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Speaker 1: Don't Sports Radio, Wow Lebron, good morning, good morning, good morning,

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Speaker 1: happy happy Fox Sports Saturday to all across the nation

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Speaker 2: Wow, man, that was at a great performance. What an

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Speaker 2: amazing performance. You know, there's something about when the Lakers

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Speaker 2: are playing like that, and you know, I can't believe

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Speaker 2: we're sitting here and they're in the Western Conference finals.

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Speaker 3: I can't believe if.

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Speaker 2: You go back to mid season before the trade, right

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Speaker 2: before the deadline trade and it's Westbrook and it's just

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Speaker 2: you know, it's just they're languishing and Lebron's looking a

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Speaker 2: little wa withered, right, And now you watch man, and

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Speaker 2: you know it's amazing when when Anthony Dave's healthy and

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Speaker 2: when he how just incredible they are they really are.

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Speaker 3: It's pretty impressive.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, we have the Lakers in the Eastern Commons, Fox,

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Speaker 2: it's gonna be in the Western Confence. Fox, It's gonna

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Speaker 2: be an amazing series between the Lakers and the Nuggets.

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Speaker 2: We'll get you said, of course, the Heat win last

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Speaker 2: a night for the Lakers.

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Speaker 4: What a night in the NBA just in general, Miami

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Speaker 4: getting a big victory, but the Lakers, to your point,

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Speaker 4: just running the Warriors off the floor. I mean that's

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Speaker 4: a tough ball place. Three for twenty two.

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Speaker 3: I mean that's defense, my god.

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Speaker 4: I mean, what a statement win, a way to close

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Speaker 4: out a series against the defending champions out of the dynasty.

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Speaker 2: Basically three for nineteen Clay goes and you know they

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Speaker 2: STEP's eleven for twenty eight. I mean that that could

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Speaker 2: be the stamp and it's it's the Lakers going now. No, no,

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Speaker 2: don't forget about me. That was awesome, what a great

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Speaker 2: what a great win. I was impressed. Yeah, I was wondering.

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Speaker 4: I was talking to somebody this week about, you know,

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Speaker 4: if the Lakers, you know, find a way to win

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Speaker 4: this series, is this the end of the Golden State dynasty.

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Speaker 4: They have a lot of questions to answer, you know,

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Speaker 4: Klay Thompson's answering the final year of his contract. There's rumors,

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Speaker 4: minor rumors, but it's still rumors that he might be

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Speaker 4: traded Draymond Green as a player option. He said after

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Speaker 4: the game he's not sure whether he'll exercise it or not.

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Speaker 4: So they have a lot of question marks. But for

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Speaker 4: the Lakers, for a team, as you mentioned, that started

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Speaker 4: the season two to ten that was hapless, you have

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Speaker 4: to russell Westbrook descratch distraction for them to totally flip

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Speaker 4: this thing on its head and make it into the

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Speaker 4: postseason when for the majority of the season they were

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Speaker 4: just fighting to make the play in Anthony, had a

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Speaker 4: solid spot, you know, and now all of a sudden,

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Speaker 4: they find themselves in the Western Conference Finals. I think

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Speaker 4: if you were to poll most people before the season

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Speaker 4: the Western Conference Finals, you probably find even the most

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Speaker 4: diehard Laker fan who was at least a modicum of

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Speaker 4: being honest, would say, there's no way, impossible that's happening

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Speaker 4: unless Lebron and Ad literally play all eighties two games

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Speaker 4: or something that wouldn't happen. And it was truly remarkable

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Speaker 4: and impressive the way they were able to dominate Golden

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Speaker 4: State almost from start to finish, you know, especially after halftime.

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Speaker 4: You know, Reeve sits that three point or at halftime

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Speaker 4: to put him up ten, and I don't think Golden

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you and you felt it the whole game.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you never felt there. Similar to Game five when

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Speaker 4: Rikers lost in Golden State. I mean, the Lakers made

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Speaker 4: a minor push. You were there, but you never really

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Speaker 4: felt they were in it. Golden State pretty much from jump,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the truth. And you know it's so funny.

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Speaker 2: Right when I'm watching that game and I'm looking at

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Speaker 2: Lebron and I'm here in Dylan Brooks and I'm going like,

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Speaker 2: look a look at him, man, Like that I mean

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Speaker 2: going this strong. And I've always been at Jordan. You know,

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Speaker 2: he's thirty nine years old. He's the game that he's playing.

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Speaker 2: Like the series. I mean, are you kidding me? That

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Speaker 2: how great he is. When he plays in a in

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Speaker 2: a handful of games, right like, when he actually is

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Speaker 2: you just marvel at his greatness.

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Speaker 4: And how dominant he can be even when he's not

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Speaker 4: scoring the basketball. There's been a couple of games and

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Speaker 4: people have criticized him at times throughout this series, saying like, well,

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Speaker 4: they're not get him to the ball enough, he's not

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Speaker 4: scoring enough, which I understand, but I mean, was he

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Speaker 4: any less dominant by that, you know, shooting the ball

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Speaker 4: because he clogs up everything defensively? How many short how

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Speaker 4: many layups did Steph Curry leave on the front of

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Speaker 4: the rim just at the very presence of Anthony Davis

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Speaker 4: being in there. That's the defence he makes. That's basketball.

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Speaker 3: You need to have a great rent protector.

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Speaker 4: Even in today's game. Absolutely.

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Speaker 2: You know, we always laugh about all the big man.

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Speaker 2: It's always it's always it's always the you know, the

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Speaker 2: and that's Anthony Davis. When that's you're exactly right about

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Speaker 2: leaving layups, leaving shots in the front of the rim,

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Speaker 2: because when you got a rim protector like him, that's

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Speaker 2: that is such an important factor. And then you know,

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Speaker 2: it's funny. I'm looking at their minutes, right and you

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Speaker 2: know Lebron's forty or forty three, Anthony Davis is forty,

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Speaker 2: And I'm thinking to that starting lineup thing that we

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Speaker 2: amazing what Reeves has done to that team.

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Speaker 4: He's unbelievable. A guy that was undrafted literally came out

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Speaker 4: going to be well deserved at the end of the season.

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Speaker 4: But for the Lakers have found unsung guys in the past.

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Speaker 4: Alex Caruso when they won their last championship in twenty twenty,

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Speaker 4: I'm pretty confident saying they're not going to allow that

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Speaker 3: It is.

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Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, a guy with all the expectations playing

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Speaker 4: and he's calm and unflappable. He really is.

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Speaker 2: It's bizarre. He's a kid. He began his career. He

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Speaker 2: and I mean he comes out of nowhere. I mean,

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Speaker 2: look look at balling. That's how it's ridiculous playing next

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Speaker 2: to Lebron. It's such a great story. And then the

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Speaker 2: Liney Walker thing, you know, I mean Lonnie Walker, who

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Speaker 2: gave him good minutes during the series.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and he's a perfect example of a guy you

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Speaker 4: know who you know, don't get your head down, always

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Speaker 4: once they brought in guys like D'Angelo Russell. They just

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Speaker 4: I think that's what's helped the Lakers two is having

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Speaker 4: And then by the way, he was able to come

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Speaker 4: Then obviously made some big shots for them in Game

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Speaker 4: this roster from being really and also ran laughable at

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Speaker 4: times to your point with Russbrook and the bad fits.

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Speaker 4: So now looking like not only just a legit NBA

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Speaker 4: I know Denver's favor and they should be, yeah, but

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Speaker 2: Had some prob yes either, yes, yeah, yeah, listen, I

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Speaker 2: you know, I completely understand why they're the favorite, but

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Speaker 2: I would now put it past the Lakers to win.

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Speaker 3: I hear you. And you know what's funny.

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Speaker 2: I thought it was Denver all long, and I did

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Speaker 2: not expect the Lakers to be this good. I did

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Speaker 2: no way, and they did this series. I mean, I've enjoyed,

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Speaker 2: I enjoyed the way they played. You know, they've been

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Speaker 2: just I have to tell you, you know, it's great

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Speaker 3: The way D see is just what he's doing. You

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and he's one of those. And look, I love

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Speaker 4: MJ two the MJ Lebron debate. The way I sit

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Speaker 4: you want to pick as the best ever. I think

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Speaker 4: it's it's kind of a toss up. But Lebron is

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Speaker 4: one of those unicorn players who can really do it.

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Speaker 4: He can dominate in any way. He can give you

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Speaker 4: he'll do it. If you needed to get twenty rebounds,

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Speaker 4: he'll do it. And there's very few players in the

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Speaker 4: history of the sport that have the ability to do

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Speaker 4: that and Lebron James. A lot of people say, look,

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Speaker 4: he hadn't scored thirty points at any point during this

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Speaker 4: postseason against Memphis or in this series, and they said,

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Speaker 4: at some point he's going to have to have a

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Speaker 4: big game and put his stamp on it offensively and

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Speaker 4: to be ten or fourteen from the field. As you mentioned,

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Speaker 4: thirty eight, thirty nine years old in year twenty, playing

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Speaker 4: the equivalent of what probably two full NBA seasons and

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Speaker 4: just playoff games over his twenty year career and to

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Speaker 4: play this way. But I all do respect respect to MJ.

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Speaker 4: He wasn't doing this at thirty seven thirty for Washington,

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Speaker 3: Nine and six, nine rebounds.

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Speaker 3: So now I now you spot on man, this is

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Speaker 3: What? What?

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Speaker 2: That Western Conference Finals is going to be incredible, to

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Speaker 2: if you mentioned in the East Miami, Jimmy Butler, Jimmy,

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Speaker 2: ninety six ninety two. Over the next last night, shape

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Speaker 4: He played forty eighth the other night. By the way,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, shape, they just don't have enough.

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Speaker 4: No, they don't have enough juice. Unfortunately, Julius Randall has

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Speaker 2: Now now it's not you're you're you're spotal on that

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Speaker 4: I look at that team and I just go how

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Speaker 4: I don't care? Yeah, how are they winning? Because we

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Speaker 4: You know, by the way, not having one of their

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Speaker 4: this entire run and it hasn't even mattered. It's remarkable

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Speaker 2: You know what's funny too, Like you look at the

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Speaker 4: There you go, let'd you shoot twenty five from three exactly?

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Speaker 3: You know, you look at the starters, ready, you go.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, me, Jimmy, Jimmy's Jimmy, right, but still he always

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Speaker 4: Kevin Love is three points nothing?

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Speaker 4: Has given him some good minutes this postseason at times,

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Speaker 4: but even he was one of six from three exactly,

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Speaker 4: you just go, like, what kind of team is that?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 4: But you mentioned nineties basketball. I mean, look, ninety six

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Speaker 4: two in the in the late nineties early two thousands. Yes,

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Speaker 4: you know, a very low scoring, ugly classic Knicks Heat

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Speaker 3: That's so true, that's so spot on.

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Speaker 2: All right, we got to take a quick too, and

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Speaker 2: we got one more spot left. The Game seven is

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Speaker 4: Fag oh, man, I thought about you the other night.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I didn't want to. I wanted to just let you

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Speaker 2: thank you. Yeah, you know, thank you. I appreciate that.

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Speaker 5: I was.

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Speaker 3: I was in Painnesday night. It was in pain.

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Speaker 2: But we'll talk about Game seven because that's the last

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Speaker 2: part of the final four. We reached this momentous time

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Speaker 4: Oh, the schedule, my brother, I thought about you this

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Speaker 4: with this too, got right. So Anthony is gonna say,

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Speaker 4: let's go down every single team's schedule from the preseason

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Speaker 2: know it's funny. I'm looking at this series and I

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so I mean you kind of look, I was

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Speaker 4: thinking about it earlier tonight, like Jokic and Anthony Davis

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Speaker 4: then you kind of trickle down the roster and see,

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Speaker 4: man for man. But certainly Jamal Murray can hold his

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Speaker 4: Correct, correct, And then it trickles down to the players.

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Speaker 4: You know, I think it'll be interesting, you know Kntavia's Callwell,

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Speaker 4: twenty twenty. Now he's been an important piece for Denver.

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Speaker 4: Michael Porter Junior is better now than he was back then,

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Speaker 4: it's going to be actually a little bit tougher and

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Speaker 4: it's a contrast of styles. You know, the Lakers defending

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Speaker 4: I really do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't. You know, it's funny. I want to

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Speaker 2: if you saw a Lakers I've seen it. Now it's

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Speaker 2: a Lakers game one. Denver is five.

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Speaker 4: Yeah that makes sense.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, you'll close. They think it'll be you know.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: One fifty is you know, telling you Lakers, Lakers bring

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Speaker 4: And one one aspect too to think about. I don't

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Speaker 4: They had guys like Dwight Howard, like JaVale McGee that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, now that's a that's a great point. That's

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Speaker 2: I think that series is gonna be amazing. And then

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Speaker 2: we just need to figure out who's playing the heat. Yep,

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Speaker 2: So who's going to play the heat? Is in Boston?

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Speaker 2: Is in Philadelphia? Game seven, now that we have a

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Speaker 2: would have been two games, one at night. So now

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Speaker 2: that they're will be the only game, and uh, the

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Speaker 2: you what fig and it's with some trending and then

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Speaker 2: we'll go over the game.

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Speaker 4: All right, Well, as we've been talking about, Lebron James

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Speaker 4: a thirty point effort, his first thirty point effort of

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Speaker 4: the postseason, leading the Lakers to a dominant one twenty

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Speaker 4: two to one oh one victory over the Warriors Friday night,

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Speaker 4: Lakers clinching at birth in the Western Conference Finals for

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Speaker 4: the first time since twenty twenty, when they played the

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Speaker 4: Denver Nuggets in the Bubble. This time, Game one will

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Speaker 4: be in Denver on Tuesday night. Anthony Davis, by the

435
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Speaker 4: way twenty rebounds, leading a defensive effort that held the

436
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Speaker 4: Warriors to under forty percent shooting from the field. The

437
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Speaker 4: Miami Heat, as we talked about a little bit earlier,

438
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Speaker 4: put the Clams on the Knicks defensively as well. They

439
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Speaker 4: pick up a ninety six to ninety two victory to

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Speaker 4: win that series four games to two in advance to

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Speaker 4: the Eastern Conference Finals. Despite a forty one point effort

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Speaker 4: from Jalen Brunson. In the NHL, Florida defeated Toronto on overtime,

443
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Speaker 4: advancing to the Eastern Conference Finals, Las Vegas beating Edmonton

444
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Speaker 4: four to three, taking a three to two series lead.

445
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Speaker 4: In Major League Baseball, the Dodgers beat the Padres for

446
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Speaker 4: their third straight victory. Yard On Alvarez win deep for

447
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Speaker 4: Houston and a victory over the White Sox Cardinals, a

448
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Speaker 4: comeback victory over the Red Sox. Toronto beat Atlanta behind

449
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Speaker 4: a complete game shutout by Chris Bassett. He also had

450
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Speaker 4: victories for Oakland, the Yankees, and the Angels. Back to

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Speaker 4: the Fellas, all.

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Speaker 3: Right, that's us.

453
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Speaker 2: We are the Fellas and coming alive from the ti

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Speaker 2: iraq dot Com studios.

455
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Speaker 3: So fake.

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Speaker 2: So the other night, let's set up this series so

457
00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:19,959
Speaker 2: it's Boston and it's Philadelphia, and Philadelphia. It takes a

458
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Speaker 2: three two lead with a dominating performance in Game five

459
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Speaker 2: on Tuesday night, they just completely dismantled the Celtics in

460
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Speaker 2: Boston come home Thursday night, which was going to be

461
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Speaker 2: closed out night in a big party, fake with you know,

462
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Speaker 2: there was a closeout party schedule.

463
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Speaker 4: Thursday night looked good for a while.

464
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Speaker 2: You know, it was amazing because they came out I

465
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Speaker 2: thought they were tight. I thought they looked tight the

466
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Speaker 2: whole game. But they came out ultra tight. And then

467
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Speaker 2: you wear Boston down, Boston. The Celtics looked completely out

468
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Speaker 2: of sorts in the third quarter.

469
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Speaker 4: You saw them, and in the fourth quarter, they're a mess.

470
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Speaker 4: Dayden's a mess. He was awful. Was he one for thirteen?

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Speaker 2: Yes, he's a mess. They're a mess. And then all

472
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Speaker 2: of a sudden he gets hot. And I will say this,

473
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Speaker 2: that was that was a great player, an epic type

474
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Speaker 2: player performance where he rises up, he's like you said,

475
00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:39,199
Speaker 2: one for a million, and rises up with confidence with

476
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Speaker 2: Joe Allen bean in his face and bury that triple.

477
00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:47,199
Speaker 4: Leave the guts it takes to take that shot when

478
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Speaker 4: you've been so bad, right, is incredible with the confidence

479
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Speaker 4: that he has because a lot of guys would shrink,

480
00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:56,760
Speaker 4: they'd get timid. But you know what I when I

481
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Speaker 4: know watching him do that and then he came back

482
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Speaker 4: the very next POSSI shouldn't hit another three. It just

483
00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:07,080
Speaker 4: had the moxy of his mentor, Kobe Bryant written all

484
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Speaker 4: over it, because nobody would care more than Kobe. Kobe

485
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:11,920
Speaker 4: could have been zero for fifty and he would have

486
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Speaker 4: kept shooting. And so when he made those back to

487
00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:16,639
Speaker 4: back threes, I was like he channeled his inner Kobe

488
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Speaker 4: on that. Yeah, Kobe were very tight Kobe I had

489
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Speaker 4: kind of taken him under his wing and had become

490
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Speaker 4: his mentor. And that's kind of what it looked like

491
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Speaker 4: to me the other night. And then one of these courts,

492
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Speaker 4: was it twelve consecutive points, Yeah, to lead them back

493
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Speaker 4: to a victory, And that I felt for you. I

494
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:35,639
Speaker 4: felt for Philadelphia because it looked like, I want to

495
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Speaker 4: say they were fully in control, but it certainly looked

496
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Speaker 4: like once they grabbed the lead, you know they were

497
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Speaker 4: on their way to get in the victory, and you know,

498
00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:46,080
Speaker 4: he just refused to lose. That was just a spectacular performance,

499
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Speaker 4: or at least a spectacular end in clutch time by

500
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Speaker 4: a phenomenon player.

501
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Speaker 2: Phenomenal I mean the back to back threes, the one

502
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Speaker 2: that gives him the lead, and the one up that

503
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Speaker 2: puts him up by four, which in that which basically

504
00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:02,120
Speaker 2: shield the game. Now, well, there's a couple of things. One,

505
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:07,320
Speaker 2: the Sixers just went ice cold. They just didn't do

506
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:12,960
Speaker 2: anything offensively. And one of the things that was really

507
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:19,040
Speaker 2: upsetting was that they looked, you know, down the stretch,

508
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 2: they looked scared. Harden, who has been incredible at times

509
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Speaker 2: during this series, marvelous at times during the series, has

510
00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 2: been awful at times in this series.

511
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Speaker 4: He's unreal. There's never been in between. He's either been

512
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Speaker 4: otherworldly or got awful. He's not had like a yeah,

513
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Speaker 4: he scored twenty two points with tennis says and shot

514
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Speaker 4: forty eight percent. No, he's either giving you forty five

515
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:46,600
Speaker 4: or he's given you twelve, like with a lot of turnovers.

516
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Speaker 4: Like it's incredible. I don't know if I've ever seen

517
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Speaker 4: somebody have this many highs and this many lowers in

518
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Speaker 4: a single series ever, right, I mean.

519
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Speaker 3: And it was funny.

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Speaker 2: I was talking to Legs Tim Legler, who was the

521
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Speaker 2: NBA analyst ESPN and.

522
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Speaker 3: He's a regular on my show, and I mean, Legs goos, dude,

523
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Speaker 3: he goes, have you.

524
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Speaker 2: Seen a disparity between floor and ceiling ever, and I

525
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Speaker 2: can't tell you I've ever seen that.

526
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Speaker 3: No, it's florid ceiling, Figgie.

527
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Speaker 4: And it's hard to win like they look like they

528
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Speaker 4: obviously can still win on Sunday. It's hard to win

529
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Speaker 4: a championship and make a deep run when one of

530
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:34,119
Speaker 4: the most important players on your roster you don't know

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Speaker 4: what you're gonna get on a night in and night

532
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Speaker 4: out basis. You know one thing I thought about too,

533
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 4: which was tough. You'd always talked about how Tyree's Maxie

534
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,639
Speaker 4: struggled so much against the Celtics. He actually had a

535
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Speaker 4: really good game. He had a very good game, at

536
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Speaker 4: least to start early on. You look at his final

537
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Speaker 4: stat line doesn't look bad, but he missed a couple

538
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Speaker 4: of a couple of shots that I'm sure you like

539
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:56,639
Speaker 4: to have back in the final stretch too. But you

540
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Speaker 4: almost feel like it was a bit of a wasted

541
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Speaker 4: effort for him to come out and score twenty six

542
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Speaker 4: almost fifty percent shooting against the team that he routinely

543
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Speaker 4: struggles against. You feel like he kind of missed one there.

544
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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, Oh my god. And I think worst comes

545
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:19,440
Speaker 2: the worst is that the worst thing about the other

546
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Speaker 2: night was just how how like badly they ran their

547
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 2: ofference at the end of the game. You see the

548
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:30,880
Speaker 2: body language at the end of the game. How does

549
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 2: him be not get the ball? He takes one shot

550
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Speaker 2: within the last six minutes of the game.

551
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Speaker 4: And I think that one shot is when he was

552
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Speaker 4: given the ball kind of free throw line extended out

553
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Speaker 4: near the three point line, and he kind of backed

554
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Speaker 4: him down and dribbled his way into the lane. It's

555
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 4: how they ran action and guy who gave him the

556
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 4: ball in the low post, right, I don't I don't

557
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,640
Speaker 4: understand how that happens. Someone like Joel Embiid in a

558
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,240
Speaker 4: close game like that in the final three, you know,

559
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:56,440
Speaker 4: two and a half three minutes, should touch the ball

560
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 4: literally every possession. There should never be a possession where

561
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Speaker 4: he doesn't touch the ball or at least be involved

562
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,720
Speaker 4: in some sort of screen and role action. But he

563
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 4: should not be standing over to the side, not involved

564
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 4: in what's happening. And too many times down that stretch

565
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Speaker 4: that that's what happened in that game, and I just

566
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 4: don't understand it.

567
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Speaker 3: Listen to this.

568
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 2: So for twenty nine to go in the game, six

569
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Speaker 2: is up eighty three, eighty one here's the nine. Their

570
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:25,840
Speaker 2: next nine possessions. Heartened miss than the embiide miss that

571
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 2: you just said, MAXI miss, MAXI miss is a free

572
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 2: throw Tucker miss hardened blocked by Horford. Remember he Horford

573
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:41,960
Speaker 2: swatted that shot. Yep, Melted misses, hearted misses again, Harden turnover.

574
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:45,960
Speaker 2: Celtic's up ninety five eighty four. Are you kidding me?

575
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Speaker 4: I mean, it's a completely unraveling. That's exactly what happened

576
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 4: at home, No less, after you played so well and

577
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:55,400
Speaker 4: picking up that victory in Boston. I mean, we thought

578
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 4: it was a foregone conclusion. They come back home and

579
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Speaker 4: close that thing out.

580
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 2: I know it's and now I wonder how they're going

581
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Speaker 2: to come out and what they're going to be. The

582
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:10,560
Speaker 2: last time fig that they faced a game seven with

583
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Speaker 2: Doc as their coach. It was against the Hawks on

584
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Speaker 2: Father's Day and it was a game seven and they

585
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:28,040
Speaker 2: should have won. It was against Atlanta, it was Father's

586
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 2: Day and they came out tight and they lost.

587
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Speaker 4: And I'm trying to remember. You will remember more vividly

588
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 4: than I, since you follow this so closely. Usually teams

589
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,760
Speaker 4: kind of follow the you know, the tenor of their

590
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:43,720
Speaker 4: leader was embiid tight in that game.

591
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 2: So it was less than bid. But if you remember,

592
00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 2: that was the Simmons passing up.

593
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 4: The dunk, passing the lay up under the basket was

594
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Speaker 4: a phrase get fouled.

595
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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, And that was the end of Simmons.

596
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 2: And the next day they get their out and the

597
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:11,479
Speaker 2: next day he wants to trade, right, and it was she'

598
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 2: just bizarre and all that thing will worked out. And

599
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 2: then later that week or later that summer, Ramona Shelburne

600
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 2: reported that Simmons came out did he faked the COVID

601
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 2: exposure to try to get out of the game?

602
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:28,600
Speaker 3: Right?

603
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 4: That was a report? Was that ever actually confirmed? I

604
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:34,960
Speaker 4: know that was her reporting, and speculate.

605
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 3: Romona put that out that well, they said, Romot.

606
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Speaker 4: She's there. Look, I know Ramona, so it's like not

607
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:40,960
Speaker 4: well by no R. So I know she's not making

608
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Speaker 4: it up.

609
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 2: She's yeah, and I heard. I'll listen. I'll back her

610
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 2: up on it too because I heard it too. Okay, yeah, yeah,

611
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:48,400
Speaker 2: I heard the same story.

612
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's I've had a lot of noise, to say

613
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 4: the least, around that franchise for the last few years.

614
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 4: And then you think they kind of finally put it together,

615
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Speaker 4: especially with that big effort that they had on in

616
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 4: Game five. That's what just made the you know, Game

617
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 4: six so disappointing for it to finish the way that

618
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 4: it did, because you.

619
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Speaker 2: Had all the moment, the buildings freaking out right, you

620
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Speaker 2: have all of them mad him in the world.

621
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Speaker 4: Like I thought they would come out and play the

622
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 4: way the Lakers played on Friday. I thought it would

623
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 4: be not necessarily a no doubter where you're up by

624
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 4: twenty with nine minutes to go on the fourth, but

625
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:22,880
Speaker 4: certainly God could have seen a you know, eight to

626
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 4: ten point, you know victory.

627
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 2: That helped somehow is not able to get not able

628
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 2: to get there.

629
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Speaker 4: Yeah, right, did the run fall short? Yeah? One thing

630
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Speaker 4: I'll say that works in Philadelphia's favor. It's not like

631
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:37,960
Speaker 4: Boston has been very to steal a term from Colin

632
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 4: Cowherd buttoned up at times either. I mean, look, they

633
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 4: got pushed by Atlanta. There are a couple of possessions

634
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 4: away from going to Game seven against Atlanta themselves a

635
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:47,720
Speaker 4: team they're clearly superior. Then oh yeah, they've had some

636
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 4: up and downs this year. I don't know if that's as.

637
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:52,240
Speaker 2: They had Atlanta won on their home court, and the

638
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 2: Sixers have already won twice on their home court.

639
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 4: Right right, So I don't think that they're They're not

640
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:00,959
Speaker 4: necessarily a juggernaut. It look, it's going to be really difficult,

641
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 4: difficult to go into Boston and to win yet again.

642
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 4: But to your point, you've already shown that you can

643
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 4: do it, so it's certainly not impossible, but you just

644
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 4: don't want to take it to chance. You never want

645
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 4: to go on the road in a game seven. This

646
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:15,520
Speaker 4: is why so many people said that Friday night was

647
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 4: a must win for the Lakers. You don't want to

648
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 4: go back to Golden State, you know, in that atmosphere

649
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 4: in it's game seven, because you just never know what

650
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 4: could happen. And you know, we said the exact same

651
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,240
Speaker 4: thing happening with Philadelphia. So that's because, look, is Jason

652
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Speaker 4: Tatum going to go start one for thirteen again? It's unlikely,

653
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 4: especially at home now he might. He's had some tough

654
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 4: games too, go back to some of the previous games

655
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 4: they've played. But you're playing with fire when you have

656
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 4: a team with great players who usually play well at home,

657
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Speaker 4: and you don't close them out when you have the

658
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 4: opportunity to do in a game in Philadelphia like you

659
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Speaker 4: had the chance to. So I wish I could say

660
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Speaker 4: that if I had to pick that, I would pick

661
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Speaker 4: the Philadelphia seventy six Ers on Sunday. But I'll be

662
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Speaker 4: honest with you, if I had to pick right now,

663
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Speaker 4: I take Austin back home.

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Speaker 2: It looks at their seven point favorite, that's substantial. And

665
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 2: uh no, listen, I get it. I mean didn't be

666
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 2: the issue too for the Sixers is you know how

667
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:13,879
Speaker 2: they gonna come out, and they're gonna come out Timmy there,

668
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 2: They're gonna come out tight. And I mean you know

669
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 2: there's a lot on the line to legacy wise for

670
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 2: sure for three guys. Right, you have Doc Rivers.

671
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 4: Who is a terrible record in elimination games, by the way.

672
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:33,319
Speaker 2: Right right, Harden, because how many times you're gonna hear

673
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 2: about playoff Harden?

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Speaker 4: Uh huh, which you know it seemed like he kind

675
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:38,479
Speaker 4: of shook was every time. It seems like he's gonna

676
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:40,560
Speaker 4: shake out of it with a forty point effort. He

677
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 4: has a dud like he had the other night.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and now it's in game seven, so even more magnified.

679
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Speaker 4: Yep. And then you have the MVP, the MVP of

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Speaker 4: the league.

681
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 2: That's right, and so he's got to check because he

682
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:56,440
Speaker 2: hasn't been out of the second round.

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Speaker 4: No, as hard as that is to believe, Yeah, And

684
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Speaker 4: I don't think that's on him per se.

685
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:02,399
Speaker 3: Nothing.

686
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 2: I don't listen. I don't either. I lived it, and

687
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 2: I'll tell you it's not on him. But the problem

688
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:12,440
Speaker 2: that he has that he's got to shake is with

689
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:13,839
Speaker 2: things don't coach way he.

690
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,839
Speaker 4: Mopes, Yes, And that's the part of you know, I'm

691
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 4: glad you brought that up, because I feel like the

692
00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:21,880
Speaker 4: team takes on the personality of their stars. So you

693
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 4: talk about guys coming out flat or being tight or

694
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:27,240
Speaker 4: moping or the body language at the end of game six,

695
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:30,400
Speaker 4: all of that falls on Joel and Beat And I'll

696
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:30,920
Speaker 4: say all of.

697
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:34,480
Speaker 2: It because he's the team leader right now, and I

698
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 2: love him, you know I do. I love him so

699
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:40,800
Speaker 2: but he he can't you can't do that. There was

700
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,239
Speaker 2: a minute and they half to go and him and

701
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:45,399
Speaker 2: hard and are just kind of walking up the court

702
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 2: and they're down, you know, they're down to eight.

703
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:49,919
Speaker 3: It's like, yo, guys, what do you guys doing.

704
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 4: We'll have a shot at this, Yeah, right.

705
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Speaker 3: And they did the same thing last year in Miami.

706
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:57,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I don't know if it's the past the

707
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:01,799
Speaker 4: playoff woes that the both of them have had separately. Yeah,

708
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:04,240
Speaker 4: it kind of creeps into their mind to a certain degree.

709
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,399
Speaker 4: What to look, they're human, I certainly understand it. But look,

710
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:09,359
Speaker 4: I mean, you still got games to play, you know, Yeah,

711
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:11,320
Speaker 4: there's still time on the clock. There's still a chance.

712
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:11,919
Speaker 3: Yep.

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00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 2: All right, Well take quick to welcome right back where

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Speaker 2: the fella is right here on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back, Fellas, Kevin Figures. I'm Anthony Gargana

720
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:43,320
Speaker 2: Fellas right here on Fox Sports Radio talking.

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Speaker 3: About the NBA playoffs. So a couple of things that if.

722
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:53,280
Speaker 2: It's amazing because Sixers and Celtics are probably are definitely

723
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:54,839
Speaker 2: two best teams in the East. I mean, all due

724
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 2: respect to Miami, who's already in the Eastern Conference finals.

725
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 3: The those two games have been in you.

726
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:07,240
Speaker 2: Know, terrific all season long, and you know, I think

727
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 2: back to it if they If the Sixers lose this game,

728
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 2: you know, there could be some big changes.

729
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 4: I think there will be, right, Yeah.

730
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Speaker 2: I mean Doc Rivers probably won't be back, you know, No,

731
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 2: I think it'll just be too much unfortunately.

732
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Speaker 4: He just I mean, I feel like they're the numbers

733
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:27,479
Speaker 4: are too are too stacked against him at this point

734
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 4: to keep saying like, well, it's just a coincidence. You

735
00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 4: lose that many three one leads, you lose this many

736
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 4: times and close out situations. It's whether his teams aren't prepared.

737
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:37,799
Speaker 3: Well.

738
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Speaker 4: I know, I know, I know what players like them,

739
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:41,239
Speaker 4: I know they respect him. He's a nice guy, all

740
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 4: of that stuff. But there's just something to miss. I

741
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:45,920
Speaker 4: guess the issue too, is if you do let him go,

742
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:49,440
Speaker 4: who are you replacing them with? That would be you

743
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:51,240
Speaker 4: know a lot better.

744
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:55,359
Speaker 2: Right now, there's two names out there already, like big

745
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 2: names out there and Nurse and coach Bud.

746
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 3: But you know, I mean, I don't know.

747
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 2: I mean, the shame is is that I think he's

748
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:08,360
Speaker 2: done a hell of a job in in how he's

749
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:13,800
Speaker 2: helped Tyrese Maxi blossom into a really terrific player. What

750
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:16,239
Speaker 2: he's done with him being and getting him being a

751
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:20,919
Speaker 2: money shot like that free throw line extended or when

752
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:24,400
Speaker 2: he goes to the nail and it's pretty much money

753
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:27,680
Speaker 2: And that's all Doc. And it's a shame because you know,

754
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:30,760
Speaker 2: I think he's done a really good job this whole

755
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 2: series up until Game six. I mean Game six, I

756
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 2: was a little the rotation I thought was a little off.

757
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:39,840
Speaker 3: And oh I never.

758
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 4: Heard that before with Doc. The rotations are off.

759
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I just didn't like some of the

760
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:49,400
Speaker 2: rotation that was there during the game. He had kneagg

761
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:52,879
Speaker 2: in late and I'm going, you know, Tucker only played

762
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:56,319
Speaker 2: twenty minutes right, which was which was strange to me.

763
00:38:57,160 --> 00:38:59,840
Speaker 2: You know, it's and then looked the unfortunate part in

764
00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 2: the situation. We've talked about this, We talked about this

765
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 2: last week when coach Budd got it from Milwaukee. But

766
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:08,799
Speaker 2: a team goes down, they don't meet expectations, especially if

767
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 2: a team like Philadelphia that so many times over the

768
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 2: last few years has been sort of knocking on the

769
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 2: door and just hasn't been able to break through. Somebody's

770
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:18,760
Speaker 2: gonna have to end up paying the price for it. Now.

771
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 4: It's not going to be Joel Embiid, who just won

772
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 4: the MVP Award, who's making a lot of money and

773
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:25,279
Speaker 4: is a great player. You know, James Harden could be

774
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 4: out the door anyway, So I mean, who doesn't fall

775
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:30,600
Speaker 4: on at that point, the easiest person to replace is

776
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:34,240
Speaker 4: usually the coach, and Doc Rivers doesn't have the equity

777
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 4: built up. Unfortunately, he has equity because he's been a

778
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 4: successful coach for the most part throughout his career. But

779
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 4: in these situations he struggled and he's been the common denominator.

780
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 2: I mean, and any of the Hard situation because does

781
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 2: Hard to opt out of his deal and there was

782
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:52,560
Speaker 2: a lot of talk about Hard and maybe going back

783
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 2: to Houston, which I think would be more of a

784
00:39:56,760 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 2: personal situation, and you know, does that play itself out?

785
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:05,640
Speaker 2: And then it's a new coach and then who's you know,

786
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:10,280
Speaker 2: who's Joe's you know, who's who's Robin running mate?

787
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 3: Right? Like, who's this guy?

788
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:15,080
Speaker 4: Because absent of being able to trade for somebody, it's

789
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:17,520
Speaker 4: gonna end up being Maxie. And is Maxie ready for that?

790
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:20,799
Speaker 2: You know, It's funny because I think he I think

791
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 2: he's a hell of a player. I agree, and I

792
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 2: think you probably handle it, but you still need somebody.

793
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 2: I still think you need three stars yep, and you

794
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 2: certainly would need a point guard at least yeah to

795
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:33,800
Speaker 2: run the show.

796
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, anyway, we'll come back.

797
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:39,879
Speaker 2: We're also got to look at the NFL schedule coming up,

798
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 2: Fellas on Fox.

799
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Speaker 3: All right, welcome back.

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Speaker 2: dot Com. All right, Fellas, we've been talking about these

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00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:49,680
Speaker 2: plaza plus are just wild, just in the just I'm

813
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 2: just watching the Lakers last night, I'm watching Lebron and

814
00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:57,279
Speaker 2: I had to question So I just started thinking about it.

815
00:41:57,280 --> 00:42:02,600
Speaker 2: If you give me the top twenty players over the

816
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:08,960
Speaker 2: last twenty years, so clearly Lebron's number one and Steph

817
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:10,240
Speaker 2: is number two, right.

818
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:12,839
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd be hard pressed to argue against that.

819
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:16,799
Speaker 2: And I'm thinking about this, and I'm thinking, all right,

820
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:19,320
Speaker 2: because you kind of forget some of the greats like

821
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:22,120
Speaker 2: d Wade, You'll have to put in there, like if

822
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:23,800
Speaker 2: you go twenty years.

823
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 4: So you're going back to what twenty two thousand and three, Yeah,

824
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 4: so that's Shack and Kobe were in their heyday Tim

825
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:34,759
Speaker 4: Duncan way back then.

826
00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:40,399
Speaker 2: So you would actually go to Lebron Kobe, right, because

827
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 2: if Kobe's twenty years and Kobe's still relevant.

828
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:47,120
Speaker 4: Definitely relevant, Although I do think an argument can be

829
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 4: made at this point whether or not he or who's

830
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:53,239
Speaker 4: better between he and Steph, to be honest, So I

831
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 4: don't know if I would necessarily automatically say Kobe goes,

832
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:58,719
Speaker 4: you know it, to number two behind Lebron sEH.

833
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:03,080
Speaker 2: I think I have to put Kobe now, I so Kobe,

834
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:08,280
Speaker 2: let me think Kobe. I'm trying to think, because Kobe's

835
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 2: career spans nineties into two.

836
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 4: Thousands, correct, He came in in ninety six, really burst

837
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:16,600
Speaker 4: onto the scene probably around ninety eight. They won their

838
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:20,560
Speaker 4: first title in ninety nine, So yeah, bye. By two

839
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:22,839
Speaker 4: thousand and three, he was just kind of entering into

840
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 4: the prime of his career. I'd say from three to

841
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:27,560
Speaker 4: about two thousand and eight he was remarkable.

842
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:34,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think back now because I had I had

843
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:37,560
Speaker 2: one of the great one of my fun stories that

844
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:42,080
Speaker 2: I've written that I loved was did do you remember

845
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:46,720
Speaker 2: when they were talking They were talking about trading Kobe.

846
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:49,600
Speaker 4: Kobe wanted to trade vividly. I remember that I was

847
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 4: working at our local affilia. We had the rights to

848
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:54,080
Speaker 4: the Laker games at that time. We were one of

849
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 4: the radio stations he came on and asked to be

850
00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 4: traded on in that whole situation, Yes, yeah, absolutely.

851
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:04,480
Speaker 2: So right before that, there was some problems between him

852
00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 2: and Phil Jackson, and so I was working in New

853
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:12,239
Speaker 2: York and I had to go, and they go, I

854
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 2: was in LA doing a story. They said, go do

855
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 2: a story on Kobe accident. No, I'd already left. I

856
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:21,279
Speaker 2: was back the Inquirer. I was in Philly and I

857
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:24,880
Speaker 2: was in LA doing something. And I had known Kobe

858
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:27,760
Speaker 2: from from you you know obviously from Philly and stuff.

859
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:31,240
Speaker 2: And uh so I said, I'm gonna do a history

860
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:36,279
Speaker 2: on Kobe and I go to practice, so you know,

861
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 2: I set it up. And I knew him a little bit,

862
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:42,400
Speaker 2: so we were I set it up and I see it.

863
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:45,160
Speaker 2: He's like, dude, he goes, I got to run to

864
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 2: something happening. He had to run to the airport. He said,

865
00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:53,480
Speaker 2: you mind if we if we go to the airport

866
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:56,360
Speaker 2: and you just take a cab back to your hotel.

867
00:44:57,360 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 3: And I was like, nah, no problem.

868
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,959
Speaker 2: He's like, you know, it'll probably be traffic, so we'll

869
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 2: we'll just you know, we'll talk during it by drive.

870
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 2: I was like, all right, you know that's cool. So

871
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:13,040
Speaker 2: we're stuck in traffic. I mean it's Kobe and I

872
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 2: for like two hours.

873
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:15,160
Speaker 3: Wow.

874
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:21,239
Speaker 2: And it was awesome just in his car talking about

875
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:24,440
Speaker 2: the whole thing. It was great. It was like a

876
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:28,200
Speaker 2: great story. And I was able to being in being

877
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:32,160
Speaker 2: in his car talking about this story. I'm coming thinking

878
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:35,840
Speaker 2: at I'm telling the story. I'm thinking about it. Smile.

879
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:37,680
Speaker 3: I loved him, man, I did.

880
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:43,239
Speaker 4: He was a phenomenal player, great obviously, spirit nothing. He

881
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:48,800
Speaker 4: was never intimidated by any situation, and I've been actually

882
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:51,000
Speaker 4: one of his biggest critics over the years because I

883
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 4: felt that he kind of wanted to win at times

884
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:56,759
Speaker 4: on his terms, and I don't think those always necessarily

885
00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 4: jibed with what was best for the team from a

886
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:01,920
Speaker 4: meta standpoint, which I think is kind of the reason

887
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:04,120
Speaker 4: one of the reasons why he and Phil Jackson. Yes,

888
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 4: but that's fair, that's fair, that's fair. So that so,

889
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:09,879
Speaker 4: but doesn't mean he was any less of a great

890
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 4: player by by any stretch.

891
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:14,279
Speaker 3: I just love I mean, he was as close to

892
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:15,439
Speaker 3: Jordan as you could get.

893
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:19,759
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was from a from a drive standpoint, absolutely,

894
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:22,719
Speaker 4: From the way he played efficiency wise and all that,

895
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:24,759
Speaker 4: that's a different discussion. But I think from a from

896
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:27,600
Speaker 4: a mental toughness and from a drive standpoint, I think

897
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:31,320
Speaker 4: he was pretty close to unmatched. Uh, he and Jordan

898
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:33,399
Speaker 4: probably one and two when it comes to that. I'll

899
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:37,160
Speaker 4: give him that, but I would still put Steph over

900
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:38,719
Speaker 4: we're talking over the last twenty years. I think I

901
00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:42,000
Speaker 4: will put Steph ahead of him. Steph, I think you can.

902
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:45,200
Speaker 4: I know people said, you know, the Mount Rushmore arguments

903
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:47,160
Speaker 4: are are are dated, but I mean I still think

904
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:50,359
Speaker 4: if you're talking about top five, top six of all time.

905
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:54,480
Speaker 4: It's difficult to keep Steph out of that argument. If

906
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:56,360
Speaker 4: he's one of the best players in the history of

907
00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:58,319
Speaker 4: the sport and putting the ball in the basket, which

908
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:01,719
Speaker 4: is the name of basketball, and revolutionize the sport, which

909
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:04,359
Speaker 4: he has done, how can he not be And he's

910
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:08,000
Speaker 4: won He's won four championships, so he had won, He's

911
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:10,759
Speaker 4: won multiple MVP awards. You know, if you want to

912
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:13,279
Speaker 4: say he was struggling in the NBA Finals in years past,

913
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:15,799
Speaker 4: I think him getting that Finals MVP award last year

914
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:19,239
Speaker 4: adds something to his resume that had been missing. What

915
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:22,000
Speaker 4: more do you want the guy to do? Why wouldn't

916
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:23,640
Speaker 4: you be considered one of the best top five players

917
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:27,280
Speaker 4: in the history of the sport? What's missing?

918
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:33,279
Speaker 2: I I'm just I'm just gonna argue that Kobe Steph thing.

919
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:37,440
Speaker 2: I just my eyes keep telling me Kobe, Kobe, Kobe,

920
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:47,719
Speaker 2: because because I just think he's a better player, right,

921
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:50,960
Speaker 2: I mean, I just think he's he was a better defender.

922
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:55,960
Speaker 2: He was he had you know, equally ridiculous. I mean,

923
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 2: he was he is his rage was it. He was streaky.

924
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously Steph was a better shooter, but his

925
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:06,320
Speaker 2: all around game was just better.

926
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:11,280
Speaker 4: Well uh he dead. Look his degree of difficulty on shots,

927
00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:14,239
Speaker 4: I don't think. I think that's unmatched by anybody in

928
00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 4: the in the history of the sport. I think Kobe

929
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:19,320
Speaker 4: Bryant was the best bad shot or difficult shot maker

930
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:23,400
Speaker 4: that the league has ever seen. I'll definitely give you that,

931
00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:27,319
Speaker 4: but it wasn't necessarily the most efficient at times. Uh,

932
00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:29,960
Speaker 4: while Steph Curry taking the most difficult shot, you know,

933
00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 4: three from behind the three point line and at times

934
00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:34,600
Speaker 4: deep behind the three point line and basically mastering it

935
00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 4: being unstoppable in his own right. I also think there's

936
00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:40,920
Speaker 4: something to Yes, Kobe was a better defensive player, but

937
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:44,760
Speaker 4: if somebody, if somebody is just so dominant on one side,

938
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:47,360
Speaker 4: like I mean, look, David Robinson was a better defensive

939
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:49,640
Speaker 4: player than Shack. But was David Robinson a better player

940
00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 4: than Shaq?

941
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:50,680
Speaker 3: Yeah?

942
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:52,840
Speaker 2: But the thing is is that I can't give you

943
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:57,279
Speaker 2: the dominance over I can't give you Steph Stminitz offensively

944
00:48:57,320 --> 00:49:00,600
Speaker 2: over Kobe, because Kobe was a ridiculous offer. It's a player,

945
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:04,160
Speaker 2: I mean, and you could argue he was a more

946
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:07,480
Speaker 2: he had more range to his game offensively.

947
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:09,319
Speaker 4: He was more well rounded. But again, just because I

948
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:10,359
Speaker 4: mean I'm shooting.

949
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 3: Range, I'm talking about range of his game. Yeah.

950
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:13,879
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean just because you're more well rounded doesn't

951
00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:15,399
Speaker 4: mean that you're not bad. I mean, look, Steph Curry

952
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:17,040
Speaker 4: as great as a shooter as he is, it's a

953
00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 4: phenomenal passer too.

954
00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 3: Yeah.

955
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 4: I averaged eight ten assists a year as well. That's

956
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:22,400
Speaker 4: one part of the thing, one of the things I

957
00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:24,799
Speaker 4: think he doesn't get credit for. Yeah, I mean it's

958
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:26,880
Speaker 4: like he's so great and so other world.

959
00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:31,640
Speaker 2: You go, Steph, I go Kobe correct all right, four,

960
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:37,360
Speaker 2: I go k D fair Yeah, or you go Duncan.

961
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:42,040
Speaker 2: My mate taste Kate Donalds to go Duncan three. I

962
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:44,399
Speaker 2: can't go Duncan three. I still would go. I would

963
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:47,959
Speaker 2: still go KD four and a dunkin five.

964
00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:50,360
Speaker 4: Man, that's a tough one because both of those guys.

965
00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:53,799
Speaker 4: I think compelling arguments can be made for both, because

966
00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:56,120
Speaker 4: I mean, look, when it's all said and done, Kevin Durant,

967
00:49:56,239 --> 00:49:58,680
Speaker 4: you know he's gonna the injuries have really hurt him

968
00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:00,800
Speaker 4: over the last couple of years. I mean, he's still

969
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 4: stat standpoint because he ultimately he could have ended up

970
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:06,480
Speaker 4: being the the all time leading scorer and still probably

971
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 4: is gonna end up being in the top five before

972
00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 4: his season his career is over.

973
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:15,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, certainly. I mean think about nobody. We never saw

974
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:20,040
Speaker 2: anyone like him, not like Dirk. Yeah, Dirk was still

975
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:22,520
Speaker 2: a guy. I mean he had rage and you know,

976
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:25,920
Speaker 2: but not like k D, who would just no, no,

977
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:28,720
Speaker 2: we never sold six to eleven guy who could shoot

978
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:29,560
Speaker 2: over anybody.

979
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:30,680
Speaker 4: Not like that.

980
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:35,240
Speaker 2: Not that Dirk was more was more of a big

981
00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:39,160
Speaker 2: k D, right, D more of a guard.

982
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:41,080
Speaker 3: The way he shot the ball.

983
00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:44,239
Speaker 4: KD had more of a guard's game, Dirk. You know,

984
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:45,920
Speaker 4: they give him the ball in the mid range. Obviously

985
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:48,279
Speaker 4: he can shoot from three, but especially after Steve Nash

986
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:50,400
Speaker 4: left and when he came more of the focal point.

987
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:52,719
Speaker 4: He doesn't get enough credit for us. As much as

988
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:55,360
Speaker 4: he drove to the basket. You know, Dirk was extremely

989
00:50:55,360 --> 00:50:57,200
Speaker 4: talented at putting the ball on the floor getting into

990
00:50:57,200 --> 00:51:00,759
Speaker 4: the basket. Uh, not the Kemerkrant during doesn't do it

991
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:03,160
Speaker 4: and can't do it. But I mean his jump shot

992
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:05,160
Speaker 4: is just so silky smooth, and his arms are so

993
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:09,399
Speaker 4: long it's it's unguardable. It's an unguardable shot. And when

994
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:13,480
Speaker 4: he's on, he's he's unstoppable. So I would probably give

995
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:16,480
Speaker 4: the slight nod to Kevin Durant over Tim Duncan. But

996
00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:18,759
Speaker 4: it's one of those that I might change my mind tomorrow.

997
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:21,080
Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Correct, all right?

998
00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:27,360
Speaker 2: So Duncan, that's funny because Shack, because Shack really is

999
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:29,040
Speaker 2: in nineties.

1000
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:31,719
Speaker 4: He is, and by the and the unfortunate part for

1001
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:33,560
Speaker 4: him is, you know, by the time that he still

1002
00:51:33,560 --> 00:51:36,080
Speaker 4: could look he could have been, you know, as dominant

1003
00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:38,600
Speaker 4: into in the in the early two thousands, but that's

1004
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:40,919
Speaker 4: when he kind of got out of shape a little bit. Yeah,

1005
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:42,520
Speaker 4: you know, he had the comments with the Lakers.

1006
00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:47,360
Speaker 2: I almost want to put him out of this conversation.

1007
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:49,719
Speaker 4: Okay, because if you want to say, by the time

1008
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:51,799
Speaker 4: two thousand and three rolls around, he was pretty much

1009
00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:53,799
Speaker 4: on the decline at that point.

1010
00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:56,040
Speaker 2: I always want to put like because so much the

1011
00:51:56,520 --> 00:52:01,200
Speaker 2: disrespectful to put it, because you know, if you if

1012
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:05,840
Speaker 2: you make this exercise, you know, thirty years or twenty

1013
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:10,360
Speaker 2: five years, you know, then Shaq is you know somewhere

1014
00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:13,600
Speaker 2: in the two probably two three range.

1015
00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:17,239
Speaker 4: Oh, no doubt, you know, no doubt, which, by the way,

1016
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 4: and I to defend Shack on something that like one

1017
00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 4: of those narratives that get thrown out there and people

1018
00:52:22,239 --> 00:52:25,320
Speaker 4: just it just gets recycled. And remember when the Orlando

1019
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:28,480
Speaker 4: Magic got swept by Houston and the NBA Finals. Yeah,

1020
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:31,440
Speaker 4: and people talk about how Kima LaJuan just dominated Shaq.

1021
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:34,439
Speaker 4: Go look at Shaq's box score and do you tell

1022
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:37,360
Speaker 4: me who got dominated Chris, I think Houston had a

1023
00:52:37,360 --> 00:52:40,879
Speaker 4: better team and Lily did. And look and by the way,

1024
00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:45,520
Speaker 4: like Akima LaJuan definitely did his thing offensively for sure,

1025
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:47,799
Speaker 4: and defensively and all that. But Shaquille O'Neal more than

1026
00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 4: held his own. And the notion that Shack just got

1027
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:53,440
Speaker 4: his ass kicked by Akima LaJuan for that entire series

1028
00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:56,480
Speaker 4: and did nothing that was totally helpless is a complete misnomer.

1029
00:52:57,600 --> 00:52:58,080
Speaker 3: Agreed.

1030
00:52:58,360 --> 00:52:59,480
Speaker 4: I don't know how that got.

1031
00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:01,440
Speaker 3: Started, but yeah, I agree with you.

1032
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:03,560
Speaker 4: So he more than held his own against another all

1033
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:05,879
Speaker 4: time great, Nikim Olaja Wan Shaq was right there with.

1034
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:07,040
Speaker 3: Him, all right.

1035
00:53:07,200 --> 00:53:12,879
Speaker 2: So Lebron and we're doing this exercise just because of

1036
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:17,359
Speaker 2: last night watching those two go at it, Lebron and

1037
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:21,280
Speaker 2: Steph and watching Lebron still at the top.

1038
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:22,160
Speaker 3: I mean, what a.

1039
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:26,759
Speaker 2: Game what a game. Lakers just rolling last night. So impressive.

1040
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:31,920
Speaker 2: All right, so we got Lake, we have Lebron, Kobe

1041
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:38,360
Speaker 2: staff for Steph, Kobe, k d Dunky as the five.

1042
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:44,400
Speaker 3: Now it should be Dirk or Or or d Wade.

1043
00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 4: That's a difficult one too. I don't think Dwayne Wade

1044
00:53:48,640 --> 00:53:52,200
Speaker 4: gets enough credit. And honestly, I think the Lebron years,

1045
00:53:52,239 --> 00:53:54,879
Speaker 4: the Heatles years, Yeah, kind of hurts him a little

1046
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:56,920
Speaker 4: bit because he's foreshadowed by Lebron.

1047
00:53:57,000 --> 00:53:57,560
Speaker 3: Huh.

1048
00:53:57,600 --> 00:53:59,520
Speaker 2: But I almost think do you got to give it

1049
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:03,160
Speaker 2: to Derek because he did it by himself in that.

1050
00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:05,719
Speaker 4: He didn't have another superstar when Dwayne Wade won his

1051
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:08,719
Speaker 4: first title, he did have Shack with him. Even though

1052
00:54:08,719 --> 00:54:11,239
Speaker 4: he dominated the Mavericks in that series. The Mavericks and

1053
00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:14,759
Speaker 4: Dork Novisky by the way, in that NBA Finals did no.

1054
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:17,600
Speaker 2: I love it. I'm a d Way fa Way fan,

1055
00:54:18,360 --> 00:54:22,839
Speaker 2: but I gotta go Turkeys. Turkeys gets lost in the

1056
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:24,840
Speaker 2: mix of his greatness.

1057
00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:27,600
Speaker 4: Sometimes he would get lost even more if he imagine

1058
00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:30,640
Speaker 4: if Dirk didn't have that one championship, he'd be known

1059
00:54:30,680 --> 00:54:33,040
Speaker 4: for the guy that won an MVP awarding and lost

1060
00:54:33,040 --> 00:54:35,600
Speaker 4: in the first round to an eighth seed, Yeah, that

1061
00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:38,360
Speaker 4: will be yeah, and losing in the NBA Finals to

1062
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:41,600
Speaker 4: Dwayne Wade in the in the Miami Heat, but him

1063
00:54:41,719 --> 00:54:46,440
Speaker 4: getting that one championship against Lebron Wade and bosh Uh

1064
00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 4: kind of just solidified his entire career and changed everything.

1065
00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:52,759
Speaker 4: Because I don't know if people will be putting him

1066
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:54,720
Speaker 4: in this sort of list if it wasn't for that title.

1067
00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:55,279
Speaker 6: Fair or not.

1068
00:54:55,760 --> 00:54:57,040
Speaker 4: That's just kind of how it shakes out.

1069
00:54:57,120 --> 00:55:00,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it would be fair because he was remarkable,

1070
00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:02,480
Speaker 2: I mean every every you know. I mean he started

1071
00:55:02,560 --> 00:55:06,759
Speaker 2: a game easily, you know, eleven boards, whatever you wanted.

1072
00:55:06,600 --> 00:55:08,919
Speaker 4: And talk about like unstoppable shots. We talked about kd

1073
00:55:09,040 --> 00:55:11,560
Speaker 4: and his shot. I mean Dirk had a legit seven

1074
00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:13,480
Speaker 4: to one. When he holds the ball high over his

1075
00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:15,719
Speaker 4: head and shoots the ball, I mean you can't block that.

1076
00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:17,120
Speaker 4: How do you defend that?

1077
00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:17,920
Speaker 3: That's right, Like.

1078
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:19,480
Speaker 4: Bruce Bawn would try to defend him. He would just

1079
00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:21,320
Speaker 4: put his hand in his face because that's all he

1080
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:23,560
Speaker 4: can do is I don't even try to defend the ball.

1081
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:24,959
Speaker 4: I just put my hand up and try to block

1082
00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:25,399
Speaker 4: his eyes.

1083
00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:26,479
Speaker 3: To block his eyes.

1084
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:28,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, that still didn't work half the time.

1085
00:55:30,520 --> 00:55:34,640
Speaker 2: So we got Lebron, Kobe, Steph, K d Duncan, Dirk

1086
00:55:34,880 --> 00:55:41,239
Speaker 2: d Wade. Well, that's our top seven. That's a great.

1087
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:45,160
Speaker 4: Savage and you're missing, like, I mean, Kevin Garnett, I mean,

1088
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:49,360
Speaker 4: my god, is a phenomenal player, didn't have I've always

1089
00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:51,360
Speaker 4: argued that if Kevin Garnett was in San Antonio and

1090
00:55:51,440 --> 00:55:54,920
Speaker 4: Tim Duncan wasn't, they would have won just as many. No,

1091
00:55:55,040 --> 00:55:58,360
Speaker 4: I'm a Kchi fan, you know, so, like he shouldn't

1092
00:55:58,400 --> 00:56:01,000
Speaker 4: get lost in the shuffle either. Yeah, No, I love

1093
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:03,120
Speaker 4: he deserves He deserves me writing that right in that

1094
00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:04,120
Speaker 4: mix with those guys.

1095
00:56:04,560 --> 00:56:09,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you you put him over? Let me see

1096
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:14,600
Speaker 2: here you go Garnet or.

1097
00:56:14,640 --> 00:56:20,239
Speaker 4: Dirk say, now for talking about complete games. I mean

1098
00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:22,240
Speaker 4: Garnett was probably rounded.

1099
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:24,200
Speaker 2: He is.

1100
00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:26,520
Speaker 4: Wow, you can't say he wasn't. I mean, in his

1101
00:56:26,560 --> 00:56:30,240
Speaker 4: heyday he was averaging twenty six twenty seven a night. Yeah,

1102
00:56:30,239 --> 00:56:34,000
Speaker 4: twenty seven, fifteen boards, two blocks a game, as dominant

1103
00:56:34,040 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 4: defensively as he was offensively, something that Dirk certainly couldn't.

1104
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:40,839
Speaker 4: Now Dirk was I think overall offensively sure is better.

1105
00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:42,719
Speaker 4: But if you just looking from a production standpoint, look

1106
00:56:42,719 --> 00:56:46,960
Speaker 4: at the numbers. The numbers are probably pretty comparable Dirk probably.

1107
00:56:47,520 --> 00:56:48,520
Speaker 3: Looking at his career.

1108
00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:55,200
Speaker 2: He comes in and you know, nineteen ninety five, and

1109
00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:56,720
Speaker 2: he just what a career.

1110
00:56:56,880 --> 00:56:58,800
Speaker 3: Man, My god, oh it's amazing.

1111
00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:01,000
Speaker 4: He was just he was stuck in Minnesota. I remember,

1112
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:03,759
Speaker 4: from Minnesota for the longest time, couldn't get out of

1113
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:06,480
Speaker 4: the first round. They finally break through. They made it

1114
00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:09,400
Speaker 4: to the conference finals one year against the Lakers, and

1115
00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:12,960
Speaker 4: then Sam Cassell gets injured and he was in and

1116
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:15,279
Speaker 4: out of that series. And I vividly remember this was

1117
00:57:15,280 --> 00:57:16,960
Speaker 4: two thousand and four. This is the year the Lakers

1118
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:19,360
Speaker 4: lost to the Pistons in the finals. They played the

1119
00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:22,280
Speaker 4: Timberwolves in the conference finals, and I believe every game

1120
00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:25,720
Speaker 4: that could Sell played in the Tebowowolves won, and the

1121
00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:27,120
Speaker 4: games he didn't play and they lost.

1122
00:57:27,720 --> 00:57:27,919
Speaker 3: Yeah.

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00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:30,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, he talked about missing rings. That that was one

1124
00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:31,160
Speaker 4: of them.

1125
00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:32,720
Speaker 3: That was ridiculous.

1126
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Speaker 2: All right, well, come back, we're doing our little little

1127
00:57:36,080 --> 00:57:40,240
Speaker 2: fun exercise. We got the NFL schedule too. We got

1128
00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:42,480
Speaker 2: a hit that's gonna be fun.

1129
00:57:43,320 --> 00:57:45,520
Speaker 4: Oh my, oh yeah. Who was ready to see the

1130
00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:50,280
Speaker 4: Lions on Opening Night? You know what I like, dude,

1131
00:57:50,280 --> 00:57:50,720
Speaker 4: I like it.

1132
00:57:51,720 --> 00:57:56,280
Speaker 2: Well we can discuss further. Yeah, yeah, I think I

1133
00:57:56,400 --> 00:57:56,760
Speaker 2: like it.

1134
00:57:58,040 --> 00:57:59,680
Speaker 4: See you're already vacillating.

1135
00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:02,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, I wanted to see a rematch

1136
00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:03,240
Speaker 2: in the Super Bowl.

1137
00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:05,439
Speaker 4: But of course it was the most obvious pick.

1138
00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:08,200
Speaker 3: I know, I'm shocked they didn't go that way.

1139
00:58:09,640 --> 00:58:13,520
Speaker 2: We're the Fellas right here on Fox Sports Radio.

1140
00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:16,760
Speaker 6: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

1141
00:58:16,800 --> 00:58:20,160
Speaker 6: the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio

1142
00:58:20,320 --> 00:58:24,400
Speaker 6: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to

1143
00:58:24,480 --> 00:58:25,160
Speaker 6: listen live.

1144
00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:35,600
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back, Fellas. He's Kevin Figures. I'm Anthony Gargano.

1145
00:58:35,840 --> 00:58:38,360
Speaker 2: As we are the Fellas every week right here on

1146
00:58:38,520 --> 00:58:42,560
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio cause she's joining us. Talk a lot

1147
00:58:42,680 --> 00:58:46,520
Speaker 2: about the NBA playoffs. Last night's game Lakers. Lakers were

1148
00:58:46,600 --> 00:58:51,880
Speaker 2: just tremendous last like Lebron, I mean, what more do

1149
00:58:51,920 --> 00:58:54,800
Speaker 2: you say at that age playing like that?

1150
00:58:55,000 --> 00:58:57,560
Speaker 3: This was just say it's your game. That was like

1151
00:58:57,680 --> 00:58:59,880
Speaker 3: close out on my shoulders.

1152
00:59:00,920 --> 00:59:03,240
Speaker 2: And of course Anthony Davis was great on the board,

1153
00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:08,400
Speaker 2: and you know Brint protecting, he was fantastic. Reeves again,

1154
00:59:09,280 --> 00:59:12,560
Speaker 2: the story of Aulston Reeves is such a great story.

1155
00:59:13,080 --> 00:59:15,360
Speaker 2: And you know, you think back to the Lakers and

1156
00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:19,640
Speaker 2: what they were with Westbrook, and most of the season

1157
00:59:19,680 --> 00:59:23,560
Speaker 2: I remember, I mean you were almost disconsolate talking about

1158
00:59:23,960 --> 00:59:26,080
Speaker 2: the Lakers for most of this year.

1159
00:59:26,560 --> 00:59:28,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, how could you not be. It was a pretty

1160
00:59:28,520 --> 00:59:30,840
Speaker 4: sad existence. And by the way, people knew coming into

1161
00:59:30,880 --> 00:59:33,120
Speaker 4: the year, they didn't make any really major changes to

1162
00:59:33,160 --> 00:59:36,000
Speaker 4: the roster in the off season. There was discussions of

1163
00:59:36,040 --> 00:59:39,440
Speaker 4: trading Westbrook and it sounded like he was angling for

1164
00:59:39,520 --> 00:59:42,240
Speaker 4: that during his exit interview at the end of last season,

1165
00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:45,440
Speaker 4: and it didn't happen. They came in and they decided to,

1166
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:48,400
Speaker 4: you know, make a coaching change and make a couple

1167
00:59:48,480 --> 00:59:50,360
Speaker 4: of tweeks here and there, and then look, they start

1168
00:59:50,400 --> 00:59:52,360
Speaker 4: two and ten. They were awful. They were below five

1169
00:59:52,440 --> 00:59:56,200
Speaker 4: hundred for the majority of the season, and then all

1170
00:59:56,200 --> 00:59:58,400
Speaker 4: of a sudden things flipped. But the biggest thing, even

1171
00:59:58,400 --> 01:00:01,960
Speaker 4: more so than the trades and Austin reeves blossoming and

1172
01:00:02,040 --> 01:00:04,840
Speaker 4: all of that, really it was just Anthony Davis getting

1173
01:00:05,040 --> 01:00:07,640
Speaker 4: and staying healthy at the right time. Because there are

1174
01:00:07,640 --> 01:00:09,720
Speaker 4: times throughout the regular season where you know AD would

1175
01:00:09,720 --> 01:00:12,160
Speaker 4: play and Lebron was out. Lebron was play and Ad

1176
01:00:12,400 --> 01:00:14,560
Speaker 4: was out. There was only a handful of games, not literally,

1177
01:00:14,560 --> 01:00:18,600
Speaker 4: but just very few games that they played together, especially

1178
01:00:18,600 --> 01:00:21,440
Speaker 4: for long stretches of time. But you know, it was

1179
01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:24,600
Speaker 4: always if You'll say, if Anthony Davis and Lebron James

1180
01:00:24,640 --> 01:00:27,080
Speaker 4: are healthy at the right time at the end of

1181
01:00:27,120 --> 01:00:29,440
Speaker 4: the regular season and they can sneak into the playoffs,

1182
01:00:29,960 --> 01:00:31,880
Speaker 4: they have a shot. Because you have two of the

1183
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:35,240
Speaker 4: top you know, maybe even five best players in the

1184
01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:37,920
Speaker 4: NBA right now on the same team. With just a

1185
01:00:37,920 --> 01:00:40,160
Speaker 4: couple of guys that can make some open shots, you

1186
01:00:40,240 --> 01:00:42,919
Speaker 4: never know what can happen. And so so far, knock

1187
01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:45,160
Speaker 4: on wood, I guess if you're a Laker fan, those

1188
01:00:45,160 --> 01:00:47,080
Speaker 4: guys have been able to power through despite the fact

1189
01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:49,160
Speaker 4: these guys are playing upwards of forty plus minutes every

1190
01:00:49,160 --> 01:00:52,200
Speaker 4: single night and it hasn't affected them.

1191
01:00:52,320 --> 01:00:55,760
Speaker 2: So I mean all last night, everybody you know playing

1192
01:00:55,800 --> 01:01:00,480
Speaker 2: forty minutes. I mean listen, I mean playoff time does

1193
01:01:00,480 --> 01:01:03,040
Speaker 2: it well, which is you get the rest in between games,

1194
01:01:03,640 --> 01:01:06,440
Speaker 2: which allows those guys to play a little more minutes.

1195
01:01:06,160 --> 01:01:09,200
Speaker 4: And certainly helps. Yes, Yeah, having a day off in

1196
01:01:09,240 --> 01:01:11,160
Speaker 4: between is a huge help for them. And then I

1197
01:01:11,200 --> 01:01:14,520
Speaker 4: think look going into Denver on Tuesday. You know, I

1198
01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:17,040
Speaker 4: even said that's why I thought winning Game five for

1199
01:01:17,080 --> 01:01:19,640
Speaker 4: them was so critical, because we knew Tuesday was gonna

1200
01:01:19,640 --> 01:01:23,040
Speaker 4: be Game one of the Conference Finals regardless, They're just

1201
01:01:23,080 --> 01:01:25,280
Speaker 4: gonna have extra days off to be able to rest,

1202
01:01:25,480 --> 01:01:28,600
Speaker 4: which I think that the biggest enemy of the Lakers

1203
01:01:28,720 --> 01:01:31,160
Speaker 4: is just the schedule of having to play every other day.

1204
01:01:31,400 --> 01:01:33,400
Speaker 4: And look, they came out and played so well against

1205
01:01:33,440 --> 01:01:37,280
Speaker 4: Golden State in Game one, if you remember in San Francisco,

1206
01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:40,400
Speaker 4: because they had extra days off that Warriors King series

1207
01:01:40,440 --> 01:01:43,400
Speaker 4: went seven. The Lakers were able to wrap up against

1208
01:01:43,400 --> 01:01:45,680
Speaker 4: Memphis and six and they got they bought themselves an

1209
01:01:45,720 --> 01:01:47,880
Speaker 4: extra day of rest, and I do think that's why

1210
01:01:47,880 --> 01:01:50,320
Speaker 4: Anthony Davis came out and looked so dominant in Game one.

1211
01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:53,560
Speaker 4: So I think it works in their favorite to a

1212
01:01:53,560 --> 01:01:55,760
Speaker 4: certain degree that they're going to have a couple of

1213
01:01:55,840 --> 01:01:57,760
Speaker 4: days to kind of rest and recover and get ready

1214
01:01:57,760 --> 01:02:00,480
Speaker 4: for Denver on Tuesday. The problem is dealing with that

1215
01:02:00,520 --> 01:02:04,040
Speaker 4: altitude is always difficult. Feeling in a Game one at

1216
01:02:04,080 --> 01:02:06,840
Speaker 4: Denver is going to be really really tough sledding for them.

1217
01:02:07,160 --> 01:02:11,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good point. That's a good point. I

1218
01:02:11,600 --> 01:02:15,320
Speaker 2: do like, I do think the Lakers, though I can't

1219
01:02:15,320 --> 01:02:16,680
Speaker 2: give Denver a series.

1220
01:02:16,800 --> 01:02:19,640
Speaker 4: Oh absolutely, you know, I don't anybody to win in

1221
01:02:19,680 --> 01:02:21,800
Speaker 4: fewer than six games. This is going at least six.

1222
01:02:24,080 --> 01:02:26,320
Speaker 4: I can guarantee this is going to labar any you know,

1223
01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:29,640
Speaker 4: sort of major injuries or something unforeseen. I don't see

1224
01:02:29,680 --> 01:02:30,680
Speaker 4: how this doesn't go six.

1225
01:02:31,040 --> 01:02:32,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you. Just forgive me a little bit

1226
01:02:32,760 --> 01:02:33,480
Speaker 3: of umber of weather.

1227
01:02:33,560 --> 01:02:34,160
Speaker 4: Oh it's all right.

1228
01:02:34,480 --> 01:02:39,200
Speaker 2: Uh the uh, my little one, and you'll you'll someday

1229
01:02:39,200 --> 01:02:42,800
Speaker 2: you'll have this fake. So the little one, when he's sick,

1230
01:02:43,520 --> 01:02:47,200
Speaker 2: he comes and sleeps for us, so that I'm sleeping,

1231
01:02:47,280 --> 01:02:49,800
Speaker 2: it's not right, right, Like I wake up and he's

1232
01:02:50,480 --> 01:02:54,640
Speaker 2: on me, and you know I love him, so it's like, yeah,

1233
01:02:54,720 --> 01:02:57,880
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna tell he's uncomfortable. So like when they're

1234
01:02:58,000 --> 01:03:02,120
Speaker 2: uncomfortable in any pain, you say here, come here, right, yeah,

1235
01:03:02,240 --> 01:03:05,680
Speaker 2: try to comfort them, right, and and so, but ultimately

1236
01:03:05,760 --> 01:03:06,520
Speaker 2: what happens is.

1237
01:03:06,440 --> 01:03:07,960
Speaker 3: You get sick. Right.

1238
01:03:08,800 --> 01:03:12,200
Speaker 4: I've been fighting a minor battle myself. My my wife.

1239
01:03:12,240 --> 01:03:16,000
Speaker 4: So she's a school teacher, she teaches middle Yeah, so

1240
01:03:16,040 --> 01:03:19,280
Speaker 4: she's right, So she's battling through a coal herself right now.

1241
01:03:19,880 --> 01:03:21,360
Speaker 4: And so what I've been doing is just trying to

1242
01:03:21,360 --> 01:03:23,120
Speaker 4: do all the preventative messages, like all right, I'm gonna

1243
01:03:23,120 --> 01:03:24,760
Speaker 4: eat right, I'm gonna take all this z inc. I'm

1244
01:03:24,760 --> 01:03:27,200
Speaker 4: gonna do all the and so luckily, so far, knock

1245
01:03:27,240 --> 01:03:30,560
Speaker 4: on wood, she's probably on day four of having some

1246
01:03:30,600 --> 01:03:33,760
Speaker 4: real bad symptoms. She's actually improving now and I haven't

1247
01:03:33,760 --> 01:03:36,240
Speaker 4: felt anything. So I don't know if I just have

1248
01:03:36,280 --> 01:03:39,160
Speaker 4: the magic elixir or good jeans or whatever you want

1249
01:03:39,160 --> 01:03:41,040
Speaker 4: to call it, but so.

1250
01:03:41,080 --> 01:03:44,080
Speaker 2: Far I've I've made it through unscathed. But I'm a

1251
01:03:44,240 --> 01:03:48,040
Speaker 2: big dude, that's big, so I know the battle. And

1252
01:03:48,320 --> 01:03:51,600
Speaker 2: look it's gotten me before with her, so it's definitely permeated.

1253
01:03:51,160 --> 01:03:53,160
Speaker 3: Through that power. She's in the Patriot dish.

1254
01:03:54,760 --> 01:03:57,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, so she'll get a coat, she'll get about three

1255
01:03:57,560 --> 01:03:58,880
Speaker 4: or four colds a year easily.

1256
01:03:59,120 --> 01:04:04,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the truth. All right, dude, some favorite figa.

1257
01:04:04,480 --> 01:04:07,680
Speaker 2: We'll get tackle little nuggets too, But he's with some

1258
01:04:07,760 --> 01:04:08,440
Speaker 2: trending first.

1259
01:04:08,480 --> 01:04:10,560
Speaker 4: All right, Well start with the Lakers. As we mentioned,

1260
01:04:10,560 --> 01:04:13,480
Speaker 4: they'll face Denver in the Western Conference Finals. They curbsed

1261
01:04:13,480 --> 01:04:16,520
Speaker 4: on Golden State Friday night, one twenty two to one

1262
01:04:16,560 --> 01:04:18,640
Speaker 4: oh one. It wasn't even that close at some points.

1263
01:04:18,720 --> 01:04:21,800
Speaker 4: Lebron James scoring thirty points, also dished out nine assists,

1264
01:04:22,120 --> 01:04:24,520
Speaker 4: also had nine rebounds, just missed the triple double. Klay

1265
01:04:24,560 --> 01:04:27,120
Speaker 4: Thompson caught in the struggle really for the majority of

1266
01:04:27,160 --> 01:04:30,400
Speaker 4: the series on Friday Night, Yeah three of nineteen, shooting

1267
01:04:30,520 --> 01:04:32,600
Speaker 4: eight points on the night. Golden State is a team

1268
01:04:32,640 --> 01:04:34,720
Speaker 4: shot just thirty seven percent from the field in twenty

1269
01:04:34,760 --> 01:04:38,720
Speaker 4: seven percent from three point distance out In the Eastern Conference,

1270
01:04:38,760 --> 01:04:41,439
Speaker 4: the Heat beating the Knicks ninety six to ninety two,

1271
01:04:41,520 --> 01:04:44,640
Speaker 4: Bam out of Baio Jimmy Butler combining for forty seven points,

1272
01:04:45,000 --> 01:04:47,479
Speaker 4: leading Miami to the Eastern Conference Finals for the third

1273
01:04:47,560 --> 01:04:51,000
Speaker 4: time in their last four seasons. Second round of the

1274
01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:53,840
Speaker 4: Stanley Cup playoffs, Las Vegas defeating Edmonton, taking a three

1275
01:04:53,880 --> 01:04:57,280
Speaker 4: to two series lead. Florida beat Toronto. They advanced to

1276
01:04:57,280 --> 01:05:00,440
Speaker 4: the Eastern Conference Finals after winning that series four games one.

1277
01:05:00,640 --> 01:05:04,040
Speaker 4: Major League Baseball Dodgers a victory over the Padres four

1278
01:05:04,120 --> 01:05:06,800
Speaker 4: to two, Oakland walked off Texas and ten innings nine

1279
01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:10,320
Speaker 4: to seven, Milwaukee, Houston and the Chicago Cubs with victories

1280
01:05:10,360 --> 01:05:11,040
Speaker 4: as well.

1281
01:05:11,280 --> 01:05:15,600
Speaker 2: Back to the Fellas, Fellas from the ti iraq dot

1282
01:05:15,640 --> 01:05:18,400
Speaker 2: com studios, and let me ask you quick hockey question

1283
01:05:18,480 --> 01:05:22,000
Speaker 2: because you mentioned you're giving up the update that Florida

1284
01:05:22,040 --> 01:05:24,840
Speaker 2: is going to the Eastern Conference Finals. So it's Florida

1285
01:05:24,920 --> 01:05:28,800
Speaker 2: Carolina in the Eastern Conference Finals.

1286
01:05:30,280 --> 01:05:31,520
Speaker 3: Does that hurt the sport?

1287
01:05:32,480 --> 01:05:36,120
Speaker 4: That is not some legacy markets or time, Well.

1288
01:05:36,280 --> 01:05:40,240
Speaker 2: That is, yeah, that's not the Bruins who had such

1289
01:05:40,280 --> 01:05:47,080
Speaker 2: an amazing regular season. Is the fact that the eighths

1290
01:05:47,240 --> 01:05:50,800
Speaker 2: or Toronto, yeah, which is you know, has that all

1291
01:05:50,840 --> 01:05:57,360
Speaker 2: that firepower? Is the fact that the playoffs in hockey

1292
01:05:58,440 --> 01:06:04,440
Speaker 2: is such a great great even like it's impossible to pick.

1293
01:06:05,040 --> 01:06:09,080
Speaker 4: You can't handicap these games, No, it's impossible, Which is

1294
01:06:09,120 --> 01:06:12,680
Speaker 4: a problem. Actually, well, I don't. It depends on which

1295
01:06:12,840 --> 01:06:14,720
Speaker 4: how you look at it. Like, look, if you're talking

1296
01:06:14,720 --> 01:06:17,400
Speaker 4: about getting ratings and the Marquee matchups and all that,

1297
01:06:17,480 --> 01:06:20,320
Speaker 4: yet it's very difficult. But if you're just a fan

1298
01:06:20,480 --> 01:06:24,600
Speaker 4: of really good hockey and compelling drama, then you know,

1299
01:06:24,680 --> 01:06:27,000
Speaker 4: you don't necessarily care as much. You just you kind

1300
01:06:27,000 --> 01:06:30,400
Speaker 4: of relish in some of the upsets. So I think

1301
01:06:30,400 --> 01:06:31,960
Speaker 4: it just depends on what side of the aisle you

1302
01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:34,400
Speaker 4: fall on. I think the majority of people, though to

1303
01:06:34,440 --> 01:06:38,600
Speaker 4: your point, you'd rather see the marquee franchises advance as

1304
01:06:38,640 --> 01:06:42,080
Speaker 4: opposed to tow upstarts for lack of a better.

1305
01:06:42,000 --> 01:06:44,960
Speaker 2: Term, Well, you know, you know, we talk about the

1306
01:06:45,160 --> 01:06:49,760
Speaker 2: devaluing of the regular season in the NBA all the time, right, Well,

1307
01:06:49,760 --> 01:06:51,840
Speaker 2: it's like at hockey too in this sense.

1308
01:06:52,720 --> 01:06:53,040
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1309
01:06:53,080 --> 01:06:55,680
Speaker 2: Well, I mean because like you're in Bruin's that this

1310
01:06:56,640 --> 01:06:59,400
Speaker 2: they barely lost to the regular season, historic season.

1311
01:06:59,520 --> 01:07:03,360
Speaker 4: Ye, and then you're out the first round and blew

1312
01:07:03,360 --> 01:07:05,200
Speaker 4: a three one lead at that the first round.

1313
01:07:05,240 --> 01:07:05,400
Speaker 3: Two.

1314
01:07:06,880 --> 01:07:09,200
Speaker 4: Yeah. But look, we I think we compare. We talk

1315
01:07:09,240 --> 01:07:11,200
Speaker 4: about hockey, and I think it's very comparable to Major

1316
01:07:11,280 --> 01:07:13,080
Speaker 4: League Baseball. How many times have we seen the last

1317
01:07:13,080 --> 01:07:15,040
Speaker 4: wildcard team in Major League Baseball make a deep run

1318
01:07:15,080 --> 01:07:18,040
Speaker 4: into the playoffs and to the World Series. It's just

1319
01:07:18,120 --> 01:07:20,880
Speaker 4: it's one of those sports where the playoffs are almost

1320
01:07:20,880 --> 01:07:23,800
Speaker 4: in the regular season are almost different beasts to a degree,

1321
01:07:23,800 --> 01:07:25,760
Speaker 4: And it really is dependent on who's hot.

1322
01:07:26,480 --> 01:07:26,680
Speaker 3: You know.

1323
01:07:26,880 --> 01:07:29,120
Speaker 4: Usually if a goalie is hot, if a pitcher or

1324
01:07:29,160 --> 01:07:32,160
Speaker 4: two or hot, you get a role player in a lineup,

1325
01:07:32,280 --> 01:07:34,240
Speaker 4: you know, for in Major League Baseball, who he was

1326
01:07:34,280 --> 01:07:36,280
Speaker 4: on fire. A look at a guy like Rosario for

1327
01:07:36,360 --> 01:07:38,960
Speaker 4: Atlanta a few years ago, who nobody could get him

1328
01:07:38,960 --> 01:07:41,400
Speaker 4: out even though he wasn't a superstar player. Just a

1329
01:07:41,440 --> 01:07:44,120
Speaker 4: couple of lightning in a bottle sort of situations happening

1330
01:07:44,160 --> 01:07:46,600
Speaker 4: at once, and that's you know, that's kind of their

1331
01:07:46,640 --> 01:07:50,400
Speaker 4: recipes of winning a major league baseball and also in hockey.

1332
01:07:50,480 --> 01:07:52,520
Speaker 4: So I think those are the two sports when you

1333
01:07:52,560 --> 01:07:55,320
Speaker 4: look at the postseason, it's almost never the teams with

1334
01:07:55,320 --> 01:07:57,440
Speaker 4: the best records in each conference that end up facing

1335
01:07:57,440 --> 01:07:59,400
Speaker 4: each other or each league. In baseball, it just kind

1336
01:07:59,400 --> 01:08:01,280
Speaker 4: of I think the are just kind of built that way.

1337
01:08:01,640 --> 01:08:04,919
Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know what it is, It's like it's

1338
01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:08,680
Speaker 2: they both have the similar formula format playoff format where

1339
01:08:08,800 --> 01:08:10,960
Speaker 2: you have the top eight teams in each conference.

1340
01:08:12,280 --> 01:08:14,480
Speaker 3: Now the NBA has to play in that sort of thing,

1341
01:08:14,520 --> 01:08:15,320
Speaker 3: but still.

1342
01:08:16,680 --> 01:08:19,960
Speaker 2: It's almost not fair to those Like you got to

1343
01:08:20,000 --> 01:08:22,360
Speaker 2: figure it out where it needs to be more equitable.

1344
01:08:24,520 --> 01:08:28,080
Speaker 2: I just don't know how you know that, but you

1345
01:08:28,080 --> 01:08:30,400
Speaker 2: get what I'm saying, Like, if you have a great

1346
01:08:30,439 --> 01:08:33,880
Speaker 2: regular season, that's got to get you something more than

1347
01:08:34,000 --> 01:08:36,519
Speaker 2: just home ice, which doesn't even matter these days.

1348
01:08:37,560 --> 01:08:40,120
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I guess I don't know what else you

1349
01:08:40,120 --> 01:08:43,120
Speaker 4: would do to reward the team. I mean, like, I

1350
01:08:43,120 --> 01:08:46,040
Speaker 4: mean home ice. You know, home field advantage in and

1351
01:08:46,080 --> 01:08:49,720
Speaker 4: of itself should be but again, you know, unless you're

1352
01:08:49,760 --> 01:08:52,600
Speaker 4: dealing with the elements in baseball, there really is no

1353
01:08:52,640 --> 01:08:56,120
Speaker 4: inherent home field advantage in that sport. In hockey either,

1354
01:08:56,320 --> 01:08:59,400
Speaker 4: so I don't know what the solution is, to be

1355
01:08:59,400 --> 01:09:03,000
Speaker 4: honest with you, if there is one. I think typically

1356
01:09:03,520 --> 01:09:07,120
Speaker 4: it's exceedingly rare that a team like Boston in that situation,

1357
01:09:07,320 --> 01:09:09,920
Speaker 4: especially best record in the regular season three one leads

1358
01:09:09,960 --> 01:09:12,479
Speaker 4: in the first round and they totally collapse. That sort

1359
01:09:12,520 --> 01:09:14,960
Speaker 4: of thing just doesn't happen. So I think we're almost

1360
01:09:14,960 --> 01:09:17,160
Speaker 4: dealing with a bit of an anomaly from.

1361
01:09:18,720 --> 01:09:21,960
Speaker 2: I mean, look at it, like Carolina is good, but

1362
01:09:22,760 --> 01:09:27,160
Speaker 2: you know you got Florida Carolina in the in the

1363
01:09:27,200 --> 01:09:28,519
Speaker 2: Eastern Conference finals.

1364
01:09:28,640 --> 01:09:30,759
Speaker 3: Right, that's crazy.

1365
01:09:31,240 --> 01:09:34,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's certainly not what anybody was was expecting or handcake.

1366
01:09:34,800 --> 01:09:37,160
Speaker 2: And the other thing too, is because you have so

1367
01:09:37,200 --> 01:09:41,479
Speaker 2: many teams you have, i mean, the talents so spread

1368
01:09:41,520 --> 01:09:44,559
Speaker 2: out the whole thing, which makes it even the parody

1369
01:09:44,600 --> 01:09:49,360
Speaker 2: that much more. It's it's just bizarre. And in the NBA,

1370
01:09:50,360 --> 01:09:55,040
Speaker 2: the NBA, because the talent pools so thin, or at

1371
01:09:55,080 --> 01:09:58,240
Speaker 2: least the elite talent pool for sure. Yeah, right, do

1372
01:09:58,280 --> 01:10:04,839
Speaker 2: you have that keeps certain teams always above?

1373
01:10:05,400 --> 01:10:05,679
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1374
01:10:05,840 --> 01:10:09,519
Speaker 4: You outside this year talking about anomalies it was one

1375
01:10:09,560 --> 01:10:11,920
Speaker 4: of the years for the NBA where a lot of

1376
01:10:11,920 --> 01:10:14,280
Speaker 4: funky things just kind of lined up if they drops

1377
01:10:14,280 --> 01:10:17,320
Speaker 4: and all. Yeah, and just for the regular season in general,

1378
01:10:17,360 --> 01:10:19,599
Speaker 4: the West was just weird with a bunch of teams

1379
01:10:19,640 --> 01:10:22,439
Speaker 4: banged up injuries all that. The East was kind of

1380
01:10:22,479 --> 01:10:25,800
Speaker 4: top heavy anyway. But to your point, Milwaukee losing a

1381
01:10:25,800 --> 01:10:29,000
Speaker 4: bit of an anomaly too. But yeah, the NBA is

1382
01:10:29,000 --> 01:10:30,719
Speaker 4: a little bit easier because you get one or two,

1383
01:10:30,880 --> 01:10:34,240
Speaker 4: you know, standout players on a roster. It can flip everything.

1384
01:10:34,560 --> 01:10:39,479
Speaker 4: You know, Talent not pure talent, doesn't necessarily win in

1385
01:10:39,600 --> 01:10:42,439
Speaker 4: Major League Baseball or hockey like it does in the NBA.

1386
01:10:43,640 --> 01:10:46,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, just for how the game is played. Yeah, because

1387
01:10:46,640 --> 01:10:48,479
Speaker 2: they're played with volume games.

1388
01:10:48,600 --> 01:10:53,560
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, and it's also there well it's baseball specifically,

1389
01:10:53,680 --> 01:10:56,000
Speaker 4: is an individual sport wrapped up in a team sport

1390
01:10:56,120 --> 01:10:57,320
Speaker 4: that's completely unique.

1391
01:10:57,479 --> 01:11:02,360
Speaker 2: Pictures goaltenders, right, you know you have that, you know,

1392
01:11:02,680 --> 01:11:07,799
Speaker 2: which creates that you know, anybody can win at any moment.

1393
01:11:07,960 --> 01:11:10,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, whereas you know, basketball Lebron James, you're gonna take Lebron,

1394
01:11:10,760 --> 01:11:12,879
Speaker 4: put them in Houston and they're a playoff team instantly.

1395
01:11:13,520 --> 01:11:17,480
Speaker 4: I can't take you know, Alexandrovitchkin put them with the Flyers.

1396
01:11:17,040 --> 01:11:19,200
Speaker 2: This year and making them into a playoff team. No,

1397
01:11:19,320 --> 01:11:21,160
Speaker 2: you know, it's just not built that way.

1398
01:11:22,080 --> 01:11:24,920
Speaker 4: Take them to playoff team, not to use the Flyers

1399
01:11:24,920 --> 01:11:31,639
Speaker 4: has an example, I think, which is also sad, because

1400
01:11:31,640 --> 01:11:33,879
Speaker 4: I want a proud franchise that had a good legacy.

1401
01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:37,680
Speaker 2: Dude, if we haven't even talked, like you know, I

1402
01:11:37,800 --> 01:11:41,479
Speaker 2: I we don't talk about hockey, that's so. And I've

1403
01:11:41,560 --> 01:11:44,320
Speaker 2: been a hockey fan, you know, I love hockey. I'm

1404
01:11:44,360 --> 01:11:46,400
Speaker 2: a sports fan, so I love every sport. Yeah, but

1405
01:11:47,680 --> 01:11:51,080
Speaker 2: you know that franchise, shame man. That franchise used to be.

1406
01:11:51,720 --> 01:11:54,519
Speaker 2: That was a big deal on my town, big deal,

1407
01:11:55,520 --> 01:11:59,800
Speaker 2: and now it's just it gets nothing now people, it's

1408
01:12:00,120 --> 01:12:03,479
Speaker 2: you know, it's always Eagles, Eagles, Eagles, Sure, but you know,

1409
01:12:03,680 --> 01:12:08,439
Speaker 2: Sixers and and Phillies whack up the other, the other

1410
01:12:08,479 --> 01:12:09,200
Speaker 2: part of the pie.

1411
01:12:09,800 --> 01:12:12,280
Speaker 4: Now, in a if all things were equal, then let's

1412
01:12:12,320 --> 01:12:14,519
Speaker 4: say the Flyers were even if they weren't great, let's

1413
01:12:14,560 --> 01:12:17,080
Speaker 4: just say they were respectable a playoff team, would they

1414
01:12:17,160 --> 01:12:19,559
Speaker 4: still fall last in that pecking order out there at Philly?

1415
01:12:19,680 --> 01:12:22,519
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, they need to be great, gosh, like they

1416
01:12:22,560 --> 01:12:24,479
Speaker 3: need to be to now.

1417
01:12:24,479 --> 01:12:28,920
Speaker 2: At one point when they had Erik Lindross and it

1418
01:12:29,200 --> 01:12:33,160
Speaker 2: was you know, they were a big deal. They were

1419
01:12:33,320 --> 01:12:35,960
Speaker 2: they were ahead, and the Phillies weren't that good and

1420
01:12:37,120 --> 01:12:41,080
Speaker 2: the Sixers had Ai. So Sixers were pretty popular. But

1421
01:12:41,120 --> 01:12:43,920
Speaker 2: the Sixers have been dormant for a while. Flyers were

1422
01:12:44,240 --> 01:12:49,519
Speaker 2: like at least tied for two Yeah back then. Yeah,

1423
01:12:49,520 --> 01:12:51,320
Speaker 2: but now it's twenty years ago.

1424
01:12:51,439 --> 01:12:54,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's that's a long time, long long time.

1425
01:12:54,640 --> 01:12:58,439
Speaker 3: It's been fifty fifty years since they want a cup.

1426
01:12:58,920 --> 01:12:59,280
Speaker 2: Wow.

1427
01:12:59,600 --> 01:13:02,920
Speaker 4: Then that it's been forty years since the Sixers.

1428
01:13:02,960 --> 01:13:03,559
Speaker 3: What a title?

1429
01:13:04,360 --> 01:13:05,320
Speaker 4: Even more insane?

1430
01:13:06,160 --> 01:13:08,920
Speaker 2: Think about all the players. Do you think about that

1431
01:13:09,760 --> 01:13:12,080
Speaker 2: forty years since they won a championship?

1432
01:13:14,040 --> 01:13:16,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I mean you think about you know, having Ai, which,

1433
01:13:16,960 --> 01:13:19,200
Speaker 4: by the way, going through our last twenty years of players,

1434
01:13:19,240 --> 01:13:21,800
Speaker 4: I don't know where he ends up on your pecking order,

1435
01:13:22,439 --> 01:13:24,240
Speaker 4: certainly not the most efficient, but you talk about a

1436
01:13:24,240 --> 01:13:25,400
Speaker 4: tough guy.

1437
01:13:25,479 --> 01:13:29,000
Speaker 2: I mean, man, I mean, I love the only probably

1438
01:13:29,040 --> 01:13:31,720
Speaker 2: Ai is if we're going to go stick stick by

1439
01:13:31,720 --> 01:13:35,720
Speaker 2: the twenty year rule, He's almost like Shack, which.

1440
01:13:35,560 --> 01:13:38,320
Speaker 4: Is like a nine of late nineties.

1441
01:13:37,960 --> 01:13:41,400
Speaker 9: Six and like he comes in into the whole thing

1442
01:13:41,560 --> 01:13:45,120
Speaker 9: on the scene and he's incredible, and then you know

1443
01:13:45,200 --> 01:13:48,200
Speaker 9: he goes to the finals in one and that's it.

1444
01:13:48,439 --> 01:13:51,920
Speaker 4: Yep, that was his peak MVP that year. Yeah, you

1445
01:13:51,960 --> 01:13:55,080
Speaker 4: had that spectacular Game one against the Lakers in the

1446
01:13:55,080 --> 01:13:56,920
Speaker 4: finals and then that was that was That was pretty

1447
01:13:57,000 --> 01:13:58,400
Speaker 4: much it. That was the highlight of his career.

1448
01:13:58,840 --> 01:13:59,080
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1449
01:14:00,120 --> 01:14:02,200
Speaker 2: To that, that's when he starts to go down hill.

1450
01:14:02,280 --> 01:14:07,479
Speaker 2: The franchise just languishes. You know, they these how bad

1451
01:14:07,640 --> 01:14:11,920
Speaker 2: and nobody'll remember this, but the they go to the

1452
01:14:11,960 --> 01:14:14,839
Speaker 2: finals and in the next year, you know they're starting

1453
01:14:15,040 --> 01:14:19,960
Speaker 2: their starting lineup was but Tombo, Derek Coleman and Matt

1454
01:14:20,040 --> 01:14:23,759
Speaker 2: Harpring with Iverson Yep, I mean that's horrible.

1455
01:14:23,880 --> 01:14:25,519
Speaker 4: Well, I mean it's not like their line up the

1456
01:14:25,560 --> 01:14:27,479
Speaker 4: year before it was that great either. It was todd

1457
01:14:27,560 --> 01:14:31,719
Speaker 4: on Hill right, and Ratliffe was in there before they

1458
01:14:31,800 --> 01:14:33,240
Speaker 4: swung the trade from Tombo.

1459
01:14:34,320 --> 01:14:37,920
Speaker 2: I mean, but DC, Derek Coleman and Matt Harpring were

1460
01:14:38,160 --> 01:14:38,960
Speaker 2: really slow.

1461
01:14:39,040 --> 01:14:41,559
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well Derek Coleman had like nineteen knee surgeries so

1462
01:14:41,600 --> 01:14:42,840
Speaker 4: he was done.

1463
01:14:42,600 --> 01:14:46,519
Speaker 2: And Matt Harpering was slow. Yeah, that was a ban tree. Again,

1464
01:14:46,560 --> 01:14:49,559
Speaker 2: it goes their problem was they passed up Paul Pierce.

1465
01:14:49,840 --> 01:14:52,320
Speaker 2: Speaking of man this list.

1466
01:14:52,560 --> 01:14:55,160
Speaker 4: Yeah absolutely, because Paul Pierce has to be in there too.

1467
01:14:55,520 --> 01:14:59,479
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, in a big way. All right, we'll take

1468
01:14:59,479 --> 01:15:03,679
Speaker 2: a quick te out. We'll come right back. Fellas. Hag

1469
01:15:03,680 --> 01:15:11,599
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01:15:36,120 --> 01:15:39,080
Speaker 2: So we we were toy with this little list of

1476
01:15:39,200 --> 01:15:44,080
Speaker 2: the last twenty years, watching Lebron last night and Staff

1477
01:15:44,160 --> 01:15:48,120
Speaker 2: last night. We were just this toy with this the

1478
01:15:48,200 --> 01:15:53,000
Speaker 2: greatest twenty in the last twenty and if you go

1479
01:15:53,080 --> 01:15:59,280
Speaker 2: twenty for twenty, we come up with Lebron, Staff, Kobe,

1480
01:15:59,520 --> 01:16:06,240
Speaker 2: kd Duncan, Dirk d Wade. I think Giannis has to

1481
01:16:06,280 --> 01:16:11,840
Speaker 2: be somewhere. My mad Dom said it, Janis, It's gotta

1482
01:16:11,920 --> 01:16:14,400
Speaker 2: be somewhere around here now.

1483
01:16:14,560 --> 01:16:17,840
Speaker 4: No, Yeah, it's hard to and I think I think

1484
01:16:17,840 --> 01:16:21,120
Speaker 4: he's ten years in, believe it or not. Yeah, which

1485
01:16:21,160 --> 01:16:23,639
Speaker 4: is crazy to conceive at this point, but I think

1486
01:16:23,640 --> 01:16:27,600
Speaker 4: he was drafted in twenty thirteen. He absolutely has to

1487
01:16:27,600 --> 01:16:31,519
Speaker 4: be there a couple of what MVP award, Defensive Player

1488
01:16:31,520 --> 01:16:32,640
Speaker 4: of the Year, one of the m v P and

1489
01:16:32,680 --> 01:16:33,599
Speaker 4: Defensive Player of the Year.

1490
01:16:33,600 --> 01:16:34,000
Speaker 5: I mean, you.

1491
01:16:34,160 --> 01:16:37,880
Speaker 4: Haven't let me ask you a question, Duncan or Giannis.

1492
01:16:38,200 --> 01:16:40,280
Speaker 4: The problem is that the book is already written on

1493
01:16:40,360 --> 01:16:42,880
Speaker 4: Duncan and it's not on Giannis. That's the hard part

1494
01:16:42,880 --> 01:16:46,320
Speaker 4: for him. So, I mean, Yanna still has probably another

1495
01:16:46,439 --> 01:16:49,639
Speaker 4: as far as peak level talent, at least another four

1496
01:16:49,760 --> 01:16:53,479
Speaker 4: years of your prime you know, all around pace player

1497
01:16:54,240 --> 01:16:57,440
Speaker 4: can dominate. Yeah, so yeah, he was definitely.

1498
01:16:59,200 --> 01:16:59,799
Speaker 3: D Wade.

1499
01:17:00,960 --> 01:17:04,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I gotta tell you, I think I

1500
01:17:04,760 --> 01:17:05,639
Speaker 2: might go Yannis.

1501
01:17:08,160 --> 01:17:11,960
Speaker 4: That's hard, you know, it's it's difficult for me for

1502
01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:14,519
Speaker 4: Gianni's with guys like dunking in a Wade because again,

1503
01:17:14,600 --> 01:17:16,599
Speaker 4: there their bodies of work are already completed.

1504
01:17:18,200 --> 01:17:20,400
Speaker 3: But we have no problem putting KD up there.

1505
01:17:21,439 --> 01:17:25,439
Speaker 4: KD multiple championships, phenomenal scorer, like already up there. I

1506
01:17:25,439 --> 01:17:28,880
Speaker 4: mean that's I feel like even KD to a certain

1507
01:17:28,880 --> 01:17:32,200
Speaker 4: agree now he was hasn't won Defensive Player of the Year, but.

1508
01:17:33,880 --> 01:17:35,840
Speaker 2: I mean I feel I mean, we have KD. We

1509
01:17:35,840 --> 01:17:39,720
Speaker 2: we both agree, k D is top five? Is the

1510
01:17:39,800 --> 01:17:40,400
Speaker 2: top five?

1511
01:17:40,720 --> 01:17:40,920
Speaker 3: No?

1512
01:17:41,080 --> 01:17:45,280
Speaker 4: Agree? Agree? Hell look yeah Yeallo, Gianna certainly is in

1513
01:17:45,439 --> 01:17:49,600
Speaker 4: is in the conversation, But as of right now, I

1514
01:17:49,600 --> 01:17:52,599
Speaker 4: don't know if I necessarily put him over Duncan Wade.

1515
01:17:52,640 --> 01:17:56,120
Speaker 4: We can talk about. I don't know. He's kind of

1516
01:17:56,160 --> 01:17:59,479
Speaker 4: hovering around that area. I look, I'll put it this way,

1517
01:17:59,479 --> 01:18:01,040
Speaker 4: and I think when it's all said and done, I

1518
01:18:01,040 --> 01:18:07,479
Speaker 4: think he will be above those guys. Yes, uh it be.

1519
01:18:08,439 --> 01:18:19,200
Speaker 4: Where is Embid that Embiid or Ivers. It's probably going

1520
01:18:19,280 --> 01:18:23,000
Speaker 4: to be controversial, but I do think Embiid more so

1521
01:18:23,080 --> 01:18:28,840
Speaker 4: than AI agree, just a pure individual player standpoint, As

1522
01:18:28,880 --> 01:18:31,960
Speaker 4: far as you know, Embiid can from a skill level,

1523
01:18:32,120 --> 01:18:35,000
Speaker 4: as skilled of a big guy as you'll find, can

1524
01:18:35,000 --> 01:18:38,559
Speaker 4: play both sides of the floor, however inconsistently defensively at times,

1525
01:18:38,960 --> 01:18:41,600
Speaker 4: can really play on both ends of the floor, consistently

1526
01:18:41,800 --> 01:18:44,080
Speaker 4: really difficult to stop, can shoot from the outside, can

1527
01:18:44,160 --> 01:18:47,559
Speaker 4: kill you on the inside. AI was just kind of

1528
01:18:48,760 --> 01:18:53,120
Speaker 4: a volume score right, not to minimize them or marginalize them,

1529
01:18:53,120 --> 01:18:54,840
Speaker 4: but that I mean, I feel like I'm not I'm

1530
01:18:54,880 --> 01:18:57,960
Speaker 4: not being unfair in my assessment, am I No?

1531
01:18:58,080 --> 01:18:59,519
Speaker 3: I know, No, not at all.

1532
01:18:59,680 --> 01:19:01,760
Speaker 2: So I mean I'm looking, I'm looking at some of

1533
01:19:01,840 --> 01:19:03,479
Speaker 2: the other guys that would be on the S list.

1534
01:19:03,560 --> 01:19:09,760
Speaker 2: I was sitting Ray, Allen Pierce, Tracy McGrady, Grant Hill.

1535
01:19:10,040 --> 01:19:12,479
Speaker 4: Yeah. The problem with t mac and Grant Hill they

1536
01:19:12,600 --> 01:19:15,400
Speaker 4: just didn't have enough staying power. Those guys just couldn't

1537
01:19:15,400 --> 01:19:18,559
Speaker 4: stay on the court. I thought Tray McGrady actually, had

1538
01:19:18,600 --> 01:19:21,320
Speaker 4: he stayed healthy, could have given Kobe a run, and

1539
01:19:21,360 --> 01:19:23,280
Speaker 4: I think at times they did when they were both

1540
01:19:23,320 --> 01:19:25,160
Speaker 4: you know, healthy and playing, and they had some really

1541
01:19:25,160 --> 01:19:28,080
Speaker 4: epic matchups. T mac just couldn't stay on the floor,

1542
01:19:29,160 --> 01:19:32,719
Speaker 4: so he's he's one of the unfortunate. Grant Hill too.

1543
01:19:32,600 --> 01:19:35,479
Speaker 3: By the way, Yeah, had a million. Yeah.

1544
01:19:35,479 --> 01:19:37,280
Speaker 4: So it's hard to put those guys in that conversation

1545
01:19:37,280 --> 01:19:40,600
Speaker 4: because I do think longevity is part of it, that

1546
01:19:41,040 --> 01:19:43,519
Speaker 4: it's a huge part, because like Y'aoming could have been

1547
01:19:43,560 --> 01:19:46,800
Speaker 4: in there. I you talk about hiding missing rings. I

1548
01:19:46,800 --> 01:19:49,439
Speaker 4: mean my guy Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady never had

1549
01:19:49,479 --> 01:19:53,240
Speaker 4: a healthy postseason together, never once, And I thought I

1550
01:19:53,280 --> 01:19:55,519
Speaker 4: thought those guys had at least two three four rings

1551
01:19:55,520 --> 01:19:55,800
Speaker 4: in them.

1552
01:19:55,880 --> 01:20:01,439
Speaker 2: It's funny, Yeah, yeah, I completely forgot Yeah, you know, yep,

1553
01:20:02,360 --> 01:20:03,479
Speaker 2: and you mentioned KG.

1554
01:20:03,960 --> 01:20:06,719
Speaker 3: I mean it's KG, like KG or Giannis.

1555
01:20:07,479 --> 01:20:10,280
Speaker 4: That's all. That's a difficult conversation, that really is. I

1556
01:20:10,280 --> 01:20:10,640
Speaker 4: don't know.

1557
01:20:12,960 --> 01:20:13,800
Speaker 3: That's a tough one.

1558
01:20:13,880 --> 01:20:15,760
Speaker 4: It's all said and none. I don't know. You know,

1559
01:20:16,160 --> 01:20:20,240
Speaker 4: I think, I think, I think I'm a honest man. Hey,

1560
01:20:20,360 --> 01:20:24,439
Speaker 4: I get it, especially in this new age. Yeah, doing everything,

1561
01:20:25,240 --> 01:20:26,320
Speaker 4: all right, fellas.

1562
01:20:26,000 --> 01:20:29,600
Speaker 3: Come back, NFL Draft. We'll go. NFL Draft schedules.

1563
01:20:29,680 --> 01:20:36,240
Speaker 2: Next, you're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio. Well, good morning,

1564
01:20:36,280 --> 01:20:38,479
Speaker 2: good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning,

1565
01:20:38,520 --> 01:20:44,519
Speaker 2: good morning, good morning. Everybody. Happy, happy Saturday morning to

1566
01:20:44,600 --> 01:20:47,120
Speaker 2: all across the nation. Seven am in the east, four

1567
01:20:47,160 --> 01:20:50,640
Speaker 2: am in the West, and it is Saturday, May thirteenth.

1568
01:20:51,080 --> 01:20:53,439
Speaker 2: We're talking a lot about the Lakers in case you're

1569
01:20:53,560 --> 01:20:56,799
Speaker 2: just waking up and on the East coast. The Lakers

1570
01:20:57,240 --> 01:21:02,960
Speaker 2: win last night. They're in the Western Conference Finals. Lebron

1571
01:21:04,120 --> 01:21:11,560
Speaker 2: was masterful, ad Reeves again was great, and the Lakers

1572
01:21:12,040 --> 01:21:19,200
Speaker 2: blow out the Warriors, clamped down on Golden State. Klay

1573
01:21:19,320 --> 01:21:26,280
Speaker 2: Thompson three for nineteen, oh my Steph eleven for twenty eight,

1574
01:21:27,120 --> 01:21:30,000
Speaker 2: and the Lakers all over Golden State.

1575
01:21:30,080 --> 01:21:31,799
Speaker 3: Sets up an epic final.

1576
01:21:31,960 --> 01:21:36,440
Speaker 2: I think a Western Conference Final between Lakers and Nuggets.

1577
01:21:36,560 --> 01:21:39,280
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a great series. And that's a and

1578
01:21:39,360 --> 01:21:42,240
Speaker 2: that's a good rob. I actual friends in Denver, and

1579
01:21:42,320 --> 01:21:45,160
Speaker 2: that Dever La rivalry figure is legit.

1580
01:21:47,400 --> 01:21:49,760
Speaker 4: That's interesting. I never really considered the Nuggets to be

1581
01:21:49,800 --> 01:21:52,599
Speaker 4: necessarily a natural arrival of the Lakers. They've squared off

1582
01:21:52,640 --> 01:21:54,679
Speaker 4: a couple of times in the postseason over the last

1583
01:21:54,720 --> 01:21:56,920
Speaker 4: i'd say fifteen twenty years or so. I know they

1584
01:21:57,520 --> 01:21:59,879
Speaker 4: played in the conference finals back in the old Carmelo

1585
01:22:00,439 --> 01:22:04,080
Speaker 4: with Chauncey Billups, and obviously in twenty twenty in the bubble,

1586
01:22:05,080 --> 01:22:06,880
Speaker 4: Denver had them. You know, there was a game I

1587
01:22:06,880 --> 01:22:09,519
Speaker 4: believe it was a Game five where Denver was up

1588
01:22:09,600 --> 01:22:11,799
Speaker 4: late and Anthony Davis did at three at the buzzer

1589
01:22:12,320 --> 01:22:13,880
Speaker 4: to win it for the Lakers, and that kind of

1590
01:22:13,880 --> 01:22:16,880
Speaker 4: swung the momentum that entire series. So they've had some

1591
01:22:17,040 --> 01:22:19,519
Speaker 4: entertaining games and entertaining series here and there. But I'll

1592
01:22:19,520 --> 01:22:22,719
Speaker 4: be from an LA perspective, I never really saw Denver

1593
01:22:22,800 --> 01:22:24,719
Speaker 4: as necessarily a rival. So that's interesting.

1594
01:22:25,200 --> 01:22:28,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny. From it, I think it's more probably

1595
01:22:28,479 --> 01:22:31,800
Speaker 2: more Colorado because they go we hate La, we hate La.

1596
01:22:32,000 --> 01:22:35,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, get in line. But yeah, yeah, I don't

1597
01:22:35,880 --> 01:22:36,479
Speaker 4: understand it.

1598
01:22:36,760 --> 01:22:38,080
Speaker 3: I had a buddy, it's fun.

1599
01:22:38,120 --> 01:22:40,320
Speaker 2: It's someone a friend of mine about it, and he

1600
01:22:40,400 --> 01:22:41,320
Speaker 2: was like, yeah, yeah, we don't.

1601
01:22:41,360 --> 01:22:42,360
Speaker 3: We don't like la.

1602
01:22:42,640 --> 01:22:48,799
Speaker 2: I'm like, all right, you got it, buddy.

1603
01:22:47,120 --> 01:22:47,759
Speaker 4: I understand.

1604
01:22:47,920 --> 01:22:48,559
Speaker 3: I get it.

1605
01:22:49,320 --> 01:22:53,120
Speaker 2: We don't like Boston in Philadelphia.

1606
01:22:52,640 --> 01:22:55,160
Speaker 4: The same I don't like Boston and Los Angeles. So

1607
01:22:56,520 --> 01:22:58,920
Speaker 4: it happens. Everybody has it.

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Speaker 2: All right, fig, let's switch gears a little bit. I've

1618
01:23:40,240 --> 01:23:45,000
Speaker 2: been waiting to do this, and I love schedules. You know,

1619
01:23:45,040 --> 01:23:49,080
Speaker 2: it's so weird in anything else in life. I'm a

1620
01:23:49,400 --> 01:23:54,559
Speaker 2: mess when it comes to organization, but sports schedules I love.

1621
01:23:56,560 --> 01:23:59,479
Speaker 4: Go figure, you don't know what your disappointment is, but

1622
01:23:59,520 --> 01:24:01,200
Speaker 4: you know when the Eagles are playing the Commanders.

1623
01:24:01,280 --> 01:24:06,560
Speaker 3: Huh, that is correct, That is correct.

1624
01:24:06,560 --> 01:24:09,800
Speaker 2: The month though, my brother, I don't know what it is,

1625
01:24:10,240 --> 01:24:13,640
Speaker 2: but I absolutely love schedules.

1626
01:24:14,760 --> 01:24:17,080
Speaker 4: All people like to look forward and project, and especially

1627
01:24:17,160 --> 01:24:20,200
Speaker 4: if you are a fan of a team outside of

1628
01:24:20,240 --> 01:24:22,759
Speaker 4: the market that you live in, and people talk about

1629
01:24:22,760 --> 01:24:25,800
Speaker 4: making plans and making all these different trips, which, by

1630
01:24:25,800 --> 01:24:28,000
Speaker 4: the way, I think the NFL flexing on Monday nights

1631
01:24:28,040 --> 01:24:29,360
Speaker 4: is going to turn into a bit of an issue,

1632
01:24:29,400 --> 01:24:30,840
Speaker 4: and it's going to be even worse if and when

1633
01:24:30,880 --> 01:24:34,000
Speaker 4: they start flexing on Thursdays. But that's a different conversation. Yeah,

1634
01:24:36,479 --> 01:24:38,800
Speaker 4: but people like to look forward, and you like to

1635
01:24:38,800 --> 01:24:41,040
Speaker 4: project and say, all right, well that's an easy opener,

1636
01:24:41,160 --> 01:24:43,320
Speaker 4: or that might be a little bit tough. Or our

1637
01:24:43,400 --> 01:24:45,439
Speaker 4: three of our first four games are on the road

1638
01:24:45,520 --> 01:24:47,400
Speaker 4: and two of those are in divisions, or how is

1639
01:24:47,400 --> 01:24:51,240
Speaker 4: that gonna So I understand the fun speculation part of it.

1640
01:24:51,320 --> 01:24:54,599
Speaker 4: The part that just why it doesn't jive with me

1641
01:24:54,680 --> 01:24:56,320
Speaker 4: so much is you just don't know what a team

1642
01:24:56,360 --> 01:24:58,000
Speaker 4: is going to look like by the time you get

1643
01:24:58,040 --> 01:25:00,880
Speaker 4: to that point, by the time weeks six rolls around,

1644
01:25:00,880 --> 01:25:05,040
Speaker 4: that epic matchup against whomever, your starting quarterback could be hurt.

1645
01:25:05,200 --> 01:25:08,080
Speaker 4: Their starting quarterback could be hurt, your your offensive line

1646
01:25:08,120 --> 01:25:11,120
Speaker 4: could be banged ub your so you can't no, listen,

1647
01:25:11,160 --> 01:25:11,840
Speaker 4: It's really hard.

1648
01:25:11,880 --> 01:25:13,880
Speaker 2: I always think it's just an exercise of fun if

1649
01:25:13,880 --> 01:25:18,439
Speaker 2: you just lose the you know, the obvious nature of

1650
01:25:18,479 --> 01:25:21,400
Speaker 2: it which you bring up, which is, you know, footballs

1651
01:25:21,479 --> 01:25:25,240
Speaker 2: gave me injuries and footballs that gave of attrition, so

1652
01:25:26,280 --> 01:25:28,559
Speaker 2: you know, can you survive to the end of the year.

1653
01:25:28,920 --> 01:25:31,840
Speaker 3: Right, It's funny all the years have been doing it.

1654
01:25:32,320 --> 01:25:34,760
Speaker 2: I've been probably doing this thing for you know, close

1655
01:25:34,840 --> 01:25:38,960
Speaker 2: to twenty five years, and I would always do the

1656
01:25:39,000 --> 01:25:41,559
Speaker 2: schedule of Dubbies and else I would do them one

1657
01:25:41,600 --> 01:25:44,759
Speaker 2: hundred times, right, yeah, as you know, yes.

1658
01:25:44,680 --> 01:25:47,040
Speaker 3: And I'm doing Eagles.

1659
01:25:47,400 --> 01:25:50,960
Speaker 2: And actually last year was the first year I got

1660
01:25:50,960 --> 01:25:54,519
Speaker 2: it right, did you really? I'm one for twenty five,

1661
01:25:55,520 --> 01:26:00,760
Speaker 2: twenty three, and I got it right fourteen to three.

1662
01:26:00,960 --> 01:26:03,640
Speaker 4: And I can hear myself telling you last year when

1663
01:26:03,640 --> 01:26:05,240
Speaker 4: you said the Eagles were fourteen and three, that that

1664
01:26:05,320 --> 01:26:06,280
Speaker 4: was very optimistic.

1665
01:26:07,080 --> 01:26:08,759
Speaker 3: Yes, so that was wrong.

1666
01:26:08,920 --> 01:26:10,519
Speaker 4: I was all wrong. All last year, I said the

1667
01:26:10,520 --> 01:26:13,400
Speaker 4: Eagles had a championship browsterer except at the quarterback position,

1668
01:26:13,520 --> 01:26:15,479
Speaker 4: and look at them now.

1669
01:26:16,000 --> 01:26:20,519
Speaker 2: Well they also their strength of schedule was also not

1670
01:26:20,640 --> 01:26:23,639
Speaker 2: the best. Yeah, so it was a little bit easier

1671
01:26:23,720 --> 01:26:26,120
Speaker 2: when you looked at it, and you know, to be

1672
01:26:26,160 --> 01:26:31,519
Speaker 2: able to do that. But yeah, no, I I just

1673
01:26:31,640 --> 01:26:34,000
Speaker 2: like it. So you brought this up, and this is

1674
01:26:34,439 --> 01:26:38,640
Speaker 2: a great this is a great debate. Start this season

1675
01:26:38,800 --> 01:26:43,200
Speaker 2: September the seventh. And by the way, I don't know

1676
01:26:43,240 --> 01:26:46,000
Speaker 2: which way the summer because we haven't gotten there yet.

1677
01:26:47,040 --> 01:26:54,439
Speaker 2: But Lions jeeves, ah, you get like if that that

1678
01:26:54,560 --> 01:26:55,839
Speaker 2: was tomorrow, I'm.

1679
01:26:55,680 --> 01:26:58,600
Speaker 4: In sure it's the NFL. And I've already got a

1680
01:26:58,640 --> 01:27:01,160
Speaker 4: heat from a couple of people on social media about

1681
01:27:01,160 --> 01:27:03,719
Speaker 4: it too, saying I'm hating on the Lions, not hating

1682
01:27:03,760 --> 01:27:06,599
Speaker 4: on the Lions, but let's unless you're a Lion fan.

1683
01:27:07,040 --> 01:27:09,800
Speaker 4: How many people are really stoked to hear that the

1684
01:27:09,920 --> 01:27:13,479
Speaker 4: Kansas City Chiefs are opening up ring night against Detroit,

1685
01:27:14,120 --> 01:27:18,440
Speaker 4: knowing the kind of schedule that they have, Cincinnati, Philadelphia's

1686
01:27:18,479 --> 01:27:19,160
Speaker 4: on the schedule.

1687
01:27:20,280 --> 01:27:25,120
Speaker 2: Now, the ivised they didn't do Chargers. Yeah, Like, I'm

1688
01:27:25,120 --> 01:27:26,960
Speaker 2: shocked they didn't do the rematch.

1689
01:27:27,280 --> 01:27:29,680
Speaker 4: I am too. It was it seemed so obvious, didn't it.

1690
01:27:29,840 --> 01:27:31,679
Speaker 3: Why would you do the rematch? I don't.

1691
01:27:31,760 --> 01:27:34,880
Speaker 4: I don't understand now. I heard Mike Florio on with

1692
01:27:35,000 --> 01:27:37,920
Speaker 4: Dan Patrick on Friday, and he brought up a good point.

1693
01:27:38,000 --> 01:27:41,200
Speaker 4: He says, what the NFL may be doing is getting

1694
01:27:41,240 --> 01:27:44,320
Speaker 4: away from giving us like must see matchups on marquee

1695
01:27:44,360 --> 01:27:48,040
Speaker 4: occasions because they know we're gonna watch regardless. So it's

1696
01:27:48,080 --> 01:27:50,720
Speaker 4: like you're gonna watch Opening Night. It could be the

1697
01:27:50,840 --> 01:27:55,240
Speaker 4: Lions and the Commanders or something, and you'd watch because

1698
01:27:55,240 --> 01:27:58,600
Speaker 4: it's opening night of the NFL. You know, Thanksgiving, the

1699
01:27:58,600 --> 01:28:01,320
Speaker 4: Thanksgiving slate probably does need to be that great because

1700
01:28:01,400 --> 01:28:03,280
Speaker 4: what the hell else are we doing on Thanksgiving Day?

1701
01:28:04,240 --> 01:28:07,880
Speaker 4: So we think it that way, Yeah, if you frame

1702
01:28:07,920 --> 01:28:09,360
Speaker 4: it that way. I don't think he's wrong.

1703
01:28:09,840 --> 01:28:10,280
Speaker 3: I don't know.

1704
01:28:10,479 --> 01:28:14,360
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, I like the Lions. I think the

1705
01:28:14,439 --> 01:28:18,840
Speaker 2: Lions the way they ended the season, they were interesting,

1706
01:28:18,880 --> 01:28:20,479
Speaker 2: They were a lot of fun. You remember the last

1707
01:28:20,520 --> 01:28:23,799
Speaker 2: game I do against Packers to be out of the playoffs.

1708
01:28:23,800 --> 01:28:26,560
Speaker 4: I remember, yes, And the Lions are a team on

1709
01:28:26,640 --> 01:28:28,920
Speaker 4: the come. They absolutely could be a playoff team this year.

1710
01:28:28,920 --> 01:28:31,840
Speaker 4: I don't I don't discredit any of that. They also

1711
01:28:32,400 --> 01:28:34,679
Speaker 4: they don't necessarily have the because one thing I would

1712
01:28:34,680 --> 01:28:37,479
Speaker 4: also say, you know, yeah, everybody will watch regardless, but

1713
01:28:37,520 --> 01:28:39,200
Speaker 4: you at least want to have at least a modicum

1714
01:28:39,240 --> 01:28:43,160
Speaker 4: of star power, Like obviously we know what the Chiefs

1715
01:28:43,160 --> 01:28:49,360
Speaker 4: have with Patrick Mahomes. Who's the draw in Detroit, Jared Goff.

1716
01:28:50,120 --> 01:28:52,320
Speaker 4: I love all ros Saint Brown. He's a SOCU guy,

1717
01:28:52,760 --> 01:28:57,120
Speaker 4: great player, good player, I should say, But I really

1718
01:28:57,120 --> 01:28:59,200
Speaker 4: don't know if there's anybody that's like, man, I really

1719
01:28:59,240 --> 01:29:00,880
Speaker 4: have to sit down and watch the Lions because this

1720
01:29:00,880 --> 01:29:03,559
Speaker 4: guy's gonna knock my socks off. Yeah, it's fair, that's

1721
01:29:03,640 --> 01:29:06,200
Speaker 4: kind of part. I think that's part of the rationale

1722
01:29:06,240 --> 01:29:09,559
Speaker 4: that goes into putting on these big time marquee national

1723
01:29:09,600 --> 01:29:12,720
Speaker 4: TV games, especially now that the NFL has this new

1724
01:29:12,760 --> 01:29:15,080
Speaker 4: self and posed rule where every team doesn't need to

1725
01:29:15,080 --> 01:29:18,160
Speaker 4: be on national television. That's something they started this year too.

1726
01:29:18,240 --> 01:29:22,160
Speaker 4: There's a couple of teams Houston, Indianapolis and a couple

1727
01:29:22,160 --> 01:29:24,800
Speaker 4: of others who don't and I'm surprised that Indy doesn't

1728
01:29:24,840 --> 01:29:28,040
Speaker 4: have one, but they have no nationally televised games at all.

1729
01:29:29,200 --> 01:29:32,160
Speaker 4: Not saying that Detroit shouldn't have any just saying that

1730
01:29:32,200 --> 01:29:33,840
Speaker 4: it's a little bit surprising that they be placed on

1731
01:29:33,920 --> 01:29:35,320
Speaker 4: opening night, that's all.

1732
01:29:35,880 --> 01:29:37,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I hear you.

1733
01:29:37,360 --> 01:29:40,639
Speaker 2: Maybe it's one of those things where you go, it's

1734
01:29:41,880 --> 01:29:47,719
Speaker 2: it's it's a bone to that fan base, that franchise. Sure,

1735
01:29:47,960 --> 01:29:51,559
Speaker 2: I can see it's coming back, right. It's all the

1736
01:29:51,640 --> 01:29:56,240
Speaker 2: comb and those poor people have had nothing, nothing, nothing,

1737
01:29:57,080 --> 01:30:00,519
Speaker 2: and they're great football fans. Absolutely, it's so you go,

1738
01:30:00,840 --> 01:30:03,599
Speaker 2: let's throw a bubble to the Lions because they're interesting

1739
01:30:03,680 --> 01:30:06,800
Speaker 2: and they could be good. Yeah, maybe that's what it is.

1740
01:30:06,880 --> 01:30:09,200
Speaker 4: He look, here's all into a Raider fan. So I

1741
01:30:09,840 --> 01:30:11,559
Speaker 4: want nothing more than the Lions to go in and

1742
01:30:11,640 --> 01:30:13,160
Speaker 4: kick the chiefs ass on the opening night.

1743
01:30:13,640 --> 01:30:13,920
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1744
01:30:14,160 --> 01:30:17,000
Speaker 4: I don't think it's gonna happen. But you know that

1745
01:30:17,000 --> 01:30:20,040
Speaker 4: that's you know the good thing about the NFL, and

1746
01:30:20,080 --> 01:30:21,160
Speaker 4: we talk about all the time.

1747
01:30:21,240 --> 01:30:26,679
Speaker 2: You know, Hope's probably is that I like the lines

1748
01:30:26,760 --> 01:30:30,240
Speaker 2: plus Saturn plus seven. That's the lie. Okay, the lines

1749
01:30:30,240 --> 01:30:31,080
Speaker 2: are out alright.

1750
01:30:31,200 --> 01:30:35,519
Speaker 4: Of course they are instantly after this SESS schedule was released.

1751
01:30:36,400 --> 01:30:38,560
Speaker 4: It's amazing how quickly those came out.

1752
01:30:38,880 --> 01:30:39,800
Speaker 3: That's insane, is it.

1753
01:30:40,000 --> 01:30:42,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, but look, we know they can score a lot

1754
01:30:42,920 --> 01:30:46,240
Speaker 4: of points. You know they did. They took they took

1755
01:30:46,240 --> 01:30:48,360
Speaker 4: the kid out of Alabama with the as their running

1756
01:30:48,400 --> 01:30:50,559
Speaker 4: back and traded DeAndre swept away. So he certainly has

1757
01:30:50,600 --> 01:30:54,439
Speaker 4: the ability to be an explosive player for them. They're

1758
01:30:54,479 --> 01:30:57,479
Speaker 4: I'm not saying they're a bad team. I'm just saying

1759
01:30:57,479 --> 01:31:00,760
Speaker 4: there's just not there's not a lot of umph necessarily

1760
01:31:00,840 --> 01:31:02,719
Speaker 4: when you just when you look at it on paper.

1761
01:31:03,360 --> 01:31:05,280
Speaker 4: I hope I'm wrong. I hope Detroit turns things around

1762
01:31:05,280 --> 01:31:07,840
Speaker 4: and they have a great season. Dan Campbell, I think

1763
01:31:07,920 --> 01:31:09,800
Speaker 4: is very compelling and the guys love playing for him,

1764
01:31:09,840 --> 01:31:12,479
Speaker 4: and he's a good SoundBite. So there are things around

1765
01:31:12,560 --> 01:31:15,519
Speaker 4: the Lions franchise that are are going in the right direction,

1766
01:31:16,080 --> 01:31:18,080
Speaker 4: and I do think they'll end up having a good season.

1767
01:31:18,960 --> 01:31:20,320
Speaker 4: I still don't know if they're a team I want

1768
01:31:20,320 --> 01:31:22,800
Speaker 4: to watch on Opening night. I will, but I just

1769
01:31:22,800 --> 01:31:24,479
Speaker 4: don't know. Yeah, of course I will.

1770
01:31:26,920 --> 01:31:27,599
Speaker 3: I can't wait.

1771
01:31:27,720 --> 01:31:29,559
Speaker 4: You could have put a bunch of ferrets with NFL

1772
01:31:29,600 --> 01:31:31,200
Speaker 4: helmets on and run him on the field. I'll watch

1773
01:31:31,240 --> 01:31:35,040
Speaker 4: it if it says NFL. Yeah, yeah, it's the greatest man.

1774
01:31:35,160 --> 01:31:35,920
Speaker 4: It just is.

1775
01:31:37,080 --> 01:31:38,000
Speaker 9: Uh.

1776
01:31:38,439 --> 01:31:43,280
Speaker 2: First Sunday Night Er Cowboys, Giants, I.

1777
01:31:43,200 --> 01:31:47,519
Speaker 4: Feel like it's not always the first Sunday night game. Look,

1778
01:31:47,520 --> 01:31:50,280
Speaker 4: as someone who has worked many Cowboy games on radio

1779
01:31:50,360 --> 01:31:53,479
Speaker 4: for the last decade, I can tell you I feel

1780
01:31:53,520 --> 01:31:57,720
Speaker 4: like at least seven of the ten twelve years whatever

1781
01:31:57,760 --> 01:31:59,400
Speaker 4: it's been along with them and doing it, it's been

1782
01:31:59,479 --> 01:32:04,759
Speaker 4: Giants Cowboys on Sunday Night. And it makes sense opening weekend,

1783
01:32:05,320 --> 01:32:09,240
Speaker 4: two marquee franchises you have in two major TV markets.

1784
01:32:09,280 --> 01:32:11,879
Speaker 4: It makes all the sense in the world that Anthony

1785
01:32:11,880 --> 01:32:14,439
Speaker 4: makes sense if that was opening night on Thursday and

1786
01:32:14,439 --> 01:32:16,519
Speaker 4: they weren't required to put a champion, you know, a

1787
01:32:16,560 --> 01:32:19,599
Speaker 4: defending champion on Reen night there. And if it's just generic,

1788
01:32:19,680 --> 01:32:22,080
Speaker 4: just let's open up the NFL season with just two teams.

1789
01:32:22,400 --> 01:32:24,240
Speaker 4: Even though I don't think the Giants are compelling as

1790
01:32:24,280 --> 01:32:27,599
Speaker 4: a franchise, it's still New York. It's New York is Dallas.

1791
01:32:27,640 --> 01:32:31,080
Speaker 4: It's a major rivalry. Yeah, you know what's funny, I'd

1792
01:32:31,160 --> 01:32:39,200
Speaker 4: rather watch Dolphins Chargers. Oh, I don't disagree. I don't

1793
01:32:39,240 --> 01:32:39,800
Speaker 4: disagree at all.

1794
01:32:39,880 --> 01:32:43,240
Speaker 2: That's a better game. How about how about how about

1795
01:32:43,479 --> 01:32:47,040
Speaker 2: neither Steelers? I would I wouldn't trust.

1796
01:32:47,800 --> 01:32:50,040
Speaker 4: The Steelers are poised for a good year. Forty nine

1797
01:32:50,120 --> 01:32:51,160
Speaker 4: ers are kind of up in the air.

1798
01:32:51,200 --> 01:32:51,439
Speaker 3: For me.

1799
01:32:51,920 --> 01:32:53,439
Speaker 4: I don't know what they're going to do a quarterback

1800
01:32:53,439 --> 01:32:56,680
Speaker 4: for the first however, much of the season, I say,

1801
01:32:56,720 --> 01:32:59,240
Speaker 4: before brock Party comes back, we're talking about Brock Party

1802
01:32:59,320 --> 01:33:03,360
Speaker 4: like he's Hall of Famer, you know. Uh, but as

1803
01:33:03,360 --> 01:33:05,320
Speaker 4: well as he played down the stretch last season, it's

1804
01:33:05,360 --> 01:33:09,880
Speaker 4: like he was necessarily carrying them. So San Francisco is

1805
01:33:09,880 --> 01:33:11,720
Speaker 4: gonna be one of those interesting teams to keep an

1806
01:33:11,720 --> 01:33:12,599
Speaker 4: eye on this season.

1807
01:33:13,640 --> 01:33:18,400
Speaker 2: So the first Monday Night it's gonna be and this

1808
01:33:18,479 --> 01:33:20,600
Speaker 2: will be an ABC game, right, it has to be

1809
01:33:20,600 --> 01:33:21,519
Speaker 2: an ABC game.

1810
01:33:21,360 --> 01:33:25,960
Speaker 4: They usually are. Yes, they're like an ABC ESPN you know, uh.

1811
01:33:27,200 --> 01:33:30,120
Speaker 3: Some more ABC this year.

1812
01:33:30,520 --> 01:33:33,160
Speaker 4: What they're doing. There's I think three or four occasions

1813
01:33:33,160 --> 01:33:36,760
Speaker 4: where there's Monday night doubleheaders this year. But there's crossover.

1814
01:33:37,360 --> 01:33:40,599
Speaker 4: So like an hour after Game one kicks off, Game

1815
01:33:40,640 --> 01:33:42,519
Speaker 4: two is gonna kick off, and they're gonna be going

1816
01:33:42,560 --> 01:33:45,599
Speaker 4: on simultaneously and one will be on ESPN and one

1817
01:33:45,640 --> 01:33:47,479
Speaker 4: will be on ABC. I think there's three or four

1818
01:33:47,520 --> 01:33:48,800
Speaker 4: times this year that's gonna happen.

1819
01:33:48,880 --> 01:33:50,920
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Well, we're gonna go through the schedule,

1820
01:33:51,000 --> 01:33:55,120
Speaker 2: so we're gonna we're gonna look at that, uh, Bills Jets.

1821
01:33:55,640 --> 01:33:59,639
Speaker 2: It doesn't get better than Rogers facing the Bills, and

1822
01:34:00,240 --> 01:34:04,000
Speaker 2: that will be awesome Monday night, it will, you know,

1823
01:34:04,080 --> 01:34:05,879
Speaker 2: the day the weekend, first weekend.

1824
01:34:06,000 --> 01:34:08,679
Speaker 4: Yeah, like I like, look the Jets we mentioned before,

1825
01:34:08,760 --> 01:34:11,400
Speaker 4: you know, before the injuries kicked in last season at

1826
01:34:11,479 --> 01:34:13,479
Speaker 4: running back, in a couple of other positions that they

1827
01:34:13,600 --> 01:34:15,760
Speaker 4: they ended up winning six games seven games last year.

1828
01:34:16,160 --> 01:34:18,599
Speaker 4: They were they were pretty much in it with despite

1829
01:34:18,640 --> 01:34:22,519
Speaker 4: the fact their quarterback position was in shambles. So for anybody,

1830
01:34:22,600 --> 01:34:24,360
Speaker 4: people are probably thinking, like, oh, Buffalo is gonna come

1831
01:34:24,360 --> 01:34:25,720
Speaker 4: and run them off the field. I don't know what

1832
01:34:25,760 --> 01:34:28,160
Speaker 4: the spread is in that game, but I'm pretty sure

1833
01:34:28,160 --> 01:34:30,920
Speaker 4: a Buffalo's favorite, and if it's by seven or eight,

1834
01:34:31,640 --> 01:34:33,719
Speaker 4: I might take might take the Jets in that one.

1835
01:34:34,600 --> 01:34:38,599
Speaker 3: Gets what Buffalo's favorite by one That.

1836
01:34:38,560 --> 01:34:41,040
Speaker 2: Makes more sense to me, makes a lot more sense

1837
01:34:41,080 --> 01:34:46,120
Speaker 2: to me then one. Yeah that's the Aaron Rodgers. Yeah,

1838
01:34:46,240 --> 01:34:53,960
Speaker 2: which tells me you take the Bills. Yeah, one, that's crazy. Uh,

1839
01:34:54,000 --> 01:34:55,760
Speaker 2: all right, we're gonna go through some of the more

1840
01:34:55,840 --> 01:34:56,959
Speaker 2: highlights of the schedule.

1841
01:34:59,439 --> 01:35:02,360
Speaker 4: I fregre love it. I'm making notes like a looser.

1842
01:35:02,520 --> 01:35:06,320
Speaker 2: I'm sure you are I'm a loser, a louser, fagky,

1843
01:35:06,360 --> 01:35:09,960
Speaker 2: a loser. All right, we'll take We'll take quick to

1844
01:35:10,000 --> 01:35:16,680
Speaker 2: you and some other things that circle on the there's nothing.

1845
01:35:16,400 --> 01:35:20,519
Speaker 4: Better than the schedule NFL. Baby, Well, I feel like

1846
01:35:20,560 --> 01:35:22,679
Speaker 4: the games might be a little bit better than the schedule.

1847
01:35:22,720 --> 01:35:27,120
Speaker 2: But yeah, just dismiss well, may well, you don't have

1848
01:35:27,160 --> 01:35:27,759
Speaker 2: any games.

1849
01:35:27,800 --> 01:35:29,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, the schedule right.

1850
01:35:30,920 --> 01:35:33,000
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1851
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Speaker 2: By the way, did you see Robert de Niro has

1872
01:36:43,080 --> 01:36:45,000
Speaker 2: a baby at seventy eight?

1873
01:36:45,280 --> 01:36:46,920
Speaker 4: I did not see that.

1874
01:36:48,240 --> 01:36:51,640
Speaker 3: You didn't know? Wow. I was just on Instagram.

1875
01:36:51,760 --> 01:36:56,479
Speaker 2: I go, oh, there's Bobby Dan his new baby. I'm like, what,

1876
01:36:57,800 --> 01:37:00,920
Speaker 2: that's incredible. Well, I'm thinking he's got a new boardy

1877
01:37:01,200 --> 01:37:06,479
Speaker 2: seventy God bless him. Seventy eight, seventy nine. I think wow.

1878
01:37:07,040 --> 01:37:10,600
Speaker 4: I mean yeah, so mean so he's going to be

1879
01:37:10,640 --> 01:37:13,439
Speaker 4: on the floor playing with his kid then, right in

1880
01:37:13,479 --> 01:37:14,000
Speaker 4: a few years.

1881
01:37:14,640 --> 01:37:15,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the.

1882
01:37:15,920 --> 01:37:18,120
Speaker 4: Problem is going to help getting off the floor. That's

1883
01:37:17,920 --> 01:37:18,519
Speaker 4: that's yeah.

1884
01:37:18,640 --> 01:37:20,639
Speaker 2: Now there's a lot of jokes you can make. I mean,

1885
01:37:20,840 --> 01:37:24,200
Speaker 2: you know, I go, I guess God bless Yeah, yeah,

1886
01:37:24,240 --> 01:37:27,400
Speaker 2: no doubt, you know. That's just but I just saw

1887
01:37:27,520 --> 01:37:31,280
Speaker 2: I was like, wait, what He's one of those deals

1888
01:37:31,280 --> 01:37:32,000
Speaker 2: where you go, what.

1889
01:37:33,479 --> 01:37:33,840
Speaker 3: What's that?

1890
01:37:35,160 --> 01:37:35,360
Speaker 5: Yeah?

1891
01:37:35,439 --> 01:37:37,320
Speaker 4: I mean I feel like it's happening more and more often.

1892
01:37:37,360 --> 01:37:40,120
Speaker 4: We're like older people in general, but you hear a

1893
01:37:40,120 --> 01:37:42,799
Speaker 4: lot about these celebrities who are having kids at like fifty.

1894
01:37:43,160 --> 01:37:46,519
Speaker 4: Wasn't Jen Jackson fifty? Yeah, you go off fifty? You

1895
01:37:46,560 --> 01:37:49,720
Speaker 4: know now even then was like, I mean, even like

1896
01:37:49,840 --> 01:37:52,320
Speaker 4: as recently as fifteen years ago, people are like, what.

1897
01:37:52,800 --> 01:37:57,280
Speaker 2: Right, Well, nowadays that makes sense. I mean, Leo, that

1898
01:37:57,400 --> 01:37:57,880
Speaker 2: works little.

1899
01:37:58,000 --> 01:38:01,200
Speaker 4: I mean a geriatric pregnancy is thirty five, so I

1900
01:38:01,240 --> 01:38:06,160
Speaker 4: mean like clinically really yes, absolutely wow, considered a Jerry

1901
01:38:06,160 --> 01:38:09,200
Speaker 4: Actric pregnancy at thirty five years old. Get out of here.

1902
01:38:09,439 --> 01:38:11,800
Speaker 4: Still to this day, so even with advance.

1903
01:38:12,000 --> 01:38:15,120
Speaker 2: She said, mean, you look at the human kind, right,

1904
01:38:15,280 --> 01:38:22,240
Speaker 2: and you know they were, you know, pro creating in

1905
01:38:22,320 --> 01:38:26,479
Speaker 2: their teens. Absolutely, yeah, you know when when life expected,

1906
01:38:26,520 --> 01:38:30,200
Speaker 2: she was, you were done thirty years old? Absolutely, if

1907
01:38:30,200 --> 01:38:32,400
Speaker 2: you were, you were lucky to make it to thirty. Yeah,

1908
01:38:32,720 --> 01:38:33,880
Speaker 2: back in the way, way back.

1909
01:38:33,760 --> 01:38:34,120
Speaker 4: In the day.

1910
01:38:34,520 --> 01:38:37,519
Speaker 2: Yeah, you have all kinds of you know, all kinds

1911
01:38:37,560 --> 01:38:39,679
Speaker 2: of terrible, terrible things that get.

1912
01:38:40,560 --> 01:38:43,799
Speaker 4: Yeah, world get eaten by this play.

1913
01:38:44,400 --> 01:38:51,200
Speaker 2: By that, right, but you know, hey, to your point,

1914
01:38:51,280 --> 01:38:52,280
Speaker 2: more power to them.

1915
01:38:52,600 --> 01:38:55,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just gonna be really different here. I go through.

1916
01:38:55,479 --> 01:38:57,240
Speaker 3: I just go look at Instagram.

1917
01:38:57,000 --> 01:39:04,439
Speaker 2: Like huh, okay, my man, well Man, good for you.

1918
01:39:04,880 --> 01:39:06,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, uh I.

1919
01:39:07,640 --> 01:39:10,120
Speaker 2: This is some people. I can just look at the

1920
01:39:10,120 --> 01:39:17,760
Speaker 2: schedule and look at the NFL schedule get excited. So

1921
01:39:18,040 --> 01:39:21,120
Speaker 2: if you look at if you look at week two,

1922
01:39:21,680 --> 01:39:26,960
Speaker 2: this is where you're your first double header is all right?

1923
01:39:27,040 --> 01:39:27,200
Speaker 8: Now.

1924
01:39:27,280 --> 01:39:30,800
Speaker 2: I think it's a great idea. I'm a big fan

1925
01:39:30,880 --> 01:39:34,760
Speaker 2: of a double header. I would stagger the Star a

1926
01:39:34,800 --> 01:39:41,639
Speaker 2: little bit, but they do Saints Panthers seven fifteen, Brown

1927
01:39:41,840 --> 01:39:43,760
Speaker 2: Steelers at eight fifteen.

1928
01:39:44,560 --> 01:39:45,120
Speaker 3: Do you like that?

1929
01:39:46,479 --> 01:39:50,240
Speaker 4: I don't mind the matchups. I'm not a big fan

1930
01:39:50,320 --> 01:39:54,080
Speaker 4: of the stagger starts as opposed to just having your

1931
01:39:54,160 --> 01:39:58,719
Speaker 4: pure double header. Like and look, I realize you're trying

1932
01:39:58,720 --> 01:40:00,880
Speaker 4: to cater it to both coasts to a degree. You

1933
01:40:00,920 --> 01:40:02,720
Speaker 4: don't want to kick off because previously, I know, an

1934
01:40:02,760 --> 01:40:05,639
Speaker 4: opening weekend, what they would do they would have a

1935
01:40:05,720 --> 01:40:08,000
Speaker 4: you know, a four o'clock kick. I'm thinking of a

1936
01:40:08,080 --> 01:40:10,400
Speaker 4: Pacific time now, and then a seven o'clock kick or

1937
01:40:10,400 --> 01:40:12,800
Speaker 4: seven thirty kick. But then obviously the East coast that's

1938
01:40:12,920 --> 01:40:15,559
Speaker 4: way too late, so they're trying to kind of play

1939
01:40:15,600 --> 01:40:19,320
Speaker 4: both sides here. I would almost kick off the first

1940
01:40:19,320 --> 01:40:22,120
Speaker 4: game a slightly earlier and hope the West coast just

1941
01:40:22,160 --> 01:40:24,439
Speaker 4: kind of catches up and catches the second half slash

1942
01:40:24,479 --> 01:40:26,840
Speaker 4: early part of the fourth quarter, and then kick off

1943
01:40:26,840 --> 01:40:29,120
Speaker 4: the second game more around your normal time five to

1944
01:40:29,160 --> 01:40:32,599
Speaker 4: fifteen Pacific, eight fifteen eastern, and do it that way. Yeah,

1945
01:40:32,640 --> 01:40:34,759
Speaker 4: it's supposed to having them going on currently.

1946
01:40:34,920 --> 01:40:35,439
Speaker 3: I agree.

1947
01:40:35,479 --> 01:40:38,960
Speaker 2: I like the seven fifteen eastern, ten to fifteen eastern.

1948
01:40:39,080 --> 01:40:41,519
Speaker 4: Yeah, so even the ten fifteen eastern. You don't think

1949
01:40:41,520 --> 01:40:43,719
Speaker 4: that's too late of a kick for the East Coast audience.

1950
01:40:44,560 --> 01:40:48,880
Speaker 4: I don't know, no, because it's something I've never had

1951
01:40:48,880 --> 01:40:50,920
Speaker 4: to experience. I'm a huge so I don't know. It's funny,

1952
01:40:50,960 --> 01:40:56,080
Speaker 4: like I love the West Coast games. I'm a west now,

1953
01:40:56,080 --> 01:40:57,320
Speaker 4: I'm a night out right.

1954
01:40:57,840 --> 01:41:02,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I love of like I love the West

1955
01:41:02,840 --> 01:41:03,519
Speaker 2: Coast games.

1956
01:41:04,680 --> 01:41:07,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's if it's your schedule, for sure. I'm just

1957
01:41:07,240 --> 01:41:09,560
Speaker 4: imagining myself saying, like, all right, coming up next to

1958
01:41:09,600 --> 01:41:11,599
Speaker 4: Lakers and the Nuggets, and it's like it's ten thirty

1959
01:41:11,600 --> 01:41:14,040
Speaker 4: at night. What do you mean? That's yeah?

1960
01:41:14,520 --> 01:41:17,320
Speaker 2: I thought, you know, But again here's you'll think too,

1961
01:41:17,720 --> 01:41:20,000
Speaker 2: which is you know which is it must be odd

1962
01:41:20,080 --> 01:41:23,200
Speaker 2: for you guys because you got games at four thirty

1963
01:41:23,280 --> 01:41:23,920
Speaker 2: the afternoon.

1964
01:41:24,120 --> 01:41:25,639
Speaker 4: True, very true.

1965
01:41:26,400 --> 01:41:29,559
Speaker 3: At four point thirty is far and I'll never forget.

1966
01:41:29,600 --> 01:41:32,639
Speaker 2: Like, you know, especially from an East Coaster, when you're

1967
01:41:32,680 --> 01:41:34,800
Speaker 2: on the West Coast and you're covering games, I'm like,

1968
01:41:35,240 --> 01:41:37,519
Speaker 2: you're out of a rhythm because you're you're you're going

1969
01:41:37,600 --> 01:41:40,559
Speaker 2: to your read it like three thirty. Games start to

1970
01:41:40,680 --> 01:41:43,200
Speaker 2: start at four thirty. It's crazy.

1971
01:41:43,479 --> 01:41:47,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, But and like you obviously you're working or you're commuting,

1972
01:41:47,320 --> 01:41:48,840
Speaker 4: you end up missing some of it. But you can

1973
01:41:48,880 --> 01:41:50,840
Speaker 4: at least drive around. You can listen on the radio

1974
01:41:50,920 --> 01:41:53,320
Speaker 4: if that's your thing. There's ways that you can find

1975
01:41:53,320 --> 01:41:55,360
Speaker 4: a way to consume a game, and early and earlier

1976
01:41:55,400 --> 01:41:57,880
Speaker 4: game if you really want to. If a game that

1977
01:41:57,960 --> 01:42:01,840
Speaker 4: late at night, I just couldn't imagine. I mean, the

1978
01:42:01,880 --> 01:42:04,120
Speaker 4: second half is kicking off at midnight.

1979
01:42:05,120 --> 01:42:09,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's funny.

1980
01:42:09,200 --> 01:42:11,040
Speaker 3: Well, you know it must be.

1981
01:42:12,120 --> 01:42:17,600
Speaker 2: I think inherently because of the time difference, And I

1982
01:42:17,760 --> 01:42:19,639
Speaker 2: noticed this from being out the West coast, the West

1983
01:42:19,680 --> 01:42:23,920
Speaker 2: Coast is inherently more of a morning type of place

1984
01:42:25,000 --> 01:42:28,280
Speaker 2: than at night place. Would you agree.

1985
01:42:30,600 --> 01:42:33,599
Speaker 4: It depends. I feel honestly that there's people who file

1986
01:42:33,600 --> 01:42:35,360
Speaker 4: a fall on both sides. I don't know if it's

1987
01:42:35,400 --> 01:42:38,120
Speaker 4: more of a morning or a night. I mean, I

1988
01:42:38,120 --> 01:42:40,040
Speaker 4: mean the night. I mean, if you go to downtown

1989
01:42:40,200 --> 01:42:42,880
Speaker 4: l A at least a nice part, you know, on

1990
01:42:43,040 --> 01:42:44,960
Speaker 4: any given night, it could be it could be jumping,

1991
01:42:45,200 --> 01:42:46,559
Speaker 4: you know, depending on what's happening.

1992
01:42:46,800 --> 01:42:52,240
Speaker 2: So yeah, but but is it you know, in the

1993
01:42:52,240 --> 01:42:55,439
Speaker 2: East Coast it was four am. Was the usually the

1994
01:42:56,720 --> 01:42:58,320
Speaker 2: you rock stroll the four am?

1995
01:42:58,680 --> 01:43:01,679
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, things close, you know, clubs, bars closed at four.

1996
01:43:02,240 --> 01:43:05,360
Speaker 4: It's still two. Although they tried to put a measure

1997
01:43:05,479 --> 01:43:07,639
Speaker 4: to have that changed out here and it didn't pass.

1998
01:43:08,920 --> 01:43:10,720
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's still still two o'clock.

1999
01:43:10,360 --> 01:43:11,960
Speaker 2: In the way I always found it like it was

2000
01:43:12,000 --> 01:43:14,600
Speaker 2: like more of an early people got up earlier.

2001
01:43:16,120 --> 01:43:18,080
Speaker 4: I don't know. Yeah, I'm not sure.

2002
01:43:18,240 --> 01:43:23,360
Speaker 2: I mean, so all right, we're going to continue to

2003
01:43:23,400 --> 01:43:26,920
Speaker 2: go through the schedule, but it's hit me with some trending.

2004
01:43:26,960 --> 01:43:30,240
Speaker 4: If you would, sure Lakers onto the Western Conference Finals.

2005
01:43:30,320 --> 01:43:32,080
Speaker 4: They notch a one twenty two to one on one

2006
01:43:32,160 --> 01:43:35,559
Speaker 4: victory over Golden State on Friday night, Lebron James just

2007
01:43:35,600 --> 01:43:38,680
Speaker 4: missing a triple double thirty points, nine boards, nine assists,

2008
01:43:38,720 --> 01:43:43,200
Speaker 4: seventeen points and twenty rebounds for Anthony Davis. Elsewhere, Miami

2009
01:43:43,479 --> 01:43:45,600
Speaker 4: becoming just the second eighth seed to make it to

2010
01:43:45,640 --> 01:43:49,000
Speaker 4: a conference final. They defeated the next ninety six to

2011
01:43:49,120 --> 01:43:52,639
Speaker 4: ninety two, twenty four points for Jimmy Butler, all despite

2012
01:43:52,680 --> 01:43:54,960
Speaker 4: a forty one point effort, a great effort by Jalen

2013
01:43:54,960 --> 01:43:57,639
Speaker 4: Brunson for New York, but it was not enough. Second

2014
01:43:57,680 --> 01:43:59,439
Speaker 4: round to the Stanley Cup playoffs, Las Vegas with a

2015
01:43:59,520 --> 01:44:02,479
Speaker 4: victory over Edmonton four to three was the final score.

2016
01:44:02,560 --> 01:44:05,519
Speaker 4: They take a three to two series lead. Florida defeated

2017
01:44:05,560 --> 01:44:08,479
Speaker 4: Toronto on overtime three to two to win that series

2018
01:44:08,520 --> 01:44:10,760
Speaker 4: in five games, so the Panthers will face Carolina in

2019
01:44:10,800 --> 01:44:14,160
Speaker 4: the Eastern Conference Finals. Baseball, the Dodgers get home runs

2020
01:44:13,800 --> 01:44:17,000
Speaker 4: from Freddie Freeman, excuse me, and Mookie Betts in a

2021
01:44:17,040 --> 01:44:20,479
Speaker 4: four to two victory over San Diego. Philadelphia and Arizona

2022
01:44:20,520 --> 01:44:23,400
Speaker 4: get victories in the NFL. The Vikings traded pass rushers

2023
01:44:23,400 --> 01:44:25,320
Speaker 4: Adarias Smith and a couple of draft picks to the

2024
01:44:25,360 --> 01:44:29,000
Speaker 4: Browns for a couple of draft picks. Back to the fellas.

2025
01:44:29,920 --> 01:44:35,040
Speaker 2: All right, that's us where the fellas hanging out right here?

2026
01:44:36,320 --> 01:44:41,800
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio from the tire Rack dot Com studios.

2027
01:44:43,040 --> 01:44:46,400
Speaker 2: All right, I think so as we continue to kind

2028
01:44:46,400 --> 01:44:50,920
Speaker 2: of go through the schedule the second, so it's interesting.

2029
01:44:51,000 --> 01:44:57,520
Speaker 2: Week three is another double header. Eagles Buccaneer seven fifteen,

2030
01:44:59,000 --> 01:45:01,560
Speaker 2: Rams Bengal eight fifteen.

2031
01:45:03,080 --> 01:45:05,120
Speaker 4: I don't know why the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are on

2032
01:45:05,280 --> 01:45:10,200
Speaker 4: Monday night. Yeah, there's talking about I mentioned like Detroit

2033
01:45:10,320 --> 01:45:12,240
Speaker 4: not having a draw. At least they were a good team.

2034
01:45:12,280 --> 01:45:14,360
Speaker 4: They scored a lot of riots last year. They're entertaining

2035
01:45:14,360 --> 01:45:17,120
Speaker 4: to watch. What the hell does Tampa have? Don't you

2036
01:45:17,200 --> 01:45:22,599
Speaker 4: know what quarterbacks Kyle Trask, Baker Mayfield, anybody, What are

2037
01:45:22,600 --> 01:45:26,280
Speaker 4: we doing? That's a head scratcher for me. You just

2038
01:45:26,400 --> 01:45:29,480
Speaker 4: not a head scratcher, Lamb led to the slaughter Philadelphia

2039
01:45:29,560 --> 01:45:30,479
Speaker 4: going into Tampa Bay.

2040
01:45:32,040 --> 01:45:33,400
Speaker 3: Here's the team I don't get.

2041
01:45:33,800 --> 01:45:38,880
Speaker 2: And they're on the first Sunday night and then they're

2042
01:45:38,920 --> 01:45:44,839
Speaker 2: on again Thursday night, prime time in San Francisco. Giants

2043
01:45:44,920 --> 01:45:50,719
Speaker 2: San Francisco. The Giants on twice in three weeks prime slots.

2044
01:45:50,960 --> 01:45:52,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, like, look, I think we all knew that the

2045
01:45:52,840 --> 01:45:55,479
Speaker 4: Giants were. I don't know if they were as much

2046
01:45:55,520 --> 01:45:57,800
Speaker 4: fool's goal as Minnesota was last year, but they weren't

2047
01:45:57,840 --> 01:46:00,840
Speaker 4: that far off from it. So, like you know, people

2048
01:46:00,880 --> 01:46:02,960
Speaker 4: look at the league offices in New York. They have

2049
01:46:03,000 --> 01:46:05,120
Speaker 4: a lot of hype they bring, you know, they brought

2050
01:46:05,160 --> 01:46:07,360
Speaker 4: the quarterback back. They think they're gonna be better for

2051
01:46:07,439 --> 01:46:09,639
Speaker 4: another you know, coming back from another season after making

2052
01:46:09,640 --> 01:46:11,439
Speaker 4: the playoffs last year. So I think they're just kind

2053
01:46:11,479 --> 01:46:14,559
Speaker 4: of banking off of what happened last year with New York,

2054
01:46:15,240 --> 01:46:18,400
Speaker 4: big TV market, National TV. They think they're gonna be

2055
01:46:18,439 --> 01:46:20,519
Speaker 4: a good team, so they're putting them out there. I

2056
01:46:20,520 --> 01:46:22,120
Speaker 4: don't know how good they're gonna be. I don't think.

2057
01:46:22,439 --> 01:46:23,760
Speaker 4: I don't think they're gonna be as good as they

2058
01:46:23,760 --> 01:46:27,560
Speaker 4: were last year personally, So that that is an interesting,

2059
01:46:28,400 --> 01:46:29,960
Speaker 4: interesting choice to say.

2060
01:46:30,200 --> 01:46:32,759
Speaker 3: Agree, I'm with you, But yeah.

2061
01:46:32,560 --> 01:46:34,200
Speaker 4: The only rationale I can think of is they had

2062
01:46:34,200 --> 01:46:36,320
Speaker 4: a good year last year, so they're trying to put

2063
01:46:36,320 --> 01:46:39,120
Speaker 4: a marquee eyes and trying to get as many eyeballs

2064
01:46:39,120 --> 01:46:41,639
Speaker 4: as they can in the biggest media market on national TV.

2065
01:46:41,760 --> 01:46:44,519
Speaker 4: That's the only reason why they did it. And of

2066
01:46:44,520 --> 01:46:53,240
Speaker 4: course Week four begins the International Series Jaguars, one of two.

2067
01:46:53,240 --> 01:47:02,840
Speaker 2: Games in London, Jaguars and Falcons Wembley. I love how

2068
01:47:02,840 --> 01:47:05,679
Speaker 2: are you with the early early Theague because it's nine

2069
01:47:05,680 --> 01:47:07,680
Speaker 2: to thirty on the East Coast, six thirty on the

2070
01:47:07,680 --> 01:47:10,479
Speaker 2: West Coast. Do you like a six thirty football game?

2071
01:47:10,880 --> 01:47:12,240
Speaker 3: Am Uh?

2072
01:47:12,720 --> 01:47:16,160
Speaker 4: Not necessarily, to be honest with you, And I feel

2073
01:47:16,160 --> 01:47:18,080
Speaker 4: like the majority of the times, just for whatever reason,

2074
01:47:18,160 --> 01:47:20,400
Speaker 4: has just kind of worked out this way. I've been

2075
01:47:20,520 --> 01:47:23,599
Speaker 4: here working a similar shift to the one that I'm

2076
01:47:23,600 --> 01:47:26,600
Speaker 4: working now, So by the time I get off and

2077
01:47:26,640 --> 01:47:28,960
Speaker 4: go home and wake up, it's either like the fourth quarter,

2078
01:47:29,120 --> 01:47:31,040
Speaker 4: if even that, if the game is even still going

2079
01:47:31,080 --> 01:47:35,240
Speaker 4: on of those early kickoffs. So in general, I don't

2080
01:47:35,280 --> 01:47:39,559
Speaker 4: necessarily mind it. Usually they're not really must watch games either,

2081
01:47:39,680 --> 01:47:41,840
Speaker 4: so that doesn't help. But I mean, look with Jacksonville

2082
01:47:41,840 --> 01:47:43,120
Speaker 4: this year, who I think is gonna have a really

2083
01:47:43,120 --> 01:47:47,639
Speaker 4: good year. Yeah, and Atlanta is not necessarily the most

2084
01:47:47,640 --> 01:47:51,559
Speaker 4: intriguing team to say the least, but yeah, having Trevor

2085
01:47:51,640 --> 01:47:54,840
Speaker 4: Lawrence and Jacksonville with another year under their belt. Yeah,

2086
01:47:54,920 --> 01:47:57,920
Speaker 4: if I can, if I'm able to be up and

2087
01:47:57,960 --> 01:48:00,920
Speaker 4: watch that one, I absolutely would. But generally speaking, I

2088
01:48:00,960 --> 01:48:03,800
Speaker 4: don't necessarily mind an early early kick like that.

2089
01:48:04,800 --> 01:48:11,160
Speaker 2: So we're talking. It is interesting, man, because the Jags with.

2090
01:48:11,160 --> 01:48:14,960
Speaker 4: Two yes, two back to back yes?

2091
01:48:16,280 --> 01:48:21,400
Speaker 2: Is that a Is that the start of something where

2092
01:48:21,439 --> 01:48:23,760
Speaker 2: they start with two and next thing you know, it's

2093
01:48:23,800 --> 01:48:24,519
Speaker 2: going to be four.

2094
01:48:26,479 --> 01:48:28,519
Speaker 4: It wouldn't surprise me. Look, we know the NFL has

2095
01:48:28,560 --> 01:48:31,120
Speaker 4: designs of having at least one and maybe even two

2096
01:48:31,280 --> 01:48:34,400
Speaker 4: full time teams being over there. So but then the

2097
01:48:34,400 --> 01:48:38,000
Speaker 4: biggest hurdle is the logistics of it. So you know,

2098
01:48:38,040 --> 01:48:43,320
Speaker 4: what is the the solution. It's probably three weeks, you know, there,

2099
01:48:43,360 --> 01:48:46,599
Speaker 4: three straight games or maybe a month, then you fly home,

2100
01:48:46,720 --> 01:48:48,639
Speaker 4: or you fly to the United States for a month

2101
01:48:48,640 --> 01:48:50,600
Speaker 4: and do some road games, then you fly back for

2102
01:48:50,640 --> 01:48:53,000
Speaker 4: a month and do some home you know, the only

2103
01:48:53,040 --> 01:48:54,760
Speaker 4: issue with that is you only have at least as

2104
01:48:54,800 --> 01:48:57,680
Speaker 4: of now, you only have one by and usually to

2105
01:48:57,920 --> 01:49:01,000
Speaker 4: you know, to Stem, you know, the jet lag and

2106
01:49:01,040 --> 01:49:03,599
Speaker 4: the time change and all that stuff. Whoever does play

2107
01:49:03,600 --> 01:49:07,120
Speaker 4: over size, it's their bye after that. Well, you're not

2108
01:49:07,160 --> 01:49:09,120
Speaker 4: gonna have multiple buys in a year at least, I

2109
01:49:09,120 --> 01:49:12,320
Speaker 4: wouldn't think, unless you're making exceptions for international teams, which

2110
01:49:12,320 --> 01:49:15,000
Speaker 4: I guess they could do, but I would feel like

2111
01:49:15,040 --> 01:49:16,920
Speaker 4: the only feasible way that you could do that if

2112
01:49:16,920 --> 01:49:19,040
Speaker 4: you're going to have a full time team in London

2113
01:49:19,479 --> 01:49:20,920
Speaker 4: or I know they're playing a game in Germany this

2114
01:49:21,000 --> 01:49:24,439
Speaker 4: year or too, and in Europe, right, you'd have to

2115
01:49:24,840 --> 01:49:28,439
Speaker 4: you'd have to cluster games together, kind of like Hawaii

2116
01:49:28,439 --> 01:49:31,280
Speaker 4: does to a certain degree sometimes in college football.

2117
01:49:31,560 --> 01:49:37,280
Speaker 2: That's right, they're on the mainland for you know, four two,

2118
01:49:37,360 --> 01:49:38,759
Speaker 2: three weeks through three weeks.

2119
01:49:38,800 --> 01:49:39,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, so.

2120
01:49:41,120 --> 01:49:43,280
Speaker 4: Experimenting with it, sure. And then, by the way, Jacksonville

2121
01:49:43,320 --> 01:49:45,280
Speaker 4: has a stadium issue they're dealing with, or a stadium

2122
01:49:45,280 --> 01:49:48,160
Speaker 4: renovation issue that they're saying is going to take like

2123
01:49:48,200 --> 01:49:50,880
Speaker 4: two years to fix, and it's not like one of

2124
01:49:50,880 --> 01:49:52,479
Speaker 4: those they'll fix it and then they'll you know, they

2125
01:49:52,520 --> 01:49:54,280
Speaker 4: can leave it up and they can play games while

2126
01:49:54,280 --> 01:49:56,479
Speaker 4: they're still working on it. Like this is like full

2127
01:49:56,520 --> 01:49:58,479
Speaker 4: on legit. You guys cannot be here for two full

2128
01:49:58,520 --> 01:49:59,839
Speaker 4: years while we work on the stadium.

2129
01:50:00,240 --> 01:50:05,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I you know, how doesn't it seem like

2130
01:50:06,320 --> 01:50:07,360
Speaker 2: at some point they.

2131
01:50:07,240 --> 01:50:08,439
Speaker 3: Go, why are we here?

2132
01:50:08,880 --> 01:50:12,760
Speaker 4: I said that initially when they went there, but I know, yeah, uh,

2133
01:50:12,960 --> 01:50:15,320
Speaker 4: it does well. And that's why you look, people think

2134
01:50:15,320 --> 01:50:17,760
Speaker 4: that this has been in the works for a decade now,

2135
01:50:17,800 --> 01:50:21,519
Speaker 4: this is why Jacksonville was selected elected whatever words you

2136
01:50:21,600 --> 01:50:24,200
Speaker 4: want to use to kind of be the guinea pig

2137
01:50:24,280 --> 01:50:26,639
Speaker 4: over in London to begin with, they're like, if there's

2138
01:50:26,680 --> 01:50:29,519
Speaker 4: one NFL market that's you know, struggles a little bit,

2139
01:50:29,600 --> 01:50:31,720
Speaker 4: doesn't get a lot of fans turn out most of

2140
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Speaker 4: the time at least and is primed.

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01:50:35,520 --> 01:50:38,360
Speaker 2: It's just small market is the biggest issue, you know,

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01:50:38,880 --> 01:50:40,000
Speaker 2: the size of the market.

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Speaker 4: Definitely. Hey, look, they haven't been good like if Jacksonville

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01:50:43,080 --> 01:50:45,439
Speaker 4: had been consistent. Look in their early years with Kaflin

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01:50:45,560 --> 01:50:48,240
Speaker 4: and Mark Burnell and all those guys, and they were

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01:50:48,320 --> 01:50:52,080
Speaker 4: really good. And I believe I don't necessarily remember from

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01:50:52,240 --> 01:50:55,599
Speaker 4: an attendance standpoint, but I believe their attendance was pretty

2148
01:50:55,600 --> 01:50:57,519
Speaker 4: solid when they first got out, when they first started.

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01:50:57,680 --> 01:51:01,320
Speaker 4: So they're one of those teams where you're franchises when

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01:51:01,360 --> 01:51:05,200
Speaker 4: they're going well, you know, the stadium's great, they sell

2151
01:51:05,200 --> 01:51:07,719
Speaker 4: games out. They just haven't been good enough consistently enough.

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01:51:08,360 --> 01:51:10,000
Speaker 4: And so that's why people question how good of a

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01:51:10,000 --> 01:51:12,080
Speaker 4: football market they are, you know, Cleveland, outside of a

2154
01:51:12,080 --> 01:51:14,920
Speaker 4: couple of pockets of time, whether they're good or bad,

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01:51:14,920 --> 01:51:20,640
Speaker 4: they're selling out. Yeah, you know, regardless, and dak Jacksonville

2156
01:51:20,760 --> 01:51:27,120
Speaker 4: is just not a city like that. No, No, But

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01:51:27,520 --> 01:51:29,840
Speaker 4: absent of London, I don't know where else they would play.

2158
01:51:32,160 --> 01:51:34,879
Speaker 2: Well, it just makes sense for them to play in London.

2159
01:51:35,360 --> 01:51:41,960
Speaker 2: And you know, the Germany game is fascinating this year.

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01:51:43,920 --> 01:51:46,840
Speaker 2: That's the one that's gonna be Kids in City, Miami.

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01:51:49,400 --> 01:51:53,840
Speaker 2: That's a great game. Yeah, potential there, Yeah, that's a

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01:51:54,560 --> 01:52:00,440
Speaker 2: that's that's November fifth, week nine, Tyreek versus mahomessolutely.

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01:52:01,000 --> 01:52:04,360
Speaker 3: I mean, you're gonna put that in the in Germany,

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01:52:04,520 --> 01:52:05,240
Speaker 3: that's interesting.

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Speaker 4: I don't I don't necessarily mine, although I will say,

2166
01:52:07,840 --> 01:52:10,240
Speaker 4: you know how many dog games that London has London

2167
01:52:10,280 --> 01:52:13,720
Speaker 4: gotten over the last fifteen years, and this is a

2168
01:52:13,760 --> 01:52:16,960
Speaker 4: really good matchup like that Germany is getting right now,

2169
01:52:17,400 --> 01:52:20,000
Speaker 4: So that's intriguing. So, like I understood why the NFL

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01:52:20,000 --> 01:52:21,880
Speaker 4: didn't want to put its marquee games over in London.

2171
01:52:21,880 --> 01:52:24,040
Speaker 4: You didn't want to take great games away from fan bases,

2172
01:52:24,320 --> 01:52:27,400
Speaker 4: local fan bases. But I think if they're really being

2173
01:52:27,479 --> 01:52:30,439
Speaker 4: serious about trying to expand, you can't just put all

2174
01:52:30,439 --> 01:52:33,400
Speaker 4: these dog matchups overseas. You can't take your worst and

2175
01:52:33,520 --> 01:52:37,600
Speaker 4: use it as a showcase for an entire country. You

2176
01:52:37,720 --> 01:52:40,160
Speaker 4: just can't do it. So I think the NFL, even

2177
01:52:40,200 --> 01:52:43,280
Speaker 4: their London matchups more recently, over the last five years

2178
01:52:43,360 --> 01:52:44,960
Speaker 4: or so, I've been at least a little bit better.

2179
01:52:46,000 --> 01:52:47,880
Speaker 4: Jacksonville's kind of always played one of them, but they've

2180
01:52:47,880 --> 01:52:51,160
Speaker 4: always had two other teams they're at least halfway decent,

2181
01:52:52,080 --> 01:52:53,920
Speaker 4: just to kind of show what the NFL actually is

2182
01:52:53,920 --> 01:52:56,160
Speaker 4: and not just have a couple of bad games. So

2183
01:52:56,200 --> 01:52:58,360
Speaker 4: you have to eventually put good games on the slate

2184
01:52:58,800 --> 01:53:00,880
Speaker 4: if you're trying to actually gar on, Yah.

2185
01:53:01,479 --> 01:53:03,479
Speaker 3: You can't have the duds. I mean no, I agree

2186
01:53:03,520 --> 01:53:05,000
Speaker 3: with you. I figure spot On.

2187
01:53:05,120 --> 01:53:06,519
Speaker 4: So it sucks for fans of the Chiefs and the

2188
01:53:06,560 --> 01:53:08,559
Speaker 4: Dolphins unless they have you know, that kind of you know,

2189
01:53:08,640 --> 01:53:10,599
Speaker 4: pocket change laying around where they can catch a flight.

2190
01:53:12,479 --> 01:53:14,760
Speaker 4: But for what the NFL is doing, and we know

2191
01:53:14,800 --> 01:53:17,920
Speaker 4: it's more of a TV sport nowadays anyway, just trying

2192
01:53:17,920 --> 01:53:20,439
Speaker 4: to expand their footprint and make as much as get

2193
01:53:20,439 --> 01:53:22,880
Speaker 4: as many more international eyeballs and make more money that

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01:53:22,920 --> 01:53:23,559
Speaker 4: way that they can.

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01:53:24,160 --> 01:53:25,840
Speaker 3: Yep, yep you spot On.

2196
01:53:26,400 --> 01:53:30,520
Speaker 2: All right, will come back and oh, I believe it's Thanksgiving.

2197
01:53:31,880 --> 01:53:36,519
Speaker 4: Well, let's see what's on tap for Thaksgiving.

2198
01:53:37,200 --> 01:53:45,920
Speaker 2: Figgie. I love Thags Giving football with the fellas right

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01:53:45,960 --> 01:53:59,400
Speaker 2: here on Fox Sports Radio. All right, welcome back, Fellas,

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01:54:00,600 --> 01:54:04,479
Speaker 2: Kevin Figures. I'm Anthony Gargano from the ti iraq dot

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01:54:04,560 --> 01:54:10,840
Speaker 2: Com Studios. Figgie thanksgivvys upon us. As we've gone through

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01:54:10,840 --> 01:54:15,120
Speaker 2: the NFL schedule and you wake up and it's a

2203
01:54:15,280 --> 01:54:22,120
Speaker 2: chrisp Day and it's Packers Lions, one of the great

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01:54:22,200 --> 01:54:23,240
Speaker 2: all time games.

2205
01:54:23,280 --> 01:54:23,639
Speaker 3: Always.

2206
01:54:23,680 --> 01:54:28,200
Speaker 2: I love Packers Lions, great rivalry it is. Love it,

2207
01:54:28,360 --> 01:54:32,520
Speaker 2: love it, love it. Washington and Dallas love it, love it,

2208
01:54:32,600 --> 01:54:37,400
Speaker 2: love it. And I gotta tell you, I think the

2209
01:54:37,560 --> 01:54:42,000
Speaker 2: Thursday Night game is a great game because you know

2210
01:54:42,200 --> 01:54:45,200
Speaker 2: my pick is to win the NFC West.

2211
01:54:45,920 --> 01:54:46,920
Speaker 4: Are you going with Gino?

2212
01:54:47,760 --> 01:54:48,840
Speaker 3: I am.

2213
01:54:49,120 --> 01:54:53,000
Speaker 4: I like Seattle, Okay, I can see that the NFC

2214
01:54:53,120 --> 01:54:56,040
Speaker 4: West is not necessarily the strongest division this year, So.

2215
01:54:56,160 --> 01:54:58,560
Speaker 2: I think now, I think the Nighters are good team.

2216
01:54:58,680 --> 01:55:02,040
Speaker 2: They are, I a really good team. But I think

2217
01:55:02,080 --> 01:55:03,960
Speaker 2: the Seahawks are a really good team too.

2218
01:55:04,240 --> 01:55:06,920
Speaker 4: They certainly have improved, had a very good draft, very

2219
01:55:06,920 --> 01:55:11,760
Speaker 4: good offseason. Gino another year under his belt as the starter. Yeah,

2220
01:55:11,800 --> 01:55:14,120
Speaker 4: I certainly can see a path where Seattle could absolutely

2221
01:55:14,160 --> 01:55:15,720
Speaker 4: compete for that division, no doubt.

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01:55:16,360 --> 01:55:18,280
Speaker 3: And that's a good game. That's three. I think that's

2223
01:55:18,320 --> 01:55:19,240
Speaker 3: three out of tenny Gate.

2224
01:55:19,320 --> 01:55:21,400
Speaker 4: Yes, three games that are shaping up to be really nice.

2225
01:55:21,480 --> 01:55:23,640
Speaker 4: Three games that look very nice on the schedule in

2226
01:55:23,680 --> 01:55:24,640
Speaker 4: May yes.

2227
01:55:26,240 --> 01:55:31,480
Speaker 2: In May, Yes, correct, Yes, that's a good qualifier, and

2228
01:55:31,560 --> 01:55:34,320
Speaker 2: they do the greatest taking the world just happened the

2229
01:55:34,320 --> 01:55:35,280
Speaker 2: whole Black Friday.

2230
01:55:36,080 --> 01:55:36,920
Speaker 3: It is now.

2231
01:55:38,480 --> 01:55:46,200
Speaker 2: A glorious Black Friday. Dolphins Jets at.

2232
01:55:46,080 --> 01:55:51,280
Speaker 4: Three o'clock out. By goodness, so much for the NFL

2233
01:55:51,360 --> 01:55:53,120
Speaker 4: not stepping on college footballs toes at all.

2234
01:55:53,200 --> 01:55:57,040
Speaker 2: Right, well but here's the thing. Now, that's a great

2235
01:55:57,040 --> 01:56:00,360
Speaker 2: week at college football. But truthfully, the big cop college

2236
01:56:00,440 --> 01:56:01,720
Speaker 2: games are on Saturday.

2237
01:56:01,800 --> 01:56:05,520
Speaker 4: They are on Saturday. Yes, you know us and dinosaurs.

2238
01:56:05,560 --> 01:56:10,280
Speaker 4: Remember the old great Colorado Nebraska games. Yes, Black Friday

2239
01:56:10,480 --> 01:56:14,280
Speaker 4: years ago, in the old old Big twelve. Yes, I

2240
01:56:14,400 --> 01:56:17,760
Speaker 4: guess Big eight before me. But you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah,

2241
01:56:17,800 --> 01:56:20,720
Speaker 4: so that those are those are long gone.

2242
01:56:21,040 --> 01:56:28,400
Speaker 2: That's what you're right, that was, you know, that was Colorado, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Nebraska.

2243
01:56:29,400 --> 01:56:31,520
Speaker 3: Huskers. I'm all husker it up this.

2244
01:56:31,560 --> 01:56:34,800
Speaker 4: Year, now, are you? You're on the Husker wagon? Okay, Well,

2245
01:56:35,520 --> 01:56:37,520
Speaker 4: my maid's here, that's true, that's right.

2246
01:56:38,280 --> 01:56:40,200
Speaker 3: I gotta root my maid from that rule, that's right.

2247
01:56:40,560 --> 01:56:43,240
Speaker 2: I gotta I gotta gout, you know, I gotta root

2248
01:56:43,280 --> 01:56:46,720
Speaker 2: my my guys over there. I'm gonna go I'm gonna

2249
01:56:46,760 --> 01:56:48,760
Speaker 2: go out to a couple of games.

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01:56:49,280 --> 01:56:50,200
Speaker 4: How are you nice?

2251
01:56:50,640 --> 01:56:52,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna hit it. I'm gonna i gonna hit it.

2252
01:56:53,080 --> 01:56:54,680
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to it. I'm gonna do it. I

2253
01:56:54,760 --> 01:56:56,040
Speaker 2: might do the Colorado game.

2254
01:56:56,200 --> 01:56:58,680
Speaker 4: Although you know what the the flux that the Pac

2255
01:56:58,760 --> 01:57:01,400
Speaker 4: twelve is in with and still can't get a TV contract,

2256
01:57:02,040 --> 01:57:05,040
Speaker 4: there is talk and with the Big ten expanding and

2257
01:57:05,080 --> 01:57:06,840
Speaker 4: Nebraska kind of get left in the lerch to a

2258
01:57:06,840 --> 01:57:09,040
Speaker 4: certain degree with a lot of these other bigger programs,

2259
01:57:09,400 --> 01:57:12,120
Speaker 4: there's talk of Colorado and Nebraska both going back to

2260
01:57:12,160 --> 01:57:12,800
Speaker 4: the Big twelve.

2261
01:57:13,880 --> 01:57:14,200
Speaker 5: Wow.

2262
01:57:14,600 --> 01:57:16,720
Speaker 4: Something that not a whole whole lot of talk, but

2263
01:57:16,760 --> 01:57:20,800
Speaker 4: it's rublings about that over the last year. Absolutely that

2264
01:57:20,880 --> 01:57:25,440
Speaker 4: they both could return to the Big twelve. Wow. Now,

2265
01:57:25,720 --> 01:57:29,040
Speaker 4: now the Big twelve just expanded more so, uh, they

2266
01:57:29,160 --> 01:57:31,240
Speaker 4: just added to added the few teams. But I mean,

2267
01:57:32,560 --> 01:57:37,360
Speaker 4: I don't like, never seemed like a good fit.

2268
01:57:38,120 --> 01:57:38,520
Speaker 3: It's not.

2269
01:57:38,680 --> 01:57:42,080
Speaker 4: They're not big Big ten is I don't know, Well

2270
01:57:42,120 --> 01:57:44,000
Speaker 4: what is the Big ten? Now that's see and U

2271
01:57:44,080 --> 01:57:44,720
Speaker 4: c l A in it?

2272
01:57:44,800 --> 01:57:48,360
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, well right Maryland, Yeah, you know right,

2273
01:57:49,040 --> 01:57:52,879
Speaker 2: Rod Kurge, Right, it's by the Big ten is literally

2274
01:57:53,040 --> 01:57:53,960
Speaker 2: the coast to coast.

2275
01:57:54,800 --> 01:57:58,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, College football is not now no longer a regional sport.

2276
01:57:58,880 --> 01:58:00,480
Speaker 4: It's now a national sport.

2277
01:58:01,560 --> 01:58:04,720
Speaker 2: So this year you got when I know, I'm looking

2278
01:58:04,760 --> 01:58:11,800
Speaker 2: at the Michigan game September thirtieth, I might do that game.

2279
01:58:12,960 --> 01:58:15,440
Speaker 3: It also got that might not be pretty.

2280
01:58:16,520 --> 01:58:23,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, I probably do that Nebraska Michigan. Although you might

2281
01:58:23,320 --> 01:58:27,240
Speaker 4: make some waves in year one. You never know. My man,

2282
01:58:27,400 --> 01:58:31,720
Speaker 4: my man, listen, don't be better than you think.

2283
01:58:31,880 --> 01:58:32,080
Speaker 5: You know.

2284
01:58:32,600 --> 01:58:34,480
Speaker 4: Look, I don't doubt it. Matt Rule is an excellent

2285
01:58:34,520 --> 01:58:36,360
Speaker 4: coach now that he's got. He got a bad draw

2286
01:58:36,400 --> 01:58:39,320
Speaker 4: in Carolina because he couldn't get a quarterback, but every

2287
01:58:39,360 --> 01:58:42,040
Speaker 4: stop in college that he's been he's been amazing. He's turning.

2288
01:58:42,080 --> 01:58:45,760
Speaker 4: He took over some really tumultuous programs into multual situations

2289
01:58:45,760 --> 01:58:46,520
Speaker 4: and turned them around.

2290
01:58:48,280 --> 01:58:51,840
Speaker 3: And that would be perfect to get those guys going.

2291
01:58:52,000 --> 01:58:55,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, you get Nebraska going, and today's got the brand.

2292
01:58:55,840 --> 01:58:58,080
Speaker 2: That's the brand, that one of those brands that needs

2293
01:58:58,080 --> 01:58:59,839
Speaker 2: to come back Main Street USA.

2294
01:59:01,120 --> 01:59:04,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just it's difficult to get kids to comfort you.

2295
01:59:04,320 --> 01:59:08,400
Speaker 4: You don't have a natural recruiting area. It's Lincoln, Nebraska.

2296
01:59:08,600 --> 01:59:11,240
Speaker 4: It's just it's it's very difficult. The way the game

2297
01:59:11,320 --> 01:59:14,360
Speaker 4: is playing now with athletes and spreading it around. That's

2298
01:59:14,400 --> 01:59:17,160
Speaker 4: just what doesn't lend itself to out. Nebraska typically had

2299
01:59:17,200 --> 01:59:18,640
Speaker 4: won back in the old days.

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01:59:19,480 --> 01:59:22,920
Speaker 3: Right, So on the on the Doctor Tom Osbourne.

2301
01:59:23,000 --> 01:59:27,600
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, uh, let me ask you.

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01:59:27,640 --> 01:59:31,480
Speaker 2: So what I'm look I'm looking forward to. I'm looking

2303
01:59:31,520 --> 01:59:35,960
Speaker 2: forward into the schedule. There's another Monday night doubleheader on

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01:59:36,200 --> 01:59:39,000
Speaker 2: Monday Night, December eleventh, but they're playing at the same time.

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01:59:41,560 --> 01:59:47,280
Speaker 2: They Conkers, Giants, Titans, Dolphins, both at eight fifteen.

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01:59:47,600 --> 01:59:50,720
Speaker 4: I don't get it. Does not make a lot of

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01:59:50,760 --> 01:59:51,160
Speaker 4: sense to that.

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01:59:51,320 --> 01:59:59,400
Speaker 2: That makes no sense to me. Yeah, that's that's weird.

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02:00:00,080 --> 02:00:03,400
Speaker 4: I don't know. Yeah, I'm sure someone has asked the

2310
02:00:03,480 --> 02:00:05,400
Speaker 4: NFL why they decided to do this, and they have

2311
02:00:05,560 --> 02:00:08,800
Speaker 4: some sort of answer as to why. But I why

2312
02:00:08,920 --> 02:00:10,440
Speaker 4: you're hurting yourself?

2313
02:00:10,680 --> 02:00:11,400
Speaker 3: Yeah?

2314
02:00:11,480 --> 02:00:15,120
Speaker 2: How about the three games on Christmas Day?

2315
02:00:15,280 --> 02:00:18,680
Speaker 4: Speaking of stepping on top? Does not care about the

2316
02:00:18,800 --> 02:00:23,760
Speaker 4: NBA anyway? A tripleheader? We're gonna hate you with three,

2317
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Speaker 4: no more one three of them. Maybe we're the fellas

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Speaker 4: Well, my man, gotta ask you.

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Speaker 3: It is.

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02:02:03,040 --> 02:02:09,200
Speaker 2: Mother's Day tomorrow and we have a game seven between

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Speaker 2: the Sixers and Celtics, which is a big deal in

2349
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Speaker 2: these parts.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, it's the big deal in the entire sports world.

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Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to it, no doubt. So now we

2352
02:02:19,240 --> 02:02:21,879
Speaker 4: have a time, yes three thirty.

2353
02:02:22,040 --> 02:02:24,840
Speaker 2: Now that the Lakers, like you mentioned, We've been talking

2354
02:02:24,880 --> 02:02:31,600
Speaker 2: about it all morning long. Lakers, Lebron sensational, Anthony Davis,

2355
02:02:31,840 --> 02:02:37,480
Speaker 2: the Lakers, amazing story. When there were thoughts, No, they

2356
02:02:37,520 --> 02:02:40,800
Speaker 2: don't even make the playoffs, Nope, when Russ was there,

2357
02:02:41,120 --> 02:02:42,920
Speaker 2: they were out of the playoffs for i'd say a

2358
02:02:42,920 --> 02:02:48,640
Speaker 2: good eighty percent of the season. Now they're in the

2359
02:02:48,680 --> 02:02:51,200
Speaker 2: Western Conference Finals against the Nugs.

2360
02:02:51,800 --> 02:02:54,440
Speaker 4: A great matchup, by the way, spectacular.

2361
02:02:54,720 --> 02:02:57,320
Speaker 2: It is a rematch, like you said, between the bubble

2362
02:02:58,400 --> 02:03:01,960
Speaker 2: the Nuggets and the bubble Lakers. And remember Jamal Murray

2363
02:03:02,000 --> 02:03:04,920
Speaker 2: went and bananas in the in the bubble.

2364
02:03:05,120 --> 02:03:07,400
Speaker 4: No, he put it on the Clippers bad because I

2365
02:03:07,680 --> 02:03:09,600
Speaker 4: had a three one lead in the second round against

2366
02:03:09,600 --> 02:03:13,040
Speaker 4: the Nuggets, and as great as Jokic was, Murray was insane.

2367
02:03:13,920 --> 02:03:16,560
Speaker 2: Now the Lakers, of course, prevail and when the chip

2368
02:03:17,560 --> 02:03:20,120
Speaker 2: a little different scenario. Like you said, it's out of

2369
02:03:20,160 --> 02:03:22,400
Speaker 2: the bubble and now you've got to deal with the Denver.

2370
02:03:22,280 --> 02:03:27,760
Speaker 4: Altitude, which is never easy, especially for an older, you know,

2371
02:03:27,920 --> 02:03:32,200
Speaker 4: team like the Lakers. You know, so I I I'm

2372
02:03:32,200 --> 02:03:34,400
Speaker 4: pretty sure I know Denver's favorite to win the series.

2373
02:03:34,400 --> 02:03:36,440
Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure their fair favorite to win game one.

2374
02:03:37,680 --> 02:03:41,120
Speaker 3: So if you're the Laker, yeah, they were laying five.

2375
02:03:40,960 --> 02:03:44,880
Speaker 4: Five, Okay, that sounds reasonable. So it's just like it's

2376
02:03:45,040 --> 02:03:46,760
Speaker 4: and the Lakers have been prone to getting out to

2377
02:03:46,840 --> 02:03:49,000
Speaker 4: some slow starts here and there, especially on the road.

2378
02:03:49,120 --> 02:03:51,200
Speaker 4: So let's put it this way, it will be one

2379
02:03:51,240 --> 02:03:52,960
Speaker 4: of those. It would not surprise me one bit if

2380
02:03:52,960 --> 02:03:56,400
Speaker 4: the Lakers were, you know, lost by fifteen in Game one.

2381
02:03:56,880 --> 02:04:04,080
Speaker 2: Right, So, yeah, that is going to be an amazing

2382
02:04:04,200 --> 02:04:07,000
Speaker 2: I think that they could lose by fifteen and still

2383
02:04:07,480 --> 02:04:08,720
Speaker 2: make that a seven games, so.

2384
02:04:08,920 --> 02:04:10,680
Speaker 4: Without a doubt. I mean, look at the ebbs and

2385
02:04:10,720 --> 02:04:14,400
Speaker 4: flows of the Warriors series. Team's won essentially by thirty

2386
02:04:14,680 --> 02:04:17,800
Speaker 4: half one point, you know. So it's that's kind of

2387
02:04:17,800 --> 02:04:21,320
Speaker 4: how these series go. But yes, to Mother's Day, this

2388
02:04:21,480 --> 02:04:25,560
Speaker 4: is a humongous one. Well, right, so Miami beats it

2389
02:04:25,600 --> 02:04:26,440
Speaker 4: wins that series.

2390
02:04:26,800 --> 02:04:33,720
Speaker 2: Again, all due respect to Spolstra and then the Miami

2391
02:04:34,000 --> 02:04:38,080
Speaker 2: Riley's they should just change then, aim because that culture

2392
02:04:38,160 --> 02:04:41,640
Speaker 2: still lives and breathes as though it's nineteen ninety five.

2393
02:04:41,840 --> 02:04:48,360
Speaker 4: Yep, absolutely, you play the zact same style ruggist ruggeds.

2394
02:04:48,440 --> 02:04:53,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, And it's amazing where Riley just touches the

2395
02:04:53,880 --> 02:04:58,480
Speaker 2: head of Spolstra and imparts the wisdom that he has.

2396
02:04:58,600 --> 02:05:03,040
Speaker 2: It's amazing that Jimmy Butler and a bunch of Butler's.

2397
02:05:03,960 --> 02:05:07,080
Speaker 4: Pretty much that's it. It's exactly what it is. You're

2398
02:05:07,080 --> 02:05:10,040
Speaker 4: a little bit of Bam. BAM's good too, but after

2399
02:05:10,080 --> 02:05:13,240
Speaker 4: that there's really not a lot else. No, Jimmy and

2400
02:05:13,280 --> 02:05:15,840
Speaker 4: Bam are like you're only two like bona fide players. Really.

2401
02:05:16,080 --> 02:05:16,320
Speaker 3: Yep.

2402
02:05:16,520 --> 02:05:19,040
Speaker 2: Kyle Lowry is not what he used to be, but

2403
02:05:19,200 --> 02:05:21,520
Speaker 2: they're still getting useful minutes out of him. They off

2404
02:05:21,560 --> 02:05:21,960
Speaker 2: the bench.

2405
02:05:22,200 --> 02:05:24,040
Speaker 4: But did he have like eleven and nine or something

2406
02:05:24,080 --> 02:05:24,880
Speaker 4: on Friday night.

2407
02:05:26,360 --> 02:05:29,560
Speaker 2: Fifteen the other night? Now you know he's he gives

2408
02:05:29,600 --> 02:05:33,200
Speaker 2: you a decent, decent ball. So then so here's what

2409
02:05:33,240 --> 02:05:36,560
Speaker 2: you got, Like you said, sets up to Mother's Day

2410
02:05:37,800 --> 02:05:43,920
Speaker 2: Game seven six Ers and Celtics and quite frankly, I

2411
02:05:43,920 --> 02:05:49,720
Speaker 2: think the Sixers can win. Now, you know, it's gonna

2412
02:05:49,720 --> 02:05:53,520
Speaker 2: be tough. There a seven point underdog, and I just

2413
02:05:53,560 --> 02:05:56,200
Speaker 2: don't know how you react. See the thing with me

2414
02:05:56,480 --> 02:05:59,480
Speaker 2: is when I look at this Sixers team, is how

2415
02:05:59,520 --> 02:06:01,360
Speaker 2: they going to react? Are they going to come out

2416
02:06:02,160 --> 02:06:05,840
Speaker 2: play loose? And Paulton's gonna feel the pressure at home?

2417
02:06:06,000 --> 02:06:10,680
Speaker 2: Like they got to win? Is Harden hardened? Has given

2418
02:06:10,760 --> 02:06:13,680
Speaker 2: you some of the greatest games I've ever seen in

2419
02:06:13,760 --> 02:06:16,760
Speaker 2: one series, and some of the worst games I've ever seen.

2420
02:06:18,240 --> 02:06:22,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's kind of just really difficult, difficult to conceive.

2421
02:06:23,160 --> 02:06:25,720
Speaker 4: You could be four of thirteen one night, fourteen of

2422
02:06:25,760 --> 02:06:28,880
Speaker 4: twenty two the next, and then two of twenty the next.

2423
02:06:29,240 --> 02:06:32,680
Speaker 4: It's unbelievable and in a moment and in a spot

2424
02:06:32,720 --> 02:06:36,840
Speaker 4: where James Harden historically has not really shined when it

2425
02:06:36,880 --> 02:06:40,560
Speaker 4: comes to game sevens and big moments in playoff series.

2426
02:06:40,960 --> 02:06:43,960
Speaker 4: Typically this he's kind of come up short. So this

2427
02:06:44,080 --> 02:06:47,120
Speaker 4: will be a big test for him personally, and then

2428
02:06:47,200 --> 02:06:48,840
Speaker 4: for the seventy six Ers with a lot on the

2429
02:06:48,880 --> 02:06:50,760
Speaker 4: line obviously, because who knows what the future is going

2430
02:06:50,840 --> 02:06:53,760
Speaker 4: to look like for them after this year, you know,

2431
02:06:54,000 --> 02:06:56,880
Speaker 4: especially if they lose this game, whether they lose end

2432
02:06:56,960 --> 02:06:58,800
Speaker 4: up losing hard into another team, whether they or not

2433
02:06:58,840 --> 02:07:01,839
Speaker 4: they keep Doc, if they try to you know, trade

2434
02:07:02,200 --> 02:07:05,520
Speaker 4: you know, Tobias Harris and try to make a big trade,

2435
02:07:06,200 --> 02:07:08,160
Speaker 4: a big change to the roster, whether it's bringing in

2436
02:07:08,160 --> 02:07:10,080
Speaker 4: a Damian Lillard or whatever else they might try to seek.

2437
02:07:10,120 --> 02:07:12,040
Speaker 4: So this is a this is a pretty big game,

2438
02:07:12,080 --> 02:07:15,000
Speaker 4: a huge series for them, a turning point I think

2439
02:07:15,000 --> 02:07:18,680
Speaker 4: for the franchise. Tomorrow, or I should say a Sunday afternoon,

2440
02:07:20,040 --> 02:07:20,520
Speaker 4: I'm looking.

2441
02:07:20,600 --> 02:07:27,160
Speaker 2: I see James Harden in Game sevens.

2442
02:07:28,000 --> 02:07:28,920
Speaker 3: You ready? Yep?

2443
02:07:31,200 --> 02:07:38,280
Speaker 4: First one happens way back in twenty eleven, okaysee.

2444
02:07:38,840 --> 02:07:39,520
Speaker 3: Memphis.

2445
02:07:41,280 --> 02:07:47,160
Speaker 2: Thirty one minute, seventeen points, four rebounds, three assists, four steals,

2446
02:07:47,320 --> 02:07:52,920
Speaker 2: six to ten from the field, four from eight from three.

2447
02:07:53,160 --> 02:07:56,720
Speaker 4: Not a bad performance, No, that's when he was good, right.

2448
02:07:56,800 --> 02:07:59,480
Speaker 4: Everything really kind of fell apart for him that year

2449
02:07:59,520 --> 02:08:02,320
Speaker 4: in the NBA Finals, when the year the Thunder made

2450
02:08:02,360 --> 02:08:05,320
Speaker 4: it to the finals against the Heat. He played terribly

2451
02:08:05,360 --> 02:08:06,760
Speaker 4: in that series, and I think it just kind of

2452
02:08:06,800 --> 02:08:07,360
Speaker 4: carried over.

2453
02:08:09,120 --> 02:08:16,400
Speaker 2: Game seven against the Clippers with the Rockets forty three minutes,

2454
02:08:17,560 --> 02:08:21,520
Speaker 2: thirty one points, seven rebounds, eight of his three steals,

2455
02:08:21,720 --> 02:08:27,960
Speaker 2: seven turnovers, seven for twenty from the field, two for

2456
02:08:28,160 --> 02:08:31,240
Speaker 2: seven from three, So not the.

2457
02:08:31,200 --> 02:08:33,440
Speaker 4: Most efficient game, but to score thirty one.

2458
02:08:33,760 --> 02:08:35,920
Speaker 2: Right, little shake, you know, with the turnovers in the

2459
02:08:35,920 --> 02:08:41,400
Speaker 2: field goal percentage then and twenty eighteen against the Warriors,

2460
02:08:42,200 --> 02:08:47,160
Speaker 2: forty three minutes scores thirty two points, six rebounds, six assists,

2461
02:08:48,160 --> 02:08:54,000
Speaker 2: five turnovers, twelve for twenty nine from the field now

2462
02:08:54,040 --> 02:08:56,920
Speaker 2: two for thirteen from three.

2463
02:08:57,680 --> 02:09:01,640
Speaker 4: And if you remember that game, I think Houston missed

2464
02:09:01,720 --> 02:09:04,680
Speaker 4: like their first twenty eight threes or something as a team.

2465
02:09:05,400 --> 02:09:07,720
Speaker 4: Chris paul Is injured, didn't play in that game. I

2466
02:09:07,720 --> 02:09:09,560
Speaker 4: don't think he played in Game six or game seven.

2467
02:09:10,200 --> 02:09:13,080
Speaker 4: And there were ice cold from beyond the arc, yet

2468
02:09:13,080 --> 02:09:16,000
Speaker 4: they still had a chance to to when they were

2469
02:09:16,040 --> 02:09:18,480
Speaker 4: still within striking distance in the fourth quarter of that game.

2470
02:09:18,760 --> 02:09:27,280
Speaker 2: That's right. The next game seven in the bubble against

2471
02:09:27,320 --> 02:09:33,000
Speaker 2: OKSE is this in the bu I think this is

2472
02:09:33,120 --> 02:09:37,360
Speaker 2: twenty yeah, yeah, it was in the bubble, thirty seven minutes,

2473
02:09:37,640 --> 02:09:46,800
Speaker 2: seventeen points, four for fifteen from the field, one of nine.

2474
02:09:46,880 --> 02:09:52,040
Speaker 4: For three points from three point land great.

2475
02:09:53,640 --> 02:09:59,720
Speaker 2: Brooklyn, And this is it last year you remember fifty three,

2476
02:10:00,240 --> 02:10:06,480
Speaker 2: it's twenty two points five for seventeen from the field,

2477
02:10:07,320 --> 02:10:10,120
Speaker 2: two for twelve threes.

2478
02:10:12,640 --> 02:10:13,320
Speaker 3: Oh my god.

2479
02:10:13,400 --> 02:10:15,560
Speaker 4: So without even having the numbers in front of me

2480
02:10:15,720 --> 02:10:19,440
Speaker 4: before you were at them off, I kind of lined

2481
02:10:19,520 --> 02:10:22,120
Speaker 4: up the way that I thought it would. Not the best,

2482
02:10:22,600 --> 02:10:25,040
Speaker 4: not the best big game performer. You look at the

2483
02:10:25,080 --> 02:10:27,320
Speaker 4: actual point totals and you say sure, but you look

2484
02:10:27,320 --> 02:10:30,000
Speaker 4: at his efficiency, Yeah, is not the greatest.

2485
02:10:30,120 --> 02:10:30,600
Speaker 3: So he.

2486
02:10:32,360 --> 02:10:35,480
Speaker 2: Just from threes three point percentage, he's twenty two percent,

2487
02:10:35,640 --> 02:10:40,080
Speaker 2: got awful, eleven for forty nine and game seven's terrible.

2488
02:10:42,040 --> 02:10:46,200
Speaker 4: Yesh, turnovers are high. It seems like, I mean sounded

2489
02:10:46,240 --> 02:10:48,800
Speaker 4: like you were talking five to seven turnovers at five

2490
02:10:48,840 --> 02:10:50,200
Speaker 4: to seven in most of those games.

2491
02:10:50,720 --> 02:10:57,400
Speaker 2: So it turns he has let me see the turnovers,

2492
02:10:58,840 --> 02:11:03,320
Speaker 2: so we have well the first game you only had one,

2493
02:11:03,480 --> 02:11:06,920
Speaker 2: and that he averaged basically five yeah.

2494
02:11:07,360 --> 02:11:07,839
Speaker 3: Yeah.

2495
02:11:07,920 --> 02:11:10,800
Speaker 4: And the field goal percentage just sounds like was hovering

2496
02:11:10,840 --> 02:11:12,080
Speaker 4: around the high.

2497
02:11:11,800 --> 02:11:14,120
Speaker 3: Thirty thirty seven percent. Yep.

2498
02:11:15,400 --> 02:11:18,880
Speaker 2: And that's and that's again with his first game seven

2499
02:11:19,480 --> 02:11:22,400
Speaker 2: was good and he shot the ball over fifty percent.

2500
02:11:23,440 --> 02:11:26,760
Speaker 2: So the last few have not been good. And look,

2501
02:11:26,840 --> 02:11:29,680
Speaker 2: he's got a lot on the line for this. What

2502
02:11:29,720 --> 02:11:30,880
Speaker 2: do you do Mother's Day? Though?

2503
02:11:30,880 --> 02:11:31,120
Speaker 3: Fake?

2504
02:11:31,920 --> 02:11:35,960
Speaker 2: How do you fit in Mother's Day celebration and a

2505
02:11:36,040 --> 02:11:36,760
Speaker 2: game seven?

2506
02:11:38,760 --> 02:11:41,480
Speaker 4: Uh, that's a good question. Well, look, I will say

2507
02:11:41,480 --> 02:11:43,440
Speaker 4: it for me, like, my mom is one of those

2508
02:11:43,440 --> 02:11:45,560
Speaker 4: I don't like going out in crowds, So if we're

2509
02:11:45,560 --> 02:11:47,120
Speaker 4: gonna go out to dinner, we'll do it the day

2510
02:11:47,160 --> 02:11:49,880
Speaker 4: before or the day after. So like as far as

2511
02:11:49,960 --> 02:11:51,640
Speaker 4: taking mom out from Mother's Day and all that, that's

2512
02:11:51,680 --> 02:11:54,480
Speaker 4: not really an issue for me. Okay, it will be

2513
02:11:54,560 --> 02:11:57,280
Speaker 4: very difficult in a situation in a city like yours,

2514
02:11:57,400 --> 02:11:59,440
Speaker 4: especially if Mother's Day is a really huge deal and

2515
02:11:59,560 --> 02:12:00,960
Speaker 4: you do want to go out for dinner or do

2516
02:12:01,040 --> 02:12:03,600
Speaker 4: something special and you have to kind of plan it

2517
02:12:03,640 --> 02:12:07,040
Speaker 4: around the game. Either that or hope that mom is

2518
02:12:07,040 --> 02:12:08,800
Speaker 4: a Sixers fan and she wants to watch the game too,

2519
02:12:09,400 --> 02:12:15,120
Speaker 4: you know right, I mean, Sally, how are you handling this?

2520
02:12:16,320 --> 02:12:17,640
Speaker 4: What's mothers they look like? For you?

2521
02:12:17,840 --> 02:12:19,680
Speaker 3: I'll let you know in a couple of hours.

2522
02:12:21,960 --> 02:12:25,000
Speaker 4: Still gotta still gotta talk to the boss about that one. Huh, correct,

2523
02:12:25,040 --> 02:12:28,520
Speaker 4: I understand. Correct, she.

2524
02:12:30,320 --> 02:12:32,280
Speaker 2: Likes the Sixers kind.

2525
02:12:33,760 --> 02:12:37,480
Speaker 4: Do you like somebody? She doesn't love them. She's not

2526
02:12:37,600 --> 02:12:38,600
Speaker 4: the biggest sports fan.

2527
02:12:38,960 --> 02:12:43,920
Speaker 2: She she's sure, you know, surely indulge that the only

2528
02:12:43,960 --> 02:12:47,440
Speaker 2: good figure is her mom, like my mother in law,

2529
02:12:47,520 --> 02:12:54,160
Speaker 2: who is who lives with us. She is a big

2530
02:12:54,240 --> 02:12:57,640
Speaker 2: time she loves sixers. Okay, so I got nice. I

2531
02:12:57,680 --> 02:12:59,680
Speaker 2: got mom on our side.

2532
02:12:59,680 --> 02:13:03,440
Speaker 4: That's huge. It's a huge companion right there.

2533
02:13:03,720 --> 02:13:05,560
Speaker 3: Right, So I got that going.

2534
02:13:05,840 --> 02:13:11,080
Speaker 2: And of course the boys, so well, yeah if I

2535
02:13:11,080 --> 02:13:13,600
Speaker 2: if I, I don't know if we're gonna do a brunch,

2536
02:13:13,880 --> 02:13:14,040
Speaker 2: you know.

2537
02:13:14,080 --> 02:13:15,160
Speaker 3: I was thinking.

2538
02:13:14,720 --> 02:13:18,080
Speaker 2: The other issue we have too is I don't know

2539
02:13:18,160 --> 02:13:21,240
Speaker 2: the schedule because we basketball plays it is in the

2540
02:13:21,240 --> 02:13:22,280
Speaker 2: Mother's Day tournament.

2541
02:13:22,560 --> 02:13:24,920
Speaker 4: Oh wow, that adds a twist.

2542
02:13:25,400 --> 02:13:28,040
Speaker 3: Yes, so baseball tournament.

2543
02:13:29,400 --> 02:13:32,720
Speaker 2: Can you imagine like we were gonna go to dinner tonight,

2544
02:13:33,680 --> 02:13:38,000
Speaker 2: but his game's in the game six o'clock. Wow, so

2545
02:13:38,160 --> 02:13:39,800
Speaker 2: the games at eight. You can get done at eight,

2546
02:13:39,960 --> 02:13:41,560
Speaker 2: but we're gonna do a nine thirty.

2547
02:13:41,760 --> 02:13:43,520
Speaker 4: It's late. It's a late dinner, you know.

2548
02:13:43,760 --> 02:13:45,880
Speaker 3: And it was just her and I. It's one thing,

2549
02:13:45,960 --> 02:13:46,560
Speaker 3: but with the.

2550
02:13:46,600 --> 02:13:50,280
Speaker 4: Kids, you right, Yeah, I mean that's a rough that's

2551
02:13:50,320 --> 02:13:50,960
Speaker 4: a rough one.

2552
02:13:51,120 --> 02:13:51,480
Speaker 3: Yeah.

2553
02:13:52,320 --> 02:13:56,040
Speaker 2: Wow, that's tough with the base the baseball now they're

2554
02:13:56,080 --> 02:13:58,760
Speaker 2: gonna win. Now, I don't know what they're gonna do

2555
02:13:59,440 --> 02:14:03,360
Speaker 2: for Oh my god. In game seven, are you getting

2556
02:14:03,440 --> 02:14:05,960
Speaker 2: me and I go, that's daddy's job.

2557
02:14:06,920 --> 02:14:09,360
Speaker 4: That's hey, I gotta go to work. Sorry, you know,

2558
02:14:12,040 --> 02:14:14,840
Speaker 4: I'll pulled that once or twice. Sorry, I'm working.

2559
02:14:15,520 --> 02:14:18,520
Speaker 2: I don't think. But here's the other thing I can't.

2560
02:14:18,560 --> 02:14:20,080
Speaker 2: First of all, I can leave. I can't leave my

2561
02:14:20,080 --> 02:14:21,280
Speaker 2: wife on Mother's Day.

2562
02:14:21,280 --> 02:14:27,720
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, you'll never leave that one down. No, So

2563
02:14:27,720 --> 02:14:30,520
Speaker 4: so this might be one of those keep the phone

2564
02:14:30,560 --> 02:14:32,760
Speaker 4: close to you and you know sneak.

2565
02:14:32,880 --> 02:14:36,520
Speaker 2: I was really hoping there was a chance that if

2566
02:14:36,560 --> 02:14:39,600
Speaker 2: one of those other teams won, there would have been

2567
02:14:39,640 --> 02:14:44,600
Speaker 2: the game seven uh two Game sevens they could have

2568
02:14:44,680 --> 02:14:46,440
Speaker 2: played on Sunday night.

2569
02:14:48,000 --> 02:14:51,040
Speaker 4: My guess is had the Lakers and Warriors gone seven,

2570
02:14:51,680 --> 02:14:54,920
Speaker 4: they would have just pushed the star time up, so

2571
02:14:55,040 --> 02:14:57,160
Speaker 4: it probably would have been like a one eastern tip

2572
02:14:57,280 --> 02:14:58,680
Speaker 4: as opposed to a three.

2573
02:14:59,480 --> 02:15:03,120
Speaker 2: They actually we're gonna go eight pm. It was already scheduled.

2574
02:15:03,600 --> 02:15:07,000
Speaker 2: Really yeah, okay, so if the Lakers would have been there,

2575
02:15:07,240 --> 02:15:11,240
Speaker 2: so the prime game is three thirty. So if the

2576
02:15:11,320 --> 02:15:13,800
Speaker 2: Lakers would have won, that would have been the prime game,

2577
02:15:13,920 --> 02:15:16,960
Speaker 2: got you, and then the Sixers would have played at

2578
02:15:17,000 --> 02:15:17,560
Speaker 2: eight pm.

2579
02:15:17,840 --> 02:15:21,480
Speaker 3: I see, So you know, so.

2580
02:15:21,480 --> 02:15:24,879
Speaker 4: You guys couldn't have I mean, you're probably a reasonable

2581
02:15:24,880 --> 02:15:26,560
Speaker 4: time for dinner. I guess the issue is you just

2582
02:15:26,600 --> 02:15:29,240
Speaker 4: don't know what time Mossi's games are going to be, right.

2583
02:15:29,360 --> 02:15:32,879
Speaker 2: So see the thing is I would do the brunch thing, yeah,

2584
02:15:32,960 --> 02:15:36,360
Speaker 2: because that's a strong idea. Oh that'd be perfect. You

2585
02:15:36,480 --> 02:15:37,960
Speaker 2: get home right in time for tip off.

2586
02:15:38,520 --> 02:15:38,760
Speaker 3: Right.

2587
02:15:38,920 --> 02:15:42,480
Speaker 4: But you know the problem is, you know, and he

2588
02:15:42,520 --> 02:15:44,960
Speaker 4: has multiple games. You say this, he's playing like a tournament.

2589
02:15:44,960 --> 02:15:46,440
Speaker 4: So this could be like a ring.

2590
02:15:46,760 --> 02:15:49,720
Speaker 2: It could be like if they if they keep winning

2591
02:15:50,880 --> 02:15:55,240
Speaker 2: and they had a Yesterday was not a picture's tool.

2592
02:15:55,880 --> 02:15:59,800
Speaker 2: Yesterday they were down. Last night was the first to

2593
02:15:59,800 --> 02:16:03,280
Speaker 2: turn and started. In one game, they were down twenty

2594
02:16:03,320 --> 02:16:09,640
Speaker 2: to twelve, like what, yes, in the last inning? Actually no,

2595
02:16:09,760 --> 02:16:19,080
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. So the final score, they they rally and

2596
02:16:19,280 --> 02:16:23,840
Speaker 2: so the squad went winds up winning twenty five twenty four.

2597
02:16:25,200 --> 02:16:28,080
Speaker 4: That's incredible, twenty favorite twenty four in a baseball game

2598
02:16:28,120 --> 02:16:30,160
Speaker 4: that the Twuston Texans scored twenty five points in a

2599
02:16:30,240 --> 02:16:31,120
Speaker 4: single game last year.

2600
02:16:31,120 --> 02:16:33,320
Speaker 2: Because I would say the same thing, which is a

2601
02:16:33,360 --> 02:16:35,920
Speaker 2: football game. What's called on here? So it was they

2602
02:16:35,920 --> 02:16:39,560
Speaker 2: were down twenty to twelve, and then they were down

2603
02:16:39,640 --> 02:16:45,599
Speaker 2: twenty four to seventeen. Wow, and they scored eight runs

2604
02:16:46,000 --> 02:16:47,960
Speaker 2: to win it in the bottom of the end. It

2605
02:16:48,000 --> 02:16:51,560
Speaker 2: was it was last up. Because there's a these Tourbo games,

2606
02:16:51,600 --> 02:16:54,600
Speaker 2: there's a time limit, I'm sure, yeah right, so they

2607
02:16:54,600 --> 02:16:57,199
Speaker 2: can kick go more in two hours, so they were

2608
02:16:57,720 --> 02:17:00,320
Speaker 2: they can't start at any pass a certain time time

2609
02:17:01,200 --> 02:17:04,600
Speaker 2: and so the next thing you know, they score eight

2610
02:17:04,760 --> 02:17:07,920
Speaker 2: runs in the bottom of and need to walk it off.

2611
02:17:08,400 --> 02:17:08,680
Speaker 3: Wow.

2612
02:17:08,879 --> 02:17:09,720
Speaker 4: That's incredible.

2613
02:17:10,240 --> 02:17:10,480
Speaker 3: Yeah.

2614
02:17:10,600 --> 02:17:13,520
Speaker 4: And as cool as that is for the for their team,

2615
02:17:14,000 --> 02:17:17,560
Speaker 4: I feel really bad for those pictures on a team

2616
02:17:17,640 --> 02:17:18,640
Speaker 4: that's up twenty.

2617
02:17:18,320 --> 02:17:22,080
Speaker 2: To twelve and losing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, especially for the Dots.

2618
02:17:22,160 --> 02:17:24,400
Speaker 2: Pitch yesterday did yeah.

2619
02:17:25,800 --> 02:17:29,320
Speaker 3: Yeah. He didn't like the mount. He was wild. Now

2620
02:17:29,360 --> 02:17:30,640
Speaker 3: he hit like three kids.

2621
02:17:33,400 --> 02:17:37,879
Speaker 4: He's got away from a couple of times there, huh

2622
02:17:35,760 --> 02:17:42,240
Speaker 4: h sheeez, yeah, no good, I go, he goes daddy.

2623
02:17:42,480 --> 02:17:43,520
Speaker 3: I didn't like the mouth.

2624
02:17:43,800 --> 02:17:45,039
Speaker 4: It was just small mouth.

2625
02:17:46,440 --> 02:17:50,439
Speaker 2: Stop making shoes, yeah apart, stop making excuses.

2626
02:17:53,000 --> 02:17:55,240
Speaker 4: He's max stros or something. He's why the mound was

2627
02:17:55,320 --> 02:17:58,000
Speaker 4: messed up. There's nothing on my hands that's wrong with

2628
02:17:58,040 --> 02:17:59,439
Speaker 4: you exactly.

2629
02:18:00,080 --> 02:18:02,160
Speaker 2: I was like, dude, because I make him do these

2630
02:18:02,200 --> 02:18:05,160
Speaker 2: exercises with these tats with a towel where he's got

2631
02:18:05,160 --> 02:18:08,240
Speaker 2: to throw the like you throw the towel. Yes, it's

2632
02:18:08,240 --> 02:18:10,760
Speaker 2: basically just you know, work his arm. Yeah and yeah.

2633
02:18:10,800 --> 02:18:14,480
Speaker 2: And he's been sloughing off, hasn't been doing it. And

2634
02:18:14,520 --> 02:18:16,840
Speaker 2: I have a long toss thing he's supposed to do

2635
02:18:16,879 --> 02:18:19,080
Speaker 2: in the backyard and he does do it. I go

2636
02:18:19,200 --> 02:18:21,599
Speaker 2: do That's why. That's why you get rocked.

2637
02:18:21,560 --> 02:18:24,160
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, that's why he gave up nineteen runs.

2638
02:18:24,200 --> 02:18:31,520
Speaker 3: Kid, believe me, it was a team affair.

2639
02:18:34,640 --> 02:18:37,720
Speaker 2: I don't even know what they right through pictures a

2640
02:18:37,760 --> 02:18:39,600
Speaker 2: lot yesterday He's like.

2641
02:18:39,560 --> 02:18:42,200
Speaker 4: Hey, good hitting guys, So what about the pitching. I

2642
02:18:42,200 --> 02:18:44,520
Speaker 4: don't want to talk about it. Positive Yeah, yeah, just

2643
02:18:44,560 --> 02:18:46,240
Speaker 4: buy you what exactly?

2644
02:18:47,160 --> 02:18:50,320
Speaker 2: Classic? All right, we'll take a quick to come back.

2645
02:18:50,400 --> 02:18:53,800
Speaker 2: The Big Brave will take a look at these games.

2646
02:18:53,840 --> 02:18:58,279
Speaker 2: That's Game seven and the Lakers series Lakers and Nuggets

2647
02:18:58,600 --> 02:19:02,480
Speaker 2: from a betting stamp. That's coming up next. Where the

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Speaker 2: cousin Figgy with the big brain. That's right, our man

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Speaker 4: First, good morning, Good morning.

2658
02:19:50,080 --> 02:19:51,360
Speaker 5: How were you this morning?

2659
02:19:51,640 --> 02:19:57,160
Speaker 2: Well, the last we talked we talked on Thursday before

2660
02:19:57,280 --> 02:20:03,200
Speaker 2: Game six, and we both felt pretty good about the Sixers.

2661
02:20:03,280 --> 02:20:07,240
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, look that was you know, look the look,

2662
02:20:07,320 --> 02:20:09,640
Speaker 5: it was an interesting game and that you know Cadom

2663
02:20:09,680 --> 02:20:12,520
Speaker 5: through three quarters, you know, had basically a donut. I

2664
02:20:12,520 --> 02:20:13,959
Speaker 5: don't know if he made one shot and he was

2665
02:20:14,200 --> 02:20:16,800
Speaker 5: of like thirteen or something like that. And then in

2666
02:20:16,840 --> 02:20:19,440
Speaker 5: the fourth quarter he have scored the entire team, uh,

2667
02:20:19,600 --> 02:20:22,240
Speaker 5: Sixers up to with like four minutes to go have

2668
02:20:22,400 --> 02:20:26,760
Speaker 5: the ball. They just they couldn't they couldn't have. Look,

2669
02:20:26,760 --> 02:20:28,360
Speaker 5: they had a lot of open looks and didn't go in.

2670
02:20:28,879 --> 02:20:31,800
Speaker 5: We talked about the three point shot, Anthony, it said,

2671
02:20:31,879 --> 02:20:34,199
Speaker 5: you know, that's really what determinans who wins these games.

2672
02:20:34,520 --> 02:20:36,840
Speaker 5: At this point in the NBA, Boston made. I think

2673
02:20:36,879 --> 02:20:39,280
Speaker 5: forty two percent of the threes the Sixers were in

2674
02:20:39,320 --> 02:20:39,880
Speaker 5: the twenties.

2675
02:20:40,920 --> 02:20:45,040
Speaker 2: End the story, Yeah, except the part of the story though,

2676
02:20:45,080 --> 02:20:49,480
Speaker 2: is indeed touching the ball one time? Yeah, inside the

2677
02:20:49,560 --> 02:20:50,960
Speaker 2: last six minutes of the game.

2678
02:20:51,600 --> 02:20:54,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, well listen again, that's but listen at some point

2679
02:20:54,520 --> 02:20:57,640
Speaker 5: you know, that's that's execution. You look, that has to

2680
02:20:57,680 --> 02:21:01,119
Speaker 5: be with all the respect to to Doc Rivers has

2681
02:21:01,120 --> 02:21:03,040
Speaker 5: to be fall a little bit on him, I mean,

2682
02:21:03,640 --> 02:21:06,800
Speaker 5: and then they just look, they didn't they missed. Look

2683
02:21:06,840 --> 02:21:08,640
Speaker 5: at the miss or make league. And I was at

2684
02:21:08,640 --> 02:21:11,080
Speaker 5: the game, and they just they did not make the

2685
02:21:11,120 --> 02:21:13,480
Speaker 5: big shots. That just either you know, in that moment,

2686
02:21:13,520 --> 02:21:15,680
Speaker 5: either you hit the shot, so you don't say some

2687
02:21:15,760 --> 02:21:19,200
Speaker 5: Tatum did the Sixers didn't. Fortunately for Philadelphia, they have

2688
02:21:19,200 --> 02:21:21,560
Speaker 5: one more chance. Figure thn. It's been a series so

2689
02:21:21,640 --> 02:21:24,320
Speaker 5: far where the road team, he said, more success. I

2690
02:21:24,360 --> 02:21:25,800
Speaker 5: do have a six Ers plus seven and a half

2691
02:21:25,840 --> 02:21:28,520
Speaker 5: ticket in game seven. I think this has been a

2692
02:21:28,560 --> 02:21:31,280
Speaker 5: series where you know, give me the points. I think

2693
02:21:31,320 --> 02:21:34,440
Speaker 5: that these games probably I think a closer fair a

2694
02:21:34,440 --> 02:21:37,119
Speaker 5: linement is given. My opinion, it's closer to six quite honestly,

2695
02:21:37,400 --> 02:21:39,480
Speaker 5: I think the game will be tight. I think you know,

2696
02:21:39,480 --> 02:21:42,640
Speaker 5: I think Boston's most likely were obviously, but I do

2697
02:21:42,640 --> 02:21:45,080
Speaker 5: think Philadelphia can keep the game close from a betting perspective.

2698
02:21:45,560 --> 02:21:46,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do too.

2699
02:21:47,200 --> 02:21:49,440
Speaker 2: You know, I'm just a little bummed out a kind

2700
02:21:49,440 --> 02:21:53,280
Speaker 2: of what transpired. Now, I'll hit you with this. The

2701
02:21:54,800 --> 02:21:57,720
Speaker 2: one of the things about, you know, a game seven

2702
02:21:57,920 --> 02:22:00,680
Speaker 2: is how do these teams come out out? Because I

2703
02:22:00,760 --> 02:22:04,760
Speaker 2: thought the Sixers came out really tight in Game six.

2704
02:22:04,840 --> 02:22:07,360
Speaker 3: They they were tight from the beginning.

2705
02:22:07,520 --> 02:22:10,240
Speaker 2: Boston jumped out to an early lead, but they just

2706
02:22:10,280 --> 02:22:12,720
Speaker 2: you know, they came back and you know they and

2707
02:22:12,760 --> 02:22:16,440
Speaker 2: I actually thought that Boston was the team in shambles

2708
02:22:16,520 --> 02:22:20,880
Speaker 2: at one point. And if the Sixers if Melton, who

2709
02:22:20,920 --> 02:22:23,760
Speaker 2: had a bunch of open looks and clacked them, if

2710
02:22:23,800 --> 02:22:27,039
Speaker 2: somebody came up and hit a couple of timey threes,

2711
02:22:27,520 --> 02:22:28,640
Speaker 2: they would get some margin.

2712
02:22:28,680 --> 02:22:29,960
Speaker 3: They never able to get margin.

2713
02:22:30,400 --> 02:22:34,080
Speaker 5: I thought they looked tight to me, it would look Melton. Look,

2714
02:22:34,120 --> 02:22:36,440
Speaker 5: in my opinion, in that game, Anthony Melton really hurt them.

2715
02:22:36,480 --> 02:22:39,240
Speaker 5: He was awful. Look the Sixers are two players in

2716
02:22:39,240 --> 02:22:42,720
Speaker 5: that game, embeid In Maxie who were plus players. Tobias,

2717
02:22:42,720 --> 02:22:47,320
Speaker 5: who I think it is a solid player struggled mightily. Harden.

2718
02:22:47,720 --> 02:22:50,360
Speaker 5: I don't know if I've ever seen and I say this,

2719
02:22:50,680 --> 02:22:52,720
Speaker 5: and yet you've been in the industry forever, you know

2720
02:22:52,800 --> 02:22:55,160
Speaker 5: the sports as much as anyone. I don't I've ever

2721
02:22:55,160 --> 02:22:57,400
Speaker 5: seen an athlete have a more polarizing series than Jane

2722
02:22:57,480 --> 02:23:01,080
Speaker 5: Harden were in two of the six games, he had

2723
02:23:01,440 --> 02:23:05,000
Speaker 5: legendary games that could be talked about with as good

2724
02:23:05,040 --> 02:23:07,440
Speaker 5: as any player has ever played the game. And the

2725
02:23:07,480 --> 02:23:10,800
Speaker 5: other four games he's played so bad. He's been such

2726
02:23:10,800 --> 02:23:13,760
Speaker 5: a plus and minus negative in terms of how much

2727
02:23:14,000 --> 02:23:18,200
Speaker 5: he hurt the team. Harden was brutal in that game,

2728
02:23:18,560 --> 02:23:22,720
Speaker 5: and I mean brutal. Could not make a shot. They

2729
02:23:22,720 --> 02:23:25,879
Speaker 5: sixers need hardened to play well in game seven have

2730
02:23:25,920 --> 02:23:26,400
Speaker 5: any chance?

2731
02:23:28,040 --> 02:23:30,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we just went over how about a fake?

2732
02:23:30,440 --> 02:23:36,320
Speaker 2: We just went over the historical game seven's does.

2733
02:23:36,200 --> 02:23:36,959
Speaker 4: Not look good.

2734
02:23:37,480 --> 02:23:40,400
Speaker 5: Well again, every game that means its own like so

2735
02:23:40,520 --> 02:23:44,360
Speaker 5: to speak, painting, so to speak. So you know, if

2736
02:23:44,400 --> 02:23:47,000
Speaker 5: he played, you know that he played well in previous

2737
02:23:47,000 --> 02:23:49,640
Speaker 5: game sevens, didn't. I think he just stuck get it

2738
02:23:49,840 --> 02:23:52,560
Speaker 5: well like I think he went like oh seven from

2739
02:23:52,600 --> 02:23:56,160
Speaker 5: three last game. Look, as I said, they're gonna have

2740
02:23:56,160 --> 02:23:59,440
Speaker 5: to they allow in and ounce again. I look I

2741
02:23:59,520 --> 02:24:01,240
Speaker 5: we'll see what happen, thinking I think it's gonna be

2742
02:24:01,240 --> 02:24:03,160
Speaker 5: a tight game. Again, I do think Boston is the

2743
02:24:03,160 --> 02:24:05,720
Speaker 5: most likely winner. To me, I don't know how Boston

2744
02:24:05,760 --> 02:24:08,360
Speaker 5: even let it get to this situation. I do think

2745
02:24:08,360 --> 02:24:11,160
Speaker 5: Boston's really is the most talented team in the NBA.

2746
02:24:11,320 --> 02:24:13,800
Speaker 5: But I really feel fiercely on that.

2747
02:24:14,360 --> 02:24:16,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know you do. You know what's funny.

2748
02:24:16,840 --> 02:24:22,080
Speaker 2: I look at that team, I see a lot of flaws,

2749
02:24:23,120 --> 02:24:27,120
Speaker 2: like as good as good as they are, you know

2750
02:24:27,400 --> 02:24:29,160
Speaker 2: Danny spells.

2751
02:24:28,680 --> 02:24:30,240
Speaker 3: Where they're just bad.

2752
02:24:30,920 --> 02:24:33,480
Speaker 5: Well, Anthony three point shooting again, when you start missing

2753
02:24:33,480 --> 02:24:36,119
Speaker 5: them at lowers your IQ. Right when you make them,

2754
02:24:36,120 --> 02:24:39,240
Speaker 5: it raises your IQ. I will say this give him

2755
02:24:39,240 --> 02:24:42,920
Speaker 5: azoula credit in my opinion, and I do think him

2756
02:24:42,959 --> 02:24:44,800
Speaker 5: being I don't know if you agree. We didn't speak.

2757
02:24:45,520 --> 02:24:49,760
Speaker 5: I thought that starting Rob Williams, in my opinion, helped Boston.

2758
02:24:49,840 --> 02:24:53,320
Speaker 5: I thought he gave them an energy defensively. I thought

2759
02:24:53,360 --> 02:24:55,800
Speaker 5: he when my opinion when he's in the game is

2760
02:24:55,879 --> 02:24:58,240
Speaker 5: just my opinion. I thinking it's a lot harder for

2761
02:24:58,280 --> 02:25:01,760
Speaker 5: Philadelphia to score. Actually thought that was the right move. Again,

2762
02:25:01,760 --> 02:25:07,000
Speaker 5: I mean, and I actually he bothered Tobias around the rim,

2763
02:25:07,480 --> 02:25:09,520
Speaker 5: he was able to bother to buy. I agree with

2764
02:25:09,560 --> 02:25:12,480
Speaker 5: you and Tobias. That's how Tobias. I've said to you

2765
02:25:12,560 --> 02:25:15,400
Speaker 5: many times. Tobias, I think he's most expective and not

2766
02:25:15,400 --> 02:25:17,560
Speaker 5: taking three point shooter but just being around the rim

2767
02:25:17,640 --> 02:25:20,520
Speaker 5: where But Rob Williams is one of the guys in

2768
02:25:20,560 --> 02:25:24,720
Speaker 5: the NBA that really can affect your shot, and he

2769
02:25:24,760 --> 02:25:26,800
Speaker 5: did a great job of that. And I actually will

2770
02:25:26,800 --> 02:25:29,199
Speaker 5: go as far to say, if he didn't start Rob Williams,

2771
02:25:29,200 --> 02:25:31,080
Speaker 5: think Photolphie would have won the games.

2772
02:25:32,200 --> 02:25:35,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, maybe fake do me a favorite hit us

2773
02:25:35,160 --> 02:25:35,840
Speaker 3: with some trending.

2774
02:25:36,440 --> 02:25:38,320
Speaker 4: All right, well, you guys are talking about the NBA

2775
02:25:38,440 --> 02:25:41,400
Speaker 4: had a couple of game sixes and two series clinching

2776
02:25:41,480 --> 02:25:44,640
Speaker 4: victories on Friday Night. The nightcap saw the Lakers dominate

2777
02:25:44,720 --> 02:25:47,000
Speaker 4: Golden State one twenty two to one on one Lebron

2778
02:25:47,080 --> 02:25:50,039
Speaker 4: James with a thirty point effort. Golden State shot just

2779
02:25:50,040 --> 02:25:53,199
Speaker 4: twenty seven percent from three point range, Klay Thompson making

2780
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Speaker 4: just three of his nineteen field goal attempts and scoring

2781
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Speaker 4: eight points the heater back in the Eastern Conference Finals,

2782
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Speaker 4: they pick up a ninety six to ninety two victory

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Speaker 4: over the Knicks behind twenty four points from Jimmy Butler.

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Speaker 4: They of course await the winner of the Celtics Sixers

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Speaker 2: Sixers Celtics. Yeah, I mean it's game seven, brother, I mean,

2802
02:27:00,080 --> 02:27:04,480
Speaker 2: this is why you know again, it would be a

2803
02:27:04,560 --> 02:27:07,480
Speaker 2: shame for the Sixers to lose the series when you

2804
02:27:07,560 --> 02:27:13,240
Speaker 2: have you're that close. Oh, it's excruciating, I think, Anthony,

2805
02:27:13,320 --> 02:27:16,039
Speaker 2: whatever team loses this series, and I really do mean this,

2806
02:27:16,280 --> 02:27:18,840
Speaker 2: for Philadelphia's point of view, is losing the second.

2807
02:27:18,680 --> 02:27:21,960
Speaker 5: Round for four hundred and sixty four straight years. For Boston,

2808
02:27:22,080 --> 02:27:25,320
Speaker 5: it would be having this team that, you know, most pundits,

2809
02:27:25,360 --> 02:27:28,480
Speaker 5: whether they're wrong or correct, see them as the most

2810
02:27:28,520 --> 02:27:31,080
Speaker 5: talented team you know, or the team that really, you know,

2811
02:27:31,200 --> 02:27:34,280
Speaker 5: needs to get it done. If they don't get it

2812
02:27:34,280 --> 02:27:36,400
Speaker 5: done and they lose the second round here, both teams

2813
02:27:36,440 --> 02:27:39,600
Speaker 5: are going to feel incredibly disappointed. Whatever team loses this,

2814
02:27:40,480 --> 02:27:42,320
Speaker 5: I think there could be changes in the off season

2815
02:27:42,840 --> 02:27:46,080
Speaker 5: just because for those different reasons. I think both teams

2816
02:27:46,320 --> 02:27:48,200
Speaker 5: expect what the talent that they have on the roster

2817
02:27:48,600 --> 02:27:51,280
Speaker 5: that nothing less than winning a championship is satisfactory.

2818
02:27:52,560 --> 02:27:58,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm with you. Oh man, it's wild all right?

2819
02:27:58,280 --> 02:28:01,080
Speaker 2: So any props you like game? So you like the

2820
02:28:01,160 --> 02:28:04,440
Speaker 2: Sixers plus the points? Any props that you like?

2821
02:28:04,760 --> 02:28:06,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, the six I do like the Sixers plus the

2822
02:28:06,520 --> 02:28:10,000
Speaker 5: points with me, I did bet Jason Tatum under one

2823
02:28:10,000 --> 02:28:12,400
Speaker 5: and a half blocks, fifty seven and twenty five this

2824
02:28:12,480 --> 02:28:15,920
Speaker 5: year to seventy percent. That the idolay about a dollar

2825
02:28:16,040 --> 02:28:18,440
Speaker 5: fifty five juice. But it's been coming in about as

2826
02:28:18,440 --> 02:28:21,480
Speaker 5: I said, seventy percent. Uh, great player Tatum, but not

2827
02:28:21,480 --> 02:28:23,760
Speaker 5: necessarily a guyho gets a ton of steels. That was

2828
02:28:23,800 --> 02:28:26,280
Speaker 5: my favorite prop in that particular game. I will say

2829
02:28:26,320 --> 02:28:28,120
Speaker 5: this again, I do think whoever wins this game with

2830
02:28:28,280 --> 02:28:31,360
Speaker 5: me should and they'll be a big favorite. Let me

2831
02:28:31,440 --> 02:28:34,600
Speaker 5: there will They'll be no free gifts giving out. I

2832
02:28:34,600 --> 02:28:38,520
Speaker 5: think whoever wins this game really should be this Miami team.

2833
02:28:38,640 --> 02:28:40,800
Speaker 5: I will say that. But again, the serious price isn't coming,

2834
02:28:41,440 --> 02:28:44,160
Speaker 5: you know, extremely high regardless wo wins it.

2835
02:28:45,240 --> 02:28:45,480
Speaker 3: Yeah.

2836
02:28:45,520 --> 02:28:47,320
Speaker 2: You know what's interesting is that I'm looking at the

2837
02:28:47,440 --> 02:28:54,000
Speaker 2: total points hard in his twenty and a half. I mean,

2838
02:28:54,320 --> 02:28:58,000
Speaker 2: I mean, does he have to go over after certainly.

2839
02:28:57,680 --> 02:29:00,520
Speaker 5: Lean I certainly lean over for Harden. I do because

2840
02:29:00,560 --> 02:29:05,320
Speaker 5: I think Philadelphia really needs him to go over. I

2841
02:29:05,320 --> 02:29:06,959
Speaker 5: think if I were to pick one player on the

2842
02:29:07,000 --> 02:29:10,600
Speaker 5: team that from a Philadelphia point of view, that correlates

2843
02:29:10,640 --> 02:29:13,160
Speaker 5: to their success, it's hard because he's been the guy

2844
02:29:13,240 --> 02:29:17,360
Speaker 5: that's been the doctor Jekyl mister Hyde. I certainly think

2845
02:29:17,360 --> 02:29:19,760
Speaker 5: there'd be a correlation where I don't know if your

2846
02:29:19,760 --> 02:29:22,440
Speaker 5: sports books sometimes let him do these things. Well, took

2847
02:29:22,440 --> 02:29:25,039
Speaker 5: hard in over twenty and a half and correlated to

2848
02:29:25,080 --> 02:29:28,920
Speaker 5: the Sixers getting seven and a half. I think that's

2849
02:29:28,959 --> 02:29:33,960
Speaker 5: definitely heavily correlated because in my opinion, the Fixers knee

2850
02:29:34,000 --> 02:29:35,320
Speaker 5: hard and to have that kind of game to keep

2851
02:29:35,360 --> 02:29:35,920
Speaker 5: this game close.

2852
02:29:36,720 --> 02:29:41,279
Speaker 2: How about a fig could you risk hard in twenty

2853
02:29:41,320 --> 02:29:42,000
Speaker 2: and a half?

2854
02:29:44,160 --> 02:29:45,680
Speaker 4: I can no. I think he's going to get the

2855
02:29:45,760 --> 02:29:47,840
Speaker 4: volume of shots up to be able to cross over

2856
02:29:47,879 --> 02:29:48,320
Speaker 4: that mark.

2857
02:29:48,400 --> 02:29:51,440
Speaker 3: So if they shoot seven for thirty, those should be able.

2858
02:29:52,280 --> 02:29:53,920
Speaker 4: So that's my thought. He'll he's going to go for

2859
02:29:54,000 --> 02:29:56,240
Speaker 4: value more than anything, so he'll hit the twenty points.

2860
02:29:56,240 --> 02:29:58,560
Speaker 4: But how efficient he'll be we'll see.

2861
02:29:59,560 --> 02:30:00,039
Speaker 5: The other.

2862
02:30:01,840 --> 02:30:07,760
Speaker 3: Brain is, well, look.

2863
02:30:07,640 --> 02:30:13,760
Speaker 5: After what happened in that fourth quarter. Yeah, I mean

2864
02:30:14,040 --> 02:30:18,400
Speaker 5: you would you would really think that Philadelphia would desperately

2865
02:30:19,000 --> 02:30:22,400
Speaker 5: uh want him to get as many touches it only

2866
02:30:22,480 --> 02:30:25,360
Speaker 5: possible lean over there. But again, I will say this,

2867
02:30:25,440 --> 02:30:29,280
Speaker 5: Anthony with Boston's done again, having now again, Williams doesn't

2868
02:30:29,280 --> 02:30:32,800
Speaker 5: affect Embiid in my opinion as much as uh he

2869
02:30:32,879 --> 02:30:35,120
Speaker 5: does some of the smaller guys on the team. You know,

2870
02:30:35,280 --> 02:30:38,879
Speaker 5: But I do still think having multiple gigs with Horford,

2871
02:30:39,480 --> 02:30:41,840
Speaker 5: the Horford usually the guy on him. But with Horford

2872
02:30:41,879 --> 02:30:45,200
Speaker 5: and Williams and they've they've doubled them decent amount. I

2873
02:30:45,200 --> 02:30:46,920
Speaker 5: do think he'll get to the over though I do

2874
02:30:47,040 --> 02:30:52,440
Speaker 5: lean over for Embiid. But you know, Philadelphi Agan needs

2875
02:30:52,440 --> 02:30:54,600
Speaker 5: to hit these three pointers in my opinion, to have

2876
02:30:54,760 --> 02:30:56,240
Speaker 5: realism a chance winning. And they had a lot of

2877
02:30:56,240 --> 02:30:58,840
Speaker 5: open threes a lot and they missed. They just missed

2878
02:30:58,840 --> 02:31:01,119
Speaker 5: them all. I mean, I don't think Boston necessarily played

2879
02:31:01,120 --> 02:31:03,000
Speaker 5: great defense. Being at the game, I thought, I'm you

2880
02:31:03,040 --> 02:31:05,240
Speaker 5: agree with me, But most of the Philadelphia three were

2881
02:31:05,560 --> 02:31:09,640
Speaker 5: wide open, Yeah, and they just missed them. You know,

2882
02:31:09,720 --> 02:31:11,280
Speaker 5: as I said, it's a make them. It's league. And

2883
02:31:11,280 --> 02:31:14,280
Speaker 5: if you're not hitting your threes, uh, you know, it's

2884
02:31:14,320 --> 02:31:15,600
Speaker 5: just gonna be very hard to win in that kind

2885
02:31:15,600 --> 02:31:15,920
Speaker 5: of game.

2886
02:31:16,800 --> 02:31:21,360
Speaker 2: All right, let me ask you about Lakers and Nuggets.

2887
02:31:21,480 --> 02:31:22,800
Speaker 3: How do you size this on?

2888
02:31:23,040 --> 02:31:27,320
Speaker 2: I saw that the at Denver minus one fifty for

2889
02:31:27,400 --> 02:31:29,280
Speaker 2: the series, you.

2890
02:31:29,280 --> 02:31:31,640
Speaker 5: Know mine one forty five, one fifty penning where you

2891
02:31:31,640 --> 02:31:35,480
Speaker 5: show up? I like Denver, Anthony, I do I think

2892
02:31:35,560 --> 02:31:39,920
Speaker 5: Denver Look the Lakers to me, Look they beat a

2893
02:31:40,720 --> 02:31:44,280
Speaker 5: Memphis team that was clearly, you know, in my opinion, immature.

2894
02:31:44,560 --> 02:31:46,000
Speaker 5: I give them listen, I get them to make this Clayer.

2895
02:31:46,080 --> 02:31:49,160
Speaker 5: I give Lakers credit. You know, I thought that was

2896
02:31:49,160 --> 02:31:51,119
Speaker 5: gonna be a fifty to fifty close series and they

2897
02:31:51,440 --> 02:31:53,720
Speaker 5: and I thought they would beat Golden State. I really did.

2898
02:31:53,760 --> 02:31:56,920
Speaker 5: I bet the Lakers to beat Golden State. They did

2899
02:31:56,959 --> 02:32:00,160
Speaker 5: beat them. I thought Golden State the winner, go and

2900
02:32:00,200 --> 02:32:02,920
Speaker 5: stay the Sacramento I thought was was going to lose

2901
02:32:03,240 --> 02:32:05,400
Speaker 5: and that next round, and the Lakers did beat them.

2902
02:32:05,640 --> 02:32:08,240
Speaker 5: And I give them credit. But I think Denver, the

2903
02:32:08,280 --> 02:32:11,200
Speaker 5: way they're playing, I just think they're better than this

2904
02:32:11,320 --> 02:32:14,080
Speaker 5: Lakers team. I do. I'm sure it will be a

2905
02:32:14,120 --> 02:32:16,720
Speaker 5: good series. It wouldn't surprise me if it went the

2906
02:32:16,720 --> 02:32:19,280
Speaker 5: full seven, go by at least six. But I think

2907
02:32:19,320 --> 02:32:21,640
Speaker 5: Denver's better. I think Denver's been better all a year.

2908
02:32:21,680 --> 02:32:23,039
Speaker 5: And I know the Lakers. You can't look what they

2909
02:32:23,040 --> 02:32:25,480
Speaker 5: did all year. They made the big trades. It's changed

2910
02:32:25,480 --> 02:32:28,840
Speaker 5: the whole team. They're playing with confidence. Now. All that

2911
02:32:28,879 --> 02:32:32,080
Speaker 5: being said, look again, I thought this serious price would

2912
02:32:32,080 --> 02:32:34,119
Speaker 5: come in right about what it's at. But I actually

2913
02:32:34,120 --> 02:32:37,200
Speaker 5: do think that Denver will win this series the length

2914
02:32:37,280 --> 02:32:40,560
Speaker 5: five in game one. You know, I think this is

2915
02:32:40,600 --> 02:32:43,280
Speaker 5: Denver series to lose. I really believe that.

2916
02:32:43,520 --> 02:32:45,279
Speaker 3: Do you have you got any of the matchups yet?

2917
02:32:46,160 --> 02:32:48,440
Speaker 5: No, that that that that has not been posted yet,

2918
02:32:48,640 --> 02:32:49,880
Speaker 5: that has not been posted yet.

2919
02:32:51,600 --> 02:32:52,800
Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be fascinating.

2920
02:32:52,920 --> 02:32:55,600
Speaker 2: The thing with the Lakers is h you know, we

2921
02:32:55,640 --> 02:32:58,400
Speaker 2: talk about it, you know, Lebron with Sensation last night

2922
02:32:59,000 --> 02:33:03,120
Speaker 2: and Davis, you know, just been a beast and you know,

2923
02:33:03,200 --> 02:33:05,600
Speaker 2: nobody knows Legers like Faggie and we were talking about,

2924
02:33:05,640 --> 02:33:09,880
Speaker 2: you know, Anthony Davis really negates a lot of Yo Kics.

2925
02:33:12,000 --> 02:33:16,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not so sure about that. I actually disagree

2926
02:33:16,160 --> 02:33:18,320
Speaker 5: with that. Actually, I think one of the things that

2927
02:33:18,360 --> 02:33:23,080
Speaker 5: makes Jokic so good in my opinion, he's kind of

2928
02:33:23,120 --> 02:33:25,279
Speaker 5: like having a jacent kidd out there in some ways

2929
02:33:25,320 --> 02:33:28,959
Speaker 5: where I think he just directs traffic and I think

2930
02:33:29,000 --> 02:33:31,520
Speaker 5: he does so many other things other than just score,

2931
02:33:32,920 --> 02:33:35,720
Speaker 5: just just passing his He's like the floor general for

2932
02:33:35,760 --> 02:33:38,560
Speaker 5: that team quite honestly, where I don't necessarily know if

2933
02:33:38,600 --> 02:33:41,400
Speaker 5: Davis is going to be able to stop that aspect

2934
02:33:41,480 --> 02:33:42,279
Speaker 5: of this game.

2935
02:33:43,959 --> 02:33:49,000
Speaker 2: About stop, but his production sort of negates, you don't

2936
02:33:49,040 --> 02:33:52,480
Speaker 2: think in the gates with the yolkicch a little bit.

2937
02:33:52,560 --> 02:33:55,240
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, like yeah, because you know you

2938
02:33:55,240 --> 02:33:55,720
Speaker 3: don't listen.

2939
02:33:55,760 --> 02:34:01,200
Speaker 2: I mean, Ay Davis is walking, you know twenty twenty.

2940
02:34:01,640 --> 02:34:04,000
Speaker 3: God, he can grab you twenty twenty any day of

2941
02:34:04,000 --> 02:34:04,280
Speaker 3: the week.

2942
02:34:05,360 --> 02:34:09,160
Speaker 5: Well, listen, He's He's a great player, you know, no

2943
02:34:09,320 --> 02:34:12,320
Speaker 5: question about it. Anthony Davis and Anthony Davis had a

2944
02:34:12,360 --> 02:34:15,160
Speaker 5: really really good playoffs so far in a lot of

2945
02:34:15,200 --> 02:34:17,959
Speaker 5: these games, which has really been you know, the reason

2946
02:34:18,000 --> 02:34:20,720
Speaker 5: that the Lakers have had. I think what we may see,

2947
02:34:20,800 --> 02:34:23,959
Speaker 5: which would be fair to say, is maybe they is

2948
02:34:24,040 --> 02:34:26,959
Speaker 5: scoring and maybe his assist go up. I don't think

2949
02:34:27,000 --> 02:34:29,960
Speaker 5: that would be a statement that would maybe be off

2950
02:34:29,959 --> 02:34:31,840
Speaker 5: because maybe it will be hard from the score going

2951
02:34:31,959 --> 02:34:34,880
Speaker 5: in such a dominant player like Davis and the defensive

2952
02:34:34,879 --> 02:34:37,440
Speaker 5: side of the ball, But I expect him to still

2953
02:34:37,440 --> 02:34:41,440
Speaker 5: get a lot of assists. Look, I don't think I

2954
02:34:41,480 --> 02:34:44,920
Speaker 5: still think this Lakers team, Anthony, it is unfortunate in

2955
02:34:44,959 --> 02:34:47,320
Speaker 5: who they've played. Look, if there's really no one that great,

2956
02:34:47,440 --> 02:34:50,879
Speaker 5: unless I think the best team is the Phoenix we

2957
02:34:50,920 --> 02:34:53,040
Speaker 5: saw had no depth and they lost two of the

2958
02:34:53,879 --> 02:34:56,440
Speaker 5: four best players on top of it, so it was

2959
02:34:56,480 --> 02:34:58,840
Speaker 5: going to be hard for them to win and Denver

2960
02:34:58,920 --> 02:35:00,920
Speaker 5: clearly was the better team that series. There's no question

2961
02:35:01,000 --> 02:35:03,920
Speaker 5: about it. Watching it, I think it's fair to say

2962
02:35:03,920 --> 02:35:06,760
Speaker 5: these probably are the two best teams in the Western Conference. Yeah,

2963
02:35:06,800 --> 02:35:09,720
Speaker 5: the way it shook out, I just think Denver I

2964
02:35:09,879 --> 02:35:15,320
Speaker 5: like their team. I'd like having Murray, Porter Gordon and

2965
02:35:15,400 --> 02:35:18,840
Speaker 5: you push Jokitch. I think they have more solid players

2966
02:35:18,840 --> 02:35:20,200
Speaker 5: in the team than the Lakers do, and I think

2967
02:35:20,200 --> 02:35:21,320
Speaker 5: that they'll want a close series.

2968
02:35:22,240 --> 02:35:24,840
Speaker 2: So I got to ask you, if the schedule came out,

2969
02:35:25,200 --> 02:35:30,400
Speaker 2: the lines came out, did you have you played any NFL.

2970
02:35:30,120 --> 02:35:33,680
Speaker 5: Games that probably say fifty games or so already?

2971
02:35:34,560 --> 02:35:38,000
Speaker 3: How about a fake my may NFL games already?

2972
02:35:38,600 --> 02:35:41,039
Speaker 5: So many bad lines out there. I don't like, I'm

2973
02:35:41,040 --> 02:35:43,240
Speaker 5: not gonna some of these sports books for the protos

2974
02:35:43,200 --> 02:35:46,360
Speaker 5: at every single game. You could have Stevie Wonder. You know,

2975
02:35:47,480 --> 02:35:49,920
Speaker 5: putty in these games are blind. Not. My point being

2976
02:35:49,959 --> 02:35:53,520
Speaker 5: is these lines were just you know, people I work

2977
02:35:53,600 --> 02:35:55,920
Speaker 5: with were just I mean, I wish I had unlimited

2978
02:35:55,920 --> 02:35:57,960
Speaker 5: money to put this money in these games. They limited

2979
02:35:57,959 --> 02:35:59,720
Speaker 5: you and how much you can bet. But some of

2980
02:35:59,760 --> 02:36:04,320
Speaker 5: these spreads are just just like just wrong and off.

2981
02:36:04,840 --> 02:36:08,960
Speaker 5: Uh and you know it's I would encourage every single one.

2982
02:36:09,280 --> 02:36:11,040
Speaker 5: You know, just look at the season win totals for

2983
02:36:11,040 --> 02:36:13,640
Speaker 5: each of these teams, you know, uh, and then you

2984
02:36:13,640 --> 02:36:15,720
Speaker 5: could just see what they made these lines in these games,

2985
02:36:15,800 --> 02:36:19,360
Speaker 5: and many of them were just significantly awful. Ya b

2986
02:36:19,440 --> 02:36:19,640
Speaker 5: at that?

2987
02:36:20,760 --> 02:36:24,360
Speaker 3: Well, give me give me one that one or two

2988
02:36:24,440 --> 02:36:25,080
Speaker 3: that you played.

2989
02:36:27,120 --> 02:36:30,520
Speaker 5: Oh god again, I literally played, like, as I said,

2990
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Speaker 5: fifty of them. I know. I played San Francisco laying

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02:36:37,800 --> 02:36:40,959
Speaker 5: three at the Rams that line, that was one of

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02:36:41,000 --> 02:36:43,240
Speaker 5: my play I know that line's going to close close

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02:36:43,320 --> 02:36:45,760
Speaker 5: significantly higher. We have a Rams team that's one of

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02:36:45,760 --> 02:36:47,720
Speaker 5: the I think going to be one of the worst

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02:36:47,720 --> 02:36:49,920
Speaker 5: teams in the league, and they're roll unders down to

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02:36:49,959 --> 02:36:51,560
Speaker 5: six and a half point nine ers have a total

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Speaker 5: of eleven and a half. Uh, there's no way that

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Speaker 5: they will be laying three early in the season at

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Speaker 5: the Rams. That line will be closer to a touchdown

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02:36:58,879 --> 02:37:02,560
Speaker 5: for sure. But again, there's there's so many of them

3001
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Speaker 5: out there. I look for Philadelphia's point view. I made

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02:37:05,360 --> 02:37:08,240
Speaker 5: two points Philadelphia or one point and a half Phildelphia

3003
02:37:08,320 --> 02:37:11,520
Speaker 5: at home against Miami. For the power ratings perspective, Piladelphia

3004
02:37:11,560 --> 02:37:14,560
Speaker 5: is better than Miami by in my ratings, at least

3005
02:37:14,600 --> 02:37:16,600
Speaker 5: by two points. You give them at least a point

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02:37:16,640 --> 02:37:20,080
Speaker 5: for home field conservatively. I mean that how that mine's

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02:37:20,080 --> 02:37:22,879
Speaker 5: not least laying three again, And there was a lot

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02:37:22,920 --> 02:37:24,560
Speaker 5: of short favorites like that. Work.

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02:37:24,640 --> 02:37:30,200
Speaker 2: That's wild man, you're fifty games, fag. That's not love. Look,

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Speaker 2: that's why you're a problem.

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02:37:31,560 --> 02:37:34,040
Speaker 5: That's thought about it. But these are these are tremendous bets.

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02:37:34,080 --> 02:37:36,680
Speaker 2: I was able to put in awesome, awesome, well listen,

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02:37:36,720 --> 02:37:43,880
Speaker 2: great stuff, rather listen the man, would you root sixers?

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02:37:44,640 --> 02:37:46,920
Speaker 5: Listen, afty? I appreciate. I'll give you real quick before

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Speaker 5: I let you run. Shane mclannan over seventeen and a

3016
02:37:49,480 --> 02:37:52,600
Speaker 5: half outs twenty five and eleven. Julio Urius over four

3017
02:37:52,600 --> 02:37:54,840
Speaker 5: and a half strikeouts fifty two and nineteen. Those are

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02:37:54,840 --> 02:37:56,080
Speaker 5: my two favorite props for the day.

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Speaker 3: You got it.

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Speaker 2: That's baseball. Great stuff. The big brain all on, Brad.

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Speaker 2: We'll come back and wrap it up figuring I fellas

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Speaker 2: right here on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Mighty Mark. Time now for the progressive play of the day.

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Speaker 2: That's dominant victory here in game six, the seventh student's

3033
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Speaker 2: going to.

3034
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Speaker 3: The Western Conference finals.

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Speaker 8: The Westers woks a FU.

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Speaker 4: Number ten stor.

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Speaker 2: Here it is here Mike Breen on the call on ESPN.

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Speaker 2: That's incredible progressive play the day. Lakers move on. Beat

3039
02:39:03,080 --> 02:39:05,720
Speaker 2: the Nuggets, I mean beat all.

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02:39:05,760 --> 02:39:06,080
Speaker 3: Look at that.

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02:39:06,200 --> 02:39:10,400
Speaker 2: I might be Freudian. Look at you, the warriors and staff.

3042
02:39:11,320 --> 02:39:14,280
Speaker 2: Progressive makes things even easier. They're gonna help you bubble

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Speaker 2: your home and car inshorts together so you could save

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Speaker 2: home both. More at Progressive dot com or call one

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02:39:20,760 --> 02:39:23,280
Speaker 2: hundred Progressive FIGI what was that about?

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02:39:23,360 --> 02:39:26,000
Speaker 4: That might have been ahead of yourself a byt trying

3047
02:39:26,000 --> 02:39:30,000
Speaker 4: to jinx it. You do, man, listen, I just just

3048
02:39:30,040 --> 02:39:30,480
Speaker 4: came out.

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02:39:30,560 --> 02:39:33,520
Speaker 2: I got no, I got no you know, no horse

3050
02:39:33,600 --> 02:39:38,000
Speaker 2: in the race, right Well, I we know the Nuggets

3051
02:39:38,040 --> 02:39:39,120
Speaker 2: are favored in the series.

3052
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Speaker 4: If I had to pick, I would pick Denver. Two

3053
02:39:41,400 --> 02:39:44,039
Speaker 4: people have doubted them all season long, and I've been saying,

3054
02:39:44,080 --> 02:39:46,520
Speaker 4: by the way, all season long on this show, I

3055
02:39:46,520 --> 02:39:49,520
Speaker 4: don't know why people are poop pulling the Nuggets. Uh,

3056
02:39:49,600 --> 02:39:51,840
Speaker 4: they've they've been GrITT So they've been great all year.

3057
02:39:51,879 --> 02:39:54,879
Speaker 4: Two time MVP. This is a different team than last

3058
02:39:54,920 --> 02:39:57,240
Speaker 4: year's teams that Dad didn't have Jamal Murray in the lineup,

3059
02:39:57,320 --> 02:39:59,480
Speaker 4: or at least not fully healthy. Yet he's now a

3060
02:39:59,520 --> 02:40:02,280
Speaker 4: full year mood from his ACL injury and he's back

3061
02:40:02,720 --> 02:40:05,280
Speaker 4: to being the Jamal Murray remember from the bubble. So

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02:40:05,920 --> 02:40:07,440
Speaker 4: there's not a lot of holes. There's not a lot

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Speaker 4: of weaknesses for this Nuggets team, and they're playing well,

3064
02:40:09,879 --> 02:40:13,920
Speaker 4: extremely well. Yeah, yeah, no, no, no, they listen.

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Speaker 2: I can I can feel you on your Game one

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02:40:16,560 --> 02:40:20,280
Speaker 2: because you thought Game one, you smell you're smelling a

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02:40:21,120 --> 02:40:25,280
Speaker 2: Nuggets kind of a win by margin on game Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I definitely see a double digit win for them in

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02:40:27,240 --> 02:40:28,600
Speaker 4: Game one against the Lakers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you know who knows, that's when it

3071
02:40:32,640 --> 02:40:35,240
Speaker 2: becomes a series, right, and then you get a figure

3072
02:40:35,520 --> 02:40:37,920
Speaker 2: Lakers could come back and win Game two a Denver.

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02:40:38,320 --> 02:40:40,720
Speaker 4: Absolutely, they're they're they're gonna have to They're gonna have

3074
02:40:40,720 --> 02:40:42,840
Speaker 4: to get a split I don't know if they're gonna

3075
02:40:42,840 --> 02:40:44,600
Speaker 4: be able to. They've done a great job of holding

3076
02:40:44,600 --> 02:40:46,440
Speaker 4: home court. I don't think they've lost a home game

3077
02:40:47,200 --> 02:40:49,520
Speaker 4: in over a month. I believe it was. It's like

3078
02:40:49,600 --> 02:40:51,840
Speaker 4: they they've they've been They've really got given themselves a

3079
02:40:51,840 --> 02:40:53,959
Speaker 4: great home court advantage throughout the first couple of series

3080
02:40:54,000 --> 02:40:55,960
Speaker 4: of the playoffs and then of course the play in

3081
02:40:56,000 --> 02:40:59,200
Speaker 4: against Minnesota as well. But you're gonna have to be

3082
02:40:59,240 --> 02:41:00,680
Speaker 4: able to they got them. That was a big road

3083
02:41:00,760 --> 02:41:02,480
Speaker 4: victory in Golden State, and that was the only one

3084
02:41:02,480 --> 02:41:04,960
Speaker 4: they needed. Uh So they're gonna have to come back

3085
02:41:05,000 --> 02:41:07,440
Speaker 4: and get themselves another one in Denver. In these first

3086
02:41:07,440 --> 02:41:11,480
Speaker 4: couple I'm feeling like they're probably not gonna get game one,

3087
02:41:12,000 --> 02:41:14,200
Speaker 4: but Game two is really the one that they're gonna

3088
02:41:14,240 --> 02:41:15,520
Speaker 4: have to lock in and try to steal.

3089
02:41:16,080 --> 02:41:16,600
Speaker 3: Agreed.

3090
02:41:16,800 --> 02:41:23,440
Speaker 2: Agreed, And then of course it is Sunday Mother's Day.

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Speaker 2: Uh huh.

3092
02:41:26,000 --> 02:41:28,119
Speaker 4: So where are you feeling? Are you feeling nervous?

3093
02:41:28,200 --> 02:41:29,160
Speaker 3: Feeling nervous?

3094
02:41:29,400 --> 02:41:29,879
Speaker 4: Confident?

3095
02:41:30,240 --> 02:41:30,280
Speaker 5: No?

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02:41:30,840 --> 02:41:31,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, I wouldn't either.

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02:41:32,320 --> 02:41:35,520
Speaker 3: No, Sorry, I do not feel confident. I do not.

3098
02:41:35,680 --> 02:41:38,040
Speaker 4: I am extremely nervous.

3099
02:41:38,520 --> 02:41:41,600
Speaker 2: I think they can the Sixers can beat the Celtics.

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02:41:42,879 --> 02:41:45,680
Speaker 2: And I do believe that. I believe that they can

3101
02:41:45,760 --> 02:41:48,960
Speaker 2: go up and win. I think the key's gonna be

3102
02:41:49,040 --> 02:41:51,640
Speaker 2: like this, So Boss is gonna be riding a lot

3103
02:41:51,680 --> 02:41:55,640
Speaker 2: of energy early and they're gonna be back and they're

3104
02:41:55,640 --> 02:41:58,680
Speaker 2: gonna be shooting a lot of threes. The Sixers just

3105
02:41:58,720 --> 02:42:04,640
Speaker 2: have to Like in Game one, Boston scored it will

3106
02:42:04,760 --> 02:42:08,000
Speaker 2: but they look turned around. They got no margin, right,

3107
02:42:08,200 --> 02:42:11,959
Speaker 2: Sixers are still there like hanging around. They gotta hang around.

3108
02:42:11,959 --> 02:42:15,400
Speaker 2: If they hang around long enough, Boston get tight.

3109
02:42:16,120 --> 02:42:18,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, you have to riot that momentum. You expect Boston

3110
02:42:18,440 --> 02:42:20,160
Speaker 4: to get out early. Maybe they get out in early.

3111
02:42:20,200 --> 02:42:22,360
Speaker 4: Seven eight point league just can't let it expand to

3112
02:42:22,440 --> 02:42:26,560
Speaker 4: eighteen twenty like what happened to Golden State on Friday.

3113
02:42:26,720 --> 02:42:28,640
Speaker 2: No, that's exactly right, because I think if the game

3114
02:42:28,720 --> 02:42:32,000
Speaker 2: gets tight, the Sixers. I think the game is close,

3115
02:42:32,080 --> 02:42:34,800
Speaker 2: Boston gets tight, and the Sixers can steal it.

3116
02:42:35,000 --> 02:42:35,720
Speaker 4: Yep, I'm with you.

3117
02:42:36,440 --> 02:42:38,680
Speaker 2: So that's kind of where I'm at. All right, Well,

3118
02:42:38,680 --> 02:42:43,080
Speaker 2: that's gonna do for us on behalf of figure. All

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02:42:43,120 --> 02:42:46,199
Speaker 2: the ladies out there, Happy Mother's Day. We love you guys.

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Speaker 2: We'll see you next week.