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Speaker 1: twenty three twenty four season. As we break down our
Speaker 1: Central Division expectations and more with writer EP hosts Josiah
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Speaker 1: Josiah Johnson, welcome back to the pod Man. It's been
Speaker 1: too long, but it's great.
Speaker 2: To have you back.
Speaker 6: It has been a minute since we've gotten up in it,
Speaker 6: but happy to be back on here. With you guys,
Speaker 6: and hope everything's been well with y'all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so well, just so well. As a Sixer fan,
Speaker 3: so well, man.
Speaker 6: You know, I was in Philly recently, uh, talked to
Speaker 6: a lot of Uber drivers. That's where I get a
Speaker 6: lot of my perspective from from general fans. Yeah, we're
Speaker 6: not as excited as I was expecting them to be
Speaker 6: about the sixer squad, but hopefully, uh that changes.
Speaker 1: That seems like a Philly sports fan thing generally.
Speaker 6: Right, It's like they were they were down a little bit.
Speaker 6: I'm like, damn, you got all these people and be
Speaker 6: has always heard finished. I'm like, all right, well, okay, wow,
Speaker 6: it could.
Speaker 2: Be it could be worse.
Speaker 5: Could be that they're already on the PG can't finish.
Speaker 5: We haven't even watched him playing in there, Like he
Speaker 5: could be stronger around the rim, taking like.
Speaker 6: Three photos in his new uniform already. It's like, all right,
Speaker 6: let him let him shoot our jumper, okay.
Speaker 2: Right right, yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: But I guess before we get into the Central Division stuff,
Speaker 1: a lot of so much movement. Just from the last
Speaker 1: time we recorded, we were like, oh yeah, the Nickson
Speaker 1: was doing pretty good. Then they acquired Karl Anthony Towns
Speaker 1: in exchange for Julius Randall, Dante DiVincenzo and a first
Speaker 1: round pick. So Kat is now in the garden. I
Speaker 1: was a fan just with you know, McCall bridges. But
Speaker 1: now Kat seems like something to get even more excited about.
Speaker 1: But did the Timberwolves make a mistake here? What are
Speaker 1: they getting back exactly?
Speaker 6: The interesting thing to me is we had heard this
Speaker 6: trade rumor for a while, right, this wasn't really news.
Speaker 6: Anybody heard that the Knicks and the Timberwolves were in
Speaker 6: discutcheons and working on a potential deal.
Speaker 2: You got two caa client.
Speaker 6: So for me to hear that Kat didn't know it
Speaker 6: was kind of blindsided by this whole situation. A little
Speaker 6: surprising to me. But Woje retired. Who knows where the
Speaker 6: information is coming from nowadays?
Speaker 5: I didn't believe this or I needed it sourced by more.
Speaker 5: I personally called woj the first can't be true?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 2: Can show voicemailed or.
Speaker 6: Did he respond? It seems like he's retired his thumbs
Speaker 6: for the receivable future?
Speaker 3: Yeah, your text went green.
Speaker 1: You're like, oh he changed phones?
Speaker 2: Huh?
Speaker 6: I think look the thing that we had talked about
Speaker 6: with this Nick squad, all the players they got Og
Speaker 6: was signing.
Speaker 2: You know, Randall was kind of that that wild card.
Speaker 6: Obviously they didn't have to sign him until the summer,
Speaker 6: I believe with the extension, but you know, run the
Speaker 6: risk of making him unhappy. So they needed big Hardenstein
Speaker 6: going to the Thunder. They needed to kind of fill
Speaker 6: that void Mitch Robinson, you know, no telling kind of
Speaker 6: injury situation where he's at. So bringing in a guy
Speaker 6: like Kat you know, a guy to stretch five who
Speaker 6: can shoot the three, not a traditional center, but can
Speaker 6: guard big to kind of fill that void, fill that role.
Speaker 6: I think it was a good move on their part.
Speaker 6: You know, you start to hear the rumblings in the
Speaker 6: stories that maybe not all the Nova Knicks were as
Speaker 6: happy as they should be or could be reuniting and
Speaker 6: playing on the squad. There is only a finite amount
Speaker 6: of minutes to go around. As we know, Tibbs is
Speaker 6: notorious for running guys into the ground, so you know
Speaker 6: somebody was gonna be the odd man out. And you
Speaker 6: got a guy like Dante DiVincenzo, who set the three
Speaker 6: point record for the team last season, who was playing
Speaker 6: close to thirty minutes a game, think missed out on
Speaker 6: potential off season awards, so you know, had the potential
Speaker 6: to kind of be one of the odd mans out there.
Speaker 6: In addition to Josh Hart not getting the type of
Speaker 6: minutes that they were expecting, especially with that run last season,
Speaker 6: getting all the way to second round, coming in within
Speaker 6: a game of being in the Eastern Conference Finals, so
Speaker 6: you had to feel that you know, Bridges minutes were
Speaker 6: accounted for. Obviously, Jalen Brunt's minutes were accounted for. You
Speaker 6: got og Randall at that point who would have been
Speaker 6: the four, and then you know Mitchell Robinson who had
Speaker 6: been the five. Some of those guys were gonna get
Speaker 6: the minutes they were supposed to. So now you hear
Speaker 6: these stories, these rumblings that DiVincenzo wasn't necessarily is happy
Speaker 6: as the rest of those Nova Knicks with that move.
Speaker 6: So he gets an opportunity. I don't think it's gonna
Speaker 6: be necessarily much of an improvement for him going to
Speaker 6: this Timberwolf squad world likely be the sixth man coming
Speaker 6: off the bench. But I think both teams obviously, and
Speaker 6: you hear the reports that you know, no way the
Speaker 6: timbers Wolves would have been able to keep paying.
Speaker 2: Kat his salary, and you know, just with the new
Speaker 2: salary cap rules and all that stuff.
Speaker 6: So both those guys move, Kat gets to come to
Speaker 6: New York, they get the five that they've been looking
Speaker 6: for coveting. So I'm curious to see a little more
Speaker 6: confused from the Timberwolf side, just in terms of all
Speaker 6: the success that they had last season. You know, again
Speaker 6: as far as they got being on the precipice of
Speaker 6: going to the NBA Finals and kind of coming to
Speaker 6: his own but even as we all saw, you know,
Speaker 6: it was Ant's team now, Kat was taking a back seat,
Speaker 6: whether he wanted to or not. So it's gonna be
Speaker 6: interesting to see how this all plays out. Very curious
Speaker 6: see how Julius Randall worked with that lineup. Obviously Gobert
Speaker 6: the summer that he had not being utilized by France
Speaker 6: as much as I'm sure he would have liked in
Speaker 6: the Olympics.
Speaker 2: Curious to see how he comes back often.
Speaker 6: Winning that fourth Defensive Player of the Year award, and
Speaker 6: with all of just the talk nowadays about his defense
Speaker 6: being extremely suspect in him not being as reliable defender
Speaker 6: as we all like to pretend to defensive player of
Speaker 6: the Year should be. But it'd be interesting to see
Speaker 6: how both these teams react. I'm sure the Nuggets are
Speaker 6: extremely happy with this move, in addition to other teams
Speaker 6: in the Western Conference.
Speaker 2: But look, at the end of the day, we'll see
Speaker 2: how it plays out.
Speaker 6: These guys have a little bit of time now in
Speaker 6: training camp to kind of figure all these things out
Speaker 6: before they roll the balls down the regular season.
Speaker 5: I personally love this trend of teams just serving up
Speaker 5: all star players to Atlantic Division teams that address a
Speaker 5: huge need, like the Celtics got it last offseason. Now
Speaker 5: the Knicks just like kind of mind boggling trades that
Speaker 5: make Atlantic Division teams.
Speaker 3: Way way better. I would take one. As a Sixers fan,
Speaker 3: I think I think you.
Speaker 2: Guys got enough.
Speaker 6: Man, you guys, you guys creeped up on a come
Speaker 6: up this off But it's crazy to me to see
Speaker 6: that Go Bear trade and everything that was given up
Speaker 6: in that Go Bear trade, and now you see the
Speaker 6: Cat trade and it's like like all they got was
Speaker 6: Randall Devin chinz One. Obviously, that Piston's pick, which will
Speaker 6: more than likely prove to be extremely valuable in this
Speaker 6: heavily loaded draft coming up in twenty twenty five, But
Speaker 6: it's confusing to me. It's like I never understood NFL trades,
Speaker 6: and this is one of those trades where like I
Speaker 6: just I can't wrap my head around it. But you know,
Speaker 6: NFL they'll trade a future Hall of Famer for like
Speaker 6: a fourth round pick, and I'm just always how does
Speaker 6: that make sense at all?
Speaker 2: But what do I know?
Speaker 1: It's like the kind of stuff if this was finance,
Speaker 1: you'd be like, are they doing money laundering? This does
Speaker 1: it makeup? But I don't know how, but it's something.
Speaker 3: Something else must be going on.
Speaker 5: Cat and TIBs are also a fun subplot, like how
Speaker 5: Cat fits in on a TIBs team.
Speaker 3: To quote the name of my favorite movie.
Speaker 5: Something's gotta give here because they're not a perfect fit,
Speaker 5: so be interesting to see see.
Speaker 2: You're a fan of quality cinema, so I respect.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we also got to see Spurs media Day.
Speaker 1: It was nice to see Wemby. I guess put on
Speaker 1: twenty five pounds. He was two ten, but I guess
Speaker 1: on media day listened at two thirty five. We saw
Speaker 1: the shoulders, We saw the shoulders. A lot of yeah, photo. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: and also standing side by side with Chris Paul and
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, yeah, okay, that makes sense when someone
Speaker 1: is like, what nearly like fourteen inches taller than you,
Speaker 1: that's what it's going to look like.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It truly looks like a child.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I know right, it looks like someone was like, oh,
Speaker 1: who won the sweepstake to be able to meet Wemby
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh no, that's Chris Paul. Lakers Media
Speaker 1: Day also happened, which I'm just got to keep an
Speaker 1: eye on on my Lakers just to know what to expect.
Speaker 1: I mean, ruly, Hachimur was saying, look, JJ wants him,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe throwing it up, throwing up some more
Speaker 1: threes this time around. I mean yeah, when he's when
Speaker 1: he's on his game, he that is something that can
Speaker 1: be useful. Lebron, you know, was talking about I think
Speaker 1: the thing that he said was the Olympics made him
Speaker 1: realize just how much more he has in the tank.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, oh, okay, very scary.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's potential music to my ears. We had Dangela
Speaker 1: Russell also saying like, you know, I'm a little more
Speaker 1: mature now, I'm dabbling in something called accountability this season,
Speaker 1: which I think could be something new for me and
Speaker 1: I always welcome that. And then obviously, like, yeah, Polink
Speaker 1: is also talking up Christy Austin Reeves what these guys
Speaker 1: can bring now, I mean, if true, that would be
Speaker 1: what the Lakers do need to really kind of begin
Speaker 1: to go a little bit further this year. But yeah, Jack,
Speaker 1: you tired of talking about the Lakers? Does anything change
Speaker 1: for you after seeing what JJ Reddicks starting five is
Speaker 1: because it looks so different from.
Speaker 3: Any all of these stories from media Day.
Speaker 5: Huge if true, this is going to be massive if
Speaker 5: Lebron suddenly, just by playing really well in the Olympics
Speaker 5: is suddenly able to play really well across eighty two
Speaker 5: games in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: But I don't know.
Speaker 5: I'm getting the way I'm getting because the Lakers are
Speaker 5: my favorite team on the you know, I'm a Lebron
Speaker 5: stand good man.
Speaker 3: The thing that's getting me excited is.
Speaker 5: Just the further we get away from that Warriors championship
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty two, the more like kind of weird
Speaker 5: and miraculous. It appears like they were just like, let's
Speaker 5: be good again for a year let's just like take
Speaker 5: it up a notch and with like kind of the
Speaker 5: same ingredients and like Jordan Poole is better, and you
Speaker 5: know our three like is just suddenly better and never again,
Speaker 5: you know, and Wiggins, like Wiggins is suddenly just like
Speaker 5: takes it up and on. So that was like some
Speaker 5: weird alchemy that happened with a team that had some
Speaker 5: great players on it that nobody was really expecting that
Speaker 5: from and they were able to put it together with
Speaker 5: just kind of smoking mirrors and an amazing season from
Speaker 5: some of their best players. So maybe why that's what's
Speaker 5: giving me Lakers hope. Yeah, and ESPN, if you want
Speaker 5: to buy that storyline off of me to justify like
Speaker 5: covering the Lakers in every show the need the next
Speaker 5: ten years, you can come get me.
Speaker 2: So I'm agree with you. Super supportive of this Lakers squad. Obviously.
Speaker 6: What's concerning is Lebron entering year twenty two coming off
Speaker 6: a full Olympic summer slate. You know, some some tough
Speaker 6: games in those Olympic competition, just to see where his
Speaker 6: bodies at were his mind's at ad as well. Guys
Speaker 6: that have had traditionally during their time in the Purple
Speaker 6: and Gold dealt with injury issues, so how their bodies
Speaker 6: hold up, how they maintained throughout the season. Good to
Speaker 6: see JJ Reddick is already coming in with the right mentality,
Speaker 6: right game plan in terms of a starting five. That
Speaker 6: crew that went twenty three and ten last season took
Speaker 6: Darvinham I think what close to fifty games to finally
Speaker 6: realize that this might be the crew I want to
Speaker 6: roll out and run with. You know, a little concern
Speaker 6: with Jared Vanderbilt kind of where he's at. It seems
Speaker 6: like this has gone on far too long, and you know,
Speaker 6: now you've had a whole summer and offseason to get
Speaker 6: back right and still you know, having foot issues and
Speaker 6: things like that.
Speaker 2: But excited for this team. I think.
Speaker 6: You know, the Western Conference is obviously extremely tough, hard
Speaker 6: to get wins on that side. A lot of teams
Speaker 6: on that side got significantly better, some of those teams
Speaker 6: did not, And you know, we'd love to see this
Speaker 6: Lakers team put it together. Lebron and Ad coming off
Speaker 6: that gold medal. Obviously Brianni James providing this inspiration to Lebron.
Speaker 6: He doesn't want to play bad in front of his son,
Speaker 6: in front of his namesake to help motivate him to
Speaker 6: lead this team to success. And JJ Reddick student of
Speaker 6: the game, extremely intelligent, first coaching Foray though, so he's
Speaker 6: going to have a lot of bumps along that road
Speaker 6: just as he gets more experience learns with that position entails.
Speaker 6: And as you gentlemen know, Lakers nation very unforgiving, so
Speaker 6: you know there'll be not a ton of room. That
Speaker 6: honeymoon will be over rather quickly. I remember when Westbrook
Speaker 6: came and he had like something like fifteen turnovers in
Speaker 6: those first two preseason games. Mood quickly shifted. So you know,
Speaker 6: JJ Ridick is on the hot seat already. As you
Speaker 6: guys know, Laker fandom requires anybody can get it at
Speaker 6: any moment at any time. But give him a little grace,
Speaker 6: a little time to figure these things out. But you'd
Speaker 6: like to see him out the gate, you know, start hot,
Speaker 6: start strong. That's kind of been different than previous years
Speaker 6: where we're playing catch up in the last fifteen twenty
Speaker 6: games of the season, trying to struggle even to be
Speaker 6: a playing team. You want this team to really be
Speaker 6: locked in, motivated and give us optimism and hope. Hopefully
Speaker 6: closer to that twenty twenty season as opposed to some
Speaker 6: of the seasons after that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so so.
Speaker 1: You know the right now, the odds have the Lakers
Speaker 1: at around forty three and a half wins this season. Josiah,
Speaker 1: you're taking the over or the under on that.
Speaker 6: I'm always taking the over, never doubt Lebron Raymond James senr.
Speaker 6: Like I said, he's got a son in namesake with him.
Speaker 6: He's going to make sure that Broni's rookie season the
Speaker 6: NBA is fruitful, productive. I think the squad is going
Speaker 6: to rally behind each other. Obviously fans were extremely critical
Speaker 6: of Darvingham. Some of that justifiable, But I think JJ
Speaker 6: is going to come in, locked in and really have
Speaker 6: a different, unique approach, really instill some more life. And
Speaker 6: you know, you hear the reports after coach Ham got
Speaker 6: fired that, you know, some riffs, some tension amongst the
Speaker 6: other guys. We saw throughout the season last year, guys
Speaker 6: not wanting to dap them up during games, some questionable
Speaker 6: things written on the clicking ard as he's trying to
Speaker 6: put the motivated, like what's really going on here? But
Speaker 6: I think this squad is going to be locked in,
Speaker 6: motivated for success. And you know, as long as Lebron
Speaker 6: thinks he wants to play, we're getting close to that
Speaker 6: point where his career is gonna, you know, eventually end
Speaker 6: at some point in the near future. So I think
Speaker 6: he wants to go out swinging and hopefully the rest
Speaker 6: of the squad will follow his lead.
Speaker 5: One note, JJ needs to either start developing male pattern
Speaker 5: baldness or just go full slick back like pat Riley
Speaker 5: because his hair remains too good. Yeah, it remains too
Speaker 5: good to be a successful NBA coach.
Speaker 2: Project pack to the back.
Speaker 1: I hope that Bronni is what inspires Lebron to do
Speaker 1: his best. May he be Ac Green's beanie baby of
Speaker 1: good luck that got us a chip. That's what Bronny
Speaker 1: can be for Lebron this season.
Speaker 6: I need him to both dunk on Gobert, give me
Speaker 6: that kne Griffy senior junior back to back dingers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I will be right exactly.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's take a quick break and we'll come
Speaker 1: back to take a look at the Central Division right
Speaker 1: after this and we're back. So the Central Division, you know,
Speaker 1: we're looking at the bucks, Pacers, calves, Bulls Pistons. I
Speaker 1: think we'll just let's just kick it off up top
Speaker 1: with the Bucks. They won forty nine games last year.
Speaker 1: They're projected with fifty and a half wins according to
Speaker 1: fan Duel. You know, big changes that obviously lost the NASAs.
Speaker 1: I think that's a huge thing that people aren't talking
Speaker 1: about enough. Terrible injury that he had Malik Beasley, Pat Bev,
Speaker 1: Jay Crowder, but added Gary Trent Junior, Torrian Prince and others.
Speaker 1: But you know, also Chris Middleton had double ankle surgery,
Speaker 1: both ankles surgerized. That sounds like that sounds like something
Speaker 1: hard to come back from, especially someone that's as key
Speaker 1: as Chris Middleton. And then the Dame and Yonnie of
Speaker 1: it all is really interesting too because they apparently they
Speaker 1: did not work out together at all over the offseason,
Speaker 1: and you know, most times when players come in late
Speaker 1: before the season, a lot of it is like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, they didn't have much time to gel before
Speaker 1: the season started in this, that and the other, and
Speaker 1: maybe that's why we're not seeing the most out of it.
Speaker 1: But do either of you read heavily into that little
Speaker 1: detail of not playing together at all, or is that
Speaker 1: maybe not the most important thing going into this next
Speaker 1: season for them.
Speaker 6: For me, I think it's really where Damon's headspace is
Speaker 6: at coming in this year. I think for him, making
Speaker 6: that transition from Portland and Milwaukee last year was a
Speaker 6: lot tougher off the court.
Speaker 2: You know, and he alluded to a lot of that
Speaker 2: interviews and things that he did. It's a hard transition
Speaker 2: to make.
Speaker 6: My father, Marcus Johnson, was was drafted by the Bucks
Speaker 6: out of UCLA, speaks candidly about some of those cold
Speaker 6: Milwaukee winners when he first got there and kind of
Speaker 6: just a shell shock and not being able to handle
Speaker 6: those situations off the floor. But a little concerning to
Speaker 6: know that Jannis and Dame, you know, now, if we
Speaker 6: would have came in immediate day and Giannis like, yeah, man,
Speaker 6: you know, we were inseparable, We were working our butts
Speaker 6: off just to develop chemistry in the gym, did not happen. Obviously,
Speaker 6: those guys are both high level, elite players, been in
Speaker 6: the league a long time. I think what year twelve
Speaker 6: for Gianni's maybe year fourteen or fifteen for Dame.
Speaker 2: I forget where he's at right now.
Speaker 6: But their NBA vets, their pros are all stars obviously,
Speaker 6: you know they're they're all NBA level players, so that adjustment.
Speaker 2: Should be a little bit quicker.
Speaker 6: Obviously, the Doc River situation, you know, Jack, as you
Speaker 6: know just from your Sixers fandom, is a little concerning,
Speaker 6: just depending on you know, how he approaches this season
Speaker 6: and kind of his reputation and track record in clutching
Speaker 6: key moments aside from that Celtics championship.
Speaker 2: But I like the crew.
Speaker 6: I like their offseason moves, and for me, it's just
Speaker 6: so crazy to see with this new CBA and just
Speaker 6: kind of the salary cap issues the guys who would
Speaker 6: have traditionally made a lot of money potentially in other
Speaker 6: lower smaller market teams or other places, or not small
Speaker 6: market teams. Obviously the Bucks are one, but you know,
Speaker 6: lower level teams in the league taking these one year
Speaker 6: kind of prove it deals at this point in their career.
Speaker 6: Like you mentioned, they got Torrian Prince, Gary Trent Junior,
Speaker 6: two guys, and I'm you know, Toyan was kind of
Speaker 6: hit or miss with the Lakers last season, But I think,
Speaker 6: you know, it's funny. Malik Beasley's kind of similar situation
Speaker 6: goes to Milwaukee and ends up being one of the
Speaker 6: best three point shooters in the league. So without the pressure,
Speaker 6: without kind of the hype of playing in Hollywood, I
Speaker 6: think it'll it'll ease off of him and he'll be
Speaker 6: allowed to to do a lot more things. But also
Speaker 6: it got like Delone Wright, another LA guy who you know,
Speaker 6: just a solid pickup for this crew. The Chris Middleton
Speaker 6: thing for me is concerning we haven't really seen a
Speaker 6: healthy Middleton in a while. Like you know, you talk
Speaker 6: about big threes, you got the Big Three, Gianni's, Dame, Middleton,
Speaker 6: all of them have dealt with injury issues throughout the
Speaker 6: past year. So if those guys can come in somewhat healthy,
Speaker 6: they can pick up slack till Middleton is good to go.
Speaker 6: But just one of those situations, right, like you know,
Speaker 6: the Bucks for the longest time, you know, when Giannis
Speaker 6: is playing at a high level, MVP level was in
Speaker 6: the discussion last season obviously with what he was doing,
Speaker 6: but Dame making that adjustment now being a lot relied
Speaker 6: on a lot more on the defensive side.
Speaker 2: Just how they'll be able to handle that.
Speaker 6: You know, you got Juggernauts now and the Sixers Celtics
Speaker 6: knicks that have all gotten better.
Speaker 2: I don't think the Bucks comparatively.
Speaker 6: You know, there should be quite as much optimism as
Speaker 6: those other teams head into the season. But you do
Speaker 6: have Giannis, you do have freak time, you got a
Speaker 6: strong crew that's played with each other now for a
Speaker 6: number of years.
Speaker 2: So you know, I'm excited about the Bucks season.
Speaker 6: Obviously, my dad works for the team still, so can't
Speaker 6: be two inflammatory because I need those free tickets in the.
Speaker 2: Plug and I do put love to the full four.
Speaker 6: But you know, I got a lot of love for
Speaker 6: this crew, and I think if they can figure it out,
Speaker 6: stay reasonably healthy, all things considered this they would be
Speaker 6: competing for a top two spot in the East. Potentially
Speaker 6: could be throwing the Celtics, you know, just depending. Those
Speaker 6: guys have played a lot of basketball. But you know,
Speaker 6: Jaylen Brown and Tatum are coming in with chips on
Speaker 6: their shoulder, so I may be curtains for the rest
Speaker 6: of the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 3: Chips on their hands and their shoulders.
Speaker 2: Yeah, chips in more ways than one.
Speaker 3: Exactly has it.
Speaker 5: Ever happened before where like two players the chemistry is
Speaker 5: not quite there, and then they spend the off season
Speaker 5: together and like have like a friends shop montage and
Speaker 5: then yeah, like it happens in movies, and I feel
Speaker 5: like that's the only place that that narrative. Actually, it's
Speaker 5: just a thing that like sports writers want to be
Speaker 5: able to talk about. But right, like Dirk Novitski with
Speaker 5: his like skills coach, it's like we in the offseat
Speaker 5: and we learned how to canoe and play saxophone. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's actually that was was foundational to this turnaround we've
Speaker 5: we've had. Yeah, super producer Jabari mentioned Rocky three. I
Speaker 5: think that's where the only place we've seen it happen
Speaker 5: in athletics.
Speaker 1: With that wonderful as you pointed out, wonderful flingered in our.
Speaker 2: Minds, so we expect it from everybody.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, right, right, Yeah, Between Giannis and Dame, who's
Speaker 1: the one running like Rocky on the beach?
Speaker 3: I hope neither of. I mean maybe Chris Middleton with
Speaker 3: the double ankles, well hopefully not.
Speaker 1: Fifteen and a half wins, who's taking the over, who's
Speaker 1: taken under? How are we feeling here? Fifteen and a
Speaker 1: half forty nine last year?
Speaker 6: So a game and a half better, I think I'll
Speaker 6: take the over, but I wouldn't be super excited about it.
Speaker 6: But yeah, I think, yeah, I take the over barely,
Speaker 6: just if really Obviously, like you know, as the season
Speaker 6: goes on, health is going to be a factor. But
Speaker 6: sure like Giannis is coming in looking for revenge. You
Speaker 6: got you know, two first round exits, both you know,
Speaker 6: largely due to his injury concerns him also making question
Speaker 6: comments I think last summer about you know, you know,
Speaker 6: whether or not he would want to stay in Milwaukee.
Speaker 6: You hear the rumblings about Golden State, he's their dream
Speaker 6: player and all those things.
Speaker 2: But I think Giannis is gonna lock in.
Speaker 6: And you mentioned the NASA's being out, and look, I know,
Speaker 6: you know, the NASA's kind of but a lot of
Speaker 6: jokes in the NBA Twitter world, but this is a
Speaker 6: guy who always brings it, a guy who you can
Speaker 6: tell is excited, loves to play basketball, loves to watch
Speaker 6: his little brother shine and do those things, and an
Speaker 6: important guy in the locker room for a team. You know,
Speaker 6: when you're talking about high level athletes making a lot
Speaker 6: of money when things aren't going well, there's a tension
Speaker 6: for dissension and fracture.
Speaker 2: Amongst the unit.
Speaker 6: Where is the guy that's bringing everybody there, A guy
Speaker 6: that's just so excited, so motivated, so happy to be there,
Speaker 6: that I think his loss. You know, people are kind
Speaker 6: of making jokes about it, but I think it's going
Speaker 6: to be interesting to see just how that team. You
Speaker 6: need those strong, reliable bench guys at the end of
Speaker 6: the bench that are really happy to be there, because
Speaker 6: sometimes you get those teams with guys the end of
Speaker 6: the bench who are pissed off, bitter.
Speaker 2: Playing war. Yeah, and they lower the energy of the
Speaker 2: entire squad with the NASAs.
Speaker 6: He knows, damn well, he don't belong in this league,
Speaker 6: and obviously he's he's getting in the club on little
Speaker 6: brokes back. He's more Johnny Drama type, obviously letting Vince
Speaker 6: do do his thing. But it's gonna be interesting to
Speaker 6: see just how the team now responds.
Speaker 1: Yeah, i'd take the over too. I think I just
Speaker 1: I for just my love of Dame and like Giannis,
Speaker 1: I really want to see this work in the best
Speaker 1: way possible.
Speaker 5: But yeah, conduct's a great regular season coach, But yeah,
Speaker 5: I'd take the over two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's take a look over at the
Speaker 1: Pacers forty seven wins last year. They were predicted to
Speaker 1: reach forty seven and the half wins, so a half
Speaker 1: game better. Lost Doug McDermott and Jalen Smith, but added
Speaker 1: James Wiseman Cole Swider. I mean, this is pretty much
Speaker 1: the same team they really kept that team that went
Speaker 1: that went pretty far last season pretty much intact. Seemingly
Speaker 1: an advantage going into the season because you don't really
Speaker 1: hopefully you can just kind of carry that right into
Speaker 1: the beginning of the season. But is it sustainable? And
Speaker 1: the other I think a lot of the people who's
Speaker 1: thinking that the improvement's going to come is because you
Speaker 1: have a lot of guys who are yet hopefully yet
Speaker 1: to hit their prime, and that maybe that's where the
Speaker 1: boots comes from.
Speaker 2: Jack.
Speaker 1: You you looking at the Pacers, do you? What do
Speaker 1: you think? Over under here? What the forty seven and
Speaker 1: a half games?
Speaker 3: I mean, it's all about health. But if they if
Speaker 3: they stay healthy, I think over I like them to
Speaker 3: continue to progress.
Speaker 1: Right right, Josiah, what about you?
Speaker 6: I think with this crew, Halliburn obviously not getting the
Speaker 6: love on the Olympic squad again, another guy's going to
Speaker 6: come in with a chip on his shoulder, looking to
Speaker 6: elevate and approve off of a tremendous season last year.
Speaker 6: But keeping that crew together, Siakam guy like Miles Turner,
Speaker 6: Guys like Obi Topping, you know, Nie Smith, TJ McConnell,
Speaker 6: guys who showed up big in the postseason. And then
Speaker 6: you got got like Ben Matheren, who's coming in who's
Speaker 6: hurt last year. But I think a guy who's ready
Speaker 6: to come in and take that next step, next leap
Speaker 6: in his game. And for me, you know, Draymond made
Speaker 6: this point last year that they are an eighty two
Speaker 6: game team, not necessarily a sixteen game team. But this
Speaker 6: is a team in the regular season that I feel
Speaker 6: like we'll bring it, you know, night in and night out.
Speaker 6: Playing now in the shadow of Kaitlyn Clark, they know
Speaker 6: that they need to do something to distinct themselves and
Speaker 6: really kind of you know, get some of that attention
Speaker 6: back on their team and away from the fever. But yeah,
Speaker 6: this is a team. I think it will be a
Speaker 6: great regular season team. Don't think they'll have the same
Speaker 6: postseason success that they had last season, but this is
Speaker 6: definitely a fifty win ball club, So I would I
Speaker 6: would take the over on that.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, Well then the Calves now, yeah, I
Speaker 5: feel like very similar here. Calves are basically projected to
Speaker 5: do the exact sent there plus point five wins over
Speaker 5: where they were last season. A lot of similarities to
Speaker 5: last year's team. I'll probably take the under just because
Speaker 5: I don't have a reason to take the over.
Speaker 3: But what do you guys think, I mean.
Speaker 1: It seems like, you know, the like locking down Mitchell
Speaker 1: and Mobley and and and Jared Allen stuff, seems like
Speaker 1: that's that's precisely what you need. I think, you know,
Speaker 1: based on what I've heard my you know, I have
Speaker 1: like a friend who's a die hard Calves fan. He's like,
Speaker 1: it's the forward depth I'm worried about. I don't care
Speaker 1: about anything else with the forward depth. But I think
Speaker 1: at the same time, maintaining that core is I think
Speaker 1: the biggest advantage they got. So I feel, you know,
Speaker 1: they're sure there are concerns, but I think that's this
Speaker 1: is just you know, I think they're right about where
Speaker 1: they're going to be, so I would just take I'll
Speaker 1: take the over, but just barely, or maybe I'll take
Speaker 1: the under because every I don't know everything is getting
Speaker 1: so so tight now, but no, yeah.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm too positive of an individual, so you know,
Speaker 6: I believe in guys unwaveringly, especially a professional athlete. So
Speaker 6: I'm I'm probably go over with the squad. But for
Speaker 6: you know, you got a healthy Jared Allen hopefully coming back.
Speaker 6: You know, you got guys like Evan Mobley, you got
Speaker 6: guys like Strus who stepped up big time in their
Speaker 6: role were traditionally he guys when they go onward don't
Speaker 6: necessarily show that same level of production in their next destination.
Speaker 6: Maybe that's just a Lakers thing, but you know, I
Speaker 6: like this crew, like the squad bringing in a guy
Speaker 6: like Kenny Atkins. And I was a fan of j
Speaker 6: B Bigger staff, was sad to see him let go.
Speaker 6: But then you see the reports and stories about some
Speaker 6: some dissension amongst the ranks, especially at the star player level,
Speaker 6: and some of his coaching strategies. But I think guy
Speaker 6: like Kenny Atkins, and you know, a guy who comes
Speaker 6: from a championship lineage as an assistant coach, really will
Speaker 6: help revitalize the squad, get them where they need to be.
Speaker 6: And look, I know, for all the talk we talk
Speaker 6: about the Western Conference being as tough as it is.
Speaker 6: The East has made a lot of noise this offseting
Speaker 6: you got a lot of young teams that are ready
Speaker 6: to think about like the Orlando Magic, teams like that
Speaker 6: that are primed to, you know, make some big moves
Speaker 6: on this side. But a team like the Cavs is
Speaker 6: kind of always consistently in that fourth or fifth spot,
Speaker 6: kind of not necessarily under the radar, but not a
Speaker 6: team you really care about in terms of you talk
Speaker 6: about championship contenders. But again, another good regular season team
Speaker 6: and if they can stay healthy. You know, I feel
Speaker 6: like Cleveland's destination. When you go play there, you're not
Speaker 6: going to put your best foot forward just because you
Speaker 6: really don't have a reason to. So they're gonna be
Speaker 6: able to get a lot of wins at home, and
Speaker 6: I think that this team could could mess around and
Speaker 6: make some noise.
Speaker 1: All Right, Well, I guess let's just we'll keep moving
Speaker 1: on before we take a break. But yeah, the Bulls
Speaker 1: are the next squad. We're talking about thirty nine wins
Speaker 1: last year, they are taking a tumble. They're expected to
Speaker 1: win twenty seven and a half games. Makes sense. They
Speaker 1: lost Caruso via trade. Obviously Damar and Andre Drummond are out,
Speaker 1: but they picked up Josh Giddy, christ WARDI Talent, Horton Tucker,
Speaker 1: I have like I forgot about you, Sir, Jalen Smith,
Speaker 1: and Kenny Lofton Junior.
Speaker 3: Via the draft. Also, yeah, one of my favorite names
Speaker 3: my top yeah, was my favorite names to say.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean they're they're saying we're not taking
Speaker 1: this season. Man, They're They're looking to be competitive with
Speaker 1: their new additions.
Speaker 2: I'm also worried.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what's the Delonzo of it all?
Speaker 2: Too?
Speaker 1: I have a lot of questions about this Bulls team. So,
Speaker 1: I mean there's thirty nine going down to twenty seven
Speaker 1: and a half. Feel about right that?
Speaker 6: Hurst, Man, I think I think I would probably now
Speaker 6: because I know Bulls fans listening to this, I'm gonna
Speaker 6: be optimistic for them. In Chicago is a dangerous place
Speaker 6: as it is, so if I do have to step
Speaker 6: foot in the Windy City, I want to be respectful.
Speaker 2: I would go higher.
Speaker 6: But I think getting a guy like Josh Giddy who
Speaker 6: had to reduced rolling Okay, it was kind of getting
Speaker 6: pushed out last season. Getting a fresh star in Chicago.
Speaker 6: I think Bozellis is a guy. You know, I worked
Speaker 6: with Norris Cole on Gills Arena, and Bozellis was a
Speaker 6: guy that Norris was extremely high on. Norris extremely smart,
Speaker 6: intelligent player, but had opportunity to work with him in
Speaker 6: G League Ignite and just the dog in them. You know,
Speaker 6: even coming into this draft, I'm not ducking any phase.
Speaker 6: These guys don't want to play me one on one
Speaker 6: because they know I'm embarrass them. I think he had
Speaker 6: a solid summer league and he's a guy he's like
Speaker 6: a year or two away, but if he can, you know,
Speaker 6: lock in and be surprising in this rookie season, I
Speaker 6: think there's a potential there. And Lonzo for me, you know,
Speaker 6: being an LA guy, shout out to Chino Hills, a
Speaker 6: stones throwaway, just for everything that he's been through. You
Speaker 6: know how much he loves the game and where that
Speaker 6: team was at. And obviously it's a different new look
Speaker 6: Bulls team then that squad, but you know, before he
Speaker 6: got hurt a few years ago, it was one of
Speaker 6: the top teams in the East and was trending in
Speaker 6: the right direction.
Speaker 2: No telling how Lonzo's game is gonna look, how much time.
Speaker 6: He's going to need to get back or if he
Speaker 6: can't even return to the level of player that he
Speaker 6: was before he got hurt. But the real thing for
Speaker 6: me is Zach Levine just depending on how that situation goes.
Speaker 6: Obviously mentioned in tons of trade rumors, UH this past season,
Speaker 6: it was really you know, media day, just just listen
Speaker 6: to him talk obviously a three minute clip of him
Speaker 6: just just talking about how he's coming and inspired, and
Speaker 6: you know, you listen to the other reports that he
Speaker 6: had to convince the team that he's not going to
Speaker 6: be a detriment to the development of some of these
Speaker 6: young guys. But that's one of those things you know,
Speaker 6: you really don't want to say because if you have
Speaker 6: to say it, then that means that it's on their
Speaker 6: mind already, right, that's you know, so you know, if
Speaker 6: you know, it's just so for me with Zach, though
Speaker 6: he's a UCLA guy, looks different man. It looks like
Speaker 6: he's motivated, looks like he wants to prove some of
Speaker 6: the haters wrong, and just to be real, like, you know,
Speaker 6: he's up for an extension in the near future. So
Speaker 6: this is the guy that's playing for another contract, so
Speaker 6: I think he's going to want to pick up the
Speaker 6: slack of losing a guy of the magnitude of a
Speaker 6: Damar de Rosen. But I don't necessarily I'm not like
Speaker 6: down on this team per se, Like I know, you know,
Speaker 6: obviously people in Vegas are.
Speaker 2: But I think this squad, if they can lock in
Speaker 2: and get it together.
Speaker 6: They got a nice mix of young guys who are
Speaker 6: kind of creep on the come up in addition to
Speaker 6: some old vets. So really, for me, it's gonna be
Speaker 6: Lonzo zach Lavine. But I look at a guy like
Speaker 6: Kobe White and what he was able to do last season.
Speaker 6: They've got some guys here that can play again. Like,
Speaker 6: not a playoff caliber team I expect to make a run,
Speaker 6: but in the regular season I could see them sneaking
Speaker 6: in to that play especially in the Eastern Conference where
Speaker 6: it's a little bit more wide open than the West.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like twenty seven and a half feels a little harsh,
Speaker 1: but I get with some of the out meat spirit
Speaker 1: that way.
Speaker 5: But yeah, someone's gonna need to take all these l's,
Speaker 5: you know, with the teams of the top getting better, Like,
Speaker 5: someone's gonna need to lose some of the games that
Speaker 5: the other teams are winning the Central Division.
Speaker 2: You do have a team you have not mentioned yet.
Speaker 1: So yeah, but here's the thing. So the Detroit Pistons, right,
Speaker 1: fourteen wins last season. Now Fandel has them up eleven
Speaker 1: and a half games, one of the biggest rise or wins.
Speaker 1: That's a huge eleven and a half win game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: your favorite Tobias Harris Toby.
Speaker 5: Hey, I'm happy. I feel like he's gonna look great
Speaker 5: Pistons Jersey. Personally, I just like, I like that look
Speaker 5: for him. I don't know if it equates to wins, sure, sure, sure,
Speaker 5: but yeah, this is definitely a hard reset.
Speaker 1: So I'm not sure how much there is to say here,
Speaker 1: but for me, Dog, I think it's an under for me, Dog,
Speaker 1: as well as Randy Jackson would say when he talks
Speaker 1: about overs and unders. Okay, let's take a quick break.
Speaker 1: We're gonna come back with the fourth quarter rapid fire
Speaker 1: round of questioning with Josiah Johnson right after.
Speaker 3: This, and we're back.
Speaker 1: It does like, Man, it's so great to have you
Speaker 1: here as a fellow Bruin Angelino.
Speaker 2: I love having you on.
Speaker 1: But unfortunately this is the rapid fire round of questions.
Speaker 1: So you are in the hot seat and you've already
Speaker 1: played this game before, we're gonna ask you a question.
Speaker 1: Just respond quickly, your fastest response, because we've got to
Speaker 1: keep the questions moving. And that's just that's how this
Speaker 1: segment is known all across the land. So I hope
Speaker 1: you are ready for that.
Speaker 2: I'm long winded.
Speaker 6: So and I don't like following rules or directions, but
Speaker 6: in this particular case, I'll abandon.
Speaker 2: I will abandon all those things. Indeed, to your advice.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: You look you always understand the assignment. That's what we
Speaker 1: always appreciate about you.
Speaker 3: So, Brian, start the clock.
Speaker 1: Oh man, this is gonna be quinn Jack.
Speaker 3: You want to go first?
Speaker 2: Should I go first?
Speaker 3: I can go first, Myles, thanks for asking.
Speaker 2: Let's do it? Does I?
Speaker 5: You can sit courtside at either of the opening night games.
Speaker 5: Are you heading to Boston having some legal seafood in
Speaker 5: a bread ball to see them take on the new
Speaker 5: look Nick? Or are you heading to Los Angeles to
Speaker 5: see the Los Angeles Lakers face the new look Wolves
Speaker 5: while presumably munching on an in and out burger.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm a bigger gentleman, bigger gentleman. So I hate
Speaker 6: cross country travel do like Lobster Rolls was down on
Speaker 6: Boston until I got to hang out there.
Speaker 2: Got to go to a wedding in Cape Cod last year.
Speaker 6: So fan of the area again, like I said, fan
Speaker 6: of the lobs Rolls in the price point comparatively to LA.
Speaker 6: But I'm keeping my black behind in Los Angeles and
Speaker 6: I am going to the Lakers game against the Timberwolves.
Speaker 6: Obviously Minnesota Lakers now the LA Lakers. But looking at
Speaker 6: this new like Timberwolves squad, the squad with Lebron and Brownie,
Speaker 6: I would not miss opportunity to see Lebron and BRONI
Speaker 6: opening night Brinnie throwing a lob to Lebron d Wade style.
Speaker 2: I think we've set that whole building on fire and
Speaker 2: we own that crypto dot com arena.
Speaker 6: Now the Clippers have now since moved on to the
Speaker 6: into It Dome, So I would show my love and
Speaker 6: support to Lebron and the Lakers.
Speaker 1: Exactly exactly, That was the right answer, correct. Next question,
Speaker 1: you get to pick the next three locations for the
Speaker 1: All Star Game, and they could be anywhere, like truly
Speaker 1: literally anywhere.
Speaker 2: So where are you going.
Speaker 6: So, if I'm traveling to these games, I would say
Speaker 6: Hawaii Abiza Commony all Star weekend in the visa, and
Speaker 6: it's a nice enough price one where you could price
Speaker 6: out some of the riff. Yeah, dealing with poor weather,
Speaker 6: but I would go Hawaii dies, and then I would
Speaker 6: go obviously La, which I think we have it here
Speaker 6: next year. A little concerning though, traffic is already an
Speaker 6: issue in a bad stance, and they're getting ready for
Speaker 6: the Olympics too. But I think, you know, having the
Speaker 6: All Star Game back to back in California will be
Speaker 6: good news for all of us who had to go
Speaker 6: to Chicago, for all of us who had to go
Speaker 6: to Utah.
Speaker 2: But yeah, those would be my three.
Speaker 3: Picks, all right.
Speaker 5: And finally, we're playing pick up basketball with presidents. These
Speaker 5: presidents are at the peak of their physical abilities. Unfortunately
Speaker 5: for you, we had the first pick and just took Obama.
Speaker 5: Who are you taking with the second pick?
Speaker 2: Who had their peak of their physical powers and abilities?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll probably go George Washington, just because you know,
Speaker 6: crossing Delaware doing all the things.
Speaker 2: He did, he was about he was a tough guy,
Speaker 2: you know, ready to get in it.
Speaker 6: Abraham Lincoln looked like, you know, he could be a
Speaker 6: room protector, you know, really really help on on the
Speaker 6: post side.
Speaker 2: And how many presidents do I need to name? Or
Speaker 2: you just one? Yeah between those two.
Speaker 6: But if you took Obama and then I would maybe
Speaker 6: Trump too, just because I know he's trash, so it'd
Speaker 6: really helped my game flourish and shine.
Speaker 5: But yeah, like I'm passing out the way you actually
Speaker 5: get better when someone's game is terrible.
Speaker 2: He's wider, you can set a nice screen like there
Speaker 2: you go face.
Speaker 1: Oh man, Well, Joe, sorry, Johnathon, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: You have completed the rapid fire around and that was
Speaker 1: exactly correct. Those are all the right answers that we
Speaker 1: had written down. I think he's looking at the dock
Speaker 1: or something, but no more, he's just one of our
Speaker 1: more intelligent guests, which I think that's the case. Where
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