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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, here we go into the night, and whether it's NBA,

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Speaker 2: NFL or beyond, we are ready to rock tonight.

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Speaker 3: And I sit here and I speak to a.

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Speaker 2: Man about town. This is This is not someone trick pony.

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Speaker 2: This is not a football meathead. This is a man

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Speaker 2: who is eclectic and well rounded. And I am betting

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Speaker 2: that a man who is as versed in entertainment as

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Speaker 2: you well understand the reference. Now, did you see the

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Speaker 2: movie The Matrix, Ephraim, You see it.

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Speaker 4: Of course you've seen the.

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Speaker 3: Movie The Matrix, right, So remember.

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Speaker 2: Those dudes whenever you whenever you did anything bad to them,

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Speaker 2: they would just take a new form and come right back.

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Speaker 2: You shoot him there, right back, you punch him their

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Speaker 2: right back, whatever it is. You could not get rid

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Speaker 2: of the evil inside the Matrix because they would just

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Speaker 2: they would come right back. They would come right back

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Speaker 2: to their original form, no matter what you did to them.

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Speaker 2: And that's kind of where my mind is right now.

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Speaker 2: On Lebron James and Steph Curry e from It's kind

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Speaker 2: of where my mind is all of the sudden, like

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Speaker 2: they're forty and they're thirty seven. I think about to

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Speaker 2: be thirty seven years old, and this trade deadline.

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Speaker 3: I know that Luca came in.

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Speaker 2: You lose to the Jazz, you lose to the Hornets,

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Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, people are haha, this isn't

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Speaker 2: gonna work well.

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Speaker 3: How you like them now? After what they did in Denver.

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Speaker 2: Last night and suddenly Warriors on their first winning streak

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Speaker 2: since November. Oh man, it is the Western Conference simply

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Speaker 2: the same old thing all over again.

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Speaker 5: Look, I was excited about that game. I was looking

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Speaker 5: forward to seeing that game. Denver has been the Denver

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Speaker 5: Nuggets has been a thorn in the Lakers side for

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Speaker 5: quite some time. Lakers two years ago, to God, all

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Speaker 5: the way to the Western Conference Finals, they looked like

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Speaker 5: they were poised to really make you run at this

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Speaker 5: thing and lo and behold your ki Jamal Murray, Michael

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Speaker 5: them out. Oh wow. Uh Moncey stole my phone. Stole

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Speaker 5: my phone, bring my phone in here. She stole my

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Speaker 3: I mean, car, I don't even know what's more offensive

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Speaker 5: I asked her a question and she got upset, right,

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Speaker 5: I said, she's a Clippers fan, I don't know how yeah,

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Speaker 5: And then I said out there, I said, did the

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Speaker 5: Clippers do anything this trade deadline?

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Speaker 4: Thank you? Thank you, this trade deadline to get better?

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Speaker 4: That it's a real question.

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Speaker 5: She's in sports, right, she's update extraordinary, And so I

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Speaker 5: asked her, did she did the Clippers do anything to

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Speaker 4: And you know, she drug her feet and was like, well,

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Speaker 5: And I asked her did she see that very same

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Speaker 5: game we're talking about, the Denver the Lakers game.

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Speaker 4: And she was like, well, no, I was at a

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Speaker 5: And and I said, well, I you know, I was

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Speaker 5: out last night too, But I always tape the games

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Speaker 5: own leisure. And so back to what we were talking about,

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Speaker 5: Thank you for bringing my phone in here, non Manci.

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Speaker 5: But after watching that game, I was like, oh, oh, oh,

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Speaker 4: Even though we.

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Speaker 5: Were undersized, the level of defense that was being played

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Speaker 5: about wing defending and moving around. The energy just seemed different.

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Speaker 5: And then having Luca become Luca for the first time

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Speaker 5: extremely excited and to answer your question, yeah, this thing

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Speaker 5: could turn into the same old, same old right, the

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Speaker 2: The first thing I need to say before we move

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Speaker 2: forward on the Western Conference is, don't sit there.

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Speaker 3: I'm not even in the room with you, and I know.

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Speaker 2: That your question had all kinds of opinion dripping all

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Speaker 2: over it. Don't hide behind. I just asked the question.

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Speaker 2: I can tell by the way you told me that story,

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Speaker 2: you know I wouldn't talk about I know exactly what

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Speaker 3: You were trying to make a point by tucking it into.

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Speaker 4: A question one ten notes.

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Speaker 5: I didn't follow what the I didn't feel what they

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Speaker 4: You did you?

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Speaker 2: This is dripping with sarcasm, dripping, and the Clipper fans

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Speaker 2: have had enough.

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Speaker 3: There's been years of this.

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Speaker 5: But the only way to have enough to do something

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Speaker 5: go to a conference final some anything.

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Speaker 4: Please well, yeah.

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Speaker 3: You know, I mean, hey, they got that cool new arena.

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Speaker 5: They yeah, have you been. I haven't been there yet. No,

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Speaker 5: I know, I haven't been. Don't play there, so I

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Speaker 3: No, it looks it looks fun though it.

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Speaker 4: Does look it looks festive.

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Speaker 5: At least it has at least they have very FASTI oh, gosh.

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Speaker 2: It's so demeaning anyway. Anyway, Yeah, listen, I'm being real here.

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to sit here and tell you that

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Speaker 2: anybody not named the Oklahoma City thunder sits here as

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Speaker 2: the favorite today. But when you start looking up and

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Speaker 2: what it is, unreliable. The Clippers are, I mean, Kawhi

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Speaker 2: sat out again today, they got boat raced. Memphis is

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Speaker 2: still like with a good record, but kind of a

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Speaker 3: They're not terrifying by any stretch.

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Speaker 2: And then even Oklahoma City themselves, just because they haven't

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Speaker 2: been to the dance. You start looking at Denver, if

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Speaker 2: this Laker thing, if they can figure it out, which

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Speaker 2: there's certainly a window for them to figure it out,

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Speaker 2: And my god, I'll already tell you what. I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: lead my show with tomorrow here in the Bay Area.

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Speaker 2: I was wrong. I was wrong. I was wrong. I

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Speaker 2: asked all kinds of questions about the Jimmy Butler trade.

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Speaker 2: I knew the Warriors needed to do something, and something

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Speaker 2: was better than nothing. But I was like, that's your

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Speaker 2: big move, the disgruntled, no playing thirty five year old

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Speaker 2: from Miami. My god, it is fit like a glove.

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Speaker 2: It is fit like a glove. And they are confident.

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Speaker 2: I know they're in the honeymoon phase, but they are

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Speaker 2: walking a foot above ground right now and they're pummeling

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it looks good. I mean it looks good. I'm

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Speaker 5: and those young guys to be real factors, and you know,

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Speaker 5: this thing could shake shake out, Like.

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Speaker 4: Where where are they? There? Are they out there all

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Speaker 2: They're the nine seed right now, but they're a game

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Speaker 2: Fox is not there in Minnesota. I got no idea

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Speaker 2: what to do with them. I don't know if they

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Speaker 2: know what to do with themselves. So, you know, if

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Speaker 2: Kawhi can't get consistent, and if the Clippers can't get

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Speaker 3: Mean, look, long way to go.

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Speaker 2: But but I can see the Warriors working their way

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Speaker 4: Oh, if they do that, then that must mean we're

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Speaker 6: Could be, don't I don't know if you'll catch Denver.

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Speaker 6: That's where I don't know. I think we can catch them.

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Speaker 6: I know they were on a pretty big winds Drenk.

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Speaker 6: I think they were nine to zero coming into that

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Speaker 6: it was what a little All Star hangover or whatever.

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Speaker 4: Either way, either way, yeah, we are. We are locked

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Speaker 5: You know, it felt like watching Luca felt like he

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Speaker 5: got some of his his magic back. Now, you know,

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Speaker 5: the disappointment of being traded and all of those things.

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Speaker 4: Has subsided.

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Speaker 5: He's had a couple of weeks to you know, realize

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Speaker 5: but now just to embrace the new environment.

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Speaker 4: I think that goes for all the guys. I think

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Speaker 4: I think the trade deadline and then the All Star Game.

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Speaker 5: I think it's great for guys to have to get

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Speaker 5: that's great the way the NBA does that. So now

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Speaker 5: guys who have gone to better situations, now they can

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Speaker 5: like a Jimmy Butler, you go to Golden State and

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Speaker 5: you're playing with an all time great, you know I

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Speaker 5: got to bring right. You're not the leader in the

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Speaker 5: so you know you have to bring it. I believe

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Speaker 5: it's the same with Luca. Luca was the face and

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Speaker 5: is not the face of the team, not while Lebron

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Speaker 5: is there. And you know the funny thing is Lebron James,

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Speaker 5: these are Luca's words. We're his favorite player growing up

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Speaker 5: watching him play, and so if you're on a team

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Speaker 5: You got to impress him, you got to show him like,

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Speaker 5: hey man, I'm here, I'm doing my thing. And I

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Speaker 5: think yesterday we finally got a little bit of that,

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Speaker 5: throwing lobs to him.

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Speaker 4: They both were on and it was fun. It was

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Speaker 2: I mean, look, they're both brilliant basketball players, so I

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Speaker 2: would expect them to understand how to play with one another.

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Speaker 2: The one thing that I try to figure out, and

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Speaker 2: this is maybe the honeymoon phase of it, but I

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Speaker 2: was watching that I think it's called Court of Gold,

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Speaker 2: Steve Curse had something interesting about bringing players like that

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Speaker 2: together and he said, you know, one thing that they're

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Speaker 2: really used to is carrying all of the responsibility for

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Speaker 2: their team, and they really enjoy coming here and then

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Speaker 2: getting to share that, yes, instead of having it all

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Speaker 2: on their shoulders. But that's a month long tournament. And

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Speaker 2: so that's my question for all of these guys as

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Speaker 2: this unfolds, Like Luca playing with his favorite player, is

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Speaker 2: he going to defer?

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Speaker 3: Is that what you want?

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Speaker 2: You know, are they going to be able to navigate

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Speaker 2: when's the right time to hit the gas. When's the

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Speaker 2: right time to lean on your partner. I think that's

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Speaker 2: my question. You know, dogs want a dog too.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, dogs want a dog.

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Speaker 5: But the way the rotation is Lebron James, it's not

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Speaker 4: What was it?

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Speaker 3: Of weeks into March. All right, let's pick this up

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Speaker 3: on Thursday, March thirteenth.

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Speaker 2: Okay, the Lakers will be in Milwaukee and they will

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Speaker 2: That's nice of the NBA. They could just go to Denver.

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Speaker 2: March fourteenth, So a little back to back there Milwaukee

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Speaker 3: They're home. But after a day off Saturday, they'll.

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Speaker 2: Play a day game early twelve thirty tip layup Phoenix

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Speaker 3: They'll have a back to back with Denver and Milwaukee.

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Speaker 2: So that is, if you're counting with me, six basketball

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Speaker 3: Lebron took a screenshot of that. What do you think?

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Speaker 5: He said, I'm hall now, well, what do you think

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Speaker 5: of that? Are you going with that? That's terrible? Why

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Speaker 5: eight games in six days? Six no, not eight games

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Speaker 2: Six games in eight days, three consecutive back to backs,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's wild.

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Speaker 5: I think any team doing that, no matter what the

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Speaker 5: That's the equivalent of having a Sunday night football game,

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Speaker 5: Entertainment wise, you shouldn't ever force teams to do that,

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Speaker 5: You don't want a situation to where, yeah, I wouldn't

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Speaker 2: That's just like, we just know that, and so we've

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Speaker 3: And even if I do, because I'm not going to sit.

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Speaker 2: Here and do the media thing and get all high

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Speaker 2: and mighty about it, I don't know what it's like

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Speaker 3: I don't know. At age forty, I have no idea

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Speaker 2: It's like, I will never get off, like just be

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Speaker 2: don't tell us nobody, nobody. That's that's the medium. People

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Speaker 4: I get it, because you might always be like, oh,

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Speaker 4: I didn't mean that. I didn't mean that, Now break.

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Speaker 3: Because I tried to. I tried to go to his

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Speaker 3: It's gone. He didn't. He didn't. He didn't like the blowback.

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Speaker 4: That's just insane.

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Speaker 8: Guys, say, how did you talk to that long ask

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Speaker 4: Can we update the record?

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Speaker 8: It's nine to forty seven on the season, there's still

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Speaker 8: we're almost to March next week. In his March, still

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Speaker 8: the Wizard's record to nine and forty seven. Indiana beat

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Speaker 8: Indiana upset Number thirteen produced seventy three fifty eight. In

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Speaker 8: women's hoops, Number one Notre Dame lost in double overtime

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Speaker 8: at number thirteen NC State one oh four ninety five.

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Speaker 8: The Irish had won nineteen straight. Number three Ucla was

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Speaker 8: a sixty seven sixty five winner at Iowa with two

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Speaker 8: late free throws. Number four ranked USC defeated number twenty

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Speaker 8: five Illinois seventy six sixty six SC and women's basketball

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Speaker 8: twenty five and two. They recently beat rival UCLA when

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Speaker 8: the Bruins were number one, and to end the regular

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Speaker 8: season Saturday Night, it's USC at Ucla, each ranked in

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Speaker 8: the top five. Still it'll be on Fox TV Saturday night.

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Speaker 8: NASCAR winned Atlanta for Christopher Bell in overtime.

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Speaker 2: Back to you, great stuff, Steve, Yep, great stuff. He

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Speaker 2: would he would do them all, I know he would.

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Speaker 2: He would do it, and he would do them.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 4: Have to pry that man out of the booth.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's all good.

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Speaker 2: Lot inthetiereck dot com Studios. By the way, be sure

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Speaker 2: to check out our Fox Sports Radio YouTube channel. A

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Speaker 2: Sports Radio videos on YouTube. Among the things Steve just

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Speaker 2: told us the Phoenix Sons a from the Phoenix Suns.

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00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:21,360
Speaker 2: That would be an eighteen point loss at Toronto tonight.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what we do know in the West.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if Steph and Lebron can actually get

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Speaker 2: into the conference finals.

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Speaker 3: Or anything like that. Here's what I do know. I

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Speaker 3: do know that.

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Speaker 2: The ten teams who are going to be either in

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Speaker 2: the playoffs or in the play in tournament, I know

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Speaker 2: who those teams are, and they are the ten teams

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Speaker 2: that are currently sitting in those spots.

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Speaker 3: Because the Phoenix Suns.

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Speaker 2: Are currently eleventh, they're on the outside looking in, and

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Speaker 2: shortly after it reported that their locker room was toxic

477
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:07,880
Speaker 2: after the trade deadline, I don't know if they've won

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00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:10,320
Speaker 2: an I do, yeah, they won one game since, but

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00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:12,159
Speaker 2: they're two and eight in their last ten.

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00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:16,800
Speaker 3: They're losing games to bad teams. Now they're done.

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00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:20,360
Speaker 2: They're completely done, and it's fascinating to me that their

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Speaker 2: front office hasn't been more criticized. We've spent so much

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00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 2: time screaming and yelling about Dallas's front office that we

484
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Speaker 2: forgot it might have been even worse. Even worse than

485
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Speaker 2: trading your star is telling all your stars.

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Speaker 3: That you're trying to trade them and then not.

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Speaker 2: I mean, they are completely mentally done.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just it's hard to watch.

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Speaker 5: I was actually watching that game and it's basically three

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Speaker 5: guys going for themselves like they're gonna put them points up.

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Speaker 5: I think Bradley Bull at thirty today. Last couple games,

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Speaker 5: he's averaging about twenty five. They're just putting numbers up.

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Speaker 5: It's no continuity, it's no cohesion. It's just three guys

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Speaker 5: who can score scoring. Nobody's playing defense. They're literally at

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Speaker 5: the twenty four our fitness playing basketball. And so, you know,

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Speaker 5: KD had an opportunity to be traded. He didn't want

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Speaker 5: to go to Golden State.

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Speaker 4: I mean.

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Speaker 5: Why, I don't know. It's been a better situation for him,

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Speaker 5: but I get it. You know, he doesn't want to

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Speaker 5: go back or you know, Draymond is still there for

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Speaker 5: whatever that is. It would have been a better situation

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Speaker 5: that he's currently in now, and he opted not to

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Speaker 5: do it.

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Speaker 4: So in my mind, you get what you get. Nothing

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Speaker 4: to talk about, right.

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Speaker 3: There's there's nothing to talk about in terms of that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, But I mean I will say this, they've got

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Speaker 2: to win the head Scratcher of the Year award.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I remember talking to you last off season and I'm like,

512
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:06,960
Speaker 2: you can't do what they're doing with those three huge contracts.

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00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 2: They've got to dump one of them in the off

514
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 2: season after the way last year finished, And instead they

515
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:17,440
Speaker 2: hired a new coach, came in, had a press conference

516
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:21,800
Speaker 2: that was specifically designed at kissing up to KD and

517
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Speaker 2: then the new owners come in and they're like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: we're going for Oh my god, like, look at yourselves.

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00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:30,320
Speaker 3: Look at them.

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Speaker 2: How with Booker Durant and Bradley Beale on your team.

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Speaker 2: You're the eleven seed and you're two and eight in

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Speaker 2: your last ten and you're healthy.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god.

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Speaker 4: It's wow.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, wow, Yeah, you're absolutely right. It's one of those

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Speaker 5: situations where it didn't fit when they did it. It

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Speaker 5: was a head scratcher on inception and now it's come

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Speaker 5: to fruition. This is what people thought was going At

529
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Speaker 5: least I did. I was like, how does this work right?

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Speaker 5: Because what they did was they gave up all of

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Speaker 5: their wing defenders for shot makers, but only one person

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Speaker 5: could take a shot at a time. The difference is

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Speaker 5: when that one person is taking a shot, somebody has

534
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Speaker 5: to be rebounding, someone has to get back and stop

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Speaker 5: the fast break if it's a misshot. Like you, you

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Speaker 5: forget those things when you're in search of the magic

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00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 5: elixir and the days of three powerful offensive players storming

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00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 5: through and and and and that's that's not it. And

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Speaker 5: even when you know Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce and

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00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,720
Speaker 5: Ray Allen got together, everybody had a role to play

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Speaker 5: and everybody sacrificed something.

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Speaker 4: Even when.

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Speaker 5: Bosh, Wade and James got together, d Wade, who was

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00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 5: all NBA, all everything, took a back seat. Chris Bosh

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00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:22,840
Speaker 5: was no longer. Remember in Toronto, he was a twenty

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Speaker 5: five and twelve a night. He was the man like

547
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:31,960
Speaker 5: the offense ran through him. He literally came and sacrificed everything.

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00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 5: They're not running any plays for him now. He's getting

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Speaker 5: rebounds and put backs, and he still managed to get

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Speaker 5: about sixteen seventeen points a game, eight or nine rebounds.

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00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 5: But it was a Lebron James show. I don't see

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Speaker 5: who's taking the back seat to who in Phoenix. It

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00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 5: doesn't work like that. It's not like it's no secret formula.

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00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 5: It's like, yo, man, all right, let him shoot. Somebody

555
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 5: gotta play defense.

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Speaker 2: The reputation of the Phoenix Suns through the last few

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Speaker 2: years has been that they are soft, that you can

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00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 2: push them around. And I'm like, yep, in more ways

559
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:16,320
Speaker 2: than maybe you realized, like not just on the court,

560
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 2: but apparently off apparently off the court as well, because

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Speaker 2: in the end, the Miami Heat and the Golden State

562
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 2: Warriors got into conversations and the Suns got pushed around,

563
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:28,960
Speaker 2: and they got left at the altar and and and

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Speaker 2: now what so uh fascinating stuff for sure. With you

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Speaker 2: from Salam I'm Mark Ward. And there's another NBA star.

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Speaker 2: We haven't mentioned him tonight, but today was potentially a

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Speaker 2: pivotal day for him. We'll tell you about that coming

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Speaker 2: up next on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: These arethetie Rag Dot com Studios and Mark Willardy from

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Speaker 2: Salam What does.

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Speaker 4: The league do?

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Speaker 2: What do the Sixers do with Joe LMB? I mean,

574
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 2: what does everybight do about this?

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00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:19,720
Speaker 5: It's nothing you can do obviously. See, this is the problem,

576
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 5: and he's at fault because he should have never played

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00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 5: in the Olympics, right, because he didn't go into the

578
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Speaker 5: Olympics healthy. We knew that he didn't finish last season healthy.

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Speaker 5: He didn't go into the Olympics healthy, so it's no

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Speaker 5: surprise that he didn't start this season healthy and isn't

581
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Speaker 5: healthy now given his history, he didn't he miss the

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Speaker 5: first two years of his career.

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Speaker 2: I think we just I don't want to speak out

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Speaker 2: of turn, but I'm pre Are you sure we just

585
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 2: passed something? And it can go back and forth, But

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00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 2: there was something earlier this season where Joel had missed

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00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:08,319
Speaker 2: as many games as he had played.

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00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:10,799
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it was right at the same right.

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00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:13,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, Now he's played a few games since then. I

590
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 2: don't know where we sit, but you get the point.

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00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:17,720
Speaker 2: We're about fifty to fifty.

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00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:23,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's not what you want. And it's a situation

593
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:33,239
Speaker 5: where if you know that you aren't one hundred and

594
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:40,440
Speaker 5: he had that giant truck knee brace on dragging that

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00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 5: leg in the Olympics. Why would you even go? Why

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00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 5: would you go? That's a real question, Mike.

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00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 4: I don't know. Why wouldn't you.

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00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:59,839
Speaker 5: Take time in the summer to try and get yourself healthy.

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00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 5: He started the season not playing, and the NBA find

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00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 5: the team because.

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00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:10,239
Speaker 4: That was ridiculous.

602
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 5: Remember Kawhi Leonard was on the Olympic team, and then

603
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:16,799
Speaker 5: they were like, yeah, no, we're not gonna do this.

604
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:20,520
Speaker 5: You can't be healthy during the regular season, you gonna

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00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:26,280
Speaker 5: come play in the Olympics. He didn't start the season healthy,

606
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 5: but at least he didn't make it worse by playing

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00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 5: in the Olympics.

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Speaker 2: It is so funny that the phrase that took over

609
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 2: in Philly for a period of time, and it was

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Speaker 2: earlier in Joel's career was trust the process. Oh good

611
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 2: because my god, we don't and you shouldn't don't do

612
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Speaker 2: not trust this process. Joe l Embiid and the Philadelphia

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Speaker 2: seventy six ers have got to be one of the

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Speaker 2: best organizations in pro sports at over promising.

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00:35:58,040 --> 00:35:59,800
Speaker 3: And under delivery. Oh my goodness.

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00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 2: And and that's really the thing, like I can't get

617
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:05,960
Speaker 2: mad at a seven foot man for having knee injuries.

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Speaker 3: That's not a new thing, No, it just would.

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Speaker 4: But man, the.

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Speaker 2: Way you've played this, the way you've talked, the way

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00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 2: that teammates have come in and out to help, and

622
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 2: seemingly Joell often just kind of disenfranchises them and puts

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Speaker 2: the blame on them when things don't go right.

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00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:28,760
Speaker 3: So is it Jimmy Butler? And then it's James Harden.

625
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:32,320
Speaker 2: And now we're doing this and Paul George and Tyrese

626
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:35,239
Speaker 2: Maxi's just over here, like, I can score thirty if

627
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 2: you want me to, but I'll defer if you.

628
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 3: Keep getting hurt or coming back or whatever. The whole

629
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:43,320
Speaker 3: thing is just such a headache.

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Speaker 2: And now now he's got this super negative cloud and

631
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 2: vibe that's following him everywhere.

632
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Speaker 3: That I don't know if it really needs to be there.

633
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:56,840
Speaker 3: The man is just hurt. It's just hurt.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he's he's not doing at all, and there's nothing.

635
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 5: The only thing you can do is to not play.

636
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:09,480
Speaker 5: So there we're looking at all day. Just shut him down, yep,

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00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 5: shut him down right now, give him all of this

638
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 5: time and give it one good last push.

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Speaker 4: Right, Well, I let him get third.

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Speaker 5: Whatever the surgeries are, let them have it and let

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Speaker 5: them go and give him this with just one last

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00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:33,600
Speaker 5: push to see if he can get somewhat healthy.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think you have to now. I mean remember

644
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 2: last week when we joked that, like if you if

645
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Speaker 2: you're out and about with your friends telling everybody that

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Speaker 2: you're like, I'm thinking about leaving my spouse.

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Speaker 3: Like, okay, then it's done. You can't.

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00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:53,720
Speaker 2: You can't talk about that and then walk it back.

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00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 2: I don't think the same thing here. This is an

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00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 2: odd way to sort of talk about it.

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00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:04,399
Speaker 3: Today. If you're the Sixers, it's like Joel is in.

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00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 2: Out of the lineup. He's out of the lineup. Yesterday

653
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:10,439
Speaker 2: he got pulled and they played great. They came back

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Speaker 2: from a deficit without him. They fell a little bit short,

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Speaker 2: but they played really well without him. And then after

656
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Speaker 2: games he's constantly for the last week been like, yeah,

657
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:20,400
Speaker 2: I'm in pain.

658
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 3: I don't know if I can do this, And.

659
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:27,239
Speaker 2: Then today the Sixers are like, so we're exploring possibly surgery,

660
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 2: Well let me help you.

661
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:34,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like, you can't, you can't do all that you've

662
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 3: been doing. And then and then.

663
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 2: Tomorrow will be like all right, we thought about it.

664
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 2: He's gonna play. I just don't know why they keep

665
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:43,359
Speaker 2: tiptoeing around.

666
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's not good. It's not good. Just hey, man,

667
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:55,560
Speaker 5: go and get yourself healthy. Man, just going put your

668
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:59,959
Speaker 5: headphones on and go and get the knees, whatever else

669
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:04,399
Speaker 5: is happening, get it together, try to start fresh next year.

670
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 4: And then sometimes the body turns off. Man. Sometimes you

671
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 4: just they won't do what you do. Mind wants it

672
00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 4: to do well.

673
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:14,799
Speaker 2: The other thing that could happen out of this, and

674
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 2: I'm surprised the Sixers aren't kind of leaning into it

675
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:21,279
Speaker 2: at least privately, is like, yes, shut him down and

676
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:22,759
Speaker 2: go get a wonderful draft pick.

677
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 4: Please.

678
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:26,440
Speaker 2: It's not like anything's gonna go well for you this year.

679
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:28,759
Speaker 2: It's not like you're gonna do you know what I mean. Yeah,

680
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 2: we're we're well past the area where you could, you know,

681
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 2: go on a run like that's over. So I don't know, man,

682
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 2: like you're going to talk about it, shut that thing down,

683
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:45,720
Speaker 2: Go get yourself a draft pick, and like you said,

684
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:50,399
Speaker 2: try again next year. Mark will Ady from Salam we're

685
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 2: gonna flip it over to the NFL coming up next

686
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 2: because earlier today we got the announcement that we always

687
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:01,279
Speaker 2: get from someone this week, and this time it was

688
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:06,480
Speaker 2: Schadour Sanders. More on that coming up next.

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Speaker 3: Look before I dive too deep into this.

697
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 2: So Chadeur Sanders is going to go to the Combine

698
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 2: and he's going to do the only thing that the Sanders.

699
00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:43,839
Speaker 3: Know how to do better than anyone else. Talk so wonderful.

700
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,360
Speaker 2: Great, he's gonna go, he's gonna talk, he's not gonna

701
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 2: do any workout.

702
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:48,239
Speaker 3: He's gonna have a pro day.

703
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 2: And we get a few of these every single year,

704
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 2: but it always seems to be a big story, and

705
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 2: I guess I'm scratching my head as to figure out why.

706
00:40:56,680 --> 00:41:00,440
Speaker 2: What's your take on the combine and what it's become.

707
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:06,399
Speaker 5: I don't look, I was never the combine is it

708
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 5: is what it is?

709
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 4: Right it to me?

710
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:12,960
Speaker 5: It can make or break where you're drafted, but it

711
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:16,120
Speaker 5: doesn't make or break you as a player. There are

712
00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 5: plenty of players who didn't even invited to Combine and

713
00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:24,959
Speaker 5: turned into tremendous players. There are plenty of players who

714
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 5: did bad at the combine, dropped in draft position, and

715
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:31,319
Speaker 5: did become tremendous pros. There are plenty of players who

716
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:34,359
Speaker 5: had a tremendous Combine and fizzled out.

717
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:39,480
Speaker 4: So there, you know, it's just for draft reason.

718
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:43,719
Speaker 5: It just draft positioning has no bearing on what type

719
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 5: of player you can and can't be in the NFL.

720
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:52,920
Speaker 5: So that's my thoughts on it. It's good to get

721
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 5: all the guys there. I never I didn't really like it.

722
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:58,279
Speaker 5: It was it was a lot and you know, two

723
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 5: three days I got is coming in from the West coast,

724
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:02,240
Speaker 5: East coast.

725
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 4: It just it was crazy.

726
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:06,680
Speaker 5: Like for me when we got there and we had

727
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:08,440
Speaker 5: to get up at four o'clock in the morning. We

728
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 5: didn't get to bed until twelve, but we had to

729
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:12,920
Speaker 5: get up at four o'clock in the morning. That was

730
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:16,840
Speaker 5: one am for me because I came in from San Diego,

731
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:20,880
Speaker 5: right so I had a drug test at four o'clock

732
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:23,480
Speaker 5: in the morning and then you don't go back to bed,

733
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:28,239
Speaker 5: You're up. Your day begins. That's one am. Literally the

734
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:33,839
Speaker 5: next day that I got there, we're up from one

735
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:41,840
Speaker 5: am and you know, four o'clock am until that next morning,

736
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:48,279
Speaker 5: like literally back to your room twelve one o'clock. And

737
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 5: that's testing, interviewing, like all kinds of stuff. It just

738
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:58,960
Speaker 5: was a lot. And so someone likes your door. The

739
00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:03,160
Speaker 5: Sanders do do something else better than like Deon Tenders

740
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 5: did everything better than everyone else they did.

741
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,440
Speaker 3: I don't want that comment to come off that.

742
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 4: Well, that's why I'm just I know, that's why I

743
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:14,360
Speaker 4: just I just fixed it.

744
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 3: They're very good at expressing themselves.

745
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:21,799
Speaker 5: So look, I wouldn't expect him to have to go

746
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:27,239
Speaker 5: to the combine and and and actually work out, Like

747
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:28,200
Speaker 5: watch the tape.

748
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:30,440
Speaker 4: You know what you're gonna get. This is what it's

749
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:30,839
Speaker 4: gonna be.

750
00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:34,720
Speaker 2: Well, I'm with you, and and this is I guess

751
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:42,360
Speaker 2: what my question is, is there any validity to the

752
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 2: combine other than the fact that it has become like

753
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:50,440
Speaker 2: everything else for the NFL, this has become a television product,

754
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:54,880
Speaker 2: This has become an opportunity for media to gather and

755
00:43:55,160 --> 00:44:00,719
Speaker 2: right like in other words, that's exactly what are you

756
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 2: actually getting out of this?

757
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 5: And you're.

758
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 2: You said it can make your bake your draft stock,

759
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 2: and I'm like, I get that, but almost like only

760
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:15,319
Speaker 2: in the echo chamber do teams? And I understand they

761
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:17,440
Speaker 2: want to talk to players and they're going to take

762
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:19,720
Speaker 2: a lot from that meeting because you get a vibe

763
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 2: off of another human being. But are they making decisions

764
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:30,680
Speaker 2: but you based on these dudes running around, Yeah, well

765
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 2: that's dumb, that's stupid.

766
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:35,399
Speaker 3: Then then they're dumb.

767
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:37,680
Speaker 5: That's a lot of players, a lot of teams. But

768
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 5: you got to remember how biased and unsensitive the draft was, right,

769
00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:46,560
Speaker 5: remember as your mother. I think one of the questions

770
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:49,399
Speaker 5: asked to one of the young a couple of years ago,

771
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:53,160
Speaker 5: one of the young hopefuls, you know, is your mother

772
00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 5: prostitute or something some wild?

773
00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:57,360
Speaker 4: Do you do drugs?

774
00:44:57,360 --> 00:45:00,839
Speaker 5: Like just well just out of good stuff that they're

775
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 5: not allowed to do anymore. But that was it made

776
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:06,799
Speaker 5: me and a god said honest truth as we were

777
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:12,080
Speaker 5: all standing in the line. It made me feel like

778
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 5: in our underwear, you take your shirt off, you go

779
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 5: to the front, you step on the scale that everybody

780
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:21,799
Speaker 5: looks and writes things down they holler out your weight

781
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:23,760
Speaker 5: and your height and everything's.

782
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:27,520
Speaker 4: Right. And then next it made me feel like I

783
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:28,520
Speaker 4: was on the auction block.

784
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:34,719
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, like it's it's literally like, yo, this

785
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:39,440
Speaker 5: is just feels crazy right here. And so it's a

786
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 5: situation where you look, they've seemed to to hold it

787
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:52,240
Speaker 5: in regards of course, it's a ginormous money maker because

788
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:58,719
Speaker 5: it is football. That's typically the beginning of the you know,

789
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 5: the new crop of football players, the guys we have

790
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:05,880
Speaker 5: been watching all college football season long, and now we

791
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:11,399
Speaker 5: get to see, you know, how they perform outside of

792
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 5: them actually performing on the field in games.

793
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:20,360
Speaker 4: We need to see them now perform in underwear.

794
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 5: And so right, like, well he made every tackle, he

795
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 5: led the NCAA and taggling, but he only ran a

796
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 5: four to six.

797
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:32,799
Speaker 3: Oh right, Like what.

798
00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:38,040
Speaker 2: This is just me now, and in anything I do

799
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:41,120
Speaker 2: in life, if it's like if you're going to hire somebody,

800
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:43,640
Speaker 2: if you have a student, if you have a child,

801
00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:49,440
Speaker 2: I'm going to judge how they handle a certain situation

802
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:53,280
Speaker 2: by looking at them in those situations.

803
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:57,400
Speaker 3: Why are we judging whether.

804
00:46:57,280 --> 00:46:59,920
Speaker 2: Or not someone can play football by having them do

805
00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:07,320
Speaker 2: other things than football, you know, And and example, Xavier

806
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 2: Worthy comes out of last year's Combine as the big

807
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 2: newsmaker because.

808
00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:15,840
Speaker 3: He ran again and he broke the all time record.

809
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:20,239
Speaker 2: And there's nothing I can say about Xavier Worthy's rookie year.

810
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:24,440
Speaker 3: To make it like sound bad. It looks like Xavier

811
00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:27,319
Speaker 3: can play. He really can. Now.

812
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:28,040
Speaker 4: I don't know.

813
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:30,560
Speaker 2: What kind of opportunity he would have gotten if Rashi

814
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:34,360
Speaker 2: Rice hadn't gotten hurt. And even with the opportunities he got,

815
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:39,680
Speaker 2: Travis Kelcey at his old age retirement possibly had more

816
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:42,880
Speaker 2: receiving yards than Worthy did. And I can look around

817
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:46,000
Speaker 2: the rest of the first round and look at Marvin

818
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:48,840
Speaker 2: Harrison Junior and Malik Neighbors and all these other players,

819
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 2: and I'm like, those guys are on not good teams

820
00:47:51,239 --> 00:47:54,040
Speaker 2: and they're better, they're they're they're better than Xavier Worthy,

821
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:55,920
Speaker 2: But no one was talking about them at the combine

822
00:47:57,239 --> 00:48:02,640
Speaker 2: because what Like, I guess that's my overarching question, what

823
00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 2: are we actually doing here?

824
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:05,319
Speaker 3: What are we accomplishing?

825
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:12,720
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's Look, it's part of the system. People

826
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:16,080
Speaker 5: love it. They have fans in attendance now, so it's

827
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 5: just another thing to have people opt into.

828
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:24,480
Speaker 4: That's just what it is. And people are going to

829
00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:25,720
Speaker 4: opt into it every time.

830
00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:29,400
Speaker 2: Well, so let me ask you, based on the experience

831
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:33,839
Speaker 2: that it sounds like you had, if you were advising

832
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:36,840
Speaker 2: a young football player who was about to get drafted,

833
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:37,920
Speaker 2: what would you have him do.

834
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:41,160
Speaker 4: You?

835
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:43,320
Speaker 5: You have to do it, you have like it depending

836
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:47,359
Speaker 5: on where he was slated to be. So, doua Santa

837
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:48,959
Speaker 5: is gonna be the first second pick in the draft?

838
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:53,560
Speaker 5: What is he working out for? What's he working out for?

839
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:57,080
Speaker 2: Well, he's still going to do a pro day. I mean,

840
00:48:57,120 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 2: there are ways to do this. I just wonder what

841
00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 2: you think the best.

842
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:03,000
Speaker 5: You could throw in the avice be beautiful up there.

843
00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:06,880
Speaker 5: It just depends on your status. That's what it depends on.

844
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:11,120
Speaker 5: Right If someone is projectives cam Water or Shadur, I'm like, yeah,

845
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:13,600
Speaker 5: I would most definitely. The only thing you can do

846
00:49:13,640 --> 00:49:20,799
Speaker 5: is hurt yourself at the combine. The only thing you couldn't.

847
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:26,000
Speaker 5: You couldn't improve your draft stock by having a great combine.

848
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:29,919
Speaker 5: So why do it? That's a real talk, that's real.

849
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:31,880
Speaker 5: Why why do it? What are we getting out of?

850
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:35,759
Speaker 3: Why why even have the pro day? Then?

851
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:40,319
Speaker 5: Well, now you get to showcase yourself. It's on your

852
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 5: own terms, and you show people what they're getting. You

853
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:47,839
Speaker 5: show people what they're getting, which is right.

854
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:50,520
Speaker 2: But like if Shadur came out today and he's like, oh,

855
00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:52,719
Speaker 2: by the way, I'm not doing a pro day either,

856
00:49:53,719 --> 00:49:55,680
Speaker 2: it still wouldn't matter exactly.

857
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:56,480
Speaker 3: So why do it?

858
00:49:56,840 --> 00:49:59,880
Speaker 5: Because you do? I mean, he's a player, right like that.

859
00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:02,319
Speaker 5: You know, maybe he will say that I don't know.

860
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:05,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, well no, I guess in the story today that

861
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:08,400
Speaker 2: was that was the basic idea, Like he's going to

862
00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:10,520
Speaker 2: have a pro day. He's not going to do anything

863
00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:12,600
Speaker 2: at the combine other than interview.

864
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:14,560
Speaker 3: You know.

865
00:50:14,719 --> 00:50:17,759
Speaker 2: I mean if look, I know you don't want to

866
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:21,040
Speaker 2: you do not want to come off as dismissive or

867
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:22,880
Speaker 2: defiant or any of these things.

868
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:25,720
Speaker 3: But if you meet with teams and if.

869
00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:29,279
Speaker 2: You kindly said to them, look, I feel really good

870
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:30,839
Speaker 2: about what I put on tape this year.

871
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:32,720
Speaker 3: If you if you're interested me in as.

872
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:35,000
Speaker 2: A football player, I'm gonna let my I'm gonna let

873
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:38,760
Speaker 2: my senior year or junior year or whatever speak for itself.

874
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:40,640
Speaker 2: And I'm happy to sit here and talk to you

875
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:44,640
Speaker 2: and you can run me through play tests and everything else.

876
00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:46,799
Speaker 2: I'll sit here and talk to you and we can

877
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:50,440
Speaker 2: interview until I'm blue in the face, but I on

878
00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:53,000
Speaker 2: a physical end, I feel like I've done what I

879
00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:54,400
Speaker 2: need to do on the football field.

880
00:50:56,320 --> 00:51:02,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree with that. Why do it? You've done enough.

881
00:51:04,840 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 5: You're going high, so stay high.

882
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:16,359
Speaker 3: Perfect perfect. Yeah. All right. Speaking of.

883
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:20,880
Speaker 2: MFL individuals, there's a few more we need to go to.

884
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:23,200
Speaker 2: But let's go to the other side. We're talking about

885
00:51:23,239 --> 00:51:25,400
Speaker 2: guys on the way in. What about guys on the

886
00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:29,040
Speaker 2: way out? Two big names. Where will they play? Will

887
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:30,920
Speaker 2: they play at all next year? Let's get to that.

888
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:33,319
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Speaker 4: Let me. Have you ever had something that?

901
00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:22,040
Speaker 5: Like, have you ever just been going through your day

902
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:23,840
Speaker 5: and something traumatic happens?

903
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 3: Oh? Hell yes?

904
00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:31,280
Speaker 4: All right, So I'm on my way home.

905
00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:33,040
Speaker 3: How traumatic are we talking?

906
00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:37,760
Speaker 5: Just listen, okay, I'm all layout on my way home,

907
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:44,719
Speaker 5: and I get a text from my wife. She was like, well,

908
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:53,080
Speaker 5: and I was like, oh no, all right, and she

909
00:52:53,239 --> 00:52:54,600
Speaker 5: sends a picture.

910
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:56,880
Speaker 4: Of our back wall.

911
00:52:56,920 --> 00:53:02,120
Speaker 5: We have our cinder block wall in the backyard, and

912
00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:09,279
Speaker 5: there's a car sitting in the wall in our backyard,

913
00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:12,920
Speaker 5: in our tree.

914
00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:13,280
Speaker 3: A car is in the tree.

915
00:53:14,360 --> 00:53:16,879
Speaker 5: And so I call my wife and I'm like, what

916
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:19,960
Speaker 5: is happening? She said, me and the boys were sitting

917
00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:24,000
Speaker 5: in the living room and we heard a bomb go off,

918
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:30,960
Speaker 5: Like it sounded like a bomb. The boys screamed, right,

919
00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:34,680
Speaker 5: they're ten and thirteen. They didn't know what it was,

920
00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:40,040
Speaker 5: and so she figured maybe it was an accident. Right

921
00:53:40,120 --> 00:53:44,120
Speaker 5: on the other side of our walls, it's a street,

922
00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:47,080
Speaker 5: and so we go out.

923
00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:49,520
Speaker 4: She goes out, I'm on my way home. I don't

924
00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:49,839
Speaker 4: know this.

925
00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:57,440
Speaker 5: We go out and it's literally a car has run

926
00:53:58,520 --> 00:54:02,400
Speaker 5: into our backyard through a brick a cinder block walk.

927
00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:05,520
Speaker 4: And it's resting up against a tree.

928
00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:09,720
Speaker 2: As a personal can I ask first as a person Okay.

929
00:54:11,080 --> 00:54:14,160
Speaker 4: Yes, was there a person in there at all?

930
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:18,280
Speaker 5: I don't know any of that. Someone obviously was driving

931
00:54:18,320 --> 00:54:23,560
Speaker 5: the car. But you know, they get you know what you.

932
00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:25,319
Speaker 3: Say, obviously someone was driving the car.

933
00:54:25,719 --> 00:54:27,160
Speaker 4: Know that I wasn't there.

934
00:54:27,480 --> 00:54:30,000
Speaker 3: That That's not always the case anymore, right.

935
00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:32,920
Speaker 4: Those waybout cars it was it wasn't that.

936
00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:34,240
Speaker 3: Okay, go ahead?

937
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:37,960
Speaker 5: And so I call my I'm like, okay, what is

938
00:54:38,040 --> 00:54:42,279
Speaker 5: going on? And they have been filming something across the

939
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:50,120
Speaker 5: street production and one of the picture cars had whatever happened.

940
00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:52,680
Speaker 5: I don't know what happened, but the picture car ended

941
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:54,279
Speaker 5: up in our backyard through our.

942
00:54:56,200 --> 00:54:58,120
Speaker 4: And which is crazy.

943
00:54:58,160 --> 00:55:00,719
Speaker 5: Thank god, nobody on our side was hurt, and as

944
00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:02,879
Speaker 5: far as I know, nobody on their side was hurt.

945
00:55:03,719 --> 00:55:06,520
Speaker 4: But it did a number on my boys.

946
00:55:07,239 --> 00:55:10,200
Speaker 3: I bet, because.

947
00:55:11,719 --> 00:55:14,800
Speaker 5: The reality of it is you feel like a wall

948
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:20,880
Speaker 5: like that is protection because it is a center block wall,

949
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:26,799
Speaker 5: and then just having a car be just plowed through it.

950
00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:30,359
Speaker 4: So now my ten year old when he goes out

951
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:31,200
Speaker 4: to shoot in the.

952
00:55:31,080 --> 00:55:35,040
Speaker 5: Backyard, he's like, is it is it gonna be?

953
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:36,680
Speaker 4: Okay?

954
00:55:37,360 --> 00:55:41,960
Speaker 3: Cars coming yet? Well, yes, I would hope.

955
00:55:42,080 --> 00:55:45,120
Speaker 4: But I'm like, what is happening?

956
00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:47,399
Speaker 5: They came and boarded it up and like hey, we're

957
00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:49,200
Speaker 5: gonna come and fix the wall and all of that,

958
00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:54,200
Speaker 5: and I'm like this is traumatic, Like this is like

959
00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:56,440
Speaker 5: the fact that it sounded like a bomb and then

960
00:55:56,480 --> 00:55:59,280
Speaker 5: you go out and realize, oh, someone's crashed into your backyard,

961
00:55:59,320 --> 00:55:59,960
Speaker 5: into your space.

962
00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:01,239
Speaker 4: It was.

963
00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:03,920
Speaker 5: It was crazy, man, Like I was I have my

964
00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:06,719
Speaker 5: wife sent me the video of the car in the backyard,

965
00:56:06,719 --> 00:56:08,440
Speaker 5: and I was like, oh my how.

966
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:12,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a lot when cars go where they're not

967
00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:15,400
Speaker 2: supposed to go. I don't I don't know any other

968
00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:17,919
Speaker 2: way to say that. We've all seen car accidents. Man,

969
00:56:18,120 --> 00:56:21,800
Speaker 2: car goes where it's like, oh, cars don't go there.

970
00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:24,160
Speaker 2: It's very very jarring.

971
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:27,279
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's uh, it was something else, man.

972
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:29,840
Speaker 5: So we spent the weekend like, hey man, the backyard

973
00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:32,279
Speaker 5: is fine, and you know, we got a pool back

974
00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:36,520
Speaker 5: there in the basketball court and my wife's shop, my

975
00:56:36,560 --> 00:56:40,279
Speaker 5: wife's our guest house. You know, the cars were just

976
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:43,600
Speaker 5: mere feet away from the guest house. She works back there.

977
00:56:43,640 --> 00:56:45,920
Speaker 5: So I'm like, what is happening right now?

978
00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:47,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was.

979
00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:50,040
Speaker 4: It was a situation I.

980
00:56:49,960 --> 00:56:53,040
Speaker 2: Can't relate on that level, but like a few years ago,

981
00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:56,840
Speaker 2: elderly woman just kind of drove right through the front

982
00:56:56,880 --> 00:56:59,480
Speaker 2: fence of a car of a house that was straight

983
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:03,359
Speaker 2: across the street from us. And again, like when you

984
00:57:03,440 --> 00:57:07,080
Speaker 2: walk outside and you're like, a car doesn't go there? Yes,

985
00:57:07,239 --> 00:57:12,719
Speaker 2: not like yeah, it's like really jarring and the damage

986
00:57:12,719 --> 00:57:18,840
Speaker 2: it does is unbelievable. I mean, I'm surprised you're sitting

987
00:57:18,840 --> 00:57:21,840
Speaker 2: here telling me that the rest of your backyard is

988
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:26,360
Speaker 2: all still usable, big backyard over there, brother, No, it.

989
00:57:26,400 --> 00:57:27,840
Speaker 4: Is literally, like.

990
00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:33,400
Speaker 5: You know, it just is the effect of having something

991
00:57:33,520 --> 00:57:37,600
Speaker 5: happen that should never happen in a kid's mind, right, right,

992
00:57:37,720 --> 00:57:40,960
Speaker 5: Like as an adult you can be like, hey, you know,

993
00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:47,000
Speaker 5: things happen, but you can't rationalize with a child. No, hey,

994
00:57:47,360 --> 00:57:54,439
Speaker 5: sometimes cars crash through your backyard. I guess.

995
00:57:56,400 --> 00:58:00,200
Speaker 2: You're also giving me flashbacks to uh because I don't

996
00:58:00,200 --> 00:58:02,280
Speaker 2: know if you know this, Ephim, but when people are

997
00:58:02,280 --> 00:58:06,040
Speaker 2: in high school, they do stupid things. Yes, over and

998
00:58:06,080 --> 00:58:09,600
Speaker 2: over again. Most of just about everything they do is stupid.

999
00:58:09,240 --> 00:58:10,880
Speaker 4: In high school, non stop stupid.

1000
00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:14,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, just stupid everything. It's all stupid. Like if you're

1001
00:58:14,280 --> 00:58:16,240
Speaker 2: ever in high school and you're like, should I. The

1002
00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:19,720
Speaker 2: answer is no. It's always no, don't do it. I

1003
00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:22,000
Speaker 2: did it, I did it, everybody did it. Don't do it.

1004
00:58:22,040 --> 00:58:26,400
Speaker 2: The answer is always no. But a buddy mine, you know,

1005
00:58:27,320 --> 00:58:29,880
Speaker 2: like your brand new driver, and you want to show

1006
00:58:29,880 --> 00:58:33,360
Speaker 2: off everybody's car. And he just thought it would be funny.

1007
00:58:33,960 --> 00:58:36,240
Speaker 2: He thought it would be funny to just drive his

1008
00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:40,800
Speaker 2: car onto my front lawn. So he did it. Is

1009
00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:44,240
Speaker 2: it just drove it onto the front lawn. But the

1010
00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:46,920
Speaker 2: room that looks out on the front lawn, that was

1011
00:58:47,040 --> 00:58:50,240
Speaker 2: that's my dad's workroom. Oh no, yeah, my dad happened

1012
00:58:50,280 --> 00:58:53,800
Speaker 2: to be in the workroom when my friend made this decision.

1013
00:58:54,640 --> 00:59:02,080
Speaker 2: I've never ever and still haven't ever seen that man

1014
00:59:03,080 --> 00:59:05,800
Speaker 2: that angry ever.

1015
00:59:06,520 --> 00:59:08,160
Speaker 3: In my whole life.

1016
00:59:08,320 --> 00:59:10,720
Speaker 2: And he deserves a whole lot of credit because I

1017
00:59:10,760 --> 00:59:14,880
Speaker 2: was able to put up enough strength to stop him

1018
00:59:15,280 --> 00:59:18,040
Speaker 2: from going out there to strangle my friend.

1019
00:59:18,520 --> 00:59:20,560
Speaker 3: And I convinced him that I would handle it.

1020
00:59:21,960 --> 00:59:23,240
Speaker 4: Oh wow, I didn't worry.

1021
00:59:23,960 --> 00:59:32,120
Speaker 2: Oh dude, high school, like what sixteen seventeen, All right,

1022
00:59:32,200 --> 00:59:33,600
Speaker 2: Carter go there?

1023
00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:39,160
Speaker 3: The car the carteresn't go there, so anyway, so.

1024
00:59:39,160 --> 00:59:42,880
Speaker 2: Everybody's okay, though, Yeah, Well, how many months of Yeah,

1025
00:59:42,920 --> 00:59:45,240
Speaker 2: how many months of work do you have back there?

1026
00:59:46,840 --> 00:59:50,360
Speaker 5: I don't, man, I don't know what you know. I

1027
00:59:50,360 --> 00:59:52,880
Speaker 5: don't know what's about to happen. But I'm like, we

1028
00:59:52,920 --> 00:59:54,080
Speaker 5: still have a hole in that wall.

1029
00:59:54,880 --> 00:59:58,360
Speaker 3: Yes, I would imagine, I'm not that's good. Take a minute.

1030
00:59:59,040 --> 01:00:03,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, So whatever they think they're about to do, they

1031
01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:05,320
Speaker 5: need to hurry up because there's a hole in my wall.

1032
01:00:05,920 --> 01:00:08,560
Speaker 2: Nobody has like you haven't had a conversation with anybody who.

1033
01:00:10,160 --> 01:00:12,360
Speaker 5: Because she was there, so she got the information and

1034
01:00:12,400 --> 01:00:15,320
Speaker 5: they called her Friday like, hey, we're still trying to

1035
01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:20,280
Speaker 5: figure things out. And I'm like, no, that's not there's

1036
01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:22,280
Speaker 5: a hole. There's a hole in the wall. They put

1037
01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:26,080
Speaker 5: up some boards. I'm like, yeah, there is a hole

1038
01:00:26,120 --> 01:00:26,440
Speaker 5: in the wall.

1039
01:00:26,440 --> 01:00:28,040
Speaker 4: You could just come pull the board down.

1040
01:00:30,200 --> 01:00:35,520
Speaker 2: Are you Are you a litigious type?

1041
01:00:37,040 --> 01:00:37,160
Speaker 5: Uh?

1042
01:00:37,560 --> 01:00:44,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Well I said, I was wondering. You know,

1043
01:00:46,600 --> 01:00:48,840
Speaker 2: it feels like your sons might be going through some

1044
01:00:48,840 --> 01:00:50,160
Speaker 2: pain and suffering right now.

1045
01:00:50,520 --> 01:00:53,680
Speaker 4: All I'm telling you is it was not okay.

1046
01:00:55,080 --> 01:00:56,960
Speaker 3: So it doesn't sound okay.

1047
01:00:57,120 --> 01:01:00,320
Speaker 4: They didn't need that in their in theirs.

1048
01:01:01,040 --> 01:01:05,480
Speaker 3: No, No, you know what they need. I know what

1049
01:01:05,480 --> 01:01:05,919
Speaker 3: they need.

1050
01:01:05,960 --> 01:01:08,160
Speaker 5: I know what they need, and I know what we need.

1051
01:01:08,200 --> 01:01:11,760
Speaker 5: I'm gonna bring him home with me today. So his

1052
01:01:11,920 --> 01:01:18,800
Speaker 5: smooth voice consume consume some over anxious Uh, a pre

1053
01:01:19,240 --> 01:01:23,520
Speaker 5: pre teen and a teenager. That's one very smooth voiced

1054
01:01:24,840 --> 01:01:27,800
Speaker 5: voice of reason. Stephen to say.

1055
01:01:27,680 --> 01:01:30,320
Speaker 4: Here, Wow, I'm still a little upset after that, and

1056
01:01:30,400 --> 01:01:32,600
Speaker 4: I was not there. How about that?

1057
01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:37,120
Speaker 8: We did have audio rolling at Ephraim's house this weekend.

1058
01:01:40,400 --> 01:01:43,040
Speaker 5: You need the audio of a bomb dropping because my

1059
01:01:43,080 --> 01:01:45,680
Speaker 5: wife was like, it really felt like, Oh, this is

1060
01:01:45,720 --> 01:01:51,040
Speaker 5: the end of the world. There, it is there, it is.

1061
01:01:51,240 --> 01:01:54,360
Speaker 5: Look I laugh, so I don't so I don't right,

1062
01:01:54,400 --> 01:01:55,600
Speaker 5: I laugh, so I don't cry.

1063
01:01:56,360 --> 01:01:59,480
Speaker 4: Well, we ought to lead with NASCAR. Then after that story,

1064
01:01:59,560 --> 01:02:00,360
Speaker 4: right there you go.

1065
01:02:00,600 --> 01:02:03,640
Speaker 8: Christopher Bell in Atlanta was the overtime winner. His only

1066
01:02:03,720 --> 01:02:06,440
Speaker 8: lead was on the final lap. Is the last caution

1067
01:02:06,720 --> 01:02:09,320
Speaker 8: came he was in the lead? Race is his Next Sunday,

1068
01:02:09,360 --> 01:02:12,440
Speaker 8: It's a road course race at Austin, Texas on Fox TV.

1069
01:02:12,880 --> 01:02:16,360
Speaker 8: Colorado quarterback Shuduor Sanders will reportedly meet with teams at

1070
01:02:16,360 --> 01:02:19,240
Speaker 8: the combine, but not work out. The NFL scouting combines.

1071
01:02:19,320 --> 01:02:23,240
Speaker 8: Workout start Thursday, interviews begin Monday. This Saturday is the

1072
01:02:23,280 --> 01:02:27,080
Speaker 8: workouts for quarterbacks, running backs, and wide receivers. Alex Bragman

1073
01:02:27,120 --> 01:02:29,400
Speaker 8: had three hits in his spring debut with the Red Sox,

1074
01:02:29,440 --> 01:02:31,680
Speaker 8: including a homer Blue Jays for what it's worth one

1075
01:02:31,720 --> 01:02:34,800
Speaker 8: eight seven. Today, US women's soccer beat Australia two to

1076
01:02:34,880 --> 01:02:38,080
Speaker 8: one in Arizona. In the NBA, Boston won its fifth

1077
01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:40,560
Speaker 8: straight game down in New York one eighteen.

1078
01:02:40,240 --> 01:02:41,160
Speaker 4: To one oh five.

1079
01:02:41,600 --> 01:02:44,600
Speaker 8: New Orleans has just beaten San Antonio one fourteen to

1080
01:02:44,680 --> 01:02:47,320
Speaker 8: ninety six. For the Spurs, de Aaron Fox was three

1081
01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:50,720
Speaker 8: of sixteen shooting from the floor and teammate Chris Paul

1082
01:02:50,880 --> 01:02:54,640
Speaker 8: was one of ten. Those two teammates from three point range,

1083
01:02:54,680 --> 01:02:58,040
Speaker 8: where each one of seven Spurs go down to defeat.

1084
01:02:58,080 --> 01:03:00,640
Speaker 8: You may have heard the report from ESPN this weekend

1085
01:03:00,640 --> 01:03:04,120
Speaker 8: the coach Greg Popovich not expected to return this season

1086
01:03:04,160 --> 01:03:06,000
Speaker 8: after a mild stroke in November.

1087
01:03:06,160 --> 01:03:07,440
Speaker 4: The late game about to start.

1088
01:03:07,440 --> 01:03:09,919
Speaker 8: Oklahoma City, with a record at forty five and ten,

1089
01:03:10,560 --> 01:03:13,880
Speaker 8: is playing at Minnesota right now, Cleveland, which is forty

1090
01:03:13,920 --> 01:03:16,720
Speaker 8: six and ten, is leading at home with six minutes

1091
01:03:16,800 --> 01:03:19,680
Speaker 8: left against the Grizzlies one eight to ninety seven. Donovan

1092
01:03:19,720 --> 01:03:23,080
Speaker 8: Mitchell twenty seven points. Detroit won at six straight game one,

1093
01:03:23,200 --> 01:03:26,720
Speaker 8: forty eight to one forty three at Atlanta. Cade Cunningham

1094
01:03:26,800 --> 01:03:30,960
Speaker 8: thirty eight points and twelve assists Orlando sents Washington to

1095
01:03:31,040 --> 01:03:34,080
Speaker 8: a six straight loss one ten to ninety. Wizards record

1096
01:03:34,200 --> 01:03:37,880
Speaker 8: nine and forty seven home wins for Indiana and Toronto.

1097
01:03:37,960 --> 01:03:41,760
Speaker 8: Home victories for Milwaukee and Golden State as well. Philadelphia's

1098
01:03:41,840 --> 01:03:44,400
Speaker 8: Joel Embiide will have more tests on his knee this week.

1099
01:03:44,440 --> 01:03:47,760
Speaker 8: He's questionable for Monday. Than college hoops, only a couple

1100
01:03:47,800 --> 01:03:50,280
Speaker 8: weeks left in the men's regular season, Number ten Saint

1101
01:03:50,360 --> 01:03:54,120
Speaker 8: John's won again, beating Yukon eighty nine seventy five. Indiana

1102
01:03:54,160 --> 01:03:57,400
Speaker 8: upset thirteenth rank Produce seventy three fifty eight, and in

1103
01:03:57,440 --> 01:04:01,400
Speaker 8: women's basketball, number one Notre Dame law in double overtime

1104
01:04:01,440 --> 01:04:04,600
Speaker 8: at number thirteen NC State one o four to ninety five.

1105
01:04:04,680 --> 01:04:07,840
Speaker 8: The Irish had won nineteen straight to the NHL. Among

1106
01:04:07,880 --> 01:04:11,200
Speaker 8: the ten games, Alex Ovechkin had three more goals Washington

1107
01:04:11,200 --> 01:04:14,520
Speaker 8: a seven to three winner against Edmonton. Ovechkin needs just

1108
01:04:14,600 --> 01:04:18,480
Speaker 8: thirteen goals to break the career record. The New York

1109
01:04:18,560 --> 01:04:21,520
Speaker 8: Yankees say they will no longer be playing New York

1110
01:04:21,560 --> 01:04:25,680
Speaker 8: New York By Frank Sinatra after a loss, just after

1111
01:04:25,840 --> 01:04:30,000
Speaker 8: victories after losses, as people exit Yankee Stadium and at

1112
01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:33,520
Speaker 8: their spring training site. If it's an l it'll be

1113
01:04:33,600 --> 01:04:37,760
Speaker 8: a part of the rotating selection of Sinatra songs. And

1114
01:04:37,840 --> 01:04:40,800
Speaker 8: there is the word on the dynamic kickoff that the

1115
01:04:40,920 --> 01:04:43,840
Speaker 8: NFL tried this past year. Pro Football Talk for One

1116
01:04:44,000 --> 01:04:47,360
Speaker 8: talked to the chairman of the NFL's Competition Committee, Falcon

1117
01:04:47,480 --> 01:04:50,960
Speaker 8: CEO Rich McKay about this. Now, reading between the lines,

1118
01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:54,680
Speaker 8: the NFL probably concluded this was not as dynamic as

1119
01:04:54,680 --> 01:04:57,560
Speaker 8: they hoped for this past year because teams as the

1120
01:04:57,560 --> 01:05:00,680
Speaker 8: season went along were quite okay with kick and gets

1121
01:05:00,680 --> 01:05:03,080
Speaker 8: straight into the end zone, not having a return. Who

1122
01:05:03,080 --> 01:05:04,640
Speaker 8: cares if you bring it out to what is it

1123
01:05:04,760 --> 01:05:08,640
Speaker 8: the thirty nows? They will discuss the committee maybe giving

1124
01:05:08,680 --> 01:05:12,120
Speaker 8: teams possession at the thirty five to try and ensure

1125
01:05:12,200 --> 01:05:14,720
Speaker 8: that we get a few more returns, or maybe do

1126
01:05:14,760 --> 01:05:17,720
Speaker 8: we have to kick off from a little farther back.

1127
01:05:17,800 --> 01:05:20,640
Speaker 8: But they did say lower injury rate on kickoff last

1128
01:05:20,680 --> 01:05:24,320
Speaker 8: year and over fifty percent rise in returns compared to

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01:05:24,360 --> 01:05:28,320
Speaker 8: what we had before. Any changes need approval of NFL owners.

1130
01:05:28,360 --> 01:05:31,080
Speaker 8: Twenty four of the thirty two Rich McKay says he

1131
01:05:31,160 --> 01:05:34,000
Speaker 8: thinks many proposals on this would be ready for the

1132
01:05:34,080 --> 01:05:35,160
Speaker 8: league meetings in March.

1133
01:05:35,200 --> 01:05:38,960
Speaker 3: Back to you, Okay, Steve, really really good stuff.

1134
01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:43,120
Speaker 2: Appreciate it as as always that music that we brought

1135
01:05:43,160 --> 01:05:46,760
Speaker 2: Steve in with, though I don't I don't, like I'm

1136
01:05:46,840 --> 01:05:48,040
Speaker 2: just imagining put them.

1137
01:05:48,480 --> 01:05:49,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's that.

1138
01:05:49,440 --> 01:05:52,000
Speaker 2: But like we were talking about having him come over

1139
01:05:52,080 --> 01:05:53,840
Speaker 2: and comfort your sons.

1140
01:05:54,280 --> 01:05:55,000
Speaker 4: No, not gooding.

1141
01:05:55,040 --> 01:05:57,960
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, just like give him the earbuds and

1142
01:05:58,000 --> 01:05:59,600
Speaker 3: give did you do? Did you do? Like?

1143
01:05:59,800 --> 01:06:05,160
Speaker 2: That's fine, that's fine, that's fine, and that makes every

1144
01:06:05,160 --> 01:06:06,439
Speaker 2: sports fan feel better.

1145
01:06:06,520 --> 01:06:07,479
Speaker 3: Right when you hear that.

1146
01:06:09,120 --> 01:06:11,520
Speaker 8: In the title of that song, a little careless driving

1147
01:06:11,600 --> 01:06:12,080
Speaker 8: going out.

1148
01:06:11,960 --> 01:06:14,800
Speaker 3: That's true. That's that's a good point.

1149
01:06:15,600 --> 01:06:26,760
Speaker 5: There you go. Wow, Graf, keep on life and right it.

1150
01:06:26,880 --> 01:06:30,720
Speaker 2: Sure is as soon as you think it won't. The

1151
01:06:30,840 --> 01:06:32,479
Speaker 2: show does it? Show does?

1152
01:06:35,400 --> 01:06:35,840
Speaker 3: Why do?

1153
01:06:36,200 --> 01:06:38,640
Speaker 2: Why do you have all of that at your fingertips?

1154
01:06:39,240 --> 01:06:39,880
Speaker 2: Is the question?

1155
01:06:41,080 --> 01:06:43,919
Speaker 3: But they do? They do? All right?

1156
01:06:44,120 --> 01:06:48,880
Speaker 2: Uh? TYREQ dot com Studios, Mark Willard Ephram Salam with you.

1157
01:06:49,800 --> 01:06:51,520
Speaker 2: We're gonna get back to the NBA in a little bit.

1158
01:06:51,560 --> 01:06:53,280
Speaker 2: I did want to ask you a couple of things. Hey,

1159
01:06:53,600 --> 01:06:57,200
Speaker 2: you think Travis Kelcey is going to retire and and

1160
01:06:57,240 --> 01:06:58,720
Speaker 2: then I have another question about it.

1161
01:06:58,720 --> 01:07:00,280
Speaker 3: But but give me that one fart.

1162
01:07:01,080 --> 01:07:05,200
Speaker 5: No, no, no, I don't think so, why not?

1163
01:07:06,960 --> 01:07:09,120
Speaker 4: I think he's got one more in him?

1164
01:07:09,760 --> 01:07:11,640
Speaker 3: Okay, what makes you think that?

1165
01:07:12,000 --> 01:07:15,880
Speaker 4: I don't think he wants to go out like that?

1166
01:07:19,720 --> 01:07:25,120
Speaker 2: Okay, I get that.

1167
01:07:23,680 --> 01:07:25,240
Speaker 4: That's that's a tough way to go out.

1168
01:07:25,720 --> 01:07:30,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean, like that's very highly likely that

1169
01:07:30,440 --> 01:07:33,120
Speaker 2: that's the way he's gonna go out if he comes back,

1170
01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:36,360
Speaker 2: Like you don't just get to win your last game

1171
01:07:36,400 --> 01:07:37,000
Speaker 2: all the time.

1172
01:07:38,880 --> 01:07:41,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I don't know if he's ready to

1173
01:07:41,480 --> 01:07:48,520
Speaker 5: just be on tour with Taylor Swift. Okay, right, like

1174
01:07:48,680 --> 01:07:56,040
Speaker 5: you find yourself really like you're on tour with Taylor Swift.

1175
01:07:57,880 --> 01:07:59,400
Speaker 2: Well, she might not be going on tour for a

1176
01:07:59,400 --> 01:08:02,640
Speaker 2: little while now, so they can hang out for a

1177
01:08:02,640 --> 01:08:03,120
Speaker 2: little while.

1178
01:08:03,200 --> 01:08:04,400
Speaker 4: Yeah. Where they gonna hang out at?

1179
01:08:04,840 --> 01:08:06,080
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know.

1180
01:08:06,640 --> 01:08:09,560
Speaker 2: I just like, again, I've said this, when you start

1181
01:08:09,600 --> 01:08:12,520
Speaker 2: talking about stuff publicly, I feel like you're already seventy

1182
01:08:12,520 --> 01:08:13,640
Speaker 2: five percent of the way they are.

1183
01:08:13,840 --> 01:08:18,800
Speaker 5: That's true, you know, so, like it normally happens for

1184
01:08:19,000 --> 01:08:25,000
Speaker 5: NFL players, like you start talking about it, and then

1185
01:08:25,960 --> 01:08:32,599
Speaker 5: you play, and then it happens. It never goes. You

1186
01:08:32,640 --> 01:08:36,120
Speaker 5: start talking about it and you do it. So there's

1187
01:08:36,160 --> 01:08:44,080
Speaker 5: always like, uh, there's always like a like a lead

1188
01:08:44,200 --> 01:08:51,160
Speaker 5: up to it, right, Yeah. Remember Jason Kelsey right like

1189
01:08:51,840 --> 01:08:53,360
Speaker 5: they were like are you coming back from where? He

1190
01:08:53,439 --> 01:08:54,439
Speaker 5: was like, oh, you know, I got to look at

1191
01:08:54,439 --> 01:08:56,000
Speaker 5: things and look at things, look at things. He played

1192
01:08:56,040 --> 01:08:58,920
Speaker 5: that last year and then and then that's what happened.

1193
01:08:59,400 --> 01:09:01,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, I get it, Like you're gonna you're sort

1194
01:09:01,360 --> 01:09:03,200
Speaker 2: of running a little test to see if you're gonna

1195
01:09:03,200 --> 01:09:03,519
Speaker 2: miss it.

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01:09:03,800 --> 01:09:04,320
Speaker 4: Yeah.

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01:09:04,720 --> 01:09:12,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like you're in a situation where you're like, do

1198
01:09:12,280 --> 01:09:13,679
Speaker 5: I really want to do this again?

1199
01:09:15,320 --> 01:09:17,960
Speaker 4: Do I really want to make this happen well?

1200
01:09:18,520 --> 01:09:22,080
Speaker 3: And real talk like what do you think the Chiefs

1201
01:09:22,080 --> 01:09:24,360
Speaker 3: are going to be next year? Better or worse?

1202
01:09:26,120 --> 01:09:31,479
Speaker 5: I think I think they'll be I think they'll be better.

1203
01:09:32,400 --> 01:09:35,479
Speaker 5: Really I do. I think they'll be better because based

1204
01:09:35,560 --> 01:09:38,719
Speaker 5: on what based on You gotta realize it's a real

1205
01:09:40,120 --> 01:09:44,160
Speaker 5: well run organization. Sure, this isn't a one off. It

1206
01:09:44,280 --> 01:09:46,120
Speaker 5: got there and then all of a sudden they fell apart.

1207
01:09:46,280 --> 01:09:49,120
Speaker 5: They still have the best quarterback in the league, maybe

1208
01:09:49,200 --> 01:09:51,720
Speaker 5: best quarterback ever We'll see how that thing shakes out.

1209
01:09:51,960 --> 01:09:56,640
Speaker 5: They still have Andy Reid, they still have spags, So like,

1210
01:09:57,640 --> 01:09:59,679
Speaker 5: this isn't a cupboardist bear situation.

1211
01:10:00,040 --> 01:10:03,240
Speaker 2: Oh but it also felt like they got every break

1212
01:10:03,280 --> 01:10:04,599
Speaker 2: in the world this year.

1213
01:10:04,760 --> 01:10:05,799
Speaker 4: I know they won't get.

1214
01:10:05,760 --> 01:10:07,840
Speaker 3: So you're gonna get You're gonna get them again.

1215
01:10:08,080 --> 01:10:11,520
Speaker 5: No, but you what you will do is it'll it'll

1216
01:10:11,520 --> 01:10:14,719
Speaker 5: It'll make you bolster the things you needed to bolster.

1217
01:10:15,280 --> 01:10:15,559
Speaker 4: Like it.

1218
01:10:15,760 --> 01:10:19,479
Speaker 5: They're going to get a better offensive line. They're going

1219
01:10:19,479 --> 01:10:21,920
Speaker 5: to go get a left tackle. Right, you can't put

1220
01:10:22,040 --> 01:10:25,280
Speaker 5: Joe Toney out there, who's an All Pro guard and say, hey, man,

1221
01:10:25,720 --> 01:10:28,200
Speaker 5: protect us from the wolves on the edge. There are

1222
01:10:28,200 --> 01:10:31,760
Speaker 5: two different positions for a reason, and so there are

1223
01:10:31,840 --> 01:10:34,200
Speaker 5: things that they're going to address.

1224
01:10:34,479 --> 01:10:34,679
Speaker 4: Right.

1225
01:10:34,840 --> 01:10:37,920
Speaker 5: They will have Prochecco. He will be healthy the entire season.

1226
01:10:37,920 --> 01:10:41,439
Speaker 5: Hopefully they will go get another receiver. They're going to

1227
01:10:41,640 --> 01:10:45,639
Speaker 5: do things, maybe an edge rusher there. They have the ability,

1228
01:10:45,720 --> 01:10:49,839
Speaker 5: because they're a well run organization to fix the holes,

1229
01:10:49,880 --> 01:10:53,719
Speaker 5: and they they can identify the holes. So many times

1230
01:10:53,760 --> 01:10:56,400
Speaker 5: you have teams that don't really know what to identify

1231
01:10:56,439 --> 01:11:00,160
Speaker 5: and what to do. You're in a situation where off

1232
01:11:00,240 --> 01:11:03,200
Speaker 5: season happens you don't really address what you needed to address,

1233
01:11:03,439 --> 01:11:05,479
Speaker 5: and then you find yourselves in a certain type of

1234
01:11:05,520 --> 01:11:10,400
Speaker 5: same situations, you know, the next season. I don't see

1235
01:11:10,400 --> 01:11:13,320
Speaker 5: them as one of those type of franchises, Okay.

1236
01:11:13,200 --> 01:11:16,160
Speaker 2: I mean that's fair obviously, nothing but respect for them

1237
01:11:16,160 --> 01:11:19,320
Speaker 2: as an organization. It just felt like you're not going

1238
01:11:19,400 --> 01:11:22,840
Speaker 2: to get those breaks again. But sure they've got time

1239
01:11:22,880 --> 01:11:26,160
Speaker 2: to adjust those things get healthy in certain spots. I

1240
01:11:26,280 --> 01:11:28,960
Speaker 2: was sure to ask you if you thought he would retire,

1241
01:11:29,120 --> 01:11:33,920
Speaker 2: not if you thought he should retire. Well, to me,

1242
01:11:34,120 --> 01:11:36,599
Speaker 2: one of the oddest things that we ever do in

1243
01:11:36,640 --> 01:11:40,800
Speaker 2: sports media is render opinions on whether or not someone

1244
01:11:40,840 --> 01:11:41,639
Speaker 2: should retire.

1245
01:11:42,080 --> 01:11:44,839
Speaker 4: That's true. I think that's the strangest.

1246
01:11:44,160 --> 01:11:47,800
Speaker 3: Thing in the world. Like, if someone offers you a job,

1247
01:11:47,840 --> 01:11:48,240
Speaker 3: take it.

1248
01:11:48,560 --> 01:11:51,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like, I don't.

1249
01:11:50,800 --> 01:11:52,800
Speaker 3: Care if you're not as good as you used to

1250
01:11:52,800 --> 01:11:53,960
Speaker 3: be for me.

1251
01:11:54,560 --> 01:11:57,639
Speaker 4: For me, it's his. If the love for the sport

1252
01:11:57,720 --> 01:11:58,960
Speaker 4: is still there once that's.

1253
01:11:58,800 --> 01:12:02,200
Speaker 3: Gone, go yep. So yeah, Like, if you don't want

1254
01:12:02,280 --> 01:12:03,120
Speaker 3: to play, don't play.

1255
01:12:03,200 --> 01:12:05,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, if you don't want to do what it takes

1256
01:12:05,200 --> 01:12:08,280
Speaker 5: to be able to play, don't play. That's where you

1257
01:12:08,320 --> 01:12:11,519
Speaker 5: get older guys, especially guys Hall of Fame guys who

1258
01:12:11,600 --> 01:12:15,000
Speaker 5: find themselves like I'm not willing to pay that price anymore,

1259
01:12:15,240 --> 01:12:17,120
Speaker 5: and they're not going to short change the game.

1260
01:12:17,600 --> 01:12:22,439
Speaker 2: Yep, there's another guy that we know wants to play,

1261
01:12:22,520 --> 01:12:25,800
Speaker 2: But does his team want him to play for them anymore?

1262
01:12:26,320 --> 01:12:28,639
Speaker 3: Is the question that we're all dealing with. So let's

1263
01:12:28,640 --> 01:12:29,280
Speaker 3: talk about that.

1264
01:12:29,680 --> 01:12:32,200
Speaker 2: Coming up next with me from Salama, Mark Wellard, Fox

1265
01:12:32,200 --> 01:12:41,920
Speaker 2: Sports Radio, Okay Live, TYRN dot Com Studios. Look, I

1266
01:12:41,960 --> 01:12:45,360
Speaker 2: don't really claim to be some sort of a salary

1267
01:12:45,439 --> 01:12:53,920
Speaker 2: cap expert. I don't run a team.

1268
01:12:51,280 --> 01:12:56,639
Speaker 3: But my layman's physition if I were in charge of.

1269
01:12:56,600 --> 01:13:01,479
Speaker 2: An NFL team, would be this, get a quarterback as

1270
01:13:01,520 --> 01:13:04,880
Speaker 2: soon as you can hold on to him as long

1271
01:13:04,920 --> 01:13:05,519
Speaker 2: as you can.

1272
01:13:05,600 --> 01:13:08,479
Speaker 3: When you do, that's it. That's my motto.

1273
01:13:09,640 --> 01:13:14,640
Speaker 2: Find a QB, keep a QB period. Why are the

1274
01:13:14,760 --> 01:13:16,360
Speaker 2: Rams messing around.

1275
01:13:17,960 --> 01:13:18,080
Speaker 3: Like?

1276
01:13:18,520 --> 01:13:21,880
Speaker 2: He's still playing very very well Matt Stafford. For those

1277
01:13:21,880 --> 01:13:25,559
Speaker 2: who don't know, like what I understand, the idea is

1278
01:13:26,160 --> 01:13:29,920
Speaker 2: go find your market value so that maybe we can

1279
01:13:30,880 --> 01:13:37,120
Speaker 2: keep you. But to me, this is some serious, serious

1280
01:13:37,200 --> 01:13:41,040
Speaker 2: Russian roulette. When you have a late first round draft

1281
01:13:41,040 --> 01:13:45,920
Speaker 2: pick and absolutely no sniff of another.

1282
01:13:45,600 --> 01:13:47,639
Speaker 3: Option in the building, that's crazy.

1283
01:13:47,680 --> 01:13:53,439
Speaker 5: To me, Yeah, I don't know what they're trying to

1284
01:13:56,320 --> 01:14:02,360
Speaker 5: like what they're trying to do. I don't know if

1285
01:14:02,400 --> 01:14:07,880
Speaker 5: they want to move on if it just doesn't make

1286
01:14:07,920 --> 01:14:12,679
Speaker 5: any sense to me in terms of you have one

1287
01:14:12,720 --> 01:14:18,000
Speaker 5: in house, he's won a Super Bowl, he's one of

1288
01:14:18,520 --> 01:14:23,479
Speaker 5: the handful of elite quarterback throwers of the football, and

1289
01:14:23,520 --> 01:14:26,400
Speaker 5: he's tough as nails. Other than that, I don't know

1290
01:14:26,439 --> 01:14:28,439
Speaker 5: what you're looking for and where you're gonna find it.

1291
01:14:29,880 --> 01:14:32,120
Speaker 3: I don't get it. I don't get it.

1292
01:14:34,000 --> 01:14:39,200
Speaker 5: Are you trying to rebuild? Well, no, Matthew Stafford, no,

1293
01:14:39,320 --> 01:14:44,439
Speaker 5: Cooper Cup. What are we doing well? They must be,

1294
01:14:44,840 --> 01:14:47,360
Speaker 5: they must be. My read on it is they must

1295
01:14:47,439 --> 01:14:53,880
Speaker 5: be preparing for something financially. They're letting Cooper Cup know

1296
01:14:53,960 --> 01:14:55,679
Speaker 5: that that he's out.

1297
01:14:56,640 --> 01:15:02,760
Speaker 2: They're sort of signaling to Matt Stafford, we need a restructure.

1298
01:15:03,880 --> 01:15:05,240
Speaker 3: Matt probably goes.

1299
01:15:05,560 --> 01:15:10,760
Speaker 2: Nope, I'm good, and then they say, Okay, you want

1300
01:15:10,800 --> 01:15:14,479
Speaker 2: us to do something that's fair, Why don't you go

1301
01:15:14,520 --> 01:15:17,680
Speaker 2: out in the world and find out what's fair? And

1302
01:15:17,760 --> 01:15:21,120
Speaker 2: maybe that leads to a resolution. I think more likely

1303
01:15:21,160 --> 01:15:27,840
Speaker 2: it leads to hurt feelings and not a resolution, And

1304
01:15:27,880 --> 01:15:32,360
Speaker 2: then what are you doing? Just an odd play at

1305
01:15:32,400 --> 01:15:37,320
Speaker 2: an odd time in that division where the forty nine

1306
01:15:37,439 --> 01:15:43,240
Speaker 2: ers came in with such an unbelievably disappointing season. So

1307
01:15:43,800 --> 01:15:49,360
Speaker 2: and therefore there's question marks there. Purdy's going to get

1308
01:15:49,360 --> 01:15:51,400
Speaker 2: a new contract, Debo is going to be on the

1309
01:15:51,439 --> 01:15:54,240
Speaker 2: way out the door. Can they reboot and figure it out?

1310
01:15:54,320 --> 01:16:02,120
Speaker 2: And everything else feels very mediocre and attainable. So why

1311
01:16:02,160 --> 01:16:07,080
Speaker 2: would you mess around with this now, especially when you're

1312
01:16:07,120 --> 01:16:09,400
Speaker 2: not in position to do anything about it in the

1313
01:16:09,479 --> 01:16:14,160
Speaker 2: draft And there's not really anything on the open market

1314
01:16:14,200 --> 01:16:17,160
Speaker 2: exciting either, unless they want to go get Sam Darnold

1315
01:16:17,200 --> 01:16:18,200
Speaker 2: and have him play there.

1316
01:16:20,040 --> 01:16:21,320
Speaker 3: I don't bring Sam home.

1317
01:16:21,439 --> 01:16:24,360
Speaker 4: You want to bring Sam home over Matthew Stafford.

1318
01:16:24,640 --> 01:16:25,600
Speaker 3: No, not me.

1319
01:16:26,360 --> 01:16:30,959
Speaker 4: You're trying to bring Aaron Rodgers in over Matthew Stafford.

1320
01:16:31,400 --> 01:16:35,080
Speaker 2: No, No, he's playing really well.

1321
01:16:36,920 --> 01:16:37,880
Speaker 4: He's not the reason.

1322
01:16:38,479 --> 01:16:39,679
Speaker 3: No.

1323
01:16:39,680 --> 01:16:39,880
Speaker 4: No.

1324
01:16:40,160 --> 01:16:45,080
Speaker 5: And they were thirteen yards away from us having another conversation.

1325
01:16:46,680 --> 01:16:46,960
Speaker 3: Yep.

1326
01:16:49,960 --> 01:16:54,960
Speaker 4: So yeah, you know, I don't know what's going on.

1327
01:16:58,080 --> 01:17:00,200
Speaker 5: Maybe they're like, hey, go test the waters with to

1328
01:17:00,200 --> 01:17:01,479
Speaker 5: show you there's nothing out there.

1329
01:17:01,640 --> 01:17:02,960
Speaker 4: Oh, but there's something out there.

1330
01:17:02,840 --> 01:17:07,599
Speaker 2: Now, for sure, there is if it. Look, if there's

1331
01:17:07,640 --> 01:17:10,759
Speaker 2: a team that wants Aaron Rodgers. Then there are teams

1332
01:17:10,760 --> 01:17:14,320
Speaker 2: that want Matt Stafford.

1333
01:17:12,160 --> 01:17:17,080
Speaker 4: Right, Oh yeah, I don't.

1334
01:17:16,920 --> 01:17:20,280
Speaker 2: Know if anybody does want Aaron Rodgers, but you know,

1335
01:17:20,640 --> 01:17:27,760
Speaker 2: it's it certainly seems possible that that, whether it's as

1336
01:17:27,760 --> 01:17:32,000
Speaker 2: a placeholder or or what have you. But like you

1337
01:17:32,040 --> 01:17:35,559
Speaker 2: get airon that feels like you're getting one year. If

1338
01:17:35,560 --> 01:17:38,840
Speaker 2: you want to do Matt Stafford, you might have a

1339
01:17:38,880 --> 01:17:40,280
Speaker 2: few years.

1340
01:17:42,360 --> 01:17:42,719
Speaker 3: Gosh.

1341
01:17:42,720 --> 01:17:45,400
Speaker 2: I like, I look at the list of teams right now,

1342
01:17:45,520 --> 01:17:48,679
Speaker 2: and I there are so many teams that I think

1343
01:17:48,840 --> 01:17:52,600
Speaker 2: all of a sudden vault into a really interesting situation

1344
01:17:53,360 --> 01:17:56,599
Speaker 2: if suddenly he were to be their quarterback. I don't

1345
01:17:56,640 --> 01:17:59,360
Speaker 2: know what the Saints are doing with Derek Carr. Give

1346
01:17:59,439 --> 01:18:05,400
Speaker 2: them Matt's Afford lookout. If I'm the New York Giants,

1347
01:18:06,040 --> 01:18:09,640
Speaker 2: I'd love to draft someone and put Matt Stafford with

1348
01:18:09,720 --> 01:18:14,320
Speaker 2: him for a year. Don't know if Matt's interested in that,

1349
01:18:14,400 --> 01:18:17,320
Speaker 2: But hell, you can go to the AFC South and

1350
01:18:17,960 --> 01:18:22,000
Speaker 2: Colts and Titans and Raiders, and I mean there are

1351
01:18:22,000 --> 01:18:24,960
Speaker 2: a lot of teams that get real interesting, real fast

1352
01:18:25,080 --> 01:18:26,559
Speaker 2: if you were to plug and play there.

1353
01:18:27,040 --> 01:18:30,120
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1354
01:18:30,280 --> 01:18:33,400
Speaker 5: What the Rams don't want to do is do something

1355
01:18:33,479 --> 01:18:39,320
Speaker 5: like this and be on the outside looking in. Maybe

1356
01:18:39,360 --> 01:18:44,960
Speaker 5: Sean mcvayh wants to go be married and chill, so

1357
01:18:45,000 --> 01:18:49,040
Speaker 5: he's going to start the rebuild for him. Ah, it's

1358
01:18:49,080 --> 01:18:51,320
Speaker 5: hard to rebuild when you don't have draft position.

1359
01:18:55,080 --> 01:18:56,040
Speaker 4: That's not what you want.

1360
01:18:56,760 --> 01:19:01,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I like to me that one, that one,

1361
01:19:01,200 --> 01:19:05,519
Speaker 2: that one, just like I keep seeing this, the rumor

1362
01:19:05,600 --> 01:19:08,200
Speaker 2: keeps building and building, and I keep seeing it, and

1363
01:19:08,240 --> 01:19:10,240
Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't understand it, and now I really

1364
01:19:10,320 --> 01:19:11,800
Speaker 2: don't understand it, and I just.

1365
01:19:13,240 --> 01:19:15,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've settled on. I don't understand it.

1366
01:19:18,120 --> 01:19:21,759
Speaker 5: No, you got to hold on to him. Man, Well,

1367
01:19:22,200 --> 01:19:23,560
Speaker 5: that's ridiculous.

1368
01:19:24,920 --> 01:19:27,400
Speaker 2: We'll see how that one plays out. But that's that

1369
01:19:27,439 --> 01:19:30,639
Speaker 2: one is swirling big time. Mark wellard E from Salam

1370
01:19:30,640 --> 01:19:33,960
Speaker 2: Glad you're with us. Well, we'll get back over to

1371
01:19:34,280 --> 01:19:39,400
Speaker 2: the NBA how the Western Conference gets rebooted with Wimbin

1372
01:19:39,479 --> 01:19:40,240
Speaker 2: Yama out.

1373
01:19:40,840 --> 01:19:44,200
Speaker 3: Fox on the Move, Luca on the Move.

1374
01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:47,800
Speaker 2: We'll set all that up coming up next on Fox

1375
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1376
01:19:50,320 --> 01:19:53,040
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1377
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Speaker 3: The way tired buying should be.

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Speaker 2: It kind of landed with an NBA thud, almost like

1384
01:20:15,240 --> 01:20:18,080
Speaker 2: I don't know, like a car driving into your backyard

1385
01:20:18,640 --> 01:20:22,320
Speaker 2: earlier this week, when all of a sudden it was like, hey,

1386
01:20:22,920 --> 01:20:25,760
Speaker 2: Victor Webbinyama is out for the year, and you're like,

1387
01:20:25,920 --> 01:20:29,519
Speaker 2: whoa where did this come from? Not a huge tremor,

1388
01:20:29,560 --> 01:20:31,400
Speaker 2: because it's not like the Spurs were going to go

1389
01:20:31,439 --> 01:20:34,439
Speaker 2: win the NBA title, but they were an interesting squad

1390
01:20:35,040 --> 01:20:38,880
Speaker 2: that some people thought could really like work their way

1391
01:20:38,960 --> 01:20:42,360
Speaker 2: maybe into the play in tournament, especially with the acquisition

1392
01:20:42,439 --> 01:20:45,800
Speaker 2: of Dearn Fox. But here's what I'll now say about it.

1393
01:20:47,200 --> 01:20:49,760
Speaker 2: I'm not a doctor, therefore, I don't know if there's

1394
01:20:49,880 --> 01:20:55,360
Speaker 2: actual concern long term or not for Wembinyama. But I

1395
01:20:55,520 --> 01:20:59,360
Speaker 2: like basketball a lot, and so I'll say this, watch out,

1396
01:21:00,320 --> 01:21:04,240
Speaker 2: watch out, because if this is fine, just like it

1397
01:21:04,320 --> 01:21:07,800
Speaker 2: was for brandon Ingram and Victor comes back and he

1398
01:21:07,920 --> 01:21:11,360
Speaker 2: manages this, and de Aaron Fox is now on the squad,

1399
01:21:12,040 --> 01:21:14,439
Speaker 2: and this kid that they got at number four overall

1400
01:21:14,479 --> 01:21:16,760
Speaker 2: who probably should have won the Dunk Contest because he's

1401
01:21:16,760 --> 01:21:18,960
Speaker 2: an actual NBA player, Stefan Castle.

1402
01:21:20,320 --> 01:21:23,200
Speaker 3: And if you now start moving.

1403
01:21:22,960 --> 01:21:28,280
Speaker 2: That team into the lottery and something goes right with

1404
01:21:28,439 --> 01:21:36,040
Speaker 2: ping pong balls, watch out for this basketball team in

1405
01:21:36,120 --> 01:21:37,120
Speaker 2: a couple of years.

1406
01:21:37,640 --> 01:21:40,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, who's going to be that number one pick this year?

1407
01:21:40,600 --> 01:21:52,720
Speaker 9: It would be Cooper Flag, Cooper Flagaron Fox, Victor Woodman, Castle.

1408
01:21:53,000 --> 01:21:59,040
Speaker 2: And Stefan Castle. Yes, yeah, miseelle, yep, yeah, no, they

1409
01:21:59,080 --> 01:22:01,200
Speaker 2: got they got played. Man, they're coming. A lot of

1410
01:22:01,240 --> 01:22:05,439
Speaker 2: people haven't heard of them. But you know, I like

1411
01:22:05,479 --> 01:22:07,800
Speaker 2: to your point, it's funny. I started watching them a

1412
01:22:07,800 --> 01:22:10,880
Speaker 2: lot closer when Dearon went there, and I've been thinking

1413
01:22:10,920 --> 01:22:14,000
Speaker 2: about what you said a month ago, with the way

1414
01:22:14,000 --> 01:22:14,679
Speaker 2: that Victor.

1415
01:22:14,479 --> 01:22:18,639
Speaker 3: Wiman Yamas just out there firing threes. Yep, man, you're

1416
01:22:18,720 --> 01:22:19,200
Speaker 3: spot on.

1417
01:22:19,680 --> 01:22:23,000
Speaker 2: It's just like I'm still trying to gather who this

1418
01:22:23,200 --> 01:22:28,120
Speaker 2: kid is. I get how uber talented he is, but like,

1419
01:22:28,280 --> 01:22:34,240
Speaker 2: what define your offensive approach? You know, if you're Victor,

1420
01:22:34,960 --> 01:22:38,760
Speaker 2: I'm still waiting to see that. He's very young, so

1421
01:22:38,840 --> 01:22:42,559
Speaker 2: he's got plenty of time to define that. But if

1422
01:22:42,560 --> 01:22:46,880
Speaker 2: he does and that gets figured out, and then you

1423
01:22:46,960 --> 01:22:49,040
Speaker 2: got all those other players that we just talked about

1424
01:22:49,040 --> 01:22:50,600
Speaker 2: and who knows what else.

1425
01:22:52,280 --> 01:22:53,959
Speaker 3: They could be a problem.

1426
01:22:54,320 --> 01:22:57,759
Speaker 5: Yeah, they could, Like if they could just teach him,

1427
01:22:57,800 --> 01:23:00,839
Speaker 5: like if he doesn't want to be a convince big

1428
01:23:01,000 --> 01:23:03,679
Speaker 5: with his back to the basket, down at the box,

1429
01:23:04,360 --> 01:23:06,599
Speaker 5: if they can just get him in the high post,

1430
01:23:08,280 --> 01:23:11,879
Speaker 5: because as he turns, that's a short fifteen foot jump shot.

1431
01:23:12,160 --> 01:23:14,360
Speaker 5: If he puts the ball on the ground one time,

1432
01:23:14,400 --> 01:23:19,040
Speaker 5: it's a dunk, right, Like, So there's ways to get

1433
01:23:19,120 --> 01:23:23,639
Speaker 5: him more acclimated to where you can actually have him

1434
01:23:23,680 --> 01:23:29,760
Speaker 5: be more productive. Victor winbin Yama as someone no one

1435
01:23:29,800 --> 01:23:38,000
Speaker 5: can guard. Shooting sixteen threes is a travesty. It has

1436
01:23:38,240 --> 01:23:42,080
Speaker 5: got to be awful. And I don't care if he

1437
01:23:42,160 --> 01:23:48,120
Speaker 5: makes five of them, right because the eleven misses could

1438
01:23:48,120 --> 01:23:50,840
Speaker 5: have come inside the paint, and I can promise you

1439
01:23:52,200 --> 01:23:56,080
Speaker 5: he makes eight out of those eleven. It's just a

1440
01:23:56,200 --> 01:23:59,040
Speaker 5: numbers game. You can analytics, you can do whatever you want.

1441
01:23:59,600 --> 01:24:05,080
Speaker 5: I want wonder what the analytics say about a seven?

1442
01:24:05,360 --> 01:24:11,240
Speaker 4: What is he seven? Five? Twenty twenty year old oh

1443
01:24:11,320 --> 01:24:13,040
Speaker 4: man would.

1444
01:24:12,920 --> 01:24:18,760
Speaker 5: A nice touch? What the analytics say? What's his best shot?

1445
01:24:19,120 --> 01:24:21,360
Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure it won't be a three pointer?

1446
01:24:21,880 --> 01:24:26,160
Speaker 2: No, Well, there's also something that I'm just speaking to

1447
01:24:26,200 --> 01:24:29,759
Speaker 2: the fan experience now, because I can look around.

1448
01:24:29,560 --> 01:24:31,120
Speaker 3: The league and there's a few of them.

1449
01:24:31,840 --> 01:24:37,000
Speaker 2: It's guys that when they shoot threes, you immediately go, dude,

1450
01:24:37,040 --> 01:24:37,679
Speaker 2: what are you doing?

1451
01:24:39,000 --> 01:24:42,960
Speaker 3: Even if they go in I'll give you some names.

1452
01:24:43,040 --> 01:24:48,759
Speaker 2: Call Anthony Towns can shoot a three, Joe Lmbeid can

1453
01:24:48,880 --> 01:24:52,120
Speaker 2: shoot a three. Every time they do it though, I'm like,

1454
01:24:52,600 --> 01:24:56,400
Speaker 2: come on, bro, you settled, you settled.

1455
01:24:56,000 --> 01:24:56,679
Speaker 4: It's easy.

1456
01:24:56,840 --> 01:24:59,679
Speaker 5: It takes me away, effort, no energy, that's the whole

1457
01:24:59,680 --> 01:25:00,639
Speaker 5: thing there.

1458
01:25:00,720 --> 01:25:03,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're not like, I'm cool with it if

1459
01:25:03,080 --> 01:25:04,240
Speaker 3: you're really good.

1460
01:25:04,000 --> 01:25:06,960
Speaker 2: At it, but they're not. They're not that good at it.

1461
01:25:07,439 --> 01:25:12,280
Speaker 2: So just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

1462
01:25:13,920 --> 01:25:19,960
Speaker 5: That's absolutely right, that's absolutely right. I'm telling you. It

1463
01:25:20,040 --> 01:25:23,800
Speaker 5: really throws off the flow of the game. When the

1464
01:25:23,840 --> 01:25:27,800
Speaker 5: person you have who is supposed to be patrolling the

1465
01:25:27,840 --> 01:25:31,640
Speaker 5: paint and imposing his will on other teams, also, the

1466
01:25:31,680 --> 01:25:34,400
Speaker 5: one who's supposed to lead the team in offensive rebounds

1467
01:25:34,680 --> 01:25:38,639
Speaker 5: is shooting threes. It throws the dynamic of the team off.

1468
01:25:40,160 --> 01:25:43,799
Speaker 5: It's not just a shot, it's if you miss, who's

1469
01:25:43,840 --> 01:25:49,280
Speaker 5: going to get the rebound? Because if Chris Paul misses

1470
01:25:49,360 --> 01:25:54,880
Speaker 5: a three, our castle, our dearren Fox. If Victor's down there,

1471
01:25:55,000 --> 01:25:57,880
Speaker 5: we know who's gonna get the rebound, and it's easy

1472
01:25:57,960 --> 01:26:03,960
Speaker 5: put back, donk. So you hurt yourself and your team

1473
01:26:04,479 --> 01:26:08,320
Speaker 5: by a bunch of different ways. Just by removing yourself

1474
01:26:08,960 --> 01:26:11,840
Speaker 5: from where you're you're you know you can do the

1475
01:26:11,840 --> 01:26:12,599
Speaker 5: most damage.

1476
01:26:14,720 --> 01:26:15,840
Speaker 4: It's just bad basketball.

1477
01:26:16,200 --> 01:26:19,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I don't care what analytical rhythm algorithm you

1478
01:26:19,920 --> 01:26:24,880
Speaker 5: subscribe to. It's bad basketball. And it's not all your

1479
01:26:24,920 --> 01:26:26,760
Speaker 5: old fogy. No, it has nothing to do with that,

1480
01:26:28,520 --> 01:26:30,800
Speaker 5: has nothing to do with that. But I know one thing.

1481
01:26:30,880 --> 01:26:34,240
Speaker 5: A seven to five twenty year old shouldn't be shooting

1482
01:26:34,280 --> 01:26:35,120
Speaker 5: sixteen threes.

1483
01:26:35,200 --> 01:26:42,560
Speaker 2: Ever, well, like okay, yeah, old fogy, bad basketball. Basketball

1484
01:26:42,640 --> 01:26:45,080
Speaker 2: is easy when you're watching it to tell if there's

1485
01:26:45,160 --> 01:26:47,280
Speaker 2: a good shot or a bad shot. The bottom line

1486
01:26:47,400 --> 01:26:50,760
Speaker 2: is is the defense I'll tell you, They'll tell you.

1487
01:26:51,920 --> 01:26:53,960
Speaker 3: And when Victor Weibin Dyama.

1488
01:26:53,680 --> 01:26:55,880
Speaker 2: Shoots a three, when Joe o Mbi shoots a three,

1489
01:26:55,960 --> 01:26:58,800
Speaker 2: Karl Anthony Town shoots a three, I want to know

1490
01:26:58,840 --> 01:27:03,400
Speaker 2: what the defense does is sit there and watch them,

1491
01:27:03,560 --> 01:27:07,840
Speaker 2: because that's what they want them to do. Like, that's

1492
01:27:07,880 --> 01:27:11,000
Speaker 2: exactly the shot they would like you to have. If

1493
01:27:12,280 --> 01:27:14,519
Speaker 2: if you've got the ball in your hand and you're

1494
01:27:14,600 --> 01:27:19,320
Speaker 2: seven foot six, they would love for you to be

1495
01:27:19,520 --> 01:27:21,320
Speaker 2: as far from the basket.

1496
01:27:20,960 --> 01:27:23,120
Speaker 4: As possible far as you can.

1497
01:27:23,320 --> 01:27:24,519
Speaker 3: Yes, that's right.

1498
01:27:24,720 --> 01:27:28,160
Speaker 2: So right when Steph Curry's gonna shoot a three, everybody's

1499
01:27:28,200 --> 01:27:28,880
Speaker 2: freaking out.

1500
01:27:28,920 --> 01:27:31,440
Speaker 3: People are running at him, two people running.

1501
01:27:31,160 --> 01:27:33,960
Speaker 2: At him, try to take legs out, go crazy, get

1502
01:27:34,000 --> 01:27:36,240
Speaker 2: through the high pick all of.

1503
01:27:36,200 --> 01:27:40,080
Speaker 3: This then freaking out. But Joe l Embiid squares up.

1504
01:27:40,320 --> 01:27:42,720
Speaker 2: Dudes are like looking over at their coach getting the

1505
01:27:42,720 --> 01:27:44,599
Speaker 2: play call for when they go to the other end.

1506
01:27:45,880 --> 01:27:49,000
Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, that's fine. So the defense tells you

1507
01:27:49,000 --> 01:27:51,000
Speaker 2: whether it's a good shot or not. And those things

1508
01:27:51,040 --> 01:27:57,040
Speaker 2: are wide open for those trees, So don't take that

1509
01:27:57,160 --> 01:27:59,400
Speaker 2: many of them. I'm not saying don't ever do it.

1510
01:28:00,080 --> 01:28:02,799
Speaker 2: Sometimes it's the right shot, late in the shot clock,

1511
01:28:02,880 --> 01:28:07,040
Speaker 2: what have you. Somebody drives, penetrates kicks, you're wide open.

1512
01:28:07,080 --> 01:28:11,000
Speaker 2: It's within the flow of the offense. But no, man, again,

1513
01:28:11,240 --> 01:28:13,760
Speaker 2: I just there's a gut feeling when you see those

1514
01:28:13,760 --> 01:28:14,599
Speaker 2: guys shooting three.

1515
01:28:14,600 --> 01:28:21,000
Speaker 3: You're just like, he's soft, he's soft. Is settled?

1516
01:28:21,240 --> 01:28:21,919
Speaker 4: You settled?

1517
01:28:22,720 --> 01:28:25,200
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah?

1518
01:28:25,240 --> 01:28:29,679
Speaker 2: But anyway, man, that's an interesting that squad is getting

1519
01:28:29,880 --> 01:28:33,960
Speaker 2: interesting really really fast. And then to a point you

1520
01:28:34,040 --> 01:28:36,880
Speaker 2: just made about the Chiefs a short time ago, I

1521
01:28:36,920 --> 01:28:39,559
Speaker 2: don't know where we go from here in terms of

1522
01:28:39,600 --> 01:28:43,880
Speaker 2: the quality of the organization because Greg Popovich is not

1523
01:28:44,000 --> 01:28:47,080
Speaker 2: coming back this year, and even if he does come

1524
01:28:47,120 --> 01:28:49,759
Speaker 2: back next year, look, obviously he's not going to coach.

1525
01:28:49,600 --> 01:28:50,720
Speaker 3: A whole lot longer.

1526
01:28:51,960 --> 01:28:56,479
Speaker 2: I think he leaves a good organization with what he's built,

1527
01:28:56,520 --> 01:28:58,920
Speaker 2: the same way kind of pat Riley handed it down

1528
01:28:58,960 --> 01:29:02,280
Speaker 2: to Eric Spolster and whatnot. But that's the other reason

1529
01:29:02,280 --> 01:29:04,320
Speaker 2: I got a spotlight on them is I know that

1530
01:29:04,720 --> 01:29:06,760
Speaker 2: I know that the organization is going to keep making

1531
01:29:06,800 --> 01:29:08,280
Speaker 2: good decisions and good moves too.

1532
01:29:09,160 --> 01:29:13,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, they definitely are, and you know, thoughts and

1533
01:29:13,840 --> 01:29:19,759
Speaker 5: prayers out the pop but it's probably, you know, probably

1534
01:29:19,760 --> 01:29:22,639
Speaker 5: time I would think.

1535
01:29:23,680 --> 01:29:28,360
Speaker 2: I would think, I want to see if you get

1536
01:29:28,400 --> 01:29:32,479
Speaker 2: this right? Do you know what happens on Tuesday Night?

1537
01:29:35,960 --> 01:29:44,000
Speaker 4: It's Lakers and Timberwolves. No Lakers in maths?

1538
01:29:44,439 --> 01:29:46,799
Speaker 3: Ah, what's in what city?

1539
01:29:47,640 --> 01:29:49,040
Speaker 4: Uh? In Los Angeles?

1540
01:29:49,960 --> 01:29:50,800
Speaker 3: Are you sure about that?

1541
01:29:52,720 --> 01:29:53,640
Speaker 4: Yeah? Is it in l A?

1542
01:29:54,200 --> 01:29:58,920
Speaker 3: Is it okay? All right? All right? But still it's

1543
01:29:59,040 --> 01:29:59,960
Speaker 3: it's Lakers in math.

1544
01:30:00,320 --> 01:30:00,840
Speaker 4: That's good.

1545
01:30:03,160 --> 01:30:05,559
Speaker 2: You know how I know that that you know how

1546
01:30:05,600 --> 01:30:08,760
Speaker 2: that I know that that game is different. I don't

1547
01:30:08,800 --> 01:30:12,599
Speaker 2: know if you have a betting app, but like when

1548
01:30:12,640 --> 01:30:15,000
Speaker 2: you go into your betting app, and I mean this now,

1549
01:30:15,040 --> 01:30:17,360
Speaker 2: for a week and a half already, you go into

1550
01:30:17,360 --> 01:30:20,800
Speaker 2: your betting app and like, whatever the games are that

1551
01:30:21,000 --> 01:30:23,960
Speaker 2: day are all laid out there for you, and they

1552
01:30:24,000 --> 01:30:27,040
Speaker 2: got all the numbers and everything's moving and shaking and

1553
01:30:27,120 --> 01:30:29,960
Speaker 2: everything that's going on that day. And then at the

1554
01:30:30,080 --> 01:30:35,880
Speaker 2: very bottom, they've had this game, it's been sitting there

1555
01:30:35,920 --> 01:30:39,280
Speaker 2: for a week and a half already. What a bet

1556
01:30:39,320 --> 01:30:44,000
Speaker 2: on this game? Lakers and MAVs. Lakers and MAVs. So

1557
01:30:44,680 --> 01:30:49,799
Speaker 2: it's Luca against the Madicks. Obviously Anthony Davis won't play.

1558
01:30:50,400 --> 01:30:53,840
Speaker 2: But let's get into this. Let's get back into the

1559
01:30:53,920 --> 01:30:58,479
Speaker 2: Lakers a little bit in terms of how they define

1560
01:30:58,560 --> 01:31:03,320
Speaker 2: themselves going forward. Who kind of takes the lead because

1561
01:31:03,960 --> 01:31:06,160
Speaker 2: NBA teams need to have that, they kind of need

1562
01:31:06,200 --> 01:31:08,519
Speaker 2: to know the pecking order. So let's get into that

1563
01:31:08,560 --> 01:31:11,679
Speaker 2: conversation coming up next with you from Salama Mark Weather

1564
01:31:11,680 --> 01:31:15,840
Speaker 2: at Fox Sports Radio. All right, we're here live ty

1565
01:31:16,000 --> 01:31:21,000
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1566
01:31:21,439 --> 01:31:23,800
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1567
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1568
01:31:26,200 --> 01:31:28,800
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1569
01:31:28,800 --> 01:31:33,000
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1570
01:31:33,040 --> 01:31:37,720
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1571
01:31:39,400 --> 01:31:39,679
Speaker 3: Five.

1572
01:31:40,120 --> 01:31:42,679
Speaker 2: Again, just search Fox Sports Radio wherever you get your podcasts.

1573
01:31:42,680 --> 01:31:44,680
Speaker 2: You see today's show's posted right after we get off

1574
01:31:44,680 --> 01:31:48,360
Speaker 2: the air. Not done yet. I do want to get

1575
01:31:48,360 --> 01:31:51,920
Speaker 2: back to the Lakers and Luca and Lebron and all

1576
01:31:52,000 --> 01:31:55,360
Speaker 2: those things, but real quick. And I know they're missing people.

1577
01:31:55,400 --> 01:31:58,760
Speaker 2: I know tonight there's no go bear Julius Randalls now

1578
01:31:58,920 --> 01:32:03,120
Speaker 2: hurt Ante Divincenzo's been out a little bit. Can you

1579
01:32:03,200 --> 01:32:08,320
Speaker 2: help me with this Minnesota team though, Like they've got

1580
01:32:08,360 --> 01:32:12,080
Speaker 2: to be the most confusing team so far this year

1581
01:32:12,600 --> 01:32:13,759
Speaker 2: in the entire NBA.

1582
01:32:14,280 --> 01:32:15,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would agree with that.

1583
01:32:18,439 --> 01:32:21,240
Speaker 5: You know, what, what you realize is talent is one thing,

1584
01:32:21,320 --> 01:32:30,519
Speaker 5: but consistency is the lifeblood of winning. And you know,

1585
01:32:31,400 --> 01:32:36,600
Speaker 5: the war of attrition is a real thing. But you

1586
01:32:36,800 --> 01:32:43,400
Speaker 5: have to be able to lock in and and and

1587
01:32:43,400 --> 01:32:46,840
Speaker 5: and just that's why. That's why, no matter how good

1588
01:32:47,000 --> 01:32:55,280
Speaker 5: teams are, people would say something like they'rey young. So

1589
01:32:55,520 --> 01:32:58,880
Speaker 5: you'd be like, what what they're the the second seed,

1590
01:32:58,960 --> 01:33:02,960
Speaker 5: the third seed, the whatever, the number one. See, yeah,

1591
01:33:03,040 --> 01:33:10,400
Speaker 5: but they're young. The experience isn't there. We just watched

1592
01:33:10,400 --> 01:33:16,240
Speaker 5: it with Washington, right, So one, you can be talented

1593
01:33:17,080 --> 01:33:19,360
Speaker 5: and not ready at the same time.

1594
01:33:21,120 --> 01:33:21,519
Speaker 4: And so.

1595
01:33:23,760 --> 01:33:28,360
Speaker 5: With the movement and the adding of pieces. You know,

1596
01:33:29,360 --> 01:33:33,760
Speaker 5: who is Minnesota, right? Do you trust them to be

1597
01:33:33,840 --> 01:33:40,880
Speaker 5: able to seal the deal? I don't know if I do. No, no,

1598
01:33:44,479 --> 01:33:49,240
Speaker 5: So you know it's it's that's why you start looking

1599
01:33:49,280 --> 01:33:51,920
Speaker 5: back and you're like, oh, okay, I can see.

1600
01:33:52,120 --> 01:33:53,520
Speaker 4: I can see how.

1601
01:33:54,960 --> 01:33:58,760
Speaker 5: You know, if a lebron or if a staff or

1602
01:34:00,200 --> 01:34:02,960
Speaker 5: if they can get into the playoffs or get into

1603
01:34:03,240 --> 01:34:11,240
Speaker 5: anything can happen. Like you know that they understand what

1604
01:34:11,439 --> 01:34:14,800
Speaker 5: to do, how to do it, and why to do it.

1605
01:34:15,840 --> 01:34:22,439
Speaker 5: That's why they're dangerous. But with young and talented they

1606
01:34:22,479 --> 01:34:27,080
Speaker 5: may not be ready yet. I remember how young and

1607
01:34:27,160 --> 01:34:31,800
Speaker 5: talented the Bucks were, but they didn't win their first

1608
01:34:31,880 --> 01:34:39,760
Speaker 5: championship until they became seasoned and old. Dr I should say, yeah, yep, right,

1609
01:34:39,840 --> 01:34:46,920
Speaker 5: that's normally how it goes. That's why people say, well,

1610
01:34:47,640 --> 01:34:51,639
Speaker 5: you know they're young, Yeah, we get it, they are young.

1611
01:34:56,120 --> 01:34:59,760
Speaker 5: Can they close the deal? Can they grow enough in

1612
01:34:59,800 --> 01:35:07,559
Speaker 5: that youth and become what we need them to become.

1613
01:35:10,120 --> 01:35:16,760
Speaker 5: And that answer isn't always yes, m M, it's not yeah.

1614
01:35:16,800 --> 01:35:19,679
Speaker 2: Well God, I look at I look at the Western

1615
01:35:19,720 --> 01:35:24,479
Speaker 2: Conference Finals from last year, and the phrase that keeps

1616
01:35:24,600 --> 01:35:28,559
Speaker 2: coming to mind is like too much, too soon, which

1617
01:35:28,600 --> 01:35:32,360
Speaker 2: I really believe can happen to certain teams, because what

1618
01:35:32,840 --> 01:35:35,519
Speaker 2: ends up happening, like you want that experience, I get it,

1619
01:35:35,560 --> 01:35:40,200
Speaker 2: But what ends up happening is guys either start getting

1620
01:35:40,280 --> 01:35:43,320
Speaker 2: kind of full of themselves and thinking, oh, this is

1621
01:35:43,520 --> 01:35:45,720
Speaker 2: this is where we are. Now, now we're one of

1622
01:35:45,720 --> 01:35:49,679
Speaker 2: these teams, and so we're we're going to get back

1623
01:35:49,720 --> 01:35:51,960
Speaker 2: to this and and and it's going to be easy

1624
01:35:53,400 --> 01:35:59,200
Speaker 2: that happens, or kind of what I think both of

1625
01:35:59,240 --> 01:36:03,559
Speaker 2: these teams have done since then happens, which is like

1626
01:36:03,760 --> 01:36:08,280
Speaker 2: the general managers start to tinker a little bit too much,

1627
01:36:09,400 --> 01:36:09,960
Speaker 2: you know what I mean?

1628
01:36:11,280 --> 01:36:14,720
Speaker 3: Definitely get I mean, I could argue.

1629
01:36:14,360 --> 01:36:17,320
Speaker 2: That the two biggest names from the Western Conference Finals

1630
01:36:17,400 --> 01:36:21,519
Speaker 2: last year both got traded since then, which is wild.

1631
01:36:21,640 --> 01:36:24,160
Speaker 2: And I know Anthony Edwards probably more important than Carl

1632
01:36:24,200 --> 01:36:28,360
Speaker 2: Anthony Towns, but what like odd odd that that that

1633
01:36:28,560 --> 01:36:31,120
Speaker 2: both of those teams they made the Western Conference Finals,

1634
01:36:31,160 --> 01:36:34,000
Speaker 2: and then they sat back and seemed to do like

1635
01:36:34,040 --> 01:36:38,640
Speaker 2: a self check and decided, Yeah, those guys that just

1636
01:36:38,720 --> 01:36:42,360
Speaker 2: took us that far, Nope, they're not gonna They're not

1637
01:36:42,600 --> 01:36:44,840
Speaker 2: gonna take us there again. They're not gonna be the

1638
01:36:45,320 --> 01:36:50,680
Speaker 2: guy to get us over the top. And so many

1639
01:36:50,920 --> 01:36:54,120
Speaker 2: like that was such a fun run from both of

1640
01:36:54,160 --> 01:36:58,360
Speaker 2: those teams last year, and now I'd liken both of

1641
01:36:58,400 --> 01:37:02,599
Speaker 2: them too. That person that gets a facelift four times

1642
01:37:02,600 --> 01:37:08,519
Speaker 2: in their sixties, really, yeah, you know, we just know

1643
01:37:09,040 --> 01:37:11,320
Speaker 2: do this and no, wait, I don't like that, So

1644
01:37:11,400 --> 01:37:14,479
Speaker 2: let's do this, and let's do this, and then man,

1645
01:37:15,120 --> 01:37:20,760
Speaker 2: now you look crazy. Your face doesn't move, and so

1646
01:37:20,920 --> 01:37:22,800
Speaker 2: they've just I don't know, man, I watched this team

1647
01:37:22,840 --> 01:37:25,680
Speaker 2: and I'm like, there's talent everywhere.

1648
01:37:26,280 --> 01:37:31,360
Speaker 3: The Timberwolf should be ridiculous. They should be ridiculous.

1649
01:37:32,040 --> 01:37:35,120
Speaker 2: Anthony Edwards is as talented of a player as there

1650
01:37:35,200 --> 01:37:39,720
Speaker 2: is in the league period. The pieces that are now

1651
01:37:39,800 --> 01:37:43,160
Speaker 2: around him. I'm not a huge Julius Randall guy, but

1652
01:37:43,800 --> 01:37:47,240
Speaker 2: with him and Gobert, you've got rim protection and all

1653
01:37:47,280 --> 01:37:51,040
Speaker 2: of that stuff. Deevencenzo was a rising role player. Nas

1654
01:37:51,120 --> 01:37:53,759
Speaker 2: Reed is one of my favorite players in the whole

1655
01:37:53,880 --> 01:37:57,439
Speaker 2: NBA with what he does on both sides of the

1656
01:37:57,800 --> 01:38:01,240
Speaker 2: of the floor. You know, I shouldn't like Conley to

1657
01:38:01,360 --> 01:38:05,400
Speaker 2: kind of calm everything down, dude. They should be fantastic,

1658
01:38:06,760 --> 01:38:11,599
Speaker 2: and they're completely and totally unreliable and they're down by

1659
01:38:11,600 --> 01:38:14,000
Speaker 2: double digits on their own floor early second quarter.

1660
01:38:16,200 --> 01:38:18,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, if.

1661
01:38:20,040 --> 01:38:29,720
Speaker 5: Anthony Edwards is musty TV. But there's also you know,

1662
01:38:30,040 --> 01:38:34,680
Speaker 5: he's already balked about I don't want to be the

1663
01:38:34,800 --> 01:38:38,160
Speaker 5: face of the league.

1664
01:38:38,400 --> 01:38:42,160
Speaker 4: I'm not interested in that his words.

1665
01:38:42,760 --> 01:38:43,040
Speaker 3: Yep.

1666
01:38:44,680 --> 01:38:45,439
Speaker 4: So it's like.

1667
01:38:45,800 --> 01:39:00,960
Speaker 5: Uh, why right, Like why that's what we need? We

1668
01:39:01,120 --> 01:39:05,439
Speaker 5: need that from you. We need you to be the

1669
01:39:05,439 --> 01:39:09,519
Speaker 5: face of the league because with that comes a real

1670
01:39:10,240 --> 01:39:21,559
Speaker 5: responsibility to elevate one's play. Right, it's the responsibility of

1671
01:39:22,080 --> 01:39:31,080
Speaker 5: not only carrying your team, but you carry the league

1672
01:39:31,400 --> 01:39:36,599
Speaker 5: in terms of we're going where you lead us?

1673
01:39:40,600 --> 01:39:41,439
Speaker 4: Magic? Did it?

1674
01:39:44,120 --> 01:39:50,719
Speaker 5: Jordan? You know Lebron like, these are the things that

1675
01:39:50,840 --> 01:40:00,400
Speaker 5: Steph that's the sweet spot. So now you understand, right,

1676
01:40:00,800 --> 01:40:04,400
Speaker 5: I understand he doesn't want that responsibility because with that

1677
01:40:04,520 --> 01:40:10,439
Speaker 5: responsibility comes great scrutiny. But in order to be and

1678
01:40:10,520 --> 01:40:12,479
Speaker 5: I believe this, in order to be truly great.

1679
01:40:13,400 --> 01:40:14,080
Speaker 4: You have to be.

1680
01:40:14,080 --> 01:40:19,920
Speaker 5: Able to live and fight through the scrutiny. I truly

1681
01:40:19,960 --> 01:40:23,640
Speaker 5: believe that, and a lot of guys don't want that.

1682
01:40:25,080 --> 01:40:29,360
Speaker 5: I just want to play man. Yeah, but the league

1683
01:40:29,400 --> 01:40:32,839
Speaker 5: needs a little bit more than you just wanted to play.

1684
01:40:33,280 --> 01:40:37,719
Speaker 4: Right. You're ushering us into a new territory, a new time,

1685
01:40:37,840 --> 01:40:43,720
Speaker 4: a new everything, which means you have to continue to

1686
01:40:43,800 --> 01:40:51,000
Speaker 4: elevate your game, your mindset, all of these things very important,

1687
01:40:53,680 --> 01:40:57,599
Speaker 4: and it's a lot of responsibility that I don't believe

1688
01:40:57,600 --> 01:41:08,519
Speaker 4: he's ready for and go home. Well you can't, sir, Sorry, you.

1689
01:41:08,479 --> 01:41:09,880
Speaker 3: Know who wants that scrutiny.

1690
01:41:10,080 --> 01:41:14,120
Speaker 4: You can just fam he's breathing. Did give it to me? Yeah?

1691
01:41:14,160 --> 01:41:14,800
Speaker 4: I won it all.

1692
01:41:15,240 --> 01:41:16,880
Speaker 2: It wants to be the face of the whole place.

1693
01:41:17,360 --> 01:41:20,680
Speaker 2: And so he is argue, he is, Yeah, there it is,

1694
01:41:20,840 --> 01:41:21,200
Speaker 2: Steve J.

1695
01:41:21,320 --> 01:41:22,080
Speaker 3: Seger. Let's go.

1696
01:41:22,560 --> 01:41:25,920
Speaker 8: It's very kind, but that ain't happening. Oklahoma City. They've

1697
01:41:25,920 --> 01:41:28,240
Speaker 8: called a time out at Minnesota. Ok See leads the

1698
01:41:28,240 --> 01:41:31,839
Speaker 8: Timberwolves forty seven to twenty eight. We're not quite midway

1699
01:41:31,880 --> 01:41:35,559
Speaker 8: through the second quarter for the Timberwolves. Anthony Edwards one

1700
01:41:35,600 --> 01:41:38,320
Speaker 8: of seven shooting from the floor, his team from three

1701
01:41:38,360 --> 01:41:42,439
Speaker 8: point range. Is one for twelve, already a nineteen point

1702
01:41:42,439 --> 01:41:45,120
Speaker 8: advantage for the Thunder trying to get to forty six

1703
01:41:45,200 --> 01:41:48,439
Speaker 8: and ten on the season. Cleveland now forty seven and

1704
01:41:48,520 --> 01:41:51,799
Speaker 8: ten after beating Memphis tonight one twenty nine, one twenty three,

1705
01:41:51,960 --> 01:41:55,280
Speaker 8: thirty three points for Donovan Mitchell. Cabs have won seven straight.

1706
01:41:55,600 --> 01:41:58,760
Speaker 8: New Orleans was thirteen and forty three, but got a

1707
01:41:58,760 --> 01:42:02,000
Speaker 8: home win tonight against San Antonio one fourteen to ninety

1708
01:42:02,040 --> 01:42:04,240
Speaker 8: six as the Spurs d Aaron Fox shot three of

1709
01:42:04,320 --> 01:42:07,479
Speaker 8: sixteen from the floor. Detroit won at six straight game

1710
01:42:07,560 --> 01:42:10,800
Speaker 8: one forty eight, one forty three at Atlantic Kid Cunningham

1711
01:42:10,800 --> 01:42:14,519
Speaker 8: thirty eight points twelve assists. Orlando sent Washington to a

1712
01:42:14,560 --> 01:42:17,760
Speaker 8: six straight loss, one ten to ninety. The Wizard's three

1713
01:42:17,840 --> 01:42:21,520
Speaker 8: games this coming week will be against Brooklyn, Portland, and Charlotte.

1714
01:42:21,720 --> 01:42:25,280
Speaker 8: For the moment, Washington's record nine and forty seven home

1715
01:42:25,360 --> 01:42:28,760
Speaker 8: victories for Toronto and Indiana, home wins for Milwaukee and

1716
01:42:28,800 --> 01:42:31,559
Speaker 8: Golden State, and at Boston. The Celtics beat New York

1717
01:42:31,600 --> 01:42:35,160
Speaker 8: today one eighteen, one oh five. Celtics have won five straight.

1718
01:42:35,200 --> 01:42:37,960
Speaker 8: Philadelphia's Joel Embiide will have more tests on his knee

1719
01:42:37,960 --> 01:42:40,599
Speaker 8: this week. He's questionable for Monday due to knees swelling.

1720
01:42:40,920 --> 01:42:42,960
Speaker 8: In college hoops, a couple weeks left in the men's

1721
01:42:43,000 --> 01:42:46,240
Speaker 8: regular season, Number ten Saint John's won again twenty four

1722
01:42:46,280 --> 01:42:49,759
Speaker 8: and four now after beating Yukon eighty nine seventy five

1723
01:42:50,040 --> 01:42:53,360
Speaker 8: Indiana with a strong second half upset. Number thirteen produced

1724
01:42:53,400 --> 01:42:56,519
Speaker 8: seventy three fifty eight. In women's hoops, Number one Notre

1725
01:42:56,600 --> 01:42:59,960
Speaker 8: Dame lost in double overtime at number thirteen NC steve

1726
01:43:00,080 --> 01:43:04,080
Speaker 8: eight to the NHL. Among the ten games, Washington's Alex

1727
01:43:04,120 --> 01:43:07,760
Speaker 8: Ovechkin with three goals. He needs thirteens old to break

1728
01:43:07,760 --> 01:43:10,559
Speaker 8: the career record. In the NHL, Washington seven to three

1729
01:43:10,600 --> 01:43:14,280
Speaker 8: over Edmonton. Christopher Bell was the NASCAR winner at Atlanta

1730
01:43:14,360 --> 01:43:18,559
Speaker 8: in overtime. Colorado quarterback Shadure Sanders will reportedly meet with

1731
01:43:18,600 --> 01:43:21,040
Speaker 8: teams at the Combine but not work out this week.

1732
01:43:21,320 --> 01:43:24,720
Speaker 8: US women's soccer in Arizona today beat Australia two to one.

1733
01:43:25,520 --> 01:43:28,360
Speaker 8: And as far as the golf, Gentleman PGA Tour was

1734
01:43:28,360 --> 01:43:31,720
Speaker 8: in Mexico at event an event we're completely unfamiliar with

1735
01:43:31,760 --> 01:43:35,200
Speaker 8: and a winner that we're completely unfamiliar with, and yet

1736
01:43:35,240 --> 01:43:38,679
Speaker 8: mister Brian Campbell is now one point two six million

1737
01:43:38,760 --> 01:43:43,439
Speaker 8: dollars winner Rich. He's the winner young mantonhole of a

1738
01:43:43,520 --> 01:43:45,839
Speaker 8: playoff and now for the tour. It's off to Florida

1739
01:43:45,840 --> 01:43:48,840
Speaker 8: for the next four events. Live Golf won't resume for

1740
01:43:48,840 --> 01:43:51,479
Speaker 8: another couple weeks when they have an event in Hong Kong,

1741
01:43:51,560 --> 01:43:54,040
Speaker 8: and then Live Golf will be in Singapore right after

1742
01:43:54,080 --> 01:43:56,759
Speaker 8: that in mid March. But this winner on the PGA

1743
01:43:56,880 --> 01:44:00,320
Speaker 8: Tour today, age thirty one, Brian Campbell apparently was top

1744
01:44:00,320 --> 01:44:03,920
Speaker 8: amateur a decade ago at the University of Illinois, got

1745
01:44:03,960 --> 01:44:07,040
Speaker 8: onto the PGA Tour eventually and quickly lost his card.

1746
01:44:07,080 --> 01:44:09,680
Speaker 8: He was so low in the FedEx Cup standings. He

1747
01:44:09,760 --> 01:44:12,639
Speaker 8: has worked his way back. Yesterday he had a boge

1748
01:44:12,720 --> 01:44:15,559
Speaker 8: free sixty four, so he entered the final round today

1749
01:44:15,720 --> 01:44:19,160
Speaker 8: the Mexico opened just one shot back. First time in

1750
01:44:19,240 --> 01:44:22,320
Speaker 8: his PGA Tour career he'd entered the final round even

1751
01:44:22,360 --> 01:44:25,560
Speaker 8: in the top five, and he caught the leader Aldrich

1752
01:44:25,720 --> 01:44:29,479
Speaker 8: Pottgeier and won on the second playoff hole, which means,

1753
01:44:29,560 --> 01:44:32,320
Speaker 8: as golf dot Com put it, this comes with all

1754
01:44:32,360 --> 01:44:35,640
Speaker 8: the perks of winning a PGA Tour event, spot in

1755
01:44:35,760 --> 01:44:39,360
Speaker 8: the Masters, spot in the Players Championship, so spot in

1756
01:44:39,400 --> 01:44:43,400
Speaker 8: the PGA Championship two year exemption and that check for

1757
01:44:43,560 --> 01:44:48,320
Speaker 8: one point two six million dollars. The runner up gets

1758
01:44:48,360 --> 01:44:52,040
Speaker 8: seven hundred and sixty three thousand dollars, In other words,

1759
01:44:52,080 --> 01:44:56,400
Speaker 8: a nearly half million dollar difference. And it came down

1760
01:44:56,439 --> 01:45:00,760
Speaker 8: to this on the second playoff hole, a shot from

1761
01:45:00,800 --> 01:45:05,440
Speaker 8: Brian Campbell, the eventual winner, that went straight into the trees.

1762
01:45:05,880 --> 01:45:08,080
Speaker 1: Cambell hitting this very well and out to the right.

1763
01:45:08,200 --> 01:45:09,040
Speaker 4: This is dicey.

1764
01:45:09,439 --> 01:45:11,240
Speaker 1: This is going to need a good balance and that

1765
01:45:11,439 --> 01:45:12,120
Speaker 1: and it got one.

1766
01:45:12,800 --> 01:45:13,960
Speaker 4: It hit the trees, it came.

1767
01:45:13,840 --> 01:45:17,240
Speaker 8: Back, it came right back onto the course, complete and

1768
01:45:17,320 --> 01:45:20,400
Speaker 8: total dumb luck. And he wins on the second playoff

1769
01:45:20,439 --> 01:45:25,640
Speaker 8: all after that and takes an extra half million dollars.

1770
01:45:26,160 --> 01:45:27,759
Speaker 4: That call from NBC back.

1771
01:45:27,640 --> 01:45:32,200
Speaker 2: To you, Yes, I hope he's crying crocodile tears tonight.

1772
01:45:32,400 --> 01:45:33,759
Speaker 3: That's life changing.

1773
01:45:34,080 --> 01:45:37,240
Speaker 2: And by the way, Steve, as we always love our

1774
01:45:37,280 --> 01:45:40,320
Speaker 2: seven thirty Pacific Golf Update on Sunday nights.

1775
01:45:40,320 --> 01:45:42,599
Speaker 3: With everything going on financially.

1776
01:45:42,080 --> 01:45:45,439
Speaker 2: And beyond, here's one thing I wonder if golf thought about,

1777
01:45:45,520 --> 01:45:46,759
Speaker 2: or the players thought about.

1778
01:45:46,800 --> 01:45:47,679
Speaker 3: I'm sure they did.

1779
01:45:48,320 --> 01:45:51,920
Speaker 2: Like live golf, the pressure that's been put on and

1780
01:45:51,960 --> 01:45:54,640
Speaker 2: now the persons are starting to go crazy on us

1781
01:45:54,920 --> 01:45:59,920
Speaker 2: on both tours. Guess what no one thought of as

1782
01:46:00,400 --> 01:46:05,120
Speaker 2: golf created this golf load management.

1783
01:46:08,120 --> 01:46:09,120
Speaker 3: No one thought of this.

1784
01:46:09,280 --> 01:46:11,720
Speaker 8: Because you're gonna make so much at the one events.

1785
01:46:11,880 --> 01:46:14,880
Speaker 2: Exactly now, I don't need to play the next one,

1786
01:46:15,000 --> 01:46:18,080
Speaker 2: So why would I leave my family and buy my

1787
01:46:18,200 --> 01:46:22,280
Speaker 2: own way out to These smaller tournaments are suddenly getting

1788
01:46:22,400 --> 01:46:25,920
Speaker 2: nobody except for this gentleman named Brian who hit the

1789
01:46:25,960 --> 01:46:29,040
Speaker 2: ball into the trees and won over a million bucks.

1790
01:46:29,120 --> 01:46:31,200
Speaker 8: It's nobody you've heard of finished in the top ten

1791
01:46:31,240 --> 01:46:34,240
Speaker 8: and beyond this weekend in Mexico, everybody's going to Florida

1792
01:46:34,320 --> 01:46:37,960
Speaker 8: for the next month instead. But as they say in Vegas,

1793
01:46:38,000 --> 01:46:40,360
Speaker 8: you know, there are, for example, some people that specialize

1794
01:46:40,360 --> 01:46:43,160
Speaker 8: in betting WNBA and don't bet football at all, and

1795
01:46:43,280 --> 01:46:45,240
Speaker 8: it kind of takes some people back mad, what are

1796
01:46:45,280 --> 01:46:48,000
Speaker 8: you doing? The answer is the money is still green.

1797
01:46:48,560 --> 01:46:51,120
Speaker 8: The guy who won the Mexico Open today, that's one

1798
01:46:51,160 --> 01:46:53,639
Speaker 8: point two six million real dollars.

1799
01:46:53,680 --> 01:46:56,280
Speaker 4: The money is still green, still green, baby.

1800
01:46:56,439 --> 01:46:58,200
Speaker 3: Woof, very very good.

1801
01:46:58,400 --> 01:47:01,559
Speaker 2: So yeah, I wanted to about that, and and Steve

1802
01:47:01,600 --> 01:47:05,880
Speaker 2: great stuff as always tonight, Like I wonder to what level.

1803
01:47:06,640 --> 01:47:08,520
Speaker 3: What we scream.

1804
01:47:08,160 --> 01:47:11,200
Speaker 2: About in the NBA all the time is going to

1805
01:47:11,280 --> 01:47:16,559
Speaker 2: bleed into other sports. It's different, Like even the what

1806
01:47:16,600 --> 01:47:19,240
Speaker 2: is happening in golf is for is for different reasons.

1807
01:47:19,280 --> 01:47:21,840
Speaker 2: But kind of circling back to that Lebron conversation we

1808
01:47:21,880 --> 01:47:25,519
Speaker 2: had earlier where he's upset about the three consecutive back

1809
01:47:25,560 --> 01:47:28,639
Speaker 2: to backs that the Lakers have in in mid March,

1810
01:47:29,080 --> 01:47:31,240
Speaker 2: and we know how you'll handle that in the NBA.

1811
01:47:31,400 --> 01:47:34,800
Speaker 2: But you compared it to the Chiefs and Ravens having

1812
01:47:34,880 --> 01:47:38,439
Speaker 2: three game games in eleven days. But but you know

1813
01:47:38,520 --> 01:47:43,759
Speaker 2: what's different. All the Chiefs and Ravens played, That is correct,

1814
01:47:44,080 --> 01:47:47,200
Speaker 2: They all played, so they they might complain about it

1815
01:47:47,240 --> 01:47:48,520
Speaker 2: behind the scenes.

1816
01:47:48,479 --> 01:47:54,719
Speaker 4: But you different animals of course, different there and expectation.

1817
01:47:54,640 --> 01:47:57,240
Speaker 2: Well, and not enough games to sit any outright. You

1818
01:47:57,280 --> 01:48:00,799
Speaker 2: just don't have that luxury. You don't have that luxury.

1819
01:48:00,840 --> 01:48:03,639
Speaker 2: You'll miss the playoffs if you if you kick two games.

1820
01:48:05,360 --> 01:48:09,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's why. That's why, I really, you know, that's

1821
01:48:09,040 --> 01:48:18,120
Speaker 5: why football wins. Yep urgency, Yeah, yep, flat out.

1822
01:48:18,160 --> 01:48:20,559
Speaker 3: What what are they? What are they going to do? Man?

1823
01:48:21,600 --> 01:48:23,360
Speaker 3: What is the NBA going to do? Because you know

1824
01:48:23,400 --> 01:48:24,479
Speaker 3: what I'm getting tired of.

1825
01:48:26,120 --> 01:48:29,439
Speaker 2: I'm really getting tired of the first of every month

1826
01:48:29,479 --> 01:48:36,320
Speaker 2: of the year. We're like, okay, what about this like

1827
01:48:36,720 --> 01:48:43,599
Speaker 2: every month? How about ten minute quarters? How about USA

1828
01:48:43,800 --> 01:48:52,040
Speaker 2: versus the world? How about if we create pods and uh, guys,

1829
01:48:52,240 --> 01:48:53,479
Speaker 2: you know, I'm gonna look, what.

1830
01:48:53,400 --> 01:48:57,080
Speaker 3: Are when are we going to be done with the

1831
01:48:57,200 --> 01:48:58,599
Speaker 3: new ideas.

1832
01:48:58,080 --> 01:49:02,040
Speaker 10: That are all the super f yes and they're all

1833
01:49:02,080 --> 01:49:08,480
Speaker 10: built around one consistent idea that to most fans is offensive.

1834
01:49:09,920 --> 01:49:14,160
Speaker 3: Can you just try? That's all anybody's trying to do.

1835
01:49:14,479 --> 01:49:16,280
Speaker 4: Just try, Just try.

1836
01:49:16,400 --> 01:49:19,880
Speaker 3: How about if we take your sixty million dollar salary.

1837
01:49:19,840 --> 01:49:24,280
Speaker 2: And offer you more to win the NBA Cup, which

1838
01:49:24,439 --> 01:49:34,080
Speaker 2: three years in still nobody can explain I got a

1839
01:49:34,080 --> 01:49:37,000
Speaker 2: new idea. How about no more new ideas? How about

1840
01:49:37,080 --> 01:49:39,000
Speaker 2: no more new ideas? Just play?

1841
01:49:40,840 --> 01:49:42,000
Speaker 3: What are they gonna do? Man?

1842
01:49:42,720 --> 01:49:43,120
Speaker 4: Just play?

1843
01:49:43,960 --> 01:49:45,639
Speaker 3: But they won't.

1844
01:49:46,920 --> 01:49:49,680
Speaker 5: There's a lot of money out there. Man, it's all guaranteed.

1845
01:49:49,760 --> 01:49:54,240
Speaker 5: I guaranteed. If those I guarantee. If it wasn't guaranteed,

1846
01:49:56,120 --> 01:49:56,599
Speaker 5: they play.

1847
01:49:57,840 --> 01:50:02,800
Speaker 2: I mean that's that's that's it right there, That's it.

1848
01:50:03,720 --> 01:50:05,519
Speaker 2: But there's no there's no going back.

1849
01:50:05,760 --> 01:50:08,320
Speaker 5: Can't go back. They won't allow it to go back.

1850
01:50:11,240 --> 01:50:16,320
Speaker 5: Huh So, now we're stuck a hell of a pickle, man,

1851
01:50:18,439 --> 01:50:21,280
Speaker 5: it is. It is a hell of a pickle. Tyreck

1852
01:50:21,360 --> 01:50:24,760
Speaker 5: dot Com Studios. All right, uh, don't answer this yet.

1853
01:50:24,760 --> 01:50:27,599
Speaker 5: Who's the Lakers' best player? Apram's going to answer that

1854
01:50:27,640 --> 01:50:28,920
Speaker 5: next on Fox Sports Radio.

1855
01:50:30,840 --> 01:50:35,160
Speaker 2: All right, fun stuff tonight, Tiereck dot Com Studios planking

1856
01:50:35,320 --> 01:50:42,280
Speaker 2: Spaniards standing by, who's the Lakers' best player?

1857
01:50:42,560 --> 01:50:43,760
Speaker 3: And does it matter to you?

1858
01:50:45,960 --> 01:50:47,160
Speaker 4: It does not matter to me.

1859
01:50:51,520 --> 01:50:53,240
Speaker 3: Currently, okay, okay.

1860
01:50:53,920 --> 01:50:58,439
Speaker 5: Currently, as it stands, right now, the lakers best player

1861
01:50:58,880 --> 01:51:04,720
Speaker 5: is Lebron James. Now that could change, and it probably

1862
01:51:04,760 --> 01:51:09,880
Speaker 5: will change moving through the rest of this year. I

1863
01:51:09,920 --> 01:51:14,519
Speaker 5: hope it changed. He hopes it changes. I mean, the

1864
01:51:14,560 --> 01:51:19,040
Speaker 5: man is forty exactly. You got to remember it. You

1865
01:51:19,040 --> 01:51:24,000
Speaker 5: got to remember how he came into this year. He

1866
01:51:24,120 --> 01:51:30,000
Speaker 5: came into this year allowing Anthony Davis to be the guy.

1867
01:51:30,400 --> 01:51:34,439
Speaker 5: Remember that first that first stretch of games for Anthony Davis. Yes,

1868
01:51:35,479 --> 01:51:38,200
Speaker 5: he Lebron James. He would want nothing more than that,

1869
01:51:41,479 --> 01:51:45,920
Speaker 5: Like he would want nothing more than that. If Luca

1870
01:51:46,000 --> 01:51:50,519
Speaker 5: becomes the Lakers' best player this year, Lebron James feels

1871
01:51:50,600 --> 01:51:54,000
Speaker 5: like he can get back to the NBA Finals.

1872
01:51:55,040 --> 01:51:59,240
Speaker 2: I'm not asking because I'm worried about ego and there's

1873
01:51:59,280 --> 01:52:02,120
Speaker 2: a not enough to go around and all that stuff

1874
01:52:02,120 --> 01:52:04,880
Speaker 2: that people. I'm not worried about that at all. I

1875
01:52:05,439 --> 01:52:12,439
Speaker 2: just wonder how they're going to structure this. They looked

1876
01:52:12,600 --> 01:52:17,519
Speaker 2: great last night. Obviously they look great when they lost

1877
01:52:17,560 --> 01:52:20,280
Speaker 2: that game to the Hornets. I don't know if you saw.

1878
01:52:20,640 --> 01:52:22,839
Speaker 2: I did, Like there.

1879
01:52:22,640 --> 01:52:25,920
Speaker 3: Were so many possessions where Luca was just standing there.

1880
01:52:26,960 --> 01:52:31,040
Speaker 3: He just stood there, Yeah, watched basketball like.

1881
01:52:31,000 --> 01:52:36,599
Speaker 2: He had a ticket and a beer, And I was like, man,

1882
01:52:36,840 --> 01:52:42,360
Speaker 2: are they like, look, nobody is smarter about basketball on

1883
01:52:42,400 --> 01:52:47,559
Speaker 2: the court than Lebron James. So like there's full faith

1884
01:52:47,680 --> 01:52:53,400
Speaker 2: that whatever they're doing is at least intuitive, It makes

1885
01:52:53,439 --> 01:52:56,920
Speaker 2: sense on paper. I just wondered to what level they

1886
01:52:56,920 --> 01:52:59,040
Speaker 2: still need to figure some things out.

1887
01:53:00,200 --> 01:53:04,240
Speaker 5: There's definitely a level there. Yeah, like there's work to

1888
01:53:04,320 --> 01:53:04,880
Speaker 5: be done.

1889
01:53:05,240 --> 01:53:08,479
Speaker 2: What an odd start to lose to Utah, lose to

1890
01:53:08,600 --> 01:53:13,840
Speaker 2: Charlotte then do something that you know nobody's really going

1891
01:53:13,880 --> 01:53:15,719
Speaker 2: to pay much attention to it. But if you're really

1892
01:53:15,760 --> 01:53:20,559
Speaker 2: watching the league closely, going to Portland and winning a

1893
01:53:20,640 --> 01:53:24,599
Speaker 2: game on a back to back situation, Portland is young

1894
01:53:24,720 --> 01:53:26,120
Speaker 2: and that's a hard place to play.

1895
01:53:26,280 --> 01:53:29,040
Speaker 5: Lakers have always struggled to Pa Wright, no matter what

1896
01:53:29,080 --> 01:53:34,040
Speaker 5: I'm about Kobe and Shaq, Magic, Kareem, They've always struggled

1897
01:53:34,080 --> 01:53:34,840
Speaker 5: in Portland.

1898
01:53:34,880 --> 01:53:35,840
Speaker 4: That is well known.

1899
01:53:36,320 --> 01:53:40,240
Speaker 2: And Portland is also winning a lot of basketball games lately.

1900
01:53:40,840 --> 01:53:44,200
Speaker 2: Like I don't know if people are watching, it's it's

1901
01:53:44,240 --> 01:53:47,160
Speaker 2: too late for them to do anything in the Western Conference,

1902
01:53:47,840 --> 01:53:52,080
Speaker 2: but you know, and like I don't know, they had

1903
01:53:52,160 --> 01:53:54,800
Speaker 2: come the Lakers beat them for their fourth loss in

1904
01:53:54,840 --> 01:53:57,280
Speaker 2: a row, but prior to that they had won nine

1905
01:53:57,280 --> 01:54:01,360
Speaker 2: of ten. And they beat Charlotte by like fifty something

1906
01:54:01,400 --> 01:54:05,760
Speaker 2: points last night. So Portland in Portland not a pushover.

1907
01:54:05,840 --> 01:54:07,760
Speaker 2: And the Lakers go get that and then they win

1908
01:54:07,840 --> 01:54:10,320
Speaker 2: in Denver. And I'm trying to figure out, like who

1909
01:54:10,360 --> 01:54:16,559
Speaker 2: are you who? Like, are you the team that could

1910
01:54:16,640 --> 01:54:19,559
Speaker 2: lose to anybody because you're in a transitional phase of

1911
01:54:19,560 --> 01:54:23,880
Speaker 2: figuring it out, or now are you the team that

1912
01:54:23,920 --> 01:54:26,519
Speaker 2: could beat just about anybody? Maybe you're both.

1913
01:54:27,320 --> 01:54:32,440
Speaker 5: I think it's the latter, just in basketball. IQ alone,

1914
01:54:36,960 --> 01:54:42,440
Speaker 5: like Luke was very sloppy starting off with the Lakers

1915
01:54:42,480 --> 01:54:45,160
Speaker 5: various a lot of turnovers, I think in that game

1916
01:54:45,200 --> 01:54:47,440
Speaker 5: against the Hornets, even though it didn't affect him until

1917
01:54:47,480 --> 01:54:51,600
Speaker 5: the fourth quarter. He had six turnovers in the first

1918
01:54:52,120 --> 01:54:58,600
Speaker 5: seven eight minutes. That's real, and it was ugly. It

1919
01:54:58,640 --> 01:55:03,080
Speaker 5: was gross, it was sloppy, and he was just off.

1920
01:55:05,360 --> 01:55:08,880
Speaker 5: And the Luca we saw last night is the Luca

1921
01:55:09,680 --> 01:55:15,040
Speaker 5: that Laker fans are hoping shows up every night. That's

1922
01:55:15,080 --> 01:55:19,160
Speaker 5: the Luca that people can depend on and count on

1923
01:55:19,280 --> 01:55:22,680
Speaker 5: and want to see because when Lebron James goes to

1924
01:55:22,720 --> 01:55:25,640
Speaker 5: take his breaks, he can stay over there a little

1925
01:55:25,720 --> 01:55:26,560
Speaker 5: bit longer.

1926
01:55:27,400 --> 01:55:33,680
Speaker 2: Wow, that's what really to me, That's what really changed

1927
01:55:33,720 --> 01:55:36,520
Speaker 2: at the trade deadline with these two teams that we

1928
01:55:36,560 --> 01:55:41,440
Speaker 2: started off the show talking about. Anthony Davis has been

1929
01:55:41,440 --> 01:55:43,520
Speaker 2: so in and out of the lineup and is also

1930
01:55:43,600 --> 01:55:47,400
Speaker 2: not a ball handler, and so the Lakers could function,

1931
01:55:48,200 --> 01:55:51,360
Speaker 2: but there's a very different basketball team when Lebron James

1932
01:55:51,400 --> 01:55:53,720
Speaker 2: has to go off the floor. And Lebron is forty,

1933
01:55:53,800 --> 01:55:55,480
Speaker 2: so he has to go off the floor not only

1934
01:55:55,520 --> 01:55:58,200
Speaker 2: for certain stretches of the game, but sometimes for the

1935
01:55:58,360 --> 01:55:58,840
Speaker 2: entire game.

1936
01:55:58,920 --> 01:56:01,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, sometimes he had to go take his blood pressure medicine, right,

1937
01:56:03,400 --> 01:56:06,200
Speaker 5: his tapioca and applesaws.

1938
01:56:06,320 --> 01:56:10,120
Speaker 3: Right, He's got to go to the restroom a lot.

1939
01:56:10,080 --> 01:56:13,200
Speaker 4: More forties to go to the bathroom, guys.

1940
01:56:13,160 --> 01:56:16,040
Speaker 2: Right right, and and and then Steph Curry is about

1941
01:56:16,080 --> 01:56:18,600
Speaker 2: to turn thirty seven, and the Warriors for two years

1942
01:56:18,640 --> 01:56:22,080
Speaker 2: now have been doing this thing called the non Steph minutes,

1943
01:56:22,680 --> 01:56:25,840
Speaker 2: and they're trying to figure that sucker out and they

1944
01:56:25,920 --> 01:56:30,560
Speaker 2: can't do it. Oh, you should watch the last six games.

1945
01:56:30,600 --> 01:56:33,400
Speaker 2: All the sudden stuff can go sit down, and the

1946
01:56:33,480 --> 01:56:34,560
Speaker 2: lead gets bigger.

1947
01:56:34,640 --> 01:56:37,000
Speaker 4: It's a whole difference, man, because.

1948
01:56:36,680 --> 01:56:39,280
Speaker 2: There's somebody else there who can put the ball in

1949
01:56:39,320 --> 01:56:44,200
Speaker 2: their hands and be an NBA one and and and

1950
01:56:44,240 --> 01:56:47,600
Speaker 2: that's that's what both of these teams have now, it's

1951
01:56:47,640 --> 01:56:48,400
Speaker 2: what both of them have.

1952
01:56:49,040 --> 01:56:50,320
Speaker 4: It makes a huge difference.

1953
01:56:52,760 --> 01:56:57,640
Speaker 5: Those minutes are invaluable, especially for the older players.

1954
01:56:57,680 --> 01:57:00,959
Speaker 4: Invaluable. Literally like it's it's.

1955
01:57:00,760 --> 01:57:07,400
Speaker 5: Like, yes, thank you finally, and you know it's it's

1956
01:57:07,720 --> 01:57:15,160
Speaker 5: I'm excited. I'm excited moving forward. I think the Lakers

1957
01:57:15,160 --> 01:57:18,879
Speaker 5: have a really good shot to compete and do something special.

1958
01:57:19,160 --> 01:57:19,680
Speaker 4: I do.

1959
01:57:22,160 --> 01:57:24,120
Speaker 2: The one thing that the league. I don't know if

1960
01:57:24,160 --> 01:57:26,680
Speaker 2: the league would be hoping for this or against this.

1961
01:57:26,920 --> 01:57:29,760
Speaker 2: You had mentioned whether or not the I think you

1962
01:57:29,760 --> 01:57:31,720
Speaker 2: would even said whether or not the Lakers could get

1963
01:57:31,760 --> 01:57:37,000
Speaker 2: to the to the to the two, but I actually

1964
01:57:37,200 --> 01:57:41,080
Speaker 2: really like their chances to at least get to the three.

1965
01:57:41,840 --> 01:57:44,800
Speaker 2: And if the Warriors get to the six and the

1966
01:57:44,880 --> 01:57:46,960
Speaker 2: Lakers are the three.

1967
01:57:47,720 --> 01:57:50,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, but do you want that in the first round?

1968
01:57:50,160 --> 01:57:51,400
Speaker 4: No, the league doesn't want that.

1969
01:57:51,720 --> 01:57:52,800
Speaker 3: The league doesn't want that.

1970
01:57:52,920 --> 01:57:56,440
Speaker 4: No, no, the league doesn't want that.

1971
01:57:56,600 --> 01:57:58,680
Speaker 3: Great ratings for the first round, but you.

1972
01:57:58,640 --> 01:58:00,720
Speaker 4: Know, I want to say that you you need that?

1973
01:58:01,520 --> 01:58:03,720
Speaker 2: Well, I mean I don't know if these teams are

1974
01:58:03,720 --> 01:58:06,440
Speaker 2: getting even gonna maneuver through the playoffs, you know what

1975
01:58:06,480 --> 01:58:10,160
Speaker 2: I mean, Like if like they're gonna have hard matchups

1976
01:58:10,880 --> 01:58:15,880
Speaker 2: right away, especially Golden State because they're they're much further back,

1977
01:58:16,720 --> 01:58:20,200
Speaker 2: so I don't know if they're like on some sort

1978
01:58:20,240 --> 01:58:22,560
Speaker 2: of a collision course. I'm not ready to say that

1979
01:58:22,720 --> 01:58:26,640
Speaker 2: I still will favor Oklahoma City and Denver at this hour,

1980
01:58:27,920 --> 01:58:33,640
Speaker 2: but man, they in this moment, the trade deadline shook

1981
01:58:33,720 --> 01:58:38,000
Speaker 2: up the Western Conference to really favor the two faces

1982
01:58:38,040 --> 01:58:39,240
Speaker 2: of the league.

1983
01:58:39,560 --> 01:58:43,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, it did, And that's a good thing. That's exciting.

1984
01:58:44,440 --> 01:58:48,680
Speaker 5: People are are are tuned in. Football is over. People

1985
01:58:48,760 --> 01:58:51,760
Speaker 5: are in a basketball watching moved because March Maddness is

1986
01:58:51,760 --> 01:58:55,760
Speaker 5: getting ready to start. So you know, this is this

1987
01:58:55,840 --> 01:58:58,960
Speaker 5: is basketball's sweet spot right now.

1988
01:59:00,800 --> 01:59:02,040
Speaker 4: This is a sweet spot.

1989
01:59:02,320 --> 01:59:03,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no doubt.

1990
01:59:03,880 --> 01:59:07,240
Speaker 2: I mean, here we go, and everybody's going to be

1991
01:59:07,440 --> 01:59:09,240
Speaker 2: playing I think, at a little bit higher of a

1992
01:59:09,240 --> 01:59:11,520
Speaker 2: clip until we get to those back to backs, of course,

1993
01:59:12,000 --> 01:59:14,560
Speaker 2: but it already does feel like a lot of those

1994
01:59:14,600 --> 01:59:17,120
Speaker 2: players are ramping it up. That ankle injury for Lebron

1995
01:59:17,200 --> 01:59:19,200
Speaker 2: and the All Star game. Boy, it just poof went away,

1996
01:59:19,200 --> 01:59:19,640
Speaker 2: didn't it.

1997
01:59:19,640 --> 01:59:21,640
Speaker 4: It didn't go away. Get out of here, man.

1998
01:59:24,080 --> 01:59:28,000
Speaker 3: All right, man, I'll see you next weeks. Salama, Mark Willard.

1999
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Speaker 3: It's Fox Sports Radio.