Speaker 1: Everyone stopped the count. You know exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: Stop the count.
Speaker 2: Stop.
Speaker 1: It cost all Cavalier and thunder fans. Cavaliers, I don't
Speaker 1: mean Cavalier thunder fans, but Cleveland Cavaliers and Oklahoma City
Speaker 1: thunder fans everywhere. Those teams are made the only undefeated
Speaker 1: squads at the time of this recording. Meanwhile, the Celtics
Speaker 1: are just one game off their base and still seem
Speaker 1: even hungrier than they were last season. And we'll get
Speaker 1: into that with one of our favorite comedians, Josh Gondleman,
Speaker 1: on today's episode. I'm Miles Greg and I'm Jack O'Brien
Speaker 1: and this is Miles of stick boost.
Speaker 3: Dog. Sorry, got it, looka do hit okay and be
Speaker 3: driving spinning.
Speaker 4: Number that's been secure the Celtics or NBA champions over
Speaker 4: the double team.
Speaker 1: Yes, tell no short time. Yes, Josh Gondleman, Oh Man,
Speaker 1: my my favorite Boston fan. I gotta say, you're you're,
Speaker 1: You're there.
Speaker 2: Huge for me.
Speaker 1: We had to overlap, obviously with the Yankees Dodgers World Series.
Speaker 1: Our our ben diagram overlapped for that moment, and it
Speaker 1: was a fantastic.
Speaker 3: One glorious moment. Yeah, I was.
Speaker 5: I watched every game of the World Series to rout
Speaker 5: against the Yankees and when they lost, and I felt,
Speaker 5: I would say, roughly as much joy as I felt
Speaker 5: when the Red Sox won the World Series against the
Speaker 5: Dodgers in twenty eighteen. I was like, oh, I should
Speaker 5: be in therapy. This, this is not spent well for
Speaker 5: my state of mind.
Speaker 3: That spite feels as good to me as joy.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well that's also being a Laker fan baby.
Speaker 3: And so true for me. With the Celtics myself. Oh god,
Speaker 3: I understand that felt good, like it?
Speaker 1: But yeah, just looking around the league, three teams currently
Speaker 1: have both top five offenses and defenses. Caps, Warriors, Celtics honestly,
Speaker 1: really must be nice. I'm taking them out, wool, how'd
Speaker 1: you do that? The Celtics, though, Josh, you're here, we
Speaker 1: have to talk about the Celtics because they're so good. Again.
Speaker 1: It's freaking me out, and I don't like it.
Speaker 3: I like it. Yeah, now, this is interesting, Miles. I
Speaker 3: told you that he would bring something different, because so
Speaker 3: we don't. We don't like it. But you you're happy
Speaker 3: with how they're playing. Interesting?
Speaker 2: Happy. I'm happy with how they're playing.
Speaker 1: I have.
Speaker 2: That's all been a good time watching them.
Speaker 5: I loved watching them just absolutely uh eradicate the knicks
Speaker 5: from the building and Game one, Yeah, and.
Speaker 1: That was dark. That was that was I was excited
Speaker 1: for that game and I was like, whoa, oh no,
Speaker 1: let's check back a little bit, let's figure out Let's
Speaker 1: let them figure out cat, and then let's come back,
Speaker 1: let's revisit.
Speaker 5: I like, I'm I hope they do because I want
Speaker 5: it's fun. More teams are good and the games are competitive,
Speaker 5: but one night one it's fun to be like, oh
Speaker 5: you thought this is this is your squad that you
Speaker 5: brought to right, Okay, see see you in game eighty.
Speaker 1: Three, right right? Oh man? Also, Josh, I love you go.
Speaker 1: I like it when like other teams are like good
Speaker 1: enough to like compete with.
Speaker 2: It's like the fun.
Speaker 5: Everybody just complained that they didn't they didn't beat anyone
Speaker 5: in their path to the title in the playoffs last year.
Speaker 3: And that it was so satisfying that we all decided
Speaker 3: to not make our teams very good this year, so
Speaker 3: you continue not to have anybody.
Speaker 1: Look at everyone's a mess.
Speaker 3: Everybody's just gonna play dead. Oh you're so impressive. I
Speaker 3: barely even tried. Yeah, I'm starting to resent Shams because
Speaker 3: now he's like the source of all breaking news and
Speaker 3: all breaking news. So far this NBA season has been
Speaker 3: like good for the Celtics and bad for my teams
Speaker 3: and everything else. Yeah yeah, uh so ye bring back
Speaker 3: Woj is what I say. It's it's this Shams guy.
Speaker 3: Bring back all right? Yeah, third, best point differential, third
Speaker 3: and defensive efficiency blah blah blah. Tatum looks hungry. He
Speaker 3: looks better this year. The whole team looks hungry, which
Speaker 3: is not what you expect from a team coming out
Speaker 3: after championship. I will say there there was a lot
Speaker 3: made about Tatum's shot having a hitch in it, both
Speaker 3: in the playoffs when they like didn't play anybody, literally anybody,
Speaker 3: just like, uh, you know, it was like scrimmage games.
Speaker 2: That the MAVs didn't really present a challenge.
Speaker 5: In the finals, the West could have said the team
Speaker 5: that would have people are like, that's the bad finals,
Speaker 5: and I was like, well, I'm sorry to hijack right away.
Speaker 5: No people were, but people going America had the choice.
Speaker 5: They could have chosen to get behind the Boston Celtics,
Speaker 5: a generally likable team with a lot of wonderful, complimentary
Speaker 5: players and stars who aren't people aren't overexposed to necessarily.
Speaker 5: Yet I get that Jason Tatum, not the most charismatic guy,
Speaker 5: didn't play the best series, but instead, people America chose
Speaker 5: to rally behind Luka Doncic, who's I think still playing
Speaker 5: him himself into shape from his rookie season. Wow, and
Speaker 5: wow Kyrie Irving who was suspended one season before the
Speaker 5: choice was there. You all, America all could have enjoyed
Speaker 5: that NBA Finals outside of the greater Dallas area, but
Speaker 5: they chose not to. And I don't think that's Boston's fault.
Speaker 5: I think that's America's fault.
Speaker 3: So we say stuff like that, just like cheerfully disassembling
Speaker 3: my entire body and spirit as an NBA fan, and
Speaker 3: in such like a friendly way you give, like real
Speaker 3: Hans landa from inglorious bastards energy, like just real christof vaults,
Speaker 3: like America taking your hat off. I just don't know why.
Speaker 3: Look Tatum looks good, However, take a little deeper look
Speaker 3: into the numbers. Thirty five point five from three below
Speaker 3: his average free throws below his usual I'm just saying,
Speaker 3: and this is all that I like, this is my copium.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, maybe his shot isn't totally fixed. Uh.
Speaker 3: And when a shot has a hitch, like there has
Speaker 3: some dynamics, a myth, it tends to show up at
Speaker 3: the worst times, Like it's just like this little, you know,
Speaker 3: piece of sand. You know, it's like this little irritant
Speaker 3: that's in there that can come back at the worst
Speaker 3: of times. I'm just saying, I have been a fan
Speaker 3: of a Ben Simmons basketball team before, and I just
Speaker 3: want to I want you to know you can always
Speaker 3: come to me for sympathy if this thing goes awry
Speaker 3: on you, because you know, a shot with a little
Speaker 3: hitch that's like, I don't know, there's like a mental
Speaker 3: component to it. Also, you know, maybe he caught something
Speaker 3: from the Nick's new guy, Miles Bridges. I don't know,
Speaker 3: Mical Bridges, Michal Bridges, mcal Bridges. Yes, yeah, yeah, very
Speaker 3: important distinction.
Speaker 5: If you're if you're looking at Jason Tatum's little hitch
Speaker 5: in his jump shot possibly emerging, and you're seeing Ben
Speaker 5: simmons jump shot, you should have your driver's license taken away.
Speaker 3: I should should be here's a third person who's told
Speaker 3: me that this afternoon, But that has more to do
Speaker 3: with hell, I'm dealing with waiting for the election results. Yeah,
Speaker 3: all right, I tried, you know, I'm just also trying
Speaker 3: to think that, like Peyton Pritchard is playing really well.
Speaker 1: Like I saw some set, thirty two threes made after
Speaker 1: eight games is the joint highest for a non starter
Speaker 1: in like in league history. I'm also tired of seeing
Speaker 1: like almost every game there's some stat where it's like
Speaker 1: the Celtics almost broke the record for most three pointers
Speaker 1: either made or attempted or whatever, and you're like, oh god,
Speaker 1: that was.
Speaker 5: So disrespectful in game one two to tie the record.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, and then spend eight minutes just breaking three
Speaker 5: That's truly like, that's like what you'd see on the
Speaker 5: local news from a high school team.
Speaker 1: Right right right, We're going for it. We're going for it.
Speaker 1: If we get hot, it's over.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like going underhand. Just yeah, just trying.
Speaker 5: Any academy was playing against the local farm. They made
Speaker 5: a team of three ghosts.
Speaker 3: Anyways, all right, do you see any hope for the
Speaker 3: rest of the league is there? Or for yourself? As
Speaker 3: somebody who has admitted you do want a world where
Speaker 3: the Celtics can no longer be criticized for playing a
Speaker 3: bunch of like sleepwalking their way to the finals.
Speaker 2: Essentially, Cleveland's playing great. Obviously, it is playing great, which
Speaker 2: is fine.
Speaker 5: I like, and I'm glad that they figured it out,
Speaker 5: Like it's fun when teams kind of have different constructions
Speaker 5: and play in different ways. And they figured out like
Speaker 5: two lead guards, two big guys, and it turns out
Speaker 5: like the coaching change. Kenny Atkinson was like, what if
Speaker 5: two guys didn't just stand in the same place.
Speaker 6: And like, oh yeah, wait what We're to dig this
Speaker 6: guy up?
Speaker 5: And then I think, I mean, I think the Knicks
Speaker 5: are going to be a fun team when they get
Speaker 5: it all settled. And I think, uh, there's seventy stickers.
Speaker 5: When Joel Embiid is back, he'll be back and he'll
Speaker 5: play great. And it's always scary when he's playing great,
Speaker 5: and it's like it truly is. And I don't mean that.
Speaker 5: I know this is going to sound condescending, and I
Speaker 5: mean it only forty nine percent condescending, Like I am
Speaker 5: hoping for like the Joe l Embiid fully healthy in
Speaker 5: the playoffs. I would like the Celtics you defeat him.
Speaker 5: But I think it is like something that NBA fans
Speaker 5: deserve and I hope human body deserves it. Do not
Speaker 5: feel that pain.
Speaker 3: That's such a weird. So he would be healthy in
Speaker 3: the play yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, that way he would
Speaker 3: be playing well, like not just during the regular season,
Speaker 3: but also like when that's so interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good to be heard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 1: Not one face fracture or nothing.
Speaker 2: Nothing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, wait, but like, what what's going to happen when
Speaker 3: when he randomly gets a broken face like he had
Speaker 3: multiple times when people people are like you like always
Speaker 3: falls apart. Like two of those times have been freak
Speaker 3: face breakages. Like it's not a thing that I blame
Speaker 3: him for.
Speaker 2: So well, it's.
Speaker 5: Two of the five most notable face injuries in this
Speaker 5: century of NBA history happened to one guy. And it's like, oow,
Speaker 5: his face is so far above everyone else's face.
Speaker 3: It's a big face though, big face. He does have
Speaker 3: a massive face face, big face, all right. When this
Speaker 3: show first started, one of our early episodes, we spent
Speaker 3: the whole episode talking about the time that Ja Morant
Speaker 3: jumped up and caught Avery Bradley's layup with two hands
Speaker 3: and then just like kept ascending towards the rafters like
Speaker 3: for another foot, like he was on some fizzy lifting
Speaker 3: drink of some sort.
Speaker 1: Because it wasn't his head gonna touch like the corner
Speaker 1: of the back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but he had to like stop his body with
Speaker 3: the ball.
Speaker 5: Right he pinned the ball against the backboard right with
Speaker 5: like he'd already caught it, and then kind of smushed
Speaker 5: it against the backboard of two hands, if I'm remember here.
Speaker 3: It is, so he turns it over his against Yeah,
Speaker 3: one of the coolest things I've ever seen a human
Speaker 3: body do in any sport. Incredible, incredible. Uh So he
Speaker 3: just did. I think it might be my favorite thing
Speaker 3: I've seen. It's a person doing a basketball court since
Speaker 3: that and it was jaw again, and it was just
Speaker 3: he like kind of invented a new layup that I
Speaker 3: didn't know you could do, where he goes at a
Speaker 3: defender like he's going to tomahawk on them, which he
Speaker 3: has done, uh, to spectacular effect multiple times, and then
Speaker 3: decides to switch direction mid air somehow. Yeah, I guess
Speaker 3: using the person's body as to like spin off of
Speaker 3: and uh even does a complete three sixty and to
Speaker 3: do the lamp it's he did it twice in a
Speaker 3: single game. Yeah, and it's just unbelievable. It really is, like,
Speaker 3: I don't know how he did that, Moran. That's the step.
Speaker 7: Sing finish that was saucy.
Speaker 8: To wash this one up the spin cycle hang finish
Speaker 8: on the other side with the left that is pretty
Speaker 8: deep and look at his eyes immediately back to the
Speaker 8: rim where he's at the amount of hangtime and ground
Speaker 8: he covers or I should say airspace he covers. And
Speaker 8: this isn't easy against Claxon, who's shying to be vertical.
Speaker 3: On the play.
Speaker 4: Mephis controls right now, it's five on four class to
Speaker 4: the last one to get up.
Speaker 2: Moran cut.
Speaker 8: A human highlight reel John Moran word subscribe, what's going
Speaker 8: for the crank.
Speaker 3: And then spins hair the smooth finish.
Speaker 8: This is fun real look at that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I don't know like it, it's I love
Speaker 1: it because it's such a It like speaks to everything
Speaker 1: about his game. The first is being like he's cocking
Speaker 1: it back and you're like get ready to have just
Speaker 1: have your whole life blown up and using that to
Speaker 1: then be like, now let me shift to my supreme
Speaker 1: athleticism and like agility and just turn that into a
Speaker 1: casual layup. I yeah, I don't know. I I have
Speaker 1: dreams about jumping that high.
Speaker 5: And it's created too where it's like, oh, he's breaking
Speaker 5: this out in a game. Like you said, no one's
Speaker 5: ever seen, like, no one's ever heard.
Speaker 3: There's a name for this move, right.
Speaker 2: It's a incredible I love it.
Speaker 5: He and he's just done so many things that you're like, oh,
Speaker 5: no one else has ever done this before, and probably
Speaker 5: no one will because they're like their arms and legs
Speaker 5: can't manage it well.
Speaker 1: Because it's also the thing he's like, well, if I
Speaker 1: go up and I and I bring it all the
Speaker 1: way back, they're going to use all their time in
Speaker 1: the air to just to block the dunk. And then
Speaker 1: at a certain point, I know I can keep elevating
Speaker 1: and I will just use as you descend, I will
Speaker 1: just turn my body now for this somewhat uncontested layup.
Speaker 1: It's really uh yeah, it feels like to that end,
Speaker 1: like I know you said, maybe that that Avery Bradley
Speaker 1: like when he caught that, but it almost reminds you
Speaker 1: of like when I saw that Vince Carter dunk contest,
Speaker 1: when I was like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what does feel a little Vince Carter dunk contestan?
Speaker 1: What do you call that? A dunk fake? Not a
Speaker 1: pump fake, but like it's yeah, I don't even know, yeah,
Speaker 1: what you even well?
Speaker 3: And I do feel like, to Josh's point about creativity,
Speaker 3: I do feel like he invented that, Like I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't think he knew about that shot before he
Speaker 3: did it the first time, because we'd never seen it before,
Speaker 3: and then he did it again in the same game. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he was just like, oh my god, I can do that.
Speaker 3: That's an interesting idea. I'm going to do that again.
Speaker 5: It felt like the human equivalent of like when you're
Speaker 5: mashing buttons playing like a fighting video game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Like how do I do this combo again?
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, oh I did it again. I didn't know.
Speaker 2: I didn't know the game could achieve this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, right right.
Speaker 3: It also feels like if we're just like thinking about
Speaker 3: artists inspiring one another. It kind of reminded me of
Speaker 3: Sakwan Barkley, Uh Hurdling. That guy Hurdle.
Speaker 2: Was, Yeah, there are two of the.
Speaker 3: Coolest athletic feats I've ever seen in sport, done within
Speaker 3: a week of each other. I don't know that they
Speaker 3: were necessarily inspired, but they just reminded me of one
Speaker 3: another a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Anyways, I keep watching it on loop because it's just, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're it's like it's breaking my brain because I will
Speaker 1: I don't would never have the ability to ever experiment
Speaker 1: with being up in the air like that and then
Speaker 1: figure something out. But just it's it is odd to
Speaker 1: begin to see things that you've truly never seen before.
Speaker 3: And even as somebody who can jump like that, like
Speaker 3: I can, like, I still find it pretty impressive. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's great.
Speaker 2: It's kind of a game recognized game thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I still admire the creativity.
Speaker 1: Like, wait, actually, there might be a tape of me
Speaker 1: in OH four doing that. Let me let me check
Speaker 1: back in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't know it was legal to do in
Speaker 2: a game.
Speaker 3: You guys were played by those rules.
Speaker 1: Oh so we can do dunk fakes. Well, I thought
Speaker 1: you had called the dunk fakesies. Okay, I played by
Speaker 1: the rules, folks, by the rules.
Speaker 3: I told you guys about the time that I checked
Speaker 3: the ball up with somebody in a pickup game and
Speaker 3: he just started running around without dribbling it. And I
Speaker 3: was like that as a travel man, and he was like, oh,
Speaker 3: I didn't know y'all were play real rules, okay, And then.
Speaker 2: He was running the baseline.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like he was running the base line at the
Speaker 3: top of the key. That's all the wildest things I've
Speaker 3: ever seen so far.
Speaker 1: So we're doing basketball rules.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, all right, what did you think this was?
Speaker 1: We played? We played differently here.
Speaker 3: In somebody should try that when they're about to jump
Speaker 3: up against the Grizzlies, just be.
Speaker 1: Like, no, don'ts And it's like, I'm a rule follower,
Speaker 1: All okay, I guess I'll just have to give it
Speaker 1: to you old school.
Speaker 5: But this kind of brings it back because he had
Speaker 5: been he was injured most of last year and suspended
Speaker 5: for a portion of it, and like, I think, not
Speaker 5: that I forgot that he was good, but I had
Speaker 5: lost track of like the joy of watching him play,
Speaker 5: like watching a Memphis game like on league pass, just
Speaker 5: to go like, what's.
Speaker 2: He gonna do tonight?
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, that's right. That is what I'm feeling right now.
Speaker 3: I'm so happy that he's back, and it is in
Speaker 3: no way is because I'm trying to distract myself from
Speaker 3: what's happening with the seventy six ers. Should we take
Speaker 3: a quick break and come back and not talk about
Speaker 3: the seventy six ers? Yeah, yeah, all right, we'll be
Speaker 3: right back and we're back.
Speaker 1: We're back, all right.
Speaker 3: The Calves. I have not watched a full game, but
Speaker 3: I have seen highlights. They look really good. Yeah, number
Speaker 3: one in effective field goal percentage, fifth overall defensive efficiency,
Speaker 3: and it feels like that will be their strength throughout
Speaker 3: the season. But I don't know. I guess number one
Speaker 3: in effective field goal percentage like that, it's hard to
Speaker 3: argue with. Yeah, but an amazing coaching Johnny Mitchell.
Speaker 1: And Darius Garland do it together? Can it be done?
Speaker 1: Is it a thing they should do?
Speaker 3: And yeah, I love this character.
Speaker 9: But lay Yeah, remember was kind of like the that
Speaker 9: was sort of like the notion, you know what I mean,
Speaker 9: Like before and now that we're seeing it in full force,
Speaker 9: you're like, oh, yeah, all.
Speaker 5: Right, but if two guys were good at the same time,
Speaker 5: it's like it's so ridiculous like that like sports radio
Speaker 5: brained take of Like I don't know. There's just two
Speaker 5: guys that both have all the essential skills for playing
Speaker 5: basketball on the offensive side of the game.
Speaker 2: How would they ever make it work?
Speaker 5: Like, oh, by both being physically healthy and then both
Speaker 5: playing awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going to use a metaphor that I just
Speaker 3: made up. It's like oil and water. You know, these
Speaker 3: guys just they can't mix together.
Speaker 1: Also, why are you mixing oil with water for like
Speaker 1: you're eating it?
Speaker 6: Or gasoline is expensivela, Yeah, canola, some poland spring water
Speaker 6: down my gasoline like orange juice to stretch it out.
Speaker 3: So just because lava lamps are expensive, very similar.
Speaker 1: Gotta think up here. You got to think up here.
Speaker 2: Just a mason jar with some oil and water. That does. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's yeah. You give it to your kid for Christmas exactly.
Speaker 3: Put at a little bit of a lamp.
Speaker 1: Yeah, put a little tea like, yeah you got some,
Speaker 1: you get some.
Speaker 3: Yeah. But I don't know. So keep an eye on
Speaker 3: the Cavs. But they are currently the best, the number
Speaker 3: one team in the league.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well the other thing, I mean, it felt like we're
Speaker 1: all pretty high on them though going into this season,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It was just I think before.
Speaker 1: It's sort of like the question of like can they
Speaker 1: carry this momentum into the next season, like what is what?
Speaker 1: What will they continue? And you're like, oh no, no, yep, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's up to I'm.
Speaker 3: Gonna I'm gonna do a thing that nobody does usually
Speaker 3: does on basketball podcast. I did not see this coming
Speaker 3: at all. I thought that we're just as likely as
Speaker 3: to be like a seven seed this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, based on the performance it was it's feasible.
Speaker 2: You can't it's not.
Speaker 1: Your life, this this is impossible. Are they going to
Speaker 1: keep it up? Is the real thing.
Speaker 5: I think that's right, And especially because this team has
Speaker 5: been together a couple of seasons and hadn't made it work.
Speaker 5: But then oh right, a couple of them there was
Speaker 5: like seasons lost or shaken up because of injuries last
Speaker 5: year and especially towards the end, and Garland just seemed
Speaker 5: like he wasn't himself. But I'm with you, Jack, I
Speaker 5: wasn't like, oh, they're a hue in but like you said,
Speaker 5: but when now that it's happening, I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, I see the vision.
Speaker 5: And I get why they didn't like trade away good
Speaker 5: players because everyone was like I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right the front off, like, did you hear what
Speaker 3: Stephen I Smith just said?
Speaker 2: Actually he wasn't even on Mike and I heard him.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, yeah, where is he? He's in Alaska.
Speaker 2: I think she thought he was whispering.
Speaker 3: Okay, See is the other team that is undefeated as
Speaker 3: of this recording a lot of as of this recording happening.
Speaker 3: We also don't know who won the election waiting to
Speaker 3: hear who won the election.
Speaker 1: Or sexiest man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we also don't know who's gonna win people
Speaker 3: sexiest man.
Speaker 2: We do know, and I hate to bring it up
Speaker 2: on a podcast. We know sexiest podcasters.
Speaker 3: I know, I know.
Speaker 2: Don't be upset.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just brought up to say miscarriage of justice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, Jesse or what's his name? The I
Speaker 3: don't even the brothers.
Speaker 2: Oh, Travis, Travis and Jason.
Speaker 3: Travis and Jason, who together I called Jesse for no
Speaker 3: no reason, you know, Jesse Jason.
Speaker 5: Sometimes there's two guys that you're like, you could really
Speaker 5: be one guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah together, I feel that.
Speaker 2: Way, David Lynch and David Byrne.
Speaker 5: If that's one guy that's the most brilliant genius Oh
Speaker 5: my god.
Speaker 3: Yeah what a team. Yeah, okay, see, so I didn't
Speaker 3: realize they were doing this well and Hartenstein hadn't played yet. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so three weeks following a hand fracture, Crusoe's playing about
Speaker 3: twenty minutes a night, which some people are like, I
Speaker 3: mean once they turn him all the way up, But
Speaker 3: that's like always what I expected. I expect him to
Speaker 3: give them like twenty spectacular minutes an and yeah.
Speaker 1: Even if the scoring is not there on he's He's
Speaker 1: a man. I love I love Crusoe, so I love
Speaker 1: seeing him thrive. So this is I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: find other teams I can just get behind in case
Speaker 1: the Lakers end up lakering it up?
Speaker 3: What is the so we we did? This is a record.
Speaker 3: We're minutes and have not mentioned the Lakers about Okay,
Speaker 3: we're not. We're not going to talk about how you
Speaker 3: feel about the Lakers because we a great, spectacular start
Speaker 3: and then things have kind of hit look at of
Speaker 3: rough air.
Speaker 1: I think it's one of those things where I love
Speaker 1: talking about the Lakers when we're doing terribly, and I
Speaker 1: love talking about the Lakers when we're doing mediocre. But
Speaker 1: comparatively speaking, it feels like we're I've reached an absolutely
Speaker 1: new level, and it's the in between part where it's
Speaker 1: like normal, I'm like, I want to talk about the
Speaker 1: good teams.
Speaker 3: I mean that was that was the time when I
Speaker 3: started taking the cap seriously. So I was like Lebron
Speaker 3: coming back home right on. Yeah, it wasn't close, it
Speaker 3: was not.
Speaker 1: In fact, it was not on.
Speaker 2: It was so not on.
Speaker 3: That Also, maybe I am overrating the Lakers because it
Speaker 3: was also I did not take the Pistons seriously when
Speaker 3: they beat my seventy six ers with Embiid and Paul
Speaker 3: George both out against all odds. But I once, once
Speaker 3: they beat the Lakers, I was like, man, are these
Speaker 3: Pistons for real? But maybe there's a shared common denominator here,
Speaker 3: but I'm missing.
Speaker 2: No, they're good.
Speaker 1: They're good, they would be good.
Speaker 3: They're good. They're really good.
Speaker 2: They're playing through Anthony Davis.
Speaker 5: That they got to play through a guy who seems
Speaker 5: like he doesn't want that ever in his career.
Speaker 2: He's like, he's playing amazing.
Speaker 5: It's like, yeah, it's I always root for people to
Speaker 5: like realize their potential, which is like.
Speaker 2: The most Gondlement sentence.
Speaker 1: I could say a trademarket.
Speaker 5: I hate to watch somebody that is has the potential
Speaker 5: to be great, like not get in their own way
Speaker 5: or be hurt. And so it's like cool to be like, Oh,
Speaker 5: Anthony Davis is having the season that everyone's been like,
Speaker 5: is he having this season for like nine years?
Speaker 2: Anybody?
Speaker 1: Except every time he goes down like acting like his
Speaker 1: legs are blown off, I'm like, that's the most unnerving
Speaker 1: thing to watch as a fan, which is why I'm like,
Speaker 1: like I'll text, like even during that Pistons game, I
Speaker 1: was texting Jackie Brom like what just happened? I just
Speaker 1: had this opportunity to turn on the TV and I'm
Speaker 1: looking at him writhing around in pain. But let's not
Speaker 1: talk about that. We have other things to.
Speaker 3: Being a fan of Joel Embiid and Anthony Davis really
Speaker 3: makes you appreciate Lebron James and you know, Jason Tatum
Speaker 3: and then people like that.
Speaker 2: Who it's the season. Seasons are so long.
Speaker 3: So long, it's unbelievable that they're able to stay as
Speaker 3: healthy as they are.
Speaker 1: Oh, Josh, I forgot to ask. I mean they're playing
Speaker 1: the Warriors on what as on Wednesday night? What do
Speaker 1: you think Tatum's gonna Is he going to show out
Speaker 1: just for some Olympics.
Speaker 5: I'm a little nervous because I think he's gonna take
Speaker 5: I think he's going to take a personal record for
Speaker 5: three pointers. If I could bet over on any number,
Speaker 5: you name a digit number and.
Speaker 2: Missoula ball is out of control.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's like when he's on, You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's no gentler shot.
Speaker 2: It's like someone's hand is underneath the ball placing it
Speaker 2: in the rim. And when he's not, just like go
Speaker 2: to the hoop right because he is.
Speaker 5: It's like, really when you watch him and he's mixing
Speaker 5: it up and he's like, Okay, I'm gonna it'll be
Speaker 5: like a third threes or two, you know, fortes forty
Speaker 5: percent and just like bullying people to the basket and
Speaker 5: wiggling around him. And then twenty percent mid range you're like, oh,
Speaker 5: he's he's unstoppable. And then when it's like eighty percent threes,
Speaker 5: you're like, come on, man, you're too told to do this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we are getting word. Tatum's most attempt a
Speaker 1: three pointers eighteen.
Speaker 2: I think he's going.
Speaker 3: Over pacers this year.
Speaker 5: By the way, Oh, yeah, and that was tough because
Speaker 5: he was having a tough game. Hit a couple at
Speaker 5: the end that helped take it to overtime, hit that
Speaker 5: real nice one to the end, and then just kept
Speaker 5: shooting threes in overtime while he was a little cold
Speaker 5: and Derek White had been on fire the whole night,
Speaker 5: and it was just like, Oh, I you watching a
Speaker 5: game like that really makes you appreciate or makes me
Speaker 5: appreciate how far he's come as like a playmaker and
Speaker 5: a guy that trusts his teammates, because I think early
Speaker 5: in his career he didn't have that level of trust
Speaker 5: of like getting off the ball quickly when he's getting
Speaker 5: double teamed. And it's like, it's cool to see that growth.
Speaker 5: And then you watch a game like him take eighteen
Speaker 5: threes against the Pacers, and you're like, but just over there,
Speaker 5: there's two guys in front of you and none in
Speaker 5: front him.
Speaker 3: The other team that I think is surprisingly good this year,
Speaker 3: that we're not gonna have time to like fully dig in.
Speaker 3: But the Warriors are six and one. We'll see how
Speaker 3: they hold up against the Celtics and the Jason Tatum
Speaker 3: twenty five to three point attempts let's say thirty six.
Speaker 2: It's in play. It is in play.
Speaker 3: Their point differential is seventeen point three plus against opponents
Speaker 3: this season, just zero point one points behind. Okay, see okay,
Speaker 3: see by the way, set the record for the most
Speaker 3: wins open a season that we're all by double digits,
Speaker 3: won every one of their seven games by double digits.
Speaker 3: Golden State's right on par with them in terms of
Speaker 3: overall point differential. Again, it's just like I was saying
Speaker 3: that they just at random times appear to be like,
Speaker 3: all right, this is the one where we're gonna like
Speaker 3: have a championship run that nobody saw coming, like the
Speaker 3: championship run that they had two years ago where they
Speaker 3: beat the Celtics. I don't recall is foggy for all
Speaker 3: of us, but in retrospect like makes even less sense
Speaker 3: than it. Like it was surprising at the time, but
Speaker 3: like as with all news stories, we just like kind
Speaker 3: of get used to it and we're just like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, it makes sense. They've they've got stuff and stuff.
Speaker 3: But like in retrospect, makes like Jordan Poole was the
Speaker 3: missing and greet like the added missing ingredient that everyone's like, yeah, no,
Speaker 3: this is why, Like, and he has since then not
Speaker 3: been very good, you know, like who's the Canadian? Yeah,
Speaker 3: Andrew Wiggins since then has like kind of fallen apart.
Speaker 3: It's like everything about that run doesn't really make sense
Speaker 3: in retrospect. And now they're kind of they're starting off like, yeah,
Speaker 3: we're gonna just we've decided to do it again.
Speaker 5: Steph hurt for like half the game. Shore, Yeah, he
Speaker 5: got buddy, I'm ready for the is Draymond Actually the
Speaker 5: Warriors MVP takes man.
Speaker 3: I've been ready, So.
Speaker 2: You're Stevenson Born ready for the.
Speaker 3: He has replaced Chris Paul is my favorite NBA player actor.
Speaker 3: His his acting Draymond h in the in the car commercials.
Speaker 3: His line deliveries off the charts for some reason. Him
Speaker 3: and Chris Paul is just jump jump off the screen
Speaker 3: for me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, anything else we
Speaker 3: want to talk about before we uh go into the
Speaker 3: rapid fire around.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think the Bucks probably just as somebody
Speaker 1: who's seen where Darvin go, oh what's going on over there?
Speaker 1: Oh what's going on over there? One in six I okay,
Speaker 1: I just think there's something that feels ominous though, like
Speaker 1: the start isn't great. Like I understand a lot of
Speaker 1: people went into like could could they be a contender
Speaker 1: this year? Like could they be? The start indicates no,
Speaker 1: they are not. And the feel that the vibes are,
Speaker 1: they feel like they're rapidly going down. Plus like the
Speaker 1: possibility of a you know, a the honest departure, it
Speaker 1: just feels like there's I don't know, like something needs
Speaker 1: to give in one direction.
Speaker 3: A Greek Are you talking about the Greek.
Speaker 1: Who's got more Greek in him? I don't know, I mean,
Speaker 1: do you think. I mean, I've seen people talk about
Speaker 1: it's like, well, if they can get if they can
Speaker 1: win the next twelve ten games, they can get to
Speaker 1: like kind of what the Knicks did in ninety nine
Speaker 1: and get to a finals. Like with that record, I'm like,
Speaker 1: m I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's weird.
Speaker 5: I mean, first of all, shout out to the Blazers
Speaker 5: for having a better record than the Bucks right now,
Speaker 5: right yeah, that's that's my scorching hot take.
Speaker 2: Dave never should have left Portland three.
Speaker 3: And five of the Blazers versus one and six, Milt one.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean again, it's tough to go.
Speaker 5: A team with Gianna Sante te Coempo and Dame Lillard
Speaker 5: don't stand a chance in a playoff series, but like
Speaker 5: it's it would. I just don't know, it doesn't seem
Speaker 5: like they they can play defense, and they just haven't
Speaker 5: figured out anything yet.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's all bad all the good, like bullish takes on,
Speaker 3: like how good they were going to be this year.
Speaker 3: It turns out in retrospect where like people talking to
Speaker 3: Doc Rivers like on the golf course, right and him
Speaker 3: just being like, Dame's locked in this year. Last year
Speaker 3: he was just like kind of bummed to be at Milwaukee,
Speaker 3: but this year he just seems happier and people are like,
Speaker 3: all right, yeah, good enough for me, all right.
Speaker 5: Duck Rivers seems like an all time great dude to
Speaker 5: hang out, great hang oh, but he's not coaching your
Speaker 5: basketball tea he.
Speaker 3: Was after his last run with the Sixers. You know,
Speaker 3: he's really good ken be a really good regular season
Speaker 3: basketball coach. But I was like, like he just keeps
Speaker 3: getting shots. I don't totally get like why anytime there's
Speaker 3: like a team that people are like, these guys are
Speaker 3: gonna be good if they just like figure a couple
Speaker 3: things out, he gets that job. And then I started
Speaker 3: hearing him on podcasts. I was like, oh, I get it,
Speaker 3: Like I just want to hang out with this. He
Speaker 3: seems so cool. He just seems like he's the best guy,
Speaker 3: and like he has like interesting ideas and like draws
Speaker 3: on his knowledge and like history in a way that's
Speaker 3: just so like I don't know. I'm just like, yeah, man,
Speaker 3: take me wherever.
Speaker 2: He's got a ring.
Speaker 5: Plus he's got that right, so, like I bet in
Speaker 5: the room he just crushes.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah yeah. And that ring assistant staff was
Speaker 3: Tom Thibodeau, right, sotant, Yeah, that's wild. Yeah. There's some
Speaker 3: other team I forgot that we wanted to bring up
Speaker 3: who's also like performing a little bit under expectations, but
Speaker 3: I can't remember them right now, so we'll just move
Speaker 3: on from the Lakers. No, no, no, it's okay. It's the same. Oh,
Speaker 3: oh got it. It's the seventy six Ers. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: the Sixers, I will say a little bit different. We
Speaker 3: haven't had two of our three best players play yet,
Speaker 3: so I think, like, you know me, I'm not always
Speaker 3: the most optimistic fan of the seventy six ers. I
Speaker 3: do think people can we can relax until embiid is
Speaker 3: back from his suspension, and I will not be commenting
Speaker 3: on the suspension at this.
Speaker 2: How many games I saw that you suspend it? How
Speaker 2: three games?
Speaker 3: Yes? Three games according to Shams.
Speaker 2: But Johnny bad news over here?
Speaker 3: Job just mad at him for having bad news.
Speaker 2: Defer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, am I right?
Speaker 1: Fire Sky.
Speaker 5: He's only saying bad stuff, he's only saying the negative stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like him. I don't like him.
Speaker 2: Why don't say the positive Paul George played in a game?
Speaker 3: You don't report that, Jams? What if that that's on
Speaker 3: set and seat of jam? Idea? Is that something Jams.
Speaker 2: Don't got.
Speaker 1: Be suspended?
Speaker 3: So dumb? All right, let's take a quick break and
Speaker 3: we'll come back and do the rapid fire round the questioning.
Speaker 7: We'll be right back, and we're back.
Speaker 3: We're back, and it is of course time. Josh, you've
Speaker 3: you stepped in it once again, and it's deep stepped
Speaker 3: in it up to your knees. My friends.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I told you, I behind those horses.
Speaker 3: I know, I know Clydesdale's Clyde.
Speaker 1: So yes, the fourth quarter rap if I round of
Speaker 1: questioning Josh Godlman, you already know what the deal is.
Speaker 1: It's a question answer segment. Just go quick, don't use
Speaker 1: that you know what the impressive intellect of yours to
Speaker 1: find the perfect answer. Just give us what is the
Speaker 1: instant reaction? Your real stuff? Okay, yep, And if you're not,
Speaker 1: we will be rude to you. And it's very difficult
Speaker 1: to be rude to Josh Godlman because you are a
Speaker 1: very kind person, and we.
Speaker 2: Will do it will make me feel bad.
Speaker 1: Just glad.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm not saying that to guilt you. I'm just
Speaker 2: saying your rudeness will be effective on me. Thank you.
Speaker 2: I'm thought of you.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 3: I told you. I told you we could get in
Speaker 3: this fool's head.
Speaker 1: Told you, man, we're gonna go. We're gonna throw him
Speaker 1: all off ballots. Here we go.
Speaker 3: Okay, shoot from the hip like me shooting a three
Speaker 3: pointer because I have very weak arms.
Speaker 2: And style.
Speaker 5: I truly texted a friend what weight should I lift
Speaker 5: so I can shoot and be anyway for three?
Speaker 3: So much?
Speaker 2: Probably?
Speaker 1: Yeah, just just a lot of shoulder presses, you know,
Speaker 1: just to get this all up, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: raising the roof. Wait, Josh, you're getting us off our game. Man.
Speaker 1: This is the Rappi fire round of questioning.
Speaker 2: Jack.
Speaker 1: You can know first. I'm not gonna go first.
Speaker 3: I think you should Miles.
Speaker 1: Okay, Josh, first question. And this is kind of a
Speaker 1: sort of complex one. So we had a bit of
Speaker 1: an understanding in our show group text thread when I
Speaker 1: heard about Jaw's butt pass. He said, you guys, this
Speaker 1: is wow. This Jaw did a butt pass. I thought
Speaker 1: it was going to be Jaw kind of maybe using
Speaker 1: his butt as sort of like an air bud nose
Speaker 1: to sort of like pop the ball into the air.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize there's just him making a pass from
Speaker 1: his posterior yes, on the ground.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But if we are using that move similar to how
Speaker 1: like the Jason Williams elbow passed, and we are talking
Speaker 1: about a butt pass, what NBA player are you using
Speaker 1: to execute that move?
Speaker 3: Seventy six Yeah, you have a Sellly go something in
Speaker 3: the tank. Yeah, I like it. Yeah, I mean the
Speaker 3: seventy six ers a lot of Kyle is my number one, yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 3: Stacy King, Duckworth. These are names that popped up in
Speaker 3: my head like pear shaped players.
Speaker 1: You know, absolutely Chris Paul to Chris Paul could do Chris.
Speaker 3: But people who like played from their bat like Mark
Speaker 3: Jackson his whole career, like he used his butt as
Speaker 3: a weapon, and like you know, like he do you
Speaker 3: remember that this might have been before your time. But
Speaker 3: Mark Jackson's just one season just started backing people all
Speaker 3: the way down. He was six feet tall, but he
Speaker 3: was just backed people like to under the basket. It
Speaker 3: was unbelievable. Barkley, I think it was the first name
Speaker 3: that came out.
Speaker 1: Everyone's first. Yeah, but you gotta get a little nuanced
Speaker 1: with it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, we're playing pickup hoops with People Magazine
Speaker 3: Sexiest Man Alive, and they've all entered the time machine.
Speaker 3: They're all at their physical peaks. Well, actually, I'm not
Speaker 3: going to say they're at their physical peaks. They're all
Speaker 3: at the place they were physically when they were named
Speaker 3: People Magazine's Sexiest.
Speaker 2: They were at their sexual peaks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sexual sexiest, sexual sexiest trowel peak. So we went first,
Speaker 3: and we took Denzel Washington circa nineteen ninety six when
Speaker 3: he won who And by the way, in a recent episode,
Speaker 3: we did learn that in the movie he got game
Speaker 3: he did all his own stunts and also in the
Speaker 3: final one on one matchup with Ray Allen, his son.
Speaker 3: In that movie, Ye insisted that like it was supposed
Speaker 3: to be like an eight nothing blowout, and he was like,
Speaker 3: that doesn't feel right to me. I think I should
Speaker 3: get some buckets here. I think people would expect me
Speaker 3: to and so he did. He got buckets. So we're
Speaker 3: going with Denzel, who are you taking with your second pick?
Speaker 2: I'm looking at a list.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got I'm just gonna read backwards from last year,
Speaker 3: just for the listeners as you're making up your mind.
Speaker 3: Last year was Patrick Dempsey at age fifty seven for
Speaker 3: some reason. Before that, Chris Evans, Paul Rudd, Michael B. Jordan,
Speaker 3: Don't be confused, not Michael Michael B Jordan, John Legend,
Speaker 3: Addris Elba, Blake Shelton, Dwayne Johnson, David Beckham, Chris Hemsworth,
Speaker 3: Adam Levine from Matchbook, No, that's Marfa Box, Matt Book, Maroon, Channing, Tatum,
Speaker 3: Bradley Cooper, Ryan Reynolds, Johnny Depp, Huge jacked Man, Matt Damon,
Speaker 3: George Clooney, McConaughey, Jude Law, Johnny Depp again Wow, they
Speaker 3: were on the depth train. We had a little dep
Speaker 3: on that Chip.
Speaker 2: Had an incredible publicist.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Ben Affleck, Pierce Brosnan, Brad Pitt, Richard Gear, Harrison Ford.
Speaker 3: Now we're back in the nineties, Clooney Denzel. The fact
Speaker 3: that Denzel has won it only once is kind of
Speaker 3: wild to me.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Look, just need one though, to let him know.
Speaker 5: Josh, who you guys the duc rivers of sexy and
Speaker 5: you want to hang out with and do I.
Speaker 1: Want to handle Denzel?
Speaker 3: Absolutely?
Speaker 5: He was if people don't know, he was on Jesus
Speaker 5: and Marrow when I was working there all time. Great interview.
Speaker 5: He was just delightful. It's still and yeah, he was awesome.
Speaker 2: So it was great.
Speaker 3: You hear nothing but cool things about that guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he seems very cool.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm going you know what, I'm going home hometown
Speaker 5: pick two?
Speaker 2: Ale.
Speaker 3: Oh, Now, do you have any reason to believe he
Speaker 3: can ball?
Speaker 5: So this is a rumor that I heard that I
Speaker 5: think is okay to have with this.
Speaker 2: I heard that.
Speaker 5: Bill Maher bought the house that he and Jennifer Lopez
Speaker 5: owned the first time they were together. And there is
Speaker 5: a Celtics branded basketball court in the backyard. Bill Maherr
Speaker 5: never got changed to look like anything else. So b
Speaker 5: Bar had a Boston Celtics basketball court in his backyard.
Speaker 5: I cannot verify that that's true, but that's enough for
Speaker 5: me to use Beneffleck as an number two pick.
Speaker 2: Oh Fleck, Okay.
Speaker 3: I think that's I think that's a decent pick. I
Speaker 3: was gonna go Clooney because there is just rumors that
Speaker 3: he has played basketball like that he gets up shots.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and McConaughey. I will go McConaughey because he just
Speaker 1: looks like one of those like dudes who just goes
Speaker 1: so hard at LA Fitness with a bandanna on his head,
Speaker 1: like this can't play, but they just they just give
Speaker 1: it their everything.
Speaker 3: That's crazy energy, doesn't really know the.
Speaker 1: Rules and you're like, you're like yo, relaxed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but like Rodman esque, just like just get into
Speaker 3: every offensive board for.
Speaker 2: Twelve with fifty seven.
Speaker 1: Exactly like forty steals.
Speaker 2: He he uses a swim move.
Speaker 1: Club in doing a club and rip, what are you
Speaker 1: d lineman? Okay, Josh, you have the opportunity to shoot
Speaker 1: a half court shot for the chance of winning fifty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars a free throw for five hundred dollars. Are
Speaker 1: you taking the easy money? Are you going for it?
Speaker 2: I'm going for I'm I'm I'm going to have to
Speaker 2: work shot.
Speaker 1: What's the furthest shot you've ever made that you can
Speaker 1: that you can think back?
Speaker 3: Have you ever made some from half court? You know
Speaker 3: you haven't work your arms? Did when you said I
Speaker 3: have been around? What the lifting you did? Rip the
Speaker 3: sleeves off your shirt? I guess we should have mentioned that.
Speaker 1: And you look like it was wild.
Speaker 2: I look a lot like twenty hours.
Speaker 1: Yeah, those shoulders.
Speaker 3: Unbelieve your shoulders are wider than you are tall.
Speaker 7: That's crazy.
Speaker 2: I'm kind of an upside down trad Ye woulders? I
Speaker 2: think I would? I think I do have cord.
Speaker 5: I'm sure I've made a half court shot at some point.
Speaker 5: I'm sure I think I've done it because I used
Speaker 5: to play all the time. And yeah, I'm not in
Speaker 5: my best shape, but like I have been shooting. I
Speaker 5: also look, I don't mean to brag. I have five
Speaker 5: hundred dollars. I could use fifty grand.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah for the money.
Speaker 2: Nobody laughs at you if you miss the half court shot.
Speaker 3: That's true. Oh yeah, the people who airball. Did you
Speaker 3: see the footage of like the Halloween night game. I
Speaker 3: forget what NBA arena was, but it was just somebody
Speaker 3: had to take it from half court and run up
Speaker 3: and make a free throw, and somebody in a Michael
Speaker 3: Myer's costume was just like walking slowly to swat their shot,
Speaker 3: and they air balled the free throw so badly and
Speaker 3: then got swatted on the next shot.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 5: My free throw percentage lately has been pretty decent, so
Speaker 5: I feel like I could do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been.
Speaker 5: I've been getting some shots up in the morning now
Speaker 5: that the teens are back in school, and I'm not
Speaker 5: worried that anyone will laugh at me or worse, uh,
Speaker 5: ask me to play with them because I'm not a
Speaker 5: pickup run shaped so I just like go out and
Speaker 5: take jump shots and choot floor.
Speaker 1: It's like that one dude who that older dude with
Speaker 1: the text A bald dude who's got the tyms on No.
Speaker 3: But you know that footage of that, You're just a screen.
Speaker 1: The older Greek dude with the beard who's got the tims?
Speaker 1: Have you seen him that? Like New York dude, that
Speaker 1: guy in New York who's just yeah, I forget what
Speaker 1: his name is, but I love watching that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sorry, sorryring to I wish who has Cole Anthony.
Speaker 5: I wish he had made a more impressive showing with
Speaker 5: that dunk contest dunk in TIMS, because I thought that
Speaker 5: was like a fun But every dunk contest idea is
Speaker 5: fun until someone misses it three times and then you're
Speaker 5: just like.
Speaker 2: Come on, get on here, get out of here, let's
Speaker 2: see that. Let's see your plan. B.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we have posed to the league the idea that
Speaker 3: like having a wrinkle where a team has to play
Speaker 3: in Tim's one quarter out of like the playoffs, they
Speaker 3: just if you haven't used it by game four and
Speaker 3: it's like all gonna be a sweep, you have to
Speaker 3: use it in the fourth. Go Yeah, it would be
Speaker 3: might be fun, all right. And finally, you are a
Speaker 3: Celtics fanm your team has a final possession down to
Speaker 3: game seven, fifteen seconds on the clock, taking it outside
Speaker 3: out of bounds. Which player from throughout your franchise history again,
Speaker 3: peak of their game do you want with the ball
Speaker 3: in their hands?
Speaker 1: An embarrassment of options here?
Speaker 2: And I know I think I think it's got to
Speaker 2: be Larry Bird.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's the right answer.
Speaker 2: I think it's the right answer.
Speaker 5: Also, it's not just his skill as a shooter, which
Speaker 5: I think he would hit so many threes in today's NBA,
Speaker 5: but I like his key channels his spite effectively. Like
Speaker 5: he was always a guy that when he really wanted
Speaker 5: to embarrass someone, he was very successful at that. And
Speaker 5: I think that's what you want at the end of
Speaker 5: the game, someone who knows how to channel that spite
Speaker 5: into victory.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's the right answer. I think Josh,
Speaker 3: I think the test you thank you you got, or
Speaker 3: like Tadam shooting percentage.
Speaker 5: Printer right, if you had to shoot from behind half
Speaker 5: court and it's a buzzer beater byby Pritch pp, I
Speaker 5: mean logo.
Speaker 2: He's on such a ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Heater with wild unbelievable And.
Speaker 5: It's also like there's so okay, I know this is
Speaker 5: the lightning round, but I think it's so funny that it,
Speaker 5: like the convention is sometimes to shoot like just after
Speaker 5: the buzzer, right, people are concerned about their percentages, but
Speaker 5: it's like if you're playing the possession game. I hate
Speaker 5: the two for one. I feel like it's usually two
Speaker 5: bad shots instead of one good shot. I am always
Speaker 5: in favor of the heap because that's a bonus shot
Speaker 5: that was possession always.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Sure, And to have somebody who randomly is great at
Speaker 3: the heave. Yeah, Like we were talking about this during
Speaker 3: the bubble. I think when Dame and Steph were just like, yes,
Speaker 3: shooting from mid court randomly, like on random possessions and
Speaker 3: it was going in Like, I feel like there's a
Speaker 3: possibility of that being a play that people just have
Speaker 3: to like scheme for defensive.
Speaker 5: It's going to lead to people, right, It's gonna lead
Speaker 5: to people playing defense on those shots, which is going
Speaker 5: to lead to like wildly controversial foul calls.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Well Josh again, yase the test as usual. You are
Speaker 1: an accomplished student. But where do the people find you
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Speaker 5: Gondle I am at Josh Gondleman across social media Instagram, Twitter,
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Speaker 2: It is Josh Gondleman dot substack dot com.
Speaker 5: And then I've a new stand up specially coming out
Speaker 5: probably early next year. Yeah, I'm really psyched about it.
Speaker 5: I guess I just got the final kide except for
Speaker 5: the graphics.
Speaker 2: It looks really cool.
Speaker 5: The director Chris Warner, the DP russ On it just
Speaker 5: like was such an incredible team to get to work with,
Speaker 5: and so I'm really proud of it, psyched for it.
Speaker 2: To come out amazing, looking forward to that.
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