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Speaker 1: The Jazz are the hottest team in the NBA, and

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Speaker 1: I'm not afraid to talk about them. New York is

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Speaker 1: And someone's gonna have to take the crown from the

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Speaker 1: king because he's not giving it away. Hey, I'm Tasmelis,

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Speaker 1: and this is what you need to know in the

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Speaker 1: NBA for Friday, January twenty second. Play some of those

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Speaker 1: sweet sweet horns JD because the Utah Jazz are playing

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Speaker 1: some sweet sweet music of their own right now. Seven

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Speaker 1: wins in a row. After starting the season four and four,

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Speaker 1: they're now up to eleven and four, tied for second

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Speaker 1: in the Western Conference. Latest win against the Pelicans in

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Speaker 1: the second game of a baseball doubleheader, and that makes

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Speaker 1: it all the more impressive that they're able to pull

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Speaker 1: away in the third quarter and never look back. Usually,

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Speaker 1: you know in a doubleheader a team will come back

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Speaker 1: in the second game. But these Jazz are for real

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Speaker 1: right now, and people question, Hey, we've seen this before

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Speaker 1: with the Utah Jazz. Last year they won ten in

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Speaker 1: a row, they won fourteen to fifteen, and then first

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Speaker 1: round of the playoffs they're up three to one against

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Speaker 1: the Denver Nuggets and they lost that series. But I

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Speaker 1: think this is a different team. On Thursday night, you

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Speaker 1: saw Donovan Mitchell fantastic performance. Thirty six points, seven rebounds,

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Speaker 1: five assists, doing more of everything. Career high and assists.

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Speaker 1: Nine to threes a game is what he's shooting this year.

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Speaker 1: He's really expanding his game. That really helps out Rudy

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Speaker 2: He's growing.

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Speaker 1: He's in year four, he's only twenty four years old,

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Speaker 1: and I think the team is going to follow his lead,

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Speaker 1: and they have been this year. Jordan Clarkson his best year,

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Speaker 1: the leading six Man of the Year candidate, Mike Conley

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Speaker 1: playing alongside Donvid Mitchell, and that starting lineup looks way

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Speaker 1: more comfortable in year two here with the Jazz Boy

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Speaker 1: and Bogdanovic is back healthy. He's an incredible score, could

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Speaker 1: score twenty a game. He's coming around those screens. The

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Speaker 1: top seven offense. I think they are growing. I think

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Speaker 1: they are better. But there was some controversy after this

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Speaker 1: game because the TNT crew was questioning whether or not

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Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell is good enough whether or not he is

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Speaker 1: a superstar caliber player, and people, well, they were very

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Speaker 1: upset with Shaq talking to him this way after the game.

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Speaker 2: By the visit is Shack, I said tonight that you

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Speaker 2: are one of my favorite players, but you don't have

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Speaker 2: what it takes to get to the next level. I send

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Speaker 2: it on purpose. I want you to hear it. What

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Speaker 2: do you have to say about that? Right, that's it.

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Speaker 2: That's it, that's it. Okay, cool, I want you to

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Speaker 2: hear it. I've been here. I've been hearing that since

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Speaker 2: my rookie year. You know, I'm just gonna get better

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Speaker 2: and I do good at the end of the day. Well,

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Speaker 2: that's what I wanted you to hear you to say.

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Speaker 1: Another daring brother, Twitter was angry, articles were written. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't just a few eggs, so I thought I should

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Speaker 1: address it. Here's my take. That is Shack's method of motivation,

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Speaker 1: questioning players, Hey, you good enough, You're gonna be better,

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Speaker 1: and players take to it. You can hear Donovan Mitchell. First,

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Speaker 1: he giggles when Shack says, Hey, it's Shack because he

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Speaker 1: I appreciate that. That's the benefit of having Hall of

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Speaker 1: Fame players on the broadcast. Players will always listen even

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Speaker 1: when they're being questioned, even when their greatness is being questioned.

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Speaker 1: So as far as people's anger goes, I think people

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Speaker 1: are conflating combining the fact that quite often Shack Chuck,

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Speaker 1: it's clear they don't watch a lot of NBA games.

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Speaker 1: They watch the games that are on their network, Chuck

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Speaker 1: watches games elsewhere, but they're not entirely, you know, up

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Speaker 1: day to day, from week to week. Donovan Mitchell is

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Speaker 1: clearly growing. He's in year four, his team is getting better.

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Speaker 1: He's not a finished package twenty four years of age.

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Speaker 1: His team, as I explained, is looking great behind him.

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Speaker 1: So the anger I think comes from, hey, celebrate this game,

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Speaker 1: is with Utah Jazz is Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the New York next. They are eight

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Speaker 1: He had nine assists in this game to go along

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Speaker 1: was happy when Draymond Green was ejected. We'll get to

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Speaker 1: but he's getting steadier. He had a career high twenty

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Speaker 1: him going. Alec Burks is back for this team off

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Speaker 1: the bench. They need that scoring. Obi Toppin only playing

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Speaker 1: their sights. Let's get to that. Draymond Green ejection because

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Speaker 1: The go back up the floor and Green yells at him.

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Speaker 1: He either says front that, which would be weird. You

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Speaker 1: at him, while Steve Kerr was told at half by

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Speaker 1: Kendra Andrews let us know that without Draymond Green in

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Speaker 1: the second half, the Warriors were lost both defensively and offensively.

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Speaker 1: Or Draymond Green basically runs the point for them. Bob Fitzgerald,

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Speaker 1: Moving on to the last game, Lakers and the Bucks,

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Speaker 1: it was supposed to be a finals preview, but the

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Speaker 1: More in the Bucks in a second, got to talk

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Speaker 1: surprised by Lebron's teams. You know, after winning a championship

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Speaker 1: raining down on the Bucks forty four percent shooting by

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Speaker 1: switches on the perimeter. The players are confident. Lebron says,

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Speaker 1: I can beat anybody out here when he gets a

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Speaker 1: big switched on were Montrez Harrald and the posts saying

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Speaker 1: Huge question minor trade here in the association. The Cavs

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Speaker 1: promising things. I really like watching that lefty play last year.

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Speaker 1: Those charges were later dropped, but he hasn't taken the

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Speaker 1: That's it for me. Make sure you tune into the

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Speaker 1: Drop today where we will pick our awards for the

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Speaker 1: first a month of the NBA season. Should be a last.

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Speaker 1: I will be back Monday to give you the news

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Speaker 1: as fast as I possibly can. I'll see then