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Speaker 1: Welcome in What Driving Think Right Episode four sixty nine.

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Speaker 1: This episode of What Driving Think Right is brought to you,

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Speaker 1: is again throughout the World Cup. Just a reminder and

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Speaker 1: channel on YouTube, iTunes and Spotify. We will note would

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Speaker 1: longer be a morning show during the World Cup because

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Speaker 1: the television show has become a morning show during the

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Speaker 1: World Cup. So we will be coming to you throughout

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Speaker 1: the week around this time, two or three times a week.

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Speaker 1: Also another scheduling announcement a week from Saturday, so the

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Speaker 1: don't what date will that be? Saturday the twenty seventh,

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Speaker 1: If you're in Florida, we will be doing some type

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Speaker 1: of show in the late afternoon live from the hard

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Speaker 1: Rock down in South Florida. Hard Rock is, of course

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Speaker 1: our great gambling sponsor. I will be down there doing

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Speaker 1: a show. I believe Colin Cowhard will be there as well.

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Speaker 1: So if you're around once I have the full details

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Speaker 1: on that, i'll share them, but I believe it'll be

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Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon early evening at the hard Rock in South Florida.

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Speaker 1: Demand's good to see you.

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Speaker 2: How are you great, amazing.

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Speaker 1: The Oh yeah, I am going to take advantage of

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Speaker 1: the fact that I don't think your mom listens to

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Speaker 1: this show as much as she used to and start

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Speaker 1: today's show with an anecdote, which is last night, I

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Speaker 1: don't know why it took me this long to like

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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my, oh. Danielle had been asking me

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Speaker 1: about or Deanna about Father's Day stuff because I had

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Speaker 1: told them Lego is releasing the Goudi's Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: what is this? Is so embarrassing? Uh? What is Goudi's

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Speaker 1: Barcelona church called oh so Grata Familia. Lego is releasing

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Speaker 1: their biggest Lego ever and it's lost to Grata Familia

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Speaker 1: and it's supposed to be like as complicated as the

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Speaker 1: Big Star Wars one and I I saw this. People

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Speaker 1: sent this to me that was coming out, and I

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Speaker 1: had sent it to your mom and sister saying this

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Speaker 1: is what I want for Father's Day, but it doesn't

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Speaker 1: come out till November. So they they said to me, like, so,

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Speaker 1: And I just like had like a moment of like clarity.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god. I was like, Sunday is

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Speaker 1: Demanda's first Father's Day. What are we gonna do? And

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Speaker 1: your mom just deadpan says, he's not my dad. I

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Speaker 1: was to say, I was knocked off balance. She was like,

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Speaker 1: his birthday's coming up, we'll see him soon, and we'll

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Speaker 1: see him soon. I'm like, but I didn't even know

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Speaker 1: what to do because I assumed exactly right. But it's

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Speaker 1: really unbelievable. But happy early Father's Day to you, buddy.

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Speaker 1: And so yeah, I mean, it's so so. That is

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Speaker 1: coming this weekend. Next week, it'll be in Miami. Uh.

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Speaker 1: We will keep sending What's Right mail Bag at gmail

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Speaker 1: Fridays throughout the month. Not every Friday, but most Fridays.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get straight to voicemail, brought to you

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Speaker 1: Happy for Cam and happy for the Saints in his

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Speaker 1: future all of famer that should finish his career with

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Speaker 1: the Saints. Little bummed for me because I did think

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Speaker 1: he was a potential August chiefs addition to upgrade the

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Speaker 1: pass rush. But evidently not. Brennan Sorosby applies for the

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Speaker 1: NFL supplemental Draft. We didn't talk about that really on

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Speaker 1: this show at all. That's the right result here. His

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Speaker 1: career shouldn't be over for gambling repeatedly, but his college

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Speaker 1: football career obviously should be. And Darren Peterson only visiting

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Speaker 1: but a lot of how his amateur his college career

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Speaker 1: has been somewhat curious. Also evidently not evidently I knew it,

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Speaker 1: but my buddy Danny Parkins played Bethpage Black today, which

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Speaker 1: for him is one of the coolest things that's ever

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Speaker 1: happened to him. I can't imagine he shot under a

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Speaker 1: Danny's a good golfer. I'm gonna say he shot a

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Speaker 1: ninety two. I'm gonna give him huge benefit of the

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Speaker 1: doubt there, all right. Before we get to a absolutely

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Speaker 1: Week one of the World Cup, there was a parade

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Speaker 2: So huge paray today in New York for the Knicks

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Speaker 2: winning the finals. As I was watching that feed, I

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Speaker 2: for the doubters. Knick's owner James Dolan came out and

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Speaker 2: go into that second apron. Do you have any last

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, So first let me deal with what Dolan said,

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Speaker 1: and then I you know, some kind of final thoughts

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Speaker 1: really disagree with James Dolan, So I want people to

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Speaker 1: understand because I think the second apron is something of

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Speaker 1: So there is the salary cap, which almost every team

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Speaker 1: the thresholds, and being over the second apron comes with

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Speaker 1: be totally untenable. But dipping over the second apron for

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Speaker 1: a year while you are contending for a championship is

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Speaker 1: Leon Roseen world Wide West are able to convince James

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Speaker 1: So what does that mean? If you are in the

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Speaker 1: a free agent that's six million bucks. That's fine because

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Speaker 1: you'd be running this team back. You wouldn't be able

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Speaker 1: to send out cash in a trade. That's fine because

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Speaker 1: You wouldn't be able to aggregate salaries in a trade,

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Speaker 1: so you send out two twenty million dollar players. Again

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Speaker 1: that that's fine because you wouldn't be trying to drastically

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Speaker 1: a trade, that would not be good. But the Boston

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Speaker 1: Celtics for a year were a second Apron team. I

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Speaker 1: That nothing cataclysmic happened to those teams. So I do

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Speaker 1: think that the Knicks should while they'll almost assuredly lose

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Speaker 1: Two they're still in the absolute heart of their contention window.

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Speaker 1: They just won the title, and I if I were

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Speaker 1: the fact that Towns and you saw it at the

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Speaker 1: Andrew Shaman had in the playoffs, which Duce had a

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Speaker 1: it's not now. As far as any last words about

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Speaker 1: Brunson just went out and did can you be the

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Speaker 1: update my fifty greatest players the last fifty years that

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Speaker 1: How you weigh that against zero frontline regular season accomplishments,

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Speaker 1: You know, it is I of the Beholder stuff, But

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Speaker 1: a more vocal member of Houston Rockets Twitter, and I

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Speaker 1: wish I could give the guy credit, but I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't remember I see his tweets all the time,

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Speaker 1: very vocal member of Rockets Twitter and is a big

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Speaker 1: James Harden fan. And paraphrasing what he said was James

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Speaker 1: Harden is unquestionably better at basketball than Jalen Brunson. But

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Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson. And the fact that that mindset not only exists,

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Speaker 1: James Harden fan, and he's saying, James Harden is clearly

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Speaker 1: meaning how much your skill correlates with what actually wins

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Speaker 1: So it is it's not that dissimilar to me too.

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Speaker 1: And everybody dunked on this guy. But while everybody was,

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Speaker 1: you know, dunking on this guy the Ringer, And again

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Speaker 1: I just gave Simmons credit. And if I next time,

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Speaker 1: despite my please that can we please have Lebron James

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Speaker 1: the latest Ringer Top one hundred, Kevin Durant is sixteen

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Speaker 1: and Lebron James is twenty, which is the exact same

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Speaker 1: logic of James Harden is better than Jalen Brunson. But

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Speaker 1: I'd rather have Jalen Brunson to win a playoff series.

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Speaker 1: It's the contradictory, unless, of course, what you're saying is

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Speaker 1: by better, I just mean who passes my own personal

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Speaker 1: term Dante DiVincenzo, why can't that be us? I so

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Speaker 1: I think that is the number one team that sees

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Speaker 1: this and gets, you know, excited about it. I also

430
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 1: do think that this is less about the nixt piece

431
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Speaker 1: of it and more about the Spurs piece of it.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if the Nuggets watch this and we're like, Okay,

433
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Speaker 1: We've got a lot of working work to do to

434
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Speaker 1: make ourselves a fully formed team. But if we and

435
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Speaker 1: I bet they felt this way going into the playoffs,

436
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 1: if we get in a series against San Antonio, we

437
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 1: like Jokers' chances of leaning on Victor, wearing on Victor,

438
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 1: frustrating Victor, and over the course of two weeks, wearing

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Speaker 1: him out. And Victor does not yet have. Now again,

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Speaker 1: we'll see what he comes back with next year. But

441
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Speaker 1: Victor does not yet have enough of a refined post

442
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Speaker 1: game to really take advantage of Joker's defensive limitations. And

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Speaker 1: so I think those two teams are the teams that

444
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Speaker 1: jump out to me more than anybody. I also think

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Speaker 1: that if I am a team that is considering getting

446
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Speaker 1: in the Yannis sweepstakes, I I think the way I

447
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:27,319
Speaker 1: saw Victor struggle with some physicality makes Yannis all the

448
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:33,760
Speaker 1: more attractive, the justin that Yannis is, you know, seven

449
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 1: feet tall, so much stronger than Victor. And again, I

450
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Speaker 1: am one of my number one storylines going into next

451
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Speaker 1: season is going to be can we be confident by

452
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Speaker 1: the postseason that like this, let me let me back up,

453
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 1: the Spurs are going to have to, over the course

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Speaker 1: of the right regular season figure out one of two things.

455
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Speaker 1: Are we good enough to win playoff games where Victor

456
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Speaker 1: winbin Yama is on the bench for sixteen fourteen to

457
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Speaker 1: sixteen minutes. Are we good enough to whether that be

458
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 1: let Dylan Harper run the show whatever it is. Are

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Speaker 1: we good enough to tread water in a quarter to

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Speaker 1: a quarter and a half without Victor if so then

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Speaker 1: we should be in great shape because we know Victor

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Speaker 1: can give you thirty two awesome minutes awesome minutes. If

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Speaker 1: they're not going to be good enough for that, then

464
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 1: what they're going to have to be is what they're

465
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Speaker 1: gonna have to do is build Victor up over the

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Speaker 1: course of the season to where him playing forty forty

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Speaker 1: two at times forty four high intensity minutes is something

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Speaker 1: he's able to do. And that might be defensively not

469
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Speaker 1: having him out of the three point line as much,

470
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 1: offensively not having him out at three point line as much.

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Speaker 1: It might mean some of that, but that is Victors

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Speaker 1: as much as people are talking about Victor developing a

473
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Speaker 1: post game, Yes, Victor developing a go to offensive move

474
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Speaker 1: is critical, but the most critical thing has to do

475
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Speaker 1: with stamina and strength that he's got to work on

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Speaker 1: and for the rest of the league. If I am,

477
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 1: if I'm the rest of the league, that as much

478
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Speaker 1: as the Knicks team build is something I'm you know,

479
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 1: is I'm taking away from these finals. The other team

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Speaker 1: that's got to look at these finals and really challenge

481
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 1: their guys is Oklahoma City, and by their guys, I

482
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:16,359
Speaker 1: mean chet in that it's got to be listen, man,

483
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:26,880
Speaker 1: this guy just got what he did to you. The Knicks,

484
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 1: to a different degree, were able to do to him. Now,

485
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 1: the Knicks weren't able to make him totally ineffective, like

486
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 1: Chet was wholly and entirely ineffective, but as far as

487
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 1: make him question himself and wear him down and you know,

488
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:43,799
Speaker 1: make him a lesser version of himself, they did that

489
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:47,399
Speaker 1: to him. He psychologically just got Chet out of the game,

490
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:50,799
Speaker 1: and Chet never came back from it. And I think

491
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 1: some of that for Chet is one of the underrated

492
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 1: things about the Victor Chet piece. Everybody talked myself included

493
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Speaker 1: about the you know, the rivalry. But the other reason

494
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:06,440
Speaker 1: I think Victor dominated Chets so much is Chet's the

495
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 1: only big in the league. He's stronger than So it's like, oh,

496
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Speaker 1: I I'm taller than everybody, but this is also someone

497
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 1: that I can push around when he can't push anybody

498
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Speaker 1: else around. So that's on Chet to try to get

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Speaker 1: a little stronger. All right, Well, I know we have

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Speaker 1: some follow ups here, so go ahead.

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Speaker 2: Do you think it's more important to have the secret

502
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:30,759
Speaker 2: recipe or is it all about your path and health

503
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:31,920
Speaker 2: in these postseason runs?

504
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 1: So health is the most important thing. Like there and

505
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:43,160
Speaker 1: the Knicks not underrated, but a very important part of

506
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 1: the Knicks winning fifteen of sixteen playoff games is aside

507
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 1: from og missing a couple games with a hamstring, they

508
00:38:51,040 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 1: were spectacularly healthy. So that's the most important thing. The

509
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 1: next most important thing is the team coming together. What

510
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 1: you're talking about is the secret recipe, like the team

511
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 1: uniting as one and truly form fully bonding. Path is

512
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 1: not always but usually overrated because you're very rarely are

513
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 1: you going to have just a gilded path to a title.

514
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 1: There's going to be a really hard team or a

515
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Speaker 1: Sometimes you get very lucky with every team you play

516
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 1: being injured, but that's pretty rare. That is historically, that's

517
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:51,359
Speaker 1: like once every ten years that a team you know,

518
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 1: just nobody they play is whole. You seem like you

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00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:57,799
Speaker 1: disagree there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, yeah, I do. I do think because

521
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Speaker 2: I think I was tying it back into football, but

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Speaker 2: I do think the path matters a lot, And like

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Speaker 2: when you see people in the timing of when you

524
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Speaker 2: see them, I.

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Speaker 1: Think that so I think that matters probably more in

526
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Speaker 1: football than in the NBA. I also because I just

527
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Speaker 1: think that it's very rare that a team that's undeserved

528
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Speaker 1: finds a way to win for seven game series. And

529
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Speaker 1: so I like, I don't think I so, I just

530
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Speaker 1: think paths slightly overrated. I think health is underrated almost

531
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Speaker 1: And but the bonding of a team together, which is

532
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Speaker 1: what you saw over the Knicks over the course of

533
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:58,759
Speaker 1: the playoffs, is a wildly underrated piece of this. Uh

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Speaker 1: do you have other follow ups to do?

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Speaker 2: Where would you rank this Knicks drout amongst all time droughts?

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00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:09,360
Speaker 1: Well, the Cubs in the Red Sox are the most

537
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:12,879
Speaker 1: famous like droughts, and those both ended in the last

538
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:16,759
Speaker 1: twenty years. I guess the Red Sox ended twenty two

539
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 1: years ago. Other than that, I know like the Browns

540
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:27,399
Speaker 1: have never won a Super Bowl, the Lions have never

541
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:30,160
Speaker 1: been to a Super Bowl. The Bills and Vikings have

542
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 1: been to four each and never won. I understand there

543
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 1: are teams that have had longer than fifty three years,

544
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:44,279
Speaker 1: but it really doesn't feel like there are higher profile

545
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 1: teams market that have had droughts like this, not just

546
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 1: big market, but just like the Knicks have always been

547
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:56,840
Speaker 1: an important franchise that have always played in the NBA's

548
00:41:56,920 --> 00:42:01,640
Speaker 1: most important building, and so I think that as far

549
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 1: as sports drafts of my lifetime, it would go Cubs won,

550
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:13,959
Speaker 1: Red Sox two, Knicks three. And for a long time,

551
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 1: it looked like the Knicks were never ever going to

552
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 1: break it, like they just it seemed like Dolan was

553
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 1: just a terrible owner, that they were they were not

554
00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 1: going to have the right leadership they were always going

555
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:35,360
Speaker 1: And I think that's part of the reason so many

556
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 1: of us scoffed somewhat at the Brunson signing when it happened,

557
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 1: was we were just jaded that the Knicks consistently make

558
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:47,640
Speaker 1: bad signings and that's what it felt like they had

559
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:51,279
Speaker 1: done for years and years. All Right, one more here

560
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:53,479
Speaker 1: before we get to the US men's national team.

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Speaker 2: Do you have a way too early twenty twenty seven championship?

562
00:42:56,640 --> 00:43:01,880
Speaker 1: Kick? So, I believe the Celtics are gonna get Yannis

563
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:11,280
Speaker 1: and you hope so, yes, right, Yeah, if they get Yannis,

564
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Speaker 1: I'll pick them.

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00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 2: I mean, you could nearly claim that they have the

566
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:17,080
Speaker 2: two best players in the East of the same team almost.

567
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Speaker 2: I don't know what's going to be going on with

568
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:20,920
Speaker 2: Embiide oh Jaln Brunson is over there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was about to say, it's that was very

570
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:29,400
Speaker 1: that you saying, I don't know what's going on with embiids.

571
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:32,320
Speaker 1: One of the nicest embiids not in the discussion anymore. Sadly,

572
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:37,920
Speaker 1: ha Leer Burton could get back in that discussion. Donovan

573
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:42,279
Speaker 1: Mitchell is in the vicinity of it. Uh is there?

574
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 1: But as far as like a sixer, yeah, Caide's in

575
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:50,520
Speaker 1: the vicinity of it. Max is in the vicinity of it.

576
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:56,200
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, the three best players right now

577
00:43:56,239 --> 00:44:03,799
Speaker 1: in the Eastern Conference are Jannis, Brunson, and Tatum. Those

578
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:07,399
Speaker 1: are the three best guys. Fourth best is probably Kate

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Speaker 1: and fifth best is probably fifth is Donovan Mitchell. Sixth

580
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 1: is Jalen Brown. So you already have, you know, two

581
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Speaker 1: of the best. But I the other reason I like

582
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Speaker 1: the Celtics trading for Yannis so much is it would

583
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:30,239
Speaker 1: force a stylistic change. They would have to become a

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Speaker 1: less three point reliant because right because that's just not

585
00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:38,759
Speaker 1: who Yannis is going to be.

586
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Speaker 2: It would be funny if they just turn into a

587
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 2: knockdown three point shooter.

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00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:45,919
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well that would be yeah, that'd be unbelievable.

589
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:47,800
Speaker 1: Joe Mazu is like I don't care if you're shooting

590
00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:52,880
Speaker 1: twenty six percent, you're shooting seven a game. So I,

591
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:57,280
Speaker 1: once the free agency dust settles, will do more twenty

592
00:44:57,360 --> 00:45:00,839
Speaker 1: twenty seven NBA stuff. But where Yannis goes is going

593
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:03,120
Speaker 1: to have a lot to do with how I feel

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00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:05,919
Speaker 1: about this. All right, before we get to the US

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Speaker 1: do Team USA here, and then for tomorrow's show, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna do a recap of Week one of the World

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Speaker 1: Cup outside of Team USA, So we'll do it for

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Speaker 1: if you're listening right now. Uh, we'll have an extra

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Speaker 1: episode come out tomorrow that'll just be you know, match

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Speaker 1: day one of the World Cup thoughts on where we

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Speaker 1: stand on all of it and how much more plasma

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Speaker 1: my losing moneyline favorite bets. But let's talk US men's

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Speaker 1: national team here.

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Speaker 2: The US men's national team exceeded all expectations in their

620
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Speaker 2: four to one win over Paraguay. Now we face Australia,

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Speaker 2: which is also coming off a nice one of their own.

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Speaker 2: Are you ready to raise or raise the bar on

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00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:40,719
Speaker 2: the expectations or do we still have more to proove

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00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:41,239
Speaker 2: coming up?

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Speaker 1: Uh? And I don't know if we have some hard

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Speaker 1: rock bets. There we go, there's our hard rock bet signage.

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Speaker 1: I love that. No, I think you can raise the

628
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Speaker 1: bar in the expectations, but I also want I want

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Speaker 1: to And by the time you hear this, you know

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00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:04,799
Speaker 1: they might have played the game against Australia. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is coming out. We're doing this live on Thursday.

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Speaker 1: If you're watching us on YouTube right now. We appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: I know some of you guys obviously listen the next

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Speaker 1: day in that game's Friday afternoon. But I there's a

635
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:27,040
Speaker 1: lot I want to get into here. Okay, Christian Bullissic,

636
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:32,520
Speaker 1: this is his moment. He was awesome in the first

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Speaker 1: half of the game against Paraguay and they got kicked

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Speaker 1: in the calf and didn't play after halftime. He had

639
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:43,600
Speaker 1: been kicked in the calf previously and been dealing with

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Speaker 1: like some calf soreness, and now throughout this week he's

641
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Speaker 1: been practicing off to the side. There's some anxiety about

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Speaker 1: whether or not he's playing. These are the biggest games

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Speaker 1: of polistics life, and I understand trying to be cautious,

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Speaker 1: and I understand in theory the idea of well, let's

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Speaker 1: have Christian, you know, a little extra time to then

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Speaker 1: make sure he's at one hundred percent of the knockout

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Speaker 1: round games. Guys, the difference in the US chances of

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Speaker 1: going on a real run if they win the group

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Speaker 1: versus what if they finish second in the group is

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Speaker 1: so massive. If you win, And this is the part

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Speaker 1: that I'm not sure people have really grasped and It's

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Speaker 1: hard to explain because there's so many ifs associated with

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Speaker 1: who could finish second in other groups, et cetera. But

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Speaker 1: if you win, what we know for a fact is this,

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Speaker 1: if you win Group D in the round of thirty two,

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Speaker 1: you play a third place team. Now, that third place

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Speaker 1: team can come from Group B, E, F, I, or J,

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Speaker 1: And we obviously don't know who the third place teams

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Speaker 1: are going to be in all those groups. But barring

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Speaker 1: some shocking turn of events like let me see if

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Speaker 1: there's even a you know, Argentina all of a sudden

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Speaker 1: falling to third in their group, the third place team

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Speaker 1: that you face in the round of thirty two, if

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Speaker 1: you win the group, you are going to be a

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Speaker 1: big favorite over if you win that. If you win

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Speaker 1: that group or that knockout round game, then you play

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Speaker 1: the first place team from maybe the the group with

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Speaker 1: the weakest potential first place team and Belgium. If again,

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Speaker 1: if the US wins Group D, they in the round

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Speaker 1: of thirty two will be playing a third place team.

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Speaker 1: They then would be playing, in all likelihood, the winner

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Speaker 1: of Group G, which would either be Egypt, New Zealand, Iran,

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Speaker 1: or Belgium. Belgium was the favorite, but Belgium just had

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Speaker 1: a one to one draw with Egypt and hasn't looked,

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Speaker 1: you know, in its one game, didn't look like world beaters,

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Speaker 1: and that would put you in position to make your

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Speaker 1: first quarter final in or your second quarterfinal in team

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Speaker 1: USA history. Now is not the time, under any circumstances

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Speaker 1: to be you know, I don't even want to say resting,

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Speaker 1: but taking it easy. You go beat Australia and you

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Speaker 1: potentially could have the group locked up tomorrow. If the

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Speaker 1: US beats Australia tomorrow and gets to six points and

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Speaker 1: Paraguay ties or beats Turkey A you lock the group up,

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Speaker 1: it's over, it's done with. And the benefit of that

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Speaker 1: again that I this is hard to do and I

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Speaker 1: hope it's not bad podcasting so to speak, but I

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Speaker 1: just want to explain to the audience, like the difference

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Speaker 1: in the paths if you will, if you finish second

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Speaker 1: in the group, if your Team USA, then in your

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Speaker 1: first in your round of thirty two game, you're playing

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Speaker 1: the second place team from that Belgium group, So Belgium, Egypt,

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Speaker 1: New Zealand or Iran, and in your round of sixteen game,

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Speaker 1: you are almost assuredly playing Argentina, Argentina in the round

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Speaker 1: of sixteen. Probably good night, good luck, another round of

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Speaker 1: sixteen knockout for the US. Conversely, if you win your group,

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Speaker 1: you're playing a third place team in the round of

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Speaker 1: thirty two, probably Belgium or Egypt in the round of sixteen.

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Speaker 1: And then if you want to get really ambitious and

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Speaker 1: start thinking, you know, really big thoughts, all right, then

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Speaker 1: who would you be playing in the round of eight, Well,

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Speaker 1: the highest ranking team in that part of the bracket

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Speaker 1: would be the winner of Group H, which group hes

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Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia, Cape Veradae, Uruguay and Spain. Spain, which all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, you know, has played one game, doesn't

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Speaker 1: look unbeatable. You really actually have a path if you

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Speaker 1: win your group, which is why you should. They should

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Speaker 1: be over the moon about how they played in the

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Speaker 1: first game, but you cannot lose that momentum. By Christian

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Speaker 1: Polisic being overly cautious with this calf injury, I can't

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Speaker 1: I can't stress this enough. I Am going to be

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Speaker 1: beside myself if he doesn't give it a go. Friday,

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Speaker 1: he got kicked in the calf twice. They were very

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Speaker 1: cautious with him in the Gold Cup to much to

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Speaker 1: the dismay of Pochettino, the coach, Balligan could be one

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Speaker 1: of the breakout stars of the tournament. The team is healthy,

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Speaker 1: it's got this massive home field advantage. They absolutely have

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Speaker 1: a shot at going on a real run and we'll

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Speaker 1: see how the bracket falls. But what they do control

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Speaker 1: is they can win the group tomorrow by beating Australia

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Speaker 1: and having Paraguay take a point off Turkey A. It's

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Speaker 1: just over then, and then you can be as cautious

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Speaker 1: with guys as you want. By the way I demands

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Speaker 1: on the game tomorrow, I do think they're gonna win.

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Speaker 1: I believe. I think Pallistic's gonna play. I think they're

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Speaker 1: gonna win, and I think we're going to be thinking

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Speaker 1: really big potential thoughts about how deep this team can go. Again,

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Speaker 1: I can't overstate and how fortuitous, of all the potential

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Speaker 1: group winners, the group that happened to have the cleanest

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Speaker 1: potential to the round of eight is the winner of

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Speaker 1: Group D, and the winner of Group D just happened.

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Speaker 1: Group D happened to be the United States group. So

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Speaker 1: you know that that is my general takeaway going into

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Speaker 1: the Australia game. Here's what we're gonna do. We're going

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Speaker 1: to end this show here and then we will come

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Speaker 1: back with a quick show tomorrow giving thoughts on match

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Speaker 1: day one across the World Club Cup with Portugal's Ronaldo problem,

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Speaker 1: the stars being absolute super duper stars. All of that

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Speaker 1: quick World Cup show that will come to you guys tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: But we wanted to get the US men's national team

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Speaker 1: stuff in here because they play tomorrow. So great job

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