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Speaker 1: Good morning, swemerl then, welcome to the No Dunks podcast

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Speaker 1: on the Athletic Network. It's Tuesday, April twelfth. Happy playing

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Speaker 1: day on Jay skeets and alongside me on screen at

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Speaker 1: least we do have task.

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Speaker 2: Mellis play on play in play as we.

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Speaker 1: Got a tap shot hop boy Trey Kirby Ayo he yo,

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Speaker 1: the international man of mystery taking it to the Max.

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Speaker 1: Leellis friend and super producer filling in still for JD

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Speaker 1: his final No Dunk show, Andrew Schleck. What's up Andrew?

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Speaker 3: Last day hanging in the yard guys, It's been fun.

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Speaker 1: The clouds are coming. Time to go on inside. No

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Speaker 1: more yard time, though you will be doing No Breaks

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Speaker 1: episode later today with Trey Graydon and special guest Lee

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Speaker 1: Ellis talking about the Melbourne GP there the Australian GPS.

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Speaker 1: So you're not done quite just yet, Andrew, but we

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Speaker 1: appreciate you filling in and the admirable work you've done

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Speaker 1: here keeping this train move and shout out to the

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Speaker 1: week is continuing here at no dunks. Later on today's show,

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Speaker 1: Today's the day I will announce my ten all NBA

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Speaker 1: teams and the snubs at every single position. I had

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Speaker 1: somebody tweeting this morning. Can't wait to see where PJ.

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Speaker 1: Washington lands. Sorry, buddy doesn't make the cut, but hey,

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Speaker 1: maybe I'll throw his name in now as a snub. Leley,

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Speaker 1: you got tweet of the night. It's always an adventure.

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Speaker 1: You ready for that one? Okay? All right? Think so yes, okay,

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Speaker 1: And we will get into the Sacramento Kings moving off

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Speaker 1: of Elvin Gentry as their interim head coach and once

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Speaker 1: again starting up the search for another one. We'll get

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Speaker 4: But people want to know, Andrew, where are you? You

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Speaker 4: look like an official businessman today.

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Speaker 2: I do.

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Speaker 1: I've got my caller on, I've got my lanyard.

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Speaker 3: No, I'm a I'm at the thunder practice facility currently.

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Speaker 3: We've got exit interviews today talking to Mike or Mark Degnault, whoever, whatever.

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Speaker 4: Whoever shows up.

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Speaker 2: Nice.

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Speaker 5: Make sure you asked Josh giddy about the Formula one

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Speaker 5: in Melbourne too. I'm sure a redhead back in these days.

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Speaker 2: I'll see if I can get him on No Breaks

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Speaker 2: this afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we could bump Lee from that show and put Okay,

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Speaker 1: we got two more playing games to preview and predict

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Speaker 1: here on this Tuesday episode before we dive in. If

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Speaker 1: you're curious where our thoughts are on tonight's two games,

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Speaker 1: Calves Nets and Clippers Wolves. Those games on TNT tonight

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Speaker 1: seven and nine thirty pm Eastern, go check out yesterday's podcast,

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Speaker 1: Monday's No Dunks pod, or the YouTube show show Excuse Me,

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Speaker 1: where we broke those down and made our predictions. We

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Speaker 1: are actually split on the Clippers Wolves one, so go

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Speaker 1: check that out if you want to hear our thoughts

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Speaker 1: on tonight's games. But we're looking ahead to Wednesday night.

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Speaker 1: Task get us started, my man. We got Hornets, Hawks, CACA.

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Speaker 1: Got two Southeast Division rivals meeting up here in the

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Speaker 1: East nine to ten game, Hawks hosting Charlotte and the

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Speaker 1: loser eliminated from playoff contention, while the winner gets to

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Speaker 1: meet the loser of the Nets Cavs game for the

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Speaker 2: My man, Well, first I want to know are we

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Speaker 2: going down to the game? We see Andrew, he's at

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Speaker 2: exit interviews for Okay, see, this could be the exit

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Speaker 2: interview for the Atlanta Hawks. This could be their last

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Speaker 2: Let's go. First of all, we haven't confirmed that. Let's go.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna go see a thousand points. I think this

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Speaker 2: the Hornets are gonna win this game. They want to run,

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Speaker 2: they want to go small, they want to lose the Hawks.

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Speaker 2: In transition, you mentioned PJ Washington. He may not make

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Speaker 2: If they have a game on Friday, he could come

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Speaker 2: Wednesday night, absolutely not. So I think Clint Capella in

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Speaker 2: It's been a crazy disappointing year, and bog down Bogdanovic

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Speaker 1: I love John Hollinger's idea with this tray first team

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Speaker 1: Get really wild. But both these teams coming in playing decent.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the key to the game might just be who

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Speaker 4: As we saw with the Hornets last year in the

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Speaker 4: I think the Hawks can win this pretty easily if

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Speaker 4: you're probably gonna score. Whereas the Hornets, they're going to

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Speaker 4: win this by out shooting the Hawks. The Hornets take

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Speaker 4: a ton of threes, they shoot a pretty good percentage.

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Speaker 4: The Hawks shoot them well, they just don't shoot quite

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Speaker 4: to be a pretty big game for Bogdan Bogdanovich, Kevin Kuert,

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Speaker 4: They're gonna try and make somebody else besides Trey Young

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Speaker 4: beat them. They've done a pretty solid job against Trey

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Speaker 4: shoot a ton of threes. The Hawks are just gonna

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Speaker 4: The Hornets are really good at getting opposing teams to

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Speaker 4: I think the Hawks are the better team here, but

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Speaker 4: they have to play like the better team. They have

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Tray, you're right, I mean Charlotte. In the matchups

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Speaker 1: And that's why I think those shooters that you guys

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Speaker 1: Because if the ball's forced out of Tray, and they're saying,

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Speaker 1: anybody but you beat us, we don't want to give

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Speaker 1: up the floaters. We don't want you in isolation, red velvet.

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Speaker 1: I mean he scored eighteen points per game. In his

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Speaker 1: splashed seventeen three pointers. You know, they might need that

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Speaker 1: or a Bogdanovic or both of them there, Lee, to

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Speaker 1: you know, keep the scoreboard ticking there. But this one

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Speaker 1: should be fun. I hope we're down there. I think

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Speaker 1: Trey just sent a Slack message that standing room only

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Speaker 1: tickets are now available. Wow, So let's get down there, Lee,

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Speaker 1: But what do you think about this one? Yeah?

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Speaker 5: No, I think the point you guys are hitting on

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Speaker 5: home court advantage is going to be big in this one.

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Speaker 5: I think if it was in Charlotte, the Hornets are

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Speaker 5: I think Bogdanovitch is the key here because he only

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Speaker 5: played two games against the Hornets this season and he

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Speaker 5: was pretty bad. Nine points and he shot twenty three

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Speaker 5: percent from downtown. That's just not going to fly if

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Speaker 5: because if you go cold, if your team goes cold

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Speaker 5: this sort of a game you can't afford to lose.

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Speaker 5: So I think it comes down I think Gallinari in

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Speaker 5: a game like this, it's actually okay. You know, he's

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Speaker 5: But I'd take the Hawks again because they're at home

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Speaker 1: And you will be in attendance standing, will be standing.

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Speaker 1: The real question is how many beers will we have

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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, Well I'm hitting the I'm hit the over

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Speaker 1: Any other you know things to watch in this game

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Speaker 2: Yeah, They're nine and one in their last ten at home.

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Speaker 2: just to slow the flow him, just to really slow

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Speaker 2: I hope, I hope the Hawks. I mean, is there

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Speaker 2: I'm cheering for the Hawks being down here, but I

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Speaker 2: the post season, I think is the appropriate term regular

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Speaker 2: I think that's how we we gotta play it. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: He played last year though, fourteen points on four fourteen shooting,

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Speaker 4: no doubt is Kelly Ubray Junior. He's gonna take twelve

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Speaker 4: for Kelly and the boys. Will Lee be blowing kisses

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Speaker 5: Well see, you've got the old Larry Johnson Charlotte T

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Speaker 5: I can't wait that to a Hawks playoff game. I've

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Speaker 4: Every kiss begins with k.

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Speaker 1: Either way. Okay, so Trey, you're going Atlanta. What's your

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Speaker 1: final prediction here? Yeah, I'm going Atlanta. The Hawks are

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Speaker 1: They're in the conference finals last year. I'm going Hawks. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Four morning poops pointing out Hack a plumb dog was

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Speaker 5: No, I think it will be a close one. I mean,

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Speaker 5: I think the Hawks have got a slightly better offense,

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Speaker 1: You know what, I just want to push back on

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Speaker 1: It's the weirdest thing, especially in a one game situation.

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Speaker 5: I just think once you get into the flow of

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fair. So hopefully it is an entertaining game.

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Speaker 1: I'm with you, guys. I'm also taking Atlanta. I think

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Speaker 1: Oh is it okay? Right around there? Oh they're good

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Speaker 4: He didn't play the last three games for New Orleans,

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Speaker 4: but the Spurs take care of the ball. Spurs beat

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Speaker 4: the Pelicans three times this season. The Pelicans beat him

431
00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:01,480
Speaker 4: once by thirty three points, so very different but evenly

432
00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:05,600
Speaker 4: matched teams. One potential area to watch New Orleans on

433
00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:08,719
Speaker 4: the offensive glass. The Pelicans were third in offensive rebound

434
00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:11,960
Speaker 4: rate this season. The Spurs are twenty six in defensive

435
00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:15,240
Speaker 4: rebound rate. So an X factor more like a V factor.

436
00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:19,320
Speaker 4: Jonas Valanciunis this is already gonna be his fourth play

437
00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:21,440
Speaker 4: in game of his career. He was there with the

438
00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:24,840
Speaker 4: Grizzlies in nineteen twenty played two games last year in

439
00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:28,200
Speaker 4: twenty twenty one, including a twenty three point twenty three

440
00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:33,159
Speaker 4: rebound big Beef Barbara Walters against Yaka peardl last season

441
00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:36,960
Speaker 4: playing with the Grizzlies. So I gotta go with JV here.

442
00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:40,320
Speaker 4: Pearl keeps showing up at all of these weird situations,

443
00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:43,800
Speaker 4: and he's usually taking taking the l in it, so

444
00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:47,359
Speaker 4: I think you're gonna throw another L POE L T

445
00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:49,680
Speaker 4: L L on this one.

446
00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:52,560
Speaker 1: Thank god we have Trey Kirby because no one else

447
00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:55,439
Speaker 1: remembers any of these previous playing games.

448
00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:57,679
Speaker 4: It's like, you saybody's gotta look him up.

449
00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:00,520
Speaker 1: Huh yeah, I guess that did happen. I guess they

450
00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:03,800
Speaker 1: did play all right. So he's leaning with the Pelicans

451
00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:07,960
Speaker 1: at home. I will say I was completely wrong about

452
00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:09,639
Speaker 1: both these teams. I remember when they started one in

453
00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:12,000
Speaker 1: twelve New Orleans. I said, well, this season's over. I mean,

454
00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:15,320
Speaker 1: it's a wrap disappointing as hell, No Zion, it's over,

455
00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:17,000
Speaker 1: and they're not going to be sniffing the playoffs while

456
00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,320
Speaker 1: here they are in the plan. And then I remember

457
00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:22,960
Speaker 1: at the trade deadline, the Spurs appear to be like, Okay,

458
00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:25,159
Speaker 1: you know, we'll sort of wave the white flag on

459
00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:27,520
Speaker 1: this season. You know, just lean into the development of

460
00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:30,280
Speaker 1: our guys. They traded away Derek White, you know, they

461
00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:32,040
Speaker 1: trade away Thad. You know, they just get some picks,

462
00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:34,359
Speaker 1: and it's like, instead, they fall into this spot too.

463
00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:35,919
Speaker 1: A big part of this, of course, as the Lakers

464
00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:39,479
Speaker 1: being complete garbage. But here they are, Lee, what are

465
00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:41,640
Speaker 1: you watching in this one. Where does the advantage lie

466
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Speaker 1: to you?

467
00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:44,640
Speaker 5: Well, I think it the advantage lies in two things,

468
00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:47,080
Speaker 5: the home court and then the playoff experience. I know

469
00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:49,080
Speaker 5: you mentioned the play in there, but CEE J. Mccllums

470
00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:51,400
Speaker 5: being to the playoffs around sixty games they have, Valentunis

471
00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:54,120
Speaker 5: has played around fifty. Brandon Ingram's never played, but I

472
00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:56,919
Speaker 5: think C. J. McCollum has gone at least to the

473
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Speaker 5: conference finals, and that could be a pretty decisive fact.

474
00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:01,760
Speaker 5: He's been pretty good since he did come over in

475
00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:03,840
Speaker 5: the trade. He's obviously a guy can go out there

476
00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:06,280
Speaker 5: and score. I'm not sure the Spurs offense can sort

477
00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:07,840
Speaker 5: of keep up when you've got those sort of guys.

478
00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:10,400
Speaker 5: I think Valentunis in the middle has the advantage over

479
00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:12,639
Speaker 5: Yuker Purdle as well. Yucker Purdle is a good defender,

480
00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:15,080
Speaker 5: but I think Jonas is a big body out there

481
00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:16,480
Speaker 5: for him that he can sort of muscle his way

482
00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:18,760
Speaker 5: inside and get a few easy baskets. So I think

483
00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:21,119
Speaker 5: it sort of leans towards New Orleans for that reason.

484
00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:23,640
Speaker 5: I think they've just got the experience the guys who

485
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Speaker 5: I trust a little bit more to get a bucket

486
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Speaker 5: and Jante Murray. The injury is interesting because you know,

487
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Speaker 5: if you sit out the last game or two, you

488
00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:33,560
Speaker 5: can understand maybe rest, But five of six tells me

489
00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:36,120
Speaker 5: there's probably something a little bit more there. So maybe

490
00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:38,000
Speaker 5: he's not one hundred percent. Who knows, we'll find out,

491
00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:41,840
Speaker 5: but I just think the Pelicans have been playing better,

492
00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:45,160
Speaker 5: certainly sort of since the All Star break there, and again,

493
00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:47,639
Speaker 5: home court advantage can be a real factor in a

494
00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:49,440
Speaker 5: one off game like this. You want to be at home,

495
00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:51,359
Speaker 5: you want to be in front of your fans, especially

496
00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:53,159
Speaker 5: when you've got guys who are just a little bit

497
00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:57,280
Speaker 5: more experienced playing beyond the regular season. So that's why

498
00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:59,520
Speaker 5: I lean towards C. J. McCollum. I think he can

499
00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:02,000
Speaker 5: have a pretty game here and bathe the sort of

500
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:04,640
Speaker 5: lilid that he played next through there in Portland where

501
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:06,640
Speaker 5: it's like time to step up the game. He's shown

502
00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:08,080
Speaker 5: that in the past, and I think he's gonna do

503
00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:10,280
Speaker 5: it again tonight or tomorrow.

504
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Speaker 1: Tomorrow night, yes, Wednesday night, this one goes down. I'm

505
00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:15,520
Speaker 1: excited for like the casual fan to maybe tune into

506
00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:18,320
Speaker 1: this game task and be like what Jackson Hayes, this

507
00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:21,640
Speaker 1: guy plays alongside JV and Herb Jones. Who the hell

508
00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:23,399
Speaker 1: is that? Where'd this guy come from? There's gonna be

509
00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:26,200
Speaker 1: a lot of that. People are gonna be confused, even

510
00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:28,200
Speaker 1: McCollums on the Pelicans, I think, I don't think a

511
00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:30,359
Speaker 1: lot of people are following New Orleans all that closely.

512
00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,760
Speaker 1: But do you think the Spurs can you know, I

513
00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:36,000
Speaker 1: guess call it an upset it would be on the

514
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Speaker 1: road to win this game and try and have a

515
00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:38,679
Speaker 1: shot at the eight seat. Or do you like New

516
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:39,359
Speaker 1: Orleans as well?

517
00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:40,320
Speaker 5: Well?

518
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Speaker 2: I like New Orleans. I do think Yaka pertl in

519
00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:45,199
Speaker 2: the middle for the Spurs is important, getting on the

520
00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:48,600
Speaker 2: offensive glass and getting Yonas Valentiuns hopefully out of the game.

521
00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:51,439
Speaker 2: I think that's the biggest key for the Spurs is

522
00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:54,879
Speaker 2: just to get Valentinas off the floor if possible, to

523
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Speaker 2: be able to go against Willie hernan Gomez and to

524
00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:59,040
Speaker 2: be able to open it up for de Jante Murray

525
00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,399
Speaker 2: a little bit more in the middle to go dance

526
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:05,000
Speaker 2: with Willie hert Angomez or whoever. Yeah, I do think

527
00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:07,760
Speaker 2: the Publicans offense is going to be a little too much.

528
00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:11,199
Speaker 2: I do think brandon Ingram, even though he's never played

529
00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:14,639
Speaker 2: in a playoff game or a play in game. To me,

530
00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:19,080
Speaker 2: playing games don't exist until they're on Basketball Reference. They're

531
00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:22,880
Speaker 2: on NBA dot Com. But I'm not buying it. I'm

532
00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:24,600
Speaker 2: not buying it that they don't exist. They're not regular

533
00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:27,119
Speaker 2: season stats, they're not postseason stats. They're play in stats.

534
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,240
Speaker 2: They don't exist until they're on Basketball Reference. But Brandon Ingram,

535
00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:32,680
Speaker 2: I am surprised because he's an All Star. I suppose

536
00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:35,200
Speaker 2: that this is year six for him and he's never

537
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:38,200
Speaker 2: played in the playoffs, But he does have that advantage

538
00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:42,160
Speaker 2: beside him in CJ. McCollum for sure, having been there

539
00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:45,919
Speaker 2: quite a bit throughout his career. And it is funny

540
00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:48,639
Speaker 2: to think about de Johonnataymurray, who's been in this league

541
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:52,199
Speaker 2: a lot longer than you remember, I guess because he

542
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,040
Speaker 2: feels like a young player. But this is the seventh

543
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:57,639
Speaker 2: year anyway, since he's drafted in twenty fifteen, he's been

544
00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:01,000
Speaker 2: to a couple of playoffs with Kawhi Leonard, it's been

545
00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:05,760
Speaker 2: so fricking long. But you know, the playoff advantage has

546
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,159
Speaker 2: to go to the Pels and their offense. But I

547
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,600
Speaker 2: think if the Spurs are able to play a little

548
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:14,440
Speaker 2: rugged with, you know, the depth that they have at center.

549
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:18,040
Speaker 2: If they bring in a jock or whoever. I mean,

550
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,600
Speaker 2: if they can rough up Valan Choos, I think that's

551
00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:22,000
Speaker 2: the key to the game. I think get him out

552
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:23,720
Speaker 2: of the game as quickly as possible.

553
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Speaker 1: Keldon Johnson asked about this trip herely I wanted to

554
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Speaker 1: get your take on this. He said, the Spurs are

555
00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:34,560
Speaker 1: packing for four games, all right, because they're packing for

556
00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 1: two play ins and then two playoff games because if

557
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:39,359
Speaker 1: they make it, they're the eighth seed and they're on

558
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,439
Speaker 1: the road in Phoenix. So he said, quote, everybody on

559
00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:44,320
Speaker 1: the team is packing for four games. We're going to

560
00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:46,720
Speaker 1: be ready to play. I'm just curious to your take

561
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:49,239
Speaker 1: on that, because I know you and Trey, especially in

562
00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:52,160
Speaker 1: sending you to finals, at times you would never know,

563
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:54,400
Speaker 1: you know, if it was wrapping up its possibility it's

564
00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:57,159
Speaker 1: over tonight, it's not you know, the dilemma of like

565
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Speaker 1: how much to pack because you could be there, let's

566
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,320
Speaker 1: call it one note, you could be there three or

567
00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 1: four nights the way they stretch out to these finals.

568
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:08,720
Speaker 1: So did you also have this Caldon Johnson dilemma and

569
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 1: were you always leaning towards Well I got a pack

570
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:13,320
Speaker 1: for the four nights or would you just buy new

571
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:14,200
Speaker 1: clothes in the city.

572
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:16,600
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I had to take three blazes at times,

573
00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:19,280
Speaker 5: you know, because sports coats, because you couldn't wear the

574
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:21,480
Speaker 5: same one on the show, you know, and we were

575
00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:24,160
Speaker 5: probably never gone. I think three games was the most

576
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:25,879
Speaker 5: one of us went at any one time there, So

577
00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:29,119
Speaker 5: that was it was a little bit of extra you know,

578
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:30,840
Speaker 5: luggage you had to take, but it was always fun.

579
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:31,080
Speaker 1: You know.

580
00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 5: You thought, well, I've got to mix up the shirts

581
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:34,159
Speaker 5: and things like that. You can't you can't wear the

582
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:35,840
Speaker 5: same one, and then two games later you got the

583
00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:37,359
Speaker 5: same shirt, because then it looks like you were just

584
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:39,520
Speaker 5: like you had no faith in the team. But what's

585
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:42,200
Speaker 5: interesting about his remarks there, I mean pat Riley when

586
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:44,560
Speaker 5: the Heat went to Dallas to close it out in

587
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:46,239
Speaker 5: two thousand and six, when it was the old two

588
00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 5: three to two format and they were up three too,

589
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:51,199
Speaker 5: he was like, I'm taking one shirt, one tie, and

590
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:53,359
Speaker 5: one suit, and that sort of made more sense, that

591
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,240
Speaker 5: sort of confidence arrogance of like we're ending it. But

592
00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:58,719
Speaker 5: you know, players are supposed to only take it one

593
00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:01,240
Speaker 5: game at a time. But Kelvin Johnson. He's like, nah,

594
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 5: we go into the playoffs, babe, he said, I like

595
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:04,919
Speaker 5: the confidence from a young guy.

596
00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:05,359
Speaker 1: I like it.

597
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 4: I think it's good.

598
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:10,120
Speaker 1: Kelvin Johnson's playing really really well for San Antonio as

599
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,440
Speaker 1: of late too. He's putting up some numbers there. Yeah,

600
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 1: this will be fun. I saw people in the stream

601
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:17,439
Speaker 1: team saying, one task, this is the uh, this is

602
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 1: like the Raptors Bowl here with Pearl versus JV. It's

603
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,960
Speaker 1: like practice back in the day. And then two, even

604
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:26,960
Speaker 1: the people that are the sickos here in the stream

605
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:29,200
Speaker 1: team are like, yeah, you don't get most people don't

606
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 1: get a lot of opportunities unless you're Repelicans or Spurs

607
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:34,320
Speaker 1: fans to see these two teams play. And I think

608
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:38,120
Speaker 1: that's that's very true. And there will be in there

609
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 1: some eyeballs on this game as the last game of

610
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:43,159
Speaker 1: the first part of the playing tournament on Wednesday night,

611
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:45,040
Speaker 1: so it'll be fun. I hope they put on a show.

612
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,399
Speaker 1: I hope, you know, some of the young Spurs players

613
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:49,160
Speaker 1: and even some of these young Pelican guys like Eric

614
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:51,240
Speaker 1: Herb Jones, that they ball out because this will be

615
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 1: a big opportunity for them to at least get recognized

616
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:54,359
Speaker 1: by some.

617
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:57,639
Speaker 2: I would say people have the opportunity to watch the

618
00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 2: Pelicans and the Spurs, they just choose not to. Well really, well,

619
00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:04,640
Speaker 2: I mean every team is available, everybody has lead past,

620
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:05,920
Speaker 2: though not everybody.

621
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Speaker 1: You're not seeing them on national televised television a lot.

622
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:11,439
Speaker 1: You're not seeing them on NBA TV a lot.

623
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,960
Speaker 2: Oh, come on, there's lots of Pellies on NBA TV.

624
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:17,880
Speaker 2: Check the scat man.

625
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,159
Speaker 1: Check how many times do you think the Pelicans played

626
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 1: on NBA TV this year?

627
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:25,359
Speaker 2: At least as many as Lee brings Blazers on the

628
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:26,159
Speaker 2: road at least.

629
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:33,439
Speaker 1: I guess the Zion Factor TV. That's right. Yeah, so

630
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 1: predictions is everybody taking New Orleans?

631
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's about a five point line there as well.

632
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 5: I think the Spurs can cover it. But I am

633
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 5: taking the Pelicans to win the contest.

634
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 1: Okay, what about you test?

635
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got the Pellies at home. I do believe

636
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 2: in Brandon Ingram as a cool cat number one guy,

637
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 2: especially C J. McCollum playing beside him. Yeah, I think

638
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 2: it's gonna be hard for the Spurs to contain that. Again,

639
00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 2: I do think it's uh the Spurs got his score

640
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:02,800
Speaker 2: inside for this game to be interesting, it's got to

641
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:05,400
Speaker 2: be de Jontay Mariy, Kelvin Johnson getting JV off the floor.

642
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 2: But yeah, I believe in the Pels. The Pels, you know,

643
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 2: they they did have aspirations. They do they they did,

644
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,240
Speaker 2: you know, come from one to twelve. I think they're

645
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:16,200
Speaker 2: a confident bunch going into this game.

646
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 1: All right, what do you what do you got, Trey?

647
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 4: I would love to San Antonio swerve, but I gotta

648
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 4: go with the Pelicans here. They seem like a team that,

649
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,040
Speaker 4: you know, had they you throw out the first month

650
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 4: of the season, they're right up there with some of

651
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 4: the bad Eastern Conference teams. You know, they would be

652
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 4: knocking on the door of the tenth seed regardless in

653
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 4: the Eastern Conference. So yeah, you know, not a lot

654
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 4: of people watch the Pelicans in Spurs, And when the

655
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 4: Pelicans showed up on National TV, people were like, why

656
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:46,080
Speaker 4: are the Pelicans on National TV? So that's definitely true.

657
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 4: But you know, one exciting game is all we need

658
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:52,719
Speaker 4: from these squads tonight or tomorrow night. Yeah, I mean

659
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 4: we could have done the previews on the days of

660
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 4: the game, but that would have made too much sense.

661
00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:00,360
Speaker 1: Well yeah, then we've got too many blocks the foot too.

662
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, task, you're right, I forgot the

663
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 1: Zion factor of course, thinking he might just going to

664
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 1: play this season. Fifteen total five on NBA TV, though

665
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 1: who knows how many of these were flexed. We'd have

666
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 1: to really do a deep dive on that. But they

667
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 1: did have some games on nationally on national television though.

668
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:20,080
Speaker 1: Were people watching? I'm not sure.

669
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Speaker 2: And the viewing experience has improved in New Orleans. It

670
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:27,600
Speaker 2: used to be poor lighting, not great, just not great

671
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,240
Speaker 2: color wise. And I know some people don't like the

672
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 2: giant pelican that stretches its wings from three point line

673
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:37,240
Speaker 2: to three point line. But I think the view experience

674
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:38,840
Speaker 2: has gotten a lot better. I just I just didn't

675
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 2: like the aesthetics before. But somehow, I don't know what

676
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:43,400
Speaker 2: they did. The lights are better. Things are better in

677
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:46,040
Speaker 2: New Orleans. It should be a fun game. I know

678
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:48,720
Speaker 2: it's of the four games. To me, this is the

679
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:51,160
Speaker 2: least exciting. I've got to be honest. Yeah, you got

680
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 2: to be totally honest, because you know they are two

681
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 2: sub five hundred teams. But yeah, the Pels and the Spurs,

682
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 2: they have not been playing like those some five hundred

683
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:02,480
Speaker 2: teams recently, so it should be a good one.

684
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll take our first break. When we come back,

685
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 1: we'll talk about the Kangs looking for another head coach,

686
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 1: and we will finally get to my ten all NBA teams. Yes,

687
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:17,240
Speaker 1: sick of season is here. People be right back. Okay,

688
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 1: back here with the crew.

689
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 4: But where's dask there is?

690
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 1: Before we get to my ten all NBA teams and

691
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 1: the snubs, we had some news in the NBA coaching world.

692
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 1: We know that Frank Fogel was fired by the Lakers,

693
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 1: but also yesterday Elvin Gentry was informed that he is

694
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 1: no longer the interim head coach of the Sacramento Kings

695
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 1: and that the team will commence a comprehensive coaching search immediately.

696
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 1: Lots of names being considered, Kenny Atkinson, Steve Clifford, Mark Jackson,

697
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 1: Mike Brown, and a couple of Bucks assistants, Charles Lee

698
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 1: and darvinham. Chams was the first one all over this.

699
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 1: But Lee, here we go again with Sacramento. This is

700
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 1: not really a surprise. He hadn't shed the interim head

701
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 1: coaching title there. But Gentry's out and here they go again.

702
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 1: What do you think of this news.

703
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean he may be staying on in the

704
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,960
Speaker 5: front office in a role there, but they are obviously

705
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,600
Speaker 5: trying to get a new head coach. And their Basketball

706
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 5: Reference franchise index page is a pretty miserable page because

707
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 5: if you go back, do you remember who was the

708
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:26,959
Speaker 5: coach was before Luke Walton? Anybody remember Vieger Dave Jeger

709
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 5: was the coach and his last season he went thirty

710
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:31,800
Speaker 5: nine and forty three. Now that thirty nine and forty

711
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 5: three was the best record they had since they last

712
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 5: made the playoffs in two thousand and six with Rick Adelman.

713
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 5: So the Kings just can't get out of their own way.

714
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 5: They just don't seem to know what they're doing. It's

715
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 5: like you hire someone, you go, this is our guy,

716
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 5: and then five minutes later he's out and someone else

717
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:49,240
Speaker 5: has come in. And that's going to be the problem.

718
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 5: That they're going to get a coach. They're going to

719
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 5: get a good coach there, but the front office and

720
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:56,479
Speaker 5: the ownership group there, Viveka and adiv he has to

721
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 5: be able to get his hands out because that's where

722
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 5: a lot of the criticisms to come from in recent

723
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 5: times that the owner just sort of interferes and puts

724
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 5: his fingerprints on bad decisions. And if you hire smart, good, accomplished,

725
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 5: front off as people, you have to basically let them

726
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 5: do it.

727
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 1: Now.

728
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 5: Monty McNair has made a few changes in the last

729
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 5: couple of days as well, relieving another assistant general matter

730
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 5: of his duties, oppressed public relations director as well, and

731
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 5: there's likely to be other changes. So it sort of

732
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 5: has to you have to trust Monty if you've hired

733
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 5: him to do this job and be the general manager,

734
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 5: and then you have to let him go all the

735
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 5: way through because otherwise I can see what's going to

736
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 5: happen in another year or two. They're going to fire

737
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 5: somebody else. And so this is a very very important

738
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 5: decision I think for the Kings moving forward. I don't

739
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 5: think they made the right decision during the season trading

740
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 5: away Tyrese Haliburton. You know, you get some bonus in return,

741
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 5: but so bonus has under got i think two years

742
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 5: left on his contract and he's an unrestricted free agent.

743
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 5: So you have to make sure that this next choice

744
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 5: of coach is someone who is going to be able

745
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 5: to sort of stabilize some movement there, because I really

746
00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 5: feel that the Kings are their own biggest enemy here

747
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:02,680
Speaker 5: and they've got to be able to, you know, get

748
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 5: rid of the chaos it's engulfing this franchise and has

749
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 5: done for the last ten to fifteen years.

750
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, this will be Sacramento's third head coach in as

751
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:13,440
Speaker 1: many seasons, and it's sixth head coach since Michael Malone

752
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:16,520
Speaker 1: was let go in twenty fourteen. There's been a lot

753
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:18,399
Speaker 1: of them and the only one that's ever had any

754
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 1: success was Rick Adelman a long time ago. Like Lee said,

755
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:23,719
Speaker 1: so who do you bring in here?

756
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:24,080
Speaker 4: Tasks?

757
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 1: And can this team you know, turn this around with

758
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 1: what appears to be building blocks still in Sabonas and Fox.

759
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 1: So what do you do? Well?

760
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 2: I think what Lee said in terms of bringing a

761
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 2: real steady hand that has an influence beyond just the

762
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 2: head coaching role, because it really does go up to

763
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 2: the front office. Well, it's you know, we've seen a

764
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:53,840
Speaker 2: couple coaching moves in the last couple of days where

765
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 2: the front office just isn't doing their job all that Well,

766
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,840
Speaker 2: it's happening in La where they they like Frank Vogel,

767
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 2: their coach who won a championship without telling the guy

768
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 2: first done through the media and Alva Jetriy obviously didn't

769
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 2: have a long term contract with this team. At the

770
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:17,759
Speaker 2: same time, they need somebody who has that, I mean,

771
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:23,800
Speaker 2: who has the confidence of ownership and has the ability

772
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 2: to do what he wants. Yeah, ever since Michael Malone

773
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 2: was left or let go in twenty fourteen, Yeah, it's

774
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 2: been a roller coaster. It's been a roller coaster for

775
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 2: a long time with this team. So who they bring

776
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 2: in I don't know, but somebody who has a ton

777
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 2: of power I think, and knows that the front office

778
00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 2: is going to be stable. But that's a lot to

779
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 2: ask of this King's franchise. Unfortunately, it's it is truly

780
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 2: a lot to ask, So who knows. I'm just sad

781
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:49,400
Speaker 2: that we don't have an Alvin in the league anymore.

782
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:53,520
Speaker 2: I love the name Alvin, and you know you mentioned

783
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:56,879
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm just thinking names now, Skeets. You mentioned Jackson, Hayes,

784
00:35:56,920 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 2: Jackson with an ex what herb play and tomorrow and

785
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 2: then Alvin. I'm so sad, so sad that an Alvin

786
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:06,240
Speaker 2: has gone again. But he'll be back, obviously on someone's

787
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 2: bench if he doesn't take a front office role.

788
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:10,880
Speaker 1: I think I see a lot of people I know.

789
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 1: I was watching Deus and mow Fantastic Kings podcast yesterday.

790
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:16,960
Speaker 1: They were breaking this breaking news and they had they

791
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:20,839
Speaker 1: even were like like showing Fox and Sibonis being asked

792
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:22,960
Speaker 1: about this decision and where they go, and it seems

793
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,680
Speaker 1: like they really just want, like, of course, someone that

794
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:28,799
Speaker 1: can have an identity to a team Trey, like a

795
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:31,480
Speaker 1: Kenny Atkinson. What he did in Brooklyn makes some sense

796
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:34,920
Speaker 1: here in Sacramento if he's like given the chance to

797
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:37,879
Speaker 1: like find, you know, young good players and grow them

798
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:42,800
Speaker 1: into something and also like keep them accountable, which I

799
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:44,399
Speaker 1: think they've been lacking over the last couple of years,

800
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:46,799
Speaker 1: probably since a yager before. Being honest, But what do

801
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,880
Speaker 1: you think the Kangs do here? Where do they go?

802
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:53,280
Speaker 4: They've got a few options. Number One, bring back Rick Adelman.

803
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 4: He'll be seventy six at the start of next season.

804
00:36:56,520 --> 00:37:00,040
Speaker 4: He's been retired for seven years. But they made the

805
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 4: playoffs eight times in eight seasons with Rick Adelman, so

806
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 4: maybe that's the key. Atkinson's not a bad choice, especially

807
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:10,360
Speaker 4: if you want to kind of be an early Nets

808
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 4: team where you're just trying to build more of a

809
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:16,920
Speaker 4: program rather than an NBA franchise, get everybody on the

810
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 4: same page, and get a lot of young guys bought in.

811
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 4: I can see that being beneficial, or maybe, which I'm

812
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 4: seeing the stream team suggest as well, Frank Vogel is

813
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:26,239
Speaker 4: somebody that could take a look at, because you know

814
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:29,800
Speaker 4: he's gonna bring a defensive identity. He said after his

815
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:31,799
Speaker 4: time with the Lakers was coming to an end. It's

816
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 4: been a win now scenario for him every year. That

817
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 4: would not be the case in Sacramento. Just be an

818
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 4: improved now and have an identity, and he's surely got

819
00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 4: a lot of purple in his wardrobe. Would be a

820
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 4: short trip to Sacramento, So I think that could work

821
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 4: as well. But they just need somebody that's gonna get

822
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:51,960
Speaker 4: them to play like a professional basketball team. I don't

823
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 4: know what that means. They somewhat improve defensively this year

824
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:57,840
Speaker 4: from thirtieth to twenty seven, so that's at least a

825
00:37:57,880 --> 00:37:59,880
Speaker 4: step in the right direction. They think they'd got fa

826
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 4: straightened out with their back court with Mitchell and Fox

827
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 4: and then some bonus making plays as well. There's some

828
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:09,319
Speaker 4: talent there, but they've not been able to get on

829
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:11,880
Speaker 4: the same page basically since Mike Malone was around.

830
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, the deepest question about this King's franchise that I

831
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 1: came across yesterday was has Sacramento's inability to evaluate coaching

832
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:25,919
Speaker 1: talent held back their bad players? Or has their inability

833
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 1: to evaluate player talent held back their bad coaches? Real

834
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 1: chicken in the egg vibe there. I was like, holy crap,

835
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,880
Speaker 1: my brain nearly exploded trying to think about that one,

836
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,759
Speaker 1: because they've they've struck out on both sides of that

837
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:40,960
Speaker 1: a couple of times. Lee. But we'll see what they

838
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 1: can do here and if they can turn this around.

839
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:45,840
Speaker 1: I still believe in Darren Fox. I was tweeting yesterday,

840
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:47,960
Speaker 1: I'll buy all your Fox stock if you want off

841
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:49,879
Speaker 1: of it, I get it. If you're ready to check

842
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 1: out on them, I'll buy it. And I'd hope to

843
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:55,719
Speaker 1: see this team at least. Look, it's embarrassing this team

844
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:57,839
Speaker 1: is not in the playing We do all agree with that,

845
00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 1: right lely, with the record that you need to get

846
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:01,239
Speaker 1: in at this year.

847
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 5: Jesus, you know, because when they fired Luke Walton, that

848
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:07,360
Speaker 5: didn't seem to be a firing with some other direction

849
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 5: or plan in mind. It was just like hey, we

850
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:11,240
Speaker 5: want to just fire the coach and see if that works,

851
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 5: and it didn't really do anything. And I think if

852
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:15,719
Speaker 5: you are d'aron Fox, I also think he is a

853
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 5: very good player, but at this point of his career

854
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 5: he must be just like, you know, this can't continue.

855
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 5: I can't just keep having new coaches, new general managers,

856
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 5: you know, huge overhauls of the roster. He needs some

857
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 5: stability himself. So this is a critical season I think

858
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 5: for him as to finding a coach that can connect

859
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:34,319
Speaker 5: with him and bring out the best of him, which

860
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:36,880
Speaker 5: we saw two seasons ago where he was flirting with

861
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 5: All Star selection, but this season he took a step

862
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 5: back for the most part. He just didn't seem to

863
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 5: have that same juice. And then you look down the

864
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 5: roster as well, someone like Harrison Barnes. I don't think

865
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 5: he's going to be a part of their future. So

866
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 5: are they going to know? How are they going to

867
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 5: move on from him and moving forward to some other

868
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:54,840
Speaker 5: decisions there. So this is a big one, a big decision.

869
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 5: I think Kenny Atkinson probably fits the sort of mold

870
00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:59,200
Speaker 5: for a d'aron Fox, like, okay, we can you know,

871
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:02,400
Speaker 5: maybe in the same way D'Angelo Russell excelled under Kenny

872
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:03,240
Speaker 5: Atkinson there.

873
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:04,000
Speaker 1: In Brooklyn coach.

874
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, and he was an All star there at the

875
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:09,440
Speaker 5: Angela Russell, So I think that's the sort of selection.

876
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:13,120
Speaker 5: But it's just more important to show some sort of

877
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:17,280
Speaker 5: detachment from the ownership group, I think in the front office,

878
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 5: because if they can't keep meddling with decisions, then we're

879
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:23,200
Speaker 5: just going to be in this same position with Sacramento

880
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:25,480
Speaker 5: for the next year a couple of years after that,

881
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 5: and that's I think been their biggest problem.

882
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:30,359
Speaker 2: Skeet's a quick question for you. I think I think

883
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 2: the most important thing surrounding the Sacramento Kings is the

884
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:35,879
Speaker 2: question of that Deuce and Mo podcast you mentioned. Did

885
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:38,680
Speaker 2: Douce shave his head? That's the most intriguing thing to

886
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 2: me about the Kings. The last month, they'd say, I'm

887
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:44,399
Speaker 2: glad you asked hass Yeah, did he He absolutely did.

888
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 1: Yes. He The bald cap gag that he did a

889
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago was just that, but he really

890
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:54,840
Speaker 1: paid it off. I think I forget what the line was.

891
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 1: I mean, he said I'll shave my head if the

892
00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:59,200
Speaker 1: Kings don't win. I want to say it was like

893
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:03,120
Speaker 1: thirty five games. It's like it wasn't even insane. You know,

894
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:05,399
Speaker 1: it wasn't like fifty wins, it wasn't forty. It wasn't

895
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 1: like even a winning record. It was like crazy and

896
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 1: they'd still come up short. But yes, he'd mo shaved

897
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:14,880
Speaker 1: Deuce's head. And you know what, I didn't think I

898
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:17,399
Speaker 1: looked that bad on him. You know, it's not. It's

899
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 1: not like me. It's like really bad on some people.

900
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: I thought he might have a I thought he might

901
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:23,480
Speaker 1: have a weird alien head like I do. But I

902
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 1: thought he pulled it off. Okay, but he came through.

903
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:28,239
Speaker 1: He delivered, just like we got to deliver on some

904
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:29,760
Speaker 1: pick and payoff. Still, but he did.

905
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:33,440
Speaker 2: Great to hear, Yeah, and a smart move doing it,

906
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 2: probably on the last show for a while. He can

907
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:36,920
Speaker 2: let that hair grow back for a bit.

908
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:40,080
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, smart all around, and you know, made more

909
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:42,399
Speaker 1: content out of it with the bald cap and then

910
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 1: and then yeah I did it on the last day. Yeah, yeah, well,

911
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:48,959
Speaker 1: well played, well executed. Poor King couldn't even win thirty

912
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,759
Speaker 1: five games to save this guy's hair. That's insane.

913
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:55,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, also crazy when you go to the franchise index

914
00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 4: for on basketball Reference for the Kings, and seventy five

915
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:02,919
Speaker 4: percent of their top twelve players all time are still

916
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 4: in black and white. That's not good. You want to

917
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 4: see some players in color. Here, Peishastoyokovic the only player

918
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:16,880
Speaker 4: in color amongst their top five, alongside Oscar Robertson, Jack Twineman,

919
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:19,280
Speaker 4: Bobby Wanser and Jerry Lucas.

920
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 1: Oh, Bobby, I've got Royals players in the midday.

921
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:24,479
Speaker 4: That's bad.

922
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 1: It's good, all right. We're cheering for you Kings fans,

923
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 1: trust me. Okay, let's get to my ten All NBA teams.

924
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:37,280
Speaker 1: Why did I do this last year? I couldn't remember,

925
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 1: but people seem to enjoy it enough, so we thought

926
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:45,000
Speaker 1: we'd run it back. The Sicko skeets ten All NBA teams.

927
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:47,640
Speaker 1: We'll go through each team one at a time. Here.

928
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:49,719
Speaker 1: I had a lot of fun putting this together. There

929
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:52,279
Speaker 1: will be snubs. You will be upset where some of

930
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:54,480
Speaker 1: your players are, and just take a second to think

931
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:57,440
Speaker 1: about what you're getting upset about. Okay, you're gonna be

932
00:42:57,440 --> 00:42:59,640
Speaker 1: pissed off that I didn't have a guy in the

933
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:02,359
Speaker 1: top ten All NBA teams, or maybe I had him

934
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:04,279
Speaker 1: on the seventh team. When you thought he should have

935
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 1: been on the sixth team. Just breathe a little bit. Okay,

936
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:09,440
Speaker 1: this is just really fun. I had to make some

937
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:13,200
Speaker 1: rules with it, though, so you had to at least

938
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:16,200
Speaker 1: play over half the season at least. I sort of

939
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:20,319
Speaker 1: like I kept around, like a fifty five games played, Mark,

940
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:22,800
Speaker 1: I thought that was fair this year. So that means

941
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 1: there's no Paul George here. There's no Kyrie, there's no Dame,

942
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 1: there's no ad, there's no Clay, there's no Beal, there's

943
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:31,600
Speaker 1: no draymon on even and he only played forty five games.

944
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:34,000
Speaker 1: So like, just keep that in mind when you go, well,

945
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,840
Speaker 1: where's this guy, Maybe it's because he didn't play enough games. Okay,

946
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:40,600
Speaker 1: So the first three teams we've already discussed before I

947
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 1: changed them a little bit. I gotta be honest. First team, though,

948
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:45,440
Speaker 1: it's the exact same as I had whatever that was

949
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:47,680
Speaker 1: a week and a half ago. I got Yoll Kitch

950
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 1: as my center. I'll always hit you with my center,

951
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:52,080
Speaker 1: my two forwards, and my two guards. Okay, that's how

952
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:54,760
Speaker 1: all ten of these teams will go. Yoll Kitch, Yannis

953
00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:59,120
Speaker 1: Jason Tatum I'm putting as my you know, second forward

954
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:01,920
Speaker 1: there on the All NBA four Devin Booker and Luka Doncic.

955
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:04,359
Speaker 1: I think you guys almost had the exact same team

956
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 1: when we were doing this for the most part. All

957
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:08,359
Speaker 1: the same names are there, Okay, so let's keep it going.

958
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 1: All NBA second team. This is where embiide is, this

959
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:16,640
Speaker 1: is where Durant is. I did tweak it a little bit.

960
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:20,720
Speaker 1: I had Lebron here not making the damn play in hurts.

961
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:24,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bump him down one DeRozan come on up, buddy,

962
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:27,360
Speaker 1: You're you're a forward in my books. And then Ja

963
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:32,200
Speaker 1: Morant and Chris Paul are my guards. Okay, and hey,

964
00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:36,160
Speaker 1: a quick rant here because this is getting out of control.

965
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:40,359
Speaker 1: People on Twitter freaking out about Jokic and embiid how

966
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:42,480
Speaker 1: they both need to be on the first team and

967
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:44,880
Speaker 1: it's insane that they're not, and people can't pick a

968
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:49,960
Speaker 1: damn center. What are you guys doing. It's embarrassing now

969
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:54,680
Speaker 1: at this point. I can't believe people. I I trust people.

970
00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 1: I turned to their opinions and actually hold in high regard.

971
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:03,600
Speaker 1: Going nuts over this. No one cares. I'll say this

972
00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:06,279
Speaker 1: till I'm blue in the face. No one cares. At

973
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:11,479
Speaker 1: the end of their careers, whether Embiid or Yokic had

974
00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:14,479
Speaker 1: more first team All NBA selections when they're just gonna

975
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 1: be the second team nobody. All we're gonna find out

976
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:21,840
Speaker 1: is like, is Embiid gonna end up a David Robinson

977
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:26,640
Speaker 1: type ten time All NBA center for them first team,

978
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:29,080
Speaker 1: two second team, four to third team. Is it gonna

979
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:32,880
Speaker 1: be Patrick Ewing seven time All NBA Center, one first team,

980
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:35,920
Speaker 1: that's it six times on the second team? Or is

981
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:37,799
Speaker 1: it gonna be a Yao Ming, which would probably be

982
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:39,440
Speaker 1: better than when it's all said and done. Yao Ming

983
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:42,840
Speaker 1: never made a first team, two second teams, three third teams. Okay,

984
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:45,799
Speaker 1: So I just don't care. I don't and I don't

985
00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:48,240
Speaker 1: think anybody does. I know. I've gotten to a hilarious

986
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 1: argument with Tray about this before.

987
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 4: First team matters, never matters big time.

988
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:57,840
Speaker 1: Anybody say, Hakeem Elijah One, twelve time All NBA Center,

989
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 1: do you know how many were first team though only

990
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:02,919
Speaker 1: fifty percent of the time you made for no one

991
00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:06,560
Speaker 1: fucking says it. Five didn't even say it.

992
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:09,960
Speaker 4: You're telling me. You're telling me Hakeem Elijah On may

993
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 4: have more first Team All NBA teams than David Robinson

994
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:15,360
Speaker 4: and Patrick Ewing.

995
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:19,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you wouldn't have known unless I did a

996
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:22,080
Speaker 1: deep dive on how many times that's my point trait.

997
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:24,480
Speaker 4: I mean, I guess that's interesting except for the fact

998
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 4: everybody considers Hakeem the best of those three.

999
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 1: That's then totally fine. Then you'll Kich will be better

1000
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:33,399
Speaker 1: than Mban when it's all said and done.

1001
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:35,719
Speaker 4: That's why we do first, second, and third.

1002
00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:38,880
Speaker 1: But if I had asked you, there's no way you

1003
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:40,760
Speaker 1: would have been able to tell me the exact breakdown

1004
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:42,920
Speaker 1: of David Robinson's ten all NBA selections. I just know

1005
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:46,239
Speaker 1: you wouldn't have. And that's fine you shouldn't because we

1006
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:49,600
Speaker 1: just say ten time all NBA Center done. Awesome. Oh

1007
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:52,320
Speaker 1: that means he was one of the best at its position. Yes.

1008
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 1: Does that mean he's a Hall of Famer? Yes?

1009
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:57,440
Speaker 4: Does that mean like people, people do rankings, people do

1010
00:46:57,480 --> 00:47:00,239
Speaker 4: a top ten, and Hakim makes it all the Timedavid

1011
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 4: Robinson and Patrick Ewing, don't. They were the second and

1012
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:05,839
Speaker 4: third best centers in that era, behind a cheam, which

1013
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 4: is why he made the first team so many times.

1014
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:10,920
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm going to disagree on this because I've never

1015
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:13,640
Speaker 1: heard an argument. Again, I guess I'm What I'm saying

1016
00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:16,080
Speaker 1: is it's not going to really do anything to and

1017
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:19,560
Speaker 1: beat in my opinion, like he's going to be a

1018
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:21,520
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer if he continues to play and rack

1019
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:24,080
Speaker 1: up all NBA selections, be it first, second, or third.

1020
00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:27,280
Speaker 4: I'm coming in second in Fallster.

1021
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:30,640
Speaker 1: I'm sure he loves I mean, he's second on my team.

1022
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 1: He was second on your team because you have a backbone.

1023
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:36,200
Speaker 1: At least you can pick between two guys for one position.

1024
00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:39,040
Speaker 1: Everybody else, go.

1025
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:42,360
Speaker 2: Ahead, NBA All Temper Team. The comment here coming from.

1026
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:46,160
Speaker 1: Hilarious, I've never heard that joke. You are so funny.

1027
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:49,719
Speaker 1: Come on, come up with some new material. Guys, we

1028
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:51,799
Speaker 1: already got a T shirt. Jesus, just go buy that.

1029
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:54,120
Speaker 2: Oh you can't. He can't ask people to come up

1030
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:56,800
Speaker 2: with new material when you sold a T shirt anyway

1031
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:00,200
Speaker 2: you want to. I heard I heard this that. I

1032
00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:03,879
Speaker 2: heard this Sat, and I think it's crazy. Who has

1033
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:06,600
Speaker 2: made the most All NBA third teams in the history

1034
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:07,520
Speaker 2: of the NBA.

1035
00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 5: Great question, LaMarcus Oldridge.

1036
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:16,879
Speaker 2: No, it's a player that some would really enjoy being

1037
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:20,560
Speaker 2: on the All NBA third team, as in you know,

1038
00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:25,120
Speaker 2: he's always been sort of player Rudy Gobert, not a

1039
00:48:25,160 --> 00:48:27,960
Speaker 2: third wheel, but never you know, never the best in

1040
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:32,080
Speaker 2: this Chris No, no current player.

1041
00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 1: Cry how many he's a wing times?

1042
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:40,080
Speaker 2: Five times? He's made five a third All NBA teams,

1043
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:42,640
Speaker 2: more than anyone in the history of the league. It's

1044
00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 2: just kind of surprising because you don't think of him

1045
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:46,640
Speaker 2: as an All NBA player. I mean this, if you

1046
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:49,960
Speaker 2: really care about what All NBA team a player is on,

1047
00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:52,279
Speaker 2: this sort of makes sense for this guy. He's made

1048
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:55,400
Speaker 2: one All NBA first team and five third teams and

1049
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:58,520
Speaker 2: that's all he's made. He's a wing. He's never won it.

1050
00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 2: George Paul, George's correct, George c W.

1051
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:07,800
Speaker 4: Crocker coming through in the stream team It's.

1052
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:12,440
Speaker 1: Stuff PG Okay, I just can't. I just can't believe

1053
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:16,080
Speaker 1: the conversation going on Twitter and with these actual people

1054
00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:19,600
Speaker 1: of votes like this maneuvering of trying to get for

1055
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 1: some reason, they just start convinced it's so important. I

1056
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:25,400
Speaker 1: just don't think it is. I can completely disagree. Jokichuan

1057
00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:27,799
Speaker 1: and B two Anyway, All NBA third Team. We got

1058
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:30,000
Speaker 1: a lot of teams here. We'll speed this up here,

1059
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 1: switch it, Andrew All NBA thirteens, You're already over at.

1060
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:36,200
Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns is the center. Siakam is on my

1061
00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:38,520
Speaker 1: all NBA third team. I'm gonna put Lebron here. I

1062
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:41,359
Speaker 1: know people don't even have them on their legit, you know,

1063
00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:43,719
Speaker 1: all NB three, you know, third team or second team

1064
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:46,840
Speaker 1: or wherever. I feel that's like a little crazy. You

1065
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:49,359
Speaker 1: step back at a certain point with these and go like, well,

1066
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:52,279
Speaker 1: is he still one of the best at his position? Yes,

1067
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:56,279
Speaker 1: so he's in on my team. So I guess if

1068
00:49:56,280 --> 00:49:57,759
Speaker 1: you really want to hold it against him that he

1069
00:49:57,760 --> 00:49:59,719
Speaker 1: didn't make the plan, sure, go nuts. I don't give

1070
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:02,640
Speaker 1: a shit. Curry is the guard and Trey Young is

1071
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:07,640
Speaker 1: the guard. Okay, now it gets fun. All NBA fourth team.

1072
00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:11,880
Speaker 1: I'm going bam Adebayo over Rudy Gobert. Rudy will be

1073
00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:14,440
Speaker 1: on my fifth team. Bam just made the cut on

1074
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:17,719
Speaker 1: games played fifty six games average nineteen ten and three

1075
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:19,800
Speaker 1: two point two stocks when you add up your steals

1076
00:50:19,840 --> 00:50:21,640
Speaker 1: and blocks. He's on the best team in the East,

1077
00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:24,120
Speaker 1: like us. I like slotting him in here. Also, you know,

1078
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:25,480
Speaker 1: I just think he's maybe a bit more of an

1079
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:30,160
Speaker 1: impactful player than Rudy of course offensively, and I still think,

1080
00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 1: you know, he's pretty damn close when it comes to

1081
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:34,160
Speaker 1: the defense side of things too. Jimmy Butler, second heat

1082
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:36,920
Speaker 1: player here. He just made the cut fifty seven games.

1083
00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:39,480
Speaker 1: A lot of people when it comes to their real vote,

1084
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:42,520
Speaker 1: it's like Siakam or Butler. It seems like that's a

1085
00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:45,200
Speaker 1: debate going on with people with an actual ballot. But

1086
00:50:45,239 --> 00:50:47,600
Speaker 1: I'll put Butler on the fourth team here. Jalen Brown,

1087
00:50:48,560 --> 00:50:51,320
Speaker 1: who I guess he could convince me as a guard

1088
00:50:51,400 --> 00:50:53,719
Speaker 1: just as much as he has a forward. I think

1089
00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:55,840
Speaker 1: it's pretty close in terms of his minutes played, but

1090
00:50:55,880 --> 00:50:59,680
Speaker 1: I'll put him there. Donovan Mitchell twenty six points per

1091
00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:02,240
Speaker 1: game bad he makes the fourth team. And de Jontay

1092
00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:04,600
Speaker 1: Murray twenty one to eight to nine on the Spurs.

1093
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:09,839
Speaker 1: What an unbelievable year. And I think in doing this exercise,

1094
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:12,840
Speaker 1: de Jontay Murray gets my most improved player vote because

1095
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:15,120
Speaker 1: he was a snub last year when I did the

1096
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 1: All NBA teams. Yes, he didn't make any of the

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00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:19,560
Speaker 1: ten All NBA teams, and here he is on the

1098
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 1: fourth team and I think in a great spot. So

1099
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:25,080
Speaker 1: there he is okay, all NBA fift team and jump in, guys.

1100
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:26,520
Speaker 1: I am trying to move with pace here. But if

1101
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:28,280
Speaker 1: you have a if you have a real issue with somebody,

1102
00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:31,839
Speaker 1: I have go nuts. Rudy Gobert is the center on

1103
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:35,880
Speaker 1: the fifth team. Chris Middleton Andrew you there my man.

1104
00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:39,000
Speaker 1: Rudy Gobert center on the fifth team. Chris Middleton and

1105
00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:42,719
Speaker 1: Zach Levine are my forwards. Again, Levine is one of

1106
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:44,480
Speaker 1: those where do you put him? I'll put him at

1107
00:51:44,520 --> 00:51:48,120
Speaker 1: the forward Darius Garland and Van Vleet. In doing this,

1108
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:50,960
Speaker 1: there are just way more guards in the mix for

1109
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:53,279
Speaker 1: these ten all NBA teams and there were forwards. It

1110
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:54,960
Speaker 1: started to get a little shall as I went with

1111
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:58,279
Speaker 1: the forwards. But Lee any thoughts on this one, okay?

1112
00:51:58,280 --> 00:51:59,280
Speaker 1: With where these guys are.

1113
00:51:59,239 --> 00:52:01,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, I means Middleton being there.

1114
00:52:01,880 --> 00:52:02,080
Speaker 2: You know.

1115
00:52:02,239 --> 00:52:05,600
Speaker 5: I gave him some consideration on my thirteen because he's

1116
00:52:05,640 --> 00:52:08,600
Speaker 5: just that under the radar Ferris Wheel. He's a very good,

1117
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:11,440
Speaker 5: consistent player, just doesn't get the appreciation of love. So

1118
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:13,879
Speaker 5: I'm glad that he is in there at number five.

1119
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:16,799
Speaker 5: I'm expecting Drew Holiday maybe on the next one as well,

1120
00:52:16,840 --> 00:52:21,200
Speaker 5: because I think, well, just you know, those guys are

1121
00:52:21,280 --> 00:52:24,760
Speaker 5: just just underappreciated, I think, and the Bucks are still,

1122
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:26,319
Speaker 5: you know, my favorite to come out of the East,

1123
00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:28,080
Speaker 5: and so it's good to see them. We was good

1124
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:29,560
Speaker 5: to see Chrissy getting some love here.

1125
00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:33,239
Speaker 2: Oh this is a This is a good comment from

1126
00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:36,400
Speaker 2: Nils from Germany. Levine is not a forward because you

1127
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:41,680
Speaker 2: had DeRozan and Levina's forwards. He's got one guard on

1128
00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:42,160
Speaker 2: the Bulls.

1129
00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:46,239
Speaker 1: He played that forward. But yeah, I just put them

1130
00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:49,319
Speaker 1: both on because again, too many guards. So I want

1131
00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:51,759
Speaker 1: to show some Zach Lavine love, who had a really

1132
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:54,440
Speaker 1: awesome you know, starts this season. I think he's sort

1133
00:52:54,480 --> 00:52:55,880
Speaker 1: of as the Bulls.

1134
00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 4: He had got three quarters of a season.

1135
00:52:57,960 --> 00:52:59,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, better, he's too low.

1136
00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:02,839
Speaker 4: I think I got Gobert, Yeah, I got go beart

1137
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:05,879
Speaker 4: Over banned. The Jams fell apart when Gobert went out

1138
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:08,239
Speaker 4: of the lineup. The Heat were able to keep winning,

1139
00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:11,040
Speaker 4: because that's just heat basketball heat culture right there.

1140
00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:15,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fair. Sixth team. Jared Allen is my center.

1141
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:18,600
Speaker 1: Unfortunate injury at the end of the year, but obviously

1142
00:53:18,719 --> 00:53:22,200
Speaker 1: was an All Star, well deserved. Mckial bridges, I'm gonna

1143
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:23,600
Speaker 1: throw here, so now we go this is a real

1144
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:26,960
Speaker 1: defensive minded team. You Jared Allen, McKale Bridges with the Sons,

1145
00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:29,520
Speaker 1: Jared Jackson Junior, who's in the running for Defensive Player

1146
00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:31,560
Speaker 1: of the Year. I know that's your pick Lee, and

1147
00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:35,080
Speaker 1: then Lamello ball, and there's your Drew Holiday. I slotted

1148
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:38,319
Speaker 1: him in there. That feels good that one. No, I

1149
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:40,000
Speaker 1: like getting into a little bit more of like, okay,

1150
00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:43,000
Speaker 1: let's give some love to some of the defensive guys.

1151
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:47,560
Speaker 1: Seventh team. DeAndre Ayton there with the Sons. I put

1152
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:50,719
Speaker 1: Sabonis as a forward. He does now play center, so

1153
00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:53,319
Speaker 1: you could go there, but we'll put him at one

1154
00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:56,040
Speaker 1: of these. You know, the numbers are still really impressive

1155
00:53:56,080 --> 00:53:58,080
Speaker 1: even though he played on the Pacers and then the Kings.

1156
00:53:58,440 --> 00:54:03,680
Speaker 1: Miles Bridges he played in I believe eighty games this year,

1157
00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:06,080
Speaker 1: So he's like mckill Bridges, who's an iron man and

1158
00:54:06,120 --> 00:54:08,600
Speaker 1: average twenty points per game on like nearly fifty percent shooting.

1159
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:12,480
Speaker 1: Great season for Miles Bridges. I like him there. I'm CJ. McCollum.

1160
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:15,560
Speaker 1: James Harden was the like, I didn't know what to

1161
00:54:15,560 --> 00:54:18,239
Speaker 1: do with James Harden. If I'm being completely honest, Guy

1162
00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:20,600
Speaker 1: averaged twenty two, eight and ten in sixty five games.

1163
00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:23,479
Speaker 1: But if you strike his rookie season, it's the worst

1164
00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:26,279
Speaker 1: shooting season of his career. All we know, all like

1165
00:54:26,320 --> 00:54:28,400
Speaker 1: what happened with him. We don't have to regurgitate that.

1166
00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:31,440
Speaker 1: But like, it's like, I don't know, Lee, it's hard

1167
00:54:31,520 --> 00:54:33,759
Speaker 1: and it's still one of the better He's still one

1168
00:54:33,760 --> 00:54:36,480
Speaker 1: of the better guards in the league. This felt right

1169
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:37,799
Speaker 1: to me. I was like, I like where I got

1170
00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:39,560
Speaker 1: him here, not at the end. He's not at the top.

1171
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:42,600
Speaker 5: So I mean, to basically average a triple double and

1172
00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:45,399
Speaker 5: be on the seventh team just shows how far he's

1173
00:54:45,440 --> 00:54:49,080
Speaker 5: sort of appeal. I guess has fallen because he still

1174
00:54:49,120 --> 00:54:51,040
Speaker 5: puts up these numbers and what's perceived to be a

1175
00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:55,040
Speaker 5: pretty bad, lazy, sloppy season by his standards. But how

1176
00:54:55,080 --> 00:54:57,640
Speaker 5: many guys in the NBA would kill to have a

1177
00:54:57,680 --> 00:55:00,640
Speaker 5: twenty to eight and ten season, as you mentioned, even

1178
00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:04,000
Speaker 5: with those percentages, that's honestly, for some guys an absolute

1179
00:55:04,560 --> 00:55:07,880
Speaker 5: monster career season. So it's just James Harden is not

1180
00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:10,759
Speaker 5: the most beloved character in the league. You know, he

1181
00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:12,640
Speaker 5: forced his way out of Brooklyn. There it goes to

1182
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:16,160
Speaker 5: Philadelphia and we've unfortunately seen some of the bad habits

1183
00:55:16,160 --> 00:55:18,680
Speaker 5: sort of pick up again where it's like he seems uninterested,

1184
00:55:18,680 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 5: but even when he's only going at seemingly half speed,

1185
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:23,920
Speaker 5: he can put up incredible numbers.

1186
00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:28,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, Tassa, Any thoughts on Harden and his All NBA

1187
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:31,359
Speaker 1: seventh team selection here during Soca Week.

1188
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:34,239
Speaker 2: I think what it matters when it comes down to

1189
00:55:34,239 --> 00:55:36,040
Speaker 2: a player's resume is that he just made the All

1190
00:55:36,160 --> 00:55:40,680
Speaker 2: NBA team. Doesn't matter what team he's on. Oh yeah, sure,

1191
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:42,719
Speaker 2: I think seven's probably right.

1192
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:45,640
Speaker 1: Oh well, people are saying you shouldn't be on any

1193
00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:46,200
Speaker 1: of the teams.

1194
00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:51,080
Speaker 4: I mean, he's as if you're including DeRozan. You know

1195
00:55:51,120 --> 00:55:54,160
Speaker 4: he's a forward. Levine's a forward, so technically there, they

1196
00:55:54,160 --> 00:55:56,600
Speaker 4: could also qualify as guards. Same with Jalen Brown. I

1197
00:55:56,640 --> 00:55:59,880
Speaker 4: think James Harden is easily a top twenty guard in

1198
00:56:00,120 --> 00:56:03,240
Speaker 4: the NBA. Yeah, you know, all things considered.

1199
00:56:03,160 --> 00:56:06,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, All NBA eighth team starts getting a little

1200
00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:08,880
Speaker 1: tricky here. I mean eighth and ninth and tenth. You

1201
00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:12,040
Speaker 1: can move them all around, and I mean, sure you

1202
00:56:12,040 --> 00:56:14,520
Speaker 1: won't be wrong, No one's wrong with these. But I

1203
00:56:14,560 --> 00:56:17,879
Speaker 1: got valanchoutas I went JV as my All NBA eighth

1204
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:21,040
Speaker 1: Team center Brandon Ingram just made the cut with the

1205
00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:24,200
Speaker 1: fifty five games played. I really liked his season twenty three,

1206
00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:27,799
Speaker 1: six and six. He improved defensively. He helped turn that

1207
00:56:27,840 --> 00:56:29,840
Speaker 1: Pelicans team around. There was a stretch where he was

1208
00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:33,960
Speaker 1: playing lightso basketball even though no one was watching. So

1209
00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:36,200
Speaker 1: he just makes the cut because the game's played. I

1210
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:41,560
Speaker 1: put Andrew Wiggins here, All Star starter. Andrew Wiggins. It

1211
00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:45,200
Speaker 1: feels right. He shot nearly forty percent from three. As

1212
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:47,799
Speaker 1: the season went on, you heard less and less from him.

1213
00:56:48,239 --> 00:56:50,120
Speaker 1: I still think it's amazing he was an All Star starter,

1214
00:56:50,160 --> 00:56:51,200
Speaker 1: but they had that awesome start.

1215
00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:53,560
Speaker 2: So yeah, Harden on the seventh team and all start.

1216
00:56:53,760 --> 00:56:57,200
Speaker 2: I would assume that Wiggins is on the lowest ranking

1217
00:56:57,239 --> 00:56:59,840
Speaker 2: team as an All Star here. There's nobody as an

1218
00:56:59,840 --> 00:57:02,280
Speaker 2: All Start on a ninth or tenth team. I assume

1219
00:57:02,719 --> 00:57:04,719
Speaker 2: the just cam't think so. I mean, now we're in

1220
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:06,880
Speaker 2: the like, these are the top forty players in the

1221
00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:11,000
Speaker 2: NBA as the eighth team here, twenty four go to

1222
00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:13,480
Speaker 2: the All Star Game. It's just a bad second half

1223
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:15,360
Speaker 2: for both Wiggins and James harted.

1224
00:57:15,200 --> 00:57:18,840
Speaker 1: Really, Yeah, Anthony Edwards makes the eighth team. As one

1225
00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:21,320
Speaker 1: of the guards, and I put Tyler Herro here Lee

1226
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:24,280
Speaker 1: as you know, he's gonna run away with six man

1227
00:57:24,320 --> 00:57:28,240
Speaker 1: in the year, and you know, of course, scoring twenty

1228
00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:30,840
Speaker 1: points per game whether you start or come off the bench.

1229
00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:33,120
Speaker 1: I mean, it's pretty amazing. I know he plays a

1230
00:57:33,120 --> 00:57:34,720
Speaker 1: lot of minutes for guys to come off the bench,

1231
00:57:34,760 --> 00:57:37,400
Speaker 1: but I thought he was, you know, pretty pretty solid

1232
00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:39,400
Speaker 1: for the Heat this year, who are the first number

1233
00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:40,840
Speaker 1: one team in the East.

1234
00:57:40,960 --> 00:57:45,400
Speaker 5: Yes, And I disagree with John Holling's analysis that Kevin

1235
00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:47,520
Speaker 5: Love is the runaway winner for six man. I think

1236
00:57:47,560 --> 00:57:49,400
Speaker 5: it is going to be Tyler here because I think

1237
00:57:49,440 --> 00:57:51,520
Speaker 5: it's more than just empty buckets. I think he actually

1238
00:57:51,520 --> 00:57:54,720
Speaker 5: really gives them that second punch off the bench. He

1239
00:57:54,760 --> 00:57:56,840
Speaker 5: guys out day, he can run the offense, and he's

1240
00:57:56,880 --> 00:58:00,520
Speaker 5: been outstanding and consistent old season. So I think Tyler

1241
00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:03,160
Speaker 5: Hero is the six Man of the Year and deserving

1242
00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:06,080
Speaker 5: of a eights but eighth ol NBA tape.

1243
00:58:06,280 --> 00:58:09,760
Speaker 1: Okay till the ninth team. Vucci Baby is the center.

1244
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:11,960
Speaker 4: I thought he was a guard. I thought you'd have

1245
00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:12,520
Speaker 4: been a guard.

1246
00:58:13,040 --> 00:58:15,760
Speaker 1: No, he's a center for skats.

1247
00:58:15,760 --> 00:58:19,720
Speaker 4: He doesn't take free throws, he can't shoot so I mean,

1248
00:58:19,720 --> 00:58:22,680
Speaker 4: maybe he has a center. Honestly, this is too high,

1249
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:26,280
Speaker 4: too high for Booch. I put that he was brutal.

1250
00:58:26,360 --> 00:58:29,240
Speaker 4: He was brutal, brutal Birdle seasons. He's out there for

1251
00:58:29,280 --> 00:58:30,440
Speaker 4: his offense and he can't score.

1252
00:58:31,120 --> 00:58:34,840
Speaker 1: Scottie Barnes forward, Evan Mobley forward. That's where the rookies go.

1253
00:58:34,920 --> 00:58:37,960
Speaker 1: How to keep them together? Just as like fine good

1254
00:58:38,400 --> 00:58:40,520
Speaker 1: uh and again, once you start to get to the

1255
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:43,640
Speaker 1: last couple forward spots, you're like, you're left scratching your head.

1256
00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:45,800
Speaker 1: I went, Desmond Bean is a guard. I think he's

1257
00:58:46,040 --> 00:58:48,080
Speaker 1: had a really really good season, obviously, especially when John

1258
00:58:48,120 --> 00:58:50,880
Speaker 1: Moranco's out and you still lit it up and Tyr's Halliburton.

1259
00:58:50,960 --> 00:58:54,680
Speaker 1: His numbers are amazing. He's the Sabonis here flipped where

1260
00:58:54,720 --> 00:58:56,680
Speaker 1: he was on the Kings then on the Pacers, really

1261
00:58:56,720 --> 00:59:00,400
Speaker 1: really lights out numbers with Indiana. But young guy, this

1262
00:59:00,480 --> 00:59:03,600
Speaker 1: is just a young team here with Vucci, baby, maybe

1263
00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:06,120
Speaker 1: I should have put Robert Williams the third then as

1264
00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:08,919
Speaker 1: my ninth team center. Sure, flip them if you want,

1265
00:59:08,960 --> 00:59:11,720
Speaker 1: but go to the tenth team, Andrew, I I got

1266
00:59:11,720 --> 00:59:15,280
Speaker 1: time Lord as the center, and then my forwards. Oh,

1267
00:59:16,520 --> 00:59:19,600
Speaker 1: I went, Tobias Harris. I wasn't happy about it, but

1268
00:59:20,080 --> 00:59:23,640
Speaker 1: I put him there. Aaron Gordon showed out to a

1269
00:59:23,640 --> 00:59:26,400
Speaker 1: couple of people on Twitter making the case for Aaron

1270
00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:29,520
Speaker 1: Gordon just the contributions that he helped out the Joker

1271
00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:32,800
Speaker 1: and Denver this year and great defensive player, or had

1272
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:34,920
Speaker 1: a solid defensive year for them, and he did have

1273
00:59:34,960 --> 00:59:38,040
Speaker 1: a fine season, so sure. And then I went with

1274
00:59:38,080 --> 00:59:40,920
Speaker 1: the Aaron Fox and SGA. This is my team, damnit.

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Speaker 1: I love those two players, and they made the cut

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00:59:43,160 --> 00:59:45,640
Speaker 1: games played wise, which actually shocked me. Fox played fifty

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00:59:45,720 --> 00:59:48,920
Speaker 1: nine and SGA played fifty six, So I think she

1278
00:59:49,080 --> 00:59:52,000
Speaker 1: Gildas Alexander's better than a lot of the guards that

1279
00:59:52,040 --> 00:59:53,840
Speaker 1: I've already listed on a couple of the teams prior,

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00:59:53,920 --> 00:59:57,480
Speaker 1: but you know, only just playing the fifty six games there,

1281
00:59:57,520 --> 00:59:59,440
Speaker 1: and on a Thunder team that like basically told him

1282
00:59:59,440 --> 01:00:02,000
Speaker 1: to sit it down once again, and all that sure

1283
01:00:02,640 --> 01:00:03,640
Speaker 1: snubs the.

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Speaker 2: Biggest And sorry, Andrew, is that too low? Is SGA

1285
01:00:06,240 --> 01:00:06,760
Speaker 2: went too low?

1286
01:00:07,160 --> 01:00:11,160
Speaker 1: Call? Can't hear you?

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Speaker 3: I was double muted here. Yeah, No, I think it's

1288
01:00:18,360 --> 01:00:21,320
Speaker 3: I think it's a good spot for Shay. He's he's

1289
01:00:21,320 --> 01:00:24,800
Speaker 3: got to play seventy plus games to uh to even

1290
01:00:24,840 --> 01:00:26,640
Speaker 3: sniff all NBA seventh team.

1291
01:00:26,800 --> 01:00:30,320
Speaker 1: So yeah, but I also like I wasn't even going

1292
01:00:30,400 --> 01:00:33,120
Speaker 1: to include him or Fox and like you'll see when

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01:00:33,160 --> 01:00:35,760
Speaker 1: I get to like the snubs for guards. But at

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01:00:35,760 --> 01:00:37,200
Speaker 1: a certain point it's like, I guess it's like the

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01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:39,280
Speaker 1: Lebron things, like these guys are better than a lot

1296
01:00:39,320 --> 01:00:41,760
Speaker 1: of the guys that I'm gonna say on the snubs list.

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Speaker 1: It's just like disappointing seasons in the sense of win

1298
01:00:45,400 --> 01:00:47,880
Speaker 1: loss records or games play and stuff like that.

1299
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Speaker 2: But through me, yeah, he'll have his time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, So just this is fun. Center snubs yaka

1301
01:00:55,240 --> 01:00:59,160
Speaker 1: pearnl that that one hurt great year from Pearl became

1302
01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:02,960
Speaker 1: a phenomenon on with the word game, so I had

1303
01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:05,880
Speaker 1: him in the mix. Capello is there. He's always in

1304
01:01:05,920 --> 01:01:09,040
Speaker 1: the running for one of these. Wendell Carter Junior really

1305
01:01:09,040 --> 01:01:11,800
Speaker 1: good season for the Atlanta Magic at the at the

1306
01:01:11,800 --> 01:01:15,360
Speaker 1: center position as an undersized center. Steven Adams numbers aren't there,

1307
01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:17,440
Speaker 1: but we know he's good. And then Christian wood porzingis

1308
01:01:17,440 --> 01:01:20,520
Speaker 1: only played fifty one games, So that's the center stubs.

1309
01:01:20,720 --> 01:01:23,120
Speaker 1: Anyone else I'm I'm missing that. You want to make

1310
01:01:23,120 --> 01:01:26,400
Speaker 1: a case for probably not. We've listed every center in

1311
01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:27,360
Speaker 1: the league at this point.

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01:01:27,120 --> 01:01:28,160
Speaker 4: Where much.

1313
01:01:30,400 --> 01:01:32,800
Speaker 1: That's what I'm looking for. That's good, that's good.

1314
01:01:32,840 --> 01:01:35,560
Speaker 2: Kevon Looney was one of only five players to play

1315
01:01:35,640 --> 01:01:37,560
Speaker 2: all eighty two games this season.

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01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:41,840
Speaker 1: Where yeah, okay, uh snubs for the forward position. Did

1317
01:01:41,840 --> 01:01:45,400
Speaker 1: you notice, uh Lee one particular team that didn't. I

1318
01:01:45,400 --> 01:01:49,520
Speaker 1: didn't have either of their forwards in one of your favorite.

1319
01:01:49,280 --> 01:01:52,560
Speaker 5: Teams one of my favorite teams. Oh yeah, well maybe

1320
01:01:52,600 --> 01:01:54,560
Speaker 5: it doesn't really narrow it Dan at all.

1321
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Speaker 1: It's your favorite place to see a game and mine

1322
01:01:59,000 --> 01:01:59,640
Speaker 1: the Fortress.

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Speaker 4: No, I was a real All NBA player last year.

1324
01:02:03,880 --> 01:02:07,240
Speaker 5: Yeah, Julius, Well so J Barrett was the one I

1325
01:02:07,320 --> 01:02:08,520
Speaker 5: was seeing if he made any.

1326
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Speaker 1: O J Barrett and Julius random. Yeah, I didn't.

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Speaker 4: I didn't think Randall was a real All NBA player

1328
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Speaker 4: last year.

1329
01:02:13,480 --> 01:02:15,600
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I didn't think Randal was gonna make it.

1330
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Speaker 5: But Barrett had a pretty solid twenty and a bout.

1331
01:02:18,760 --> 01:02:21,280
Speaker 1: Yeah you think that, and then you go look at it.

1332
01:02:21,360 --> 01:02:22,680
Speaker 1: I thought the same thing. I was like, I'll put

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01:02:22,680 --> 01:02:25,240
Speaker 1: Barrett on, yeah, good old Canadian boy too, and then

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01:02:25,240 --> 01:02:27,400
Speaker 1: I'm like I'm gonna leave Randall off. And then I'm like, oh,

1335
01:02:27,440 --> 01:02:31,360
Speaker 1: j Barrett had in some categories the worst season than

1336
01:02:31,400 --> 01:02:34,400
Speaker 1: ur Je Barrett. Oh sorry, than random random that it

1337
01:02:34,440 --> 01:02:35,080
Speaker 1: wasn't amazing.

1338
01:02:35,400 --> 01:02:37,360
Speaker 5: Randall's a bit like Harden. I think he ended up

1339
01:02:37,440 --> 01:02:40,600
Speaker 5: averaging twenty and ten, but he just did not have

1340
01:02:40,680 --> 01:02:43,320
Speaker 5: the season that he had last season. You know, his

1341
01:02:43,400 --> 01:02:45,840
Speaker 5: shooting was down and just his impact was down as well.

1342
01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:48,680
Speaker 5: But to still just put up twenty and ten's when

1343
01:02:48,680 --> 01:02:51,040
Speaker 5: you're having a bad season. It's a pretty incredible effort.

1344
01:02:51,160 --> 01:02:52,880
Speaker 5: Twenty and ten used to be like, how can you

1345
01:02:52,960 --> 01:02:54,920
Speaker 5: leave a guy off all NBA if he's averaging twenty

1346
01:02:54,960 --> 01:02:57,120
Speaker 5: and ten? Now it's like barely get you on in

1347
01:02:57,160 --> 01:02:57,720
Speaker 5: some cases.

1348
01:02:58,560 --> 01:03:01,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, Barrett Barrett started this year and Randall had a

1349
01:03:01,520 --> 01:03:03,400
Speaker 1: rough year, so I just kept them both off. We'll

1350
01:03:03,400 --> 01:03:06,760
Speaker 1: see if the Knicks fans care at all. Boy on Bogdanovich,

1351
01:03:07,040 --> 01:03:09,160
Speaker 1: he's still the guy just scores eighteen points a game

1352
01:03:09,320 --> 01:03:13,280
Speaker 1: every season, I feel like for the Jazz, so he's

1353
01:03:13,280 --> 01:03:18,200
Speaker 1: a snub. Kyle Kuzma, Yeah, OK, perfect snub, perfect snub

1354
01:03:18,200 --> 01:03:21,600
Speaker 1: for this. Cam Johnson obviously playing on a great Suns team,

1355
01:03:21,640 --> 01:03:23,760
Speaker 1: he doesn't really have the numbers. And then Jeremy Grant

1356
01:03:23,920 --> 01:03:25,840
Speaker 1: he only played forty seven games, so that really kept

1357
01:03:25,880 --> 01:03:29,600
Speaker 1: him out of contention here and then the guards listen

1358
01:03:29,640 --> 01:03:32,400
Speaker 1: to these guards, well, where's Westbrook? Do you put Westbrook

1359
01:03:32,440 --> 01:03:34,000
Speaker 1: on one of these teams league or.

1360
01:03:33,960 --> 01:03:37,080
Speaker 5: As No, But the same thing with Hadden. I think

1361
01:03:37,080 --> 01:03:39,040
Speaker 5: someone had a stat the other day. Westbrook led the

1362
01:03:39,080 --> 01:03:43,000
Speaker 5: team in rebounds, assists, steals and was second in points,

1363
01:03:43,040 --> 01:03:44,880
Speaker 5: and it was like, oh man, it did not feel

1364
01:03:44,920 --> 01:03:47,080
Speaker 5: like that at all. So but no, you can't have

1365
01:03:47,600 --> 01:03:49,840
Speaker 5: you can't. He just wasn't good enough this season.

1366
01:03:51,240 --> 01:03:53,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, so he's a snub. I have Lowry as a snub.

1367
01:03:53,800 --> 01:03:56,360
Speaker 1: I think he's obviously a great player still, but you know,

1368
01:03:56,440 --> 01:03:58,560
Speaker 1: they didn't miss a chunk of time there. These numbers

1369
01:03:58,600 --> 01:04:01,400
Speaker 1: are not going to wow you is smart, great defensive

1370
01:04:01,400 --> 01:04:06,280
Speaker 1: player similar to Lowry in that sense. Tyrase MAXI, Mike Conley,

1371
01:04:06,640 --> 01:04:10,919
Speaker 1: Terry Rozier, Reggie Jackson I thought had like a much

1372
01:04:10,960 --> 01:04:14,200
Speaker 1: better season statistically than I. You know, in my head,

1373
01:04:14,240 --> 01:04:15,840
Speaker 1: I was like, well, man, he sort of carried the

1374
01:04:15,840 --> 01:04:17,760
Speaker 1: Clippers at times, and I see him always have these

1375
01:04:17,800 --> 01:04:20,080
Speaker 1: big games. I think I look at his numbers and

1376
01:04:20,120 --> 01:04:22,200
Speaker 1: they're like, you know, it's classic Reggie Jackson where it's

1377
01:04:22,240 --> 01:04:26,160
Speaker 1: like not that efficient, but you know, has been asked

1378
01:04:26,160 --> 01:04:27,760
Speaker 1: to do a lot and at times has really come

1379
01:04:27,800 --> 01:04:28,200
Speaker 1: through for them.

1380
01:04:28,200 --> 01:04:30,000
Speaker 4: So he's scored a lot of clutch points.

1381
01:04:30,440 --> 01:04:33,640
Speaker 1: Yeah he did. He did. Gary Trent Junior for the Raps,

1382
01:04:33,680 --> 01:04:36,600
Speaker 1: a pretty dominant you know year from distance at least

1383
01:04:36,760 --> 01:04:40,480
Speaker 1: and scoring the ball. Kate Cunningham obviously, Piston's rookie, D'Angelo Russell.

1384
01:04:41,040 --> 01:04:44,320
Speaker 1: Perfect snub, Anthony Simons, Jordan Poole, Jalen Green, and Kevin

1385
01:04:44,360 --> 01:04:46,800
Speaker 1: Porter Junior. That's it. I'm missing ten.

1386
01:04:46,960 --> 01:04:47,680
Speaker 4: Jalen Brunson.

1387
01:04:48,560 --> 01:04:51,520
Speaker 1: Brunson sure put him on. I love it. Anyone else.

1388
01:04:52,920 --> 01:04:56,080
Speaker 2: Surprise, Jordan Pool's a wild one. I had a really

1389
01:04:56,080 --> 01:04:59,080
Speaker 2: good season, led the league in free throw percentage. Shocking

1390
01:04:59,120 --> 01:05:00,840
Speaker 2: to me. Two point five.

1391
01:05:01,440 --> 01:05:04,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, and people are saying, don't forget about Sidik Bay.

1392
01:05:06,760 --> 01:05:08,960
Speaker 1: That's the perfect way to end. So there are my

1393
01:05:10,040 --> 01:05:15,800
Speaker 1: all NBA ten teams one through ten. Let me know

1394
01:05:15,840 --> 01:05:17,720
Speaker 1: what you agree or disagree with. Who is too high,

1395
01:05:17,720 --> 01:05:19,360
Speaker 1: who is too low? Who should have been on? What

1396
01:05:19,400 --> 01:05:22,440
Speaker 1: was the name? I didn't say? Have at it as

1397
01:05:22,480 --> 01:05:24,400
Speaker 1: you are in the stream team in the YouTube comments

1398
01:05:24,440 --> 01:05:26,520
Speaker 1: and tweet at me if you want at g E

1399
01:05:26,600 --> 01:05:30,920
Speaker 1: st skeets. Always always a fun time putting those together. Okay,

1400
01:05:31,520 --> 01:05:33,360
Speaker 1: let's take one more break, Lee when we come back,

1401
01:05:33,400 --> 01:05:38,200
Speaker 1: tweeted the night count. Wait, okay, back with nodunks here,

1402
01:05:38,360 --> 01:05:39,280
Speaker 1: let's get your tweeted the.

1403
01:05:39,320 --> 01:05:45,360
Speaker 2: Night tweet out the night Wow.

1404
01:05:44,680 --> 01:05:50,120
Speaker 1: Twitter, All right, lely, what do you got man?

1405
01:05:52,040 --> 01:05:55,200
Speaker 5: I've got a good three pata. Twitter used to be

1406
01:05:55,200 --> 01:05:57,240
Speaker 5: fun when you could have some you know, make fun

1407
01:05:57,280 --> 01:05:59,240
Speaker 5: of people with that at getting too nasty, And that's

1408
01:05:59,280 --> 01:06:02,880
Speaker 5: what really happened. I think yesterday the Orlando Magic sent

1409
01:06:02,960 --> 01:06:06,200
Speaker 5: out to tweet fun tweet they said, I'm out for

1410
01:06:06,240 --> 01:06:08,439
Speaker 5: the season officially see all in the four. Making fun,

1411
01:06:08,480 --> 01:06:11,600
Speaker 5: of course of Lebron, who tweeted that on April Fool's Day,

1412
01:06:11,800 --> 01:06:15,040
Speaker 5: turned out to be rather h what's the word when

1413
01:06:15,080 --> 01:06:19,240
Speaker 5: you and you sort of predict something anyway? Yes, prophetic,

1414
01:06:19,320 --> 01:06:23,200
Speaker 5: that's right, Yes, anyway, so stat muse who you know?

1415
01:06:23,320 --> 01:06:26,240
Speaker 5: They like to stir things up on Twitter, They replied

1416
01:06:26,280 --> 01:06:28,520
Speaker 5: and said, you know, well, look, Lebron's had one hundred

1417
01:06:28,520 --> 01:06:30,840
Speaker 5: and seventy four wins in the playoffs in his career.

1418
01:06:31,800 --> 01:06:35,320
Speaker 5: Orlando Magic have only fifty nine wins in the playoffs

1419
01:06:35,360 --> 01:06:39,000
Speaker 5: all time. Thinking that they had zing the Magic for

1420
01:06:39,000 --> 01:06:42,960
Speaker 5: the Magic to respond very very nicely by replying with

1421
01:06:43,000 --> 01:06:45,440
Speaker 5: their own tweet from a few weeks ago here when

1422
01:06:45,480 --> 01:06:47,800
Speaker 5: they just said, stat muse, this is you know, we

1423
01:06:47,800 --> 01:06:49,800
Speaker 5: don't usually read their replies that after doing so in

1424
01:06:49,800 --> 01:06:52,760
Speaker 5: the past a few weeks, we've realized too little of

1425
01:06:52,800 --> 01:06:57,320
Speaker 5: it is actual sports discussion. We're experimenting with temporarily disabling

1426
01:06:57,400 --> 01:06:59,960
Speaker 5: it to see if we can improve signal, reduce noise,

1427
01:07:00,040 --> 01:07:02,960
Speaker 5: and cultivate a more focused stat music community. And their

1428
01:07:03,000 --> 01:07:06,640
Speaker 5: Magic just tweet that picture with the word ratio and

1429
01:07:07,280 --> 01:07:11,800
Speaker 5: they got burned. They got burned, stat Mus. Afterwards, there

1430
01:07:11,880 --> 01:07:13,960
Speaker 5: was another tweet they just said, well played. They took

1431
01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:16,120
Speaker 5: that one on the gin. And that's the way Twitter

1432
01:07:16,200 --> 01:07:18,560
Speaker 5: should be. You know, you can have some fun, you

1433
01:07:18,680 --> 01:07:20,760
Speaker 5: throw out a little something, you get zinged in return,

1434
01:07:21,040 --> 01:07:22,920
Speaker 5: you say okay, you got me, and you move on.

1435
01:07:23,280 --> 01:07:25,760
Speaker 5: So well done stat Mus and Orlando Magic.

1436
01:07:26,600 --> 01:07:29,960
Speaker 1: Okay, well done all around.

1437
01:07:31,200 --> 01:07:31,320
Speaker 4: Lee.

1438
01:07:31,440 --> 01:07:33,800
Speaker 1: Do you like your stat muse Twitter account having a

1439
01:07:33,840 --> 01:07:36,680
Speaker 1: personality or did you like it when it was just stats? No.

1440
01:07:37,320 --> 01:07:40,280
Speaker 5: Look, they've had a few hits for sure, you know,

1441
01:07:40,400 --> 01:07:45,439
Speaker 5: but they also they definitely like to create conversation. I'll

1442
01:07:45,440 --> 01:07:49,600
Speaker 5: say that devisive list oft times, you know, but they've yeah,

1443
01:07:50,240 --> 01:07:53,360
Speaker 5: they they've they've taken their hits, but they've yeah, look

1444
01:07:53,400 --> 01:07:55,240
Speaker 5: they've had some good tweets as well, So keep it up.

1445
01:07:55,280 --> 01:07:57,920
Speaker 5: Just don't get into the nasty sort of like name

1446
01:07:58,000 --> 01:08:00,960
Speaker 5: calling and the vitriol that we always see basically on

1447
01:08:01,160 --> 01:08:03,320
Speaker 5: anything that gets tweeted these days. It ends up just

1448
01:08:03,320 --> 01:08:07,560
Speaker 5: being like a slanging match between people and counts, and

1449
01:08:07,840 --> 01:08:09,760
Speaker 5: it's it's just no fun when it's like that.

1450
01:08:11,440 --> 01:08:14,720
Speaker 1: It was. It is a weird initial tweet from the Magic.

1451
01:08:14,760 --> 01:08:17,280
Speaker 1: I will say, like it's I guess it's funny, of

1452
01:08:17,320 --> 01:08:19,320
Speaker 1: course because it's a parody on Lebron, But it's like,

1453
01:08:19,960 --> 01:08:22,920
Speaker 1: I don't really see the correlation all that much Like

1454
01:08:23,080 --> 01:08:26,160
Speaker 1: you don't want to be another brutal season exactly.

1455
01:08:26,240 --> 01:08:28,840
Speaker 5: You don't. You don't want to be promoting the fact

1456
01:08:28,840 --> 01:08:30,800
Speaker 5: that it is the plane tournament in the years.

1457
01:08:31,040 --> 01:08:32,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just weird.

1458
01:08:32,479 --> 01:08:34,960
Speaker 2: But you still got a tweet in the off season.

1459
01:08:35,479 --> 01:08:41,639
Speaker 2: Yeah that's good, your account doesn't shut down. Yeah, it's

1460
01:08:41,640 --> 01:08:43,479
Speaker 2: going to be heat O Turgo's birthday someday. You know,

1461
01:08:43,479 --> 01:08:45,120
Speaker 2: you got to say happy birthday.

1462
01:08:45,520 --> 01:08:48,360
Speaker 5: I didn't they have The Magic had something about their

1463
01:08:48,439 --> 01:08:49,280
Speaker 5: leader and assists.

1464
01:08:49,320 --> 01:08:51,640
Speaker 1: I think with Shelvin that's right.

1465
01:08:52,120 --> 01:08:56,120
Speaker 5: It's like three point eight is the seasons.

1466
01:08:56,120 --> 01:08:59,840
Speaker 4: An ending tweet from the Orlando Magic is hotly anticipated.

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01:09:00,640 --> 01:09:01,840
Speaker 4: Why are they coming Outlet.

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01:09:01,640 --> 01:09:05,479
Speaker 1: Me love it? Okay, great great tweets there for tweet

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Speaker 1: all took the Nets in the first game, is that right? Yes,

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Speaker 1: everybody took Brooklyn to get the seventh seeds. So we'll

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Speaker 1: see if that happens. If it does, or whoever wins

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Speaker 1: that game between Eveland and Brooklyn, they'll be taken on

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Speaker 1: Boston and we'll start doing our deep dive on tomorrow's

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Speaker 1: podcast about those other Eastern Conference playoff matchups. So obviously

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Speaker 1: Boston against whoever they're playing in the seventh seed. We've

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Speaker 1: got the Bucks Bulls to talk about a little more detail,

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Speaker 1: and we've got the Sixers Raptors, and we'll make our

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Speaker 1: official predictions for those series, and then you know, we'll

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Speaker 1: do the whole thing again on Thursday when we get

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Speaker 1: to the Western Conference. But tonight some games on Iced

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Speaker 1: to have basketball back in our life, and we'll be

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Speaker 1: back to break them down. TENNAM Eastern Live here on YouTube.

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Speaker 1: If you're new to the show, subscribe and like the

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Speaker 1: video and new note breaks coming up later today in

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Speaker 1: Mere Hours with special guest Lee Ellis to talk about

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Speaker 1: the Australian GP. Why are you laughing? Have you even

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Speaker 1: watched the race? League.

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Speaker 5: Yes, I've watched the I've been doing some research on it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah for sure.

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Speaker 1: Okay, show, I want.

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Speaker 4: To be asking Lee a lot about, you know, just

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Speaker 4: driving in Australia in particular, just what it's like, you know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, the other side of the road. It's crazy.

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say, No Breaks has its own YouTube feed.

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Speaker 1: It's on podcast feed. So if you want to listen

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Speaker 1: to Trey and Graydon every basically every week talk about

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Speaker 1: the the f one season, subscribe to No Breaks. It's

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Speaker 1: a it's a lot of fun and you'll learn a

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Speaker 1: lot too from those guys, and you know, have some

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Speaker 1: laughs with Leeley today. That'll be a lot of fun. Okay,

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Speaker 1: enjoy the games tonight. Andrew, thank you so much. I

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Speaker 1: know you're on No Breaks later today, but thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for filling in for JD in theory. He's

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Speaker 1: back and we're back in the Classic Factory tomorrow. But

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Speaker 1: you killed him man, Hopefully you had some fun. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's been great.

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Speaker 3: Out of the yard, back into the factory.

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Speaker 1: Who's who's first up? Who's getting the first OKC Thunder interview?

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Speaker 3: I think we've got s g A coming up here

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Speaker 3: in a little bit we'll get giddy and dort this morning.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, all right, well tell please tell SGA that

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Speaker 1: I had him on my all NBA ten. All right, guys,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much until no breaks later today. Clipper bros.

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Speaker 4: You heard it here first, have a great time turn up.

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Speaker 4: Love you guys awesome.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us. We'll see you tomorrow. And

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Speaker 2: remember this is a message that goes up to Andy

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Speaker 2: and Linda Peel in England. No Dunks is thinking about you.

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Speaker 1: Embrace the day people.

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Speaker 2: You could stay every day, Dan, you happy, every minute