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Speaker 2: Good morning, sweer. Now welcome to the Nodus podcast on

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Speaker 2: the Athletic Network. It's Monday, November eighteenth, twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 2: right into the NBA weekend winners and losers. We got

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Speaker 2: a whole bunch of winners. TK get us started. Where

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Speaker 4: I'm giving a winner to Julius Randall.

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 4: Or is the NBA's YouTube page called him just Julius.

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Speaker 5: Oh, Julius hits the buzzer beating game WINNERY awesome game

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Speaker 4: Perhaps a push off. Some will say, you know, the

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Speaker 4: hear the same today about Julius Randall. Perhaps it was

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Speaker 4: a little floppy dog. Yeah, I bit, yeah, that was nice, though,

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Speaker 4: Michael Grady yelled out, oh he's cold blooded. His first

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Speaker 4: But I'm thinking about Julius Randall, and to me, he's

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Speaker 4: And I kind of think that's happening for the Timberwolves

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Speaker 3: just feels like there is enough. There's enough. Love of

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Speaker 2: Love of those love of those dans.

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Speaker 4: They're breaking in a little bit. And I'm with you

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Speaker 4: That's how you play it off.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, good to see him hit five threes there for Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: All right, so Julius Randall, just call him Julius.

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Speaker 2: That's weird, that's odd because he's AWA and you're picking one,

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Speaker 3: I could be Houston Rockets. Okay, this team is ten

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Speaker 3: Doesn't matter. That's six players in double figures in this game.

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Speaker 3: Everybody contootes this team is deep. Target'sn't coming off the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they have Alan Brinshangun playing his best defense. There's

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Speaker 3: Even the Houston broadcasters said the other night, Well read

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Speaker 2: Winner of the Weekend My Turn next Star Fox darreon

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Speaker 2: Fox had himself a weekend He sort of already alluded

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Speaker 4: They played back to back to back. Game was probably like,

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Speaker 3: But Anthony Edwards was killer in overtime. He was fantastic

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Speaker 3: absolutely did not. That's hard to do two days, apparently

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well no, it was like, no, like twenty seven

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he was a little disappointed that his sixty sixty

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Speaker 2: But franchise record, Now, who had twicement?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it was one of those. Uh did didn't

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Speaker 4: I just I don't say cousins on the broadcast.

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Speaker 3: Yeah Foxton, seriously they got rid of him that fast.

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Speaker 3: Damn Fox came out and said I don't like it.

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Speaker 2: Well yeah, and then Slamson, They're, you know, actual King's mascot.

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Speaker 4: Those ones weren't on purpose, nor was the Brooklyn Night

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Speaker 2: Well no, I don't know, Like I think you might

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Speaker 4: That's cool.

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Speaker 2: But then they were already playing the video where he

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Speaker 4: But we got to get Roy on the show, they

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Speaker 3: I think Darren Fox said I don't like him. They

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there we go. All right, Fox away.

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Speaker 4: A great call Jack Twyman King's record, but he was

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Speaker 2: Here we got we got them, We got there in

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Speaker 2: Do a barrel roll. Okay, NBA Weekend Winners. Let's keep

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Was it me?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Portland Trailblazers, they're a winner of the weekend. They only

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Speaker 4: four for him. They've been a bottom ten defense every

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Speaker 4: single season. They're like fifteenth right now after three games

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Speaker 4: the trade for him, but to Mani Kamara, that guy's

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00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:35,480
Speaker 4: also a really solid defender. He really took Trey Young

430
00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:38,280
Speaker 4: out of the game, I thought against the Hawks at

431
00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:40,440
Speaker 4: one point he picked his pocket and you had Lamar

432
00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:43,919
Speaker 4: hurb barking on the broadcast after the steal. Great stuff.

433
00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:46,080
Speaker 4: It just looks like there's a little bit of an

434
00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:50,480
Speaker 4: identity for the Trail Blazers with Klingon starting with Donovan

435
00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:53,520
Speaker 4: or with Williams coming off the bench. Clearly there's a

436
00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:56,240
Speaker 4: guy I'm not mentioning who is not playing, and it

437
00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:59,840
Speaker 4: feels like the team has changed instantly. Maybe part of

438
00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:02,679
Speaker 4: it Simon's being out as well, if we're being honest. Nonetheless,

439
00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:05,120
Speaker 4: I don't think Simons is a long termer for the Blazers.

440
00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:08,280
Speaker 4: I don't think Ayton is a long termer for the Blazers,

441
00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:11,600
Speaker 4: so why not turn everything over to a guy like

442
00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:14,280
Speaker 4: clinging as the starter. Scoot had tennisists in the win

443
00:20:14,359 --> 00:20:16,320
Speaker 4: against the Hawks. He's not scoring very well, but he's

444
00:20:16,359 --> 00:20:19,199
Speaker 4: playing at his own speed rather than just trying to

445
00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:20,800
Speaker 4: be the fastest guy out there, because he's not the

446
00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:22,800
Speaker 4: fastest guy anymore. He's got a little bit more craft

447
00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:25,600
Speaker 4: to him. So good stuff for the Blazers to hold

448
00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:27,960
Speaker 4: off the Hawks. You know, not the greatest win. They

449
00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:30,240
Speaker 4: almost blew it, but they didn't blow it because Sharp

450
00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:31,000
Speaker 4: was hitting everything.

451
00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:33,560
Speaker 2: And last weekend the Blazers lost by like a combined

452
00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:36,760
Speaker 2: seventy points. And then that was when Billups like called

453
00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:39,240
Speaker 2: the team out like yeah, he's like, if you go

454
00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:41,679
Speaker 2: to sleep, you're a loser, Like you should be like

455
00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:44,879
Speaker 2: really thinking about this loss. And they've they've you know,

456
00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:48,040
Speaker 2: come back and won their last three after those comments

457
00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:50,520
Speaker 2: tests or he called them losers if you go to sleep,

458
00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:52,399
Speaker 2: So they've just been staying up all night. They've been

459
00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:55,640
Speaker 2: playing video games and freaking out, having pop or something

460
00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:56,520
Speaker 2: like that. So it worked.

461
00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:59,600
Speaker 3: It worked, and it was funny seeing billups on the

462
00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:02,639
Speaker 3: sideline and because Shande Sharp almost belue he made a

463
00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:05,960
Speaker 3: mistake there. When they're up one. He ran a beautiful

464
00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:09,159
Speaker 3: inbound play for Shandeon Sharp just to go dunk it.

465
00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:11,679
Speaker 3: He was ahead of everybody, but he slowed down for

466
00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:15,280
Speaker 3: some reason and got fouled. Billps literally turned around to

467
00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:17,960
Speaker 3: the bench and was just wondering, what the are you doing?

468
00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:22,200
Speaker 3: You You could read it quite easily, Yeah, what are

469
00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:24,439
Speaker 3: you doing? But it worked out for the Blazers to

470
00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:26,639
Speaker 3: play the young guys as you go along, you have

471
00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:30,000
Speaker 3: the roster. I like to compare it to the Hawks

472
00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:32,600
Speaker 3: that they just beat a little bit. They're starting Zachary

473
00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:35,399
Speaker 3: Resa's shape. DeAndre Hunter came back coming off the bench

474
00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:39,879
Speaker 3: for one game. Anyways, Hunter got hurt again, but that happens.

475
00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:43,680
Speaker 3: Just just a quicky run DeAndre Hunter there. But yeah,

476
00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:46,280
Speaker 3: it was weird to see. Speaking of the guys that

477
00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:50,240
Speaker 3: are playing extremely well for the Hawks, primarily Dyson Daniels

478
00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:52,720
Speaker 3: plays well, but he had a terrible giveaway. It was

479
00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:55,120
Speaker 3: just a bad, bad play in the last minute there.

480
00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:57,200
Speaker 3: It was a close game down the water. But as

481
00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:00,320
Speaker 3: you mentioned, Tomay Kamara was awesome against Treo. Is the

482
00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:03,760
Speaker 3: mattist thible that they never had him. He's way better

483
00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:06,000
Speaker 3: than him. He's good and he can shoot the three,

484
00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:08,399
Speaker 3: but he's not an offensive player. But he's a really

485
00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:09,399
Speaker 3: good defensive player.

486
00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:12,199
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah. And Dyson Daniels streak of what half a

487
00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:14,560
Speaker 2: dozen steals at least in a game snapped against the

488
00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:16,600
Speaker 2: Blazer's here. I think he had two there just too

489
00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:19,159
Speaker 2: in the latest game, so that streak is over. Alvin

490
00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:21,679
Speaker 2: Robertson sleeps well at night knowing his streak.

491
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Speaker 4: Why didn't they have Daniels guarding Shadan Sharp when he

492
00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:26,080
Speaker 4: was going off? I'm not sure to make any sense

493
00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:26,280
Speaker 4: to me.

494
00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:27,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, yep.

495
00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:29,200
Speaker 4: It was bad stuff for our guy. Beat and Dison

496
00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:31,359
Speaker 4: in the last two minutes for them were not pretty.

497
00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:34,560
Speaker 2: No, no, ye, Tash, Who do you have for another winner?

498
00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:38,320
Speaker 3: I've given Jayson Tatum a winner because versus the Raptors

499
00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:42,280
Speaker 3: on Saturday, he hit a game winner. It's not something

500
00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:45,080
Speaker 3: that Jayson Tatum does very often. He had missed his

501
00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:47,320
Speaker 3: ten straight shots with a chance to either tie or

502
00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:49,159
Speaker 3: take the lead in the final five seconds or the

503
00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:51,560
Speaker 3: fourth quarter or overtime. He didn't hit a game winner

504
00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:55,200
Speaker 3: or game tire since February twenty twenty three, so he

505
00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:56,600
Speaker 3: didn't hit one during the championship.

506
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Speaker 4: Year.

507
00:22:56,840 --> 00:23:00,199
Speaker 3: It's been a while. Shout out to her Man hit

508
00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:03,000
Speaker 3: Jake King for that set. It's been a long time.

509
00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:05,840
Speaker 3: And at the end of this game against the Raptors

510
00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,439
Speaker 3: against at the end of the fourth quarter, he had

511
00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:11,280
Speaker 3: a chance to hit a game winner. Oh boy, it

512
00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:14,840
Speaker 3: missed very bad. He hit. Yeah, he hit the backboard,

513
00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:16,760
Speaker 3: just just hit the backboard and it was a wide

514
00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:20,159
Speaker 3: open mid range shot where the defender fell and he missed.

515
00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:22,359
Speaker 3: So then at the end of overtime, the play was

516
00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:24,920
Speaker 3: for Jaalen Brown to hit a game winner, but John

517
00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:28,000
Speaker 3: Brown also went down David Mitchell ran into him. So

518
00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:30,200
Speaker 3: Jason Tatum had the ball outside the three point line,

519
00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:33,080
Speaker 3: did a little shake and he hit a three ball

520
00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:35,240
Speaker 3: in the face of o Chaya baj He did a

521
00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:37,640
Speaker 3: little shake. Yeah, it was a travel for a whole

522
00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:40,120
Speaker 3: lot of shaking. Yeah, the last two minute. Reports said

523
00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:43,000
Speaker 3: Jason Tatum travel, yes, and it was a quick one.

524
00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:44,720
Speaker 2: They also said a foul should have been called on

525
00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,600
Speaker 2: the Jilen Brown getting Yeah.

526
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:51,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a weird one. But either way, it's

527
00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:53,640
Speaker 3: good for him just to hit a game winner. Yeah,

528
00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:56,000
Speaker 3: just because it has been a long time and after

529
00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:59,600
Speaker 3: you just chuck one or you really really really really

530
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:02,960
Speaker 3: missed try again on a play that was for Jalen Brown.

531
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:07,640
Speaker 3: It's a winner for him. They keep on just allowing

532
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,159
Speaker 3: teams to score in the paint, over and over and

533
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:13,760
Speaker 3: over again. Yaka Pearl had thirty six and this baby

534
00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:17,359
Speaker 3: thirty five. Excuse me, he was sixteen of nineteen. Push

535
00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:20,439
Speaker 3: shot after push shot after push shot. They call a floater,

536
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:23,520
Speaker 3: whatever you want to call it. He just they he

537
00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:27,240
Speaker 3: just kept doing that. And Jalen Brown said after the game,

538
00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:29,240
Speaker 3: he said, the last thing we wanted to do is

539
00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:32,680
Speaker 3: go into double overtime against the Toronto Raptors. John Brown

540
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:35,560
Speaker 3: just cutthroat, you know, he just really pulling it. Man.

541
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:39,320
Speaker 3: He doesn't care. He'll say whatever he's got to say. Yeah, Okay,

542
00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:40,920
Speaker 3: Yack of Pearl had a good game. Is they were

543
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,480
Speaker 3: apparently our man j King heard them in the locker

544
00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:46,000
Speaker 3: room saying, what the yack of Pearl? What's he doing

545
00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:47,880
Speaker 3: out there? How's he doing that? They were talking about

546
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:50,919
Speaker 3: that they gave up that seventy eight points at the

547
00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:54,080
Speaker 3: paint to Toronto. It's a freaking lot and they did

548
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:56,439
Speaker 3: that well. They had a bad game in terms of

549
00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:58,680
Speaker 3: points in the paint against the Hawks in their first

550
00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:00,840
Speaker 3: NBA Cup game, which they love last week as well,

551
00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:03,159
Speaker 3: sixty eight points to the Hawks. It happens to the

552
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:05,560
Speaker 3: Celtics scene. I guess that's where they miss Christops porzingis

553
00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:09,080
Speaker 3: a little bit just heightewise, because they are just allowing

554
00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:11,919
Speaker 3: teams to shoot whatever. But just to shout out our man,

555
00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:13,000
Speaker 3: yak a Perdle.

556
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:16,480
Speaker 2: And Berdle, he's available, Go get him. I guess so

557
00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:20,800
Speaker 2: title contenders, go get yourself either a Vucevic or a Pertole.

558
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:22,960
Speaker 4: Right if you want to be disappointed to do it

559
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:24,120
Speaker 4: exactly exactly.

560
00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:28,320
Speaker 2: But he's he's playing incredible. It's like Killy Dwyer tongue

561
00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:30,399
Speaker 2: in cheek saying, the greatest play in the NBA right

562
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:33,400
Speaker 2: now is an RJ. Barrett to Yaka Purdle. Nobody can

563
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 2: stop it. They're clicking players, absolutely. But any thoughts on

564
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,960
Speaker 2: Tatum's little happy dance into the game winner or that game,

565
00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:44,359
Speaker 2: or how the Celtics are playing there, well, I.

566
00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:45,880
Speaker 4: Mean the way tass is laying it out. The guy

567
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,560
Speaker 4: hadn't hit a game winner in almost two years. Stop dribbling.

568
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:51,000
Speaker 4: That's the key. You get four steps you can get

569
00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:54,240
Speaker 4: by anybody to get a good look the Celtics are

570
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:56,320
Speaker 4: doing well this season, but they're not locked in and

571
00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:58,639
Speaker 4: they are not engaged in the season. You hear it

572
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:02,720
Speaker 4: with every Jalen Brown quote. He's basically say we're doing

573
00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:05,240
Speaker 4: the bare minimum this regular season. We'll turn it on

574
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 4: later on in the playoffs. They had to quote about

575
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,919
Speaker 4: we're gonna get Sam Houser going against the Pistons, and

576
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:13,199
Speaker 4: that's why their defense is just okay. They gave up

577
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:14,720
Speaker 4: seventy eight points in the pain because they only gave

578
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:16,480
Speaker 4: up twenty three three point attempt They say, the only

579
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:18,480
Speaker 4: way the Raptors are gonna beat us a hot three

580
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,679
Speaker 4: point shooting night. They weren't able to do it, so

581
00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:23,639
Speaker 4: the Celtics had all their threason it paid off. In

582
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:25,760
Speaker 4: the long run, It's gonna be tough to tell what

583
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,679
Speaker 4: the Celtics really look like until they get Poorzingis back,

584
00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:30,199
Speaker 4: and that's not gonna be till the second half of

585
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,600
Speaker 4: the season. So they might hang in the two seed

586
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,880
Speaker 4: here with the Calves running away with things, maybe they'll

587
00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:37,560
Speaker 4: be able to make a run in the second half

588
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 4: of the season, but Cleveland might be far enough ahead

589
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:42,480
Speaker 4: at that point that we're talking about a two seed.

590
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:44,440
Speaker 4: Boston Celtics. Whoa could they do it?

591
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:44,680
Speaker 3: Yeah?

592
00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:47,360
Speaker 2: Right, Well, that's what I'm fascinated for Tuesday night's game,

593
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:49,359
Speaker 2: to see if the Celtics get up for that one

594
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:52,480
Speaker 2: against Cleveland in not only an NBA Cup game to

595
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:54,880
Speaker 2: keep their chances alive to advance to the knockout round

596
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:56,600
Speaker 2: for the Celtics, but to see if they can snap

597
00:26:57,080 --> 00:27:00,000
Speaker 2: the Cavalier streak. And that pivots perfectly into my winner,

598
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 2: which is the Calves becoming the fourth team in NBA

599
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:04,879
Speaker 2: history to start fifteen to oh two more wins for

600
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 2: Cleveland over the weekend. Friday night, it was the Donovan

601
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:11,240
Speaker 2: Mitchell Show, thirty seven points. They crushed the Bulls there

602
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,840
Speaker 2: in that one NBA Cup opener for those teams, just

603
00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:19,960
Speaker 2: dominant victory from Cleveland. And after the final buzzer, you

604
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,400
Speaker 2: saw this, Donovan Mitchell, Darius Garland, Jared Allen, They're all

605
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:27,360
Speaker 2: celebrating dancing on the court with a giant green frog,

606
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:30,920
Speaker 2: which is like quickly become their impromptu mascot. We are

607
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:33,399
Speaker 2: living in the days of the second mascots, but this

608
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 2: is an impromptu one. This is like a Calves fan

609
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 2: outside in a giant green inflatable frog. Costume that they

610
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:44,200
Speaker 2: then put the Cleveland Cavaliers mascot in out on the floor.

611
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:48,640
Speaker 2: But the photos look amazing, just dancing with this inflatable

612
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:50,880
Speaker 2: frog when they went to fourteen and oh. But then

613
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,280
Speaker 2: on Sunday, this is the more impressive win because there's

614
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:56,359
Speaker 2: no Donovan Mitchell. You have Tie Jerome starting in place

615
00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 2: for him. Career had twenty four points. Garland goes for

616
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,440
Speaker 2: twenty five and they beat the Hornets and again the

617
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 2: fourth team ever to start fifteen and zero, the Warriors

618
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 2: in twenty sixteen, the Rockets in ninety four, and who

619
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:12,399
Speaker 2: can forget the Washington Capitals in nineteen forty nine. Al

620
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:19,879
Speaker 2: Alaidifrady was his name. Yeah, yeah, that's a tough thing

621
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 2: we say.

622
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:23,439
Speaker 3: He says, da al ayah Frady, I ah Frady, You

623
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 3: a fraidy.

624
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:31,440
Speaker 2: Alai Frady. But anyway, yeah, Garland has just it's been awesome,

625
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:33,720
Speaker 2: and they just keep taking turns off. Mitchell's in there,

626
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 2: you can take over, and Garland was the one in

627
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 2: the second game. There's he's up his per game scoring

628
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 2: to like twenty one point one, shooting fifty three percent

629
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 2: three ball forty six percent. He like that last year

630
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:47,880
Speaker 2: sucked for him with all the injuries and then trying

631
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:50,160
Speaker 2: to like get integrated with Donnan and Mitchell. It's like

632
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 2: this is this is the Garland from two years prior.

633
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 3: Really. Yeah, And as Steve Kerr said earlier when he

634
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 3: was talking about Kenny Atkinson who took over at the

635
00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 3: Cleveland Cavaliers, he said, this is just like me when

636
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:03,720
Speaker 3: I took over the Warriors in fourteen fifteen. Good players,

637
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 3: but then as soon as I came in, I just

638
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,959
Speaker 3: adapted a new offense. I said, hey, let's do this,

639
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:12,959
Speaker 3: And that's what Kenny Atkinson is kind of doing. And

640
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 3: so yes, we talked about Boston Celtics in the two seed.

641
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 3: You start to start to think of the old saying

642
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 3: that repeating is hard, and you know when you got

643
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 3: to I can't. I'm not gonna say the Caves are

644
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 3: gonna knock them off. But there's obviously a more more

645
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:29,480
Speaker 3: of a hunger in one trim than there is in

646
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 3: the other, So that that plays a part. And to

647
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:36,040
Speaker 3: be determined, if I sometimes forget Steve Kerr just immediately

648
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 3: won won a championship in fourteen fifteen, and they're sixty

649
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 3: seven to fifteen. I don't think they're that good because

650
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 3: I just I guess because they weren't that memorable of

651
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 3: a championship team. Obviously, the dynasty and all that, but

652
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 3: that team in particular just doesn't stand out to.

653
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 2: Me as yeah, because then it leveled up even more,

654
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 2: and yeah, that's why, and the and the playoffs.

655
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 3: They're down two hunder the crazy didn't seem like they

656
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 3: were gonna roll. Obviously they did, but.

657
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 2: Anyway, something to watch. The Calves did sustain two injuries

658
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 2: on Sunday, they could come into play in Tuesday's game

659
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 2: against the Celtics. There A Coro and Dean Wade both

660
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:16,080
Speaker 2: exited with left ankle sprains, and with some of those

661
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 2: guys going out, they talked about it. In the victory

662
00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 2: over the Hornets, they went to zone defense like a

663
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 2: lot in the second half, in the fourth quarter, and

664
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 2: it was working. Apparently Max Struce was the one like

665
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 2: telling everyone where to go. He wasn't out there, he

666
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 2: was like coach Struce because he's played a lot of

667
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:33,800
Speaker 2: his zone back in his heat days, and I guess

668
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 2: he was like directing him. They gave him a lot

669
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 2: of credit for like, oh yeah, Struce was just telling

670
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 2: us where to go. Coach Max coach Streuce, don't know

671
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:42,760
Speaker 2: what you want to go with, but anyway, that worked.

672
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 2: But I do hope the Celtics to circle back to that.

673
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 2: Like you know, this Tuesday night game, the it feels

674
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 2: like there's a little extra juice to it. You would

675
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 2: assume they're gonna want to be the team to snap it.

676
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 2: They are the defending champs, they are still chasing them

677
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 2: in the standings, Like I don't know, like I get

678
00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 2: why they don't have a lot of like, hey, boys,

679
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 2: let's go play hard for four eight minutes every night

680
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 2: because I don't really need to the Celtics, but I

681
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 2: wouldn't see why they wentn't here.

682
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 4: Tomorrow night should be an awesome game and we'll see

683
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 4: how it plays out if the Celtics are like all

684
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 4: in on trying to pull off a win, because I

685
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 4: do feel like the Calves are all in on trying

686
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 4: to keep their streak going. The way they're pulling out

687
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 4: some of these in the fourth quarters, like by the

688
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 4: skin of their teeth. Getting the win on Saturday was

689
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 4: huge on the second night of a back to back

690
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 4: with guys out like ty Jerome was leading the way

691
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 4: he might have to be the new best backup point

692
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:28,479
Speaker 4: guard in the NBA. I know he got a start,

693
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 4: but Tyas Jones starts now Delan right, he's old. Yep,

694
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 4: there's an opportunity there for somebody to be the best

695
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,720
Speaker 4: backup point guard in the NBA. You think it's a compliment,

696
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 4: is it?

697
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 3: I don't know.

698
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 4: Ty Jerome's having an awesome season ten points per game.

699
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:46,720
Speaker 4: He had what twenty four in the win against the Hornet,

700
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 4: shooting sixty percent from the field fifty four from three.

701
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 4: It probably won't maintain for the entirety of the season.

702
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 4: And honestly, Peyton Pritchard is probably the best backup point

703
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 4: guard in the NBA. But I've been impressed with Ty

704
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:00,360
Speaker 4: Jerome and I'd love to see that because he's a

705
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 4: guy that like will have a great summer run playing

706
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 4: in like those black ops Chris Brinckley. Brinkley runs like

707
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 4: who is this guy killing? But somehow actually translates and

708
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 4: and he is so low. This is a slow man.

709
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 4: He plays like a Kyle Anderson speed and it works.

710
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 2: Yeah for him, it does. What do you think of

711
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 2: the Calves City edition jerseys and court I know we

712
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 2: have here for everybody on YouTube with the Baby Blue

713
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 2: and the land fan or not?

714
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 4: I love Baby Blue? Yeah yah, but this doesn't look

715
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 4: calvesy to me, and I said it before the show

716
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 4: skis it kind of looks like somebody just spelled coffee

717
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 4: across the court.

718
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess that's the river, is it?

719
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 4: That's the river? Yeah?

720
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's true to us. Were you a fan

721
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 2: of this?

722
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't go hardcore fan.

723
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 2: Yeah.

724
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 3: Also the Baby Blue, will it ever work? With the calves?

725
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 3: They keep they keep trying pushing it a little bit here,

726
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 3: a little bit there, a little bit more. It's getting

727
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 3: deeper and deeper and deeper. It's hard to see that.

728
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 3: At the same time, I am a lover of Baby Blue.

729
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 3: So it's not like I hate it. I always we've

730
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 3: already gone through, uh the NBA Cup additions, like to

731
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 3: the court specifically, like forget about the keys and forget

732
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:15,320
Speaker 3: about the center court like all the other stuff. It's always.

733
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 3: It's always a lot. It doesn't doesn't feel like you

734
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,040
Speaker 3: need it. It feels like it's just kind of standing there.

735
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,720
Speaker 3: But anyway, there's a river. I guess the.

736
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 2: Court that's a coffee staying going through the court. Some

737
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 2: other winners just quickly here, James Harden passed Ray Allen

738
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:33,000
Speaker 2: for second on the NBA's all time three pointers last Sunday.

739
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 2: Harden now has twenty nine and seventy five careers three pointers,

740
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 2: so he moved just past Ray Allen, who has two less.

741
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:43,959
Speaker 2: Steph Curry obviously is out in front at three thousand,

742
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:46,800
Speaker 2: seven and eighty two. And they played tonight. We got

743
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 2: Warriors Clippers.

744
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 4: Hard to make. It's like stuff doesn't count. Yeah, I

745
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 4: consider myself upber one.

746
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:56,000
Speaker 2: He's like, I consider myself number one because Curry is

747
00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 2: not fair. Yeah, you're not catching Steph Curry. At this point,

748
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:02,520
Speaker 2: we had the nick sweeping their two game homestand versus

749
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 2: the Nets. Took care of business in both of them,

750
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 2: which is always tough to do. As we talked about

751
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 2: a lot here on the show. To beat the same

752
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 2: team back to back twice there, Jenlen Brunson and mckail

753
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:13,840
Speaker 2: Bridges were the stars, the heroes of game one. Brunson

754
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 2: the game when he shot, Bridges the game saving block.

755
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:19,880
Speaker 2: Yeah on the other end. And then on Sunday, the

756
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 2: Detroit Pistons notched their seventh win this season, and they

757
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 2: poked fun at someone who trolled them during the dark

758
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 2: days of last year. In the twenty three to twenty

759
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:32,279
Speaker 2: four campaign, the Pistons set the record for the most

760
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:35,040
Speaker 2: consecutive losses in a single season, and their loss to

761
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:37,400
Speaker 2: the Celtics extended that record to twenty eight. But you

762
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 2: might remember that defeat came even though Detroit was leading

763
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 2: at nineteen by nineteen points at halftime. Boston came back

764
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 2: to win in overtime, but a screenshot of the Pistons

765
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 2: halftime advantage went viral during the game and prompted a

766
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:55,239
Speaker 2: post on Twitter from Kyle Kuzma with the caption, at

767
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 2: this point, it's like, don't be that team. So he

768
00:34:58,080 --> 00:34:59,839
Speaker 2: was pointing out, like nobody wants to be the team

769
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:04,239
Speaker 2: to lose to the lowly Detroit Pistons. And you know

770
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 2: the Celtics did it that night. Well, the Pistons remembered.

771
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:13,440
Speaker 2: They returned the favor after defeating Kuzma and the Wizards

772
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,279
Speaker 2: over the weekend one twenty four, one oh four, with

773
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:18,880
Speaker 2: a funny caption that don't say it, don't say it,

774
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:22,960
Speaker 2: don't say it. Size at this point, it's like, don't

775
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 2: be that team. And there you go. The final So

776
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:31,360
Speaker 2: good stuff from the Detroit Pistons social media team. I

777
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 2: always wonder with that stuff, like do they put it

778
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:37,719
Speaker 2: into a calendar, like when it happens last year, Someone's like, hey,

779
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,440
Speaker 2: remember when we play the Wizards. Make note of it.

780
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 2: At least put it somewhere. Don't be like that team.

781
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:46,280
Speaker 4: They gotta do something at the very left. There's somebody

782
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:48,840
Speaker 4: sitting in these production meetings when the schedule drops, they're like,

783
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 4: what's the Wizards game?

784
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:52,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'll remember.

785
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, thanks keV.

786
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:57,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, so there you go. Detroit Pistons. Man, they are

787
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:01,919
Speaker 2: one game under five hundred. They have not been five

788
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:05,240
Speaker 2: hundred or better sixteen games into a season since twenty eighteen.

789
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:08,480
Speaker 2: They were like thirteen and seven when they started that year.

790
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:10,800
Speaker 2: That's a long time ago at this point. So they're

791
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 2: getting close to being five hundred, and they're taking I

792
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:16,839
Speaker 2: like to see them beating these bad teams. They're like

793
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 2: sort of proving that hey, we're not the worst, that

794
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:22,360
Speaker 2: we are a little bit better than some of these

795
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 2: other you know, they beat the Raptors on Friday Night,

796
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:26,799
Speaker 2: they beat the Wizards here, so they're proving that there

797
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 2: may be a step above those teams at least and

798
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:30,359
Speaker 2: maybe knocking on a plane.

799
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:31,880
Speaker 3: They're showing it. They're showing it.

800
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:32,440
Speaker 2: They're showing it.

801
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:34,239
Speaker 4: They are showing I forget the last time they had

802
00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:36,320
Speaker 4: a three game win streak, but it's been a while

803
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 4: and they got a chance because they've won two straight

804
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 4: and they played the Bulls tonight. They didn't have a

805
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:43,759
Speaker 4: three game win streak all last season, didn't have one

806
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 4: in twenty two twenty three either, so they had their

807
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 4: last three game win streak was April third, twenty twenty two.

808
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 2: Sounds like you're saying JB. Bickerstaff might be throwing a

809
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 2: pizza party in the Little Caesars Arena.

810
00:36:56,840 --> 00:37:00,399
Speaker 4: Pizza, pizza, ready ready.

811
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:04,399
Speaker 2: If they can win a third we will find out. Yeah,

812
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:04,839
Speaker 2: no doubt.

813
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:05,840
Speaker 4: Okay.

814
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 2: Another sort of winner of the weekend that we had

815
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:10,760
Speaker 2: to include inside the NBA. T and T's longtime basketball

816
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:14,560
Speaker 2: studio show will appear on ABC and ESPN as the

817
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:19,240
Speaker 2: NBA and Warner Brothers Discovery have reportedly settled their month's

818
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 2: long lawsuits, so Ernie, Shock, Shaq and Kenny will remain

819
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:27,759
Speaker 2: with the show. It's gonna be on ESPN, It's gonna

820
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:30,960
Speaker 2: be on ABC probably too. That'll be weird, but it

821
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:34,279
Speaker 2: will still be made here, tasks in Atlanta, still the

822
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:36,840
Speaker 2: same production team, so you know, ESPN not messing with

823
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,320
Speaker 2: it too much. It'll just be airing as part of

824
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:41,719
Speaker 2: those games when we get to that next season. So

825
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 2: I assume, like many out there, you're like, oh this

826
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:45,800
Speaker 2: is this was good News, is a winner of the weekend.

827
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:46,760
Speaker 2: It will continue.

828
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:50,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm definitely happy for everybody who works on that show,

829
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,920
Speaker 3: and for sure who produces it and makes it happen.

830
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 3: It will be odd to see them on the same

831
00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:59,920
Speaker 3: standard night. It's gonna be like Thursday night thing. It's

832
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:03,759
Speaker 3: not like they're taking over Wednesdays that ESPN used to

833
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 3: have or Fridays that used.

834
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:07,400
Speaker 2: To How do you know that? I assume that's exactly

835
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 2: what will happen. I thought they'll go to Wednesdays or

836
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:12,759
Speaker 2: Saturdays when it gets to ABC, when we get to

837
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:14,719
Speaker 2: the second half of the season, that they'll just be

838
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 2: a part of the key market games.

839
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 3: I didn't think that at all. I thought the NBA

840
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 3: Countdown would remain the same. And then I don't think

841
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 3: here come the Boys wouldn't.

842
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:29,799
Speaker 2: Well, if it's gonna air on ESPN and ABC, though,

843
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:32,320
Speaker 2: wouldn't it air on those nights that they have the games,

844
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 2: the big games on that network. I would think, I

845
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 2: don't know, I don't know when they have the games. Yeah, yeah,

846
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 2: but they're not gonna be on Thursday nights because I

847
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:42,440
Speaker 2: don't think they have.

848
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:43,320
Speaker 3: Them on Thursdays anyway.

849
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:47,280
Speaker 2: Probabably like a peacock or Amazon or someone Amazon.

850
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:53,439
Speaker 3: Amazon was the plan because after football ended, that's when

851
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:56,359
Speaker 3: Amazon took over. Anyways, it gets it gets complicated, right

852
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:56,799
Speaker 3: right right.

853
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:59,160
Speaker 2: But they won't be airing on Amazon. It's my point.

854
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:00,879
Speaker 2: These they're gonna be on ESPN.

855
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 3: They're gonna be on These guys are not gonna be

856
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:03,800
Speaker 3: on Amazon.

857
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:07,319
Speaker 2: Any thoughts on this.

858
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:11,440
Speaker 4: It's gonna be interesting to see Chuck deciding who to

859
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 4: throw shots at. Okay, he's thrown shots at ESPN a

860
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:18,800
Speaker 4: lot in his career with TNT. He's also thrown shots

861
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:22,800
Speaker 4: at David Zaslov. So now he's gonna somehow be working

862
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:26,759
Speaker 4: for both while working for neither. Does that put a

863
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:27,480
Speaker 4: laicia of.

864
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:28,080
Speaker 3: I don't know?

865
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:31,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, right, but like, are you gonna be taking shots

866
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 4: at ESPN's coverage of basketball when you're on ESPN's coverage

867
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 4: of basketball?

868
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 2: Right right? Yeah? Yeah, they will, Yes, it's gonna be awesome.

869
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:43,719
Speaker 4: Man, it's gonna be It's just gonna be interesting to

870
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 4: see Barkley with a new set of bosses sort of

871
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:47,440
Speaker 4: but not really.

872
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 3: Yeah.

873
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, So Inside the NBA is expected to air during

874
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 2: key moments on the league's calendar. We're talking Opening Night,

875
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 2: Christmas Day, the playoffs, the NBA Finals, Like this is

876
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 2: this is obviously the Marquee Studio show. So why wouldn't

877
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 2: they be Chris, That's what it says in the right up.

878
00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:05,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was the number one reason Barkley never wanted

879
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:07,359
Speaker 4: to work for ESPN was that he had to work

880
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 4: too much. And now he's gonna be working on Christmas.

881
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 2: Well that's interesting to say that.

882
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 4: Awesome.

883
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the the one concern that everybody had

884
00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 2: immediately seeing this news, like, oh God, like, are the

885
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:21,839
Speaker 2: ESPN bosses Are they going to ruin this? Right? Are

886
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:24,400
Speaker 2: they gonna screw up with the chemistry or what they

887
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,840
Speaker 2: can say or what they can't say that you know,

888
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:29,359
Speaker 2: by all accounts, no, it's still TNT Sports, it's still

889
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:32,319
Speaker 2: Warner Brothers whatever, still running this whole thing. But yeah,

890
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:34,799
Speaker 2: how far can they push it right to the point

891
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,400
Speaker 2: where Barkley is like ripping on the games or ripping

892
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 2: on ESPN or all that where that they then step

893
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 2: in and say, hey, you can't say that, but I

894
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:44,239
Speaker 2: don't know. I don't think you can put a leash

895
00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:44,880
Speaker 2: on these guys.

896
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 4: We'll just retire again exactly.

897
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:50,000
Speaker 2: Remember when Barkley retired during the summer or at the

898
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:51,799
Speaker 2: end of last season. Wasn't it wasn't he like on

899
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 2: NBA TV's like, guys, my last show, I'm retiring, and

900
00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 2: everybody's like, no, you're not years last season or was

901
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 2: it that? Yeah, yeah, I guess that makes more sense. Well,

902
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:03,680
Speaker 2: so much for that.

903
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:04,440
Speaker 3: He always does that.

904
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:05,360
Speaker 2: Yeah right.

905
00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 3: It's true.

906
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:09,319
Speaker 2: TNT Sports will receive global rights outside of the United

907
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:11,680
Speaker 2: States for Inside, the NBA House of Highlights and Bleacher

908
00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:13,799
Speaker 2: Report too, which is pretty good part of the deal

909
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 2: there for WBD, and I think Turner keeping NBA TV

910
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:21,880
Speaker 2: NBA dot Com that part of the equation as well,

911
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:23,400
Speaker 2: which is good news again for people that we all

912
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 2: know here that work in Atlanta in those studios. The

913
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:28,719
Speaker 2: content keeps coming, all right, let us know what you think.

914
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:31,359
Speaker 2: Are you concerned it all with Inside? Eventually go into

915
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:36,879
Speaker 2: ABC and ESPN, Let's do some NBA Weekend losers, Trey,

916
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 2: who's your big loser?

917
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:41,640
Speaker 4: I gotta give a loser to the no Jokic Denver Nuggets.

918
00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:44,800
Speaker 4: Nicola Jokic missed both games for the Nuggets this weekend.

919
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:47,880
Speaker 4: He's out for personal reasons. The team said, no big deal,

920
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:49,879
Speaker 4: but the Nuggets went oh and two and they looked

921
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:52,920
Speaker 4: pretty bad in both of their losses. Scored only ninety

922
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:58,279
Speaker 4: four on Friday against the Pelicans, ninety yesterday against the Grizzlies.

923
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 4: Great for Nikola Jokic MVP case, because when he is

924
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 4: off the court, the Nuggets score eighty seven points per

925
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 4: one hundred possessions. When he's on the court one hundred

926
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:10,759
Speaker 4: and twenty five points per one hundred possessions. And if

927
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:13,240
Speaker 4: you're a Nuggets fan, you gotta be a little concerned

928
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:15,560
Speaker 4: with Jamal Murray at this point. Not a good weekend

929
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:18,880
Speaker 4: for him. Sixteen points on six of sixteen shooting against

930
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 4: the Pelicans, thirteen points on six of fifteen shooting with

931
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:25,760
Speaker 4: six turnovers against the Grizzlies, who are also super short

932
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:30,120
Speaker 4: handed and had no problem against the Nuggets. Murray's averaging

933
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 4: the second fewest points, sorry, the fewest points is the

934
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:37,920
Speaker 4: second year in the league seventeen points per game. He's

935
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 4: shooting forty percent from the field thirty percent from three.

936
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:43,960
Speaker 4: Those are both the lords in his career. His usage

937
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:47,839
Speaker 4: is way down. They're gonna get nicolayokicch back soon. They

938
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 4: look great when he's on the court. They're maybe the

939
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:52,000
Speaker 4: best offense in the league when he's on the court.

940
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 4: Even though they lost shooting in casep doesn't really matter.

941
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 4: But they need Jamal Murray to get back to regular

942
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 4: season Jamal Murray like, I don't even want to see

943
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 4: playoff Murray. I just want to see a guy that

944
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 4: can confidently score twenty points a game, can actually get

945
00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:08,400
Speaker 4: around people. Looks like he knows where his shots are

946
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:11,560
Speaker 4: coming from because everything looks completely discombobulated for him. It's

947
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:15,279
Speaker 4: usually pretty easy for Murray playing off of Jokic, and

948
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:17,920
Speaker 4: throughout his career he struggled to carry the Nuggets when

949
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:22,359
Speaker 4: Yokic is on the bench, but it's particularly exacerbated right now.

950
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 4: I was worried that it was just about summer for him,

951
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:28,080
Speaker 4: right like playoffs didn't go good. We knew he was

952
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:31,160
Speaker 4: injured team candidate and didn't go great. He was coming

953
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:33,560
Speaker 4: off an injury, didn't necessarily have the chemistry there. Because

954
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:35,279
Speaker 4: he hasn't played with him for a long time, I

955
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 4: thought he would be better. Same for the Nuggets this year,

956
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 4: and it has not been the case. He's a slow

957
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:42,440
Speaker 4: starter in his career. You go back and look at

958
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:45,400
Speaker 4: his splits. The percentages are always the worst in October

959
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 4: and November. So by the end of the season, Shirley

960
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 4: Murray is back to himself. But they look bad without

961
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:54,520
Speaker 4: Yokics out there. They look like one of the worst

962
00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 4: teams in the league, and it looks like they got

963
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 4: nobody that can score when this guy's supposed to be

964
00:43:58,239 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 4: at least a decent offensive player.

965
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 2: He's also catching some heat this weekend for spending the

966
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:06,839
Speaker 2: night off in between the games flying to New York

967
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:10,279
Speaker 2: for the UFC event. And if you're going to do that,

968
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 2: especially when you're a superstar player, Yo Kich isn't playing

969
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:15,439
Speaker 2: in those games because I think his wife's gave birth

970
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 2: to their second child. You better win, or yet the

971
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:20,759
Speaker 2: very least, you better play well. Otherwise people can be like,

972
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 2: what the hell are you doing, man? You know, flying

973
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 2: across country here. So yeah, he's a huge MMA fan.

974
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:27,319
Speaker 2: He had to be there, had to be there for

975
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:30,160
Speaker 2: Judd Jones picking up the victory, but yeah, it doesn't

976
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:33,440
Speaker 2: look good when you can't back it up. And he

977
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:35,279
Speaker 2: did not play well this weekend, nor has he started

978
00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:35,759
Speaker 2: well at all.

979
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:40,360
Speaker 3: He thought it's unfortunate that they weren't working on the

980
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 3: other end either. They really didn't look like they really

981
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 3: wanted to beat the Grizzlies. They didn't have the effort there.

982
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:49,680
Speaker 3: Julian Strather's second year player said after the game, we've

983
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 3: kind of had a helpless energy out there. When a

984
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:55,640
Speaker 3: second year player says that about this championship team a

985
00:44:55,719 --> 00:44:59,240
Speaker 3: mere two years ago, it just seems like it's crumbling

986
00:44:59,239 --> 00:44:59,799
Speaker 3: a little bit.

987
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 2: You know.

988
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:03,600
Speaker 3: They they bounced back after that very terrible start, and

989
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:05,520
Speaker 3: they had those five wins in a row. Things were

990
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:08,400
Speaker 3: looking all right. And obviously they ain't gonna win anything

991
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 3: without Yokich, we all know that. But just the the

992
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:15,920
Speaker 3: integrity of this team, where is it. It's just quite

993
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:19,840
Speaker 3: not there. Against a couple of teams that the New

994
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:21,759
Speaker 3: Orleans Pelicans that they lost to the.

995
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:24,799
Speaker 2: First, they should be with or without Yolkic, or at

996
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:25,880
Speaker 2: least be more competitive.

997
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:29,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, because because when you're playing the Pelicans without a

998
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:30,960
Speaker 3: bunch of their starters. I mean, that's what it comes

999
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:31,160
Speaker 3: out to.

1000
00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:31,319
Speaker 4: You.

1001
00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 3: Sure you don't have Yokic, you also don't have Aaron Gordon,

1002
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:36,200
Speaker 3: which is still still a primary problem with who they are,

1003
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:40,040
Speaker 3: their glue, their mentality, that's they need him. He's extremely

1004
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:42,680
Speaker 3: important to this team. But you know, some scrappingess, some fight.

1005
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that was all on the glass in both

1006
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:46,200
Speaker 4: of these games. Part of that is Yokich, part of

1007
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:48,720
Speaker 4: it is Gordon, and part of it is not playing

1008
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:52,799
Speaker 4: really hard. So yeah, Nuggets, Uh, they look great though

1009
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 4: when plays.

1010
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:57,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you should be back Togain, I believe,

1011
00:45:57,200 --> 00:45:59,240
Speaker 2: all right, task do you have for an NBA weekend loser?

1012
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:02,760
Speaker 3: Gosh? Watching the end of the Hornets in the box

1013
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:06,000
Speaker 3: game was a little hard. So the Hornets are down one,

1014
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:10,000
Speaker 3: Yannis goes to guard LaMelo Ball and he's doing a

1015
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 3: little reach touched thing. LaMelo Ball starts to drive and

1016
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, his wheels blow out. He just

1017
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:20,840
Speaker 3: falls to the ground. He literally just falls to the ground,

1018
00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:25,680
Speaker 3: and the referees whistle. Yanni's for a call. Why, I

1019
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:28,440
Speaker 3: have no idea. He literally didn't touch him at that point,

1020
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:32,480
Speaker 3: and LaMelo Ball money from the line goes and hits both.

1021
00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 3: He's eleven to eleven from the line that night, and

1022
00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:38,880
Speaker 3: that's it. That's the game. So those you know, I

1023
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:42,279
Speaker 3: got everybody wondering Number one was he felt. So we

1024
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:45,120
Speaker 3: all watched the replay. Eric Collins, Hornets play by play

1025
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 3: guy as he's watching the replay said, Lamello tripped on

1026
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:53,080
Speaker 3: his own pumas. Yeah, that's what happened. He literally fell down.

1027
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:56,600
Speaker 3: The other question, why didn't talk challenge? Couldn't he already

1028
00:46:56,640 --> 00:46:58,719
Speaker 3: he already he used one, He won one, and then

1029
00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:01,000
Speaker 3: the next one just a couple of minutes later he

1030
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:03,919
Speaker 3: use again. Lost that one, so he didn't have one

1031
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:06,440
Speaker 3: to use. This is two games in a row where

1032
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:09,799
Speaker 3: the Bucks kind of had bad things go their way.

1033
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:14,160
Speaker 3: Yannis in the previous one against the Detroit Pistons didn't

1034
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:17,480
Speaker 3: foul Ron Holland was called for it, didn't foul LaMelo

1035
00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:20,480
Speaker 3: in this instance was called for it. And so I

1036
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 3: worked out for the Bucks in that previous game against Pistons.

1037
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:24,080
Speaker 3: But and this one is just a bad, bad ending

1038
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:25,319
Speaker 3: to watch this thing at all.

1039
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:27,640
Speaker 2: Joannest did have a shot too, I guess at the

1040
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:30,520
Speaker 2: end a jumper that he missed. They backed up. I

1041
00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:32,879
Speaker 2: think it was great. Williams Wiseley backed up, just don't

1042
00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:34,799
Speaker 2: let them like go buy you and dunk on you.

1043
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:36,960
Speaker 3: So the range, yeah, jumper and he missed.

1044
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:39,479
Speaker 2: Doc Rivers went nuts after the game too, got fined

1045
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:42,400
Speaker 2: twenty five thousand by the NBA on Sunday for his comments,

1046
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 2: you know about the officiating, because he like not only

1047
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:47,759
Speaker 2: talked about that play that they blew the call, he

1048
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 2: also talked about the Pistons one and then he was like,

1049
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:51,480
Speaker 2: Jannis goes to the net and gets hit by like

1050
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 2: three guys every time, and they never call a thing.

1051
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:55,480
Speaker 2: So it's like sort of ironic that Giannis is the

1052
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:58,320
Speaker 2: one being called for these tiki tac fowls that are incorrect,

1053
00:47:58,360 --> 00:47:59,959
Speaker 2: and the officials admitted that they were wrong.

1054
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:02,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no tack in that one. There really wasn't

1055
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:07,360
Speaker 3: any ticky or tacky. And the referee who was watching

1056
00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:10,360
Speaker 3: it he couldn't have seen any contact because he was

1057
00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 3: seeing it through LaMelo ball I mean s excuse me,

1058
00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 3: through Giannest Like he couldn't have seen the contact. There's

1059
00:48:16,239 --> 00:48:18,480
Speaker 3: nothing there anyway, there wasn't anything. So you just saw

1060
00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:19,920
Speaker 3: a guy fall and he said, Okay, I'm gonna blow

1061
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 3: the whistle unfortunately wrong call.

1062
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:24,919
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the Bucks have put themselves in a hole

1063
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:27,399
Speaker 2: here that they need these type of wins to sort

1064
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:28,920
Speaker 2: of get themselves out of it. I know they're in

1065
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:31,399
Speaker 2: the East and they'll be fine, but it's a big

1066
00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:33,200
Speaker 2: like dare I say, it's sort of a big loss

1067
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:34,840
Speaker 2: when you look at their schedule and this are the

1068
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:36,600
Speaker 2: other games that they should win and come out with

1069
00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 2: and they just avoided, you know, the Pistons game, got

1070
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:42,480
Speaker 2: a little lucky and then this one nope point Yeah,

1071
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:45,760
Speaker 2: wait did they lose that Pistons gave the Pistons in overtime?

1072
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:48,640
Speaker 4: But there wins this season are against the Pistons, the Raptors,

1073
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:51,120
Speaker 4: the Jazz, and the seventy six ers opening night without

1074
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:54,000
Speaker 4: Paul Georgian Embiid. They lost this one against the Hornets,

1075
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:55,640
Speaker 4: a team that they should beat, and they lost it

1076
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:58,839
Speaker 4: by one. They have no margin for error right now,

1077
00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:01,440
Speaker 4: as you're seeing with these super close games against teams

1078
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:04,880
Speaker 4: that they shouldn't necessarily be competitive with. But man, what

1079
00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:09,319
Speaker 4: a busy weekend for the NBA communications department. Yeah, like

1080
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 4: you said, Doc got fined. Yep, LaMelo got fined for

1081
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:13,160
Speaker 4: this one as well.

1082
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:14,520
Speaker 2: One hundred thousand, hundred.

1083
00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:18,560
Speaker 4: Thousand for his postgame press conference. Anthony Edwards got fine, right,

1084
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:20,640
Speaker 4: Yes he did for a gesture finger yep.

1085
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 2: I just never got fined for the McDonald was questionable.

1086
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 4: I say that they told us Jason Tatum traveled on

1087
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:32,800
Speaker 4: his game winner.

1088
00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:36,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a full moon, Like, what's going on?

1089
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:37,640
Speaker 3: It was right?

1090
00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:38,760
Speaker 4: It was weird stuff.

1091
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:39,760
Speaker 3: Weird stuff.

1092
00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:42,680
Speaker 2: Joe Dumar is howling at the moon with all of

1093
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 2: this communications. All right, one more loser here. According to Shams,

1094
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:51,280
Speaker 2: the NBA is in serious discussions on a new tournament

1095
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:54,680
Speaker 2: style format for the twenty twenty five All Star Game,

1096
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:58,239
Speaker 2: consisting of three All Star teams of eight players each,

1097
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:01,920
Speaker 2: and then the winner of the Rising Stars Game. So

1098
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:05,920
Speaker 2: I guess the four teams will face off against each

1099
00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:09,120
Speaker 2: other in matchups like Team one versus Team three, Team

1100
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:11,440
Speaker 2: two versus Team four, and then the winners move on

1101
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:14,080
Speaker 2: to the final round of the tournament, similar to what

1102
00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:17,000
Speaker 2: they did in the Rising Stars where they did a

1103
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:22,120
Speaker 2: little tournament. I call this a loser because, in my opinion,

1104
00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:24,879
Speaker 2: now we're just gonna have three shitty games instead of one.

1105
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:30,360
Speaker 2: Like I get the concept, shorter games, maybe keep things closer.

1106
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 2: Maybe there's a little competitive juice with you don't want

1107
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:35,560
Speaker 2: to lose to the Rising Stars team. I don't know,

1108
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:38,200
Speaker 2: but I don't think we're fixing anything with this. It's

1109
00:50:38,239 --> 00:50:40,240
Speaker 2: still down to the players whether they give a damn.

1110
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:43,640
Speaker 2: And now we just have these like shorter games that

1111
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:46,480
Speaker 2: are gonna be maybe just as shitty. I don't know.

1112
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:49,080
Speaker 2: Maybe you seem higher on like some of this talking

1113
00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:51,320
Speaker 2: out things here from Silver and the All Star ideas,

1114
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:52,120
Speaker 2: but I ain't.

1115
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:54,440
Speaker 3: I don't think it can get worse. I think said

1116
00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:55,240
Speaker 3: last year.

1117
00:50:55,719 --> 00:50:56,799
Speaker 2: We said that last year.

1118
00:50:56,880 --> 00:50:59,879
Speaker 3: No, I mean if you could get if you don't

1119
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 3: change it. Okay, guys played basketball and they hit threes.

1120
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:06,799
Speaker 3: I mean yes, I mean we've seen it before. We've

1121
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 3: seen it before where guys just don't play defense. That's

1122
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 3: what it comes down to. Yes, yeah, so this is

1123
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:16,640
Speaker 3: different nothing you try it out. I don't see what's

1124
00:51:16,640 --> 00:51:20,120
Speaker 3: wrong with trying it out. We brought up a tournament idea,

1125
00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:23,759
Speaker 3: whether it's starters on one side versus bench players or

1126
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:26,920
Speaker 3: that kind of thing, it's going to be four essentially,

1127
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:30,520
Speaker 3: it's way shorter. It's four quarters. Anyways, we don't need

1128
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:32,880
Speaker 3: to get into it because it's really just yeah, a

1129
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:35,920
Speaker 3: quick tournament of guys playing hopefully with a little bit

1130
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:36,359
Speaker 3: more heart.

1131
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:38,760
Speaker 2: Well, that's that's I guess my point. It doesn't matter

1132
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:40,960
Speaker 2: what the format is in the end, it just comes

1133
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:43,880
Speaker 2: down to whether some of the guys take it somewhat seriously.

1134
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:46,480
Speaker 3: Don't you think that guys will take it more seriously

1135
00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:49,600
Speaker 3: if they're playing until fifty points or whatever it is

1136
00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:52,279
Speaker 3: and the game is over, like they have somewhat in

1137
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:57,400
Speaker 3: the Rising Stars Challenge, I guess I know that's.

1138
00:51:57,239 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 2: What they beat me tasked. They defeated me. I'm a

1139
00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:02,480
Speaker 2: simp for All Star Weekend and they beat me. I

1140
00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:06,640
Speaker 2: can't believe it. They lost me, of all guys, I

1141
00:52:06,719 --> 00:52:09,520
Speaker 2: was one of the last people loving the All Star Weekend.

1142
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:11,040
Speaker 2: People have moved on rightfully.

1143
00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:15,520
Speaker 3: So now you think you'd watched Tyson Jake Palpi.

1144
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:16,400
Speaker 4: Well.

1145
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:20,839
Speaker 2: Regret that. If you're comparing an All Star Weekend to that,

1146
00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:22,240
Speaker 2: they were deep trouble.

1147
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:23,880
Speaker 3: Well, they just don't want to go the way of

1148
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:27,080
Speaker 3: the NFL quite yet, which is play frisbee or whatever.

1149
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:31,480
Speaker 2: The NHL. I think the NHL does this implement these

1150
00:52:31,480 --> 00:52:35,440
Speaker 2: little games now, So TK, you got a thought on this.

1151
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:38,000
Speaker 4: I wish we were still in the meme era where

1152
00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:41,759
Speaker 4: somebody would put exhibit in an image and said, yo, dog,

1153
00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:43,359
Speaker 4: we heard you like all Star games, so we put

1154
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:44,920
Speaker 4: three All Star games in your All Star game.

1155
00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:49,080
Speaker 2: That's what it is.

1156
00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:52,319
Speaker 4: Yeah, those memes have fallen by the wayside. Impact font Yeah,

1157
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:55,840
Speaker 4: at an all time below in two thousands, unfortunately, Skeats,

1158
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:58,680
Speaker 4: You're right, if the players care about it, it'll work.

1159
00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:01,359
Speaker 4: It worked the first year they did the e lam ending. Yes, right,

1160
00:53:01,719 --> 00:53:04,120
Speaker 4: the first year they switched who's something new, Maybe it'll work.

1161
00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:06,239
Speaker 4: They went back to whatever last year and they scored

1162
00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:08,520
Speaker 4: two hundred points. They did not care. Yeah, are we

1163
00:53:08,560 --> 00:53:10,719
Speaker 4: getting a draft again? They're going back to the draft?

1164
00:53:10,760 --> 00:53:11,960
Speaker 4: Are they going to pick these teams?

1165
00:53:12,239 --> 00:53:13,759
Speaker 2: Yeah? How are you going to divide the twenty four

1166
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:16,000
Speaker 2: All Stars into the three teams? A great point? Yeah,

1167
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:18,600
Speaker 2: how's the draft? And then I guess you know, yeah

1168
00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:20,840
Speaker 2: the rising star? Well, are the rising stars still going

1169
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:22,880
Speaker 2: to do tournament too? And then the winner of that

1170
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:25,680
Speaker 2: tournament has to play the next a lot of tournaments. Yeah,

1171
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:28,240
Speaker 2: where tournament tournament?

1172
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:32,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, that'll be a competitive one. Whoever, the rising Stars

1173
00:53:32,080 --> 00:53:34,560
Speaker 4: playing the first round against the All Stars, that'll be it.

1174
00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:36,239
Speaker 4: That'll be a big game. Yeah, you don't want to

1175
00:53:36,239 --> 00:53:38,480
Speaker 4: lose against those twenty one year olds. Come on, man,

1176
00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:39,160
Speaker 4: that's embarrassing.

1177
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:42,319
Speaker 3: That's right. Everybody will be back. Everybody will be back

1178
00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:44,080
Speaker 3: and saying, whoa, those guys are playing hard.

1179
00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:45,759
Speaker 4: And I will be back watching it from home.

1180
00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:46,320
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1181
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:48,000
Speaker 4: I made the mistake of going to the All Star

1182
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:50,239
Speaker 4: Game again last year. Yeah, I said two years ago,

1183
00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:51,680
Speaker 4: I'm never going to another one of these. And then

1184
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:53,200
Speaker 4: they went back to East and West. I was like, uh,

1185
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:56,879
Speaker 4: you got me, suckers went back worse. So I will

1186
00:53:56,920 --> 00:53:58,680
Speaker 4: watch it from home. You will flying home Sundays.

1187
00:53:58,680 --> 00:53:59,720
Speaker 2: You will not be in attendance.

1188
00:53:59,719 --> 00:54:00,000
Speaker 4: I will.

1189
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:03,840
Speaker 2: Wow've lost him? He lost this sicko. I just like,

1190
00:54:03,880 --> 00:54:07,839
Speaker 2: I think I'm disappointed in Uh maybe the concept here

1191
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:10,160
Speaker 2: or the new format is like not all that refreshing.

1192
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:11,640
Speaker 2: I think they should, like we talked about, they should

1193
00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:15,359
Speaker 2: really lean into being super entertaining, whether it's like a

1194
00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:18,160
Speaker 2: rock and Jock style game or hey, you can only

1195
00:54:18,200 --> 00:54:20,719
Speaker 2: take thirty three pointers in the game, like whatever, like

1196
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:24,359
Speaker 2: really lean into like trying to fix just an exhibition game.

1197
00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:26,400
Speaker 2: And I don't know, I roll my eyes at this

1198
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:29,799
Speaker 2: as the solution, But I mean now we're just like, hey,

1199
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:32,440
Speaker 2: Steph Curry save us. It's like down to Steph Curry

1200
00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:34,680
Speaker 2: at this point. He's got to get the guys to

1201
00:54:34,680 --> 00:54:37,279
Speaker 2: play hard in his you know, in his own arena

1202
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:39,799
Speaker 2: for a little bit. I'm like being dead serious, Like

1203
00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:40,880
Speaker 2: it's like step.

1204
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:45,160
Speaker 4: Couldn't do it. Couldn't do it, Paul, couldn't do it.

1205
00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:47,320
Speaker 4: Can you save us? You did it in the Olympics.

1206
00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:50,239
Speaker 4: That's right, he has a national hero. Curry's got to

1207
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:52,640
Speaker 4: save the all start coop. He runs for president in

1208
00:54:52,640 --> 00:54:53,160
Speaker 4: twenty twenty.

1209
00:54:53,560 --> 00:54:56,680
Speaker 2: Save us there, yeah, us everywhere? All right. So those

1210
00:54:56,680 --> 00:54:59,719
Speaker 2: are some NBA weekend losers. Maybe disagree with the one

1211
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:01,480
Speaker 2: I just gave you there with the All Star Game.

1212
00:55:01,480 --> 00:55:03,719
Speaker 2: Maybe you're more of a fan of this tournament idea.

1213
00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:06,160
Speaker 2: Let us know in the comments. Okay, pick them game tonight,

1214
00:55:06,160 --> 00:55:07,799
Speaker 2: task ton the games on. I think there's eight.

1215
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 4: Where are we going?

1216
00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:11,680
Speaker 3: Going to Phoenix where they lost three in a row

1217
00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:15,440
Speaker 3: and they get Orlando coming to town. Orlando's a two

1218
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:18,080
Speaker 3: and a half point favorite. So Phoenix, if you want

1219
00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:19,839
Speaker 3: to pick them, they just got to lose by two

1220
00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:22,880
Speaker 3: or obviously go out and win that thing. So I

1221
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:25,560
Speaker 3: got a couple of people on the Phoenix band wagon,

1222
00:55:25,960 --> 00:55:28,840
Speaker 3: Trey and Esh feel like, yeah, the Suns can just

1223
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:32,760
Speaker 3: can just make that three game losing streak go away,

1224
00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:34,960
Speaker 3: or they can lose by two and do men be

1225
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:37,319
Speaker 3: all right either one? So yeah, Trey and Esh, they

1226
00:55:37,360 --> 00:55:40,439
Speaker 3: got Phoenix skeets and I have the Orlando Magic.

1227
00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:42,279
Speaker 2: Okay, should be a good game. You know, Sun's in

1228
00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:44,560
Speaker 2: a back to back for sure, But I guess the

1229
00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:46,520
Speaker 2: Magic didn't look all that good last time they were

1230
00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:49,400
Speaker 2: on on the road when they lost Palo.

1231
00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 3: They've lost several games, came.

1232
00:55:52,040 --> 00:55:54,160
Speaker 2: Back, bounce back at home and stuff like that. But yeah,

1233
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:56,759
Speaker 2: we will see. All right, Magic gotta win by three

1234
00:55:56,880 --> 00:55:59,200
Speaker 2: or more. Four test and I and then obviously the

1235
00:55:59,600 --> 00:56:02,200
Speaker 2: opposite for Tray and Ash. Good luck, gentlemen. Got a

1236
00:56:02,239 --> 00:56:05,280
Speaker 2: nice battle going on here in the month of November

1237
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:09,239
Speaker 2: with big ass pie on the line. So I said,

1238
00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:12,280
Speaker 2: eight games on tonight, we're gonna jump on playback once again.

1239
00:56:12,480 --> 00:56:14,919
Speaker 2: It's sort of a Monday night staple now around nine

1240
00:56:14,960 --> 00:56:17,080
Speaker 2: pm Eastern. Will get on there. That link is in

1241
00:56:17,120 --> 00:56:19,360
Speaker 2: the show notes, so you can come join the watch

1242
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:21,600
Speaker 2: party with us. And yeah, what do we got? We

1243
00:56:21,600 --> 00:56:24,640
Speaker 2: got Bulls Pistons at seven six ers heat, seven thirty Wizards,

1244
00:56:24,719 --> 00:56:28,520
Speaker 2: Nick seven thirty, Pacers Raptors seven thirty, and Rockets Bucks

1245
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:31,200
Speaker 2: at eight. So if we go on live Round nine,

1246
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:33,200
Speaker 2: we'll be watching a lot of the second half and

1247
00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:35,120
Speaker 2: fourth quarter action of those games.

1248
00:56:35,160 --> 00:56:38,759
Speaker 3: I'm sure, yeah, I'm sure there will be some good endings.

1249
00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:42,680
Speaker 3: And uh, you got the goat Red Panda here in

1250
00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:46,560
Speaker 3: the thumbnail you made. Yeah, I appreciate this.

1251
00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:48,359
Speaker 2: So you said she's falling off.

1252
00:56:48,640 --> 00:56:51,839
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, I thought if you weren't a fan of All

1253
00:56:51,840 --> 00:56:53,640
Speaker 3: Star Games anymore, you wouldn't be a fan of Red

1254
00:56:53,680 --> 00:56:54,520
Speaker 3: Panda anymore.

1255
00:56:54,840 --> 00:56:57,759
Speaker 2: I was colleague Panda washed like ten years ago on

1256
00:56:57,800 --> 00:56:59,839
Speaker 2: this show. We got a lot of blowback for that.

1257
00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:01,920
Speaker 4: She came back, She didn't, That's that's right.

1258
00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:04,200
Speaker 2: She I was right at the time. She because she

1259
00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:06,640
Speaker 2: was dropping bulls left and right. It wasn't being talked

1260
00:57:06,640 --> 00:57:08,960
Speaker 2: about enough. Was then she bounce She bounced back. She

1261
00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:11,960
Speaker 2: had a nice little run again. Yeah, no, it's starting

1262
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:12,560
Speaker 2: to slip again.

1263
00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:13,920
Speaker 3: You do it.

1264
00:57:14,040 --> 00:57:16,320
Speaker 4: I know, that's exactly right.

1265
00:57:16,760 --> 00:57:18,240
Speaker 2: Well, I just want to know, is like, is there

1266
00:57:18,280 --> 00:57:21,480
Speaker 2: a is there a mini Red Panda like in the pipeline?

1267
00:57:23,960 --> 00:57:24,720
Speaker 2: Is there another one?

1268
00:57:25,360 --> 00:57:26,000
Speaker 4: Another panda?

1269
00:57:26,160 --> 00:57:26,760
Speaker 2: Yeah? I don't know.

1270
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:29,920
Speaker 4: I mean, look, we've got the old guy balancer, right,

1271
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:32,760
Speaker 4: like the amazing slat Is.

1272
00:57:32,680 --> 00:57:33,840
Speaker 2: That something like that?

1273
00:57:33,920 --> 00:57:34,040
Speaker 3: Right?

1274
00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:34,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, that sounds right.

1275
00:57:35,360 --> 00:57:37,920
Speaker 4: There is a young balancer out there now too, Like right,

1276
00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:39,919
Speaker 4: we got like an under ten year old balancing kid.

1277
00:57:40,040 --> 00:57:40,200
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1278
00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:43,160
Speaker 4: They put him on that board with a wheel underneath,

1279
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:47,320
Speaker 4: back and forth, and another fifty years they'll be standing

1280
00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:49,400
Speaker 4: on a chair scaring everybody to death.

1281
00:57:50,640 --> 00:57:53,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, you said the red panda slipped a little bit,

1282
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:54,760
Speaker 3: fell off a little bit. She hasn't fallen off the

1283
00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:57,440
Speaker 3: union for sure. She's still all right. She's still she's

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Speaker 3: doing Okay. I saw yesterday you're a magician show in

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Speaker 3: Oklahoma City. Uh magician with his assistant in a box,

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Speaker 3: you know, standard roback standards, not quick change like no, no,

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Speaker 3: just straight magic. A guy who didn't stop smiling, literally

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Speaker 3: fifteen minutes of smiling. I thought that was the amazing feat.

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Speaker 2: I mean, just a guy comes up in smiles for

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Speaker 2: fifteen minutes.

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Speaker 3: Pretty impressive. That was the most impressive part to me. Anyway.

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Speaker 3: I didn't think i'd see another. Yeah, as you said,

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Speaker 3: it's an old school magician. Here we go. I didn't

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Speaker 3: think that you that half time Jimmy Grisham and Scoob.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. Well, I mean, yeah, there are they

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Speaker 2: the best. I think they're one of the best, top

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Speaker 2: three for sure. H In terms of halftime acts, Simon

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Speaker 2: says gets a big pop from the crowd all the time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah that's a good point.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, ye dogs out there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah that's good setup. Let's know your favorite halftime act

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Speaker 2: and do you think Red Panther still has it? We'll

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Speaker 2: see you on playback tonight. Otherwise, we'll see you here

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Speaker 2: live from the Classic Factory at ten am Easter. Until then,

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Speaker 2: Clipper Bros.

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Speaker 4: You heard it here first, have a great time, turn up.

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Speaker 4: Love you guys, awesome, Thank you.

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Speaker 3: For joining us, and remember the Raptors will have a

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Speaker 3: close game tonight.

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Speaker 2: I always do brace the day people,