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Speaker 4: Hall of Fame, chances, Ontario's love of the potato, and

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Speaker 4: so many other things. It's lots of laughs we're at

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Speaker 4: it's a great, great podcast, and.

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Speaker 3: I get any potatoes in their body. Last night I

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Speaker 3: was potato free. Yeah, I had leftover cold fries. That counts.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that counts.

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Speaker 2: I had a couple of them, had chips baked, not fries.

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Speaker 4: How do you feel about when you get a French

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Speaker 4: fry that's like like a foot and a.

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Speaker 2: Half long, you know, I feel blessed like a god.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't like them, like you're just pulling out

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Speaker 3: they always got like the feathers, feathers, ribbons, handkerchiefs in

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Speaker 4: I don't like them because it makes me. I just

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Speaker 4: always look at it and go how big was that

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Speaker 4: potat one piece? Due?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's peeled around and round and round from

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Speaker 2: one potato. It's not the length of.

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Speaker 1: The not necessarily if it goes in lengthwise through the

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Speaker 1: chipper thing right like that, how it has to.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's super long. I'm talking like a foot and

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Speaker 1: You're talking curly fries and yeah, those go on.

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Speaker 2: No, I could it could be a straight It could

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Speaker 4: But look, if the French fry is this long, that

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Speaker 4: means potato is not big. You have not had a

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Speaker 4: foot and a half long French run. But that's that's

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Speaker 4: a that's a big.

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Speaker 2: I'm saying you can take a peeler from one side

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Speaker 5: But that's you're talking about different things. Yeah, you never

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Speaker 2: I'm saying you can get a document to get a

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Speaker 3: Oh they're known for their long fries. Yeah, yeah, so.

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Speaker 4: I'll try and go get someone. I' I was thinking

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Speaker 4: these are giganic French fries. And again it creeps you

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Speaker 3: A little bit of a freak.

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Speaker 5: You think the potato might have been injuiced organ Yeah,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, guys, lots to talk about here today. We got

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Speaker 4: different here. We're just calling it game recap reacts. All right,

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Speaker 4: that game in particular. First one Clippers Kawhi Leonard showered

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Speaker 4: settle our bet. Yeah, he didn't take the mic. There

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it avoids the bet, doesn't it really?

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Speaker 5: gonna go play a game. That's it. What a video though,

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Speaker 5: What a tribute video there from the Raptors. I thought

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Speaker 4: So you liked what they did though, showing the video tribute,

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Speaker 5: Thought it was so well executed, really really well done,

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Speaker 3: I like the board man gets his ring, little chirroun

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Speaker 3: they had on the scoreboard. Doc River said it was

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Speaker 3: the best video tribute ring ceremony thing he had ever,

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Speaker 3: forty years at this point. It was really cool, but

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Speaker 3: uh not super surprised. I guess that Kawhi didn't speak.

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Speaker 3: I think he was happy to let that one pass by.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, very cool.

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Speaker 2: He is an opposing player, so I do think that's protocol.

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Speaker 2: Just don't give it to him, don't give him the mic.

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Speaker 2: You know, he's so they treated him like he was

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Speaker 2: nothing but Canadian love's That's that's what it was. It

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Speaker 2: was nice. It was a very nice moment. Length was good.

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Speaker 2: They started pretty late. I was ready in my seat

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Speaker 2: Didn't start to like seven o eight class. It's a

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Speaker 4: It worked. Oh it didn't work.

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Speaker 2: It did. It's like Danielle telling me it starts at nine,

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Speaker 2: but it's actually starts at nine thirty. I'm there early,

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Speaker 2: I'm ready to go. She doesn't do that, or I'd

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Speaker 4: I did like the I liked how they all the

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Speaker 4: former teammates of Leonards, all the Raptors, most of them

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Speaker 4: current still, and the coaches and the team executives. I

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Speaker 4: like that part that he got to sort of tap

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Speaker 3: And you think they should have brought back Valentunis to

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Speaker 3: dap him up since he was there for half the season. Yes,

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Speaker 3: that was my only complaint was that he wasn't there.

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Speaker 3: I did think it was very funny that the video

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Speaker 3: starts with like training and like they are honoring load

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Speaker 3: management as part of Kawhi's legacy in Toronto, which you

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Speaker 3: had to you know, coming out the injury in San

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Speaker 3: Antonio and the fact that it was a big story

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Speaker 3: throughout the season and it paid off. I thought it

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Speaker 3: was very nice to see a little axe. But keeckn

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Speaker 3: me there.

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Speaker 2: What about the fact that he has a middle finger

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Speaker 2: inscribed into his ring on the inside of his ring.

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Speaker 2: There's a middle finger. What he says, so he recognized

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Speaker 4: Yeah, because he has the spurs ring.

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, that's his reasoning that he's got two. He's

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Speaker 2: he calls it an f you finger emoji. But that's

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Speaker 2: what it's for, and I believe him. It's literal. You

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Speaker 2: don't think the mean anything. Yeah, that's very funny.

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Speaker 4: Honestly, I agree with you. He's like, I'll just put

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Speaker 4: don't see Kahi Letard wearing around either of his rings. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: that's anytimeeble future.

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Speaker 3: They just got him a plain gold band.

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Speaker 4: He's like, perfect, this is nice, a little too fit. Yeah, Well,

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Speaker 4: the game then did happen, and it was you know,

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Speaker 4: Wraps started all right. Clippers, though, you know, took control

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Speaker 4: before the end of the half. Raps made a run

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Speaker 4: game was over. And quite a great game. Paul George.

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Speaker 4: If he was hitting half of his threes, that's probably

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Speaker 4: a thirty point blowout. But he had one of those

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Speaker 4: just coold nights from three. But Kawi did his thing,

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Speaker 4: got to his spots. I thought second quarter when Kawhi

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Speaker 4: hit Lowry with the Bieber dribble was the back and forth,

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Speaker 2: Splash.

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Speaker 4: Got to go.

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Speaker 3: Four losses in five games for the Raptors, and it's

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Speaker 3: kind of been a bad weighted with Kyle Lowry coming back.

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Speaker 3: Obviously Van Vliet hasn't been there, so you may be

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Speaker 3: asking a lot from Lowry coming back right coming back

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't be worried, but see how Comes is struggling

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Speaker 4: What's the reasoning for that, Either the game planning from

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Speaker 4: other teams, Uh, maybe just the opposition. They have run

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Speaker 4: into some good defensive teams and that's for the players

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Speaker 4: to put on them. And then maybe just the that's

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Speaker 4: the most difficult thing we've talked about before, to become

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Speaker 4: that next level type of player, the MVP, like a player,

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Speaker 4: you got to do this for eighty games. I mean

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Speaker 4: that's that. You can do it for ten games, fifteen games,

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Speaker 4: and then you might hit a wall, you might be exhausted,

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Speaker 4: and it's I think those are not separates the superstars,

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Speaker 4: They miss them, there's no doubt, but you know, not

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Speaker 2: Tasks like, no, I agree the superstars need I'm calling

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Speaker 2: they lost to the Rockets, they lost to the Sixers

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Speaker 4: They're good teams.

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Speaker 2: They're all good teams, and the Raptors should be above

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Speaker 2: And hey, it was qui as night. I honestly forgot

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Speaker 2: just like who cares? There's this is kawhi. I mean

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Speaker 4: Next one here? John Morant posterizes Beans to seal the win. Huge, huge,

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Speaker 4: I mean it was a huge possession. It was a

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Speaker 3: Season, eight crazy eights. I love this though, because I

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Speaker 3: But as ah, man, this guy's great. He always gets

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was awesome. You know, if Luca wasn't around,

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Speaker 2: you could easily say John Rant's the most impressive, the

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Speaker 2: because he's really unique. He's gonna give you that, he's

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Speaker 5: He kind of I thought, looking back on that Banes

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he pushed him, but the play a minute of

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Speaker 5: I have to kind of get around here. Yeah, but again,

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Speaker 2: He's gone at a beast like Aaron bans He's not

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Speaker 5: He was pretty trash to Banes too. After one of

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Speaker 4: Is like, because he had the dunk, I mean, I

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Speaker 4: Though he had actually a quiet game by his stitches

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Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, he had thirteen points, four to nine,

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Speaker 4: mean he's the headline here. We're talking about him, even

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Speaker 4: though Dylan Brooks twenty seven points. You know, Jared Jackson

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Speaker 4: this is how you do it. Like even in games

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Speaker 4: that one memorable highlight that's gonna help your case, that's

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Speaker 3: That's one hundred percent raad. He had thirteen points last night,

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Speaker 3: and you would think he had sixty with the way

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Speaker 3: we're talking about him. He must watch. He took nine

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Speaker 3: He's got the Westbrook watch ability factor where you're like,

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Speaker 5: He even got Wors tweeting last night quote tweeting the

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Speaker 2: But from a team perspective, he could take all the

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Speaker 2: playing with him, I'm sure for that reason. And so

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Speaker 2: But he's averaging nineteen on fifteen shots, forty two percent

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Speaker 4: I heard. I believe it was big Waz on the ding,

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Speaker 4: the Daily Ding this morning on the Athletic Compare the

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Speaker 4: it home with the right on a guy huge, You said,

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Speaker 4: That John Morant went for sixty even though he only

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Speaker 4: Harden scores fifty five Rockets with Stan scare from Cavaliers.

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Speaker 4: Let's go to Harden heater number one over here in

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Speaker 4: the power rankings. Leois even, you got to respect this

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Speaker 5: I'll clarify there's a difference between like and respect. I

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Speaker 5: him to go out there and basically get fifty any

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Speaker 5: I think the Rockets thought this is going to be

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Speaker 5: I think he thought, I'm probably not playing the fourth

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Speaker 5: I've got to do it quickly. But then the Cavs

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Speaker 4: Bitter fight. They went on a twenty four to oh

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Speaker 5: And hat to go out there and score it again

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Speaker 5: and again. Yeah, the big critique of him is that

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Speaker 4: He had to do this to win this game though, too.

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Speaker 2: Well. Yeah, so yeah, maybe does he tell his teammates, hey,

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Speaker 2: they're just they just don't lock down on D enough.

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Speaker 2: Just have five free throws? Usually you get you know,

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Speaker 3: And Lee is right, he needed this if he wanted

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Speaker 3: Bucks are on a winning streak, and as the Rockets

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he was money in the fourth too, seven of

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Speaker 4: eight and hit four of the threes, all of them needed.

433
00:19:25,119 --> 00:19:27,760
Speaker 4: I think it's already slipping away from him though. He

434
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Speaker 4: might have to leave the table because and I only

435
00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:31,679
Speaker 4: say that because you go to ESPN you look at

436
00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:34,080
Speaker 4: the top headlines on their NBA page, not a single

437
00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:35,240
Speaker 4: word but a guy that just went.

438
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Speaker 3: For fifty five points not one.

439
00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,879
Speaker 4: Not one. It's not there in the top headlines. Lookay,

440
00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:41,280
Speaker 4: I'm sure there's a video somewhere.

441
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Speaker 3: Control f here crazy down to the Angels, seven years,

442
00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:45,960
Speaker 3: two to forty five million.

443
00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:47,480
Speaker 2: He's getting paid thirty five a year.

444
00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:48,399
Speaker 3: This is crazy.

445
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Speaker 4: And then even on NBA dot Com, you know, it's

446
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Speaker 4: not again, it's not like in the headline section, it's

447
00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:55,600
Speaker 4: not there. It's like, we don't care.

448
00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:58,000
Speaker 2: It's it's wild.

449
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Speaker 4: That's a lot man.

450
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Speaker 2: On ESPN NBA page, it's not.

451
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Speaker 5: One of the thank you I mean ten threes, you

452
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Speaker 5: know we had we had I go for ten threes

453
00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:09,600
Speaker 5: just the other day as well. And it's just now.

454
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Speaker 2: And a super super efficient nights.

455
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Speaker 4: We're just we are totally immune to it. Is it

456
00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:19,359
Speaker 4: because they were playing the calves? Because there was too

457
00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:21,800
Speaker 4: much going on last night? I mean a little bit

458
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Speaker 4: of everything that probably is.

459
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Speaker 2: It's uh, we're like Lincoln park Man, we're numb. We

460
00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:34,960
Speaker 2: were we were we were singing some old songs pre show.

461
00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:38,200
Speaker 2: So that's what got me in Lincoln Parking. I won't

462
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Speaker 2: mention the songs we were singing. That's embarrassed as far

463
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Speaker 2: as all goes.

464
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Speaker 4: Is anybody worried about hearted leading the league in minutes

465
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Speaker 4: played per game. He's at thirty eight at night.

466
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Speaker 2: The rocket should be right, let.

467
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Speaker 4: Me call me by surprise. I'm damn, he's leading the league.

468
00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:57,240
Speaker 2: That's not good.

469
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Speaker 3: Yeah, to be fine. He usually holds up on the

470
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Speaker 3: playffs exactly.

471
00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:02,480
Speaker 4: We got Westbrook. I thought this was like to help

472
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Speaker 4: him out, you know, lower the workload. Still there. This

473
00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:07,800
Speaker 4: is the most minutes he's played per game since like

474
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Speaker 4: fifteen sixteen. So something to watch, just something to watch.

475
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Speaker 4: And I was wonderingly if they you had said it,

476
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Speaker 4: I guess on yesterday's Daily Show because we got into

477
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Speaker 4: that coach's question about who's the next coach on the

478
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Speaker 4: hot seat now the phizz is gone. You brought up

479
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Speaker 4: D'Antoni and his job security and the idea like if

480
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Speaker 4: they own a bit of a losing streak, you could

481
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Speaker 4: see possibly him being canned, because it seems like they're

482
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Speaker 4: moving on from him anyway. You know, if they had

483
00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:35,280
Speaker 4: lost this game to the Calves, especially blowing it in

484
00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:38,400
Speaker 4: epic fashion after losing to the Kings on the buzzer beater,

485
00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:40,639
Speaker 4: and then you know they have, then they would go

486
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Speaker 4: to Orlando this Friday. Tough defensive team. And then then

487
00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:45,080
Speaker 4: they're back home and play the Pistons Spurs like these

488
00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:47,719
Speaker 4: are not world beaters by any means, but had they

489
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Speaker 4: dropped four of those whatever, the streak gets up to

490
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Speaker 4: three or four, and Alo I was like, that's a possibility.

491
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Speaker 4: So I wonder if hard and saved save d'antoni's job.

492
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Speaker 5: There, maybe kept it alive for a little bit longer.

493
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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, actly all right. Next one, guys, Graham scores

494
00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:06,479
Speaker 4: forty Hornets rally to beat the Nets one thirteen, one

495
00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:10,959
Speaker 4: oh eight. Davonte Graham, Baby Tray A great time with

496
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Speaker 4: you on the Beach Stepping Podcast. Say, Graham's got to

497
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Speaker 4: be a east.

498
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Speaker 5: He's in the mix at the title, He's in the conversation.

499
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Speaker 4: He is no doubt, he's no doubt. I mean, the

500
00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:25,679
Speaker 4: Hornets rallied from twenty back in this one, and Graham

501
00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:27,680
Speaker 4: was hitting that. I watched the end of this game,

502
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Speaker 4: good chunk of the fourth quarter. Graham. People are calling him,

503
00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:33,880
Speaker 4: you know, we're jokingly calling him Golden Graham. I see people.

504
00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:37,720
Speaker 4: Some people are also calling him baby Dame, which sure

505
00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:41,040
Speaker 4: you got some willard in him, and uh, baby Yoda.

506
00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:45,639
Speaker 4: I don't know why but I do love it, and uh,

507
00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,199
Speaker 4: you know, at the high a great Hornets blog, I

508
00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:49,960
Speaker 4: thought a great point. Teams are starting a game plan

509
00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:53,399
Speaker 4: for him. And he's still getting buckets at well, a

510
00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:56,680
Speaker 4: bunch of threes again and timely, timely shots fun.

511
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Speaker 5: To watch and on the sea and from downtown on

512
00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:04,120
Speaker 5: nine a game. So he's just he's not just throwing

513
00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:06,160
Speaker 5: them out there. He's not an irrational confidence guy. He's

514
00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:08,000
Speaker 5: able to make them. What I really like, He's got

515
00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:10,800
Speaker 5: very sound mechanics, gets his legs into it, gets his

516
00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:13,520
Speaker 5: feet set, really gets his whole body into the shot.

517
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Speaker 5: Those two that he hit at the end, I think

518
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Speaker 5: actually that second last one was only a two. Its

519
00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:19,160
Speaker 5: foot was on the line. Yeah, But then that other

520
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:23,080
Speaker 5: one was just pure. And that's a guy who's so

521
00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:25,320
Speaker 5: confident in himself in his second season now, so he's

522
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Speaker 5: had a year to just sort of get to feel

523
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Speaker 5: the game out a little bit more. And on that team,

524
00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,120
Speaker 5: like there's no one really who's taking the ball off,

525
00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:36,200
Speaker 5: so it's like, may as well go out there and perform.

526
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Speaker 5: So great win for them from the Hornets, because they're

527
00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:41,720
Speaker 5: up and down, they're all over the place. They're not

528
00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:43,880
Speaker 5: always fun to watch. But when you have a performance

529
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Speaker 5: like that, it's great. So I'm not sure if he's

530
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Speaker 5: an All Star. I think he's certainly having a conversation

531
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Speaker 5: about it.

532
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Speaker 4: Yeah, because here's the thing. If you think guards in

533
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Speaker 4: the East, I'm curious to see what happens with Kyrie.

534
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Speaker 3: That is a big sort of wild question.

535
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Speaker 4: Mark I voted in, you know, right, he might be.

536
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,600
Speaker 4: He might be. So let let's just say Kyrie's voted in.

537
00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 4: I think Kemba is the other one that gets voted in.

538
00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:11,240
Speaker 4: Jimmy Butler is not a guard. He is a forward,

539
00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:15,080
Speaker 4: so don't worry about him. But that leaves in that hypothetical.

540
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Speaker 4: If Kyrie and Kember are your starters, how many guards

541
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Speaker 4: do they take?

542
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Speaker 3: Four?

543
00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:22,040
Speaker 4: Let's say five, four or five out of the seven?

544
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Speaker 4: Four to five. So Davante means he'll be fighting with

545
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Speaker 4: Ben Simmons for for a spot, Brogden, I think for

546
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Speaker 4: a spot, Din Wittie for a spot, Tree young Bradley Beale.

547
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Speaker 4: Which of the Celtics guys Hatam or Brown there? Because

548
00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:45,560
Speaker 4: they're two who would you say? Probably? So maybe Jalen.

549
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Speaker 3: Is in the mix. Come on, man, he's he's putting

550
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Speaker 3: up stats quite similar, Yeah to DeVante Graham. I'll take

551
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Speaker 3: Devonte Graham and a heartbeat, I think.

552
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Speaker 4: I'm taking Devanta Graham over a lot of those guys

553
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Speaker 4: I just listed. I mean, right now, he's averaging twenty

554
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 4: and seven. But the Horne's got to keep winning. They're

555
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 4: eleven and sixteen, they got it. They gotta keep winning

556
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:04,960
Speaker 4: games here.

557
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Speaker 5: And he's only a second year player, so I think

558
00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 5: that counts against him in the sense that the coaches

559
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:12,680
Speaker 5: are likely to go with a guy Bradley beal over him. Yeah,

560
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:15,800
Speaker 5: I know, you know. I mean, Bill's having a statistically

561
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:18,480
Speaker 5: fine season anyway. But I think if it comes down

562
00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:20,920
Speaker 5: to guys like that, and even someone like Spencer Dinwiddie,

563
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Speaker 5: I think would probably be ahead of Graham out of

564
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Speaker 5: you know, coaches respect.

565
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Speaker 2: Not if Kyrie makes it, though I doubt that they

566
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Speaker 2: would put two nets on the team.

567
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Speaker 4: That would be nuts interesting. Let's hear from you guys

568
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Speaker 4: on that one. I love that because I think, I mean,

569
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Speaker 4: Lowry is not making it, not.

570
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:36,920
Speaker 3: At all this year.

571
00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:40,200
Speaker 2: The injuries and it hasn't been playing well.

572
00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:45,280
Speaker 4: Since he returned, and Van Vliet now he's injured. I

573
00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:46,960
Speaker 4: don't know, I don't see it I just don't see you.

574
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:49,200
Speaker 4: So Graham's got a chance here.

575
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Speaker 3: From three last year and now he's at forty three percent.

576
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Speaker 4: Well, he's got a weird thing where he shoot, doesn't

577
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,440
Speaker 4: he shootly forty one percent from the floor, Like it's

578
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:01,679
Speaker 4: like a better three point shooter than he is from

579
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:02,080
Speaker 4: the floor.

580
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, now that I'm thinking about it, I

581
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:07,160
Speaker 3: have a hard time remembering him actually take two pointers

582
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:08,640
Speaker 3: except for like if his foot is on the line.

583
00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:10,360
Speaker 3: Everything else is four steps deep.

584
00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:12,879
Speaker 2: But you went through a bunch of teams that are

585
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:16,320
Speaker 2: sub five hundred skeets with the all stars from those teams.

586
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 2: This isn't baseball. This isn't we mentioned Anthony Rendon earlier.

587
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:24,960
Speaker 2: We don't really reward in Nambay. They don't really reward losing. So,

588
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:27,800
Speaker 2: as you said, the Hornets way below five hundred, the

589
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:31,480
Speaker 2: Wizards and the Hawks, Yeah, I think you probably only

590
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,600
Speaker 2: get one guard from those teams. I would guess. And

591
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:37,760
Speaker 2: you know it likely mentioned about Beale. Coaches like to

592
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,119
Speaker 2: go back to the well for guys that they've already with,

593
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:43,800
Speaker 2: guys that they've already gotten to the game before. And

594
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:47,400
Speaker 2: I know Trey Young has also. I've been making even

595
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:52,520
Speaker 2: more headlines I think than it will be. It will be,

596
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:53,879
Speaker 2: but yeah, if they get up, if they get in

597
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:56,280
Speaker 2: the playoffs, I think that's the line they need to get.

598
00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:59,199
Speaker 2: They need to be in that that bracket. They need

599
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:01,160
Speaker 2: to be above that dotted line.

600
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you're right, if they're creeping to five hundred,

601
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:05,040
Speaker 4: then I think he's got a great case. I mean,

602
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 4: there's no doubt he's the best player on that team.

603
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:10,760
Speaker 4: And if I think he would be awarded over probably

604
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 4: a Foigner or something like that to help his chances.

605
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 4: We'll see.

606
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:16,480
Speaker 2: Good for him. It is wild to see that he's

607
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:19,040
Speaker 2: in year two and he was like a blip on

608
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:21,920
Speaker 2: the radar screen last year. He was not talked about whatsoever.

609
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:27,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's gonna be, especially for me, weird most improved.

610
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 5: Yeah right, because Yeah.

611
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:29,920
Speaker 4: I mean he scored less than five points per game

612
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:31,879
Speaker 4: last year, like no one even knew of him. He

613
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:33,399
Speaker 4: wasn't good. He shot thirty four percent.

614
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 5: Well, he's come off the bench, off to Camba and

615
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 5: Tiny Paka.

616
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 4: Yeah.

617
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 2: Well, the impressive part is that he started off the

618
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 2: bench this year too, and then busted his way into

619
00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:44,400
Speaker 2: the starting lineup like he's played in every single game

620
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:47,200
Speaker 2: the percentages are great. It's up to twenty points per game.

621
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Speaker 2: He's a second round pick. Lots of things going for him,

622
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:52,960
Speaker 2: like he is gonna and then he's coming up to

623
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Speaker 2: a restricted free agency. Well, he's a non guaranteed deal

624
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,440
Speaker 2: for yes, so he's gonna get paid this offseason. Well,

625
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:01,160
Speaker 2: they got to pay him and Terry Rozier in the backcourt.

626
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 2: Interesting stuff.

627
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 4: Our final game recap reacts Bucks win sixteenth straight despite

628
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:10,679
Speaker 4: missing Antokombo. We don't need to go along on this,

629
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Speaker 4: but the Bucks keep rolling. Twenty nine points from Bledsoe,

630
00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:16,159
Speaker 4: twenty four from Middleton, easy victory over the Pelicans one

631
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 4: twenty seven to one to twelve. Jannis missing his first

632
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:22,199
Speaker 4: game with the right quad tendon injury. Is that they

633
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 4: were calling it crazy.

634
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:26,360
Speaker 2: Load man exte right load man for sure.

635
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:26,960
Speaker 5: Yeah.

636
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:29,360
Speaker 2: I think so good for them. I'm excited to rest them.

637
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 4: Yeah. I like that. We still got that streak going to.

638
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 2: Keep it going, keep it going. They got it.

639
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 4: One thing from the Pelicans I saw in the right

640
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:39,280
Speaker 4: up of this game after they've lost their tenth in

641
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 4: a row. The Pelicans are in a rough spot right now.

642
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 4: But Elvin Gentry said, quote, this is the quietest group

643
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:48,480
Speaker 4: I've ever been around, even on the plane and in

644
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 4: the meal room. But we do have to get them

645
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 4: talking on the court and have them communicate on the court.

646
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 4: You reacted to that tray like I sort of did.

647
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 4: When I read it. It felt it feels like it's

648
00:28:58,080 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 4: that's not good.

649
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:00,000
Speaker 3: They're not talking in the meal room.

650
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 4: That's a that's bad. It's just a depressing.

651
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's honestly sad, especially considering you know, before the

652
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 3: Zion injury, people were very excited to watch the Pelicans.

653
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 3: They were many people's league pass teams to two weeks

654
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 3: before the season, right, Even Drew Holliday is like, let's

655
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Speaker 3: let's see what he can do. Let's see when he's

656
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Speaker 3: completely in charge here, Let's see how it's gonna go.

657
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Speaker 3: And it's just been kind of more of the same.

658
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 3: The Pelicans. They're a little bit of a different team,

659
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 3: but they don't feel that much different than they have

660
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 3: been over the past few years. It feels like they're

661
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 3: already irrelevant. That sucks.

662
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 2: I thought they were even the lead passing in the

663
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 2: first couple of weeks. They're playing hard, they're playing fast,

664
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 2: but yeah, they I don't know, they're let They're starting

665
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:42,960
Speaker 2: their biggest name player, Brandon Ingram. Their best player is

666
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 2: a super quiet guy, and so that probably trickles down

667
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:48,600
Speaker 2: a little bit to everybody. Right. I mean, that's but

668
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 2: I don't know. They need they need that big, cuddly

669
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:52,320
Speaker 2: teddy bear back. They need Zion Williams. Yeah.

670
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,400
Speaker 4: I think Reddick maybe went off in the locker room.

671
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 4: Some reports say that he was sort of trying to

672
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Speaker 4: light a fire into these guys as they were getting

673
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Speaker 4: s halftime.

674
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Speaker 5: They took Oh, we always talk at halftime, he was saying,

675
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 5: you know, and then nothing happened, nothing changed in the

676
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:08,280
Speaker 5: second half. But this was one of those ones where

677
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 5: you know it was not a bad knight of boss Ball,

678
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:11,160
Speaker 5: and then you look at that and you think Giannie

679
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 5: is not playing. It's like, oh no, I can't sit

680
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Speaker 5: through this.

681
00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:15,479
Speaker 3: You can't do it.

682
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:17,360
Speaker 4: Second game on ESPN.

683
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, it would have been good for them to

684
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:23,680
Speaker 2: snap that streak against the Milwaukee Bucks. But yeah, and

685
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:26,520
Speaker 2: I know, we like to come up with a reason

686
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:29,960
Speaker 2: for why'se Iron Williams and shouldn't play, and the media

687
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:31,960
Speaker 2: will say, oh, they've lost ten in a row, there's

688
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,560
Speaker 2: six and nineteen, there's no reason to Rush Iron Williamson back.

689
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 2: I don't think that would have factored into David Griffin's

690
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:40,240
Speaker 2: decision whatsoever, even if they were sort of on the

691
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:42,280
Speaker 2: periphery of the playoffs. I don't think that would factor

692
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 2: in his Zion Wilson. But now there's whispers that he

693
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Speaker 2: wouldn't he won't come back at all this season, which

694
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 2: I guess could happen. I guess we could have a

695
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:55,360
Speaker 2: Blake Griffin Ben Simmons scenario where you just chill and

696
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:56,240
Speaker 2: don't see him.

697
00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:59,400
Speaker 3: It's possible, hopefully not, though I wonder if Drew Holliday

698
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:01,560
Speaker 3: is going to be a bad pretty soon. You know,

699
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 3: he's kind of He's been a Pelican for a long

700
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 3: time now. The season is not going the way they anticipated,

701
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 3: and like you're saying, tasks if Zion, if they decide

702
00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 3: that Zion's not gonna come back, that's a major contract

703
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:14,880
Speaker 3: you can move for a guy who would be widely

704
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 3: sought after around the league, like he would fit perfectly

705
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 3: on the Miami Heat. He's a Heat kind of guy.

706
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Speaker 3: I don't know, something to watch.

707
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Speaker 2: That's a good point.

708
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Speaker 4: We're gonna get to the Lakers' magic scuffle last night.

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Speaker 4: All right, we got some news items, guys. According to

744
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Speaker 4: Dave McManamon, the Lakers were a little perplexed as to

745
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 4: why Jared Dudley's role in a fourth quarter shoving match

746
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 4: warranted an injection last night. However, they were impressed he

747
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 4: stuck up for teammate Dwight Howard. Dudley sprang into action

748
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 4: with about seven minutes to go after Dwight was fouled,

749
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 4: and he was jostling with several Magic players after the whistle.

750
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 4: After the officials review, Howard and Michael Carter Williams called

751
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 4: for text. Dudley and Wes you want to were ejected?

752
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,120
Speaker 4: I think I was fair or the Lakers? Right? Was

753
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 4: Did anybody need to be ejected for that one?

754
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 5: If I'm the reff, I'm just saying, Dudley, you bring

755
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 5: a dickhead. Get out. You didn't need to do that,

756
00:33:55,880 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 5: Just get out. He came and escalated while runs over.

757
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 2: It was like four on one. It was like four

758
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 2: Magic on Dwight Howard. Yeah, but why Budley had to

759
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:07,160
Speaker 2: do something?

760
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 5: It had kind of died down and then Dudley comes

761
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 5: in and just says, you know what, I got to

762
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Speaker 5: do something on these team.

763
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:13,319
Speaker 4: This is my role.

764
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 2: Yeah.

765
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 3: Did it in the playoffs last year against the Sixers, right,

766
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:21,240
Speaker 3: Joel Embiid fouled. I think Jared Allen so Jared Mudley

767
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 3: went in there and started throwing his arms around and

768
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 3: he got ejected. Jimmy Butler got ejected. This is what

769
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 3: you do when you're an old vet. You get in

770
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:29,360
Speaker 3: fights to back up your teammates and then your teammates

771
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:30,080
Speaker 3: love you for it. Yeah.

772
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 5: And it's an easy ejection though for the refs as well,

773
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 5: because it's not going to affect the game. No one's

774
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 5: gonna say, wow, that dud the ejection cost us the game.

775
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 5: This is like dickhead get out.

776
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 4: Well, the Magic might file a protest and say that

777
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 4: Dudley's ejection may have costant. Yeah, it was nothing anyway.

778
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 4: It was like tast said, it was like a bunch

779
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:51,759
Speaker 4: of Magic players pushing Dwight hour. He was sort of

780
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:54,480
Speaker 4: pushing back and loving it because he had gotten fouled.

781
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 4: This was an ugly, ugly game, a low scoring affair.

782
00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 4: Lakers pulled it out in the end. But NBA dot

783
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 4: COM's game recap, I forget who it was on the call.

784
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:06,880
Speaker 4: They just called it a little slap and tickle this one.

785
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 4: That's what this was. Not a lot.

786
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:11,919
Speaker 2: Well, I think those little slaps and tickles on Dwight

787
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:14,439
Speaker 2: Howard kind of woke Lebron up. Lebron said, all right,

788
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:18,759
Speaker 2: I'll do this thing because they were getting close. It

789
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:22,920
Speaker 2: was yeah, and it was down to I think they

790
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,399
Speaker 2: tied it up and uh yeah, Lebron just said I'll

791
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 2: wake up and just finished the job. He's good at that.

792
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 4: Lakers get the win, Bucks kept their winning streak going

793
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:36,440
Speaker 4: collision could be nice, sorry next one. According to Pacers

794
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:39,880
Speaker 4: coach Nate McMillan, the thing of a jig. Victor Oladipo

795
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:44,080
Speaker 4: is still quote still a ways away from returning to action.

796
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:47,440
Speaker 4: Before the season, Pacers president Kevin Pritchard said that he

797
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 4: was hopeful Oladipo would be back in December or January.

798
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 4: It's looking like it's going to be the back end

799
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:58,320
Speaker 4: of that timeline, probably so maybe closer to January though.

800
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:01,440
Speaker 4: All that said, India, last night they rallied from ten

801
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 4: back to beat the Celtics one twenty two, one seventeen.

802
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:10,759
Speaker 4: Really exciting game. Down the stretch, they continue to exceed expectations.

803
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:12,960
Speaker 4: I think the Piecers do without all the deepot earlier

804
00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 4: in the end of the season. They're sixteen and nine.

805
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:17,840
Speaker 4: But what do you think about this idea of is

806
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:21,200
Speaker 4: this because the Piecers are also doing quite well and

807
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:23,359
Speaker 4: winning a lot of games, so there's no real real

808
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:26,479
Speaker 4: rush you don't you don't have to get crazy getting

809
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:27,439
Speaker 4: all the people back in there.

810
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 5: No, I don't think there's any need to rush him

811
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:31,359
Speaker 5: back right now. If he's healthy, he's going to give

812
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 5: him a real boost, but he's going to miss so

813
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 5: much time that when they bring him back in it's

814
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 5: going to be quite an adjustment period, I think, because

815
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 5: they're a fairly solid rotation right now. The thing about

816
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:43,400
Speaker 5: the Pacers, I think every season they kind of do this.

817
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 5: It's like you think, ah, no, they're just not that good,

818
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 5: but they just keep on grinding out wins. That that

819
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 5: was an impressive victory last night because Boston certainly looked

820
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 5: in control and the Pacers pulled it out late. And

821
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:57,840
Speaker 5: that's a team that last year swept them in the playoffs.

822
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:00,920
Speaker 5: So I meant a few changes, of course, but impressive.

823
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 5: But this is I think what Indiana likes to do

824
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:05,840
Speaker 5: is just like just keep on winning, keep on defending.

825
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 5: But they say, don't ever elevate themselves into serious, serious

826
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Speaker 5: cant The.

827
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Speaker 4: Question is, then, what you see from this team right now?

828
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:17,879
Speaker 4: Ten rank defense, fifteen ranked offense, Like you said, sort

829
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:20,839
Speaker 4: of grinding out wins, brogged in their lead guy right

830
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:22,800
Speaker 4: now he had twenty nine. You had the Holiday Brothers

831
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 4: going off in the fourth quarter and that one against

832
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 4: the Celtics. But if you add Oladpot can you then

833
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 4: convince yourself that this team could go further in the playoffs.

834
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:33,240
Speaker 4: They could win some series.

835
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 2: I think so. I think they enter that tier two

836
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 2: below the Bucks. I think they can be one of

837
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 2: those those fighting teams, you know, with the Heat and

838
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 2: the Celtics and the Raptors.

839
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Speaker 4: This, I mean a big part of that. You know,

840
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 4: hinges on how old adepoas.

841
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 2: Big time, big time, but they're taking their time. As

842
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:53,720
Speaker 2: you said, if they have a top ten defense already,

843
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:57,879
Speaker 2: Vic comes and helps that top fifteen offense right now.

844
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 2: Vic helps that a ton even more so on the Offensiven.

845
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 2: That's what you need in the playoffs to win series,

846
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:07,440
Speaker 2: is top tennis on both sides. And if they can

847
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:11,320
Speaker 2: get up that high. They just beat the Boston Celtics,

848
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 2: So eat that. John Schuman, John Schuman, well, actually me,

849
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:17,120
Speaker 2: when I said, no one wants to talk about the Pacers,

850
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 2: he said, well, actually hashtag. Well, actually they haven't beat

851
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,400
Speaker 2: anybody good. This is their signature win of the season

852
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 2: so far, and they're solid like a rock. I don't know.

853
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:31,240
Speaker 2: I think Vic gives them that dynamism they need on offense.

854
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 2: They come and try and guard Vic. He is one

855
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 2: of the best offensive players in the game win healthy. Yeah,

856
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:38,359
Speaker 2: it all depends on that.

857
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 4: I agree with Pacers reporter J Michael though they are

858
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:43,439
Speaker 4: not rushing him back just to get a few extra

859
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 4: wins this season he is. That would be irresponsible. This

860
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:48,959
Speaker 4: is what J Michael wrote, because he's the franchise. I mean,

861
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:51,920
Speaker 4: you can't have him. What happened was he got injured

862
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:54,280
Speaker 4: because he was playing less than one hundred percent health.

863
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:56,439
Speaker 4: That was a big part of it. So they're gonna

864
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:58,799
Speaker 4: be extra cautious. But he would definitely help, no doubt.

865
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 2: Yeah. And will he have of injury concerns the rest

866
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 2: of his career, I don't know. It just seems like

867
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 2: they creep up. I mean that's me on the outside

868
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:06,400
Speaker 2: looking in.

869
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:08,759
Speaker 4: But one other thing with this team, do we have

870
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:11,720
Speaker 4: to start wondering if they're actively looking to trade Miles Turner?

871
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 4: He is a pick brutal. Over the last five games,

872
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 4: he's averaging eight points per game. You can' hit a shot. No,

873
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:21,120
Speaker 4: he's you know, we know what he brings defensively, but

874
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 4: he's got to be giving you more than that for

875
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 4: the type of money he's getting. And I know, you know,

876
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 4: noted Pacers fan, you guys know him. Jared Wade, he

877
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:31,319
Speaker 4: was blast and turning to the other night watching him,

878
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:33,319
Speaker 4: and he's not wrong. He just looks indecisive.

879
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:34,880
Speaker 3: He's got no facious.

880
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:36,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, since he's come back from the.

881
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 3: Injury, and you can tell that he has skills like

882
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:42,360
Speaker 3: he can shoot the ball. So the thought has always

883
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:44,719
Speaker 3: been maybe he'll be an incredible defensive player and then

884
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 3: a stretch five. It just hasn't really happened. He's not

885
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 3: going to make plays out of a pick and roll

886
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,319
Speaker 3: out of a short roll. Some bonus is really good

887
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:53,800
Speaker 3: at that. The Pacers key for the past couple of

888
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:55,920
Speaker 3: seasons is that every player in their rotation is a

889
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:58,280
Speaker 3: guy who would play in some other team's rotation. Nobody

890
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:01,400
Speaker 3: is bad, and that's the big thing. So maybe maybe

891
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 3: once Victor Oladipo comes back, they don't need Jeremy Lamb

892
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 3: in the starting line up, so they put him down

893
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 3: in the six man role, and then maybe they're like, Okay,

894
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:10,719
Speaker 3: so our offense is picking up a little bit here.

895
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 3: Maybe we can move on from Miles Turner because surely

896
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:15,279
Speaker 3: there's another team who's going to be interested in him.

897
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:16,880
Speaker 3: He's only twenty three years old. He's going to be

898
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 3: a defensive Player of the Year candidate, at least for

899
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 3: the next couple of seasons, as long as he doesn't

900
00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:23,759
Speaker 3: go the route of Roy Herbert. But I don't know,

901
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 3: it just doesn't seem like there's going to be enough

902
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:28,600
Speaker 3: room for Sabonis and Turner. And I think you're going

903
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 3: with Sabonis.

904
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:31,319
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you're picking one.

905
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:34,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, Turner looked like he was really moving to another

906
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:37,239
Speaker 5: level of a player, but he sort of isn't that

907
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:39,239
Speaker 5: three point shot we thought maybe he was because he

908
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 5: was trying to develop that that's falling off this year.

909
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:43,600
Speaker 5: And he just doesn't rebound enough for a big guy.

910
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:46,160
Speaker 4: He doesn't rebound. He never gets to the free throw line.

911
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you know. So the contesting shots and the

912
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 5: blocking shots is fine, but that's really what he's hanging

913
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:55,520
Speaker 5: his hat on right now. He's not bringing enough, certainly

914
00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:59,280
Speaker 5: when you look at what Sabonis brings them offensively and defensively.

915
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:01,839
Speaker 5: If you have to make a choice, there's no question

916
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:02,760
Speaker 5: you got with Sabnis.

917
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so, or is it just because he was

918
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:07,839
Speaker 4: coming back from the injury he just needs some time

919
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 4: to get going. I don't know. I mean, I'm with you.

920
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 4: I like, there's no doubt teams would want him. I

921
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 4: would want him. I would still I like him on

922
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:19,239
Speaker 4: the Pacers because defensively he's great, but for what the

923
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 4: guy makes, we know he needs to do more offensively.

924
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 4: I never feel like, oh, man, pacers need a bucket here,

925
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 4: get the ball turner? Never ever, ever, ever? Are you

926
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:28,239
Speaker 4: think of that right now?

927
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 2: Yeah? Maybe if we change our perception of him. Yeah,

928
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:33,759
Speaker 2: maybe if we say, hey, this guy's not going to score,

929
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:38,280
Speaker 2: and then maybe he's fine as a five on that team.

930
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 2: And because they when when Vic comes back, they start

931
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:45,239
Speaker 2: Malcolm Brognen and Victor Oladipo in the back court and

932
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 2: they got two great scores and TJ. Warren and De

933
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:51,319
Speaker 2: Montas Sabonis. They got enough offense, so maybe they don't

934
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:52,240
Speaker 2: need his offense whatsoever.

935
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:55,279
Speaker 4: Final one here. Camelo Anthony was asked after his Blazers

936
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 4: ropped over the Knicks earlier this week whether he has

937
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 4: ever thought about his jersey being retired in MSG. His

938
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:05,080
Speaker 4: response quote, do I think about it? Anybody would want

939
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 4: to get that opportunity if it's there. We'll see when

940
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:12,400
Speaker 4: that time comes. Hopefully they'll hang number seven somewhere.

941
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:15,440
Speaker 2: Up there he's going for it. Melo's feeling right.

942
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 4: Does Mellow deserve to have his jersey retired by the Knicks?

943
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:21,960
Speaker 4: Do you think it will happen?

944
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:26,279
Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, he's the best Nick of

945
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:27,360
Speaker 3: the past twenty years.

946
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 4: Yes, that's a low bar, but yes, you're a.

947
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:34,239
Speaker 3: Long time that's like a generation of children. Mellow is

948
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 3: the best Knick that they have seen. Yeah, he's the

949
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:39,279
Speaker 3: only one that's ever taken him to the playoffs in

950
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 3: the past basically twenty years they went into three to four,

951
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 3: but they had three years from eleven to thirteen that

952
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:47,240
Speaker 3: they actually made the playoffs.

953
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 4: He won one playoff series.

954
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:52,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, the best time for New York Knicks fans has

955
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:55,920
Speaker 3: been when Carmelo Anthony was a New York Knick. Does

956
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:58,439
Speaker 3: that mean he should have his jersey retired? I don't

957
00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:00,920
Speaker 3: think so for a historic friend, but I guess you

958
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:04,319
Speaker 3: can make the case that we had nothing better going

959
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:07,640
Speaker 3: on right now. Mellow actually wanted to be here, and

960
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:09,840
Speaker 3: he you know, he represented for the next for a

961
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:10,400
Speaker 3: long time.

962
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not I'm down on it. I just I mean, yeah,

963
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:16,799
Speaker 5: he wanted to be there, and he was fine while

964
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:18,400
Speaker 5: he was there. But I don't sort of look at

965
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:21,440
Speaker 5: that ear and think, got you got to remember that

966
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:24,400
Speaker 5: era man, you got to hang his jersey to the rafters.

967
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:28,120
Speaker 5: I mean, but again, you know, each franchise has their

968
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:32,440
Speaker 5: own sort of rules and their own you know, criteria

969
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:34,080
Speaker 5: that have to be met. So if the Knicks sort

970
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:36,120
Speaker 5: of want to go, you know what, we had nothing

971
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:38,799
Speaker 5: else going on, so let's just hang mellow gives us

972
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 5: a ceremony and short of shows that we you know,

973
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:46,080
Speaker 5: we treat our play as well. I can't even get

974
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:46,319
Speaker 5: it there.

975
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 2: I'm so glad you got fired from your next job

976
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 2: speak freely now. In a similar ven, I think the

977
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:55,680
Speaker 2: Nuggets should claim him right now and say, hey, he's

978
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 2: a retired guy. In a similar even they haven't had

979
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 2: a lot of success and they haven't retired a number

980
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 2: for a guy who hasn't played since to Kemba, you know,

981
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:05,320
Speaker 2: like twenty five years.

982
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 5: Uh so, but what they have to get one of Josey?

983
00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, where's fifteen? That's the issue. But he had

984
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:15,120
Speaker 2: a slightly longer career in Denver, a little bit more

985
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:19,280
Speaker 2: successful into a conference finals in the playoffs. He started

986
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:22,360
Speaker 2: his career there. You can kind of, you know, you

987
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 2: claim him as a young sarahcuse Mellow as well. Just

988
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:28,239
Speaker 2: go get him, go go g have they.

989
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:33,279
Speaker 4: Men did that relationship though, Mellow and the nuggetation, isn't it.

990
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 3: Yeah?

991
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 2: I don't think it sounds like Mellow just wants to

992
00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:39,040
Speaker 2: get everything right now, like he wants he wants the

993
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 2: legacy Mellow right now. I think he'll take anything not

994
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:44,960
Speaker 2: a bad way. You know. I think if the Nuggets

995
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:48,880
Speaker 2: called and they bury the hatchet, why not why not

996
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 2: have a little bit of you know, nostalgia lore add

997
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:56,120
Speaker 2: to it. It's it's two thousand and three NBA draft class.

998
00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:58,839
Speaker 4: Go get him back to the Knicks. They've had eight

999
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 4: guys with their jersey's retired, their numbers retired, Patrick Ewing,

1000
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:06,920
Speaker 4: Walt Fraser, Willis Reid, Earl Monroe, Bill Bradley, Dick Barnett,

1001
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:12,280
Speaker 4: Dick McGuire, Dicky No just kidding, and Dave de Buscher. Okay,

1002
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:15,640
Speaker 4: so that's the eight guys. Mel spent seven seasons in

1003
00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:19,840
Speaker 4: New York. Was an All Star in all of those seasons.

1004
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 4: You know, I saw Dan Feldman making the case NBC Sports.

1005
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:27,719
Speaker 4: He made All NBA second Team, All NBA third Team

1006
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:31,400
Speaker 4: with the Knicks. He was third in MVP voting in

1007
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:35,359
Speaker 4: the twenty thirteen year, scoring that year, he's got more

1008
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:37,680
Speaker 4: wins than win shares, excuse me, than a lot of

1009
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:39,719
Speaker 4: those guys, like some of those oldies that are up

1010
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:43,440
Speaker 4: hanging in MSG. It's just it's really the lack of

1011
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:48,000
Speaker 4: playoff success. It's one playoff series win. So I think

1012
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:51,879
Speaker 4: he did enough regular season to warrant it. I do,

1013
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:55,480
Speaker 4: and I think seven is just enough. But if you

1014
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 4: really want to see some playoff success, and then you're

1015
00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:00,279
Speaker 4: not getting it from that stint, even though even though,

1016
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:03,160
Speaker 4: like you're saying, Trey, that actually is some successful the

1017
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:07,640
Speaker 4: last twenty years, comparatively, yeah, comparatively, So we'll see. Let's

1018
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 4: hear from you, guys. No dunk sing is mellow going

1019
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:11,960
Speaker 4: up in MSG.

1020
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:15,319
Speaker 3: You think he would accept it if the thunder were like, hey, man,

1021
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 3: I'll just throw your jersey. Why not?

1022
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:18,360
Speaker 2: Why not?

1023
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:20,439
Speaker 3: Don't take anything.

1024
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:22,960
Speaker 4: Tweeted the night, let's do it.

1025
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:26,000
Speaker 2: Tweet out the night.

1026
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:35,560
Speaker 3: Wow, today's tweet of the night is an Instagram post.

1027
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:39,799
Speaker 3: I'll read you the caption. They say you can't teach

1028
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:43,680
Speaker 3: an old dog new tricks. Maybe dogs just don't like

1029
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:49,640
Speaker 3: magic baby, that's right. Dogs at a Distance is back Baby.

1030
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:56,640
Speaker 3: After one year away from posting, Matt Austin listened to

1031
00:46:56,760 --> 00:46:59,799
Speaker 3: our podcast and brought back Dogs at a Distance with

1032
00:46:59,880 --> 00:47:02,560
Speaker 3: a dog just chambered. I don't know what this dog is,

1033
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:07,080
Speaker 3: but it's far away. It's behind a door with a window,

1034
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:09,279
Speaker 3: so I mean I zoomed in on it. Couldn't really

1035
00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 3: tell what kind of dog it was, but I was

1036
00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:13,600
Speaker 3: just happy to see that. All you gotta do to

1037
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:15,919
Speaker 3: get Mad Austin back in the Dogs at a Distance game,

1038
00:47:16,239 --> 00:47:18,239
Speaker 3: put it on a podcast. Yeah, but our price just

1039
00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:21,120
Speaker 3: went up. We're gonna need that Isaiah Thomas growth chart.

1040
00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:25,000
Speaker 3: We're gonna need the Piston's Hooper snow globe. We're gonna

1041
00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:26,839
Speaker 3: need that Teal jersey. And you're gonna have to throw

1042
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:28,359
Speaker 3: in a pair of Teal shorts now because I want

1043
00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:31,600
Speaker 3: the full fit. This is an active account.

1044
00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:33,560
Speaker 2: This is an active negotiation as well.

1045
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 4: That's great. I'm happy to have that back in our life.

1046
00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:42,680
Speaker 3: Maybe dogs just don't like Mad Baby.

1047
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:46,440
Speaker 5: You know you talked about John Schuman, you know, well,

1048
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:50,040
Speaker 5: actually well actually in you yeah, he was actually well

1049
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:56,279
Speaker 5: actually the Kawhi shot last night when the when the

1050
00:47:57,040 --> 00:47:59,399
Speaker 5: tribute video there was coming out, let me just bring

1051
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:00,640
Speaker 5: it up here because.

1052
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:05,759
Speaker 2: Which was really cool? The footsteps, Yes, tracing the footsteps

1053
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:06,400
Speaker 2: is us.

1054
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:08,719
Speaker 5: And so this is why Schumann tweeted. He retweeted someone

1055
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 5: who put the footsteps out there says, I see the

1056
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:15,240
Speaker 5: spot where Embids set the screen on Simmons, not taking

1057
00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:17,680
Speaker 5: away from the incredible shot, just giving it a chance

1058
00:48:17,719 --> 00:48:19,640
Speaker 5: to go in took a ton of strength and skill.

1059
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:23,240
Speaker 5: But I often think about Embiid's inability to actually double Leonard,

1060
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:25,720
Speaker 5: make him pick up his dribble, or even change direction

1061
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 5: on that play because he took the wrong angle Embid's screen,

1062
00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:31,240
Speaker 5: Simmons replaced him as the defender and didn't prevent Leonard

1063
00:48:31,239 --> 00:48:32,440
Speaker 5: from going to where he wanted to go.

1064
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:34,120
Speaker 2: Nice shoot.

1065
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,200
Speaker 5: Everyone else is having a great night, Shuman was, well,

1066
00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:40,520
Speaker 5: actually everybody, he's not.

1067
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:44,239
Speaker 4: Wrong point out about that particular play.

1068
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:45,520
Speaker 6: Sorright?

1069
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:51,360
Speaker 4: You love, Schuman tweets, Man, I do. Let's good to

1070
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 4: the pick the results.

1071
00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:55,680
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Speaker 3: find some great vintage gear on Instagram. We're talking about kids, bulls, sweaters,

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00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:08,759
Speaker 3: people or maybe a sweatshirt that just says basketball. But

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00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:11,640
Speaker 3: cash app does way more than that. Cash App also

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00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:13,840
Speaker 3: comes with the cash Card, a free debit card that

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00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:17,000
Speaker 3: comes with booths, which are like instant rewards for shopping

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Speaker 3: at the places you already love. You can get discounts

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00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:23,080
Speaker 3: off your entire purchase at places like Door, Dash, Whole Foods,

1081
00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:25,120
Speaker 3: and Target, where you can also get a sweatshirt that

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00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:27,640
Speaker 3: just says basketball. We're also excited to be working with

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00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:31,480
Speaker 3: cash app to support one of our favorite organizations, the ACLU.

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00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:32,920
Speaker 3: When you sign up for cash app and use the

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00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:35,560
Speaker 3: promo code no Dunks, you get ten bucks and cash

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00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:38,680
Speaker 3: app will donate ten dollars to the ACLU, an amazing

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00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:41,960
Speaker 3: organization founded in nineteen twenty that's dedicated to defending and

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00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:44,720
Speaker 3: preserving the rights and liberty is guaranteed to every person

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Speaker 3: in the US. Don't forget promo code no dunks one

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00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:50,160
Speaker 3: word when you download cash app from the App Store

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00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:52,000
Speaker 3: or Google Play Store today.

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Speaker 4: I would like to stress to everyone listening out there

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00:49:55,560 --> 00:49:59,239
Speaker 4: to download and sign up for cash app now. If

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00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:02,759
Speaker 4: you haven't done so already, you're gonna want to get

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00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:06,840
Speaker 4: your very own cash tag. Okay, that's a little tease.

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00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:08,840
Speaker 4: That's what they call a teas in the business.

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Speaker 2: We got a lot of business talk. We had a

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00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:14,040
Speaker 2: chiron talk, we had reacts talk. We love it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So get that cash app, get your cash tag,

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00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:20,920
Speaker 4: do it as soon as possible. Again, just trust me

1101
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:24,320
Speaker 4: on this one. We're gonna have some fun next week,

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00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:27,160
Speaker 4: and in fact, I'll probably announce what we're doing on

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00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:28,759
Speaker 4: tomorrow's Friday show.

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Speaker 6: All right, So the ching, yeah yeah, chang, yeah, that's right,

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00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:38,000
Speaker 6: all right, not to cut chang for myself and Trey

1106
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:40,279
Speaker 6: with the pick them from Wednesday night.

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00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:44,520
Speaker 4: It was the Clippers Raptors game. Clippers were favored by

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00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:47,360
Speaker 4: three and a half. Trey and I took the Raps,

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00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 4: try and keep it close, maybe get the wind. No, no, no, no, no.

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00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:50,440
Speaker 4: I knew it.

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00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:51,200
Speaker 2: I knew it.

1112
00:50:51,239 --> 00:50:52,960
Speaker 4: I had a feeling that the Clips are gonna blow

1113
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:55,000
Speaker 4: them out. They did, so I followed two and six.

1114
00:50:55,120 --> 00:50:59,439
Speaker 4: I am slowly falling out of this month of December here.

1115
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:01,960
Speaker 4: But tassent Lee got the wins least six and two.

1116
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:03,759
Speaker 4: We got tasting tree four and four right there in

1117
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:05,319
Speaker 4: the middle. So what's tonight's game?

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00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:08,120
Speaker 2: First, you say kuching or Chi ching. I don't know

1119
00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:10,239
Speaker 2: I said, because I said dope kits So I don't

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00:51:10,239 --> 00:51:11,200
Speaker 2: know want to talking.

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00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:14,240
Speaker 4: About no chi ching? I guess okay, yeah.

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00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just want to clarify. I don't know if

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00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:18,319
Speaker 2: I just want to tease it, right, Chen, What did

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00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:19,400
Speaker 2: you say that I said? Chi ching?

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00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:21,480
Speaker 3: Chi ching?

1126
00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:23,080
Speaker 2: Oh? I don't think if you see it written out,

1127
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:23,840
Speaker 2: it's cush.

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00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:25,239
Speaker 4: Yeah.

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00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 2: And that's the sound of a cash register, I think,

1130
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:31,080
Speaker 2: because that's the cut opens it and the chain is

1131
00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:33,800
Speaker 2: when it bangs opened unless it's.

1132
00:51:33,640 --> 00:51:37,000
Speaker 1: Filled with a lot of change in which but it

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00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:39,200
Speaker 1: could be a chi ching if there's a lot in there.

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00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:39,920
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?

1135
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:43,000
Speaker 1: All right, because it's louder than the cut.

1136
00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:46,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to try it out because you actually,

1137
00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:51,000
Speaker 2: jd you gifted us a little cash register. My two

1138
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:53,719
Speaker 2: year old us so she's popping it open all the time.

1139
00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:54,719
Speaker 4: Nice record it.

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00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:58,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see it on the No Dunk Sink Instagram account.

1141
00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:05,280
Speaker 2: Tonight port at Denver, Denver struggling baby three in a row.

1142
00:52:05,320 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 2: They've lost. They're at home to the Portland Trail Blazers

1143
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:11,239
Speaker 2: and they're favored by six and a half against the Blazers.

1144
00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:17,600
Speaker 4: So I Jake got nuggets by six and a half.

1145
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:19,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. They're back, baby.

1146
00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:21,200
Speaker 4: I hate betting on the Nuggets.

1147
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:24,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, I honestly hat. And it's the first

1148
00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:27,080
Speaker 2: game home after a four game road trip, which is

1149
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:28,759
Speaker 2: quite often a little bit sluggish.

1150
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:31,440
Speaker 5: Do we know what Jamal murray status is?

1151
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:31,719
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1152
00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 3: Do not. Yeah, it took a little bump, took a

1153
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:35,239
Speaker 3: bump to the rim.

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00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:37,320
Speaker 4: I'll take the Blazers plus six and a half.

1155
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:40,640
Speaker 3: I to them on the Blazers, I believe you get

1156
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:43,040
Speaker 3: you get the points. They've done a good job against

1157
00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:45,680
Speaker 3: the spread on the road, and the Nuggets you just

1158
00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:48,800
Speaker 3: don't want to be relying on them right now, little unreliable.

1159
00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:52,839
Speaker 2: Sounds like we're all struggling to find who to pick.

1160
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:55,319
Speaker 2: I'm totally with you, and that's why I go back

1161
00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:57,680
Speaker 2: and I look at if they've played this year. They

1162
00:52:57,680 --> 00:53:02,080
Speaker 2: did have the rematch right after the playoff meeting that

1163
00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:04,640
Speaker 2: they had last year first night of the season they

1164
00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:08,520
Speaker 2: played Portland won, So I'm going with Denver. Okay, there's

1165
00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:09,080
Speaker 2: my logic.

1166
00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:13,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think Jamal Murray's got a little junk in

1167
00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:16,120
Speaker 5: his trunk. Excuse me, that's what he had, A trunk

1168
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:23,320
Speaker 5: and shoes. Mellow mellow back in Denver, six and a

1169
00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:25,160
Speaker 5: half Nuggets offenses.

1170
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:27,160
Speaker 2: Just you're gonna have to restart that music again.

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00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:29,160
Speaker 4: You're six and two.

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00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:32,640
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter, man, I guess it does.

1173
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:36,760
Speaker 4: This is this is bad audio. You're just sitting here, partner, Okay,

1174
00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:37,960
Speaker 4: I hope you just understand.

1175
00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:41,560
Speaker 2: All right, give me the nuggies change.

1176
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:44,560
Speaker 4: So same uh, same, two on two. Here as a

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00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:47,959
Speaker 4: last night Trey and I taking Portland on the road,

1178
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:50,759
Speaker 4: Tassin Lee taking the Nuggets favored by six and a half.

1179
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:55,960
Speaker 4: All right, thanks for joining us today. Guys. This is

1180
00:53:57,160 --> 00:53:57,640
Speaker 4: by the way.

1181
00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:00,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, all this fucking bullshit.

1182
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:01,520
Speaker 4: You're drinking doesn't work.

1183
00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:02,360
Speaker 3: You've been coughing.

1184
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:07,600
Speaker 4: I want to say it. You've been coughing three weeks now.

1185
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:12,360
Speaker 4: None of this, None of this. I have had a

1186
00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:15,759
Speaker 4: cold and gotten rid of my span. I'm used to go.

1187
00:54:16,040 --> 00:54:17,320
Speaker 4: This is I'm so sorry.

1188
00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:18,800
Speaker 5: This is not related.

1189
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:20,600
Speaker 4: You said you were sick.

1190
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:23,800
Speaker 5: It's different. I'm telling you. It's different between a sniffle

1191
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:24,480
Speaker 5: and an ask.

1192
00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:28,920
Speaker 4: Give me give me a hug. I thought you were sick. Still, guys,

1193
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:32,520
Speaker 4: keep your eyes and your ears on the No Dunks

1194
00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:36,120
Speaker 4: podcast feed. It's another back to back Jack's type of day.

1195
00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:38,600
Speaker 4: Here in the office. We're gonna be dropping a new

1196
00:54:38,719 --> 00:54:41,359
Speaker 4: podcast series called Crossfire.

1197
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:45,239
Speaker 3: It's like rendon't and Trout in the lineup, baby, back

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00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:45,719
Speaker 3: to back.

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00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:48,120
Speaker 4: Are you gonna be okay to step into the Crossfire?

1200
00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 3: Who was that other dude? Though?

1201
00:54:49,719 --> 00:54:51,120
Speaker 5: Someone signed an even bigger deal.

1202
00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:55,439
Speaker 3: I thought Garrett Cole, the Yankees guy only plays once

1203
00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:58,320
Speaker 3: every five games, and they signed NBA is worried about

1204
00:54:58,320 --> 00:54:59,480
Speaker 3: load management.

1205
00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:02,680
Speaker 5: Signing for nine years, three hundred million. Yeah, and he's like,

1206
00:55:02,840 --> 00:55:06,960
Speaker 5: he's not even gonna be playing those last four years.

1207
00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 5: He's gonna have Tommy John surgery.

1208
00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:10,680
Speaker 2: But yeah, how dare you?

1209
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:11,600
Speaker 4: You heard it here first?

1210
00:55:11,719 --> 00:55:14,879
Speaker 3: Have a great time, turn up, Love you guys, awesome.

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00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:16,960
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us. I remember Jamal Murray is out

1212
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:20,280
Speaker 2: with an asthma injury.

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00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:26,400
Speaker 4: Oh god, hold you just did that once the people

1214
00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:28,280
Speaker 4: you could.

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Speaker 6: Stay every day.

1216
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:37,880
Speaker 2: And d you happy every minute.

1217
00:55:38,480 --> 00:55:42,000
Speaker 6: It's been so long that your funna wait.

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00:55:42,080 --> 00:55:48,000
Speaker 2: For it's happened already. It's gonna be grevy