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Speaker 1: night in the Association. But first, Weggie number forty four.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Sons have not been there since twenty ten. When

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Speaker 1: And so here they are. But Chris Paul twenty eight

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Speaker 2: Well Skeets, Now that you mentioned the historical MVPs that

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Speaker 2: it because Charles Barkley shouldn't have won the MVP in

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we've been talking about him in the MVP conversation

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Speaker 1: But if he had faltered here when Jamal Murray went

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Speaker 1: of that. But he did it like he didn't fall

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Speaker 3: But overall I'm kind of like, I think that's actually fine.

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Speaker 3: But overall, I think it's yeah, you could, you could

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Speaker 2: Stan Van Gundy said, I do think that strength gets

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Speaker 2: If you fall down every time your hit or you flop,

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Speaker 2: Things will never be the same now. Obviously, stan Van

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Speaker 3: foul and then they defend it after the game, which

431
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Speaker 3: they could have done.

432
00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:25,200
Speaker 1: The refs.

433
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Speaker 3: It's like, sure if they call that, sometimes you know

434
00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:29,199
Speaker 3: they didn't. And it's funny because I thought, you know,

435
00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:31,639
Speaker 3: Zion saying as well, he's got to earn his respect,

436
00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:33,600
Speaker 3: which is pretty mature thing of him to say and

437
00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:35,560
Speaker 3: to realize that that's how it goes in the league,

438
00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:37,440
Speaker 3: and I thought maybe he could have tried to sell

439
00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:39,080
Speaker 3: it a little bit more, but he sort of did.

440
00:19:39,119 --> 00:19:40,919
Speaker 3: I mean, he goes down, he hits the ground, so

441
00:19:41,119 --> 00:19:44,160
Speaker 3: you know, there's some physicality on the play, but yeah,

442
00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:46,920
Speaker 3: it's overall, I think it's just it was the right call.

443
00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:49,119
Speaker 3: But you know, you can see why Pelicans see, well,

444
00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:51,320
Speaker 3: that's automatically a foul because you know there was the

445
00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:55,280
Speaker 3: sort of the connection there, but he gets it clean

446
00:19:55,359 --> 00:19:58,879
Speaker 3: enough at the start, and great defensive played from Nikola jokicch.

447
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know it's almost blue this game, right,

448
00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:05,040
Speaker 1: They were up nine with like forty five seconds to go. Yeah,

449
00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:07,320
Speaker 1: and it was nearly a tie game. You know, if

450
00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:09,760
Speaker 1: Yokich doesn't recover there in time and take a swipe

451
00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:10,040
Speaker 1: out it.

452
00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:12,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, even on that last play, right, that's the only

453
00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:14,480
Speaker 2: reason that Pelicans have it, because Jokich with like an

454
00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:17,720
Speaker 2: uncharacteristic turnover in the last ten seconds of the game.

455
00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:19,960
Speaker 2: But great Cowley, I kin I actually forgot that. Stan

456
00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,000
Speaker 2: Band Gundhy coached Shaquille O'Neil as well at one point.

457
00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:25,439
Speaker 2: This guy's coached a lot of some solid bigs. The

458
00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:28,080
Speaker 2: other thing I love from stan Ban Gundhy somebody asked

459
00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:30,480
Speaker 2: him if he was gonna teach Zion how to flop.

460
00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:34,119
Speaker 2: He says, I cannot imagine going to a player and

461
00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:36,960
Speaker 2: telling him to start flopping. I can't imagine that's what

462
00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:39,639
Speaker 2: you have to do. I could never bring myself to

463
00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:42,760
Speaker 2: do that with the player. But what are you gonna do?

464
00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:45,119
Speaker 2: Can you learn how to flop? Well?

465
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Speaker 1: I mean a guy like Zion. I don't know if

466
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Speaker 1: that's possible, but yeah, other guys, I think Ken, especially

467
00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:53,560
Speaker 1: the smaller you are, I think the easier it is

468
00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:56,480
Speaker 1: to sell that contact, like get out of here too, JG.

469
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Speaker 1: I want to put this up here. Ingram should have

470
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Speaker 1: taken that up, maybe get a foul call. He didn't

471
00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:04,200
Speaker 1: want that moment. What the fuck are you talking about?

472
00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:07,440
Speaker 1: Like he just gave it to a guy who's shooting

473
00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:10,239
Speaker 1: like what seventy percent from the floor this year, like

474
00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:13,520
Speaker 1: in a beautiful past. The defense collapsed a little bit.

475
00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:15,800
Speaker 1: It's a nice play a boy yolkic to again take

476
00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:17,320
Speaker 1: a swipe at it. I think he was like, well,

477
00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:19,160
Speaker 1: screw this if I found my foul and at least

478
00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:21,560
Speaker 1: it's not a layup. That's a nice play there from Ingram.

479
00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:23,600
Speaker 1: Come on, you had me maybe up until that he

480
00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:26,919
Speaker 1: didn't want that moment. Should have could have what Okay,

481
00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:31,399
Speaker 1: I don't think from the moment there were you talking about?

482
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Speaker 3: Yeah I mean that, but that that is I think

483
00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:35,439
Speaker 3: that is actually the right play from Ingram, because you

484
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Speaker 3: can see he might have been like, maybe I want

485
00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:39,680
Speaker 3: this moment, but instead he found his teammate who was

486
00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:41,480
Speaker 3: rising up and it nearly paid off.

487
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Speaker 1: Look again, like you know he could have taken a floater, Yeah, absolutely,

488
00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:49,040
Speaker 1: and maybe would have hit it, sure, but he was

489
00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:52,600
Speaker 1: shoveling it to a teammate who shoots like goddamn, like

490
00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:57,200
Speaker 1: the highest percentage we've ever seen play a bad play,

491
00:21:57,280 --> 00:21:58,359
Speaker 1: it's a great play.

492
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I would have liked to see Denzel

493
00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:03,600
Speaker 2: Valentine from Brandon right there, just pull up from thirty

494
00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:05,440
Speaker 2: five feet. Why not let a rip.

495
00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:10,040
Speaker 1: Our final sort of like games here, I'll lumpum together

496
00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:12,800
Speaker 1: because it's the it's the hottest thing in sports right now.

497
00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:14,920
Speaker 1: It's the race for the tenth seed. You know, nobody's

498
00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:17,000
Speaker 1: talking about it and covering it like we are at

499
00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:20,080
Speaker 1: no dunks. So last night, a few games and a

500
00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:22,159
Speaker 1: few teams in the mix, of course, Julius Randall and

501
00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:24,560
Speaker 1: the Knicks beat your Bulls tray one thirteen ninety four

502
00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:26,680
Speaker 1: for their tenths, winning eleven games. Bulls are trying to

503
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Speaker 1: get into the playing tournament, and meanwhile the Wizard's trying

504
00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:32,160
Speaker 1: to hold onto that ten seed. While Beale and Westbrook

505
00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:34,760
Speaker 1: bawling out again, they led their team, the Wizards pass

506
00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:39,360
Speaker 1: the lebron less Lakers one sixteen one O seven TK.

507
00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:43,280
Speaker 1: How you feeling about your Bulls chances here? With the

508
00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:45,640
Speaker 1: Wizards winning, Bulls lost their what do you think?

509
00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:48,400
Speaker 2: I hate to say it. The Knicks are more back

510
00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:51,440
Speaker 2: than the Bulls. Yeah, and the race is over?

511
00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:53,600
Speaker 1: Wow calling it?

512
00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:58,000
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I don't know. The Wizards are playing

513
00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,080
Speaker 2: too well right now. I can't believe I'm saying that

514
00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:02,400
Speaker 2: the Wizards are playing too well right now. They've got

515
00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:05,440
Speaker 2: the leading scorer in the NBA and the leading assist

516
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:08,240
Speaker 2: man in the NBA. This is ridiculous stuff. I did

517
00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:13,679
Speaker 2: think it was interesting though, that ESPN flexed this Bulls

518
00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:17,760
Speaker 2: Knicks game for Lakers Wizards, and then the NBA called

519
00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:20,399
Speaker 2: in some refs to fix the game for the Knicks,

520
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,320
Speaker 2: thinking that nobody would see it. But I was watching,

521
00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:26,480
Speaker 2: and I saw those dastardly Knicks hitting Daniel Tyson the

522
00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:30,680
Speaker 2: face time and time again, something that Celtics fans literally

523
00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:33,320
Speaker 2: warned me about. They're saying, daniel Tye is gonna get

524
00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:35,120
Speaker 2: hit in the face all the time and he will

525
00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,200
Speaker 2: never get foul calls. That's exactly what happened. I'm kidding.

526
00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:40,800
Speaker 2: The Knicks bullied the Bulls completely in the fourth quarter.

527
00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:43,800
Speaker 2: They really went to another gear defensively. The Bulls couldn't

528
00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:46,479
Speaker 2: get it done with no Zach Lavine. Randall had eight

529
00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:48,880
Speaker 2: in the fourth, quickly had eleven in the fourth. They

530
00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:51,920
Speaker 2: were incredible. And guess what, I'm legitimately happy for all

531
00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:57,160
Speaker 2: my Knicks fans friends, Jason Concepcion, Seth Rosenthal, Jack Settlement,

532
00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:01,800
Speaker 2: and of course Lee Ellis watching that game last night, ma'am.

533
00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:04,080
Speaker 2: It felt good in my heart. I can't deny it

534
00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:06,640
Speaker 2: to you guys, seeing the Knicks have a starter out

535
00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:10,359
Speaker 2: there that nobody wants starting. I loved it. Elfred Payton,

536
00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:12,720
Speaker 2: You're the new Keith Bogans. Why are you starting all

537
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:16,000
Speaker 2: these games because Tom Thibodeau's there. I love that part too.

538
00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:19,440
Speaker 2: Three huge parts of the twenty eleven Bulls in Thibbs

539
00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:23,320
Speaker 2: Rose and obviously TODJ. Gibson, And of course I love

540
00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:27,000
Speaker 2: seeing Julius Randall in the game taking threes with the

541
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:29,560
Speaker 2: Knicks up twenty and a minute and a half left.

542
00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:35,360
Speaker 2: I was like the rudy guy, slow clap. I remember this,

543
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:38,560
Speaker 2: this is my kind of shit right here. I'm gonna

544
00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:39,920
Speaker 2: have to take some lessons in how to become a

545
00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,000
Speaker 2: Knicks fan because that was nice last night. I can't

546
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,479
Speaker 2: deny it. The Knicks are back and the Bulls are

547
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:48,280
Speaker 2: blowing it. I saw a stat they haven't been over

548
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:50,040
Speaker 2: five hundred in the past four seasons.

549
00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:54,320
Speaker 1: Whoa, yeah, wow, yeah, so they've never actually been back

550
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:55,880
Speaker 1: at all.

551
00:24:57,320 --> 00:25:05,960
Speaker 2: All time? When do you put it that way? Sense

552
00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:07,720
Speaker 2: their back ski its I don't make pro sense. Still

553
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:08,000
Speaker 2: not bad.

554
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:11,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was very similar actually that Balls lost to

555
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:13,960
Speaker 1: the Next oddly to the Raptors losing to the Nets

556
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 1: the night before there where it was like a coose

557
00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:19,160
Speaker 1: game for three quarters they're in it and then like

558
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,120
Speaker 1: like the Next did to the Balls, the Nets did

559
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:23,040
Speaker 1: to the Raptors, put the clamps on them and just

560
00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:24,720
Speaker 1: ran away in the fourth quarter. And it was like

561
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,520
Speaker 1: a bit of a dominant win there, and those two

562
00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 1: teams not looking good. Lely, your Bradley Beal is going

563
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:32,639
Speaker 1: to be on the playing tournament for you man. You

564
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:34,920
Speaker 1: must be happy. Yeah, I am.

565
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,640
Speaker 3: It is amazing watching the Wizards right now because they

566
00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:39,359
Speaker 3: are kind of fun to watch, you know.

567
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 1: They just get out and run.

568
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:43,359
Speaker 3: And that was going up against the Lakers team obviously

569
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:46,199
Speaker 3: no Lebron, but Davis played a heavy minutes and this

570
00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:47,600
Speaker 3: was an important game.

571
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:49,760
Speaker 1: For them, and they stood up to the challenge.

572
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:51,640
Speaker 3: And last night was one of those nights where there's

573
00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:53,720
Speaker 3: so many games on you just don't even know what

574
00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 3: sort of game to tune into because the Knicks Bulls

575
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:58,119
Speaker 3: was legitimately like, I want to watch this. I think

576
00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:01,560
Speaker 3: this one, this one's going to be fun and and manual. Quickly,

577
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,880
Speaker 3: he's quickly becoming well, no pun intended there, but one

578
00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:07,280
Speaker 3: of my fun favorite guys to watch it because he

579
00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:07,960
Speaker 3: just gets.

580
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:10,560
Speaker 1: Out there and flings it. He doesn't care where.

581
00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 3: He is on the court, and he's got the you know,

582
00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:14,480
Speaker 3: he's got the hype going as well, so I think

583
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,280
Speaker 3: he's going to quick again quickly become a fan favorite

584
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:19,920
Speaker 3: there of the Knicks because he just goes out there

585
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:22,120
Speaker 3: and believes in himself. You know, for a rookie, he's

586
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,160
Speaker 3: not afraid of the moment. He's not afraid of where

587
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:26,439
Speaker 3: he is on the court. If he's open, he's shooting

588
00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,560
Speaker 3: it and it's going in. So that was great. But yeah,

589
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,520
Speaker 3: the Wizards, this is this is a big turnaround as well,

590
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:35,480
Speaker 3: because they were just so gross to watch earlier this

591
00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:37,679
Speaker 3: season and it was like, be you're putting up just

592
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:39,359
Speaker 3: those Remember he went on that run where he's just

593
00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:41,480
Speaker 3: putting up forty every night and they were losing it. It

594
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:44,040
Speaker 3: was like, what's the point? And now they're you know,

595
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:46,639
Speaker 3: playing at the right time, and they're going to be

596
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:50,000
Speaker 3: tough in that first playing round. You know, whoever they play,

597
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,120
Speaker 3: they're going to feel pretty confident again against because you know,

598
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:55,239
Speaker 3: you just have to play hard, and they do that

599
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:58,879
Speaker 3: right now, and they've got the two stars that are

600
00:26:58,920 --> 00:26:59,600
Speaker 3: tough to defend.

601
00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:01,800
Speaker 2: So this is this.

602
00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know where it's gonna go for the Wizards,

603
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 3: how this season's gonna win, but certainly Westbrook again another

604
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 3: triple double being in that sort of like everyone's written

605
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:11,919
Speaker 3: us off, no one believes in us. Westbrook kind of

606
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 3: loves that situation.

607
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 1: So true.

608
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:15,679
Speaker 3: You know, I don't know who they will face. I mean,

609
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:17,520
Speaker 3: it does change the take off.

610
00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:19,959
Speaker 1: They'll they're likely going to play the Pacers if that

611
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:22,080
Speaker 1: stays a nine to ten games, So I think most

612
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 1: people would take Washington the way they're playing right now,

613
00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:27,640
Speaker 1: they're struggling, Yeah, exactly. So then the Wizards move on

614
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 1: to then likely play the loser of like a Heat

615
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:33,760
Speaker 1: Hornets game. It could be still the Celtics in that game.

616
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,320
Speaker 1: Let's call it Heat Hornets. You know, let's say the

617
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:39,920
Speaker 1: Hornets lose that game. So yeah, Wizards Hornets to see

618
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,120
Speaker 1: who gets the eighth seeds. Again, I think most people

619
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 1: would probably be backing Washington right now. You're right, Lee,

620
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 1: like they might be one of the favorite teams to

621
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 1: get from the play and turn it actually into the playoffs. Yeah,

622
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:51,160
Speaker 1: I think it's fair soough for sure.

623
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 3: And then if we got Westbrook versus Hottening Durant in

624
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 3: that first round, I mean.

625
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:56,560
Speaker 1: Right, I said that a couple of weeks ago. I

626
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 1: was like, sign me up for that. I mean, it'd

627
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:00,719
Speaker 1: be at least a juicy storey lying to a one

628
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:03,640
Speaker 1: eight matchup. Yeah, yeah, at the very least. So all right,

629
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:06,080
Speaker 1: not looking good for the Bulls. Not looking good for

630
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:08,920
Speaker 1: my zombie Raps as they continue to sort of lose

631
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 1: ground here on the Wizards. Well, I gotta hope at

632
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,679
Speaker 1: this point, Tray, that the Pacers just like keep losing

633
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:14,400
Speaker 1: from here on out.

634
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 2: Maybe that's more likely, that's the most likely scenario at

635
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:21,680
Speaker 2: this point, But we might be seeing some crazy lineups

636
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:25,119
Speaker 2: on that May thirteenth game between the Raptors and Bulls.

637
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:27,119
Speaker 2: If both of them are locked in out of the

638
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:30,439
Speaker 2: play in tournament, Like, what are we going to be

639
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:33,720
Speaker 2: watching here? So literally it's going to be Ryan Archie

640
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:36,640
Speaker 2: Diakano versus Malachi Flynn. Just the one on one game.

641
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 3: I love my stuff.

642
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 1: Yes, all right, let's get to a little what you

643
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 1: got brought to you by the Zebra.

644
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 2: What's it?

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Speaker 4: Good?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? A little what you got again here brought to

647
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Speaker 1: you by the Zebra. Sticking with like some of the

648
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Speaker 1: games and storylines from last night. First one, guys, the

649
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Speaker 1: Utah Jazz made twenty four to threes, bounced back from

650
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Speaker 1: consecutive losses, set a franchise scoring record one fifty four

651
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Speaker 1: to one oh five over the Kings, my goodness. And

652
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Speaker 1: then we had Jaalen Brown scoring thirty eight, Tatum outing

653
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Speaker 1: thirty five. Celtics rebounded from an embarrassing loss a night

654
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Speaker 1: earlier with the one twenty one to eleven victory over

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Speaker 1: the Hornet. So, Lee, what you got question is you

656
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Speaker 1: know what was the better bounce back? When was it

657
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Speaker 1: the Jazz or the Celtics.

658
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 3: It's the Celtics for me, because they had a real

659
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:30,960
Speaker 3: embarrassing loss at home the night before against the thunder

660
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Speaker 3: the team that just couldn't hasn't been able to beat

661
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Speaker 3: anybody for months, it seems, so the Celtics had to

662
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 3: sort of go out there last night.

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Speaker 2: Against a good opponent.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure the Hornets are shorthand at the moment though,

665
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Speaker 3: Heyward know la mellow ball, but they got beaten by

666
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 3: the Hornets just last week by twenty points, so this

667
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 3: was kind of like a all right, we're got to

668
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Speaker 3: go out there and show this team's better. Tatum came back,

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Speaker 3: but then the Celtics actually lost Marcus Smart just before

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Speaker 3: the game. He got suspended for apparently threatening a referee

671
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Speaker 3: or abusing a referee, so they sort of were short

672
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:00,360
Speaker 3: hand a little bit there, but they came out in

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Speaker 3: that first quarter build a big lead, a.

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Speaker 1: Twenty point lead. Hornets made it a game, though.

675
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Speaker 3: The Hornets got back into this one late in the fourth,

676
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Speaker 3: but the Celtics closed it out, and yeah, you want

677
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 3: you want to see your two all stars basically just

678
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 3: say we're not losing this game, and that's what they did.

679
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 3: Brown and Tatum were fantastic, and then the role players

680
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 3: chipped in. So I think it's that one. I mean,

681
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Speaker 3: the Jazz you know you can I don't think you

682
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Speaker 3: can get to take a revenge game against the Kings,

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Speaker 3: you know.

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Speaker 1: Especially when they're short headed. Uh.

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Speaker 3: You know, the Jazz I thought like their losses to

686
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:31,720
Speaker 3: the Wolves were actually like, you know, the Wolves.

687
00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:33,000
Speaker 1: Played hard and played played well.

688
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:36,200
Speaker 3: So you know, putting up one hundred and fifty on

689
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 3: the Kings is like, that's not fair. You've got to

690
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 3: You've got to beat at least a reasonable opponent. So okay, yeah,

691
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Speaker 3: Celtics for me.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so the being town boys the better bounce back

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Speaker 1: when Trey you agree.

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Speaker 2: Wow, yeah, But I mean it honestly just comes down

695
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Speaker 2: to the Kings having really bad timing with the Jazz

696
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 2: having lost those two games against the timber Wolves and

697
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 2: still having something to play for trying to keep that

698
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Speaker 2: number one seed. So yeah, I mean shooting sixty four

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00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty four points in regulation, Like, I

700
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 2: don't know, the Kings scored a lot of points. I mean,

701
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 2: you know, in today's game, one hundred and five isn't

702
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:11,920
Speaker 2: a ton, but you're still over one hundred and he's

703
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 2: still almost lost by fifty. That's quite the bounce back.

704
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 2: That's a big bounce back right there. So yeah, I mean,

705
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Speaker 2: the Celtics obviously had a better win. They're obviously playing

706
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Speaker 2: for something as well. But man, one hundred and fifty

707
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Speaker 2: four points, that's.

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Speaker 1: A lot of points. Yeah, it is a ton Matt Thomas,

709
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:33,240
Speaker 1: former Rappet players seven ver seven in that game, seventeen

710
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Speaker 1: points in nine minutes. He got it up. He hit

711
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Speaker 1: three threes, but everybody was scoring for Utah. But I'm

712
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 1: with you, I think, you know, especially like Jayalen Brown

713
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 1: had sort of like called out his team after that

714
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 1: embarrassing loss to the Thunder and my godly he backed

715
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Speaker 1: that up. Yeah, Like he came out and he out

716
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Speaker 1: scored the Hornets in the first quarter. Didn't he have

717
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 1: like twenty or twenty one points after the first twelve

718
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 1: minutes and they had He single handedly had a lead

719
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 1: over Charlotte, So that that was a good win. And

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Speaker 1: you're right with with that late sort of Marcus smart

721
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 1: scratch there for what he did. Good goodwin, good bounce

722
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Speaker 1: back win. All right, our next one, I'm gonna show

723
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Speaker 1: you a little footage here on the old stream team

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Speaker 1: Bam getting the best of teenage mutant Ninja Purtle last night,

725
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 1: dunking all over his head. And then we had really

726
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 1: Hatchamura dunking on Anthony Davis on the fast break, popping

727
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:25,080
Speaker 1: them there in the face. So both big big dunks.

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Speaker 1: Question is which one was the bigger dunk, Bam or

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Speaker 1: Ruey Trey what you got?

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Speaker 2: A lot of things the factor into this, Skeets, including

731
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Speaker 2: the titles on the highlights. These come to you from

732
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Speaker 2: MLG Highlights, a solid highlights channel. Bam detonated on Yakam

733
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 2: Purdle like dynamite dunk versus Rui. Hachimura murders Anthony Davis

734
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Speaker 2: with monster duck.

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Speaker 1: That's a tough call right there.

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Speaker 2: You're going with the dynamite dunk detonation or the monster

737
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 2: dunk murder. You mentioned it there, Skeets, Ruey gets some

738
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Speaker 2: points because he dunked on Anthony Davis. Pearl's no slouch

739
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 2: at the rim, but Ad at all time great caliber

740
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Speaker 2: of defender, still returning from injury, so maybe not at

741
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Speaker 2: his key prowess, but nonetheless you're taking Ad as a

742
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 2: defender over Peardle. I do think there's a little more

743
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 2: ferocity for ruly Hatchamura, but I'm ultimately gonna go with

744
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 2: Bam here because, as you said, Skeets, Ruey basically punches

745
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 2: a d in the face as he's going up for

746
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 2: this dunk, which makes it look awesome, especially the pictures

747
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 2: of it, like Anthony Davis just flailing back, he's grabbing

748
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 2: his nose afterwards, but not quite as clean of a

749
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Speaker 2: dunk for Ruy. Bam is just straight up body to

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Speaker 2: body with pearl up at the top, and then of

751
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 2: course he simply detonates him with a dynamite dunk. So

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Speaker 2: give me Bam a dynamite dunk from a guy named Bam.

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Speaker 2: It's perfect.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Lee, what you got Bama? RUI?

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Speaker 3: Well, I think BAM's was probably a big a dunk.

756
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Speaker 3: But Ruy gets Anthony Davis. I think that's one you

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Speaker 3: want for the Harlot real spish because Davis is kind of,

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00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 3: you know, hurt after the play. He's like that, it's

759
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 3: it's like you got him and there was no fount.

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Speaker 1: But it's like the fast Break variety posts. But you

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Speaker 1: know it's not as it's not as crazy to me,

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Speaker 1: I think Bam runs away with this.

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Speaker 4: Nah.

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Speaker 3: I think I think you've got to You've got to

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Speaker 3: discount just the fact like Purdole isn't it isn't a

766
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:21,040
Speaker 3: bad defender. But it's just like who would rather have

767
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 3: on your on your you know, on your on your list.

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00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 3: You'd say, man, I smashed one over Anthony Davis. People,

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Speaker 3: Oh wow, Anthony Davis.

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Speaker 1: It's big, huge, it's big.

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Speaker 3: But I would just rather have Anthony Davis on my

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Speaker 3: You know, if you're like a hunter and you've got

773
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Speaker 3: the heads up on the wall, you know, as a dunker,

774
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,879
Speaker 3: you've got the you've got the Anthony Davis trophy up there.

775
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 1: So which which teenager and ninja turtle would you most

776
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:48,920
Speaker 1: like to dunk? Only if you had it's like to

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Speaker 1: dunk on and they get their weapon.

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Speaker 3: Wow, Raphael had those one of those. Yeah, Michelangelo had

779
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 3: the nun chucks. Yeah, Leonardo the big sword, didn't he?

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00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 1: And then Donna tell yeah the staff.

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00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:09,359
Speaker 3: I would say probably Leonardo because you know, I mean

782
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 3: that's a that's a that's a blade that he's got there.

783
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 3: So it's true, you know, I mean, because I think

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Speaker 3: Donna Tella could just like sort of body you off

785
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:18,359
Speaker 3: with that.

786
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:19,960
Speaker 2: But cross check.

787
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:21,879
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, in hockey, that's right.

788
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:22,240
Speaker 1: Yeah.

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00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:24,759
Speaker 3: So if a guy's got an actual kind of machete

790
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Speaker 3: and you're dunking over him, I think that that it

791
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 3: takes some balls.

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00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, same question, though you can also include Bebop,

793
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 1: rock Steady and Krang Casey's.

794
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 2: Casey Jones might be the hardest to dunk on since

795
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Speaker 2: he is wearing football pads and carrying a hockey stick

796
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 2: at all times. That's gonna be tough. He's got a

797
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 2: lot of reach and a lot of strength. I think

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Speaker 2: it would be most fun to dunk on Raphael because

799
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Speaker 2: he would be so pissed. Yeah, if you dunked on him,

800
00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 2: he would get up, probably stab you with a with

801
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 2: a sigh, and then he's ejected and you got a

802
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:02,240
Speaker 2: ball against April O'Neil.

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00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, Anthony Davis could have used the Casey Jones mask.

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00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah too.

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00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 1: Ed he wasn't rocking that all right. That's a fun

806
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 1: question for everybody in the stream team which teenage ninaternal

807
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:16,720
Speaker 1: character would most like the dunk on? You're only getting

808
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:18,359
Speaker 1: that stuff here from no dunk I'm telling you you're

809
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 1: not seeing that anywhere else today.

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00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 2: I love it. It's a perfect poll too, four options.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, our final one here. CJ. McCollum had

812
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 1: twenty six points. Norman Powell out of twenty four helped

813
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 1: the Blazers solidify their hold on the seventh place in

814
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Speaker 1: the West one thirty one oh nine victory over the

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Speaker 1: Grizzlies there last night. The win moves Portland two games

816
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 1: ahead of Memphis, so they're still matched up in the

817
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 1: playing tournament seven eight. But Portland's two games up on

818
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 1: Memphis and San Antonio there and now just a half

819
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 1: game back from the Dallas Mavericks, who are still in

820
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:52,359
Speaker 1: the sixth seeds. So I guess the question is here,

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Speaker 1: who's going to avoid that play? Interny, who would you

822
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 1: be putting money on to stay out of that seventh

823
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:01,320
Speaker 1: seed and keep the sixth seed is but the Mavericks

824
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 1: or the Blazers trade what you got.

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00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:06,200
Speaker 2: I'm being a big time floppity flipper on this one

826
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Speaker 2: because I was going Dallas as of last Thursday and

827
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:13,239
Speaker 2: Thursday nights, Porzingis rolls his ankle, so on Friday I

828
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 2: went with Portland. But now the MAVs have gone two

829
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 2: and one without Kristaps Porzingis. He's questionable for tonight's game.

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00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 2: We'll see if he plays, but either way, it's not

831
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Speaker 2: going to be long. So now I'm back on the MAVs.

832
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 2: But it really comes back to the MVP ballot talk

833
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 2: that we had yesterday on the whole of the season.

834
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Speaker 2: Dame and Luca, I think, are having very similar years,

835
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:34,840
Speaker 2: similar stats, their team's records are the same, both teams

836
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,760
Speaker 2: have had a lot of players miss a lot of games.

837
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:43,120
Speaker 2: Their initials are even opposites LD and DL crazy stuffs.

838
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:46,719
Speaker 2: But it feels like Luca is peaking right now, whereas

839
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 2: Dame looks like he's been carrying the Blazers for the

840
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:53,320
Speaker 2: entire season and he's just came back from a hamstring injury.

841
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 2: Just looks like he's still rounding into form. Whereas Luca

842
00:37:57,760 --> 00:37:59,359
Speaker 2: it feels like he's going to hit a game winner

843
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:02,080
Speaker 2: every single night, even though that's clearly not the case

844
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 2: with what's happening. But it feels like the MAVs did

845
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 2: a good job to survive with poor Zingis out for

846
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:09,840
Speaker 2: a little bit of time. Here, got a couple of wins.

847
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 2: He's going to be coming back soon, which bodes well

848
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:15,120
Speaker 2: for the Mavericks as well. So I think it's Dallas,

849
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:18,400
Speaker 2: but you know, I reserve the rights to change my mind,

850
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 2: new information, new decisions.

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00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:23,920
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's close right now. I believe they

852
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:26,760
Speaker 1: have the same amount of wins Ley and the MAVs

853
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 1: are maybe just a game short right now, you know,

854
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:32,880
Speaker 1: like they have one less loss. Yes, so who you

855
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,839
Speaker 1: going This is a tough question, But who's more likely

856
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:37,800
Speaker 1: to avoid it? And just say in the six seat Dallas,

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00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:38,400
Speaker 1: Sir Portland.

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00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:41,479
Speaker 3: Yeah, well the Blazes have the tie breakout, which could

859
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 3: be key in that in that matchup.

860
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:46,719
Speaker 1: But looking look safe in a hotel room.

861
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 3: Looking at the schedule though, it clearly favors the Mavericks

862
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:53,360
Speaker 3: for me because they have a much easier schedule to

863
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:56,560
Speaker 3: got the Pistons, the Kings, the Cavs twice, they got

864
00:38:56,560 --> 00:39:00,200
Speaker 3: the Raptors, and then they finish with the they finish

865
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:04,240
Speaker 3: with the Minnesota Timberwolves, whereas the Blazers have still got

866
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:08,880
Speaker 3: like Brooklyn, Boston, the Lakers, the Spurs, the Jazz, the Suns,

867
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 3: and the Nuggets to close out. So now we know

868
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:13,759
Speaker 3: as well, like sometimes those last two or three games

869
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 3: there's literally no one playing for teams. It just sort

870
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 3: of depends on where they are in the standings and

871
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:19,879
Speaker 3: if they just want to get their guys a little

872
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,279
Speaker 3: bit a bit extra rest. But just looking at that,

873
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:24,759
Speaker 3: I would say that the MAVs have a more winning

874
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:26,840
Speaker 3: ball schedule, so I think they get in and I

875
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:29,400
Speaker 3: think that they avoid the play in which I believe

876
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:31,399
Speaker 3: was the question. Yes, I think the MAVs of all.

877
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, look, I'm already getting like sort of like

878
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 1: chills in trying to figure out who I'm going to

879
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 1: be taking in like playoff matchups and like because we like,

880
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:44,320
Speaker 1: of course, like everybody, we're going to do like playoff

881
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:47,840
Speaker 1: previews and ultimately predictions and like, oh, team X and

882
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 1: in four games, TEAMX in five games. Yes, it's like,

883
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 1: I don't know. You start looking at some of these

884
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 1: matchups already, and a big part of it, like let's

885
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:57,320
Speaker 1: be honest, is because the Lakers are so far down

886
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:00,279
Speaker 1: and then they're going to be adding Lebron and you're

887
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 1: like you almost feel bad for the Nuggets. It's like

888
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:05,640
Speaker 1: so many of these matchups currently as is, and this

889
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:08,400
Speaker 1: is without even knowing some of the play in tournament

890
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:10,439
Speaker 1: winners getting in there for as the seventh and eight seat.

891
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 1: It's like, I don't know, I think there's gonna be

892
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 1: so many where you're like, I guess that'll probably go seven,

893
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:18,279
Speaker 1: and I have no clue I'll flip a coin on

894
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:21,080
Speaker 1: whether you know, just for example, like a Sun's Mavericks

895
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 1: matchup or a Suns Blazer's matchup. For crying out loud,

896
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:27,080
Speaker 1: I think is very still tight, so I can't wait

897
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:28,879
Speaker 1: for it getting awful close. What are we two weeks

898
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 1: away from? Basically not long the play in tournament and

899
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:34,719
Speaker 1: then and then the playoffs starting soon after that. Oh,

900
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:39,239
Speaker 1: very exciting stuff. Well what is that sound and we

901
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 1: hear that one?

902
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:43,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, something crazy by?

903
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:45,960
Speaker 3: Well there's a truck that drove by, But it wasn't

904
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:48,560
Speaker 3: I don't know, it didn't seem super weird.

905
00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:50,799
Speaker 2: Old noticed in there.

906
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,319
Speaker 1: I don't know what it was. Let's hear from all

907
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 1: of you guys out there, all your answers to those

908
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:57,200
Speaker 1: what you got questions? Leave them in the stream team

909
00:40:57,239 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 1: we've been in the YouTube comments, or tweet them in

910
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:03,120
Speaker 1: at no dunks in Okay.

911
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 4: Time for tweet to the night, Tweet out the night. Wow.

912
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:17,919
Speaker 2: Pretty simple tweet of the night for today. It comes

913
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:21,320
Speaker 2: to us from Tim Reynolds of the AP down in Miami.

914
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:24,280
Speaker 2: It's simply a picture of what may be the greatest

915
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:30,360
Speaker 2: misspelled jersey in NBA history, the Dwayne Deadman wearing the

916
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:35,920
Speaker 2: Miami Vice two tone jersey and it's spelled d ed

917
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:42,800
Speaker 2: m A and straight up dead Man this is awesome.

918
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 2: Usually a misspelled jersey is just something that looks hilarious

919
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:50,319
Speaker 2: when you see it, like Andre Drummond with three m's

920
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 2: or Eric beldsoe, yes, this is dead Man. This is awesome,

921
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 2: like you're saying, skeets, this is straight up the Undertaker.

922
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:02,440
Speaker 2: These jerseys didn't get great reviews compared to the Miami

923
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:05,399
Speaker 2: Vice jerseys of the past couple of seasons, but this

924
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 2: is a must have one. If you can actually get

925
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 2: the Dwayne Deadman dead Man jersey, that would be major

926
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:13,920
Speaker 2: stuff because eventually he switched into a standard d ed

927
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:17,239
Speaker 2: m O N. I think for the second half, a

928
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 2: straight up Dwayne Deadman jersey, but a dead Man jersey fire.

929
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:23,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, Lee, what do you think of that? You like

930
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:25,239
Speaker 1: that better than the actual spelling is?

931
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:25,560
Speaker 2: Yeah?

932
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:25,839
Speaker 4: Yeah.

933
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:27,879
Speaker 3: Why wouldn't you just say just keep it like that

934
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:28,840
Speaker 3: from now on?

935
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:29,960
Speaker 1: I mean, why not?

936
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:32,839
Speaker 3: It suits those jerseys, and you know he's a sort

937
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 3: of big intimidating guy as well, so you know, I

938
00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:37,279
Speaker 3: think it fits his persona as well.

939
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:40,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, does he have any sort of WrestleMania streak going

940
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:43,239
Speaker 1: that we need to know about. I guess that one's

941
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:46,400
Speaker 1: done right for the actual Undertaker, I guess brock defeated

942
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 1: that or snapped that right.

943
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:50,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think he was twenty one in

944
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:53,879
Speaker 2: zho at the time that brock Lesnar beat him, right,

945
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:57,440
Speaker 2: Which is pretty crazy because Dwayne Deadman wears number twenty

946
00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:00,960
Speaker 2: one skits whoa the Undertaker. He literally needs to get

947
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 2: his hands on this jersey, I think, because, like you're saying, League,

948
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:06,480
Speaker 2: Dwayne Deadman is big. He's seven feet two forty five

949
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 2: is what he's listed at. The Undertaker is huge as well.

950
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 2: He could wear this jersey. Yeah, Dwayne Deadman had to

951
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:14,239
Speaker 2: hook up the Undertaker's what I'm saying.

952
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:17,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Undertaker played hoops too, didn't he, like back

953
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:19,560
Speaker 1: in probably his high school days because he was a

954
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 1: big dude.

955
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:22,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so, And I think you're exactly right.

956
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:25,880
Speaker 2: Him and Kevin Nash. Kevin Nash was like recruited in

957
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:28,279
Speaker 2: the same class as Magic Johnson or something like that,

958
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:30,440
Speaker 2: like Magic Johnson was the number one recruit in the

959
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 2: nation and Kevin Nash was number two. Seriously, something crazy

960
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:35,839
Speaker 2: like that. Hey, in the seventies, if you were over

961
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 2: seven feet tall. Yeah, you're gonna be getting basketball. Yeah,

962
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 2: that's exactly right.

963
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:42,319
Speaker 1: Okay, let's see if we can get that jersey, that

964
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 1: error jersey, into the hands of the actual Undertaker. Yeah,

965
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:47,200
Speaker 1: why not, that'd be that'd be a cool ass jersey

966
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:49,239
Speaker 1: for him to rock. Actually, totally, he could pull it off.

967
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:52,400
Speaker 1: Get back on his chopper, turn back into the American badass.

968
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 1: Oh I love it. Okay, good tweet of the night.

969
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:57,880
Speaker 1: There a great catchup. You know it could have been

970
00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:00,160
Speaker 1: in the running for Worst of the Week. Actually sometimes

971
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 1: we do that. But tomorrow on the Drop podcast, we're

972
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 1: getting rid of us a week because we're going long

973
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:08,479
Speaker 1: on the awards. I already teased this a couple of times.

974
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 1: We're making all of our picks for the six major awards, MVP,

975
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:17,799
Speaker 1: Most Improved sixth Man, Rookie, Defensive Player of the Year,

976
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:21,719
Speaker 1: and everybody's favorite award, the Coach of the Year. That's right.

977
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 1: So we'll make our picks for all those. Like I said,

978
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:26,959
Speaker 1: we'll even flush out the MVP pick. You know who

979
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:29,279
Speaker 1: is at the table, who's.

980
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:32,920
Speaker 3: In the final call for the table tomorrow.

981
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 1: That's right, this be it. So we'll start doing that.

982
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 1: But that stuff usually takes a while, so you know,

983
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 1: we're just gonna like get rid of a couple of

984
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:42,959
Speaker 1: the other things that we sometimes have in the Drop podcast. Also,

985
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 1: JD is like still trying to like basically flip a

986
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 1: house over there. We're gonna start a little earlier tomorrow too,

987
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:50,480
Speaker 1: if you want to join us live at nine am

988
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:54,759
Speaker 1: Eastern on YouTube for the Drop Podcast. So yeah, NBA

989
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:57,759
Speaker 1: Award talk heavy stuff there tomorrow next week. By the way,

990
00:44:57,760 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 1: we got a couple of guests lined up to join

991
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 1: us here on the show. That'll be fun, all right.

992
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:05,000
Speaker 1: Pick them results brought to you by Bett MGM. You know,

993
00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 1: I swerved. I took the Hornets. I had to. Everybody

994
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:09,759
Speaker 1: else had Boston to win by eight or more. The

995
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:13,360
Speaker 1: line was seven and a half Celtic's favor and man,

996
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 1: I thought I was just gonna maybe maybe maybe pull

997
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:19,719
Speaker 1: it out because there was a couple plays at the end.

998
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:22,040
Speaker 1: There was a dumb foul on Tata like they tried

999
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:25,320
Speaker 1: to trap and they did the whole thing anyway, Celtics

1000
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:28,520
Speaker 1: just covered and I'm done. I have now lost two

1001
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:32,759
Speaker 1: consecutive months. I'm eight and twelve Task finishes twelve and eight,

1002
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:36,040
Speaker 1: Train and leate eleven and nine, So good on you, guys.

1003
00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:38,320
Speaker 1: I got too far behind. You just can't get behind

1004
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:40,560
Speaker 1: in the pickup because then you start panicking and you

1005
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:42,840
Speaker 1: do start swerving when you probably shouldn't. But that's what

1006
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:45,759
Speaker 1: happened with me. And yeah, I've been garbage the last

1007
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:49,080
Speaker 1: two months, so I owed two payoffs. There's some talk

1008
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:52,800
Speaker 1: going around of just saving it till the postseason to

1009
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:56,000
Speaker 1: you know, help us with content in the summer and

1010
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:58,359
Speaker 1: really do something worthwhile. You know, I'm not gonna sit

1011
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 1: here and eat an Herby sandwich. Okay, I'm not doing that,

1012
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 1: Uh though I already did just chug a beer once

1013
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 1: as a pickup payoff. Also lame, also lame. We can

1014
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 1: do better, so we will. Uh, don't you worry? Won't

1015
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:13,960
Speaker 1: be forgetting about these uh these losses and me having

1016
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:15,680
Speaker 1: to pay it off. But if you have suggestions, let

1017
00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:19,640
Speaker 1: us know, write us in, email him, email him in,

1018
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:22,239
Speaker 1: No dunkink athletic dot com, tweetm in and no dunk sinc.

1019
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:24,319
Speaker 1: What I should do for any of these payoffs or

1020
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:26,399
Speaker 1: do I just at this point guys would just take

1021
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:29,560
Speaker 1: two sort of small payoffs and merge them into one

1022
00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:32,960
Speaker 1: like Mega payoff one giant. I mean that's a possibility

1023
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:35,279
Speaker 1: to if we come up with something brutal. I think

1024
00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:38,719
Speaker 1: that might be fair. But again, a serious suggestions we

1025
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:41,280
Speaker 1: won't make. We won't make any picks for tonight months

1026
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 1: basically over. We will do a short month for me. Well,

1027
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:47,360
Speaker 1: we'll have like two weeks of action. I guess we

1028
00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:49,759
Speaker 1: don't do this in the playoffs in terms of the

1029
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 1: pick them, but we'll do it for the rest of

1030
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:53,719
Speaker 1: the regular seasons. And maybe we'll just make that one

1031
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:56,160
Speaker 1: because it's so short, like I don't know, some donation

1032
00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:58,680
Speaker 1: or something like that. We just got to pony up

1033
00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:00,719
Speaker 1: some dough to a good cause. So we'll come up

1034
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:02,359
Speaker 1: with something like that. So don't you worry. We'll start

1035
00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:05,120
Speaker 1: it back up. He started me there, all right, sort

1036
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 1: of a quicker show. It's all good, everybody all right

1037
00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 1: with that? Guys, goold, want to get out of here.

1038
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 2: I don't know, you want to just tap dance for

1039
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:12,560
Speaker 2: thirteen minutes? Now, get it to an hour?

1040
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:14,359
Speaker 1: Not really, We're gonna have a bit of a shorter

1041
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:16,040
Speaker 1: one here. Again. Jad's very very busy.

1042
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 3: Hey, well, well we've got a little bit of talking

1043
00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:22,120
Speaker 3: about I saw interaction with Chris Hayes there too yesterday

1044
00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 3: because after the tweet that I had saying about him

1045
00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:27,239
Speaker 3: and doctor Fauci talking to the trash to each other.

1046
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:29,800
Speaker 3: So if anyone's got a contact for Chris Hayes and

1047
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:31,239
Speaker 3: he wants to come on the show and talk his

1048
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:34,040
Speaker 3: basketball talk, let him know, let.

1049
00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 1: Him know, let us know it. Basically went back on

1050
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:39,080
Speaker 1: Twitter saying like he's got you know, do you know

1051
00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 1: how small thing he is? And he's got like sixty

1052
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:43,640
Speaker 1: pounds on him, Like he's like too small, He's got.

1053
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:46,960
Speaker 2: To kick the takes Fauji into the post banks in

1054
00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:50,120
Speaker 2: a banker runs back down doing the little stand thing.

1055
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:51,840
Speaker 2: Too small, Fauji, too small.

1056
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:55,719
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I actually have a rapid fire question off

1057
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:58,200
Speaker 1: of that tomorrow, Lely, So don't you worry. Okay, I

1058
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:00,040
Speaker 1: think it'd be fun that if we can make that

1059
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:02,399
Speaker 1: game actually happen. I'll tease it right now for you guys.

1060
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:04,719
Speaker 1: You're hearing this question for the first time right here,

1061
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:08,439
Speaker 1: this second. If they could play a game for charity, right,

1062
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:12,240
Speaker 1: Hayes versus Fauci. Okay, that's the that's the main event.

1063
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:16,840
Speaker 1: But let's say you guys were the undercard, which random celebrity,

1064
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:18,680
Speaker 1: would you like to challenge to a game of one

1065
00:48:18,719 --> 00:48:20,959
Speaker 1: on one to sort of get us in the mood

1066
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:23,839
Speaker 1: for that for that heavyweight one on one battle between

1067
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:26,120
Speaker 1: Hayes and Fauti. So start thinking it over, everybody, start

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Speaker 1: Trey and Task that on tomorrow's Drop podcast again nine

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Speaker 1: for those keeping track for our first ever really NBA

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Speaker 1: Happy Our Game night. There's no games on TNT tonight

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Speaker 1: because there's some weird thing called the NFL Draft, So

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Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna try something new here, maybe a

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Speaker 1: little geo guesser, some sporkle quizzes, uh, some some pop

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Speaker 2: It's funny you mentioned popping packs. I just came up

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Speaker 2: with a new name for this that we could call

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Speaker 2: what we're doing tonight game night. Everybody does it? What

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Speaker 2: about game time?

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Speaker 3: Like?

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Speaker 1: I don't mind that at all. Yeah, And when things

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Speaker 1: get tight, it's crunched time at the end of the sport.

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Speaker 1: This time is running out, all right, So join us tonight.

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Speaker 1: Uh clipper bros. You heard it here first.

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Speaker 2: Have a great time, turn up. Love you guys, awesome,

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Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us. Sam. Remember Willie Nelson once smoked

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Speaker 1: Happy birthday to my father in law higas well. Brace

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Speaker 1: the day people. You could stay ooo every day.

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Speaker 4: And Daggy happy every minute.

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Speaker 1: It's been so long that your dolna waiting for.

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Speaker 4: Its happened already it's

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Speaker 1: Gonna be Grevy.