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Speaker 1: Let's try Jeff for two hundred, Jeff, Jeff, what is Jeff?

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Speaker 2: Yes, Jeff for four hundred, Jeff.

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Speaker 1: Jeff, what is Jeff?

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Speaker 3: That's right, Jeff, Jeff, Jeff, Jeff, Jeff, Jeff, Jeff.

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Speaker 1: What is San Francisco? No, Jeff, what is Jeff? Right again?

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Speaker 1: Good morning, sweet jeffs and welcome to the Nodunks podcast

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Speaker 1: on the Athletic Network. It's Tuesday, March eighteenth, twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jeff's skeets here in the Classic Factory and alongside

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Speaker 1: me as always task melists.

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Speaker 3: Jeff Lovers, this is for you. Actually, people were looking

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Speaker 3: for that old video of Jeff the Suns guy falling.

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Speaker 3: They can't find it. We'll find that Joe.

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Speaker 1: Oh did the backflip of Ryeah.

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Speaker 3: Fine, we'll find it.

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Speaker 1: Next to him. It's a beard one, a tops hot boy,

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Speaker 1: Trick Herbie Hey, a overyonder making the magic happen. Super

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Speaker 1: producer jd There is here. We are show up to

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Speaker 1: the live tribe. No, that's the other show, the other

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Speaker 1: Jeff show. I think that's why I thought that Jeff

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Speaker 1: Probes shout up to the stream team, joining us live

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Speaker 1: here in Atlanta at the Seven Stages Theater. Go get

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Speaker 1: your tickets. That link is in the show notes. Right now.

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Speaker 3: It's March. Things are weird. You just did an impression

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Speaker 3: of Tang, who is the concession guy at the SkyDome.

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Speaker 3: That's what you just did, exploited. Why did you throw

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Speaker 3: pizza pizza in there?

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Speaker 1: I threw pizza party in the keep, but he.

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Speaker 3: Never serves pizza.

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Speaker 1: I'm tired of saying the same thing every day when

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Speaker 1: it comes to trying to sell tickets to this show.

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Speaker 3: You're threw in Tang there, who gives out drinks at

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Speaker 3: the Rogers Center at the Skydobe in Toronto.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you why. Baseball's underway but playing well over there.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, starting isn't an official started today? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Oh, yes, yesterday. It depends where you are in the world.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so it started yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Dodgers win, Dodgers went. I don't know if that's true.

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Speaker 1: I know they played the Cubs though in Tokyo. They

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Speaker 1: were up. Tany hit a double. He did a weird

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Speaker 1: he did a weird celebration at second he was like,

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Speaker 1: that's all I saw. It looks like that looks like

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Speaker 4: Four one Dodgers. Good game. Game for all the Jeffs

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Speaker 4: out there, Jeff Kent had a double six RB eyes

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Speaker 4: name other Jeffs, the bagwall, great, Jeff, there's a picture.

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Speaker 1: There's a picture. He had a big beard, like a beard, Jeff. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And the Braves. Yeah, he had some bad moments against

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Speaker 3: the Jeff.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, based Blauser, name you, jeffs chat.

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Speaker 1: Right now, all right, we're gonna get to some of

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Speaker 1: last night's action. We had some crazy overtime games that

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Speaker 3: No, with the way he played this year, very very

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, in his defense, he also came into

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Speaker 1: the season banged up. Because he hyper extended his leftknee

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Speaker 1: just like it's a season for hell from him in

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Speaker 3: It's hard not to think of Paul George sort of

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Speaker 1: this has sort of happened more times than not over

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Speaker 4: I mean that this might be the best thing that

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Speaker 4: young guys going forward. Obviously they've got tyres MAXI great player.

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Speaker 1: Do you you don't think that Paul George will be

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Speaker 3: Would trade for not now, No, I don't think it is.

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Speaker 3: It's a little like the Zach Lavine scenario in Chicago.

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Speaker 3: absolutely not. I do not think so. No. And you

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean got the playoffs for each Yeah, a

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Speaker 3: And it was fine to watch Quentin Grimes. I mean

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Speaker 1: gets looks like he's gonna have an easy layup, but

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Speaker 1: Van Vleet comes screaming back and with some force tries

432
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Speaker 1: to prevent the easy layup. He does smacks them. They

433
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Speaker 1: go and review it and they ended up tossing him.

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Speaker 1: I don't think VanVleet hit his head, definitely had. He

435
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Speaker 1: was coming back so fast on defense that he sort

436
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Speaker 1: of pushes the guy in the air and that's probably

437
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Speaker 1: the excessive portion of it, but didn't hit his head.

438
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Speaker 1: So he was a little like, what the hell am

439
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Speaker 1: I getting tossed for this?

440
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Speaker 4: He took a sixty yard sprint and smashed into him.

441
00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:50,520
Speaker 4: They showed like, you know, they're doing the replay, and

442
00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:52,879
Speaker 4: they started on the baseline angle and the first thing

443
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Speaker 4: you see is a still shot of Fred van Vliet

444
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Speaker 4: eyeing oh shaper sett underneath the hoop and the guy

445
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Speaker 4: looks like Mike Singletary, how locked in he is to

446
00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:04,000
Speaker 4: be able to truck him, and he smacked him. So like,

447
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Speaker 4: I was a little surprised as a flagrant too. Yeah,

448
00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:09,200
Speaker 4: I mean you talk about wind up, the guy had

449
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Speaker 4: like three seconds of wind up. He's like, I'm knocking

450
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Speaker 4: this guy down and I'm sprinting from half court to

451
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Speaker 4: do it. I thought, not surprising he kicked out, but

452
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Speaker 4: he just went mad. He just went crazy.

453
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Speaker 3: Fred gets mad sometimes. Yeah, he's got some official thing.

454
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Speaker 3: He also came back after a month and stepped on

455
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Speaker 3: officials foot to turn his ankle and then miss more time.

456
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Speaker 3: So I don't know, maybe he just got a thing

457
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Speaker 3: with the referee. But I couldn't find that that play

458
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Speaker 3: where he stepped on an ankle. I'm still looking for

459
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Speaker 3: it and said, yeah, I stepped on an ankle all right,

460
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Speaker 3: stepped on the referee's foot and I'm hurting. Can't find it,

461
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Speaker 3: can't find it.

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Speaker 1: Due we got two things to find now that Jeff

463
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Speaker 1: and Jeff Yeah, head.

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Speaker 4: We'll find all your clips.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna be tough.

466
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Speaker 4: Kylen Green and Jabari Smith were both awesome, and this

467
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Speaker 4: one Jalen Green was making a ton of shots to

468
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Speaker 4: help bring him back in the third quarter, and then

469
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Speaker 4: I thought, actually, the chemistry between Jalen and Jabari was

470
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Speaker 4: really good. Jabari hitting a bunch of catch and chewt

471
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Speaker 4: three pointers I think he had five, but he was

472
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Speaker 4: even better rolling like he was the role man for

473
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Speaker 4: a lot of these. Jalen Green picking rolls and sometimes

474
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Speaker 4: I was catching drive to the hoop and finished with

475
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Speaker 4: a lefties. Sometimes it was a little mid range jumper.

476
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Speaker 4: He was really really good, I thought. For the Rockets last.

477
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Speaker 1: Night, Yeah, and a big win for Houston to come

478
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Speaker 1: back and get the victory in overtime when you consider

479
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Speaker 1: that the Nuggets win their game, which we'll get to,

480
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Speaker 1: and the Lakers won theirs easily against the Spurs. Now,

481
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Speaker 1: the Grizzlies fell, but that is a huge race there

482
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Speaker 1: between really between two and five it's a game that

483
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Speaker 1: separates those four teams. So a big win no matter

484
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Speaker 1: how you got it done. Let's talk about the underman

485
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Speaker 1: Nuggets beating the Warriors one fourteen, one oh five. No Jokic,

486
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Speaker 1: no Jamal Murray, no Christian Brown, but Aaron Gordon his

487
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Speaker 1: best game ever in a Nuggets uniform, at least highest

488
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Speaker 1: scoring game, I think thirty eight points for him, and

489
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Speaker 1: he came back from that sore calf and then Westbrook,

490
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Speaker 1: you know, not the it was a classic Westbrook game. Honestly,

491
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Speaker 1: it was like low efficiency when you're looking at the

492
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Speaker 1: shooting numbers, but triple double, twelve points, eleven boards, sixteen assists,

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Speaker 1: three steals, and he was relentless tray with his intensity

494
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Speaker 1: and for this Nuggets team, this underman Nuggets team to

495
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Speaker 1: sort of shock the Warriors here.

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Speaker 4: I don't know how you would go about finding the

497
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Speaker 4: stats for this, but Russell Westbrook has to have one

498
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Speaker 4: of the best winning percentages when his team is quote

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Speaker 4: unquote undermanned. He's made for these games when you're like

500
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Speaker 4: our top two guys are out, go nuts, and he

501
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Speaker 4: just went nuts. Like it was complete Westbrook mode. Like

502
00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:28,800
Speaker 4: you're saying he's shooting airballs, but it doesn't matter. They're

503
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Speaker 4: going to Aaron Gordon and he's the one scoring sixteen

504
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Speaker 4: assists for Westbrook. Apparently, according to ESPN, the Nuggets shot

505
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Speaker 4: sixteen for twenty four off of his passes, like every

506
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Speaker 4: pass he threw was setting up a basket for him.

507
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Speaker 4: Thirty seven transition points for Denver, which was much needed

508
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Speaker 4: on a night when they didn't have Jolkic or Murray.

509
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Speaker 4: Get out in the open court and score. That's where

510
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Speaker 4: Westbrook thrives. That's where Christian Brown thrives, even though he

511
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Speaker 4: wasn't playing. Gordon can score as well. We even got

512
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Speaker 4: a throwback to Russell Westbrook. Is he a cat or

513
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Speaker 4: a dog? Afterwards, Mike Malone said, he's not just the dog,

514
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Speaker 4: He's a wolf. He's different offensively and defensively. He's always

515
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Speaker 4: on ten, always on twelve, and that's exactly right. I

516
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Speaker 4: couldn't believe if that was one of the quotes about

517
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Speaker 4: this game. But that's why you like to have Westbrook.

518
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Speaker 4: This should have been a loss for the Nuggets, but

519
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Speaker 4: sometimes being undermanned can be an advantage. The other team

520
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,000
Speaker 4: takes their foot off the gas and Westbrooks hitting the

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Speaker 4: gas the entire time.

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Speaker 3: Does Russell Westbrook tell his coach and everybody in the

523
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Speaker 3: locker room that I'm a wolf? Because he told us

524
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Speaker 3: that when we asked, you know, a cat or a dog,

525
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Speaker 3: he said, I'm a wolf and he turned his back

526
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Speaker 3: to us this decade. Crazy. Yeah, that's another clip we

527
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Speaker 3: can give you that that was great, But that is

528
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Speaker 3: exactly why the Nuggets signed Russell Westbrook. Jokic asked for

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Speaker 3: them to go get Russell Westbrook because of the motor

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Speaker 3: that the guy has and he's always had. He needed

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Speaker 3: to have somebody else around. Yokic needed to have his

532
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Speaker 3: his Bruce Brown type of guy around the locker room

533
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Speaker 3: just to keep things going. There's a reason why Vlatco

534
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Speaker 3: chan Char was able to grab an offensive rebound that

535
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Speaker 3: he actual it was a beautiful offens Aaron Gordon same

536
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Speaker 3: thing with a couple of minutes left to seal it

537
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Speaker 3: offensive rebound scores. That's why they had nineteen offensive rebounds.

538
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Speaker 3: I'm giving it all the credit to Russell Westbrook, but

539
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:17,359
Speaker 3: there's a big part of it was him and Aaron Gordon. Yeah, obviously,

540
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:19,880
Speaker 3: I said, you know, these are all capable NBA players.

541
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Speaker 3: Aaron Gordon was sort of the number one guy in Orlando,

542
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Speaker 3: and on one night he can definitely be that for

543
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Speaker 3: a Denver Nuggets team that just kept cutting all over

544
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Speaker 3: the place and Westbrook was finding those guys. You mentioned

545
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:34,800
Speaker 3: those stats, Trey of all those assists. Now, of course,

546
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Speaker 3: there's lots of turnovers that happened.

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Speaker 1: It was a sloppy game. It was forty turnovers, Yeah,

548
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:41,200
Speaker 1: twenty each team. It was not pretty.

549
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why Steve curR said, we lost the game.

550
00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:45,960
Speaker 3: We can't turn over twenty times. Yeah, but so did

551
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Speaker 3: the Nuggets. Westbrook had seven, Aaron Gordon had seven. They

552
00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:51,199
Speaker 3: had plenty on their side as well, but they had

553
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Speaker 3: the motor.

554
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Speaker 1: After watching Curry commit seven of those turnovers and miss

555
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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of three pointers, he was four or

556
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Speaker 1: fourteen Kurry was last night, Kurig knowledged he needs to

557
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:04,040
Speaker 1: find some rest for his superstar guard. He said, quote,

558
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:07,760
Speaker 1: he's tired, Curse said after a Curry log thirty five minutes.

559
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:10,160
Speaker 1: Steph's been carrying us for a month. He's been amazing.

560
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,520
Speaker 1: He's tired, so we got to get him some rest.

561
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:15,240
Speaker 1: Esse you can see it. He doesn't have his energy

562
00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 1: right now. End quote. Yeah, Curry's asked about this, he said, nah,

563
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:22,400
Speaker 1: I just played like crap. You can find exclusive you want,

564
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 1: I know, but you do wonder if he's going to

565
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,680
Speaker 1: play tonight because I think they have a game again

566
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Speaker 1: a buck Bucks. Yeah, you know, seems like curse, like

567
00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 1: showing his hand here a little bit like we might

568
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:33,080
Speaker 1: have to give him this night off.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, was it odd that yesterday they didn't give the

570
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Speaker 3: night off because Yokich at the night off in that instance, Well,

571
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 3: I think they definitely s him off him out now. Yeah,

572
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Speaker 3: when you look at playing the Olympics and what he's

573
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Speaker 3: had to do this last while. And you know, I

574
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Speaker 3: made the statement when I was sitting on a toilet

575
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Speaker 3: when I was doing the pick him payoff last week

576
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Speaker 3: that I thought this may be Steph Curry's best month

577
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:04,479
Speaker 3: as a number one guy. Obviously we go looked at

578
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 3: the MVP seasons.

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Speaker 1: Come on, it's pretty good.

580
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Speaker 3: You're a dumb ass sitting on the toilet. I mean

581
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Speaker 3: I was referring to specifically Curry just being the number

582
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Speaker 3: one guy, and then everybody else I was sort of

583
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:18,360
Speaker 3: falling in their place. And what does Steph do now?

584
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Speaker 3: I mean, I think he does have to sit eventually

585
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 3: here a little bit.

586
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Speaker 1: Alay long, Yeah exactly, and you're seeing, you know, sort

587
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:29,840
Speaker 1: of what Lebron is doing right now. I believe he

588
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 1: got injured. I don't think it's all that severe, and

589
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 1: I think they're finding this time to like give him

590
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,640
Speaker 1: that sort of break here before the play and playoff

591
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,240
Speaker 1: push that Lebron and the Lakers will be gearing up

592
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:41,920
Speaker 1: for saying with the Warriors and Curry. So it makes sense.

593
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 1: I think you should get him a couple of games here.

594
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:46,040
Speaker 1: Good point about maybe you should have done it last night,

595
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:48,439
Speaker 1: but then again, maybe they're saying, Okay, that'll be the

596
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 1: easy victory quote unquote easy victory. We take care of

597
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:54,240
Speaker 1: business with no Yoki Jamal and and then we rest them.

598
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:55,920
Speaker 1: But now they know could.

599
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,160
Speaker 3: Lose again tonight here again, and he was questionable going

600
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Speaker 3: into last night before that now gets it.

601
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Speaker 1: He's like having back issues, he said and stuff.

602
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 3: So yeah, the thing is the Golden State wants that

603
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,200
Speaker 3: sixth seed. So that's the other part of it. They

604
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:12,840
Speaker 3: are tied with the Wolves for sixth and there's very

605
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Speaker 3: unlikely that they're going to come and be able to

606
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 3: hunt down the Grizzlies at fifth. So I mean you

607
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 3: could see the Warriors in a plane.

608
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:22,359
Speaker 1: That's true. That's true. They didn't know Obi Toppin was

609
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:25,240
Speaker 1: turning into a superhero to beat the Wolves last night,

610
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 1: so that's part of the equation as well. Any any

611
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 1: other takeaways from that that game, TK.

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Speaker 4: No blockhout chant huge rebound. It was massive, like the

613
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:36,160
Speaker 4: Nuggets had the Warriors crowd completely out of the game

614
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 4: for the majority of the game. Warriors finally made a

615
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:41,480
Speaker 4: comeback in the fourth quarter. Aaron Gordon hits a jumper

616
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 4: that helps silence the crowd, and then the Chantar rebound

617
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 4: was actually big time. I think he got to put

618
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 4: back as well, and that was just a couple of momentum.

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Speaker 4: Place hadn't talked about that guy, Nope, since he did

620
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:55,040
Speaker 4: a cannonball with Jamal Murray and Nicole Wing the championship.

621
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Speaker 4: I think he got hurt immediately afterwards. It's nice to

622
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Speaker 4: be able to say block Outchanchar.

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Speaker 3: It's a great spencer. Jones was also playing for New Dilert. Jones.

624
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 3: I thought that was a mistake, new guy.

625
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 1: You should blast that on the on the screen fifteen games.

626
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 1: That's the thing they get in when you're not watching Tribes.

627
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 1: Another game I wanted to touch on the Knicks storming

628
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:21,800
Speaker 1: back to beat the Heat one sixteen ninety five. There

629
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 1: were like four things I wanted to address from this game.

630
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 1: First one, Karl Anthony Towns bombing deep triples in the

631
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Speaker 1: second quarter when he went on his own personal fifteen

632
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Speaker 1: to oh run after the Heat got up. Yeah, he was,

633
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:37,600
Speaker 1: he was attacking, he was dunking. Then he saw that

634
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 1: first three go in, and you just kept stepping further

635
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 1: and further back. I started feeling bad for khalil Ware.

636
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 1: It's like like they're getting on him, like you gotta

637
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 1: be aware, but like there was a couple of cats

638
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 1: like six feet behind the lines, Like okay, at some

639
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 1: point you gotta stop getting up on him. But anyway,

640
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 1: he just caught fire, had the great celebration. I thought

641
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 1: that was very funny looking at his threes, very very funny.

642
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 1: Josh Hart had a triple down twelve points, thirteen boards,

643
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:04,480
Speaker 1: eleven assists, his eighth triple double this season, which ties

644
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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame guard Walt Fraser for the most ever

645
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 1: for a Knicks player in one season. That was in

646
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty eight sixty nine. Wow, that Walt Fraser did that.

647
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 1: I was like, man, Anthony Mason, I mean, Mason, have

648
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 1: I guess not enough? Not that many. Good job by

649
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 1: heart Miami that lost their eighth consecutive defeat, the longest

650
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 1: streak during Eric Spolster's career seventeen years. This guy's been coaching.

651
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,320
Speaker 4: He's sweating now, is very sweating now.

652
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:36,400
Speaker 1: The Heat have gone four and fifteen since trading Jimmy Butler.

653
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:40,080
Speaker 1: They've been held under one hundred points now for three

654
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 1: consecutive games. That's the first time since twenty eighteen. That's

655
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 1: just very rare in today's NBA. I don't care if

656
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,360
Speaker 1: you're losing, you usually crack a hunter, but they can't score.

657
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 1: And then the final thing very weird. Last night's game

658
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 1: was delayed for about ten minutes in the third quarter

659
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 1: after comedian Tracy Morgan was vomiting while sitting courtside, so

660
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:01,440
Speaker 1: they had to like pause the game, clean it up,

661
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 1: and he was taken away in a wheelchair. He was

662
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:06,240
Speaker 1: holding a towel over space. Hopefully he's okay. I can't

663
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 1: find any like updated reports on his health. But it

664
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 1: was a pretty scary, weird moment, and there was a

665
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:13,959
Speaker 1: delay as soon as they cleaned it all up and

666
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,280
Speaker 1: got Morgan out of there. The Knicks outscored the Heat

667
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 1: twenty four to six, so they just like put the

668
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,479
Speaker 1: game away right after that. So those are some random

669
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 1: things that were happening the last team last night.

670
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:25,680
Speaker 4: I figure he just got sick from watching the Miami Heat.

671
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:27,520
Speaker 1: Let's hope it was done.

672
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 4: He were up twelve to zero in this one. They

673
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 4: had the lead after four minutes, and it was basically

674
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 4: just congratulating the Knicks on even and being able to

675
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 4: play this game. Returning home from a long road trip,

676
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 4: They're like, how are they doing it? It's so hard.

677
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 4: They won the last forty four minutes of this game

678
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,600
Speaker 4: by thirty three points. Miami went six of twenty three

679
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 4: from three twenty three to three point attempts. It's hardly

680
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:50,360
Speaker 4: anything that's a crazy low number. Six makes even worse.

681
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 4: Five of them were Duncan Robinson's and then Pella Larson

682
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 4: hit one with three minutes and twenty two seconds left

683
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 4: in the fourth quarter. So really they had one guy

684
00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 4: make three pointers. Yeah, and it was a Robinson. But

685
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 4: McHale Bridge is another nice game. Twenty eight points ten

686
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 4: to fourteen from the field. Four of six from three,

687
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 4: but three or for four from the mid range. In

688
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 4: the five games without Jalen Brunson twenty three a game,

689
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,960
Speaker 4: four rebounds, five assists, seventy three percent true shooting. The

690
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 4: guy is looking like a number one option right now.

691
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:19,280
Speaker 4: The question will be how do they get this Bridge's

692
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,160
Speaker 4: production with Jalen Brunson handling the ball, because they're playing

693
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 4: differently right now. They're running plays for Bridges to get

694
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 4: going in the mid range. Towns obviously had his huge

695
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 4: fifteen to zero max goof run that was really good.

696
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 4: They got to get a figure out a way to

697
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 4: have Jalen or to have McHale Bridges not just hanging

698
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 4: out in the corner the entire time. Like Og was

699
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 4: pretty aggressive in this one. I didn't think he had

700
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 4: a great game, but at least he was trying to score.

701
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 4: That's been important for the Knicks with Brunson out here.

702
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 4: But if they can figure out a way to keep

703
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 4: Bridges as productive as he has been, they'd taken even

704
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 4: bigger leap I think offensively, and this is a team

705
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:54,120
Speaker 4: that's been a top five offense all year long, so

706
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 4: they've still got another level to go to.

707
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 1: I do believe It's tough to do though, right when

708
00:32:57,640 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 1: you consider Brunston's just one of those guys that just

709
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 1: need the ball in his hands. And that's not a

710
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 1: knock because he's elite, he's awesome. Get him in pick

711
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 1: and roll action, it's amazing. It works, and like I said,

712
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 1: they've had an incredible offensive season all year long. But like, yeah,

713
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 1: it's like Bridges sort of needs it too, and it's like,

714
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 1: how do you make that work? But I don't know.

715
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 1: It's some guards just need the ball. Yeah, Once says

716
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 1: he's that guy, not that I think you could put

717
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 1: him off ball, and he can. He's such a good

718
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 1: three point shooter. It's not like he can't hit those.

719
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 1: But it's something weird, like you know, a guy that's

720
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 1: his height, his entire career, he just has it. He's

721
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 1: got the rock man everything all decisions through him. And

722
00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:34,240
Speaker 1: that's good because he's amazing. He's elite. But yeah, Bridges,

723
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:36,120
Speaker 1: this was the one like blessing in his guys. We're like, well,

724
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 1: maybe this unlocks a couple guys on the Knicks, this

725
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 1: Brinson injury, and it.

726
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 3: Has a little bit Yeah, and we saw Michel Bridges

727
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 3: with the Phoenix Suns and able to go to the finals.

728
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 3: And he definitely was a third fourth guy where he

729
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 3: was able to be good. Then he went to this

730
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 3: the Nets team and he was the number one guy

731
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 3: and he was good and now.

732
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 1: He's better than good. Yeah, one stretch.

733
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:58,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, that goes about second half of the season. Half

734
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 3: of the season when he was with the Brooklyn Nets. Yeah,

735
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 3: it was awesome. Yeah, we merge those two guys here

736
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:09,840
Speaker 3: maybe at this point, uh, but yes, with Jalen carl

737
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:13,440
Speaker 3: OG's playing great and m cal Bridges and Josh Hart bowling. Yeah,

738
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 3: they looks like they've got a great offense again to

739
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,440
Speaker 3: make Eric s Bolster sweat on the other side, as

740
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:21,400
Speaker 3: you said, eight straight games first time in his in

741
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 3: his coaching career. That was a clip I could not find.

742
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:29,759
Speaker 3: I was looking deep into the archives to find Eric

743
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 3: Spolster sweating because we talked about jam bicker Step, we

744
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 3: talked about Chauncey Billups. Found I found a Chauncey Billups one.

745
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 3: We've got a short coming up, but I needed where

746
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:42,640
Speaker 3: is it. See, we're gonna give you clips of Jeff

747
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 3: uh and other other ones here a wolf An Ankle.

748
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:49,799
Speaker 3: You need to find us if you're listening out there

749
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 3: a clip of Eric Spolster sweating. I can't find.

750
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:55,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's click here, man. I think he is sweating.

751
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:56,800
Speaker 1: It's just tough to see.

752
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,239
Speaker 3: I might be lying. Maybe he doesn't sweat. I don't

753
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 3: know when he bumped Lebron was sweating. I don't know.

754
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 1: Wow, way back in the day. Big news though, with

755
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:09,280
Speaker 1: that heat loss, I mean another loss and Chicago Bulls

756
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:13,439
Speaker 1: win in Utah. The Chicago Bulls are no longer in

757
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:16,280
Speaker 1: the tenth spot in the East. They're up to nine

758
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 1: the heat.

759
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 4: All it took was an eight game losing streak again,

760
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 4: the Bulls winning five of six. What's going on? Whoa

761
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 4: twenty six for Fantasia White, eighteen points, twelve assists for

762
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 4: Steamboat Willie Jones, and seventeen points and nine rebounds for

763
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:38,800
Speaker 4: the untouchable Matas Boozellis want to win for these Bowls

764
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,319
Speaker 4: up to ninth for the first time. That this is

765
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:43,680
Speaker 4: the first time they've been out of tenth place either

766
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 4: way in more than eight weeks. That's seventy.

767
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:51,839
Speaker 1: Here's a question. How much of a die hard are you?

768
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:54,200
Speaker 1: I think you'll fly home for the nine ten game?

769
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, I'm saving it. I'm saving it

770
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 4: for the nine game after they win the first one,

771
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 4: I'm gonna fly to wherever.

772
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 1: Okay, that makes more sense because you're wild fly home

773
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:09,759
Speaker 1: for the nine ten game. Bulls win doesn't even mean

774
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:14,399
Speaker 1: they're in the playoffs. That's true.

775
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 4: Siico hey Man too. And zero against Miami this year.

776
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:20,879
Speaker 1: Oh, feeling good? Any other takeaways from any of last

777
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 1: night's games. There were a lot of bloatloads. I don't

778
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:24,319
Speaker 1: know if there's any of the impressed to.

779
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:28,319
Speaker 4: Big w For the Sacramento Kings, it was twenty eight points,

780
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:31,319
Speaker 4: seven assists from League Monk, twenty three and six for

781
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 4: Zach Lavine, twenty two and eight for Demarta Rosen. They

782
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:37,360
Speaker 4: had thirty five assists on forty six makes against the Grizzlies,

783
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:39,240
Speaker 4: who have not beat a team with a winning record

784
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 4: since February second. This team is a little fraudulent. I

785
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 4: do believe Jake la Rabia got his little revenge. Twelve points,

786
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 4: two rebounds, two steals, two threes. Was one of the

787
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,279
Speaker 4: best players on the courts. There's five Jake Larrabias out there.

788
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 4: Is what it felt like. Unfortunately for Sacramento, Demnta Sebonis

789
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 4: went down with a couple injuries. Yeah, hitting the head

790
00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 4: was bleeding all over the place. And then at the

791
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 4: beginning of the third quarter he rolled his ankle. It

792
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 4: didn't look like a terrible one, but he didn't even

793
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:05,799
Speaker 4: take its free throws, so it wasn't a question of

794
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 4: will he ever come back in So maybe a little

795
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:10,839
Speaker 4: bit of an emergency, but I don't know, probably a

796
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,400
Speaker 4: week and a half, two at weeks, he's.

797
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:16,640
Speaker 3: I don't know, just guessing. Yeah. Otherwise, it's great to

798
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:20,359
Speaker 3: see Austin Reeves balling. He really carried Luca in their

799
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,839
Speaker 3: win over the San Antonio Spurs. He just looks great.

800
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,719
Speaker 3: And then you see the random photos of Luca and

801
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 3: Austin Reeves and their haird together. It's just nice. It's

802
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:35,719
Speaker 3: just nice. The Austin Reeves is important to that team

803
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 3: when they get to the playoffs. So he dropped thirty

804
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:41,319
Speaker 3: back to back thirty point games. He's looking great.

805
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 1: His numbers have been amazing, I think since the All

806
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:47,160
Speaker 1: Star break, especially of course since Lebron's gone down. He's

807
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:49,239
Speaker 1: on fire in terms of shooting the ball.

808
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,239
Speaker 3: Oh no, not back to back thirty point games. I lie,

809
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:54,920
Speaker 3: four straight games of twenty eight or more. Very well, he's.

810
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 1: Hooping right now as the Lakers got that win over

811
00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 1: the Spurs, all right, yeah, anything else? I mean again,

812
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:02,640
Speaker 1: there's some some ya honors. I mean, the Raptors lost

813
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:06,840
Speaker 1: by forty. The Pelicans may have lost by more, I

814
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 1: don't know, or close to that to the Coston six.

815
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 1: Oh okay, they did lose by more.

816
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 4: Okay, big Zion dunk. It was the dunk of the

817
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:14,880
Speaker 4: night already, the dunk s.

818
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 1: It was big. It was on be Stu. Yeah, I

819
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 1: met him at the rim and Zion had like a

820
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 1: big lead up dunk, good dunk.

821
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:25,359
Speaker 4: Yeah, but they got destroyed.

822
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 1: They got all right. Well, let's pivot to a look

823
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,879
Speaker 1: at some NBA award races. And this was inspired by

824
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 1: us sort of like you know, organically, like talking about

825
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 1: like Rookie of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year,

826
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 1: Like we were talking about it on yesterday's show, and

827
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 1: I was like, I wonder what the odds say for

828
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 1: some of these, So let's take a look at them.

829
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:43,279
Speaker 1: That's all we're doing here. I mean, you can make

830
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 1: your picks if you want to, but I think my

831
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 1: main takeaway from looking at these is going to be

832
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 1: it's sort of like a two man race and a

833
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:51,320
Speaker 1: lot of them, and the odds sort of like represent

834
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:53,920
Speaker 1: that start with m VP. Everybody knows this is a

835
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:56,359
Speaker 1: two man race, and it might just be one man race.

836
00:38:57,040 --> 00:39:00,239
Speaker 1: SGA is the odds on favorite. These are all coming

837
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:04,319
Speaker 1: by way of bet MGM minus seven point fifty when

838
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 1: I checked last night, SGA is to win, MVP, Jokic

839
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:12,239
Speaker 1: second at plus four to five. And then, because we

840
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 1: wanted to have four names on every one of these graphics,

841
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 1: there's Giannison Tatum at plus fifty thousand. So bet MGM

842
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:22,600
Speaker 1: sure thinks it's a two man race, and it's looking

843
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 1: pretty likely that she is.

844
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 4: But if you want to donate to the coffers, bet

845
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:29,879
Speaker 4: MGM will gladly take your action. You want to throw

846
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:32,719
Speaker 4: away some money, bet on the Honor Tatum, You want

847
00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:35,359
Speaker 4: to throw away money bet on Jokic. This one's over, man.

848
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:37,560
Speaker 4: I think SJA is gonna win this by like two

849
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:39,880
Speaker 4: and a half to three. Yeah, seventy.

850
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 1: You don't think it'll be one of the closest of

851
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,160
Speaker 1: all time, right, anything like that? Yeah? What do you think?

852
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:47,440
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah? The fact that SJA has all these wins

853
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:50,200
Speaker 3: going for them, and if you want to split hairs.

854
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 3: Here's a hair in the favor of Shay gillis Alexander

855
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 3: Jokicic's defense at the rim. Opponents are shooting sixty nine

856
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:02,400
Speaker 3: point two perc. Not nice when Jokic is defending at

857
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:05,359
Speaker 3: the rim. That's almost three hundred shots. He's defending at

858
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:08,799
Speaker 3: the rim, and he takes his time. He doesn't jump

859
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:10,759
Speaker 3: after every single one of them. He lets guys go

860
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:12,759
Speaker 3: at it. Tom Haberscher with that' sat and I think

861
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 3: that is that's a good stat if you're making making

862
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 3: the case for sha goes Alexander, who goes back and

863
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:21,319
Speaker 3: blocks a bunch of shots. He's an incredible defender on.

864
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 1: The best defense in the league.

865
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, so yeah, you want to paint a picture,

866
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:26,879
Speaker 3: that's a that's a good one for Shay.

867
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:30,839
Speaker 1: All right, next one Rookie of the Year. This one

868
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 1: surprised me because we were debating a little bit, like

869
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:35,920
Speaker 1: sah is this sort of still wide open, like you know,

870
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:38,680
Speaker 1: Trey's whole joke all season long, as it changes every week,

871
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:40,759
Speaker 1: And I think it was true to some extent. But

872
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 1: bet MGM has Castle as even more of a favorite

873
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:49,080
Speaker 1: twin Rookie the Year than Sga as MVP, he's minus

874
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:51,840
Speaker 1: nine hundred, and then it's Reshache at plus sixteen hundred,

875
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:54,359
Speaker 1: same with Wells, and then Zach e d rounding out

876
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 1: the board at plus twenty five hundred. Were you as

877
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:59,279
Speaker 1: surprised with that, is as I was, at least to

878
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:00,920
Speaker 1: be that much of a favorite.

879
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:04,399
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, But I also just think that they really

880
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 4: don't want to give it to Jalen Wells. I mean,

881
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:09,919
Speaker 4: the guy's been near the top of the favorites leader board,

882
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:12,600
Speaker 4: but like rarely the favorite, to the point where at

883
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 4: one point khalil Ware had five good games and they

884
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:18,760
Speaker 4: made him the favorite to just take everybody's money. Yeah, literally,

885
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 4: he had five games. They're like, oh, wait, this guy's

886
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:21,920
Speaker 4: gonna win Rookie of the Year. And now he's not

887
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:26,759
Speaker 4: even on the board. He's not even a realistic competitor here,

888
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 4: I don't think, But I don't know. It's kind of

889
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:30,880
Speaker 4: a It was a downdraft this year. I think a

890
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:32,759
Speaker 4: second round pick winning Rookie of the Year makes the

891
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:35,319
Speaker 4: draft look even worse. And Steph Castle is balling right

892
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 4: now twenty points per game in March, and nobody cares

893
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:41,239
Speaker 4: right now because nobody's watching no Fox, no Wemby. The

894
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 4: Spurs games don't matter, but it's a good time for

895
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 4: him to get his stats up because he's able to

896
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:47,920
Speaker 4: pass guys like Recess J and Jalen Wells for the

897
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:50,680
Speaker 4: scoring lead amongst rookies. Jalen Wells is also playing the

898
00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:51,880
Speaker 4: worst he has all season.

899
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:52,960
Speaker 1: I would vote for him.

900
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:54,880
Speaker 4: He's been a key contributor for a team that's a

901
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 4: top four seed in the Western Conference. But since All

902
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 4: Star ten points per game thirty one percent from three,

903
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 4: he's probably trailing off a little bit because he's actually

904
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 4: had a huge load of minutes compared to some of

905
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:07,320
Speaker 4: these other guys who aren't playing quite as much. And

906
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 4: you know, Resa Chase had been good as well. Yeah,

907
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:12,040
Speaker 4: I think he's he would be my probably second choice.

908
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:14,319
Speaker 3: I don't know. Yeah, I think Castle is that big

909
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:17,400
Speaker 3: favorite because that's where the money is currently going and

910
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:19,719
Speaker 3: that's what bet m jam is looking for and those

911
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 3: Dalla dollar bills. That being said, if we're talking about

912
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 3: the best player long term, it could be Stefan Castle easily.

913
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:29,719
Speaker 3: I mean, he does look fantastic. It is great to

914
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:33,400
Speaker 3: see some of these guys play their best of the

915
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 3: season now, which is cool for a super young player.

916
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:38,280
Speaker 3: You see it in Castle, You've seen it in Alex

917
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:41,840
Speaker 3: Sar who's playing extremely well. You see it in Zachary Resache.

918
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 3: If you're watching those two nineteen year old guys, they're

919
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 3: super young Frenchmen that are gonna be good for a

920
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:50,720
Speaker 3: long time. It sure feels like. And so is Stefan Castle,

921
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 3: and so is Jalen Wells. I mean they're all good players.

922
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, in this Rookie of the year race, Like when

923
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:58,759
Speaker 1: when Jared McCain got injured, I mean he was the

924
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:01,520
Speaker 1: leading guy. He was oring fifteen a game, and now

925
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:03,319
Speaker 1: when we see what happened to the six er season,

926
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:04,960
Speaker 1: like he would have had a hell of an opportunity

927
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:06,200
Speaker 1: to score a lot of points and probably would have

928
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:08,600
Speaker 1: run away with this. Here's a trivia question for you guys, though,

929
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:11,840
Speaker 1: can you name the five rookies this season that have

930
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:15,439
Speaker 1: played over fifteen hundred minutes so played a decent chunk

931
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 1: of minutes for their teeth.

932
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 4: We got three of them on the board.

933
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:22,400
Speaker 1: No, you have two Miles Well No, Wells and Castle

934
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:27,320
Speaker 1: the over fifteen hundred, and then you got Carrington leads

935
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:30,440
Speaker 1: leads all rookies nearly two thousand minutes played. Good call,

936
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 1: that's right. Seventeen hundred plus for the Pels. Remember when

937
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:37,320
Speaker 1: he was Ricky of the Year for a week and

938
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 1: then one more. This is the toughest one, Zach Edy,

939
00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:43,839
Speaker 1: get there, No, Sorr, no, No, he's got a good guess,

940
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:47,840
Speaker 1: he's probably close, but you're on the right team. This

941
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:51,959
Speaker 1: guy's a forgotten guy, Sean George, that's right, he is. Also,

942
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:53,880
Speaker 1: he's over sixteen hundred minutes, So there you go.

943
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:56,360
Speaker 3: Yeah. I was just looking at Dalton Conneck's minutes. I

944
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 3: thought he'd be a candidate. He's got a good year,

945
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:00,799
Speaker 3: but that's a.

946
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:03,680
Speaker 1: Lot of good years. Yeah, yeah, it's not a lot

947
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 1: of like, whoa great years from any of these guys.

948
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:08,000
Speaker 1: And that's fine. That doesn't mean they're not going to

949
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:10,480
Speaker 1: turn in really good players. All right, next one here,

950
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:12,719
Speaker 1: let's keep it going. Defensive player of the Year. Here

951
00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 1: are your odds from Ben MGM. Mobley the favorite, but

952
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:17,440
Speaker 1: it's a little closer than those other races we looked at.

953
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:21,640
Speaker 1: He's minus three hundred for the Cavaliers. You got Draymond

954
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 1: Green plus six hundred, Dyson Daniels plus nine hundred, and

955
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:29,320
Speaker 1: then Jackson Junior plus one thousand. TK your thoughts on this.

956
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 4: I'm kind of surprised Jaron Jackson Junior is so low.

957
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:34,480
Speaker 4: I guess he did just miss a little bit of time.

958
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 4: And like I've said, the Grizzlies actually haven't been a

959
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:39,520
Speaker 4: very good defensive team since the calendar flipped over to

960
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:41,640
Speaker 4: twenty twenty five. But it seemed to me like he

961
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:43,240
Speaker 4: was the leader when he went out with his injury.

962
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:46,919
Speaker 4: Didn't miss he missed what five games? Yeah, you really

963
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:49,320
Speaker 4: dropped in sixty two. But I think Evan Mobley is

964
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 4: a good choice for Defensive Player of the Year. The

965
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:54,480
Speaker 4: Cavs have been a great defensive team. Jared Allen a

966
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 4: great defender as well, but the versatility that Mobley brings,

967
00:44:57,640 --> 00:44:59,520
Speaker 4: being able to be a switchable guy but also being

968
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 4: able to beat five when they need to go to

969
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 4: a smaller lineup, I think it earns him some votes.

970
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:05,920
Speaker 4: And you know, like he's not going to be on

971
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:10,360
Speaker 4: our Most Improved Player Odds leader board, so here's another

972
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:11,759
Speaker 4: good way for him to get an award when he

973
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:12,600
Speaker 4: definitely deserves one.

974
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:15,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, Evin Mobley has been a great defender for a

975
00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:17,360
Speaker 3: long time. He was third in Defensive Player of the

976
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:20,399
Speaker 3: Year voting for his second year, and then last year,

977
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:24,400
Speaker 3: his third year, he wasn't eligible because of games played.

978
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:28,319
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm totally fine, sort of. It is kind

979
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 3: of like a resume award handed out at times, And yes,

980
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:37,520
Speaker 3: that team is ridiculously good defensively. The Jaron Jackson Grizzlies

981
00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:40,880
Speaker 3: team has dropped off dramatically since the calendar year. They

982
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 3: were fourth in twenty twenty four until they were twenty

983
00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:47,719
Speaker 3: first in twenty twenty five. Since January first, so they

984
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:50,239
Speaker 3: have really, really really fallen off. It is surprising to

985
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:53,000
Speaker 3: see Draymond Green up there a little bit, see.

986
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:55,319
Speaker 1: Him second, a little shocking, but Furs have been good,

987
00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:58,839
Speaker 1: they've been since Jimmy. He's top ten defensively. But I'm

988
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:01,880
Speaker 1: more shocked that there's not like a representative for the

989
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:04,840
Speaker 1: thunder No Dirt. Yeah, where is dor? Like, I mean,

990
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 1: I think he's like pretty close to the next on

991
00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:08,920
Speaker 1: the list, like fifty six or seventh, I forget what

992
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:11,239
Speaker 1: it was, But like that's a little shocking because that's

993
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:12,880
Speaker 1: we talk about this award a lot. It's like it's

994
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:14,800
Speaker 1: a bit of a like a who's the best defender

995
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:16,880
Speaker 1: on your team? When you're an elite defense, which they are,

996
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:19,080
Speaker 1: and a lot of guys does there some praise, even

997
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:22,000
Speaker 1: SG included, but dort to me is like it's you know,

998
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 1: you get put in the Dorty chamber for a reason,

999
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:26,920
Speaker 1: Like he's tough as hell and I don't think he's

1000
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:28,719
Speaker 1: gonna win him, but it's shocking that his odds aren't

1001
00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:29,839
Speaker 1: even on there top four.

1002
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 3: He'll get votes, yeah, should these are for the betters.

1003
00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:37,239
Speaker 3: I guess the betters aren't betting on dirt. Yeah, I guess.

1004
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:39,440
Speaker 1: There was an interesting article from Hollinger I think it

1005
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:42,480
Speaker 1: was yesterday the day before about Chris Dunn not like

1006
00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:46,680
Speaker 1: qualifying enough games, especially because of minutes played in games

1007
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:49,000
Speaker 1: to like make not Defensive player of the Year maybe,

1008
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:51,840
Speaker 1: but like all defense sort of honors. Yeah, sort of

1009
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:54,279
Speaker 1: really interesting. It's like, you know, of all, like, of

1010
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:56,359
Speaker 1: all the awards, it's like that one's maybe one where

1011
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:58,359
Speaker 1: we shouldn't get so hell bent on the twenty minutes

1012
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:00,920
Speaker 1: played per game or maybe even the sixty five games

1013
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 1: because you're sort of a specialist as a defensive player.

1014
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:05,359
Speaker 1: So that was an interesting article. Yeah, it makes Chris

1015
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:06,040
Speaker 1: Dun's been great.

1016
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:10,279
Speaker 4: Yeah, basically like the Caruso stipulation, right, like he I

1017
00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:11,960
Speaker 4: don't think he would have made it last year or

1018
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 4: something like, I don't know what it was, but you're

1019
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:16,560
Speaker 4: what you're saying. These guys aren't necessarily playing more than

1020
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:19,719
Speaker 4: twenty minutes a game, but as defensive specialist, they're the

1021
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:23,080
Speaker 4: best defensive player out there. So that's something that'll probably change.

1022
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:25,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, because we don't do it for rookie.

1023
00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:28,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, most improved. I think we said maybe he doesn't

1024
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:28,719
Speaker 4: have that.

1025
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:31,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, somebody told me that. Yeah, I think you're right.

1026
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:34,920
Speaker 1: Let's go to sixth Man of the Year. This is

1027
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:37,320
Speaker 1: really is a two man race, pretty you know, in

1028
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 1: a weird way similar to MVP. It's Peyton Pritchard is

1029
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:42,880
Speaker 1: the favorite minus three hundred, and then Malik Beasley with

1030
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:45,320
Speaker 1: the Pistons plus two fifty. And then you got a

1031
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:47,919
Speaker 1: couple of Calves on the list there in DeAndre Hunter

1032
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:50,680
Speaker 1: and Ty Jerome at plus twenty five hundred. But it's

1033
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:53,839
Speaker 1: a take your pick. It's Pritchard or Beasley Trey. If

1034
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:56,040
Speaker 1: you you know season ended today, would you vote for

1035
00:47:56,480 --> 00:47:59,400
Speaker 1: fast Pp It's still one of the oldest nick days've

1036
00:47:59,400 --> 00:47:59,719
Speaker 1: ever heard.

1037
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:02,839
Speaker 4: Or Beasley fast Pp or the Wiggleworm.

1038
00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:04,320
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know.

1039
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:07,360
Speaker 4: I I'm it feels like it must be recency biased,

1040
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:10,120
Speaker 4: but I think Milik Beasley should be leading this. But

1041
00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:11,920
Speaker 4: maybe it's just because I've seen a lot of Pistons

1042
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:14,280
Speaker 4: games where they's hitting like seven threes off the bench

1043
00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:18,239
Speaker 4: and you know, giving them a little bit of Uh.

1044
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:19,440
Speaker 1: I hate to say it.

1045
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:21,359
Speaker 4: I hate to say he's bringing the aura to this team,

1046
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:21,759
Speaker 4: but he is.

1047
00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 1: Man.

1048
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:24,920
Speaker 4: He's bringing a little bit of aura to to the

1049
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:27,640
Speaker 4: Detroit Pistons, and he has been instrumental in them getting

1050
00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:29,360
Speaker 4: a lot of wins. But you know, Peyton Pritchard has

1051
00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:31,399
Speaker 4: had a forty point game. I'm sure he started that one,

1052
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:33,320
Speaker 4: and he was awesome in the first half of the

1053
00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:36,840
Speaker 4: season as well. Maybe it's just Beasley's case is picking

1054
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 4: up Stea in the second half and Pritchard's just kind

1055
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:42,400
Speaker 4: of been there the entirety of the season. But uh,

1056
00:48:42,560 --> 00:48:44,840
Speaker 4: from a recncy standpoint, I'm definitely going with Wiggles.

1057
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:46,279
Speaker 1: Pritchard didn't start that one.

1058
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 4: He didn't.

1059
00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:50,160
Speaker 1: He has come up all seven games, which I mean,

1060
00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:52,680
Speaker 1: I think I think that's calculated a little bit as

1061
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:54,840
Speaker 1: well for his chances to win this award, and.

1062
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:57,280
Speaker 3: I think it should be. Yeah, I think it matters

1063
00:48:57,360 --> 00:48:59,640
Speaker 3: a little bit. He's done it since the beginning of

1064
00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:03,320
Speaker 3: the season. Malik Beasley has been freaking awesome. He deserves

1065
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:06,840
Speaker 3: plenty of votes. DeAndre Hunter I thought it was going

1066
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 3: to be there for a while. That ain't happening anymore

1067
00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 3: with the trade going on to Cleveland. He doesn't have

1068
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:13,880
Speaker 3: such a big role. But it's great to see the

1069
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:18,520
Speaker 3: word Jerome on the ground. It was so weird on

1070
00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:21,719
Speaker 3: our graphic. It looks like, is that a first first

1071
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:25,120
Speaker 3: name that's on the graphic the last year road because

1072
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:26,840
Speaker 3: you've only got the last names on there. Just you

1073
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 3: just see a Jerome. Yeah, he's a He's a two namer,

1074
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:33,359
Speaker 3: that's true. Never call him you never call him Droke.

1075
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:35,600
Speaker 1: How about this to decide six Man of the Year.

1076
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:38,680
Speaker 1: We didn't have it over all Star weekend this year

1077
00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:41,279
Speaker 1: where we had like Caitlin Clark or Sabrina taken on

1078
00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 1: Staff or Claire because we didn't do it this year

1079
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:45,239
Speaker 1: on we just have like a little mini shootout between

1080
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:47,360
Speaker 1: these two guys from three So the three point contest

1081
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:49,880
Speaker 1: to decide the award. Sure, just do it during the

1082
00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:52,480
Speaker 1: playing game or something like that halftime of the playing game,

1083
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:55,120
Speaker 1: because there's I bring that up because they're shooting identical

1084
00:49:55,239 --> 00:49:58,600
Speaker 1: percentages from deep right now forty one for both guys,

1085
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:02,480
Speaker 1: they've been amazing for their teams, obviously both winning basketball teams.

1086
00:50:02,719 --> 00:50:05,239
Speaker 1: Yea a little shootout between Pritchard and Beasley, it'll be

1087
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:07,799
Speaker 1: fun as hell. Put the award there at center court.

1088
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:11,279
Speaker 1: Get rid of the those what.

1089
00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:14,000
Speaker 4: Are they called the sprite balls or starry oh, storry

1090
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:16,359
Speaker 4: starry range. Yeah, the hell out of here.

1091
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:20,880
Speaker 1: All right, final one here, most improved Player. You might

1092
00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:22,759
Speaker 1: be wondering, who the hell's even up for this award. Well,

1093
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 1: Cunningham's the favorite. Kate Cunningham of the Pistons, you know,

1094
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:27,759
Speaker 1: turned into an All Star this year. That's sort of

1095
00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 1: the trend with this award. Minus two seventy five to

1096
00:50:30,719 --> 00:50:33,759
Speaker 1: take home MIP, and then Dyson Daniels making the list again,

1097
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:36,319
Speaker 1: he's plus two to fifty. And then a couple guys

1098
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:39,760
Speaker 1: with long shot chances here Tyler Hero plus three thousand

1099
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:42,600
Speaker 1: and Christian Brown plus four thousand for the Nuggets. Tests.

1100
00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:45,320
Speaker 1: You think it goes to Kate and this trend of

1101
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:48,200
Speaker 1: like a guy that's good turning into an All Star

1102
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:50,560
Speaker 1: and we just continue to keep rewarding them for MIP

1103
00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:51,560
Speaker 1: whether you like it or not.

1104
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:56,719
Speaker 3: In this scenario, for sure, he's just been drastically better

1105
00:50:57,000 --> 00:51:02,000
Speaker 3: and slightly unexpected for some people. For some Yeah, here,

1106
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:04,399
Speaker 3: here we are a year four of Cad Cunningham turning

1107
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:06,799
Speaker 3: his team into a winning team. There's also that part

1108
00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:09,800
Speaker 3: of it that they went from an abysmal team his

1109
00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:14,399
Speaker 3: first three years of his career too fantastically good. Yeah,

1110
00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:16,000
Speaker 3: he just looks like a number one pick all of

1111
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:20,720
Speaker 3: a sudden bang, how great he's become, okay carrying his team. Frankly,

1112
00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:23,759
Speaker 3: he's yes, I'm okay with it. I'm okay with it.

1113
00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:29,040
Speaker 4: A first pick winning Most Improved Yeah, honestly disgusting, but

1114
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:31,920
Speaker 4: we've had second I was gonna say, so this is

1115
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:34,120
Speaker 4: the This could be the final nail in the coffin

1116
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:37,960
Speaker 4: of most Improved Player. The guy's a first overall. Interesting, ridiculous.

1117
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:41,200
Speaker 4: This is a team award. They're saying, Detroit Pistons, you

1118
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:44,160
Speaker 4: improved the most this year, so you're getting most Improved Player,

1119
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:46,360
Speaker 4: Kate Cunningham. We got to give you something. The numbers

1120
00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:47,239
Speaker 4: aren't that much better.

1121
00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:50,080
Speaker 1: I think it'd be fascinating, if not that much better.

1122
00:51:50,160 --> 00:51:52,520
Speaker 1: If Jalen Johnson didn't get injured, this would be a

1123
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:57,480
Speaker 1: very interesting Yes, I think the we factor would have

1124
00:51:57,520 --> 00:52:02,040
Speaker 1: been fascinating. I agree, you're preaching to the choir. Yeah,

1125
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:03,640
Speaker 1: it's a good point. John Morant won this as a

1126
00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:04,440
Speaker 1: number two pick.

1127
00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:06,680
Speaker 4: The Grizzlies had an awesome season that year.

1128
00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:07,080
Speaker 1: Yep.

1129
00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:09,400
Speaker 4: He didn't even want the award to be so he

1130
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:10,400
Speaker 4: has two opportunities.

1131
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:13,440
Speaker 1: It was going to give it to Okay, sure you

1132
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:16,279
Speaker 1: deserve something. If he doesn't get a sixth minute. Yeah.

1133
00:52:16,880 --> 00:52:18,800
Speaker 3: As much as I like Dyson Daniels, a lot of

1134
00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:22,200
Speaker 3: it is more minutes. Yeah, you're playing now, you're good.

1135
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:24,319
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just because he jumped from twenty two

1136
00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:27,200
Speaker 3: to thirty four minutes. He has obviously been amazing, leading

1137
00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:29,320
Speaker 3: the league and steals the most steals we've had in

1138
00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:30,399
Speaker 3: a long time in the NBA.

1139
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:32,560
Speaker 1: All that he'll be first team All Defense, he'll make

1140
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:35,080
Speaker 1: Daniels whether he wins DPI or not. So way a

1141
00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:39,279
Speaker 1: little chuck in there with the awards. Bet MGM didn't

1142
00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:43,920
Speaker 1: have the Coach of the Year odds. So many candidates,

1143
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:46,760
Speaker 1: I guess I can't include it. I assume Kenny Atkinson

1144
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:47,719
Speaker 1: is the favorite.

1145
00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:49,960
Speaker 4: Gotta be Kenny.

1146
00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:52,359
Speaker 1: It has to be. I saw there was a post

1147
00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:56,080
Speaker 1: going around the other day from Thunder account thunder fans saying,

1148
00:52:56,160 --> 00:52:58,560
Speaker 1: why is it Mark Dannell getting more love for coach

1149
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:01,440
Speaker 1: the year he won it last year? I guess is

1150
00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:03,160
Speaker 1: the response to that. I don't think a coach has

1151
00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:05,279
Speaker 1: ever gone back to back. It's like, Okay, you're a

1152
00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:07,040
Speaker 1: good coach. We know you're a good coach. You still

1153
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:09,839
Speaker 1: have a good team. We're not giving it to you again, right,

1154
00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: That's the main reason I would say. But yeah, Kenny Atkinson,

1155
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:19,000
Speaker 1: anyone else maybe JB. Bickerstaff for sure. Yeah, that's for sure. Yeah, okay,

1156
00:53:19,120 --> 00:53:19,400
Speaker 1: there you go.

1157
00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:23,520
Speaker 4: You're probably JJ Reddick. I think I'll finish top five.

1158
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:25,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, you think Kenny will win this award though, Kenny

1159
00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:29,799
Speaker 1: Atkinson blowout? Well, first we have to find out who

1160
00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:30,560
Speaker 1: the coaches get.

1161
00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:32,400
Speaker 4: That's exactly right.

1162
00:53:32,560 --> 00:53:35,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, the one that always confuses people for a second.

1163
00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:37,359
Speaker 1: Everyone's like sneaking in here. You're like, oh, oh, Kenny

1164
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:39,520
Speaker 1: Atkinson one coaches here, like, oh wait, no, that's the

1165
00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:44,920
Speaker 1: Coaches Award. But I like his chances to repeat. All right,

1166
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 1: let's go to pick them tonight. Tasks where we go

1167
00:53:48,200 --> 00:53:49,520
Speaker 1: and managinly four games.

1168
00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:54,040
Speaker 3: On We're going to Los Angeles. The Clippers are hosting

1169
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:56,520
Speaker 3: the Calves. The Calves favored by four and a half

1170
00:53:56,600 --> 00:53:59,760
Speaker 3: points on the road. There are fifty six and eleven.

1171
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:02,239
Speaker 3: I've only got fifteen games left, So will they win

1172
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:04,279
Speaker 3: seventy games? Well, they got to go fourteen and one

1173
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:07,640
Speaker 3: the rest of the way. That's tough. It's also a

1174
00:54:07,719 --> 00:54:11,360
Speaker 3: little tough, is that Evan Mobley questionable? Four of the

1175
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:15,120
Speaker 3: cavaliers eleven losses this season have come with Mobiley on

1176
00:54:15,239 --> 00:54:18,560
Speaker 3: the sideline. It's kind of a lot four of eleven

1177
00:54:19,160 --> 00:54:22,960
Speaker 3: for them. For them, Yes, So not sure if he's

1178
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:25,320
Speaker 3: playing or not, but three of us are still confident

1179
00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:29,720
Speaker 3: in the Calves winning in Los Angeles by five skeets.

1180
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:33,359
Speaker 3: You've got the points and you're taking the Clippers. Were

1181
00:54:33,440 --> 00:54:35,960
Speaker 3: you last? Because no, No, I.

1182
00:54:36,080 --> 00:54:38,759
Speaker 1: Wasn't last in the dock this morning. I just I

1183
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:41,600
Speaker 1: felt like swerving a little bit. Thought the line was

1184
00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:43,480
Speaker 1: a little odd. I was like, yeah, you know, I

1185
00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:46,279
Speaker 1: was wrong last night obviously taking the Warriors thought they

1186
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:49,040
Speaker 1: would take care of business. Especially then you'll learn Yo

1187
00:54:49,120 --> 00:54:51,360
Speaker 1: Kitchen Murray aren't playing like, oh that's given me an

1188
00:54:51,400 --> 00:54:54,319
Speaker 1: easy one. No, they straight up blues so anything can happen.

1189
00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:56,759
Speaker 1: As we just talked about weird March games, I'll take

1190
00:54:56,800 --> 00:54:59,640
Speaker 1: the clips in the points. What I do like about this,

1191
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:02,719
Speaker 1: I guess month of the regular season. Even at the top,

1192
00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:05,440
Speaker 1: even though Cleveland is a million games up on the

1193
00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:08,120
Speaker 1: Celtics and the Thunder a million games up on the

1194
00:55:08,239 --> 00:55:11,800
Speaker 1: Rockets out West, they those two teams are playing for

1195
00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:14,719
Speaker 1: the best record in the NBA. If they believe they're

1196
00:55:14,719 --> 00:55:16,640
Speaker 1: going to see each other in the finals, that can matter.

1197
00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:19,160
Speaker 1: And they are like they're almost like tied right now, right,

1198
00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:21,200
Speaker 1: I guess one more game played, one more loss for

1199
00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 1: the Thunder at this point. So that's sort of like,

1200
00:55:23,880 --> 00:55:25,320
Speaker 1: you gotta know, they got to have that in the

1201
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:27,360
Speaker 1: back of their head, and there's there's some depth on

1202
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:28,839
Speaker 1: that team so they can they don't have to play

1203
00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:30,600
Speaker 1: all their stars every night and they could still win.

1204
00:55:30,719 --> 00:55:34,320
Speaker 1: But they're like second and third units to watch Man.

1205
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:37,160
Speaker 3: And they're coming off a loss against the Magic, So yeah,

1206
00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:39,120
Speaker 3: maybe they'll be a little hunt.

1207
00:55:39,239 --> 00:55:39,759
Speaker 1: We'll see.

1208
00:55:40,080 --> 00:55:40,200
Speaker 4: Uh.

1209
00:55:40,320 --> 00:55:42,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's one of the four games on tonight. We

1210
00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:45,319
Speaker 1: also have Bucks at Warriors, well Steph playing that. It's

1211
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:49,760
Speaker 1: on NBA TV, Nets at Celtics and Hawks at hornets.

1212
00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:53,040
Speaker 3: What you said.

1213
00:55:55,320 --> 00:55:58,960
Speaker 1: Cracks, It was almost hock acts.

1214
00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:06,040
Speaker 3: My god, yesterday while watching playback for some reason without me, Yeah,

1215
00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:08,080
Speaker 3: I can't remember why.

1216
00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:10,920
Speaker 4: Wow, I don't know we had that.

1217
00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:15,120
Speaker 2: Using it for another show.

1218
00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:18,520
Speaker 1: And what other show we're using a hawk?

1219
00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:20,080
Speaker 3: Is this good?

1220
00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:20,759
Speaker 1: Oh wow?

1221
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:22,200
Speaker 3: What's the scenario?

1222
00:56:23,480 --> 00:56:28,719
Speaker 1: We're talking sound effects, that's all talking effects. I did

1223
00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:31,359
Speaker 1: listen to is this bad? You're obviously spin off show

1224
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:34,360
Speaker 1: of Is this good? Or the same feed about Bohemian Rhapsody?

1225
00:56:34,600 --> 00:56:37,759
Speaker 2: Yes, I agree, disagree, Oh, agreed with the.

1226
00:56:37,880 --> 00:56:40,279
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it a lot. I like when it's a

1227
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:42,760
Speaker 1: movie that I know is absolute garbage and then everybody

1228
00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:45,480
Speaker 1: just talks crap about it. Those are fun listens. And

1229
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:48,160
Speaker 1: that's what that was pretty much. Because it's not good.

1230
00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:54,400
Speaker 1: I can't believe you had to watch that again. So yeah, anyway,

1231
00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:56,800
Speaker 1: but you did inspire me to want to watch the

1232
00:56:56,880 --> 00:56:57,600
Speaker 1: Elton John one.

1233
00:56:57,640 --> 00:57:00,000
Speaker 2: I guess, yeah, rocommands g Yeah, Rockaman's good.

1234
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:02,359
Speaker 1: It didn't look good at all of me, I mean,

1235
00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:03,400
Speaker 1: but I'd like to hear that.

1236
00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:06,680
Speaker 2: You guys think it's it's a musical, so prepare Prepare myself.

1237
00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:10,640
Speaker 1: But I liked Prepare Myself by like singing.

1238
00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:13,840
Speaker 2: And yeah, pre very prepared to see songs in the

1239
00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:15,640
Speaker 2: streets and things right, right.

1240
00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:18,640
Speaker 1: But that's what you like about the whimsy? I think

1241
00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:23,280
Speaker 1: Bohemian Rhapsody could have used probably right, not enough whimsy?

1242
00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:27,200
Speaker 3: Wow? Yeah enough?

1243
00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:35,520
Speaker 4: Anybody watched Better Man yet Robin Williams The Monkey Monkey Man?

1244
00:57:36,560 --> 00:57:39,000
Speaker 1: You want to talk about whimsy? Maybe they went to

1245
00:57:39,120 --> 00:57:41,880
Speaker 1: pretty whimsy? Did you watch it? Ye? Okay, but I will.

1246
00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:43,880
Speaker 1: I mean that's a that's a rental at home for sure.

1247
00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:44,160
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1248
00:57:44,240 --> 00:57:46,280
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna sit there waiting for Angels to come on.

1249
00:57:46,560 --> 00:57:50,160
Speaker 1: It's the only song I know. Oh yeah, ellis.

1250
00:57:50,320 --> 00:57:53,680
Speaker 3: Yeah. Anybody watched the Bob Dylan movie.

1251
00:57:56,200 --> 00:58:00,120
Speaker 1: A Musicals? Doesn't I think Wickeds coming to uh to

1252
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:03,040
Speaker 1: one of the stream peaks? Yeah? Maybe? No, I think

1253
00:58:03,040 --> 00:58:03,960
Speaker 1: you're right, big cock.

1254
00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:06,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I already already bought it.

1255
00:58:06,240 --> 00:58:06,960
Speaker 1: You already bought it?

1256
00:58:07,200 --> 00:58:09,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, spend it freaking load.

1257
00:58:10,600 --> 00:58:11,080
Speaker 1: Twenty five?

1258
00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:11,480
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1259
00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:16,600
Speaker 4: Oh man, I hate that one. Then I look and

1260
00:58:16,680 --> 00:58:19,680
Speaker 4: see like the movies that I've actually spent movie money

1261
00:58:19,720 --> 00:58:23,600
Speaker 4: to buy on. It's like Neighbors Too, Despicable Me, Rise

1262
00:58:23,640 --> 00:58:26,000
Speaker 4: of Grew. It's just like we need to watch this

1263
00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:28,200
Speaker 4: movie tonight. Yeah, and now I have it.

1264
00:58:28,840 --> 00:58:31,120
Speaker 1: I mean I don't have kids. Part of the question.

1265
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:35,120
Speaker 1: I have never bought a movie, never bought it, never

1266
00:58:35,280 --> 00:58:37,840
Speaker 1: bought a movie. Wow, I've rented movies where you have

1267
00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:41,800
Speaker 1: to pay like the four bucks. Yeah, okay, yeah, that's fine.

1268
00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:45,200
Speaker 1: That retarded because I'm like, there's no way i'll watch

1269
00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:48,760
Speaker 1: this enough. I'll watch it. I'm watching neighbors.

1270
00:58:49,040 --> 00:58:53,120
Speaker 4: You would Yeah, yeah, you might get that wicked money better.

1271
00:58:53,440 --> 00:58:56,240
Speaker 2: You're definitely getting that money bag that could.

1272
00:58:56,320 --> 00:58:59,320
Speaker 3: The kids are gonna watch it that it's very musical.

1273
00:58:59,400 --> 00:59:02,160
Speaker 2: Okay, three watches, three watches.

1274
00:59:02,360 --> 00:59:03,960
Speaker 3: Watch you get your money's worth it? I mean you

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Speaker 3: almost got your money's worth now. Anyway, Like how much

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Speaker 3: does a movie theater? You didn't go to ye to

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Speaker 3: own corn? Saving money? Right there, that's a good.

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Speaker 1: Perspective.

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Speaker 3: Neighbors too, just quick?

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Speaker 1: Was it all right.

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Speaker 4: Neighbors come over and watch fires? Thick?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Well, I don't remember it being as good as neighbors.

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Speaker 3: I see you rotten tomatoes. Seventy two for neighbors one

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Speaker 3: it's just called neighbors, and then sixty four for neighbors.

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Speaker 4: To pretty close though, pretty yol.

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Speaker 3: That's seventy two.

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Speaker 4: It was give me a name who is the Seth

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Speaker 4: Seth Rogen and Iron.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I've watched that first one. That's funny. Yeah, it's good,

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Speaker 1: it's pretty good.

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Speaker 2: That's great.

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Speaker 1: But the second one, yeah, happy Gilmore too. It just

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Speaker 1: released the trailer for it. That's coming back. Looking forward

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Speaker 1: to that Holy on Netflix. Of course I can't even

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Speaker 1: go see it in the movie, of course. All right,

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Speaker 1: we'll call it there. We'll be back tomorrow morning at

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Speaker 1: ten am Eastern. We'll be talking about these games tonight,

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Speaker 1: maybe looking ahead to the March Madness men's bracket, looking

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Speaker 1: at some big names, some prospects to watch for us

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Speaker 1: NBA sichos, So we can look forward to that until then,

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Speaker 1: Clipper bros.

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Speaker 4: You heard it here first, have a great time, turn up.

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Speaker 4: Love you guys, awesome, Thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 3: And remember I'm back to the sixth Man of the

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Speaker 3: Year stats. Here. Here's a reason why Malik Beasley could win. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: they have the same three point percentage Richard and Malik

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Speaker 3: Beasley at forty one point eight. But Malik Beasley's forty

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Speaker 3: two point four percent when he comes off the bench

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Speaker 3: thirty nine point nine when he starts, So he's a

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Speaker 3: better bench better. I love it.

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Speaker 1: I love it Wow, Embrace the day people