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Speaker 1: Dek Heel on today's episode.

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Speaker 5: I am Miles.

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Speaker 2: Gray and I'm Jack O'Brien and this is dot Srey.

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Speaker 2: Got it looka do hits ta Okay, there you go

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Speaker 2: and be driving spinning.

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Speaker 5: From botch.

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Speaker 1: Got it with five?

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Speaker 5: Is gonna try another three? Mister, look on James, be

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Speaker 2: The look on you.

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Speaker 4: Modek Ghil, thank you so much for joining us on

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Speaker 4: this wonderful, legendary podcast. Oh yeah, obviously gotta give you

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Speaker 4: get a breakdown of Modork Hill's CV. Here form a

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Speaker 4: video coordinator for the Clippers, the Spurs, and Assie men's

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Speaker 4: basketball team. UH currently writer for Bleacher Report and podcast

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Speaker 4: for the Athletic Modoric Hill.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 5: Miles. That is impressive.

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Speaker 4: The thing is I'm doing an American accent when I

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Speaker 4: podcast this is this.

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Speaker 5: Is like whenever I watched those shows and then I

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Speaker 1: This guy is Ozzy. He was Ozzy whole. Yeah, dude,

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Speaker 1: don't get it twisted.

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Speaker 2: Wait, so I from successions from Iowa?

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Speaker 4: But anyway, your career is very interesting, like what's how

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's to really start out, was like I never

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's happening right now. And I get to do

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Speaker 2: It's rare for an NBA game involving two teams that

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Speaker 5: It will be like the Simpsons episode when they try

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Speaker 2: Coming against Denver. Joel was a late scratch, uh, and

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Speaker 4: Yeah, because I think Jabari was saying he hasn't played

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Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I.

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Speaker 2: Haven't played in Denver either. I don't want I don't

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Speaker 1: Yeah, where are you out?

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Speaker 4: I was, I was like, I think I'm off this

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Speaker 5: He's so many people.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like Bill Simmons especially, He's like, yeah, well you

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Speaker 2: I'm not worried about them. But then like when he's

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Speaker 1: Man? Is it one? Mic?

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Speaker 1: Look, it's a bad look.

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Speaker 5: It's a bad look you know that he play Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And when the.

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Speaker 2: People were like, where's Embiid and he was like pointing

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Speaker 1: Hey man.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'll be in a corner, Joelle, you know,

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Speaker 2: So you said that you're no longer interested in signing

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you know, like I said, my my

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Speaker 5: So right now.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Maybe Luker, you know, yeah, maybe this Luker Doncic guy,

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Speaker 2: It's uh yeah, I mean, so the scoring has been

445
00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:20,080
Speaker 2: out of control. Luca dropped seventy three and a win

446
00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:23,080
Speaker 2: versus the Hawks. Some of the wildest shots I've ever

447
00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:25,280
Speaker 2: seen made in an NBA game. I mean, he just

448
00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:27,840
Speaker 2: anytime I watch him, I'm just like that, he like

449
00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:31,800
Speaker 2: has a superpower of just like making some of the

450
00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:35,520
Speaker 2: wildest shots. Also, that same night, Booker put in sixty two.

451
00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:38,359
Speaker 2: So again we have a a night with a seventy

452
00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:41,919
Speaker 2: point scorer and a sixty in a loss. Yeah, this

453
00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:45,880
Speaker 2: is the guy also lost. So you got in the NBA.

454
00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:48,159
Speaker 2: If you get you're gonna lose and be a loser.

455
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Speaker 2: You're a loser. Should have tried harder, should have gotten

456
00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:54,680
Speaker 2: into seventy Yeah exactly. But I don't know. It feels

457
00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:58,600
Speaker 2: like we're gonna see somebody top eighty one in the

458
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Speaker 2: in the coming years. Maybe year, Yeah, I can see

459
00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:04,760
Speaker 2: it in the next year.

460
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Speaker 5: It's no, I think it's on. I think it's on

461
00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:10,320
Speaker 5: its way, might even be this season. I think with

462
00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:13,480
Speaker 5: the way guys are scoring and all of those things there,

463
00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,159
Speaker 5: and that's gonna be cool. Like I I know a

464
00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:19,960
Speaker 5: lot of people have gone completely nuts about the scoring

465
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Speaker 5: in the NBA and all this stuff and seem to

466
00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:27,640
Speaker 5: be upset by it. I'm like, Yo, these guys are amazing, right,

467
00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:29,920
Speaker 5: you know, it's not. This isn't like the time when

468
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Speaker 5: Tony Delk got fifty or you're like Tony, They're like CORYO,

469
00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:38,120
Speaker 5: like wow they got fifty, Like what what's happening? You know,

470
00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:40,720
Speaker 5: like these are the stars of the league. And it's

471
00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:43,520
Speaker 5: like all right, man, like I'm gonna go off. And

472
00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:47,560
Speaker 5: you know, Joel's was against Victor Webman Yama, who's averaging

473
00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:49,880
Speaker 5: like three and a half blocks a game, Like it's

474
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Speaker 5: not you know, he ran through them a lot. Yeah,

475
00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:55,000
Speaker 5: and then of course then he destroyed Zach Collins. But like,

476
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Speaker 5: I get it, Like I just think it's funny to

477
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Speaker 5: me where people get so upset about it. I'm like, man, like,

478
00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:04,560
Speaker 5: these dudes are unbelievable. The skillmaking, the shot making we're

479
00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:07,520
Speaker 5: seeing in all these games is absurd, right, So like, yeah,

480
00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:10,280
Speaker 5: we're gonna get eighty pretty soon. We're gonna it's coming.

481
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Speaker 1: Yeah.

482
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Speaker 2: If you saw like Luca playing at the time when

483
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Speaker 2: Kobe was playing, you would be like, that guy is

484
00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:20,080
Speaker 2: making like the craziest shots I've ever seen somebody make.

485
00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:22,320
Speaker 2: If you saw it Embiid playing at the time Kobe

486
00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:25,080
Speaker 2: was playing, you'd be like, that is shack, except he

487
00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:27,960
Speaker 2: can make free throws and shoot threes, like that's wild

488
00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:31,000
Speaker 2: like that. Yeah, to your point, it's like these guys

489
00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:35,400
Speaker 2: both look amazing and are amazing and the stats are

490
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Speaker 2: backing it up, and everyone's like, yeah, I'd like to

491
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Speaker 2: see him do it with defense. Like even Paul Pierce

492
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Speaker 2: I think, was like, whoa I missed when they played

493
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Speaker 2: defense in the NBA.

494
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Speaker 5: When did he play defense? Just out of curiosity?

495
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Speaker 1: That was really my.

496
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Speaker 5: You know, even the year they won the championship, it

497
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Speaker 5: was KG on defense. It wasn't him, Yeah, I just

498
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Speaker 5: the other thing, like, you guys hit the nerves. So

499
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Speaker 5: it's like this is the stuff that drives me DUTs.

500
00:22:57,600 --> 00:22:59,520
Speaker 5: But the stuff people are going, man, they don't play

501
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Speaker 5: defense more in the NBA, Like no, it's just impossible

502
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Speaker 5: to play defense. You have to cover as soon as

503
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Speaker 5: the ball crosses half court, you have to defend from

504
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Speaker 5: that line all the way to the baseline. Yeah. Right,

505
00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:12,320
Speaker 5: these guys are too good now at this point, we've

506
00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:15,080
Speaker 5: spent the past fifteen years telling every player coming into

507
00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:17,280
Speaker 5: the NBA, you have to learn how to shoot. So

508
00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:19,240
Speaker 5: when they all learned how to shoot, or pissed off

509
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:23,440
Speaker 5: that they make shots, that's not there, Like it's just yeah,

510
00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:24,800
Speaker 5: what the hell you should do that?

511
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Speaker 1: You can't do that.

512
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Speaker 5: It's impossible to cover all the ground you have to

513
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Speaker 5: cover defensively. And then the referees don't help because you know,

514
00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:34,480
Speaker 5: they call the lightest fouls on the perimeter. You can

515
00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:38,359
Speaker 5: murder a dude in the paint, like God forbid, Trey

516
00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:41,399
Speaker 5: Young bumps into your chest. It's aoul, like you know,

517
00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:44,080
Speaker 5: as a foul on you like it's it's yeah, it's

518
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:47,280
Speaker 5: it's the That's that's where I think the real problem

519
00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:49,120
Speaker 5: is is how the officials are reft of the game.

520
00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:51,520
Speaker 5: I don't think we need massive rule changes, just need

521
00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:53,800
Speaker 5: to lighten up on the perimeter in terms of the fouls.

522
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Speaker 5: But like when people say defense isn't being played, I said, no,

523
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Speaker 5: it's just hard, just freally freaking hard.

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Speaker 2: Because the guys are so good at making shots from

525
00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:04,480
Speaker 2: long from far away.

526
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Speaker 4: It's just a three point It's just too many threes, man,

527
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:08,359
Speaker 4: that's what it is.

528
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:09,480
Speaker 1: But I fix it.

529
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Speaker 5: Let's just take get rid of the three point line. Yeah,

530
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Speaker 5: well everything, don let's.

531
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Speaker 2: Go so fun. It would be so fun to see that.

532
00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:19,160
Speaker 2: And it's like they just invented the three point line.

533
00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:21,240
Speaker 2: It's not like it's been around. Oh wait, it's been around,

534
00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:23,200
Speaker 2: my bad.

535
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Speaker 5: Yeah.

536
00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:28,320
Speaker 2: So, if we had to handicap who is most likely

537
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Speaker 2: to pass eighty one in the next season, I feel

538
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,960
Speaker 2: like Luca. Like, even before Luca did it, I thought

539
00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:39,639
Speaker 2: I think we said Luca would probably be very likely.

540
00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:43,320
Speaker 2: I think Booker like people who are can both you know,

541
00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:46,520
Speaker 2: have incredible mid range games and also get really hot

542
00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:49,560
Speaker 2: from downtown. So those would kind of be my two.

543
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:52,080
Speaker 5: You have to be a three level scorer and get

544
00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:54,520
Speaker 5: to the free throw line. Yeah, those are the three things.

545
00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:56,080
Speaker 5: You have to be able to score for three mid

546
00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:59,159
Speaker 5: range and get to the cup and make your free throws.

547
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:00,960
Speaker 5: And I think that's how you end up getting somebody

548
00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:02,560
Speaker 5: that's gonna go over eighty.

549
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:05,919
Speaker 1: Yeah. So who are you picking? Oh who do you got? Like,

550
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,640
Speaker 1: if you got who you Luca Luca for you to.

551
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:11,399
Speaker 5: I mean, Luca lucas the easy answer for everybody, right, Like,

552
00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 5: I think that's the most obvious guy in terms of scoring.

553
00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:17,399
Speaker 5: It won't shock me if it's one of these big guys,

554
00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:20,320
Speaker 5: you know, if it's a if it's an embid or

555
00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:23,360
Speaker 5: even I mean, I don't think he'll be cat, but like,

556
00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:25,920
Speaker 5: the ability to step out and shoot threes is a

557
00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:29,400
Speaker 5: big man in terms of like that the other big

558
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:31,879
Speaker 5: man does not want to rotate to you and whatnot. Like,

559
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:34,880
Speaker 5: I think that opens up a lot of that possibility.

560
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:36,879
Speaker 5: So I think, I mean, yeah, I'm picking the dudes

561
00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:39,120
Speaker 5: that just went for seventy going like, yeah, they can

562
00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:40,760
Speaker 5: get eighty if they made a few more shots.

563
00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:42,760
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know what team Kat's gonna do

564
00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:44,960
Speaker 2: it on because his coach was not happy. Even though

565
00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 2: I'm sixty.

566
00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:48,800
Speaker 5: That's so bad. It was a bad six.

567
00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:51,720
Speaker 1: It's weird to say it was a bad six, sloppy.

568
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:53,760
Speaker 5: Just it was all selfish.

569
00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:58,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, And then I mean, you've got we Binyama if like,

570
00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:02,080
Speaker 2: as his game progresses, like when he's really locked in,

571
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:04,359
Speaker 2: first of all, he's much better in the fourth quarter

572
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 2: when it seems like he's trying if if his body

573
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:11,400
Speaker 2: progresses and his game progresses, Like I could definitely see

574
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 2: him doing some doing some damage on that front at

575
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,880
Speaker 2: some point. And then to your point, like a cat

576
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:23,840
Speaker 2: or a Donovan Mitchell, Like I could see people who,

577
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:26,560
Speaker 2: you know, like a Roger Marris breaking the home run

578
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:29,320
Speaker 2: record and everyone being like no.

579
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:34,320
Speaker 5: Not, like you know, we have to celebrate.

580
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,560
Speaker 2: It, right Yeah, Yeah, Like I could.

581
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:40,400
Speaker 5: See don Mitchell, really Mitchell really end up in that conversation.

582
00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:42,720
Speaker 2: As somebody who people don't I just like the last

583
00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:47,280
Speaker 2: time he didn't he score seventy fairly recently, Yeah, the

584
00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:51,120
Speaker 2: people were just kind of like, Okay, I mean, I

585
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:55,080
Speaker 2: probably because he's small, you know, but it just feels

586
00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 2: like of the people who've done it, like he's not

587
00:26:57,920 --> 00:26:59,160
Speaker 2: one of the more celebrated.

588
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:05,800
Speaker 5: One dark horse guy would be Dame Dad drops that

589
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 5: way already.

590
00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 2: One of the scariest human.

591
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:13,959
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's a dude. When he crosses half court, if

592
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:17,719
Speaker 5: like he might just pull yeah, like if he feels it,

593
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:19,760
Speaker 5: and and that's the thing that's like, Okay, now I

594
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:21,920
Speaker 5: have to cover him the whole length of the court.

595
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:24,960
Speaker 2: I hope they do in the All Star Game this year,

596
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,440
Speaker 2: there was that one year where him and uh Steph

597
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:30,000
Speaker 2: were like pulling from half court and like draining it.

598
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,400
Speaker 2: I hope I want to see a little bit of that.

599
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:33,080
Speaker 2: That's always fun.

600
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:35,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, a little more gun slinging, yeah for sure.

601
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,119
Speaker 5: Yeah, because you know, the the All Star Game is

602
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:39,600
Speaker 5: way too competitive these days.

603
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,359
Speaker 2: All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be

604
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:46,800
Speaker 2: back for the rapid Fire Round a question.

605
00:27:57,359 --> 00:27:58,520
Speaker 5: And we're back.

606
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 1: We're back, and and.

607
00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:05,200
Speaker 2: It's time mo. It is oh mo, mo, you really

608
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:06,680
Speaker 2: stepped in at this time past.

609
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:08,880
Speaker 5: Oh buddy, ready for all challenges.

610
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,680
Speaker 1: Let's go. Okay, okay, let's that's good. You need confidence

611
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 1: because this is.

612
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:17,240
Speaker 2: By his confidence.

613
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:19,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it happens.

614
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:22,680
Speaker 5: I literally dropped a movie reference from like I don't

615
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:25,120
Speaker 5: even know what, like early two thousands. I'm ready to roll.

616
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, grug match actually from twenty thirteen. Oh yeah, pretty recent, pretty.

617
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:34,080
Speaker 2: Recent, but you know, so it's hard to know when

618
00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 2: it's from.

619
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 4: You know, I'm glad you're confident, because pride does come

620
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:40,160
Speaker 4: before the fall, and you are in the hot seat

621
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 4: for the Rapid Fire Round of Questionings as Jack has rebranded.

622
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:46,240
Speaker 2: It, and all our fans are just looking for you

623
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:47,760
Speaker 2: to fall. On your face.

624
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, they can't wait. They pray for your downfall.

625
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 2: MO.

626
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 4: But guess what, you can prove all the doubters wrong,

627
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:56,480
Speaker 4: because like we're about to hit you with a question.

628
00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 4: Do not think, Just demonstrate your mass of the topic,

629
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 4: the subject matter by just reflectively answering.

630
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 1: Do not think. Just give it to us so we

631
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 1: can keep the questions coming just.

632
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 4: So quick that we're setting records, because this is the

633
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 4: fastest question answering segment in podcasting history.

634
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:16,320
Speaker 1: So I hope you're ready, Mo, deck heel. Are we ready? Jack?

635
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 2: Yeah?

636
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 5: Yeah?

637
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:18,840
Speaker 2: Man?

638
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 1: How about this?

639
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 5: Yeah?

640
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:21,760
Speaker 2: Man, let's go start the clock.

641
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:26,600
Speaker 1: This is quick, man, we're going.

642
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 5: Get ready.

643
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 2: Man, this is gonna be so unquick.

644
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 1: Your head's gonna spin. Man. You better put a neck

645
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:38,280
Speaker 1: brace on. Gonna let's go. You're gonna be in an immobilizer.

646
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 4: You'll be wearing a halo after this that they give

647
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 4: you at the doctor's office, because you're gonna be so

648
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,120
Speaker 4: spun around by the speed of these questions that we

649
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:48,640
Speaker 4: think of on the spot maybe or have pre written MO.

650
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 2: Rapid fire round of MO questionings.

651
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 1: Exactly are you who should go first?

652
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 2: Why don't you go first? Miles?

653
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:02,520
Speaker 1: Okay, I like this. With All Star Weekend coming up

654
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 1: in just a few.

655
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 4: Weeks, give me your all time Fantasy dunk contest lineup

656
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 4: four dunkers of your choice. Goal.

657
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 5: Current dunkers are currently in the NBA current Shaden Sharp,

658
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:18,960
Speaker 5: Anthony Edwards. Uh, who else is a good dunker? Good

659
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 5: question here? Uh? Who's creative? Donovan Mitchell had some good

660
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 5: stuff there and Aaron Gordon.

661
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 2: Bank Skunk Contest performance of all time.

662
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 5: Vince Carter won? Yeah, right answer?

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Speaker 6: All right, the Pro Bowl does dodgeball? I think I

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Speaker 6: saw a clip that looked like the Pro Bowl does dodgeball.

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Speaker 6: What school yard game do you want to see added

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Speaker 6: to the NBA All Star Weekend?

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Speaker 5: Knockout?

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Speaker 2: Oh, knockout will be fun?

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Speaker 4: Is that the one we throw it against the ball

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Speaker 4: against the wall? No basketball? The basketball knockout where you

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Speaker 4: knock your ball out.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes knockout is like the shooters are too good, you know,

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Speaker 2: and so but yeah, like when somebody misses.

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Speaker 5: But you're allowed to bump the ball, you're alone.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, let's have some and someone with like NBA athlete

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Speaker 4: strength who just sees it come off the heel and they're.

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Speaker 1: Like, oh, you messed up so bad? And they're just

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Speaker 1: like send it into the like like the Blox seats.

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Speaker 5: I mean, Webby would miss and tip dunk his own

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Speaker 5: three before the next one gets off, like.

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Speaker 4: Right, yeah, because he could literally just sort of like

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Speaker 4: lightly just from the free throw line just kind of

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Speaker 4: be like, oh yeah, I can get off the heel immediately.

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Speaker 1: He's just alley looping to himself pretty much the whole time. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Not fair to be the top of the key though.

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Speaker 2: Right the top of the key. Wow, nobody would ever miss, not.

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Speaker 5: The free throw line, top of the three point line.

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Speaker 5: Three point yeah, yeah, excuse me, Yeah, I should top

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Speaker 5: of the key, and I meant the top.

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Speaker 4: Of the should just be half court, you know what

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Speaker 4: I mean to at least make it something so then

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Speaker 4: even when people make it your oh nod.

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Speaker 5: That'd be a good one too.

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Speaker 2: Logo. Maybe each round it goes from three point and

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Speaker 2: then like a step.

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Speaker 4: Back it up and yeah, yeah, Adam, these are free

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Speaker 4: ideas from your own show. Please integrate them into All

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Speaker 4: Star Weekend. That was a great answer. Now here's the

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Speaker 4: next question. If you can have any player's skill set

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Speaker 4: for a day and one day only, whose skill set

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Speaker 4: is it and what skill I mean, what specific skill

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Speaker 4: do you want.

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Speaker 5: It'd be Kauhi and just the ability to rip the

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Speaker 5: ball out of people's hands. I feel like that's the

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Speaker 5: most demoralizing thing that he does. Puts his hand out

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Speaker 5: there and it's it's it's mine, right, you know, and

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Speaker 5: feel it from like the other guy. You can just

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Speaker 5: feel like it's like that character from Mortal Kombat where

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Speaker 5: he just takes their soul, Like, yeah, that's what that

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Speaker 5: That's what I equate equated all too. Yeah, behind it

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Speaker 5: might have been Shakan. I can't remember the names. I

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Speaker 5: don't want.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it was Shao Kan, who was like

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Speaker 4: the boss towards the end. Yeah you couldn't you, Yeah

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Speaker 4: yeah yah yeah with the skull helmet. Yeah yeah yeah

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Speaker 4: we all know that anyway. So you want to shouc

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Speaker 4: on the ball out of people's I like that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, that's valid.

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Speaker 2: Hitch me a trade. What's the what's the trade of

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Speaker 2: the trade deadline you think makes the most noise, makes

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Speaker 2: the biggest difference in terms of adding wins to the

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Speaker 2: win column for an NBA team.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna try to make Miles happy here and get

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Speaker 5: him to Jonte Murray and Bogdan Bogdanovitch from the Hawks,

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Speaker 5: and you gotta throw in de lo Rury and just

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Speaker 5: part my piss off and Austin Reeves.

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Speaker 1: Honestly like, as.

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Speaker 2: Wow, you think that would make them better?

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Speaker 5: They would add offense to them massively. I just think

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Speaker 5: Bugdanovich coming off the bench would add scoring for them,

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Speaker 5: a scoring punch that they don't have. Murray pretty it

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Speaker 5: won't hurt their defense. I think he's solid defensively, and

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Speaker 5: I think, you know, just another ball handler to kind

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Speaker 5: of give Lebron a little little uh less pressure, I

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Speaker 5: think would help them a lot.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, as a as a as a black and Knees fan,

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Speaker 4: I just I can't let Rui go yet.

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Speaker 1: I cannot buy another Rui Hachi mergers. They already had

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Speaker 1: to buy a wizard's jersey, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what other I can't keep buying them

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Speaker 1: just to hold it down for my man.

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Speaker 5: But it's all conspiracy to get you to spend money.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 5: They know Adam and I spoke. They know.

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Speaker 1: There's just like, I don't know, man, we could this

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Speaker 1: guy buys them all. He'll buy anything. Ah, Okay, how

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Speaker 1: about this you're a so caw so cow guy.

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Speaker 4: You can recommend one southern California restaurant to someone who's visiting.

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Speaker 4: Tell them, see where are you sending them and what

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Speaker 4: are you telling them to order when they go.

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Speaker 5: We got a whole bunch of great restaurants and different

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Speaker 5: types of cuisine. But my favorite place right now is

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Speaker 5: in Echo Park. It's called Donna's. It's a red sauce joint.

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Speaker 5: They have the best chicken palm that you can I'll

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Speaker 5: be asked for. The garlic bread is unbelievable, and then

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Speaker 5: you have, you know, the facili pasta, all that stuff.

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Speaker 5: It's amazing.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Donna the silliest of all. Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: love it. Amazing. I'm ready that down actually right now.

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Speaker 1: I know now where's it? Wait?

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Speaker 5: Where's it out on?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 1: It's on Sunset? Been open?

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Speaker 5: How do I see? It's probably been open up almost

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Speaker 5: a year now, or probably about eight eight months.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that makes sense, that makes sense.

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Speaker 4: I was like, I know him a lot of things

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Speaker 4: on the East Side, But now you got You've piqued

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Speaker 4: my interest and for that we are forever grateful. Mo

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Speaker 4: dak Heel, thank you so much for joining us got

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Speaker 4: mad boostie. Those were all correct answers. They were fantastic answers,

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Speaker 4: except for really going anywhere except to hang out with

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Speaker 4: me at my house?

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Speaker 1: Where can people?

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Speaker 2: So just real quick, are you guys out on reads?

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Speaker 2: Like would you be okay trading?

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Speaker 1: I love no? No, I love I love Austin too.

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Speaker 2: I mean he's like, because here you could care less

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Speaker 2: about the team struggling?

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Speaker 1: You hear that?

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's but see that's where I'm That's where

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Speaker 4: I'm ill in my mind, and I go, Okay, y'all

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Speaker 4: can have d Loo and Jalen Husha Fino and that

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Speaker 4: just make that work for all those players that Moses

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Speaker 4: and Luca.

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Speaker 5: That's that's you're actually over paid.

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Speaker 1: You get a Luker thank you, and Joel they.

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Speaker 5: Have to send you a pick too, Like that's too

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Speaker 5: much to give up?

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Speaker 2: Oh absolute future considerations.

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Speaker 1: Yeah see, you should be working in the front office. Man,

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Speaker 1: These are these are good ideas you got there we go.

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Speaker 1: This is the kind of this kind of moxie we

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Speaker 1: need at the Lakers organization. Where do the people find you?

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Speaker 1: Follow you read you absorb all of your fantastic work.

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Speaker 5: Easiest thing is follow me on Twitter or threads. It's

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Speaker 5: Mode the Kiel Underscore NBA. You can find my articles

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Speaker 5: on the Athletic and Bleacher Report podcast on the Athletic

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Speaker 5: once a week on Wednesdays. Is nerd Or, She wrote

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Speaker 5: with Dave do four and Seth part now and then

801
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:40,240
Speaker 5: I just tweet basketball clips over and over again.

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Speaker 1: Love Seth, Love South.

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Speaker 2: Nerd Or, she wrote, is that your theme song?

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Speaker 5: She no, but that's actually probably like we're not We're

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Speaker 5: three dudes that are not clever enough to come up

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Speaker 5: with a theme song, and that's probably right up there.

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Speaker 5: That's that's probably the best we've come up with, right

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Speaker 5: there and stealing it.

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Speaker 4: I got a basketball about it with nerds Speak anyway, Thanks,

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Speaker 4: thank you so much. Find me at Miles of Gray

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Speaker 4: wherever they got at symbols.

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Speaker 2: I'm at Jack Underscore Obrian on Twitter.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and follow hashtag mad Boosty's b st I e

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Speaker 4: s for show links and updates and holler at us,

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Speaker 4: you know, let us know.

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Speaker 1: Do you have some better ideas to turn up the

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Speaker 1: All Star weekend?

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Speaker 4: We would love to hear them and share them with

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Speaker 4: the other listeners, So make sure you holler at.

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Speaker 1: Us on the social media.

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Speaker 4: That's gonna do it for us this week another banger,

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Speaker 4: and guess what.

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Speaker 1: We're two episodes away from one hundred. Just so y'all know.

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Speaker 1: Next one is the Gretzky episode. It's the warrent SAP

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Speaker 1: because we keep two nine on us. Okay, yeah, you

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Speaker 1: already know. We'll see you next time. Bye bye,