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Speaker 1: Good morning, Sweemer, and welcome to the Nodunks podcast on

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Speaker 1: the Athletic Network. It's Tuesday, October thirty first, twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: Happy Halloween.

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Speaker 2: I'm j E.

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Speaker 1: Skeets, a big basketball fan here in the Classic Factory,

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Speaker 1: and to my left it's a werewolf from London. Trey Kirby,

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Speaker 1: Oh oh, and the boy making the magic happen over

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Speaker 1: yonder super producer. That's Ralfie. Hello, that's up. That's it guys,

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Speaker 1: look great, Thank you. I'm going to change into my

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Speaker 1: costume later in the show. I was just handed a

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Speaker 1: costume by JD's wife. Put it on. Yeah, so I

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Speaker 1: for joining us live on YouTube. Smash that like button

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Speaker 1: and subscribe. Well is the werewolf southern? Is he from

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Speaker 1: south of London?

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Speaker 2: You want a Southern lawyer? Or do you want a

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Speaker 2: Cockney lawyer?

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Speaker 1: Surprise me?

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Speaker 2: We all saut for try.

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Speaker 1: Here it is. Yeah, we got ourselves a trade. Well

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Speaker 1: after two am Eastern last night, news broke that the

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Speaker 1: seventy six ers have finally traded James Harden to the

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Speaker 1: Clippers for a package of players and picks. Here are

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Speaker 1: the details. Seventy six Ers sending herd In, PJ. Tucker,

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Speaker 1: and Philip Petrussev to the Clippers for Marcus Morris, Robert Covington,

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Speaker 1: Nick Batoomb, kJ Martin, the draft picks going to Philly,

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Speaker 1: a twenty twenty six first round pick from LA by

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Speaker 1: way of OKC, a twenty twenty eight first rounder, and

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Speaker 1: two second round picks, also a pick swap. I will

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Speaker 1: note here we have learned that the Clippers are sending

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Speaker 1: a twenty twenty seven first round pick swap to OKC,

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Speaker 1: clearing the way for the Thunder to move that protected

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Speaker 1: twenty six first round pick to the seventy six ers.

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Speaker 1: And oh yeah, the Sixers will waive veteran guard Danny

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Speaker 1: Green to create the roster space for the trade Harden

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Speaker 1: to LA.

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Speaker 2: How about it called at skeets. Darryl Mory can take

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Speaker 2: his time now there has balling out. He took his time.

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Speaker 2: About twelve hours after we recorded. I wake up this

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Speaker 2: morning suddenly James Harden is on the Clippers after months

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Speaker 2: of wanting to be on the Clippers. I've heard this

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Speaker 2: called a blockbuster trade. It does include a former MVP,

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Speaker 2: a guy who led the league and assists last season.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if it necessarily qualifies considering the return

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Speaker 2: to Philadelphia, but this is definitely interesting. There's a lot

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Speaker 2: of ball handlers on the Clippers right now. They've been

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Speaker 2: after James Harden, They've been after a point guard for

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Speaker 2: some time. They brought in Russell Westbrook at the end

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Speaker 2: of last year. He did okay, did okay in the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: It's looked nice to start the season. Obviously, Kawhi Leonard

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Speaker 2: and Paul George handle the ball quite a bit when

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Speaker 2: they're around. Yep, and then we know that James Harden

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Speaker 2: is going to be taking a huge share of sessions,

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Speaker 2: likely as the point guard for this team, setting up Kawhi,

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Speaker 2: setting up Paul George. I hope that means what Russell

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Speaker 2: Westbrook is okay coming off the bench. Didn't go great

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Speaker 2: in the other LA stop he had, so we shall see.

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Speaker 2: It's a different part of his career. But man, it's

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Speaker 2: gonna be weird to see these four sharing the court

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Speaker 2: at some point probably. I mean, four of the greatest

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Speaker 2: twenty ten players out there, four guys from the LA

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Speaker 2: area as well, all coming home to play on the

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Speaker 2: same team. But I think everybody is going to agree

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Speaker 2: that this is going to be the ultimate prove it

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Speaker 2: in the playoffs team.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this might help.

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Speaker 2: The Clippers during the regular season, but you gotta be

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I guess by all reports, it was critical for

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Speaker 1: the Clippers to keep Terrence Man's right out of this trade,

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Speaker 1: and they did. Darryl Moury blinked and he said, fine,

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Speaker 1: we won't take Man. You know, get us those picks

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Speaker 1: and we can talk about what the Sixers got here

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Speaker 1: and if we if we like it or not. But

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Speaker 1: they managed to do that. The Clippers did. They kept

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Speaker 1: him out, you know, Norman No, Norman Powell as well.

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Speaker 1: They just consolidated a bunch of power forwards in Morris

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Speaker 1: But man, they are really just trying to go all

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Speaker 1: Those guys can opt out of their contracts in twenty

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Speaker 1: their new dome right around the corner. But you're right, Trey,

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Speaker 1: you can't get too excited for this because it's like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: you don't know. I just absolutely don't know, And they're

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Speaker 1: credit to them for keeping Man and I would even

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Speaker 1: because you need some depth if.

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Speaker 2: Your guys go down. So and getting PJ. Tucker back

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Speaker 2: wouldn't surprise me if he ends up starting for this

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Speaker 2: Clippers team. I guess it's gonna be hard in Kawhi PG,

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Speaker 2: saying the guys aren't necessarily reliable, but now you've got

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Speaker 2: four of them who aren't necessarily reliable. Two of them

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Speaker 2: could be reliable any night skeets, and that's probably part

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Speaker 2: of it. This is a little bit of Kawhi Leonard insurance,

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Speaker 2: a little bit of Paul George insurance. Especially during the

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Speaker 2: regular season. Those guys can take an unauthorized or maybe

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Speaker 2: authorized rest and you still have somebody who can create

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Speaker 1: Harden is so funny to think about his last seven games.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about the playoffs. Within those last seven games,

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Speaker 1: this guy did score over forty points in two of them. Yes,

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Speaker 1: he is good. Now, he had some brutal games, especially

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Speaker 1: is good. But the highs are so high and the

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Speaker 1: in the postseason. But it's just wild to think that

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Speaker 1: sounds like an incredible team. Yeah, six years ago, right,

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Speaker 1: He's like, who cares? I mean, I'll pay all these guys.

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Speaker 2: And I mean, honestly, the hometown marketing it probably helps here.

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Speaker 2: The Lakers are the team in LA, but all the

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Speaker 2: so maybe third times a charm. It's weird that Wesbrook

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Speaker 2: often have teammates been teammates in more than two places?

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Speaker 2: Can't be all that often, but yeah, I guess we

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Speaker 2: will see how it goes. My father in law's in town,

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Speaker 2: and this morning I told him about the James Harden

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Speaker 2: talk about in the morning. He says he can't seem

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Speaker 2: to make up his mind where he wants to be.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly right. But he knew he wanted to be

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Speaker 2: at the Clippers at least since the summer. Now he's there,

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Speaker 2: Let's see how it looks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he requested he requested a trade in June, yes,

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Speaker 1: and it took a while, but he got there, and

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Speaker 1: a part of it was maybe him rejoining the Sixers

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Speaker 1: bench on Sunday. We talked about the ideas like he

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Speaker 1: you gonna practice like he was set to practice, I

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Speaker 1: believe today with the Sixers as part of his conditioning

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Speaker 1: and the ramp up to his return. But we were debating, like, ooh,

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Speaker 1: do you even want to do that if you're Philadelphia

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Speaker 1: the way Max he's playing, the way the team is started,

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Speaker 1: Like now you're gonna put him back in here? Like

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Speaker 1: maybe just get rid of him, Maybe just make this move,

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Speaker 1: And that's what Morey did. In the end, Let's talk

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Speaker 1: about what they got back and how they made out here.

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Speaker 1: What would you grade this for Philadelphia is the return

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Speaker 1: of players and then all the sort of draft picks,

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Speaker 1: draft capital and swaps and all that that they got back.

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Speaker 2: Right now, I'm giving it a C. For the Sixers.

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Speaker 2: I think they downgraded, obviously from a talent perspective, sending

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Speaker 2: out Harden, who had his playoff failings obviously, but he

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Speaker 2: can't have an opportunity to help them lose Game six

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Speaker 2: in Game seven without those great games that actually got

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Speaker 2: them there right. So now they're bringing in three thirty

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Speaker 2: year old power forwards Nick Batoum thirty four, Morris thirty three,

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Speaker 2: Robert Covington thirty two, and then, like you're saying, kJ Martin,

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Speaker 2: who might actually be the best player, the most helpful

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Speaker 2: player they're getting right now. But obviously it was all

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Speaker 2: about the draft picks for Daryl Morey, that twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: eight Clippers unprotected pick, that one's gonna be nice. That

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Speaker 2: one's gonna be a hot one on the market, as

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Speaker 2: will the pick swap in twenty twenty nine. We have

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Speaker 2: questions about the Clippers staying healthy currently in the twenty

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Speaker 2: three twenty four season. You add on another four or

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Speaker 2: five years, the question marks are even bigger. So I

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Speaker 2: would say a C for the six right now because

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Speaker 2: they're worse. They definitely are, But those picks are going

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Speaker 2: to be be valuable, and obviously Darryl Moury wants to

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Speaker 2: make more moves between now and the trade deadline.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why I almost can't give it a see

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Speaker 1: it almost feels like an incomplete I hate to do it, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because you know, first off, they won this trade solely

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Speaker 1: because James Harden is gone. If we're being honest, like

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Speaker 1: you've removed. He's a talented player. But look, we went

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Speaker 1: through the ups and downs of this guy, and just

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Speaker 1: like the nightmare that he can be and the headache

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Speaker 1: that he can be, he's gone. PJ. Tucker is off

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Speaker 1: the books. And now in theory, Maury has a package

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Speaker 1: of players and specifically picks to acquire some sort of

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Speaker 1: third star or running mate alongside Maxie in the backcourt.

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Speaker 1: Woj basically reporting that the Sixers wanted to get two

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Speaker 1: first round picks out of a hardened trade and believe

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Speaker 1: that those assets, coupled with the second round picks and

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Speaker 1: a pick swap, give them a chance to pursue another

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Speaker 1: high level guard in a trade. To partner, that's the

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Speaker 1: question here, who is this mystery high level guard? Do

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Speaker 1: you have any guesses who Mary probably has on like

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Speaker 1: on his list here of like, ooh, that's who we

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Speaker 1: could go get? Who you got?

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Speaker 2: Could it be two time All Stars Zachary Levine?

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Speaker 1: I believe it could be Levine, It.

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Speaker 2: Definitely could be. He's a great scorer. He sometimes is

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Speaker 2: overtaxed as the number one guy, but between Maxi and

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Speaker 2: Embiid he doesn't have to be the number one guy

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Speaker 2: who would fit nicely around both of those players. Maxi's

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Speaker 2: creation skills are great. The space he would give Embiid

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Speaker 2: to stagger. Definitely a trade target that I could see

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Speaker 2: the Sixers being interested in. Who knows if the balls

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Speaker 1: Any other thoughts here on the clips sixers blockbuster deal.

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Speaker 1: I saw some people throwing Blockbuster in the title. Oh

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Speaker 1: oh wow. I don't know about that.

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Speaker 2: It's a sock duster, you know. The end of the day,

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Speaker 2: you know you do that? Yeah, yeah, I know how

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Speaker 1: I have a dog.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of here, and that's if this feels

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, that was That was a wild thing to

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Speaker 2: They're still talking about light what or other video Our

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Speaker 2: our non Blockbuster one was Villa Video, villaing up. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: We had a store called in Strafford Video plus Books

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Speaker 3: Oh wow.

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Speaker 2: They had video books, CDs, all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: Video plus Books. Blockbuster came to town Strafford so loyal

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Speaker 1: They had like three three stores in Strafford, like twenty

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Speaker 1: Well, I was keeping them like in business, buying twenty

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Speaker 2: Stares are crazy. Blockbuster. You could rent a game system.

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Speaker 2: He's not playing. He's not going to play Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: This guy apparently got right on a plane. He's like,

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I think he's going to be there quite soon.

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Speaker 2: That was a simple game for Nicola Jokic. He was

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Speaker 2: He's asking for a flopping tex Wow mid play. That

431
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Speaker 2: was a new taunt to me, that guys flopping.

432
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Speaker 1: I just scored on him, ye and he's flopping. Give

433
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Speaker 1: him a tea. He didn't get a tea though, he

434
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Speaker 1: did not get a t Nope, good try, all right.

435
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Speaker 1: Number two star last night de Jonte Murray. He tied

436
00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:33,800
Speaker 1: his career high forty one points to help the Hawks

437
00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:38,080
Speaker 1: come back from a huge deficit. They won one twenty

438
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Speaker 1: seven to one to thirteen, so they blew out Minnesota

439
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Speaker 1: in the end, but Murray took control in the third

440
00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:47,440
Speaker 1: quarter scored twenty two points in the queue, completely wiped

441
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Speaker 1: out that seventy nine to sixty lead that Minnesota had

442
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Speaker 1: at the break. DJ connected on all eight of his

443
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Speaker 1: field goal attempts. He had a pair of threes. The

444
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Speaker 1: three we saw him playback at the end of the

445
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Speaker 1: third quarter had the place go nuts because that tied

446
00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:02,840
Speaker 1: the game going into the final queue, and then in

447
00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:05,520
Speaker 1: the fourth, Murray cut to the basket for a lay in,

448
00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:09,120
Speaker 1: Trey Murray hit a floater. Murray scored again on another

449
00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:11,720
Speaker 1: drive to the hoop. Tray finished off the scoring spurt

450
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Speaker 1: with a three, and it was like, uh oh, time

451
00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:15,200
Speaker 1: out Minnesota, and they could never get back into it.

452
00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:18,680
Speaker 1: Like crazy, they were in control of this game, like

453
00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:21,000
Speaker 1: Wolves fans on playback are like, oh, looking good, we

454
00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:23,680
Speaker 1: are dominating this and it turned like that. But a

455
00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:27,280
Speaker 1: lot of it was Murray Man and he's so streaky

456
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Speaker 1: because and when you're playing Minnesota, set up, set a

457
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Speaker 1: high pick and then you know Cat and Rudy, you're

458
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Speaker 1: gonna like hang a little bit closer to the rim.

459
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Speaker 1: And he was just stepping in a jumper after jumper

460
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Speaker 1: after jumper, and some nights it's pure for him. And

461
00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:41,760
Speaker 1: then it was extending to the three point line. So

462
00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:43,080
Speaker 1: he was a huge reason they won this.

463
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he got his rhythm during the blowout portion of

464
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Speaker 2: the game. I think it was five for ten in

465
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Speaker 2: the first half. Was playing pretty good basketball, and then,

466
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Speaker 2: like you're saying, he completely caught fire in the third

467
00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:56,359
Speaker 2: quarter and then they just could not turn off the water.

468
00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:58,440
Speaker 2: The drop was playing into his strength. It was either

469
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Speaker 2: an easy pull up jumper giving him a huge head

470
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Speaker 2: of steam to make a play at the rim. And

471
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Speaker 2: then there was like those four plays right at the

472
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Speaker 2: start of the fourth quarter, like you're talking about, whereas

473
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Speaker 2: Murray and Trey Young just basically trading baskets. That's like

474
00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:14,159
Speaker 2: the ideal version of the Hawks right there, those two

475
00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:15,880
Speaker 2: being able to do it from the perimeter.

476
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Speaker 1: And quick note here Jaal and Big Johnson were printing

477
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Speaker 1: the T shirts. Got another start twelve points, five boards,

478
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Speaker 1: terror in transition, as we've talked about too, a couple

479
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Speaker 1: nice plays.

480
00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:32,200
Speaker 2: Big Johnson run the court hard. Also another sick dunk

481
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Speaker 2: from Jalen Johnson right at the end of this game,

482
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Speaker 2: threw down a wind melt. I don't know what his

483
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Speaker 2: dunk bag is like, but potential dunk contest starting getting treated.

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Speaker 1: I would be saying, yeah, yeah, yeah. But the number

485
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Speaker 1: one star last night goes to Steph Curry. Forty two

486
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Speaker 1: points in thirty minutes in New Orleans. Came out hot.

487
00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:54,200
Speaker 1: He had sixteen of the Warriors first eighteen points. He

488
00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:58,120
Speaker 1: was running herb Jones ragged. I mean it was wild

489
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Speaker 1: to watch herb Jones are a good defender and he

490
00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:03,119
Speaker 1: has just coming around picks left and right, like just

491
00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,520
Speaker 1: tiring him out. I felt sorry for any time Matt

492
00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:07,960
Speaker 1: Ryan got matched up on Steph Curry. That was a bucket.

493
00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:11,200
Speaker 1: Dyson Daniels, oh Man, he was like splashing threes in

494
00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:14,400
Speaker 1: his eye. Everybody got it. He finished with five boards,

495
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Speaker 1: five assists, two steals, so forty two, five, five and

496
00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:19,320
Speaker 1: two warriors in the perfect three and zero on the

497
00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:21,119
Speaker 1: road here too. And there was no clay and there

498
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:24,040
Speaker 1: was no cominga, no Ingram for the Pelicans. But this

499
00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:26,760
Speaker 1: guy is right there with your Luca and Joker and

500
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Speaker 1: maybe even Tatum, a top the MVP leader board.

501
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Speaker 2: That's right. He was not on my one game MVP ballot,

502
00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:38,120
Speaker 2: but on your one week MVP he's third or fourth.

503
00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:40,720
Speaker 2: I think he's third right now on the Basketball Reference

504
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,680
Speaker 2: MVP tracker, which adds in on your your records and

505
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Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff, So he's definitely a top

506
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Speaker 2: fiver right now. He hadn't played in New Orleans in

507
00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:51,640
Speaker 2: a little bit of time. You get what you ask

508
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:54,159
Speaker 2: for sometimes, so he felt like he was trying to

509
00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:56,639
Speaker 2: put on a show for the people in New Orleans,

510
00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:59,119
Speaker 2: and he definitely did. I think it's interesting you mentioned

511
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Speaker 2: no Klay Thompson last night. Mos this Moody gets the start.

512
00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:04,920
Speaker 2: Chris Paul continues to come off the bench. Just plus

513
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Speaker 2: seventeen for.

514
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Speaker 1: Him, No problem, no problem. Honorable mentions. Jalen Brown was

515
00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:11,720
Speaker 1: on fire from three last night. Celtics killed the Wizards.

516
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:17,200
Speaker 1: DeAndre Ayton our first first big beef of the season

517
00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:21,160
Speaker 1: twenty three rebounds as the Blazers beat my Raptors. Oh boy,

518
00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:24,040
Speaker 1: Vucci baby was huge for your Bulls. We watched a

519
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Speaker 1: lot of that one on playback Bulls Pacers. That was

520
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Speaker 1: one of the one of the rare close games last night. Yeah,

521
00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:32,560
Speaker 1: a lot of them turned into to snoozers. Cam Thomas

522
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Speaker 1: is still on fire for the Nets. They got their

523
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Speaker 1: first win, and D'Angelo Russell in the late game was

524
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Speaker 1: pretty special in the fourth quarter and helped the Lakers beat.

525
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Speaker 2: The Magic basketball basketball on a Monday.

526
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Speaker 1: Eleven games on Monday night. I feel like we used

527
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Speaker 1: to not do that.

528
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Speaker 2: Who says the NBA scared of the NFL?

529
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Speaker 1: Who won the Lions?

530
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Speaker 2: Yes, the Lions did win. Dwayne's still alive in his

531
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Speaker 2: survivor pool. Oh wow wow halfway through the season. Actually good?

532
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Speaker 1: All right, go Joiner? All right? We're gonna take a

533
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Speaker 1: break and when we come back, it's spooky season. Don't

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Speaker 1: go anywhere all right here in the Classic Factory. We

535
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Speaker 1: just had a halftime show quick change. I'm Assassin's Creed.

536
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:25,760
Speaker 1: Apparently you can take me. That's him, right, that's it. Okay,

537
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Speaker 1: let's get into spooky season here on No Dunks Halloween Show.

538
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Speaker 1: I've got some spooky questions.

539
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Speaker 2: I've never seen a pumpkin before that's as stam as

540
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Speaker 2: the nose. Oh wow, it's weird like it.

541
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was like a sort of a crappy pumpkin.

542
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Speaker 1: I guess that had a flat bottom. There.

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Speaker 2: Just some pumpkin thoughts for you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, first question, play along in the stream team. Which

545
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Speaker 1: team is Spirit Halloween? And here's what I mean by that,

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Speaker 1: a team that's sort of popped up out of nowhere

547
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Speaker 1: this season, right because Spirit Halloween the largest Halloween retailer

548
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Speaker 1: in North America? How many stores do you think there are?

549
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Speaker 2: How many Spirit Halloweens? Yeah, fifty states, two hundred stores,

550
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 2: fifteen hundred, there's over thirty in Ohio.

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Speaker 1: That's too many.

552
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 2: That's a lot of a lot of fifteen hundred, fifteen hundred,

553
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Speaker 2: So they're open for a month a year.

554
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Speaker 1: These pop up stores, Yeah, they become iconic fixtures. A

555
00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 1: lot of them you're gonna find in vacant malls and

556
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 1: empty retail storefronts each fall. I'm more curious when do

557
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:43,720
Speaker 1: they close tomorrow? You don't think they stay open for

558
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Speaker 1: like an extra week for people to like go get

559
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Speaker 1: a discount costume. Oh sure, season, I don't know.

560
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Speaker 2: I have no id they do.

561
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,960
Speaker 1: I don't know anyway. Which team is Spirit Halloween a

562
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Speaker 1: team that's popped up out of nowhere this season.

563
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Speaker 2: Okay, I got two possible candidates, but let's go with

564
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Speaker 2: the Detroit Pistons. Okay, they look a lot better than

565
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:02,920
Speaker 2: I thought they would. They're two and two. They lost

566
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,359
Speaker 2: last night against the Thunder. But what sticks out to

567
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:11,200
Speaker 2: me is they basically have three crazy athletes in Assor Thompson, Yeah,

568
00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 2: Jade and Ivy and Jalen Duran. Those three look like

569
00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:20,440
Speaker 2: top level NBA athletes compared to everybody else in the league.

570
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 2: We saw him run it up against the balls. Duran

571
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 2: is leading the league in dunks right now. They also

572
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Speaker 2: have a couple of really strong dudes in Cad Cunningham

573
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Speaker 2: and Beef stew and then Alec Burks he's making a

574
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Speaker 2: bunch of threes. I also think they're very spirit Halloween

575
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Speaker 2: and that I don't know that it's going to last

576
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:38,879
Speaker 2: all that long because eventually teams will figure out you

577
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Speaker 2: just got to force them into shooting threes.

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Speaker 1: You know.

579
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Speaker 2: They don't necessarily have a lot of half court offense,

580
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,480
Speaker 2: I don't think, and they're a young team. It behooves

581
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 2: them to finish lower in the standings this year. But

582
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Speaker 2: they've looked more cohesive as a team than I thought

583
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Speaker 2: they would come into this season when it just seemed

584
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Speaker 2: like everybody was either a ball handler or a huge dude.

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Speaker 2: They make a little bit of sense of him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with that. That was my pick as well,

587
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 1: for all the reasons you just laid out there. Yeah,

588
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 1: I wonder what will be a good season to them.

589
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 1: You know, of course, if they are flirting with the

590
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:11,240
Speaker 1: play in position, you know, come come late March call

591
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:12,960
Speaker 1: stuff like that would be massive. But just like this

592
00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:17,159
Speaker 1: development guys staying healthy, growing, Cad and Jillen during that

593
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:19,440
Speaker 1: one too, combo and then yeah Thompson, like you know,

594
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:22,160
Speaker 1: making an all rookie team and stuff like that. We'll see,

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00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 1: they're a fun watch. It's just fun to actually watch

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00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 1: the Pistons again, which I really enjoy, especially as that

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00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:31,640
Speaker 1: early star team. All Right, next one, which team looks

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00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 1: like zombies? So here's what I mean by this. A

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00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,840
Speaker 1: team that's maybe started slow, sort of looks dead in

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00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:42,080
Speaker 1: the water, but maybe we'll come roaring back to life.

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00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 1: Don't count them out just yet. They will be zombies.

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00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 1: Who do you got for me?

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00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 2: It's the Cleveland Cavaliers. They're one and two right now.

604
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 2: They're currently twenty fourth in defense. Last year best defense

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00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 2: in the league. The year prior to that, seventh best

606
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 2: defense in the league. The missing ingredient it's Jared Allen.

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00:28:58,240 --> 00:28:59,840
Speaker 2: As soon as he comes back. I do think the

608
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 2: Halves will rise from the dead all the way down

609
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,400
Speaker 2: in ninth in the Eastern Conference at one and two.

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00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:08,600
Speaker 2: I just think that based on the way last season went,

611
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Speaker 2: even the season prior when they were a playing team,

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00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 2: they're better than one of the worst teams in the

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Speaker 2: Eastern Conference. But they are gonna be getting by on

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00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 2: the skin of their teeth. It does feel like a

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00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 2: lot of their games are gonna come down to can

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Speaker 2: Donovan Mitchell make enough shots at the end of the game,

617
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 2: which is how things went last season. Garland playing a

618
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 2: lot more will be helpful as well. So they are shorthanded,

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Speaker 2: but this is a team I think that will end

620
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 2: up near the top of the Eastern Conference. I had

621
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 2: them over fifteen and a half wins prior to the

622
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 2: season starting. I think that's still reasonable. But they just

623
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 2: got to figure it out.

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Speaker 1: We talked about the Lakers starting slow last year two

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00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 1: and ten, which is still sounds sort of mind boggling.

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00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 1: The Kings started zero to four last year. So it's like,

627
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 1: I bring this up because you know the Grizzlies, same record.

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00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:56,479
Speaker 1: Now I know different circumstances here. They don't have their

629
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 1: star player. Oh pick Memphis. Though it looks very bad

630
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:04,720
Speaker 1: right now not having a win, being one of two

631
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 1: teams along with the Rockets that don't have a w

632
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:11,560
Speaker 1: that sucks through the first week, but like it looks

633
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:13,240
Speaker 1: so bad and you can be like, oh it's over,

634
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:16,680
Speaker 1: but you know, you string together two three games and

635
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 1: you're suddenly back in the mix. It's gonna be tough

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00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 1: in the Western Conference. But I still have a little

637
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,960
Speaker 1: bit hope. They're just so shorthanded. Can they just keep

638
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 1: their head above water until John Morant comes back. I

639
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 1: mean it will almost set up for like the Jaw

640
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 1: Morant Redemption Tour here, whether he like goes in the

641
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 1: Dunk Contest to please fans and win back some fans

642
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,320
Speaker 1: and maybe brings his team back here. I'll pick the

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Speaker 1: Grizzlies because, like, I just wanted to pick a team

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Speaker 1: that was.

645
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 2: Like, whoa, oh and four.

646
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's very, very bad. I don't know if you

647
00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 1: believe the same. You were high on the Grizzlies obviously

648
00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:49,000
Speaker 1: before the big Steven Adams injury, but.

649
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 2: Yeah before the Steven that's the Adams and Steven Adams injury,

650
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:56,479
Speaker 2: and also Santi al Dama. I'm like Jah Morant obviously

651
00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 2: coming back would be the best news for the Grizzlies,

652
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 2: but they would be happy to just get Santy al

653
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 2: Dama back at this point. I don't know. I am

654
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 2: a little nervous though that they could be hitting their

655
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 2: under just because I think that they are really going

656
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 2: to struggle until John gets back, because the offense looks

657
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:14,479
Speaker 2: pretty poor with him not out there.

658
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 1: Next question, Spooky Season, which player deserves the nickname trick

659
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 1: or treat? Shout out to Tony Allen, a player who's

660
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 1: sometimes bad, scary, but sometimes very nice. So a real

661
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 1: mixed bag. Who's who is the new trick or treat

662
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 1: to you? Because that was a Tony Allen nickname.

663
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 2: It's really happening. If you put trick or treat into

664
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 2: basketball reference, he's the only guy that comes up right now. Yeah,

665
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 2: but maybe after today we changed that. Gotta be voochs

666
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 2: for me. Maybe Nikola started the season with eleven points,

667
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 2: nine rebounds, eleven points, twelve rebounds, twelve points, four rebounds,

668
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 2: some sad looks, some fighting with Billy Donovan because he

669
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 2: never gets to touch the ball, and then last night

670
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,959
Speaker 2: looks awesome twenty four points, seventeen boards. You saw him

671
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 2: hopping on the weeks. Please Tomar pass me the ball,

672
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 2: gets to the hoop, puts in the lefty and one

673
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 2: to really steal the game for Chicago. When Vouch is aggressive,

674
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 2: when he's getting an opportunity to shoot the ball, he

675
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 2: can be an effective player offensively, and obviously he's a

676
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 2: really good defensive rebounder. That's his biggest strength on that end.

677
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 2: So you know, when the Bulls got Vouch, he was

678
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 2: a two time All Star. He has not made the game.

679
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 2: Since I do not think he will be making it again,

680
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 2: but there are some nights skeets when he looks like

681
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 2: he could be an injury replacement for an All Star team.

682
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 1: Stream team saying vouch Island is haunted Boochevich that's good,

683
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 1: that's very very good or Spookovic. I guess that sort

684
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 1: of works too. My answer to this one, rap Stallion

685
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 1: agreeing with me. D'Angelo russell Man. Okay, he is a

686
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:54,160
Speaker 1: real trick or tree player. Holy molly. He's also like

687
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 1: always a scapegoat. I feel like for the Lakers, like

688
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:58,479
Speaker 1: when they have a bad game and when he loses,

689
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 1: like immediately people are like, howny miss did he play?

690
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 1: How many shots did he take? What did he do? Nothing?

691
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 1: Get him out of here. But then he has these games,

692
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 1: and he had a couple last season when he got

693
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 1: his way to La like he took over. He helped

694
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 1: them win the game. So it's it's hit or miss

695
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 1: with the Angela russell Man. Just you just hold on.

696
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 1: You don't know which one you're getting, So trick or

697
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:18,480
Speaker 1: treat the Angela russell.

698
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 2: That's not bad. He had a huge dunk last night. Yeah,

699
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 2: I know, crazy he's he said, I got lucky, he

700
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:24,360
Speaker 2: is tough.

701
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 1: Easter famine. A lot of people saying Jordan Poole as well,

702
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 1: Jordan Poole's a shot, Jordan Goole.

703
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 2: Have a good look, I said, Jordan Boole. But Jordan

704
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 2: Goole is a way how about Yeah? That was that

705
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 2: was an awesome shot. Great block by Christaps. He's like,

706
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 2: oh you're just walking away, I'll follow you.

707
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 1: That was so weird. There was like eighteen seconds left

708
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:45,280
Speaker 1: on the shot clock. Good luck, Yeah, start off guard strong,

709
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:46,120
Speaker 1: look Aple.

710
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 2: Other guys I would add in Booie Hatchamura has been

711
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 2: all tricks so far, unfortunately for the Lakers. Bones Highland

712
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 2: didn't mean to pick him as a as a spooky guy,

713
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:56,719
Speaker 2: but there you go. He's been all treat so far.

714
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:58,600
Speaker 2: I think he's actually been pretty solid for the Clippers.

715
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 2: And then boost Brown as well. Twenty four points in

716
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 2: the opener, followed by six, then's fifteen. He's very much

717
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:04,640
Speaker 2: up and down.

718
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 1: Up and down, up and down, up and down. DeAndre

719
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:08,919
Speaker 1: Hunter is always one of these guys, too big trick

720
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 1: or treat guy. Trying to think of a Halloween pun

721
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 1: for DeAndre Hunter.

722
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 2: That's a tough one. Yeah Hunter, I don't know.

723
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got noh DeAndre Vampire Hunter.

724
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 1: Hey, Hey, gona go Ralphie. All right, next one here,

725
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:28,799
Speaker 1: what's a weird question? Which player is Carmela Creeper? Wow?

726
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:34,440
Speaker 1: Carmela Creeper is a new serial from General Mills. Yep,

727
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 1: you know, added to the monster lineup. I guess of

728
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:41,279
Speaker 1: Halloween cereals. First time in thirty five years they gave

729
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 1: us a new character. Thank you, Thank you, General Mills,

730
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 1: General Mills. I can't wait to see Shack in a

731
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 1: commercial with that. General. Carmela Creeper is a green zombie

732
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:56,840
Speaker 1: who dabbles in DJing and is apparently frank and Berry's

733
00:34:56,880 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 1: long lost cousin. I didn't know the backstory actually showed up.

734
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:03,880
Speaker 1: I think she's just trying to cash in on that

735
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:05,960
Speaker 1: General Mills money. Personally, I would like to see a

736
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:10,240
Speaker 1: birth certificate. But anyway, her cereal flavor is caramel Apple.

737
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 1: So you have a box. I assume you've consumed these.

738
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's open. That's an open box. I only

739
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 2: really eat cereal during the month of October because I'm

740
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 2: a simp for Count Chocolate and Frankenberry, So imagine my surprise. Skeets.

741
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:26,360
Speaker 2: When I saw the backstory, literally the story on the

742
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:29,800
Speaker 2: back there's a new monster in town, Carmela Creeper. I

743
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 2: was telling the kids. I was telling Laura, there's a

744
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 2: new Monster Cereal out. Oh what do I know? How

745
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 2: happy was I to see that Carmela showed up in

746
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:42,319
Speaker 2: her house just a few days later. I would say

747
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 2: better than Booberry, but not as good as the big

748
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 2: two Frankenberry in the count. But we're a try if

749
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 2: you're a Monster Cereal fan like myself. As for a

750
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,840
Speaker 2: player who's been a surprisingly good addition you didn't know

751
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 2: about I knew about him, I knew a lot about him.

752
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:02,240
Speaker 2: But Kelly Hubray Junior, it's been awesome for the Sixers

753
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:04,839
Speaker 2: twenty seven on Opening Night, which was his big game

754
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 2: when he was blowing kisses all over the place. They

755
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:10,800
Speaker 2: followed that up with eighteen points than twelve points, so

756
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:14,320
Speaker 2: he is getting worse, no surprise. Also hasn't hit a

757
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:16,359
Speaker 2: three since that first game. I think he's like Zho

758
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,879
Speaker 2: for nine in a couple of games afterwards. But his athleticism,

759
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:23,279
Speaker 2: his effort defensively and just given the clip or the

760
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 2: Sixers anything on the wing, I think has been really

761
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:28,600
Speaker 2: big for Philly for a guy who was on a

762
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 2: minimum deal, this was a great find.

763
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, Tray Knucket in there. I actually forgot to say,

764
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 1: what the hell this meant? A player? Surprisingly good, A

765
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:38,360
Speaker 1: good addition that you made I didn't know about. I

766
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:41,319
Speaker 1: like that, Kelly Ubrid Junior. I'm gonna go with someone

767
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 1: who I was high on. I liked the move, but

768
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 1: maybe it got overlooked in the landscape of the NBA.

769
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:50,759
Speaker 1: Grant Williams on the maps. Yeah, yeah, this guy is

770
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:55,240
Speaker 1: finding a role perfectly alongside Luca and you know Kyrie.

771
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 1: When he's out there, he's been good. Like his numbers

772
00:36:57,560 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 1: are not going to wow you, but he's played obviously

773
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:01,839
Speaker 1: all through games. He's playing thirty two minutes a game.

774
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:03,239
Speaker 1: My hood's getting lower.

775
00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:05,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, gett't scary.

776
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 1: Grant Williams has given them twelve points a game, five boards,

777
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:13,760
Speaker 1: and he's out there for his defense as well as

778
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 1: being able to hit a shot. He's shooting forty five

779
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,880
Speaker 1: percent from three. He's actually getting up nearly seven threes

780
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:20,439
Speaker 1: a game, Brant Williams hitting three of them a game.

781
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 1: That's an awesome, awesome move to add him to this

782
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 1: team and again I was high on it, but he's

783
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 1: shocked me even what he's done here for the undefeated

784
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 1: Dallas Mavericks. He's a real Carmela Creeper. He is. Yeah,

785
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 1: he's Batman, but.

786
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:37,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he's also Carmela Creeper. And the MAVs were

787
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:40,520
Speaker 2: my second choice for a team that is spirit Halloween.

788
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 2: They look pretty good right now. Obviously Luca is playing

789
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:47,160
Speaker 2: out of his mind MVP style basketball, but Dallas is

790
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:49,200
Speaker 2: also just playing so much faster than they have in

791
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 2: the past. Right now, they're sixth in the league in pace.

792
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 2: Everybody says they want to run at the beginning of

793
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:55,719
Speaker 2: the season, the MAVs are actually doing it. And you

794
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:58,560
Speaker 2: compare it to the last couple of seasons with Luca

795
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 2: leading the show twenty eighth and paced last year thirtieth

796
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 2: the year prior twenty fourth the year before that. They're

797
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:07,960
Speaker 2: at the bottom always because they just play a deliberate style.

798
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 2: Luca likes to take his time, but you see a

799
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 2: lot more hit aheads this year. You see a lot

800
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:16,239
Speaker 2: more players feeling emboldened to take threes, like like Grant

801
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:18,439
Speaker 2: Williams is. So I've been impressed. But the Mavericks early

802
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 2: start sorry.

803
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:21,759
Speaker 1: Funny comment here from the stream team skeets is the

804
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 1: dark Kermit meme? Do it do it?

805
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 2: Uh?

806
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:33,399
Speaker 1: Final one here, This one is probably going to create

807
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 1: a controversy. What's the best Halloween candy?

808
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:36,839
Speaker 3: JD?

809
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:39,799
Speaker 1: Feel free to chime in as well, TK. What's what's

810
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,560
Speaker 1: on the top of your candy Halloween leaderboard?

811
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 2: Reese's peanut butter Cup is the goat Hell yeah, easy.

812
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:47,640
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's all it. I don't know

813
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:49,560
Speaker 2: if it's my favorite or if I don't know if

814
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:52,120
Speaker 2: I'm just magnetically drawn to it. When I look inside

815
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:54,239
Speaker 2: of a plastic pumpkin, that's the one you want to grab.

816
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 2: It's the first and foremost.

817
00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:56,439
Speaker 1: Yeah.

818
00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, they got the full sizers, they got the little ones.

819
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:01,719
Speaker 2: They yeah, thin ones you can see every now and then.

820
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 2: They're all good.

821
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 1: How do you feel about the hard shell sort of

822
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 1: candy ones? Almost like a like a smarty Oh Reese's pieces,

823
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:11,399
Speaker 1: Canadian smarty, but what Reese's pieces? Oh yeah, yeah, well yeah,

824
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:12,279
Speaker 1: oh that's true.

825
00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 2: But they're the same. They're different, but the same, they're different.

826
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:18,080
Speaker 2: But peanut butter I mean peanut butter cup takes the

827
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 2: cakes oh way.

828
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:21,600
Speaker 1: Higher, yeah, way higher. Uh, do you have anyone else

829
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 1: in consideration?

830
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 2: Oh? I mean I love Halloween candy. Yeah. Absolutely. We

831
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 2: tell our kids there's this thing called the switch witch,

832
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:30,440
Speaker 2: which if you treand it in your candy, you get

833
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:32,840
Speaker 2: a nature prize. Really, it's just a way for us

834
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:37,280
Speaker 2: to scam free King my god. My top three Reese's

835
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:44,239
Speaker 2: one hundred grand, Almond Joy. Wow, I don't know. Do

836
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 2: I really like them or have I just been conditioned

837
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:48,400
Speaker 2: to like them because they're always available.

838
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 1: You named the number one candy Reese's Peanut butter Cups,

839
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 1: and then maybe two of the worst in one hundred

840
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 1: grand and almon Enjoy one hundred grand. Okay, I could

841
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 1: live with them. Almond Joy, you don't like the little

842
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:01,799
Speaker 1: nut on top?

843
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:02,839
Speaker 2: You like a mountains better?

844
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 1: JD. Halloween candy?

845
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:06,719
Speaker 2: What do you got?

846
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 3: Well, first, I have to say Reese's Peanut butter Cups

847
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 3: horrifically overrated. They are the the prins of Halloween candy.

848
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:20,480
Speaker 3: So sweet it's too sweet.

849
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 2: Give me a Snickers any day is good, A little salty.

850
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:27,839
Speaker 3: I need the salt. So my top three Snickers number one,

851
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 3: Peanut m and M's number two. I throw a hundred

852
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:32,160
Speaker 3: grand in there.

853
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 2: Wow, a lot of respect for the hundred grand.

854
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:36,359
Speaker 3: For the grand.

855
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:40,160
Speaker 1: I'm convinced you only like the hundred grand at Halloween

856
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 1: because you never buy one hundred brand any other times

857
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:43,839
Speaker 1: of the year.

858
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 2: That's true.

859
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:47,399
Speaker 1: Like a Snickers all buy when you're hungry, you don't

860
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:50,240
Speaker 1: want to wait. Yeah, and I want to satisfy my hunger.

861
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:52,680
Speaker 1: A Reese's peanut butter cups. Hell, yeah, I'll buy that

862
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:55,160
Speaker 1: if I'm standing in line. I can't see if I'm

863
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,560
Speaker 1: standing in line at the grocery store. But yeah, one

864
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:01,920
Speaker 1: hundred grand. Never I like Kitkats. I'm teams upset with that.

865
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 1: That's just like, that's just like a hey, hey, good

866
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:09,319
Speaker 1: on your house, good standard, good, good standard candy bar.

867
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 3: There.

868
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:12,480
Speaker 1: Uh, Nora just told me her friend told her last

869
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:14,480
Speaker 1: night at dinner that there's a neighbor there's a house

870
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 1: in our neighborhood. Well, it's in the it's in the

871
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 1: rich neighborhood across Memorial. I'm in the hood. They're in

872
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:24,800
Speaker 1: the rich part. But anyway, this house, huge house in

873
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 1: one of those areas they rent vending machines with full

874
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:33,799
Speaker 1: sized chocolate bars. They rented two of them last year

875
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:36,920
Speaker 1: and kids obviously line up by the hundreds.

876
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:39,799
Speaker 3: They're free, I assume, yeah, yeah, they are free.

877
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 2: Yeah.

878
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 1: That is really weird though, isn't it. I mean cool,

879
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:45,919
Speaker 1: if you're a kid, that's pretty neat. Yeah, but wow,

880
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:49,319
Speaker 1: I was like, also, you're you're very rich if you're

881
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:49,600
Speaker 1: doing that.

882
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:50,080
Speaker 2: Yeah.

883
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:53,160
Speaker 1: But it's like, I don't know, it's like a Halloween

884
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 1: hack or something. It's like it's not the spirit of

885
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 1: it for some reason to me.

886
00:41:57,800 --> 00:41:59,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, you I forget. You don't even have to say

887
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 2: trick or treat. You got press buttons?

888
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know, Like do the Yeah, do they

889
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 1: at least stand there?

890
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:06,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, somebody's got a supervisor. Yeah, you think it so crazy.

891
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:10,760
Speaker 3: There's a house around here that gives a crispy cream donuts,

892
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:17,840
Speaker 3: and the rich side not this crispy like a like

893
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 3: a donut, but.

894
00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:22,080
Speaker 1: Hold on, individually wrapped. I can't. I can't trust.

895
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:28,239
Speaker 3: Exactly the most popular house on the block, though, I

896
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:30,080
Speaker 3: guess so krispy cream donuts.

897
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 2: That's it.

898
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:31,920
Speaker 1: You got to eat that right away though.

899
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're walking, that's gone before you.

900
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 1: Reach the end of the walk. Here's a good energy

901
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:37,400
Speaker 1: for the rest of the night.

902
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 2: You not want to put it in your bag. No,

903
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:44,800
Speaker 2: but man, can you imagine a Krispy Cream donut with

904
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:49,920
Speaker 2: a Reese's Peanut butter cups fun size stuck in the hole? Okay, okay,

905
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 2: oh my goodness.

906
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 1: You tell us what is the best Halloween candy? And

907
00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:59,120
Speaker 1: are you team Almond Joy? I feel like that is

908
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:00,760
Speaker 1: a pull rising candy.

909
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:01,080
Speaker 2: Yeah.

910
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:03,520
Speaker 1: People are they go to bath for it? Or people

911
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 1: like me that are like that is the word. I

912
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 1: would throw those out, yeap, throw them back.

913
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:10,840
Speaker 2: See that's what That's why I'm saying. I don't know

914
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:13,840
Speaker 2: if I like them or if it's just just avable.

915
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:15,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good point.

916
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:16,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. It's true.

917
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:18,640
Speaker 2: There are dozens of us that will love you.

918
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:22,600
Speaker 1: Okay, we gotta take one more break, and when we

919
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 1: come back, we gotta look at these in season tournament courts.

920
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:30,319
Speaker 1: Don't go anywhere. Happy Halloween. Everyone hit the like button.

921
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 1: Make sure you subscribe podcast listeners. Leave your boys a

922
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:34,880
Speaker 1: five star rating and review. We got the pull up

923
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 1: during the break getting an Almond Joy on Halloween? Is

924
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:42,120
Speaker 1: it good or is it bad? It's pretty tight right

925
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:46,880
Speaker 1: now as we near one hundred votes, leaning bad fifty

926
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 1: six percent. What I'm looking at but it was fifty

927
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 1: to fifty for a while. So again, like I said,

928
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:52,799
Speaker 1: people are they're torn on this one man.

929
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 2: This is a higher good rating than I would think. Yes,

930
00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:58,280
Speaker 2: I think it was going to be in the low thirties.

931
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:00,719
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think there's a lot of secret Almond Joy

932
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:04,760
Speaker 1: fans out there. Yeah, they feel heard now. Things you're welcome,

933
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:05,239
Speaker 1: good for you.

934
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:07,440
Speaker 2: Look, coconut's good. Some people think it's not.

935
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:10,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's get to tweet of the night.

936
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:14,239
Speaker 3: Tweet of the night.

937
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 1: Wow, twitt All tweeted.

938
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 2: The night is from Zach Lowe tweeted yesterday the n

939
00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 2: season tournament will include new special courts for all thirty teams,

940
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:31,640
Speaker 2: revealed exclusively here. These are unlike almost anything you've seen

941
00:44:31,719 --> 00:44:34,440
Speaker 2: in the NBA, and I think he's under selling it,

942
00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:39,280
Speaker 2: Ski unlike. These are definitely nothing we've seen in the NBA.

943
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 2: They were getting around all over yesterday. There are a

944
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:43,920
Speaker 2: bunch on NBA dot Com. You can see him on

945
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:46,239
Speaker 2: Twitter wherever you want to look at him. But all

946
00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:49,879
Speaker 2: thirty teams basically have the same template for the court.

947
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:53,399
Speaker 2: They're going heavy color with a big old stripe down

948
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:56,280
Speaker 2: the middle, which apparently is supposed to symbolize a runway

949
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 2: taking you to Las Vegas.

950
00:44:57,600 --> 00:44:58,960
Speaker 1: That's right, skeets.

951
00:44:58,960 --> 00:44:59,640
Speaker 2: What did you think when you.

952
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:04,760
Speaker 1: Saw these Uh? Wow, they are going to look insane,

953
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:06,320
Speaker 1: I think on television, Oh my goodness.

954
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 2: Yeah.

955
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:09,080
Speaker 1: Like I still like, especially with the jerseys they're going

956
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:14,920
Speaker 1: to be wearing, that's gonna be color overload. But if

957
00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 1: the whole point was to flipping through the channels and

958
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:19,880
Speaker 1: I see this court and I go, hey, what the

959
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:21,600
Speaker 1: hell is this? Oh, this must be an ND season

960
00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:24,520
Speaker 1: tournament game, I guess that's what Silver wanted. We'll see.

961
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 1: I think some of them will look okay. I think

962
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:28,359
Speaker 1: the majority of them are a little a little too much,

963
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:33,360
Speaker 1: but they're going bold. Yeah, they're definitely going bold.

964
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 2: And we heard Silver say in the past that you're

965
00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:39,880
Speaker 2: gonna know these are N Season tournament games, and you

966
00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:42,680
Speaker 2: are going to know because there's an N Season Tournament

967
00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 2: Cup all over it. Yeah, and obviously they're eye catching,

968
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:49,239
Speaker 2: So yeah, I guess that would make you stop. But

969
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:51,160
Speaker 2: I also wonder if some of these courts are gonna

970
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:53,759
Speaker 2: make you want to turn the channel, yeah, which I

971
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:55,279
Speaker 2: would be a little nervous about it. I don't know

972
00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 2: how long this thirty custom courts program is going to

973
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:00,440
Speaker 2: last season.

974
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see. My big takeaway, I tweeted this is

975
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:07,080
Speaker 1: you said it there. They've got this in season tournament

976
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:10,000
Speaker 1: cup on every court. They're really like it's a cool

977
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:11,880
Speaker 1: looking trophy. I guess like, Okay, they're gonna try and

978
00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:13,719
Speaker 1: push this, make it feel like a big deal. I

979
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 1: just hope this means we're one step closer to returning

980
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:21,120
Speaker 1: to the big giant Larry O'Brien at center court during

981
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:25,879
Speaker 1: the NBA Finals. I missed that giant lob right, Yeah,

982
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:30,759
Speaker 1: the glob. I'm a glob wizard. Somebody else said that.

983
00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:34,759
Speaker 1: You ever said that back the other day? But yeah,

984
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:37,920
Speaker 1: I hope we get back to that because they're really

985
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:38,759
Speaker 1: leaning into it here.

986
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 2: They definitely are. They said, we don't want one trophy

987
00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:44,760
Speaker 2: on the court, we want the trophies on the court.

988
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:48,160
Speaker 2: A couple of interesting ones. The Chicago Bulls are rocking

989
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:52,439
Speaker 2: in all red court. They are one of one, two, three,

990
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:55,200
Speaker 2: four five teams who have never had an alternate court,

991
00:46:55,760 --> 00:47:00,279
Speaker 2: and they're going ham with the alternate court here all Red. Yeah, read,

992
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:04,200
Speaker 2: the contrast is gonna be insane. I also thought that

993
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:07,680
Speaker 2: the Pelicans court looked very extreme This one was the

994
00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 2: one that to me was most like.

995
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:14,760
Speaker 1: People have compared it to like like old school Joker

996
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:18,520
Speaker 1: from like the television series Okay, yeah, TV Joker, Yeah yeah,

997
00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:19,759
Speaker 1: TV Joker for sure.

998
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:20,640
Speaker 2: Yeah.

999
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:25,320
Speaker 1: Nuts. I mean, you're right, you look at like the

1000
00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:29,239
Speaker 1: Knicks with the orange, Yeah, bright orange. The Pacers one

1001
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:32,479
Speaker 1: is crazy, like there are colors in that graffiti style.

1002
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:36,279
Speaker 1: I love this from Dave Defour though, with the Clippers one,

1003
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:38,879
Speaker 1: I thought it was spot on. This is a light

1004
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:42,880
Speaker 1: beer font that does look like it looks like a

1005
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:46,520
Speaker 1: light beer I'm having on vacation. I don't know, in

1006
00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:49,040
Speaker 1: a I'm at a resort and I'm like, oh, what's

1007
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:51,320
Speaker 1: this beer clips? Yeah, give me that refreshing clips.

1008
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:54,560
Speaker 2: Somebody could easily photo shop in a stein of beer

1009
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:58,560
Speaker 2: behind the clips rather than the oh yeah.

1010
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:00,600
Speaker 1: Just have like some foam beer foam coming out the

1011
00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:02,720
Speaker 1: top of the cup there clips.

1012
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:03,800
Speaker 2: Well, now I hope they win it.

1013
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:06,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I guess. One other question I have,

1014
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 1: and I don't think Zach Low addressed this in the

1015
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:14,040
Speaker 1: article is what are we doing for the games in Vegas?

1016
00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:19,719
Speaker 1: Are they custom custom courts for the final four semifinals

1017
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:20,880
Speaker 1: in the final I.

1018
00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:24,799
Speaker 2: Mean if these are the round robin or whatever we're

1019
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:29,239
Speaker 2: calling it, stage courts, they gotta be even more extreme. Yeah, yeah,

1020
00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:32,600
Speaker 2: Like what colors do you associate with Vegas? Imagine they'll

1021
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:34,879
Speaker 2: do a lot of gold. Actually, since they'll be playing

1022
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:37,920
Speaker 2: for the championship, I guess the Raptors. The Raptors is

1023
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:40,239
Speaker 2: like a very dark gray with some gold accent since

1024
00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 2: they're wearing their gold uniforms. Yeah, so maybe they'll do

1025
00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:45,080
Speaker 2: something along that, or you could go like, you know,

1026
00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:48,600
Speaker 2: Vegas style red and black for the different cards and

1027
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:49,240
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff.

1028
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:53,520
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe maybe they do the led cord for the

1029
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:57,239
Speaker 1: final four Raps. Yeah, oh that'd be cool.

1030
00:48:57,520 --> 00:48:58,919
Speaker 2: It's not a bad idea actually, yeah.

1031
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:01,120
Speaker 1: I mean it's like nice sort of tie in with

1032
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:05,640
Speaker 1: the Sphere. They should play in the Sphere absolutely eventually.

1033
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:08,920
Speaker 1: Let us know what you think of these things. I

1034
00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:14,680
Speaker 1: think most of them are a lot, Yes, And you're right,

1035
00:49:14,719 --> 00:49:16,400
Speaker 1: we just you gotta see them on TV. I mean,

1036
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 1: for a majority of us, we're watching it on TV.

1037
00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:20,239
Speaker 1: We're watching it on League Pass or NBA TV or whatever.

1038
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 1: These games are gonna be airing, and it's like that

1039
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:26,160
Speaker 1: matters how it appears, like people still freak out about

1040
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:29,800
Speaker 1: the nets like neutral court. Some people like it, some

1041
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:32,560
Speaker 1: people hate it. They can't stop tweeting about it. So

1042
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:35,480
Speaker 1: these are gonna be even more extreme.

1043
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:38,720
Speaker 2: So, yeah, it was a big issue like ten years

1044
00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:41,879
Speaker 2: ago when the Knicks had an orange lane in their

1045
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:45,200
Speaker 2: court because they had orange uniforms as well, so like

1046
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:47,719
Speaker 2: occasionally it would look like they just disappear when they're

1047
00:49:47,719 --> 00:49:50,840
Speaker 2: in the paint. Now their entire court is orange. So

1048
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:53,880
Speaker 2: the league is gonna have to be like very on

1049
00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:57,240
Speaker 2: it when it comes to scheduling uniforms for all the teams,

1050
00:49:57,239 --> 00:49:59,319
Speaker 2: because you can't have the Bulls show up to play

1051
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:01,320
Speaker 2: the Sixers and they've come out in red jerseys and

1052
00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:03,839
Speaker 2: you're like, uh oh, you also have a red court.

1053
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:04,960
Speaker 2: Where are we?

1054
00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:08,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see I guess the first in season tournament

1055
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 1: game is this Friday. Yeah, yeah, this Friday. So we'll

1056
00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 1: see these courts in action come Friday night. But let

1057
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:16,480
Speaker 1: us know what you think. We'll wrap up the Almond

1058
00:50:16,520 --> 00:50:21,879
Speaker 1: Joel Almond Joy poll here fifty bad, forty percent good. Wow,

1059
00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:26,080
Speaker 1: So that's a lot closer than a lot of us thought. Guys,

1060
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:29,360
Speaker 1: stay safe tonight, have a blast with your trick or

1061
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:32,120
Speaker 1: treating I hope you stumble upon a house with a

1062
00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:35,520
Speaker 1: vending machine and full on Snickers bars. Yeah. In it,

1063
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:38,560
Speaker 1: people were wondering, like, is there a button that says

1064
00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:41,319
Speaker 1: trick and a button that says treat? Pretty cool?

1065
00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:42,640
Speaker 2: What comes out of the trick?

1066
00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:43,879
Speaker 1: Almond joy?

1067
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:47,839
Speaker 2: All the bad ones come out of trick.

1068
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:48,600
Speaker 1: It's pretty nice.

1069
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:53,360
Speaker 3: Get honey, the little rockets whatever, the smarties.

1070
00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:56,239
Speaker 1: The smarties here in America, Yeah, chalk. I call them

1071
00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:59,719
Speaker 1: chalk chock, but for some reason, delicious chalk that I

1072
00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:01,960
Speaker 1: will gladly.

1073
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Speaker 3: Eat sugar a bit tasty.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So everybody stay safe and have fun

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Speaker 1: if you're heading out or going to a party tonight,

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Speaker 1: or if you're taking the kids out. We'll be back

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Speaker 1: tomorrow morning at ten am Eastern here in the Classic

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Speaker 1: Factory breaking down tonight's games, and we're gonna hit the

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Speaker 1: beach as well. So if you want to tweet in

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Speaker 1: your questions at No Dunk's Ink, anything about the NBA

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Speaker 1: or NBA adjacent get those in. You can email them

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Speaker 1: in No Dunks at the Athletic dot Com, leave them

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Speaker 1: in the YouTube comments. We'll hit the beach tomorrow, at

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Speaker 1: least for a small part of that show. So we'll

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Speaker 1: see you that Until then, Clipper Rose.

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Speaker 2: You heard it here first, have a great time turn up.

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Speaker 2: Love you guys awesome. Thanks for joining us. And remember,

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Speaker 2: if there's a warewall pollering around your kitchen door, you

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Speaker 2: better not let him in. You better stay away from him.

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Speaker 2: He'll rip your lungs out, jim Brace the day, people,