Speaker 1: Well, well, well, by the time you listen to this episode,
Speaker 1: the previously undefeated Calves we'll have based off with the
Speaker 1: Celtics in an early season showdown. Orlando is on a
Speaker 1: hot streak, six game winning streak, and you.
Speaker 2: Know, the Lakers not looking too bad as well.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a quick spin around the league with
Speaker 1: the Athletics Jason Jones on today's episode. That means I'm
Speaker 1: Miles Gray and.
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Speaker 1: Jason Jones over culture for the Idea's back and he's back,
Speaker 1: and he's back. He's back. Formally a sack b beat
Speaker 1: writer for many years, Welcome back to my Jackot mat
Speaker 1: Boostie's how you been.
Speaker 4: Man, I've been all right, you know, enjoying this life
Speaker 4: where I don't have to go to every single game
Speaker 4: for any particular team and I can just kind of
Speaker 4: parachuting with my league pass and check out everyone and
Speaker 4: have to write about it. So it's it's fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it must be nice, must be nice. Just you
Speaker 1: can be a fan again. You can be a fan.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah. I can actually enjoy basketball and not
Speaker 4: watch it and go, oh my god, what am I
Speaker 4: going to write about? Or oh? Man, Like the best
Speaker 4: part is trade deadline season, when I don't have to
Speaker 4: sit around and like not have a life for like
Speaker 4: two weeks and chase every internet rumor.
Speaker 1: So, I like, what's it like experientially, what's the difference
Speaker 1: between when you're writing, Like I guess you just have
Speaker 1: What are the difference in thoughts you have watching just
Speaker 1: casually and knowing you have to write this game up.
Speaker 4: I kind of look now for this different type of
Speaker 4: themes and big picture stuff or what I do now.
Speaker 4: I can look at like, wow, what type of shoes
Speaker 4: are they wearing? Now? Maybe that could be a story.
Speaker 4: Oh he's designing his own? Oh you know.
Speaker 2: Who's got leave right now?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm a I'm a retro guy. I mean I was always.
Speaker 4: I grew up a big Nike guy, but they really
Speaker 4: haven't made a whole lot in the last I don't
Speaker 4: know decade where I was like, wow, I gotta have
Speaker 4: I think I got a couple of pair of Giannies.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that I really haven't been like, wow, Nike's
Speaker 4: making some you know.
Speaker 1: You know, so yeah, I'm the same. It's all retros
Speaker 1: for me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm all about the alternative, alternative colorways and stuff
Speaker 4: like that. New Balance has some crazy different things they do, know,
Speaker 4: so I'm all about whatever looks different, you know. So
Speaker 4: it's more my thing than anything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just says Maxie Cooper, flag Kawhi Leonard. Maybe not
Speaker 3: the number one person to be signing right now, but
Speaker 3: New Balance some players.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they've they've picked, they've identified the right time.
Speaker 1: I just saw Daron Fox's new shoe. That looks pretty,
Speaker 1: his new green and purple. No under armor because he
Speaker 1: wears Curries coo. But interesting anyway, Speaking of which the Kings,
Speaker 1: Darren Fox, I think the law still remains intact. Jack
Speaker 1: from the Mad Jack got Mad Boostie's Lave. Scoring sixty
Speaker 1: and then you lose.
Speaker 2: Score seventy is for losers.
Speaker 3: You got to put up seventy or you're gonna lose
Speaker 3: if you if you get to sixty and then you
Speaker 3: can't get to seventy, you're going to lose. That's what
Speaker 3: was learned over the past piece.
Speaker 1: I think that like last season, what it was when
Speaker 1: embiid put up like seventy and then Cat put up
Speaker 1: sixty two and the loss to the Hornets and were like, see.
Speaker 3: Cat put him sixty two and a loss, and his
Speaker 3: coach was like, well that was terrible, Like you came
Speaker 3: in and was like, we're gonna treat this guy for
Speaker 3: pennies on the dollar because that was an embarrassment.
Speaker 4: He was disgusted with. He was like, some guys decided
Speaker 4: they just wanted to keep, you know, doing them, like geez, yeah.
Speaker 3: Right, just put up sixty, right, Yeah, sixty is for losers,
Speaker 3: seventies for closers.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But Darren Fox put up sixty and a loss, uh,
Speaker 3: because Ant was not having it that particular game.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one of his best dunks of the season. He
Speaker 3: put up thirty six, huge comeback. I don't know, Minnesota
Speaker 3: might be getting things back on track, but I don't know.
Speaker 3: So Fox put up sixty and that loss and then
Speaker 3: forty nine in the next game and a win over
Speaker 3: the Jazz. Right, so one oh nine in two nights
Speaker 3: is pretty Uh, the Chamberlain numbers, right.
Speaker 4: I'm not bad for a guy who's not known to
Speaker 4: be a crazy score like that, but you know, they
Speaker 4: have got some guys injured, so that was almost more like, hey,
Speaker 4: Darren has to do something right, right, So he's gonna
Speaker 4: you know, he's going to do what you can to
Speaker 4: try to win the game. But I don't think the
Speaker 4: King's recipe is going to be you know what, Daron
Speaker 4: and about forty five fifty at night?
Speaker 3: Right, so point guard scored every time down the court.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think.
Speaker 4: I don't think that's what you want to do. But
Speaker 4: I think it's cool for dearon, you know, except for
Speaker 4: the lost part sixty right, but you know, just because
Speaker 4: the getting sixties, you know, it's a not a you know,
Speaker 4: of course Wilt did it a bunch of times, you know,
Speaker 4: but like you're not talking about like a whole lot
Speaker 4: of guys who have hit that sixty point mark. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I felt like last season we had a lot, didn't
Speaker 1: we Almost every other week we were talking about sixty
Speaker 1: point games.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no one plays deep doesn't want to stop anybody,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 1: Right, right, But I mean the one thing I've i'ven't
Speaker 1: been watching. I've just you know, I've seen the Kings occasionally,
Speaker 1: but I haven't kept my eye on it. But I've
Speaker 1: been curious, you know, as somebody who previously had their
Speaker 1: eye on them, how's Damar been looking with them?
Speaker 4: He's fitting well, you know, you know, go out there,
Speaker 4: does the mar things get his I think he's offgot
Speaker 4: with was open the air of twenty point games. I mean,
Speaker 4: he's getting this. You know. I was kind of wondering
Speaker 4: how you would fit him because so much of what
Speaker 4: de Aaron does is in the mid range. So much,
Speaker 4: you know, Sybonus is in that mid you know, that
Speaker 4: mid high post, like where you gonna fit this? I mean,
Speaker 4: it's worked with you know, they're problems been they can't
Speaker 4: make three pointers anymore, right like, which is really weird,
Speaker 4: you know, but I think not having a leak monk
Speaker 4: as a part of that. But yeah, they just haven't
Speaker 4: been a great they haven't shot the way they've normally had.
Speaker 4: What get the spurs, they're like three of twenty six,
Speaker 4: right you know, so I just you know, but they're
Speaker 4: they're but also dea They're they're like well right now
Speaker 4: at the time or eight and seven. They has lost
Speaker 4: to Atlanta and part of what when they had that
Speaker 4: real good season a couple of years ago, they like
Speaker 4: had almost no injuries to anyone that was you know,
Speaker 4: like they're like top eight or nine. Guys like missed
Speaker 4: almost no games. It felt like, right, and it's almost
Speaker 4: like now it's gone back the other way. Now you're
Speaker 4: losing guys, game five, game ten.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a reversion to the mean. Yeah, is a
Speaker 3: thing that I say all the time because I'm smart
Speaker 3: and good at math, and.
Speaker 1: I know what those words mean.
Speaker 4: I do. I know what mean means, like an outlier
Speaker 4: like that, that run of help is an outlier. You're
Speaker 4: not going to see that again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's anomalous that someone wuld say, Yeah.
Speaker 4: That's crazy. You got to throw it out because it
Speaker 4: will probably never.
Speaker 3: Happen again, right right, Yeah, I don't know. It feels
Speaker 3: it's wild to me that the Kings are playing well.
Speaker 3: It seems like they're playing well. They're eight and seven
Speaker 3: and they are at tenth in the Plains, like the
Speaker 3: very last playing spot ahead of the Mavericks who made
Speaker 3: it to the Western out of the Western Conference last year,
Speaker 3: to the finals, who are seven and seven. Meanwhile, over
Speaker 3: on the East Coast, the Eastern Conference, my Philadelphia seventy
Speaker 3: six ers are two in a less then and three
Speaker 3: games out of the playing tournament. So that's how things
Speaker 3: are going over here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, what do you how many games behind? It's
Speaker 1: wow to think of how many double like the double
Speaker 1: digit advantages Cleveland already has on so many people in
Speaker 1: the East at this point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're twelve games back.
Speaker 4: Twelve games back, okay, all right, batball play though, I mean,
Speaker 4: you know, you just chip away, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thirteen games into the season, we're twelve games back.
Speaker 3: Real could be going better, I'll say, yeah.
Speaker 1: It's I mean, sounded like there was a lot of,
Speaker 1: you know, some crisis talks after that that heat game.
Speaker 2: Miles. I could care less about the team struggling.
Speaker 4: Thanks, Joe, I know, I know, I mean, yeah, it's
Speaker 4: always interesting when you hear a report about hey, could
Speaker 4: you please be on time?
Speaker 2: Right? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess that matters.
Speaker 2: Like to some people. I guess maybe if.
Speaker 4: You're two and eleven, does it really matter exactly?
Speaker 1: But I guess so. Yeah, so it.
Speaker 4: Wouldn't win three more games because your best player is
Speaker 4: going to be on time.
Speaker 2: It's not in a sect yet, Okay.
Speaker 3: Joel Embiid has always talked about the process right, thinking
Speaker 3: long term, think long term for your franchise. The seventy
Speaker 3: six ers lose, we we have our pick next year
Speaker 3: protected one through six. We need this pick to be
Speaker 3: top six and what is going to be a pretty
Speaker 3: decent draft, Cooper Flag we are in. Uh we got
Speaker 3: the flag position, flag pole position in next year's draft
Speaker 3: right now as the worst team in the NBA, tied
Speaker 3: with Washington. I'm just saying, maybe the old son of
Speaker 3: a gun sandbag in us, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 3: He's just trying to do what's best for the future
Speaker 3: of the seventy six ers.
Speaker 2: He's letting Jared McCain.
Speaker 3: He's, you know, laying back, letting the rookie get some
Speaker 3: reps up. Jared McCain has looked great his last six games.
Speaker 3: He's put up eighteen twenty seven, twenty three, thirty four,
Speaker 3: twenty nine, twenty. He's shooting a very high percentage on
Speaker 3: a lot of three point attempts per game. All the
Speaker 3: pieces are right where we want them. A lot of
Speaker 3: people are panicking. Me and Joel are sitting back and
Speaker 3: it's fifteen minutes past the time we were supposed to
Speaker 3: show up for practice. But we're chilling because we were
Speaker 3: trusting the process. The process just happens to be ongoing
Speaker 3: and taking a little bit longer than anybody was expecting.
Speaker 1: I mean even when you look at the twenty sixteen
Speaker 1: seventeen Process Sixers, they started at three and ten.
Speaker 2: Yeah they're first.
Speaker 1: I'm bed missed four of those games, but you know
Speaker 1: they won three. They won three in those first thirteen.
Speaker 3: So you wait, when embiid was playing, you're calling that
Speaker 3: the Process Sixers. The Process Sixers started before we drafted Joel.
Speaker 1: Embi I mean, yeah, his rookie year, his rookie see
Speaker 1: his rookie yes, yes, yeah.
Speaker 4: Covering a game when with the Process Sixers came to
Speaker 4: Sacramento and they won the game, and like immediately, within
Speaker 4: like a day or two, everyone who played well in
Speaker 4: the game got traded.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, man, it was like, hold up.
Speaker 4: This is not no, no, no, you all what process.
Speaker 1: Are we undergoing here?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like watching a game of It's like watching
Speaker 3: Major League that movie where they're just everyone like they
Speaker 3: they win a game like a regular NBA regular season
Speaker 3: game and like storm the court.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Anyways, this is uh, I think not how a lot
Speaker 3: of Sixers fans saw the season going. And they're just
Speaker 3: they're weak, those Sixers fans. This is this is fine?
Speaker 1: You saw Yeah, I said you earlier, said you found comfort.
Speaker 2: In this, and I.
Speaker 3: Go into things very pessimistic, and it turns out I'm
Speaker 3: rarely disappointed and really pleasantly surprised either, and that's working
Speaker 3: out great for me. Also, I'm a die easy fan,
Speaker 3: so you know, I'm open to being recruited. Take me
Speaker 3: on a recruiting trip to be a fan of your team.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 4: I'm happy for Philly. You know the Phillies flamed out
Speaker 4: on the postseason.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The Eagles are winning games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the Eagles look pretty good.
Speaker 3: I'm only a Sixers fan, so like, I don't even
Speaker 3: get the good teams from Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: Got to work on that, you can't. We got to
Speaker 1: sit down and talk about you.
Speaker 4: Got to draw up a list of other teams and
Speaker 4: you know, get you a good you know, get you
Speaker 4: a football team. Get your mind off. Yeah. This is
Speaker 4: one of my best friends is a Sixers fan. He
Speaker 4: wanted to return my text.
Speaker 1: Now yeah, oh no, yeah, he spent all.
Speaker 4: Last year making fun of me talking about ha ha
Speaker 4: the Lakers won the in season tournament ha ha. And
Speaker 4: now I'm like, yeah, yeah, now at all he made
Speaker 4: I'm like from the play in too last year?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Think right at this rate, they'll take the play in
Speaker 4: and be happy with it.
Speaker 3: They you know, yeah, they haven't had like since Embid's
Speaker 3: been back Max, he hasn't played much. Uh so yeah,
Speaker 3: we're we're just working our way into shape.
Speaker 2: Uh and you.
Speaker 3: Know, we'll be ready for when the regular season starts.
Speaker 3: Oh wait what I'm sorry?
Speaker 2: Okay, and being told the regular season started three games.
Speaker 4: Back here you know, all star breaking when the season
Speaker 4: really starts though.
Speaker 2: And that exactly exactly.
Speaker 4: Know, really pick it, upset.
Speaker 1: The clock, then we reset the clock.
Speaker 4: Then cool, all right.
Speaker 2: You want to talk about the Lakers. Should we take
Speaker 2: a break?
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's take a break. We'll come back. We'll talk
Speaker 1: some Lakers and it's maybe in some positive Bucks news
Speaker 1: maybe I know, has he been like yeah, but maybe a.
Speaker 4: Little bit of you.
Speaker 3: That was the one thing that Sixers fans had is
Speaker 3: like you have a look at the Bucks and they've
Speaker 3: got everyone in their bad Yeah, and that was now
Speaker 3: heads back and now look at us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, we'll be right back and we're back.
Speaker 1: And you know, Jack, we were saying earlier, I know
Speaker 1: of a team that started pretty terribly a few seasons
Speaker 1: going made it all the way to the Western Conference Finals.
Speaker 1: So worry not worry not. The Lakers did do that.
Speaker 1: So but right now looking not bad at nine and four,
Speaker 1: I've I continue to be pleased with the JJ Reddick experience.
Speaker 1: And just see the JJ Redick experience. Yeah, just seeing
Speaker 1: you know, a d you know, in the form that
Speaker 1: he's in has been fantastic. While you know, that game
Speaker 1: against the Spurs just Wenby felt just my my heart
Speaker 1: is beginning to thaw a bit over the last few seasons.
Speaker 1: How's it been for you, Jason? Just you know, I know,
Speaker 1: I know you have an affinity for the Lakers, are you.
Speaker 4: I've enjoyed it. I've enjoyed j I hadn't I hadn't
Speaker 4: dubbed it the JJ Redick experience yet.
Speaker 2: And the Rippers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've really enjoyed this what JJ has done. It
Speaker 4: feels like for the first time in a while, they've
Speaker 4: got some energy at the coaching spot. Yeah, it's for like,
Speaker 4: you know, I don't know what you know, what it is,
Speaker 4: you know, but the.
Speaker 1: Hands are out of the pockets most.
Speaker 4: Of the And my main drawback before they hired him
Speaker 4: was just that, you know, JJ had been his name
Speaker 4: had been circulated as a coaching candidate before. I just
Speaker 4: wish he didn't have a podcast with the Star Player
Speaker 4: because I just made it look. You know, I'm like,
Speaker 4: this has got to work. O's go look terrible. But
Speaker 4: I mean when I watch them offensively, like what they're doing,
Speaker 4: you know, I think they still you know, they need
Speaker 4: some you know, maybe not if Jared Vanderbilt could play
Speaker 4: again one day, yeah, you know, but I like what
Speaker 4: I've seen from them overall so far. You know, eventually
Speaker 4: they'll win more than two games on the road, hopefully,
Speaker 4: you know, two three.
Speaker 1: Games, you know, Yeah, we'll see you.
Speaker 4: You know. It's crazy to think they hadn't been six
Speaker 4: and oh with home since like like in the Kobe days, right, yeah, well,
Speaker 4: they hadn't even won a home They hadn't won a
Speaker 4: season opener, like and Lebron even won one as a Laker.
Speaker 1: I feel like maybe once because I remember, just my
Speaker 1: I just got used to being like this, the first
Speaker 1: game of the season is going to be an l
Speaker 1: like the momentum as a fan had just felt like
Speaker 1: I'm having trouble recalling when the last time that happened.
Speaker 1: So when that happened this season, I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're back. We're back. We're back. Ships off of the
Speaker 1: strength of that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I mean I've enjoyed what I've seen. I've enjoyed,
Speaker 4: you know, like JJ's I mean he's quite crazy, like
Speaker 4: in a good way though, right, So he's like he's
Speaker 4: like that, you know, he's yeah, yeah, he's he's different.
Speaker 4: I mean he's like, what's your methods to the players?
Speaker 4: That was the message, Yeah, right exactly. And also to
Speaker 4: see him like through the breath they lost the game
Speaker 4: and he pretty much was like the effort was poor.
Speaker 4: I didn't like this, and he said, well, how do
Speaker 4: you convey that methods to the players?
Speaker 1: I just did, right, Yeah, And it's good to see
Speaker 1: him just like reward players who have like really been
Speaker 1: putting in like a good shift and listening and you know,
Speaker 1: being like, hey, you know what, that's playing time for you,
Speaker 1: rather than kind of being like I look, I kind
Speaker 1: of gotta I gotta kind of make these guys work
Speaker 1: for a second. Uh, and I'm yeah, Dalton connect continues
Speaker 1: to make me very excited for the future. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know that's enough enough about how good things
Speaker 1: are going with the.
Speaker 4: Just enjoy what I mean the last few years, I'm
Speaker 4: just being like three and seven or just some type
Speaker 4: of something going wrong, you.
Speaker 3: Know, ten, two and eleven, something horrible like that.
Speaker 4: You know. But hey, you know, wondering if A D
Speaker 4: is going to get to the game on time, just
Speaker 4: all type of just problems. Yeah, A D has been
Speaker 4: He's been you know, amazing out there this year, and defensively,
Speaker 4: I'm not surprised, but you know, we've heard for how
Speaker 4: many years they're going to make a D the focus
Speaker 4: of the offense. They're going to do this. This never happens,
Speaker 4: so maybe actually happened and lasts more than like three
Speaker 4: or four games, you know, And.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, yeah, he's second in the league and scoring
Speaker 3: like barely, he's right behind Giannis. He's only auditioning out
Speaker 3: two point six assists to night, but like a lot
Speaker 3: of hockey assists and just yeah, like he said, everything's
Speaker 3: going through him, shooting forty three percent from three not
Speaker 3: not on a lot of attempts, but like at least
Speaker 3: when he gets them out there, and then he's I
Speaker 3: think he's like playing some of the best defense in
Speaker 3: the lead right now and put up a forty twelve
Speaker 3: two blocks on Friday night, then another thirty four or
Speaker 3: fourteen two steals first the Pelicans the next night. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know, he's currently for MVP. I I feel
Speaker 3: like this is what Lakers fans have been waiting for
Speaker 3: to see from him. I didn't know how realistic it
Speaker 3: was that.
Speaker 2: I mean, I was gonna ever happen.
Speaker 1: So I am just you know, I'm just hoping and
Speaker 1: praying that he stays healthy because every time I see
Speaker 1: that man fall down and even like show his teeth,
Speaker 1: I start sweating. But then he usually gets up.
Speaker 4: So it's okay, crazy Now, if you close your eye
Speaker 4: and just say those numbers, I think you're talking about Shack,
Speaker 4: You're like forty in tweas like it's right. So, I mean,
Speaker 4: I'm just going to cross my fingers. Every time he
Speaker 4: fall he went, I'm like, did you please please don't
Speaker 4: hit him in the face. Please. I'm like, I just
Speaker 4: get scared. I'm like, oh my god, he you know, like,
Speaker 4: oh he's tied issue okay.
Speaker 1: Right, right, right exactly.
Speaker 4: It's just crazy too, though, because he's not even like
Speaker 4: the most injured player in the league by far. But
Speaker 4: I just think Laker fans are now just traumatized to
Speaker 4: believe that anytime Ad like runs a little slow or
Speaker 4: you know anything, it's like, oh god, he's going to
Speaker 4: be out three weeks.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, well, because we're conditioned to be like, whenever
Speaker 1: he's like, he needs to be healthy, he needs to
Speaker 1: be healthy. So any wobble from that is, yeah, it
Speaker 1: feels existential. Yeah, it looks like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's getting close.
Speaker 1: To the most career games with forty plus points, ten
Speaker 1: plus rebounds. Anthony Davis has thirty six, Shack's got forty three.
Speaker 1: Uh so you know, he's not far off. He's not
Speaker 1: far off.
Speaker 4: I would have never guessed he was that close.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, just seven more games. Ad is tied with
Speaker 1: Elvin Hayes in ninth place. But yeah, good times ahead
Speaker 1: the Bucks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, like, obviously Cleveland is the big story
Speaker 3: in the Eastern Conference. They're playing to remain undefeated against
Speaker 3: Boston tonight. It's crazy that they're as good as they are.
Speaker 3: They play beautiful basketball. They're an amazing team. The Bucks
Speaker 3: had been my one solace as a Sixers fan because
Speaker 3: they were bad with while you know, having their two
Speaker 3: best players, and now they're they seem to be putting
Speaker 3: it together. They're five and nine, have won three of
Speaker 3: four and are right in the hunt because the Eastern
Speaker 3: Conference is bad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, real, real tight.
Speaker 3: The sixth seed is Miami at six and seven. I mean,
Speaker 3: Cleveland's just winning all the games. I guess, yeah, there's
Speaker 3: one way to look at it.
Speaker 4: What are they you looking at the Bucks? They're a
Speaker 4: good game behind Detroit for seven.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly, Yeah, Detroit in seventh at seven and nine.
Speaker 3: The Bucks had a good game against the Rockets, who
Speaker 3: also a don't look now team. They are now ten
Speaker 3: and five, seven and three over the last ten, and
Speaker 3: the Bucks were able to pull it out with like
Speaker 3: a Dame game winner that came after a game saving
Speaker 3: block from Giannis. It's kind of weird. Gian It's like,
Speaker 3: didn't really celebrate when Dame put it in. I don't
Speaker 3: know what their relationship is like, but yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: What do you what do you do with this roster.
Speaker 3: What do you think that this is a blip and
Speaker 3: they're going to be bad. Do you think the bad
Speaker 3: at the beginning of the season was a blip. What
Speaker 3: are you saying for the Bucks?
Speaker 4: Jason, I don't think they're going to be this but
Speaker 4: that I don't have a lot of faith the East
Speaker 4: is going to keep them in the bottom ten twelve range.
Speaker 4: I think they're enough bad teams in the East that
Speaker 4: when you get to about February, they will have piled
Speaker 4: up a few no you know, then they'll they'll play
Speaker 4: the Utahs, they'll play the Portland you know, they'll they'll
Speaker 4: start to get they'll start to you know, getting around
Speaker 4: five hundred. Then they become that proverbial we don't want
Speaker 4: to play that team in the first round team if
Speaker 4: they're right there, if they're like five or low, like
Speaker 4: no one wants to play Giannison Dame, you know, you know,
Speaker 4: and Chris Middleton gonna play again there?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we don't really know. I mean, he had double
Speaker 3: ankle surgery, which seems bad, but we got.
Speaker 1: Two for one deal. I think that's what happened. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no one.
Speaker 3: They're like, what might as well take care of him both,
Speaker 3: but yeah, he has no timetable as of four days ago,
Speaker 3: so that's and also like didn't fully look like himself
Speaker 3: consistently when he was back last season, So I think
Speaker 3: that's why I'm at least not putting them in that
Speaker 3: same category of like, yeah, they're just like, you know,
Speaker 3: one of their best players is hurt, and once he's back,
Speaker 3: they'll be fine because who knows.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm even going to get you know, if
Speaker 4: and win Chris plays again. But that no, having Dame
Speaker 4: and Giannis together, you know, you would have I thought
Speaker 4: there was much ado about nothing about the hole. They
Speaker 4: didn't work out enough in the summer together. I'm like,
Speaker 4: I don't know what you I'm not a big believer
Speaker 4: that two guys working out in the gym together. It's
Speaker 4: gonna be why.
Speaker 1: Ye's not a montage from my eighties movie.
Speaker 4: Like the season turned when you know, when Giannis flew
Speaker 4: out to Portland and they went to the gym and
Speaker 4: they shot free throws together and talked and.
Speaker 1: Yeah, ran on the beach, yeah with lots.
Speaker 4: You know, they met up. They they met up in Greece.
Speaker 4: You know, all Gianni's was, you know, visiting friends back
Speaker 4: there and they whatever. I have way more faith in
Speaker 4: them than I do in Philly. Really yeah, just tad bit,
Speaker 4: tad bit. Wow, I coached my Doc Rivers.
Speaker 3: They are coached by Doc Rivers's s a pretty good coach.
Speaker 2: Still, we'll see, we'll see y you know.
Speaker 4: And you know, I just feel bad for them too,
Speaker 4: because the memes between Doc and Darvinham sitting together.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're they're they're they're killing them. I mean, like
Speaker 4: I think they're they're going to figure something out. I
Speaker 4: think they'll make a run. And then I mean, are
Speaker 4: we gonna really believe? I don't know if I can
Speaker 4: count on know the Brooklyn's and the Detroit and all
Speaker 4: of them to you know, to hold those guys down. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Right, So we're gonna introduce a new segment which I
Speaker 3: think you're gonna be very helpful for because you have
Speaker 3: League Pass, you're watching the games around the league. We
Speaker 3: wanna we want to pick a game from the next
Speaker 3: week that I can tell my wife, uh babe, I
Speaker 3: have to watch this for work. Akay, like a game
Speaker 3: of the week for the listeners to uh watch, and
Speaker 3: then we'll talk about it next time.
Speaker 2: But we've pre selected a couple.
Speaker 3: We've got Warriors versus Spurs on Saturday, Nuggets at Lakers
Speaker 3: also on Saturday, a couple of hours after Warriors versus Spurs,
Speaker 3: Minnesota at Celtics on Sunday, and then the Los Angeles
Speaker 3: Clippers at the Philadelphia seventy six ers on my day.
Speaker 2: Of those games?
Speaker 3: Or are we Is there another team that everybody should
Speaker 3: be going out of their way to watch right now
Speaker 3: that we've we've missed out on here.
Speaker 4: I like those. I mean, you know, you've got Ken
Speaker 4: the Lakers beat No. Denver, yeah, like three years, you know,
Speaker 4: and you've got you know, Chris Paul going against this
Speaker 4: another one of his former teams, m and the Warriors
Speaker 4: having to continue to player over six foot five in
Speaker 4: the front court. You know, what are they going to do?
Speaker 4: You know, you got, you got, you got, you know
Speaker 4: the ant man Jason Tatum Olympic Netflix series reunion, you
Speaker 4: know right, I mean, yeah, that's the part of me
Speaker 4: with Lee I kind of lean. I mean, there's there's
Speaker 4: like good storylines all the way around. I mean, you
Speaker 4: know Philly, you know, James Harden come, you know, at
Speaker 4: this point, so many guys been out of Philly though,
Speaker 4: it's like, okay.
Speaker 3: Whatever, Sixers are also playing Ben Simmons this week, and
Speaker 3: I mean everybody, there's not going to be a empty
Speaker 3: seat in the house for that or dry.
Speaker 4: Eye games in Philly. Yeah, I imagine he'll get a
Speaker 4: warm reception and you know, everyone will be nice and
Speaker 4: you know, cordial to him, give him standing ovation for all.
Speaker 2: I made him Philadelphia. I think you can pretty much.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have no doubt about that.
Speaker 3: But yeah, they've already turned on EMBIID. I don't I
Speaker 3: don't think they're gonna be nice to be Simmons.
Speaker 1: You think they fully turned on EMBIID already?
Speaker 2: Is it still.
Speaker 1: There's still some good will left before we goes full Philadelphia?
Speaker 2: The good will left.
Speaker 1: There might be, don't know.
Speaker 4: Yeah. The difference that I was that EMBIID doesn't have
Speaker 4: that Ben Simmons buffer, right, you know there's not that
Speaker 4: that clearly because I mean they're not going to turn
Speaker 4: on MAXI.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 4: No, Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Paul. I mean, you know,
Speaker 4: Paul has been long enough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that one hasn't burnt. That candle hasn't burnt all
Speaker 2: the way down quick.
Speaker 1: No, But he's also only had I think one twenty
Speaker 1: point game this season the Queens had five. That's it.
Speaker 3: There's a lot looking great, all right, So we're gonna
Speaker 3: go Nuggets at the Lakers?
Speaker 2: Should we do that one?
Speaker 1: Or what it sounded like, sounded like you were saying
Speaker 1: that's I don't even have to look at that, because
Speaker 1: I mean, I think we're one in nine against the
Speaker 1: Nuggets in the reg.
Speaker 3: The Nuggets are worse this season and the Lakers are better.
Speaker 4: You Nuggets have like no debt. I mean, all their
Speaker 4: depths from two years ago is like not the same.
Speaker 4: And if if JJ is not going to start, D'Angelo
Speaker 4: Russell continue that that kind of neutralizes, at least at
Speaker 4: the start of the game. Jamal Murray becoming Michael Jordan. Right,
Speaker 4: I feel like Jamal Murray owes all his you know,
Speaker 4: his contract extensions to the fact that he got to
Speaker 4: go against d' angelo Russell and Alton Reeves at the
Speaker 4: same in the same game and you know, for what
Speaker 4: how many playoff games in a row. I mean, it
Speaker 4: just killed me to watch him then go to play
Speaker 4: for Team Canada and like, hold up, what happened to
Speaker 4: the Michael Jordan happening? That guy was who was this guy?
Speaker 1: Who is this?
Speaker 2: Who's this?
Speaker 3: More?
Speaker 4: But but you know, for every reason, Jamal Murray sees
Speaker 4: the Lakers and you know, become Superman. You've got you've
Speaker 4: got m v P level, you know, you know, a
Speaker 4: d against Joker. Yeah, you know when you know unfortunately
Speaker 4: you know they're Dad Aaron Gordon still out right. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, you know, I don't know who guards Lebron,
Speaker 4: you know, so, I mean there's there's gonna some interesting things,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 1: So then what's your pick of those? I know there's
Speaker 1: a lot of intrigue for all four of those games
Speaker 1: between Warrior Spurs, Nuggets, Lakers, Timberwolf, Celtics, Clippers, Sixers.
Speaker 4: L A biases and gold Laker Nuggets lean all the
Speaker 4: way into my biases.
Speaker 3: You know why that's okay because nobody's ever accused the
Speaker 3: show of having it.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: You know, my guy Michael Malone's gonna say something crazy
Speaker 4: before that. You know, there's gonna be there's there's gonna
Speaker 4: be other stuff going on, you know, And yeah that's
Speaker 4: the one. You know.
Speaker 1: All right, boost these listeners, you got your homework. We're
Speaker 1: all tuning in to the Nuggets at Lakers on Saturday,
Speaker 1: and well you.
Speaker 2: Hear that, babe, I have just watch it. I can't,
Speaker 2: I can't not watch it.
Speaker 1: All right, we will, Yeah, and you might hear me crying.
Speaker 1: Who knows or celebrate. I don't know. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I am putting way too much into this game.
Speaker 4: I think you know why. That one's going to be
Speaker 4: interesting too, as intense as JJ is. Imagine the Lakers
Speaker 4: like get like dog walked by Denver. I just want
Speaker 4: to hear the JJ Reddick presser. Yeah yeah, that's an
Speaker 4: all time possible postgame press. Malone on one side, Reddick
Speaker 4: on the other. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there there's so many
Speaker 4: reasons why this. You know, you can't compare that to
Speaker 4: Missoula and Finch. No, Missoula might be good back, I
Speaker 4: can't recall. I don't think Finch is nearly as quotable
Speaker 4: as JJ Reddick.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, well, I think you're right about that. All right,
Speaker 2: we've got it.
Speaker 3: It's set set your clocks Saturday, November twenty third on
Speaker 3: NBA TV, so anybody with NBA TV can tune in.
Speaker 3: We are going to take a quick break and then
Speaker 3: we're going to come back with the fastest segment in podcasting.
Speaker 2: And we're back. We're back, and we're back.
Speaker 1: Jason Man, we love having you, but this is the
Speaker 1: time where we got to I got to put my
Speaker 1: biases aside, my biases, and it's time to cook the
Speaker 1: person in the hot seat.
Speaker 2: You know about a nice guy, Let's not do it.
Speaker 1: No, I know, I know, and he's from the best
Speaker 1: coast too, but we we know not. These things do
Speaker 1: not protect you when you're in the fourth quarter rapid
Speaker 1: fire round of questions, the fast the question answer segment
Speaker 1: in all sports podcasting history. Okay, so we're gonna ask
Speaker 1: you a question you already know. Just reply as quick
Speaker 1: as you can and if you if you slow the
Speaker 1: segment down, we will be rude. Okay, and then we
Speaker 1: will apologize off Mike, because we do want to keep
Speaker 1: our on air personas intact and hidden from the off
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry, so sorry, Oh hey, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: Ain't no, no, Yeah, apologen like Canadians out here, but
Speaker 1: I got to ask you. Are you ready?
Speaker 4: Ready?
Speaker 1: Okay? Jason Jones is ready?
Speaker 2: Brian start the clock.
Speaker 1: This one's gonna this was gonna shatter all the records.
Speaker 1: Who's going for are going first?
Speaker 2: You're going, yeah, why don't you go first? Miles?
Speaker 1: Okay, Jason U a Sopranos fan? No, uh oh, all right,
Speaker 1: Jason audible audible audible, uh you Wire fan?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, got it, got.
Speaker 4: It, got it?
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, that did throw us off. First question for you.
Speaker 1: We're playing pick up hoops with characters from the Wire,
Speaker 1: and we just got the first pick and took Wood Harris. Okay,
Speaker 1: now a von Barks all right, yeah, now you got
Speaker 1: to Now you have to pick somebody you can. Now
Speaker 1: do you pick anybody else? We got the first pick,
Speaker 1: but that's what we want, Wood Harris. Now who do
Speaker 1: you have next?
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go with I'm not forgetting his name.
Speaker 1: Hurry.
Speaker 4: Character, I'm flanking on his name.
Speaker 2: But Didris elbows Stringer Bell with.
Speaker 4: Sugar Bell's choice? I'm interesting parents.
Speaker 3: Chris might be good Chris like from season four? Oh maybe, yeah, Harris.
Speaker 3: I feel like there was a basket ball seeing in
Speaker 3: the wire. Maybe I feel like I've seen Wood Harris
Speaker 3: hoop before.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Wood Harris would be the clear number one pick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's why, that's why.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we always get the number one pick in this question. Yeah, Sam,
Speaker 3: who's the NBA player? But yeah, all right, yeah, string
Speaker 3: about I mean so in universe he's not British. We
Speaker 3: know the actor is British. It's an interesting pick. It's
Speaker 3: an interesting pick.
Speaker 2: Maybe he'll like have good footwork, footwork like some of
Speaker 2: the you're going to be.
Speaker 4: You know, he's not going to get you know, he's
Speaker 4: not gonna let you know, Barksdale just you know, wow
Speaker 4: him with the athleticism in the college basketball background, I
Speaker 4: think really he'll be cerebral out there. Right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, brother Mazone, we don't think Brother.
Speaker 4: Mozon that's a good one.
Speaker 2: You know, he'd be a sniper from deep you know, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: You know, yeah that was my favorite brother of Mazone?
Speaker 4: Is that you know it wouldn't end well yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: Has there ever been a basketball performance in a movie
Speaker 3: that wasn't an existing NBA player? It wasn't like Blue
Speaker 3: Chips where they just like brought in an NBA player
Speaker 3: or you know, a good basketball player.
Speaker 2: That didn't while you are watching it give you the
Speaker 2: it where you weren't like, what is this? Why are they.
Speaker 1: Why is he dribbling like that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm a big white man can't jump fan. Okay,
Speaker 4: so that one because.
Speaker 2: Who's performance.
Speaker 3: Okay, because they do a lot with editing with Wesley Snipes,
Speaker 3: and you can he's so athletic you can almost believe
Speaker 3: that he can hoop. And then there are some moments
Speaker 3: where he's dribbling it and it's just like over like
Speaker 3: literally over his head when he does a crossover, and
Speaker 3: I do feel like Woody Harrelson. He's got like an
Speaker 3: ugly jumper, but it does look like somebody like a
Speaker 3: jumper that's been taken hundreds of times.
Speaker 4: You know, he really gives like I'm really out here
Speaker 4: just trying to.
Speaker 2: Hoop, right, Yeah, yeah, just trying to make it work.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: You can always always go with Marcus Johnson's you know character.
Speaker 2: Yeah in White Man kndrum.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, next question. You have the opportunity to shoot
Speaker 1: a half course shot for the chance at winning fifty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, a free throw for five hundred dollars, or
Speaker 1: you can make a layup for two bucks. You're taking
Speaker 1: the easy money. Are you going for it?
Speaker 4: Going for the free throw? I'm going for five hundred.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Have you ever made a half court shot?
Speaker 4: The kid just playing around. Yeah, just thro eaving it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: even it you know, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Is that on tape anywhere? We have any tape that was.
Speaker 4: In the nineties We went, didn't have those VHD.
Speaker 1: Those big camp orders and stuff. Yeah, with the eye
Speaker 1: piece that you had to like move your head to
Speaker 1: the side. Like did I just see that?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I can. Yeah, even if there was it did exist.
Speaker 4: I couldn't play it on anything here. No, I don't
Speaker 4: have a yeah Beta max is.
Speaker 1: So no, No, somebody didn't even know what a tape rewinder. Well,
Speaker 1: I'd explain a tape rewinder to a younger person a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago, and I felt.
Speaker 4: Very like, let you just press a button and it
Speaker 4: goes back. What do you mean to rewind?
Speaker 1: Go back to the beginning of the get to Wind
Speaker 1: the tape and this one it was shaped like a Ferrari.
Speaker 5: That that what was cool about it? You put the
Speaker 5: tree every Yeah, it was cool. It was cool the
Speaker 5: only Ferrari I had, but I had it. Okay, good answer.
Speaker 5: I think it's signed for a more in depth question, though, Jack.
Speaker 3: All right, we are going to redraft the twenty eighteen
Speaker 3: NBA draft. That draft started out with DeAndre Ayton, Marvin
Speaker 3: Bagley the third, and then you got some other people
Speaker 3: in there who you might take over those two guys
Speaker 3: like uh Luker, Doncic, Triple, j Trey, Shay, Gilgis, Alexander Well, Brunson,
Speaker 3: Anthony Simons at twenty four, Michale Bridges at ten, Michael
Speaker 3: Porter Junior, where are you going?
Speaker 2: Are you gonna keep eighting at number one? Or who?
Speaker 2: Give us your top three?
Speaker 4: Uh? The top three now would be Luca, Shay, Trey.
Speaker 3: And really Trey over Jalen Brunson Mm hmm. Jalen Brunson,
Speaker 3: who went what thirty third?
Speaker 4: Yeah, wild, I'm a try I liked wow, wow, Okay,
Speaker 4: I'm a pick with Tray at three. Brunson can maybe
Speaker 4: you know, get there, get there at four? Jaron Jackson
Speaker 4: like at five.
Speaker 3: It's a great draft and also great evidence that nobody
Speaker 3: knows anything because.
Speaker 4: I was covering the Kings when that happened. Yeah, and
Speaker 4: that was quite a night.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Marvin Bagley the third was where we all went instead
Speaker 3: of Luca, which a lot of people, you know, will
Speaker 3: be like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that was a long time ago.
Speaker 3: People didn't no, people knew, people knew like there were
Speaker 3: some people who are like eight and Okay, we'll let
Speaker 3: you take him at number one because it's still apparently
Speaker 3: the nineteen seventies and we think that you need a
Speaker 3: center to win. But uh, people knew Luka Doncic was
Speaker 3: really good right away.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was That was. That was one of the
Speaker 4: more awkward post draft press conferences ever I've ever been
Speaker 4: a part of. When Blade is saying, you know, Marvick
Speaker 4: can play all three forward spots, I'm like, he can
Speaker 4: play small forward. Yeah, man, like I don't have to,
Speaker 4: you know, get Luca to be R three man, you know,
Speaker 4: because Marvin can play the three. And I'm sitting there going,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, ok might not work out too well.
Speaker 1: Well well, well, Jason Jones, that was actually when I
Speaker 1: look at those are all the right answers. I don't
Speaker 1: know how you did that.
Speaker 2: That's crazy.
Speaker 3: Let me look at the We had a bunch of
Speaker 3: different answers going in, but now those are all the.
Speaker 1: Free throw That was the right answer.
Speaker 4: And then he said see how that works, you know, yeah,
Speaker 4: go bears.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, look we sit corrected and some of us
Speaker 1: are standing, but Jason Jones, you have made it through
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. Wrap fire around a questioning thank you
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Speaker 4: you'll find the other ones. But yeah, I'm on Instagram
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you just wrote an article about how the Shaquille
Speaker 3: and Neil checks in at number seven in the athletics
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Speaker 2: Interesting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know a little biased about my You know
Speaker 4: every I know they love Shack, So put the whole
Speaker 4: We've got a whole book coming out about what our
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Speaker 1: For this week's edition of Miles and Jack got mad Boosties,
Speaker 1: make sure you watch the game. Remember we're all going
Speaker 1: to talk about that's your homework. Nuggets at Lakers on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Let's hope The Lake Show pulls out a winner. We'll
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