the Most Improved Player award winners. Now, well,

1097
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:57,400
Speaker 3: I've just I like these random stats, random facts. Excuse me.

1098
00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:00,760
Speaker 3: Forwards have won fourteen of the past twenty most Improved

1099
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:03,840
Speaker 3: Player awards. No true center has won since two thousand

1100
00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:04,279
Speaker 3: and two.

1101
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:06,080
Speaker 1: Oh, that's interesting.

1102
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:09,080
Speaker 3: Who's the truth? Who is the center? Who won Most

1103
00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 3: Improved Player in the year two thousand and two?

1104
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:13,319
Speaker 2: Is it?

1105
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:14,040
Speaker 1: Is it a white guy?

1106
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:20,960
Speaker 3: Irvan Johnson the opposite of white because he's no good.

1107
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 3: Guess good, guess very good. Yeah, it's hard to think

1108
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:27,759
Speaker 3: of this guy came out of high school, so it's

1109
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:28,680
Speaker 3: kind of hard to think.

1110
00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:30,520
Speaker 2: Good one.

1111
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:33,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true center. I guess yeah, he definitely.

1112
00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:36,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, he barely played with the Blazers. He must have

1113
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:37,200
Speaker 2: won that when he went to the Pacers.

1114
00:49:37,320 --> 00:49:42,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, must have. Wow, he've been in the league. That

1115
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:44,479
Speaker 3: was his sixth season. I guess. Wow.

1116
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:46,359
Speaker 1: That's what they used to do back in the day.

1117
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:49,279
Speaker 1: It wasn't until like these these third and four year

1118
00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:51,839
Speaker 1: guys who have turned into sort of all NBA All

1119
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:55,759
Speaker 1: Star level guys. It was like these Turkles and these

1120
00:49:55,800 --> 00:50:01,240
Speaker 1: turkle Is Brooks. Yeah, yeah, right right, those type of guys.

1121
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:03,120
Speaker 1: I guess there was the odd one everyone. So like

1122
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:05,879
Speaker 1: Danny Granger turned into an All Star, he definitely won

1123
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:07,880
Speaker 1: one of those. I feel like a lot of pacers

1124
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:11,080
Speaker 1: have most improved. They do, yeah, improve.

1125
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:14,080
Speaker 2: A lot of these teams. The Pacers growing there getting Wow,

1126
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:19,080
Speaker 2: the Pacers have one, two, three, four, five most improved. Yeah,

1127
00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:19,759
Speaker 2: it's got to be the.

1128
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:20,439
Speaker 3: Most that's a lot.

1129
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:23,680
Speaker 1: Okay, good stuff. Well, let's hear from the people out

1130
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:25,000
Speaker 1: there who did Trey miss What do you think of

1131
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:27,560
Speaker 1: his teams? And is this something the NBA should look

1132
00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:31,000
Speaker 1: into adding be almost improved teams? And maybe we can

1133
00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:33,600
Speaker 1: get Victor Sullomon to do some more vases.

1134
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:36,040
Speaker 2: Get you a Victor vaz.

1135
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:39,799
Speaker 1: Okay, before we go, tweet.

1136
00:50:39,520 --> 00:50:46,839
Speaker 3: To the night, tweet out the night. Wow. I wanted

1137
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:48,719
Speaker 3: to talk about this yesterday because it's og and and

1138
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 3: Obi getting injured again, and then there was a tiny

1139
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:56,239
Speaker 3: piece of drama since yesterday. So just back to og

1140
00:50:57,040 --> 00:50:59,920
Speaker 3: and how he hurt. He had elbow surgery. As we know,

1141
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:03,359
Speaker 3: a loose bone fragment was removed. He missed over a month,

1142
00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:05,640
Speaker 3: but then he came back against Portland. He looked pretty good.

1143
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:08,200
Speaker 3: He had a good game, although he left the game

1144
00:51:08,239 --> 00:51:10,719
Speaker 3: after a yank and a ball from DeAndre Ayton because

1145
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:12,239
Speaker 3: his elbow was bugging him. He said, he called it

1146
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 3: rapid movement when he makes rapid movement. But he fought

1147
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:17,360
Speaker 3: back and he played in that game. Next game, he

1148
00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:21,000
Speaker 3: was one for eight versus Sacramento. Didn't look particularly comfortable

1149
00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:24,160
Speaker 3: shooting the ball. And then the third game he said

1150
00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:26,279
Speaker 3: he was ready to guard Curry. He said, I'm ready

1151
00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:27,680
Speaker 3: to do that, but he was a late scratch and

1152
00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:29,279
Speaker 3: he flew back to New York and he had an

1153
00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:32,840
Speaker 3: MRI on his elbow because it was aggravating him. MRI clear,

1154
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:37,320
Speaker 3: So all good, but this isn't a bit of a concern,

1155
00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:39,239
Speaker 3: I'd say for the New York next year. He's not

1156
00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:41,759
Speaker 3: going to play Thursday against Denver, very very unlikely on

1157
00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:44,680
Speaker 3: the road there. But it hasn't been determined when he

1158
00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:48,880
Speaker 3: will return. And then I saw this tweet. It was

1159
00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:53,480
Speaker 3: basically Stepan Bondi of The ny Posts wrote this in

1160
00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:57,600
Speaker 3: his article about og Ananobi. Quote. According to people familiar

1161
00:51:57,640 --> 00:52:00,719
Speaker 3: with his tenure in Toronto, where Anonobe lots of time

1162
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:03,760
Speaker 3: with injuries. The twenty six year old isn't comfortable playing

1163
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:07,360
Speaker 3: through pain. Now. A couple of us are from Toronto.

1164
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:09,840
Speaker 3: We've got Jerome up there working in Toronto who worked

1165
00:52:09,840 --> 00:52:13,600
Speaker 3: with the team. I didn't hear any of this, I

1166
00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:16,320
Speaker 3: know I brought it up. And why they traded Ojan

1167
00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:19,560
Speaker 3: Andobi was in part because he did miss games. Yeah,

1168
00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:21,040
Speaker 3: in part because they were going to sign him to

1169
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:24,080
Speaker 3: a long term deal as well, obviously, but he did

1170
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:27,880
Speaker 3: miss a lot of games. But I didn't hear that once. Jerome,

1171
00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:30,000
Speaker 3: I don't know if you're listening if you heard that once.

1172
00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:34,520
Speaker 3: But I don't buy that he had a problem. And

1173
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:36,680
Speaker 3: whoever said this to Stefan Bunny, I don't buy it

1174
00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:39,160
Speaker 3: at all. Or he would just literally say I've got

1175
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:42,600
Speaker 3: a problem. I'm not playing other than you know, to

1176
00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:46,399
Speaker 3: be injured. So he's I'm concerned about og and when

1177
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:48,800
Speaker 3: he's coming back, I think that should be a concern

1178
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:50,719
Speaker 3: where he's got an injury here had to get another

1179
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:55,880
Speaker 3: MRI again, it's clean, So I don't know, do you

1180
00:52:55,960 --> 00:52:59,480
Speaker 3: have any any substance to this? Were there people in

1181
00:52:59,520 --> 00:53:01,640
Speaker 3: Toronto saying that guy doesn't play when he's.

1182
00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:05,120
Speaker 1: I don't remember any of that, remember any like label

1183
00:53:05,160 --> 00:53:07,040
Speaker 1: of softer or he could go and he's not. He

1184
00:53:07,160 --> 00:53:10,200
Speaker 1: was just injured a lot of the time. Yeah, so no, that's.

1185
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:10,440
Speaker 2: News to me.

1186
00:53:10,680 --> 00:53:12,320
Speaker 1: The other thing is I love this idea, like a

1187
00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:15,000
Speaker 1: guy gets surgery and it's just like, Okay, well that's done,

1188
00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:17,919
Speaker 1: he's all taken care of. It's like, no, things can

1189
00:53:18,160 --> 00:53:20,760
Speaker 1: get reaggravated, especially when you come back and start playing.

1190
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:22,640
Speaker 1: It's like an elbow flare is what they're saying, Like

1191
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:26,280
Speaker 1: it's probably painful, and it's wasn't when he was ready

1192
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:27,800
Speaker 1: to go in that one game and played a couple

1193
00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:32,160
Speaker 1: and then it's hurt again. So it's like that unfortunately happens,

1194
00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:36,120
Speaker 1: so sucks for Knicks and Knicks fans. But I don't know,

1195
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:38,200
Speaker 1: I'm not I don't I'm not reading too much into

1196
00:53:38,239 --> 00:53:40,600
Speaker 1: this report or maybe the way it was twisted into

1197
00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:43,359
Speaker 1: the tweet, like cause it's like suddenly just looks like, oh,

1198
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:46,000
Speaker 1: he could play, but he doesn't want to play through

1199
00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:48,600
Speaker 1: the pain. And that's what Tibbs wants. Those type of guys,

1200
00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:51,719
Speaker 1: those hard nosed guys, bring your lunch paale to work

1201
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:57,959
Speaker 1: every day no matter how bad your back hurts, you know, Yeah,

1202
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:00,000
Speaker 1: but we'll see. I think he'll be back as Michael.

1203
00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:03,319
Speaker 2: Well, that's what the Knicks said after the was that

1204
00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:05,280
Speaker 2: the King's game when he like he reached for something

1205
00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:07,439
Speaker 2: and it got pushed back the other way, it's gonna

1206
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:09,320
Speaker 2: be a pain tolerance thing. Yeah, And they tried to

1207
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:11,440
Speaker 2: play two games and apparently it hurts too much. But

1208
00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:14,359
Speaker 2: it's not totally surprising. You wouldn't hear it when he's

1209
00:54:14,360 --> 00:54:15,960
Speaker 2: in Toronto. They would be protecting him.

1210
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:18,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, And does it happen with other players?

1211
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:21,360
Speaker 2: Definitely does. Nay was a guy who would like famously

1212
00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:23,360
Speaker 2: take forever to come back right from injury.

1213
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:24,160
Speaker 3: So I don't know.

1214
00:54:24,239 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 2: I mean, he misses a lot of time and his

1215
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:29,200
Speaker 2: absences are long. But also you want to be one

1216
00:54:29,239 --> 00:54:30,840
Speaker 2: hundred percent when you're playing. I don't blame you. He

1217
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:32,080
Speaker 2: was hurt in college and stuff.

1218
00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:34,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean it's also you get in It's like,

1219
00:54:34,719 --> 00:54:37,040
Speaker 1: if this was the playoffs, if they started tomorrow, would

1220
00:54:37,040 --> 00:54:39,080
Speaker 1: he play? Would he play through the pain and give

1221
00:54:39,120 --> 00:54:42,360
Speaker 1: it a go? We don't know. My guess is yes,

1222
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:44,879
Speaker 1: these are this is still the regular season. They still

1223
00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:46,520
Speaker 1: don't even have all their guys back. I know they're

1224
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:49,879
Speaker 1: jocking for position, but they're sort of settling into their

1225
00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:53,640
Speaker 1: spot there in the conference. You'd prefer being healthy in

1226
00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:56,880
Speaker 1: a potential playoff series then whatever they're racing for in

1227
00:54:56,920 --> 00:54:59,520
Speaker 1: terms of a seeding. So I think he would play

1228
00:54:59,520 --> 00:54:59,719
Speaker 1: if it.

1229
00:54:59,680 --> 00:55:04,000
Speaker 3: Was play Okay, well, who knows who knows that better

1230
00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:08,719
Speaker 3: than man? Yeah, and our man Jerome chimed in here.

1231
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:11,600
Speaker 3: He said, it's news to me. He seemed, if anything,

1232
00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:15,400
Speaker 3: more sullen that he couldn't play through the twenty nineteen

1233
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:19,040
Speaker 3: championship run, which he didn't play at all in those

1234
00:55:19,080 --> 00:55:22,160
Speaker 3: playoffs because he, you know, air quotes, was injured and

1235
00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:25,360
Speaker 3: then couldn't play, And I guess he was sullen, what

1236
00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:28,480
Speaker 3: a good word, but you know, not feeling good, maybe

1237
00:55:28,520 --> 00:55:31,920
Speaker 3: a little gloomy that he wasn't able to play through it.

1238
00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:34,919
Speaker 3: But he also drum also has this has a tinge

1239
00:55:34,960 --> 00:55:38,200
Speaker 3: of Kawhi and san Antonio and load management and Kawhi

1240
00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:40,279
Speaker 3: saying at the beginning of the season that he's hurt

1241
00:55:40,280 --> 00:55:43,160
Speaker 3: and doesn't play and would play if he wasn't. So

1242
00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:46,960
Speaker 3: I'll let's say somewhat we were just saying their skeets

1243
00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:50,560
Speaker 3: if it's the playoffs he would have played, but I

1244
00:55:50,600 --> 00:55:53,120
Speaker 3: do The interesting thing to me not so much the

1245
00:55:53,160 --> 00:55:58,640
Speaker 3: seven Bondi line here that where many people people familiar

1246
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:00,880
Speaker 3: with his tenure in Toronto, so that several people that

1247
00:56:01,080 --> 00:56:04,359
Speaker 3: just isn't one person. More so than that, it's that

1248
00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:07,120
Speaker 3: he had to get another MRI on his elbow because

1249
00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:09,640
Speaker 3: it has been bothering him, so they just double checked

1250
00:56:09,640 --> 00:56:12,480
Speaker 3: it he plays. If you watch these first couple of

1251
00:56:12,480 --> 00:56:15,879
Speaker 3: games that he's played with, he's got like this this

1252
00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:18,840
Speaker 3: sort of I don't even know to call it, but

1253
00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:21,600
Speaker 3: it's like the sticky thing on his elbow and you

1254
00:56:21,600 --> 00:56:23,400
Speaker 3: don't see it with too many players. You see it

1255
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:26,799
Speaker 3: on the shoulder. But to support his elbow, he's got

1256
00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:30,160
Speaker 3: this support there, so hopefully he'll be all right. Just

1257
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:32,080
Speaker 3: want to bring up because it is the New York

1258
00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:34,000
Speaker 3: Knicks and they have been awesome with him, and then

1259
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:36,319
Speaker 3: they without him, they still won with Jalen Broughnson being

1260
00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 3: awesome against the Golden State Warriors.

1261
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:40,520
Speaker 1: Oh just add like, I think the guy would want

1262
00:56:40,520 --> 00:56:43,000
Speaker 1: to play for a couple of reasons. One, when he plays,

1263
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:45,600
Speaker 1: they win non stop. What are they fifteen to two?

1264
00:56:46,200 --> 00:56:48,319
Speaker 1: When he's joined them on the floor with the New

1265
00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:50,080
Speaker 1: York Knicks something like that, and then the other thing

1266
00:56:50,120 --> 00:56:51,759
Speaker 1: you said it you slipped in it earlier. I mean,

1267
00:56:51,840 --> 00:56:53,920
Speaker 1: he has a player option for next year at nineteen million.

1268
00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:57,720
Speaker 1: He should turn that down and obviously hit free agency

1269
00:56:57,719 --> 00:57:00,360
Speaker 1: and get a bigger deal, especially when you see his

1270
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:03,399
Speaker 1: impact to winning that you don't, you know, you want

1271
00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 1: to be playing when you have a contract situation coming

1272
00:57:05,719 --> 00:57:08,920
Speaker 1: up here and showing your worth. So hopefully for Knicks fans,

1273
00:57:08,920 --> 00:57:11,000
Speaker 1: I mean, I hope all these guys are back across

1274
00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:13,359
Speaker 1: all these teams and we got as fully loaded as

1275
00:57:13,800 --> 00:57:16,080
Speaker 1: possible rosters for the playoffs, because that's what you want,

1276
00:57:16,160 --> 00:57:17,080
Speaker 1: or NBA fans want.

1277
00:57:17,280 --> 00:57:19,200
Speaker 3: Maybe you just wanted to play tennis with Julius Randall,

1278
00:57:19,200 --> 00:57:20,800
Speaker 3: who's out for the Nicks and playing tennis. As he

1279
00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:24,000
Speaker 3: brought up yesterday, trays, how was he He's playing tennis,

1280
00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:25,640
Speaker 3: but he ain't playing basketball quite yet.

1281
00:57:25,640 --> 00:57:28,840
Speaker 1: He should play a spike ball with the paddles pickle spikes, yees,

1282
00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:31,520
Speaker 1: pickle spikes. So they call it, yeah, all right, that's

1283
00:57:31,560 --> 00:57:33,080
Speaker 1: do it the night. Let's call it there. We got

1284
00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:36,240
Speaker 1: some decent games on tonight. I guess there's two other

1285
00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:38,880
Speaker 1: First four games on in the college world.

1286
00:57:39,320 --> 00:57:40,320
Speaker 2: I don't know who's playing, but.

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Speaker 1: We also have Heat Calves, Bucks, Celtics. I don't believe

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Speaker 1: Giannis is playing, which is unfortunate, and sixer Sons. Those

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Speaker 1: are three of the better ones. We'll be back here

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Speaker 1: tomorrow to break down those and NBA news and hell,

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Speaker 1: you know what, maybe we should fill out a bracket

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Speaker 1: tomorrow live on the show. Let's do it just like.

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Speaker 1: We'll do it like as quick as possible. Jack rabbits

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Speaker 1: all the way through.

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Speaker 2: I put them as a win in my brackets, because

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Speaker 2: you know, as soon as we don't don't win exactly,

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Speaker 2: and then we'll feel like fools.

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Speaker 1: Did you picked a win? I think I picked in

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Speaker 1: one of my brackets. I think I picked North Carolina

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Speaker 1: multiple brackets. Yeah, well no, it's the same bracket. Actually

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Speaker 1: it is the same bracket. I put it in two spots.

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Speaker 1: You went North Carolina as well? Okay, I went North

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Speaker 1: Carolina versus South Carolina just because it's a great story.

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Speaker 2: Good luck.

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Speaker 1: That's how I do.

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Speaker 2: I have my reasoning.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, we'll do that on tomorrow show. So we will

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Speaker 1: see you here at ten am Eastern live on YouTube.

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Speaker 1: Until that clip of Rose.

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Speaker 2: You heard it here first have a great time. Turn up.

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Speaker 2: Love you guys awesome.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us. And remember Yale is in this

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Speaker 3: tournament as well. I got excited because there's a Greek

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Speaker 3: on that team that I can shoot. So I'm taking

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Speaker 3: Yale as an upset thirteen to four. Sorry, Bruce Pearl,

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Speaker 3: you ain't winning. You're playing Yale. See later, Brucie John

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Speaker 3: Pula Kidas.

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Speaker 1: Can shoot.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he can shoot. They're probably gonna lose.

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Speaker 1: Raise today, people,