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Speaker 2: Without further ado, that's what the game's all about. Almost

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Speaker 3: You couldn't make that if you try that again, Absolutely

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Action Network Podcast, NBA edition. I'm your

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Speaker 2: host Matt Moore, join as always by Brandon Anderson and

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Speaker 2: as well as you'll be able to catch my analysis.

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Speaker 2: I am working on a piece on the Utah Jazz,

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Speaker 2: which who is one of the teams that we're going

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Speaker 2: to talk to about today as we begin with our Marquee.

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Speaker 2: All right, boys, So to this week on the Marquee,

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Speaker 2: we are going to do a stockwatch. Okay, we are

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Speaker 2: forty five ish percent of the way through the season.

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Speaker 2: The All Star break is rapidly approaching, and there are

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Speaker 2: four teams that I wanted to get into and talk

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Speaker 2: about their fortunes, and we're gonna do a little bit

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Speaker 2: of buy, sell, or hold. So obviously, if you're selling,

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Speaker 2: it means this is the best that you're going to

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Speaker 2: get on these teams. If you want to buy, it's

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Speaker 2: obviously you think that they're still low and undervalued. And

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Speaker 2: if you want to hold, obviously you're just like I'm

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Speaker 2: good with where I'm at. I'm staying where I'm staying,

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Speaker 2: put with my position in terms of if you have

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Speaker 2: would if you did have stock in these teams. I

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Speaker 2: want to start with the Loss Angeles Clippers. So the

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Speaker 2: Lakers have slid with Anthony Davis out, the odds for

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Speaker 2: the division have decreased, which is something we'll get to later.

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Speaker 2: The odds to the Clippers winning the title have gone

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Speaker 2: up slightly in the wake of the Lakers struggles. The

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Speaker 2: Clippers have been absolutely monstrous. They've gotten Kawhi MPG back

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Speaker 2: on the floor, PG is kicking it back up and

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Speaker 2: is playing absolutely phenomenal basketball. And yet I heard a

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Speaker 2: lot this week about how nobody really takes them like

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Speaker 2: a national podcasts about how nobody takes them seriously, which, okay,

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Speaker 2: that's a take. I will say from the beginning, I

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Speaker 2: am buying Clipper stock to the point that I think

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Speaker 2: I'm probably gonna grab some Clippers nets Finals matchup after

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Speaker 2: we get off this podcast. It's the next move for me.

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Speaker 2: I think they are being undervalued in the market, and

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Speaker 2: I want to buy them right now because I think

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Speaker 2: that the playoff loss of the Nuggets is hanging a

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Speaker 2: little too heavy over everything. Brandon, let's start with you.

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Speaker 2: Are you buying, selling, or holding on the Clippers.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I'm a hold on the Clippers. I

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Speaker 4: don't know them. I can't quite put my finger on it.

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Speaker 4: I don't disagree really with think of the things that

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Speaker 4: that disappointment from last year. I see that I should

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Speaker 4: be looking past that, but I also feel the disappointment

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Speaker 4: and it's hard to look past it. And I just

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Speaker 4: don't know totally if I trust Kawhi and PG when

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Speaker 4: we get to those big moments. We've seen it occasionally,

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Speaker 4: but we've also seen last year's thing occasionally too. I

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Speaker 4: do think the Clippers are going to add a piece still.

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Speaker 4: I think that I've been waiting all year for Lou

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Speaker 4: sure what that piece is. It's gonna be tough this

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Speaker 4: year because so many teams are in the race, but

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Speaker 4: I feel like the Clippers' price is about right now.

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Speaker 4: I still I still don't totally believe in either LA

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Speaker 4: the West is kind of a coin to flip between

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Speaker 4: not for me enough to buy on them. So I

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Speaker 4: think I'm just a hold or stay away for the

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Speaker 2: All right, Rahiem, where are you at on the Clippers? Buy?

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Speaker 3: Okay? See, I feel like nobody listens to me, Like

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Speaker 3: I mean, I just wrote gaming.

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Speaker 2: You Victory Lap. That's all I'm gonna say, is like,

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Speaker 2: from now on is Victory Lap.

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Speaker 3: Okay. I just wrote a piece on the Clippers. It

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Speaker 3: just dropped yesterday. I'm around five pm. I'm buying the Clippers.

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Speaker 3: I love the Clippers.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 3: Last year I didn't like the Clippers because you know

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Speaker 3: I said this before, I didn't trust Doc Rivers to

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Speaker 3: you know, properly manage the minutes of Montress Harrow and

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Speaker 3: got to screw it. Montros Harold is gone. Doc Rivers

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Speaker 3: is gone. When you look at this team, Tyron Lo,

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Speaker 3: Clippers are making two hundred and eighty three passes a game,

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Speaker 3: which is twelve more than last season. They're moving the ball,

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Speaker 3: it's not as much heavy ice sol. Paul George is

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Speaker 3: just back to Paul George that we've always known.

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Speaker 2: Kawhi Leonard.

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Speaker 3: I think one of the things that people don't realize

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Speaker 3: So he was struggling with that over the last couple

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Speaker 3: Now this year he's a lot healthier. I think this

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Speaker 3: this this bench is deeper. When you look at the

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Speaker 3: small ball unit that they've played, Tyron Lo, who has

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Speaker 3: played with you know, Morrison's center. They've been destroying teams.

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Speaker 3: They played Rudy Gobert off the floor the other night.

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Speaker 3: They pretty much went on. They went on a run

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Speaker 3: pretty like they went on an they want. They basically

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Speaker 3: if they don't call that BS foul on Kawhi Leonard,

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Speaker 3: they might have won that game. So to me, I

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Speaker 3: think the Clippers and in when I look at the bench,

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Speaker 3: to me, the bench is better. I mean, you get

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Speaker 3: rid of Montrez Harrow, you get rid of Shammit. I

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Speaker 3: think Luke Luke Canard has been an upgrade over Shammit,

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Speaker 3: even though he's out of rotation. I think Lou has

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Speaker 3: done a good job at developing the younger players, like

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Speaker 3: Terrence Mann is actually a guy. Now Americ Coffee has

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Speaker 3: played well. The Clippers have the second best offense in

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Speaker 3: the league, like behind the Nets. The only offense is

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Speaker 3: better is the Nets their first and three point shooting percentage.

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Speaker 3: To me, this offense is just it. It's just too good.

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Speaker 3: And then look at the rest of the landscape on

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Speaker 3: the Western Conference. They be a favorite to any other

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Speaker 3: team other than the Lakers. The Jazz can't because you

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Speaker 3: can't have rules. Bryce O'Neill and Bojehan Bodanovich matching up

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Speaker 3: with Kawhi Leonard and Paul George. I think their favorite

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Speaker 3: over the Nuggets as well, who they had twenty point

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Speaker 3: they have You're gonna have some problems with stopping with

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Speaker 3: Anthony Davis, but how do the Lakers match up with them?

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Speaker 3: From three? And this is an older Lebron James. I'm

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Speaker 3: buying on the Clippers. I'm taking them at plus five

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Speaker 3: fifty to win the NBA title. I'm taking them at

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Speaker 3: plus two to seventy to win the Western Conference, and

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Speaker 3: I'm taking them to win the Pacific Division.

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Speaker 2: I think this.

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Speaker 3: Everybody was just so hype when the Clippers last year

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Speaker 3: that they're letting get, They're letting get, you know, impact

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Speaker 3: what they feel about them this year, and I think

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Speaker 3: they're a much better team.

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Speaker 2: So your uncle's great. I never did it. Your uncle's great.

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Speaker 2: I will say I have a couple of qualms. One,

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Speaker 2: you put a little too much. You've done this. You

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Speaker 2: put a little too much on doctor feed, Like I

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Speaker 2: think that you go a little too far and thinking

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Speaker 2: that like DOC was the problem and Tie is like

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Speaker 2: the solution. I think ties flexibility, which you're showing with

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Speaker 2: the small ball lineups is important. Like that's a that's

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Speaker 2: a small upgrade, But honestly, one of the bigger things

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Speaker 2: keep with is like the chemistry issues are not solved

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Speaker 2: by DOC or Tie, like they are independent and the

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Speaker 2: problem really gets back to Kawhi Leonards not leader. And

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Speaker 2: like that's that's a super narrative take right, Like that's

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Speaker 2: like that that's like FS one take level from me.

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Speaker 2: But look, if your entire if your entire uh personality

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Speaker 2: even if you're if those are exaggerations of who you

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Speaker 2: to do like being the vocal leader. It took him

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Speaker 2: until twenty and twelve to find that balance. Like even

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Speaker 2: pregame huddles, barking out and leading guys and inspiring them

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Speaker 2: that you would see him on the on the sidelines

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Speaker 2: manage that. And I don't know the Kawai is ever

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Speaker 2: Like nobody's ever demanded that of Kawhi. It's just like,

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Speaker 2: you're awesome, You're the best defender in the NBA, and

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Speaker 2: what a lethal killer, and like, oh the quiet guy

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Speaker 2: so great, what a winner, Like nobody's ever actually demanded that.

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Speaker 3: I agree, And in Toronto, Kyle Lowry was the leader.

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Speaker 3: I think Brandon kind of hit it on something because

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Speaker 3: you know, I've been on the you know, trade Lou

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Speaker 3: Williams brogade for a while as well. But one of

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Speaker 3: the things I've realized is they can't trade Lou because

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Speaker 3: he's actually one of the leaders in the locker room.

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Speaker 2: Right, That's a problem. So that is a problem that

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Speaker 2: combined with I think I will say it, and also

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Speaker 2: they did have the twenty point leads on the Nuggets

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Speaker 2: and you've rightfully pointed out how much Harold was a

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Speaker 2: Ibaka solves their problem of like this is a big

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Speaker 2: thing of if he would just not play Harrol and

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Speaker 2: play Zoobach more like. I just kept saying this, and

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Speaker 2: it kind of bore out in Game seven. If he

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Speaker 2: played zubatch more Nicole, Yokiz was just gonna tear up

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Speaker 2: Zuboch like not as badly, but he's still gonna torch him.

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Speaker 2: And this, this version of Jokics this year is absolutely

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Speaker 2: gonna tear him up. So I still think the Nuggets

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Speaker 2: are a problematic matchup for them, especially with J Mike,

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Speaker 2: on that kind of stuff. The Nuggets are as good

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Speaker 2: this year, though, so I'm with you on buying. I

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Speaker 2: do think that they're really good. One thing I do

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Speaker 2: think this is kind of concerning, So I look as

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Speaker 2: up on cleaning the glass versus top ten offenses. Okay,

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Speaker 2: so the actually good offenses in the league. The Clippers

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Speaker 2: come in at twelve twenty second defensively versus top ten

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Speaker 2: offensive rating teams. That's compared with the Jazz who are

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Speaker 2: I slamed to them beneath the Earth, because that's.

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Speaker 3: That's fair, that's definitely fair.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to the Eastern Let's go to the Eastern

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Speaker 2: So the sections were red hot forever. They were just

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Speaker 2: Rahiem are you buying? Are you selling? Are you holding?

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Speaker 3: I gotta correct you. They weren't on the back to back.

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Speaker 3: they're not dominating the top competition. They beat the Lakers

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Speaker 4: books are factoring that in a little bit to leave

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00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:42,359
Speaker 4: a little bit of potential value there. But I'm just

433
00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:45,480
Speaker 4: not excited about the offense or the ceiling. And like

434
00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:48,720
Speaker 4: Raheem said, I think we assume the defense, but the

435
00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:52,679
Speaker 4: numbers haven't been that strong, and I don't know, it

436
00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:54,919
Speaker 4: feels like it feels like it's missing a piece. I

437
00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:58,440
Speaker 4: don't know what it is, but I'm not excited about them.

438
00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:01,480
Speaker 2: So I think I'm in a hold. I'm gonna hold

439
00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:03,560
Speaker 2: on them because I've got a lost stocker early. I'm

440
00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:07,239
Speaker 2: holding And one of the reasons is, like, look, I

441
00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:09,560
Speaker 2: think the Nets should rightly be favored to win the

442
00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:13,840
Speaker 2: Eastern Conference, and but let's look at again the path here. Okay,

443
00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:15,600
Speaker 2: So if they hold on and they get the one

444
00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:18,560
Speaker 2: or the two right, they're gonna face whoever's in the

445
00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:23,600
Speaker 2: play in tournament, and unless that's Miami, I'm not really concerned.

446
00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:27,240
Speaker 2: Like if Miami hangs in there and gets it together

447
00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:31,040
Speaker 2: and they're able to you know, put together, than sure,

448
00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:34,760
Speaker 2: Like you know, m beads better than Bam. But that's

449
00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:37,160
Speaker 2: a good matchup. And you have Butler and his mental

450
00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:41,240
Speaker 2: advantage over this team and all that, Like I get

451
00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:44,040
Speaker 2: that concern, and he have the shooters right, so that

452
00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:45,840
Speaker 2: one would concern me. But the rest of the teams

453
00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:48,880
Speaker 2: like Knicks, Bulls, Hornets, the Hawks are hanging on the outside.

454
00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:51,439
Speaker 2: Those are the only teams you really worry about, Okay,

455
00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:55,080
Speaker 2: their other potential like second round matchups are gonna be

456
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Speaker 2: you know, Indiana, Toronto. The Sixers have more firepower than

457
00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,359
Speaker 2: those teams and have a big million. A lot of

458
00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:07,240
Speaker 2: this just comes down to this. There's no team in

459
00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:11,240
Speaker 2: the Eastern Conference right now that has an Mbique counter none.

460
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:13,480
Speaker 2: Nobody's got one. They used to be the Celtics and

461
00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:16,320
Speaker 2: they had Baines at Horford. They could counter them. They

462
00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:20,800
Speaker 2: just bend them. Well. The Raptors with Gasol and Ebaka

463
00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:25,280
Speaker 2: could do some stuff. But like you're gonna throw out

464
00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:28,560
Speaker 2: Aaron Bains what I love. But Bains and Cris Bouchet

465
00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,640
Speaker 2: versus emb that's the plan. Don't think that's a good plan.

466
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,440
Speaker 2: Like Bains has done a really good job of ends

467
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Speaker 2: beating in his career, So the Raptors could be feisty

468
00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:40,400
Speaker 2: for sure. I could see that being like a problem.

469
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Speaker 2: But I also just don't think the Raptors having a

470
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Speaker 2: firepower to hang with them. I think there. I think

471
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Speaker 2: the Sixers offense can still wind up outscoring them. That'd

472
00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:48,920
Speaker 2: be a tough series, I think, but I think I

473
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Speaker 2: think it would be.

474
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Speaker 3: It would be like a six game series where you'd

475
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Speaker 3: have the Raptors outshoot them for a couple of games.

476
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Speaker 3: It'll be like that Brooklyn series, Brooklyn Sixers series from

477
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Speaker 3: a couple of years ago.

478
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you will you tell? So you have these

479
00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:04,440
Speaker 2: games where like you're like, the Sixers have dominated this game.

480
00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:06,600
Speaker 2: How is this a one point game? And just like

481
00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:10,080
Speaker 2: Kyle Lowry's doing stuff, just like the Raptors are throwing

482
00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:13,640
Speaker 2: over their head saves that wind up in a random scramble.

483
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Speaker 2: Three and oh my god, Fred van Blietz sop the nemesis.

484
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Speaker 1: Fred van bliet.

485
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Speaker 2: I can't say this enough. Shit just happens with the Raptors.

486
00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:29,080
Speaker 2: It just happens. They just make stuff happen. But I

487
00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:31,160
Speaker 2: think they probably win that. And then look, if you're

488
00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:33,320
Speaker 2: looking at Nets Bucks, if those two teams have to

489
00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:35,480
Speaker 2: go through each other, like obviously you're not worried about

490
00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:38,160
Speaker 2: the Bucks giving their playoff history like you always only

491
00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:40,000
Speaker 2: you don't have to be scared of them. I think

492
00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:42,639
Speaker 2: that's a tough matchup because they've got brook Lopez, like

493
00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:44,800
Speaker 2: that's a pretty good counter for him is just to

494
00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:47,480
Speaker 2: be like, oh yeah, brook like that's not bad, but

495
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:50,480
Speaker 2: the Sixers have a lot of defensive options to throw it.

496
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,560
Speaker 2: You're honest and honestly like the Sixers bench may be

497
00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:57,680
Speaker 2: better the Milwaukee's at this point, which is wild but true.

498
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Speaker 2: And then Brooklyn it just kind of comes down to like, yeah,

499
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:02,360
Speaker 2: you got Kde and you got Hardened and you got

500
00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:04,000
Speaker 2: Irving and the Nets are definitely gonna make that a

501
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:06,719
Speaker 2: series and they might probably go seven. Right now, they

502
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:09,320
Speaker 2: don't have an MB counter, they got nothing. You know,

503
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:11,679
Speaker 2: they can double. But if it be is able to

504
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,000
Speaker 2: handle that for the first time in his career, then

505
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:16,239
Speaker 2: I think they can actually probably win. I think that

506
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Speaker 2: that's actually so.

507
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Speaker 3: I'm asking you're asking the MB to do something for

508
00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:23,159
Speaker 3: the first time of his career. Ye, yeah, I am problem.

509
00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:26,399
Speaker 4: They're asking him b to play like the MVP for

510
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:29,440
Speaker 4: six straight weeks against the teams at the highest level

511
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:31,399
Speaker 4: night in mat out because if he doesn't show up

512
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:33,680
Speaker 4: and play like the MVP, they're not beating one of

513
00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:35,919
Speaker 4: those top teams. And I just don't know that I

514
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:38,280
Speaker 4: can trust him. Yeah, I'm just going to to pay

515
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:40,760
Speaker 4: it down and see it happen for six straight weeks

516
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:42,560
Speaker 4: because we just haven't seen it yet.

517
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Speaker 2: All right, real quickly, let's go over the bucks because

518
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:48,280
Speaker 2: I only need one more. Are you buying, selling or holding?

519
00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 2: I'll go first. I'm still selling. They're trying out new

520
00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:55,359
Speaker 2: defensive schemes. They're undervalued in the market because nobody believes

521
00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:58,720
Speaker 2: in them. I get it. I just I still I'm

522
00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:00,879
Speaker 2: like halfway between a selling the whole. I'm not aggressively

523
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 2: selling all of my stock, but I just can't with

524
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 2: this team again. I just can't. I know that, Like,

525
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:08,399
Speaker 2: they're trying different stuff, and I think that's good, and

526
00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 2: they're not over exceeding expectations in the regular season, and

527
00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:13,399
Speaker 2: that's good because that's one of the problems is like

528
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:15,399
Speaker 2: when you're really good in the regular season, you're just

529
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:18,680
Speaker 2: a target. It's better to be like a dangerous team.

530
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:21,280
Speaker 2: Yanni is still really awesome, and Drew Holliday's been out,

531
00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:24,320
Speaker 2: like that's a significant factor. I just they haven't shown

532
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:26,520
Speaker 2: anything this season to be like they've got it. It

533
00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:28,640
Speaker 2: doesn't feel like their year. It doesn't feel like there's

534
00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 2: anything special going on there. I don't like, you know,

535
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:35,080
Speaker 2: if they face the Nets, they're just going to get

536
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:36,680
Speaker 2: the other guys are just going to shoot off the

537
00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:40,760
Speaker 2: dribble against them into oblivion. If they face they always

538
00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:42,760
Speaker 2: say Drew Holiday on one of the three. And then

539
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:47,280
Speaker 2: if they face the Sixers, then you've got all that

540
00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:51,400
Speaker 2: transition length and athleticism to counter what the Bucks try

541
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:55,479
Speaker 2: and do. They don't have as much shooting like they

542
00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:57,200
Speaker 2: may not. I don't think they have as much shooting

543
00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:59,359
Speaker 2: as the Sixers do as much as Raim's worried about that.

544
00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:03,920
Speaker 2: So I'm still selling on the Bucks, just not aggressively

545
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 2: or heem, what do you think.

546
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 3: I don't even have any stocks. Like at this point,

547
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:11,920
Speaker 3: we're like, we're like game stock in this and we're

548
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 3: shortened minus one hundred and forty percent of their stock.

549
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,440
Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm gonna sell the Bucks. I just I mean,

550
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:22,120
Speaker 3: when you have a guy in Giannis who's just so

551
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,320
Speaker 3: flawed as a superstar, he's a great player, but in

552
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 3: the playoffs, I just think the Sixers have pieces that

553
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 3: they can throw at him. Miami had pieces that they

554
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:33,159
Speaker 3: can throw at him that make it tough. And I

555
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 3: just don't think they have the bench that they had previously. Now.

556
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 3: I think it's it's a shame that we're not seeing

557
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,200
Speaker 3: the Bucks at full strength right now because Drew Holliday's

558
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,920
Speaker 3: been out. But it's just I just I think they're

559
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 3: too limited. They just don't have enough, don't. I don't

560
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 3: see what makes the team special.

561
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:55,159
Speaker 1: So I'm selling Raheem Palmer is falling out of love Brian.

562
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 4: So I'm buying at least a little bit. I'm a nibble.

563
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:02,560
Speaker 4: I'm a nibble on the Bucks because I think this

564
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:05,240
Speaker 4: is the window to buy on the Bucks. This is

565
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,480
Speaker 4: the team that we're seeing right now is not the

566
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 4: best version. I think everyone knows that we've got this

567
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:15,320
Speaker 4: recent losing streak. We are, they're missing Drew Holiday and

568
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 4: it's very clear right now just how valuable he is

569
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 4: defensively and even what they're doing on offense. Chris Middleton

570
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 4: is in this big slump right now that just booted

571
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 4: him out of the All Star Game because he had

572
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,840
Speaker 4: ten off you know, ten days that went bad. And

573
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:32,400
Speaker 4: I think that this is not the same Milwaukee team

574
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 4: as the last couple of years, for good and for bad. Obviously,

575
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:38,000
Speaker 4: the depth is not the same. I don't trust that

576
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:43,240
Speaker 4: a whole lot. That's a problem. But hopefully, hopefully Drew

577
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:46,520
Speaker 4: and Chris and Giannis will actually play their big minutes

578
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 4: when we get to the playoffs. Fingers crossed that Bud

579
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 4: will remember that his guys actually get to play this year.

580
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:56,480
Speaker 4: And here's why I like Milwaukee. For like two decades,

581
00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 4: we had San Antonio Spurs teams that we're all really good,

582
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:05,080
Speaker 4: but rarely truly great. They were like a top five team,

583
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 4: you're in, you're out, And they were the dynasty that

584
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 4: never really had the huge streak. They just were always

585
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:16,440
Speaker 4: there to possibly get there. And to me, when there

586
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 4: was an awesome team, the awesome team beat them. When

587
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 4: there wasn't, the Spurs were the default answer and they

588
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:24,959
Speaker 4: got to the finals or won the finals. Now that

589
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:28,280
Speaker 4: feels like under selling the Spurs. I understand, but it's

590
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 4: saying year after year they're a top four, top five team,

591
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 4: they're in the mix. You just want a seat at

592
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 4: the table. You want another chance, you want another crack

593
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 4: at the conference finals. Right now, with Milwaukee is plus

594
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 4: three hundred at DraftKings to win the East, that's implied

595
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 4: odds twenty five percent. I think that's low. I think

596
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 4: i'd put them thirty five percent. Maybe I think there's

597
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 4: a little bit of value there. I'm not all in,

598
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 4: but I'm out on Philadelphia. I like Brooklyn, but Brooklyn

599
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 4: is the team that that would beat them. But you know,

600
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 4: I don't. I don't totally believe in Brooklyn. Where where

601
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 4: still we still have lots of reasons to worry about

602
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 4: that team or wonder what's going to happen. Giannis can

603
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 4: be the best player on the court any game, any series.

604
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:12,080
Speaker 4: I think there's a little bit of value there.

605
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 2: I like that take a lot. It's interesting to kind

606
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:17,240
Speaker 2: of the Spurs comparison is one that hadn't really made,

607
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:21,560
Speaker 2: which is surprising considering the Moudenholzer connection. I think, you know,

608
00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 2: one thing to keep in mind is through the two

609
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 2: thousands and most of the twenty tens until their room

610
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 2: was over in sixteen. The Spurs weren't really upset by

611
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 2: inferior teams that often. They didn't win every year, but

612
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:38,680
Speaker 2: they would lose, like you said, two more dominant teams.

613
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:40,360
Speaker 2: That to me is kind of the difference. Is like

614
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,760
Speaker 2: the Spurs lost to the twenty eleven Grizzlies, sure, but

615
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 2: that was like really lightning in the bottle. The Bucks

616
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 2: two years in a row have lost to inferior teams

617
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 2: that got hot at the worst moment to exploit their defense.

618
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 2: Now maybe they are able to like adjust and find

619
00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 2: more switch capability in all these things. But I just

620
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 2: have a hard time when it's like you got beat

621
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 2: by the Raptors and the heat, and like, if nothing else,

622
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 2: you allow those two fan bases to become just utterly obnoxious,

623
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 2: just so onoxious for getting past the Bucks, and for that,

624
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 2: I think I have to remain a little reticent to

625
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 2: back them. That's gotta wrap it up for Marquis this week.

626
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:30,480
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and go back to the future. Back

627
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:42,480
Speaker 2: to the future. In this segment, we go back and

628
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 2: we talk about bets that we wish that we had

629
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 2: made in the past. They may still have some value.

630
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 2: Right now. I will go ahead and lead off because

631
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Speaker 2: mine's a quick one in which we already talked about,

632
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 2: which is the Los Angeles Clippers and their division bet.

633
00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 2: Just a week ago, I could have gotten the plus

634
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 2: one twenty five start the season. That could have gotten

635
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 2: them a little bit longer than that one seventy five

636
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 2: ish start off the season when the Lakers were read high,

637
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 2: I could have gotten a plus two hundred at some

638
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 2: places even longer than that. And now, unfortunately, even in

639
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:14,400
Speaker 2: the day that's passed. Since Raheem posted his very good

640
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 2: article on the Clippers, which you should check out on

641
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 2: the Action Network app, the Clippers have gone from a

642
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 2: plus number at DraftKings to minus one thirty four to

643
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 2: win the Pacific Division. They are minus at all of

644
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 2: the books that I checked this morning. You now have

645
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 2: got to pay the juice in order to get the

646
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 2: Clippers on the division, which means there's no longer any value.

647
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 2: I can't be in like I should bet the Clippers

648
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:37,240
Speaker 2: to win the division. I did that for like three weeks. Boys,

649
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 2: like three weeks. I said to myself, like, you need

650
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 2: to bet the Clippers within and I didn't do it

651
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 2: because I was like, well the Lakers, Ah, I'm so

652
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 2: mad at myself. The Clippers are gonna win the division

653
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 2: and I'm just gonna have like watch money sail on by.

654
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,680
Speaker 2: I'm very annoying at myself. Raheem was gonna you, what's

655
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 2: your back to the future. For the week, Zach Levine

656
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 2: was a plus one hundred.

657
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 3: We're in twenty to one to win Most Improved Player,

658
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 3: oh Man on Saturday. It's now down to plus thirty

659
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 3: six and plus plus thirty six hundred. I mean, you

660
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:14,720
Speaker 3: can't beat those odds. And then, especially with the cash

661
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 3: out feature that these these apps have, you already would

662
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 3: have made up a profit. I mean, Zach Levine right

663
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 3: now is just unbelievable. He's got his first All Star game.

664
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 3: He's averaging twenty eight points, five assists, five rebounds. The

665
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 3: Bulls actually look, you know, solid and relevant. They have

666
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 3: a chance to make the playing game. Me and a

667
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:37,479
Speaker 3: friend talked about it. I have a betting partner who

668
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 3: I work with, you know, on a lot of my

669
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 3: plays and stuff.

670
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 2: Like that, and we just didn't put it in.

671
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:47,200
Speaker 3: And it's probably one of my biggest regrets of the Season's.

672
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 2: Gonna be tough this year, Like Jeremy Rant seems like

673
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 2: this runaway favorite. I still just don't know if Detroit's

674
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:53,240
Speaker 2: gonna keep playing him. I just don't know. Like at

675
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 2: some point they're probably gonna be like, uh, you give

676
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 2: us to go much of a chance to win, you

677
00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:59,120
Speaker 2: should buys it down. They just gotta start taking it

678
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 2: at some point. I think Christian Wood was like rightfully

679
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 2: the favor going into the season, and I think would

680
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 2: have been a good position on how do you stay healthy?

681
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:10,800
Speaker 2: But with him missing time, I think he's kind of

682
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 2: out of it. It's you know, Jalen Brown. The Celtics

683
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:16,240
Speaker 2: are struggling, so that's kind of overshadowing what he's done.

684
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:19,400
Speaker 2: It's a wide open race, Brandon, What you're back in

685
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 2: the future.

686
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 4: This week, I's gotta say, A chance to make the

687
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:24,800
Speaker 4: playing game is the title of the Chicago Bulls twenty

688
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 4: first century memoir right there. So that's get excited Chicago fans.

689
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 1: Brandon Anderson is a hater?

690
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:35,920
Speaker 2: Why you're so down on this team? You're the biggest

691
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 2: hater of the Bulls and everyone's like they're pretty good,

692
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:42,359
Speaker 2: they're not bad, and you're just like constantly undermining them.

693
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:44,799
Speaker 2: They're better that you think, Brandon, I promise you they're

694
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:45,280
Speaker 2: not bad.

695
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 4: I aspire to more than not bad. That's all.

696
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 2: He has a bulls hoodio on right now, bulls on

697
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 2: right now, right now, ahead, go ahead, Brandon.

698
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 4: You guys are going to absolutely despise my futures picked today,

699
00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 4: You're going to dump all over it. I'm excited. I'm

700
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:05,160
Speaker 4: grabbing an MVP today at plus four thousand, un DraftKings,

701
00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:11,840
Speaker 4: James Harden MVP. Yeah, the present, No, back to the future.

702
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:13,959
Speaker 4: I don't want in the past. I want the auderat now.

703
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:17,800
Speaker 4: Brooklyn numbers twenty five points, eight and a half rebounds,

704
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:20,880
Speaker 4: eleven and a half assists a game on fifty forty

705
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 4: two to eighty six shooting. The Nets are fourteen to

706
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 4: five with Harden. There's seven to three with Harden and

707
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 4: not Kevin Durant, and I think the Nets are going

708
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 4: to be the East one seed once the Jazz fallback,

709
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 4: the Nets could be the best record in the NBA.

710
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:38,879
Speaker 4: Durant is at twenty nine to seven to five since

711
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 4: Harden joined, so he's scoring a couple more points a game,

712
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 4: but Harden has had clearly the better numbers and Ben

713
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 4: the better player. Since Durrant joined the team. Obviously, the

714
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 4: massive problem is the narrative. He quit on the first

715
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:56,879
Speaker 4: ten games of the season and nobody wants to vote

716
00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:59,319
Speaker 4: for him. I get it, like that's clearly is the huge,

717
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 4: huge problem. So the reason for the hardened argument is

718
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 4: a couple of things. Number One, I keep looking for

719
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 4: who the MVP is. I still don't believe that it's

720
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,879
Speaker 4: gonna be Lebron. I don't think this last week has

721
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,840
Speaker 4: been like super damaging to his case, but certainly hasn't helped.

722
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 4: But I'm still waiting for some other contender to arise.

723
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 4: Maybe it's James Harden. And number two is that so? Yeah,

724
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 4: Harden mailed in ten games, but he's gonna keep playing.

725
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 4: We have every other candidate is gonna end up missing

726
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:32,800
Speaker 4: ten games for COVID. Why can't Harden miss ten games

727
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:35,800
Speaker 4: for hating on Houston? I know it's a terrible argument.

728
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:41,320
Speaker 4: How about this narrative, Russ Westbrook rob Harden of that MVP.

729
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:44,319
Speaker 4: Everyone agrees on that, now, so how about we make

730
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 4: it up with the hardened MVP plus four forty one.

731
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 4: I'm just saying two point five percent chance, So you

732
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 4: tell me there's.

733
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 2: A chance you're setting money on fire, Brandon, just send

734
00:36:57,120 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 2: me the money. Just send me the money.

735
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 3: Can on book you two guys, let.

736
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 2: Me think about it. I might go on this because

737
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 2: that is absolutely absurd. So okay, let's say it from

738
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 2: all the angles a right. So one your argument. I

739
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:16,279
Speaker 2: get where you're coming from here, and I know how

740
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:18,440
Speaker 2: solid you are in your analysis and your objective and

741
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:22,360
Speaker 2: all those things, and like me, like I'm metrics forward.

742
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:24,920
Speaker 2: We're all metrics forward, like we're betters. That's where we

743
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 2: like kind of think things. All right, let me throw

744
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 2: this out for you, Okay. James Arden is averaging this

745
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:36,240
Speaker 2: season twenty five points, seven and a half boards, eleven assists.

746
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:40,839
Speaker 2: Trey Young is averaging twenty seven points, four boards, nine

747
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:45,279
Speaker 2: point six assists. Okay, let me just put it this way,

748
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:48,919
Speaker 2: Trey Young didn't even get All Star Like, Trey Young

749
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 2: didn't make the All Star team. The point I'm trying

750
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 2: to make here is that the numbers this year, and

751
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:55,240
Speaker 2: there's been a lot of posts on this, the number

752
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 2: of the statistical individual production this year is crazy. It's

753
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:01,360
Speaker 2: not just the offenses are wild. They're actually not that

754
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 2: much wilder than we've seen in some years. And some

755
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:08,720
Speaker 2: teams are actually well below the Cavs, But we're seeing

756
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:12,799
Speaker 2: so many insane individual offensive performances that a lot of

757
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 2: voters they're just gonna go numb. Like the statistical arguments

758
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:17,919
Speaker 2: are gonna be very difficult to make this season. It's

759
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 2: gonna be really hard to make statistical arguments for guys.

760
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:22,239
Speaker 2: It's one of the reasons that Lebron probably still has

761
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:24,680
Speaker 2: the best value is that, like, no matter what Jokic

762
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:27,759
Speaker 2: does in terms of like no center has ever done this, this,

763
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 2: and this, They're just like, yeah, but stats or whatever,

764
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:34,560
Speaker 2: because this season, everyone's scoring twenty and everyone's scoring twenty five,

765
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:38,360
Speaker 2: and everyone has all these crazy numbers, like Jeremy Grant

766
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 2: has great numbers branded like we just we can't. There's

767
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,400
Speaker 2: no way that the numbers are gonna bear out. Also,

768
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:47,600
Speaker 2: when Katie gets back, you're gonna see again that Katie

769
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:50,280
Speaker 2: is the best player on that team. And no one's

770
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 2: ever gonna win MVP without being the best player on

771
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 2: their team. It's just it will not happen. It won't happen.

772
00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 2: Like I cannot remember a time when a player has

773
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 2: one MVP when he wasn't the best player on his

774
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,320
Speaker 2: team and even if you're like, yeah, but the numbers

775
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:08,920
Speaker 2: and look at that. Everyone knows Katie's better. Like, everyone

776
00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:12,040
Speaker 2: knows Katie is better, And there's absolutely no way that's

777
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 2: going to be able to get passed them. Plus, even

778
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 2: if you got past all of that, even if you

779
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:19,359
Speaker 2: somehow dragged them past all of those problems, every single voter,

780
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:23,840
Speaker 2: even the analytical ones, are gonna be like he quit

781
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 2: on Houston. He showed up looking like the nutty professor.

782
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 2: You cannot and understandy circumstances vote for this guy for

783
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:39,399
Speaker 2: Most Valuable Player when he tanked a franchise. There's no way,

784
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 2: am I like, back me up.

785
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:43,959
Speaker 3: Your RHAM, I mean, And also, I think the one

786
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,319
Speaker 3: thing you have to think about is that I think

787
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 3: voters hold hard and his collapses against you. It's the

788
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 3: same thing with Gianni's. It's just at some point, no

789
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 3: one's going to vote for a guy who's continually collapsed

790
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:56,759
Speaker 3: in the playoffs.

791
00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 2: All right, that's back in the future and when Brandon

792
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:03,000
Speaker 2: throws away and just sets it on fire. But admire,

793
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:05,440
Speaker 2: I do admire that every week there's a there's at

794
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 2: least one time in this show every week where Brandon

795
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:12,400
Speaker 2: sets his sights on like a take mountain that just

796
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:15,520
Speaker 2: seems insurmountable, And every week he's like, I'm going up,

797
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:19,919
Speaker 2: like I admire it, like he goes up there. He

798
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:22,640
Speaker 2: every week he is Yatu watsonabi, that's like, no, no, I'm

799
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 2: gonna block this. This dunk for Anthony Edwards. Every week

800
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:29,360
Speaker 2: he's like, I got it. Don't worry, all right, let's

801
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 2: I do want to do crazy pills real quick?

802
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:35,600
Speaker 1: And now am I taking crazy pills with Matt Moore?

803
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 2: Doesn't anyone notice this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills?

804
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:43,879
Speaker 2: Am I taking crazy pills here? Or? Is the All

805
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:47,279
Speaker 2: Star conversation at an all time level of dumb? It's

806
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 2: always pretty dumb. It gets dumber the more that you

807
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 2: do this, you realize more and more it's pretty dumb.

808
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 2: In the past twenty four hours, I have seen we

809
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 2: should ignore regular season performance and just rely on the playoffs.

810
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:00,880
Speaker 2: That was my good, good friend of mine, Kurt helen

811
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:03,719
Speaker 2: Over at NBC's Pro Basketball Talk, who I love and

812
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 2: owe very much of this industry. And still I was like, Kurt,

813
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:08,799
Speaker 2: what are you doing to yourself? Man? This this is

814
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:11,279
Speaker 2: a take mountain that you are trying to climb. Not

815
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:14,279
Speaker 2: even Brandon Anderson would go up this one. Trey Young

816
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:17,920
Speaker 2: is a snub Nikolvo, Like, there's gonna be so many

817
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:21,720
Speaker 2: people mad that Vucevic made it the entire like Western

818
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:23,839
Speaker 2: Conference got mad that Devin Booker didn't made it, even

819
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 2: though Booker hasn't been all that great until the last

820
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 2: like two three weeks of the season. Like, Devin Booker

821
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 2: is this incredible snub, Like, now everybody's gonna make it.

822
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:33,880
Speaker 2: You have legacy picks of guys that are gonna make

823
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 2: it in because they always make it in and because

824
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 2: of their star power. A lot of this is impacted

825
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:41,560
Speaker 2: by fans. The reserves are selected by coaches. I just

826
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 2: feel like this is why I've just started to gravitate

827
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,440
Speaker 2: more and more towards all NBA, Like, let's just do

828
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:50,600
Speaker 2: all NBA. It's conference neutral, it's not impact by popularity.

829
00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:52,680
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. How you're gonna perform in a meaningless

830
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 2: exhibition in which nobody tries. All NBA is what should matter.

831
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 2: I don't really know, Brandon. I don't know what the

832
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:01,279
Speaker 2: point of All Star is anymore other than to make

833
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:02,160
Speaker 2: money in the game.

834
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:07,319
Speaker 4: I agree this last summer when sports disappeared off the

835
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:08,840
Speaker 4: planet and we had to find something to do with

836
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:12,239
Speaker 4: all of our time. My something was Basketball reference and

837
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 4: old NBA TV games and just diving back into history.

838
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 4: And to me, all Stars matter the same way that

839
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 4: all NBA matters. It matters historically. Whatever we're doing to

840
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:27,200
Speaker 4: select them, at the end of the day, we're gonna say.

841
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:30,440
Speaker 4: You know, I saw someone say, well, James Harden is

842
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:34,280
Speaker 4: the has nine All Star births now and no player

843
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:36,239
Speaker 4: with nine All Star births has never not made the

844
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 4: Hall of Fame. Oh you think, how about James Harden

845
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:40,760
Speaker 4: is going to make the Hall of Fame? How about

846
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 4: dah Like, we don't need to have nine All Stars

847
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:45,920
Speaker 4: as the reason, Like how far down the plaque is

848
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:48,920
Speaker 4: that going on James Harden's Hall of Fame plaque. It

849
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:52,360
Speaker 4: just it matters because it matters historically. And to me,

850
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 4: like that's why for me picking players, I want to

851
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:57,640
Speaker 4: look back at the end of the season and just

852
00:42:57,640 --> 00:42:59,960
Speaker 4: see what would have made sense. That's why I was

853
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:04,040
Speaker 4: so hesitant on the zach Levines and Julius Randalls of

854
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:07,280
Speaker 4: the world, because they they're great right now, they're deserving,

855
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 4: but what about two months from now, what about five

856
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:11,520
Speaker 4: years from now are we going to look back and

857
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 4: be like, what were we doing? What happened with that?

858
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:19,399
Speaker 4: And especially of all years this year, when we have

859
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 4: like thirty games and guys missing for protocols all the

860
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:28,000
Speaker 4: time and the tiniest of small samples, it just got ludicrous.

861
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 4: And I don't know it. The West has no snubs.

862
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,320
Speaker 4: The West is as soft as it's been in forever.

863
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 4: The East has a bunch of guys that could have

864
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:40,400
Speaker 4: made it, and a bunch of that did, And so

865
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:40,879
Speaker 4: it goes.

866
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 2: You know, who did make it, Brandon, you know who

867
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:44,880
Speaker 2: did make it? You know, and who made it exactly

868
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:46,279
Speaker 2: a star.

869
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 3: I'm with you on all MBA. I think that's that's

870
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 3: really what matters. But I mean, at the end of

871
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 3: the day, all Starry gave it just for fun, so

872
00:43:56,680 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 3: you just kind of you take it with a grain

873
00:43:58,680 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 3: of salt.

874
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 2: That felt. The problem is like it's the way it's

875
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 2: talked about and the way it's weted. We're having only

876
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:10,399
Speaker 2: simultaneous conversations at the same time with no nexus point.

877
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 2: And what I mean by that is like, look, if

878
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 2: you want to talk about MVP, you can talk about

879
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 2: what's the best story, who's had the best stats, who's

880
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:17,640
Speaker 2: had the most impact, who's had the best season, Who's

881
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:20,320
Speaker 2: the best player. But they all converge a essentral point,

882
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 2: which is like what's the most valuable? Like what is

883
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:25,960
Speaker 2: the who's been the definition of the MVP in the

884
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 2: in the like ethereal concept, right, yeah, with All Star though,

885
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:33,279
Speaker 2: it's like no, no, no, it should reward playoffs success. No,

886
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 2: it should be the who the best players? No, no, it's

887
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 2: who's most entertaining, Like there's no nexus for us to

888
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 2: come together and have an assessment. And the fact, I

889
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:43,239
Speaker 2: will say this again, the fact that bonuses are tied

890
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:48,240
Speaker 2: to this is nonsense. It is ridiculous. All NBA, I get.

891
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:50,359
Speaker 2: You should take that out of the media's hands and

892
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 2: just make it a panel of I don't know, like

893
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:55,839
Speaker 2: get like a panel of like twelve people with three

894
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 2: representatives representatives from the media, get three Hall of famers,

895
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:02,279
Speaker 2: three current players, and fill in the rest with like

896
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:05,279
Speaker 2: I don't whoever TikTok people. But you just get some

897
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:07,840
Speaker 2: sort of like coalescence of like a panel to decide

898
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 2: all NBA, and that can wind up being the ones

899
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:12,800
Speaker 2: that decided versus the media votes just because like I

900
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:15,360
Speaker 2: don't think the media should be held responsible for the

901
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:17,400
Speaker 2: decision that can cost a guy like thirty five million

902
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 2: dollars like that. Yeah, that's that's you know, do not

903
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:23,040
Speaker 2: ask people that do not play at that level, that

904
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:25,359
Speaker 2: do not operate at that level of income and make

905
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 2: those kinds of decisions. And so but like with All Star,

906
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:33,120
Speaker 2: I just it does wind up. You know, Brandon talked

907
00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 2: about this, like, but All Star does go on the

908
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:38,080
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame Black it does, Like it does matter.

909
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:40,319
Speaker 2: The difference between being a two time All Star and

910
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 2: an eight time All Star is significant. The difference between

911
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 2: being a five time All Star and a ten time

912
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:45,239
Speaker 2: All Star is.

913
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 3: Like Lowry could Lowery is probably a fringe Hall of

914
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 3: Famer at this point because of those are like the

915
00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:52,280
Speaker 3: six All Stars.

916
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 2: He guess, yeah, it does. It boosts you, So it

917
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:58,839
Speaker 2: really does matter. It provides recognition of it. But even

918
00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:00,279
Speaker 2: though like this is the big thing is we need

919
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 2: to raise up all NBA. I think we need to

920
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:04,400
Speaker 2: go to five All NBA teams. And that's people are

921
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:07,600
Speaker 2: gonna say that's too many, and I'm like, that's twenty five. Yeah, look,

922
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:11,919
Speaker 2: look that's twenty five players. That's twenty most teams now

923
00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:16,239
Speaker 2: have multiple guys on it that are like star players, right, Like,

924
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:18,280
Speaker 2: we're not going to get one dude from every team

925
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 2: or for one dude from twenty five out of the thirty.

926
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:23,040
Speaker 2: That's not how it will be, you know. But I

927
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:25,040
Speaker 2: was thinking about this, like there are guys that I

928
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:27,919
Speaker 2: think that would deserve a NOD for like fourth team

929
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:29,160
Speaker 2: All NBA.

930
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:30,720
Speaker 3: And yeah, there's no harm.

931
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:33,520
Speaker 2: It doesn't cost us anything. All it would be and

932
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:36,000
Speaker 2: like if you made like All NBA fourth Team, it's

933
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 2: a nice little note, but it's not the same, Like

934
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:40,279
Speaker 2: there is a huge difference between you would see like

935
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:43,400
Speaker 2: are you because when you see All NBA, you've always

936
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:46,800
Speaker 2: see like the notation on basketball references like second team,

937
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 2: Like it does matter if you were first tier second.

938
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 2: What you're basically doing there with All NBAS is these

939
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:55,880
Speaker 2: are the tiers. That's yeah, eliminate the eliminate positions and

940
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 2: do All NBA five teams.

941
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:00,719
Speaker 3: And I think that this will be about because that's

942
00:47:00,719 --> 00:47:03,520
Speaker 3: still only like five six percent of the players, right.

943
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:05,400
Speaker 4: Well, and the big thing is you get to do

944
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 4: it at the end of the season. That's the real

945
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:09,800
Speaker 4: problem here. Yeah, the real problem is we're choosing stupid

946
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:13,560
Speaker 4: awards that are gonna go on historical documentation based off

947
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:16,120
Speaker 4: of twenty games. It's ridiculous, so at least give it.

948
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:19,160
Speaker 2: But then you run into the problem that Kurt suggested,

949
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:21,880
Speaker 2: which is like, you can't be like, oh no, we

950
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:24,080
Speaker 2: should consider the last year's playoff, Ryan, like, is gore

951
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:25,880
Speaker 2: and dragic of an All Star? Is that where you're

952
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:29,839
Speaker 2: gonna tell me? Because that doesn't make any sense? All right?

953
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:32,680
Speaker 2: So that's that's crazy pills. Let's wrap it up. Our

954
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:33,560
Speaker 2: picks for Wednesday.

955
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:38,279
Speaker 1: Get this out the door, dig in certain my desh

956
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:43,280
Speaker 1: looks delicious. It's the Wednesday NBA buffet, chew.

957
00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 2: And swallow no savory. Yeah, one pick each week, Brandon,

958
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm get the feeling you're gonna pick

959
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:50,399
Speaker 2: a prop. I don't know.

960
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:53,920
Speaker 4: Why I'm not playing a prop today, Why I am

961
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:56,799
Speaker 4: actually playing the All Star angle. I'm going with a

962
00:47:56,880 --> 00:48:00,439
Speaker 4: two team parlay tonight. It is my Sega Bob All

963
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:01,880
Speaker 4: Stars snub Parlay.

964
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:02,880
Speaker 2: Yum.

965
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:05,920
Speaker 1: We've got a Sega Babbla.

966
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:10,400
Speaker 4: Grabbing the Pacers minus one point five against the Warriors

967
00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:13,200
Speaker 4: and the Heat minus two point five against the Raptors.

968
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:16,440
Speaker 4: So with the Pacers, you've got Domana Sabonis thinks he's

969
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:19,280
Speaker 4: a snob ready for a big game. Pacers haven't played

970
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 4: for a week, so the rest of the Warriors are

971
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:23,880
Speaker 4: on the East coast trip. They've gone to Orlando, Charlotte,

972
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:26,800
Speaker 4: New York, now Indiana all in the last week. Golden

973
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:30,040
Speaker 4: State is two and seven against top five teams from

974
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 4: either conference, which Indiana is. So, I like the Pacers

975
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:36,320
Speaker 4: there with the heat, You've got the rare double snub,

976
00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:40,319
Speaker 4: bam Adebayo and Jimmy Butler. Who's more motivated than those guys.

977
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 4: They're gonna come out and put up like forty in

978
00:48:42,560 --> 00:48:46,279
Speaker 4: the first quarter, something ridiculous. The Raptors are also on

979
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:47,759
Speaker 4: the second end of back to back, just like the

980
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:50,520
Speaker 4: Warriors are. Raptors have played five games in seven days.

981
00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:54,239
Speaker 4: They played Milwaukee twice and Philadelphia twice recently. I just

982
00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:56,520
Speaker 4: think the Heat and the Pacers. You've got two tired

983
00:48:56,560 --> 00:48:59,920
Speaker 4: teams versus two super motivated teams. So I'm grabbing the

984
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:04,200
Speaker 4: Ers in the hit sagababe all Star snub parlay, let's go.

985
00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:05,600
Speaker 2: I like it.

986
00:49:05,680 --> 00:49:07,920
Speaker 3: I love it for what you pick for the night,

987
00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:10,480
Speaker 3: I'm going with the under. I mean, this is this

988
00:49:10,560 --> 00:49:13,280
Speaker 3: move while we were on here while we were recording.

989
00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:16,080
Speaker 3: But I like the under to twenty six and a half.

990
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:18,759
Speaker 3: In Celtics Hawks, I think it's down to two twenty four.

991
00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:21,719
Speaker 3: But they've just played last week twice. I mean these team,

992
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 3: two teams are very familiar with one another on the

993
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:27,240
Speaker 3: game floor over at two thirty six and two thirty.

994
00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 3: But I think you know in this spot you have

995
00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:32,640
Speaker 3: both teams are tired. They played three and four nights.

996
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:35,000
Speaker 3: I think it's telling me that the oddsmakers open it's

997
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:37,399
Speaker 3: at two twenty six. I mean, both of those games

998
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:40,520
Speaker 3: last week they ate it by forty point scoring outburns

999
00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:44,000
Speaker 3: from Trey on Trey Young, and in the second game,

1000
00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 3: which you guys covered on the bet cast, we got

1001
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:48,440
Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty three point second half. So you

1002
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:50,600
Speaker 3: look at the spot, you know you got two teams

1003
00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:53,359
Speaker 3: and a back to back three and four nights. If

1004
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:55,399
Speaker 3: you notice, if you look at the pace of those

1005
00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:57,840
Speaker 3: games last night, the Celtics and the MAVs, they played

1006
00:49:57,840 --> 00:50:00,479
Speaker 3: just ninety three possessions. Yesterday the Hawks in the Caves,

1007
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:03,440
Speaker 3: they played just ninety two possession So I'm expecting a

1008
00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:06,480
Speaker 3: slower paced game, you know, just from the spot. And

1009
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 3: then also you look at the Hawks.

1010
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:10,080
Speaker 2: Cam Reddish is questionable.

1011
00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:13,880
Speaker 3: He missed yesterday. John Collins left last night's game with concussion.

1012
00:50:14,080 --> 00:50:16,719
Speaker 3: So you have the Hawks missing four rotational players with

1013
00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:20,239
Speaker 3: Bogdan Boganovic and DeAndre Hunter out of the lineup. The

1014
00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:22,759
Speaker 3: Celtics still have a solid defensive team. You know, they

1015
00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:25,000
Speaker 3: theyre going with that two big lineup. But I think,

1016
00:50:25,120 --> 00:50:27,480
Speaker 3: you know, more importantly, the Celtics have really struggled to

1017
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:29,880
Speaker 3: score the last two weeks. Their twenty first in offensive

1018
00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 3: efficiency scored one hundred and ten points for one hundred possessions.

1019
00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 3: I think, you know, Brad has really kind of just

1020
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:38,280
Speaker 3: struggled to put this offense together. They're really ISO heavy,

1021
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:41,720
Speaker 3: you know, the other day against a poor Pelicans defense,

1022
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:44,600
Speaker 3: they only scored point nine points for possession in the

1023
00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:47,799
Speaker 3: second half. I think Jalen Brown he started to come

1024
00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:50,280
Speaker 3: down to earth. You know, he had a solid performance

1025
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:53,080
Speaker 3: last night, scoring twenty nine points on twelve or twenties shooting,

1026
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:56,279
Speaker 3: but he hasn't been what he was all season. My

1027
00:50:56,320 --> 00:50:58,640
Speaker 3: possessions make this game to twenty three, So what two

1028
00:50:58,719 --> 00:51:00,719
Speaker 3: twenty four and a half and up. You've got a

1029
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:01,720
Speaker 3: solid play on Hunt.

1030
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:03,760
Speaker 2: When the Celtics knocked the Sectors out of the playoffs.

1031
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 2: I'm gonna laugh my ass off. I'm gonna laugh how

1032
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:11,520
Speaker 2: much you hate the Celtics team. That will not happen.

1033
00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:17,120
Speaker 2: By the way, I need Jell's help. Okay, I need

1034
00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:19,279
Speaker 2: you all's help. It will not surprise you that I'm

1035
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:23,319
Speaker 2: going with a half or quarter play this season. Via

1036
00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:25,760
Speaker 2: my analysis on my action app, you can actually analyze

1037
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:28,280
Speaker 2: your own picks in the app, I'm forty four, thirty

1038
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:31,440
Speaker 2: two and three doing halves in quarters this season. More importantly,

1039
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:33,399
Speaker 2: I'm plus nine point eight in units because I get

1040
00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:35,600
Speaker 2: plus juice on a one of these. This has been

1041
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:37,360
Speaker 2: like my smart angle of the year, is like, just

1042
00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:40,759
Speaker 2: play these play the lineups. Play the smallest, don't let

1043
00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:43,239
Speaker 2: the variants over forty eight minutes screw you. Play them

1044
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:45,400
Speaker 2: very narrow. I got two choices, and I don't know

1045
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:47,640
Speaker 2: which one to go with. So my first choice, the

1046
00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:51,040
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City Thunder are nine and one in their last

1047
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:54,120
Speaker 2: ten first half. They are just a great first half

1048
00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:56,120
Speaker 2: team that knows how to tank its tail off in

1049
00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 2: the second half. Okay, on the season, OKAC is only

1050
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:02,239
Speaker 2: seven and fourteen against the spread, but over the last

1051
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:07,000
Speaker 2: ten again nine and one first half and Okayse's four

1052
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:10,080
Speaker 2: and one in their last five as well. They're facing

1053
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:13,719
Speaker 2: the Spurs, who are getting back after a COVID hiatus.

1054
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:16,760
Speaker 2: No Jamart Rosen half of the rotation is out. LaMarcus

1055
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:21,319
Speaker 2: Aldrin is expected to play love fading the Spurs when

1056
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:23,920
Speaker 2: LaMarcus Olidgers plays at least in the first quarter. I'm

1057
00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:27,359
Speaker 2: leaning towards that one. I do get a pretty nice

1058
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:30,520
Speaker 2: number on this. I get first half minus one at

1059
00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:34,399
Speaker 2: plus one oh two at DraftKings. My second option is

1060
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:37,560
Speaker 2: Phoenix is one of the best second quarter teams in

1061
00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:40,399
Speaker 2: the league. Okay, that second, That second in a line

1062
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:43,920
Speaker 2: of Cam Johnson and them and Cam Johnson and Campaign,

1063
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:47,440
Speaker 2: the two camps. They play absolutely fantastic night in and

1064
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:50,359
Speaker 2: night out. Chris Paul's plus minus in the second quarter

1065
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:54,040
Speaker 2: is insane. They finished the second quarter exceptionally well. This

1066
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:55,799
Speaker 2: is like an important thing to note if you're like,

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Speaker 2: how does that really matter? The Nuggets always lose the

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Speaker 2: end of the second quarter because their starters have a

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00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:03,759
Speaker 2: great start to the game. They come back in, but

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Speaker 2: they play a lot of minutes intermixed and then they

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00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:07,920
Speaker 2: don't push together at the end of these games. You

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Speaker 2: saw it last night versus Portland, who took a leading

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Speaker 2: into the half because of that same kind of deal

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Speaker 2: in reverse with the Suns, where the Suns get all

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Speaker 2: five guys back on the floor about the five minute

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Speaker 2: mark of the second quarter and they absolutely roll teams.

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Speaker 2: The Suns in the second quarter are eighteen and twelve

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Speaker 2: this season. The Charlotte Hornets, who they face tonight, are

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00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:29,240
Speaker 2: ten and seventeen. That is third worst in the NBA.

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00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:34,000
Speaker 2: Hornets have the second worst net differential second quarter. Now,

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Speaker 2: I bet the Jazz against them second quarter because the

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00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:40,080
Speaker 2: Jazz are the best second quarter differential in the league.

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Speaker 2: And of course, the Hornets won by three in the

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00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:44,960
Speaker 2: second quarter last game, because you know, the Forces hate me.

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Speaker 2: But the Hornets overall have lost six of seven of

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00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:53,640
Speaker 2: their last second quarters. I'm leaning pretty heavily towards the

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Speaker 2: Sun's play, but I don't know which one to go with. Actually,

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00:53:56,680 --> 00:53:57,920
Speaker 2: like I really liked both.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with the Suns just because I like

1090
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:05,520
Speaker 3: to trust my numbers and my numbers even when you know,

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00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:07,800
Speaker 3: with the Spurs missing a ton of players with COVID,

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00:54:08,080 --> 00:54:10,479
Speaker 3: my numbers still make that game a run. I pick them.

1093
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:13,560
Speaker 3: The games tend to play towards the numbers. My numbers

1094
00:54:13,600 --> 00:54:17,239
Speaker 3: make the Suns a none to ten point failure. And

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00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:19,759
Speaker 3: I think the Suns are just running so hot right

1096
00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:22,880
Speaker 3: now that I think you want to keep riding that.

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00:54:23,120 --> 00:54:27,360
Speaker 3: And I love that bench unit with Campaign and Company,

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00:54:27,480 --> 00:54:29,520
Speaker 3: so I think you ride with that, and I think

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00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:31,560
Speaker 3: you're a little bit safer. And then also, I'm Gordon

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00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:33,040
Speaker 3: Hayward is questionable tonight.

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Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, I agree. I like both of them. I

1102
00:54:35,560 --> 00:54:37,800
Speaker 4: just don't trust the Thunder because you never really totally

1103
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:39,439
Speaker 4: know what you're gonna get, and the Suns are playing

1104
00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:41,239
Speaker 4: so well. I think I prefer that. But I like

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Speaker 4: both players.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna bet both of them. Just heads up them.

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Speaker 2: All right. That's gonna wrap it up for the Action

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