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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports boy, are you ready? What

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Speaker 1: is up? Ladies and gentlemen, It's me Jason McIntyre, Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio. It is a awesome Saturday morning in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: The sun is out. We are dogs sitting again this weekend.

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Speaker 1: I know, I know, I talked about it way too

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Speaker 1: much last time, and um, so far, so good. Off

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Speaker 1: to a fun start. I will say, we got a

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Speaker 1: great show ahead. We have three hours basically of me

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Speaker 1: defending Steph Curry against the army of people just happy

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Speaker 1: that he did not get into the playoffs. Uh, A

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Speaker 1: lot of fun today will be had. We'll do a

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Speaker 1: lot of and be a playoff predictions. Tim Tebow makes

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Speaker 1: it official he is signing with the Jacksonville Jaguars one year.

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Speaker 1: I saw nine hundred and twenty dollars is the contract,

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Speaker 1: not a ton of guarantees. So basically, you know Tebow

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Speaker 1: earn it, which I'm all four. I just love to

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Speaker 1: move by Urban Meyer and Jacksonville. I'll explain that a

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Speaker 1: little later in the show. Um, we we've got a

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Speaker 1: lot on tap, but I think the place we kind

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Speaker 1: of have to start today, right, is with what happened

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Speaker 1: last night in the NBA playoffs, although technically I shouldn't

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Speaker 1: call it the playoffs because did you guys know that

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Speaker 1: the stats for the play in do not count. I

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Speaker 1: was totally unaware of that. They're like, oh, yeah, Lebron

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Speaker 1: internet to find the stats because they don't count toward

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Speaker 1: the regular season and they don't don't count toward the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: I will say this, the ratings for Warriors Lakers on

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Speaker 1: Wednesday night were astronomical five point six million viewers, the

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Speaker 1: most watched NBA cable only telecast um since two thousand

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Speaker 1: and eleven. That was not a playoff game or All

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Speaker 1: Star game. So this the number last night for Warriors

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Speaker 1: Grizzlies is not in yet. My guests would be in

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Speaker 1: the three thousand range or sorry, three million range. Uh five,

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Speaker 1: five point six for Curry Lebron on Wednesday. That game

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Speaker 1: saw on line last night text from friends and friend

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Speaker 1: of mees, yes, I sometimes use the word friend of me. Um, gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: start your narratives. My I'm of the belief that everybody

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Speaker 1: watching the Warriors lose it again. They were at home,

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Speaker 1: they were favored. I think the line was four and

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Speaker 1: a half or five against the grizz the takeaways obviously, Hey,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant leaves the Warriors. Last year, they get Curry hurt,

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Speaker 1: they missed the playoffs. This year, Clay Thompson hurt again.

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Speaker 1: He's missed two straight seasons, which is just sad to

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Speaker 1: think about. No Durant, Curry might lead the league in scoring,

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Speaker 1: but they didn't even get to the playoffs, and everybody

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Speaker 1: wants to go ahead and beat him up. And it's weird.

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Speaker 1: You know, We're blessed to be graced by Iowa Sam's

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Speaker 1: presence in the early hour. He's usual the final two hours.

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Speaker 1: Iwa Sam in the building, and I think he loves

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Speaker 1: He's a big media observer. We don't have Isaac today,

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Speaker 1: and Isaac also loves to monitor the media. I'm telling

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Speaker 1: you guys, the media loves to build people up in sports.

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Speaker 1: You get all the clicks, all the talked about narratives

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Speaker 1: with the build up, and then they love to tear

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Speaker 1: That I personally do not operate out of that playbook. Um. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the Warriors lost to the Grizzlies last night as favorites

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Speaker 1: hell no, this is not an indictment of career occur

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Speaker 1: John Morant had the game of his young NBA career.

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Speaker 1: The guys played a hundred and thirty two career NBA

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Speaker 1: the Warriors dare John Morant to shoot, they just sagged off.

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Speaker 1: And that's the treatment the Warriors gave him Sunday. So

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Speaker 1: Points Listen, I'm a Zion Williamson guy. I've been hyping

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Speaker 1: think this plucky Grizzlies team can give you toss and fits. Remember,

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Speaker 1: and again we'll do a deeper dive later. But Donovan

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Speaker 1: Mitchell has not played in sixteen games, and he practiced

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Speaker 1: twice in the last month. He's their scorer. This Grizzlies

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Speaker 1: really I don't know if there's gonna be a bigger

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Speaker 1: I have a feeling. I always say, I'm in Ryan,

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Speaker 1: we are going to open the show something we haven't

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Speaker 1: callers because I know people want to call in and

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Speaker 1: yell about Steph Curry sucking. And the funniest part is

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Speaker 1: I'm opening the phone lines because you guys are so wrong.

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Speaker 1: I want to try to help you. Steph Curry did

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Speaker 1: not suck last night. He's not the reason they lost.

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Speaker 1: Scored thirty nine points. He's the only reason they were

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Speaker 1: in the game. Yes, he had seven turnovers. No, he

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Speaker 1: wasn't the one who turned the ball over with twenty

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Speaker 1: to to tie the game. That was Jordan's pool. Jordan's pool.

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Speaker 1: I feel like he was at Michigan yesterday. I was saying,

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Speaker 1: we'll have to look that one up. Jordan Pool, nice

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Speaker 1: young player. With Clay Thompson back, he probably ain't on

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Speaker 1: Pool probably not on the floor at the end of

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Speaker 1: the game. And this idea that Curry, Oh, he can't

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Speaker 1: Steph Curry, I would say he was well. I would

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Speaker 1: say a notch below brilliant. Okay, thirty nine points shooting

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Speaker 1: six or fifteen from three? You take away Curry six

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Speaker 1: they were six for nineteen. That is less than thirty.

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Speaker 1: That is not gonna cut it. Kent Baysmore, by the way,

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Speaker 1: was ben for the fourth quarter and overtime. That's how

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Speaker 1: bad he was. He's a starter. Andrew Wiggins, I mean

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Speaker 1: reason the Warriors lost in Steph Curry. And how about

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Speaker 1: Draymond Green again the box score, Jason Draymond had a

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Speaker 1: triple double, eleven point sixteen rebounds, sentences. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to hear he can't play all right. Game on the line,

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Speaker 1: five seconds left in regulation, tie game, they swarm Curry

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Speaker 1: stop bashing Steph Curry and Steve Kerr for this result.

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Speaker 1: In no way, shape or form are they remotely at

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Speaker 1: fault for this defeat? And fight Jason fight. We won't

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Speaker 1: bast him. The Warriors aren't in the playoffs. How good

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Speaker 1: is Curry. Ah, Well, you know I'm ready. I prepare

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Speaker 1: I am always prepared. I am ready to do battle

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Speaker 1: any moment y'all want to step in the ring. And yes,

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Speaker 1: I have seen this Clipper Darrell guy coming after me

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Speaker 1: Bro anytime, anytime, anywhere. I will debate anybody on anything

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Speaker 1: because I'm not confident in my research. I want to

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Speaker 1: remind people when you take away one half of a

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Speaker 1: dynamic duo, what happens? Thank, I mean, you guys know

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Speaker 1: Shaquille o'neial, do you guys happen to remember? Then they

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Speaker 1: Gary Payton chase ring chasing and Karl Malone ring chasing.

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Speaker 1: lamar Odom and On Butler. Okay, the Lakers, after losing Shock,

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Speaker 1: check it up on the internet. The Spurs were favorites,

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Speaker 1: plus five. Lakers. Phil Jackson leaves. Phil Jackson knows nobody

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Speaker 1: Phil Jackson. Okay, he leaves after Shock leaves, knows that

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Speaker 1: the team's going down. You split up Kobe and Chack

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Speaker 1: what happened? The Lakers did not make the playoffs. Kobe Bryant,

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Speaker 1: six years old, put up twenty seven a game. He

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Speaker 1: had lamar Odom, he had On Butler, both good players.

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Speaker 1: I know Corn Butler. Well, I've worked with him here

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Speaker 1: at Fox Sports Radio at FS one. They missed the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: They want thirty four games, thirty four and forty eight. Yes,

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Speaker 1: split up a duo. You missed the playoffs. Enter Kobe.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Enter Steph Curry and Clay Thompson. Now you

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Speaker 1: didn't split him up, but Clay's hurt. They're starting center

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Speaker 1: James Wisdon. They got better without him. He's nineteen years

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Speaker 1: old and they missed the playoffs. Is it the end

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Speaker 1: of the world. Did we say Kobe Bryant is garbage

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Speaker 1: when Shack left town and Kobe missed the playoffs. No,

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Speaker 1: we didn't. Well, he doesn't really have a supporting cast. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: at eleven forty a m. Eastern. And of course, a

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Speaker 1: programming reminder, the Mavericks are at the Clippers at four

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Speaker 1: thirty pm Eastern, and it's upset alert because Jason McIntire

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Speaker 1: on your podcast had the Mavericks winning at seven as

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Speaker 1: they sent it back to you. Thank you for listening.

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Speaker 1: Mr Finley undercut, I like some of these ages are

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Speaker 1: using all right, trying to change make it different. Alright,

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Speaker 1: coming up now joining the show. Uh, he's a senior

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Speaker 1: NBA writer for y'all, who sports, Vince Goodwill, Vince. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna start here with what I think is a layout.

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Speaker 1: Is Steph Curry to blame at all for the Warriors

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Speaker 1: loss on Friday night to the Grizzlies as a favorite

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Speaker 1: at home. I mean, I guess you could say he

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Speaker 1: could have made one more shot or something maybe, But uh,

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Speaker 1: if you look at if you look at that team,

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Speaker 1: and I've been hearing so much over the past couple

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Speaker 1: of days that, man, if you add Clay Thompson to that,

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Speaker 1: they're going to be a championship team. Do you look.

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Speaker 1: Have you've seen that roster? Do you see some of

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Speaker 1: the dudes that are on that team? That doesn't look

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Speaker 1: like a championship team. Yeah, Clay Thompson helping Clay Thompson

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Speaker 1: that is fully back and everything else from too stabilitating

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Speaker 1: injuries makes that better. But that's not a championship team.

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Speaker 1: And if Draymond Green is aggressive and steps up and

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Speaker 1: actually takes a jump shot or an actual lay up,

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Speaker 1: then they probably win the game in regulation and their

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Speaker 1: tired team going to Salt Lake City, but a triumphant

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Speaker 1: team going to Sea You're right, it's a weird one.

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Speaker 1: What does Clay Thompson do for this team? Because how

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Speaker 1: we I can't recall anybody coming off two back to

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Speaker 1: back miss seasons like this. We don't know if he's

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Speaker 1: gonna be defender he once was. But I will say

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Speaker 1: this idea, like they got better without Wiseman and Ubre

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Speaker 1: in a small sample size down the stretch. You know,

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Speaker 1: Wiseman and Uber. Uber started the season for them at

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Speaker 1: the small forward. Wiseman eventually started center. They're down two centers,

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Speaker 1: two starters. I'm sorry. And Clay Thompson, you know this

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Speaker 1: idea that like the Warriors stink and it's over I

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Speaker 1: think that's a little overblown, don't you. Because Finns, I mean,

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Speaker 1: we would expect you taught to come a little bit

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Speaker 1: back to the pack next year next a little bit

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Speaker 1: back to the pack, more of an eighty two game

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Speaker 1: season with normal and between games. I think we'll see

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Speaker 1: a different Western conference. No, I think we'll see a

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Speaker 1: different Western conference. Just because you're not sure what Zion

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Speaker 1: is going to look like year three and in year

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Speaker 1: two he looked like a monster. And all they need

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Speaker 1: is a little tweaking, uh, in my opinion for them

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Speaker 1: to be a team that you have to really be

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Speaker 1: concerned about. And I think for Golden State, I think

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Speaker 1: we always naturally is some especially when players are older,

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Speaker 1: that they're going to hold right, that there's not going

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Speaker 1: to be necessarily like a decline, Like I don't think

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Speaker 1: we're going to see a better Stephan Curry. That's not

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Speaker 1: to say that I believe that Steph Curry's and decline,

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Speaker 1: but I think it's unfair to expect the player of

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Speaker 1: his age and now the mouths that he has on

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Speaker 1: his body and the energy that it took him to

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Speaker 1: drag this corpse of a team to the play in

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Speaker 1: that he's going to be the same exact player this

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Speaker 1: time next year. The same thing goes to Draymond Green,

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Speaker 1: probably even more so for a Mound Green, just because

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Speaker 1: of the type of player you know that he is.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, they got better with James Wiseman out in

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Speaker 1: everything else, and I think James Wiseman took a lot

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Speaker 1: of unfair blame, but you have to decide what type

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Speaker 1: of team you're going to be to make all of

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Speaker 1: these pieces work, in addition to figuring out if Clay

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Speaker 1: Thompson is your starting to guard next year. And I

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Speaker 1: say that because yes, he's a he will be a

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Speaker 1: starter because he can shoot like he's probably a top

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Speaker 1: five shooter in the history of the game. That makes

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Speaker 1: him a starter. But do you want him guarding the

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Speaker 1: best players in the game because you don't know what

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Speaker 1: his lateral movement is going to be like, considering he

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Speaker 1: just had two debilitating injuries that will one of them

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Speaker 1: will affect your lateral movement, let alone both. So I

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Speaker 1: think it's going to be like a slow walk that

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Speaker 1: we have to expect back and maybe going into you know,

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Speaker 1: the second half of next season, we'll see a better

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Speaker 1: incarnation of the team. But Jason, I have no clue

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Speaker 1: what they're gonna look like. And you're right, the Western

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Speaker 1: Conference that year is going to be a total hoshpos.

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Speaker 1: I promise you we will give the Grizzlies their flowers.

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Speaker 1: But first, some breaking news. Lebron James will not be

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Speaker 1: suspended for uh, you know, going to that tequila party

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Speaker 1: not wearing a mask. I mean, there was no chance

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Speaker 1: Lebron was being suspended anyway, but the league just announced,

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Speaker 1: uh that Lebron will not be suspended. I am curious,

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Speaker 1: you know, Vince, like watching the Lakers struggle against the Warriors.

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Speaker 1: They're going up against the Son's team with no experience

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Speaker 1: really anyway. I mean, three starters have never been in

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Speaker 1: a playoff game. Um, I don't think the Lakers roll

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Speaker 1: through this easily. It feels like five or six game

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Speaker 1: series to me. Your thoughts on Lakers Sons, Well, if

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Speaker 1: anybody expected Lebron James to be suspended, I wish I

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Speaker 1: would have taken a battle on that or something like that,

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Speaker 1: since we're getting into the sports gambling thing. Um, but no,

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Speaker 1: I think this is the worst possible matchup to me

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Speaker 1: for the Phoenix Suns, because, hey, the Suns are a

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Speaker 1: guard already in a team, and that's where the Lakers

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Speaker 1: are rate is fast, perimitive defense. They gave up thirty

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Speaker 1: seven points of Stephan Curry in that first playing game,

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Speaker 1: they four six turnovers out of him, and they four

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Speaker 1: six turnovers and Draymond Green. And if they can do

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Speaker 1: that to Steph Curry, and I know Steph can be

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Speaker 1: a little casual with the ball sometimes. Imagine how they're

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Speaker 1: going to feast on Chris Paul. Imagine what DeAndre atan

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Speaker 1: is going to have to deal with with Anthony Davis

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Speaker 1: let alone a guy like Andre Drummond who's just bigger

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Speaker 1: and better than you know what I mean, and in

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Speaker 1: that in that way, if if they want to play

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Speaker 1: big let let alone on macal Bridges, who's going to

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Speaker 1: be a really good defender in the league and co

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Speaker 1: wind up being an all defensive team, but he's going

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Speaker 1: to have to guard Lebron James. So you tell me

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Speaker 1: what advantage that Phoenix definitively has against the defending champion

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Speaker 1: that has it's two best players being six ten and

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Speaker 1: your best player being five eleven. Home court advantage. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that that That's about the only one I could think up. Besides,

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Speaker 1: it looks like the Sons are two and a half

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Speaker 1: point favorite, So the Vegas thinks that, you know, typically

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Speaker 1: Lebron loses game one of the series that they lost

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Speaker 1: to Portland last year, Houston, maybe the Lakers take this

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Speaker 1: one easy, feel things out, kind of rest up after

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Speaker 1: the loss or after the midweek difficult game against the Warriors.

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Speaker 1: Um but yeah, I'm with you. Lakers should be fine. Here.

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Speaker 1: Let me just take a second, Vince, the Utah jaz

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Speaker 1: have not had Donovan Mitchell for a month. These are

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Speaker 1: most dynamic offensive player. He practiced twice this week for

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Speaker 1: the first time in a month. Are they going to

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Speaker 1: have some problems with what I think is kind of

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Speaker 1: a plucky Grizzlies team like they are. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to say they're grittin grindy, but Dylan Brooks is kind

556
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Speaker 1: of a gangster um. You know, Kyle Anderson is a

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Speaker 1: different dude. He's just like a slow mo kind of guy.

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Speaker 1: And then John Morey, you never know when he's gonna

559
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Speaker 1: have a career best game. Can the Grizzlies steal one

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Speaker 1: or two from Utah? If there was a picture of

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Speaker 1: a basketball gangster, it would not look like Dylan Brooks.

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Speaker 1: But I think you are exactly why US looks like

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Speaker 1: that with curwe here. I am not thinking you have

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Speaker 1: any g in you, but you are absolutely right. Like

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Speaker 1: he has no fear and and he doesn't care like

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Speaker 1: and he doesn't care that someone hits the shot on him.

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Speaker 1: I think it kind of bodes well for Donovan Mitchell

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Speaker 1: that you're going into a series against this type of

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Speaker 1: team because you're not going to get bated into some

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Speaker 1: one on one situation. John Moran is not going to

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Speaker 1: score thirty five, you know, again, at least not in

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Speaker 1: that manner now where you have a plethora scores. You

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Speaker 1: have Conny, you have Joe Ingles, you have Jordan Clarkson,

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Speaker 1: so they can pick up the scoring slack in a

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Speaker 1: way that Donovan shouldn't feel the pressure to be a

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Speaker 1: volume score if he's not into his rhythm. But I

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Speaker 1: think they're still going to have problems with him, but

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Speaker 1: just with Memphis, just because Memphis doesn't allow you to

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Speaker 1: get anything easy and buy and large to be a

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Speaker 1: young team, Memphis does not beat themselves. When you think

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Speaker 1: of young teams that fall into the eight seed, you

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00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:56,400
Speaker 1: can usually plug them in for a game or two

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Speaker 1: where they're gonna throw the ball away, they're gonna do

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Speaker 1: something stupid. They're gonna play hard and loose and fancy free,

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Speaker 1: but they're gonna find some way to make the game

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Speaker 1: easier for you to win. They don't exactly do that.

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Speaker 1: They play you tough, and they're young and they're growing

588
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Speaker 1: in they're figuring things out so the long World Playoff

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Speaker 1: series goals, the better of a team like the Memphis

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Speaker 1: Grizzlies will be because they'll be learning more on the flyers,

591
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Speaker 1: like updating your iPad every five minutes or something like that.

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Speaker 1: That that's literally like why I think the Memphis Grizzlies

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Speaker 1: will be. So I don't think it's gonna be a five,

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Speaker 1: maybe a six game series, but I would not be

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Speaker 1: surprised if it went full load. All right, we'll wrap

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Speaker 1: up with this one. Most likely upset Portland's over Denver

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Speaker 1: Bucks over sorry, Heat over Bucks. And then of course

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Speaker 1: I have to say Navs over Clippers, Which one of

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Speaker 1: those is most likely to happen? I would I would

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Speaker 1: usually say anything involving the Clippers will probably be an upset.

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Speaker 1: We'll probably most likely, But I think Heat and Bucks

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Speaker 1: just because of the history there, just because the Heat

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Speaker 1: don't not tradition six seeds, just because they seem to

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Speaker 1: have something mentally against the Milwaukee Bucks, and because the

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Speaker 1: Bucks are filling all types of tight booty right now,

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Speaker 1: you know, given that they have to make it to

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Speaker 1: the finals or else, you know, some heads are going

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Speaker 1: to roll. I would not be surprised if the winner

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Speaker 1: of that buck Seat series goes on to the NBA Finals.

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Speaker 1: That's actually my hot take that that that's incendiary. Oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh. So so they would then take down the

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Speaker 1: nets and sixers. Oh you mean to tell me that

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Speaker 1: you trust Ben Simmons doing the kids can't shoot? Won't

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Speaker 1: you thing? I'm a Ben Simmons guy. I'm the last

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Speaker 1: Ben Simmons guy on planet Earth. That's fine, you can.

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Speaker 1: I love his game too, But I'm asking you when

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Speaker 1: he goes can't shoot? Won't you when he does the

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Speaker 1: equivalent of what Draymond Green did yesterday, and you're playing

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Speaker 1: four on five without having Steph Curry on the floor,

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Speaker 1: you mean to tell me a team is not going

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Speaker 1: to exploit that in the conference they do have a

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Speaker 1: Curry on the floor. All right? Vince Goodwill, y'all who

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Speaker 1: That's right, Plexico Burrs. You can only name a show

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Speaker 1: with that type of talent on it. Up on Game

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Speaker 1: We're going to be sharing our real life experiences loaded

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Speaker 1: with teachable moments. Listen to Up on Game with Me,

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Speaker 1: LaVar Arrington, t J. Hushman's OTTA, and Plexico Burds on

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Speaker 1: the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast or wherever you

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00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:06,960
Speaker 1: get your podcast from. Just so happy. Lebron will be

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Speaker 1: able to play in the playoffs and the NBA is

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Speaker 1: not going to penalize him for not wearing a mask

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Speaker 1: at a tequila party this week. I wonder how much

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Speaker 1: sleep Adam Silver lost over this one. Lebron will play

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Speaker 1: in Game one Sunday against the Phoenix Suns. Lakers, by

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Speaker 1: the way, two and a half point underdogs. Um. For

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Speaker 1: the gambling folks out there who love our NFL stuff,

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00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:35,880
Speaker 1: you know during the fall where you go heavy on

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Speaker 1: NFL gambling, even some college I do during the NBA

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Speaker 1: playoffs and I did it during the bubble last year.

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Speaker 1: I would give picks to uh, Fox Sports and they

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Speaker 1: would post them on social I'm like the gambling guy

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Speaker 1: for Fox. And it's sixty one in the playoffs in

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Speaker 1: the bubble, very profitable run. It begins today. The playoffs

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Speaker 1: begin in Earnest and um, you know, check goes out

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Speaker 1: on social media for sure, and on my I G

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Speaker 1: stories for you know, some other degenerate place. Sorry, I

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Speaker 1: seither is golf happening? Is this a major or just

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Speaker 1: a tournament? I can't imagine a major? Wow, I did

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Speaker 1: not even know that. Bad job by me. I've been

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Speaker 1: playing so much tennis, not enough golf. Um. I wonder

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Speaker 1: if Tim Tebow will take up golf next. You know,

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Speaker 1: he just bounces around right, College football, NFL, um baseball?

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Speaker 1: Now back to the NFL. And I said this on

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Speaker 1: Straight Fire this week. By the way, not to pump

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Speaker 1: up my daily podcast too much, but if you do

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Speaker 1: like history, you've got to check out the interview with

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Speaker 1: Peter Vesti this week that I did on Straight Fire.

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Speaker 1: He is just so angry, f bombing everybody in media.

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Speaker 1: He called Magic Johnson a con man. Charles Barkley a

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Speaker 1: fraud like it's it's interesting this guy covered all those

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Speaker 1: dudes in the nineties and early two thousand's um Peter

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Speaker 1: Vesty straight fire. It was. It was fun, a lot

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Speaker 1: of fun. And we did some stuff on Tebow this week,

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Speaker 1: and I, you know, I said this, look at what

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Speaker 1: happens to college basketball players who don't project as NBA guys,

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Speaker 1: but they're the size of tight ends six four to thirty.

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Speaker 1: They just go from playing college basketball to playing in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. Tight end. If there is a position that's

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Speaker 1: kind of seamless for a college basketball players, it folk

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Speaker 1: show is tight end. Mo Ali Cox was a tight

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Speaker 1: end on the VCU basketball team. I think on the

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Speaker 1: team that went to the Final four. He didn't have

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Speaker 1: an NBA future. Go play tight end. You've got good footwork,

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Speaker 1: you got good hands, mo Ali Cox is like playing

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Speaker 1: I mean you go up and down the list. By

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Speaker 1: the way, um Tony Gonzalez Hall of Famer was an

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Speaker 1: accomplished basketball player. Cal Julius Peppers was on the UNC

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Speaker 1: basketball team. Like a lot of guys play hoops and

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Speaker 1: football out. Tim Tebow obviously didn't play college basketball anytime recently.

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Speaker 1: He was a college football player. But it's a position

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Speaker 1: tight end where your block, you catch a pass, you

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Speaker 1: run a pattern like let's not act like these guys

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Speaker 1: are splitting the atom at tight end. Okay, Tim Tebow

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Speaker 1: can handle this. And again you go. You want a

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Speaker 1: fun exercise, take a look at the Jacksonville Jaguars depth

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Speaker 1: chart at tight end. I mean to think Tim Tebow

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Speaker 1: can't be one of three. The starter, at least presumed

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Speaker 1: as a kid by the name of Chris man Hurts,

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Speaker 1: who you and I have never heard of. He could

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Speaker 1: deliver a pizza to the studio. Nobody would have any

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Speaker 1: idea who he is. He is in his sixth season

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Speaker 1: in the NFL at a Knisius and Chris man Hurts.

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Speaker 1: The starting tight end on Jacksonville has twelve career receptions. Really,

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Speaker 1: that's your starting tight end. To back up is James Shaughnessy.

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Speaker 1: Now he's played a little bit longer, but in Jacksonville

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Speaker 1: a little longer, has a bit of a history. You know,

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Speaker 1: he's probably the most talented. But the third stringer is

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Speaker 1: shockingly a guy that urban Meyer recruitered at Ohio State

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Speaker 1: Luke Farrell for star recruit. Urban Meyer knows him well,

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Speaker 1: they just drafted him. I'm pretty sure he's gonna make

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Speaker 1: the team. And fourth string a gentleman by the name

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Speaker 1: of Tim Tebow who is neighbors lives on the same

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Speaker 1: street as Urban Meyer. Urban Buyer has known him for

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Speaker 1: fifteen years. Is it unfair that Chris Manhert is probably

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Speaker 1: gonna end up not making the team? Or maybe James shaughnessy.

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Speaker 1: If you know Tebow and Farrell are healthy, I could play.

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Speaker 1: I mean, just a decent chance one of those two

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Speaker 1: guys I mentioned early, not the Ohio State guy or

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Speaker 1: or Tebow are not gonna make the team. That doesn't

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Speaker 1: make it wrong, But yeah, sometimes life stinks and friendships matter,

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Speaker 1: and it's not always what you know, but who you know.

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Speaker 1: You guys have heard this for a couple of weeks

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Speaker 1: now on Tebow, just chill with the Tebow hate. You

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Speaker 1: want to hate on Curry, you want to hate on

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Speaker 1: Tebow like, these are exemplary human beings. We're great aspirational people.

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Speaker 1: Coming out next more NBA playoffs, folks, We're going all in.

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Speaker 1: NBA playoff predictions are next. You're listening to Fox Sports

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Speaker 1: our number two here on Fox Sports Radio. It's me

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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. Jason McIntyre very fired up for the

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Speaker 1: NBA Playoffs, And as I said in the first hour,

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Speaker 1: we are doing something we have not done on this

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Speaker 1: show in two years. We're opening the phone lines. I

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Speaker 1: think we're gonna do it next segment, Ryan. If that

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Speaker 1: works for you, Ryan, we will give out the number

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Speaker 1: here shortly and any you meet balls who want to

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Speaker 1: call in and be like, oh, Jeff Curry stakes you

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Speaker 1: couldn't make the playoffs. I mean I just want to

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Speaker 1: hear the nonsense, just so I can laugh. Honestly. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you can to call in and you've got some

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00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:05,239
Speaker 1: thoughtful stuff, I love that more than anything. Challenge me

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Speaker 1: with real, hard facts and data, not these pithy objections

742
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Speaker 1: with subjective takes on Steph Curry and Alan Iverson and

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Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook. I don't want to hear the weak sauce.

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Speaker 1: Bring it next segment. By the way, you know, you

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Speaker 1: learned something every day about somebody and it changes your perception, uh,

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Speaker 1: and just you you're able to view them in a

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Speaker 1: new light. No, I'm not talking about Lebron hosting a

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Speaker 1: tequila party without a mask, but the new producer of

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Speaker 1: this show is a young guy named Ryan, and he's

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Speaker 1: always chipper in an upbeat mood. And I I had

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Speaker 1: not observed this, but I found out that Ryan used

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Speaker 1: to be an actor on a Disney show. Now I

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00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:56,839
Speaker 1: don't I didn't tell Ryan I was going to talk

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Speaker 1: about this, So I don't know if he's just gonna

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Speaker 1: be like stop move on like Iowa Sam does sometimes. Um,

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Speaker 1: but Ryan, Ryan is now grinning and very nerdy. He's

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Speaker 1: turning red. Um. I think this is very cool. Uh

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Speaker 1: that you were an actor in a Disney show? Yeah? Yeah,

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00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:16,359
Speaker 1: it was. It was only one episode, so that's cool man.

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Speaker 1: It was fun. Yeah, So how do you get there?

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Speaker 1: How do you get to be an actor on a

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Speaker 1: Disney show? I'm sure a lot of people in our

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Speaker 1: audience are like, you know what, uh tps reports are

764
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Speaker 1: fun at all. But I would love to be an

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Speaker 1: actor on Side Hustle, the new show that my kids

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00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:34,440
Speaker 1: watch Side Hustle. Nobody knows that that is. But anyways,

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00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:36,759
Speaker 1: how did that come about? I guess kind of the

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Speaker 1: the old fashioned way. I just I have an agent.

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Speaker 1: I auditioned for stuff, and then that was something I

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Speaker 1: auditioned for, and it was to play a younger version

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Speaker 1: of a of a of a character they had already hired.

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Speaker 1: So so that helped because I looked close enough to

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Speaker 1: this it was a younger version, but also it was

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Speaker 1: a scrawny version of this character. The joke is that

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Speaker 1: this guy gets kicked down a garbage shoot and then

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Speaker 1: he goes into the hospital and he comes out and

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Speaker 1: he gets big in buff because he was tired of

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Speaker 1: being this a scrawny little dweeve. Scrawny little dweeb. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so is this like Stefan or Kell and Steve Rkle?

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Speaker 1: Do you remember that episode of Family Matters? I'm I'm

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Speaker 1: familiar with r Yes, I wasn't. I wasn't fully there.

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Speaker 1: I would say I was just, yeah, just more of

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Speaker 1: a gamer who was kind of pathetic. Yes, pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: I'm always fascinated by stories of how people got where

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Speaker 1: they are. I was hanging out with you guys. Know

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Speaker 1: my daughter plays soccer. I'm not coaching this year. I'm

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Speaker 1: hanging out with some of the dads. Last night. We're

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Speaker 1: having a couple of alcoholic beverages and kids reading pizza,

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Speaker 1: and um, you know, this guy tells me he works

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00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:48,040
Speaker 1: at Google, and I kind of knew that. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: how the heck do you get to Google? And you know,

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Speaker 1: he starts laying it out and I'm just telling you, like,

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Speaker 1: learning about paths of how people got where is kind

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Speaker 1: of interesting. I don't know why if you guys it

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Speaker 1: the same way. UM, I didn't always feel that way

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Speaker 1: before I got to California, And it's just such a

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00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:10,279
Speaker 1: hodgepodge of randomness out here that I kind of like

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Speaker 1: the how did you get here? Stories? Um, And like

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Speaker 1: I I got asked this plenty on my Instagram. Dude,

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Speaker 1: how on earth did you get a radio show? And

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00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 1: you're on TV? And you're right, how did you get

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00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:25,320
Speaker 1: to Fox? And I was just, you know, relent. I

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Speaker 1: don't want to give the long spiel to everybody, but

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Speaker 1: I'm like, listen, not to sound like an an arrogant,

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Speaker 1: you know, I can't say that word on air, but UM,

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Speaker 1: just run a quick Google and then asked me specific questions,

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00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:42,680
Speaker 1: not like the general stuff. UM, and it's listen. Everybody

808
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:45,440
Speaker 1: has their unique path to where they got And I

809
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:48,040
Speaker 1: just loved talking sports for the longest time. I'll never

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Speaker 1: forget the first time I filled in on the radio.

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Speaker 1: I think it was like two thousand. NBC Radio, which

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Speaker 1: doesn't even exist anymore, needed someone for July four, and

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Speaker 1: you guys know me. Just like in Dakola, Yokis was

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00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 1: available for every game this year for the Nuggets played

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Speaker 1: in now all seventy two. That's the reason he made

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00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:11,880
Speaker 1: He's gonna win the MVP award because he's simply played

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00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:15,439
Speaker 1: in every game. Curry's got a strong case and beat

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00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 1: as a strong case. But and B didn't play enough games,

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00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:21,279
Speaker 1: and Curry was playing with a pretty terrible group. Um

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00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 1: that we is as we've outlined, um that Yokis kind

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Speaker 1: of won by default and my availability. They were like, oh,

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Speaker 1: can you work to life for for a couple of hours.

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Speaker 1: I was like, of course I can. I was living

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Speaker 1: out outdoor outside of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, and basically I

825
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:40,879
Speaker 1: would have to drive all the way into New York City,

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Speaker 1: do the radio show, and then drive home. So I

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Speaker 1: was like driving eighty minutes to do a radio show

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Speaker 1: and then drive home. So three hours show, almost a

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Speaker 1: little over two hours of driving, a little under two

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Speaker 1: hours of driving. I should say, like, of course, willing

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Speaker 1: to do that. I love this stuff. You know. I

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Speaker 1: was able to use my few connections I've made throughout

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Speaker 1: my little career and bring on some big names and people.

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Speaker 1: They liked it, and next thing you know, I've got

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Speaker 1: an offer for radio show, Um, just a weekend show.

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Speaker 1: And since then I've been I love this stuff I

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Speaker 1: got come on, I got opinions and takes, and I

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Speaker 1: don't want to brag, but yeah, I do the research,

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Speaker 1: I do the homework, I put in the time. I'm

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Speaker 1: so I'm ready to defend Curry against you guys. That's fine.

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Speaker 1: I'm definitely ready. He is on track and this is

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00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:39,520
Speaker 1: you could look this up anywhere. Look at the numbers.

843
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:41,520
Speaker 1: He's on track to be a top twenty player all

844
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:44,320
Speaker 1: time in NBA history. He may already be top twenty.

845
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:49,680
Speaker 1: Kevin Durance on that path as well. And it's just

846
00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:53,080
Speaker 1: weird because Curry's case is so good. I believe by

847
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:54,720
Speaker 1: the end of his career, if he could stay healthy

848
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:57,359
Speaker 1: for three more years of this and maybe they got

849
00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:00,560
Speaker 1: one more running them, I don't see why he can't

850
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:03,359
Speaker 1: have a legitimate case to be a top ten player

851
00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:07,040
Speaker 1: all time. And yeah, I know the Grizzlies beat him

852
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:08,560
Speaker 1: last night. They were favored, they were playing at home.

853
00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:10,880
Speaker 1: That's bad. It's not it's not obviously not a great result,

854
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:16,600
Speaker 1: certainly not something Gurry was happy with. But they're gonna

855
00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:18,359
Speaker 1: have a chance, guys, to bounce back. They are also

856
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:20,120
Speaker 1: gonna have a chance at making a run at a

857
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 1: superstar who's disgruntled and demands a trade. And I'm just

858
00:48:26,200 --> 00:48:31,800
Speaker 1: gonna put this out there. What happens if the Milwaukee

859
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:34,800
Speaker 1: Bucks lose to the Heat in the first round. The

860
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:39,319
Speaker 1: Bucks will have gone Conference Finals, lost to Kauai. By

861
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:42,120
Speaker 1: the way, they led that series too. Oh I had money,

862
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:45,760
Speaker 1: Yes I did on the Bucks. Game three goes to overtime,

863
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:47,720
Speaker 1: and you can look it up on YouTube. Be honest,

864
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:51,040
Speaker 1: fouls out on a really questionable call. Raptors take over,

865
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:56,840
Speaker 1: take sorry, take the series. Last year Bucks losing the

866
00:48:56,880 --> 00:49:03,360
Speaker 1: second round the Miami Heat, Jana still signs that extension.

867
00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 1: What happens if they go Conference finals second round and

868
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 1: now out in the first round, Well, Budenholzer would be

869
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 1: toast for sure. But does Johanna say, you know what,

870
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:21,719
Speaker 1: We're just not We're not built for this. I need out.

871
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:26,160
Speaker 1: We've seen Anthony Davis do it. We've seen Jimmy Butler

872
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:31,320
Speaker 1: do it. Kyrie Irving did it in Cleveland, up and

873
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:33,719
Speaker 1: down the list, so many good players. Jimmy Butler in

874
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:37,760
Speaker 1: I think Minnesota like a lot of guys just unhappy

875
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:39,239
Speaker 1: with where they are and what's going on in the

876
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:41,279
Speaker 1: direction of the franchise. Of course, you could ask to

877
00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:44,560
Speaker 1: be traded. Well, the Buck's acquiesced, I mean they might,

878
00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:47,560
Speaker 1: I I listen. I don't know that it's highly likely

879
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:49,480
Speaker 1: that Janice asked for a trade if they lose. But

880
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:51,840
Speaker 1: I will say this, I'm I'm betting and picking the

881
00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:55,960
Speaker 1: Heat to win that series um today. Actually, if you're

882
00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:57,760
Speaker 1: looking for a kind of an exotic bet, my buddy

883
00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:02,719
Speaker 1: just texted that Janice assists seems to be misspriced. He's

884
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:04,400
Speaker 1: at five and a half. And if you look at

885
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:07,680
Speaker 1: last year against the Heat, they will do that wall

886
00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 1: at the foul line and make you honest a passer.

887
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:12,759
Speaker 1: The big difference this year is instead of passing to

888
00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:17,120
Speaker 1: Eric Bledsoe, who is not a good shooter and makes

889
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:19,760
Speaker 1: a lot of mistakes in big games, they're not passing

890
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:24,120
Speaker 1: to Drew Holiday, who is a money player, is a

891
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:27,160
Speaker 1: better catch and shoot guy than blood Sell, and he

892
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:29,640
Speaker 1: can also make that extra pass, whereas blood so kind

893
00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:31,600
Speaker 1: of overthought it and I don't want to end up

894
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:34,680
Speaker 1: crushing blood so here. But the bottom line is Drew

895
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:40,000
Speaker 1: Holiday is a major upgrade, major and the Book should

896
00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:42,640
Speaker 1: win this series. They are favored, but I'm telling you

897
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:45,719
Speaker 1: man just be careful with his Miami Heat team. The

898
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:49,360
Speaker 1: coaching advantage Bulstra over Budenholzer is enormous. And I like

899
00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:54,759
Speaker 1: the idea of Jimmy Butler not playing once now once

900
00:50:56,080 --> 00:50:59,919
Speaker 1: against the Bucks or Nets this season Spolstra. Now, listen,

901
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:03,640
Speaker 1: Butler was out missed a bunch of games. But interestingly

902
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:08,000
Speaker 1: he has not faced the Bucks since that series last

903
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 1: year where he was the best player on the court.

904
00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:11,919
Speaker 1: No disrespect, to be honest, Butler was the best player

905
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 1: on the court like forty in Game one. Now, I

906
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:18,400
Speaker 1: don't know about betting the Heat today. Again, I like

907
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:22,120
Speaker 1: them in the series, um, but I think Janice assists

908
00:51:22,320 --> 00:51:25,560
Speaker 1: over five and a half is probably a good bet. Um.

909
00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:30,359
Speaker 1: The other thing I want to add about the NBA

910
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:33,440
Speaker 1: playoffs here is is Denver Portland's series is going to

911
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:38,719
Speaker 1: be phenomenal. If Jamal Murray were healthy, we would be

912
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:42,359
Speaker 1: looking at a playoffs that are probably the most competitive

913
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:48,160
Speaker 1: in the modern era. Usually you're looking at two, three,

914
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:52,080
Speaker 1: maybe four teams that could win the title legitimately, and

915
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:54,160
Speaker 1: I'm not talking just because you win fifty five or

916
00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:56,319
Speaker 1: sixty games you've got a shot to win the title.

917
00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:59,880
Speaker 1: That's not how it works. There was a Hawks sixty

918
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:01,840
Speaker 1: and team that nobody had faith in. A couple of

919
00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:05,640
Speaker 1: those Raptors teams, I mean with with Lowry and de

920
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:08,160
Speaker 1: Ros and nobody thought they could actually win the title.

921
00:52:10,239 --> 00:52:14,120
Speaker 1: That being said, this year, I think you can make

922
00:52:14,160 --> 00:52:16,719
Speaker 1: a case. In the East. The Sixers are the number

923
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:20,680
Speaker 1: one seed, they have the easiest path. The Milwaukee Bucks,

924
00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:23,279
Speaker 1: I know, I just you know, took some shots at them,

925
00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:25,799
Speaker 1: but for the first time in three years, they are

926
00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:31,000
Speaker 1: not the hunted. They're the hunter. There's no I don't

927
00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:33,440
Speaker 1: think there's that much pressure on the Bucks. There's partial

928
00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:34,920
Speaker 1: on the Clippers. We'll get to them in a second.

929
00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:37,920
Speaker 1: But the Bucks are in a position where, like everybody's

930
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:41,160
Speaker 1: talking about the Nets, and the Sixers are the number

931
00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:43,440
Speaker 1: one seed and have the EMBIID who was nearly the

932
00:52:43,560 --> 00:52:46,680
Speaker 1: m v P. The Bucks are kind of under the radar,

933
00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:53,319
Speaker 1: which makes them a scary prospect. Bucks, Nets and Sixers. Legitimately,

934
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:55,120
Speaker 1: if they won the title, you would not be stunned

935
00:52:57,680 --> 00:53:02,320
Speaker 1: go to the West Lake Clippers. Obviously, those are the

936
00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:06,799
Speaker 1: two gambling favorites. That being said, the Utah Jazz are

937
00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:14,719
Speaker 1: the number one seed. Home court advantage in Utah would

938
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:16,640
Speaker 1: not shock me if they made the If they made

939
00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:19,200
Speaker 1: the NBA Finals and won the title. Listen, this is

940
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:20,800
Speaker 1: a team that's been in the playoffs four years in

941
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:22,680
Speaker 1: a row. I think they've gone first round, second round.

942
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:25,239
Speaker 1: I don't think they've been to the conference finals with

943
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:29,520
Speaker 1: with Donovan and Rudy Gobert. But analytically, this is a

944
00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:33,600
Speaker 1: team top five offense, top five defense, that projects over

945
00:53:33,640 --> 00:53:36,000
Speaker 1: the course of history as a very good playoff team.

946
00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:40,600
Speaker 1: They're gonna beat the grizz And let's be real here, folks,

947
00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:46,080
Speaker 1: they're not gonna be afraid of the Clippers at all.

948
00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:51,440
Speaker 1: Look at the backcourt edge that that uh Utah will have.

949
00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:54,640
Speaker 1: You could make a legit case that Utah could win

950
00:53:54,719 --> 00:53:57,000
Speaker 1: the title. They've been the best team in the NBA

951
00:53:57,520 --> 00:54:02,440
Speaker 1: from the beginning to now they have. And then of

952
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:07,000
Speaker 1: course you have the Phoenix Suns. And some people would say, Jason,

953
00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:09,240
Speaker 1: come on, Phoenix cap I'm telling you, if if Phoenix

954
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:11,160
Speaker 1: got the number one seed, I would have them in

955
00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:14,200
Speaker 1: the conference finals. I don't think they're gonna beat the Lakers,

956
00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:20,880
Speaker 1: but this is another team that's been phenomenal, Like legitimately

957
00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:22,680
Speaker 1: they could win the title. It would not shock me.

958
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:25,279
Speaker 1: They have a Hall of Fame point guard, they have

959
00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:28,239
Speaker 1: one of the best shooting guards in the league. Yeah,

960
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:30,480
Speaker 1: there's an experience, and Monty Williams has never want to

961
00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:33,800
Speaker 1: playoff series as a coach. Yeah, but if the Suns

962
00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:37,200
Speaker 1: won the time, that would not shock me. So and

963
00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:39,720
Speaker 1: I know, like if you spin this forward and zoom

964
00:54:39,719 --> 00:54:43,320
Speaker 1: out a little bit, yes, this builds the case that

965
00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:47,879
Speaker 1: Lebron is playing and by far the toughest era ever

966
00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:50,879
Speaker 1: in the NBA. There's I don't think there's any doubt.

967
00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:53,719
Speaker 1: If you look at the eighties, every year, okay, the

968
00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:56,760
Speaker 1: Lakers could win the title, the Celtics could win the title,

969
00:54:57,600 --> 00:55:05,359
Speaker 1: maybe the Rockets, maybe the Sixers early eighties and then

970
00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:07,960
Speaker 1: late eighties subbed out the Sixers for the Pistons, and

971
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:11,320
Speaker 1: it was always basically four teams. I mean, the Lakers

972
00:55:11,719 --> 00:55:15,320
Speaker 1: in the West went to the finals I think seven

973
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:18,000
Speaker 1: straight seasons some and said or like six of eight,

974
00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:21,680
Speaker 1: some insane number. In the eighties, there was really four

975
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:24,240
Speaker 1: teams every year that could win the title. In the nineties,

976
00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:28,520
Speaker 1: it shrunk even more because of Jordan's presence, and you

977
00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:32,719
Speaker 1: know the down nature of the league given the retirements

978
00:55:32,760 --> 00:55:37,120
Speaker 1: of Magic and Bird and Isaiah. So the nineties was

979
00:55:37,719 --> 00:55:41,040
Speaker 1: vastly inferior now. And I know we remember Reggie Miller

980
00:55:41,640 --> 00:55:44,759
Speaker 1: as like a guy who had some awesome battles with

981
00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:47,400
Speaker 1: Jordan's But in no way, shape or form, did anybody

982
00:55:47,440 --> 00:55:49,880
Speaker 1: ever think that Indiana Pacers would win the title. No,

983
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:53,080
Speaker 1: that was never a thought. It just wasn't. Then you

984
00:55:53,160 --> 00:55:56,080
Speaker 1: have the shack of Kobe lakers Um and then in

985
00:55:56,120 --> 00:55:58,600
Speaker 1: the Super Team era, you know, just the Warriors. I

986
00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:02,800
Speaker 1: would say this is the wide open, deepest NBA playoffs

987
00:56:03,120 --> 00:56:07,360
Speaker 1: we've ever seen. And you know, Brian Finley mentioned earlier

988
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:09,719
Speaker 1: like I kind of like the MAVs. I took a

989
00:56:09,760 --> 00:56:12,600
Speaker 1: flyer on them. I think they're plus eight fifty or

990
00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:18,000
Speaker 1: nine to win the series against the Clippers. Folks there

991
00:56:18,120 --> 00:56:20,960
Speaker 1: there they are if they're healthy, and they are Jalen

992
00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:25,800
Speaker 1: Brunson's healthy, Porzingis is healthy, Dwight Powell is healthy. Is

993
00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:29,359
Speaker 1: I don't know about Batsi Kliba, but they are way

994
00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:31,640
Speaker 1: healthier than last year when they pushed the Clippers to six,

995
00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:34,000
Speaker 1: and I know the Clippers are a little different, man.

996
00:56:34,719 --> 00:56:37,479
Speaker 1: These playoffs just are maddening. And we did it in March, folks,

997
00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:39,760
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998
00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:43,400
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Speaker 1: Bruno mars Huh fired up for the NBA playoffs. Um,

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00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:16,280
Speaker 1: quick question, Ryan, are you watching the show called All

1026
00:58:16,360 --> 00:58:22,200
Speaker 1: American on the CW. I am not s I gotta say,

1027
00:58:22,440 --> 00:58:24,240
Speaker 1: you know, I was trying to catch up this week

1028
00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:29,120
Speaker 1: on my DVR because NBA Playoffs are coming up, so

1029
00:58:29,200 --> 00:58:32,680
Speaker 1: every night there's multiple games that are good. I have

1030
00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:35,200
Speaker 1: the movie Tenant I keep wanting to watch that. I'm

1031
00:58:36,040 --> 00:58:39,680
Speaker 1: watching some of it tonight. Um, I gotta go to

1032
00:58:39,720 --> 00:58:42,480
Speaker 1: bed early because I'm playing volleyball in the morning. I listen,

1033
00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:44,800
Speaker 1: stuff is starting to open up out here in l A.

1034
00:58:45,320 --> 00:58:47,360
Speaker 1: And you know, I know I played volleyball a couple

1035
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:49,320
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, but like starting to get out to

1036
00:58:49,400 --> 00:58:52,000
Speaker 1: your friends again. Everybody's in an awesome mood. Everybody's like

1037
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:55,080
Speaker 1: been cooped up for a long time. And you know,

1038
00:58:55,720 --> 00:58:58,160
Speaker 1: we've been adhering to the policy, but we have been

1039
00:58:58,280 --> 00:59:00,720
Speaker 1: doing stuff and I think everybody's is excited to like

1040
00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:03,360
Speaker 1: live life and get back to the good old days

1041
00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:07,800
Speaker 1: of you know nine um. And so I don't want

1042
00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:11,080
Speaker 1: to say our social calendars booked, but we are starting

1043
00:59:11,120 --> 00:59:13,960
Speaker 1: to do a lot of stuff, um and just see

1044
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:18,080
Speaker 1: people and it's fun. Man. Listen you guys. I I

1045
00:59:18,200 --> 00:59:19,760
Speaker 1: know I say this phrase a lot. You got one

1046
00:59:20,840 --> 00:59:24,439
Speaker 1: life on this planet. Enjoy it. Man. You gotta have fun.

1047
00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:27,880
Speaker 1: And that doesn't mean sit at home and watch eight

1048
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:30,960
Speaker 1: twelve straight hours of NBA basketball today. You can watch

1049
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:34,880
Speaker 1: out on your phone, you know, get outside, have fun, man,

1050
00:59:36,120 --> 00:59:39,280
Speaker 1: living the dream baby. All right, So Ryan, we did

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Speaker 1: give out the numbers. We give it out one more

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00:59:41,040 --> 00:59:44,760
Speaker 1: time or no, we got a full board already. Yeah, yeah,

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00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:47,280
Speaker 1: people are fired up. Oh boy, alright, So we only

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00:59:47,360 --> 00:59:48,680
Speaker 1: have a couple of minutes here before we get to

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Speaker 1: our guests. Uh. NBA capologist from Bleacher Report, Eric Pinkus, Ryan,

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00:59:53,040 --> 00:59:55,520
Speaker 1: I'm flying blind, I eat, I don't have the screen

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00:59:55,560 --> 00:59:57,720
Speaker 1: in front of me. It's not up. I will let you.

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Speaker 1: How do you want to do this most angry to least?

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Speaker 1: What do you want to do your call? Um? Uh?

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01:00:03,360 --> 01:00:05,439
Speaker 1: You know what? Yes? Yeah? Why no? I mean they're

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01:00:05,520 --> 01:00:08,120
Speaker 1: they're all they're all pretty fired up. So can you

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01:00:08,240 --> 01:00:11,760
Speaker 1: just introduce him? This is you know Joe from Paying

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01:00:13,240 --> 01:00:19,080
Speaker 1: Here's Stephen in Kansas, Stephen fired Kansas, America's heartland. What

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01:00:19,160 --> 01:00:24,800
Speaker 1: do you got hey? Tennan is awesome. Man. You're gonna

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01:00:24,840 --> 01:00:29,720
Speaker 1: need a couple of times to watch that. Just this

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01:00:29,960 --> 01:00:32,720
Speaker 1: this guy, Steven Curry. Man, you gotta get past the

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01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:36,240
Speaker 1: beautiful family in the perfect life. You like this guy

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01:00:36,360 --> 01:00:39,840
Speaker 1: way too much. He's he just lost to the Grizzlies.

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01:00:39,920 --> 01:00:43,479
Speaker 1: He's got a whiff of stinking bun man that he's

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01:00:43,520 --> 01:00:46,080
Speaker 1: resting on other guys. Laurels that is gonna have to

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01:00:46,160 --> 01:00:51,640
Speaker 1: go join uh Lebron and his agents Pitts over in

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles. This guy is like pistol Pete Maravin's I've

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01:00:55,240 --> 01:00:58,760
Speaker 1: been getting to down his championships with Durant and Clay.

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01:00:59,120 --> 01:01:03,080
Speaker 1: When he lays a big, a big fat uh turd

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01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:08,120
Speaker 1: next year with Play, he's gonna be completely exposed and

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01:01:08,560 --> 01:01:12,400
Speaker 1: then he'll have to run and try and reform his legacy. Man.

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Speaker 1: People get all people love the the fun side of

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01:01:16,640 --> 01:01:19,240
Speaker 1: this guy, and I do too, but you have to

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Speaker 1: look at it from a from an evidency standpoint. I

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01:01:22,280 --> 01:01:25,320
Speaker 1: know you're big on this, and this guy cannot win

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01:01:25,480 --> 01:01:28,720
Speaker 1: when it's winning time. This guy does not show up

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01:01:29,360 --> 01:01:32,200
Speaker 1: in the biggest moments and and it's not a bad

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01:01:32,320 --> 01:01:34,840
Speaker 1: thing to say that he needs to. He's got to

1084
01:01:34,960 --> 01:01:38,320
Speaker 1: go find Rich Paul and and prove himself in Los

1085
01:01:38,360 --> 01:01:42,800
Speaker 1: Angeles because Lebron ain't gonna win anything this year. Uh Anyway,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I just I can't believe that the the

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01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:49,000
Speaker 1: the NBA universe needs stars so bad that they will

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Speaker 1: not criticize this guy ever. Alright, Mr Kansas, thank you

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Speaker 1: for the call um Ryan, I don't even know that

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Speaker 1: word of again, you know what, I'm just not gonna

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01:01:58,520 --> 01:02:01,000
Speaker 1: say that that was that was strong, But beginning to

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01:02:01,200 --> 01:02:05,000
Speaker 1: doubt Curry's titles in Golden State because he lost one game,

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01:02:05,280 --> 01:02:08,400
Speaker 1: so like three years body of work, you know, sixty

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01:02:08,520 --> 01:02:11,120
Speaker 1: playoff games, know, a hundred playoff games of five years?

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01:02:11,320 --> 01:02:14,400
Speaker 1: Forget it, he lost to the Grizzlies. Okay, we'll take

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01:02:14,440 --> 01:02:16,520
Speaker 1: one more call before we get to the guests, Go

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Speaker 1: this is I forgot how much fun this is? Ryan,

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Speaker 1: Who's next? Let's go to Sewan in Sacramento. Alright, Shawn

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Speaker 1: and Sacramento. What do you got my cousin of another

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Speaker 1: cover man, J Mann, I was so excited, Bro, I

1101
01:02:28,240 --> 01:02:30,160
Speaker 1: haven't heard you open up the line since she was

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Speaker 1: on the odd couple. Bro. That was the only time

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01:02:32,200 --> 01:02:35,600
Speaker 1: he talked to colle So my take real quick, man,

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01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:37,480
Speaker 1: is Look, I'm not gonna try this the way you want.

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01:02:37,520 --> 01:02:39,880
Speaker 1: Step I just wanted to compromise on some facts. Man.

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01:02:40,360 --> 01:02:43,000
Speaker 1: He's a hard worker, but he's not on ivershes level

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01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:45,000
Speaker 1: because he doesn't work hard on both sides of the court.

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01:02:45,400 --> 01:02:47,280
Speaker 1: When was the last time my guy had any kind

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01:02:47,320 --> 01:02:49,400
Speaker 1: of clutch threes at the end of the game. He

1110
01:02:49,480 --> 01:02:51,520
Speaker 1: had chances in the last two games that couldn't couldn't

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01:02:51,520 --> 01:02:53,840
Speaker 1: steal the deal. And on top of that, he gave

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01:02:53,960 --> 01:02:56,280
Speaker 1: up a wide open lay up to Lebron because he

1113
01:02:56,480 --> 01:02:59,280
Speaker 1: was so busy being being Mr sad Face. Because he

1114
01:02:59,320 --> 01:03:00,720
Speaker 1: missed a three point to tie the game at the

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01:03:00,800 --> 01:03:03,080
Speaker 1: end of the fourth. Man, he's nothing on defense. He

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01:03:03,120 --> 01:03:05,160
Speaker 1: gave up another three to lose that game and he

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01:03:05,280 --> 01:03:07,200
Speaker 1: let John Moran have his way with him last night.

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01:03:07,360 --> 01:03:09,240
Speaker 1: You gotta be a both sides of the court player, man.

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01:03:09,440 --> 01:03:11,640
Speaker 1: You know that J Matt all right, thank you for

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Speaker 1: the call, Sacramento. Listen that that guy's a faithful listener.

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Speaker 1: Gott to give him a shout out. We do take

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Speaker 1: calls on on a couple Um one quick note, uh

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Speaker 1: Iverson playing both sides of the court. I'm looking on

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Speaker 1: um Wikipedia Allen Iverson all defensive team. Let's see how

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Speaker 1: many times zero zero never made all defense. Okay, Iverson

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Speaker 1: did the lead the league and steals three times. That

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean you're a great defensive player. By the way,

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Speaker 1: Curry led the league and steals once as well. Iverson

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Speaker 1: was good. He was a dynamic score. Uh. Stephen Curry

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01:03:44,640 --> 01:03:48,120
Speaker 1: is a way better overall player than Alan Iverson. But listen,

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Speaker 1: we got more calls. We'll get to. But coming up next,

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Speaker 1: we got our guest, Eric Pinkis, NBA capologist. I gotta

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01:03:54,040 --> 01:03:56,440
Speaker 1: say Ryan taking calls is fun. We will get back

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01:03:56,480 --> 01:03:58,960
Speaker 1: to you guys. Just give us like ten minutes with

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Speaker 1: Eric Pinkis. But first, here's what's trending in sports with

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01:04:03,440 --> 01:04:06,840
Speaker 1: Brian Finley, Thanky Jason. The NBA will hold off on

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01:04:07,080 --> 01:04:09,960
Speaker 1: s spending Lebron James after he broke the league's COVID

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01:04:10,320 --> 01:04:13,160
Speaker 1: health and safety protocols by showing up at an event

1139
01:04:13,320 --> 01:04:16,320
Speaker 1: for his tequila sponsor without a mask earlier this week.

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Speaker 1: According to the Athletic COVID nineteen vaccinated, NBA head coaches

1141
01:04:20,560 --> 01:04:24,320
Speaker 1: don't have to wear masks during games anymore. Last night,

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Speaker 1: John Morantz and the Grizzlies body slam Steph Curry's Warriors

1143
01:04:28,200 --> 01:04:30,920
Speaker 1: in the playing around one seventeen one twelve in overtime

1144
01:04:31,320 --> 01:04:33,760
Speaker 1: to haul in the eighth seed in the Western Conference Playoffs.

1145
01:04:34,040 --> 01:04:37,360
Speaker 1: Morant scoring thirty five points. He probably stated after the

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01:04:37,400 --> 01:04:40,439
Speaker 1: game quote, I love pressure. I feel like my game

1147
01:04:40,600 --> 01:04:44,560
Speaker 1: rises to another level. Close quote. The grizz will rendezvous

1148
01:04:44,640 --> 01:04:46,880
Speaker 1: with the Jazz in the one eight tilt, with that

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01:04:47,080 --> 01:04:50,480
Speaker 1: game one starting up on Sunday. The first round of

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01:04:50,520 --> 01:04:53,920
Speaker 1: the NBA Playoffs launches today and the Heat and Bucks

1151
01:04:53,960 --> 01:04:56,840
Speaker 1: will open things up at two pm Eastern to start

1152
01:04:56,880 --> 01:05:01,280
Speaker 1: a Saturday quadruple header and then with the PG Championship

1153
01:05:01,320 --> 01:05:04,560
Speaker 1: going on, Louis Use Stayson and Phil Mickelson maintained the

1154
01:05:04,760 --> 01:05:08,720
Speaker 1: lead on top the leaderboard at five undergoing into Saturday's

1155
01:05:08,760 --> 01:05:12,320
Speaker 1: third round. They in Michaelson and us stays and we'll

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01:05:12,360 --> 01:05:16,120
Speaker 1: tee off together at eleven forty a m. Eastern, so

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01:05:16,320 --> 01:05:18,880
Speaker 1: just a little more than three hours. With that, let's

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01:05:18,920 --> 01:05:23,280
Speaker 1: go back to arguably sports radio's best tennis player. It's

1159
01:05:23,360 --> 01:05:27,840
Speaker 1: Jason McIntyre. Boy, Brian Findley is uh bringing on fired today?

1160
01:05:27,920 --> 01:05:30,520
Speaker 1: Good stuff? All right back here on Fox Sports Radio,

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Speaker 1: Let's bring in Eric Pinkis, NBA capologist, Bleacher Report, NBA

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01:05:35,320 --> 01:05:38,520
Speaker 1: TV and basketball insiders. Eric, how are you man? Not

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01:05:38,600 --> 01:05:41,000
Speaker 1: bad at all? Looking forward to the weekend? Yeah? Yeah, hey,

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01:05:41,080 --> 01:05:43,320
Speaker 1: looking for what? We got? Four games today, back to

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01:05:43,480 --> 01:05:45,760
Speaker 1: back to I mean it's just gonna be Walter Wall hoops.

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Speaker 1: I do want to start, Eric, give me your thoughts,

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Speaker 1: your big picture takeaways on Warriors Grizzlies from last night. Well,

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01:05:53,120 --> 01:05:57,600
Speaker 1: I mean, the league had great success in that they

1169
01:05:57,640 --> 01:06:00,640
Speaker 1: had their playoff game be Lebron. Are they're playing game

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01:06:00,680 --> 01:06:03,680
Speaker 1: be Lebron versus Steph And I mean that's the most

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01:06:03,720 --> 01:06:05,960
Speaker 1: that they could possibly ask for. And to have the

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01:06:06,040 --> 01:06:10,320
Speaker 1: Lakers advance the game plans seem to be. You want

1173
01:06:10,400 --> 01:06:13,560
Speaker 1: the Warriors advance, right because they're a huge moneymaker. Step

1174
01:06:13,760 --> 01:06:15,560
Speaker 1: is one of the biggest stars in the world. So

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01:06:16,480 --> 01:06:19,040
Speaker 1: they can't control the games. You can't control John Ran

1176
01:06:19,200 --> 01:06:21,960
Speaker 1: being amazing. And I know that they are happy for

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01:06:22,000 --> 01:06:24,120
Speaker 1: a small market. They're happy for the Grizzlies. The league is,

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01:06:24,200 --> 01:06:26,560
Speaker 1: but it is a little bitter sweet. I think for

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01:06:26,600 --> 01:06:29,200
Speaker 1: the league to lose one of their well, they're one

1180
01:06:29,240 --> 01:06:32,720
Speaker 1: of their top franchises from the playoffs. But I mean,

1181
01:06:32,920 --> 01:06:37,960
Speaker 1: Jaws ridiculous, and I think that's a beautiful thing. And

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01:06:38,320 --> 01:06:41,960
Speaker 1: Steph is incredible, and that team did a really amazing job.

1183
01:06:42,120 --> 01:06:45,560
Speaker 1: Steve Kerve with really a roster that isn't that good,

1184
01:06:45,800 --> 01:06:47,680
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like they're not that good

1185
01:06:47,840 --> 01:06:52,120
Speaker 1: and steps ridiculous, Jaws ridiculous. These are good problems. But

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01:06:52,320 --> 01:06:54,280
Speaker 1: I think the NBA's gonna be a little bit sad.

1187
01:06:54,640 --> 01:06:57,040
Speaker 1: Are a lot said that step is out of the playoffs.

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01:06:57,320 --> 01:07:00,640
Speaker 1: I'm I want to get to today's games. And you know,

1189
01:07:01,080 --> 01:07:03,240
Speaker 1: when you look at who's facing the most pressure, I

1190
01:07:03,280 --> 01:07:05,800
Speaker 1: think the obvious answer is the Clippers. Given Kauai free

1191
01:07:05,840 --> 01:07:08,680
Speaker 1: agent status, you never know what's gonna happen there. But

1192
01:07:08,800 --> 01:07:11,480
Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Bucks, they went to the conference finals two

1193
01:07:11,560 --> 01:07:14,600
Speaker 1: years ago, lost fourth straight after being up too oh

1194
01:07:14,680 --> 01:07:17,360
Speaker 1: to the Raptors, and then last year they choke in

1195
01:07:17,440 --> 01:07:21,480
Speaker 1: the bubble lose to the Heat and now Miami very

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01:07:21,600 --> 01:07:26,240
Speaker 1: excited to face them again. Um, what happens? I mean

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01:07:26,240 --> 01:07:30,680
Speaker 1: if the Bucks lose this series, lose Game one, you know,

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Speaker 1: spend this forward. You're a topologist like Eric, Is there

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01:07:34,320 --> 01:07:35,720
Speaker 1: a path for your honest to say, you know what,

1200
01:07:36,040 --> 01:07:38,200
Speaker 1: we've We've baxed out here. I've done the most I can.

1201
01:07:38,240 --> 01:07:40,040
Speaker 1: I know, I signed that super Max, but we have

1202
01:07:40,120 --> 01:07:41,960
Speaker 1: a wink win candshake deal that if I want out,

1203
01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:44,200
Speaker 1: I get out and I'm done here. What are the

1204
01:07:44,280 --> 01:07:47,480
Speaker 1: chances the Bucks loses series? I mean, that's a lot

1205
01:07:47,520 --> 01:07:50,360
Speaker 1: of that's a lot of questions right there. I'll just

1206
01:07:50,440 --> 01:07:54,000
Speaker 1: work backwards to say that he just signed that super Max,

1207
01:07:54,160 --> 01:07:56,760
Speaker 1: and I think they've got a few years before there's

1208
01:07:56,760 --> 01:08:00,360
Speaker 1: any sort of real drama there. If he if it

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01:08:00,480 --> 01:08:02,320
Speaker 1: was even a consideration that he would leave, and he

1210
01:08:02,360 --> 01:08:05,760
Speaker 1: wouldn't assigned that anybody gone somewhere else. But you could

1211
01:08:05,840 --> 01:08:08,320
Speaker 1: argue that he took the money with the idea that Okay,

1212
01:08:08,400 --> 01:08:10,120
Speaker 1: this is the most money I could possibly get and

1213
01:08:10,160 --> 01:08:12,360
Speaker 1: at some point I'll just ask to leave. I just

1214
01:08:12,440 --> 01:08:14,960
Speaker 1: don't think we're anywhere close to that. I think the

1215
01:08:15,040 --> 01:08:16,920
Speaker 1: first thing you do is if you do lose, you

1216
01:08:17,080 --> 01:08:20,000
Speaker 1: you probably fire the coach, and right or wrong, Budenholzer

1217
01:08:20,040 --> 01:08:22,040
Speaker 1: would be the guy that would get to blame for that,

1218
01:08:22,240 --> 01:08:24,080
Speaker 1: and so then they'd go with a new coach, they

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01:08:24,160 --> 01:08:26,320
Speaker 1: try it one or two more years, and then the

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Speaker 1: honest would probably be like, all right, it's just not

1221
01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:31,760
Speaker 1: the right formula. But last year I predicted, when I

1222
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Speaker 1: did my my my preseason, you know, preplayoff predictions, that

1223
01:08:37,760 --> 01:08:40,640
Speaker 1: the Heat would be the Bucks because I just I

1224
01:08:40,960 --> 01:08:42,519
Speaker 1: looked at what they were on paper. I looked at

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01:08:42,560 --> 01:08:45,720
Speaker 1: who the Bucks were, and I just thought it was

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01:08:46,000 --> 01:08:48,160
Speaker 1: it was a tough matchup. But I'm not as strong

1227
01:08:48,360 --> 01:08:51,280
Speaker 1: on the Heat this year. I think they've been less consistent.

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01:08:52,120 --> 01:08:54,720
Speaker 1: They've grown, I mean the last month or so, they've

1229
01:08:54,760 --> 01:08:56,360
Speaker 1: been a much better team than they were the first

1230
01:08:56,400 --> 01:08:59,920
Speaker 1: few and a lot of that is health and injury. Uh.

1231
01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:01,800
Speaker 1: But I think last year they really caught lightning in

1232
01:09:01,880 --> 01:09:05,439
Speaker 1: a bottle, and the Bucks are better with true holiday Uh,

1233
01:09:05,560 --> 01:09:08,880
Speaker 1: They're They've they've played a different style of basketball. They've

1234
01:09:08,920 --> 01:09:11,760
Speaker 1: tried to be a little bit more flexible and how

1235
01:09:11,840 --> 01:09:15,960
Speaker 1: they play Bootenholzer has a history of kind of sticking

1236
01:09:16,040 --> 01:09:18,519
Speaker 1: to his guns a little bit too much in my

1237
01:09:18,640 --> 01:09:22,200
Speaker 1: opinion anyway, where you'll see Yanna sit because he doesn't

1238
01:09:22,200 --> 01:09:23,800
Speaker 1: want to play honest too much and all these kind

1239
01:09:23,800 --> 01:09:26,599
Speaker 1: of things and huge criticisms are heaped upon him when

1240
01:09:26,680 --> 01:09:29,200
Speaker 1: they lose. They've got to win this series. I mean

1241
01:09:29,520 --> 01:09:32,960
Speaker 1: it's if they do, they have a shot to go

1242
01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:34,320
Speaker 1: all the way to the finals. And I'm not saying

1243
01:09:34,360 --> 01:09:36,360
Speaker 1: they'll beat every team, you know, the Sixers and some

1244
01:09:36,439 --> 01:09:38,800
Speaker 1: other ones out there that are really tough, but uh,

1245
01:09:39,160 --> 01:09:41,200
Speaker 1: they've got to get it done. I actually have them

1246
01:09:41,240 --> 01:09:43,479
Speaker 1: getting it done this year, even though they got beat

1247
01:09:43,560 --> 01:09:46,639
Speaker 1: last year by the same team. Yeah, okay, so fair enough.

1248
01:09:47,040 --> 01:09:49,479
Speaker 1: I mean I know that, you know, they kind of

1249
01:09:49,600 --> 01:09:53,519
Speaker 1: downgraded from Jay Crowder's toughness to trevorisa being old. But

1250
01:09:54,320 --> 01:09:58,479
Speaker 1: just for some reason, this hype for Drew Holiday, I

1251
01:09:58,520 --> 01:10:00,599
Speaker 1: don't know, eric like he's a one time All Star?

1252
01:10:00,720 --> 01:10:03,000
Speaker 1: Is he an upgrade from bledso? Yes, But let's not

1253
01:10:03,120 --> 01:10:05,720
Speaker 1: act like they added a top twenty player in the league.

1254
01:10:05,760 --> 01:10:08,479
Speaker 1: Can we stop that? No? No, I mean Drew Holidays.

1255
01:10:08,760 --> 01:10:11,360
Speaker 1: But when you do have a superstar, like if you

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Speaker 1: add Alex Crusoe to Lebron, you're a better team, and

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01:10:15,280 --> 01:10:16,960
Speaker 1: we're not gonna sit here and say that. Alex Housse

1258
01:10:17,040 --> 01:10:19,240
Speaker 1: is a top twenty guy. Drew Holiday is one of

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01:10:19,280 --> 01:10:23,040
Speaker 1: the best defensive players at really well at the point

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01:10:23,080 --> 01:10:25,360
Speaker 1: guard position, but he plays three positions. He can guard

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01:10:25,680 --> 01:10:29,639
Speaker 1: on switches. He's tough against bigger players. You're gonna want

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01:10:29,640 --> 01:10:31,400
Speaker 1: to put him on Jimmy Butler and he's gonna fight

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01:10:31,479 --> 01:10:35,160
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler. Eric Bledsoe is about six ft tall and

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01:10:35,240 --> 01:10:38,439
Speaker 1: super strong. But I I don't I don't love Eric

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01:10:38,479 --> 01:10:40,880
Speaker 1: Bledsoe's decision making, and I think Drew is a much

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01:10:40,920 --> 01:10:43,160
Speaker 1: better decision maker. I just think the team is a

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01:10:43,200 --> 01:10:46,599
Speaker 1: little bit better. Uh, you're adding an event like he's

1268
01:10:46,640 --> 01:10:49,040
Speaker 1: not in the league guy again, but p J. Tucker,

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01:10:49,160 --> 01:10:50,760
Speaker 1: you know, like there are there are pieces in there

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01:10:51,360 --> 01:10:54,639
Speaker 1: that just are better. And I like Drew a lot,

1271
01:10:55,120 --> 01:10:57,240
Speaker 1: But no, he's not like your main line all star

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01:10:57,280 --> 01:10:59,280
Speaker 1: are going to carry a team kind of guy. But

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01:10:59,400 --> 01:11:01,920
Speaker 1: I don't mean Janice has to do that. You know,

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01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:04,840
Speaker 1: the biggest issue for your honest is his jump shot. Uh,

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01:11:05,040 --> 01:11:07,360
Speaker 1: if you're defending him, you're gonna make him a shooter

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01:11:08,000 --> 01:11:09,680
Speaker 1: and that's always going to be an issue until he

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01:11:09,800 --> 01:11:12,200
Speaker 1: becomes an elite shooter, which I don't know if he'll

1278
01:11:12,200 --> 01:11:14,280
Speaker 1: ever becomes. He's not Katie in the midring, you know

1279
01:11:14,320 --> 01:11:16,880
Speaker 1: what I mean. But he's so athletic and can get

1280
01:11:16,920 --> 01:11:20,320
Speaker 1: to the basket and you create any problems. I love

1281
01:11:20,400 --> 01:11:23,519
Speaker 1: the size and the depth of the Bucks this year.

1282
01:11:23,560 --> 01:11:27,800
Speaker 1: But Miami, you know they're They've got championship DNA dating

1283
01:11:27,840 --> 01:11:31,479
Speaker 1: back to their coach, uh pat Riley, and then Jimmy Butler,

1284
01:11:32,439 --> 01:11:34,519
Speaker 1: uh and all those players. Even though they didn't win

1285
01:11:34,640 --> 01:11:36,560
Speaker 1: last year. I mean, they showed so much hard and

1286
01:11:37,680 --> 01:11:40,200
Speaker 1: yeah this YEI this is a weird. I'll just stay

1287
01:11:40,200 --> 01:11:43,439
Speaker 1: across the board for all predictions. It's I'm less confident

1288
01:11:43,439 --> 01:11:45,360
Speaker 1: about everything this year than I would normally be. We

1289
01:11:45,479 --> 01:11:48,640
Speaker 1: just don't have enough information. We didn't have like we

1290
01:11:48,720 --> 01:11:52,160
Speaker 1: don't have like four games where at least the stars

1291
01:11:52,200 --> 01:11:54,400
Speaker 1: were there for three. We've got a lot of games

1292
01:11:54,439 --> 01:11:56,760
Speaker 1: where like, okay, you look at like the like I

1293
01:11:56,840 --> 01:11:59,519
Speaker 1: think the Bucks in the sixers, like no Embiid for

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01:12:00,000 --> 01:12:02,240
Speaker 1: one or two and no Simmons for the other, Like

1295
01:12:03,320 --> 01:12:04,880
Speaker 1: one game where there was no Simmons and no and

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01:12:04,960 --> 01:12:06,960
Speaker 1: B I have no they've never played each other, so

1297
01:12:07,040 --> 01:12:08,840
Speaker 1: how do I look at what those matchups look like?

1298
01:12:09,680 --> 01:12:12,280
Speaker 1: So a lot of that across the board is going

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01:12:12,360 --> 01:12:14,080
Speaker 1: on when we look at any of these series. VI

1300
01:12:14,200 --> 01:12:17,040
Speaker 1: Butler has not faced the Bucks or Nets this year. Now,

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01:12:17,040 --> 01:12:18,640
Speaker 1: I think that might be by design. I know we

1302
01:12:18,720 --> 01:12:21,840
Speaker 1: missed a lot of games, but certainly I made the

1303
01:12:21,880 --> 01:12:24,000
Speaker 1: case that this is the most wide open the NBA

1304
01:12:24,040 --> 01:12:27,400
Speaker 1: playoffs have ever been. Um at least in the modern era.

1305
01:12:27,920 --> 01:12:30,360
Speaker 1: You know, usually there's one or two, or three or

1306
01:12:30,400 --> 01:12:33,639
Speaker 1: four teams that are clearly heading shoulders above. I count

1307
01:12:33,760 --> 01:12:36,000
Speaker 1: seven that can legitimately win the title. Eric, how many

1308
01:12:36,040 --> 01:12:37,680
Speaker 1: teams do you think? And it would be eight if

1309
01:12:37,760 --> 01:12:40,680
Speaker 1: Denver had Jamal Murray? Um, how many teams do you like?

1310
01:12:40,800 --> 01:12:42,799
Speaker 1: If you talk won the title? Would you be shocked?

1311
01:12:44,040 --> 01:12:45,880
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't have Utah as my pick, but

1312
01:12:46,120 --> 01:12:48,479
Speaker 1: they're really, really good. And so I think when we

1313
01:12:48,560 --> 01:12:51,519
Speaker 1: look back, we may look at this conversation and say, oh, yeah,

1314
01:12:51,520 --> 01:12:53,320
Speaker 1: it was always the Lakers, and and we it was

1315
01:12:53,360 --> 01:12:55,120
Speaker 1: the same as it ever was. It's always Lebron and

1316
01:12:55,240 --> 01:12:58,280
Speaker 1: that's that's very viable and it's hard to pick against them.

1317
01:12:58,640 --> 01:13:01,280
Speaker 1: They barely got by the Warrior so and so you

1318
01:13:01,360 --> 01:13:03,720
Speaker 1: know in that Warriors team is not great, but you know,

1319
01:13:03,800 --> 01:13:06,519
Speaker 1: the Lakers have also not had their team the Jazz

1320
01:13:06,600 --> 01:13:12,240
Speaker 1: are are. I'm not sold that they can do it

1321
01:13:12,360 --> 01:13:15,760
Speaker 1: with what they have. As great as Gobert is, there's

1322
01:13:15,800 --> 01:13:20,240
Speaker 1: a question among the executives, can you win when your

1323
01:13:20,280 --> 01:13:23,240
Speaker 1: best player is a center at the at the highest level.

1324
01:13:23,560 --> 01:13:25,479
Speaker 1: And I think it will be tested this year with

1325
01:13:25,600 --> 01:13:29,360
Speaker 1: Empied with your kitch. Obviously there's no Jamal Murray, so

1326
01:13:29,479 --> 01:13:34,040
Speaker 1: that you know, if anything that goes to like stressing

1327
01:13:34,080 --> 01:13:37,360
Speaker 1: that point, if if you're building your entire rotation the

1328
01:13:37,400 --> 01:13:39,240
Speaker 1: way you play around the center, is that going to

1329
01:13:39,320 --> 01:13:42,719
Speaker 1: work In the case of Gobert, he's an elite defensive center,

1330
01:13:42,800 --> 01:13:45,880
Speaker 1: but you're gonna face teams that shoot a lot of threes.

1331
01:13:46,000 --> 01:13:49,200
Speaker 1: But you know, at the same time, you know, Jazz

1332
01:13:49,200 --> 01:13:50,519
Speaker 1: shoot a lot of threes and they hit a lot

1333
01:13:50,560 --> 01:13:52,439
Speaker 1: of these. They're really good too. So that's kind of

1334
01:13:52,479 --> 01:13:55,320
Speaker 1: the way they've countered that by saying, yeah, maybe we're

1335
01:13:56,400 --> 01:13:59,120
Speaker 1: we're limited in some ways because Gobert, as great as

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01:13:59,160 --> 01:14:01,400
Speaker 1: he is a defense to play it here perhaps probably,

1337
01:14:02,040 --> 01:14:04,360
Speaker 1: but he he's not going to be someone who's mobile

1338
01:14:04,439 --> 01:14:06,200
Speaker 1: enough to get out to the three. Well, let's surround

1339
01:14:06,280 --> 01:14:09,679
Speaker 1: him with shooters. And there's another aspect is I don't

1340
01:14:09,680 --> 01:14:12,080
Speaker 1: know how healthy Donovan Mitchell is. That that's another wrinkles

1341
01:14:12,160 --> 01:14:14,400
Speaker 1: that I you know, it's really hard to say, oh, yeah,

1342
01:14:14,400 --> 01:14:15,880
Speaker 1: the Jazz are gonna roll with this. I have no

1343
01:14:16,520 --> 01:14:18,559
Speaker 1: I don't know. If Donovan Mitchell's down Donovan Mitchell, then

1344
01:14:18,600 --> 01:14:22,240
Speaker 1: they're just a bunch of role players. And that's that's okay.

1345
01:14:22,400 --> 01:14:24,960
Speaker 1: In the regular season. Regular season is easy, you know,

1346
01:14:25,040 --> 01:14:26,479
Speaker 1: I mean it really, I mean it's hard because of

1347
01:14:26,479 --> 01:14:31,599
Speaker 1: the grind and the travel and the schedule. But like playoffs, playoffs,

1348
01:14:31,680 --> 01:14:34,320
Speaker 1: playoff basketball, you have the best minds in the world

1349
01:14:34,360 --> 01:14:37,639
Speaker 1: when it comes to basketball, and these coaching staffs breaking

1350
01:14:37,680 --> 01:14:40,640
Speaker 1: down every every single thing that every player on that

1351
01:14:40,760 --> 01:14:43,559
Speaker 1: team can do, and every scheme and everything that they

1352
01:14:43,640 --> 01:14:46,599
Speaker 1: do offensively, they're gonna, you know, muck up the game

1353
01:14:46,720 --> 01:14:48,400
Speaker 1: so bad every team. I mean, if you don't have

1354
01:14:48,479 --> 01:14:51,280
Speaker 1: the personnel, maybe not, but by and large, most teams

1355
01:14:51,360 --> 01:14:53,200
Speaker 1: make it a defense about you don't have as many

1356
01:14:53,360 --> 01:14:57,760
Speaker 1: like th hundred, twenty hundred thirty point games. You might

1357
01:14:57,840 --> 01:15:00,840
Speaker 1: have some ninety what guys struggle need to get their

1358
01:15:00,880 --> 01:15:04,760
Speaker 1: scores and you know Gobert is good for that, but

1359
01:15:05,640 --> 01:15:07,679
Speaker 1: if they don't have like a star like Donovan Mitchell,

1360
01:15:07,680 --> 01:15:09,880
Speaker 1: who was really electric last year, it's gonna be hard.

1361
01:15:10,080 --> 01:15:13,600
Speaker 1: And and and remember they only can start planning for

1362
01:15:13,800 --> 01:15:17,000
Speaker 1: the Grizzlies after overtime last night. You know, they have

1363
01:15:17,080 --> 01:15:21,080
Speaker 1: the shortest window of anybody in the playoffs to prepare. Meanwhile,

1364
01:15:21,200 --> 01:15:24,240
Speaker 1: you know the three seed has all week to prepare

1365
01:15:24,280 --> 01:15:26,360
Speaker 1: for the six. It's kind of they got shafted there,

1366
01:15:26,400 --> 01:15:28,200
Speaker 1: but uh, that's a play in for you. All right.

1367
01:15:28,600 --> 01:15:31,960
Speaker 1: Thank you. Eric Pinks, NBA capologist from Bleacher Report. He's

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01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:34,360
Speaker 1: at Eric p i n c us Eric, enjoy the

1369
01:15:34,400 --> 01:15:36,720
Speaker 1: playoffs man? All right, any hey, thanks for having me.

1370
01:15:36,800 --> 01:15:39,200
Speaker 1: All right, Coming up next year on Fox Sports Radio,

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01:15:39,439 --> 01:15:41,960
Speaker 1: we'll get back to the callers, all of whom want

1372
01:15:42,439 --> 01:15:45,479
Speaker 1: Steph Curry's head on a platter. It's disappointing, guys, but

1373
01:15:45,600 --> 01:15:48,800
Speaker 1: we'll take some more here after the break. Hey, what's

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01:15:48,840 --> 01:15:51,840
Speaker 1: up everybody? It's me three time Pro Bowlttle Warrington, and

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1385
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Speaker 1: do we have any colors left? Or no? We do?

1386
01:16:33,240 --> 01:16:36,280
Speaker 1: We got two more? Okay, alright, so remember we have

1387
01:16:36,840 --> 01:16:39,040
Speaker 1: we we We didn't open phone lines on the show

1388
01:16:39,080 --> 01:16:41,840
Speaker 1: for two years. It's funny. I asked Colin Cowhard, hey man,

1389
01:16:41,880 --> 01:16:44,280
Speaker 1: I'm new to radio, Like, what should I do? He's like, well,

1390
01:16:44,360 --> 01:16:46,839
Speaker 1: for starters, never take colors. So I didn't take colors.

1391
01:16:47,080 --> 01:16:48,600
Speaker 1: Then I did, just for fun to see what it

1392
01:16:48,680 --> 01:16:50,519
Speaker 1: was like. And it was all right, But then it,

1393
01:16:51,080 --> 01:16:53,840
Speaker 1: you know, it got a little I didn't like some

1394
01:16:53,920 --> 01:16:55,280
Speaker 1: of the takes you guys were calling in with. It

1395
01:16:55,360 --> 01:16:58,240
Speaker 1: was just lazy stuff, like basic sports fans stuff. And

1396
01:16:58,240 --> 01:17:00,160
Speaker 1: I'm like, come on, challenge me. So we had a

1397
01:17:00,240 --> 01:17:03,280
Speaker 1: couple of good ones earlier, um, and let's see what

1398
01:17:03,320 --> 01:17:04,800
Speaker 1: else we could do all right, right, what we got now?

1399
01:17:05,200 --> 01:17:09,200
Speaker 1: We got Robert in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tulsa, Baby, what do

1400
01:17:09,280 --> 01:17:12,519
Speaker 1: we got Robert? What's up? Man? Hey, how's it going?

1401
01:17:12,600 --> 01:17:17,519
Speaker 1: Thanks taking my call? Yeah yeah, fire away? All right.

1402
01:17:17,560 --> 01:17:19,880
Speaker 1: So I'm a huge Steph Curry fan, and I'm kind

1403
01:17:19,880 --> 01:17:22,680
Speaker 1: of agreeing with you. I haven't actually number six all

1404
01:17:22,800 --> 01:17:25,800
Speaker 1: time and my greatest players of all time. However, I

1405
01:17:25,920 --> 01:17:29,160
Speaker 1: do think he still needs one or two more significant

1406
01:17:29,200 --> 01:17:33,720
Speaker 1: runs or championships. Said of the greatest of all time. Uh,

1407
01:17:33,840 --> 01:17:36,160
Speaker 1: you know the last shot where he missed against Toronto,

1408
01:17:36,320 --> 01:17:38,240
Speaker 1: he pushed up the seven games that would increase his

1409
01:17:38,280 --> 01:17:41,280
Speaker 1: cred even this year. You know, he still needed to

1410
01:17:41,280 --> 01:17:43,280
Speaker 1: make a couple of shots to really push it. Now

1411
01:17:43,400 --> 01:17:45,559
Speaker 1: he has on a team where he's the only focus.

1412
01:17:45,600 --> 01:17:47,120
Speaker 1: He gets double and triple team as soon as he

1413
01:17:47,200 --> 01:17:50,040
Speaker 1: crossed half court. No one else has stays that before.

1414
01:17:50,439 --> 01:17:53,680
Speaker 1: He still finds a way to score thirty plus pointe game. Uh.

1415
01:17:53,760 --> 01:17:55,679
Speaker 1: He's the greatest of all time as far as I'm concerned,

1416
01:17:55,680 --> 01:17:56,880
Speaker 1: but he still needs a couple of things on his

1417
01:17:56,960 --> 01:18:00,599
Speaker 1: resume to really solidify that bold stuff. All right, thank

1418
01:18:00,680 --> 01:18:04,080
Speaker 1: you calling in Tulsa. Uh, Steph Curry sixth all time.

1419
01:18:04,680 --> 01:18:07,479
Speaker 1: It feels a little high. Now he's got a little

1420
01:18:07,520 --> 01:18:10,000
Speaker 1: more to go. But I'll say this, Take a look

1421
01:18:10,040 --> 01:18:12,000
Speaker 1: at Michael Jordan when he hits those game winning shots

1422
01:18:12,040 --> 01:18:17,479
Speaker 1: against Byron Brian Russell of Utah. Okay, that's a Jordan's elbow. ISO.

1423
01:18:17,600 --> 01:18:19,519
Speaker 1: He didn't even get a double team. Go look at

1424
01:18:19,560 --> 01:18:21,800
Speaker 1: what the Lakers were doing the Steph Curry at the

1425
01:18:21,920 --> 01:18:23,720
Speaker 1: end of the game. They had two guys in the

1426
01:18:23,800 --> 01:18:27,600
Speaker 1: backcourt guarding him. Two guys. And this wasn't like a

1427
01:18:27,640 --> 01:18:30,240
Speaker 1: half court trap. This was we're not losing the Steph Curry.

1428
01:18:31,040 --> 01:18:33,479
Speaker 1: Go look at Memphis last night. They were hounding Curry

1429
01:18:33,560 --> 01:18:37,080
Speaker 1: to the point where they would rather have anyone else

1430
01:18:37,400 --> 01:18:41,080
Speaker 1: on the team shoot. Then Curry, Like, are you even

1431
01:18:41,120 --> 01:18:43,800
Speaker 1: seeing Jordan facing double teams? And some of these game

1432
01:18:43,800 --> 01:18:47,439
Speaker 1: winning shots He's hit a bunch. By the way, Brian Russell,

1433
01:18:47,479 --> 01:18:48,880
Speaker 1: a lot of people say, oh, he's such a great

1434
01:18:48,920 --> 01:18:52,599
Speaker 1: defensive player, Go look it up. Never made an All

1435
01:18:52,640 --> 01:18:56,599
Speaker 1: Defensive team, not even second like he was a guy.

1436
01:18:57,560 --> 01:19:01,920
Speaker 1: All right, let's take one more caller. All right, Tony

1437
01:19:01,960 --> 01:19:04,519
Speaker 1: and Milwaukee, Tony and Milwaukee. All we got a Bucks

1438
01:19:04,600 --> 01:19:07,880
Speaker 1: fan maybe at the Bucks saying I'm a guy that's

1439
01:19:07,880 --> 01:19:11,720
Speaker 1: stuck in Wisconsin from Detroit, this fan, and I got

1440
01:19:11,800 --> 01:19:13,120
Speaker 1: a bone the pickles you. We're gonna look at the

1441
01:19:13,120 --> 01:19:15,519
Speaker 1: big picture on this. Look as Corey ever scored fifty

1442
01:19:15,520 --> 01:19:21,320
Speaker 1: points against Memphis Grizzlies. Do you know that, Well, Corey

1443
01:19:21,360 --> 01:19:24,160
Speaker 1: can sport scored pitture points against anybody who don't to

1444
01:19:24,200 --> 01:19:27,040
Speaker 1: fay him like that? Now, the big picture is John

1445
01:19:27,120 --> 01:19:30,639
Speaker 1: morette screen one years old. He are fox, a veteran. Okay,

1446
01:19:30,920 --> 01:19:34,240
Speaker 1: he played better. You know, if if Corey was real,

1447
01:19:34,600 --> 01:19:36,320
Speaker 1: if he was that good, he would score fifty like

1448
01:19:36,400 --> 01:19:39,280
Speaker 1: it does every young knight. He didn't score fifty because Memphis.

1449
01:19:39,320 --> 01:19:41,400
Speaker 1: I don't think he ever had because Memphis knows how

1450
01:19:41,439 --> 01:19:44,120
Speaker 1: to play him, Books knows how to play him. So

1451
01:19:44,240 --> 01:19:47,280
Speaker 1: there's no I mean, you can't say. I mean you

1452
01:19:47,360 --> 01:19:49,720
Speaker 1: said you have some pushback. What's your bulls back on that?

1453
01:19:50,400 --> 01:19:54,040
Speaker 1: I mean, he hasn't scored fifty against the Grizzlies ever.

1454
01:19:54,080 --> 01:19:56,640
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true or not. It might be. Uh,

1455
01:19:56,720 --> 01:19:58,800
Speaker 1: there was a series do you remember Tony Allen the

1456
01:19:58,840 --> 01:20:03,280
Speaker 1: grit and grind Lad the Warriors to one um and

1457
01:20:03,400 --> 01:20:06,000
Speaker 1: of course Golden State storm back and ended up winning

1458
01:20:06,040 --> 01:20:09,200
Speaker 1: the series. Like you saw the game last night, like

1459
01:20:09,520 --> 01:20:11,960
Speaker 1: they were not going to let Curry beat them. It

1460
01:20:12,080 --> 01:20:15,320
Speaker 1: was Dylan Brooks, it was Desmond Baine, it was any

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01:20:15,400 --> 01:20:18,080
Speaker 1: pick and roll. They would rather trap Curry and get

1462
01:20:18,120 --> 01:20:20,920
Speaker 1: the ball out of his hands and Curry would then

1463
01:20:21,280 --> 01:20:23,720
Speaker 1: give it to Draymond Green and Draymond Green would either

1464
01:20:23,760 --> 01:20:26,920
Speaker 1: get an assist, mr shot whatever. Like they were not

1465
01:20:27,040 --> 01:20:29,920
Speaker 1: gonna let Curry beat them. You saw the defense, right,

1466
01:20:31,160 --> 01:20:33,719
Speaker 1: And if Curry so, Curry can't win. If he takes

1467
01:20:33,760 --> 01:20:36,439
Speaker 1: a bad shot while double teamed, he has an awful

1468
01:20:36,439 --> 01:20:38,960
Speaker 1: shooting day. If he gives the ball up, well, Curry

1469
01:20:39,000 --> 01:20:42,280
Speaker 1: didn't get fifty points, how does he win. He wasn't

1470
01:20:42,280 --> 01:20:45,080
Speaker 1: gonna win. They can't. He can't beat Memphis. He cannot

1471
01:20:45,160 --> 01:20:50,000
Speaker 1: beat Memphis. He's not gonna stops. It's just it's you

1472
01:20:50,040 --> 01:20:53,599
Speaker 1: look at it. Do you remember Sunday? All right, hold

1473
01:20:53,640 --> 01:20:57,919
Speaker 1: on Tony final game of the regular season, Warriors Grizzlies.

1474
01:20:58,080 --> 01:21:00,559
Speaker 1: It was Sunday. It was a national TV game. Remember

1475
01:21:00,600 --> 01:21:03,320
Speaker 1: the game where they backed off They backed off John

1476
01:21:03,360 --> 01:21:05,599
Speaker 1: morand let him shoot any shot. He was one for six.

1477
01:21:06,120 --> 01:21:07,680
Speaker 1: I'm going to quickly look it up and see how

1478
01:21:07,760 --> 01:21:10,400
Speaker 1: many Curry had in that game. Curry had forty six

1479
01:21:10,479 --> 01:21:13,880
Speaker 1: in that game and the Warriors won. He didn't get fifty,

1480
01:21:13,880 --> 01:21:16,920
Speaker 1: all right, thank you for the call the new barometer.

1481
01:21:17,479 --> 01:21:20,519
Speaker 1: Did Curry get fifty? Hey didn't get fifty. They wanted

1482
01:21:20,600 --> 01:21:22,719
Speaker 1: with forty six, but he didn't get fifty. Like, guys,

1483
01:21:22,760 --> 01:21:25,080
Speaker 1: I love you, but these calls, Oh my gosh, this

1484
01:21:25,240 --> 01:21:27,400
Speaker 1: is fun. Ryan. I maybe we're gonna have to do

1485
01:21:27,479 --> 01:21:31,120
Speaker 1: some more calls. I don't know, Like that's your argument.

1486
01:21:31,960 --> 01:21:34,479
Speaker 1: Curry is good, but he didn't get fifty. He got

1487
01:21:34,520 --> 01:21:37,040
Speaker 1: forty six on Sunday against them and they won. He

1488
01:21:37,240 --> 01:21:40,040
Speaker 1: only had thirty nine and they lost. But he didn't

1489
01:21:40,040 --> 01:21:44,280
Speaker 1: get fifty, so he's not an all time great. Guys,

1490
01:21:45,040 --> 01:21:47,479
Speaker 1: it happened. What channel the NBA TV, by the way,

1491
01:21:47,600 --> 01:21:54,120
Speaker 1: is showing Grizzlies Memphis UM right now and Curry, by

1492
01:21:54,120 --> 01:21:56,280
Speaker 1: the way, did not sit out in the entire second

1493
01:21:56,320 --> 01:21:59,840
Speaker 1: half and overtime. Not one second arrest played. I think

1494
01:22:00,000 --> 01:22:04,920
Speaker 1: wod seven of the UM fifty three minutes. He had

1495
01:22:04,960 --> 01:22:07,920
Speaker 1: his regular first half rest. Of course, Memphis pulls away

1496
01:22:08,560 --> 01:22:11,400
Speaker 1: UH final hour coming up with George Reister, We're gonna

1497
01:22:11,439 --> 01:22:14,600
Speaker 1: start with we got um Anthony Slater coming up to

1498
01:22:14,760 --> 01:22:17,080
Speaker 1: talk Warriors. It's gonna be a great final hours. Stick

1499
01:22:17,120 --> 01:22:21,240
Speaker 1: around here Fox Sports Radio. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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01:22:23,080 --> 01:22:28,240
Speaker 1: What is up, party, people, It's me Jason McIntire, our

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01:22:28,720 --> 01:22:33,800
Speaker 1: number three here on Fox Sports Radio. Two hours in

1502
01:22:33,840 --> 01:22:36,880
Speaker 1: the books. A lot of fun has been had again.

1503
01:22:36,960 --> 01:22:39,000
Speaker 1: We opened the phone lines for the first time in

1504
01:22:39,160 --> 01:22:44,639
Speaker 1: two years, and just a tsunami of anger towards Stephen

1505
01:22:44,640 --> 01:22:48,360
Speaker 1: Curry came in. We'll probably get back to that next. Um.

1506
01:22:48,840 --> 01:22:51,560
Speaker 1: I just I don't know how much I want to

1507
01:22:51,600 --> 01:22:53,639
Speaker 1: get combative with you guys, because you are the listeners.

1508
01:22:53,680 --> 01:22:55,519
Speaker 1: I don't want to say something he's gonna totally drive

1509
01:22:55,560 --> 01:22:59,080
Speaker 1: you off. It's like on social media where it's like, hey,

1510
01:23:00,120 --> 01:23:02,920
Speaker 1: if you talk politics, you're losing of the audience. Michael

1511
01:23:03,000 --> 01:23:07,080
Speaker 1: Jordan's famously Republicans buy sneakers too. He uh, he may

1512
01:23:07,120 --> 01:23:09,240
Speaker 1: not have uttered exactly those words, but it was something

1513
01:23:09,280 --> 01:23:12,599
Speaker 1: along those lines. Um. And it's one of those things

1514
01:23:12,640 --> 01:23:15,120
Speaker 1: that why alien and half your audience. And if you

1515
01:23:15,200 --> 01:23:17,800
Speaker 1: guys are calling in trash and Curry and I'm going

1516
01:23:17,840 --> 01:23:21,160
Speaker 1: to defend him. And yes, if you go to my Instagram,

1517
01:23:21,760 --> 01:23:25,000
Speaker 1: you can see a photo of me and Steph Curry. Um,

1518
01:23:25,520 --> 01:23:29,320
Speaker 1: I don't know. A couple of months before covid Uh,

1519
01:23:29,439 --> 01:23:31,720
Speaker 1: Curry was getting surgery on his hand. It happened to

1520
01:23:31,760 --> 01:23:34,519
Speaker 1: be in the area where I live, so he was

1521
01:23:34,560 --> 01:23:36,840
Speaker 1: working out at the gym. I think I think I've

1522
01:23:36,880 --> 01:23:39,479
Speaker 1: told the story before it was right. I think it

1523
01:23:39,560 --> 01:23:44,000
Speaker 1: was like December ish before our local basketball league has

1524
01:23:44,080 --> 01:23:47,120
Speaker 1: its draft, and where I'm at the draft and I'm

1525
01:23:47,120 --> 01:23:49,760
Speaker 1: getting text from guys, Hey, Steph Curry shooting in our

1526
01:23:49,800 --> 01:23:53,560
Speaker 1: gym right now. I was like what. And so the

1527
01:23:53,640 --> 01:23:55,840
Speaker 1: next day I go to play basketball my morning game,

1528
01:23:56,360 --> 01:24:00,519
Speaker 1: and I walk out of the gym and I look

1529
01:24:00,600 --> 01:24:02,280
Speaker 1: up and there's like this pretty tall guy in front

1530
01:24:02,280 --> 01:24:04,400
Speaker 1: of me with two guys, and I'm like, oh, my gosh,

1531
01:24:04,439 --> 01:24:06,400
Speaker 1: I think that's an NBA player. And then within a

1532
01:24:06,520 --> 01:24:09,000
Speaker 1: second you're like, oh, that's Steph Curry. And I do

1533
01:24:09,120 --> 01:24:11,320
Speaker 1: go to a gym where some guys work out. Um

1534
01:24:12,720 --> 01:24:15,000
Speaker 1: Tim of a Moscoff if you remember from the Calves

1535
01:24:15,080 --> 01:24:17,120
Speaker 1: is they're like lifting weights, like right next to me,

1536
01:24:17,240 --> 01:24:22,120
Speaker 1: and he's a giant. Um Andrew Bynum works out on

1537
01:24:22,160 --> 01:24:24,639
Speaker 1: my gym member former laker Uh. There are some current

1538
01:24:24,640 --> 01:24:28,160
Speaker 1: players who show up. Damian Lillard's been there. Um, and

1539
01:24:30,520 --> 01:24:32,120
Speaker 1: you know, I see Curry and I'm like, all right,

1540
01:24:32,120 --> 01:24:35,080
Speaker 1: well I just played basketball, I'm sweaty as hell, and

1541
01:24:35,640 --> 01:24:37,840
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna talk to the guy. And you know,

1542
01:24:37,920 --> 01:24:40,680
Speaker 1: we we talked and he's a super nice guy. And

1543
01:24:40,680 --> 01:24:43,040
Speaker 1: I interviewed him before on my podcast and you know,

1544
01:24:43,680 --> 01:24:45,600
Speaker 1: most people would just say, oh, yeah, I've seen you

1545
01:24:45,720 --> 01:24:48,920
Speaker 1: on Talking sports on the shows and he said that,

1546
01:24:49,040 --> 01:24:51,439
Speaker 1: but I'm sure he's just saying that, you know. Um,

1547
01:24:51,720 --> 01:24:54,120
Speaker 1: And he's the nicest guy. And again, as you guys

1548
01:24:54,240 --> 01:24:59,280
Speaker 1: noted earlier, good family guy, talented player, doesn't get in

1549
01:24:59,360 --> 01:25:02,880
Speaker 1: trouble like in a above the rim league where all

1550
01:25:02,960 --> 01:25:06,840
Speaker 1: they do is champion dunks and that's kind of what

1551
01:25:07,120 --> 01:25:09,720
Speaker 1: basketball is. I'm a better athlete than you. I can

1552
01:25:09,840 --> 01:25:12,080
Speaker 1: dunk on you like he's below the room guy, and

1553
01:25:12,160 --> 01:25:14,720
Speaker 1: Curry dominates. And I'm just a huge fan. All right,

1554
01:25:14,760 --> 01:25:18,280
Speaker 1: Let's bring in our next guest. Uh you know him. Um,

1555
01:25:18,920 --> 01:25:21,920
Speaker 1: he does serious x M radio show. He's a former

1556
01:25:22,040 --> 01:25:25,800
Speaker 1: NFL player, He does Fox Sports Radio. His name is

1557
01:25:25,840 --> 01:25:31,040
Speaker 1: George Rice Stir, former Jaguars titend. George. How are you man? Hey? Yeah,

1558
01:25:31,080 --> 01:25:33,760
Speaker 1: I know you're a big uh NBA guy. So I'm

1559
01:25:33,760 --> 01:25:35,920
Speaker 1: just gonna briefly ask you before we get to uh

1560
01:25:36,080 --> 01:25:38,760
Speaker 1: Tim Tebow, which will be a fun topic. Uh, did

1561
01:25:38,800 --> 01:25:41,120
Speaker 1: you watch Curry and the Warriors last night? Did Did

1562
01:25:41,160 --> 01:25:44,519
Speaker 1: you have any takeaways from the game? Did I watch? It? Was?

1563
01:25:44,640 --> 01:25:47,800
Speaker 1: I was? I was? I watching with faded breast and

1564
01:25:48,479 --> 01:25:52,720
Speaker 1: and and trepidation and upset with the with the ending. Absolutely,

1565
01:25:55,240 --> 01:25:57,519
Speaker 1: and I mean what was it was Curry to blame?

1566
01:25:57,600 --> 01:26:01,040
Speaker 1: Was Steve Nash to blame? People are Killer Murray today? Okay,

1567
01:26:01,120 --> 01:26:03,760
Speaker 1: I I know that we want to blame people all

1568
01:26:04,160 --> 01:26:08,240
Speaker 1: all the time, but but in in reality, we have

1569
01:26:08,360 --> 01:26:11,360
Speaker 1: to give credit to the Memphis Grizzies, like you like

1570
01:26:11,520 --> 01:26:14,160
Speaker 1: It's not one of the cases where us started and

1571
01:26:14,320 --> 01:26:19,599
Speaker 1: show up step score thirty nine point shot from three.

1572
01:26:20,240 --> 01:26:23,280
Speaker 1: He did everything possible that he could do to win

1573
01:26:23,400 --> 01:26:25,600
Speaker 1: the game. He was in a situation to where he

1574
01:26:25,680 --> 01:26:28,400
Speaker 1: didn't have enough help. Pool was the only guy that

1575
01:26:28,520 --> 01:26:31,439
Speaker 1: showed up and did anything above what he does on

1576
01:26:31,520 --> 01:26:35,240
Speaker 1: a normal, every night basis. And it's hard to win

1577
01:26:35,360 --> 01:26:38,479
Speaker 1: basketball games when you especially in the playoffs, when you

1578
01:26:38,560 --> 01:26:42,040
Speaker 1: are a one man guy, like if your John John Morant.

1579
01:26:42,120 --> 01:26:45,120
Speaker 1: At the end of the game, you must be excited

1580
01:26:45,160 --> 01:26:48,040
Speaker 1: and happy that you actually get to play one on one,

1581
01:26:48,560 --> 01:26:52,400
Speaker 1: one on one basketball like that. That must be nice.

1582
01:26:52,520 --> 01:26:56,080
Speaker 1: Like imagine if Steph Curry had some enough players around

1583
01:26:56,200 --> 01:26:58,920
Speaker 1: him to play one on one. I mean, come on, dude,

1584
01:26:59,040 --> 01:27:02,479
Speaker 1: that if we would had a totally different result last night.

1585
01:27:02,640 --> 01:27:04,639
Speaker 1: Totally with you, all right, let's get to the real

1586
01:27:04,760 --> 01:27:08,360
Speaker 1: fun story. George Wright ser of course, played tight end

1587
01:27:08,400 --> 01:27:11,320
Speaker 1: for the Jacksonville Jacks, and George, I just went through

1588
01:27:11,360 --> 01:27:14,680
Speaker 1: the Jags depth chart at tight end. And let's not

1589
01:27:14,840 --> 01:27:17,439
Speaker 1: act like they've got Travis Kelsey and George kittle Uh

1590
01:27:17,560 --> 01:27:20,840
Speaker 1: in the starting lineup, no disrespect to Shaughnessy and the

1591
01:27:20,920 --> 01:27:25,479
Speaker 1: other guy whoever he is. But then, without question, and

1592
01:27:25,560 --> 01:27:27,800
Speaker 1: they did draft a tight end from Ohio State who

1593
01:27:27,920 --> 01:27:32,080
Speaker 1: urban Meyer had recruited, Luke Farrell. And now they pick

1594
01:27:32,200 --> 01:27:36,240
Speaker 1: up urban Meyer's buddy, Tim Tebow. I gotta ask you, George,

1595
01:27:36,760 --> 01:27:39,280
Speaker 1: what is your first of all your takeaway on the

1596
01:27:39,400 --> 01:27:42,920
Speaker 1: move by urban And I guess, b do you think

1597
01:27:42,960 --> 01:27:48,080
Speaker 1: Tebow ends up making the roster? Okay, the the about

1598
01:27:48,160 --> 01:27:53,519
Speaker 1: the move, this is nepotism that he treats Tim Tebow

1599
01:27:53,800 --> 01:27:56,680
Speaker 1: like a son. Am I mad at Tim Tebow for

1600
01:27:56,760 --> 01:28:00,360
Speaker 1: taking an opportunity. Absolutely not. But when you look at it,

1601
01:28:00,800 --> 01:28:03,599
Speaker 1: you're like, hold up, he's thirty three. He'll be thirty

1602
01:28:03,680 --> 01:28:09,880
Speaker 1: four this football season. It has taken Antonio Gates, Jimmy Graham,

1603
01:28:09,960 --> 01:28:14,799
Speaker 1: guys who are phenomenal athletes, like special level athletes, years

1604
01:28:15,520 --> 01:28:17,680
Speaker 1: at least a year or two to be able to

1605
01:28:17,800 --> 01:28:21,800
Speaker 1: transition to playing tight end successfully. And and when you

1606
01:28:21,920 --> 01:28:25,360
Speaker 1: look at Tim Tebow, his his athleticism, there is no

1607
01:28:25,640 --> 01:28:29,560
Speaker 1: way he's more athletic, faster, and all of that, the

1608
01:28:30,280 --> 01:28:33,160
Speaker 1: things that it takes to be a professional athlete at

1609
01:28:33,280 --> 01:28:37,519
Speaker 1: thirty four this season than he was when he came out.

1610
01:28:37,680 --> 01:28:42,720
Speaker 1: When he's that's just the facts. So he's slower, not

1611
01:28:42,920 --> 01:28:45,960
Speaker 1: quite as athletic because father time catches up with you

1612
01:28:46,520 --> 01:28:48,960
Speaker 1: and he hasn't done it. So the idea that you

1613
01:28:49,000 --> 01:28:52,639
Speaker 1: would add a player to your roster at that age

1614
01:28:53,320 --> 01:28:58,200
Speaker 1: who's transitioning, it just it just screams of like nepotism,

1615
01:28:58,240 --> 01:29:01,760
Speaker 1: Like he's given him an opportunity at he doesn't necessarily

1616
01:29:02,560 --> 01:29:06,559
Speaker 1: deserve or has earned. But in my own personal life,

1617
01:29:07,040 --> 01:29:10,880
Speaker 1: I'm like, listen, my my I understand where my kids

1618
01:29:10,920 --> 01:29:13,560
Speaker 1: and people that I love friends that they get opportunity.

1619
01:29:13,680 --> 01:29:16,400
Speaker 1: So I'm not mad at that, but this is football.

1620
01:29:16,560 --> 01:29:20,280
Speaker 1: There are no culture locker room guys who are not

1621
01:29:21,160 --> 01:29:24,800
Speaker 1: who aren't big contributors, even if it's just a Pro

1622
01:29:24,960 --> 01:29:28,000
Speaker 1: Bowl level special team play like they like, you have

1623
01:29:28,240 --> 01:29:31,599
Speaker 1: to be a contributor in the NFL if you want

1624
01:29:31,720 --> 01:29:34,160
Speaker 1: that respect and to be able to lead in the

1625
01:29:34,280 --> 01:29:39,200
Speaker 1: locker room. So it's interesting. I again, I would largely

1626
01:29:39,280 --> 01:29:42,000
Speaker 1: agree with what you're saying, and I'm sure there's people

1627
01:29:42,040 --> 01:29:45,479
Speaker 1: out there who have benefited work wise from a friend

1628
01:29:45,760 --> 01:29:49,400
Speaker 1: of family member's friend or whatever getting a job. But George,

1629
01:29:49,479 --> 01:29:53,160
Speaker 1: I also have noticed that there's a lot of college

1630
01:29:53,200 --> 01:29:55,080
Speaker 1: basketball players who are like, oh, I'm not going to

1631
01:29:55,120 --> 01:29:57,160
Speaker 1: make the NBA, you know what, I'll go play football

1632
01:29:57,400 --> 01:29:59,519
Speaker 1: and be a tight end. And guys do not have

1633
01:29:59,600 --> 01:30:02,439
Speaker 1: experience is playing football maybe in high school or whatever,

1634
01:30:02,800 --> 01:30:05,200
Speaker 1: and they just transition no problem, and they're in the

1635
01:30:05,360 --> 01:30:09,080
Speaker 1: NFL as a tight end. That happens a lot. Why

1636
01:30:09,160 --> 01:30:11,320
Speaker 1: do we not say those guys are stealing the position

1637
01:30:11,360 --> 01:30:13,160
Speaker 1: if they didn't play in college and didn't earn it.

1638
01:30:13,400 --> 01:30:17,280
Speaker 1: They just are showing up because they're a great athlete. No, no, see, See,

1639
01:30:17,400 --> 01:30:22,000
Speaker 1: there's a difference in the potential of of a great

1640
01:30:22,080 --> 01:30:25,280
Speaker 1: athlete who's twenty four years old and saying, oh wow,

1641
01:30:25,720 --> 01:30:31,160
Speaker 1: this guy can maybe transition. So it's the long term

1642
01:30:31,360 --> 01:30:35,840
Speaker 1: prospects that make it weird, right, because you're saying, all right,

1643
01:30:35,880 --> 01:30:38,479
Speaker 1: how is this guy going to help the Jaguars long

1644
01:30:38,760 --> 01:30:40,920
Speaker 1: long term? He's gonna be thirty four this season, So

1645
01:30:41,600 --> 01:30:45,120
Speaker 1: let's let's say he develops for a year like Gates

1646
01:30:45,240 --> 01:30:48,599
Speaker 1: and Graham did. He'll be thirty five the next season

1647
01:30:48,640 --> 01:30:54,639
Speaker 1: when he can actually, uh can contribute, Like you're banking

1648
01:30:54,720 --> 01:30:57,360
Speaker 1: on a thirty five year old for next season to

1649
01:30:57,520 --> 01:31:00,800
Speaker 1: add some value to your two year rock. But I

1650
01:31:00,880 --> 01:31:03,840
Speaker 1: think that there's another aspect of it because he has

1651
01:31:03,960 --> 01:31:07,600
Speaker 1: the top five selling items in the in the in

1652
01:31:07,880 --> 01:31:12,800
Speaker 1: the NFL shop store. Yeah, and and you're like, hold up,

1653
01:31:13,200 --> 01:31:15,600
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was gonna be that high. But

1654
01:31:15,880 --> 01:31:19,080
Speaker 1: the but then that brings up the question of is

1655
01:31:19,160 --> 01:31:25,120
Speaker 1: the NFL and NFL and the Jaguars actually like baiting

1656
01:31:25,200 --> 01:31:28,000
Speaker 1: and cheating their fans because they're like, oh, here's here,

1657
01:31:28,120 --> 01:31:31,400
Speaker 1: here's the money grab They want to buy this jersey.

1658
01:31:31,479 --> 01:31:34,719
Speaker 1: There's no way he'll make the team, but we'll grab

1659
01:31:34,840 --> 01:31:37,840
Speaker 1: this money from them anyway. So it's either that or

1660
01:31:40,120 --> 01:31:43,360
Speaker 1: or he's going to make the team because they don't

1661
01:31:43,600 --> 01:31:47,120
Speaker 1: publicize and sell guys jerseys like that who are not

1662
01:31:47,280 --> 01:31:52,160
Speaker 1: gonna make football teams. They they don't, So you also

1663
01:31:52,280 --> 01:31:55,040
Speaker 1: know a commitment or a grip. The money they make

1664
01:31:55,960 --> 01:31:59,720
Speaker 1: from Tim tebow jersey sales is a drop in the

1665
01:31:59,800 --> 01:32:02,280
Speaker 1: bucket compared to what they make on a game day parking.

1666
01:32:02,400 --> 01:32:05,720
Speaker 1: They probably make more from letting fans in the stadium, uh,

1667
01:32:05,920 --> 01:32:09,280
Speaker 1: you know for training camp than they do. So, I mean,

1668
01:32:09,320 --> 01:32:11,280
Speaker 1: I get it. It's a fun narrative play. It will

1669
01:32:11,280 --> 01:32:13,720
Speaker 1: play well on social media. Look, Tim Tebow has got

1670
01:32:13,800 --> 01:32:16,040
Speaker 1: the third best selling jersey and he's only the third

1671
01:32:16,120 --> 01:32:18,120
Speaker 1: tight end on the roster. But I want to ask

1672
01:32:18,160 --> 01:32:22,280
Speaker 1: you specifically, George, about the position of tight end. The

1673
01:32:22,360 --> 01:32:24,439
Speaker 1: first string tight end is on the field for probably

1674
01:32:24,479 --> 01:32:28,599
Speaker 1: what stats it depending on the offensive run. Yeah, depending

1675
01:32:28,640 --> 01:32:30,320
Speaker 1: on the offensive run. Like the culture on a lot

1676
01:32:30,360 --> 01:32:33,160
Speaker 1: of two tight end sets, Arthur Smith and tennessee a

1677
01:32:33,280 --> 01:32:36,240
Speaker 1: ton of two tight end sets. Several teams operate that way.

1678
01:32:37,160 --> 01:32:39,280
Speaker 1: But what I'm getting at is like the third string

1679
01:32:39,400 --> 01:32:42,479
Speaker 1: tight end is not actually playing a lot of football

1680
01:32:42,560 --> 01:32:44,400
Speaker 1: or on the field for a ton of snaps. He

1681
01:32:44,560 --> 01:32:48,599
Speaker 1: could be right, So why the outrage? Why are people

1682
01:32:48,640 --> 01:32:51,880
Speaker 1: so bad if he's only gonna be inactive or third string?

1683
01:32:53,439 --> 01:32:57,840
Speaker 1: Because all right, so from so from former players, I

1684
01:32:57,960 --> 01:33:01,240
Speaker 1: think the outrage kind of lies in the fact of

1685
01:33:02,160 --> 01:33:04,920
Speaker 1: that everybody knows that there are guys on the on

1686
01:33:05,080 --> 01:33:08,800
Speaker 1: the street. Oh and that's the term that that people

1687
01:33:08,960 --> 01:33:12,000
Speaker 1: use for unsigned creators, that there are guys on the

1688
01:33:12,120 --> 01:33:17,160
Speaker 1: streets who are who are much better players than Tim

1689
01:33:17,240 --> 01:33:19,760
Speaker 1: Tebow is at this point. So I think that that's

1690
01:33:19,800 --> 01:33:23,840
Speaker 1: where the outrage from former players lives, and knowing that

1691
01:33:24,000 --> 01:33:28,600
Speaker 1: they didn't have the same type of opportunities in the situation.

1692
01:33:29,439 --> 01:33:32,840
Speaker 1: So I think that that's where they're outrage lives a

1693
01:33:32,960 --> 01:33:36,599
Speaker 1: little bit because in reality, like people want to see

1694
01:33:36,720 --> 01:33:40,160
Speaker 1: great football and they want to see people like they

1695
01:33:40,200 --> 01:33:42,360
Speaker 1: want to see people play at the highest level. And

1696
01:33:42,720 --> 01:33:46,000
Speaker 1: if it feels like a side show or that somebody isn't,

1697
01:33:46,840 --> 01:33:49,479
Speaker 1: I mean, it's that's the that's the part that bothers

1698
01:33:49,520 --> 01:33:54,400
Speaker 1: people because people pay, you know, exorbitant amounts of money

1699
01:33:54,479 --> 01:33:57,360
Speaker 1: to go to NFL games, to watch their teams, to

1700
01:33:57,479 --> 01:34:00,360
Speaker 1: pay for Sunday ticket for all this other stuff, and

1701
01:34:00,360 --> 01:34:02,519
Speaker 1: they're like, I want the best players out there. I

1702
01:34:03,000 --> 01:34:07,599
Speaker 1: don't want just a fan favorite to come wave, wave

1703
01:34:07,680 --> 01:34:11,240
Speaker 1: his hand up and say, oh hi, I'm a I'm

1704
01:34:11,320 --> 01:34:14,559
Speaker 1: a here like Tim Tim Tebow being your third tight

1705
01:34:14,680 --> 01:34:17,960
Speaker 1: end adds no bout, it doesn't. And this idea that

1706
01:34:18,120 --> 01:34:22,479
Speaker 1: he's gonna be Taysom Hill like, and you're like, no,

1707
01:34:22,680 --> 01:34:27,400
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill is a significantly better athlete than than Tim Tebow.

1708
01:34:27,920 --> 01:34:32,479
Speaker 1: He can actually pass the ball better because I saw

1709
01:34:32,640 --> 01:34:35,360
Speaker 1: people and even some writers said, well, he can do

1710
01:34:35,520 --> 01:34:38,479
Speaker 1: some gadget plays and like, no, he couldn't throw the

1711
01:34:38,520 --> 01:34:40,800
Speaker 1: ball at quarterback, Like what what makes you think a

1712
01:34:40,920 --> 01:34:45,880
Speaker 1: gadget player is for? Is for him? So it's like

1713
01:34:46,360 --> 01:34:49,880
Speaker 1: I understand, like it it is where we are now.

1714
01:34:50,439 --> 01:34:55,160
Speaker 1: But he's gonna be a target for other players because

1715
01:34:55,840 --> 01:35:00,800
Speaker 1: if you're a linebacker, an outside linebacker d N and

1716
01:35:00,920 --> 01:35:03,920
Speaker 1: you see Tim Tebow lined up across from you, what

1717
01:35:04,040 --> 01:35:09,080
Speaker 1: are you gonna say, Yeah, there's no way I'm letting

1718
01:35:09,360 --> 01:35:13,600
Speaker 1: this guy block me, even if I even if I

1719
01:35:13,760 --> 01:35:20,160
Speaker 1: missed the tackle, I'm going to destroy him. So, because

1720
01:35:20,200 --> 01:35:24,080
Speaker 1: there's a difference in being a physical quarterback playing football

1721
01:35:24,800 --> 01:35:28,320
Speaker 1: and actually going to go block physical people, like, like,

1722
01:35:28,479 --> 01:35:31,200
Speaker 1: it's different when you're running with the football and you

1723
01:35:31,280 --> 01:35:37,240
Speaker 1: can be physical again corners and you know, on the

1724
01:35:37,320 --> 01:35:40,120
Speaker 1: goal line for one play where you're trying to score.

1725
01:35:40,840 --> 01:35:43,840
Speaker 1: But it's different when you gotta land line up across

1726
01:35:43,920 --> 01:35:48,479
Speaker 1: from another man and and and he got not coming

1727
01:35:48,520 --> 01:35:52,800
Speaker 1: out his nose, white white, nothinging, And he's thinking about,

1728
01:35:53,600 --> 01:35:55,760
Speaker 1: oh wait, hold up, this dude across from me is

1729
01:35:55,760 --> 01:35:58,640
Speaker 1: trying to embarrass me, to take my money, Have me

1730
01:35:58,760 --> 01:36:01,439
Speaker 1: on Sports Center, have me on a on a on

1731
01:36:01,520 --> 01:36:06,000
Speaker 1: a highlight take you know, mess up my vacation to

1732
01:36:06,080 --> 01:36:09,720
Speaker 1: have my kids made one of them at school. All right,

1733
01:36:09,760 --> 01:36:11,360
Speaker 1: so let's go about to get it. Let me look

1734
01:36:11,400 --> 01:36:13,800
Speaker 1: at the counter to that. Tim Tebow lines up at

1735
01:36:13,880 --> 01:36:17,719
Speaker 1: tight end. You've never seen that ever. There's zero tape

1736
01:36:17,800 --> 01:36:20,840
Speaker 1: that exists, and then Jacksonville moves him around. They move

1737
01:36:20,920 --> 01:36:23,599
Speaker 1: him to an H back position. What what what? Wait?

1738
01:36:23,640 --> 01:36:26,160
Speaker 1: What's Tebow do? Is he throwing a pass? Is he blocking?

1739
01:36:26,240 --> 01:36:29,639
Speaker 1: Is he running? Is it's just th third and one short?

1740
01:36:29,680 --> 01:36:31,639
Speaker 1: And they want to run Tebow like? What is happening?

1741
01:36:32,320 --> 01:36:34,080
Speaker 1: And there it could be an element of surprise. And

1742
01:36:34,120 --> 01:36:36,879
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not saying he's you're gonna be a guy

1743
01:36:37,479 --> 01:36:41,920
Speaker 1: instead of putting like a like a capable like a

1744
01:36:42,040 --> 01:36:44,519
Speaker 1: guy of So you're gonna put a fourth seven four

1745
01:36:44,600 --> 01:36:47,120
Speaker 1: eight guy back there to hand him the ball or

1746
01:36:47,280 --> 01:36:50,000
Speaker 1: you or you're gonna give the ball to like like

1747
01:36:50,320 --> 01:36:55,720
Speaker 1: the trans element of surprise. Yes, exactly Again, I'm not

1748
01:36:55,840 --> 01:36:58,479
Speaker 1: saying they're going to but I think you do have

1749
01:36:58,680 --> 01:37:00,519
Speaker 1: to come to the line of scrimmage and you want

1750
01:37:00,560 --> 01:37:04,200
Speaker 1: to look from from familiarity, right George. You want to say, like, Okay,

1751
01:37:04,280 --> 01:37:06,720
Speaker 1: I know what's coming here. When they line up this

1752
01:37:06,840 --> 01:37:10,200
Speaker 1: way of the time, our staff has us prepared. This

1753
01:37:10,320 --> 01:37:12,600
Speaker 1: is coming. Then you throw Tebow in and it's not

1754
01:37:12,680 --> 01:37:15,080
Speaker 1: quite a monkey wrench, but it's one of these like, oh,

1755
01:37:15,200 --> 01:37:17,280
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen? Like Taysom Hill comes on the field

1756
01:37:17,600 --> 01:37:21,360
Speaker 1: at first. Yeah, but then here's the thing. Nobody is

1757
01:37:21,439 --> 01:37:25,800
Speaker 1: going to be afraid of taste, I'm sorry of of

1758
01:37:27,160 --> 01:37:31,240
Speaker 1: of Tim Tebow lining up on the field. You're like,

1759
01:37:31,400 --> 01:37:33,560
Speaker 1: you're not gonna say, oh, oh my god, he's a

1760
01:37:33,800 --> 01:37:37,920
Speaker 1: home run hitter. This this could be be anything. You're

1761
01:37:38,000 --> 01:37:42,519
Speaker 1: just like, Okay, watch the watch the double pass. I mean,

1762
01:37:43,479 --> 01:37:46,080
Speaker 1: it's not gonna keep people up at night. I would agree,

1763
01:37:46,439 --> 01:37:49,280
Speaker 1: no doubt, Trevor Lawrence probably will. But I'm just like

1764
01:37:49,479 --> 01:37:51,960
Speaker 1: it gives some options, and again we don't even have

1765
01:37:52,040 --> 01:37:53,960
Speaker 1: time to get into And that's the other thing is

1766
01:37:54,000 --> 01:37:58,519
Speaker 1: that Trevor Lawrence is so freaking mobile that he's he's

1767
01:37:58,600 --> 01:38:01,320
Speaker 1: more athletic and more mobile with the Tim Tebow. Yeah,

1768
01:38:01,439 --> 01:38:04,040
Speaker 1: he ran the ball all the time. And then you're

1769
01:38:04,080 --> 01:38:12,120
Speaker 1: gonna take a freaking phenomena at quarterback off the field. Okay,

1770
01:38:12,160 --> 01:38:14,600
Speaker 1: I'm not doing that. I'm certainly doing all right. His

1771
01:38:14,720 --> 01:38:17,160
Speaker 1: name is George rice Ster, former Jacks tight End. Fox

1772
01:38:17,200 --> 01:38:22,040
Speaker 1: Sports Radio hosts Sundays five to eight pm Eastern, Serious

1773
01:38:22,040 --> 01:38:24,519
Speaker 1: extent host, George, Thanks for taking the time and enjoy

1774
01:38:24,600 --> 01:38:28,200
Speaker 1: the NBA playoffs. Man, all right, talk to you soon. No,

1775
01:38:28,320 --> 01:38:32,320
Speaker 1: that was George Rice Stir Listen. We clearly disagree on Tebow.

1776
01:38:32,360 --> 01:38:35,639
Speaker 1: It's okay to have civil disagreement, as I'm sure many

1777
01:38:35,720 --> 01:38:39,519
Speaker 1: people do on the Tebow topic. Again, I don't even

1778
01:38:39,560 --> 01:38:41,639
Speaker 1: think he's gonna have many catches. I think he's gonna

1779
01:38:41,680 --> 01:38:44,479
Speaker 1: make the roster. Do I think that there is a

1780
01:38:44,560 --> 01:38:47,080
Speaker 1: PR element? Of course, there's a PR element. Guys, come on,

1781
01:38:47,560 --> 01:38:50,720
Speaker 1: be crazy to think there isn't um. But at the

1782
01:38:50,800 --> 01:38:54,280
Speaker 1: same time, like you know, you get a job, you're

1783
01:38:54,400 --> 01:38:57,280
Speaker 1: entitled to bring in whoever you want it. That's your friends. Great,

1784
01:38:57,960 --> 01:38:59,680
Speaker 1: that's what Urban Meyer's doing here, all right? Coming up

1785
01:38:59,680 --> 01:39:01,599
Speaker 1: next year on Fox Sports Radio, we're gonna see if

1786
01:39:01,600 --> 01:39:04,120
Speaker 1: there's any more callers. I'll give the number out briefly,

1787
01:39:04,240 --> 01:39:10,200
Speaker 1: eight seven seven six three six nine again eight seven

1788
01:39:10,280 --> 01:39:14,400
Speaker 1: seven nine six nine. It's open season on Steph Curry.

1789
01:39:14,400 --> 01:39:17,120
Speaker 1: You guys want to blast him. A bunch of radio

1790
01:39:17,160 --> 01:39:20,080
Speaker 1: hosted this Fox Sports Radio network are blasting him. And

1791
01:39:20,120 --> 01:39:21,880
Speaker 1: that's fine. You guys try to do your victory lab.

1792
01:39:22,200 --> 01:39:24,920
Speaker 1: Steph Curry's body of work speaks for itself. One game

1793
01:39:25,560 --> 01:39:29,599
Speaker 1: against the Memphis Grizzlies doesn't mean squat. That's next year

1794
01:39:29,600 --> 01:39:32,439
Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio. Back here on Fox Sports Radio,

1795
01:39:34,040 --> 01:39:39,200
Speaker 1: the people are worked up. It's so weird. I don't

1796
01:39:39,240 --> 01:39:46,519
Speaker 1: remember last year bubble playing. I don't remember things being

1797
01:39:46,600 --> 01:39:49,880
Speaker 1: this contentious. Steph Curry loses a game, not his fault,

1798
01:39:50,160 --> 01:39:52,920
Speaker 1: thirty nine points, he did have seven turnovers. He it

1799
01:39:53,040 --> 01:39:55,160
Speaker 1: was not his best performance ever, was really good one

1800
01:39:56,920 --> 01:39:59,479
Speaker 1: and the consternation in the anger and oh he lost.

1801
01:39:59,560 --> 01:40:06,640
Speaker 1: He's not good. He's done an all time great. I mean, guys, uh,

1802
01:40:07,360 --> 01:40:09,519
Speaker 1: I don't know, Ryan, where are you on this? Should

1803
01:40:09,520 --> 01:40:12,240
Speaker 1: we do more callers. I think there's at least one

1804
01:40:12,320 --> 01:40:14,400
Speaker 1: here that you should definitely get to. Okay, alright, fact,

1805
01:40:14,400 --> 01:40:17,559
Speaker 1: fair enough, fair enough, Um, we have a caller, Ryan

1806
01:40:17,640 --> 01:40:20,680
Speaker 1: t it Up. How about g W and Cincinnati g

1807
01:40:20,920 --> 01:40:24,800
Speaker 1: DUB Cincinnati, Ohio. Probably a Lebron guy. Go for it.

1808
01:40:26,920 --> 01:40:34,200
Speaker 1: I'm excellent your producer, winning, winning after the Pope. I

1809
01:40:34,360 --> 01:40:36,960
Speaker 1: had no idea that Steph Color had moved up a

1810
01:40:37,080 --> 01:40:39,719
Speaker 1: level the phone. We're talking about all this stuff, Colling,

1811
01:40:40,160 --> 01:40:43,360
Speaker 1: I'm sorry didn't move it to wors up six or something,

1812
01:40:43,880 --> 01:40:47,160
Speaker 1: because before he was just a little currently a little boy,

1813
01:40:49,400 --> 01:40:51,759
Speaker 1: you know, all those little things, the two little Jason.

1814
01:40:53,200 --> 01:40:55,519
Speaker 1: It's kind of like the Tim Tebow of the NBA.

1815
01:40:56,160 --> 01:40:59,920
Speaker 1: All these act We'll come Tom, I'll give you credit,

1816
01:41:00,280 --> 01:41:03,240
Speaker 1: but always little accolades about playable low the room, are

1817
01:41:03,360 --> 01:41:06,720
Speaker 1: we smaller and danty and all that stuff. And seniously, dang,

1818
01:41:07,000 --> 01:41:09,240
Speaker 1: you can't change the game if you went saving self

1819
01:41:09,360 --> 01:41:12,080
Speaker 1: and you don't not even consider for the finals MVP.

1820
01:41:12,600 --> 01:41:15,160
Speaker 1: They pick on Steff Curry on defense like he's a

1821
01:41:15,240 --> 01:41:18,160
Speaker 1: saft kid. Now have you noticed that it all started

1822
01:41:18,160 --> 01:41:21,120
Speaker 1: when he got pupa le Bron and Kyrie when they

1823
01:41:21,200 --> 01:41:24,360
Speaker 1: came back down three one. There were seventy three win teams.

1824
01:41:24,720 --> 01:41:28,080
Speaker 1: Don't lose them when they're up for the one. That's

1825
01:41:28,080 --> 01:41:31,280
Speaker 1: why he'll never get that consideration. That's why I he'll

1826
01:41:31,320 --> 01:41:33,519
Speaker 1: never get this free create. Maybe he needs to go

1827
01:41:33,640 --> 01:41:36,000
Speaker 1: on are cooking with his wife or something, because he

1828
01:41:36,080 --> 01:41:38,400
Speaker 1: ain't cooking when it comes from when it comes to

1829
01:41:38,439 --> 01:41:40,519
Speaker 1: money time. All right, I see what we're doing. Thank

1830
01:41:40,560 --> 01:41:44,240
Speaker 1: you for the called g dub in Cincinnati. See it

1831
01:41:44,439 --> 01:41:48,160
Speaker 1: was all going well until he said street cred. This

1832
01:41:48,400 --> 01:41:51,800
Speaker 1: goes to the Steph Curry light skin angle. Oh he

1833
01:41:51,840 --> 01:41:54,519
Speaker 1: ain't a dog, he don't play no d He's just

1834
01:41:54,640 --> 01:41:58,880
Speaker 1: a shooter. This is the Charles Barkley isation of Steph Curry.

1835
01:41:58,920 --> 01:42:00,639
Speaker 1: He's just a soft shooter. He's not a tough guy.

1836
01:42:01,920 --> 01:42:04,560
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what he Steph Curry, he's not.

1837
01:42:04,680 --> 01:42:06,880
Speaker 1: If you don't like him because he's light skin or

1838
01:42:06,960 --> 01:42:09,720
Speaker 1: doesn't dunk or shoots from thirty feet out, I think

1839
01:42:09,760 --> 01:42:12,200
Speaker 1: you're just not gonna like him. You know, he doesn't

1840
01:42:12,280 --> 01:42:16,200
Speaker 1: rap like Damian Lillard. He doesn't get him fights. He's

1841
01:42:16,280 --> 01:42:21,000
Speaker 1: just an amazing player and he's got two m v

1842
01:42:21,080 --> 01:42:23,600
Speaker 1: P Awards. And my favorite narrative is he doesn't have

1843
01:42:23,640 --> 01:42:27,080
Speaker 1: a finals m v P. You guys are more than

1844
01:42:27,160 --> 01:42:29,760
Speaker 1: welcome to look it up. This idea that Curry is

1845
01:42:29,800 --> 01:42:32,640
Speaker 1: not good in the finals or in the playoffs is hilarious.

1846
01:42:33,000 --> 01:42:37,280
Speaker 1: He's got a higher playoffs scoring average in Kobe Bryant.

1847
01:42:38,320 --> 01:42:40,960
Speaker 1: He's tenth all time in points per game in the

1848
01:42:41,000 --> 01:42:44,720
Speaker 1: playoffs in the history of the NBA. He is a

1849
01:42:45,320 --> 01:42:49,639
Speaker 1: lethal playoffs score He's had great finals. Have they been

1850
01:42:50,000 --> 01:42:52,120
Speaker 1: what he did in the regular season. No, But other

1851
01:42:52,200 --> 01:42:55,479
Speaker 1: than like Jordan and Lebron, nobody does in the finals

1852
01:42:55,520 --> 01:42:57,360
Speaker 1: what they do in the regular season. It's a slower

1853
01:42:57,439 --> 01:43:01,360
Speaker 1: down game. The pace is slow, possessions are fewer, the

1854
01:43:01,479 --> 01:43:05,160
Speaker 1: numbers are not nearly as big. It's just the reality

1855
01:43:05,200 --> 01:43:09,320
Speaker 1: of it. Now. Lebron is the system and he puts

1856
01:43:09,439 --> 01:43:13,040
Speaker 1: up massive numbers in the finals. But again, do you

1857
01:43:13,120 --> 01:43:14,760
Speaker 1: don't you think he would trade some of those numbers

1858
01:43:14,840 --> 01:43:18,640
Speaker 1: for some more finals wins. I'm not one of these

1859
01:43:18,640 --> 01:43:20,920
Speaker 1: guys who knocked him because he doesn't have six rings

1860
01:43:20,960 --> 01:43:26,320
Speaker 1: like Jordan's, But like should we, Lebron the last nine

1861
01:43:26,439 --> 01:43:29,200
Speaker 1: times he's been healthy has gone to the NBA Finals.

1862
01:43:30,200 --> 01:43:32,800
Speaker 1: It's nine straight years. Michael Jordan didn't even make the

1863
01:43:32,880 --> 01:43:36,560
Speaker 1: finals nine times. At some point you gotta give the

1864
01:43:36,600 --> 01:43:38,960
Speaker 1: props for getting there. Curry went to the finals five

1865
01:43:39,040 --> 01:43:43,960
Speaker 1: years in a row. Michael had to quit basketball after

1866
01:43:44,080 --> 01:43:45,360
Speaker 1: going three years in a row. He said it was

1867
01:43:45,439 --> 01:43:50,320
Speaker 1: so draining and taxing. After just three Curry went to

1868
01:43:50,479 --> 01:43:56,200
Speaker 1: five straight finals five put some respect on his damn name.

1869
01:43:56,360 --> 01:43:59,040
Speaker 1: All right? Coming up next, our final guest, Yes, we

1870
01:43:59,120 --> 01:44:02,960
Speaker 1: brought into Warriors guy Anthony Slater covers the Warriors for

1871
01:44:03,000 --> 01:44:05,120
Speaker 1: the Athletic I guess Anthony can now book a vacation

1872
01:44:05,240 --> 01:44:08,640
Speaker 1: right because their season is over? Um? I mean, I

1873
01:44:08,680 --> 01:44:10,519
Speaker 1: guess we could ask about the future of Steph Curry.

1874
01:44:10,560 --> 01:44:13,680
Speaker 1: It's a fun Could Corey play for the Lakers? Like?

1875
01:44:15,360 --> 01:44:18,080
Speaker 1: I don't know. My big takeaway is this team is

1876
01:44:18,240 --> 01:44:22,080
Speaker 1: not that far away. Clay is gonna come back, James

1877
01:44:22,160 --> 01:44:25,720
Speaker 1: Wiseman will be healthy. The Warriors should figure out a

1878
01:44:25,760 --> 01:44:29,040
Speaker 1: way to play Wiseman and Draymond and if not, maybe

1879
01:44:29,080 --> 01:44:31,960
Speaker 1: they'll package Wiseman and Ubree and that pick from Minnesota

1880
01:44:32,040 --> 01:44:35,000
Speaker 1: that could be top I think it's protected top three,

1881
01:44:35,000 --> 01:44:38,719
Speaker 1: but it could be the fourth pick and you package

1882
01:44:38,720 --> 01:44:41,000
Speaker 1: all that. Can you get Bradley Beal? Can you get

1883
01:44:41,040 --> 01:44:43,040
Speaker 1: a disgrunted start. I don't know what to read it

1884
01:44:43,080 --> 01:44:46,000
Speaker 1: to the Jimmy Butler stuff. We'll talk about that after

1885
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Speaker 1: the break. But coming up next we'll go to our guest,

1886
01:44:48,960 --> 01:44:51,640
Speaker 1: Anthony Slaterer covers the Warriors will do a little more

1887
01:44:51,720 --> 01:44:54,800
Speaker 1: Curry because you guys can't get enough. But first here's

1888
01:44:54,840 --> 01:44:58,639
Speaker 1: Brian Finley with what's trending in sports. Thank you so much, Jason,

1889
01:44:58,720 --> 01:45:00,800
Speaker 1: and I'm with you. I think at the Warriors still

1890
01:45:00,840 --> 01:45:04,559
Speaker 1: have those title hopes not that far away. The NBA

1891
01:45:04,720 --> 01:45:08,840
Speaker 1: will with hold on suspending Lebron James, despite James violating

1892
01:45:08,880 --> 01:45:12,040
Speaker 1: the league's COVID health and safety guidelines by dropping by

1893
01:45:12,040 --> 01:45:15,320
Speaker 1: an event for his tequila sponsor earlier this week without

1894
01:45:15,360 --> 01:45:19,160
Speaker 1: a mask. According to the Athletic COVID nineteen vaccinated NBA

1895
01:45:19,240 --> 01:45:22,519
Speaker 1: head coaches can now do away with masks during games.

1896
01:45:23,040 --> 01:45:26,920
Speaker 1: John Morantz and the Grizzlies bar crawl past Steph Curry's

1897
01:45:26,960 --> 01:45:29,559
Speaker 1: Warriors and the playing around one seventeen to one twelve

1898
01:45:29,640 --> 01:45:32,320
Speaker 1: and overtime to grab hold of the eighth seed at

1899
01:45:32,400 --> 01:45:35,720
Speaker 1: the Western Conference playoff picture. To grab the eighth seed there,

1900
01:45:35,840 --> 01:45:37,920
Speaker 1: the grizz meet up with the Jazz in that one

1901
01:45:38,080 --> 01:45:41,519
Speaker 1: eight tilt with Game one on Sunday. The first round

1902
01:45:41,560 --> 01:45:44,160
Speaker 1: of the NBA Playoffs starts today. The Heat and the

1903
01:45:44,240 --> 01:45:47,680
Speaker 1: Bucks will jump start a Saturday quadruple header with a

1904
01:45:47,720 --> 01:45:50,240
Speaker 1: two pm Eastern tip off. Then it's followed by the

1905
01:45:50,320 --> 01:45:53,720
Speaker 1: Mavericks and the Clippers at four thirty pm Eastern, and

1906
01:45:53,800 --> 01:45:57,200
Speaker 1: of course Jason has the MAVs and seven the Celtics.

1907
01:45:57,280 --> 01:46:00,439
Speaker 1: Then later on today converge with the Nets at eight,

1908
01:46:00,640 --> 01:46:03,439
Speaker 1: and then to finish up the night, it is the

1909
01:46:03,640 --> 01:46:07,240
Speaker 1: Trailblazers facing the Nuggets at ten thirty Eastern. We also

1910
01:46:07,360 --> 01:46:11,000
Speaker 1: have Grand Slam Golf taking place. Louis who Stayson and

1911
01:46:11,120 --> 01:46:15,040
Speaker 1: Phil Mickelson don the lead together at five under through

1912
01:46:15,080 --> 01:46:18,120
Speaker 1: two rounds at the PGA Championship. They will tee off

1913
01:46:18,360 --> 01:46:22,719
Speaker 1: their third rounds at two forty pm Eastern, a chance

1914
01:46:22,800 --> 01:46:26,240
Speaker 1: for Phil Mickelson, who is in his fifties now, to

1915
01:46:26,360 --> 01:46:29,280
Speaker 1: potentially win a major of course the third round, and

1916
01:46:29,320 --> 01:46:32,080
Speaker 1: then they'll finish things off tomorrow in the fourth round.

1917
01:46:32,160 --> 01:46:35,920
Speaker 1: Back to our guy, Jason McIntyre. Alright, Brian, thank you,

1918
01:46:36,360 --> 01:46:39,360
Speaker 1: uh coming up now here on Fox Sports Radio, we've

1919
01:46:39,360 --> 01:46:41,920
Speaker 1: been talking to this guy, I mean, Anthony Slaterer has

1920
01:46:41,960 --> 01:46:44,720
Speaker 1: been covering the Warriors throughout this pretty epic run. I

1921
01:46:44,760 --> 01:46:47,840
Speaker 1: think multiple outlets. He can remind us Anthony Slater for

1922
01:46:48,000 --> 01:46:52,920
Speaker 1: The Athletic how are you man? Yeah, I was gonna say,

1923
01:46:53,000 --> 01:46:54,840
Speaker 1: can you plan a vacation now? Or will they put

1924
01:46:54,920 --> 01:46:58,680
Speaker 1: you on a different a different series? I think, Um,

1925
01:46:58,800 --> 01:47:00,599
Speaker 1: it's funny. I was just having that off from my editor.

1926
01:47:00,640 --> 01:47:03,280
Speaker 1: It's money because the expectation was I would be jumping

1927
01:47:03,360 --> 01:47:05,400
Speaker 1: on another series in round two because I thought they

1928
01:47:05,400 --> 01:47:08,439
Speaker 1: were gonna lose to Utah. But I'm available earlier than usually.

1929
01:47:08,439 --> 01:47:11,360
Speaker 1: I think Sons Lakers. I might dip my toes and

1930
01:47:11,400 --> 01:47:13,559
Speaker 1: actually cover the Lakers in the bubble because the Warriors

1931
01:47:13,640 --> 01:47:17,320
Speaker 1: running the Bubble's right? Um, I might sit back for

1932
01:47:17,560 --> 01:47:19,040
Speaker 1: for a few days because I got to do some

1933
01:47:19,400 --> 01:47:23,120
Speaker 1: some post morte Warriors stuff, right, I mean an offseason

1934
01:47:23,120 --> 01:47:25,479
Speaker 1: a head, but watched the series and then maybe jump

1935
01:47:25,560 --> 01:47:28,960
Speaker 1: in where the interest is. It's interesting, Anthony. I haven't

1936
01:47:28,960 --> 01:47:31,519
Speaker 1: taken a call on the show in two years, and

1937
01:47:32,160 --> 01:47:34,439
Speaker 1: there's just so much stuff Curry hate out there. It's

1938
01:47:34,479 --> 01:47:37,600
Speaker 1: like pent up and people are ready to unload it,

1939
01:47:37,720 --> 01:47:39,640
Speaker 1: and they're just calling in and trash and Curry and

1940
01:47:39,760 --> 01:47:42,679
Speaker 1: I just laugh. I mean, this idea that Curry costs

1941
01:47:42,720 --> 01:47:45,360
Speaker 1: in the game yesterday is comical. He correct me if

1942
01:47:45,400 --> 01:47:46,840
Speaker 1: I'm wrong. Did he get a rest in the second

1943
01:47:46,880 --> 01:47:50,759
Speaker 1: half for overtime? No? No, not a second thirty nine points?

1944
01:47:50,800 --> 01:47:54,440
Speaker 1: He was amazing. Yeah, Well, did you see the coverages

1945
01:47:54,680 --> 01:47:58,360
Speaker 1: on him? Yeah, Anthony, you've watched a lot of NBA.

1946
01:47:58,880 --> 01:48:02,639
Speaker 1: I don't recall a who's ever seen that kind of coverage. Basically,

1947
01:48:02,720 --> 01:48:05,479
Speaker 1: the Grizzlies were saying, just give the ball to Draymond.

1948
01:48:05,600 --> 01:48:07,800
Speaker 1: We will defend you three on four. We're fine with

1949
01:48:08,200 --> 01:48:12,400
Speaker 1: Kent Baysmore and j t A and Jordan's pool jacking shots.

1950
01:48:12,560 --> 01:48:14,720
Speaker 1: We just don't want Curry doing it. This is the

1951
01:48:14,800 --> 01:48:17,040
Speaker 1: second time his season has ended that way, and in

1952
01:48:17,120 --> 01:48:20,200
Speaker 1: the last three. Remember the Raptors through a boxing one

1953
01:48:20,640 --> 01:48:23,759
Speaker 1: and a au on defense on stepfree in the NBA Finals,

1954
01:48:24,240 --> 01:48:26,320
Speaker 1: And that was after Clay Thompson got hurt towards a

1955
01:48:26,439 --> 01:48:29,560
Speaker 1: clip six. Then Nick Nurse goes boxing one and guess what,

1956
01:48:29,840 --> 01:48:31,840
Speaker 1: two years later, I'm still watching Clay Thompson on the

1957
01:48:31,880 --> 01:48:36,840
Speaker 1: sideline shirt last night, just stammering around um and they're

1958
01:48:36,960 --> 01:48:38,960
Speaker 1: still I mean, it wasn't necessarily a box in one

1959
01:48:39,080 --> 01:48:40,640
Speaker 1: last night, But it was the you know, it was

1960
01:48:40,800 --> 01:48:44,880
Speaker 1: Jankie you know high Yeah, I guess intensity defense on

1961
01:48:44,960 --> 01:48:47,559
Speaker 1: stephor They're just swarming him and they man, they really

1962
01:48:47,600 --> 01:48:50,599
Speaker 1: need Clay Thompson back next year to be eight percent

1963
01:48:50,640 --> 01:48:53,599
Speaker 1: of himself at least, and definitely they need him out

1964
01:48:53,640 --> 01:48:56,519
Speaker 1: they're making jumpers. Yes. So of course the post mortem

1965
01:48:56,600 --> 01:48:58,280
Speaker 1: that I am looking forward to read from you is

1966
01:48:58,600 --> 01:49:01,639
Speaker 1: how do the Warriors get back to And it's gonna

1967
01:49:01,680 --> 01:49:05,160
Speaker 1: be a tall order because the West is significantly better. Um,

1968
01:49:05,760 --> 01:49:09,320
Speaker 1: but what's the move? Do they package Wiseman Ubre in

1969
01:49:09,360 --> 01:49:13,760
Speaker 1: the Minnesota pick for disgruntled star to be named later? Um?

1970
01:49:14,080 --> 01:49:16,240
Speaker 1: Can they work Wiseman and Draymond on the court at

1971
01:49:16,280 --> 01:49:20,280
Speaker 1: the same time? Um? You know, does Curry stay? Does

1972
01:49:20,320 --> 01:49:23,680
Speaker 1: Curry move on? Like I honestly, there's a lot of

1973
01:49:24,040 --> 01:49:27,240
Speaker 1: potential options for the Warriors here, right Yeah. I mean,

1974
01:49:28,240 --> 01:49:30,479
Speaker 1: you know it is to stay forever. You know, he

1975
01:49:30,560 --> 01:49:33,160
Speaker 1: wants to be Tim duncan um. But he also and

1976
01:49:33,200 --> 01:49:35,280
Speaker 1: you can hear him in this postgame press commerence last night,

1977
01:49:35,280 --> 01:49:36,840
Speaker 1: he's ready to put a little bit more pressure on

1978
01:49:36,880 --> 01:49:39,479
Speaker 1: the organization and and Draymond Green is behind him, ready

1979
01:49:39,520 --> 01:49:42,680
Speaker 1: to put that pressure Uh, and you know what move

1980
01:49:42,800 --> 01:49:45,479
Speaker 1: do they make. It kind of depends on what movies available. Uh,

1981
01:49:45,920 --> 01:49:48,599
Speaker 1: they do have an asset base that you would think

1982
01:49:48,600 --> 01:49:51,200
Speaker 1: could get you a star. You mentioned Wiseman, the Minnesota

1983
01:49:51,280 --> 01:49:53,640
Speaker 1: pick at this point, because Minnesota one late in the

1984
01:49:53,720 --> 01:49:56,200
Speaker 1: season is probably gonna wind up being like six seven,

1985
01:49:56,280 --> 01:50:00,240
Speaker 1: eight ish, or it doesn't convey until because Minnesota jumps

1986
01:50:00,320 --> 01:50:03,599
Speaker 1: up in the lottery and then it's unprotected, so that's

1987
01:50:03,640 --> 01:50:06,240
Speaker 1: still valuable. Um. And then their own pick actually because

1988
01:50:06,280 --> 01:50:08,200
Speaker 1: they lost last night, they're they're in the lottery with

1989
01:50:08,240 --> 01:50:10,960
Speaker 1: their own pick fourteenth overall, likely with like a three

1990
01:50:11,040 --> 01:50:13,840
Speaker 1: percent chance to jump up. Imagine if you know, I

1991
01:50:13,960 --> 01:50:16,360
Speaker 1: think some people would be calling rigged the Warriors jump

1992
01:50:16,479 --> 01:50:18,320
Speaker 1: up in the top four with a three percent chance.

1993
01:50:18,479 --> 01:50:21,559
Speaker 1: But it's there. Um, the problem is, like, what star

1994
01:50:21,680 --> 01:50:23,920
Speaker 1: is gonna be available. It doesn't seem like brads Field

1995
01:50:24,400 --> 01:50:27,000
Speaker 1: is ready to ask out of Washington. Um. You know,

1996
01:50:27,200 --> 01:50:30,280
Speaker 1: maybe if the Sixers, you know, completely collapsed in the playoffs,

1997
01:50:30,880 --> 01:50:34,000
Speaker 1: is available. But at the same time, the silly want Wiseman.

1998
01:50:34,080 --> 01:50:36,639
Speaker 1: If they're training Ben Simmons, you're not gonna bring Wisemen

1999
01:50:36,680 --> 01:50:39,800
Speaker 1: and put them next feeds. So um, you know, would

2000
01:50:39,840 --> 01:50:42,000
Speaker 1: indeed ask out if Phil you know, a lot of

2001
01:50:42,080 --> 01:50:44,160
Speaker 1: it might depend on what happens in the playoffs, right,

2002
01:50:44,200 --> 01:50:47,280
Speaker 1: that's when stars typically become the struggle in their seasons,

2003
01:50:47,320 --> 01:50:51,040
Speaker 1: then worse than they wanted. But the honest card is

2004
01:50:51,080 --> 01:50:55,160
Speaker 1: no longer out that right, he'said that, I Anthony, I

2005
01:50:55,360 --> 01:50:58,640
Speaker 1: don't recall of exact low or someone else who who

2006
01:50:58,760 --> 01:51:02,960
Speaker 1: posited this, but there is an idea that even though

2007
01:51:03,120 --> 01:51:07,080
Speaker 1: Paul George signed with Okay, see, there was like a wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

2008
01:51:07,120 --> 01:51:10,880
Speaker 1: If something happens, I can get out. And these small

2009
01:51:10,960 --> 01:51:13,000
Speaker 1: market teams are so happy to get the guy to

2010
01:51:13,120 --> 01:51:16,880
Speaker 1: sign that they will agree behind closed doors if you

2011
01:51:17,000 --> 01:51:19,160
Speaker 1: want out, will let you go, you know, one of

2012
01:51:19,200 --> 01:51:21,479
Speaker 1: those deals. If they get bounced in the first round

2013
01:51:21,520 --> 01:51:24,760
Speaker 1: by Miami. You're honestly, you talk about putting pressure. Your

2014
01:51:24,760 --> 01:51:26,840
Speaker 1: honest has got to freak out on the organization, right,

2015
01:51:26,960 --> 01:51:30,760
Speaker 1: they will have only backslid twice. Yeah, but you know,

2016
01:51:31,080 --> 01:51:33,479
Speaker 1: still be walking into a But I think he's got

2017
01:51:33,600 --> 01:51:36,160
Speaker 1: it out five years left or at least four now

2018
01:51:36,200 --> 01:51:38,120
Speaker 1: that he signed that extension. I mean, you're you're right,

2019
01:51:38,200 --> 01:51:40,679
Speaker 1: I mean, if that was really an agreement behind the scenes,

2020
01:51:40,800 --> 01:51:44,280
Speaker 1: but man, that would be something. Um yeah, I mean

2021
01:51:44,400 --> 01:51:46,800
Speaker 1: sure if they if they lose in Miami and be honest,

2022
01:51:46,920 --> 01:51:48,920
Speaker 1: is gonna put the pressure on. I mean, the Warriors

2023
01:51:48,960 --> 01:51:51,839
Speaker 1: are waiting there with as good of a rebuilding package

2024
01:51:51,840 --> 01:51:54,000
Speaker 1: for a Milwaukee team, which, by the way, just traded

2025
01:51:54,040 --> 01:51:56,559
Speaker 1: all their first round picks to get through all the day. Uh.

2026
01:51:57,720 --> 01:51:59,439
Speaker 1: But at the same time, like you know, part of

2027
01:51:59,560 --> 01:52:02,000
Speaker 1: part of a rebuild that the appeal to Milwaukee is

2028
01:52:02,000 --> 01:52:05,000
Speaker 1: the idea that you'll stink and you'll use all your

2029
01:52:05,120 --> 01:52:07,760
Speaker 1: draft picks, which will now be like top ten. But

2030
01:52:07,840 --> 01:52:09,720
Speaker 1: they've alreay traded in the way, So I don't know,

2031
01:52:09,840 --> 01:52:12,680
Speaker 1: I don't see the honest thing. Let me ask you

2032
01:52:12,720 --> 01:52:15,679
Speaker 1: about another guy, Anthony Um and again this one is difficult,

2033
01:52:15,720 --> 01:52:20,240
Speaker 1: But Jimmy Butler, according to a report from Shams, I

2034
01:52:20,240 --> 01:52:21,960
Speaker 1: don't know if he works for the athletic or stadium

2035
01:52:22,040 --> 01:52:25,679
Speaker 1: or whatever. He had reported that there was some Jimmy

2036
01:52:25,760 --> 01:52:28,639
Speaker 1: Butler stuff happening in Miami, and now Jimmy Butler's agent

2037
01:52:28,760 --> 01:52:31,760
Speaker 1: came in and you know, let's just say he was

2038
01:52:31,800 --> 01:52:35,679
Speaker 1: aggressively denying it with a lot of negative stuff towards Shams.

2039
01:52:36,720 --> 01:52:38,560
Speaker 1: Do you know anything of this Jimmy Butler, there's the

2040
01:52:38,600 --> 01:52:42,680
Speaker 1: first guy had had seen or heard of it. Uh No,

2041
01:52:43,400 --> 01:52:45,160
Speaker 1: but I trust Jom's all right. You know, I worked

2042
01:52:45,160 --> 01:52:47,600
Speaker 1: pretty close to the shams that the athletic and I

2043
01:52:47,640 --> 01:52:52,000
Speaker 1: mean his information, he's usually pretty spot on. So Butler

2044
01:52:52,080 --> 01:52:55,160
Speaker 1: tends to uh sometimes enjoy kind of rugs people the

2045
01:52:55,200 --> 01:52:57,040
Speaker 1: wrong way. I mean, let's think about how he forced

2046
01:52:57,080 --> 01:53:00,240
Speaker 1: his way out of Minnesota. Now, is that if they's

2047
01:53:00,320 --> 01:53:02,439
Speaker 1: easily in the first round in Milwaukee was probably I'm

2048
01:53:02,439 --> 01:53:04,200
Speaker 1: taking the bucks in that theories. I don't know about you.

2049
01:53:04,240 --> 01:53:07,160
Speaker 1: I think the bucks are ready. We'll see, um maybe

2050
01:53:07,400 --> 01:53:10,400
Speaker 1: maybe tibe. Butler kind of makes the power play. That's

2051
01:53:10,400 --> 01:53:12,760
Speaker 1: a more interesting case from a warrior's perspective because like

2052
01:53:12,800 --> 01:53:15,160
Speaker 1: gibbing goers kind of aging, and you would be giving

2053
01:53:15,240 --> 01:53:17,360
Speaker 1: up your entire feature for you know, be honest. It's

2054
01:53:17,360 --> 01:53:19,400
Speaker 1: obviously a no brain. There's some of the younger stars

2055
01:53:19,680 --> 01:53:22,960
Speaker 1: no brain Butler. You questioned whether you know how his

2056
01:53:23,080 --> 01:53:25,360
Speaker 1: body holds up. He's kind of in that Draymond Green

2057
01:53:26,280 --> 01:53:29,920
Speaker 1: space right where you're like, you know, he could aids

2058
01:53:29,960 --> 01:53:31,240
Speaker 1: out the next couple of years, and then you're like,

2059
01:53:31,280 --> 01:53:34,880
Speaker 1: he just traded like basically three lottery picks for for

2060
01:53:35,120 --> 01:53:38,200
Speaker 1: an expensive guy who's agent. Uh, we'll see. I don't know,

2061
01:53:38,880 --> 01:53:42,000
Speaker 1: my guest, but the Warriors is a star is not

2062
01:53:42,040 --> 01:53:44,320
Speaker 1: gonna become available. They're gonna really try to get better

2063
01:53:44,400 --> 01:53:46,479
Speaker 1: on the on the margins, They're gonna have more veterans

2064
01:53:46,520 --> 01:53:49,679
Speaker 1: filling out the rotation, gets the Nicklatum types, the West

2065
01:53:49,760 --> 01:53:54,639
Speaker 1: Match type, and and and then expect Clay will come back.

2066
01:53:55,120 --> 01:53:58,120
Speaker 1: They think Andrew Wiggins had a pretty good season. I mean,

2067
01:53:58,320 --> 01:54:01,280
Speaker 1: like there there. He's overpaid. Obviously we haven't see get

2068
01:54:01,320 --> 01:54:02,920
Speaker 1: thirty one million, but I think he proved in the

2069
01:54:03,040 --> 01:54:05,160
Speaker 1: last like eight games or so, like he's ready to

2070
01:54:05,240 --> 01:54:07,559
Speaker 1: be a starting small forward on a on a playoff. Anthony,

2071
01:54:07,640 --> 01:54:11,880
Speaker 1: did you just say Andrew Wiggins makes thirty one million dollars? Yeah,

2072
01:54:12,000 --> 01:54:14,639
Speaker 1: I mean I didn't realize. Is that that? I mean,

2073
01:54:14,840 --> 01:54:17,679
Speaker 1: I'm sure you've seen it down to in overtime, ninety

2074
01:54:17,720 --> 01:54:20,120
Speaker 1: seconds left, he throws up a brick three pointer. I mean,

2075
01:54:22,200 --> 01:54:28,519
Speaker 1: way off. I mean, like, the one thing I'll say

2076
01:54:28,520 --> 01:54:30,400
Speaker 1: about that though, is he actually came over a very

2077
01:54:30,439 --> 01:54:32,720
Speaker 1: good trade for the Warriors when they signed D'Angelo Russell,

2078
01:54:33,080 --> 01:54:36,480
Speaker 1: uh and then flipped him quickly and got that Minnesota

2079
01:54:36,520 --> 01:54:39,640
Speaker 1: pick that's so valued probably about six or seven with Wiggans,

2080
01:54:39,720 --> 01:54:42,000
Speaker 1: So I mean there's kind of a reprieve to that

2081
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Speaker 1: for the Warrior, and reality is it's just a bunch

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01:54:43,720 --> 01:54:46,560
Speaker 1: of tax money until like staying the highest stary in

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Speaker 1: NBA history. As long as he's willing to pay it,

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Speaker 1: They're fine with Wiggins just being a starting small board,

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01:54:51,080 --> 01:54:54,080
Speaker 1: a guy I like on the Warriors, Jordan's pool. You know,

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01:54:54,160 --> 01:54:56,000
Speaker 1: twenty one years old. I thought you would really start

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01:54:56,080 --> 01:54:57,960
Speaker 1: to emerge later this season. I don't know your belief

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01:54:58,080 --> 01:55:00,800
Speaker 1: level in him, yeah, um, but he's starting to look

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Speaker 1: like he might be something at least like six seventh

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Speaker 1: man type capable. Um. But you know, again, so much

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Speaker 1: of this to me rides on Clay Thompson. I know

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01:55:08,600 --> 01:55:11,120
Speaker 1: it's like a simplistic view, but they paid that guy

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Speaker 1: sixty seven million in the last two seasons to play

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01:55:13,360 --> 01:55:15,880
Speaker 1: zero minutes. I mean, like, you can't have a max

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01:55:15,920 --> 01:55:17,840
Speaker 1: player in your books who gives you nothing for three

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Speaker 1: straight seasons. They need him to essentially to come back

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01:55:19,760 --> 01:55:22,480
Speaker 1: and be a MAX player next season. If not, tough

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Speaker 1: to see a path back to contention unless one of

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01:55:24,840 --> 01:55:28,560
Speaker 1: these superstars demands uh to the Warriors and you know

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01:55:29,000 --> 01:55:31,480
Speaker 1: what's there? You know a name we haven't mentioned, Kawhi Leonard.

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01:55:31,520 --> 01:55:36,240
Speaker 1: I mean, get him in. I was gonna bring up. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean do you think the math First of all,

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01:55:38,080 --> 01:55:41,960
Speaker 1: do you think the MAVs have a chance. Sure, I mean,

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01:55:42,040 --> 01:55:44,280
Speaker 1: like I think Luca's emerging to the point of his

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01:55:44,400 --> 01:55:46,040
Speaker 1: career where like do you never go into the series

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01:55:46,080 --> 01:55:49,240
Speaker 1: like he's definitely losing. I'm picking the Clippers. I'm honestly,

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01:55:49,360 --> 01:55:51,040
Speaker 1: I kind of speak the Clippers might win the title.

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Speaker 1: Uh might laugh laugh me off the show. I don't

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01:55:54,120 --> 01:55:56,120
Speaker 1: know why. I just like, I like Tylu in a

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01:55:56,120 --> 01:55:59,040
Speaker 1: playoff coach. I think he chose that in Cleveland. Um,

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Speaker 1: I like the Hakka as a improvement, and then Zoo

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Speaker 1: Botches now starting instead of Herald Like to me, they're

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Speaker 1: better built for the playoffs. I mean maybe people don't

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Speaker 1: believe it, just kind of in their chemistry and everything

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Speaker 1: or Paul George. But you know, let's say Luca just

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Speaker 1: goes off on them in the first round and they

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Speaker 1: lose in the first round. Just Kawhi Leonards day, Like

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Speaker 1: that is the question. Yeah, I mean the option is

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Speaker 1: to uh you know, it's not cool, but they could

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Speaker 1: just trade Paul George, you know, uh. I mean the

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Speaker 1: Worriors have loved him for years. They love this style

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Speaker 1: of play. They just I mean just the style of play. Right.

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01:56:33,920 --> 01:56:37,280
Speaker 1: He's like, you know, two way forward who can pass

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01:56:37,440 --> 01:56:40,920
Speaker 1: through kind of a smooth game. I mean, it's like

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01:56:41,000 --> 01:56:43,480
Speaker 1: kind of Kevin Durant Light, right. I mean that's kind

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01:56:43,480 --> 01:56:45,040
Speaker 1: of what the Thunder tried to do when they brought

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01:56:45,120 --> 01:56:48,640
Speaker 1: him in after Durant Laft. You know, pare Kevin Durant

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01:56:48,720 --> 01:56:53,200
Speaker 1: Light with Westbrook. I feel like I don't know the anthony,

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01:56:53,240 --> 01:56:56,280
Speaker 1: the ego on Paul George. UM. I don't know how

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01:56:56,320 --> 01:56:58,480
Speaker 1: he's gonna fit in that locker room. He really thinks

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01:56:58,520 --> 01:57:01,800
Speaker 1: his stuff doesn't sink. I mean he's out there juggling

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01:57:01,840 --> 01:57:04,440
Speaker 1: a bunch of I G chicks. I don't know that

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01:57:04,600 --> 01:57:07,440
Speaker 1: Curry just seems a little buttoned up. I don't know

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Speaker 1: how Paul George will react to Draymond Green and some

2135
01:57:10,680 --> 01:57:13,440
Speaker 1: of the chewing out that Draymond Green will do. Um.

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Speaker 1: The interesting thing and again, you know, we gotta run here.

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01:57:16,120 --> 01:57:18,240
Speaker 1: But you know what if they say to Portland, hey,

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01:57:18,280 --> 01:57:21,160
Speaker 1: we'll give you Paul George, give us Dame Um Obviously

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01:57:21,200 --> 01:57:23,840
Speaker 1: everybody thinks Damian Lillard's better. But if you're Portland, you

2140
01:57:23,920 --> 01:57:26,560
Speaker 1: gotta do something. You can't get anything great for c.

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01:57:26,720 --> 01:57:30,960
Speaker 1: J McCollum, right, Um. I just don't think Portland does

2142
01:57:31,040 --> 01:57:34,360
Speaker 1: that because it's like Damian Lillard is Portland. Yeah, and

2143
01:57:34,440 --> 01:57:36,240
Speaker 1: when you go when you go to these cities, like

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01:57:36,320 --> 01:57:38,640
Speaker 1: that's like the identity of the team. It's just so

2145
01:57:38,960 --> 01:57:41,880
Speaker 1: important to these smaller markets. And like the reality is, like,

2146
01:57:42,200 --> 01:57:44,080
Speaker 1: does Paul George gets you closer to the title of

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01:57:44,120 --> 01:57:47,400
Speaker 1: that Damien Lollard is currently getting Portland. I don't think so. So.

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Speaker 1: I think they would just prefer to have Lord as

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01:57:49,600 --> 01:57:53,000
Speaker 1: basically their steph. Curry up there in Portland. Okay, all right?

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Speaker 1: Anthony Slader covers The Warriors for the Athletic. I'm looking

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Speaker 1: forward to the post mortems and he'll jump back and

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01:57:57,960 --> 01:57:59,880
Speaker 1: cover series soon. Anthony, thanks a lot for taking the

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01:58:00,000 --> 01:58:01,840
Speaker 1: I'm and try to have some days off your man,

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01:58:01,960 --> 01:58:06,200
Speaker 1: enjoy enjoy life for a bit. Oh nice, All right,

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01:58:06,240 --> 01:58:09,680
Speaker 1: Anthony's later have fun in Cabo. Uh. Coming up next, folks,

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Speaker 1: we will wrap up what's been a spirited, combative show.

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Speaker 1: I am currently texting with someone close to the Miami

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01:58:15,800 --> 01:58:17,640
Speaker 1: Heat about this Jimmy Butler thing. I will tell you

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Speaker 1: what I'm hearing after we come back from commercial. Hey,

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Speaker 1: what's up everybody. It's me three time pro bowler Lavarrington

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Speaker 1: Apple Podcast or wherever you get your pod as from

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Speaker 1: back here on Fox Sports Radio. What a rapid show

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Speaker 1: this has been again. NBA TV is showing Warriors Grizzlies.

2173
01:59:13,560 --> 01:59:16,320
Speaker 1: There with two minutes left if you want to watch it. Um,

2174
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Speaker 1: Golden State is about to come back and force overtime.

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01:59:19,560 --> 01:59:22,520
Speaker 1: It was a good game last night. And you know

2176
01:59:22,600 --> 01:59:24,160
Speaker 1: all the guys who were hating on Curry turn on

2177
01:59:24,280 --> 01:59:26,320
Speaker 1: NBA TV and see what they're doing to them defensively.

2178
01:59:26,880 --> 01:59:29,920
Speaker 1: I mean it is comical. Again, Listen, I don't have

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Speaker 1: every Michael Jordan's highlight memorized, but you can be certain

2180
01:59:33,960 --> 01:59:36,880
Speaker 1: that he faced no double teams like this back in

2181
01:59:36,960 --> 01:59:41,360
Speaker 1: the day in Chicago. The way people defend Curry is

2182
01:59:41,400 --> 01:59:46,240
Speaker 1: crazy right now. Um So, of course I texted my

2183
01:59:46,840 --> 01:59:52,680
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler Miami Heat connection, and his first question is,

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01:59:53,040 --> 01:59:56,960
Speaker 1: why did you have Curry ahead of Chris Paula the

2185
01:59:57,120 --> 02:00:02,440
Speaker 1: m v P ballots? But um, let's just say he's

2186
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Speaker 1: not totally denying. Something's up with Jimmy Butler. I don't

2187
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Speaker 1: know what it is. Butler was in and out all

2188
02:00:08,320 --> 02:00:12,760
Speaker 1: year with injuries and COVID protocols. I think everything's fine,

2189
02:00:13,240 --> 02:00:16,080
Speaker 1: but you never know what these guys. And Anthony Slider

2190
02:00:16,120 --> 02:00:19,400
Speaker 1: made a good point on Jimmy Butler. Remember Tom Thibodeau

2191
02:00:20,200 --> 02:00:23,000
Speaker 1: ran Butler into the ground. That's what he does. Thibodeau

2192
02:00:23,080 --> 02:00:25,720
Speaker 1: ran Jo Kim Noah into the ground. Lu All dang,

2193
02:00:25,840 --> 02:00:28,160
Speaker 1: And once these guys hit thirty thirty one, they start

2194
02:00:28,240 --> 02:00:30,360
Speaker 1: to fall off. Go look at who led the league

2195
02:00:30,360 --> 02:00:34,720
Speaker 1: in minutes played this year, Julius Randall. He's maximizing Julius Randall.

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Speaker 1: He don't care about the long term. Randall has been phenomenal,

2197
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Speaker 1: no doubt about it. By the way, I'm picking the

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Speaker 1: Hawks in that series. Um. I know, Uh, Brian Finley

2199
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Speaker 1: is scoring at home. I have the Hawks beating the Knicks.

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02:00:47,520 --> 02:00:49,760
Speaker 1: I bet the Hawks to win the that series. I

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Speaker 1: will go with Jazz in Jazz in five, Lakers in

2202
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Speaker 1: six Portland's seven. By the way, I did bet Portland

2203
02:01:01,960 --> 02:01:05,480
Speaker 1: today getting plus one in Denver. Uh. And then who

2204
02:01:05,920 --> 02:01:08,680
Speaker 1: is the four or five? Oh? And I'm going out

2205
02:01:08,720 --> 02:01:10,560
Speaker 1: on a limb. I'm the only man in America picking

2206
02:01:10,640 --> 02:01:13,800
Speaker 1: the Dallas Mavericks to beat the Clippers in seven. Also,

2207
02:01:13,880 --> 02:01:16,160
Speaker 1: if you're looking for an exotic bet today, Luca don

2208
02:01:16,240 --> 02:01:20,760
Speaker 1: chech over twenty seven points twenty seven and a half.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, um. And you can look at last year's

2210
02:01:24,240 --> 02:01:26,040
Speaker 1: playoff series. You can look at the matchups this year.

2211
02:01:26,640 --> 02:01:29,080
Speaker 1: The Clippers have no answer for Luca don Chech. He

2212
02:01:29,200 --> 02:01:33,200
Speaker 1: gets what he wants. Um. I'm very curious how Sergio

2213
02:01:33,240 --> 02:01:34,840
Speaker 1: Baca handles him on the pick and roll. We know

2214
02:01:35,000 --> 02:01:38,080
Speaker 1: Zoobos has no chance. Uh. You guys can type up.

2215
02:01:38,120 --> 02:01:41,920
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard is a great defender. He was a great defender. Uh,

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02:01:42,040 --> 02:01:43,600
Speaker 1: he don't want any part of Luca. And if you

2217
02:01:43,680 --> 02:01:45,600
Speaker 1: can go look and again, you guys have to watch

2218
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Speaker 1: basketball closely. The real defensive dogs don't give up the

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02:01:51,520 --> 02:01:53,800
Speaker 1: pick and roll easy. And yes, I know that means

2220
02:01:54,280 --> 02:01:56,440
Speaker 1: Lebron deserves a shot for Kevin Durant when he was

2221
02:01:56,480 --> 02:01:59,920
Speaker 1: on the Warriors. Uh in games three and five, Okay,

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02:02:00,040 --> 02:02:02,480
Speaker 1: d call for the pick and roll on Lebron, Lebron

2223
02:02:02,560 --> 02:02:07,000
Speaker 1: gave it up and Katie hit the shot. I do

2224
02:02:07,200 --> 02:02:09,840
Speaker 1: know when I play pick up basketball, and yes I'm

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Speaker 1: not in the NBA, I'm not in the G League.

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02:02:12,000 --> 02:02:14,760
Speaker 1: I'm playing like you know, pick up basketball. Again, some good, good,

2227
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Speaker 1: good players. I like to guard one of the better

2228
02:02:16,520 --> 02:02:20,360
Speaker 1: opposing players because I gotta workout. I'm chasing hard Um

2229
02:02:21,440 --> 02:02:24,600
Speaker 1: and I'll just say this, you gotta know who to

2230
02:02:24,720 --> 02:02:27,640
Speaker 1: go over on screens. And if you hand off the

2231
02:02:27,760 --> 02:02:30,800
Speaker 1: defensive assignment to an inferior defender, you guys gonna get torched.

2232
02:02:31,240 --> 02:02:35,560
Speaker 1: So I don't like. I don't like totally switching off

2233
02:02:35,600 --> 02:02:39,360
Speaker 1: the great players. And that's why what the gram Fempis

2234
02:02:39,440 --> 02:02:42,800
Speaker 1: Grizzlies did last night was, Hey, we're not switching off

2235
02:02:43,800 --> 02:02:45,920
Speaker 1: of Curry. We're just gonna put both guys on him,

2236
02:02:46,240 --> 02:02:48,360
Speaker 1: make him give up the ball, make him beat us.

2237
02:02:49,480 --> 02:02:52,520
Speaker 1: Maybe the they do that to Luca done today. The

2238
02:02:52,560 --> 02:02:54,840
Speaker 1: problem is Lucas surrounded by guys who can bang threes.

2239
02:02:55,200 --> 02:02:59,240
Speaker 1: You can't leave hardaway and porzingis open. Porzingis shot from

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Speaker 1: three last year in the series against the Clippers. Now

2241
02:03:01,520 --> 02:03:03,680
Speaker 1: we got hurt. He only played three games. But it's

2242
02:03:03,720 --> 02:03:08,520
Speaker 1: a far cry from Toscano, Anderson and Jordan's Pool and

2243
02:03:08,560 --> 02:03:11,840
Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins. So just be careful. In the East. I

2244
02:03:11,880 --> 02:03:15,240
Speaker 1: will go sixers in four and beat in Westbrook. We're

2245
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Speaker 1: getting might get in a fight. They hate each other,

2246
02:03:17,240 --> 02:03:21,480
Speaker 1: by the way. I will go nets in six. Yes,

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02:03:21,560 --> 02:03:24,440
Speaker 1: I think I bet Boston today getting eight. Um, I

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02:03:24,520 --> 02:03:27,080
Speaker 1: got the Hawks and the other series I'm going to

2249
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Speaker 1: heat in seven. So I'm going with a lot of upsets.

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Speaker 1: Probably be wrong, and I've been wrong before. It doesn't matter. Everybody,

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Speaker 1: have a great day, a Memorial week. Memorial the weekend

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02:03:36,040 --> 02:03:38,120
Speaker 1: is next weekend. You guys have fun on that one

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02:03:38,280 --> 02:03:41,520
Speaker 1: as well. The podcast will be up. I thank you

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Speaker 1: for your support, even the calling haters. I'm out