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Speaker 1: And why is Chris Haynes recording a podcast with two

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Speaker 1: a new edition of This League Uncut.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to This League Uncut in rule of twenty four

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Speaker 2: hour NBA.

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Speaker 3: News, This news you'll.

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Speaker 2: Chris Haynes. It's no time, works time, it's so time.

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Speaker 2: This League Uncut is underway and on fire. This should

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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome in to the latest edition, an all

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Speaker 1: state side edition of This League Uncut. Mark Stein with

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Speaker 1: Chris Haynes and now both of us operating within American borders.

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Speaker 1: I am back from my trip to England where I

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Speaker 1: watched a load of soccer, and honestly, if we ever

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Speaker 1: You guys can't see it. You're just gonna have to

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Speaker 1: Ryan is already laughing. Chris Haynes has joined us with

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Speaker 1: Why do you have a trophy sitting in front of

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Speaker 1: Why is there a giant piece of dunking basketball hardware

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Speaker 4: Well, A couple things, first and foremost. First and foremost,

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Speaker 4: Second of all, there yeah, Second, it's plural, Stein. There

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Speaker 4: the championship in the Filipino League this past weekend. We

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Speaker 1: No load management for Chris Haynes.

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Speaker 4: Not on the last game. No, this is where you

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Speaker 1: Not just Sacramento, in all of California.

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Speaker 4: I'm going on a limb and saying all of California.

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Speaker 1: Produce producer, Ryan, Are you getting this? Stephen Curry currently

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Speaker 3: And the name of your team again is.

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Speaker 4: Is team Genebra. What does that mean? I have no clue. Hey, y'all, y'all,

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Speaker 4: You know, I name it.

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Speaker 4: Well. Listen, I've never claimed that I that I play

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Speaker 4: The name of the league is to mock bow nor

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Speaker 4: Cal League Season three twenty twenty four MVP of the finals.

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Speaker 4: So no name, they don't have my name on there.

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Speaker 4: That is Sunday's league. That is the West Sacramento League. Yes,

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Speaker 4: No disrespect he hold on, No disrespect to my Filipino

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Speaker 4: His name is Robert Pascal. That's a great We got

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Speaker 4: They've played five games already the season, which that does

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Speaker 4: not happen. But we have to remember with the N

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Speaker 4: Season Tournament now to get an extra game, and the

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Speaker 4: Pacers and Bucks were in that, and the Pacers eliminated

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Speaker 4: the Bucks in the N Season Tournament. And in five games,

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Speaker 4: the Pacers have defeed the Bucks four of five. They've

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Speaker 4: had their number. And let's not forget Ballgate. Don't remember that,

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Speaker 4: stut remember that try to take what they claim to

444
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Speaker 4: have take. Took Giannis after Cooper's ball after Gianni's had

445
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Speaker 4: a career high of I forgot how many points you score,

446
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Speaker 4: but it was a career high. It was a Bucks,

447
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Speaker 4: it was a franchise. It was sixty four points, okay,

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Speaker 4: sixty four points, and we saw, you know, all the

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Speaker 4: drama that ensued after that. I have Malie Beasley on

450
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Speaker 4: my let Me See. It was on My Bleach Report

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Speaker 4: live stream show a couple of months ago, and he

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Speaker 4: talked about how he wants to see the Pacers, how

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Speaker 4: the team the Bucks wants they want to face them

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Speaker 4: to show them that the regular season is nothing. And

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Speaker 4: he said they're going there, they're going to be in

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Speaker 4: for a surprise if they if they get them in

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Speaker 4: the playoffs. So I'm judging by that the Bucks will

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Speaker 4: definitely welcome that matchup in the first round. That would

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Speaker 4: definitely be an intriguing matchup for sure. And don't forget

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Speaker 4: in that playing game, Tyrese Halliburton, even Mock Dane did

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Speaker 4: the Dame time watch gesture, you know, after I believe

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Speaker 4: hitting one of his dagger threes in the game, and

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Speaker 4: Dame after that play in said hey, you know you

464
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Speaker 4: got to be humble. Learn to be humble at some point.

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Speaker 4: So that is a matchup right there that I definitely

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Speaker 4: will have a lot of intrigue. And it's shaping up,

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Speaker 4: you know, it's getting to the point where we think

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Speaker 4: that might end up being the two to seven matchup

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Speaker 4: right there because the Bucks are playing some good ball.

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Speaker 1: Well, look there is I'm with you one hundred percent

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Speaker 1: in terms of I would love to see the Bucks

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Speaker 1: and the Pacers hook up in the first round. That

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Speaker 1: would be very spicy given what's happened between the teams already.

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Speaker 3: That again, you know, in the new NBA with an n.

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Speaker 1: Season tournament, we get these situations where teams play more

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Speaker 1: than four times. Four times used to be the regular season, Max,

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Speaker 1: But as you said, the Pacers and Bucks have already

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Speaker 1: played five times this season because of the nd season tournament,

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Speaker 1: and then to see them in a best of seven

480
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Speaker 1: series would be great theater. However, I would just caution

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Speaker 1: and say the Miami, both the Pacers and the Heat

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Speaker 1: right now are in the play in zone, and Philly, Orlando,

483
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Speaker 1: the Knicks. They're all right there in that mix. But

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Speaker 1: the Heat have hit another wobble, and Miami has just

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Speaker 1: had a really rough regular season. There was the bizarre

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Speaker 1: seven game losing streak shortly after Eric Spoulster got a

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Speaker 1: contract extension. They appeared to bounce back from that, but

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Speaker 1: now they've lost three in a row again, including a

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Speaker 1: loss to the Wizards, which is just I wouldn't have

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Speaker 1: imagined any scenario at this stage of the season when

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Speaker 1: Miami knows it's got to start tightening up and getting

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Speaker 1: its playoff approach in sync. To lose a home game

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Speaker 1: to a team that has been as bad as Washington

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Speaker 1: has been all season, that was a shock to the system.

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Speaker 1: But I guess what I'm trying to say here is

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Speaker 1: the Heat could end up eighth again. I don't think

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Speaker 1: that's where they're gonna end up. But if Miami finished

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Speaker 1: eighth again and played Boston and we had another eight

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Speaker 1: to one matchup like we did last season when Miami

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Speaker 1: stunned Milwaukee and then went all the way to the finals,

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Speaker 1: only the second number eight seed in the history of

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Speaker 1: this sixteen team playoff format to do that, Boston Miami

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Speaker 1: would just be another crazy first round series that has

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Speaker 1: us all wrapped up. So there's there's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: lot of I mean, there will be a lot of

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Speaker 1: playoff intrigue this season. I think right from the jump

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Speaker 1: in round one, the West because there seems to be

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Speaker 1: so much quality depth, and then the East. If we

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Speaker 1: get one or two of these matchups where you know,

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Speaker 1: Boston Miami would be an insane first round, and I

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Speaker 1: think so would Milwaukee and India, And you know what,

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Speaker 1: it'd be interesting. How does TNT use Chris Haynes. Does

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Speaker 1: he end up getting thrown onto even though he's usually

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Speaker 1: a Western Conference guy? Would he get thrown onto Bucks

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Speaker 1: Pacers to be there for the potential chaos?

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Speaker 4: Intention stime? Before I answered that, I just had to

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Speaker 4: take a deep breath. They had to calm down. I

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Speaker 4: was just on the verge of booking a flight to London,

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Speaker 4: and I'll explain why I said that after this my

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Speaker 4: next game. My next game is the twenty fifth or

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Speaker 4: twenty six is the Bucks and Lakers in Milwaukee. So

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Speaker 4: usually the playoffs, they usually do take me out towards

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Speaker 4: the East or or Minnesota. That's probably the fart well,

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Speaker 4: so I do get out more so during the playoffs

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Speaker 4: than I would during the regular season. So I wouldn't mind.

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Speaker 4: With that being said, Stein, the reason I had to

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Speaker 4: take a deep breath my daughter. My family is in

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Speaker 4: London right now. They're visiting my daughter who is studying

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Speaker 4: abroad this semester. So my thirteen year old daughter, Jada,

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Speaker 4: she called me. She was facetiming me right now, and

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Speaker 4: I had to decline it. And I told her, hey, babe,

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I'm on the pod right now. I'll call

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Speaker 4: you right back. She texts back, okay, MF. I said, what, okay, MF,

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Speaker 4: like what And then like as I'm getting furious and

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Speaker 4: my blood is boiling, she puts a asterisk my fault.

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Speaker 4: That's what the MF meant. So I had to calm down. Starn.

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Speaker 4: I see that's why these youngsters nowadays, man spell spell

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Speaker 4: it out, spell it out. Stop this MF stuff.

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Speaker 1: MF what else does m F mean? I know I

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Speaker 1: was waiting to see maybe she learned some cool new

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Speaker 1: London slang that we didn't know.

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Speaker 4: But I guess come on now, no, okay, m F okay,

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Speaker 4: MF what what? And she knew like she had to

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Speaker 4: have felt something to to text back like pretty quickly

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Speaker 4: asterix my fault. She had to have felt something. She

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Speaker 4: knew I was coming. I was like, damn, this bucks

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Speaker 4: Kings game tonight, I'm going to London to handle some business.

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Speaker 4: Hell no, we ain't talking like that, so I have

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Speaker 4: I'm cool now, I'm my bad, I'm cool. My apologies

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Speaker 4: every ding.

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Speaker 1: One other topic I did want to mention before we go,

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Speaker 1: because I think this is a story we're going to

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Speaker 1: be talking about more and more as the rest of

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Speaker 1: the regular season plays out. Because while I was in England,

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Speaker 1: even though I was five thousand miles ish away from

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Speaker 1: the NBA, the hubbub back home did not escape me.

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Speaker 1: It reached me about a rising belief in various corners

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Speaker 1: of the league that referees have been instructed to call

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Speaker 1: fewer shooting fouls, let more contact go because the numbers.

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Speaker 1: The numbers definitely bear inspection. Before the All Star Break,

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Speaker 1: teams league wide this season we're averaging one hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifteen point five points per game and twenty two point

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Speaker 1: seven free throws per game. The one hundred and fifteen

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Speaker 1: point five points per game league wide average was the

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Speaker 1: highest seen in hashtag this league since the nineteen sixty

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Speaker 1: nine to seventy season. When we're talking about at the break,

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Speaker 1: but since the break, I asked my fellow substacker, Justin Kubotko.

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Speaker 1: I asked Professor Kubatko to run the numbers for me,

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Speaker 1: and he he tallied.

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Speaker 3: It up for me on this Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: Since the break, the league's scoring average has dipped almost

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Speaker 1: four points per game, all the way down to one

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Speaker 1: to eleven point seven points per game league wide, free

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Speaker 1: throws down to nineteen point nine per game, So scoring

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Speaker 1: has dropped almost four points per game since the All

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Speaker 1: Star Break. Free throws per game have dropped almost three

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Speaker 1: three fewer free throws per game league wide since the

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Speaker 1: All Star Break. So this has led to some claims

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Speaker 1: that the league is now facing that the referees have

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Speaker 1: been quietly told behind the scenes to let more contact

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Speaker 1: go when the assumption is that this would have been

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Speaker 1: a reaction to all the criticism that the league got

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Speaker 1: in late January and early February for the offensive explosion,

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Speaker 1: so many players scoring sixty and seventy points, how hard

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Speaker 1: it's gotten for defenses to counteract offenses.

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Speaker 3: So I think this is a.

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Speaker 1: Story that we have to monitor and something that I

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Speaker 1: think we will continue to be taking stock of and

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Speaker 1: potentially discussing further. I sought formal comment from the league

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Speaker 1: office upon getting back in the States, and an NBA

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Speaker 1: spokesman told me on Monday there has been no directive

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Speaker 1: from the league office to referees to call games differently.

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Speaker 1: So we'll see how that explanation lands with people around

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Speaker 1: the league, coaches teams that feel otherwise. But again, like

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Speaker 1: I said, this is a story that I think is

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Speaker 1: evolving in something that we will continue to monitor and

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Speaker 1: potentially get into further on upcoming editions of this league.

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Speaker 1: Uncut because I wanted to make sure I gave the

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Speaker 1: floor to Chris Haynes one more time before we go.

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Speaker 4: Very interesting Staran. I know players this year have been

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Speaker 4: complaining about I can't I can't remember, but if it

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Speaker 4: was farther back as before the All Star break, but

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Speaker 4: they've been complaining about not getting the continuation calls that

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Speaker 4: they're accustomed to getting in previous seasons. So, you know,

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Speaker 4: I don't know, I don't know what to make of that,

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Speaker 4: but definitely that's definitely something.

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Speaker 1: One more interesting thing to note on that front. Remember,

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Speaker 1: between January twenty second and February third, five players scored

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Speaker 1: at least sixty points in NBA game. Joel Embian went

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Speaker 1: for seventy, Karl Anthony Towns went for sixty two, Luca

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Speaker 1: Don went for seventy three, Devin Booker went for sixty two,

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Speaker 1: and Stephan Curry went for sixty. We're six weeks removed

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Speaker 1: from Steph's sixty point game. Obviously there was an All

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Speaker 1: Star break in there as well, but no one in

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Speaker 1: the NBA since February third has even scored fifty points

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Speaker 1: in a game. So that's why you have people asking

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Speaker 1: has something changed?

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Speaker 3: What has changed?

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Speaker 1: So again something we need to keep our eye on here,

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Speaker 1: all right, I think that's gonna do it for this

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Speaker 1: edition of this league uncut, and since I am back

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Speaker 1: within NBA borders, I will be seeing the Warriors in

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Speaker 1: Dallas Wednesday night, Chris Haynes, I know you're gonna see

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Speaker 1: the Bucks and the Kings shortly after we finished recording

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Speaker 1: this episode. So hopefully both you and I will have

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Speaker 1: some good tales from the hardwood to share the next

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Speaker 1: time we're together for the next episode. Mode, and by

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Speaker 1: tails from the hardwood, I mean the NBA hardwood, not

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Speaker 1: the Sunday Sacramento rec League or can't.

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Speaker 4: I can't make any promises.

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Speaker 1: Yes, we'll see if the next time we do this

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Speaker 1: you have new hardware from your other league. We'll see

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Speaker 1: if you can beat out Aaron Haynes for MVP honors.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, can you?

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Speaker 4: No, I can't, but I definitely should win something from recruiting.

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Speaker 4: I'll tell you that for sure. But yeah, exactly the

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Speaker 4: year is something like that. Yeah, for sure. That season.

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Speaker 4: I still think we got like two or three regular

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Speaker 4: season games left before into the playoffs, so we still

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Speaker 4: got a while until I get the chance to collect

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Speaker 4: some more hardware. Until then, these two trophies will rest

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Speaker 4: on my chest. I'm in my celebration tour mode right now.

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Speaker 4: I've been I've been going to the gym this week.

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Speaker 4: There's a gym that about thirty of us frequent throughout

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Speaker 4: the week, and most of these guys are in that league.

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Speaker 4: And so every day this week, I've been bringing both trophies,

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Speaker 4: not playing. I haven't been playing. I've been going because

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Speaker 4: I'm letting my ankle rest because this new the new

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Speaker 4: Filipido league starts in two weeks. So I've been bringing

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Speaker 4: this trophy, letting everybody know and reminding everybody who champ

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Speaker 4: and who the MVP is. I told you not let

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Speaker 4: me get this win.

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Speaker 1: You probably messed up the ankle by playing pick up

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Speaker 1: all the night before, like I told you not to do.

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Speaker 1: I strongly advised you to not you play pickup ball.

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Speaker 4: And then I thought about that you.

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Speaker 1: Played pickup ball the night before you had a doubleheader.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I admire your I admire your spirit. I

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Speaker 1: admire that out of the two of us, you are

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Speaker 1: in far better shape as we both grow older, and

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Speaker 1: you take much better care of yourself than me. But

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Speaker 1: three games in two days might be a touch too

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Speaker 1: much for you at this point.

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Speaker 4: I thought about that stime. But remember I was in

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Speaker 4: Denver all week, so the last time I was able

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Speaker 4: to shoot a basketball was Monday, so I couldn't play

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Speaker 4: in a final four having not shot since Monday, so

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Speaker 4: I thought about that. That probably played a factor. But

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Speaker 4: at the end of the day, Stein, as you see,

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Speaker 4: the hardware rest on my chest and I don't regret anything.

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Speaker 4: I would do it all over again.

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Speaker 1: There you have it, world, Chris Haynes as candid as ever.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's gonna do it. We will be back

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Speaker 1: before the week is out. Like I said, hopefully with

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Speaker 1: tails from the NBA hardw we might have taken the

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Speaker 1: Sacramento Rec League bit as far as we can.

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Speaker 3: At this point, I'm a little worried.

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Speaker 1: I'm a little worried that we've overdone it. All right, everybody,

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Speaker 1: Thanks to mil for joining us, and remember, as always,

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Speaker 1: please follow the show, rate the show, review the show,

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Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you get your podcast. Signing off

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Speaker 1: for Chris Haynes, producer Ryan Music.

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Speaker 3: He's insisting we call him Champ. Is this for real?

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Speaker 3: Is this on right now? No?

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Speaker 1: I'm signing us off for Chris Haynes, for producer Ryan Music,

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Speaker 1: and for me, Mark Stein, Champless Mark Stein.

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Speaker 3: That'll do it for this edition of this League uncut.

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Speaker 2: And that'll do it for us. See you next time.

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Speaker 3: This League.

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Speaker 2: Uncut is an iHeartRadio production

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Speaker 3: Chris Haines and Mark Stein