Speaker 1: Well, well, well we are back.
Speaker 2: They can't hold we that down, and the teams are
Speaker 2: voting the midway point of their seasons.
Speaker 1: The Wolves and Celtics still lead their respective conferences. Celtics
Speaker 1: but just they just don't quit looking so good.
Speaker 3: It's sort of disturbing versus the field.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for real.
Speaker 2: But we're talking the state of the Suns today and
Speaker 2: some surprising early results out here on the West side.
Speaker 1: Of things, very surprising.
Speaker 2: For some uh and plenty more with comedian Aaron Edwards
Speaker 2: on today's episode Time Files.
Speaker 3: Great and I'm Jack O'Brien and this is.
Speaker 1: Miles and Jack Take it bad, Boosts and Mousie care
Speaker 1: less about the Lakers struggling dot jist story, got it.
Speaker 3: Hicks?
Speaker 1: Okay, there you go.
Speaker 3: Driving Spinny from Block's got it?
Speaker 1: But five is gonna try another three?
Speaker 3: Mister, No God, James, be honest, you tell no shot time.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: Shout out to Aaron Edwards, Thank you so much for
Speaker 2: joining US.
Speaker 1: Media podcast fan Buzz Rider. You got the Uncle Show
Speaker 1: coming up on January twenty sixth. That's not just the
Speaker 1: show four uncles.
Speaker 2: I'm guessing because I'm I'm an only child, so I
Speaker 2: don't have the opportunity.
Speaker 1: But what is the uncle show?
Speaker 3: Four uncles by uncles.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you don't have to be you don't have to
Speaker 4: be an uncle to show up. It's pretty much two uncles,
Speaker 4: two black uncles trying to learn the way of like
Speaker 4: the new world. Me and my boy and I wrote it,
Speaker 4: perform it. It's pretty much black.
Speaker 1: Oh hello, Yeah, that's perfect.
Speaker 5: That pretty much what we do.
Speaker 2: And what's your version of too much tuna?
Speaker 1: Not enough, not enough tuna?
Speaker 4: We we see in the steak on stage the last
Speaker 4: show and we put like way too much salt.
Speaker 5: So everybody's coming out to that's saying too much salt.
Speaker 1: So too much tout. Okay, let them know, let them know.
Speaker 3: Not no such thing as too much salt on a steak.
Speaker 3: If you ask me as a fellow uncle, you can't.
Speaker 3: You can't be too much salt.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean a lot of it grills off at least,
Speaker 1: that's what I say in my mind. That's right, until.
Speaker 2: Someone eats it and they're like, is this like a
Speaker 2: sour candy? I'm like, no, this is the sake overseasons.
Speaker 2: But anyway, speaking of they too light a touch.
Speaker 3: And there is a timely topical reference for you exactly.
Speaker 2: Oh man, So here we are twenty twenty four. It's
Speaker 2: a new year on the calendar, same season that we
Speaker 2: were last talking about when.
Speaker 1: We were in twenty twenty three. It feels like things
Speaker 1: pretty much not much has changed. The teams that were
Speaker 1: cooking remain on their they're bubbling, they are percolating. And
Speaker 1: then the teams that were slip in the process of yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just kind of stinking it a little bit continue
Speaker 1: to be stinky a little bit.
Speaker 3: Stinking it. Man, these guys are stinking it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean we did the Celtics though they
Speaker 1: are on top of.
Speaker 2: The Eastern Conference. And yeah, Jason Tatum frightens me. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's just he's remarkable. Just Drew Holliday continues to be
Speaker 2: what I thought he would be on that team. Um,
Speaker 2: and yeah, they got a three and a half game
Speaker 2: lead over the Bucks with a twenty eight and eight
Speaker 2: record over the all.
Speaker 1: Wow, what what fun numbers to see as a as your.
Speaker 2: Win loss column there For me and my got that
Speaker 2: crazy that, I got that crazy Laker look in my
Speaker 2: eyes where I go. What I'm seeing is all faith
Speaker 2: but so real that I must embrace it. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, how how is everybody looking around? Oh, Jack,
Speaker 2: I mean Philly, I know you always say I'm off.
Speaker 1: This thing, I'm done it.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, we're just bad people. We're just unhappy people.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter how the team is doing. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 3: Embiat is having one of the best seasons we've ever
Speaker 3: seen a player have. He's he's been incredible. And you know,
Speaker 3: Maxie Nurse, there's your big three right there and be
Speaker 3: Maxi Nurse Nick Nurse. But I uh, I feel like
Speaker 3: they could use another piece, but not necessarily a piece
Speaker 3: that's like a big score, maybe a Caruso. I feel
Speaker 3: like every team wants to wants Caruso. Yeah, everyone wants Caruso.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's gonna be tough for anybody to pull off
Speaker 4: Caruso because everybody wants to make at that.
Speaker 3: The Bulls are just like, we're gonna we're gonna hang
Speaker 3: on to this guy. We think we like where we're headed.
Speaker 1: Yeah really you sure? You sure?
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, and then it it's just the rest of it,
Speaker 2: like you said it, really, it does look like everything
Speaker 2: is going to have to be everyone versus the Celtics.
Speaker 3: Everything goes through Boston unless people start getting hurt. But
Speaker 3: I mean, other than yeah, Porzingis is a huge part
Speaker 3: of what they're doing. If he remains healthy, I think
Speaker 3: they're the prohibited favorite in the East and maybe overall.
Speaker 3: But he hasn't been able to remain healthy, so it
Speaker 3: remains to be seen, you know. But they they're terrifying.
Speaker 2: Yeah and yeah, I mean before we talk about the Suns,
Speaker 2: I'm just looking.
Speaker 1: At the rest of the Western Conference here. What is
Speaker 1: this done here? Okay, what's going on with.
Speaker 2: At the top? Yeah, they are looking great. Jack again,
Speaker 2: you're that ticket we got in Vegas off season.
Speaker 3: I bet, okay, see to win the title in July
Speaker 3: at the turn.
Speaker 5: Off, I'm Conference finals or something.
Speaker 6: No, for the fences, you know, I've heard tell of
Speaker 6: betting markets where you can sell like a ticket like this,
Speaker 6: like you get value on it, like somebody would be
Speaker 6: willing to buy that for a pretty good price.
Speaker 3: But I think I'm going to go and do it
Speaker 3: for fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for the vibes, the vibes.
Speaker 5: You don't want to be the person that sells it
Speaker 5: and it hits, So.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. I also bought a ticket for the Suns
Speaker 3: to win the title in the off season. Those those
Speaker 3: are the two that I bought, and I could not
Speaker 3: sell that, uh to anybody right now.
Speaker 2: You never know, a lot of a lot of season left, guys,
Speaker 2: A lot of seasons right now. And I look at
Speaker 2: I mean, like what the Phoenix as of this recording
Speaker 2: the Sun's nineteen eighteen, Lakers eighteen and nineteen, and I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a lot of season left, lot of season left,
Speaker 2: a lot of season left, a lot of season left.
Speaker 1: But need something to happen.
Speaker 3: That sounded like some Yellowstone spin offs eighteen nineteen nineteen eighteen.
Speaker 1: Wow wow, wow wow, Okay that one?
Speaker 2: Oh man, but oh brothers, right, Jabari chat just a
Speaker 2: quick you know, how's everybody?
Speaker 1: What if? What if you've been thinking of Golden State?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: And just the current fall.
Speaker 2: It looked like at one point Klay Thompson really was
Speaker 2: up there one of those postgame like conference press conferences
Speaker 2: and was just sort of like being like, yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: like maybe I'm cooked, you know, like maybe maybe that
Speaker 2: is what's going on.
Speaker 1: And he's like, I might have to be I might
Speaker 1: have to deal with that. But it felt I don't know,
Speaker 1: there's something there's a poetry about it that I was
Speaker 1: just like, oh, this is interesting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's a bunch of teams right now,
Speaker 4: like you said, other than Boston, it seems like everybody
Speaker 4: else is like considering their mortality right now, like everything
Speaker 4: like Boston, Like seasonal depression has hit every NBA team,
Speaker 4: but like two NBA teams, like all of us are
Speaker 4: just considering where we are in the universe. The Warriors
Speaker 4: are probably the ones thinking that's the most.
Speaker 1: Yeah, NBA seasonal depression.
Speaker 2: Not because there's like what weather season we are in
Speaker 2: of the four seasons of the year, but just where
Speaker 2: you are in the season and how that has you depressed.
Speaker 3: Was how it's still fun though they're about to get
Speaker 3: Draymond back. Who's that one dude who who is like
Speaker 3: playing for them all of a sudden, Davis Who's Who's
Speaker 3: kind of a fun little wrinkle. I feel like, uh,
Speaker 3: I don't know. I've watched like a couple quarters of
Speaker 3: them over the break, and there's still I don't know,
Speaker 3: like there's still a blast watch anytimes stuff's out there,
Speaker 3: you know. Yeah, I don't know. I don't root against
Speaker 3: anyone except the Celtics. I'm a I'm a one woman man.
Speaker 3: When it comes to rooting against NBA teams, So you
Speaker 3: I think, but yeah, there there's they're way down there.
Speaker 3: It's not it's not looking good. They're out of a
Speaker 3: half game, out of the plan tournament. I guess I'm
Speaker 3: not too bad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not too bad, considering him a lot of congestion,
Speaker 1: a lot of congestion.
Speaker 5: You got to give this more time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how are you feeling as a follower of the Suns?
Speaker 3: Do you? Are you encouraged by what you see when
Speaker 3: they finally got Durant, Booker and Beale all together.
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 4: Sometimes, like when it looks good, it looks really good
Speaker 4: and kind of figure it out, but it's just a
Speaker 4: bunch of people like kind of planning out of position.
Speaker 4: And if you even look at Suns Twitter, it's like
Speaker 4: it's rough right now. It's looking bad out there, Like
Speaker 4: it seems like a family member got diagnosed with the
Speaker 4: terminal illness. And that's what all those tweets look like,
Speaker 4: just like we'll push through this, like we'll be all right,
Speaker 4: Like we just got to give it time. And it's
Speaker 4: just like just give the guy's time. It'll be a
Speaker 4: couple of weeks. Like it's just everybody just trying to
Speaker 4: talk themselves into it, but it's been looking really.
Speaker 2: Yef okay to go on with that medical analogy there, Well,
Speaker 2: what is your diagnosis exactly?
Speaker 1: Is it that? I mean, people like the roster that
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know with this roster, but like on paper,
Speaker 2: you're like what others are Like, it's the coaching.
Speaker 1: It's like we don't take enough three like that's all
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 2: Or obviously, like anything, it's a complex issue that has
Speaker 2: many different contributing factors.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like multiple organ failure, that's what it is.
Speaker 5: It's just it's the defense.
Speaker 4: It's one of the worst fourth quarter teams in the NBA.
Speaker 1: I saw that. What is the what do you guys
Speaker 1: like minus?
Speaker 5: Like what is minus? I think?
Speaker 2: And yeah minus sixteen point one net minus sixteen point
Speaker 2: one net rating in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah. And it's just it like falls apart
Speaker 4: no matter what lead we have, Like everybody's kind of
Speaker 4: expecting that now because what's Katie sits like, it just
Speaker 4: looks bad when Katie sits down, no matter who's kind
Speaker 4: of out there still because book deal are still trying
Speaker 4: to learn each other and they don't know who's going
Speaker 4: to be the point guard yet? And who's going to
Speaker 4: be the shooting guard. So they just keep trying to
Speaker 4: see who's going to actually take over.
Speaker 5: And it's what's weird, right, You.
Speaker 3: Know how you guys could use Alex Caruso. I feel
Speaker 3: like Alex Caruso that might as a dog, do we? Uh?
Speaker 3: This is speaking of the seasons this season where hope
Speaker 3: springs eternal because we're coming up on some people being
Speaker 3: able to make some moves. Do you feel like there's
Speaker 3: a move for the Suns to make?
Speaker 4: Yeah, people were talking about it today, like Grayson Allen,
Speaker 4: he's about to be a free agent and he's probably
Speaker 4: like the fourth best player on.
Speaker 5: Our team right now. Yeah, but we do, but we
Speaker 5: need more size and wings.
Speaker 4: So if anything, we just gonna have to bite that
Speaker 4: bullet and get rid of Grayson to pick up some
Speaker 4: wings because we beat way more size our rebounding.
Speaker 5: This is terrible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I was really like excited when I
Speaker 2: saw like early on this season, the first like five
Speaker 2: games or whatever.
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, Josh, Kochie looks really good. I'm
Speaker 1: like this this this this could all start coming together.
Speaker 1: But has things aren't looking too too hot for him, right.
Speaker 4: Just leave him wide open and you're fine. And that's
Speaker 4: what Tyler did yesterday. They're just gonna leave him open
Speaker 4: at the corner, and sooner or later he gets in
Speaker 4: his own head.
Speaker 5: If he misses the.
Speaker 4: First two, he's gonna pump fake and drive off the
Speaker 4: next one because he just he gets in his own
Speaker 4: head after he missed a couple of those.
Speaker 5: Wide open corner threes.
Speaker 4: And he's still really good on defense, and he's one
Speaker 4: of my best rebounders actually, but on offense, he's just
Speaker 4: those lineups with him are pretty rough.
Speaker 3: He loot the pump fake when no one's guarding you.
Speaker 3: That used to meet my specialty because I can't. I
Speaker 3: wasn't a great outside shooter, even though with him four
Speaker 3: feet of me. So yeah, but it's like a fundamental
Speaker 3: move that every but I've.
Speaker 1: Got Cornett to jump with the Cornett Cornet on that.
Speaker 1: But what about okay would be though he's only played
Speaker 1: like thirteen games?
Speaker 2: Yeah, how I mean again, I'm looking from a very
Speaker 2: far distance over here, But how close is he to come?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 1: Is do?
Speaker 2: Are are we able to count on him as as
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna say, I guess I'm gonna be a
Speaker 2: Suns fan for a little bit because you guys are
Speaker 2: one game ahead of us, So I'm gonna just jump
Speaker 2: on that bandwagon.
Speaker 1: But what's like the problem. How do the Sun's.
Speaker 2: Fans feel about him right now? And just his availability
Speaker 2: and his health long term.
Speaker 4: I mean, the health thing, everybody was kind of it
Speaker 4: was you can tell it was grating on everybody, and
Speaker 4: they were it was kind of getting to him, but
Speaker 4: you can tell it was for him. He was trying
Speaker 4: to come back early for the back, even.
Speaker 5: Though he should have waited. He was trying to come
Speaker 5: back early for the ankle.
Speaker 4: I mean, he did come back early for the ankle,
Speaker 4: but you can tell, like it's kind of getting to
Speaker 4: him too. But he's been looking really good right now.
Speaker 4: The problem has kind of been and I hate saying
Speaker 4: this because it's one of my favorite players.
Speaker 5: It's the book thing. Like I think that was probably
Speaker 5: the bigger issue.
Speaker 4: Like Bill, he's you can tell he got his legs
Speaker 4: under him, he's getting to the rim, he's doing all that.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's three point zero pretty bad right now.
Speaker 5: But the book stuff.
Speaker 4: I said at the beginning of the season, I didn't
Speaker 4: want book to be a point guard to forget he
Speaker 4: was the best chiving guard in the league.
Speaker 5: And that's exactly what happens.
Speaker 4: Like he'll legit not take a shot the entire first
Speaker 4: quarter because he's trying to do the Chris Paul thing
Speaker 4: and that's just not his game.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, that's it's like it's a hard life.
Speaker 2: And I get it, man, I've been there, same situation
Speaker 2: with just a great look your roster, thinking things are
Speaker 2: going to be moving in the right direction. It's not
Speaker 2: always easy to blame Frank Vogel as I realized that
Speaker 2: wasn't the solution for us, not at all, not all,
Speaker 2: but like yeah, yeah, yeah, but again, this is the
Speaker 2: season is just like it's delivered many surprises and again
Speaker 2: just like with with Minnesota on top of my.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, like not a lot of people had
Speaker 3: it except for me.
Speaker 1: You know, we get it.
Speaker 3: You know, it was surprising. I can see how it
Speaker 3: would be surprising to other people, the.
Speaker 2: Mortals who are looking at it in a very one dimensional
Speaker 2: way rather than five dimensions.
Speaker 5: And we don't know many people built different.
Speaker 3: Like you, So I guess right, brain, yeah, thank you,
Speaker 3: thank you. Let's take a quick should we take a
Speaker 3: quick break and go back and talk about like some
Speaker 3: of the teams up top.
Speaker 5: Well, we didn't even talk about the Lakers, he said.
Speaker 3: Up top, and we're back, We're back, and yeah, I
Speaker 3: guess we haven't talked about the Lakers that much. How
Speaker 3: they how they look, and I actually have to checked.
Speaker 1: The well, you know, second gold on am I glass?
Speaker 1: Are my glasses? That's going on here? We're scraping that.
Speaker 2: We're we're barely floating right now, barely, And it's so
Speaker 2: frustrating to watch. Okay, thank you Jabari for giving me
Speaker 2: the real status there three and seven of the last ten.
Speaker 2: Like I was on break, I was visiting family in Japan.
Speaker 1: I was like, let's let's sit down watch some Lakers.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm in Japan, like I'm I'm black knees.
Speaker 2: I could watch Ruy play or not play, depending on
Speaker 2: what is going on with his body. And it's just
Speaker 2: so difficult to watch Ad be playing so well and
Speaker 2: just our inability to just to get everything else going,
Speaker 2: because it used to be easy to just say like yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean like if ads like planned and like yeah,
Speaker 2: you guys are doing it, and here we are and
Speaker 2: everybody else is on Snoozefest. So it's it's definitely it's troubling.
Speaker 2: You know that the team is struggling right now.
Speaker 1: Jetlag jetlag, Joe Nama.
Speaker 2: Look, it's not easy coming back to the West Coast
Speaker 2: from Japan, but uh, yeah, it's it's uh. I don't know,
Speaker 2: Like I don't want to be able to just say
Speaker 2: it's as easy as being like, well.
Speaker 1: Darvin Ham like he's got to go, we need doc
Speaker 1: rivers or something like that. It's not. It's not.
Speaker 2: It's not easy at all, But you know, I don't know,
Speaker 2: we'll see what happens, Like I don't know if it's
Speaker 2: like a trade or what.
Speaker 1: How many are how.
Speaker 2: Many trades away we are from this? But with things
Speaker 2: just aren't coming together. And also we were saying this
Speaker 2: off mic is there's just a lot of lack of
Speaker 2: continuity for a lot of the players.
Speaker 1: That we need for the team to be playing well,
Speaker 1: and that is an excuse.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I just I guess I don't understand the
Speaker 3: Lakers started putting it together at the end of last season,
Speaker 3: and it's not other than really being hurt part of
Speaker 3: the time, I don't I don't totally understand what has
Speaker 3: fallen off. It seems like you should just be last
Speaker 3: year's end of the season team plus Gabe Vincent.
Speaker 2: But right, D'Angelo Russell was he was selling us vapor
Speaker 2: where you know, it's.
Speaker 4: Like starter six man, starter six man, like it keeps going. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's like nobody knows what to do with reason anymore.
Speaker 4: When he was supposed to be, what the third best
Speaker 4: player on the team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then I was like, oh, here's your here's
Speaker 2: team USA is new Golden Boy, Like here we go,
Speaker 2: bring all the players with us. But yeah, it's I
Speaker 2: don't know what it is. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2: It could just be, you know, the heavy lies of
Speaker 2: the crown. You know, as I said, you put that.
Speaker 5: He was number one pick in the fantasy draft though,
Speaker 5: and he's been killing it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, now like individ.
Speaker 5: Galaxy brain stuff. Right now, it's via Jack.
Speaker 3: That's right. Where where were you picking? Was it the
Speaker 3: number one overall?
Speaker 5: I think it's like third or four?
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, yeah, I mean that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like to Dono and Megan Gaily and c
Speaker 5: j Are and Ian and all that. Yeah, he's gotta
Speaker 5: decently going.
Speaker 2: But I'm okay, yeah, I mean look Gabe Vincent has
Speaker 2: only played five games.
Speaker 1: Oh has he? Oh?
Speaker 3: Okay, that makes sense, all right, all right.
Speaker 2: Fo has only played sixteen Uh Ruys just like on
Speaker 2: start stop, start stop with his health. So it's just
Speaker 2: it's just chaos, like you know, and like Ruy was
Speaker 2: such a big part of that.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I don't know whatever.
Speaker 2: Again, like I said, those are explanations and those excuses,
Speaker 2: get off my back.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's any other questions, my honor, I do.
Speaker 3: What are your thoughts on the So there's another team
Speaker 3: in Los Angeles smiles, no, do not. Okay, not hottest
Speaker 3: team in the league, right they are Los Angeles. Clip
Speaker 3: Are producer Jabbaris just said, break break, go to break.
Speaker 1: Stop the count, stop the cout.
Speaker 3: So this is they started seven or nine, they went
Speaker 3: oh six for a stretch like when Hart first came,
Speaker 3: like they were a legit laughing stock. On Twitter, I
Speaker 3: was like, I mean this, like the way Twitter's using
Speaker 3: their spicy Twitter fingers, it feels like they might as
Speaker 3: well just pack it in for this season. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: they have become the hottest team in the league the
Speaker 3: six times we get it. They're the biggest, They're they're
Speaker 3: kind of following through on like the thing that we
Speaker 3: saw with the Nets. For a little while, I was
Speaker 3: hoping that that was gonna be the Suns this year.
Speaker 3: But like you know, when you have three great perimeter scorers,
Speaker 3: it can come together like that that season that the
Speaker 3: Nets had KD, Kyrie and Harden, it was like, you know,
Speaker 3: it was a beautiful thing until everybody got hurt, and like,
Speaker 3: that's kind of what the Clippers are giving me, except
Speaker 3: they've got Kawhi Leonard who's like one of the best
Speaker 3: defenders in the league still, so it could be you know,
Speaker 3: if everybody's healthy, Like I people people forgot really quickly
Speaker 3: that for the first two games, and obviously that's not
Speaker 3: enough games for the playoffs, but the first two games
Speaker 3: of the playoffs, Kawhi was the best player in the NBA, Like, right,
Speaker 3: he looked absolutely incredible for the games that he was
Speaker 3: healthy for in the playoffs last year. So I don't know,
Speaker 3: like if he remains healthy, big if, but if he can,
Speaker 3: like they're very very interesting.
Speaker 1: They got a shout for sure, And you know, I just.
Speaker 4: Been playing really well too, Like yeah, it sounds like
Speaker 4: three times in a row now, So yeah, it's been
Speaker 4: going on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just like and and Russ.
Speaker 2: You know, I I as much as I thought that
Speaker 2: I hate to see it, I'm glad to see him
Speaker 2: kind of settle into a place where he's able to
Speaker 2: find himself again and it's working on behalf of the
Speaker 2: Los Angeles Clippers.
Speaker 1: So good for you, man.
Speaker 2: I'm just going to hold onto the fact that we
Speaker 2: both went to UCLA and that's why I feel good
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 3: And you could care less about the team struggling.
Speaker 1: I could care less about the Lakers struggling.
Speaker 3: Gay all right, So I don't know that's a that's
Speaker 3: an exciting hitting top four teams the league. I mean,
Speaker 3: Denver is still there, Denver is still scary. Yeah, Like
Speaker 3: it's probably you know, I would say Denver is the
Speaker 3: Celtics of the Western Conference. They're like the team that
Speaker 3: I'm still expecting to be there that everybody else has
Speaker 3: to go through. It'll it'll be interesting though. I think
Speaker 3: they'll be there in the playoffs. But as of right now,
Speaker 3: they're just kind of to.
Speaker 4: Be the number one seed. Like that's my thing with
Speaker 4: number they can just kick it. They know they have
Speaker 4: Joker and he's probably kicking it right now. Yeah, you
Speaker 4: can just get to the playoffs and can you beat
Speaker 4: them four times?
Speaker 5: And I think this is gonna be hard.
Speaker 2: Not with like especially that freak buzzer beater not even
Speaker 2: freak at this point. Once he hit that one shot
Speaker 2: over a D last year, I was like, no, this
Speaker 2: is this is just what this guy does.
Speaker 1: That's how he scores. Yeah, he'll just rip.
Speaker 2: Your soul in half and then like and then you'll
Speaker 2: be like, well that was actually a fluke man, and
Speaker 2: then he does like nine more times, You're like, so good.
Speaker 4: I just expect him to make everything now, Like I
Speaker 4: saw the DA and A playoffs, Like every time he
Speaker 4: does stuff, I'm just like, yeah, this is just who
Speaker 4: he is.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, So I guess we're saying that's inevitable. There's
Speaker 2: really no reason to think that, Yeah, I I honestly,
Speaker 2: if if he's playing the way he is, there's really
Speaker 2: that's it is what it is, and have to bask
Speaker 2: in his glory and hope that his maybe he'll call
Speaker 2: it quits early and lets some other teams in the
Speaker 2: I saw you said you wanted to kick it with
Speaker 2: your horses, and he said you want to be you
Speaker 2: want to actually be a driver or like you want
Speaker 2: to be the actual jockey.
Speaker 1: So you know that's something cool, man, I think you should.
Speaker 1: You should just try that out. You already did your
Speaker 1: thing in the NBA, man, So that's cool. I'm cool
Speaker 1: with that. If you just want to go and just
Speaker 1: do the horse.
Speaker 5: What more does he need to do?
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, now go be one of the largest jockeys
Speaker 2: to ever ride a horse races ever?
Speaker 3: Didn't you just have weight classes for jockeys And like,
Speaker 3: I mean, it's not fair to him, you know that
Speaker 3: that he doesn't have an opportunity to do that. They
Speaker 3: should have heavy wait horse racing the more like there's
Speaker 3: been like interviews with him this year where he's just
Speaker 3: made it clear it's not that he like hates basketball,
Speaker 3: it's that he hates fame. And that has made me
Speaker 3: really like him like that He's just like it's so weird,
Speaker 3: Like everybody wants to take a picture of me. I
Speaker 3: can't like do anything because everyone's looking at looking at me.
Speaker 3: It's it's like the most sane reaction to h fame,
Speaker 3: you know. So yeah, he's pretty cool.
Speaker 4: But he doesn't want to do it with like the
Speaker 4: whole Dog and Pony show and it was really stupid
Speaker 4: to say that, but I just.
Speaker 5: Like he just wants it all to be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got the dog in me. Now here's the
Speaker 2: pony and we move on.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I just it's like the thing that like it's funny
Speaker 2: you see, like jaded celebrities, like I feel like right now,
Speaker 2: I think Killian and Bappe who plays soccer for PSG.
Speaker 2: He like he's a striker for the French national teams,
Speaker 2: like one of the most fam the scarcer Like.
Speaker 1: He's like, I just I'm so famous.
Speaker 2: I don't I've like lost the appetite even to like
Speaker 2: live spontaneously.
Speaker 1: He's like the like the whole woe.
Speaker 2: Is me with the fame thing, and I like how
Speaker 2: like some people get there And Joker is like he
Speaker 2: just sees it already for what it is.
Speaker 1: It's not even like the fame. He's like, I just
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: I just don't like that it disrupts what I want
Speaker 2: to do, like in general, So for that, don't need
Speaker 2: that at all.
Speaker 1: So there's a wisdom to the Joker's words.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, should we take a quick break and
Speaker 3: we'll be right back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I just gotta make sure, Aaron, are you
Speaker 1: ready for Are you ready for this next segment?
Speaker 5: I think I remember it from last time, so I'm
Speaker 5: sort of ready.
Speaker 1: Oh this is way different.
Speaker 3: He's ready, He's ready.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I guess I'm Lauren and that on the
Speaker 2: other mic, that's pras well, because ready or not here
Speaker 2: we I don't even name why cleft that's how the food.
Speaker 7: All right, we'll be right back, and we're back.
Speaker 3: And Wemby had his like once monthly game where everybody
Speaker 3: stops and was like, oh wait, what what is happening
Speaker 3: against the Bucks where he did some things like that.
Speaker 3: He had the one where he like threw it off
Speaker 3: the backboard and dunked it. He had the behind the
Speaker 3: back breakaway dunk, had some blocked blocked one blocks. Well
Speaker 3: that was a different game, but yeah, yeah yeah but
Speaker 3: he uh that was against the Cavs. But I am, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, still the first thing I checked for in
Speaker 3: the morning is like, what Wemby do in the game. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's about at six pm every now.
Speaker 1: So that I was impressed.
Speaker 2: Though when Jared Allen, I mean he did get blocked
Speaker 2: by Wemby, but also that he also he went up
Speaker 2: with Wemby too and stuffed him pretty good too.
Speaker 1: It was I don't know, it's just the behind the
Speaker 1: back dunk. Like with all that, I was so his length.
Speaker 2: Again, it goes against like the pattern of movement that
Speaker 2: I'm so used to, like just from watching the NBA
Speaker 2: that to see how quickly the ball went from like
Speaker 2: whatever his waist which is already like eight feet off
Speaker 2: the ground, but like into the hoop, I.
Speaker 1: Was like, did that actually go in?
Speaker 4: But everybody, it seems like an airball dunk, Like that's
Speaker 4: how fast it happened.
Speaker 5: Like it just I was like on my phone and
Speaker 5: it was tough to compute, like.
Speaker 4: The behind the back of the dark like it went
Speaker 4: in slow motion.
Speaker 3: You couldn't see it going. It was kind of crazy.
Speaker 3: It's like, wait, where's the ball? So, I mean, just
Speaker 3: a couple of stats. A total number of blocks and
Speaker 3: first thirty one games played when Beyama one hundred and one,
Speaker 3: Matumbo eighty four, Tim Duncan eighty A total number of
Speaker 3: made three pointers in the first thirty one games when
Speaker 3: Beyama forty six, steph forty one, KD thirty eight. Now
Speaker 3: obviously it's a different era, but and then minutes played
Speaker 3: in those first thirty one games one Beyama nine oh
Speaker 3: one di kembe Matumbo one two hundred and thirty four,
Speaker 3: dunk In one thy one and fifty one uh steph
Speaker 3: nine hundred eighty nine kd Oney twenty six. So fewest minutes,
Speaker 3: putting up the most stats. And that's pretty good, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: he's pretty good and he's not even gonna win.
Speaker 5: What teammates that don't even know he exists.
Speaker 3: Sometimes like this, it feels like they are actively like
Speaker 3: they have a packed that they're like, we're freezing him out.
Speaker 4: The guy's a dork, Like just feel a bunch of
Speaker 4: a bunch of Rickey Davis Like wonderful.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just everybody's Ricky Davis.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It feels like they have a burn book where they
Speaker 3: have say like mean things about one Biyama.
Speaker 2: And they're like it has to be a book because
Speaker 2: that's the only way he'll get the information because he
Speaker 2: doesn't mess with all those other.
Speaker 1: Kinds of new media. I probably he's such an intellectual too,
Speaker 1: Like I wonder if they're if.
Speaker 2: Partly they're like, oh my god, did you hear when
Speaker 2: he's trying to get me like examine my own ego or.
Speaker 1: Whatever he's talking about the kid. I thought he was
Speaker 1: talking about my I D when he was typing that
Speaker 1: in the text.
Speaker 3: What book was he reading? He's reading a book? Uh,
Speaker 3: I forget what it was. But everyone was like what
Speaker 3: They're like, he's actually reading, like he was all the
Speaker 3: way through it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's going to be on the cover of GQ,
Speaker 4: like reading multiple books soon, Like this is gonna be cover.
Speaker 5: It's like his entire vibe.
Speaker 1: Right yeah.
Speaker 2: And he's and like you could do like a very
Speaker 2: interesting photo shoot because his hands are so big, like
Speaker 2: he could hold fourteen books at once, like open and
Speaker 2: like with his feet too, and they're like.
Speaker 1: The master of knowledge Victor wimbin Yama.
Speaker 5: See we should get paid with that. Like they're going
Speaker 5: to steal this idea.
Speaker 2: And I know it happened to Look, you know how
Speaker 2: often the things we say on this podcast end up
Speaker 2: in magazine cover shoots. Uh, different kinds of like awards
Speaker 2: that are given out by humanitarian organizations, Uh, like politicians
Speaker 2: using it for legislation.
Speaker 1: I mean it's just Look, we've seen it on a
Speaker 1: hundred times, but we accepted, we accepted.
Speaker 3: All right, bad news jaw after the year, just as
Speaker 3: he's getting things going Uh so, uh, that burned fast
Speaker 3: and bright. There's there's a lot of fun moments in
Speaker 3: the very short season that he had. But yeah, that's
Speaker 3: a bummer.
Speaker 2: I mean, at least he dunked on Wemby. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, just for the record, we got that on
Speaker 2: the record. But yeah, but like it went from yeah,
Speaker 2: he's got some shoulder soreness.
Speaker 1: This sas too. Yeah he's out for he's out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's out labor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, it is that time. Unfortunately, Aaron, Uh
Speaker 3: what do you mane? We got to we got to.
Speaker 3: It is the rapid fire segment of Miles and Jack
Speaker 3: on My Boosties. Uh, this is the fastest segment of podcasting.
Speaker 3: We're going to throw questions at you. Got to just
Speaker 3: answer without even thinking about, just fire.
Speaker 1: It right back. Just that you did respond. Yeah, your idea,
Speaker 1: your idea? Wait, what what is it?
Speaker 3: Why do you keep pronouncing id.
Speaker 1: ID like that? I think you just pronounced is? But
Speaker 1: what it do? Are you ready?
Speaker 5: I'm ready?
Speaker 1: Let's do this. Okay, Brian, I hope you're ready because
Speaker 1: you need.
Speaker 5: To start the claw.
Speaker 1: Here we go, the fastest segment. They thought we were
Speaker 1: rusty Jack, but we were just coming back. That's all
Speaker 1: of us. Don't call it a comeback. We've been here
Speaker 1: for years. Do you want to shot? You want to
Speaker 1: go for this rust cuts?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I was trying to say something cool.
Speaker 3: What didn't work out that one?
Speaker 2: This rust doesn't this can cause and we are testing
Speaker 2: this man's ability to answer questions very quickly.
Speaker 1: Um, you want to.
Speaker 3: Go first or try to go first? You can go first.
Speaker 2: Well on me to ask you this, Aaron, who is
Speaker 2: the most underappreciated of the truly all time greats, give
Speaker 2: us a guy that deserves to be mentioned but is
Speaker 2: often left out of these all time debates.
Speaker 1: Who are you giving that to? Who are you throwing that bouquet?
Speaker 5: I'm going with Tamac.
Speaker 4: He didn't make the seventy five and he was going
Speaker 4: head to heead against Kobe. When I was in middle school,
Speaker 4: I had the TMAC twos. Those are my basketball seven grade.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: Him not making the seventy five was just ridiculous to me,
Speaker 4: because everybody wanted to be a six nine six eight
Speaker 4: dude that could shoot from deep and get to the
Speaker 4: room whenever he wanted. He was just like one of
Speaker 4: those dudes that we had never seen before. Lebron obviously came,
Speaker 4: but yeah, definitely seen that.
Speaker 2: Did the team Act twos or one of I'm I
Speaker 2: was like always a Nike kid, but I.
Speaker 1: Remember being like those Scott the certain kind of flavor
Speaker 1: to him.
Speaker 2: That had like all the lines coming across the Yeah
Speaker 2: yeah yeah that like wolverine like slashed them with like respect.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it kind of reminds me of the Iversons a
Speaker 3: little bit, like they got that yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they like the like the question threes or something.
Speaker 1: But yes, they were definitely iconic, iconic footwear.
Speaker 2: There was like a clip that was going around recently
Speaker 2: about how I forget somebody who was on that Adidas
Speaker 2: basketball team was talking about for doing photo shoots with
Speaker 2: T Mac and how like he was just like the
Speaker 2: Golden Child and like whatever he said, like ghost like
Speaker 2: if they took like one picture and he said they
Speaker 2: were done, like they were done, like even if they're like, oh,
Speaker 2: we need you one thing, he's like, I said, that's it,
Speaker 2: and they were just like okay, t Max, very good,
Speaker 2: very good, thank you, very much.
Speaker 3: Great great name too, great nickname. T Mac put up
Speaker 3: thirteen points in thirty three seconds. Yeah, I just always
Speaker 3: I tried to get Racy Grady going. But I think
Speaker 3: people were smart to go with the first part of
Speaker 3: the lamb. They chose wisely on that one. Boy, was
Speaker 3: I wrong?
Speaker 2: Don't sleep on Rack Grady Rack Crazy Racks Crady uh.
Speaker 3: And you can take two players from all of history
Speaker 3: to create your Matt Boosty's Edition NBA Jam team. Which
Speaker 3: two players are you taking?
Speaker 5: Wait? Take players?
Speaker 3: Ay, two players all of history? But there get you
Speaker 3: got to think about game NBA Jam, And you also
Speaker 3: can't think about it because it is the rapid fire
Speaker 3: round right now.
Speaker 4: Lebron lebron Zack easy like s NBA Jam just boots
Speaker 4: to each other. Shack's a great pats are just all
Speaker 4: the dumps, every dunk that you can think of.
Speaker 5: The entire time. It's just we need like more beefy dudes.
Speaker 4: And I think just strength is one of my favorite
Speaker 4: things in basketball, so I.
Speaker 3: Always want to put a shooter on. But it's a
Speaker 3: good point that in a game where you can throw
Speaker 3: people across the court and goaltend, Yeah, it's not that
Speaker 3: big a deal.
Speaker 4: I guess Step you got to run in the shack
Speaker 4: a couple of times too.
Speaker 5: Let's see if he.
Speaker 2: Survives exactly exactly, man, And you know, I gotta say, man,
Speaker 2: we have to keep this segment moving. And as much
Speaker 2: as I appreciate that answer, you know you're you're kind
Speaker 2: of putting our title at risk by by sort of
Speaker 2: expanding on the answers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, no, no, no, that's fine, that's fine.
Speaker 3: We're just disappointed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not exactly. I don't get mad.
Speaker 2: I just get deeply saddened and just regret my own
Speaker 2: decisions sometimes with who we have on the show. If
Speaker 2: you could have any player's skill set for a day,
Speaker 2: whose skill set and what specific skill set of theirs
Speaker 2: are you choosing?
Speaker 3: This is easy step, Yeah, answer which thing?
Speaker 1: His dunking?
Speaker 5: People love shooting like this is comedy comedy.
Speaker 1: That golf swing, that's what yo.
Speaker 3: If I had to pick an NBA players golfway, like
Speaker 3: that thing is a work of art. Yeah, he's got
Speaker 3: an amazing golfway.
Speaker 1: Are we talking like Tiger Woods? Like swing portrait, just.
Speaker 3: Like smooth, It's just like a beautiful golf sway.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's so good at like whatever he does.
Speaker 1: So I'm not, honestly, so if I.
Speaker 3: Have the time right now, like if you if you
Speaker 3: were like all right, one hundred dollars. You got to
Speaker 3: pick an NBA player like to play darts for your life,
Speaker 3: like step right, Like Steph would be just like.
Speaker 5: How much it depends on like Jordan's with money, how
Speaker 5: much moneys on it? Jordan?
Speaker 2: Yeah, because Jordan, he wouldn't care if your life's on
Speaker 2: the line, Jack, That's true, had his money, Yeah, it
Speaker 2: was my life and like five hundred k.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I would.
Speaker 3: I would show him a picture of me with my kids,
Speaker 3: and you know what he would say about them kids.
Speaker 1: For the children, but not.
Speaker 5: Me, not me.
Speaker 7: I am not for the children.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: Which son from yesteryear not named Chuck or Steve would
Speaker 3: have the biggest impact on this year's roster if you
Speaker 3: could add them to the Sun squad in their prime? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: I think that's probably that's probably the right answer. kJ
Speaker 3: would be interesting, but you probably don't need more scoring.
Speaker 5: Sometimes, but.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I like that. Okay.
Speaker 3: Question was courtesy of Tyler McDowell. Yeah yeah, superroducer Jabari
Speaker 3: asked for like questions they wanted us to ask you,
Speaker 3: and that was Tyler McDowell's question, and Desmond pal came
Speaker 3: through with kJ or j Kid Tony jan Dooli answered
Speaker 3: Draggage easily, and I'm talking about the Phoenix Sunbird. That's
Speaker 3: that's just the voice that Tony Jandoli has in my mind.
Speaker 5: For some reason, Jarge is a really good tipper though it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, shut up.
Speaker 2: Okay, Now you can take retroactive. You get into some
Speaker 2: kind of spaceship. We don't have the technology, whatever technology
Speaker 2: how to do this, but you could space jam yourself
Speaker 2: into having Robert Ory's career or Charles Barkley's career.
Speaker 1: Which one are you choosing?
Speaker 5: Charles Barkley?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Interesting? Interesting, Not about the team, more about uh, the
Speaker 3: individual accomplishment.
Speaker 5: Charles Barkley seems like he had more fun and by
Speaker 5: like he got the rings, but he seems like he
Speaker 5: has a stick up for himself all the time. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you don't care about that.
Speaker 3: Do you remember where you bought the album Mood Tank Forever?
Speaker 5: No, it was.
Speaker 4: Probably at West Ridge, Small and West Phoenix because my
Speaker 4: brother worked at the warehouse record company or record store.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and so it was probably there. But my first
Speaker 5: album I rebought was hotwos Oh.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, yeah, Well here's a question for a hot boy.
Speaker 1: You got to pick one Lo Los or Gusses Lolos.
Speaker 2: Now, for people who don't know what we're talking about,
Speaker 2: will you please explain him? Then tell me why you
Speaker 2: chose the controversial decision to pick Lolos over Gussin.
Speaker 5: Because Lolos is the hot spot.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's just in me, Like every half day
Speaker 4: at school, the bus on Central straight down the street
Speaker 4: to Lo Los on half days and waited in the
Speaker 4: long line and got breakfast like that was just the
Speaker 4: thing that we did.
Speaker 5: So the original Loos, not the.
Speaker 4: Brand new remade one that's super big and super nice,
Speaker 4: like I'm talking about the hood when that was kind of.
Speaker 3: Dirty roget when he was on the Sun on the Sun, that.
Speaker 2: That person, Well, Aaron Edwards, thank you so much for
Speaker 2: playing along with the fourth quarter round of rapid fire questioning.
Speaker 2: We didn't ask jackro Miles because I am entirely into
Speaker 2: fragile of a place to not have, you know, the
Speaker 2: that question go my way, Yes, and I would turn
Speaker 2: into a pile of clothes like Obi Wan Kenobi in
Speaker 2: the Star Wars movie. But yes, where can people find
Speaker 2: you and follow you, support you and and check out
Speaker 2: the Uncle show? Because again, based on your description that
Speaker 2: it was black.
Speaker 3: Black. Oh, hello, it's perfect.
Speaker 1: Is something I was like, I did not know I
Speaker 1: need it, but absolutely do No, I do.
Speaker 5: Need it, Uncle Shoe. January twenty six.
Speaker 4: Were going to try to do it monthly, but it's
Speaker 4: like a long time to rite, so it's probably gonna
Speaker 4: be bar monthly.
Speaker 5: February first to the fourth.
Speaker 4: I am opening for the All Fantasy guys, some just
Speaker 4: comedy with them, doing some drafting, doing all that stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm just gonna be doing some sets La Phoenix
Speaker 5: all over the place. It's gonna be doing some MI
Speaker 5: So just check me out online and I'll probably talk.
Speaker 3: Stuff cool amazing.
Speaker 2: Well you can find us. Make sure you follow us.
Speaker 2: I'm at Miles of Gray.
Speaker 3: Oh you'd better follow me at Jack Underscore O'Brien on Twitter.
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Speaker 2: I will pose for the listeners before we have our
Speaker 2: wonderful guests on That is gonna do it for us
Speaker 2: this week.
Speaker 1: But you know what, we come back every week.
Speaker 2: You know, because the season doesn't end, and either does
Speaker 2: my infinite source of hope as a Lakers fan or maybe.
Speaker 1: Some I guess my doc's gonna be. My doctor called
Speaker 1: it some sort of disorder, but whatever. Without it for us,
Speaker 1: we'll see so y'all, Bye bye like
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