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Speaker 4: Good morning, Swirl and welcome to the Nodunks podcast on

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Speaker 4: the Athletic Network. It's Monday, December second, twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 4: I'm Jay Skeets here in the Classic Factory and alongside

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Speaker 4: me as always task milist.

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Speaker 2: I'm already gigling. That's going to be a weird one

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Speaker 2: podcast listeners. This is for you. Is it?

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Speaker 4: Is it?

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Speaker 3: Next to him?

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Speaker 4: It's the Bear to One, a tops hop away track.

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Speaker 4: Kirby Hey Yo and over Yonder making the magic happen.

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Speaker 4: Super producer Jdi Hella. Yeah, there he is here. We

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Speaker 4: are showing everybody joining us live on YouTube and podcast listeners.

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Speaker 4: I'll apologize in advance for smacking my lips because I

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Speaker 4: am dressed like a fool. First off, and I have

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Speaker 4: to pay off November's pick Them loss. I came one

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Speaker 4: game short against Trey and esh Man when we left

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Speaker 4: on Wednesday. That game was Thunder Warriors. I had the

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Speaker 4: Warriors to cover, the line was two and a half,

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Speaker 4: had some points to play with, but then we found

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Speaker 4: out Steph Curry wasn't playing. Oh, but then the Warriors

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Speaker 4: kept it close, but they lost by four. So I

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Speaker 4: lose November and I am forced to eat this giant

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Speaker 4: ass pumpkin pie from Costco. And I guess I have

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Speaker 4: all week. I don't have to do it in today's show,

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Speaker 4: but we'll see how long this takes me. This thing

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Speaker 4: is daunting. It weighed a lot to tests.

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Speaker 2: It sure did three point sixty three pounds. They are

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Speaker 2: a selling at Costco. I was there on Wednesday and

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Speaker 2: just more we're going out into the refrigerated area, which

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Speaker 2: there was a TikTok video of Costco sales going on.

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Speaker 2: Some were just on a table refriging.

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Speaker 3: Either way, mine was refrigerated.

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Speaker 2: It was And I wonder if JD will turn off

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Speaker 2: your mic at times if people don't like that.

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Speaker 4: Who knows what am I going to do? Now? How

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Speaker 4: should I tackle this in all honesty? Because again I

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Speaker 4: have all week? Should I go balls to the wall

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Speaker 4: today chestnut style or you know, slow and steady wins

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Speaker 4: the pie race?

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Speaker 3: Like? Seriously, I don't know how to tackle this. Also,

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Speaker 3: by the way, I don't like pumpkin buy Hopefully I'm

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Speaker 3: not allergic. I don't think I am.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a heavy one. It's heavy. Okay, I'm gonna

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Speaker 4: put some whipped cream on it.

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Speaker 2: No, that's not mandated. Well why are you doing that?

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Speaker 3: I think flavorful? Well here's my other thinking. Here's my

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Speaker 3: other thinking.

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Speaker 4: I think I'm going to give myself, like, you know,

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Speaker 4: a slice in a way with the whipped cream. So

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Speaker 4: it's like I should try and get that done today,

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Speaker 4: like it obviously.

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Speaker 1: Wondering, Yeah, the path of the cream.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course we did have a stream team or

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Speaker 2: here on YouTube, Jake Madaro said the best way to

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Speaker 2: eat a full Costco pumpkin pie is not slices. Trust me,

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Speaker 2: if you're trying to get it down, you want to

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Speaker 2: eat it from the inside out.

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Speaker 3: Oh interesting that.

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Speaker 2: He specified that the pumpkin filling is what's going to

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Speaker 2: upset your stomach, so you got to pack that in first,

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Speaker 2: he said, just mute your mic and slam it. Okay,

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Speaker 2: we don't need audio tips here. Okay, but then he said,

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Speaker 2: then use the crust to help settle and absorb things

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Speaker 4: Okay, so this guy's done this before, apparently, So you're

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Speaker 4: saying I should make a whipped cream circle in the middle,

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Speaker 4: and like focus on taking out the middle.

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Speaker 3: I don't mind it.

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Speaker 2: That sounds like Jake thinks you're going to try and

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Speaker 4: I'm not doing one. All right, let's let's do it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, let's try and take that middle piece out.

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Speaker 4: It's a little deeper than I thought. Here we go,

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Speaker 3: You know the rules. One bite, m creamy.

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Speaker 4: That's not going to be a fun week. I mean

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Speaker 4: it's not brutal, but I don't like it.

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Speaker 1: You only got another three and a half pounds.

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Speaker 4: Oh my god, I'm not even room on the table

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Speaker 5: And you got you gotta make sure to eat all

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll have to take down. I'll have to take

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Speaker 4: get into weekend winners and losers though, and TK you

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Speaker 4: get it started, who's your big winner?

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Speaker 5: Well real quick, and gave us the one bye challenge here.

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Speaker 5: So Richard is saying, what's the rating? What's the race?

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Speaker 5: Eating on this pie? Out of ten?

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Speaker 4: You guys are gonna have to get better at not

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Speaker 4: asking me think pie A pie in my mouth?

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Speaker 4: a six though, because I don't love pumpkin pie.

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Speaker 1: I still love favorable for a not like her.

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Speaker 3: It tastes fresh.

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Speaker 4: The whipped cream is nice. I didn't have any pumpkin

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Speaker 2: Yeah we had some. We had some Costco pie. I

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Speaker 2: did like it. I think I like it better room temp.

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Speaker 2: But either way, this was supposed to be sold by

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Speaker 5: Well, I'm there with you because I've got one of

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Speaker 1: So no big deal. So I'm weird. Yeah, casual, I'll

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Speaker 5: Winners of the Weekend Atlanta Hawks Homer. But the Hawks

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Speaker 1: I'm counting Wednesday is the weekend counts to me.

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Speaker 5: has the Calves and the Celtics in it. Who are

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Speaker 5: these guys? The Atlanta Hawks super impressive weekend. Trey Young

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Speaker 5: He may have carried the team in that one twenty

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Speaker 5: eleven versus Cleveland on Friday, and then just fourteen points

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Speaker 1: A huge part of this test.

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Speaker 5: I can't believe you're Deondre Hunter sixth Man of the

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Speaker 1: Congwu has been great.

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Speaker 5: Ten points, fifteen points, sixteen points in their three wins.

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Speaker 5: Right now, Atlanta is five and three with DeAndre Hunter

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Speaker 5: leading their second unit. Bojan Bogdanovic or Bogdan Bogdanovic, sorry,

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Speaker 5: but you maybe aren't happy if you're their fifth star.

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Speaker 5: But if you're there, you're six, seventh and eighty men.

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Speaker 5: That's a pretty solid lineup to throw out there. So

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Speaker 5: They both closed against the Hornets on Saturday, played huge

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Speaker 5: stuff from the Hawks. What a weird season. You know

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Speaker 5: they'll lose to the worst teams in literally the league.

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Speaker 1: It's classic Hawks. But I'm liking what I'm seeing.

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Speaker 4: After this pumpkin pie, get me a humble pie, because

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Speaker 4: I've crept on DeAndre Hunter.

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Speaker 3: For a long time, but he's playing.

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Speaker 4: And it's also why he's infuriating because we've seen flashes

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Speaker 4: Because you show us that every once in a while

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Speaker 4: and then you just disappear. But he's been great in

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Speaker 2: Oh, he's been phenomenal. He led the team, the whole

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Speaker 2: team against both CAS games in those cast games. That's surprising.

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Speaker 2: Number one. Number two, the biggest question for him is

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Speaker 2: Some way, some somehow, maybe the bench just makes him

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Speaker 2: really just taking himself out of that I gotta score

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Speaker 2: every single possession type of mentality and just allowing others.

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Speaker 2: He's always been a good passer and always gets big

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Speaker 2: at this, but that just seems to be the mentality

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Speaker 2: of this team. And you guys were down there for

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Speaker 2: that Friday game. That's right, you must have enjoyed it.

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Speaker 4: I will say the NBA Cup court, that yellow court

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Speaker 4: that the Hawks have, looks better in person than it

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Speaker 4: does on television. Those bright yellow colors just do not

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Speaker 4: do well on TV in my opinion. That looked better

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Speaker 1: Better in person, for sure.

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Speaker 4: And I was fully surprised that the Hawks, after beating

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Speaker 2: Great vibe in the arena. There needed to be a

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Speaker 4: Right, That's why. That's why you're saying they put the

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Speaker 5: That's how I got tickets. I had a friend that

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Speaker 2: Yeh wow. Yeah, I didn't know Janet Hunter would be

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Speaker 2: good off bench. I didn't know that. We wouldn't hear

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Speaker 4: I'm already feeling a little weird, like just too much pumpkin.

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Speaker 2: But you're going at it very well.

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Speaker 4: Trucking. Yeah, we're trucking. You are truck don't bring it

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Speaker 4: up too much. Task you know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I hear you.

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Speaker 4: So let me eat my pie exactly for a winner

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Speaker 2: It looks like a baseball diamond in the middle. You've

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Speaker 2: This is a game against the Oklahoma City Thunder that

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Speaker 2: And he was awesome at nine helpers in this one

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Speaker 2: But he's had three bad games in row to start.

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Speaker 2: But how do you grow? You just keep with it.

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Speaker 2: they're all just focused. They don't care if they score

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Speaker 2: was pretty cool. Just get two guys that. Yeah, the

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Speaker 2: Rockets beat the Frick and Thunder are now in second

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Speaker 4: Yeah. I love about Van Vliet is. I remember when

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Speaker 4: Did you see that moon ball three that he hit? Yeah,

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Speaker 4: So yeah, that was that was awesome. Any thoughts on

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Speaker 1: Matchup high level basketball.

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Speaker 5: We had one versus two in the Western Conference and

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Speaker 5: That've had the momentum after the third quarter. It looked

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Speaker 5: from Fred Banvleet. You're creeping beyond man. The Vans leave

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Speaker 5: moon ball and then Dylan Brooks hitting like the completely

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Speaker 5: They literally are just running around out there. They brought

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Fred was just even keeled after dropping thirty eight.

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Speaker 4: Moon ball, you like furely reacting like I guess he

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Speaker 4: So he did do that. That was like a lot

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Speaker 5: But then, like you said, Shay was laughing, Brooks was laughing.

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Speaker 5: we're having fun out here.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we're just getting in a little argument, but don't

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Speaker 1: And they listened. That's true.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this Rockets team. Just one last note about how

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Speaker 2: and so Ryan Hollins on the Rockets broadcast called him

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Speaker 4: His Yes, we're not doing that.

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Speaker 2: No, that's first of all, that's weird. That's Steph Grey. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: first time this season twenty games in hit him both good,

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Speaker 4: Good stuff. All right, I'll take a break from pie

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Speaker 4: here to give you my winner of the weekend. Donovan

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Speaker 4: Scored thirty points in the second half, including twenty points

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Speaker 4: Celtics one fifteen, one to eleven. I'll say right here,

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Speaker 4: a shorthanded Celtics team. But man Boston was still in control.

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Speaker 4: It looked like they were going to win this game.

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Speaker 4: Mitchell checked back in and went off. He buried three

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Speaker 4: Then he gave the Cavs the first lead in the

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Speaker 4: fourth quarter on the next possession, beautiful little floater there

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Speaker 4: the afroad Okoro there in the lane, who kicked it

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Speaker 4: to Mobiley who was like cutting little baseline, big dunk,

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Speaker 4: and that was sort of the game ceiling dunk. A

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Speaker 4: lot of freak throws to see this one out. But

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Speaker 2: It was cool.

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Speaker 4: I mean again, shorthanded Celtics, I get that, but you know,

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Speaker 4: I wanted a little revenge or at least, hey, we

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Speaker 4: think believe better than New Celtics here in the Eastern Conference.

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Speaker 4: And he just like took over this game like those

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Speaker 4: three threes in a row were specialty.

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Speaker 1: K Yeah, I was pretty sweet.

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Speaker 5: the weekend because he didn't play well when we saw

437
00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:05,639
Speaker 5: him right down at the Fortress against the Hawks. Couldn't

438
00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:07,560
Speaker 5: make a jumper, had some nice finishes inside, but the

439
00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:10,040
Speaker 5: jumper was broke. Two for eight in the first half

440
00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:13,080
Speaker 5: of this game against the Celtics, and it seemed like

441
00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:16,000
Speaker 5: Boston had the momentum. They outscored Cleveland thirty five to

442
00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:18,320
Speaker 5: twenty one. In the third quarter. You think, all right,

443
00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:20,760
Speaker 5: they're gonna be able to carry this across the line.

444
00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:23,800
Speaker 5: Jason Tatum's just gonna get a switch and try and

445
00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:26,760
Speaker 5: attack Darius Garland every single time. And that's what was

446
00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:28,639
Speaker 5: happening until he couldn't get the switch and it was

447
00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:31,880
Speaker 5: isaacacorro on him, and then Mitchell went crazy thirty points

448
00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:34,800
Speaker 5: in the second half, made every play. It felt like

449
00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:37,560
Speaker 5: for Cleveland as well. You throw back to the first

450
00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:41,560
Speaker 5: time they played Boston out to a huge lead, Cleveland

451
00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:44,399
Speaker 5: battled back got a moral victory. This one was a

452
00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:47,040
Speaker 5: moral victory but also a real victory as well. So

453
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Speaker 5: I think really big for them to actually be able

454
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Speaker 5: to pull off the comeback in the fourth quarter. And

455
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Speaker 5: if the Celtics didn't win the championship last year, if

456
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Speaker 5: they're not the best team in the league, maybe like, oh,

457
00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:00,480
Speaker 5: they're blowing fourth quarter leads again. But instead it's just

458
00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:02,920
Speaker 5: Donovan Mitchell should be in the MVP conversation.

459
00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:04,439
Speaker 4: All right, right, Yeah. With the win, the Caves retained

460
00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:07,880
Speaker 4: their hold on the NBA's best record at eighteen and three.

461
00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:09,280
Speaker 4: For some reason, they can't.

462
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Speaker 3: Beat the Hawks.

463
00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:12,359
Speaker 4: The Hawks can't beat the Wizards, So I think the

464
00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:14,280
Speaker 4: Wizards are the best team in the Eastern Conference. Very

465
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Speaker 4: just mass Yeah, but did you have any thoughts on

466
00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:18,000
Speaker 4: Mitchell or the Calves win there?

467
00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:19,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, this was all Donovan Mitchell. I don't know if

468
00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:21,159
Speaker 2: you said the number in the fourth quarter, but he

469
00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:25,960
Speaker 2: dropped twenty and eleven straight in that fourth quarter. Just chilling.

470
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Speaker 2: I mean, that was what he needed to do. And

471
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Speaker 2: this was an eleven point lead for the Celtics in

472
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Speaker 2: that fourth quarter. Yeah, it was Jason same. We're talking

473
00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:35,800
Speaker 2: about MVPs. Jason Tatum put the team on his back

474
00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:37,760
Speaker 2: in that third quarter and said, all right, we don't

475
00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:40,600
Speaker 2: have Jon Brow, we don't have Derek White, we need me,

476
00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,679
Speaker 2: and he just went over and over and over. He

477
00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:46,800
Speaker 2: scored seventeen of his thirty five in that third quarter,

478
00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:50,000
Speaker 2: and he's an isolation master. I think that's something that

479
00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:53,919
Speaker 2: he's gotten better at this season. He's only third in

480
00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:58,359
Speaker 2: the NBA in isolation points per game Shay and Jimmy

481
00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:01,160
Speaker 2: James Harden who plays IO with Clippers ahead of him.

482
00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:03,679
Speaker 2: So that's something where he's grown, and he's grown the

483
00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,199
Speaker 2: I think the the universal Okay, this guy could be

484
00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:10,040
Speaker 2: MVP type conversation because he's so good at that. But

485
00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:12,480
Speaker 2: he was needed and when he came out in that

486
00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:16,080
Speaker 2: third quarter, he scored eight points immediate right their first

487
00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:17,760
Speaker 2: eight points and he was six of eight in that quarter.

488
00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:18,200
Speaker 2: He was awesome.

489
00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:20,240
Speaker 4: I think it was a good sign that Darius Garland

490
00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:22,600
Speaker 4: had a little bounce back performance too against the Celtics,

491
00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:25,560
Speaker 4: who he's like notoriously struggled with twenty two points five

492
00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:27,320
Speaker 4: to twelve shooting, and Bontemps made a good point on

493
00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:32,080
Speaker 4: ESPN like the Cavs repeatedly like allowed Garland six foot

494
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Speaker 4: one to get matched upon Tatum, who has a huge

495
00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:38,360
Speaker 4: hide of difference, probably fifty pounds on him. But like

496
00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:41,160
Speaker 4: Kenny Atkinson talked about, like we can't hide you, man,

497
00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:42,720
Speaker 4: like you got to like sort of man up and

498
00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:45,320
Speaker 4: play as hard as you can now, Like down the stretch,

499
00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:47,840
Speaker 4: Tatum had two decent looks that he sort of just botched,

500
00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,440
Speaker 4: but Garland played them as well as you could without fouling.

501
00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:53,840
Speaker 4: That's important, especially one. I think Tatum, like you know,

502
00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:56,359
Speaker 4: hits it ninety ninety percent of the time. It felt

503
00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:59,760
Speaker 4: like he just watched away up. Yeah, yeah, one was

504
00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:01,639
Speaker 4: worse than the other, but yeah, this I thought that

505
00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:05,040
Speaker 4: was interesting for Kenny Axinton to talk about, like we

506
00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:07,600
Speaker 4: can't hide you. Come playoff time, and you're obviously super

507
00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:10,159
Speaker 4: important to us on the offensive end, So get your

508
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:12,399
Speaker 4: reps in, man, You're gonna get They're gonna find you,

509
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:14,119
Speaker 4: they're gonna seek you out and get you crossed up

510
00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:16,760
Speaker 4: onto the star player on other times at times, So

511
00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:19,959
Speaker 4: get your reps in now, and Garland says he's up

512
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:28,840
Speaker 4: for it. Imagine he's like, no, don't do that totally

513
00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:29,800
Speaker 4: to the fourth quarter.

514
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Speaker 1: I don't want to actually guard that guy.

515
00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:34,560
Speaker 4: Right right right, All right, well, let's do another round here.

516
00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:38,200
Speaker 4: As I dig back into the pumpkin pie of weekend winners.

517
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:42,119
Speaker 5: I thought you might another round as a circle at

518
00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:42,639
Speaker 5: shot there.

519
00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:44,159
Speaker 1: That's how people are saying you might as well just

520
00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:44,760
Speaker 1: finish it today.

521
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:47,040
Speaker 4: Look at all this progress, I'm starting to feel a

522
00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:47,679
Speaker 4: little queasy.

523
00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,840
Speaker 1: All right, well, another round for you, another round for us.

524
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Speaker 5: Did you realize that the Memphis Grizzlies have won six

525
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,160
Speaker 5: straight games?

526
00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:56,720
Speaker 1: Yeah?

527
00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:00,040
Speaker 5: Easy comp to be honest, the Sixers, Balls, Blazers, and

528
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,000
Speaker 5: then this long weekend the Pistons, the Pelicans and the Pacers.

529
00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:04,280
Speaker 1: The best team they beat.

530
00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:07,560
Speaker 5: But they've won those six games by about fifteen points

531
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:10,120
Speaker 5: per game, so they're blowing out these bad teams.

532
00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:13,440
Speaker 1: Just look at Indiana. They were up nineteen at basically the.

533
00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:15,520
Speaker 5: Start of the second quarter, and the Grizzlies still were

534
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:18,119
Speaker 5: able to pull off a fifteen point victory. It's been

535
00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:21,600
Speaker 5: basically the classic Grizzlies mix right here.

536
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:23,160
Speaker 1: The big three has been awesome.

537
00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:26,800
Speaker 5: John Morant twenty two points, nine assists since returning from injury.

538
00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:30,359
Speaker 5: Jaron Jackson Junior is having an incredible season twenty two

539
00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:33,439
Speaker 5: per game, shooting fifty percent from the field, obviously bringing

540
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:36,159
Speaker 5: it defensively as well. And then DEAs been Bane. He

541
00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:38,680
Speaker 5: has been struggling eleven points per game during their streak.

542
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:41,840
Speaker 5: He's just at thirteen per game during the regular season,

543
00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:45,160
Speaker 5: shooting under thirty percent from three, So not great from him.

544
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,760
Speaker 5: But Jalen Wells has picked up the slack I think,

545
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:50,840
Speaker 5: and the Grizzlies have a top five offense. More importantly, though,

546
00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:54,360
Speaker 5: great depth for this team. No surprise fifty points per

547
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:57,920
Speaker 5: game from their bench. Sunday against Indiana, Marcus Smart forgot

548
00:24:57,960 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 5: about that guy?

549
00:24:58,520 --> 00:24:59,320
Speaker 1: He has sixteen.

550
00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:03,359
Speaker 5: St Aldama had fifteen, Jake Laavia had eleven. Friday against

551
00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:06,080
Speaker 5: New Orleans twenty for Aldama, eleven for Smart, and then

552
00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:10,200
Speaker 5: Wednesday against Detroit twenty five for Smart. Jake Labia had nineteen,

553
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:14,760
Speaker 5: Jay huff Habs thirteen. There's always somebody playing well for

554
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:17,320
Speaker 5: the Grizzlies because they got so many guys. No one

555
00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:19,720
Speaker 5: on their team is playing more than twenty eight minutes

556
00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:22,639
Speaker 5: per game. Jared Jackson Junior is the leader. They're fifth

557
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:25,600
Speaker 5: in offense, fourth and defense fourth and net rating.

558
00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:26,720
Speaker 2: Grizzlies are back.

559
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:28,680
Speaker 3: Jeez, they should be a top power.

560
00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:31,440
Speaker 4: See five of them both sides. That's respect.

561
00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:32,040
Speaker 1: They're awesome.

562
00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:33,800
Speaker 4: Like when you talk about teams that are like, oh,

563
00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:36,080
Speaker 4: they're like a legit contender, usually you want to be

564
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:38,680
Speaker 4: If your top five offensive and defensive, then that's something.

565
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:41,280
Speaker 4: But it surprised me that they had won six straight.

566
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:43,600
Speaker 4: Maybe a part of it was like who they've been

567
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:45,080
Speaker 4: playing r Yeah, not great teams yea.

568
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, but Memphis is a tough place to play. They're

569
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:50,240
Speaker 2: winning ten. They're ten and three at home and that'll continue.

570
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 2: But they are definitely being overlooked, there's no doubt. But

571
00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:58,720
Speaker 2: man TJ. Taylor Jenkins keeps getting those guys going. As

572
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:01,560
Speaker 2: you said, they have so many guys and they play

573
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:04,879
Speaker 2: in one of the fastest paces, so they can continue

574
00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 2: to call on five guys off the bench over and

575
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:09,440
Speaker 2: over and over again. So they're going to keep it going.

576
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:12,119
Speaker 4: Yeah. I think a part of the like being overlooked

577
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:15,280
Speaker 4: factor is that John Morant does not have to go

578
00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:18,040
Speaker 4: for forty and forty five and have these monster games.

579
00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:19,920
Speaker 4: Like sure you still see the highlights of John Morant,

580
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 4: like the huge duns and stuff like that, but like

581
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 4: you're not seeing those headlines because it's not happening because

582
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 4: they're doing it by like they're obviously limiting his minutes,

583
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:29,440
Speaker 4: sort of still trying to slow play him coming back

584
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:31,400
Speaker 4: from injury as much as possible, and then everybody else

585
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:33,800
Speaker 4: is contributing, so it's like it's not like whoa, this

586
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,439
Speaker 4: will be like front page news on NBA dot com.

587
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:38,520
Speaker 4: John Morant goes for forty in a Grizzlies win. It's

588
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:40,880
Speaker 4: just like by committee, which is like pretty impressive, maybe

589
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:42,920
Speaker 4: even more impressive because you know we can take over.

590
00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:45,679
Speaker 4: That's exactly when we get into these clutch situations are

591
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 4: more competitive teams and playoff series and stuff like that.

592
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 4: So yeah, really good year for the grisk getting a

593
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:53,000
Speaker 4: little love task. Who do you have for another winner?

594
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 2: Well, Joe On Brown. We just said he didn't play,

595
00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:56,720
Speaker 2: but I don't care.

596
00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:57,160
Speaker 4: Wow.

597
00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,720
Speaker 2: I like his new celebration because I saw it last

598
00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 2: week earlier in the week and I thought, what is

599
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 2: this thing? He kind of puts his arms over his

600
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 2: shoulder looks like maybe he's putting on his messenger bag.

601
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,240
Speaker 2: You know, maybeybe he's doing that. Maybe he's he's slinging

602
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:14,960
Speaker 2: a gun over his shoulder. Probably don't want to do

603
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,000
Speaker 2: that as a celebration. I didn't know. Then versus the bulls,

604
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:21,360
Speaker 2: he hammered Jalen Smith. What a dunk. That was an

605
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:22,200
Speaker 2: incredible dunk.

606
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,200
Speaker 3: Incredible dunk, but not according to dunk score.

607
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:27,200
Speaker 1: You don't want to dunk on a taller guy.

608
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:29,399
Speaker 4: It's the weirdest thing. It was so strange.

609
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:31,199
Speaker 2: It wasn't a high dunk score, didn't even make the

610
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:31,600
Speaker 2: tough five.

611
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 3: It's the weirdest thing. This dunk score is completely broken.

612
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:41,120
Speaker 2: Anyway, Yeah, yeah, that was an incredible, beautiful dunk. That's weird.

613
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:43,480
Speaker 2: If you have judges, they should just have judges. I

614
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 2: forget the dunk score thing. I thought they'd have judges,

615
00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 2: which would just put that over. Jalen Smith a freaking

616
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 2: big man as a big one. Anyways, he did the

617
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:53,919
Speaker 2: thing again and he told the referee. You could actually

618
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 2: see what he says to the referee because the referee

619
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:57,639
Speaker 2: is just wondering, what are you doing here? Do I

620
00:27:57,800 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 2: to give you a tech here. He said, it's a

621
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:06,040
Speaker 2: seat belt. I'm strapped in So's. I'm strapped in. I'm

622
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 2: focused here. You know, it's like what Steph Curry always says,

623
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,200
Speaker 2: like I'm locked in that kind of thing. So it's

624
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:15,000
Speaker 2: just a strap. It's it's just real simple, and I

625
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:18,959
Speaker 2: didn't realize after a previous game earlier in the week

626
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 2: he was asked about it, and he said, it's it's

627
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 2: for defense. When you need to stop somebody. Sometimes you

628
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 2: got to put the seatbelt on someone else. Okay, it's

629
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 2: on offense. I got to be strapped in so's. It's

630
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 2: for both. And then the athletics Jared Wiss asks some

631
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,119
Speaker 2: anywhere details on the celebration. He goes, well, it's on

632
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:37,200
Speaker 2: someone else, it's on me. It's on you if I

633
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:40,520
Speaker 2: have to. So he went at Jared Weiss, was very funny.

634
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 1: I bet he could lock him up.

635
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,200
Speaker 2: You could probably lock up Jared advice. I'm pretty sure.

636
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 2: But either way, just strapped in a seatbelt I think

637
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 2: is a good move. Apparently. Alex Austin of the New

638
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 2: England Patriots, you know the Boston connection, he pulled it

639
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 2: out this weekend for the Pats. He got strapped in

640
00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:01,520
Speaker 2: and again it is sort of like Curry what he

641
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 2: usually does before games. He gets locked in. He tells

642
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 2: his teammates to get locked in. So I think this

643
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 2: is going to continue just getting straight. It's not. There's

644
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 2: nothing nothing fancy about getting strapped in a seatbelt celebration.

645
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,440
Speaker 2: It's just that, Hey, this is what I'm doing.

646
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 1: I thought it was specifically defense. It's been around a

647
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 1: little bit. It came from the NFL.

648
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 5: I was at a there's non stop, non stop every

649
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 5: time a guy breaks up a pass, dude, dude, strap

650
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 5: it in, walk him down.

651
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 4: I was gonna say it's bled into the NBA, believe

652
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 4: for sure. But Jaylen Brown I like it. You know,

653
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 4: we need more defensive, Like what's the greatest defensive celebration

654
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:45,760
Speaker 4: of all time? But Tumbo's fingerwag easily? Then what like

655
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:48,640
Speaker 4: big Ben Wallace flexen? I mean, I don't know.

656
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 2: It's not bad. Yeah, did you see Luke Cornette pull

657
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:55,240
Speaker 2: it out on Donovan Mitchell. I was by our man

658
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 2: worldwide web pulled.

659
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Speaker 4: Ye see that.

660
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 2: It was a quick one, right, But jayl John Brown's

661
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 2: brought it to the offensive en. I guess if he

662
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:04,560
Speaker 2: stole it from defense because he did it to Jalen

663
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 2: Smith and pulled that out in the offensive, so it

664
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Speaker 2: could be both.

665
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:10,440
Speaker 4: I guess he's just safety first.

666
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Speaker 1: Safety first.

667
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:16,240
Speaker 2: That's what our man Jared advice in that press. Safety first.

668
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:18,240
Speaker 3: Another NBA Weekend winner.

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Speaker 4: Fans of the NBA Cup, are you guys NBA sickos?

670
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 4: I am yeah.

671
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Speaker 3: On the sixth night.

672
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:36,360
Speaker 4: Of group play, my father gave to me on the

673
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 4: sixth remember what the lyrics were, like, what is it?

674
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:43,400
Speaker 4: We're talking Friday hoops action here for the sixth night

675
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 4: of group play. The Hawks clinched East Group C talked

676
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:51,640
Speaker 4: about that while the Knicks, Magic, and Pistons all improved

677
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 4: to three and oh so this is why this is fun.

678
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:56,480
Speaker 4: East Group A. You see it here on your screen

679
00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 4: on YouTube. Orlando heads to New York on Tuesday for

680
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 4: a showdown that will determine the group champion. I sort

681
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:05,400
Speaker 4: of like that too. That's a that's a matchup between

682
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 4: two of the hotter teams in the league there in

683
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 4: the Magic who were on fire, and the Knicks, who

684
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 4: over their last ten have looked really really strong. East

685
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 4: Group B something similar going on. Detroit can punch its

686
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 4: ticket to the knockout rounds on Tuesday with a win

687
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 4: over the visiting Milwaukee Bucks. I saw i Zilla write

688
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 4: about this in the newsletter. Is this the biggest game

689
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 4: for the Detroit Pistons in like six years?

690
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 2: Easily six years? Yeah?

691
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 4: For sure, Yeah, maybe longer, depends how you feel about

692
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 4: the Blake Griffin era, If like you don't really care

693
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 4: that much about that's a.

694
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 5: Bigger game, you think than breaking a historic losing street.

695
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, because they had already set the losing streak,

696
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 4: so yeah, I think so. Yeah, maybe the game was

697
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 4: the game to avoid getting the losing streak, but that

698
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:57,720
Speaker 4: was big anyway. Point is that's great? We got two

699
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 4: matchups on Tuesday night that will determine the group winners.

700
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 4: Now the wildcard in the Eastern Conference that's up for grabs.

701
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 4: Orlando's sitting pretty I think they have a massive point differential.

702
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 4: The Magic I believe could lose by thirty one and

703
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 4: like still advance because they're so far up there. But

704
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:17,440
Speaker 4: Celtics fans, I'll tell you right now, they're cheering for

705
00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 4: the Magic to win that game because that's going to

706
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 4: help their chances to obviously get in on point differential

707
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 4: if the Magic can beat the Knicks that's going to

708
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 4: drop the knicks there and all that stuff, But you

709
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 4: still got Detroit and Milwaukee. I mean, I guess, I

710
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 4: guess again. Celtics fans are hoping that's a blowout one

711
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 4: way or the other to really knock into the point differential.

712
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 4: So fun stuff there in the East, which I'm looking

713
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 4: forward to. As for the West West Group, B talk

714
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 4: of the town, we got a spicy three way tie

715
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 4: between the two and one Spurs, two and one Thunder,

716
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 4: and the two and one Suns. So the Thunder hosts

717
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 4: the Jazz on Tuesday night. They should win and if

718
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:57,719
Speaker 4: they do, the Thunder will win the group if the

719
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:00,960
Speaker 4: Suns beat the Spurs, while the Spurs will win it

720
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 4: if they beat the Suns. So in those scenarios, it's

721
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 4: gonna come down to point differential for the wild card spot.

722
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 4: Though Dallas likes their chances. They have a plus forty

723
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 4: one point differential. They could be the wild card coming

724
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 4: out of that bottom group there. But you know, crazy

725
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 4: things can happen in some of those other games and

726
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 4: really like completely just make the point different point differential

727
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:24,960
Speaker 4: at a whack. Something funny is going on here, guys.

728
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 4: My mouth is like like going numb a little bit.

729
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 4: Like my tongue feels like numb.

730
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 1: It might be the nutmeg.

731
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:40,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a warming, weird sensation going on.

732
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Speaker 1: I didn't notice you stopped.

733
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:43,960
Speaker 3: Well, I stopped a bit. I have to talk. But

734
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Speaker 3: I've carved out like a little lane here.

735
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Speaker 1: You've got to see it looks like a Criterion collection

736
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 1: pumpkin pie.

737
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:51,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of pictures mount.

738
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 4: So anyway, the point is, uh with the NBA Cup. No,

739
00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 4: the point is this is good for Tuesday nights because

740
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:02,120
Speaker 4: we have some like must win games and then we're

741
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 4: gonna be watching scoreboards when it comes to point differential.

742
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 2: Yeah. And for us going to Vegas, we may see

743
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:08,919
Speaker 2: the Atlanta Hawks. You know, we don't watch a ton

744
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:10,879
Speaker 2: of their games here, but we get to watch them

745
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:13,840
Speaker 2: in Vegas. Maybe we don't get to go down to

746
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:17,839
Speaker 2: the Fortress as it was once called, but either way,

747
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 2: that's awesome. Or the Orlando Magic. It was not expected

748
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 2: that the Orlando Magic would get there after Palo Boncaro's injury.

749
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:27,879
Speaker 2: I remember Palo Boncaro and his twenty second birthday and

750
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:30,919
Speaker 2: being talked about or being asked about the NBA Cup

751
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 2: and how he didn't he even implied, like, I guess

752
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 2: we're not going to get there because he's been out

753
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:40,320
Speaker 2: there for so long. But yes, great performances, great performances.

754
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:42,480
Speaker 4: A few other just like bonus winners. I guess Luca

755
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 4: returned from injury in a MAVs win. He looked fine.

756
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 4: You look pretty good.

757
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 3: RJ.

758
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:50,960
Speaker 4: Barrett continues to be lights out when playing in Canada.

759
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:53,960
Speaker 4: He's averaging thirty point four points per game at home

760
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 4: this year. That's third in the NBA. Rjie Barrett is

761
00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:59,160
Speaker 4: like he can't miss when he plays in Toronto and

762
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 4: they got to win over the there on Sunday, And

763
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:03,760
Speaker 4: then when man Yama posted his third career triple double

764
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 4: in a Spurs win. Spurs Man continuing to impress. And

765
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 4: you see the difference of having someone like Chris Paul

766
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:13,360
Speaker 4: and even Arson Barnes, Like they weren't garbage in clutch

767
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:15,799
Speaker 4: situations last year and now they're better. They have a

768
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,920
Speaker 4: positive record in those close games. Big part of just

769
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 4: having some leadership there.

770
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:22,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, the good good to you mentioned RJ. Barrett. The

771
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 2: Toronto Raptors beat the Miami Heat in a back to

772
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:29,239
Speaker 2: back scenario. Shout out to Jacoby Walter starting now he

773
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:32,280
Speaker 2: looks all right. He looks good in his young days.

774
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:34,880
Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler's blue braids. How do you guys feel about that?

775
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,200
Speaker 4: I don't know. Jimmy looked like a sad boy yesterday.

776
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 4: I'll tell you that sort of sitting down the stretch there. Yeah,

777
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:43,280
Speaker 4: it looks fine, Yeah, it looks fine. Whatever.

778
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 2: Also, yeah, there's people here in the stream team saying,

779
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:49,400
Speaker 2: where's our love for the Clippers who are overachieving for

780
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:51,680
Speaker 2: shirt feels like at thirteen to nine, we'll talk about

781
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 2: them in the losers. I somehow I pushed it. I

782
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 2: pushed it in there. They ain't a loser, but I

783
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:59,280
Speaker 2: shoved it in there. And the Milwaukee Bucks mentioned here time.

784
00:35:59,160 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 1: Big time.

785
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 2: They look great. They look great. The chemistry with Giannis

786
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 2: and Damian Lillard. Eric name on the Athletic wrote about it again.

787
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 2: I mean they you see the the one that sort

788
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:12,759
Speaker 2: of pick and roll. It's different. It is different this year.

789
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:13,759
Speaker 2: So it looks good.

790
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 4: Well, let's pivot to NBA Weekend Losers, TK, you get

791
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:17,319
Speaker 4: a start.

792
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 5: I got the Golden State Warriors. Four straight losses for

793
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 5: this team used to be strengthen numbers, and unfortunately now

794
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 5: it's turned into Steve Kerr doesn't necessarily know who to play,

795
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:30,759
Speaker 5: you knowd Anthony Melton went down with an injury. Tried

796
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:33,799
Speaker 5: Lindy waters As they're starting shooting guard, hoping he could

797
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 5: be a two way player.

798
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:35,879
Speaker 1: Didn't work out.

799
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:39,160
Speaker 5: Now they're starting Brandon Pajemski basically for the first time

800
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 5: all season. He had some encouraging moments, but he hasn't

801
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 5: been great so.

802
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 1: Far this year.

803
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 5: He's shooting like twenty percent from three. Jonathan Kaminga is

804
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:48,400
Speaker 5: playing short minutes right now, though they went on a

805
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:52,719
Speaker 5: great run yesterday against the Suns in the second half

806
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 5: with Kaminga there playing basically small ball Moses Moody, Kyle Anderson.

807
00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:59,919
Speaker 5: They're in the rotation, they're out of the rotation. Trace

808
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,600
Speaker 5: Jackson Davis starts a game and then doesn't start the

809
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:04,799
Speaker 5: second half of the game because he's not having.

810
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:06,479
Speaker 1: A great year so far. They're three and five.

811
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:09,360
Speaker 5: Golden State is without the Anthony Melton and it's just

812
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 5: hard for them to get the right pieces on the floor.

813
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 5: Right now, you've got Steph Curry talking about maybe needing

814
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 5: to shorten the rotation, with our own Anthony Slater saying

815
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,360
Speaker 5: we maybe need to be a little bit more predictable

816
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 5: about when guys are gonna play, because a guy like

817
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 5: Kaminga really needs to play with Draymond and Steph. But

818
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 5: then if you're playing Draymond and Kaminga and Wiggins, you

819
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,359
Speaker 5: can't rebound. It's just not making a lot of sense

820
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 5: right now, and people are finally starting to miss shots.

821
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 1: Look at Buddy Healed.

822
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:39,239
Speaker 5: His first ten games, he shot forty nine percent from three,

823
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 5: the next nine games, thirty nine percent from three, and

824
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 5: he's obviously not doing anything defensively. Nine bench points is

825
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 5: all they scored against the Suns in the last ten games.

826
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:52,359
Speaker 5: Golden State is twenty third in offense and postgame, Steph

827
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 5: Curry was talking about new knee ten to nine ers

828
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 5: that popped up, and him and Steve Kerr are trying to,

829
00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 5: you know, tamper down fears for the Warriors. They're like, no,

830
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:02,920
Speaker 5: it's no big deal. This is just something that happens

831
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 5: when you're old. True, but I don't think Curry's getting

832
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:08,919
Speaker 5: any younger this season. He's talking about maybe I'm gonna

833
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 5: have to sit back to backs. They need Curry to

834
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:13,360
Speaker 5: play every single minute. That's the only time they really score.

835
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 5: So this team to me, it was fun while they

836
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:18,400
Speaker 5: were playing thirteen guys in their rotation. When they're all

837
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:20,279
Speaker 5: playing well, you can do it. But then when some

838
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 5: of them start not playing well, they're shuffling in and out.

839
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 5: It's like, why is Pajemski playing over me? He's not scoring,

840
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 5: I'm not scoring. It shouldn't I be in. It just

841
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:32,279
Speaker 5: doesn't make sense. This is a team that needs a trade.

842
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 5: They need somebody more reliable as their second scorer. Wiggins

843
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:36,880
Speaker 5: has had an awesome season, but he should be the

844
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 5: third guy. They need somebody else, And it's going to

845
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:42,440
Speaker 5: be interesting to see how long they wait to make

846
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:45,279
Speaker 5: a move because in the meantime, Curry could wear down.

847
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 5: So I think kind of a scary moment right here

848
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 5: for the Warriors.

849
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was so weird seeing thirteen players play for

850
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 2: the Warriors in the first half against the Suns, like

851
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:56,319
Speaker 2: them all righting out there, and guys like most Moody

852
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 2: playing only two forty six and coming and not playing

853
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:03,799
Speaker 2: a lot of minutes. Spencer Pat Spencer's playing bast one

854
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 2: number sixty. Yeah, first guy to wear sixty one and

855
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:11,080
Speaker 2: over sixty years in the NBA. Nobody wears sixty one

856
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 2: it's been literally since nineteen sixty three or something, and

857
00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:17,560
Speaker 2: Pat Spencer's coming out there. Yeah, Steve Cerr has just

858
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 2: gotta find the guys. Obviously, d Anthony Mouthlin is missed.

859
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:24,279
Speaker 2: I mean, their defensive rating is pretty poor over the

860
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 2: last four games. They're they're just bad. They just haven't

861
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:28,960
Speaker 2: found it. They're twenty first in defense over that time.

862
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 2: So Steve CERT's trying to find both offense and defense

863
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:34,719
Speaker 2: and it ain't working right now, although it was working.

864
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:37,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I love about this. Like when you

865
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:40,799
Speaker 4: play eleven or twelve guys and you win, well, you're

866
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:43,719
Speaker 4: you're a genius when it comes to coaching. But when

867
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 4: you struggle and you're still continuing to play all those

868
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:47,879
Speaker 4: go is and try and find them the minutes here

869
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:50,440
Speaker 4: and there, it's like, what are you doing? I mean,

870
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:52,240
Speaker 4: I remember that love was the whole. Like Jerry Sloan's

871
00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 4: hole thinking was always like as a player, you need

872
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,800
Speaker 4: to know like basically when you're playing, who you're playing

873
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:00,479
Speaker 4: with and how many minutes exactly, Like that was his thing.

874
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:02,799
Speaker 4: I mean, no, he never won a championship with that,

875
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:06,759
Speaker 4: but regular season success and postseason success does that matter?

876
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,000
Speaker 4: But yeah, it's just funny, like when it doesn't work,

877
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:11,160
Speaker 4: it's like, yeah, you start looking around, why is that

878
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:13,360
Speaker 4: guy playing over me? Or what are we doing here?

879
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:15,920
Speaker 4: But this is a rough stretch for them right now,

880
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:19,840
Speaker 4: no doubt. Loser of the weekend Golden State Warriors. All right, Tas,

881
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:23,360
Speaker 4: I'm very interested to hear how Norman Powell and I

882
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 4: guess and how the Clippers being winners fit into this

883
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:27,760
Speaker 4: whole thing. But why Norman Powell is a loser?

884
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:30,920
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, this is a forced job by me. I'm

885
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:34,040
Speaker 2: a square peg fitting into a circle hole here. But

886
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 2: Norman Powell not because he's playing poorly, but because he's

887
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 2: not going to be an All Star and that just stinks.

888
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:42,800
Speaker 2: He's averaging twenty three and a half points on nearly

889
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:45,440
Speaker 2: fifty percent from the four, nearly fifty percent from three.

890
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:50,440
Speaker 2: That is ridiculous efficiency when compared to anybody on the

891
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 2: wing and how much they're shooting. Again, twenty three and

892
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:56,400
Speaker 2: a half points on ridiculous percentages not going to come

893
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:58,799
Speaker 2: anywhere close to the All Star Game. He's thirty one

894
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:02,400
Speaker 2: years old, and our man David Aldridge compared it to

895
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:06,320
Speaker 2: is there another guy over thirty who made the NBA

896
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:09,239
Speaker 2: or the All Star Game for the first time, and

897
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:11,719
Speaker 2: he compared it to Kyle Korver in twenty fifteen, who

898
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 2: was another second round pick. He was thirty three years

899
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 2: of age and the Hawks got four All Stars. And

900
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:20,840
Speaker 2: that's the pain for the Clippers. They can't have that

901
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 2: many All Stars in the Western Conference. Now, if it

902
00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 2: was the East, there would be a conversation about a

903
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:30,839
Speaker 2: second guy making the team, because if it's gonna be

904
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:33,359
Speaker 2: any Clipper, it's gonna be James Harden, who had a

905
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 2: monster game thirty nine versus the Denver Nuggets on Sunday,

906
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:38,880
Speaker 2: but he's not that efficient either way. The Clippers are

907
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 2: thirteen to nine. I think the only way that they

908
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 2: could get a second only way is if they want

909
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 2: a ton more games and Kawhi can come back and

910
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:48,359
Speaker 2: help that and still not make the All Star Game

911
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:50,960
Speaker 2: because he's not gonna play enough games. So there's a chance,

912
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 2: But in the Eastern Conference, there aren't that many guys

913
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 2: who are going to be on the All Star Game

914
00:41:56,280 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 2: throughout the Eastern Conference standings throughout the Ross to fill

915
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:02,840
Speaker 2: out twelve guys like the Cavs, Celtics, Magic Knicks, Bucks,

916
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:06,839
Speaker 2: they're all gonna have them. But beyond that, the heat, Yeah,

917
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 2: maybe one, the Hawks, maybe Trey, but the Pacers, no Nets,

918
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 2: not Pistons, not Bulls, Hornets, Raptors, seventy six ers, Wizards

919
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:16,560
Speaker 2: not guaranteed. So you could squeeze into if you're in

920
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:19,759
Speaker 2: the Western Conference. But unfortunately for normOn Powell, it just

921
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 2: ain't gonna happen. It's not. If you look up and

922
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:25,319
Speaker 2: down the Western Conference, there's just.

923
00:42:25,239 --> 00:42:27,400
Speaker 4: Too many an injury replacement.

924
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,560
Speaker 2: Not even now. There's ten teams above five hundred, and

925
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:32,120
Speaker 2: then there's Anthony Edwards below five hundred, there's Fox and

926
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:33,720
Speaker 2: some bonus below five hundred.

927
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 1: There's just no chance. You still got to put.

928
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 2: Lebron in there. But Norman Powell is literally having his

929
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:42,719
Speaker 2: best season. At thirty one sixty four point four true

930
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:46,759
Speaker 2: shooting percentage, he ranks high against every single other guy

931
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:49,839
Speaker 2: on the wing, all the stats, the usage rate has

932
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 2: gone way up. The guy's just grown. He's grown. You

933
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 2: just don't see this very offering from a guy at

934
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 2: thirty one years of age. You also don't see Messi

935
00:42:57,280 --> 00:43:00,319
Speaker 2: u Jeri get ripped into trade like this one trade

936
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:03,080
Speaker 2: him for Gary Trent. Norman Powell is just amazing. He's

937
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:06,319
Speaker 2: amazing at what he does right here right now. I

938
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:08,319
Speaker 2: am surprised at how much he's grown. So yeah, I

939
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:10,480
Speaker 2: just wanted to give Norman Powell some love and this

940
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 2: Clippers team Harden's doing it.

941
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:17,319
Speaker 4: Man. Yeah, would the NBA allow James Harden to give

942
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:21,400
Speaker 4: his All Star selection to Norman Powell? How would they

943
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 4: approach that?

944
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:23,280
Speaker 2: It's a great question.

945
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:25,840
Speaker 4: James Harden has been doing enough. He probably wants to

946
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:27,719
Speaker 4: go on vacation. Yeah, don't want to play in an

947
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:28,480
Speaker 4: exhibition game.

948
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:30,560
Speaker 3: Give it to Norm? Well the league do?

949
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:31,680
Speaker 4: I don't think they'd like it.

950
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:33,160
Speaker 3: You think Harden will be an All Star?

951
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:36,279
Speaker 1: Well, well, I don't think the Clippers have an All Star?

952
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 2: Well yeah, I just mean if the Clippers so many

953
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 2: good players.

954
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:43,080
Speaker 4: Man, Yeah, Harden was an All Star of the weekend

955
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:43,759
Speaker 4: for sure.

956
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:45,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, right yeah.

957
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:47,719
Speaker 2: Right now, they're in seventh of thirteen and nine, so

958
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:51,359
Speaker 2: it's unlikely Harden ain't having an efficient year, No by

959
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:54,680
Speaker 2: any means at all. But it just means if there's

960
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 2: hop high in the standings, the one guy they're going

961
00:43:57,680 --> 00:43:59,319
Speaker 2: to pick from that team is James Harden.

962
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:01,280
Speaker 4: Yes, that's what I was thinking.

963
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 1: Oh, Powell has been better I think though, I mean

964
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 1: hard Is Harden doesn't play on bad teams. That's the

965
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 1: amazing thing with him.

966
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:09,800
Speaker 5: He's never missed the playoffs, right, and he's clearly the

967
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:10,640
Speaker 5: number one guy.

968
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:12,879
Speaker 1: He is the main engine there. But like you're saying,

969
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:13,840
Speaker 1: he's not very efficient.

970
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:16,320
Speaker 5: And part of the reason Pol's having this great season

971
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:18,440
Speaker 5: is because he's getting set up by Hardin as well.

972
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:21,399
Speaker 5: So that kind of makes it feel like they're gonna

973
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:24,160
Speaker 5: split the difference, which perhaps leaves the Clippers with no

974
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:24,760
Speaker 5: all stars.

975
00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 4: All Right, I'll give you a couple of losers of

976
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:30,880
Speaker 4: the weekend here. We'll start with the Charlotte Hornets again,

977
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 4: a game of loser of the weekend last weekend or

978
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:35,959
Speaker 4: last Monday. I should say they're getting it again here.

979
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 4: They played three games, the Hornets did since we signed

980
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:42,760
Speaker 4: off before Thanksgiving last week, and they dropped all three,

981
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:45,360
Speaker 4: but they were all close. They lost by a combined

982
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:48,800
Speaker 4: eight points to the Heat, the Knicks, and the Hawks,

983
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:50,359
Speaker 4: so they were in all these games. That's not why

984
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:53,560
Speaker 4: they're the loser. The real reason is, unfortunately, once again,

985
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:55,879
Speaker 4: another injury has taken one of their best players, their

986
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 4: best player away from them. LaMelo Ball strained his left

987
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:02,400
Speaker 4: calf on Wednesday. He's going to be reevaluated in a

988
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:06,800
Speaker 4: couple weeks. Happened in like the final seconds basically against

989
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:09,400
Speaker 4: the Miami Heat there in that loss. So the Hornets

990
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:13,920
Speaker 4: are now going to be without the NBA's second leading scorer, Balls,

991
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:16,760
Speaker 4: averaging over thirty one points per game. He's also leading

992
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:20,200
Speaker 4: the league in usage rate at nearly like forty percent,

993
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 4: which just to put that in perspective, his thirty nine

994
00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:27,720
Speaker 4: point six percent usage rate, that's like the third highest

995
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:32,320
Speaker 4: in NBA history. Westbrook in twenty sixteen seventeen when he

996
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:35,480
Speaker 4: won MVP he had a higher usage rate, and then

997
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:38,400
Speaker 4: Harden in eighteen nineteen, which was a year after he

998
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 4: won MVP. So that's where LaMelo was in terms of

999
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:44,480
Speaker 4: just how much he did offensively for the Hornets. So

1000
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 4: that just sucks. Also, Trey Mann is out for two weeks.

1001
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:50,840
Speaker 4: He's got like disc irritation, so it's meetic time, baby.

1002
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 1: He was making some shots in the fourth court.

1003
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:54,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, look, if you're playing fantasy basketball, take

1004
00:45:54,920 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 4: a look at Meetzschech. If you haven't already, you might

1005
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:58,240
Speaker 4: put up some stats. And then I guess they signed

1006
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:01,440
Speaker 4: Isaiah Long to a two way deal from the G

1007
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 4: League because somebody's gonna play some of these guard minutes.

1008
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:06,880
Speaker 4: But yeah, just sucks for the Hornets. And like again,

1009
00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:09,480
Speaker 4: you compile it with all those losses and they've suddenly

1010
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:11,880
Speaker 4: like I know, it's the East, you're never out of it,

1011
00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:14,799
Speaker 4: but they've sort of dropped a tier almost as some

1012
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:16,759
Speaker 4: other teams have figured things out here. You know, we're

1013
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:19,959
Speaker 4: talking about teams like the Bucks and even other teams

1014
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:21,359
Speaker 4: that have looked more confident. I know the Heat did

1015
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:23,120
Speaker 4: loose to the Raptors, but have sort of had things

1016
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 4: going a little bit better. It just sucks. Sucks for

1017
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:28,040
Speaker 4: the Hornets, and it's another injury to LaMelo Ball unfortunately.

1018
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:29,719
Speaker 5: That's the thing that really sucks. He's been hurt for

1019
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:32,440
Speaker 5: basically the last two seasons. He's on a Ben Simmons schedule,

1020
00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:35,279
Speaker 5: playing fifty games over the course of two years, and

1021
00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:37,200
Speaker 5: it had an awesome start to the year, even if

1022
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:40,000
Speaker 5: it's not turning out to wins. He's looking like he's

1023
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 5: improved over the course of his career, better finishing inside.

1024
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:44,839
Speaker 5: But to get knocked out with an injury. We've had

1025
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:45,840
Speaker 5: so many cast strains.

1026
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 1: I feel like this season Durant had one obviously, I

1027
00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:50,680
Speaker 1: forget somebody else got knocked out with one early too.

1028
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:53,960
Speaker 5: It might even been Beal anyways, the kind of thing

1029
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:56,040
Speaker 5: that we'll linger for a little bit and will be

1030
00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:58,239
Speaker 5: tender when he comes back. So maybe he misses some

1031
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:00,759
Speaker 5: more time, but it sucks because he was on a

1032
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:02,799
Speaker 5: little bit of a roll. Him and Brandon Miller seem

1033
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:05,080
Speaker 5: to have like found a bit of chemistry actually getting

1034
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:08,080
Speaker 5: to be together on the court, and now it's just

1035
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:11,759
Speaker 5: thrown into jeopardy once again. So probably we're talking about

1036
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:13,959
Speaker 5: the hornets and the lottery again. Maybe they get lucky,

1037
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:15,759
Speaker 5: get a guy from Duke. That'd be cool for them,

1038
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:18,560
Speaker 5: but disappointing to have the season go the same way

1039
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:20,840
Speaker 5: once again. It's kind of I mean, it's not the same,

1040
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:23,560
Speaker 5: but it's like it's like the Pelicans, they get hurt

1041
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 5: every single year.

1042
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 1: You're like, not again, Yeah, I mean, I guess'll hurt

1043
00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:27,680
Speaker 1: not again.

1044
00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:30,560
Speaker 4: And one silver lining was maybe, well Brandon Miller more

1045
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:33,480
Speaker 4: of an opportunity again as a playmaker because we saw

1046
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:35,680
Speaker 4: like him flash some brilliance last year as a rookie

1047
00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:38,319
Speaker 4: right when Lamello went out. Hasn't gotten off to a

1048
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:41,320
Speaker 4: strong start with no Lamello in these last two games.

1049
00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 4: He has fifty five shot attempts over his last two games.

1050
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:48,759
Speaker 4: Brandon Miller does only shooting thirty percent, so being asked

1051
00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:51,480
Speaker 4: to do even more here without LaMelo, who again, as

1052
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:54,640
Speaker 4: I just illustrated, has a crazy usage percentage. Now that

1053
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:57,160
Speaker 4: just gets sort of transferred to Brandon Miller. And he's

1054
00:47:57,160 --> 00:48:00,399
Speaker 4: super young still, you know, maybe not there quite, Maybe

1055
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:02,879
Speaker 4: he never will be like a one A guy. Maybe

1056
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:05,640
Speaker 4: he's perfectly suited as a one B or your second guy.

1057
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:07,320
Speaker 4: But yeah, it just sucks for the Hornets.

1058
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:09,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, he took what nineteen threes against the horn or

1059
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:12,760
Speaker 5: against the Hawks. Yeah, he's gonna have a twenty plus

1060
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:14,880
Speaker 5: three point game, I think with LaMelo.

1061
00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:18,560
Speaker 4: Out attempt Yeah, yeah, yeah, probably somebody's got to score

1062
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 4: on the team.

1063
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:21,240
Speaker 3: Another loser of the weekend.

1064
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:27,240
Speaker 4: You touch ass coach Will Hardy unfortunately calling a timeout

1065
00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:31,799
Speaker 4: when calling Sexton was maybe gonna put his team in

1066
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 4: the lead. You know, this is they got to stop.

1067
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:35,920
Speaker 4: They got the ball, they're bringing it up in sort

1068
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:38,880
Speaker 4: of semi transition. It's like under ten seconds, here we

1069
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:41,920
Speaker 4: go Sexton. You know, he doesn't attack right away and

1070
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:44,280
Speaker 4: sort of took it around the top, but then starts

1071
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:47,000
Speaker 4: to drive and then the timeout from Hardy happened, and

1072
00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:47,799
Speaker 4: of course.

1073
00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:49,879
Speaker 3: Section lays it in off the glass. Now I think

1074
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 3: the defense stopped a little.

1075
00:48:51,719 --> 00:48:54,279
Speaker 4: Bit from the Lakers, So who knows if it goes

1076
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:56,560
Speaker 4: differently if there's no whistle, does he make it? Is

1077
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:59,880
Speaker 4: Anthony Davis there all that, But even Will Hardy was like, well,

1078
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:05,080
Speaker 4: my bad, sorry, Colin, I sort of screwed that one up.

1079
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:05,759
Speaker 4: You may have had a.

1080
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:08,319
Speaker 2: Chance to actually do it, yeah, because the attempt that

1081
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:12,279
Speaker 2: they got after the timeout wasn't good. Colin kind of

1082
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:15,919
Speaker 2: slipped going into his three point shot into what looked

1083
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:19,800
Speaker 2: like sort of a soft triple team and there was

1084
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:21,840
Speaker 2: no chance that he was getting it off after slipping.

1085
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:25,040
Speaker 2: So it wasn't fortunate. It was a strange one. It

1086
00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:27,400
Speaker 2: was a strange one to see guy drive into open

1087
00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:30,520
Speaker 2: area and the timeout happened at that time. I guess

1088
00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:33,640
Speaker 2: Will Hardy just committed when he started saving time out,

1089
00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:35,759
Speaker 2: He's like, I'm going for it, even though he was

1090
00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:38,640
Speaker 2: like running I guess to center court at the same

1091
00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:42,400
Speaker 2: time as Colin Sexton was open. I mean he was

1092
00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:46,640
Speaker 2: running towards the whop. Yeah, stinky, stinky, thinky for Will Hardy,

1093
00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:49,080
Speaker 2: who I just watched a clip of him saying, I mean,

1094
00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:52,640
Speaker 2: I got the best job in the world. I ain't

1095
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:54,480
Speaker 2: got a real job, No, I got one of the

1096
00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:57,520
Speaker 2: best jobs in the unfortunately didn't end well in that game.

1097
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 4: And then final loser of the weekend is me because

1098
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:06,800
Speaker 4: I gotta eat this pie and uh, it's big and

1099
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:08,920
Speaker 4: here here's a look at it. We're doing okay, like

1100
00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:10,319
Speaker 4: that's all carved out right there.

1101
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:13,200
Speaker 1: I mean, you made a lot of progress for one day.

1102
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:15,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, did I know? I'm starting to look.

1103
00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:16,160
Speaker 2: At I don't know.

1104
00:50:16,520 --> 00:50:19,839
Speaker 5: It's hard to tell, I guess, but I mean I'm

1105
00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:21,160
Speaker 5: really full j D.

1106
00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:23,920
Speaker 4: I'm surprised you didn't go with the overhead camera for

1107
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:25,680
Speaker 4: today's setup. I was wondering if you're gonna do that?

1108
00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:29,160
Speaker 4: Get nice above the above the pie shot. But I mean,

1109
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:32,080
Speaker 4: I'm I'm full as hell. But I'm with you, Tess.

1110
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:34,120
Speaker 4: I'm looking at it like, okay, that's Tuesday.

1111
00:50:34,239 --> 00:50:34,839
Speaker 2: That's right.

1112
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:39,560
Speaker 4: I guess it's okay, a decent start, but I've done

1113
00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:43,279
Speaker 4: some crazy pick and payoffs. I'm gonna put this up

1114
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:44,280
Speaker 4: as my least favorite.

1115
00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:45,719
Speaker 1: Wow, worse than eggnog.

1116
00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:51,240
Speaker 4: Oh was pretty rough, but you know what, yes, because

1117
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:53,799
Speaker 4: eggnog was at least just do it in one show.

1118
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:56,320
Speaker 3: True, it was over in twenty minutes and then I vomited.

1119
00:50:57,000 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 4: This is worse.

1120
00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 3: I gotta like go to bed tonight.

1121
00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:00,120
Speaker 4: Go in.

1122
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:02,320
Speaker 3: Oh crap, I gotta be eating pie.

1123
00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:03,240
Speaker 4: For three or four more days.

1124
00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:05,120
Speaker 1: Week long payoffs are a nice wrinkle.

1125
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:10,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, a new wrinkle. Yeah great, everything's shorter. Videos,

1126
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:13,960
Speaker 2: we're sticking, we're doing Yeah, they're.

1127
00:51:13,760 --> 00:51:16,040
Speaker 1: Calling you the captain because you ate it like a

1128
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:17,080
Speaker 1: c good.

1129
00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:22,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to weigh that and we'll see if.

1130
00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:24,759
Speaker 4: That's wait that way, you should have weighed me pre

1131
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:26,799
Speaker 4: show and then wadhe me at the end of the week.

1132
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:30,799
Speaker 4: And I have a god, I just remembered I have

1133
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:32,040
Speaker 4: a race this Saturday.

1134
00:51:33,719 --> 00:51:38,640
Speaker 3: I'm doing like a team relay race. Show up so

1135
00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:41,400
Speaker 3: out of shape, sweat and pumpkin, sweat and pumpkin.

1136
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:43,760
Speaker 4: Oh great times.

1137
00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:47,120
Speaker 3: Okay, anyway, let's do it all over again.

1138
00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:48,400
Speaker 2: Tasks, Yeah, let's do it.

1139
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:50,680
Speaker 4: There's only four games on the night. We're all, Oh,

1140
00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:53,799
Speaker 4: we no starting fresh here for December? What's our game?

1141
00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:56,600
Speaker 2: I had to go with Lakers at the Wolves. The

1142
00:51:56,640 --> 00:52:00,760
Speaker 2: Wolves finally won a game this past weekend after losing

1143
00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:05,280
Speaker 2: four straight. It wasn't all that pretty nas reed doing

1144
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:07,799
Speaker 2: nas red things. See what didn't have a great shooting game,

1145
00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:10,839
Speaker 2: but guys were hustling. After Anthony Edwards called him out,

1146
00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:15,600
Speaker 2: said we're saw. We all had individual sort of agendas. Anyways,

1147
00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:18,680
Speaker 2: they won a game, and to see the Lakers go

1148
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:22,800
Speaker 2: into Minnesota here as seven and a half point, Doug

1149
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:26,520
Speaker 2: was surprising. That's a big line that the Wolves have

1150
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:29,680
Speaker 2: to cover win by eight or more. What skeets, I

1151
00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:31,800
Speaker 2: don't know why you're doing this to yourself. You're picking

1152
00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:35,640
Speaker 2: the Wolves to win by eight or more along with myself,

1153
00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:37,799
Speaker 2: I think the Wolves have got something to prove against

1154
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:41,560
Speaker 2: the Lakers, who played like hours ago. They played yesterday.

1155
00:52:41,920 --> 00:52:44,960
Speaker 2: Trey and Esh taking the Lakers to cover. No Dangel Russell,

1156
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:47,440
Speaker 2: no Austin Reeves for the Lakers.

1157
00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:50,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, they are short. It is a weird line. I

1158
00:52:50,440 --> 00:52:51,680
Speaker 4: thought it was a little large.

1159
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:52,520
Speaker 2: It's large.

1160
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:54,680
Speaker 4: One and a half was like a little perplexing. But

1161
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:56,480
Speaker 4: I guess it is the back to back situation. But

1162
00:52:56,520 --> 00:52:59,359
Speaker 4: a lot of the lines tonight are like big, right,

1163
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:01,960
Speaker 4: you got the Hawks are like huge favorites at home

1164
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:04,279
Speaker 4: to the Pels Celtics are big favorites at home to

1165
00:53:04,320 --> 00:53:06,799
Speaker 4: the Heat, and then even the Bowls I think are

1166
00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:08,919
Speaker 4: seven and a half point favorites to the Nets, which

1167
00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:10,520
Speaker 4: is even maybe a little strange too.

1168
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:11,839
Speaker 1: But that's beat them this year.

1169
00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:13,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know what's going on tonight, Janie. Let's up

1170
00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:16,400
Speaker 4: with these lines. So yeah, I'm with your tasse Wolves

1171
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:16,800
Speaker 4: at home.

1172
00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:19,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, well's got a tough sched coming up after that,

1173
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:22,640
Speaker 2: the Anthony Edwards Collings TEAMO. They got the Lakers and

1174
00:53:22,719 --> 00:53:25,440
Speaker 2: they got to go to the Clippers, go to the Warriors,

1175
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:28,440
Speaker 2: stay there and play them again. They would play the

1176
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:30,040
Speaker 2: Warriors twice. Then they got the Nicks at home, the

1177
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:32,640
Speaker 2: Warriors at home, at the Hawks, at the MAVs, at

1178
00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 2: the Rockets, Spurs, Thunder, Celtics. That's not easy for a

1179
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:39,360
Speaker 2: team that's on the outside of the playoffs looking but

1180
00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:41,239
Speaker 2: I am looking forward to tonight's schedule because you've got

1181
00:53:41,239 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 2: the Pelicans Hawks, first time that they've played since their

1182
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:48,560
Speaker 2: trade to Jontay Murray, Dicel Dyson, Daniels, the vacuum.

1183
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:51,440
Speaker 5: They probably guard each other, right, I mean, at least

1184
00:53:51,480 --> 00:53:53,480
Speaker 5: Daniels guards Murray, no doubt.

1185
00:53:53,719 --> 00:53:56,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, Miami Boston should be a good one. And Brooklyn

1186
00:53:56,400 --> 00:53:58,239
Speaker 2: Chicago the worst of the four.

1187
00:53:58,320 --> 00:54:02,239
Speaker 1: But the first game between those two teams is pretty good.

1188
00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:05,360
Speaker 4: While I take another bite, why don't you tell them

1189
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:08,640
Speaker 4: about playback Tonightica just did.

1190
00:54:08,960 --> 00:54:12,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll be on playback to watch the endings of

1191
00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:16,080
Speaker 2: those first couple games for sure. Because we do that,

1192
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:19,960
Speaker 2: we'll jump on around nine eastern to take in, well,

1193
00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:22,200
Speaker 2: we got to take in just like you're taking in

1194
00:54:22,239 --> 00:54:23,120
Speaker 2: some pumpkin.

1195
00:54:24,600 --> 00:54:25,879
Speaker 1: We'll play back pie.

1196
00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:28,040
Speaker 4: Pbp am.

1197
00:54:28,080 --> 00:54:28,600
Speaker 3: I allowed.

1198
00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:30,200
Speaker 4: No, that's not part of the rules.

1199
00:54:31,239 --> 00:54:32,400
Speaker 2: No, you can't do what.

1200
00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:35,800
Speaker 4: I have noticed, which is weird. I would think the opposite.

1201
00:54:35,840 --> 00:54:37,680
Speaker 4: But every time I have a bite a pumpkin pie

1202
00:54:37,719 --> 00:54:39,920
Speaker 4: and then I have a taste of coffee, it's like

1203
00:54:39,960 --> 00:54:46,719
Speaker 4: a bad like bad flavor. We learned some things today, though,

1204
00:54:47,160 --> 00:54:49,520
Speaker 4: I'm going it was always way better with the whip

1205
00:54:49,520 --> 00:54:52,239
Speaker 4: cream on it. Duh, okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna cream

1206
00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:55,000
Speaker 4: it up tomorrow, cream city up in this mother tomorrow.

1207
00:54:55,520 --> 00:54:56,120
Speaker 3: That helped.

1208
00:54:56,760 --> 00:55:00,120
Speaker 4: And yeah, we you know, not a brutal start, not

1209
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:04,120
Speaker 4: a brutal start, But man, this is a psychological battle here.

1210
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:06,880
Speaker 3: There's there's a lot of pie still left.

1211
00:55:07,719 --> 00:55:10,360
Speaker 5: Are you regretting going from the middle. Now that you

1212
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:12,680
Speaker 5: feel like it's kind of hard to keep tracking progress,

1213
00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:15,319
Speaker 5: I think, I think because to me looks like, oh man,

1214
00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:16,080
Speaker 5: you're almost done.

1215
00:55:16,160 --> 00:55:16,759
Speaker 3: No, but I'm not.

1216
00:55:17,160 --> 00:55:21,719
Speaker 4: Well yeah, like tomorrow here, let's draw some enemy lines JD.

1217
00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:25,239
Speaker 4: Like tomorrow here, we'll go up here. We need like

1218
00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:29,000
Speaker 4: that quadrant right like that's gotta be on, So that's

1219
00:55:29,040 --> 00:55:33,359
Speaker 4: got to be tackled. Show that don't feel good. Then

1220
00:55:33,360 --> 00:55:35,680
Speaker 4: I'll be like, okay, three days to do the lower ring.

1221
00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:47,840
Speaker 4: But off the floor. Damn. I was gonna say, I

1222
00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:51,160
Speaker 4: guess it's over all right. Well as I take one

1223
00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:52,920
Speaker 4: more giant bite here for today, and I guess it

1224
00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:55,560
Speaker 4: just goes in the fridge over here. Appreciate you joining

1225
00:55:55,680 --> 00:55:58,840
Speaker 4: us again. Apologies to the podcast listeners. I dropped some.

1226
00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:05,200
Speaker 4: Let me pick some back up. I was I gonna say,

1227
00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:08,120
Speaker 4: oh yeah, we'll see you tomorrow till that in Clipper broads.

1228
00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:11,239
Speaker 1: You heard it here first, have a great time, turn up.

1229
00:56:11,440 --> 00:56:12,720
Speaker 1: Love you guys awesome.

1230
00:56:13,239 --> 00:56:15,880
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us. And remember I think that was

1231
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:18,839
Speaker 2: for the podcasters. I don't think you've got you made

1232
00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:23,720
Speaker 2: one noise until that Who knew pie produced gas?

1233
00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:25,560
Speaker 3: That was a wild burp.

1234
00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:29,080
Speaker 2: I heard a couple I heard you fight through when

1235
00:56:29,080 --> 00:56:31,120
Speaker 2: you were making a point. There was a tiny gas,

1236
00:56:32,200 --> 00:56:38,120
Speaker 2: tiny one, tiny gashes. Anyway, congrats to one fifth and

1237
00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:39,160
Speaker 2: us just getting