WEBVTT - t's Just One Game, But … 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:09.960 Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the No Dunks 0:00:10.140 --> 0:00:15.130 NBA podcast. It's Wednesday, October 21st, 2026. I'm J.D. Skeets 0:00:15.250 --> 0:00:18.110 here in the Classic Factory and alongside me, as always, 0:00:18.230 --> 0:00:18.790 Tass Mellis. 0:00:18.910 --> 0:00:21.670 Podcast listeners, YouTube viewers, this is for you. 0:00:21.829 --> 0:00:25.510 Next to him is my Top Shot hot boy, Trey Kirby. Heyo! 0:00:25.530 --> 0:00:25.610 Heyo! 0:00:26.070 --> 0:00:29.130 And over yonder, making the magic happen, super producer J.D. Hello. 0:00:29.450 --> 0:00:33.169 There he is, here we are. Everybody on YouTube, like, sub, comment, share. 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:37.139 Podcast listeners, five-star ratings and reviews. And if you hate ads, hey, 0:00:37.460 --> 0:00:40.339 join the club. But unfortunately, we got to make a living, baby. 0:00:40.540 --> 0:00:43.720 But if you want ad-free episodes of No Dunks emailed 0:00:43.740 --> 0:00:47.500 directly to you, join our Substack page. The link is 0:00:47.540 --> 0:00:49.720 in the show notes. $ 5 a month to help out 0:00:49.740 --> 0:00:52.620 your boys. We got a fun one here. Man, basketball's back. 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:53.740 We're back, baby. 0:00:55.140 --> 0:00:58.140 Gotta get used to those late nights. Not used to 0:00:58.180 --> 0:01:00.890 that yet, but that wasn't even really late either. It 0:01:00.910 --> 0:01:04.750 was like an earlier late start, all things considered. Yeah, 0:01:04.770 --> 0:01:05.590 they're going to get later. 0:01:05.870 --> 0:01:08.289 I don't know. I went upstairs as soon as Thunder 0:01:08.310 --> 0:01:11.330 Spurs was open. I was like, 1230. My eye muscles 0:01:11.380 --> 0:01:14.360 are not strong enough yet to keep them open that 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:17.100 late and then be able to open them again early 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:17.820 the next morning. 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:18.640 That's right. 0:01:18.660 --> 0:01:20.100 Get the lactic acid out of them. 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:21.060 That's exactly right. 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:21.660 Take them for a run. 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:24.560 Yeah, it's like nine hours of hoops yesterday, really, or 0:01:24.610 --> 0:01:25.340 something around that. 0:01:26.030 --> 0:01:28.470 Yeah, I did the halftime sleep of OKC. 0:01:28.510 --> 0:01:30.070 You did? OK, you watched the rest this morning. 0:01:30.110 --> 0:01:33.289 Yeah, which is a mistake. Because you go to bed thinking, 0:01:33.390 --> 0:01:34.630 all right, the Spurs are going to get it going 0:01:34.650 --> 0:01:36.060 in the third quarter. So you go to bed thinking, 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:38.140 all right, here we go, third quarter. It's already in 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:40.860 my head. So I wake up thinking, all right, let's go. 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:43.360 Do you check the score then when you wake up 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:45.179 or do you go right into the second half action? 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:46.130 Yeah, I'm a score man. 0:01:46.140 --> 0:01:48.780 Yeah, and then you see how it unfolded. I've done that, 0:01:48.820 --> 0:01:49.240 of course. 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:50.340 Third quarter was good, though. 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:53.200 I made a game of it. We'll break it all down. 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:56.160 We're going to play it's just one game, but and 0:01:56.220 --> 0:01:59.620 completely overreact to those three games that started the season yesterday. 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:03.160 But we had our first wedgie, baby. And my God, 0:02:03.540 --> 0:02:08.560 LeBron James in Madison Square Garden in clutch time. And 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:11.980 a very unique, hilarious wedgie, too, where it went around 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:15.250 the rim and then he popped it back in. The rise, 0:02:15.470 --> 0:02:17.390 or excuse me, I should say the fallen rise of 0:02:17.470 --> 0:02:22.290 wedgie Dinkins now streaming on Peacock. I mean, Reggie went. 0:02:22.330 --> 0:02:22.410 No! 0:02:23.650 --> 0:02:25.829 And then he screwed up the show name. He called 0:02:25.910 --> 0:02:29.710 it Wedgie Jenkins. Yeah. 0:02:29.910 --> 0:02:30.790 Sorry. You know what I mean. 0:02:30.850 --> 0:02:32.590 It's actually Reggie Dinkins. 0:02:32.630 --> 0:02:36.940 Reggie Dinkins. He said Reggie Jenkins. He also said Reggie 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:37.760 or Wedgie. 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:40.260 Why didn't he just say Wedgie Miller? I know. 0:02:40.540 --> 0:02:44.100 Well, because they had been talking to Tracy Morgan there. 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:46.400 Mike Tirico was eating his popcorn. You know, it was 0:02:46.460 --> 0:02:48.709 a long story. Everybody started a little rusty. November 2nd, 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:51.270 I think, is the date. You tune them in for 0:02:51.310 --> 0:02:55.470 season two of Reggie Dinks. No. Come on, man. Season one, 0:02:55.530 --> 0:02:59.570 that epic cliffhanger they had at the end. I got 0:02:59.590 --> 0:03:00.450 to see what happens. 0:03:00.490 --> 0:03:03.090 Where the ball was just going around the rim. Will 0:03:03.310 --> 0:03:04.570 it be a wedgie or not? 0:03:04.870 --> 0:03:06.870 I mean, does he eat popcorn? Does Tracy Morgan eat 0:03:06.910 --> 0:03:08.889 popcorn the way he was eating it last night? Because 0:03:08.910 --> 0:03:09.570 that was fun to watch. 0:03:09.620 --> 0:03:11.190 He threw it up in the air and they cut 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:15.100 to black. Season two coming soon. I couldn't believe it. 0:03:15.220 --> 0:03:16.620 Did he get the popcorn in his mouth? 0:03:16.660 --> 0:03:18.160 Tune in. WedgieTracker.com. 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:19.980 He was stuffing it, man. He was stuffing it in 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:21.459 his mouth. It was hanging off his lip. 0:03:22.030 --> 0:03:25.160 WedgieTracker.com, which we always show you there at the end 0:03:25.190 --> 0:03:27.660 to keep track of all the wedgies. It's a real website. 0:03:27.980 --> 0:03:30.519 It has leveled up this season, man. There are now 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:34.320 shout outs for the first people that actually flagged the 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:38.120 wedgie online. So that's cool. There's a coach's challenge you 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:41.730 can throw on WedgieTracker.com now. You can throw the flag 0:03:41.790 --> 0:03:44.850 if you think they got the wrong player with the wedgie, 0:03:45.550 --> 0:03:48.770 the wrong team, maybe the wrong date. Okay. Love that. 0:03:48.950 --> 0:03:52.040 Keeping it honest over there. And then get this. Wedgie 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.700 Tracker is now an app. You can go and download 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:58.020 this from the app store and have all the wedgies 0:03:58.540 --> 0:04:02.190 right there in your own pocket. Wow. Isn't that amazing? 0:04:02.250 --> 0:04:05.130 I think it's only available on iPhones, but I don't 0:04:05.150 --> 0:04:06.610 know many Android users nowadays. 0:04:06.730 --> 0:04:08.710 Not an ad. That was not an ad. 0:04:08.790 --> 0:04:09.130 I know. 0:04:09.210 --> 0:04:12.330 I will say this about wedgie tracker.com. The pace is 0:04:12.330 --> 0:04:15.240 53 wedgies. Um, no, it's not. 0:04:15.260 --> 0:04:16.300 Are you throwing a flag? 0:04:18.380 --> 0:04:20.320 I mean, cancel the website. If you're going to give 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:24.420 us that pace, one wedgie after three games, there's 1230 0:04:24.420 --> 0:04:28.820 regular season games. It's some pretty easy math. We're on 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:31.120 the pace for over 400 and then you get some 0:04:31.140 --> 0:04:35.700 post-season games. So Ricardo, I love the website. That's incredible. 0:04:35.930 --> 0:04:37.690 Thank you very much for putting it up. Although I 0:04:37.700 --> 0:04:40.130 went and checked, was that our first wedgie on an 0:04:40.310 --> 0:04:45.520 opening night ever? Oh, since we started tracking. It is. Absolutely. 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:48.880 On opening night. Maybe not an opening game for a team. 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:52.840 For a team. Last year, literally, OKC Indiana had a wedgie. 0:04:53.339 --> 0:04:57.780 That was Indiana's first game, although that was OKC's second game. 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:00.540 I went back two years ago. Bilal Koulibaly had one 0:05:00.580 --> 0:05:03.099 for the Washington Wizards. They were playing Boston. That was 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:06.640 Boston's second game, so it wasn't there. Minnesota Memphis in 2016. 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:09.420 You remember that one? No. You remember that one? Vince Carter. 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:09.940 Hold on. 0:05:10.050 --> 0:05:10.640 Vince Carter. 0:05:10.750 --> 0:05:11.810 I've got the app. 0:05:11.850 --> 0:05:12.380 Check it out. 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:16.740 That was both teams' first game on October 26, 2016. 0:05:16.740 --> 0:05:22.349 In 2015, we had one in Utah's first game. They 0:05:22.370 --> 0:05:24.850 were playing Detroit, who played the night before against Atlanta. 0:05:25.290 --> 0:05:29.050 Detroit opened the season against Atlanta in 2015. That's kind 0:05:29.070 --> 0:05:29.429 of weird. 0:05:29.630 --> 0:05:30.270 I remember that. 0:05:30.390 --> 0:05:31.560 Do you remember that? 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:32.380 That one I remember. 0:05:32.500 --> 0:05:36.280 That was a Morris. Was it a Marcus or a Markeith? 0:05:36.380 --> 0:05:39.570 Either way. Yeah, we've had some on opening night for teams, 0:05:39.589 --> 0:05:41.050 but not the opening night of a season. And you 0:05:41.150 --> 0:05:43.970 get it from LeBron James. This is a different league. Wow. 0:05:44.250 --> 0:05:45.810 That's what I'm saying. We've got wedgies on opening night. 0:05:45.870 --> 0:05:46.390 It's a good moment. 0:05:46.430 --> 0:05:49.560 We've got parity happening in the NBA. We've got expansion 0:05:49.620 --> 0:05:52.719 happening to Vegas. We've got expansion happening to Europe someday, maybe. 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:54.220 I thought it was a good thing we got a 0:05:54.260 --> 0:05:58.850 wedgie in the game two of the WNBA finals. During Valkyries, 0:05:58.870 --> 0:06:00.690 a lot of people were excited. And I was responding 0:06:00.710 --> 0:06:02.469 to people like, that's a good sign leading right into 0:06:02.490 --> 0:06:04.710 the NBA season. Here we go. One wedgie. Are we 0:06:04.750 --> 0:06:06.979 on pace for 53? Or are we on pace. 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:07.120 For 400 plus? 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:07.180 53? 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:08.880 How does that make sense? 0:06:08.940 --> 0:06:09.660 I don't know. 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:14.580 I've always been anal about math. I can't wait. 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:17.540 To see that on a graphic later. 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:18.060 Trey will make. 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:20.860 I've always been anal about math. 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:25.010 Ricardo's been really, really busy updating his app. You're in... 0:06:26.630 --> 0:06:31.560 Promoting it. Yeah. And then you're shitting on it. I'm 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:38.940 not shitting on it. That's how you advertise, just like that. 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:43.820 You're in rare form, man. He went to bed at halftime, man. 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:45.540 Wait until he stays up all night to watch these. 0:06:45.660 --> 0:06:48.250 All right, so let's get into it, the actual basketball. 0:06:48.670 --> 0:06:55.650 It's just one game, but let's do it. Okay, so 0:06:55.670 --> 0:06:59.570 three games. Each of us can take a turn overreacting. 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:03.140 That's what we're doing here to just one game. Let's 0:07:03.220 --> 0:07:06.409 start with the Thunder Spurs game, the late game. Trey, 0:07:06.670 --> 0:07:07.610 what's your overreaction? 0:07:07.970 --> 0:07:09.890 It's just one game, but the Thunder are the best 0:07:09.930 --> 0:07:10.570 team in the league. 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:12.580 They're good. 0:07:12.700 --> 0:07:17.610 Perhaps not hyperbole. Thunder were locked in last night. They 0:07:17.650 --> 0:07:19.290 came in, and you could tell the game meant a 0:07:19.350 --> 0:07:21.750 lot to them, and it, for me, started with Shea 0:07:21.770 --> 0:07:26.270 Gildress Alexander. 32, six boards, four assists, three steals, three blocks. 0:07:26.350 --> 0:07:29.950 The dude is a master of the craft of scoring. 0:07:29.990 --> 0:07:34.020 He had that reverse spin move, step through with the floater, 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:38.520 incredible stuff, a couple of and-one jumpers where he... You 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:40.840 just know he's going to the pump fake. You know 0:07:40.900 --> 0:07:42.550 he's going to get you up, but still you can't 0:07:42.580 --> 0:07:45.310 resist it. Gets the foul. But the thing that really 0:07:45.350 --> 0:07:46.930 impressed me, it felt like he was playing with a 0:07:46.990 --> 0:07:51.590 whole new attitude last night. More disdainful for his opponents, 0:07:51.650 --> 0:07:53.330 I thought. A little bit of an edge. Like when 0:07:53.370 --> 0:07:56.590 he's celebrating, he's not just like getting the arms going. 0:07:56.610 --> 0:07:59.140 He's putting a lot of oomph behind it. I thought 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:02.000 there was so much edge on Shea Gildress Alexander, which 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.860 then permeates down on the line for the rest of 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:08.190 the Thunder team. to the point where De'Aaron Fox rodeo 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:11.500 tosses Chet Holmgren and all three of the Williams Bash 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:13.720 brothers step to him and defend him and say, you're 0:08:13.740 --> 0:08:17.580 not messing with our tall, skinny guy, okay? Immediately after that, 0:08:17.620 --> 0:08:21.010 a 22-5 run for OKC, the first big punch of 0:08:21.030 --> 0:08:23.930 the game. The Spurs punched back, but OKC always had 0:08:23.970 --> 0:08:27.210 a response. Jalen Williams gave the interview at the end 0:08:27.230 --> 0:08:28.930 of the first quarter where he talked about how they 0:08:28.950 --> 0:08:30.810 kind of have a new team with the loss of 0:08:30.850 --> 0:08:33.979 Lou Dort, who's been a longtime culture guy for the Thunder, 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:38.550 him departing. Aaron Wiggins departing, young guys stepping into new roles. 0:08:38.970 --> 0:08:40.710 To me, the theme of the night was the Thunder 0:08:40.730 --> 0:08:43.699 coming out and trying to send a message that this 0:08:43.750 --> 0:08:47.060 is the standard of winning championships. This is what you 0:08:47.100 --> 0:08:50.360 need to do in a big-time game against a big-time opponent, 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:51.720 and that's the message they sent. 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:54.280 Yeah. It would have been nice on the other side 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:56.900 if we got the best player performing like that with 0:08:57.090 --> 0:08:59.850 a little bit of rigor that Wemby did not have 0:08:59.950 --> 0:09:01.830 on this night. Will it happen in game two? 0:09:01.850 --> 0:09:02.290 Perhaps. 0:09:02.309 --> 0:09:05.300 Perhaps. A big part of it was, yeah, they were 0:09:05.340 --> 0:09:08.340 just chomping at the bit, licking the chops, that they 0:09:08.380 --> 0:09:10.480 got to play the Spurs again after five months of 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:14.680 just waiting for them. And Shea was spectacular, there's no doubt. 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:17.060 Against great defenders, by the way. 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:17.320 Yeah. 0:09:17.590 --> 0:09:19.380 And they were awesome defenders. 0:09:18.950 --> 0:09:21.950 In Castle, be it Harper, Wemby, obviously shading over. 0:09:21.970 --> 0:09:24.910 They were just good. They were good. But Shea was, 0:09:25.370 --> 0:09:28.530 he was just absolutely elite. It was different to see 0:09:28.570 --> 0:09:31.250 Cason Wallace sub in for Lou Dort as a starter. 0:09:31.910 --> 0:09:35.599 And I thought Kaysen Wallace is that little different piece 0:09:35.780 --> 0:09:38.359 than Lou Dort. It could be A.J. Mitchell. It could 0:09:38.580 --> 0:09:41.199 be A.J. Mitchell, I think. I'll stop there. I won't 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:43.860 say that it's Jared McCain. They need a ball handler. 0:09:44.660 --> 0:09:47.040 And that's why I think they're better off without Lou 0:09:47.059 --> 0:09:50.620 Dort there. Those guys are better offensive weapons. And Shea's 0:09:50.710 --> 0:09:53.829 first three came from a Kaysen Wallace penetration. Find him. 0:09:54.410 --> 0:09:56.369 It's an open three. That was a penetrate. Give it 0:09:56.390 --> 0:09:58.050 to him. And Shea hit his first open three. It 0:09:58.070 --> 0:09:59.970 was a beautiful shot. So I think they're better off. 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:02.500 without Lou Dort. I know he's a great defender, but 0:10:02.540 --> 0:10:05.900 he's limited offensively. So here comes in Kaysen Wallace. Even 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:08.709 though he didn't have a spectacular stat-wise night, he just 0:10:08.730 --> 0:10:11.290 had a really good night, and it trickles down to 0:10:11.330 --> 0:10:12.730 absolutely everybody on OKC. 0:10:13.450 --> 0:10:15.570 I think I picked the wrong Thunder player to win 0:10:15.650 --> 0:10:17.430 six-man of the year because I went with A.J. 0:10:17.470 --> 0:10:18.330 Mitchell, and. 0:10:19.020 --> 0:10:22.580 After one game, if we're overreacting, it's Jared McCain, who 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:25.400 was incredible in this game in terms of hitting the 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:26.199 three ball. 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:30.500 And ESPN picked Caruso, so there could be like six 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:32.300 of them on this team, unfortunately. 0:10:32.340 --> 0:10:34.640 Well, that's the thing. Everybody's stepping up, for sure, and 0:10:34.660 --> 0:10:36.690 getting more of a role now with all these guys 0:10:36.730 --> 0:10:40.530 being moved to help the books. How about Ademara, too, 0:10:40.670 --> 0:10:44.189 in his rookie debut? Looking pretty damn solid. He blocked 0:10:44.250 --> 0:10:47.720 Wemby on the alley-oop attempt. Seven points in You know, 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:49.500 limited time, didn't play a ton of minutes because they 0:10:49.540 --> 0:10:52.209 have two other big guys. And I thought Chet Holmgren 0:10:52.250 --> 0:10:54.130 had a little bit of a backbone last night. 0:10:54.190 --> 0:10:55.150 Oh, absolutely. 0:10:55.170 --> 0:10:57.090 So that was a good sign for OKC. Obviously, they're 0:10:57.110 --> 0:10:58.349 going to think they're going to have to go through 0:10:58.390 --> 0:11:00.910 San Antonio again at some point in the playoffs. But Mara, man, like, 0:11:01.090 --> 0:11:03.230 this guy's going to play. Like, there's no doubt. We 0:11:03.270 --> 0:11:05.960 saw him in preseason, but then you're like, oh, yeah. OK, 0:11:05.980 --> 0:11:08.280 we see this all the time. Everybody gets excited about 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.540 a rookie or a young guy that gets all these 0:11:10.580 --> 0:11:13.180 opportunities in the preseason. You're like, oh, that'll translate. But 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.020 I think he's at least going to get these type 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:18.230 of opportunities, especially if it's San Antonio. Where it's like, 0:11:18.270 --> 0:11:20.309 hey man, try your best on that giant over there. 0:11:20.970 --> 0:11:24.740 And Victor Wemenyama, one for 13. They were calling him 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:29.740 Brickter Wemenyama online last night. Rough game. The one basket 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.480 was the alley-oop, I think, the wide open one from 0:11:32.660 --> 0:11:35.530 Fox at the end of the third. Strange to see 0:11:35.590 --> 0:11:37.370 him really, really struggle like that. 0:11:37.630 --> 0:11:42.179 Yeah. We all expect, I expected him to... Go off 0:11:42.220 --> 0:11:45.730 into the summer and come back extremely strong. And so 0:11:45.770 --> 0:11:48.010 I think this first game is just an absolute write-off. 0:11:48.190 --> 0:11:50.090 He said post-game, I just got to have more fun. 0:11:50.110 --> 0:11:53.370 I just got to be myself. He doesn't talk like that. 0:11:53.390 --> 0:11:55.130 It was more like, I just got to have more fun. 0:11:55.490 --> 0:11:58.860 That's what I have to do. And I think... He 0:11:58.900 --> 0:12:01.020 can't look like that ever again. I think that's all 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:01.170 it was. 0:12:01.179 --> 0:12:02.610 Will that be his worst game of the season? 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:03.110 Yeah. 0:12:03.450 --> 0:12:07.170 I mean, one for 13 is pretty bad. Yeah. But 0:12:07.690 --> 0:12:10.490 he's still dominated on the defensive end, for sure. But 0:12:10.610 --> 0:12:12.770 he was just completely out of sorts and completely out 0:12:12.809 --> 0:12:16.230 of rhythm. And it's going to take a long time 0:12:16.270 --> 0:12:18.200 for the Spurs to figure out exactly how they want 0:12:18.220 --> 0:12:22.620 to play with their three guards out there. But OKC 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.640 was being pretty bold in letting Stephon Castle shoot. They 0:12:25.660 --> 0:12:27.600 were playing off him on the perimeter. They're not like, 0:12:28.850 --> 0:12:31.410 desperate to stay attached to a guy like De'Aaron Fox. 0:12:31.750 --> 0:12:34.110 Harper as well is not a guy who threatens the 0:12:34.150 --> 0:12:36.570 defense from the outside. So there is going to be 0:12:36.610 --> 0:12:40.480 times when it's very cramped inside, I think, surprisingly for 0:12:40.540 --> 0:12:42.720 a team that plays three guards since they're all attackers. 0:12:42.780 --> 0:12:45.860 So it's not surprising to see Wemby get thrown out 0:12:45.900 --> 0:12:48.160 of sorts, especially for a team like the Thunder that 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:50.420 has the size to be able to combat him and 0:12:50.500 --> 0:12:53.429 the defensive infrastructure to actually play around him and make 0:12:53.470 --> 0:12:56.610 things tough. But he was bad. And if he plays better, 0:12:56.690 --> 0:13:00.679 you know, Spurs maybe take this one, but I assume 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:02.900 he'll have better games going forward here. 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:05.560 I think he was just off. And I know it's 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:06.980 easy to say that, but he was just thrown off 0:13:07.020 --> 0:13:09.540 by a team that was ready to get after him. 0:13:09.580 --> 0:13:12.020 So there's no way he can. I mean, he just 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:16.540 seemed entirely off. Chet outplayed Victor Wamenyama from the get-go. 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:19.800 He made Victor Wamenyama shuffle his feet and get called 0:13:19.850 --> 0:13:23.250 for a travel. Chet had his number on this night. 0:13:23.510 --> 0:13:26.880 I will say some bonus about the way the Thunder 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:29.780 were able to play that shell and go inside and 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:33.000 guard Wemby, Stephon Castle hit five threes and was willing 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:36.600 to let him fly. So if that happens, their offense 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:39.970 should be unstoppable. If Stephon Castle, who was the guy 0:13:39.990 --> 0:13:42.890 that everyone wondered, oh, maybe play off him in the playoffs. 0:13:43.150 --> 0:13:44.989 If he's willing to take, he took 12 threes in 0:13:45.030 --> 0:13:47.030 this game. If he's going to hit five, they can 0:13:47.050 --> 0:13:49.470 play whatever lineups. Is it Tobias Harris to get some 0:13:49.490 --> 0:13:51.319 more height at the four or or is it to 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:54.599 go these three guards? But Chet was impressive, and he 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:58.740 outplayed Wemby. He was really, really good. The penetration, the drives, 0:13:58.820 --> 0:14:00.699 and the passes. He dropped one off to Hartenstein in 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:02.880 the middle. He threw it out to the corner really nicely, 0:14:02.970 --> 0:14:04.910 even if it was a miss on a three. He 0:14:04.929 --> 0:14:07.890 was there, man. I mean, everybody was. So it started 0:14:07.910 --> 0:14:11.350 with Shea trickled down, and unfortunately for Wemby, if you're 0:14:11.370 --> 0:14:12.830 going to play like that, you guys are going to lose. 0:14:13.309 --> 0:14:16.830 Statitudes noted today that it was the second-worst shooting performance 0:14:16.890 --> 0:14:19.380 in a season opener in franchise history. by a player 0:14:19.420 --> 0:14:21.760 who attempted at least 10 field goals. Can you name 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:25.350 the Spurs player who had a worse opener than Wemby's 1-13? 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:28.440 It's a Hall of Famer. 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:30.300 David Robinson. No. 0:14:31.860 --> 0:14:32.480 Bless you. 0:14:32.620 --> 0:14:33.940 He's allergic to David Robinson. 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:35.400 I would think it's a perimeter shooter. 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:35.720 It is. 0:14:37.380 --> 0:14:39.100 But it's not a man. It's not a Tony. It's 0:14:39.140 --> 0:14:39.940 a Tony Parker. 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:41.300 Tony Parker went 0-10 from the floor in the 0-2-0-3 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:42.080 season opener. 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:46.479 Doesn't seem right. 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:48.700 Maybe a good sign for the Spurs because they went 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.660 on to win 60 games in the title in 0-2-0-3. So, 0:14:52.140 --> 0:14:54.460 you know, you get that one bad game out of 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:55.880 the way if you're Wemby and the Spurs and then 0:14:55.900 --> 0:14:57.900 you hopefully go on and win a bunch of games 0:14:57.950 --> 0:14:59.550 and maybe the title is here. But that was, it 0:14:59.590 --> 0:15:01.770 was rough. It was ugly and, you know, I don't 0:15:01.790 --> 0:15:03.730 think he settled for threes. How many did he take 0:15:03.770 --> 0:15:05.910 in the end? It wasn't like a crazy number. Four, yeah. 0:15:06.390 --> 0:15:06.590 I mean. 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:09.780 But he's the classic guy. Every one he misses, everyone's like, 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:10.700 what are you doing? 0:15:10.860 --> 0:15:11.380 Get inside. 0:15:11.700 --> 0:15:14.100 You're 7'5. I mean, he can make them and should 0:15:14.140 --> 0:15:17.520 take some, but he just had no rhythm. And credit 0:15:17.570 --> 0:15:19.970 to the Thunder because they have a lot of 7-footers now. 0:15:20.230 --> 0:15:22.830 They already had two, and now they've got another big dude. 0:15:23.130 --> 0:15:30.150 Yeah, Adai Mara can now put on his video, just 0:15:30.190 --> 0:15:33.640 his initial one, but his entire resume here. He blocked 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:34.480 Wemby in his first game. 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:36.660 It's pretty cool. 0:15:37.220 --> 0:15:39.720 He should get a t-shirt that says, I Wemby'd Wemby. 0:15:39.980 --> 0:15:41.980 There you go. Because he blocks him on one end 0:15:42.020 --> 0:15:44.380 and then catches an alley-oop on the other. That's literally 0:15:44.450 --> 0:15:47.390 Wemby's moves. Stole his whole flow bar for bar. 0:15:48.650 --> 0:15:50.870 Great start. He only played 11 minutes, I think. 0:15:50.930 --> 0:15:52.530 Yeah, it was like 11 or 12. 0:15:52.530 --> 0:15:54.650 And there were times where for sure he looked lost 0:15:54.750 --> 0:15:55.150 out there. 0:15:55.210 --> 0:15:55.350 Oh, sure. 0:15:55.390 --> 0:15:58.570 And that guy looks like a 7'3 rookie just looking around. 0:15:58.690 --> 0:16:02.060 But who cares? He had those 12 seconds where he 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:03.480 looked like the best player on earth. Yeah. 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.489 Your start can't get better than that. And an 11-minute 0:16:06.550 --> 0:16:08.790 start to be able to block Wemby, to be part 0:16:08.830 --> 0:16:11.030 of the first subs coming off the bench. So that 0:16:11.070 --> 0:16:15.170 was pretty cool. Yeah, he was great. I assume teams 0:16:15.630 --> 0:16:18.070 will regret not picking this guy because he just looks 0:16:18.130 --> 0:16:21.640 really good. So, you know, his teammate was picked higher. 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:24.540 But I do want to just mention about Shea. I 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:26.560 thought the best thing that he did was in that 0:16:26.620 --> 0:16:29.560 third quarter after I woke up, I watched Shea when 0:16:29.580 --> 0:16:31.560 he was going to the bench because, The Spurs were 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:33.920 on a run and Shea was going to the bench 0:16:34.660 --> 0:16:36.660 and he had something to say to Mark Dagnott, to 0:16:36.700 --> 0:16:39.790 his coach. He let it rip. He just was pretty 0:16:39.850 --> 0:16:43.650 angry about something. Dagnott nodded. Shea went to the bench 0:16:44.010 --> 0:16:46.130 and then he was back on the floor 38 seconds later. 0:16:46.170 --> 0:16:47.770 And I think it was, hey, they're going on a run. 0:16:47.810 --> 0:16:50.210 You need me out there. And it worked. If that's 0:16:50.250 --> 0:16:52.460 what it was, because they really did need him. because 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:53.900 they went on a great run this first day. That 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:54.760 was a nice comeback. 0:16:54.900 --> 0:16:57.870 One more Shea example to piggyback off what you were saying. 0:16:57.890 --> 0:17:00.310 You thought his celebrations had a little more oomph, sort 0:17:00.330 --> 0:17:03.230 of maybe him being vocal with Coach Dagnall. He also 0:17:03.250 --> 0:17:06.050 had a play where he blocked a jumper around the 0:17:06.070 --> 0:17:09.750 free throw line. Mara came down with the rebound. or 0:17:09.770 --> 0:17:11.870 the ball and Shea was like give me the ball 0:17:12.070 --> 0:17:14.870 like he was like you could see him demonstrably like 0:17:15.150 --> 0:17:16.550 give me the ball right away I want to go 0:17:16.570 --> 0:17:18.889 you know Amara's like catching it trying to get his 0:17:18.970 --> 0:17:21.680 bearings and all that um so he really wanted this 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:24.060 this was the game this was game eight for SGA 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:27.020 and that team to try and uh even the series 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:29.140 in air quotes here uh we're tied at four games 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:31.060 apiece I guess if we're using the conference finals. 0:17:31.100 --> 0:17:34.470 Three blocks for him oh I know yeah yeah contributing 0:17:34.609 --> 0:17:39.330 everywhere uh anything else uh just quickly um Carter Bryant, 0:17:39.350 --> 0:17:42.150 a little scary. He only played six minutes. I thought 0:17:42.369 --> 0:17:45.630 he would be growing into his role. Only played six minutes, 0:17:45.670 --> 0:17:49.510 missed all his shots from three. Unfortunately, we'll see if 0:17:49.530 --> 0:17:52.470 there's a trickle-down effect of Wemby playing better next game, 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:58.380 that note. Also, if we're going to random notes, we 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:01.340 ridiculed Reggie Miller at the beginning of the show. I 0:18:01.380 --> 0:18:05.320 will say, when De'Aaron Fox threw Chad Holmgren to the 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:10.520 floor there, Grant Hill was quick to say, Chet goes 0:18:10.580 --> 0:18:13.879 in there. He thought he had the size advantage, but 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:15.130 not that strong. 0:18:15.490 --> 0:18:16.410 So, you know what? 0:18:17.310 --> 0:18:20.650 I was very happy to hear Grant Hill say Chet 0:18:20.670 --> 0:18:21.690 Holmgren is not very strong. 0:18:21.710 --> 0:18:23.230 He added two pounds of muscle. 0:18:23.430 --> 0:18:24.660 Yeah, two pounds of muscle. 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:27.060 He was throwing it around last night. Yeah, Grant called 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:30.480 it out, though, immediately. So I appreciate that of a broadcaster, 0:18:30.540 --> 0:18:32.619 and I do appreciate the introductions that we see from 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:35.460 NBC where you get the player talking to the camera 0:18:35.500 --> 0:18:36.419 saying where he's from. 0:18:36.570 --> 0:18:36.870 Oh, yeah. 0:18:37.090 --> 0:18:43.949 You know, Che Gilgix, Alexander, Kentucky University. Case and Wallace, cramps. 0:18:44.330 --> 0:18:44.830 No, clamps. 0:18:44.869 --> 0:18:47.410 Clamps, yeah. I've been saying cramps. This is my bad. 0:18:48.010 --> 0:18:49.070 I keep on saying cramps. 0:18:49.109 --> 0:18:50.149 I didn't know if you were kidding. 0:18:50.190 --> 0:18:53.590 I know. I know. I've been saying– I just bought a– That's. 0:18:53.410 --> 0:18:56.340 Trey Kirby on Friday mornings in the factory. 0:18:57.240 --> 0:19:00.900 I keep on saying– I say cramps every single morning 0:19:00.940 --> 0:19:04.960 now because I've ordered a monkey never cramps hat from– 0:19:05.410 --> 0:19:09.200 From the legend Kawasaki in Toronto. Anyway, also. 0:19:09.220 --> 0:19:09.960 Did you really order this? 0:19:10.020 --> 0:19:11.800 Yes, I can't wait for it. 0:19:11.820 --> 0:19:14.900 Like 10 years later, though? It's interesting, but I'm excited 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:15.280 to see it. 0:19:15.340 --> 0:19:17.780 He's still doing his thing. Straight from Japan. It's going 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:20.110 to take a long time to get here. Anyway, so 0:19:20.230 --> 0:19:23.990 Cason Wallace says Clamps University. Dylan Harper then goes The 0:19:24.050 --> 0:19:28.600 Crib University. Mm-hmm. The Crib University just drops it out there. 0:19:28.619 --> 0:19:29.580 The Crib University. 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:29.760 Yeah. 0:19:29.900 --> 0:19:30.859 No one can play at the Crib. 0:19:30.980 --> 0:19:32.780 You like those little videos though. 0:19:32.869 --> 0:19:33.240 Of course. 0:19:33.270 --> 0:19:35.120 They show their personality. 0:19:35.930 --> 0:19:38.149 And to end this, to sort of put a button 0:19:38.210 --> 0:19:41.870 on the Fox tackling chat there. I think history was 0:19:41.910 --> 0:19:44.929 made and Eagle brought it up. We've never had three 0:19:44.970 --> 0:19:48.750 Williams all on the court, all being assessed. That was 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:51.580 a technical foul at once that was good i'm like 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:55.439 convinced uh sakakis and the officials did it just to 0:19:55.500 --> 0:19:57.600 say they did that because i was like all three 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:01.359 of them yeah jay especially was like okay yeah i 0:20:01.380 --> 0:20:03.880 didn't think all three of them warranted a technical there 0:20:03.900 --> 0:20:07.430 no But I think they were like, guys, guys, guys, guys, 0:20:07.690 --> 0:20:11.370 there's three Williams. We can do something pretty silly right now. 0:20:11.410 --> 0:20:13.070 It's early enough in the game. It's not going to 0:20:13.109 --> 0:20:14.729 have an impact. Did we just hit them all with 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:15.080 a tag? 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:15.850 Yeah, let's do it. 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:17.600 Let's do it. That's what history was made. 0:20:17.900 --> 0:20:18.320 That was good. 0:20:18.540 --> 0:20:19.800 Any other random notes, TK? 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:23.970 No, they literally felt to me like Mighty Ducks 2, 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:27.480 the Bash Brothers, when it's Fulton Reed and Dean Portman. 0:20:27.500 --> 0:20:33.500 They recruit Kenny Wu to be the third Bash Brother. Shirt, gloves, stick. 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:35.300 It's like, let's all go over there and beat him up. 0:20:35.660 --> 0:20:38.420 I loved it. It was like we're teammates together, you know? 0:20:38.540 --> 0:20:38.740 Yeah. 0:20:40.780 --> 0:20:44.590 Let's go to the first game of the night slate, 0:20:44.869 --> 0:20:48.890 and that was the Sixers and the Knicks. What's your overreaction, Tess? 0:20:49.570 --> 0:20:51.330 It's just one game, but Joel Embiid's going to play 0:20:51.330 --> 0:20:55.210 70 games. It's a stupid comment. We don't know how 0:20:55.230 --> 0:20:57.980 many games he's going to play, but the thing about 0:20:58.100 --> 0:21:02.350 Joel Embiid, his obligation to this team is literally... Being 0:21:02.390 --> 0:21:04.889 on the floor, number one. Number two, running up and 0:21:04.930 --> 0:21:07.889 down the floor and playing defense. And number three, not 0:21:07.930 --> 0:21:11.030 having to do a lot offensively, even if basically half 0:21:11.070 --> 0:21:13.490 your shots are threes. Seven of his 15 shots are threes. 0:21:13.940 --> 0:21:16.260 And you only score 13 points. That's okay when you've 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:19.020 got Jalen Brown and Tyrese Maxey to carry this team. 0:21:19.700 --> 0:21:23.340 I think that's entirely fine. And I don't know Joel 0:21:23.359 --> 0:21:25.980 Embiid's health if this is ever possible that the guy 0:21:26.020 --> 0:21:30.419 can play over two playoff series like he's never done before. 0:21:30.890 --> 0:21:34.490 and get to a conference finals. But the defense is 0:21:34.550 --> 0:21:38.189 all you need from this guy, especially with Ariel Huckporty 0:21:38.260 --> 0:21:41.219 being injured for the rest of the season. They have 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:44.380 a lack of size behind him. There's no doubt about that. 0:21:44.880 --> 0:21:46.460 But in this game, he had three big blocks. They're 0:21:46.480 --> 0:21:48.940 all recovery blocks too. They weren't just, oh, there's a 0:21:48.980 --> 0:21:50.260 guy in front of me and I'm seven feet. He 0:21:50.280 --> 0:21:52.540 had to recover to block Andre Drummond a few times. 0:21:52.880 --> 0:21:54.740 So great sign. That's all he needs to do. He 0:21:54.780 --> 0:21:57.640 needs to be the fourth guy on offense. He does 0:21:57.700 --> 0:22:00.700 not need to be that guy anymore. That's why it 0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:03.480 was fine to see Tyrese Maxey carry it in the 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:05.379 first half, and then Jalen Brown come alive in that 0:22:05.430 --> 0:22:08.190 third quarter. I will say, though, if the Knicks played 0:22:08.210 --> 0:22:10.510 some defense in that third quarter, Jalen Brown wouldn't have 0:22:10.530 --> 0:22:12.710 started to get off at all. I mean, you look 0:22:12.750 --> 0:22:16.409 at all of his baskets in that quarter. One started 0:22:16.510 --> 0:22:21.879 on a fast break from a Philadelphia 76ers, grabbed a miss, 0:22:22.100 --> 0:22:25.580 a Knicks miss, and somehow LeBron goes through his own legs. 0:22:25.600 --> 0:22:27.600 They're taking their time up the floor, and Jalen Brown 0:22:27.619 --> 0:22:29.860 gets it. and beats everybody down the floor because Cat 0:22:29.920 --> 0:22:33.740 had a bad game defensively. Dunk. Then on a baseline inbound, 0:22:33.960 --> 0:22:36.030 Jalen Brown gets the ball at the three-point line. Somehow 0:22:36.190 --> 0:22:37.939 able to get to the rim again. Then he got 0:22:37.990 --> 0:22:39.490 a pass in the corner. It was sort of a 0:22:39.530 --> 0:22:41.609 broken play, but he had all the time. 0:22:41.650 --> 0:22:42.750 Oh, that one was hilarious. 0:22:42.770 --> 0:22:45.570 He could have started his twitch. He could have painted 0:22:45.590 --> 0:22:46.600 his hairline. 0:22:46.630 --> 0:22:48.700 We're going live on Twitch if I get ready for 0:22:48.720 --> 0:22:49.420 this shot. 0:22:49.440 --> 0:22:51.900 He could have flown to Turkey, got his hair sprayed, 0:22:52.260 --> 0:22:53.440 and then hit that three. 0:22:53.480 --> 0:22:54.460 He did bounce it, didn't he? 0:22:54.500 --> 0:22:56.369 He did, and he hit it. He thought about it. 0:22:56.420 --> 0:22:58.109 Then he hit that monster one at the end of 0:22:58.130 --> 0:23:00.930 the quarter because that was... He was feeling good. I mean, 0:23:01.010 --> 0:23:02.050 that was a really great shot. 0:23:02.109 --> 0:23:04.510 Nice play by Nick Nurse there. He brought LeBron back in. 0:23:04.520 --> 0:23:06.879 I think he brought Embiid back in to drop that play. 0:23:07.320 --> 0:23:08.680 It was a tough shot, that Brown hit. 0:23:08.859 --> 0:23:10.920 So the Knicks had bad defense. And it was a 0:23:11.080 --> 0:23:13.060 one-point game with three and a half minutes left when 0:23:13.080 --> 0:23:17.580 Joel Embiid splashed a three, and they left him wide open. 0:23:17.600 --> 0:23:20.260 There was some miscommunication there. So the Knicks could have 0:23:20.300 --> 0:23:23.080 easily won this game with some defense. I think Cat 0:23:24.030 --> 0:23:26.810 wasn't himself, whether it was foul trouble. He only played 0:23:26.850 --> 0:23:29.760 six minutes in that first half. because of the foul trouble, 0:23:29.859 --> 0:23:31.720 and he came alive in the second half. But I 0:23:31.720 --> 0:23:34.639 think Drummond's kind of saved him, and Mike Brown wanted 0:23:34.680 --> 0:23:37.560 to rip him one, the way he was playing defensively, unfortunately, 0:23:37.960 --> 0:23:41.680 in this game. This wasn't a spectacular game from the Sixers, 0:23:42.840 --> 0:23:44.700 especially from Embiid, but that's all you need from that guy. 0:23:45.140 --> 0:23:46.800 You really don't need him to score all that much. 0:23:46.740 --> 0:23:49.719 On this team. I saw Trillbro Dude, who's a diehard 0:23:49.740 --> 0:23:51.659 Sixers fan. We love the You Know Ball podcast. He 0:23:51.740 --> 0:23:54.200 thought it was Embiid's best defensive game since, like, 2023, and, like, 0:23:56.080 --> 0:23:57.600 the way he looks at it, like you're saying Tess, 0:23:57.660 --> 0:24:00.440 that's the only thing that's really important. I mean, they 0:24:00.480 --> 0:24:02.960 go hand in hand, be out there, play. Uh, and 0:24:02.980 --> 0:24:05.399 so you're going with the Jamal Crawford 70 plus games. 0:24:05.480 --> 0:24:07.359 Cause I know Reggie and Jamal got into that and 0:24:07.400 --> 0:24:10.340 then yeah, be a defensive force. So that was really 0:24:10.380 --> 0:24:12.240 good to see from the six. Like the offense going 0:24:12.270 --> 0:24:14.910 to be a little clunky still, you know, you've got 0:24:14.950 --> 0:24:17.129 all the talent in the world. It'll figure itself out. 0:24:17.630 --> 0:24:19.439 It's defensively. Are they going to be able to hold up? 0:24:19.550 --> 0:24:21.869 And Embiid's a huge part of that. And some LeBron 0:24:21.890 --> 0:24:25.590 at center, um, minutes as well. And he did that. Um, 0:24:25.880 --> 0:24:28.520 Because they're just short guys. No Dominic Barlow. Obviously, Huck 0:24:28.540 --> 0:24:30.740 Party gone. I mean, Adem Bonas saw some. But yeah, 0:24:31.040 --> 0:24:33.020 Embiid was good defensively. What did you think of this game? 0:24:34.460 --> 0:24:38.449 Embiid is funny because he goes from looking washed to 0:24:38.490 --> 0:24:42.670 being a dominant player from basically minute to minute. Like 0:24:42.890 --> 0:24:46.050 Andre Drummond was running wild in the first half. He 0:24:46.090 --> 0:24:49.460 was an instant fan favorite for the Knicks. No surprise. 0:24:49.619 --> 0:24:53.350 But suddenly, Embiid is able to run defensively. End to end. 0:24:53.530 --> 0:24:56.610 He's moving side to side. He's defending at the rim. 0:24:56.670 --> 0:24:59.250 I thought he looked the most lost on offense for 0:24:59.270 --> 0:25:01.389 the Sixers, like very uncertain of where his offense was 0:25:01.410 --> 0:25:05.690 coming from. But the rim protection he was offering, actually 0:25:05.710 --> 0:25:08.760 being able to rebound was big. I was impressed with 0:25:08.800 --> 0:25:12.150 the way Embiid. he came in saying nobody is sacrificing, 0:25:12.430 --> 0:25:14.930 but he looked to me like he was sacrificing on offense. 0:25:14.970 --> 0:25:17.840 And by sacrificing on offense, he had more energy to 0:25:17.880 --> 0:25:20.359 expend on the defensive end, which is exactly what you 0:25:20.380 --> 0:25:22.400 want to see when you build a super team, because 0:25:22.460 --> 0:25:24.359 everybody's saying, okay, if we have to do less on offense, 0:25:24.400 --> 0:25:26.360 doesn't that mean we can play a little bit harder 0:25:26.400 --> 0:25:28.480 on defense? And I thought that was the case for everybody. 0:25:28.520 --> 0:25:31.580 Like LeBron was flying around in the fourth quarter, making plays. 0:25:31.619 --> 0:25:35.140 This guy looks like the perfect Swiss Army nice fit 0:25:35.560 --> 0:25:38.200 with the Sixers. It's like he is in Jason Kidd 0:25:38.240 --> 0:25:40.920 second time in Dallas mode. I don't have the athleticism 0:25:41.100 --> 0:25:43.460 every single play, but I've got the brain every play, 0:25:43.660 --> 0:25:46.340 which makes my athleticism really stand out when I know 0:25:46.420 --> 0:25:49.180 when to use it. He threw maybe the best post-entry 0:25:49.220 --> 0:25:51.510 pass of the season to Jalen Brown on a layup 0:25:51.550 --> 0:25:55.050 in the first half. He's back cutting when he needs to. Okay, 0:25:55.090 --> 0:25:57.290 you need me in the post? Sure, I'll do that. 0:25:57.330 --> 0:25:59.170 And then Maxie just running up and down the court. 0:25:59.190 --> 0:26:01.050 I thought this was a perfect start for the Sixers. 0:26:01.070 --> 0:26:03.689 They didn't play A perfect brand of basketball, but there 0:26:03.710 --> 0:26:06.609 was so much variety in their offense. There was so 0:26:06.650 --> 0:26:09.510 much selflessness in the way that they approached the game. 0:26:10.030 --> 0:26:11.369 That's what you want to see when you throw in 0:26:11.410 --> 0:26:13.310 a whole bunch of big names, a whole bunch of 0:26:13.350 --> 0:26:17.369 big egos and high usage rates. Everybody was doing their thing, 0:26:17.830 --> 0:26:19.890 but also letting everybody else do their thing. Yeah. 0:26:20.060 --> 0:26:20.190 Yeah. 0:26:20.430 --> 0:26:23.530 And they got some contributions from, what, Anthony Simons hit 0:26:23.650 --> 0:26:26.869 three threes. KCP hit two as well. 0:26:26.890 --> 0:26:27.690 That was a surprise. 0:26:27.790 --> 0:26:29.690 I mean, yeah, but that's going to play a part 0:26:29.730 --> 0:26:32.899 over 82 games at least, like getting contributions from these guys, 0:26:33.580 --> 0:26:37.620 that second unit especially. But, yeah, that was like, look, Maxie, 0:26:39.200 --> 0:26:41.460 I will debate all year, I'm sure, at times, like 0:26:41.520 --> 0:26:43.460 who is the best player on the Sixers. But I 0:26:43.480 --> 0:26:45.520 think we all agree it should be sort of Maxie. 0:26:46.140 --> 0:26:47.939 He was in game one. Will there be times where 0:26:47.960 --> 0:26:50.879 it's Jalen Brown? Yes, definitely. indeed, I'm sure there'll be games, 0:26:51.040 --> 0:26:53.480 maybe even LeBron still once in a while, but for 0:26:53.500 --> 0:26:56.340 the most part, it's, it's Maxie. Um, and you know, 0:26:56.359 --> 0:26:58.580 he came through in the clutch, obviously hitting some big 0:26:58.619 --> 0:27:01.619 shots and free throws. And that was my pick for 0:27:01.640 --> 0:27:03.220 clutch player of the year. Feel good after one game 0:27:03.510 --> 0:27:05.090 with that. I think they're going to play a lot 0:27:05.119 --> 0:27:06.679 of close games too. I said that it was part 0:27:06.720 --> 0:27:08.689 of my equation of like picking a Sixers player for 0:27:08.730 --> 0:27:10.210 clutch player of the year. I think they'll be in 0:27:10.250 --> 0:27:10.870 a lot of these games. 0:27:11.250 --> 0:27:13.169 I think Jalen Brown and Tyrese Maxie are going to 0:27:13.210 --> 0:27:17.970 take their turn First half, my half. Second half, your half. 0:27:18.609 --> 0:27:20.050 And Jalen Brown has done that in the past. And 0:27:20.070 --> 0:27:22.159 I think that's what they're going to do. And it 0:27:22.240 --> 0:27:25.180 was a perfect balance out of everybody on that roster. 0:27:25.760 --> 0:27:28.240 They had more fast break points than the New York Knicks. 0:27:28.320 --> 0:27:30.359 You start to think of this team. This team with 0:27:30.400 --> 0:27:32.820 LeBron and Embiid are going to out fast break the 0:27:32.869 --> 0:27:36.649 other team? Yeah, because of Maxie and Jalen Brown. And 0:27:36.730 --> 0:27:39.450 LeBron just has to make those beautiful lead passes like 0:27:39.470 --> 0:27:42.520 he does. Embiid just rebounded, man. I mean, he had 0:27:42.540 --> 0:27:43.960 a rebound, and he gave it to LeBron. LeBron put 0:27:43.980 --> 0:27:46.010 it through his legs to Maxie, and then Maxie throws 0:27:46.030 --> 0:27:49.770 it to Jalen Brown. They've got enough athleticism. And, yeah, 0:27:49.810 --> 0:27:53.030 the balance, up and down, 28 assists on 37 buckets. 0:27:53.710 --> 0:27:57.840 That was their squad. Nobody overwhelmingly had a spectacular night 0:27:57.880 --> 0:27:58.160 to me. 0:27:58.200 --> 0:27:59.740 No, it wasn't the prettiest game. 0:27:59.840 --> 0:28:00.820 No, not at all. 0:28:00.859 --> 0:28:02.640 And maybe a part of it was taking forever with 0:28:02.660 --> 0:28:05.220 the celebrations, which we'll get into, but, like, it's a 0:28:05.280 --> 0:28:05.859 weird night. 0:28:06.140 --> 0:28:06.280 Yeah. 0:28:06.480 --> 0:28:08.980 Where it starts so early, the crowd's like pretty exhausted 0:28:09.030 --> 0:28:10.690 by the time the game even comes. And it wasn't 0:28:10.710 --> 0:28:12.050 the greatest shooting from both squads. 0:28:12.090 --> 0:28:12.310 Yeah. 0:28:12.510 --> 0:28:14.869 And the depth as you start to think, okay, do 0:28:14.890 --> 0:28:16.770 they have enough guys? Well, Nick Nurse set up Anthony 0:28:16.810 --> 0:28:19.689 Simons really well. Those three threes that he hit, the 0:28:19.710 --> 0:28:22.330 first one, the mesh didn't move. And you just went 0:28:22.390 --> 0:28:23.890 back to that guy. He even had some heat checks. 0:28:23.990 --> 0:28:25.080 Oh, he had some heat checks, yeah. 0:28:25.400 --> 0:28:27.840 But he had three. And the guy that they signed 0:28:27.859 --> 0:28:31.460 because he's, you know, LeBron's former coach. NBA champion teammate 0:28:31.520 --> 0:28:35.260 in KCP hit a couple. Surprising to see that. The 0:28:35.280 --> 0:28:38.450 worrisome part, you know, it started this way, saying somehow 0:28:38.810 --> 0:28:42.750 Joel Embiid has found the Messiah, found the doctor to 0:28:42.790 --> 0:28:45.540 get him to play 70 games. I mean, that's, who knows? 0:28:46.230 --> 0:28:50.150 But Reggie was going, no chance. 0:28:51.300 --> 0:28:54.460 Also, I mean, yeah, they're talking about it and you're like, 0:28:54.580 --> 0:28:56.440 oh God, this isn't good. You're jinxing the hell out 0:28:56.460 --> 0:29:00.959 of this. And then Embiid went crashing into like the cameraman, 0:29:01.000 --> 0:29:02.840 like onto his back. He came up, he sort of 0:29:02.880 --> 0:29:05.100 held his back and you're like, oh God, no, he 0:29:05.120 --> 0:29:07.710 was okay. But you're like, just don't talk about it 0:29:07.750 --> 0:29:08.630 at all. Don't say this. 0:29:08.870 --> 0:29:11.969 This is like last year where There could be one 0:29:11.990 --> 0:29:13.910 play and you look at him just like that, or 0:29:13.950 --> 0:29:16.590 you see Joel Embiid bent over like he was. He 0:29:16.630 --> 0:29:18.110 had his hands on his knees and he thought, okay, 0:29:18.810 --> 0:29:21.960 this is it. He's going out. It could very well happen. 0:29:22.020 --> 0:29:24.800 And the worrisome part is, yeah, there's no backup help, really. 0:29:25.260 --> 0:29:26.520 Not a lot of it with Bono. 0:29:26.760 --> 0:29:28.300 He didn't look too good, I don't think. 0:29:28.320 --> 0:29:30.460 I guess Taco Fall is on the roster. 0:29:30.480 --> 0:29:31.719 They signed a Taco Fall. 0:29:31.820 --> 0:29:32.960 It wasn't in uniform, but yeah. 0:29:33.380 --> 0:29:37.530 Yeah, and they hoped that the Dallas Mavericks would keep 0:29:37.650 --> 0:29:42.160 Dwight Powell because they signed Musa Sisi, to that restricted 0:29:42.200 --> 0:29:46.360 free agent offer. But Dallas matched because he's good. So 0:29:46.400 --> 0:29:48.870 they're desperate. They'll be looking for guys all around the league. 0:29:49.610 --> 0:29:51.750 Orlando Robinson is available, I guess, but they're going to 0:29:51.770 --> 0:29:54.980 try taco fall and Hopefully Joel Embiid doesn't taco fall 0:29:55.020 --> 0:29:56.800 and get hurt. I mean, he's got to play, man. 0:29:57.100 --> 0:29:57.560 He's got to play. 0:29:57.580 --> 0:30:00.540 Yeah, he doesn't fall that often. That's true. Embiid's never 0:30:00.600 --> 0:30:01.200 on the draft. 0:30:01.740 --> 0:30:04.140 And so, like, despite all of this, though, the Knicks 0:30:04.220 --> 0:30:07.580 did have it, and you said it, to 96-95 on 0:30:07.620 --> 0:30:10.920 a cat bomb. Because cat came alive. There was that 0:30:10.940 --> 0:30:13.330 stretch where he finally got going. I mean, I was 0:30:13.440 --> 0:30:15.510 laughing going, oh man, it's so great to have basketball 0:30:15.550 --> 0:30:18.010 in our lives. I forgot how funny Karl-Anthony Towns is. 0:30:18.410 --> 0:30:20.610 He picks up the dumb foul. He's got the one 0:30:20.630 --> 0:30:22.670 where he's flailing the leg. It's like, here we go. 0:30:23.370 --> 0:30:24.730 But then he got it going. It's like, oh, he's 0:30:24.750 --> 0:30:26.930 going to be the hero here on ring night. But 0:30:26.970 --> 0:30:28.770 Embiid came back and then hit a, I think that 0:30:28.790 --> 0:30:30.910 was a wide open three. He got right on the 0:30:30.950 --> 0:30:33.670 other end, gave him a little breathing room. Though then 0:30:33.710 --> 0:30:35.410 Embiid took a three with like, was that one like 0:30:35.410 --> 0:30:36.690 40 seconds left in the game? 0:30:36.910 --> 0:30:38.290 Where Tariqo called him out. 0:30:38.590 --> 0:30:38.830 Yeah. 0:30:38.930 --> 0:30:40.170 Mike Tirico. 0:30:40.190 --> 0:30:42.260 You're saying like you're giving props for Grant Hill keeping 0:30:42.300 --> 0:30:44.400 it real. When has Tirico ever been. 0:30:44.320 --> 0:30:45.820 Like, what was that? 0:30:45.880 --> 0:30:49.200 He's like, that's rare for that guy. 0:30:49.220 --> 0:30:50.000 Yeah, I was surprised. 0:30:50.020 --> 0:30:51.740 But it was a bit of a weird shot. 0:30:51.760 --> 0:30:52.380 It was a weird shot. 0:30:52.440 --> 0:30:54.969 In terms of the score and time. But anyway, they 0:30:54.990 --> 0:30:56.690 held on and got it done. The Knicks were in 0:30:56.710 --> 0:30:59.010 this was my point. Like as ugly as they played, 0:30:59.450 --> 0:31:01.110 you know, Brunson had a couple of looks that usually 0:31:01.130 --> 0:31:02.710 go down for him and they could have won this. 0:31:02.970 --> 0:31:06.050 Exactly. It was the more things change, the more they 0:31:06.070 --> 0:31:08.450 stay the same. The Knicks like got down big, but 0:31:08.490 --> 0:31:11.110 guess what? They're in it in the fourth quarter. And 0:31:11.150 --> 0:31:13.840 if Brunson is hitting the way he was in June, 0:31:14.100 --> 0:31:16.700 the Knicks can take this one. You know, he was 0:31:16.860 --> 0:31:19.720 trying to advocate for a foul call on that last 0:31:19.760 --> 0:31:22.880 three pointer. Maybe Jalen Brown touched him on the hip 0:31:22.940 --> 0:31:25.950 or something like that, but not enough for a foul call, 0:31:25.990 --> 0:31:28.090 but yeah, the game was there to win. You know, 0:31:28.130 --> 0:31:30.910 cat's feeling good when he starts having funny celebrations. He 0:31:30.930 --> 0:31:34.200 did like the Google KCP when they were jogging back 0:31:34.240 --> 0:31:37.520 down the court. Uh, I like that, but that's just the, 0:31:37.680 --> 0:31:41.219 the town's experience, you know, he had foul trouble. He 0:31:41.260 --> 0:31:43.660 wasn't doing anything. And then suddenly he hits two from 0:31:43.660 --> 0:31:46.210 28 feet from straight on and you're like, okay, yeah. 0:31:46.770 --> 0:31:47.810 Gets an offensive rebound. 0:31:47.830 --> 0:31:48.070 Yeah. 0:31:48.090 --> 0:31:50.090 I love what you're doing here. Just not quite enough 0:31:50.110 --> 0:31:50.770 to get over the edge. 0:31:51.620 --> 0:31:54.300 Random notes from this one. We'll get to the Knicks 0:31:54.340 --> 0:31:56.890 stuff and the celebration stuff, but we got to start 0:31:56.910 --> 0:32:02.240 with LeBron talking trash with some guy at MSG in 0:32:02.280 --> 0:32:04.790 the second or third row there. while there was that 0:32:04.830 --> 0:32:07.710 free throw attempt going, I mean, it was like, he was, 0:32:07.730 --> 0:32:10.330 he was animated and he was like, you know, spike 0:32:10.370 --> 0:32:13.630 seemed to be, uh, uh, mediating a little bit or something. 0:32:13.800 --> 0:32:15.720 That was a pretty funny moment. And then everybody's doing 0:32:15.740 --> 0:32:17.719 the lip reading of what he's saying. I'm not from 0:32:17.740 --> 0:32:21.920 the West coast. I'm Ohio, baby. I'm paraphrasing here. Midwest 0:32:23.580 --> 0:32:24.680 gets cold there. Yeah. 0:32:24.700 --> 0:32:26.270 That's what he's saying. Yeah. 0:32:26.370 --> 0:32:27.010 He was fired up. 0:32:27.510 --> 0:32:30.010 Yeah. Those first few rows, they got their money's worth. 0:32:30.390 --> 0:32:34.020 They just, I was watching them all listen. They're all smiling. 0:32:34.180 --> 0:32:36.620 Oh, yeah. What is this guy saying? 0:32:36.700 --> 0:32:39.120 Yeah. It's funny when it cuts and it's like there's 0:32:39.140 --> 0:32:41.820 like eight kids sitting in the front rows all like, 0:32:41.840 --> 0:32:44.420 I don't think he was yelling at the kids. But, 0:32:44.500 --> 0:32:45.800 you know, I'm sure they were needling him. 0:32:45.840 --> 0:32:48.060 I did say last night. And I get why they 0:32:48.080 --> 0:32:49.270 don't want to do this. You don't want to give 0:32:49.310 --> 0:32:51.830 a heckler too much attention. Then there's going to get 0:32:51.870 --> 0:32:54.270 a bunch of copycats and all that. But I was like, man, 0:32:54.330 --> 0:32:56.390 the late great Craig Sager would have had like a 0:32:56.590 --> 0:33:02.540 full-blown halftime report on said fans. And who it was, 0:33:02.580 --> 0:33:04.800 where he worked, everything about him. He would have come 0:33:04.840 --> 0:33:06.440 back at halftime because it happened right before that. I 0:33:06.460 --> 0:33:09.219 was like, man, I miss those days. It would have 0:33:09.240 --> 0:33:11.220 just been Craig Sager. And it would have been funny, 0:33:11.260 --> 0:33:13.020 but it was semi-serious. 0:33:13.460 --> 0:33:15.840 Totally. Yeah, we'll be doing that at the G League 0:33:15.860 --> 0:33:18.600 game when we do our games. We'll be interviewing somebody 0:33:18.620 --> 0:33:23.510 as a fan, I think. Okay. We did it last time. Yeah, 0:33:23.550 --> 0:33:25.530 it's happened. Yeah, we just jump into it. 0:33:25.530 --> 0:33:27.830 Not a lot of trash talking going on. 0:33:27.930 --> 0:33:28.790 No, it's not yet. 0:33:28.870 --> 0:33:31.090 If it happens, we'll be on it. We'll be able 0:33:31.110 --> 0:33:31.750 to track them down. 0:33:31.790 --> 0:33:33.550 Yeah, that's not what I was alluding to. You're right, 0:33:33.570 --> 0:33:36.219 because there's not a lot. There's not. Not at our 0:33:36.260 --> 0:33:38.700 Skyhawks games, anyway. No. But we'll get some interviews in. 0:33:39.440 --> 0:33:42.280 And LeBron, he also got into it with Landry Schammett 0:33:42.300 --> 0:33:45.630 there that one time, coming back up the floor. They 0:33:45.650 --> 0:33:46.990 were like bodying each other. 0:33:47.010 --> 0:33:47.930 Yeah, true, true. 0:33:47.990 --> 0:33:49.650 After he is, I think he had, I think LeBron 0:33:49.670 --> 0:33:52.450 had scored on him inside, sort of threw his muscle 0:33:52.470 --> 0:33:55.270 around a little bit, let Shamit know, and Shamit took offense. 0:33:55.610 --> 0:33:59.729 Yeah, he shoved Shamit. Yeah. Could have called foul on that. 0:34:00.130 --> 0:34:03.440 Shamit could have fell and got the call, but anyway. 0:34:03.560 --> 0:34:04.300 He could have embellished. 0:34:04.560 --> 0:34:05.280 He could have embellished. 0:34:05.360 --> 0:34:07.520 I thought LeBron was great. I think it's weird. It 0:34:07.540 --> 0:34:10.020 does look weird, like bald head LeBron in a blue 0:34:10.060 --> 0:34:12.180 Sixers jersey. I was like, huh, this will take a little. 0:34:12.000 --> 0:34:13.759 Bit for me to get used to. I'm with you. 0:34:13.780 --> 0:34:16.350 But on the court, I was like, He's doing exactly 0:34:16.390 --> 0:34:18.130 what you would want him to do. He's got the 0:34:18.190 --> 0:34:22.080 biggest brain out there, and it was just filling in 0:34:22.239 --> 0:34:25.220 any possible hole the Sixers had at any possible time. 0:34:25.280 --> 0:34:28.779 You're not wrong. So the Knicks raised their NBA championship 0:34:28.800 --> 0:34:33.450 banner and the NBA Cup banner's up. So they put 0:34:33.489 --> 0:34:33.750 it up. 0:34:34.650 --> 0:34:35.290 On the same day. 0:34:37.170 --> 0:34:39.150 We didn't see this go up, but it was there 0:34:39.230 --> 0:34:43.359 hanging beside an Atlantic Division champion banner. From 2012-13. 0:34:43.580 --> 0:34:46.989 I thought it was kind of like a comedy bit, 0:34:47.050 --> 0:34:49.350 the way Breen introduces it, because it's just in the 0:34:49.390 --> 0:34:51.250 middle of the speech, and he's like, went on to 0:34:51.290 --> 0:34:54.790 win the NBA Cup. Raises his hand, and then it 0:34:54.950 --> 0:34:57.410 instantly jump cuts, and it felt like you could hear 0:34:57.469 --> 0:35:02.350 the audience going, laughter trickling through the crowd. 0:35:02.370 --> 0:35:06.140 But yeah, they're both up there. I'm always shocked how 0:35:06.280 --> 0:35:09.080 small the banners look, too. Like the main one, when 0:35:09.100 --> 0:35:11.420 it's on the floor when it was going up, and 0:35:11.480 --> 0:35:15.020 everybody's doing their pose. And then I'm like, is there 0:35:15.060 --> 0:35:19.240 like a mandatory size or do they differ in all arenas? 0:35:20.100 --> 0:35:23.400 Like are some bigger than others? Or does the league 0:35:23.420 --> 0:35:24.780 say it has to be this size? 0:35:25.320 --> 0:35:29.739 That's a good question. But it's interesting because the Knicks 0:35:29.780 --> 0:35:31.930 have to match their banner to their old banner that 0:35:31.950 --> 0:35:34.930 they put up 50 years ago. So they're kind of 0:35:35.010 --> 0:35:41.690 like straightforward, right? It just says 2025. 26 NBA champions. 0:35:41.710 --> 0:35:44.509 That's it. No names, no extra design. Throw a Knicks 0:35:44.550 --> 0:35:48.230 logo on there. We got two fonts. It's just very straightforward. 0:35:48.310 --> 0:35:50.549 I think they're smaller, too, in Madison Square Garden because 0:35:50.590 --> 0:35:53.410 that ceiling is so low if you're ever up there 0:35:53.450 --> 0:35:59.500 compared to some vast, really cavernous arenas. We'll get Pablo 0:35:59.600 --> 0:36:02.160 on that to the bottom of these banners here. 0:36:02.380 --> 0:36:04.840 It did look sweet when the banner was rising up 0:36:04.940 --> 0:36:06.480 to the MSG ceiling. 0:36:07.440 --> 0:36:10.480 That cool ceiling oh it's incredible yeah it looked awesome 0:36:10.500 --> 0:36:12.319 uh what do you think of the t-shirts they handed 0:36:12.440 --> 0:36:14.779 out that had everybody a little perplexed at first when 0:36:14.820 --> 0:36:17.890 this started making the rounds on social media nick's logo 0:36:17.930 --> 0:36:23.870 and then it says 2026 uh 27 champions night on 0:36:23.910 --> 0:36:26.320 the t-shirt i was like hold on you guys calling 0:36:26.360 --> 0:36:28.859 your shot here i mean you're winning you're going back 0:36:28.880 --> 0:36:30.700 to back for the first time in nearly a decade 0:36:32.000 --> 0:36:34.760 But then it's the champion's night. That's their save. 0:36:34.840 --> 0:36:37.819 You are here to have a fantastic night. You know? 0:36:38.590 --> 0:36:42.290 Something bother me. Does it bother anybody? Do you want 0:36:42.310 --> 0:36:43.030 it to say champs? 0:36:43.590 --> 0:36:46.090 It's just weird because at first it's like, did you 0:36:46.110 --> 0:36:48.850 get the... You feel like you got the year wrong. 0:36:48.930 --> 0:36:52.160 Of course, this is this year. It's fine. 0:36:52.180 --> 0:36:53.040 It does make sense. 0:36:53.100 --> 0:36:55.969 It's like technically right, but it feels like something's wrong 0:36:55.989 --> 0:36:56.200 with it. 0:36:56.830 --> 0:36:57.810 Exactly, exactly. 0:36:57.969 --> 0:36:58.550 What's happening? 0:36:58.870 --> 0:37:01.710 We got a few looks at the Knicks championship rings 0:37:02.510 --> 0:37:04.290 on the broadcast. We only got one photo here, and 0:37:04.630 --> 0:37:06.570 not a photo that shows you all the fancy things 0:37:06.650 --> 0:37:09.049 it can do, but what was your takeaway if you 0:37:09.090 --> 0:37:12.350 watched any of the videos, Tass, on the Knicks championship rings? 0:37:12.719 --> 0:37:16.060 Yes, I was watching the in-arena feed, and to see 0:37:16.120 --> 0:37:19.890 the tools... that these people used to make this ring 0:37:19.950 --> 0:37:22.319 happen was pretty neat. Was it? 0:37:22.340 --> 0:37:22.940 The tools. 0:37:23.080 --> 0:37:26.819 Yeah, the tools. They go through the manufacturing. Yeah, so 0:37:27.120 --> 0:37:31.140 the in arena, you see the melding, the things that happen. 0:37:31.160 --> 0:37:31.960 I mean, it is. 0:37:32.280 --> 0:37:34.379 Hey, you got to geek out a little bit with 0:37:34.520 --> 0:37:35.700 Jason of Beverly Hills. 0:37:35.739 --> 0:37:36.120 That's right. 0:37:36.239 --> 0:37:39.259 That's right. You can't help but know his name. 0:37:39.380 --> 0:37:42.140 Victor does everything else. Jason does the rings. 0:37:42.390 --> 0:37:44.740 So it did look cool. The fact that you open 0:37:44.780 --> 0:37:48.500 it and the Madison Madison Square Garden rises from the 0:37:48.700 --> 0:37:49.239 actual ring. 0:37:49.280 --> 0:37:50.380 That's it's pretty cool. 0:37:50.400 --> 0:37:51.140 That's pretty cool. 0:37:51.180 --> 0:37:53.609 Because like Nora's watching this with me. She's going, look, 0:37:53.640 --> 0:37:54.950 these rings. She's like. 0:37:55.390 --> 0:37:56.090 They're so ugly. 0:37:56.130 --> 0:37:58.469 Like who's going to wear that? They're so big. I'm like, yeah, 0:37:58.570 --> 0:38:00.350 I get it. They're almost like a, they're almost like 0:38:00.370 --> 0:38:02.590 a trophy for the players, right? They're so large. I 0:38:02.710 --> 0:38:04.069 guess you technically can wear them. 0:38:04.350 --> 0:38:08.650 Tariko goes, good luck wearing those. Come on, Mike. 0:38:08.710 --> 0:38:11.730 But then when it popped up, when they showed that 0:38:11.750 --> 0:38:13.740 it turns into Madison Square Garden with the colors, Nora 0:38:13.780 --> 0:38:16.080 was like, okay, that's pretty fricking cool. 0:38:16.120 --> 0:38:16.759 You could live there. 0:38:16.920 --> 0:38:17.280 Yeah. 0:38:17.480 --> 0:38:19.960 Yeah. Jason of Beverly Hills said, this is one of 0:38:20.020 --> 0:38:23.779 a kind, which I don't know if anyone has ever 0:38:24.600 --> 0:38:27.940 sort of And the entire arena pops out. You're seeing 0:38:27.960 --> 0:38:29.980 it from the exterior. I don't know if that's ever 0:38:30.020 --> 0:38:32.020 been done. I don't think so. But it does look badass. 0:38:32.320 --> 0:38:33.180 I got to admit that. 0:38:33.320 --> 0:38:36.250 You can buy these, apparently. They're selling 200 of them 0:38:36.290 --> 0:38:44.489 to Knicks fans that want to buy them for, I think, $ 20, 000. 0:38:40.489 --> 0:38:42.730 Okay, I'll pass. Each. 0:38:43.530 --> 0:38:45.770 Yes, each. You can't get a bulk order. 0:38:46.510 --> 0:38:48.839 I mean, it looks like it costs a lot. 0:38:49.110 --> 0:38:49.640 Yeah. 0:38:49.719 --> 0:38:52.359 The amount of manufacturing that happens, yes. 0:38:52.600 --> 0:38:54.920 One of the details, too, it doesn't say 10 weeks 0:38:55.620 --> 0:38:57.459 on it underneath, like in the band part. 0:38:57.719 --> 0:38:58.100 Oh, really? 0:38:58.280 --> 0:38:59.040 Remember the 10 weeks? 0:38:59.420 --> 0:39:00.439 That's hilarious. 0:39:00.520 --> 0:39:02.020 I wish there was like a little photo of two 0:39:02.040 --> 0:39:04.109 people having sex and it's like crossed out because that 0:39:04.150 --> 0:39:05.050 was what they were saying. 0:39:05.370 --> 0:39:06.730 Yeah. No sex allowed. 0:39:06.750 --> 0:39:07.770 No sex for 10 weeks. 0:39:08.130 --> 0:39:11.430 This is what wet dreams are made of. That's what 0:39:11.450 --> 0:39:11.989 it should say. 0:39:12.070 --> 0:39:18.839 And then finally, finally, what'd you think, Trey, of those 0:39:18.860 --> 0:39:23.620 Knicks gold uniforms that they had? I mean, this is 0:39:23.680 --> 0:39:25.870 a first. This is a nice touch. Yeah, so you 0:39:25.890 --> 0:39:26.110 like this. 0:39:26.130 --> 0:39:28.509 I really liked it. I thought that was pretty slick. 0:39:28.590 --> 0:39:31.540 Like, everything was gold. Like, obviously the front, the New 0:39:31.560 --> 0:39:33.799 York part, the numbers, the name on the back, the 0:39:33.880 --> 0:39:35.960 number on the back, and then you had the patch 0:39:36.020 --> 0:39:36.339 as well. 0:39:36.640 --> 0:39:37.779 Did the Celtics not do this? 0:39:39.620 --> 0:39:42.319 That sounds familiar. They've had gold jerseys, but I don't 0:39:42.340 --> 0:39:43.460 know if they did it for a championship. 0:39:43.480 --> 0:39:46.460 Yeah, I don't know if they did it for the championship. 0:39:46.480 --> 0:39:50.529 But it's cool. I like it. And, you know... Like 0:39:50.570 --> 0:39:53.930 a lot of people, I'm sure, I was thinking, how 0:39:53.989 --> 0:39:57.029 come Andre Drummond gets one of these? Everybody else in 0:39:57.050 --> 0:39:59.450 the Knicks was there. They should have had Andre Drummond 0:39:59.550 --> 0:40:03.340 playing in just like his normal orange version of it. 0:40:03.840 --> 0:40:06.160 But then he played so well, and Knicks fans were 0:40:06.200 --> 0:40:08.560 going crazy for him. He was doing his Andre Drummond stuff. 0:40:09.100 --> 0:40:10.040 He earned the gold to me. 0:40:10.040 --> 0:40:11.900 He had a double-double in 11 minutes. 0:40:11.920 --> 0:40:13.089 Then he sort of disappeared. 0:40:13.180 --> 0:40:13.450 True. 0:40:13.469 --> 0:40:14.630 That's the Drummond experience. 0:40:14.650 --> 0:40:17.290 Yeah, you got enough from him. I just was feeling like... 0:40:18.190 --> 0:40:21.029 He did feel like a champion to me last night, 0:40:21.050 --> 0:40:21.770 by the end of the night. 0:40:21.790 --> 0:40:22.709 Yeah, he played like a champion. 0:40:22.730 --> 0:40:23.029 He did. 0:40:23.570 --> 0:40:25.530 I will say, the guy that he saved in this game, Cat, 0:40:26.530 --> 0:40:30.290 he cried a lot in the opening intros. Oh, did he? 0:40:30.310 --> 0:40:30.890 I didn't really notice. 0:40:31.090 --> 0:40:33.000 This was, again, the in-arena feed. 0:40:33.020 --> 0:40:34.140 Oh, you're watching something else. 0:40:34.180 --> 0:40:38.700 Yeah, you know, I use my NBA.com, and somehow I'm watching. 0:40:39.320 --> 0:40:44.020 Cat was literally wiping his tears, but double-hand. There was 0:40:44.040 --> 0:40:46.279 a lot of tears going on there for Cat. It was... 0:40:47.020 --> 0:40:49.959 It was touching. But I do want to confirm, Trey, 0:40:50.000 --> 0:40:53.210 that there will be the Ben Stiller documentary happening. 0:40:53.370 --> 0:40:55.430 Oh, yes. I think I got got. 0:40:55.510 --> 0:40:56.810 You got got yesterday. 0:40:56.969 --> 0:40:57.310 Yeah. 0:40:57.390 --> 0:40:59.489 By a fake account or like a scam account. 0:40:59.510 --> 0:41:03.450 Because Mike Tirico said Ben Stiller's got great footage. He 0:41:03.489 --> 0:41:06.230 got some great footage tonight during the broadcast. 0:41:06.270 --> 0:41:06.530 Okay. 0:41:06.550 --> 0:41:08.239 You got to start putting this thing together, Ben. 0:41:08.430 --> 0:41:12.150 Cut it. He said he got, what was it? has 0:41:12.170 --> 0:41:14.250 a great shot of Tracy Morgan crying tonight when the 0:41:14.290 --> 0:41:18.649 banner went up. Tariqo is giving you the director's cut 0:41:18.690 --> 0:41:21.090 of what could be in the documentary. 0:41:21.200 --> 0:41:22.520 In this eventual documentary. 0:41:22.540 --> 0:41:23.260 Yeah, that was hilarious. 0:41:23.300 --> 0:41:26.860 He's a good friend of Mike Tariqo and Tracy Morgan 0:41:26.880 --> 0:41:29.080 seem to be like good friends now from sitting at 0:41:29.100 --> 0:41:30.560 so many Knicks games together. That's true. 0:41:30.780 --> 0:41:33.880 He's right there. He's right next to them. They did 0:41:33.900 --> 0:41:37.029 something different too. No Adam Silver handing out the rings. True. 0:41:37.150 --> 0:41:40.890 It was Walt Frazier, which is cool. But Silver really wasn't... 0:41:41.030 --> 0:41:43.150 Silver was there, but he wasn't really involved in it. 0:41:43.850 --> 0:41:47.920 And then even James Dolan, too, wasn't all that involved 0:41:47.940 --> 0:41:50.480 as the owner of the Knicks. And it was giving 0:41:50.520 --> 0:41:54.160 me a little anxiety of how they did the championship 0:41:54.219 --> 0:41:58.970 rings for the coaching staff. Like, awesome touch having former 0:41:59.030 --> 0:42:02.509 Knicks legends or their loved ones and relatives hand them. 0:42:03.050 --> 0:42:06.050 But they were like... They weren't in order. 0:42:06.070 --> 0:42:07.080 No, not at all. 0:42:07.640 --> 0:42:11.540 The chairs, the musical chairs was like just strange. 0:42:11.920 --> 0:42:15.180 When you hear your name, meet your counterpart in the middle, 0:42:15.260 --> 0:42:17.340 hand in the ring. One guy had two rings in 0:42:17.360 --> 0:42:20.009 his hand. I don't know why. I was like, no, I. 0:42:20.010 --> 0:42:22.430 Didn't like that part. Can we just put them next 0:42:22.450 --> 0:42:24.509 to them? That would have been a lot easier. But anyway, 0:42:24.810 --> 0:42:27.210 there's a little switch up there. Anything else from Nick 0:42:27.270 --> 0:42:28.260 Sixer's opening night? 0:42:28.570 --> 0:42:31.840 You could hear the crowd cheering. singing who let the 0:42:31.880 --> 0:42:33.640 dogs out when they introduced mike. 0:42:33.489 --> 0:42:36.759 Brown yeah they love mike brown they love og of 0:42:36.840 --> 0:42:39.810 course they love jalen brunson their captain who said a 0:42:39.850 --> 0:42:41.930 few words i mean they love them all don't get 0:42:41.950 --> 0:42:43.930 me wrong but those guys get the biggest pops to 0:42:43.950 --> 0:42:46.950 me og and mike brown especially yeah anything. 0:42:46.770 --> 0:42:50.950 Else yeah hopefully mike brown and the carl anthony towns 0:42:50.989 --> 0:42:53.790 relationship is good he was just mad at the defense 0:42:53.830 --> 0:42:56.029 being played i think they'll write it in game number 0:42:56.070 --> 0:42:59.260 two but I just wondered, as Cat was talking trash, 0:42:59.410 --> 0:43:02.630 does he picture James Dolan as he talks trash to 0:43:02.650 --> 0:43:05.069 the guy who's guarding him, just because James Dolan hasn't 0:43:05.110 --> 0:43:09.169 given him the contract? That was, yeah, it just wasn't 0:43:09.190 --> 0:43:09.489 a good Cat game. 0:43:09.510 --> 0:43:11.870 Cat took himself out of this game, as he's been 0:43:11.890 --> 0:43:12.350 known to do. 0:43:12.890 --> 0:43:15.660 Yeah, Andre Drummond literally saved him in that first half. Again, 0:43:15.700 --> 0:43:18.600 Cat played only six minutes. I will say just the 0:43:18.640 --> 0:43:23.580 Vijay Edgecombe experience as well, bad offensive night for him. 0:43:25.180 --> 0:43:27.040 But he's sort of one of these guys, like you 0:43:27.060 --> 0:43:29.479 can tell, like he's tasked with trying to slow the 0:43:29.700 --> 0:43:30.660 offense player on the other team. 0:43:30.680 --> 0:43:30.899 Right. 0:43:31.040 --> 0:43:31.540 That's his job. 0:43:31.560 --> 0:43:32.859 Got some chances there on Brunson, yeah. 0:43:32.890 --> 0:43:36.589 Yeah. So they clicked on that side, but they didn't 0:43:37.030 --> 0:43:39.870 truly click. Not just Edgecombe, but everybody on that roster. 0:43:39.969 --> 0:43:42.270 But they have so much talent, they're going to be fine. 0:43:42.730 --> 0:43:45.730 I wonder if Vijay Edgecombe ever thinks, huh, LeBron just 0:43:45.750 --> 0:43:48.320 said a few games, man. I can score. Don't worry, 0:43:48.360 --> 0:43:48.620 he will. 0:43:48.940 --> 0:43:50.839 He probably does think that. 0:43:51.660 --> 0:43:53.960 He will, don't worry. He knows how to pace himself 0:43:54.000 --> 0:43:57.509 for a long season. All right, let's get to the 0:43:57.690 --> 0:44:00.170 first game, but our final game here on No Dunks. 0:44:00.810 --> 0:44:04.950 I'll go first here. It's just one game, but Javante 0:44:04.989 --> 0:44:08.399 Green has peaked. For this season. So I had three 0:44:08.500 --> 0:44:11.520 options here. They were all Javante Green related. Javante Green 0:44:11.580 --> 0:44:13.820 just played the best game of his life was one option. 0:44:14.260 --> 0:44:16.620 That was a Javante Green podium game. And then I 0:44:16.660 --> 0:44:18.940 went with Javante Green peaked just because we're supposed to 0:44:18.980 --> 0:44:21.920 be almost a little more crazy with our overreactions. But man, 0:44:21.940 --> 0:44:25.620 what a game for this guy. 19 points in 18 0:44:25.620 --> 0:44:28.030 second half minutes. He didn't even play in the first half. 0:44:28.510 --> 0:44:30.870 He came in, he completely changed around the game by 0:44:30.910 --> 0:44:33.770 knocking down threes. Five of eight from deep. It's his 0:44:33.830 --> 0:44:36.950 best three point shooting game of his career. He's had 0:44:36.969 --> 0:44:40.050 a couple good games, like, where he scored 24, 25 points. 0:44:40.890 --> 0:44:43.630 They were, like, end of April games with the Chicago Bulls. 0:44:43.650 --> 0:44:45.330 You know, they were fighting for a playing spot, so 0:44:45.350 --> 0:44:48.560 they weren't, like, meaningless games. But, you know, late April 0:44:49.060 --> 0:44:51.320 with the Bulls. This was, like, you know, big, big game. 0:44:51.340 --> 0:44:53.820 A lot of eyeballs on this matinee game. And he 0:44:53.840 --> 0:44:57.839 was awesome. Him and Duncan Robinson just, like, single-handedly. Not single-handedly. Like, 0:44:57.860 --> 0:45:00.620 they brought the Pistons back in that second half where 0:45:00.640 --> 0:45:04.049 they just started bombing threes. And, what, the 22-point lead 0:45:04.070 --> 0:45:07.920 for the Celtics just evaporated. which is like last year 0:45:07.960 --> 0:45:10.259 is like when they got up that much, they actually 0:45:10.300 --> 0:45:15.379 held on to those 20-plus point leads. I think Keats 0:45:15.420 --> 0:45:17.940 there had the stat that they were 38-0 last year, 0:45:17.980 --> 0:45:20.100 the Boston Celtics were, when they went up by 20-plus 0:45:20.140 --> 0:45:22.980 points in the regular season and the postseason. And here 0:45:23.000 --> 0:45:25.299 they are giving away a 22-point lead. But it was 0:45:25.469 --> 0:45:28.610 really Javante Green and Duncan Robinson there to get them 0:45:28.630 --> 0:45:28.930 back in. 0:45:29.530 --> 0:45:31.930 Yeah, literally checked in seven and a half minutes into 0:45:31.950 --> 0:45:35.060 the third quarter and then turns it on. splashing threes, 0:45:35.120 --> 0:45:37.360 as you said, five threes for that guy. If there's 0:45:38.140 --> 0:45:41.239 any actual definition of a journeyman and if the face 0:45:41.280 --> 0:45:43.419 goes up, it's this guy. I mean, he's like, he's 0:45:43.760 --> 0:45:45.600 old now, you know, he's been around, you know, sometimes 0:45:45.620 --> 0:45:48.719 the journeyman gets thrown at, thrown on the guys who've 0:45:48.739 --> 0:45:50.560 been like in the league for a few years. This 0:45:50.600 --> 0:45:54.239 guy's bounced around and it is just phenomenal at him 0:45:55.180 --> 0:45:57.680 and other guys off the bench were able to bring 0:45:57.719 --> 0:46:02.430 this team back in this game. It's, reminiscent of what 0:46:02.450 --> 0:46:05.049 they did last year and that their second unit was really, 0:46:05.110 --> 0:46:08.410 really important because besides Cade, who's going to set everybody 0:46:08.469 --> 0:46:10.700 else up? Sir Thompson did that, but then you get 0:46:10.780 --> 0:46:13.980 guys jumping in to help find Javante Green. I thought 0:46:15.620 --> 0:46:17.540 Kevin Herter, even a couple of assists, Isaiah Joe, a 0:46:17.580 --> 0:46:19.919 couple of assists, Paul Reed was spectacular with a couple 0:46:19.960 --> 0:46:24.720 of assists. So the Pistons effort beyond Cade did it. 0:46:25.850 --> 0:46:28.489 And it's surprising that, But I guess we shouldn't be 0:46:28.530 --> 0:46:30.950 surprised in that this is how they won 60 games 0:46:30.989 --> 0:46:33.890 last year. You don't know who their number two is 0:46:34.730 --> 0:46:37.090 because you get it from two through 10 during the 0:46:37.130 --> 0:46:37.739 regular season. 0:46:38.070 --> 0:46:41.160 The Pistons made 15 threes yesterday. They managed to do 0:46:41.480 --> 0:46:45.880 that 15 times last year, and they went 13-2 in 0:46:45.920 --> 0:46:47.899 those games. So a part of the equation here is 0:46:47.920 --> 0:46:50.910 we need more shooters, more spacing around Cade and Jalen Duren, 0:46:50.950 --> 0:46:55.089 and Asar Thompson for that matter. And so Duncan Robinson, great, 0:46:55.110 --> 0:46:57.900 like I said. Obviously, Javante Green, I don't know if 0:46:57.920 --> 0:47:00.060 we'll see that again this year from him in terms 0:47:00.120 --> 0:47:01.800 of shooting the three ball. He's not like a great 0:47:01.840 --> 0:47:04.580 three-point shooter or an elite three-point shooter. But then maybe 0:47:04.620 --> 0:47:06.879 it's an Isaiah Joe game. Maybe it is a Herter game. 0:47:06.920 --> 0:47:09.359 So I think they're going to approach this like, hey, hey, 0:47:09.440 --> 0:47:11.000 if we got like four or five of these guys, 0:47:11.880 --> 0:47:13.799 if one or two of them can sort of like 0:47:13.820 --> 0:47:16.340 just time it in each game, that'll be enough maybe. 0:47:16.739 --> 0:47:18.960 But that was a big part, TK, of the comeback here. Oh, 0:47:19.000 --> 0:47:19.540 that was. 0:47:20.380 --> 0:47:22.379 Pretty much the entirety of the comeback, I thought, was 0:47:22.420 --> 0:47:25.540 catching fire from three. So I'm maybe going to be 0:47:25.580 --> 0:47:28.989 advocating Javante Green MIP. He's got to be the leader 0:47:29.010 --> 0:47:30.190 in the clubhouse after one day. 0:47:30.210 --> 0:47:31.210 Most improved. 0:47:31.270 --> 0:47:31.450 Wow. 0:47:31.550 --> 0:47:31.930 Jesus. 0:47:32.150 --> 0:47:32.650 Yeah, probably. 0:47:32.750 --> 0:47:33.350 What do you average? 0:47:34.469 --> 0:47:35.529 Under. After one day. 0:47:36.050 --> 0:47:36.670 Yeah. 0:47:37.050 --> 0:47:39.750 After one day, he's shooting 63% from three. I think 0:47:39.790 --> 0:47:42.580 he's got it. But Duncan Robinson gets him up. Yeah, 0:47:42.620 --> 0:47:45.000 he's got a quick trigger. Isaiah Joe gets him up. 0:47:45.160 --> 0:47:47.319 And I mean, Green will take him at least. He's 0:47:47.360 --> 0:47:48.560 not going to be a shooter. It's not going to 0:47:48.600 --> 0:47:51.319 be a 63% season, I don't think. But if they 0:47:51.360 --> 0:47:53.879 get enough three-point shooting, that's the key. Because I thought 0:47:53.960 --> 0:47:58.700 Cade played a good game. Not very outstanding, but it's 0:47:58.739 --> 0:48:01.500 like he was scoring four points here, four points there. 0:48:01.540 --> 0:48:03.859 It was just enough to keep the Pistons ticking over, 0:48:03.900 --> 0:48:06.759 ticking over, ticking over. And finally, the dam broke. They 0:48:06.800 --> 0:48:08.610 caught fire from three and knocked them down. So I 0:48:08.620 --> 0:48:10.969 thought the way Cade was playing was pretty smart. Still 0:48:10.989 --> 0:48:13.870 a few careless turnovers, but at least he was producing 0:48:14.090 --> 0:48:16.790 through the entire four quarters, not just the second half. 0:48:16.830 --> 0:48:19.489 And Duren was pretty solid as well. I also thought 0:48:19.910 --> 0:48:22.310 huge for a Sar Thompson to basically hit the dagger 0:48:22.350 --> 0:48:26.049 jumper on the mid range. Didn't necessarily look like he 0:48:26.090 --> 0:48:28.089 wanted to shoot from outside in this game. He was 0:48:28.150 --> 0:48:31.089 being left open a lot. So to hit that shot 0:48:31.130 --> 0:48:33.029 when it really matters, I think has to be big 0:48:33.050 --> 0:48:34.590 for him going forward saying, yeah, I can take a 0:48:34.610 --> 0:48:37.280 jumper every now and then. Everybody's going to be happy 0:48:37.300 --> 0:48:39.170 that I took it. They'll be even more happy if 0:48:39.230 --> 0:48:39.509 it goes in. 0:48:39.510 --> 0:48:41.280 It goes in, yeah. That was like, yeah, with like 0:48:41.280 --> 0:48:43.859 40 seconds left. We put the Pistons up six to 0:48:43.900 --> 0:48:46.140 sort of close the door on any chance of the 0:48:46.160 --> 0:48:47.140 Celtics getting back into it. 0:48:47.460 --> 0:48:50.300 Yeah. We came into the season wondering, okay, the Jalen 0:48:50.320 --> 0:48:54.640 Dern drama. Tobias Harris out. How are these guys going 0:48:54.660 --> 0:48:57.799 to come through? And somehow they did. And a big 0:48:57.820 --> 0:49:00.529 part of it, I think, again, we're seeing up and 0:49:00.570 --> 0:49:04.250 down the roster, guys contributing. Paul Reed, who had the... 0:49:05.510 --> 0:49:08.320 The party in the playoffs came through in this game, too. 0:49:08.340 --> 0:49:11.340 We thought, as a backup point guard, who do they have? 0:49:11.360 --> 0:49:14.400 They drafted Ibuka, Corey. Maybe it could be that guy, 0:49:14.420 --> 0:49:17.770 but they let Marcus Sasser go. It was Dennis Jenkins 0:49:17.810 --> 0:49:18.730 was solid in this game. 0:49:18.790 --> 0:49:19.239 Again.... 0:49:20.560 --> 0:49:23.160 Should we be surprised if this team wins 55 games? 0:49:23.860 --> 0:49:25.060 I know it sounds like a lot. 0:49:25.380 --> 0:49:26.040 Probably not. 0:49:26.430 --> 0:49:27.160 But we shouldn't be. 0:49:27.180 --> 0:49:30.750 Because their defense is still going to be solid. They 0:49:30.810 --> 0:49:32.950 cranked it up. They obviously were a little disappointed in 0:49:32.989 --> 0:49:34.710 how they played. I mean, Paul George was on fire, 0:49:34.770 --> 0:49:36.270 and I'm sure we'll get into him a little bit more. 0:49:36.830 --> 0:49:38.989 But there was like that timeout at halftime. They had 0:49:39.010 --> 0:49:40.470 to have been like, what are we doing? Come on. 0:49:40.489 --> 0:49:42.029 Like at least let's give us a chance on the 0:49:42.070 --> 0:49:45.470 defensive end. And they just ramped up the intensity and 0:49:45.510 --> 0:49:47.219 like sort of like took away a lot of sort 0:49:47.260 --> 0:49:49.580 of ball movement or anything the Celtics were trying to do. 0:49:49.600 --> 0:49:51.960 And everything was on the perimeter. Now the Celtics, like 0:49:52.020 --> 0:49:52.859 that's part of their game. 0:49:52.900 --> 0:49:53.339 I get that. 0:49:53.920 --> 0:49:55.819 But yeah, they're going to win a lot of games 0:49:55.840 --> 0:49:58.400 because of that alone. And then you've got Cade obviously 0:49:58.440 --> 0:50:00.739 in clutch time. Him and Jalen Duren still have a 0:50:00.780 --> 0:50:03.000 great one-two game. And then they just got to hope 0:50:03.040 --> 0:50:04.920 enough guys can hit shots, which I guess they did. 0:50:05.530 --> 0:50:07.569 And play make that, that was the sort of the 0:50:07.610 --> 0:50:09.950 worrisome part is I think I have enough guys who 0:50:09.969 --> 0:50:12.989 can secondary creator for sure. Yeah. And so you got 0:50:13.010 --> 0:50:15.730 to have a Danis game. Sean Collins did that a 0:50:15.820 --> 0:50:18.239 little bit last night, not a ton, but yeah, they 0:50:18.260 --> 0:50:20.960 all have to sort of contribute. I will say this 0:50:21.000 --> 0:50:23.860 isn't because Jalen Durant has evolved by any means. He 0:50:23.900 --> 0:50:26.739 was getting, you know, the drop offs, uh, mainly the 0:50:26.800 --> 0:50:30.140 offensive rebounds. Uh, you know, he, I thought he had 0:50:30.180 --> 0:50:32.180 a spectacular, put it on the floor once, and then 0:50:32.200 --> 0:50:34.620 he missed by a mile on one of them. So 0:50:34.840 --> 0:50:37.700 that hasn't changed about Jalen Dern. We'll still be skeptical 0:50:37.719 --> 0:50:40.049 when it comes to the postseason, but it's, yeah, this 0:50:40.110 --> 0:50:43.410 is real Detroit basketball, real blue-collar stuff, guys working, and 0:50:43.430 --> 0:50:44.509 that's what they did in the third quarter. 0:50:44.610 --> 0:50:46.669 The only thing that maybe has you scratching your head 0:50:46.730 --> 0:50:48.230 or maybe you're a little disappointed if you're a Pistons 0:50:48.270 --> 0:50:51.170 fan today is like, Ron Holland was not really a 0:50:51.190 --> 0:50:53.650 part of the equation there yesterday. Now, maybe it is 0:50:53.690 --> 0:50:55.930 because they get down so much, and then you're like, well, 0:50:55.989 --> 0:50:57.150 if we're going to get back, we're going to need 0:50:57.170 --> 0:51:00.390 some three-point shooting. But he barely played. I think he 0:51:00.430 --> 0:51:02.030 only saw the floor like three or four minutes. 0:51:02.910 --> 0:51:04.370 It's Gervonta time. 0:51:04.489 --> 0:51:06.230 It's one game. Yeah, exactly. And again, I think it 0:51:06.310 --> 0:51:08.069 is like, well, we're going to have to bomb away 0:51:08.090 --> 0:51:09.250 a little bit to get back into this. 0:51:09.410 --> 0:51:11.969 I think Green did hit five threes last year. It 0:51:11.989 --> 0:51:13.970 happens sometimes with Gervonta Green. 0:51:14.590 --> 0:51:16.540 Will he have a game where he hits five plus threes? 0:51:17.200 --> 0:51:17.399 Again. 0:51:17.560 --> 0:51:20.430 This season, yeah. or am i or my overreaction be 0:51:20.450 --> 0:51:21.330 correct i mean. 0:51:21.270 --> 0:51:24.110 It's yeah it looks like one and done probably i 0:51:24.350 --> 0:51:25.230 mean that's a lot. 0:51:25.550 --> 0:51:27.779 He was feeling it i mean he's left wide open 0:51:27.800 --> 0:51:30.040 too yeah and a couple of those like they're like 0:51:30.140 --> 0:51:31.280 okay let him shoot. 0:51:31.120 --> 0:51:33.200 It yeah but paul reed's setting him up i mean 0:51:33.219 --> 0:51:35.560 this was yeah flashbacks of last year in the playoffs 0:51:35.620 --> 0:51:38.140 okay he was paul reed was coming through and those 0:51:38.160 --> 0:51:41.730 were falling to the floor throwing it to jalen or 0:51:41.790 --> 0:51:44.750 excuse me to um giovanni green in the corner those 0:51:44.790 --> 0:51:46.779 are That was a nice pass. 0:51:46.800 --> 0:51:48.420 The Duncan Robinson one was a nice pass as well. 0:51:48.440 --> 0:51:48.840 Yeah, exactly. 0:51:49.160 --> 0:51:51.400 What did you think from the Celtics side of things here? 0:51:51.719 --> 0:51:56.469 And Jason Tatum with a brutal first game here. What, 0:51:56.469 --> 0:51:58.810 6 of 23? So 13 points. He had a lot 0:51:58.830 --> 0:52:02.290 of assists, but he was missing layups in the first half. 0:52:02.770 --> 0:52:04.130 Couldn't hit a three to save his life. Yeah, what 0:52:04.150 --> 0:52:04.730 did you think? 0:52:04.750 --> 0:52:06.870 I think it's funny that the Celtics were so good 0:52:06.910 --> 0:52:09.169 at holding on to leads last year because this felt 0:52:09.210 --> 0:52:12.770 like vintage Celtics to me. We build a humongous lead 0:52:12.830 --> 0:52:15.939 by making three-pointers and then we blow a humongous lead 0:52:15.980 --> 0:52:19.880 by chucking three pointers. One of the issues that it 0:52:19.920 --> 0:52:21.779 was easy to foresee for the Celtics is they don't 0:52:21.800 --> 0:52:23.759 get a lot of two pointers, right? Like they don't 0:52:23.800 --> 0:52:26.520 put a ton of pressure on the rim. Tatum has 0:52:26.580 --> 0:52:29.160 become more of a mid range master, uh, at this 0:52:29.219 --> 0:52:31.719 point in his career, at least since returning, uh, from 0:52:31.760 --> 0:52:33.819 the injury. So we'll see if he's able to start 0:52:33.860 --> 0:52:36.120 getting some layups, but a lot of their things were 0:52:37.040 --> 0:52:39.980 alley-oops from the perimeter, uh, to Mitchell Robinson or Namiish 0:52:40.020 --> 0:52:43.799 Keita or offensive rebounds. The, uh, some of the most 0:52:43.840 --> 0:52:46.919 reliable twos they get are Pritchard getting into his bag 0:52:46.960 --> 0:52:50.580 and hitting impossible shots. That's not necessarily an effective way 0:52:50.620 --> 0:52:55.320 to live offensively. So anytime you see the Celtics blow 0:52:55.360 --> 0:52:57.259 a lead, it feels like it's going to happen the 0:52:57.280 --> 0:52:59.980 same way. They get it by hot shooting and they 0:53:00.000 --> 0:53:02.440 lose it by cold shooting and then just compound it 0:53:02.460 --> 0:53:05.140 by taking more and more jump shots. Like when you're 0:53:05.160 --> 0:53:08.180 seeing the lead evaporate and Tatum goes into a pull up, 0:53:08.180 --> 0:53:10.290 you're like, come on, man. All we want is some 0:53:10.310 --> 0:53:10.750 free throws. 0:53:10.870 --> 0:53:11.150 Yeah. 0:53:11.330 --> 0:53:12.750 One free throw attempt for Tatum. 0:53:13.110 --> 0:53:17.170 Yeah, he was trying to get hot. He was trying 0:53:17.190 --> 0:53:18.990 to hit one. He was forcing a little bit, even 0:53:19.030 --> 0:53:20.860 on the fast break. Peyton Pritchard's right there, but he 0:53:20.900 --> 0:53:23.500 forces it to the rim. And so he was just 0:53:23.580 --> 0:53:26.399 trying to find anything, and it was not there. Yeah, 0:53:26.440 --> 0:53:29.500 even we're talking about broadcasters here on opening night, even 0:53:29.600 --> 0:53:33.520 Brian Scalabrini, former Celtic, was saying, hey, there's a lot 0:53:33.540 --> 0:53:36.310 of jump shots here. Yeah. You touch that paint a 0:53:36.330 --> 0:53:37.969 little bit, and they were not. 0:53:38.640 --> 0:53:39.700 Paul George was on fire, though. 0:53:39.840 --> 0:53:40.819 Oh, my gosh. Oh, yeah, he was. 0:53:40.860 --> 0:53:42.290 What a debut for this guy. 0:53:42.310 --> 0:53:43.650 That was a surprising stat. 0:53:44.270 --> 0:53:47.509 The surprising stat that he set the... record for a 0:53:47.550 --> 0:53:49.299 debut in celtics uniform. 0:53:48.980 --> 0:53:51.340 Yeah like in celtic history that is a lot of 0:53:51.380 --> 0:53:53.620 point no but he was it was at 31 even. 0:53:53.400 --> 0:53:56.299 Yeah porzingis had 30 yeah he had it previously that 0:53:56.320 --> 0:53:58.420 was kind of he could he was he looked great 0:53:58.560 --> 0:54:01.840 he was hot yeah he was shooting like darts yeah 0:54:01.880 --> 0:54:03.600 i feel like paul george usually i think of him 0:54:03.680 --> 0:54:05.580 as a high arcing three-point shooter and these were like 0:54:05.760 --> 0:54:08.319 line drives so he was completely locked in he was 0:54:08.340 --> 0:54:10.969 taking tough shots too and He's a guy where when 0:54:10.989 --> 0:54:11.830 he's feeling it, he's. 0:54:11.750 --> 0:54:13.870 Like, I'll take an even more impossible shot. And then 0:54:13.910 --> 0:54:15.190 it looks cool when it goes up. 0:54:15.210 --> 0:54:15.510 Yeah. 0:54:16.170 --> 0:54:18.330 If they had won the game, you know, maybe because 0:54:18.350 --> 0:54:22.190 you inspired me with your Brandon Miller nicknames yesterday. But 0:54:22.210 --> 0:54:25.719 I was thinking, OK, he goes by Podcast P, Playoff P. 0:54:26.800 --> 0:54:28.980 I was like, maybe Pizza P? because he's cooking in 0:54:29.000 --> 0:54:31.700 the Little Caesars Arena. Could have done a deep dive. 0:54:31.739 --> 0:54:34.120 Maybe he's always good in that arena. I don't know, 0:54:34.200 --> 0:54:35.960 but of course it doesn't matter in the end. 0:54:36.040 --> 0:54:36.680 Pizza P. 0:54:36.700 --> 0:54:37.680 Pizza P, I don't know. 0:54:37.700 --> 0:54:38.719 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:54:38.739 --> 0:54:41.680 Something like that. He was awesome. And a big reason 0:54:41.700 --> 0:54:42.540 why they had the huge lead. 0:54:42.680 --> 0:54:46.060 Yeah, scary win. He was so spectacular. Plus nine when 0:54:46.080 --> 0:54:48.940 he's on the floor, and the team was minus 17 0:54:48.940 --> 0:54:51.759 when he went to the bench. He got pumped. When 0:54:52.200 --> 0:54:55.660 Paul George was on the bench, that was surprising that 0:54:55.719 --> 0:54:59.200 they would get beat by that bat. considering they're supposed 0:54:59.219 --> 0:55:02.239 to be extremely deep and Joe Mizzou was supposed to 0:55:02.300 --> 0:55:03.980 roll out guys and they're supposed to be entirely fine 0:55:04.040 --> 0:55:06.930 and the Paul George bench minutes would be taken care of, 0:55:07.400 --> 0:55:08.000 but they were not. 0:55:08.520 --> 0:55:15.250 No, I couldn't believe, I watched the entire game and 0:55:15.310 --> 0:55:18.009 I was like, after the game, I was like, oh, okay, 0:55:18.030 --> 0:55:20.450 we saw Shireman. Okay, it was fine. I guess it 0:55:20.489 --> 0:55:23.150 wasn't spectacular. You know, Jordan Walsh got the start. He's 0:55:23.190 --> 0:55:26.190 out there for defensive purposes. I get that. You know, Pritchard, 0:55:26.230 --> 0:55:29.070 he's a great six-man. He comes off the bench. Hauser, okay. 0:55:30.150 --> 0:55:33.670 Luka Garza, I think he sort of stinks. But I 0:55:33.690 --> 0:55:36.569 was like, oh, no Hugo. No Gonzalez. You know, like 0:55:36.590 --> 0:55:41.319 this superstar in the making here. I'm like, wait, hold on. 0:55:41.780 --> 0:55:43.219 I saw the box score. He's like, he played? I 0:55:44.000 --> 0:55:47.719 did not notice that he had played. Because he was 0:55:48.020 --> 0:55:50.060 a nothing burger. So not great. He only played 10 minutes. 0:55:50.120 --> 0:55:51.560 So it wasn't a lot of minutes, but he did 0:55:51.620 --> 0:55:56.210 next to nothing out there. So that, you know, not great. Now, 0:55:56.250 --> 0:55:58.250 whether it's really true or not, I heard Bill Simmons 0:55:58.270 --> 0:56:01.029 already getting upset about it. The narrative around they didn't 0:56:01.070 --> 0:56:03.469 want to trade for Giannis because they didn't want to 0:56:03.489 --> 0:56:05.700 give up those guys. He says that's not really true. 0:56:05.800 --> 0:56:06.030 Okay. 0:56:06.660 --> 0:56:08.799 But like, look, that's what a lot of people are 0:56:09.050 --> 0:56:11.160 now believing. And you'd like to see these guys play 0:56:11.200 --> 0:56:14.379 well to sort of like quiet that. And they did not. 0:56:15.160 --> 0:56:15.379 No. 0:56:15.700 --> 0:56:18.200 Shireman was hooping, man. Shireman was hooping. 0:56:18.219 --> 0:56:22.020 Comparatively. Comparatively, yeah. But man, Hugo, I couldn't even believe it. 0:56:22.020 --> 0:56:24.120 I was like, I literally didn't notice. And I should 0:56:24.140 --> 0:56:26.190 have because he got cooked a couple times. They were 0:56:26.210 --> 0:56:26.610 going at him. 0:56:27.390 --> 0:56:29.890 His contributions don't show up in the box score, okay? 0:56:30.210 --> 0:56:32.969 Yeah, I guess not. Literally. 0:56:34.510 --> 0:56:36.509 You say Shireman, I think his peak is kind of 0:56:36.550 --> 0:56:40.070 like Shireman in that he'll be able to shoot threes, 0:56:40.360 --> 0:56:41.960 I think. He'll be able to finish out the rim, 0:56:42.160 --> 0:56:43.880 I think. He'll be able to defend, I think. But 0:56:43.900 --> 0:56:46.239 he doesn't have an in-between game, I don't think, after 0:56:46.280 --> 0:56:48.899 watching him. I get excited watching him because he puts 0:56:48.960 --> 0:56:51.279 in the effort. He'll grab a board here, tip a 0:56:51.320 --> 0:56:54.700 ball here, do the right things. A Joe Mazzulla type 0:56:54.739 --> 0:56:58.290 of guy. But he's not going to lead your offense. 0:56:59.110 --> 0:57:01.370 They're hoping that Jason Tatum doesn't do what he just did. 0:57:01.950 --> 0:57:04.350 Pritchard and Derek White have it going. I don't think 0:57:04.390 --> 0:57:07.549 we can expect a lot from Hugo. But should they 0:57:07.590 --> 0:57:11.340 start Jordan Walsh? Should they start more of a shooter 0:57:11.540 --> 0:57:11.919 out there? 0:57:12.080 --> 0:57:15.759 I think they're thinking he's only out there for defensive purposes. 0:57:15.780 --> 0:57:17.500 He is a good defender. He tries really hard. 0:57:17.780 --> 0:57:20.340 But maybe Sam Sam? Maybe it's Hauser? 0:57:20.640 --> 0:57:21.020 Sam Sam? 0:57:21.040 --> 0:57:23.740 Sam Sam Hauser? We'll see. 0:57:23.780 --> 0:57:24.390 Yeah, thanks. 0:57:24.410 --> 0:57:25.689 They might try things. 0:57:26.130 --> 0:57:27.770 They have to change that. And I think that gives 0:57:27.810 --> 0:57:31.050 more space to Tatum if Sam Houser's out there instead 0:57:31.070 --> 0:57:34.180 of Jordan Walsh. Because you've got to respect Houser's shot. 0:57:35.280 --> 0:57:38.620 Who had a worse opening day slash night? Jason Tatum 0:57:38.660 --> 0:57:40.600 or Victor Wemenyama? Who you got? 0:57:42.320 --> 0:57:44.670 I mean, it's got to be Wemby. 0:57:46.240 --> 0:57:51.460 Okay, but the counter is Tatum. Okay, he plays poorly. 0:57:51.600 --> 0:57:54.440 It was pretty bad stats, too. And Jalen Brown did 0:57:54.580 --> 0:57:55.880 win for the Sixers. 0:57:55.920 --> 0:57:57.320 Fair point. Fair point. 0:57:57.440 --> 0:58:03.000 And, you know, the argument for Wemby is, as the 0:58:03.040 --> 0:58:06.060 worst game, Chet outplayed him. Similar. 0:58:06.240 --> 0:58:07.800 Fair, fair. 0:58:08.460 --> 0:58:11.890 Get the poll going for the people in the stream team. 0:58:11.990 --> 0:58:12.680 Or the J. 0:58:14.310 --> 0:58:15.590 What everybody think of the 3 p.m. 0:58:15.650 --> 0:58:15.930 Start? 0:58:16.890 --> 0:58:17.910 To our NBA season. 0:58:18.450 --> 0:58:22.300 I loved it, but one issue. Lawn care guys. 0:58:22.320 --> 0:58:25.540 Oh, yeah. Blowing leaves. 0:58:26.320 --> 0:58:28.860 I got two things going on in my neighborhood. My 0:58:28.920 --> 0:58:31.900 neighbor had the lawn care guys show up. So I'm 0:58:31.960 --> 0:58:35.240 like struggling to hear the game as they're blowing around shit. 0:58:35.320 --> 0:58:39.480 And then they're like building, you know, like townhomes behind 0:58:39.540 --> 0:58:41.820 our property and they're getting closer and closer and they're 0:58:41.900 --> 0:58:44.590 banging away. It was loud. You want me to put 0:58:44.620 --> 0:58:45.390 on headphones? 0:58:45.470 --> 0:58:48.610 Yeah, I do it in the morning. Where I watch, 0:58:48.650 --> 0:58:49.390 it's too close to my kids. 0:58:49.410 --> 0:58:51.210 You're waking up at 5 in the morning to watch 0:58:51.230 --> 0:58:52.730 these games. You've got to keep quiet. 0:58:52.750 --> 0:58:55.650 Here in the South, school starts early for the kids, 0:58:55.670 --> 0:58:57.290 so I'm hearing the kids. I'm like, yeah, I've got 0:58:57.310 --> 0:59:00.210 to put on my headphones. See you later, kids! 0:59:00.850 --> 0:59:03.000 Otherwise, I loved it. I liked it. 0:59:02.990 --> 0:59:06.420 It didn't feel like an event to me. 0:59:06.420 --> 0:59:09.550 No, but it's like I mean still basketball on that's 0:59:09.590 --> 0:59:10.120 fun it. 0:59:10.100 --> 0:59:12.820 Was like it felt to me like the equivalent of 0:59:13.100 --> 0:59:16.840 watching curling qualifiers in the Olympics before they've done the 0:59:16.900 --> 0:59:20.460 opening ceremonies like yeah this counts but I gotta see 0:59:20.480 --> 0:59:21.320 the banner before I. 0:59:21.280 --> 0:59:25.100 Believe it's real they need to take the oath before 0:59:25.200 --> 0:59:29.820 I trust this Olympics What'd you think? 0:59:30.860 --> 0:59:33.280 I agree with Trey. It didn't feel like, hey, this 0:59:33.300 --> 0:59:34.920 is the first game of the season, especially. 0:59:35.730 --> 0:59:39.490 Yeah. Well, it's like their third team on it, first off. 0:59:39.890 --> 0:59:41.250 No offense to Terry Gannon. 0:59:42.590 --> 0:59:47.340 Yeah. I laughed a lot. Asar Thompson hit the 360 lamp, 0:59:47.380 --> 0:59:49.280 and I go, that looks like something you'd see in 0:59:49.360 --> 0:59:51.440 figure skating, Terry. 0:59:51.520 --> 0:59:54.820 He went dead quiet, too. I think that one cut, man. 0:59:54.860 --> 0:59:55.560 That one hurt. 0:59:55.960 --> 0:59:58.520 He's like, God, dude. They're all amazing athletes, okay? 0:59:58.600 --> 1:00:00.780 And they are. And they are. I love figure skating. 1:00:00.800 --> 1:00:04.340 I'm trying to look at, you know, the videos on NBA.com. 1:00:04.440 --> 1:00:07.040 It's a phone video, so... Give me a second. This 1:00:07.080 --> 1:00:08.920 might take 30 seconds, but I think it had the 1:00:09.000 --> 1:00:11.410 same headline. Or maybe I'm mistaken. 1:00:11.450 --> 1:00:11.910 What do you mean? 1:00:11.990 --> 1:00:14.110 Asar did the spin. A little 360. 1:00:14.110 --> 1:00:16.690 I mean, it was almost a 360. 1:00:16.690 --> 1:00:18.530 Maybe I'm imagining. 1:00:18.550 --> 1:00:20.250 People are wondering, did he fart when he did it? 1:00:20.290 --> 1:00:22.130 That's the real question. 1:00:22.430 --> 1:00:25.470 NBA.com was just a plain headline. Maybe I was just 1:00:25.530 --> 1:00:27.840 imagining that it did look like figure skating. Like I 1:00:27.880 --> 1:00:31.820 was hearing Terry Gannon on the call with Robbie on 1:00:31.960 --> 1:00:34.740 one bench and Brian on the other. Robbie Hummel and 1:00:34.760 --> 1:00:37.419 Brian Scalabrini and Terry Gannon. Yeah, maybe it's that part 1:00:37.440 --> 1:00:38.600 of why it didn't feel like it was. 1:00:39.020 --> 1:00:41.760 Yeah, I think a part of it, yes. 1:00:41.780 --> 1:00:43.000 The absolute A-team. 1:00:43.440 --> 1:00:44.700 Still, it was NBA basketball. 1:00:44.890 --> 1:00:45.090 It was. 1:00:45.210 --> 1:00:49.530 It was exciting. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>. 1:00:49.470 --> 1:00:58.020 <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> 1:00:58.380 --> 1:01:00.820 Pistons got playing a little more physical defense there, and 1:01:00.840 --> 1:01:03.390 then they started hitting threes themselves. Did you notice how 1:01:03.770 --> 1:01:06.690 hilariously smoky it was in the Little Caesars Arena to 1:01:06.730 --> 1:01:07.430 start that game? 1:01:07.630 --> 1:01:08.030 Quite hazy. 1:01:08.090 --> 1:01:11.040 And doing their fireworks and stuff, I'm sure, whatever, their pyrotechnics. 1:01:11.560 --> 1:01:14.460 You see this in some arenas, but that one, man, 1:01:14.500 --> 1:01:17.600 I know Cleveland's pretty bad. Detroit, it was so smoky. 1:01:18.220 --> 1:01:19.930 The pizzas were just on fire, I think. 1:01:21.160 --> 1:01:21.740 Take them out. 1:01:21.980 --> 1:01:24.340 But I think it does happen with their pyrotechnics, if 1:01:24.380 --> 1:01:25.040 I'm not mistaken. 1:01:25.580 --> 1:01:27.960 Cleveland comes to mind for sure. I know they're always 1:01:28.040 --> 1:01:31.700 super hazy. Detroit may be on the list. Let's hear 1:01:31.880 --> 1:01:33.240 the other ones. 1:01:33.340 --> 1:01:36.070 Kid Rock. What? 1:01:37.240 --> 1:01:38.150 He's up late, man. 1:01:38.210 --> 1:01:41.150 I'm telling you. I'm feeling playful this morning. 1:01:42.350 --> 1:01:48.990 Any other random notes from Piston Celtics? Piston's big win. No, 1:01:49.030 --> 1:01:51.010 you don't want to talk about Kevin Herter's head, man. 1:01:51.890 --> 1:01:53.690 You of all guys. No, I'm saving it. 1:01:53.750 --> 1:01:56.280 I'm saving it. I was actually, I am trying to 1:01:56.300 --> 1:01:57.020 keep track of. 1:01:57.160 --> 1:01:58.050 I'm saving it. 1:01:58.120 --> 1:02:01.250 I got a lot of thoughts. No, but by the 1:02:01.330 --> 1:02:03.710 end of tonight, I'll have a good read on players 1:02:03.730 --> 1:02:05.320 who started wearing headbands this season. 1:02:05.450 --> 1:02:07.320 Okay, okay. I mean, yeah, he's one of them. 1:02:07.360 --> 1:02:09.260 He brought it back. He had it in the Sacramento days. 1:02:09.300 --> 1:02:10.640 He's got a lot of hair. 1:02:10.660 --> 1:02:11.280 A lot of hair. 1:02:11.520 --> 1:02:13.600 Yeah, it's like Reed Shepard out there. 1:02:13.680 --> 1:02:15.920 Yeah, it's so funny now with Herter because of what 1:02:15.940 --> 1:02:18.800 I've said on the show. I think he's terribly overrated 1:02:18.880 --> 1:02:21.380 and stopped talking about him. I now have to actively 1:02:21.460 --> 1:02:24.950 watch Kevin Hurd play a Pissons game and celebrate every 1:02:24.990 --> 1:02:27.870 time he misses or turns down a shot, which he 1:02:27.890 --> 1:02:28.790 did do a couple times. 1:02:28.810 --> 1:02:29.750 Yes, he did. He did. 1:02:29.990 --> 1:02:30.300 He did. 1:02:30.320 --> 1:02:32.040 And that's what I get really upset about. Not whether 1:02:32.080 --> 1:02:35.340 you're making them or making them. It's whether you're taking them. 1:02:35.360 --> 1:02:38.300 But anyway. Like he hit a shot and I was like, ah, shit. 1:02:38.320 --> 1:02:39.330 He's going to hit like eight threes. 1:02:39.350 --> 1:02:40.010 I'm going to look like a fool. 1:02:40.070 --> 1:02:42.970 And he did hit one going into halftime too, but 1:02:42.990 --> 1:02:43.810 it was after the buzzer. 1:02:43.830 --> 1:02:44.490 Yeah, I was pumped. 1:02:44.510 --> 1:02:45.210 So that didn't count. 1:02:45.290 --> 1:02:45.810 I was pumped. 1:02:45.870 --> 1:02:46.630 I was like, that doesn't count. 1:02:46.670 --> 1:02:47.390 It doesn't count. 1:02:48.440 --> 1:02:50.900 But he was hesitant to take some threes. Let it rip. 1:02:51.460 --> 1:02:52.120 That's his thing, man. 1:02:52.160 --> 1:02:52.320 Yeah. 1:02:52.810 --> 1:02:54.890 This is my issue with him. I saw it firsthand. 1:02:55.130 --> 1:02:55.550 Confidence. 1:02:55.570 --> 1:02:58.110 Come on, man. Kevin and his confidence. 1:02:58.130 --> 1:03:02.180 Literally, he was lucky that Dunkey was there. Duncan Robinson was. 1:03:02.200 --> 1:03:04.420 Oh, my God. Sam, Sam, and Dunkey. I know. 1:03:04.460 --> 1:03:08.640 Sam, Sam, and Dunkey, Duncan, Pauly G over here. Yeah, 1:03:08.680 --> 1:03:09.620 I've got to scale it back. 1:03:09.660 --> 1:03:10.140 Pauly G. 1:03:10.180 --> 1:03:14.660 Paul George. Oh. I can't help it. I didn't know 1:03:14.700 --> 1:03:17.260 we were talking about that. Jersey Shore, my favorite show ever. 1:03:17.400 --> 1:03:17.760 Good job. 1:03:17.780 --> 1:03:18.320 I'm kidding. 1:03:18.960 --> 1:03:21.490 It's not true. Don't be so mad about it, though. 1:03:21.510 --> 1:03:25.110 Where's Snooki when you need her? She's my favorite. Duncan Robinson. 1:03:25.950 --> 1:03:29.190 Only won three in the first half. Four threes in 1:03:29.210 --> 1:03:30.090 the second half. 1:03:30.410 --> 1:03:31.470 Audacious three-pointer. 1:03:31.490 --> 1:03:34.800 Yes. Is that what Terry Gannon would say? 1:03:36.260 --> 1:03:39.980 I've got three Nora observations from this game that I 1:03:40.040 --> 1:03:41.700 thought you guys would like, I thought the stream team 1:03:41.740 --> 1:03:43.600 would like, or everybody listening to the podcast. Okay, she 1:03:43.620 --> 1:03:48.740 had three observations about Pistons Celtics. Because she was watching 1:03:48.760 --> 1:03:50.770 it because it was on during the day. It's on, yeah. 1:03:50.970 --> 1:03:52.610 Derek White looks like a man-baby. 1:03:53.390 --> 1:03:54.170 Oh, yeah, he does. 1:03:54.190 --> 1:03:55.550 I was like, yeah, I see it. 1:03:55.590 --> 1:03:56.110 Yeah, he does. 1:03:56.730 --> 1:03:56.950 Good. 1:03:57.490 --> 1:04:01.140 Second one. Duncan Robinson looks like a squished Tony Hinchcliffe 1:04:02.700 --> 1:04:07.710 from Kill Tony. I see it. He sort of looks like, 1:04:07.910 --> 1:04:10.590 I said he looks like, I said if Tony Hinchcliffe 1:04:10.650 --> 1:04:14.630 looks like evil Tony Hinchcliffe, then Duncan Robinson looks like good. 1:04:15.470 --> 1:04:16.210 What do you got there? 1:04:16.770 --> 1:04:19.530 Just a bunch of pictures. A bunch of pictures of 1:04:19.570 --> 1:04:19.990 this guy. 1:04:20.450 --> 1:04:22.050 And then, okay, you didn't seem to like that one 1:04:22.070 --> 1:04:22.330 as much. 1:04:22.870 --> 1:04:24.890 I did like when they were like, Duncan Robinson had 1:04:24.910 --> 1:04:26.870 a great summer. I saw a lot of his Instagram 1:04:26.930 --> 1:04:30.760 on summer. He has interesting workouts. Oh, okay. I like 1:04:30.800 --> 1:04:32.880 watching the role players because it's like, oh, here's some 1:04:32.920 --> 1:04:34.740 weird things you learned to be good at catching shoots 1:04:34.760 --> 1:04:36.000 where your feet are facing the wrong way. 1:04:36.240 --> 1:04:36.760 That's very cool. 1:04:36.780 --> 1:04:37.220 Do a spin move. 1:04:38.320 --> 1:04:41.780 Since this didn't come up during the Sixers-Knicks game, LeBron's 1:04:41.820 --> 1:04:43.970 workouts recently, have you seen the camera that he just 1:04:44.010 --> 1:04:47.070 throws down in a gym? So it's, I think it's 1:04:47.130 --> 1:04:50.010 on the floor, very, very low, and he's in his tights. 1:04:51.190 --> 1:04:54.150 And so you get a full crotch shot directly into 1:04:54.190 --> 1:04:56.550 the game. I mean, recently, it was a video going 1:04:56.590 --> 1:05:00.510 around about him commenting about him not liking the helicopter 1:05:00.550 --> 1:05:02.940 that he has to take. He likes it. He said 1:05:02.980 --> 1:05:04.500 he likes it, and he doesn't like it all at 1:05:04.540 --> 1:05:05.120 the same time. 1:05:05.590 --> 1:05:06.690 Okay, then live in Philadelphia. 1:05:07.350 --> 1:05:09.610 Yeah, yeah. He likes it and he doesn't like it. 1:05:09.650 --> 1:05:11.170 He hates it and he loves it, I think is 1:05:11.190 --> 1:05:13.490 what he said. It feels like that's what he said 1:05:13.510 --> 1:05:15.830 about his helicopters. But anyways, that was coming right off 1:05:15.870 --> 1:05:18.110 a full-on crotch shot in his tights, and that's all 1:05:18.170 --> 1:05:20.670 I could see. That's all I got to say. 1:05:20.730 --> 1:05:24.250 The final Nora observation, they showed the Pistons mascot, Hooper, 1:05:24.470 --> 1:05:27.850 I believe is his name, on the screen, and she commented, 1:05:28.150 --> 1:05:29.710 who is that slutty horse? 1:05:30.090 --> 1:05:30.510 Excuse me? 1:05:30.610 --> 1:05:30.770 Yeah. 1:05:30.790 --> 1:05:30.870 Yeah. 1:05:32.110 --> 1:05:32.850 Hooper's all slutty? 1:05:34.230 --> 1:05:37.630 It was from the back. I don't know why. That 1:05:37.670 --> 1:05:40.210 was her immediate reaction. So Derek White, Duncan Ronson, and 1:05:40.270 --> 1:05:44.160 the slutty horse that is Hooper, the Pistons mascot. 1:05:44.180 --> 1:05:45.160 We can get him on. 1:05:45.480 --> 1:05:47.080 We can get the what? Who on? 1:05:47.620 --> 1:05:51.080 Hooper. Hooper the mascot. Literally, we get him on the 1:05:51.100 --> 1:05:52.140 show to talk about his look. 1:05:52.180 --> 1:05:52.800 He can't talk. 1:05:53.360 --> 1:05:56.920 Well, you never know. We had a controversy back in 1:05:56.940 --> 1:05:58.510 the day, Hooper and I. We're at NBA TV. 1:05:58.560 --> 1:06:02.700 Go on. Remind me. I don't remember this. 1:06:02.840 --> 1:06:03.520 Yeah, I don't either. 1:06:05.360 --> 1:06:06.600 You had him on to talk to him and he 1:06:06.660 --> 1:06:07.080 wouldn't talk? 1:06:07.100 --> 1:06:08.820 No, he didn't come on. It was a Twitter beef 1:06:09.020 --> 1:06:10.360 for some odd reason. 1:06:11.120 --> 1:06:13.020 Well, we might have another one on our hands. My 1:06:13.060 --> 1:06:14.640 wife calling him a slutty horse. 1:06:15.820 --> 1:06:18.300 Did she mean it in a mean way or like complimentary? 1:06:18.640 --> 1:06:20.590 He was in the crowd. He was probably doing some 1:06:20.640 --> 1:06:22.490 moves and I think she just saw he's got like 1:06:22.530 --> 1:06:26.970 the red and yellow, I believe, hair. Must have. I 1:06:26.990 --> 1:06:28.610 don't know. That was it. 1:06:28.770 --> 1:06:30.490 Kind of a sexy mascot. Right. 1:06:31.060 --> 1:06:31.220 Right. 1:06:31.380 --> 1:06:32.860 Oh, we got to rank the sexiest mascots. 1:06:32.880 --> 1:06:33.200 There you go. 1:06:33.500 --> 1:06:35.990 Maybe I'll ask her to do it. All right. That's 1:06:36.030 --> 1:06:38.050 all we got on those games. We're going deep into 1:06:38.070 --> 1:06:40.250 the random notes already here. Three games. 1:06:40.270 --> 1:06:41.980 They should only have three games a night. I don't 1:06:42.000 --> 1:06:44.000 know how for the season, but it's like a perfect 1:06:44.040 --> 1:06:44.720 amount to talk about. 1:06:44.740 --> 1:06:45.080 I agree. 1:06:45.280 --> 1:06:45.500 Yeah. 1:06:45.760 --> 1:06:48.680 Really reduce the season. Play three. 1:06:48.860 --> 1:06:52.610 Perfect. We're doing this one for the podcaster, says Adam Silver. 1:06:53.930 --> 1:06:55.220 Perfect podcast content. 1:06:55.810 --> 1:06:59.230 All right. 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And then I ultimately went with OKC, 1:08:10.240 --> 1:08:11.620 got it right. So I did the same thing here. 1:08:11.660 --> 1:08:14.160 I'm going the road team. Got a couple points to 1:08:14.200 --> 1:08:15.060 play with. Maybe that helps. 1:08:15.180 --> 1:08:18.840 Yeah, I went with the fact that opening night is 1:08:18.880 --> 1:08:23.280 John Moran night. He's really good on opening nights, historically. 1:08:23.340 --> 1:08:27.479 He had 35 last season on opening night. He's had 1:08:27.479 --> 1:08:31.810 30 or more four times in his career. And he 1:08:31.890 --> 1:08:34.849 averages over 30 in season openers. He just comes out 1:08:34.910 --> 1:08:37.830 to play really, really well. Last year was against the Pelicans. 1:08:37.850 --> 1:08:41.220 He was dancing. He literally was dancing. Step back threes. 1:08:42.120 --> 1:08:44.320 Going to be a little different against Dylan Brooks and 1:08:44.340 --> 1:08:44.939 the Suns. 1:08:45.200 --> 1:08:47.920 That's why you kind of had to... I'm sure you guys... 1:08:48.390 --> 1:08:50.560 factor that in that their defense is really really really 1:08:50.580 --> 1:08:53.580 good it's good um so yeah i almost went phoenix 1:08:53.640 --> 1:08:55.160 but i'm betting on joe. 1:08:55.000 --> 1:08:57.910 Hey look man right now who knows we haven't seen 1:08:57.930 --> 1:08:59.530 them we haven't seen these teams. 1:08:59.310 --> 1:09:02.170 True except a big game for the play in standings yeah. 1:09:02.020 --> 1:09:04.860 It could be right absolutely could be uh if we're 1:09:04.880 --> 1:09:07.500 doing the short month no i mean playing at the 1:09:07.520 --> 1:09:10.000 end oh my bad that's my bad sorry i heard 1:09:10.040 --> 1:09:12.320 pick and pay off in my head i'm already Well, 1:09:12.360 --> 1:09:14.059 it's funny you said that because I saw a comment 1:09:14.100 --> 1:09:17.689 from MJ Skycrawler in the YouTube comments yesterday. He said, 1:09:17.770 --> 1:09:22.130 oh my God, those pick-em payoff ideas. Grown man diaper change? 1:09:22.470 --> 1:09:28.090 Seriously? We really disgusted MJ Skycrawler with that proposal of 1:09:28.130 --> 1:09:31.040 a very weird pick-em payoff where a man would have 1:09:31.060 --> 1:09:31.940 to wear a diaper. 1:09:31.960 --> 1:09:32.720 Use it. 1:09:32.820 --> 1:09:37.000 Yeah, defecate in a diaper and then get changed by 1:09:37.040 --> 1:09:37.519 another man. 1:09:37.800 --> 1:09:39.880 Yeah, we're not doing that. Is that mandatory that you 1:09:39.920 --> 1:09:40.860 defecate in the diaper? 1:09:41.530 --> 1:09:44.139 What's there to change otherwise? Dry diaper? You're going to 1:09:44.180 --> 1:09:45.960 waste a diaper in this economy? 1:09:45.979 --> 1:09:53.470 I'm not holding it in the morning for several hours. 1:09:53.670 --> 1:09:54.170 Yes, you are. 1:09:54.470 --> 1:09:55.150 You're right. 1:09:55.210 --> 1:09:57.770 You're not holding it. You got the diaper on, bro. 1:09:57.930 --> 1:09:59.630 That's what it's for. 1:09:59.670 --> 1:10:05.890 No, I'm 1-0. we gotta do a short month though 1:10:05.910 --> 1:10:08.210 i think that's more all right somebody. 1:10:07.670 --> 1:10:10.650 Has a suggestion which i didn't mind of eating the 1:10:10.770 --> 1:10:15.439 worst halloween candy during like you know the day after 1:10:15.530 --> 1:10:18.559 the month of october ends yeah i think that's fun 1:10:18.580 --> 1:10:20.360 because like we'd have a fun debate we could get 1:10:20.380 --> 1:10:22.360 some help from the people like what is the worst 1:10:22.400 --> 1:10:24.000 halloween candy and then you just have to eat a 1:10:24.400 --> 1:10:28.580 boatload of it during said show For a short month, 1:10:28.700 --> 1:10:30.140 I know it's a simple one, but I think there's 1:10:30.160 --> 1:10:31.440 something to it. I think it was Sean that came 1:10:31.500 --> 1:10:31.860 up with that. 1:10:33.780 --> 1:10:35.240 There's some bad candy out there. 1:10:35.600 --> 1:10:37.560 What's the worst? What would you, if you lose the 1:10:37.620 --> 1:10:40.330 short month of October in the Pick'Em, hate to have 1:10:40.370 --> 1:10:40.670 to eat? 1:10:41.010 --> 1:10:43.030 I don't think I would want to eat black licorice 1:10:43.090 --> 1:10:46.510 for an entire episode. I don't hate black licorice like 1:10:46.550 --> 1:10:52.140 some people, but 75 minutes of black licorice sounds bad. Okay. 1:10:53.100 --> 1:10:53.540 What about you? 1:10:54.760 --> 1:10:59.179 Red licorice. I like black better. I like the nibs 1:10:59.220 --> 1:11:04.740 the best. If I'm ranking my licorice, black, nibs, then red. 1:11:05.090 --> 1:11:10.010 My licorice products. Okay. But, yeah, you can get a 1:11:10.090 --> 1:11:11.830 weird house that just hands out, like, I don't know, 1:11:12.270 --> 1:11:13.790 healthy stuff. Oh, geez. 1:11:13.810 --> 1:11:18.030 Yeah, Lee Ellis handing out vegetable medley. Yeah, vegetable medley. 1:11:18.070 --> 1:11:21.080 That's it. Candy corn. I do not like candy corn. 1:11:22.100 --> 1:11:23.979 Oh, yeah. I mean, it'd be a chalky mouth. 1:11:24.020 --> 1:11:25.090 Yeah, exactly. 1:11:25.450 --> 1:11:26.270 Circus peanuts. 1:11:26.810 --> 1:11:28.810 I'm not a big coconut guy, so I'm not a 1:11:28.850 --> 1:11:30.970 fan of the bounty, and I know some people love 1:11:30.990 --> 1:11:33.170 the bounty. I do not love the bounty. That's a 1:11:33.410 --> 1:11:34.950 throw that one away right away. 1:11:36.229 --> 1:11:37.030 I'm a bounty boy. 1:11:37.410 --> 1:11:39.120 Yeah, I like the coconut. 1:11:39.180 --> 1:11:40.360 This is the fun. 1:11:40.380 --> 1:11:41.960 We'd have to zero in. 1:11:42.320 --> 1:11:44.560 You got to be truthful, though, of candy you hate. 1:11:45.280 --> 1:11:47.400 You got to be truthful of candy you hate. 1:11:47.660 --> 1:11:50.410 We'd each have to bring in our bags and dump it. 1:11:51.220 --> 1:11:54.990 together onto the table, and then we divide. Divide the 1:11:55.030 --> 1:11:55.410 worst ones. 1:11:55.450 --> 1:11:57.050 Hey, look, there's something here. There's something here. 1:11:57.810 --> 1:11:59.050 You say we have to go out and bring our 1:11:59.090 --> 1:12:00.370 own baskets? You're going trick-or-treating? 1:12:00.390 --> 1:12:00.510 Yeah. 1:12:00.530 --> 1:12:03.470 You guys probably will be, won't you? You may not. 1:12:03.510 --> 1:12:04.340 Maybe your kids do. 1:12:04.260 --> 1:12:06.120 It by themselves. They're going to go by themselves this year, 1:12:06.140 --> 1:12:07.760 but I still got to get my candy. 1:12:09.600 --> 1:12:14.360 Yeah. We drove by one house yesterday. Great decorations that 1:12:14.380 --> 1:12:16.930 they put up, but then my daughter Zoe said, oh, 1:12:16.950 --> 1:12:20.690 I don't like that house. They gave out bad bad treats. 1:12:20.790 --> 1:12:22.190 And she's already clocked it. 1:12:22.370 --> 1:12:25.090 She said there was like rice in them. Like, I'm like, 1:12:25.130 --> 1:12:27.010 what are you talking about? There's rice in the cake. 1:12:27.330 --> 1:12:29.150 She's like, there are a rice cake. 1:12:30.090 --> 1:12:32.209 Oh, that's horrible. 1:12:32.570 --> 1:12:33.370 And Halloween. 1:12:33.450 --> 1:12:34.390 That's pretty bad. 1:12:34.430 --> 1:12:34.780 Come on. 1:12:34.790 --> 1:12:36.410 If you want to vegetables. 1:12:36.550 --> 1:12:39.689 Yeah, exactly. I would rather some green peppers, please. 1:12:41.439 --> 1:12:41.950 I'm bringing in. 1:12:41.960 --> 1:12:43.000 Can you exchange this? 1:12:43.780 --> 1:12:45.479 Hey, we're going long here, but just cause you brought 1:12:45.500 --> 1:12:49.220 up Halloween. Um, Do you think, I had this thought 1:12:49.260 --> 1:12:51.330 driving in the other day, do you think there are 1:12:51.470 --> 1:12:58.130 more like minor fender benders in residential areas during the 1:12:58.150 --> 1:13:03.680 Halloween season? Because people are like a little distracted by 1:13:04.120 --> 1:13:07.639 Halloween decorations and houses. And so you're sort of taking 1:13:07.660 --> 1:13:10.200 your eyes off the road. And again, you're not going 1:13:10.300 --> 1:13:12.760 fast through these residential areas or you shouldn't be, but 1:13:12.780 --> 1:13:15.800 you know. there's sometimes speed bumps and people slow down. 1:13:16.180 --> 1:13:17.500 I gotta assume it is, right? 1:13:17.520 --> 1:13:20.280 I do. I think so. And also like sometimes the 1:13:20.320 --> 1:13:25.800 decorations are very human-like and close to the road or 1:13:25.860 --> 1:13:27.280 close to the curb. You're like, whoa, what is that? 1:13:27.320 --> 1:13:27.780 You swerve? 1:13:28.180 --> 1:13:29.870 Oh, sideswipe. I'm telling you. 1:13:29.920 --> 1:13:30.400 Call Ken. 1:13:32.280 --> 1:13:35.600 I almost did it. I really was like looking at 1:13:35.720 --> 1:13:38.060 one like way too long because it was like, I 1:13:38.090 --> 1:13:41.309 was like, how is that? How do they have that hanging? 1:13:41.330 --> 1:13:43.840 And it was very realistic. I'm like trying to break 1:13:43.880 --> 1:13:45.820 it down and then I had to sort of jam 1:13:45.880 --> 1:13:47.979 on the brakes when someone ahead of me was coming 1:13:48.020 --> 1:13:49.979 up to a speed bump and they slowed down way 1:13:50.020 --> 1:13:52.810 more than they needed to. Easy, man. 1:13:53.090 --> 1:13:54.210 Easy, man. 1:13:54.229 --> 1:13:56.630 You're not killing your car going 15 over it, okay? 1:13:58.760 --> 1:14:00.220 I'd have to see the bump. Some of them are 1:14:00.240 --> 1:14:00.760 pretty nasty out there. 1:14:00.780 --> 1:14:02.080 Some of them are not that true. The one I 1:14:02.100 --> 1:14:03.820 take you on, there's that one that's insane. Those ones 1:14:03.920 --> 1:14:06.320 are big boppers. Those are big boppers. 1:14:06.340 --> 1:14:08.720 They put them in and it's like instant divots behind it. 1:14:09.050 --> 1:14:10.510 It's like an excite bike course. 1:14:11.550 --> 1:14:14.770 Okay. You want to just say our thoughts? No, thanks 1:14:14.790 --> 1:14:15.830 for agreeing with me. I felt good. 1:14:15.990 --> 1:14:17.190 I'm glad you did. I thought we were just going 1:14:17.210 --> 1:14:19.230 to say thoughts. Mine was, do you think Kevin Herter 1:14:19.290 --> 1:14:22.299 would survive a home alone situation? Just think about it. 1:14:22.630 --> 1:14:24.090 We can talk about it more at Christmas time. 1:14:24.540 --> 1:14:27.160 We have 11 games on tonight and a new episode 1:14:27.200 --> 1:14:29.700 of Survivor. Dear Lord, by the end of the night, 1:14:29.820 --> 1:14:33.660 only two teams will have not played a regular season game. 1:14:33.740 --> 1:14:34.400 Do you know those teams? 1:14:35.479 --> 1:14:35.599 No. 1:14:35.960 --> 1:14:36.360 Nuggets. 1:14:36.680 --> 1:14:37.100 Yeah. 1:14:37.280 --> 1:14:39.740 I thought Nuggets was one. And Cavaliers. Yeah. 1:14:39.850 --> 1:14:40.020 Wow. 1:14:40.060 --> 1:14:40.270 Damn. 1:14:40.310 --> 1:14:40.520 Sorry. 1:14:40.560 --> 1:14:43.450 I didn't think you'd get it. I feel like we 1:14:43.490 --> 1:14:47.270 maybe said it. Okay. When schedule was released a billion 1:14:47.330 --> 1:14:47.519 years ago. 1:14:47.530 --> 1:14:50.370 Yeah, I think you're right. So ESPN doubleheader Timberwolves Heat. 1:14:50.870 --> 1:14:51.140 Okay. 1:14:51.189 --> 1:14:51.490 Hello. 1:14:51.689 --> 1:14:54.560 LaMelo with the Wolves. Yannis with the Heat. And Warriors 1:14:54.600 --> 1:14:56.800 Lakers is our late game on ESPN. Anyway, we'll be 1:14:56.840 --> 1:14:58.740 back to talk about as many as we possibly can. 1:14:58.920 --> 1:14:59.860 Bulls Raptors, baby. 1:15:00.280 --> 1:15:00.700 Oh, yeah. 1:15:01.080 --> 1:15:01.320 Yes. 1:15:01.420 --> 1:15:03.160 I mean, the premiere game of the night, of course. 1:15:03.479 --> 1:15:06.160 Everybody tuning in. We're locked in for sure. We'll have 1:15:06.200 --> 1:15:09.120 comments on that one. No doubt tomorrow at 10 a.m. 1:15:09.160 --> 1:15:09.430 Eastern. 1:15:09.820 --> 1:15:12.340 Hit the like button, subscribe, five-star ratings and reviews. Until tomorrow, 1:15:12.430 --> 1:15:12.979 Clipper Bros. 1:15:13.189 --> 1:15:15.730 You heard it here first. Have a great time. Turn up. 1:15:15.970 --> 1:15:16.570 Love you guys. 1:15:16.870 --> 1:15:19.930 Awesome. Thanks for joining us. 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