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Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox

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Speaker 2: Carlos Boozer acc Network basketball analyst and he joins us

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Speaker 2: on behalf of DraftKings, one of the most exciting places

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Speaker 2: Sports Book, Predictions, Daily Fantasy Sports. How often does this

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Speaker 2: story about Prince renting your home come up?

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Speaker 3: Dan? How you doing, man? Good morning? It comes up.

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Speaker 3: It comes up often for those that know the story. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: The one thing that stands out because when you told

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Speaker 2: us the story that you rented your house in LA

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Speaker 2: to Prince and then you came back. How long did

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Speaker 2: he rent that house for?

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Speaker 3: He rented it for a year. Okay, he rented it

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Speaker 3: for a year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you come back after a year.

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Speaker 3: No, So he rented it for me for a year.

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Speaker 4: I had tore my hamstring and you saw when I

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Speaker 4: was playing for the Jazz, came to La to get

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Speaker 4: physical there and I popped in on I called him

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Speaker 4: a couple of times, hadn't heard from him, popped up

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Speaker 4: at the house and this is my first big purchase.

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Speaker 4: By the way, I'm a young twenty one year old guy.

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Speaker 4: Brought this huge house in bel Air, trying to show

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Speaker 4: off what you know, what do you go for it?

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Speaker 4: And then read it out the prince because I'm not

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Speaker 4: going to be there for eight months, going to be

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Speaker 4: in Utah anyway.

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Speaker 3: And I get there and everything is purple.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 4: My wife at the time had decorated the house beautifully,

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Speaker 4: Italian rugs and all this fancy stuff that I have

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Speaker 4: no idea what it is. And then I come in

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Speaker 4: and he basically turned all the rugs purple and black.

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Speaker 4: He had his picture everywhere in the house. One of

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Speaker 4: the cool things that he did that my kids actually

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Speaker 4: liked is he turned my weight room into like a nightclub.

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Speaker 4: He had a DJ booth and like a disco ball.

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Speaker 4: My kids kind of thought that was kind of cool.

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Speaker 4: But other than that, I was. I was livid. But

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Speaker 4: he ended up changing it all back before he moved out.

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Speaker 2: He doesn't ask for any He's not saying if he

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Speaker 2: can have permission to do any of this stuff.

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Speaker 4: I mean, he was basically playing ninety five random months

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Speaker 4: and he's prince, so you know, he gets he gets

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Speaker 4: grace when he's prince. When most of the most of

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Speaker 4: us we was born to his music, and then he

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Speaker 4: was on tour doing his three one two one album,

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Speaker 4: so he was kind of hard to reach, but did

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Speaker 4: not ask for permission, but he did change it back

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Speaker 4: and I appreciate it that.

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Speaker 2: But did he leave you anything? You got a memorabilia

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Speaker 2: from Prince?

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Speaker 4: I did get a sign photo that him and I

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Speaker 4: took when he signed the Least Agreement when we met.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, you need a guitar or something like that.

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Speaker 3: That's what I should have got.

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Speaker 2: He read, absolutely, Well, thank you for sharing again, because

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Speaker 2: it feels like whenever that story kind of surfaces once

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Speaker 2: a year and like poor Carlos, he got to tell

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Speaker 2: that story again and again and again. You were there

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Speaker 2: with so Lebron's rookie year in Cleveland. That was your

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Speaker 2: second year. So that that's the only year you played

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Speaker 2: with Lebron, right correct?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Okay, we also shared some Olympics and All Star Games together.

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Speaker 2: Okay, But that he makes his debut in Sacramento, right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? What do you remember right against the Kings who

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Speaker 3: were voted.

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Speaker 2: What do you remember about that night? The hype around

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Speaker 3: That was nuts, man, Because I was there in Cleveland.

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Speaker 4: The year before we got Lebron and they weren't that

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Speaker 4: excited to habits and said there was probably probably it

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Speaker 4: seemed like there was three hundred Hammerman at the baseline

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Speaker 4: if you go back to that film and watched the

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Speaker 4: warm ups, like, we had a hard time warming up

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Speaker 4: because that arena, the Arc arena was kind of tight

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Speaker 4: trying to get every move that he made, every warm

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Speaker 4: all these windmills and different things, and it was difficult

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Speaker 4: just to warm up. But I'll tell you during the game,

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Speaker 4: he was outstanding man. He played terrific. Obviously, we lost

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Speaker 4: to a much better team, an older veteran group with

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Speaker 3: They were loaded. But he put on the show man.

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Speaker 4: He had a hell of a game for his first

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Speaker 4: and obviously, you guys know the rest is history. Became

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Speaker 2: But if I would have told you that night, that

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Speaker 2: playing when your sons go into the NBA.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no way I would have believed that.

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Speaker 4: The fact that he's still playing and I retired in

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Speaker 4: twenty seventeen and started my career before him is remarkable.

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Speaker 4: Like his genes and his work ethic and I taste

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Speaker 4: care of his body is a testament to his greatness.

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Speaker 4: It's it's impressive that literally, if he decides to come

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Speaker 3: That's incredible.

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Speaker 2: When did your sons get their first recruiting letters?

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Speaker 3: I would say about eighth grade, seventh, eighth grade.

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Speaker 4: They were like thirteen, twelve, thirteen, fourteen years old and

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Speaker 2: And how did you and their mom deal with that

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Speaker 2: getting recruited that early?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we're excited, obviously.

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Speaker 4: You get excited when you you realize your kids following

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Speaker 4: their passion and they're and they're getting recognized by some

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Speaker 4: the possibility of what their future might look like.

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Speaker 2: But the recruiting of you as opposed to your sons, no, I.

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Speaker 3: Stay out of it.

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Speaker 4: I told I told the boys, and I told their

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Speaker 4: mom I was like, I don't want colleges recruiting.

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Speaker 3: Dad.

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Speaker 4: I'm not going to be the one that's going to

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Speaker 4: be there at six am for workouts. I'm not going

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Speaker 3: They have to recruit the boys, and the boys.

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Speaker 4: Have to make that decision for themselves to see if

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Speaker 4: their makeup it is, do they have a chance to

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Speaker 3: So I didn't go to any of the recruiting visits.

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Speaker 4: I just I got all the notes from from from

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Speaker 4: Mom when they got back, and literally let the boys

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Speaker 4: to choose to play together. Obviously the NBA. You never

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Speaker 4: God willing they get to play together in the NBA,

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Speaker 4: but you know, thinking that this year could be the

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Speaker 4: we all had in mind.

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Speaker 2: When did Cameron get better than you?

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Speaker 3: That's a good question.

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Speaker 4: I would probably say right around like sixteen seventeen. I

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Speaker 4: stopped playing playing the kids one on one. I wanted

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Speaker 4: to retire undefeated. I got that goal in mind. But

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Speaker 4: you know, as a dad, think about this though. As

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Speaker 4: their sons to be better than them. Every other man

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Speaker 4: wants to be better than the next man. So I'm

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Speaker 4: proud of my kids for being better than me and

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Speaker 4: having more skills and being able to do more with

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Speaker 2: He's Carlos Boozer, ACC Network basketball analyst joining us on

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Speaker 2: behalf of DraftKings. How are you as an analyst with

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Speaker 2: the ACC Games? How are you as an analyst with

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Speaker 2: Duke Games?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Very different.

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Speaker 4: It's It's difficult for me because I'm such a dad

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Speaker 4: and I'm obviously always coaching and trying to figure out

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Speaker 4: ways to get my kids better and get them prepared

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Speaker 4: for what lies ahead. So but you know, as an

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Speaker 4: analyst you try to be you know, unbiased, and look,

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Speaker 4: come on, man, you know I got Duke blood running

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Speaker 4: through my body. I'm rooting for Duke like crazy. This

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Speaker 4: is my this is my most exciting time of the year. Also,

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Speaker 4: want to tell the listeners out there, go to DraftKings

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Speaker 4: You can go to one location and have all your

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Speaker 4: but enjoy responsible at DraftKings. For me, I would say

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Speaker 4: it's harder being a dad watching being a player because

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Speaker 4: you have all this anxiety. You want to get out

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Speaker 3: But I'm proud of my kids no matter what though.

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Speaker 2: What was your favorite Mike Shryshevsky story.

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Speaker 3: Man, There's so many. I mean, I remember we lost

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Speaker 4: And he felt like we didn't attack that game, that

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Speaker 4: we were too passive and on our heels and we

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Speaker 4: had a game coming up. And the next game, we

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Speaker 4: go in the locker room and there's a white piece

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Speaker 4: of paper that's covered the locker room, all over the place,

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Speaker 4: white pieces of paper everywhere. We can't even sit down

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Speaker 4: at our lockers. On the paper is in small black

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Speaker 4: letters is the word attack. And then they have we

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Speaker 4: have a big you know TV in the room. They're

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Speaker 4: playing that Braveheart scene. I think it's Mel Gibson. It's

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Speaker 4: like riding on the horse and he's getting the guys

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Speaker 4: somersaulting in and it's like less attack, like screaming it

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Speaker 4: like that. Now, mind you, let me set the stage.

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Speaker 4: This is Coach K. He's won championships, he's been Coach

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Speaker 4: of the Year, he's one of the most decorated coaches

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Speaker 4: of all time. He's got two hip replacement surgeries, and

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Speaker 4: he treated he treated every day like he had something

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Speaker 4: to prove to our group. I'm seventeen, eighteen years old,

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Speaker 4: I'm a teenager, and seeing the legend that he is

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Speaker 4: do that for us to get us motivated, was like, man,

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Speaker 4: if we don't attack this game, then what the hell

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Speaker 4: are we doing.

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Speaker 3: You know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: Coach K did a summersault in the locker room.

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Speaker 4: Summer summer assault with two hip replacements. Unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: Is there a video of this?

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Speaker 4: I don't Maybe I don't know. I didn't have a

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Speaker 4: Oh my god.

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Speaker 2: I remember when I went to a game, Latner and

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Speaker 2: Hurley were there, and I went to a game and

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Speaker 2: John Smoltz on the call with Joe Davis last night

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Speaker 2: World Baseball Classic the semifinals Venezuela against Italy, Team USA

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Speaker 5: Winning of World Baseball Classic is more important than winning

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Speaker 2: How do you make this bigger?

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Speaker 5: I think you make it bigger when you do it

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Speaker 5: I think it's the perfect spot to showcase the international talent.

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Speaker 5: Is it the perfect timing? No, his spring training and

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Speaker 5: We play it closer to the regular season and everyone's

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Speaker 5: this is how you win.

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Speaker 2: That would be great, though, Just do like the NBA

442
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Speaker 2: did with the USA versus the World.

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Speaker 5: Yep, and you could do two games the wrong if

444
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Speaker 5: you shut the game down for a week and give

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Speaker 5: everybody the break they need. Is the seasons long? Could

446
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Speaker 5: you could do so many things to promote within that

447
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Speaker 5: week and own that week, not to mention, and I

448
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Speaker 5: told you this before, in the weekend of that week off,

449
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Speaker 5: have the Hall of Fame so that everybody can be

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Speaker 5: aware of the present and be connected.

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Speaker 2: Did you fill out your bracket yet?

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Speaker 5: Not yet? I don't even know.

453
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Speaker 2: I didn't even know today was St. Patti's Day.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I didn't even know. I've been on a two

455
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Speaker 5: week road trip and I haven't even looked at one thing.

456
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Speaker 5: I do know that the bracket that my team I

457
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Speaker 5: root for is in the hardest bracket. Go figure. But

458
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Speaker 5: that's just the way it is.

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Speaker 2: But you have supreme confidence in Tom mzeld in Michigan

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Speaker 2: state supreme confidence.

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Speaker 5: I only wish I could go to Buffalo and watch

462
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Speaker 5: it in person, but I can't get there.

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Speaker 2: Have fun tonight, John, we'll do.

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Speaker 5: It's going to be a lot of fun.

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Speaker 2: Warriors Nicks on Sunday tonight. He's got cabs at the

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Speaker 2: Bucks eight Eastern on NBC and Peacock. What do you

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Speaker 2: remember about your March Madness experience.

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Speaker 7: I think my senior year going against in the first

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Speaker 7: round Dan Marlen. I believe it was Central Michigan, beating

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Speaker 7: them and then thinking that we were gonna have a

476
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Speaker 7: clear cut sweet sixteen berth because we played good old

477
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Speaker 7: best name Finnis Dimbo in Wyoming, thinking Okay, we're gonna

478
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Speaker 7: run through them, and then we were gonna get the

479
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Speaker 7: matchup that everyone wanted to see because we never played

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Speaker 7: one another. It was a great anthony and you and

481
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Speaker 7: LV and those high octane running rebels. That was the matchup.

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Speaker 7: We overlooked Finnis, he cooked us, he cooked me, and

483
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Speaker 7: we lost the Finnis dimbo in one and the Cowboys.

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Speaker 7: That's probably what I remember most of my senior year.

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Speaker 2: But how does that work? Explain that experience that here's

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Speaker 2: Finnish den who wasn't a good NBA player. You became

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Speaker 2: a Hall of famer, but on that day he was

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Speaker 2: a Hall of Fame player against you guys.

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Speaker 7: And that's the beauty of March madness when it doesn't

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Speaker 7: matter what seede you are. Remember you're playing on neutral sites,

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Speaker 7: you're not playing at home, and everyone is somewhat equal

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Speaker 7: because of these neutral sites. And we overlooked Wyoming and

493
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Speaker 7: this was a blockbuster game for them, and the Finnis

494
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Speaker 7: Dembo punched his ticket to the NBA from that game.

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Speaker 7: And it was a disappointing loss for my ruins.

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Speaker 2: How long does it take to get over a loss? Well,

497
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Speaker 2: that was your last game, it was.

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Speaker 7: I fouled out, I didn't play great. It's difficult, but

499
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Speaker 7: you dust yourself off and move on. But it's one

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Speaker 7: of those losses that you hope you grow from and

501
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Speaker 7: sometimes when you have losses like that, that's your best teacher.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you learn from it and you move on.

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Speaker 2: Better team in your opinion, more talented Running Rebels or

504
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Speaker 2: the Fab five?

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Speaker 7: Wow, very similar in terms of how they approached the game.

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Speaker 7: Now are we talking about the one U and L

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Speaker 7: the team that went undefeated and won the championship versus

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Speaker 7: Duke Because that team was unbelievable with Grandmama, Stacy Hogben,

509
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Speaker 7: Greg Anthony, I mean, they were loaded. But in terms

510
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Speaker 7: of culture, right, I mean you've got to think of

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Speaker 7: the Fab five. I know they didn't win a championship,

512
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Speaker 7: but they changed the landscape and how he thought with

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Speaker 7: Juwan Howard, Chris Webber, my Boy, Jalen Rose. So culture wise,

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Speaker 7: I'll go with the Fab five. But I mean you

515
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Speaker 7: got to remember those Running Rebels teams.

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Speaker 3: They didn't win a.

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Speaker 2: Championship, Okay, but more talented. If I go starting five

518
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Speaker 2: Fab five against the starting five at UNLV.

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Speaker 7: I would probably more talented would be the Fab five.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, I would say the same thing. I mean,

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Speaker 2: Larry was great, I thought Stacey was gonna be even better.

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Speaker 7: He was good. He was good, but because of his length,

523
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Speaker 7: you thought at six eighty six nine, yeah, seven foot

524
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Speaker 7: two wingspan, But he was good.

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Speaker 5: In the NBA.

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Speaker 7: He wasn't great, he was he was good. Greg Anthony

527
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Speaker 7: had a good NBA career. But let's face it, those

528
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Speaker 7: that Fab five team. Jalen Rose was great. We know

529
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Speaker 7: about Seweb. Juwan Howard had a long NBA career now coaching,

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Speaker 7: So yeah, I think career wise, you go with the

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Speaker 7: Fab five.

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Speaker 2: Talking to Reggi Miller, the Hall of Famer, you know,

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Speaker 2: I don't go out of my way to talk about

534
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Speaker 2: the Lakers, but and they do something, and they're winning,

535
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Speaker 2: and they're you know, a game and a half up

536
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Speaker 2: on Houston. So now you know, if they get into

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Speaker 2: the top four, now you know, maybe maybe there can

538
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Speaker 2: be a magical run here. But I don't know what's

539
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Speaker 2: different in the last you know, two weeks or so,

540
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Speaker 2: they won six in a row, and we've seen Lebron

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Speaker 2: almost embrace that third wheel of you know, I'm going

542
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Speaker 2: to defer, I'm going to pass, I'm going to let

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Speaker 2: these two guys. Is it that simple? Because they still

544
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Speaker 2: have to play defense.

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Speaker 7: It's that simple, and you're right. At the end of

546
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Speaker 7: the day, the defense will either do them in or

547
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Speaker 7: that'll be the defining moment for them. And I think

548
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Speaker 7: they're starting to understand how the roles will be situated

549
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Speaker 7: because Lebron was out for those few games, that's when

550
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Speaker 7: they started this win streak, and between Austin Reeves and Luca,

551
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Speaker 7: they were carrying them offensively. Let's give Marcus Smart a

552
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Speaker 7: lot of credit. He's not getting enough. People aren't talking

553
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Speaker 7: about what he's doing at both ends of the floor. Defensively,

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Speaker 7: he's been unbelievable for them. And on top of that

555
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Speaker 7: because of all the double teaming on Luca and when

556
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Speaker 7: Reeves drives and penetrates him knocking down big time three

557
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Speaker 7: point shots. You know when he was with Boston and

558
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Speaker 7: when he was winning defensive player, He's he almost is

559
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Speaker 7: reverting back to that Marcus Smart. So I think guys

560
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:35,120
Speaker 7: are starting to understand they're getting something out of deandury

561
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Speaker 7: Ayton in the middle, something that we hadn't seen all season.

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Speaker 7: So guys are starting to figure it out. But at

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Speaker 7: the end of the day, Theodore the Lakers are going

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Speaker 7: to be judged by their defense and last night how

565
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Speaker 7: they played defensively in that when on the road in

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Speaker 7: Houston in a huge game with you know, there's only

567
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Speaker 7: a half game a game separating them. I know they

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Speaker 7: play again on Wednesday, which will be another big time game.

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Speaker 7: But the Lakers are starting to There's always expectations with

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Speaker 7: the Lakers, just like with Boston, there's always going to

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Speaker 7: be expectations to win. And we dissect every single thing

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Speaker 7: they do. Because one has eighteen championships, the other one

573
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Speaker 7: at seventeen. That just comes with the territory off playing

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Speaker 7: with one of these blue blood NBA franchises.

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Speaker 2: The SGA foul baiting. You know, some players have brought

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Speaker 2: this up as a player who did this and you

577
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Speaker 2: know openly admits that he did it. What does the

578
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Speaker 2: NBA do about the way SGA plays, if anything.

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Speaker 7: I don't get it. I don't understand what foul beating is.

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Speaker 7: We didn't say this about MJ, and MJ went to

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Speaker 7: the line ten plus times. James Harden was in that

582
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Speaker 7: same category, went to the line ten plus times. Yan

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Speaker 7: is is he? I don't understand this. Play the game

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Speaker 7: and you try to take advantage of whatever rules or

585
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 7: how they're calling the game. Games changed from night to night.

586
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Speaker 7: I know there's a general consensus of how you're supposed

587
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 7: to play, but you have different officials each and every game.

588
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Speaker 7: He is not what you call it rage baiting and

589
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 7: great foubating balbating every single night. What he's attacking the

590
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 7: defense are some calls questionable, absolutely, But I just don't

591
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,479
Speaker 7: get it why he gets called out all the time.

592
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Speaker 7: Last night, Jalen Brown's been, you know, calling this out

593
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Speaker 7: all the time. He shot twenty one for you girls

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Speaker 7: last night.

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Speaker 2: Well maybe he's learning from SGA.

596
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Speaker 7: How debate then, thank you, Learn and adapt, Learn and adapt,

597
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 7: that's what you've got to do.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

599
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Speaker 2: I brought this up and I got some criticism that

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Speaker 2: I thought that maybe SGA is kind of a younger

601
00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:10,800
Speaker 2: DeMar DeRozan. Now Demarta Rosen has almost twenty seven thousand points. Yeah,

602
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Speaker 2: not exciting, Yeah, methodical, consistent gonna get you twenty at least,

603
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 2: which is what SGA gives you and future Hall of Famer. Yes, yes, Now,

604
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Speaker 2: we don't talk about anything else with SGA except for

605
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Speaker 2: his scoring. Nobody brings up passing, nobody brings up defense,

606
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Speaker 2: Nobody brings up any of that. It's just he is

607
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Speaker 2: a bucket. He is going to score on anybody. And

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Speaker 2: I thought Demartin Rosen has been doing this. Now he

609
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Speaker 2: hasn't done it for great teams. Maybe not that you know,

610
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Speaker 2: anywhere near the level of SGA is an MVP. But

611
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Speaker 2: is that a fair offensive comparison between Demarta Rosen and SGA.

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Speaker 7: It's fair, But I will say this, He's just not

613
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Speaker 7: a bucket SGA. He's been top five in steals, so

614
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Speaker 7: he does play defense. He is a two way player, okay,

615
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 7: and he leads his team and assists, so he does

616
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Speaker 7: distribute the rock. But why is he getting all this

617
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Speaker 7: hate to me?

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Speaker 2: Well, that's not a hate, that's not hate. I'm just

619
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Speaker 2: saying we always look at a comp. I don't know

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Speaker 2: who the comp is for SGA. We do that for

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Speaker 2: all of these players. Now, certain players there isn't a

622
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 2: comp like Joker, there is no compr Yiannis, there is

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Speaker 2: no comp.

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Speaker 7: Well, if Damar de Rosen is the comp to SGA,

625
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 7: and I'll just ask you this, if you flip flop

626
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Speaker 7: them and you put Damar on that OKAC team, do

627
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Speaker 7: they win a chip? Are they fifty four wins? Right now?

628
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 7: If you just flip them right now. Are even making

629
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Speaker 7: a younger Damark because Damar is a little bit older.

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Speaker 7: Are they still winning the chip with Damar and his

631
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 7: SJAA and his Sacramento better.

632
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Speaker 2: Well, they would be better, but they're not winning anything.

633
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:01,720
Speaker 2: But if Damar was in OKAC, I think that Okac

634
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 2: team is that good that he wouldn't be You know.

635
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Speaker 2: Another thing is Sga is a great closer. I mean,

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Speaker 2: we haven't seen DeMar Deruzen in games where you go oh.

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Speaker 7: De Maros is a great closer too, but.

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Speaker 2: He just hadn't He hadn't played in big games where

639
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 2: we noticed it. With Sga, we did see it, So

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00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,160
Speaker 2: maybe it is a it's men as a compliment, but

641
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 2: it's just because they're mid range. They can get to

642
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 2: the hoop. Nothing fancy, just it's kind of like.

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Speaker 7: They just they just go about their business and both

644
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 7: our bucket gears. Don't get me wrong. People need to understand.

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Speaker 7: Remember Demarga Rosen when he was in Toronto. When he

646
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 7: was in Toronto, he was a straight bucket gear and

647
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,520
Speaker 7: again the whole trade for Kawhi and they would he

648
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 7: he just hasn't been on the national stage long enough

649
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 7: for people to understand that. But remember twenty seven thousand

650
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Speaker 7: points in the NBA. Yeah, I know you all need

651
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 7: to remember that, all right?

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Speaker 2: Who surpassed at a Bio? Yeah, Bam? Out of Bio's

653
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Speaker 2: eighty three points, who can?

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Speaker 5: Yes?

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Speaker 2: How many players do you think could get eighty four

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Speaker 2: points or more?

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Speaker 7: I think Luca could, I believe ant Man could. I

658
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 7: believe a Jason Tatum could. But things will have to

659
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 7: fall into place. And again, I know you and I

660
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 7: were probably gonna go there on this conversation with Bam.

661
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 7: I talked about this Sunday night about Spolstra and Bam.

662
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:40,440
Speaker 7: The criticism kind of taken for how they got to

663
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 7: the eighty three. You're a shooter, you were a scorer, Theodore,

664
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Speaker 7: and I want Paully as I'm talking to look this up.

665
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 7: If you got thirty one at the end of one,

666
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 7: if you got forty three at halftime, I believe he

667
00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 7: had seventy early in the fourth, Am, I correct on.

668
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,480
Speaker 2: That Wally in sixty four after three.

669
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 7: Yet sixty four after three seventy with l like nine

670
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:12,400
Speaker 7: or ten minutes left in the fourth, are you kidding me?

671
00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 7: You have to at least attempt to go for it

672
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 7: by any means necessary.

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00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:23,880
Speaker 2: Well, at that point, you can't accidentally get sixty four.

674
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 2: You can't do it in a gimmicky way. Right he

675
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:28,759
Speaker 2: didn't do that, and that.

676
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 7: He didn't There was no gimmicks to the sixty four.

677
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:36,839
Speaker 7: So now from sixty four to eighty three, that's where

678
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:38,800
Speaker 7: he gets a little murky or muddy.

679
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 5: But I do not care.

680
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 7: I know in the fourth he was only like one

681
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 7: of six from the field, and most of those points

682
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:44,840
Speaker 7: came from the free throw line.

683
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 2: Correct, Yeah, I have no problem with you know, the

684
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 2: Wizards are the ones who should be embarrassed.

685
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 3: Thank you, not bad.

686
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:53,360
Speaker 2: I'm out of bio.

687
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 7: Thank you, thank you.

688
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 2: Okay, Now I did ask him this. I said, did

689
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:02,160
Speaker 2: you think about stopping eighty one because your idol Kobe

690
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:07,359
Speaker 2: had eighty one? He said no, no, because Kobe would

691
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 2: want me to k for now it was reversed Kobe's

692
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:12,040
Speaker 2: blowing by eighty one.

693
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 7: And people think, you know, when I said that that

694
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 7: I was hating on Cold. I would never hate on

695
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:24,759
Speaker 7: Kobe and his accomplishment. It uplifts that performance to me.

696
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:30,279
Speaker 7: It uplifts what Kobe did him getting eighty three. I mean,

697
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 7: that's unbelievable for them to be one two. We're not

698
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:36,840
Speaker 7: gonna look at Kobe's eighty one and forget about it.

699
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 7: It was two totally different games. Kobe needed every one

700
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 7: of those eighty one. Yeah, in that performance versus Toronto

701
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 7: Vams was a little different. But in five, ten, fifteen,

702
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 7: are we even gonna be talking about that. We're just

703
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 7: gonna look at the stat sheet and say, oh my god,

704
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 7: damn that a Bio had eighty three kudos.

705
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 2: I know, come on, but as he said, he goes, look,

706
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:05,359
Speaker 2: I didn't fit the agenda because I said, why does

707
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 2: it feel like you have to apologize for getting eighty three?

708
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 2: And he said, because you don't expect me to get

709
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 2: those numbers, and therefore people have a problem with it,

710
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:16,880
Speaker 2: like he had to do it in a gimmicky way.

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00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 7: Right, and that's why you should almost reverse that. We

712
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,719
Speaker 7: should be celebrating him, like, oh my god, a guy

713
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:25,680
Speaker 7: that never ever gets the shine. It's been a great

714
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 7: defensive player, a great team guy, reboundered defender, has a

715
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:35,799
Speaker 7: lot of gold at the Olympics for our nation. We

716
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 7: should be celebrating Bam like this is great. I don't

717
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:42,280
Speaker 7: care how you got it. Bam, congratulations, because you'll probably

718
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 7: never ever have. His career high was what forty one

719
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 7: time once? Yeah, so why can't we celebrate. I don't

720
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 7: care how he got it.

721
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 2: He got it, okay, but we'lebrate that too. I always

722
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:56,879
Speaker 2: thought if you were going to beat Kobe's you had

723
00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:58,840
Speaker 2: to be able to shoot the three. You had to

724
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:01,280
Speaker 2: be ball dominant, you had to be able to create

725
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:03,879
Speaker 2: your shot, and the game had to be close, had

726
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:08,319
Speaker 2: to be competitive. And so I see Luca as a

727
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:10,279
Speaker 2: guy who could go for that.

728
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:12,760
Speaker 3: I can't.

729
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,479
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, he's got the talent to do it.

730
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:19,280
Speaker 7: Aunt like Tatum shoots enough threes.

731
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,759
Speaker 2: Like, but you have to want to do that. You

732
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 2: have to have a coach who lets you do that.

733
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 2: You don't go out on the floor and go I'm

734
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 2: putting up seventy tonight. You just get into a rhythm

735
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:32,920
Speaker 2: where you go, all right, I got a good game going.

736
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:36,239
Speaker 7: Look and also too, and I saw this. You know,

737
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:40,400
Speaker 7: Kobe at one time had a sixty point through three

738
00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:43,839
Speaker 7: and was up big and he shut out, sat out. Yeah,

739
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:47,319
Speaker 7: play Thompson had the same thing. He has sixty through

740
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:51,080
Speaker 7: three and was sat out. I think a young Stephan

741
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:53,919
Speaker 7: Curry a twenty eight year old Stephan Curry, not thirty eight.

742
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 7: I think a twenty eight year old Stephan Curry in

743
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 7: today's game, the way everyone's you know, how he the

744
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:06,919
Speaker 7: way he approached the game, could get eighty four.

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00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 3: It's just crazy.

746
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:12,320
Speaker 7: It is crazy. It's crazy.

747
00:38:12,719 --> 00:38:15,759
Speaker 2: But you look at the point totals. Reg teams get

748
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:17,000
Speaker 2: one thirty and lose.

749
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 7: Do you remember in the nineties and early two thousands

750
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 7: coach is saying, we can't give up thirty point quarters.

751
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:28,040
Speaker 7: Thirty point quarters, that's you got four minutes left in

752
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:28,839
Speaker 7: the first.

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00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 2: That's what standard practice. Now standard now, well, for a

754
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:34,879
Speaker 2: while was first team to one hundred, our first team

755
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:35,879
Speaker 2: to ninety.

756
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 7: Lawler's law, right, let's do one hundred.

757
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:39,920
Speaker 2: That was that was banned.

758
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 7: Now it's nothing.

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00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 2: It's a nightly Basis Caves and the Bucks eight Eastern

760
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,759
Speaker 2: on NBC and Peacock. Thank you, Reggie. Good luck to

761
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:53,560
Speaker 2: your UCLA Bruins in the tournament's men's and women.

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00:38:55,480 --> 00:39:00,920
Speaker 7: For the Bruins men's and women's, let's do it.

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00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 2: That's Reggie Miller, the Hall of Famer