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Speaker 2: Happy to bring in Mark Rizzo. What's up Mark?

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Speaker 4: Wow, Wow, I gotta say white Man can jump?

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Speaker 2: Okay, number one contractual obligator.

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Speaker 5: Well, I would like to work with Woody again. He

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Speaker 4: After that, I'm gonna be really boring. Who's yours? Hoosiers

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Speaker 6: Okay, it is an amazing I thought for sure. You

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, right, suck up? What a Hollywood suck up?

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Speaker 4: I'd be if I did that fish to save Pittsburgh

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Speaker 5: There's a lot of honorable mention out there, but yeah,

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Speaker 5: But you know, Brunson is still out. He's questionable tonight

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Speaker 2: weggie lock number forty one. It was a raptor's weggie

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Speaker 2: Yes, so weggie number forty one. But the big story

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Speaker 2: Eight minutes, he's been on fire right now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he wanted to go for fifty. He knew with

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Speaker 3: Never had seven, but he's done six twenty one times.

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Speaker 3: That's a sick oh stat from fan. Dale Trey pointed

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Speaker 4: Absolutely injuries.

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Speaker 4: You know, that's that's the writer in me.

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Speaker 5: And you know, every Knicks fan our secret fantasy is

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Speaker 6: I saw sixteen in some places. I saw fifteen in

439
00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:35,639
Speaker 6: some places. He'll get another one in the next couple

440
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Speaker 6: of weeks when he comes back and have to miss

441
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Speaker 6: a game. So I don't know, you're talking about four

442
00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:42,240
Speaker 6: or five games missed out of fifteen or sixteen left.

443
00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:46,120
Speaker 2: That's a lot. Yeah. Well, speaking of technicals, let's get

444
00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:50,840
Speaker 2: to Fred van Vliet, who blasted referee Ben Taylor for

445
00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:53,720
Speaker 2: his officiating during the Raptors one to eight one hundred

446
00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:56,600
Speaker 2: lost to the Clippers last night. Here's a taste. We

447
00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:57,080
Speaker 2: have a clip.

448
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Speaker 7: I mean, I don't mind. I'll take a fine. I

449
00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:02,320
Speaker 7: don't really care at the You know, Ben Taylor was

450
00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:06,800
Speaker 7: fucking terrible tonight. I thought that for most nights, you know,

451
00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:09,280
Speaker 7: a couple other you know, out of the three eaters,

452
00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:12,480
Speaker 7: one or two that just fucked the game up, you know,

453
00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:14,960
Speaker 7: And it has been like that a couple couple of

454
00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:18,160
Speaker 7: games in a row. Denver was tough. Obviously, you come

455
00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:20,160
Speaker 7: out tonight, you're competing pretty hard. At the third quarter,

456
00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:22,800
Speaker 7: I get a bullshit. Tech changed the whole dynamic of

457
00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:24,920
Speaker 7: the game, changed the whole flow of the game. And

458
00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:26,720
Speaker 7: you know, most of the rest are trying hard. I

459
00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:28,240
Speaker 7: like a lot of the rest are trying hard. They're

460
00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:31,359
Speaker 7: pretty fair, they communicate well, and then you got the

461
00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:33,800
Speaker 7: other ones who just want to be dicks, and this

462
00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,119
Speaker 7: kind of fucks the game. Guys coming to see that,

463
00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:37,560
Speaker 7: they come to see the players.

464
00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:41,960
Speaker 2: Okay, So it's gonna be a little later in the

465
00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,600
Speaker 2: wallet here, I'm sure, and hours will find out whatever

466
00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:47,800
Speaker 2: the fight is, uh Mark? My first question off of

467
00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:50,720
Speaker 2: this clip, and if you're watching on YouTube, Marcus literally

468
00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:52,800
Speaker 2: got his hands to his head. He can't believe what friendly.

469
00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:54,560
Speaker 4: Just are my eyebrows still here?

470
00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:54,840
Speaker 3: Yeah?

471
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Speaker 2: I feel like I've been Yeah no, that was he

472
00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:01,399
Speaker 2: wasn't holding back there. What's rating on Champions? Any F

473
00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:03,200
Speaker 2: bombs in the movie?

474
00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:07,040
Speaker 4: We are PG thirteen okay, okay, which means.

475
00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:11,160
Speaker 5: You have an F bomb budget of one oh okay,

476
00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:13,560
Speaker 5: so hey, that's a fun game to play.

477
00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:15,080
Speaker 4: When are we going to spend.

478
00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:16,000
Speaker 2: That one bo?

479
00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:18,200
Speaker 4: And I can tell you.

480
00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:23,280
Speaker 5: You know, the original script was littered with profanity, but

481
00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:25,160
Speaker 5: we had a clean up or actic at the PG

482
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Speaker 5: thirteen rating, which was hard, and I'm really proud of

483
00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:31,600
Speaker 5: where we spent our one F bombs when you go

484
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Speaker 5: to theaters, hang in there, and I want to say,

485
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Speaker 5: it's late in.

486
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Speaker 2: The film, so okay, that's nice.

487
00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:39,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, keep you in suspense.

488
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Speaker 5: Yes, yes, there's a lot of you know, A bombs

489
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Speaker 5: and S bombs.

490
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Speaker 4: Going off with that big F bomb, all right, that

491
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Speaker 4: comes later.

492
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Speaker 2: Well, okay, well, let's get your reaction to Van Vleet

493
00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:56,359
Speaker 2: there and how upset he was with you know, I

494
00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:58,359
Speaker 2: think there was a lot of frustration obviously, not just

495
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Speaker 2: from last night's call against him. He said, by the

496
00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:03,720
Speaker 2: way Van Vliet said, he told his teammates, let's keep

497
00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:06,480
Speaker 2: playing through the bullshit, and that's what he got the

498
00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,520
Speaker 2: tech for. That's what Van Vleet is saying, so bad call.

499
00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:12,400
Speaker 2: He's frustrated, similar to Scotty Barnes in a way.

500
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Speaker 3: And then you know, I not actually directed at the rest.

501
00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:19,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's more of like these these dicks can't make

502
00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:20,960
Speaker 2: a call right to save their life, and that's what's

503
00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:22,879
Speaker 2: getting them a tech but yeah, what do you think.

504
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Speaker 5: Mark, Well, first of all, a man with with no

505
00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:31,240
Speaker 5: fucks left to give right there, just incredible.

506
00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:33,400
Speaker 4: And what I love about it.

507
00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:37,680
Speaker 5: Was how calmly he just laid it out, smacked them

508
00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:42,600
Speaker 5: down like that was icy. I you know, it feels

509
00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:46,280
Speaker 5: like there's something escalating between the players and the officials this.

510
00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:48,919
Speaker 4: Year, and I don't know, I don't know how you

511
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:49,480
Speaker 4: solve it.

512
00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:53,199
Speaker 5: It feels like the officials skin is getting thinner and thinner.

513
00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:55,480
Speaker 5: The director from the league seems to be like, take

514
00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:58,520
Speaker 5: control of the game and let's have you know, better sportsmanship.

515
00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:00,720
Speaker 4: But it feels like it's the way it's.

516
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:05,160
Speaker 5: Being doled out is leading to more and more conflict

517
00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:08,720
Speaker 5: with the players and just like a real uncomfortability. I mean,

518
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:10,920
Speaker 5: I had the great pleasure recently to be in Utah

519
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,520
Speaker 5: to see Scott Foster officiate a game, and.

520
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Speaker 4: I'm really excited.

521
00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:21,159
Speaker 5: Tell tell my grandchildren that yes, I saw Scott Foster.

522
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:21,440
Speaker 8: Rep.

523
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Speaker 2: I hope you kept the tickets. Thought that.

524
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Speaker 5: You know, It's burned into my brain is him before

525
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:29,760
Speaker 5: the game, spinning up the ball, practicing his opening tip Tooss.

526
00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:32,359
Speaker 4: I mean, these guys they put in the world.

527
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:36,119
Speaker 5: All due respect to them, But it does feel like

528
00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:37,960
Speaker 5: there needs to be I feel like there needs to

529
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:41,480
Speaker 5: be a restorative justice circle or something more like the

530
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,440
Speaker 5: referees the players get together and kind of hash this out,

531
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Speaker 5: because it really does feel like it's escalating in a

532
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:48,600
Speaker 5: way that's just not great for the game.

533
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:52,399
Speaker 2: Vimlt is frustrated with the Raptors record. He's frustrated with

534
00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:54,800
Speaker 2: what happened in Denver the other night. Obviously that was

535
00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:57,560
Speaker 2: like a much more significant tech against Barnes late in

536
00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:00,800
Speaker 2: that one. He's frustrated, maybe with having a child who knows,

537
00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:03,439
Speaker 2: maybe he's not getting enough sleep, and he's frustrated I

538
00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:06,640
Speaker 2: think specifically with Ben Taylor because three of his eight

539
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:11,359
Speaker 2: technicals have come against him, and one of the other

540
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:13,719
Speaker 2: ones was in a game that Taylor was a part of.

541
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Speaker 2: I mean he didn't call it, but that's half of

542
00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:18,480
Speaker 2: his text coming games where this guy is officiating, and

543
00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:20,760
Speaker 2: he said, at a certain point, as a player, you

544
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:23,040
Speaker 2: feel it's personal and it's never a good place to be.

545
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:27,760
Speaker 2: So Freddy versus Ben here well at the RAPS fan

546
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:31,760
Speaker 2: what you think of yea that those icy comments from

547
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Speaker 2: Van Bleet.

548
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Speaker 3: Oh it's personal? Yeah, sure it is. Fred versus Ben

549
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:39,520
Speaker 3: there's no doubt. It feels, yeah, Chris versus Scott. It

550
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:42,600
Speaker 3: feels like a Chris Paul versus Scott Foster situation. I

551
00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:44,480
Speaker 3: do agree with Mark. It feels like there is a

552
00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:46,920
Speaker 3: bit of an escalation going on. The reps may be

553
00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:51,280
Speaker 3: controlling the game's a little too much. Let's just be honest.

554
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:56,120
Speaker 3: Maybe there's an increase in the wired segments that we hear,

555
00:25:56,480 --> 00:26:00,880
Speaker 3: and the fact that everybody's miked, and maybe the referees,

556
00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 3: as Mark said, from the league officer coming down or

557
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 3: asking the referees to try and control things more so

558
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:11,000
Speaker 3: it doesn't get at hnced. We don't hear comments from

559
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,080
Speaker 3: the players. It feels like they're just doing a little

560
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:16,679
Speaker 3: too much. But this, in this instance, it just feels

561
00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:20,679
Speaker 3: like a real personal vendetta and not bad officiating in

562
00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:24,399
Speaker 3: this particular game. Obviously, the other day they got they

563
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:28,760
Speaker 3: got Scottie screwed. Let's be honest, the Nuggets. That was

564
00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:32,520
Speaker 3: a pure screw job. It just didn't work out further ups.

565
00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:35,120
Speaker 3: But this one feels as you you went through the stats.

566
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,199
Speaker 3: Usually a player will call out the stats in a

567
00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:42,000
Speaker 3: postgame press conference. You won't really find a lot of evidence,

568
00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:47,400
Speaker 3: but you got fifty percent basically from One's crazy accurate,

569
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,680
Speaker 3: Fred's accurate, and in the Communist just sells it even more.

570
00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:50,920
Speaker 2: Yeah.

571
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Speaker 6: Yeah, if Mark turned in a script for this season

572
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 6: that had this many blow ups at officials, they would say,

573
00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 6: no way, this is too overboard here, we gotta get

574
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:00,200
Speaker 6: the villains out of here.

575
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:01,080
Speaker 2: In here too much.

576
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:03,439
Speaker 6: But like we had the Spencer dinwhit he tech he

577
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 6: said he was just clapping because he was upset. Right,

578
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:07,800
Speaker 6: That's what this one really reminds me of, because he's

579
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,120
Speaker 6: just like upset about the way the game is going,

580
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 6: and he gets uh, I didn't what he got tossed

581
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:14,119
Speaker 6: for the first time in his career, right. I think

582
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:19,040
Speaker 6: FVB obviously got his technical here. We had Lebron when

583
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 6: he got hacked by Jason Tatum, didn't finish the layup

584
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:24,040
Speaker 6: and they went on to lose that game. There have

585
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:27,879
Speaker 6: been some major, major blow ups with officials, and it

586
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:31,720
Speaker 6: definitely feels contentious right now, more so than it has recently.

587
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the playoffs are right around the corner. Oh yeah,

588
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 2: oh yeah, it's gonna get even more intense, all right.

589
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:39,040
Speaker 2: I mean the Raptors did not play a great game

590
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 2: Kawhi Leonard. I thought looked awesome. Five dunks.

591
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:47,520
Speaker 3: I think he had the one. Yeah, yeah, he looks good.

592
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 3: Forty minutes played. It was a full COI experience. And

593
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 3: I know we're kind of critical of the Clippers. I

594
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 3: thought Tylw's minutes distribution of Russell Westbrook and Terrence Man

595
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:01,560
Speaker 3: was a little bit better. Last Westbrook would he pull

596
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 3: him if he needed to? Five minutes left in the

597
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 3: third quarter was the last time Westbrook played, and he listen,

598
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 3: it worked out really really well. He played really really well.

599
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,119
Speaker 3: He is a plus twelve, and his twenty three minutes

600
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:13,679
Speaker 3: it was perfect. He only had seven points, but it

601
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 3: was really well done. While Man played nearly twenty nine minutes.

602
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 3: I think that was just better distribution. They have a

603
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 3: deeper team than the Reps. You could see it and

604
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 3: up and down the lineup. They're just deeper. So I

605
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:25,960
Speaker 3: know we don't think they're a team to be reckoned

606
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,399
Speaker 3: with a lot of the time. But I think a

607
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,080
Speaker 3: part of why they've been so bad with Westbrook in

608
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 3: the lineup, they have been hurt. They have been integrating

609
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 3: a lot of different players. They have been trying to

610
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:37,680
Speaker 3: figure out the minutes pattern So there's a lot going

611
00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 3: on with those Clippers.

612
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, you think maybe the Clippers more than some other

613
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,400
Speaker 2: teams though. I mean, it would help if Katie and

614
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:45,600
Speaker 2: Booker could get minutes together, or Kyrie and Luca could

615
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 2: get minutes together. But the Clippers need these final couple

616
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:51,880
Speaker 2: weeks here to figure out that rotation, lean into it,

617
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 2: and yeah, march into the playoffs.

618
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:57,320
Speaker 3: Great a threat, Great great sign that our man Kawhi

619
00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:00,400
Speaker 3: is playing forty minutes too, he's obviously up.

620
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's talk about the Eastern Conference play and race

621
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 2: a little bit here, Mark. We had Garland scoring twenty

622
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:07,480
Speaker 2: five as the Calves held off the Heat one oh

623
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,200
Speaker 2: four to one hundred. Obviously they are knicks there trying

624
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 2: to chase down the Calves and the standings. We had

625
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 2: the Hawks edging the Wizards one two despite Chris Tepsporzingis

626
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:20,920
Speaker 2: going for forty three, and then Vucci, Baby Vucevic and

627
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 2: Zach Lavine led the Bulls to the one seventeen ninety

628
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 2: six win over the Nuggets. So, Mark, we got the

629
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:29,479
Speaker 2: Heat staying in the seventh spot. We got the Hawks

630
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 2: back to five hundred. They're now one and a half

631
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:35,720
Speaker 2: games behind the Heat for eighth spot right now, that's

632
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 2: where they are. The Raptors stay stuck at ninth, the

633
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:40,000
Speaker 2: Wizards are half a game back in ten, and then

634
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 2: the Bulls are within a game of the play Atturney.

635
00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 2: I say all of that to ask you, Mark, of

636
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 2: all those teams, Heat, Hawks, Raps, Whiz Bulls, even which

637
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 2: team do you have the most confidence in to, like,

638
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 2: you know, not only maybe get into the playoffs, but

639
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 2: put up any sort of fight or is the answer

640
00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 2: none of them? What do you think?

641
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 5: So I'm going to give I think probably the easy answer,

642
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 5: and it's three words.

643
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:10,040
Speaker 4: Jimmy James Butler. Yeah, that is a bad man. He

644
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:10,720
Speaker 4: scares me.

645
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 5: I think the Heat, the Heat really struggled to score.

646
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:17,719
Speaker 5: They seem really really offensively scattered.

647
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 2: But I just.

648
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 5: Between his Spolstra Bam and Jimmy and you know those

649
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:27,680
Speaker 5: guys getting hot from three, I would not want to

650
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,240
Speaker 5: face them in a first round series. But I was

651
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:32,479
Speaker 5: really happy for Trey when I saw Vucci Baby put

652
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 5: up those numbers against Jokichen.

653
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, got it.

654
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 5: You gotta lot of Bucci Baby's got to give you

655
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Speaker 5: a little something something before you guys and the experiment.

656
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Speaker 6: But I mean insanity that Vuchivich is the best nicolon

657
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:47,920
Speaker 6: the court last night, but he was carving it up

658
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,480
Speaker 6: last night twenty five and fifteen. Bulls were moving the ball.

659
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 6: That's their best win of the season. Also probably the

660
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:56,400
Speaker 6: Nuggets worst loss of the season they've won. They had

661
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Speaker 6: won twenty four of their last twenty five at home

662
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Speaker 6: before somehow losing to the ball and giving up a

663
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,600
Speaker 6: ton of points. But kind of all lethargic performance. I

664
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Speaker 6: thought by Denver, they probably just overlooked the Bulls. They

665
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 6: got out to a hot start, they were up ten,

666
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:10,600
Speaker 6: like right away, They're like, oh, we got this game easily,

667
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Speaker 6: but not they didn't.

668
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Speaker 2: They didn't have that game easily.

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Speaker 6: But I'm with you, Mark, I think when you look

670
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Speaker 6: at the teams who are in the play in tournament,

671
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Speaker 6: throwing in Chicago as the eleven seed right now, the

672
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 6: Heat haven't been reliable at all this year, but at

673
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Speaker 6: least they have Jimmy Butler, Eric Spolstra and Bam out

674
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Speaker 6: of Bio. You think they'll probably show up for the

675
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Speaker 6: playoffs or at least the play in tournament.

676
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Speaker 2: They're likely the best team. Yeah, that all said the Calves,

677
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 2: I mean the Heat shot fifty seven percent for most

678
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 2: of this game, and then the Calves just like turned

679
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 2: it up a notch defensively in Miami shot under thirty

680
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:42,720
Speaker 2: percent in that final quarter and it was close. Hero

681
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:46,240
Speaker 2: hit a really nice three pointer that Spolster drew up

682
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 2: a little sidelines out of bounds play to get it

683
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Speaker 2: within two. But then again the heat. They just committed

684
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 2: so many turnovers tests and they are I think there

685
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 2: are reports that Kyle Lowry might be coming back, maybe

686
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 2: by within the week, and they could use sort of

687
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 2: a floor general. I know he's had a really weird year,

688
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 2: he's had a bad year, but they could use him,

689
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Speaker 2: I think to just like reduce twenty four turnovers, which

690
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 2: leads to twenty nine Cleveland Kevillier's points.

691
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Speaker 3: Well, they could use good Kyle for sure. Yeah, they

692
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 3: are a bottom five offense. If Kyle's ready to come back.

693
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Speaker 3: It's been a long time since we've seen Kyle Lowry

694
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Speaker 3: play basketball, It's since January, so yeah, he would he

695
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 3: would steady it out there. But I love the order

696
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 3: of Jimmy James Butler, that mark through out there. In

697
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 3: the history of the show, I don't think we've ever

698
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 3: put Jimmy James Butler, and we love to play with

699
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:42,600
Speaker 3: names very well done up against you know, Donovan Dono Mitchell.

700
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 3: I don't know what his middle name, and he'll throw

701
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Speaker 3: that in there. I think because Donovan Mitchell is, you know,

702
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 3: the best player on the floor a lot of the times,

703
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:51,560
Speaker 3: and he would be in a Knick series, I think

704
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 3: I would take the Calves in that series. While watching

705
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 3: watching this particular game against the Miami Heat where the

706
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:58,560
Speaker 3: Heat played really aggressive, get the ball out of Donovan

707
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 3: Mitchell's hands, I think that kind of plays into the

708
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:04,560
Speaker 3: Calvs hands a little bit because Donovan Mitchell wants to

709
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 3: take over all the time, and in fourth quarters he

710
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 3: will shoot everything. But it puts the ball in the

711
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Speaker 3: hands of the other cast players who are ridiculously capable

712
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 3: and they're doing some some TIBs like things. In Cleveland

713
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 3: they only played eight guys. They're going they're ready for

714
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 3: the postseason. They're ready to play those guys. And when

715
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Speaker 3: the ball was out of Mitchell's hands, I think the

716
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 3: guy who really looked good and was executing was the

717
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:28,680
Speaker 3: guy we sort of talked about. Is their fifth guy,

718
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Speaker 3: you know, aside from Garland, Mitchell, Alan and Mobley, who

719
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 3: was really solid when the ball was passed to him

720
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 3: was ISAACACRL was monstrous five of seven, thirteen points. He's

721
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Speaker 3: kind of that X factor if you can hit three,

722
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 3: he's been. He's shot forty seven from three in January,

723
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Speaker 3: forty three from February. He's getting the call to get

724
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Speaker 3: a raise. Forty seven from three in January, forty three

725
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 3: from three in February, and yeah, three threes in this one.

726
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 3: If he's hitting shots, that's the guy they're gonna leave open.

727
00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 3: That's the guy the Knicks are going to leave open

728
00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 3: over and over and over again in the playoffs. So

729
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 3: that's huge factor if he can do.

730
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Speaker 2: That final one here. Tatum scored thirty to help the

731
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Speaker 2: Celtics power pass the Blazers one fifteen ninety three. I

732
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:08,839
Speaker 2: bring that up and you can't say the Knicks because

733
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Speaker 2: you're a homer Mark. But who is your favorite in

734
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:13,759
Speaker 2: the Eastern Conference to come out of there? Is it

735
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,799
Speaker 2: the Celtics? Is it the Box or is it six Ers?

736
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Speaker 2: Where do you go?

737
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Speaker 3: Or Caps? With the Bucks?

738
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Speaker 2: Yeah?

739
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Speaker 4: I like the Bucks absolutely, They're a complete team. They're

740
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:24,360
Speaker 4: battle tested.

741
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 5: Giannis has proven that he turns it up a notch

742
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:30,719
Speaker 5: when the lights are brighter, and I just have a

743
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 5: there's just look, they're a hot team right now, so

744
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 5: it's an easy answer. But over the course of the season,

745
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 5: they're the team that just feels like they have so

746
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:42,879
Speaker 5: many weapons. You know, I'm gonna ask a question that's

747
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 5: gonna expose that I'm not in the day to day

748
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:44,680
Speaker 5: of it.

749
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:46,239
Speaker 4: Is brook Lopez healthy right now?

750
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, he's actually stringing together some decent games here

751
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:50,400
Speaker 2: recently too. Yeah.

752
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:50,759
Speaker 3: Yeah.

753
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 5: The Brook Lopez factor, the fact that they can go

754
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:57,399
Speaker 5: basically five out with rim protection. Yeah, I mean, that's

755
00:34:57,560 --> 00:34:59,720
Speaker 5: really hard to beat in this league. They've got the shooting,

756
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:02,000
Speaker 5: They've been there before.

757
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:02,839
Speaker 3: I like them.

758
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 5: The Celtics certainly scare you, but you see them, they

759
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 5: can go cold. You know, it feels like they get

760
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:12,279
Speaker 5: a little bit three happy, and there's you know, at

761
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,239
Speaker 5: the beginning of the season, everyone talked about, you know,

762
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 5: boyle boy, with this Udoka scandal and bringing in Missoula,

763
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:22,240
Speaker 5: are they gonna you know, put a foot wrong coming

764
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:24,440
Speaker 5: out of the gate, And they looked amazing. But now

765
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 5: you're starting to feel like this team doesn't have that

766
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:32,399
Speaker 5: kind of gel factor that a team like Milwaukee that's

767
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:36,800
Speaker 5: been together a while has, so I'm i Milwaukee's the

768
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 5: team that would scare me the most coming out of

769
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:39,080
Speaker 5: the East, for sure.

770
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I hear that with the Celtics. I do wonder

771
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:43,680
Speaker 2: if it's uh and it is excuse, it's like a

772
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:45,439
Speaker 2: built in excuse. But we've seen it with so many

773
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 2: teams before that have gone to finals, have done deep

774
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 2: playoff runs. You get to this point of the season,

775
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 2: teams get a little just bored and they just play

776
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 2: with your food. Yeah, yeah, for sure. And I wonder

777
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:56,800
Speaker 2: And there's been some injuries here and there with the

778
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 2: Celtics roster and stuff like that, and Robert Williams the

779
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 2: third is very important, But like, I'm not too concerned

780
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:05,319
Speaker 2: about the Like they snapped this losing streak here, they

781
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 2: got this big win, Tatum looked great. I just think

782
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 2: it's like this malaise here of the season. That's my

783
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:13,239
Speaker 2: personal opinion on them. And we're gonna have some just

784
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 2: like epic battles between these upper teams in the Eastern Conference.

785
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Speaker 6: I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt

786
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:22,319
Speaker 6: because the Celtics have been playing really great basketball for

787
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 6: about a year straight.

788
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:23,920
Speaker 3: Right.

789
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 6: They started out last season really poorly. They had to

790
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 6: completely shift the vibes and then turn it on, went

791
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 6: to the finals, picked up right where they left off,

792
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:36,759
Speaker 6: and finally, like, the vibes aren't perfect in Boston right now,

793
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:40,280
Speaker 6: but I think that's just a fact of playing great

794
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:43,760
Speaker 6: and playing together and playing cohesive basketball at the highest

795
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 6: level for you know, fourteen months straight something like that.

796
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:51,239
Speaker 6: Eventually it wears on them. They've been playing so well,

797
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:54,040
Speaker 6: so yeah, I mean struggling right now, but they're a

798
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:55,839
Speaker 6: playoff team. They've been a playoff team for a long

799
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:56,400
Speaker 6: long time.

800
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Speaker 2: So long they'll look better in the postseason. Mark, we

801
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 2: can't thank you enough man for coming on here. We're

802
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:05,920
Speaker 2: gonna let you go. Champions comes out tomorrow, March tenth,

803
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:09,319
Speaker 2: in theaters everywhere or basically everywhere, right, Can I get

804
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 2: to say that if just say everywhere? All right, everywhere?

805
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:16,760
Speaker 5: Champion, I believe everywhere where they speak the English language,

806
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 5: I believe.

807
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, there you go, so look for that, and

808
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 2: we highly recommend you check this out. It's a really

809
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 2: feel good story and if you love the underdogs and

810
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 2: like that type of sort of sports movie, I think

811
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 2: you're really gonna enjoy this. Look at that art too.

812
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 2: That is gorgeous. I'm a fan of that. Put that

813
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 2: on a T shirt? Can we sell that in the

814
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:31,800
Speaker 2: No Dunk store?

815
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Speaker 3: Mark?

816
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:34,879
Speaker 2: Where can? Where can people find you? What's the best

817
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 2: way to stay in touch?

818
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:42,240
Speaker 5: I am on Twitter dot com at at Mark v Rizzo.

819
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:44,800
Speaker 2: Okay, what's the v stas shoot me?

820
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:48,239
Speaker 4: You follow the V is for It's for Victory. No,

821
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:50,760
Speaker 4: it's my dad's name, It's Vincent.

822
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 5: And I just want to say a quick thank you

823
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 5: to you guys for all of the years of incredible

824
00:37:57,680 --> 00:37:59,920
Speaker 5: just joy and fun that you put into our lives.

825
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:02,919
Speaker 5: I am, you know, an old school OG super fan.

826
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 5: Like I'm someone who is nostalgic for like the tweet

827
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 5: of the Night Army and a shout outs. You know,

828
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 5: I'm you know, I'm wondering, how is real deal? Neil,

829
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:20,480
Speaker 5: I'm nostalgic for sure. I'm nostalgic for two Morning pooves.

830
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 5: I'm concerned about the whereabouts of mister and missus wooblovalls.

831
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 5: So I go, I go way back with you guys,

832
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:30,360
Speaker 5: and I just want to say thank you because I

833
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:32,279
Speaker 5: know you work really hard and this is a you know,

834
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:34,319
Speaker 5: I know what a grind is like out here it's

835
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:37,799
Speaker 5: you know, I've been in the screenwriting trade for you know,

836
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:39,600
Speaker 5: nearly twenty years, and this is my.

837
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Speaker 4: First produced movie.

838
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 5: So like I appreciate grind and you guys are grinders

839
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:45,440
Speaker 5: your dogs, and just.

840
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 4: Want to say thank you so much for everything. Really

841
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 4: appreciate you.

842
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 2: Congratulations on that little stat there with that that movie

843
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:53,719
Speaker 2: being you like you're you're first there getting produced. So

844
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 2: we got to get the No Dunks fan to go

845
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:56,799
Speaker 2: out and support this, So go check out chain.

846
00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 4: That's right, We're a community. Let's get out there and

847
00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 4: support the community.

848
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:01,839
Speaker 2: And thank you for all the Green Day CDs too.

849
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 2: We really appreciate it. Was my pleasure.

850
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 5: If I ever get down to the A and you

851
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 5: give me twenty five CDs, I can show you some

852
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:12,759
Speaker 5: amazing things I did to inspect them. I can I

853
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 5: can take a part and put together a CD in

854
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 5: its packaging and probably under five seconds.

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Speaker 3: Mark.

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00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.

857
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:25,439
Speaker 3: Man.

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00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:27,319
Speaker 2: Well, we'll love to talk to you again, either in

859
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:29,440
Speaker 2: person or again here on the show. But you take

860
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:31,360
Speaker 2: care of good luck with Champions coming out tomorrow.

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00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 4: Thank you guys. Anytime.

862
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 2: All right, we're gonna take a break. When we come back,

863
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:36,719
Speaker 2: we'll talk to these two guys who were down at

864
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:40,439
Speaker 2: the Skyhawks Ignite game, and a bunch of NBA news

865
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:43,719
Speaker 2: to still dissect. I don't go anywhere, all right, still

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Speaker 2: here in the Classic Factory. If you're joining us live

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Speaker 2: on YouTube, thank you, thank you, thank you. Hit that

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Speaker 2: like button make sure you subscribed. We got a bunch

869
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Speaker 2: of news to get you. But first I need the

870
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Speaker 2: breakdown from YouTube guys who were at the Skyhawks Ignite

871
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Speaker 2: G League game here in Atlanta last night doing a

872
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 2: little sideline reporting. I thought you guys were killing it,

873
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 2: but you know, give me the deats. How was it

874
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:07,400
Speaker 2: that was the game? School was killing it? I mean

875
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:10,160
Speaker 2: you went really down there to see the presumed number

876
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:11,880
Speaker 2: two pick of the draft, Scoot Henderson, and he was

877
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:12,759
Speaker 2: dominating early.

878
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:15,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're playing a back to back the Ignite here

879
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:19,799
Speaker 3: in Atlanta. That was the first one, and obviously some

880
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:22,840
Speaker 3: hype a different type of atmosphere around these two games.

881
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:25,520
Speaker 3: Sell out for one of them, a near capacity for

882
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 3: the other one. And you could tell we did it.

883
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:32,319
Speaker 3: We did a little bit in the Skyhawks locker room

884
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:34,799
Speaker 3: before the game where we did this little handshake cheer

885
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 3: thing and everything was dead stiled. I said, is it

886
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 3: always like this. They said, well, it's just it's the atmosphere.

887
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:44,600
Speaker 3: These two games, the Skyhawks were ready as we were.

888
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:45,520
Speaker 3: That's a Hawk.

889
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:47,400
Speaker 2: Well yeah, it is a part of that because like

890
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 2: there's a bunch more eyeballs obviously, and even like scouts

891
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:53,800
Speaker 2: in attendance. Yeah, so it's like they're there for Scoot

892
00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:55,319
Speaker 2: and maybe some of the other players that are going

893
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:57,400
Speaker 2: to go high in the in the draft. But hey,

894
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 2: if you're on the Skyhawks, put up a good performance

895
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:01,880
Speaker 2: and you maybe get a little more attention.

896
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:04,879
Speaker 3: There were scouts in the building, yes, yeah, and so

897
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 3: they were quite aware, and yeah, the Skyhawks were ready

898
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:10,799
Speaker 3: to play. Scoot came out hot, thirteen points in the

899
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:15,279
Speaker 3: first six minutes, and when he threw it down, you know,

900
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:17,520
Speaker 3: he kind of scooped his hands. It's sort of an

901
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 3: up and under over a reach by a Skyhawks player,

902
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:24,440
Speaker 3: and then he threw it down, showing incredible athleticism to

903
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 3: get to the rim. The rim shook pretty frickin hard.

904
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:32,359
Speaker 3: You could see the body type. He's nineteen years old.

905
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 3: This is his second year with the Ignite. That's something

906
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 3: sort of interesting I think about the Ignite system. It's

907
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:39,279
Speaker 3: not a one and done system. You get a two

908
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:42,719
Speaker 3: year program as opposed to the NCAA, one of these

909
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 3: alternative choices for parents. And he's looking at him from

910
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 3: seventeen to nineteen. He looks so so different. He's got

911
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:55,000
Speaker 3: a shot. He was training for a long time pregame.

912
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 2: It was working hard on the shot, working too hard

913
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:00,239
Speaker 2: on the shot me.

914
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 6: But Tass is right, like everybody talks about Scoot looking

915
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 6: like an NBA player already. And the interesting thing is

916
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 6: he plays on the G League Knight with a bunch

917
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 6: of other young guys who are also draft prospects in

918
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:16,439
Speaker 6: Leonard Miller, CD Sosoko and London Johnson. I memorize these names,

919
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:18,719
Speaker 6: so I gotta say them today. But these guys are

920
00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:22,120
Speaker 6: young as well, and they look young, you know, whether

921
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 6: it be their bodies aren't quite as defined. They might

922
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:28,760
Speaker 6: still have a full face from still being in their teens,

923
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:31,840
Speaker 6: or they might be completely skinny from still being in

924
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:33,719
Speaker 6: their teens. But then you look at Scoot and the

925
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:36,480
Speaker 6: guy looks like a superhero. Yeah, and then he comes out.

926
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 6: You see him get to the rim for the dunk.

927
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:40,719
Speaker 6: He also had incredible body control on his finish coming

928
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:43,360
Speaker 6: down the left baseline. John Hollinger said it on the

929
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 6: broadcast last night. You don't see that level of athleticism

930
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:48,360
Speaker 6: and finishing.

931
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:49,760
Speaker 2: Usually in the G League.

932
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:51,520
Speaker 6: And that's why it was maybe a shock to the

933
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:55,080
Speaker 6: Skyhawks system coming out seeing a guy that's an NBA

934
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:58,640
Speaker 6: caliber athlete right away. But then the game kept going

935
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:00,799
Speaker 6: and you realize the Skyhawk for a bunch of grown

936
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:03,319
Speaker 6: men who are more mature, much better at getting back

937
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:05,960
Speaker 6: on defense, much better at making sure to push the

938
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 6: ball on offense, and they were able to turn it

939
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:09,320
Speaker 6: around good times.

940
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:12,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, they obviously were focused and turned the game around.

941
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:17,919
Speaker 3: And yeah, just watching all the G League players pre game,

942
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:21,960
Speaker 3: so much athleticism, raw athleticism, you see. Even Jayden Hardy

943
00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:24,160
Speaker 3: had that huge throwdown for the MAVs last night. He

944
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:27,720
Speaker 3: was part of the G League Ignite program and speaking

945
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:30,239
Speaker 3: with Jason Hart, former NBA player now the G League

946
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 3: Iignites coach, he had an NBA comp for everybody. You

947
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:36,840
Speaker 3: didn't mention Leonard Miller, who is a Canadian six eleven.

948
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 3: He's like a lamar odom light. According to the Jason Hart,

949
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:44,480
Speaker 3: heck of a compliment. When you throw lamar odehim out there,

950
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 3: you could see the body time he played point guard

951
00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:49,319
Speaker 3: in Canada last year and now Jason Hart said, you're

952
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:51,359
Speaker 3: not playing point guard here, so you got to learn

953
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:54,279
Speaker 3: some new skills and figure that out. But it was Yeah,

954
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:58,319
Speaker 3: it was a raucous building. And yeah, there's one guy

955
00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:01,480
Speaker 3: who really stands out for the Ignite. It's Scoot Henderson.

956
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 3: He was phenomenal.

957
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:04,440
Speaker 2: I did see my guy though on the Skyhawks, Brandon

958
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:07,400
Speaker 2: Williams another great game twenty and five. That's right, NBA

959
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 2: ready to get him back in the league. He obviously

960
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:10,799
Speaker 2: had a cup of coffee in the league already. He

961
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:12,560
Speaker 2: will be at some point back in the NBA. I

962
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 2: hope he gets an opportunity. I think he's a really

963
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:17,120
Speaker 2: solid point guard. Kitchen shoot, So that's cool to see.

964
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 2: Anything else. Any other fun bits you did or any

965
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:23,840
Speaker 2: other little segments. Yeah, we went yesterday was Wednesday.

966
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 6: We went on Tuesday to practice and filmed a pregame

967
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:31,880
Speaker 6: warm up with Tyson Etn and the Skyhawks strength coach

968
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 6: Rich McLaughlin. They put us through a shortened version basically

969
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:40,280
Speaker 6: of what these guys do before games, getting their balance

970
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:48,759
Speaker 6: right and just getting their bodies ready to go explosiveness. Yeah,

971
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:51,120
Speaker 6: this is just limbering up Okay, soon we get to

972
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:55,880
Speaker 6: the potentiating factor skeets. At one point I think it

973
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:57,320
Speaker 6: didn't make the final cut.

974
00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:00,440
Speaker 2: But on this very wall, we were just pushing our

975
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:04,759
Speaker 2: bodies as hard as possible into the wall, trying to.

976
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:06,680
Speaker 3: Move it, like trying to move a screen.

977
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:08,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, trying to move a screen.

978
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:10,759
Speaker 6: But they're basically like, you just want your body to

979
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 6: be doing things you're going to be doing game.

980
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 3: Yeah. And then that's why the band work that you

981
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:19,560
Speaker 3: quite often see an NBA player go through, it doesn't

982
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:23,040
Speaker 3: look all that interesting, right, the explosiveness that Tyson attend

983
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:25,920
Speaker 3: that the Skyhawks player has when he's doing that. Because

984
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:27,440
Speaker 3: we got on the bands right after.

985
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:32,200
Speaker 6: Is so that's the that's the form running one.

986
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 2: Yeah.

987
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:32,799
Speaker 3: Yeah.

988
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 2: Second one is where task has to give it as all.

989
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:41,319
Speaker 3: The bands are so hard to Yeah. So I did

990
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:44,840
Speaker 3: this with he's flying. Yeah, it feels like you're flying.

991
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:46,600
Speaker 3: I did this with the strength coach, and and then

992
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:48,960
Speaker 3: we did some hand eye coordination. I was moving side

993
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:50,799
Speaker 3: to side. He said, oh, you're quicker than I thought

994
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 3: you were, the old backhanded comment. I appreciate that. I

995
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 3: appreciate that. It was Yeah, this was what they go

996
00:45:57,040 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 3: through pregame and here comes here comes Tree on this

997
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:03,080
Speaker 3: way to go hilarious.

998
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll never forget what coach McLaughlin said. You don't

999
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 6: want your first sprint in the game to be your

1000
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:10,680
Speaker 6: first sprint of the day.

1001
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 2: That's why they do this here, so it's like you're sprinting.

1002
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:16,080
Speaker 6: But it was also hilarious to then see some of

1003
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:19,319
Speaker 6: the players doing this before the game yesterday and they're

1004
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:22,360
Speaker 6: pulling so hard and fast that the coach has to

1005
00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:24,879
Speaker 6: be like sprinting as well to keep up. And I'm

1006
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:28,440
Speaker 6: like he was walking at a leisurely paced behind tacit

1007
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:29,600
Speaker 6: eye as we did it.

1008
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:32,920
Speaker 2: Why were why were you tapping the tennis ball? And

1009
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:38,840
Speaker 2: why were you catching the tennis ball? Great question listening.

1010
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:45,440
Speaker 2: Listening is a skill that I do believe. Looklet you

1011
00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 2: guys have a blast again. A couple of the hits

1012
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:49,160
Speaker 2: that I saw live. I was watching on Peachtree. I

1013
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:51,960
Speaker 2: was just to fire on cable. I love it. It was

1014
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:54,359
Speaker 2: on ESPN Plus for a lot of other people. Yeah,

1015
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:56,239
Speaker 2: I saw you guys do a hit and uh, I

1016
00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:59,200
Speaker 2: saw you're talking to Hollinger. Definitely one of the segments.

1017
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 3: Parents Scoot's parents amazing, they have seven kids. Oh, and

1018
00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 3: Scoot second youngest of them. All three of their daughters

1019
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 3: have gone to NCAA college. They played college ball. Fourth daughter,

1020
00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 3: who is younger than Scoot, just broke his high school record.

1021
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 2: I've seen that clip at cal High.

1022
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:20,680
Speaker 3: School dropping sixty four points. She's a senior. They just

1023
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:23,560
Speaker 3: retired both her and Scoot's number. Her name is Crystal.

1024
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:27,319
Speaker 3: She goes by Mucci and because dad Chris, as I

1025
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:31,000
Speaker 3: found out, he just nicknames everybody like he nicknamed Scoot.

1026
00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:31,759
Speaker 2: Did you get one?

1027
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 3: Did I get one? For a progress you're talking? Yeah,

1028
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:36,240
Speaker 3: good question.

1029
00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:39,839
Speaker 2: They were calling him for those band sprints.

1030
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:43,080
Speaker 3: Call me silver Fox. A lot of gray hair out there,

1031
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:46,680
Speaker 3: but it is phenomenal. She wears thirty because she plays

1032
00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:50,319
Speaker 3: like Steph. She's going to Georgia State next year. They

1033
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:53,080
Speaker 3: work out together, both Scoot and Muccie. She's going to

1034
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 3: be a ball. She'll be in the WNBA at some point.

1035
00:47:55,719 --> 00:47:58,080
Speaker 3: So it is pretty cool, cool relationship that they have.

1036
00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:01,160
Speaker 2: I'm very excited because I'm heading down tonight. I don't

1037
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:04,279
Speaker 2: think you're going again to just watch, just watch the

1038
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:07,120
Speaker 2: game there, sit in court side to watch a little Scoot.

1039
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:11,000
Speaker 2: I assume he's playing again. Fingers crossed, fingers crossed. I

1040
00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:13,440
Speaker 2: know that his high school, kel High School plays for.

1041
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:16,080
Speaker 6: The state championship tonight and then his sister plays for

1042
00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:19,839
Speaker 6: the state championship later this weekend. Pretty impressive. The only

1043
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:22,719
Speaker 6: two things that I had problems with last night were

1044
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:27,960
Speaker 6: I'm not good at listening in an I FB. I'd

1045
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:29,799
Speaker 6: forgot them what that was like, trying to listen to

1046
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:33,480
Speaker 6: t voices. At the same time, it was tough in

1047
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:34,319
Speaker 6: that building, yeah, I was.

1048
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:35,919
Speaker 2: I was having a hard time here.

1049
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:37,640
Speaker 6: I was like pushing it in as hard as I could,

1050
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:41,000
Speaker 6: which maybe was counter productive. But the thing that I

1051
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 6: watched the hardest was, you know, I'd be preparing for

1052
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:46,799
Speaker 6: the interviews, thinking about the questions I want to say,

1053
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:49,040
Speaker 6: never thinking about what to say at the end of

1054
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:53,560
Speaker 6: the interview. So twice to Chris Silva and to Brandon Williams,

1055
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:55,120
Speaker 6: at the end of the interview, I said, have a

1056
00:48:55,160 --> 00:49:00,200
Speaker 6: good night, just like just like we're old friends, all right, off,

1057
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:01,680
Speaker 6: have a good night, talk to you later, see you.

1058
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:02,440
Speaker 2: See you later, buddy.

1059
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:02,960
Speaker 3: You're right.

1060
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:04,640
Speaker 2: We put a lot of thought into the start of

1061
00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:06,719
Speaker 2: an interview and the middle part of any but we

1062
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 2: don't put a lot of thought into the end it. Yeah,

1063
00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:12,040
Speaker 2: good night, that's funny.

1064
00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 6: Back to you, guys, exactly, It's good at all times.

1065
00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:18,400
Speaker 2: Back to you.

1066
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:20,359
Speaker 4: All right.

1067
00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:25,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, our friends Duke's Carl, Duke's John Babel on the call.

1068
00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 3: You would have liked this. Pooh Jeter was playing last night.

1069
00:49:29,040 --> 00:49:34,520
Speaker 3: Hit a jumper. Duke's dropped the jeter. No, sorry, sorry,

1070
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:37,600
Speaker 3: sorry sorry Pooh with another duce Pooh dropping a duce

1071
00:49:37,640 --> 00:49:40,400
Speaker 3: Pooh making another duce. Yeah, you would have liked.

1072
00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:45,080
Speaker 2: It, you know, I would have loved that. Steve Balmer. Yeah,

1073
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:47,960
Speaker 2: we got so many toilets. You can drop so many

1074
00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:50,520
Speaker 2: duces pooh. I'm glad you guys had a blast. I

1075
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:53,239
Speaker 2: can't wait to be out there tonight. Okay, we got

1076
00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:56,439
Speaker 2: some news. First one, Colorado police say Grizzlies point guard

1077
00:49:56,480 --> 00:49:59,160
Speaker 2: Ja Morant will not face criminal charges stemming from his

1078
00:49:59,239 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 2: ig live vide in which appeared to display a handgun

1079
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:05,040
Speaker 2: at the nightclub. Shortly afterward, though, the Grizzlies announced that

1080
00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:08,240
Speaker 2: Jaw will be away from the team for at least

1081
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:12,840
Speaker 2: four more games. And we also just found out during

1082
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:16,239
Speaker 2: this show, Tim Bontemps, I believe had the scoop that

1083
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:19,360
Speaker 2: the Grizzlies say Steven Adams got a stem cell injection

1084
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:21,879
Speaker 2: in his injured knee and he's going to be reevaluated

1085
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:25,400
Speaker 2: in four weeks, meaning he's basically gonna miss the remainder

1086
00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:28,319
Speaker 2: of the regular season. So no more jaw for at

1087
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:31,160
Speaker 2: least four games now, no more Steven Adams for at

1088
00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:34,160
Speaker 2: least four weeks the entire regular season. Brandon Clark has

1089
00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:37,359
Speaker 2: done for the year. Dylan Brooks is walking on pins

1090
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:38,839
Speaker 2: and needles because if he gets a couple of texts,

1091
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:40,880
Speaker 2: he's gonna miss the you know, a game after a game,

1092
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:46,479
Speaker 2: after a game, so holy crap. Any thoughts on any

1093
00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:48,759
Speaker 2: of this Grizzlies news, which really none of it great,

1094
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:51,799
Speaker 2: I guess, except the part that John Moran is, you know,

1095
00:50:51,840 --> 00:50:53,080
Speaker 2: not going to face criminal charges.

1096
00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:57,279
Speaker 3: Yes, the most important part other than the basketball part,

1097
00:50:57,320 --> 00:51:01,880
Speaker 3: is obviously a huge blow, huge, huge blow. Steven Adams

1098
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:05,880
Speaker 3: is really key to keeping things together on the offense,

1099
00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:08,800
Speaker 3: just on the glass, I should say, just a steady

1100
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:12,720
Speaker 3: presence Brandon Clark also, you know, to compound that, of course,

1101
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:16,680
Speaker 3: huge issues. I think they're just trying to get things

1102
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:18,480
Speaker 3: right with John Morant, keeping him out as long as

1103
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:22,719
Speaker 3: possible could easily come back, and after those you know,

1104
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:25,920
Speaker 3: the two games that served as some sort of suspension.

1105
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:29,480
Speaker 3: That's what this is about, just getting him right and

1106
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:32,480
Speaker 3: sitting him out for as long as possible, so you know,

1107
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:35,520
Speaker 3: it's not a piecemeal thing where he comes back and

1108
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:37,960
Speaker 3: then there's another issue there, just and trying to get

1109
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:41,399
Speaker 3: it right this regular season, if it goes could put

1110
00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:43,560
Speaker 3: if he doesn't play for several weeks, he doesn't play

1111
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:46,280
Speaker 3: for several weeks. That's I hope the way they're thinking

1112
00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:48,200
Speaker 3: about it that they just have to get it right,

1113
00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:51,759
Speaker 3: regardless of where they are in the standings, even though

1114
00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:54,359
Speaker 3: they've had a really, really really good year. It's more

1115
00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 3: about Moran. So that's what That's what this whole thing

1116
00:51:57,400 --> 00:51:57,880
Speaker 3: says to me.

1117
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:01,360
Speaker 6: Yeah, I suppose it's fortunate for the Grizzlies and for

1118
00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:04,120
Speaker 6: Jaw that he's not being charged. I'm hopeful that he

1119
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:07,240
Speaker 6: gets things heading the right way going forward as well.

1120
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:10,319
Speaker 6: But it's time for the Grizzly specifically to kind of

1121
00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:13,400
Speaker 6: just focus on the basketball of things and not the

1122
00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:16,640
Speaker 6: extracurriculars of it, because they're a team that's kind of

1123
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:18,560
Speaker 6: built on being in the paint all the time, and

1124
00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:20,720
Speaker 6: now they don't have Steven Adams who helps them control

1125
00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:22,680
Speaker 6: the paint. Getting the paint, John Morant one of the

1126
00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:25,759
Speaker 6: best paint scores in the game. Brandon Clark huge on

1127
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:28,759
Speaker 6: the glass inside, and that's what the Grizzlies identity has

1128
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:31,520
Speaker 6: been built on for the past few seasons. Things are

1129
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:34,960
Speaker 6: getting pretty tight in the Western Conference. Meanwhile, Memphis only

1130
00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:37,000
Speaker 6: has a two game lead on the sun So maybe

1131
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:40,239
Speaker 6: they're feeling okay with Kevin Durant going down for a

1132
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:41,080
Speaker 6: little bit of time here.

1133
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:42,920
Speaker 2: But the Warriors are only five games.

1134
00:52:42,719 --> 00:52:47,040
Speaker 6: Back, which would be a huge lift for them to

1135
00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:49,520
Speaker 6: get up into home court advantage in one of these.

1136
00:52:49,640 --> 00:52:52,800
Speaker 6: But you know, they probably are a little bit healthier

1137
00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:54,640
Speaker 6: than at least Memphis is right now.

1138
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:55,920
Speaker 2: But I don't know.

1139
00:52:56,080 --> 00:52:58,400
Speaker 6: It's been a bad run here for the Grizzlies in

1140
00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:00,040
Speaker 6: the past six weeks or so.

1141
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:01,640
Speaker 2: There is still no word, by the way, from the

1142
00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:06,480
Speaker 2: NBA League Office on any sort of sanction or reaction.

1143
00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:08,480
Speaker 3: To John Morant.

1144
00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:10,160
Speaker 2: There is that, but he is going to miss these

1145
00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:11,920
Speaker 2: next four games. You do start to wonder if this

1146
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:14,840
Speaker 2: season isn't just a complete wash at this point for

1147
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:17,040
Speaker 2: the Grizzlies. It surf feels that way, not just the

1148
00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:19,960
Speaker 2: Ja Morant part of it, but these injuries to key

1149
00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:23,279
Speaker 2: key players and just how deflating that must be for

1150
00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:26,120
Speaker 2: the organization that was riding pretty high. And obviously we're

1151
00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:28,640
Speaker 2: walking around like they were the champs already and we

1152
00:53:28,680 --> 00:53:31,600
Speaker 2: had talked about that, and it's like, wow, what a

1153
00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:35,160
Speaker 2: feels like a disappointing ending. Maybe they rally, I'm sort

1154
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:37,239
Speaker 2: of doubtful at this point. With other good teams and

1155
00:53:37,239 --> 00:53:39,920
Speaker 2: the Nuggets and the Suns, though, we'll wait to find

1156
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:42,080
Speaker 2: out about Kevin Durant and you know, the Kings and

1157
00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:44,680
Speaker 2: stuff like that. This other piece of news sucks too.

1158
00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:48,320
Speaker 2: Former NBA star Sean Camp was arrested Wednesday and booked

1159
00:53:48,320 --> 00:53:50,399
Speaker 2: in a Washington State jail in connection with a drive

1160
00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:53,960
Speaker 2: by shooting. Tacoma police set an altercation between occupants of

1161
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:57,080
Speaker 2: two vehicles near a mall led to shots being fired

1162
00:53:57,120 --> 00:54:02,120
Speaker 2: early Wednesday afternoon. Now, thankfully no injuries were reported. I'm

1163
00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:03,480
Speaker 2: not sure you guys will probably have a whole lot

1164
00:54:03,480 --> 00:54:05,520
Speaker 2: to add to this. It's to wait and see. But

1165
00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:10,320
Speaker 2: Sean Kemp in the news for all the wrong reasons. Yeah,

1166
00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:13,880
Speaker 2: next one, back to injuries. Zion Williamson. He's going to

1167
00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:17,359
Speaker 2: miss at least another two weeks. Due to a hamstring.

1168
00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:20,839
Speaker 2: This guy has been sideline tasks and basically New Year's

1169
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:24,239
Speaker 2: Eve January two is when that injury occurred, and we

1170
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:25,920
Speaker 2: didn't think it was going to take this long, and

1171
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:29,319
Speaker 2: there seemed to be a setback, and now we're left wondering, like,

1172
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:31,879
Speaker 2: do we even see him for the rest of the year.

1173
00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:34,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a fair question to ask. If it's two

1174
00:54:34,320 --> 00:54:37,919
Speaker 3: weeks from now that he's going to be reevaluated, Yeah,

1175
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:40,239
Speaker 3: it could easily be a few weeks, and then it's

1176
00:54:40,239 --> 00:54:41,840
Speaker 3: the end of the regular season. I will say a

1177
00:54:41,520 --> 00:54:45,120
Speaker 3: couple let's say, let's say a positive look at it.

1178
00:54:45,239 --> 00:54:47,800
Speaker 3: Coach Willy Green said he's optimistic that he will return

1179
00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:52,279
Speaker 3: this season the day of this report. Those are two

1180
00:54:52,400 --> 00:54:56,520
Speaker 3: conflicting points of view. So I think Willie Green had

1181
00:54:56,600 --> 00:54:58,640
Speaker 3: no obligation to say something like that. So I think

1182
00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:00,879
Speaker 3: he's got some sort of fel that he's coming back.

1183
00:55:00,920 --> 00:55:04,160
Speaker 3: Obviously that's me reading into it. But also I just

1184
00:55:04,239 --> 00:55:06,080
Speaker 3: question why they even came out with this news. It

1185
00:55:06,160 --> 00:55:10,600
Speaker 3: was a time that they are sort of a scheduled

1186
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:13,160
Speaker 3: report that they needed to do. Why even throw this

1187
00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:16,759
Speaker 3: out there at this point at all? Did they need

1188
00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:20,359
Speaker 3: to I just found that sort of odd.

1189
00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:23,000
Speaker 2: People want to know about the biggest startup team.

1190
00:55:23,520 --> 00:55:27,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, but I mean something, we're talking about

1191
00:55:27,719 --> 00:55:30,160
Speaker 3: it now, and no news is better news in a

1192
00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:32,279
Speaker 3: weird way, like we just wouldn't be talking about it

1193
00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:36,759
Speaker 3: wouldn't be reported on that. That's so I just wonder

1194
00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:39,680
Speaker 3: about that aspect. Obviously, it's not good news that he's

1195
00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:42,279
Speaker 3: going to be out a couple of weeks no matter what,

1196
00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:44,879
Speaker 3: but why he was going to be out no matter what,

1197
00:55:45,160 --> 00:55:47,000
Speaker 3: no matter the report or not. So that's why I

1198
00:55:47,120 --> 00:55:49,080
Speaker 3: kind of wonder why that was thrown out there. But

1199
00:55:49,160 --> 00:55:51,600
Speaker 3: maybe it's an optimistic thing. Maybe you could be optimistic

1200
00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:52,920
Speaker 3: to the fact that they put it out there, the

1201
00:55:52,960 --> 00:55:55,120
Speaker 3: fact that Willie Green is saying something that he will

1202
00:55:55,120 --> 00:55:57,360
Speaker 3: be back, although it's hard to get all that positive

1203
00:55:57,360 --> 00:55:58,760
Speaker 3: because he's not on the basketball floor.

1204
00:55:59,520 --> 00:56:01,719
Speaker 6: I guess the other silver lining is that the Pelicans

1205
00:56:01,719 --> 00:56:04,640
Speaker 6: have a pretty easy schedule for the remaining rest of

1206
00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:05,120
Speaker 6: the season.

1207
00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:05,319
Speaker 2: Here.

1208
00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 6: According to Tankathon, they've got the fourth easiest schedule in

1209
00:56:08,239 --> 00:56:10,680
Speaker 6: the league. That being said, you look at the schedule,

1210
00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:13,760
Speaker 6: They've got the thunder Blazers and Lakers are their next.

1211
00:56:13,560 --> 00:56:14,760
Speaker 2: Three games are huge.

1212
00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:17,120
Speaker 6: Those are all playing teams YEA, that they're competing with

1213
00:56:17,239 --> 00:56:20,400
Speaker 6: to hang around in the play in tournament. Then they

1214
00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:22,320
Speaker 6: got the Rockets a couple of times, the Spurs and

1215
00:56:22,360 --> 00:56:25,440
Speaker 6: the Hornets. Those are winnable games even without Zion. So

1216
00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:28,520
Speaker 6: if they're able to get a couple of wins against

1217
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:32,440
Speaker 6: those fellow playing contenders and then take care of business

1218
00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:35,000
Speaker 6: against the bottom of the league, they can continue to

1219
00:56:35,040 --> 00:56:37,880
Speaker 6: tread water, which they've started to do a little bit

1220
00:56:37,880 --> 00:56:41,319
Speaker 6: more recently. They sank pretty hard, but they've found a

1221
00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:42,759
Speaker 6: level here at least a little bit.

1222
00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:45,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, one game we didn't talk about with Mark earlier

1223
00:56:45,320 --> 00:56:48,439
Speaker 2: on in this podcast was the Pelicans beating the mass

1224
00:56:48,520 --> 00:56:50,840
Speaker 2: last night, and we slipped in the news of Luca

1225
00:56:50,920 --> 00:56:55,480
Speaker 2: leaving that game. But CJ McCollum just took over incredible

1226
00:56:55,719 --> 00:56:58,960
Speaker 2: fourth quarter performance and got them a much needed victory

1227
00:56:59,760 --> 00:57:03,520
Speaker 2: with obviously some of their superstars missing this So we'll

1228
00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:05,279
Speaker 2: see if he can like Ceey McCollums one of those

1229
00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:07,319
Speaker 2: two of players we've seen it before, he can go

1230
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:12,279
Speaker 2: on little runs streaks where he can carry teams two

1231
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:14,239
Speaker 2: wins for a couple of games. But you said there,

1232
00:57:14,239 --> 00:57:17,280
Speaker 2: with that schedule, these are huge games for their chances

1233
00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:21,720
Speaker 2: to just stick around the play in conversation, get in

1234
00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:24,680
Speaker 2: and then maybe hope fingers crossed the Zion somehow returns.

1235
00:57:24,720 --> 00:57:27,480
Speaker 2: But I mean, look, you can We've got Lebron out,

1236
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:30,720
Speaker 2: We've got Zion out, Karl Anthony Towns is still out.

1237
00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:34,920
Speaker 2: Who knows with kd here? Who knows with Luca here?

1238
00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:39,160
Speaker 2: These are some big superstar names, a lot of them

1239
00:57:39,200 --> 00:57:41,360
Speaker 2: there in the Western Conference that we're like just waiting.

1240
00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:42,960
Speaker 2: We don't even and I don't even know. I'm not

1241
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:45,000
Speaker 2: even convinced, like how many of those names I just

1242
00:57:45,040 --> 00:57:48,480
Speaker 2: listed are even back in any regular season action. There

1243
00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:51,600
Speaker 2: is not that much time left until the playoffs are here.

1244
00:57:51,640 --> 00:57:54,640
Speaker 2: We're like we're hitting almost a month a month and change.

1245
00:57:54,720 --> 00:57:57,360
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, you got to play basically like five hundred

1246
00:57:57,360 --> 00:57:58,760
Speaker 3: ball for these teams that are sort of in the

1247
00:57:58,880 --> 00:58:02,000
Speaker 3: play in picture. You know, not all these teams are

1248
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:06,080
Speaker 3: going to be that great. It's it's basically down to, yeah,

1249
00:58:06,240 --> 00:58:08,840
Speaker 3: just just just win one, lose one. I'm sort of

1250
00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:12,760
Speaker 3: optimistic about the Pels in that I don't know, I

1251
00:58:12,760 --> 00:58:14,880
Speaker 3: feel like they're coming around a little bit. The Dice

1252
00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:18,400
Speaker 3: and Daniels insertion into the lineup I think helps. There's

1253
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:21,920
Speaker 3: another g League, Gig Night graduate they're playing hard. I

1254
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:25,240
Speaker 3: think I think, I think that'll that will help. See

1255
00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:27,560
Speaker 3: Jim McCollum. I'm not sure why they You know, the

1256
00:58:27,600 --> 00:58:29,680
Speaker 3: MAVs didn't throw a Josh Green on him at the

1257
00:58:29,720 --> 00:58:32,400
Speaker 3: end of the games. He was just burning everybody out

1258
00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:34,080
Speaker 3: there at the end. But I've got some hopes for

1259
00:58:34,080 --> 00:58:36,120
Speaker 3: the Pelicans, and I say, you know, you just got

1260
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:38,120
Speaker 3: to win one, lose one because the Jazz are falling

1261
00:58:38,160 --> 00:58:41,520
Speaker 3: off a little bit. You just gotta tread water. And

1262
00:58:41,800 --> 00:58:46,680
Speaker 3: I think the Pels can do that. But it's it's

1263
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:47,560
Speaker 3: quite crowded.

1264
00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:53,000
Speaker 2: Final piece of news here, Eudonis Haslim is officially retiring

1265
00:58:53,240 --> 00:58:55,640
Speaker 2: after the NBA season ends. I think a lot of

1266
00:58:55,680 --> 00:58:58,600
Speaker 2: people assume this, but that is the word coming from

1267
00:58:58,680 --> 00:59:03,360
Speaker 2: him and the Heat. They announced the Heat did that

1268
00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:06,640
Speaker 2: there's gonna be a three h five day and that

1269
00:59:06,760 --> 00:59:10,240
Speaker 2: is going to celebrate his twenty year career, and they're

1270
00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:12,680
Speaker 2: gonna do it over four days, four days of forty

1271
00:59:12,680 --> 00:59:14,919
Speaker 2: they're calling it. Listen to this. I want to take

1272
00:59:14,960 --> 00:59:17,680
Speaker 2: you through what the Miami Herald is reporting for the

1273
00:59:17,720 --> 00:59:19,760
Speaker 2: celebration for Haslm as he nears the end of his

1274
00:59:19,760 --> 00:59:22,880
Speaker 2: twenty year career starts on March twenty third, with an

1275
00:59:22,920 --> 00:59:26,800
Speaker 2: ongoing digital content series dedicated to Haslam. The next day,

1276
00:59:26,800 --> 00:59:29,480
Speaker 2: on March twenty fourth, they're going to release the ud Collection,

1277
00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:32,360
Speaker 2: which is four new HASLM shirts which you can buy

1278
00:59:32,440 --> 00:59:35,760
Speaker 2: in their store. Then the Heat will host u D

1279
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:38,960
Speaker 2: Night during March twenty fifth game against the Nets, a

1280
00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:41,960
Speaker 2: home game. Obviously, during an in game break, there's going

1281
00:59:42,040 --> 00:59:45,040
Speaker 2: to be a newly dedicated Section three oh five at

1282
00:59:45,080 --> 00:59:48,480
Speaker 2: the arena that'll be unveiled to honor HASLM, So he's

1283
00:59:48,480 --> 00:59:51,240
Speaker 2: gonna get his own little section there. And then it

1284
00:59:51,320 --> 00:59:54,600
Speaker 2: ends the next night on March twenty sixth, which is

1285
00:59:54,600 --> 00:59:56,880
Speaker 2: like their Miami Heat Family Festival, and that's going to

1286
00:59:56,920 --> 01:00:03,520
Speaker 2: feature Haslam themed activations and experience the four days a

1287
01:00:03,640 --> 01:00:10,080
Speaker 2: forty for Haslam. Any thoughts. I'm interested in the Eudonna's

1288
01:00:10,080 --> 01:00:13,120
Speaker 2: Haslam activation too, what's that gonna be? I don't know.

1289
01:00:13,400 --> 01:00:16,680
Speaker 6: Shoot a baseline jumper, you get tough like instead of

1290
01:00:16,680 --> 01:00:18,200
Speaker 6: one of those things where you punch it as hard

1291
01:00:18,200 --> 01:00:19,720
Speaker 6: as you can and it shows you how hard it is.

1292
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:22,960
Speaker 2: You foul it as hard as possible. It's good. Yeah.

1293
01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:26,280
Speaker 6: I just watched a clip of Eudonnis Haslam explaining his

1294
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Speaker 6: flagrant foul on Tyler Hansbrough in the twenty twelve playoffs. Incredible,

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Speaker 6: it was awesome. What an interesting career this guy's having. Yeah, undrafted, Yeah,

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Speaker 6: now he's played twenty years. There probably should be more

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Speaker 6: Eudonnas haslums. When you look at an NBA roster, like

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Speaker 6: the fifteenth guy off in a two way like the

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Speaker 6: Bulls is Marco Simonovic for like the past few years.

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Speaker 6: He never plays either. You would probably rather have a

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Speaker 6: voice like Eudonna's Haslam in the locker room than a

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Speaker 6: guy who maybe is a bit of a project. So

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Speaker 6: I don't think it's a coincidence that you've got a

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Speaker 6: guy like ud who has been there since the d

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Speaker 6: Wade and Shack days. Now it's the Jimmy Butler days,

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Speaker 6: and the culture has remained constant.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta have.

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Speaker 3: Guys like that, and he's one of the best at it,

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Speaker 3: and he was a champ. He was starting on that

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Speaker 3: championship team. I guess the difference between a guy coming

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Speaker 3: in now and a ud would be, if you want

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Speaker 3: to stick around the league, you gotta have a three

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Speaker 3: point shot. Ud was came in the right time where

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Speaker 3: he could have a mid range champer and he was money.

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Speaker 3: He was really really good at then became a vet.

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Speaker 3: He's he's been a vet for a long time.

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Speaker 8: I know.

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Speaker 2: I think there are NBA fans that don't even realize

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Speaker 2: how good Haslm actually was, how much he did contribute

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Speaker 2: to championship teams, because it's been so long that he's

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Speaker 2: been the end of the bench. He's basically an extension.

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Speaker 2: He's a coach at this point.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, right, there's no doubt. Yeah, he was an option

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Speaker 3: on that team. He was just sort of an outlet.

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Speaker 3: He banged home a shot, no problem, he got it done.

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Speaker 2: Gave his blood, swoot and tears to Miami. So that's

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Speaker 2: why they're celebrating a guy twenty year NBA career, But

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Speaker 2: he is officially done at the end of the seas.

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Speaker 2: Will the heat use that for motivation? Was this his

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Speaker 2: all part of his heard? Yeah? Right right right? Watch

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Speaker 2: them rally here. Well, he didn't get done last night.

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Speaker 2: Let's get to the pick the results. They had the

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Speaker 2: points to play with too. They were two and a

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Speaker 2: half point dogs at home and they lost by four.

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Speaker 2: Got real close when Hero hit that three, but in

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Speaker 2: the end Cleveland covered and Task had it right. You're

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01:02:23,680 --> 01:02:26,600
Speaker 2: three and three trades four and two. That's a great record.

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Speaker 2: I am one in five turns out. That is not man.

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01:02:30,600 --> 01:02:32,080
Speaker 2: I am making you some money if you were faded

1340
01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:33,960
Speaker 2: me right now. I have no feel on these what's

1341
01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:36,240
Speaker 2: tonight's game? Where am I gonna go wrong tonight?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's six games on the skin. And I saw

1343
01:02:39,160 --> 01:02:41,680
Speaker 3: this line where the Milwaukee Bucks were favored by twelve

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01:02:41,720 --> 01:02:45,160
Speaker 3: and a half against the hard playing Brooklyn Nets. Had

1345
01:02:45,200 --> 01:02:48,800
Speaker 3: to check, Why the heck are the Brooklyn Nets now? Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's thirteen and a half. Actually, yeah, it's moved down

1347
01:02:51,080 --> 01:02:52,440
Speaker 3: to twelve and a half, but we're going with the

1348
01:02:52,480 --> 01:02:54,919
Speaker 3: thirteen and a half point line. There are a lot

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Speaker 3: of injuries for the Brooklyn Nets. So that's why I mean,

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't want to take that the Bucks either. It's

1351
01:03:00,880 --> 01:03:03,240
Speaker 3: just too big a line, even with Spencer Dinwid, Nick Klaxon,

1352
01:03:03,320 --> 01:03:06,440
Speaker 3: Cam Johnson, and Royce O'Neill out along with Ben Simmons.

1353
01:03:07,160 --> 01:03:09,200
Speaker 3: But I'll take the Bucks because you guys took the Nets.

1354
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Speaker 2: So because I took the Nets, that's your real answer.

1355
01:03:13,840 --> 01:03:14,560
Speaker 2: He's taking them.

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01:03:15,320 --> 01:03:17,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, we's got a dumb rule in here that we

1357
01:03:17,120 --> 01:03:19,440
Speaker 3: can't have three people pick the same team. So you

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01:03:19,480 --> 01:03:22,240
Speaker 3: gotta win by fourteen points if you're taking the Milwaukee

1359
01:03:22,280 --> 01:03:26,480
Speaker 3: buckshows sure? All right? No, okay, we'll set okay, trade pack.

1360
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Speaker 2: You got the Bucks. You're gonna win it. Trust me,

1361
01:03:29,560 --> 01:03:31,720
Speaker 2: you're gonna win. I guarantee it. They're gonna win by

1362
01:03:31,720 --> 01:03:34,040
Speaker 2: twenty five. Especially with all those guys you said they were.

1363
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Speaker 3: That's a lot of buddies. That's a lot of buddies.

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Speaker 3: Mckilbury's gonna shoot a lot tonight.

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01:03:38,040 --> 01:03:40,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, good point. Can you go for another thirty burger?

1366
01:03:40,480 --> 01:03:42,840
Speaker 2: Maybe even more? Okay, let's get to tweet of the night.

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Speaker 3: Tweet over night Wow.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, tweet the night from at the Volume Sports and

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01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:57,360
Speaker 2: it said at money twenty three Green. Draymond Green responds

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01:03:57,400 --> 01:04:01,280
Speaker 2: to Dylan Brooks comments. So here there's a clip of

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01:04:01,360 --> 01:04:05,040
Speaker 2: Draymond on his own podcast talking about one Dylan Brooks.

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Speaker 8: Here this this idiot said, I don't know what Draymond

1373
01:04:08,200 --> 01:04:11,000
Speaker 8: does out there. He said, I don't like Draymond at all.

1374
01:04:11,280 --> 01:04:13,760
Speaker 8: You don't know me. I just don't like God to state,

1375
01:04:14,040 --> 01:04:16,280
Speaker 8: I quite frankly wouldn't like a team that beats me

1376
01:04:16,360 --> 01:04:19,000
Speaker 8: all the time. Either I don't like anything to do

1377
01:04:19,080 --> 01:04:21,880
Speaker 8: with them. Quite frankly, you were a little kid in

1378
01:04:21,960 --> 01:04:25,920
Speaker 8: high school watching US win championships. Should be happy that

1379
01:04:25,960 --> 01:04:29,760
Speaker 8: you even witnessed that, or maybe college, but you get

1380
01:04:29,800 --> 01:04:30,240
Speaker 8: the point.

1381
01:04:30,560 --> 01:04:31,200
Speaker 3: You're a fan.

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01:04:31,600 --> 01:04:33,920
Speaker 8: Draymond talks a lot. You talk a lot now, So

1383
01:04:33,960 --> 01:04:37,560
Speaker 8: if you have four rings, sure you talk a lot more.

1384
01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:44,000
Speaker 8: For All Stars, you probably talk a bit more. Defensive

1385
01:04:44,000 --> 01:04:47,640
Speaker 8: Player of the Year, you, for damn sure would talk more.

1386
01:04:47,920 --> 01:04:52,320
Speaker 8: To Olympic gold medals, you definitely would be talking because

1387
01:04:52,400 --> 01:04:57,040
Speaker 8: that would mean you beat Team USA. And we all

1388
01:04:57,120 --> 01:04:59,840
Speaker 8: know how to that goes. So gets away with a

1389
01:04:59,880 --> 01:05:03,280
Speaker 8: lo to what exactly do I get away with? I

1390
01:05:03,320 --> 01:05:05,800
Speaker 8: have fifteen texts, one less than your dumb ass.

1391
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Speaker 3: His game is cool.

1392
01:05:08,840 --> 01:05:12,520
Speaker 8: If you ever wondered why to Memphis Grizzlies is not

1393
01:05:12,600 --> 01:05:14,960
Speaker 8: ready took a p for a championship, look no further

1394
01:05:15,040 --> 01:05:17,880
Speaker 8: than this idiot right here. They're actually depending on this

1395
01:05:17,920 --> 01:05:20,360
Speaker 8: guy to help them win a championship and he says

1396
01:05:20,400 --> 01:05:23,000
Speaker 8: his game is cool. Quite frankly, that just shows how

1397
01:05:23,120 --> 01:05:25,320
Speaker 8: little you know about basketball.

1398
01:05:26,880 --> 01:05:30,439
Speaker 2: So again, that was a small taste of Draymond going

1399
01:05:30,640 --> 01:05:34,919
Speaker 2: line by line ripping apart Dylan Brooks, or at least

1400
01:05:35,240 --> 01:05:37,520
Speaker 2: coming back clapping back at him. That's like a fire.

1401
01:05:37,600 --> 01:05:40,880
Speaker 2: Joe Morgan post. That is a great point.

1402
01:05:40,920 --> 01:05:46,800
Speaker 6: Wow, to highlight each individual line, come back to Draymond

1403
01:05:46,880 --> 01:05:50,080
Speaker 6: dropping a zinger. Absolutely right about Team USA and Canada.

1404
01:05:50,120 --> 01:05:54,640
Speaker 6: Great stuff. But it is interesting because I mean, Draymond.

1405
01:05:54,360 --> 01:05:56,520
Speaker 2: Is right here.

1406
01:05:57,120 --> 01:05:59,640
Speaker 3: I think, well, he does get away with things on

1407
01:05:59,680 --> 01:06:03,080
Speaker 3: the bast on talking to officials. That's one thing Dylan

1408
01:06:03,120 --> 01:06:05,080
Speaker 3: poked a whole he said he gets away with stuff.

1409
01:06:05,320 --> 01:06:07,400
Speaker 3: And he said, well, I have fifteen texts. He could

1410
01:06:07,400 --> 01:06:10,840
Speaker 3: have fifty texts. The amount of talks. That's the only thing.

1411
01:06:11,680 --> 01:06:14,440
Speaker 3: The Memphis Grizzlies do talk a lot.

1412
01:06:14,000 --> 01:06:15,160
Speaker 2: Memphis Grizzlies told me.

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01:06:15,200 --> 01:06:17,400
Speaker 6: But the thing that's interesting to me when I see

1414
01:06:17,400 --> 01:06:21,000
Speaker 6: this is you compare Draymond and Dylan Brooks's game, and

1415
01:06:21,080 --> 01:06:23,400
Speaker 6: the question for Dylan Brooks is always why are you

1416
01:06:23,400 --> 01:06:25,600
Speaker 6: shooting so much? And the question for Draymond is this

1417
01:06:25,640 --> 01:06:29,080
Speaker 6: guy never shoots? Yeah, yeah, one of them works.

1418
01:06:29,480 --> 01:06:31,120
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean I don't think we had it in

1419
01:06:31,160 --> 01:06:33,320
Speaker 2: that particular part of the clip, but the part where

1420
01:06:33,360 --> 01:06:36,640
Speaker 2: he is really just ripping Dylan Brooks apart as an

1421
01:06:36,760 --> 01:06:39,960
Speaker 2: NBA player is when he's like, your team hates you like.

1422
01:06:40,000 --> 01:06:42,000
Speaker 2: He goes on to say that, he says, they don't

1423
01:06:42,120 --> 01:06:46,480
Speaker 2: like you like I'm a character, I'm loud, but my

1424
01:06:46,560 --> 01:06:49,280
Speaker 2: team likes me. They got my teammates, you know, they

1425
01:06:49,320 --> 01:06:51,560
Speaker 2: know what I bring to the table. This is from Draymond,

1426
01:06:51,600 --> 01:06:54,160
Speaker 2: of course on his own damn show, but he is

1427
01:06:54,240 --> 01:06:57,320
Speaker 2: really saying that ain't the case, and he's making this

1428
01:06:57,360 --> 01:06:59,120
Speaker 2: sound like, I know that's not the case. You think

1429
01:06:59,200 --> 01:07:00,880
Speaker 2: fans don't like it, Dylan Brooks, You don't think I

1430
01:07:00,880 --> 01:07:03,320
Speaker 2: don't like you. Your own teammates still like you. I

1431
01:07:03,400 --> 01:07:06,200
Speaker 2: was like, whoa, I almost started feeling bad for Dylan

1432
01:07:06,200 --> 01:07:12,840
Speaker 2: Brooks that file. Jeez, did punch a teammate in the face? Yeah? Ago?

1433
01:07:13,080 --> 01:07:13,280
Speaker 5: Yeah?

1434
01:07:13,440 --> 01:07:13,560
Speaker 3: Uh?

1435
01:07:13,800 --> 01:07:16,400
Speaker 2: And Dylan Brooks's teammates I did thought love him. Yeah,

1436
01:07:16,520 --> 01:07:18,720
Speaker 2: that's that's the part I was confusing.

1437
01:07:19,240 --> 01:07:21,320
Speaker 6: I don't know Draymond's on the court with them, Raymond

1438
01:07:21,320 --> 01:07:22,080
Speaker 6: talks to him.

1439
01:07:22,400 --> 01:07:25,400
Speaker 3: Draymond's not his teammates though, that's true. Yeah, that's that's

1440
01:07:25,640 --> 01:07:28,919
Speaker 3: a little reach, I think. But hey, a very well

1441
01:07:28,960 --> 01:07:31,840
Speaker 3: cut video. Yeah, I see Dre in the short scime.

1442
01:07:33,440 --> 01:07:36,360
Speaker 2: I mean, it wasn't it was like a two and

1443
01:07:36,440 --> 01:07:38,600
Speaker 2: a half minute clip. It was made for It was

1444
01:07:38,640 --> 01:07:39,680
Speaker 2: made for you to twit.

1445
01:07:42,240 --> 01:07:43,960
Speaker 3: I think you can put it on Talk now as well.

1446
01:07:43,960 --> 01:07:45,560
Speaker 3: You put some long clips on the Talk.

1447
01:07:45,800 --> 01:07:48,720
Speaker 2: Okay, correct, All right, let's hear your opinions on Draymond

1448
01:07:48,720 --> 01:07:51,200
Speaker 2: Green going back, clapping back at Dylan Brooks who had

1449
01:07:51,200 --> 01:07:53,920
Speaker 2: comments about him, and two guys that are loved by

1450
01:07:53,960 --> 01:07:56,880
Speaker 2: a lot of fan bases in the NBA. Let's call

1451
01:07:56,880 --> 01:07:59,080
Speaker 2: it there. We got to thank our friend Mark Rizzo

1452
01:07:59,520 --> 01:08:02,240
Speaker 2: for coming on the show screenplay writer for the new

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01:08:02,280 --> 01:08:05,280
Speaker 2: movie Champions, which comes out tomorrow, Friday, March tenth. Go

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01:08:05,360 --> 01:08:06,959
Speaker 2: check it out in theater. I think you're really gonna

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Speaker 2: enjoy it. New No Bus our Survivor recap podcast coming

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Speaker 2: up in mere hours, less than two hours. We'll be

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Speaker 2: live over at nobus on YouTube. We'll flip it into

1458
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Speaker 2: a podcast recapping last night's episode. You can't wait for that.

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Speaker 2: And tomorrow it's a drop podcast already. What do you

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Speaker 2: Worst of the Week nominees rapid firefun. There are six

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Speaker 2: games on tonight. We did some big picture topics, usually

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Speaker 2: on the drop, but if you have a question or two,

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Speaker 2: maybe we'll hit the beach. So send that in till tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Clipper Rose, you heard it here first. Have a great

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Speaker 2: time turn up. Love you guys awesome.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us, and remember listening is the skill

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Speaker 3: you can work on.

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Speaker 2: Grace today, people

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Speaker 5: Of the to