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Speaker 2: Without further ado, that's what the game's all about.

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Speaker 3: All of a sudden, you feel like you can't miss.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna leave it up there.

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Speaker 4: You couldn't make that if you try that again. Absolutely.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Action Network Podcast NBA Edition. I'm your host,

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Speaker 2: Matt Moore, senior NBA writer for the Action Network. Join

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Speaker 2: me today, Raheem Palmer and Brandon Anderson. We've got a

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Speaker 2: full sligh for you guys today, talking about all sorts

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Speaker 2: of stuff, futures games. We'll do our picks at the

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Speaker 2: end for Wednesday night, we're gonna go back to the future.

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Speaker 2: Do you have a crazy feels conversation I'd like to

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Speaker 2: have with you?

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Speaker 4: Guys.

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Speaker 2: Will get hit all that, but first let's get into

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Speaker 2: our Marquee. Guys. Marquee this week is the Brooklynnets dot

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Speaker 2: dot dot question mark after the Nets without Kyrie Irving

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Speaker 2: without Kevin Durant Slide by the Phoenix Suns. I lost

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Speaker 2: a considerable amount of money on that game. I had

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Speaker 2: the Suns a lot on that spot. I thought it

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Speaker 2: was a great spot for them. I thought that it

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Speaker 2: wasn't because of the injuries. I just thought it was

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Speaker 2: a really great spot. I was following like a trend.

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Speaker 2: I like the matchup. Everything looked great and the Nets

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Speaker 2: Nets are finding a little bit of footing here collectively

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Speaker 2: as a team. Steve Nash said, it's all vibes right now.

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Speaker 2: We had been on the show and we talked about

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Speaker 2: how bad the defense was, and we talked we did

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Speaker 2: the Super Bowl playoff series a couple weeks ago, and

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Speaker 2: we had the Celtics upsetting the Nets because of their

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Speaker 2: that since then, an idea has been rattling around my head.

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Speaker 2: And Brandon, let's start with you on this. The Bucks.

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Speaker 2: We all know we're kind of nervous about going in

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Speaker 2: on because they've lacked defensive flexibility. They are switching more now.

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Speaker 2: Aertonham had a great piece on The Athletic about that

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Speaker 2: they're switching more now. But they lost the Raptors again

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Speaker 2: last night. They do not have many good wins on

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Speaker 2: where the Bucks have an uninspiring regular season and put

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Speaker 2: it together in the playoffs. That'd be a cool story.

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Speaker 2: But I think at this point we're all kind of like,

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Speaker 2: I don't really trust the Bucks. But another reason is

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Speaker 2: because the Bucks, as good as Chris Milton is, once

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Speaker 2: another creator that can get his own shot. That was

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Speaker 2: be that guy. The Nets only have those guys. It's

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Speaker 2: Kyrie Irving, It's Kevin Durant, James Harden, and it's Taken

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Speaker 2: In that regard, they seem built for the playoffs if

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Speaker 2: even if their defense is bad, if they just are

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Speaker 2: able to find enough ways to whist them, much like

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Speaker 2: beyond that, I've already I've taken positions on Lakers Nets

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Speaker 2: sixty five at FanDuel. How does this line of thinking

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Speaker 4: Random?

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Speaker 5: I think it makes sense. What we keep coming back to,

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Speaker 5: It's a matchup thing with them Milwaukee. I just feel

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Speaker 2: Know, if we take out the West, we just look

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Speaker 2: And in those late game situations when the Sixers are

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Speaker 2: have specifically what the Clippers do have. They have a

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Speaker 2: They had nobody to go up against Jokic h They've

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Speaker 2: the Sixers just gonna wind up being a regular season team?

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Speaker 4: Is this Nets team.

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Speaker 2: Maybe the one that's better built for playoff basketball?

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Speaker 6: See, I'm gonna be honest with you. I think the

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Speaker 6: And like last year's Lakers, this Sixers team can't shoot.

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Speaker 6: They're twenty six and three point shooting percentage. That's one

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Speaker 6: And then when you combine the fact that they don't

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Speaker 6: you have a team that's, you know, good on defense,

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Speaker 6: but it's just not enough in the league in which

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Speaker 6: So I'm just you know, as much as I like

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Speaker 6: I gave out, I think I gave out the Sixers

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Speaker 4: I'm not optimistic about this team. And then also I'm

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Speaker 4: not a big fan of Doctor.

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Speaker 6: I mean, I've been stating for a while and I

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Speaker 3: Raheem Palmer is falling out of love.

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Speaker 6: Like when I look at Doc Rivers, he's like a

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Speaker 4: Or without a doubt.

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Speaker 2: Do your legs get tired from all the victory laps?

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Speaker 2: You run like you just I just gotta know, like

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Speaker 6: I never get tired. I have a Jordan like competitiveness.

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Speaker 2: I hear you. I hear you. I would say this though,

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Speaker 2: That's that's my biggest concern. So, Brandon, is there any

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Speaker 2: who's really undervalued here? Is there a team?

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Speaker 6: No, you got one, Jesus, I don't have.

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Speaker 2: I mean I think waiting for the team. I'm waiting

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Speaker 2: it's not the Raptors. I thought maybe one of you

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Speaker 4: There's a little value in the six Ers six to one.

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Speaker 6: I mean, ye, yeah, that's probably the best value to

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Speaker 6: Ben Simmons can guard Kevin Durant. The nets are so

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Speaker 2: So two years in a row, as part of my preseason,

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Speaker 2: They play a lot more like bet. Their offense is

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Speaker 5: There is a little value. But the Pacers are the

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Speaker 5: know I love on my futures. I love to play

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Speaker 5: I could get there. I could see that, and then

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Speaker 5: Maybe you're saying, well, if they made the Eastern Conference

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Speaker 5: You never know, it's the NBA. You know, maybe it's

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Speaker 5: But that's just at the end of the day. I mean,

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Speaker 5: You if we could play some odds to make the

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Speaker 5: Eastern Conference finals, great, show me the Pacers odds. That's

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Speaker 5: the team I'd probably try to talk us into. But

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Speaker 5: there's not a make the Conference finals odds and I

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Speaker 2: So before move on, my favorite bet from preseason that

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Speaker 2: Clippers over Nets, Lakers, Overnets, Lakers over Sixers, any of

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Speaker 4: What did that pay?

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Speaker 2: Plus three twenty?

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Speaker 4: Wow?

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Speaker 3: Nice?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you still check right there.

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Speaker 5: Let me ask you guys this question about the nuts. Obviously,

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Speaker 5: Joe Harris is the fourth guy, the guy that is

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Speaker 5: He's gonna hit shots outside of those three, and Joe Harris,

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Speaker 5: Who do you trust on this team?

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Speaker 2: Andre Drummond. I'm trusting Jeff Green. I gotta ask you this. Okay,

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Speaker 2: But Jeff Green, I gotta ask you, Okay, what teams

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Speaker 4: Sixers like you played against the Celtics.

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Speaker 2: Okay, you can play it against the Celtics, right, because

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Speaker 2: about like Kyrie irving on Tristan Thompson, like Tristan will score,

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Speaker 2: And I don't trust the Nets to have the kind

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Speaker 2: I want a big guy on the bonus at all times.

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Speaker 4: I agree with that.

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Speaker 2: I do serious. I think you'll want to be in

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Speaker 6: He up there, I definitely think it's match up to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you can do it versus the Clippers, Like, that's

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Speaker 2: Clippers is extremely valuable because all you're trying to do

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Speaker 4: So that makes sense.

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Speaker 2: which I want to go back to the future. First up,

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Speaker 2: you're gonna bet MVP even if you want to take

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Speaker 2: it's a three way race with Jokic, Embiid and Lebron,

432
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Speaker 2: Lebron's gonna be in that conversation and he's gonna swipe votes.

433
00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:45,439
Speaker 2: This may be one where the point totals wind up

434
00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:47,960
Speaker 2: mattering for second place votes as well, because I think

435
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Speaker 2: that there's gonna be a lot of Jokic Lebron second

436
00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:55,760
Speaker 2: and Embiid Lebron's second votes along with a lot of

437
00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:59,080
Speaker 2: Lebron first votes. So even if the field gets divvied up,

438
00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:03,040
Speaker 2: I think On is in a pretty good position to

439
00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:06,720
Speaker 2: take the award based off of the voting totals. So

440
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Speaker 2: I really wish that I had taken yes Rahem Palmer's

441
00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:14,119
Speaker 2: advice and gotten Lebron in preseason as the winner. I

442
00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:18,000
Speaker 2: underestimated how much he wanted to win this. His minutes

443
00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:21,600
Speaker 2: in games played is crazy. At age thirty six with

444
00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:25,760
Speaker 2: a shortened off season. I don't understand why he's doing this,

445
00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:29,359
Speaker 2: Like I get he wants the MVP. It seemed shortsighted.

446
00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:31,840
Speaker 2: But with eighty now out for a few weeks with

447
00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:35,199
Speaker 2: this calf strain that's related to the Achilles, they're going

448
00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:37,840
Speaker 2: to be patient after that two week window to get

449
00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:39,920
Speaker 2: him back. They've already said they're gonna be patient beyond that.

450
00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:44,080
Speaker 2: If Lebron carries them, that's going to be a pretty

451
00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:48,280
Speaker 2: solid nail in the MVP. Coffin Brandon your thoughts.

452
00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:50,360
Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree. That was my first thought when when

453
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Speaker 5: the Davis news came out, or even before the news

454
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Speaker 5: was official, And I think too, you know, the immediate

455
00:20:57,440 --> 00:20:59,920
Speaker 5: comeback is, well, they've got a tough schedule the next

456
00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:02,879
Speaker 5: eight or nine games without him. You've got to figure

457
00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:05,480
Speaker 5: Davis probably is gonna rest a little bit more often

458
00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:07,720
Speaker 5: in the second half too, just as they're being careful.

459
00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:10,440
Speaker 5: But you can make the flip side argument too, because

460
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Speaker 5: a tough schedule still has to face Lebron, and suddenly

461
00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:17,119
Speaker 5: you got Lebron and the rest of the not Anthony

462
00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:19,720
Speaker 5: Davis is going up against you know, the Nets or

463
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Speaker 5: someone like that on National TV, and Bron puts up

464
00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:25,359
Speaker 5: like a forty ten to eight and takes over in

465
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Speaker 5: the final two minutes. That's a game that people are

466
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Speaker 5: going to hang the MVP case on all season where

467
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Speaker 5: it's like, hey, remember that game, MVP. Lebron still got

468
00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:36,119
Speaker 5: it even as the oldest start in the league. So

469
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Speaker 5: I think I think, if anything, Davis's absence creates the

470
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Speaker 5: possibility for moments. And it's not like we need more

471
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Speaker 5: Lebron moments, but it's always good to have an MVP

472
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Speaker 5: moment or two in the season that that one thing

473
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Speaker 5: you can come back to and really too on the

474
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Speaker 5: jump the other day they're telling about it, and with

475
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Speaker 5: Lebron the case, you know, normally we're so tuned. MVP

476
00:21:57,880 --> 00:21:59,479
Speaker 5: has to be a top two seed, it has to

477
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Speaker 5: be the stats, this sort of thing. I just don't

478
00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:04,040
Speaker 5: think any of that applies to Lebron this year.

479
00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:08,440
Speaker 3: Lebron James oldest starting player in the NBA.

480
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Speaker 5: It's it's Lebron because everyone wants it to be Lebron,

481
00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:14,800
Speaker 5: and because he's still the best player alive. I'm not

482
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Speaker 5: saying he's not those other things. But Okay, so the

483
00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:20,400
Speaker 5: Lakers lose four games out of the next seven, Oh well,

484
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Speaker 5: Anthony Davis says, like there's there's obvious built in excuses

485
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Speaker 5: I just don't think that that's going to matter that much.

486
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Speaker 5: So the Lakers don't win the division and the Clippers

487
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Speaker 5: do it. Well, Yeah, but Davis missed those three weeks.

488
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Speaker 5: I feel like it almost builds in an easy out

489
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Speaker 5: for the one sort of case you might have been

490
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Speaker 5: able to make against him. And I still I'm not

491
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Speaker 5: sure that I love buying it at this price. I

492
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Speaker 5: think the window is gone. I think that at near

493
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Speaker 5: fifty to fifty, I'm not sure there's a ton of

494
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Speaker 5: value to me. But at the same time, for this exercise,

495
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Speaker 5: I looked at it. I stared at it. I try

496
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Speaker 5: to find value anywhere else. This is the time to

497
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Speaker 5: buy the value elsewhere. If there is someone you like,

498
00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:59,080
Speaker 5: because with Lebron's odds moving, this is the time to

499
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Speaker 5: get them. I couldn't find anyone. I just don't know.

500
00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:04,159
Speaker 5: I don't know who the who else the MVP is.

501
00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:07,359
Speaker 5: As Homer Simpson said, the two sweetest words in the

502
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Speaker 5: English language default, I think by default it's Lebron.

503
00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:15,600
Speaker 2: What the two sweetiest words in English language d fulte,

504
00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:16,800
Speaker 2: d fute.

505
00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:19,080
Speaker 5: D bt. And also it's Lebron.

506
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Speaker 4: He should be the MVP.

507
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:21,600
Speaker 5: He always should be the MVP.

508
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Speaker 2: That was a great Simpsons drop in a pretty good argument.

509
00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:25,679
Speaker 2: I do want to do one one more thing here,

510
00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:27,879
Speaker 2: because so we're looking at EV, so what do we do.

511
00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:30,320
Speaker 2: The probability is for Lebron right now, I'm using the

512
00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:33,760
Speaker 2: the EV calculator on Action Network. So he's plus one

513
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:36,400
Speaker 2: fifty at MGM. Okay, I think he's probably at sixty

514
00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:37,720
Speaker 2: percent right now. Do you agree?

515
00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:38,520
Speaker 4: Yeah?

516
00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:41,119
Speaker 6: I mean that implies. I mean in plus one fifty

517
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Speaker 6: that's get break even rate. It's forty percent, So were

518
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Speaker 6: we still were?

519
00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:48,960
Speaker 2: I agree, there's probably not great value there, but it

520
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,359
Speaker 2: may be higher than this. Though it may be a

521
00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:53,560
Speaker 2: lot higher, especially if fat the sixers are going downhill.

522
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I still feel like there might be value.

523
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Speaker 6: I'm gonna I'm actually gonna be publishing my MVP model.

524
00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:01,679
Speaker 6: So I'm going to run it for this year's numbers,

525
00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:03,520
Speaker 6: and then maybe we'll have that together for next week

526
00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:07,040
Speaker 6: and I can actually determine, you know, what is the

527
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Speaker 6: exact probability of him winning, just based on my numbers.

528
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Speaker 5: If you maybe put money on it, I'm not sure

529
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:15,640
Speaker 5: I would do this, but I think that got instinct.

530
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Speaker 5: I think I'm still taking the field versus Lebron. I

531
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Speaker 5: mean that I would still put Lebron below fifty percent,

532
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Speaker 5: not over, which lines up with what I said that

533
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Speaker 5: I don't think that there's great value at where he's

534
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Speaker 5: at right now. I don't know how much lower. I'm

535
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Speaker 5: not gonna feel great about it. I'm gonna be shaking

536
00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:32,600
Speaker 5: in my boots waiting all season. I know how the

537
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,159
Speaker 5: voters are going to go. I like the argument you had,

538
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:38,000
Speaker 5: Matt about the second place votes. It all makes sense.

539
00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,840
Speaker 5: It just it doesn't feel quite right. It seems like

540
00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:44,359
Speaker 5: it makes the most sense. But someone is going to

541
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Speaker 5: make a run at it. I just don't know who

542
00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:46,840
Speaker 5: the someone is right now.

543
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Speaker 6: I think this week is key because when you look

544
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Speaker 6: at these matchups, I mean, the Lakers have the Nets

545
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,840
Speaker 6: on Thursday, they have the Heat on Saturday, then they

546
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Speaker 6: have the Wizards a little reprieve, then they got they

547
00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:01,840
Speaker 6: got the Jazz next Wednesday, and they have the Blazers

548
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:02,679
Speaker 6: and Warriors.

549
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,760
Speaker 2: So this stretch of games right here, you know, we.

550
00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:08,520
Speaker 6: Could see Lebron either go from plus one fifty to

551
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:11,399
Speaker 6: minus two fifty, or we could see Lebron.

552
00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:13,360
Speaker 4: Go from plus one fifty up to you know, plus

553
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:15,000
Speaker 4: you know, four or five hundred.

554
00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 2: This stretch is really going to determine things.

555
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:18,920
Speaker 6: So it's kind of like, if you want to get

556
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:22,800
Speaker 6: on on Lebron, you're basically making a par related you

557
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:25,040
Speaker 6: know that he's going to the Lakers going to be

558
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:27,399
Speaker 6: successful over this next stretch of games.

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Speaker 2: All right, Brandon, what's your back in the future this week?

560
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Speaker 5: So I'm going back to the wall. You guys mentioned

561
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:33,680
Speaker 5: it earlier, and this is one that I actually did

562
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 5: play before the season. But I am still thinking that

563
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:40,480
Speaker 5: the Miami Heat are not going to make the playoffs,

564
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:42,240
Speaker 5: or at least that I like the odds on them

565
00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:44,480
Speaker 5: to not make the playoffs. That was at plus twelve

566
00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:48,480
Speaker 5: hundred before the season. I recommended it. Then something smelled

567
00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:52,240
Speaker 5: off about Jimmy Butler, just knowing his injury history and

568
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:55,640
Speaker 5: the mileage that's on him, the Thibodeau factor from his history,

569
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Speaker 5: and Butler is back now. As a side note, I

570
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:01,160
Speaker 5: think that Butller should be in the All Star conversation.

571
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,240
Speaker 5: He's been fantastic when he does play, even though I

572
00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:05,560
Speaker 5: know he's missed a bunch of games. Is if Butler

573
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 5: and Bam are playing and healthy the rest of this season,

574
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Speaker 5: then I think Mimmy makes the playoffs. But right now

575
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:14,960
Speaker 5: Miami has seems to me to have a pretty low

576
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:17,520
Speaker 5: chance of getting into the top five seeds. There's five

577
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 5: teams in the East that are pretty safe. There is

578
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:23,040
Speaker 5: a nice looking sixth seed that guarantees them a playoff spot,

579
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Speaker 5: but in all likelihood, if they can't get there, now

580
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:29,280
Speaker 5: you're in the playoff play in games and then who knows,

581
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 5: And I just I can close my eyes and imagine

582
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:35,919
Speaker 5: the scenario we're in a one game playoff or maybe

583
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 5: back to back playoff games that you know, Gordon Hayward

584
00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 5: and the Hornet. So I don't know, it sounds ridiculous,

585
00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:45,240
Speaker 5: but I can imagine it for a game where the

586
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 5: heat it just wasn't their season and we all do

587
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:50,680
Speaker 5: the post morning. Yeah, it just never felt right all year.

588
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:53,800
Speaker 5: The defense never came together, they didn't have the scoring.

589
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:57,400
Speaker 5: The Duncan Robinson thing is not there. I don't think

590
00:26:57,440 --> 00:26:59,520
Speaker 5: that like they should beat the teams that they would

591
00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:00,840
Speaker 5: play in the play games, but I think they're going

592
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 5: to be in the playing games right now. Still, they

593
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:06,200
Speaker 5: are plus three fifty to miss the playoffs. I still

594
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 5: think that there's real value there. And even with Jimmy Butler,

595
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,840
Speaker 5: they're eight and seven without three and nine. Eight and

596
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 5: seven's not great guys. Eight and seven should like in

597
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 5: the in the East. I guess that's a playoff team.

598
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 5: But I just something feels off about this team, and

599
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:24,679
Speaker 5: I'm not convinced they're going to stay healthy. I just

600
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,000
Speaker 5: don't know that they're going to be there when the

601
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,880
Speaker 5: eight team playoffs start. So that's that's my future.

602
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 2: So I don't agree with you on this one. Let's

603
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:34,920
Speaker 2: assume the Raptors, who are digging themselves out of the

604
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,000
Speaker 2: hole that they built early in the season. Let's assume

605
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 2: the Raptors get into the top six at some position.

606
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 2: I think it's fair to say like they're going to

607
00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:43,080
Speaker 2: wind up being batter than New York. I think that's

608
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 2: fair new York's I think it is good, decent like there.

609
00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:48,720
Speaker 2: It's admirable that New York doesn't suck for once. But

610
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:51,399
Speaker 2: the Raptors are going to be better. They're just going

611
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 2: to work their way up there. And so the here,

612
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:56,679
Speaker 2: right now, right now, after everything, they're still in that

613
00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 2: ten spot right to get in the playoffs. Right now,

614
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:03,159
Speaker 2: let's Knicks and Raptors. Okay, let's say those two teams slipped.

615
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,400
Speaker 2: Because the Raptors are only half game back of the Knicks,

616
00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 2: the Heat would have to beat the Bulls, which I

617
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:10,200
Speaker 2: love the Bulls, you guys know, I love the Bulls.

618
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:11,960
Speaker 2: Of all of the bulls this year, they're not like

619
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:13,719
Speaker 2: the Bulls are not being Jimmy Butler in the playoffs,

620
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:14,400
Speaker 2: the payoff game.

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Speaker 4: That's not happening. That's not happening.

622
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 2: So then they have to beat the loser of Nick's Hornets.

623
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 2: Hornets probably win. And so you're you're asking me, can

624
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:29,400
Speaker 2: the Heat beat the Knicks? Can the And like what

625
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 2: Gordon Hayward are you guys watching Like it's fine, He's good,

626
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 2: but like, no, no, like this, I'm willing to accept

627
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 2: the Hornets are not terrible. I'm not completely giving up

628
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:43,360
Speaker 2: on the idea that they're terrible. I think they still

629
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:45,239
Speaker 2: might be terrible and just are in a good bump yer,

630
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:48,600
Speaker 2: But if I would not want to bet, even at

631
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 2: three and a half to one, that the Heat are

632
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 2: not gonna be able to get past even if Butler

633
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 2: was out like Bam Dragic and Hero, I think can

634
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 2: probably get through the gauntlet of the plane if the

635
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 2: player didn't exist. I think this obviously has killer value, right,

636
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 2: and the odds will be, you know, probably shorter. But

637
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 2: I just look at this and I go the heat

638
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 2: for as bad. I don't think that they're good this year,

639
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 2: but I do think they're still better than most of

640
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 2: these other teams. For what you're back to the future

641
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:17,480
Speaker 2: of this week.

642
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 6: I'm not quite sure if I actually want to put

643
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Speaker 6: this in, but I found it interesting because, I mean,

644
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Speaker 6: you mentioned it last week that Julius Randall was an

645
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 6: All Star, and I was looking last night and I

646
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,960
Speaker 6: mentioned it to some friends. I'm like, why can't Julius

647
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 6: Randall win Most Improved Player?

648
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 4: Oh?

649
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 2: Last night?

650
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 6: Last night it was plus sixty five to one. It's

651
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:38,880
Speaker 6: down to plus thirty to one. But you know, when

652
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 6: I look at the season he's having, He's twenty three,

653
00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 6: eleven and six, why can't he win. Jeremy Grant's having

654
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 6: a great season. Christian Woods he's been hurt, Jalen Brown's

655
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 6: been great. But to me, I think his eyes should

656
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,239
Speaker 6: be lower, and I think there's some value there. Now,

657
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 6: I don't know if I'm necessarily going to play it,

658
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 6: but why isn't he in that conversation and if he

659
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 6: should make an All Star. He's he's the most improved

660
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:03,600
Speaker 6: cannedy at least to me.

661
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 2: I think this is a great take. I think it

662
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 2: because because there's a pretty decent chance that the Pistons

663
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:10,800
Speaker 2: get to a point where they shut Grant down because

664
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 2: they're like, Okay, you prove that you can do this,

665
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 2: that the money is good, but we need to get

666
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 2: a better draft back, like we're trying to get Kay Cunningham.

667
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 2: I needed a six right. Christian Wood is the second favorite,

668
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 2: but with Oladipo and Wall, I think he just goes

669
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 2: down a little bit Without Harden, his scoring probably goes

670
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:29,840
Speaker 2: down a little bit, and he's out right, he's missed

671
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 2: a lot of games, and so there's that kind of risk. Jalen,

672
00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 2: I think it is tough. Chris Bouchet is slid, and

673
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 2: then the next guy is Randall, and like after that's

674
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 2: Collin Sexton, de Jonta Murray, Michael Porter Junior. Nope, Nope, nope, nope, nope.

675
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 2: So we're really just talking Grant Wood and Jalen. Jalen,

676
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 2: I think it probably has the best value here at

677
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:50,600
Speaker 2: plus five hundred. Like, Jalen's been absurdly good this season.

678
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:53,640
Speaker 2: Shout out because he called this first. They already but

679
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 2: people already knew Jalen was good. People did not think

680
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:58,840
Speaker 2: Julius Randall was good going into this year, and his

681
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,720
Speaker 2: numbers have been just in saying and the Knicks are decent,

682
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 2: like the Knicks are not terrible. That's an accomplishment, it

683
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 2: really is. I love this take. That's a really good one.

684
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 4: All right.

685
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 2: I did a question for you guys. Am I taking

686
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 2: crazy pills?

687
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 3: And now am I taking crazy pills with Matt Moore?

688
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 2: Doesn't anyone notice this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

689
00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 2: The NBA is going to release the second half of

690
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:26,040
Speaker 2: its schedule soon during the All Star break, and we

691
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 2: know what they're gonna do. They're gonna keep the same schedule.

692
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 2: They're gonna keep everything the same. Why why? A month

693
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 2: ago we had reports that the Tokyo Olympics are likely

694
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 2: to be postponed. Every piece of news that has come

695
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 2: out since then has reinforced the idea that the Tokyo

696
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 2: Olympics are likely to be postponed. If you want to say,

697
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 2: we had to start on Christmas because Christmas makes us

698
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 2: a lot of money, Okay, fine, I'm not going to

699
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:50,719
Speaker 2: rehash the All Star argument, even though everyone agrees this

700
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 2: is dumb. The only people that think we should be

701
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:54,240
Speaker 2: having the All Star Game of the NBA and the

702
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 2: MVPA because the NBA told them how much Turner basically

703
00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:00,239
Speaker 2: threaten to cost them. In the media rites deal over this.

704
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 2: Just stress the season out.

705
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 4: We can stop this.

706
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 2: We can actually have players playing. We can actually have

707
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 2: John Wall and Victor Ladipo playing at the same time.

708
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:10,480
Speaker 2: It's an amazing idea. We can have Russell Westbrook and

709
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:12,960
Speaker 2: Brad Beale playing at the same time. If you just

710
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 2: stretch out the season, just just go a few more

711
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:19,200
Speaker 2: I'm not talking crazy long. Just end it in in August.

712
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 2: End it in late August. Give yourself another month. Stress

713
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 2: the season out a little bit. Cut down on these

714
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,240
Speaker 2: back to backs and three and fours and four and fives.

715
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:28,719
Speaker 2: Get this thing back to where we're not. The teams

716
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 2: are just such a wreck right now. Like Celtics Celtics

717
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:38,320
Speaker 2: Nuggets should have been awesome last night. No Smart, no Harris,

718
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 2: no Barton, no millstep PJ like the Nuggets could have

719
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 2: used PJ Doser last night. Yogas dropped forty three and

720
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 2: it didn't matter because the team was in such tatters.

721
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 2: I don't understand why the NBA won't just be like,

722
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:55,600
Speaker 2: you know what, if the Olympics are canceled, We're leaving

723
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 2: this open. We're gonna extend the season. We're gonna make

724
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:00,200
Speaker 2: this a lot better. Just do the smart thing. Am

725
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 2: I crazy?

726
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 6: I guess the question I have is what are the

727
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 6: players thinking? Do you have any sources where you know

728
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:10,719
Speaker 6: the players union thinking? You know, they want to have

729
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 6: their summer like I mean, or is this just the league?

730
00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 2: Well where are they going to go? Like the pandemics

731
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 2: still get me be a problem most places?

732
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 6: You know, I mean, I mean the players can still

733
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 6: party and do the things that they want to do

734
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 6: within their own circle.

735
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 2: Sure, but most of those most of those players are

736
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 2: going to be available anyway. I would say, like, you know,

737
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:35,520
Speaker 2: not the Lakers and the Clippers, but like a lot

738
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 2: of these teams could still go have a good time wherever.

739
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 2: I also think if you tell the players, like, hey,

740
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:43,080
Speaker 2: you don't have to play three and four and you're not,

741
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 2: you know, a lot of this too, is the It's

742
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 2: not just the schedule, it's the COVID testing schedule, and

743
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 2: that's going to decrease as they get as people get vaccinated,

744
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 2: which you gotta think that's coming down the pipeline for

745
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 2: the NBA now that we're the raids are up. I

746
00:33:58,160 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 2: just think that there's an opportunity here for the league

747
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 2: to fix what's been such a really gross, messed up

748
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 2: season and get things back to something a lot closer

749
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 2: to normal if they're just willing to be more open

750
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:09,440
Speaker 2: with the ideas.

751
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 5: How much latitude would you give the league on scheduling

752
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 5: to make broad changes in the second half, And I

753
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:19,359
Speaker 5: mean not just spacing the games out or that sort

754
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 5: of thing. But we've talked in the past on here

755
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:25,000
Speaker 5: about you know, potting games at a site to put

756
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:27,800
Speaker 5: you know, maybe a team playing two or three games

757
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 5: series in a row or that sort of thing. The

758
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:32,399
Speaker 5: problem with that is that we haven't done that so far,

759
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:34,719
Speaker 5: and some you're going to get this sort of imbalanced

760
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 5: schedule thing happening. The Bulls get to play the Pistons

761
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:39,080
Speaker 5: a couple extra times or that sort of thing. Do

762
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 5: we care or is that okay and it's pandemic season

763
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:42,320
Speaker 5: we just have to live with it.

764
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's too late. They should have

765
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 2: at the start the season. I don't know why they didn't.

766
00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 2: It's absolutely mind boggling to me. They didn't, Like they

767
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:50,640
Speaker 2: should have played all they should have pushed, honestly, all

768
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:52,279
Speaker 2: of the non con games to the second half of

769
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 2: the schedule, Like your second half of the schedule should

770
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 2: basically just be the marquee matchups in intern conference play

771
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 2: and your non cons because it could have just kept

772
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:04,759
Speaker 2: everybody separated that way and it would be fine, Like

773
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:07,359
Speaker 2: you could have made the conferences pods and that would

774
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:09,960
Speaker 2: have been more effective. But we're still having problems like

775
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:13,280
Speaker 2: Spurs Hornets are both quarantined and those games are all canceled,

776
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:17,319
Speaker 2: postponed rather But by the time that the second half

777
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 2: kicks off, we're going to be another month into vaccination.

778
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 2: That's not going to fix everything. But vaccination rates are

779
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 2: up one hundred and seventy percent, COVID new cases are

780
00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 2: down are down sixty percent, Like the numbers are looking awesome,

781
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:31,880
Speaker 2: knock on wood, and so some of this will naturally

782
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:33,839
Speaker 2: get managed and so we don't have to take all

783
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 2: those things. For me, the bigger concerns right now are

784
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 2: about one vaccination. Although I will say i'd reached out

785
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 2: of the league, do you know, they don't have to

786
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,960
Speaker 2: be vaccinated for anything. The league doesn't mandate any vaccinations

787
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 2: for players are the teams. It's not popeically bargained, so

788
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 2: no one has to be vaccinated, which I think is

789
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 2: interesting on any for anything, not for COVID, but for

790
00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 2: anything like chicken box, like anything. So I do think

791
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:03,320
Speaker 2: that there's that That's not gonna be as much of

792
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:05,319
Speaker 2: a concern for me. It's about can we get the

793
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 2: product to be something that people like I'm a little

794
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:13,280
Speaker 2: tired of, like, oh, the players are treated so badly

795
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:15,239
Speaker 2: because of the trade stuff and this, that and the other.

796
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:17,239
Speaker 2: Even though I think some of those points are valid

797
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 2: about the double talk that comes from you know, teams

798
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:22,239
Speaker 2: just doing what's best for the team versus you know,

799
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 2: players doing what's best for them and being vilified. I'm

800
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:26,400
Speaker 2: open to those conversations, but it'd be nice if at

801
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:29,799
Speaker 2: some point somebody was like, Hey, why don't we give

802
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 2: the fans a better product, like just shot in the dark.

803
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 2: Think that should be part of the conversation. Let's go

804
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,239
Speaker 2: to our final segment. We're gonna make picks for Wednesday night.

805
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:40,400
Speaker 2: If each one of us gets one pick for Wednesday

806
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:41,239
Speaker 2: Nights games.

807
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:45,719
Speaker 3: Dig in shirt tain my does look delicious. It's the

808
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 3: Wednesday NBA buffet, chew and swallow, no savory Raheen Palmer.

809
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 6: Let's start with you, Okay, I'm going with the Houston

810
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:55,480
Speaker 6: Rackets team total under one oh eight and a half.

811
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:57,240
Speaker 4: I mean, we look at this Rackets offense.

812
00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 6: They've been a complete mess off season, the twenty sixth

813
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:03,560
Speaker 6: in offensive rating, but over the past two weeks the thirtieth.

814
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 6: You know, they scoring one hundred and three points per

815
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 6: one hundred possessions. No Christian would with the Oladipo and

816
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 6: Eric Gordon are doubt for this game. So it's just like,

817
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:13,440
Speaker 6: you know, the lack of death. Just it's just an

818
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 6: uphill battle of the score points against the Sixers defense,

819
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 6: which is seventh and differensive rating. For me, my numbers projected,

820
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:22,279
Speaker 6: it's going well under the total of twenty seven and

821
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:24,960
Speaker 6: a half. I have two twenty three. But personally I

822
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 6: like the Rockets team total under a little bit better,

823
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:31,880
Speaker 6: just because when you look at the Rockets offense facing

824
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 6: this Sixers defense, the Rockets, I mean, their shooting presentage

825
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:37,960
Speaker 6: is all over the floor, a pretty much depress it.

826
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:41,000
Speaker 6: I mean they ranked less than twenty fourth in every

827
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 6: area of the floor except for at the rim, where

828
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:47,960
Speaker 6: the sixers are third. So give me the Rockets team

829
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:49,400
Speaker 6: total under. And then if you want to play a

830
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:51,360
Speaker 6: little bit on the full game under, you can do

831
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:51,919
Speaker 6: that as well.

832
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:52,719
Speaker 4: I like your pick.

833
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:54,440
Speaker 2: I'm just one like I'm just gonna sick go in

834
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:58,560
Speaker 2: defense of the Rockets here, no Christian Wood. They need Ola, Debo,

835
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:01,279
Speaker 2: Wall and Wood. When those guys, their offense is gonna

836
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:02,759
Speaker 2: be good. They have to have all three of those

837
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:04,400
Speaker 2: guys at once. But they don't. And so I like

838
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:08,279
Speaker 2: the pick Brandon. No Gordon as well, and no Gordon Brandon,

839
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 2: which you pick?

840
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I'm gonna go with future Hall of Famer

841
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 5: Draymond Green tonight with the prop on him. Draymond is

842
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:18,759
Speaker 5: back playing point center this last seven games, and I'm

843
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 5: not scoring because he doesn't score, but putting up ridiculous

844
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 5: numbers as a passer. So this seven game stretch, he's

845
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 5: at twelve point three assists per game, seven point one

846
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 5: rebounds a game. He's got three point three stocks steals

847
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:33,440
Speaker 5: in blocks per game. This is the Draymond Green that

848
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:35,759
Speaker 5: we knew and loved. This is you know, he can't

849
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:40,439
Speaker 5: play this all season, but I liked him at over

850
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 5: six point five rebounds at plus one twenty on DraftKings.

851
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 5: He's had at least six rebounds in all seven of

852
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:48,279
Speaker 5: these point center games. But actually, if you've got it

853
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 5: available at bet MGM or elsewhere, if you can play

854
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:54,440
Speaker 5: the rebounds and assists together, line that I'm taking the

855
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:58,400
Speaker 5: over fifteen point five rebounds plus assists. He's had games

856
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 5: in this stretch where he's getting close to that number

857
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:02,919
Speaker 5: just on assists alone. The other day we played him

858
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:04,800
Speaker 5: over eight and a half assists he hit on the

859
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:09,239
Speaker 5: first half, and we are projecting him at I think

860
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Speaker 5: at sixteen or seventeen combined rebounds and assists. He can

861
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:14,280
Speaker 5: have a big night in either one of those areas.

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00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 5: The heat ray dead last in rebounds per game as

863
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:20,240
Speaker 5: a team, and I just think that this is working

864
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:22,920
Speaker 5: right now. He can get assists in a hurry, and

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Speaker 5: fifteen and a half is just not that many. So

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna go over fifte and a half rebounds plus

867
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Speaker 5: assists for Draymond Green.

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Speaker 2: I'm looking at his stocks. I want to look at

869
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 2: it and see what his stocks, what his stocks number

870
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Speaker 2: is at his Wow, his stocks number is only one

871
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Speaker 2: and a half. If you have to lay minus one

872
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Speaker 2: eighty five, it's tough from my pick tonight. That's right,

873
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:45,520
Speaker 2: it's time. I told you guys about earlier in the season.

874
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 2: I talked about this verhemo a year. I said that

875
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 2: the Wizards defense had a lot of indicasions. It was

876
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 2: better than it had performed. The total in Nuggets Wizards tonight,

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Speaker 2: with the Nuggets shorthanded on a back to back is

878
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Speaker 2: two thirty four.

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Speaker 3: Yum, We've got a sega babla.

880
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 2: The Wizards have held their opponent to under a one

881
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:09,640
Speaker 2: oh six defensive rating in three of the last four games.

882
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:13,880
Speaker 2: It is starting to turn, my friends. The Wizards defense

883
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:16,520
Speaker 2: is going to only be a dumpster fire, and not

884
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:18,840
Speaker 2: a dumpster on fire in the middle of a hazmat

885
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:23,360
Speaker 2: zone in a nuclear wasteland. It's going to be slightly

886
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:25,719
Speaker 2: not horrible. This number is way too high. This is

887
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Speaker 2: built definitely on the idea that the Wars the Wizards

888
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:30,160
Speaker 2: have changed up their rotations. Brooks is basically just started

889
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Speaker 2: shifting things. There's a little bit emotionion going. I think

890
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Speaker 2: they're starting to get over the loss of Thomas Bryant.

891
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:36,880
Speaker 2: They're figuring out some things. I think Denny's been playing well.

892
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 2: I think the Nuggets without the kind of options. I

893
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 2: will wait to see who's playing in this game, because

894
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Speaker 2: if the Nuggets all of a sudden they're like, yeah,

895
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Speaker 2: everybody's back, because they do that sometimes just random guys

896
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:51,240
Speaker 2: are back suddenly, it could be an issue. But in general,

897
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 2: even it's going to have to be a lot of

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00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:57,160
Speaker 2: guys back, and even then, I'm the number probably goes

899
00:40:57,280 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 2: up even more. I will still probably be on the under.

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Speaker 2: I taking the under in a Wizard's game. It's time

901
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Speaker 2: to get contrarian. It's gonna wrap it up to the

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Speaker 2: And somehow this is my fault that you gotta absolutely

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Speaker 2: cream props article every day you take out Raheem's article

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