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Speaker 1: Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the No Dungks

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Speaker 1: podcast on the Athletic Network. It's Wednesday, October ninth, twenty

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Speaker 1: On today's podcast, we're looking at the NBA win totals

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Speaker 1: for all fifteen Eastern Conference teams. We tackled the Eastern

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Speaker 1: Conference on Monday. That pod it's up everywhere. It's on YouTube,

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Speaker 1: leave your boys. The five star ratings and reviews. Had

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Speaker 1: a lot of fun doing our over under predictions when

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Speaker 1: it came to the East, but we do the West today.

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Speaker 1: At the end, we'll each pick our three locks, but

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Speaker 1: we'll go through every team. Let's start with the Pacific Division.

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Speaker 1: We'll show you all them there in the Pacific the

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Speaker 1: over underwin totals courtesy of our good friends at bet

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Speaker 1: MGM Golden State Warriors forty three and a half, Clippers

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Speaker 1: forty and a half, Lakers forty three and a half,

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Speaker 1: Suns forty seven and a half, and the Kings at

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Speaker 1: forty six and a half, sort of all clumped together

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Speaker 1: here in the Pacific Division. But let's start with the

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Speaker 1: Dubs again, forty three and a half. That's their over

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Speaker 1: underwin total last year, forty six and thirty six. But

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Speaker 1: they got bounced at home by twenty four points by

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Speaker 1: the Kings. In the playing game, I'd sort of forgotten

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Speaker 1: it went that poorly re signed Steph Curry, added Kyle Anderson,

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Speaker 1: Buddy Heel, the Anthony Melton, Lyndy Waters the third great name.

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Speaker 2: He's already hit a game winner, that's right.

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Speaker 1: Lost Klay Thompson to the MAVs, lost Chris Paul to

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Speaker 1: the Spurs, and Dario Sarich to the Nuggets. What do

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Speaker 1: you think here of the Warriors? You know this team

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Speaker 1: that is sort of floating around that play in spots here,

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Speaker 1: can they hit over forty three and a half wins?

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Speaker 2: Well? He brought up forty six and thirty six, And

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Speaker 2: I think that's the puzzling part for people out there.

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Speaker 2: Why should this team be that much worse forty three

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Speaker 2: and a half. And that's why I'm taking the over.

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Speaker 2: I think last year they were a middle of the

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Speaker 2: pack defensive team amongst all that drama that they had.

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Speaker 2: They won't have that drama this year, I don't think.

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Speaker 2: I think they got a heck of a lot better

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Speaker 2: with their defense and support players, primarilyd Anthony Melton will

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Speaker 2: be starting beside Stephen Curry. D Anthony Melton, I think

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Speaker 2: the least talked about solid player in the NBA. He's

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Speaker 2: just gonna be good. There's just gonna be a bunch

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Speaker 2: of guys that aren't causing problems. All right. So we've

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Speaker 2: got Jonathan Kaminga another year of him, Brandon Pajemski another

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Speaker 2: year of him. We know that Trace Jackson Davis will

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Speaker 2: be starting over Kevon Looney. We know that Klay Thompson

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Speaker 2: drama won't be there this year. You kind of know

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Speaker 2: who you're going with. Kyle Anderson's gonna be playing the

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Speaker 2: back up five. His dreamon Green told him he's gonna play.

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Speaker 2: You're playing the backup five, man. I think we're getting

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Speaker 2: a breakout season for Andrew Wigains, that bounce backer. I

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Speaker 2: know it's hard to say for everybody out there, just

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Speaker 2: it's hard for everybody to say that he will have

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Speaker 2: a better season. But he's in shape. He had a

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Speaker 2: weird summer where he was supposed to play for Team Canada,

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Speaker 2: great and he's probably playing for his dad, who he

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Speaker 2: lost last month. I think things will come together for him.

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Speaker 2: He's asked, how are you gonna be different? Well, on scoring,

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Speaker 2: I think I'm gonna score more than last year.

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Speaker 4: That's for sure.

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Speaker 2: He can't be worse at twenty nine years old. I

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Speaker 2: don't think he can be worse. I just think there's

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Speaker 2: And I think, yeah, their offense all is going to

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Speaker 2: Is that gonna get worse? No, they got Steph, they

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Speaker 3: I think a bounce back season would be huge for

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Speaker 4: Don't know who their second best player is.

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Speaker 3: If Steph Curry picks up two fouls in the first quarter,

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Speaker 3: to be part of the Warriors' future. Not to mention

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Speaker 3: they need to put more shooting on the court because

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Speaker 3: they're trying to stretch him out. They're letting them shoot

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Speaker 3: It just seems to me like this Warriors team needs

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Speaker 3: Good luck starting Kaminga next to Draymond and Looney or

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Speaker 3: It's hard for them to get offense on the court.

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Speaker 3: They're saying this guy was bad for the vibes. He

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Speaker 4: So we'll see. Maybe the Warriors are just okay.

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Speaker 3: I think they can still hit the over here, but

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Speaker 3: I don't think that gonna get the forty six wins.

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Speaker 1: Tip of the cap to bet MGM and Vegas for

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Speaker 1: So this one's a difficult one. Feels exactly in that spot,

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Speaker 1: that sweet spot between whatever forty two to forty six wins,

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Speaker 1: So it's like it's like a bit of a shrug

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Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, does Draymond get up to old Draymond

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Speaker 1: Green anticks and miss a stretch of the season. Is he,

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Speaker 1: you know, play well and play behaved, doesn't cross the line?

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Speaker 1: guess we're all going over in the end. But it's

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Speaker 1: They are going to be in the play sort of area.

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Speaker 2: A big reason why the over under number goes down

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Speaker 2: to is just how tough this division and conference are

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Speaker 2: That's the only division in the NBA where all five

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Speaker 2: teams are air quotes good. But the Western Conference is

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Speaker 2: the toughest Western Conference. Since we started doing this show.

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Speaker 1: Twenty years, twenty years, I've heard years have we ever had?

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Speaker 1: It's loaded.

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Speaker 2: So I think there's going to be some unders as

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the Western Conference is a lot harder than the

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Speaker 3: Eastern Conference doing over unders. Like, surely I will be

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I think the Warriors, their team might be better,

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Speaker 1: And do you think this team the Warriors are a

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Speaker 1: like Wiggins could be one of those guys that they

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Speaker 1: want to look to move. Yeah, but what about other

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Speaker 4: Like they need to make a trade they're not good enough.

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Speaker 3: I mean, they've got Steph Curry signed through the end

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Speaker 3: don't know exactly who that player could be. Brandon Ingram

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Speaker 4: The fact that they.

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Speaker 3: Haven't done a deal yet with Kaminga makes you think

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Speaker 3: maybe he's a guy that could be on the way out.

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Speaker 3: I don't personally think they should trade him, but if

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Speaker 3: the postseason for the rest of Curry's career, they need

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Speaker 3: to get an actual number two score.

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Speaker 2: Yea. Kaminga's extension is up later this month, and so

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Speaker 2: he could be signed, that's for sure. I wonder if

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Speaker 2: that's drama if they don't sign him, but they obviously

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Speaker 2: want somebody better. They talk about it now. Draymond Green said, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I was trying to get Paul George on this team

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Speaker 2: They tried to get Larry markin, and they tried to

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Speaker 2: Brandon Pajemski, who is obviously a very good player, but

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Speaker 2: it just doesn't seem like you're going to get anybody

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Speaker 2: incredible if you're not willing to give up you're a

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, maybe Draymond Green is the guy that ultimately

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Speaker 2: I'm totally making that up. He's not putting down an offer,

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Speaker 1: Let's go to the Clippers forty and a half. That's

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Speaker 1: the line I'm giving you, guys, because this one's actually

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Speaker 1: Paul George Clippers experiment. It didn't produce a single trip

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Speaker 3: Yeah, That's what it was a mystery to me. There's

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Speaker 3: so there just weren't enough wins left over for me

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Speaker 3: other twenty nine teams. Basically, what the Clippers did is

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Speaker 3: traded Paul George for Derek Jones Junior. I mean, it's

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Speaker 2: Oh, Kyle.

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Speaker 4: He is in shape. He's going to carry this team.

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Speaker 3: He's a system, he is an offense, and they're gonna

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Speaker 3: I can get that enthused about. But man, fifty one

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And what's also shocker is that the last thirteen

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Speaker 2: Lawrence frank is proud I heard. I would have never

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Speaker 2: guessed that thirteen straight seasons the longest streak currently in

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Speaker 2: be extremely weird. You'd think that shedding the Lakers stadium

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Speaker 2: would help them just a little bit. No more afternoon

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Speaker 2: double digits because they're sleeping going into those games. They're

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Speaker 2: down double digits in every single one of those games, like.

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Speaker 1: Those weekend afternoon games.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's ten of them, actually, yeah, And they don't

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Speaker 2: have to do that anymore. They do not have any

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Speaker 2: more afternoon games. Had ten last year and no more

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Speaker 2: this season. Will that help? That was Kawhi Leonard out.

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Speaker 2: I don't think I know. James Harden is basically saying, look,

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Speaker 2: this it's my team. You saw what Luka Dantrich did.

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Speaker 2: A guy that plays like me, he got to the finals.

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Speaker 2: That's what I'm gonna do. And James Artn's good for

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Speaker 2: the regular season. He's damn good for the season. Every

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Speaker 2: possession will be run through him. With Kawhi out and

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Speaker 2: like hard and said we need him later in the year.

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Speaker 2: That's when we name him. When we need him, he said,

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Speaker 2: quote whenever Why is ready, why we'll join the team.

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Speaker 2: Why so exactly feels weird to call him why Imo,

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Speaker 2: But you know you're gonna have Leonard sit down, Derek

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Speaker 2: with Harden, Terrence Mann and Zubats. You're buying into that

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Speaker 2: I go on here, It's just it's somebody's got to lose.

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Speaker 2: I mean, these these numbers, these over unders, as you said, trade,

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Speaker 2: they all have to add up to twelve hundred and thirty.

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Speaker 2: They all have to have twelve hundred and thirty wins.

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Speaker 2: So we're saying here with this Clippers team, it's literally

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Speaker 2: So either you know, numbers drop from the Eastern Conference,

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Speaker 2: nine win teams. I don't know. I just think the

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Speaker 1: I'm with you, guys, because I can't bank or trust.

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Speaker 1: Of course, not only Kawhi Leonard playing being healthy for

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Speaker 1: But also, okay, so we're running everything through James Harden.

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Speaker 1: He's talking a big game. He's like, look at you

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Speaker 1: see Luca. He took his team to the finals. I

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Speaker 1: created that. This is me. Okay, one, that's been a while, James.

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Speaker 1: It's been a couple of years since Harden MVP, you know,

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Speaker 4: We still work for NBA TV, right.

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Speaker 1: And the other thing is he's thirty five years old. Like,

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Speaker 1: I'm terrified this team forget Kawhi for a second.

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Speaker 1: they're not gonna tank, don't they have like a pickup

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Speaker 1: So you know there's the potential there, unlikely anyway, But

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Speaker 1: I just I have no faith in this team. I

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Speaker 1: honestly might be enough for this season at least. I

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Speaker 1: all these other good teams. There's just so many other

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and especially with Kawhi Leonard, he's sounding like Joel

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Speaker 2: Embiid where he's saying I got to be good for

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Speaker 2: You know, I played a lot last season, but I

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Speaker 2: going to see if playing in all those games last

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Speaker 2: ain't no guarantee that he's coming back. He doesn't feel like.

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Speaker 1: It's like years running man.

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Speaker 2: Yeah with this, Yeah, but last year he did play

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Speaker 2: a team four team sixty eight games and they won

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Speaker 2: basically saying I gotta good for the playoffs. It sounded

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Speaker 2: You know, it sucks talking about that, But then you

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Speaker 2: just started to look at James, just like Trey said,

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Speaker 2: the bad looks good.

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Speaker 4: Now he looks good. He looks easy in shape.

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Speaker 2: It was a couple of years ago. Yeah, it was

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Speaker 2: I guess where he had forty in the playoffs against

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Speaker 4: Good, No, but throwback, throw back, big big heart season.

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Speaker 1: I think he definitely still has massive games in him

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Speaker 1: It's the consistency and obviously at his age, I mean,

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Speaker 1: But he sounds happy. He sounds like, all right, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think it's a mad stats here on this.

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Speaker 4: Still, let's go.

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Speaker 2: Let's go all right, that fake the ball, fake move

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Speaker 2: I don't remember seeing that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what you're talking Hartman. Vince moves in the preseason.

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Speaker 3: Remember he was doing the behind the back step back like,

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Speaker 2: Never took one.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to the Lakers forty three and a half.

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Speaker 1: They went forty seven and thirty five last year. They

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Speaker 1: the Nuggets in the first round. They were really average

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Speaker 1: Lebron Max Christy as well. They got coach JJ Redick

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Speaker 1: Christian Coloco coming from the Raps. He's one of their additions.

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Speaker 1: the Lakers, what do you think TK forty three and

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Speaker 3: still going over. Give me forty four for the Lakers

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00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:11,280
Speaker 3: and for the Warriors. The question I have really for

431
00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:14,560
Speaker 3: the Lakers is can they be good at anything? Last

432
00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:17,920
Speaker 3: year they were mid at everything, fifteenth in offense, sixteenth

433
00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:20,560
Speaker 3: in defense, equals nineteenth and net rating, and then they

434
00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:23,520
Speaker 3: did nothing in the offseason besides bringing in JJ Reddick.

435
00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:26,359
Speaker 3: He wants them to shoot more threes. They don't necessarily

436
00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:28,480
Speaker 3: have the shooters to shoot more threes. I don't think

437
00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:30,560
Speaker 3: they're still going to shoot a lot of free throws.

438
00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:32,320
Speaker 3: That's what the Lakers are the best at. They get

439
00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:34,800
Speaker 3: good calls. Lebron is aggressive, going to the hoop. Anthony

440
00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:38,840
Speaker 3: Davis aggressive inside as well. Austin Reeves, he draws a

441
00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:43,199
Speaker 3: whole bunch of fouls. Post elimination. Last year, the Lakers

442
00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:45,080
Speaker 3: were talking all about how we didn't have health. We

443
00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:47,879
Speaker 3: didn't have health. They got seventy six games from AD,

444
00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:50,840
Speaker 3: seventy one from Lebron, eighty two from Reeves, and seventy

445
00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:53,439
Speaker 3: six from Dlo. Those guys played a ton and it

446
00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:55,840
Speaker 3: was basically DiAngelo Russell getting hot in the second half

447
00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:58,200
Speaker 3: of the season that a kept him in Los Angeles

448
00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:01,680
Speaker 3: and be really helped out the Lake giving him giving

449
00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:04,520
Speaker 3: them some perimeter scoring. So I think the fact that

450
00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:07,520
Speaker 3: they're just basically bringing everybody back and having JJ Reddick

451
00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:09,760
Speaker 3: say we're going to take five or six more threes

452
00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:12,760
Speaker 3: doesn't change the team all that much. They're a team

453
00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:14,159
Speaker 3: that you're not gonna want to play against in the

454
00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:16,679
Speaker 3: playoffs because we know Lebron and AD can really elevate

455
00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:19,879
Speaker 3: their games. There might be a little Lakers dust that

456
00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:22,639
Speaker 3: the officials are having to deal with as well, but

457
00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:25,679
Speaker 3: I don't really think this is a team that is

458
00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:27,800
Speaker 3: in the mix for a championship or anything like that.

459
00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:30,000
Speaker 3: They're in the bottom half of the playoff bracket for

460
00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:30,840
Speaker 3: the Western Conference.

461
00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:33,199
Speaker 1: Yeah, the buzz there in training camp for the Lakers,

462
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Speaker 1: and like now going into the preseason, the idea is,

463
00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:38,440
Speaker 1: like Reddick's talking about, we want to use ad as

464
00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:41,600
Speaker 1: more like of a playmaking hub, right hub, get him

465
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Speaker 1: at the elbows, get him at the three point arc,

466
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Speaker 1: and like sort of operate through Anthony Davis a little

467
00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:48,399
Speaker 1: bit more. I roll my eyes at that a little bit.

468
00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:50,399
Speaker 1: It's like you got Lebron James, Like, come on, the

469
00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:52,320
Speaker 1: ball is going to go through Lebron as it probably

470
00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:56,080
Speaker 1: still should. But what have you thought about Reddick here

471
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Speaker 1: in obviously preseason and training camp, and do you have

472
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Speaker 1: hope tests in the Lakers hitting over forty three and

473
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Speaker 1: a half.

474
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Speaker 2: Yes, I have hope. I think they will. I think

475
00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:07,720
Speaker 2: what Reddick is doing well is he's communicating with the players.

476
00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:11,120
Speaker 2: The players didn't seem to love Darvin Hamlin. The good

477
00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:13,480
Speaker 2: thing that JJ Reddick will do immediately from day one

478
00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:16,480
Speaker 2: is start their best five players that Darvin didn't do

479
00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:20,240
Speaker 2: to start last season. They they're starting Russell Reeves, obviously

480
00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:23,879
Speaker 2: Lebron a d and Ruy Ruy didn't start he was injured.

481
00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:27,040
Speaker 2: They're playing with these starting lineups. They're trying to figure

482
00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:29,200
Speaker 2: it out. They put Reeves to the bench. He's playing

483
00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:32,320
Speaker 2: those five and then he's telling everybody, you know, we

484
00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:34,720
Speaker 2: got to shoot those those threes. Will he get that

485
00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:37,399
Speaker 2: number up? I don't know. We've been talking about it

486
00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:40,280
Speaker 2: since Anthony Davis won the NBA Finals in twenty twenty

487
00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:43,160
Speaker 2: when he shot all those threes. Is he gonna shoot threes?

488
00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:46,960
Speaker 2: It didn't happen. Apparently JJ Reddick has been in his ear.

489
00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:50,680
Speaker 2: Davis said he's been on me all summer about shooting threes.

490
00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,320
Speaker 2: Darvin wanted that from last year. It didn't happen. He's

491
00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:55,560
Speaker 2: ruy is he thinks I'm a great three point shooter

492
00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:59,159
Speaker 2: and he believes it. Do you believe it? And so

493
00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:02,399
Speaker 2: the last year, like you were talking about Trey, where

494
00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:06,080
Speaker 2: the grinders, Jared Vanderbilt wasn't playing, Gave Vincent wasn't playing,

495
00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:09,639
Speaker 2: those injured guys. They seem to in preseason have some

496
00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:13,800
Speaker 2: more grinders. They signed Max Christy to a big, big contract,

497
00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:16,560
Speaker 2: and apparently JJ has been talking to him a lot,

498
00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:20,800
Speaker 2: and he could be the impact role player that they

499
00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:22,639
Speaker 2: didn't have last year because he's helping out. He's all

500
00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:24,560
Speaker 2: over the place. If you watch any of the preseason games,

501
00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:27,520
Speaker 2: he's bored and he's blocking shots, he's slashing, he's doing

502
00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:30,200
Speaker 2: everything out there. So he could be their six man

503
00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:33,000
Speaker 2: and then the Dalton connect. He could connect some people.

504
00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:34,920
Speaker 2: He's a dunker, he's finisher, he's a movement shooter.

505
00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:35,880
Speaker 1: He's pretty good.

506
00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:38,840
Speaker 2: And Reddick has told him, if you want to be

507
00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:41,199
Speaker 2: in the rotation, you got to be grinding. So he

508
00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:45,159
Speaker 2: Reddick is talking to everybody, Yeah, just play grinding on

509
00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:47,960
Speaker 2: the video board and everybody will be like, oh, yeah,

510
00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,080
Speaker 2: I gotta play hard. So I think Reddick is doing

511
00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:52,520
Speaker 2: a good job that mar Darvinham didn't seem to do

512
00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:54,439
Speaker 2: well anyways, that he lost the guys.

513
00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:55,200
Speaker 4: He lost the guys.

514
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so you think Reddick's at least talking a good

515
00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,320
Speaker 1: game here of inspiring some of these guys. Hey, we

516
00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:03,040
Speaker 1: got ad, we got Lebron. We we're good and obviously

517
00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:05,080
Speaker 1: in this in the talent department, but we need all

518
00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:08,880
Speaker 1: the little things. Yeah, play defense, obviously, deflections, hit the glass,

519
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:11,120
Speaker 1: stuff like that, and then actually hit a three.

520
00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:12,600
Speaker 2: Pass it and shoot those threes. I mean, some of

521
00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:15,480
Speaker 2: the players are nice, the horns that they're running, but

522
00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:18,280
Speaker 2: they set up threes that they clank like, I don't

523
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:20,600
Speaker 2: know if they're gonna go down. It's they were twenty

524
00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:22,919
Speaker 2: fourth last year in terms of mad threes. It's what

525
00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:25,240
Speaker 2: they did. They didn't do it all that well. Yeah,

526
00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:27,879
Speaker 2: so I don't know, AD's gotta shoot more of them anything.

527
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Speaker 4: I don't know.

528
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Speaker 3: I mean, I saw that quote too where he's talking

529
00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:32,439
Speaker 3: about JJ was in my ear. He's telling me at

530
00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:34,480
Speaker 3: the Olympics, shoot more threes. I was like, what he

531
00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:38,080
Speaker 3: took two threes in the Olympics. It's a shorter line,

532
00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:41,840
Speaker 3: So I don't think it's gonna happen. And also, Anthony

533
00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:45,359
Speaker 3: Davis is like unstoppable inside, so I would like him inside.

534
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:48,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, let's say it goes a poor, poor start

535
00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:51,760
Speaker 1: for the Lakers to start season, right, they're struggling. Who

536
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:55,200
Speaker 1: will be? Like who'll be the scapegoat for the Lakers

537
00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:57,840
Speaker 1: this season? Heading it? Will it continue to be D'Angelo Russell?

538
00:23:59,040 --> 00:23:59,240
Speaker 2: Could?

539
00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:02,080
Speaker 1: Could it be? Obviously as a new coach, Appela like

540
00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:02,640
Speaker 1: what are you doing?

541
00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:02,880
Speaker 2: Wait?

542
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 1: Why do you got eighty shooting threes? Is there someone

543
00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:06,119
Speaker 1: I'm missing?

544
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:10,560
Speaker 3: Who do you think Bronnie Bronni too much of a sideshow?

545
00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:11,400
Speaker 4: Oh, goodness.

546
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:14,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well I didn't think of that. She'sus poor kid.

547
00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:18,560
Speaker 3: Uh probably D'Angelo Russell. Yeah, you know, we've been skirting

548
00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:20,680
Speaker 3: around him being the scapegoat for a while. Like I said,

549
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:22,520
Speaker 3: he kind of saved the season for the Lakers in

550
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:27,119
Speaker 3: the middle third basically, So you know, he came to

551
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:30,480
Speaker 3: his press conference at Media Days like surprise, surprise, I'm

552
00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:36,080
Speaker 3: still around. Oh yeah you are, and you're important for

553
00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:38,800
Speaker 3: the Lakers. So I think that's a possibility. And then

554
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:41,240
Speaker 3: like Jared Vanderbilts already hurt, right, Yeah, so that'll be

555
00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:41,840
Speaker 3: another one.

556
00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:45,000
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, these guys can't stay healthy, that's possibility.

557
00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:47,520
Speaker 1: So but you guys are both going over. Just to

558
00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:50,120
Speaker 1: just over it sounds like less. When's still over three

559
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,560
Speaker 1: and a half, I'll go under. I'll go just under.

560
00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:55,240
Speaker 1: It sounds weird. I mean, I guess I'm banking a

561
00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:56,720
Speaker 1: little bit on, Like, Wow, that was a really good

562
00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:59,439
Speaker 1: season for Adie and Lebron playing a decent chunk of games.

563
00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:02,760
Speaker 1: Can they do it for a consecutive year in a row?

564
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:05,919
Speaker 1: And then all these pieces and JJ, I feel like

565
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:08,159
Speaker 1: I can't pick the Warriors and Lakers to both go

566
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:10,000
Speaker 1: over forty three and a half. I have to pick

567
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:13,240
Speaker 1: one to go under, I'll say Lakers, just under Sons

568
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:16,520
Speaker 1: forty seven and a half. They went forty nine and

569
00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:19,920
Speaker 1: thirty three last year. Remember they were dominating the Minnesota

570
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,320
Speaker 1: Timberwolves in the regular season. Had their number, got a

571
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:25,119
Speaker 1: great matchup, convinced me to take him in the postseason,

572
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:29,480
Speaker 1: and they got swept by the Wolves. They have the

573
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:32,280
Speaker 1: priceiest trio right in the league and they came up

574
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:35,840
Speaker 1: well short. So what did they do? They made a

575
00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:38,439
Speaker 1: coaching change, so you do in the NBA, it's not

576
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,879
Speaker 1: the players's coach, but Mike Budenholzer in as head coach,

577
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:45,919
Speaker 1: Vogel out. They also added Tyas Jones, e j Little,

578
00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:50,600
Speaker 1: Monte Morris the plumb Dog. They lost Drew Eubanks, Eric Gordon,

579
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Speaker 1: David the Body, Roddy, and they resigned a bunch of

580
00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:54,800
Speaker 1: guys like because they really sort of all they could

581
00:25:54,800 --> 00:26:00,280
Speaker 1: do bow Bowl Damian Lee, Josha Kogi, Royce O'Neill get

582
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:03,080
Speaker 1: started forty seven and a half. Another one here where

583
00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:05,879
Speaker 1: it's less wins according to bet MGM. You know than

584
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,679
Speaker 1: last year. But do you think the Suns with Bootenholz

585
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:11,160
Speaker 1: are and maybe some you know, maybe some more stability

586
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:13,680
Speaker 1: and a healthy Beal are going to hit the over first.

587
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,600
Speaker 2: You made me aware of why I call hummers humdugs,

588
00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:20,200
Speaker 2: because we used to call plumby plum dog. Yeah. Seeing

589
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:23,320
Speaker 2: all these humdogs out there, these EV's out there, yeah yeah,

590
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,920
Speaker 2: they look neat Yeah ev humdog. Yeah.

591
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,120
Speaker 1: Are you getting excited still when you see cyber trucks

592
00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:29,479
Speaker 1: around Atlanta?

593
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:33,040
Speaker 2: Not as much. I sat in a humdog looks like

594
00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:37,879
Speaker 2: a hummer. Yeah, cyber truck looks like tin can. The

595
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:39,920
Speaker 2: look is is too weird for me. I signed a

596
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:41,720
Speaker 2: Hummer though. It didn't feel as big as it looks

597
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:46,760
Speaker 2: from the outside, so it was nice. It was nicer anyways. Yeah,

598
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:48,359
Speaker 2: I get that plum dog back. He's as good as

599
00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:50,320
Speaker 2: a humdog. What am I saying? What I'm saying is

600
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:51,960
Speaker 2: that the Phoenix Suns are going over. I think because

601
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,560
Speaker 2: they got a point guard. I think getting Tiles Jones matters.

602
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:56,480
Speaker 2: I also picked the Phoenix Suns in the playoff against

603
00:26:56,520 --> 00:27:00,640
Speaker 2: minnesot Timberwolves. That wasn't good. What happened and every single

604
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 2: possession on offense was that they just weren't getting into

605
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 2: their place and Bradley Beal looked exhausted having to guard

606
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:08,480
Speaker 2: the other team's pretty damn good defenders and playing point

607
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 2: guard on the other side, and he did look exhausted.

608
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,160
Speaker 2: Will it help the Ty Jones out there? Yeah, yeah, yeah,

609
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 2: I think so. I think Jones is playing for a

610
00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:20,200
Speaker 2: contract as well. And Mike Budenholzer, he does damn good

611
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:24,480
Speaker 2: in regular seasons as a head coach. They just overachief

612
00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:27,760
Speaker 2: and so forty seven and a half it's high in

613
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 2: a weird way in this West, But I think they're

614
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:31,320
Speaker 2: going to do it. I think Budenholzer is going to

615
00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:34,560
Speaker 2: get Ty Jones is getting again, Bill Booker and Durant

616
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:38,119
Speaker 2: damn Like how if you get their shots where you're

617
00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:39,919
Speaker 2: supposed to get your shots, you're gonna be good. And

618
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 2: I think Mike Budenholzer is gonna get use of Nurkic

619
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Speaker 2: to shoot threes because centers under Budenholzer always shoot threes.

620
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 2: Looking back to the Hawks days, Dwayne Deadman will shoot threes,

621
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:54,679
Speaker 2: Mike Muscala will shoot threes, Peril Antisch will shoot threes.

622
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 2: Everybody shoots threes. He's gonna shoot the most threes of

623
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:01,040
Speaker 2: his career. And I based that a bit on some

624
00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 2: of the videos in the in the offseason. But he

625
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 2: can shoot the three and SERVI looks good. He looks good.

626
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:09,200
Speaker 1: He shot twenty two for ninety from three last season,

627
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 1: but forty three for one hundred and nineteen that's thirty

628
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 1: six percent clip the year before. Yeah, he's gonna be

629
00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:17,000
Speaker 1: out in his last year in Portland, so maybe he

630
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 1: can hit it and Boodenholezer, you're right, we'll probably encourage

631
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 1: him to let him fly.

632
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you're going over, I'm going over.

633
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 1: Okay, the bud bump. He believes in it, at least

634
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:26,119
Speaker 1: in the regular season.

635
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 3: About you, Treck Well, I was going over too until

636
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 3: Task told me that it's gonna be Tias Jones and

637
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:32,600
Speaker 3: Yusef Nurkic leading the way for this team. I don't

638
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:35,159
Speaker 3: know if I believe that. Well Urgage was solid last year.

639
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,679
Speaker 3: He exceeded my expectations. He was pretty healthy, yeah, and

640
00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 3: played pretty well. I still think center is a big

641
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:43,360
Speaker 3: question mark for this team, But as long as Nurkic

642
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 3: is out there, that's good.

643
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 4: They need more shooting.

644
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 3: Outside the fifth and three point percentage, that's awesome, But

645
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 3: they were twenty fifth in attempts, so Nurkic taking some

646
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 3: more would be great, but in reality, it's Devin Booker

647
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:55,800
Speaker 3: needs to take some more. Kevin Brant needs to take

648
00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:57,560
Speaker 3: some more. Good luck, he's in year eighteen. He loved

649
00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:00,400
Speaker 3: the pull up game. Bradley Beal What what's he doing?

650
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:00,680
Speaker 2: Now?

651
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 4: Is Titus Jones actually going to start for this team?

652
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 3: Because then when I look at it, it's like Jones, Beal, Booker,

653
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 3: that's a pretty small backcourt. Nobody's necessarily a defender, though

654
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:15,560
Speaker 3: Booker I think can elevate on that end a little bit.

655
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 3: Kevin Durants a really good player on the defensive end.

656
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 3: He's probably their best defensive player. So I just, I

657
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 3: just I'm not guaranteeing that Tias Jones is a starter here.

658
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 3: It seems like it to me, but I wonder long term.

659
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 3: But the thing with me is that a I do

660
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 3: love the Budenholzer. Addition, he will bake their offense more

661
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 3: modern looking. I think they always win in the regular season.

662
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 3: He has good defensive principles that he will have the

663
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:41,920
Speaker 3: team stick to. That becomes a problem in the playoffs

664
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:45,040
Speaker 3: when he's a little bit inflexible. And when Booker Duranton

665
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 3: Beal All started last year was only thirty nine games,

666
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 3: but they went twenty four and fifteen. That's a fifty

667
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 3: win pace. They were good when those three guys actually

668
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:54,720
Speaker 3: played together, So I like it. I don't like that

669
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 3: Grayson Allen is now two hundred and thirty pounds.

670
00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:59,480
Speaker 4: That's messed up huge. Now.

671
00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:02,680
Speaker 3: This guy's like a knockdown three point shooter, and guess what,

672
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 3: I'm muscling up. Watch your heads, everybody. This guy's gonna

673
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,280
Speaker 3: be knocking people out of the air left and right.

674
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 3: But I'm still over on the Suns. Maybe it's Team

675
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:14,959
Speaker 3: USA inflected, but I love seeing Booker and Durant together,

676
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 3: and I love seeing all the dirty work Booker was doing.

677
00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 3: So if he's able to tap into some of that

678
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 3: while still being one of the two best shooting guards

679
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:22,479
Speaker 3: in the league, I love it.

680
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 1: Huge part is and he's sort of forgotten in the

681
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 1: NBA landscape because he was poor last year, and he

682
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 1: was like sort of easily forgot when he was playing

683
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 1: for the Wizards at the end of his career. There,

684
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 1: it's bial like he is good. He should shoot way

685
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 1: more threes, like he shot forty three percent from three

686
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 1: last year, but only like four attempts per game. Double that. Honestly,

687
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:46,000
Speaker 1: he really should and Budenholzer will probably encourage him too.

688
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:47,720
Speaker 1: He needs a bounce back here. He's got to be consistent,

689
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 1: he's got to stay healthy. And yeah, I'm with you

690
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 1: if they play. I mean, we're banking on these three

691
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 1: guys all playing at the same time. It's a part

692
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 1: of the equation. Though. I go over, I go over

693
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 1: if they're out there, and I like the Again, we

694
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 1: were looking at this team going what the hell are

695
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 1: they gonna do because they didn't have a lot of

696
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 1: wiggle room in terms of contracts that can hand out

697
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 1: guys they could bring in. God, they did pretty well

698
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:10,959
Speaker 1: overall to like re sign some of those guys and

699
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,720
Speaker 1: bring in at least two guys in Tias Jones and

700
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 1: Monte Morris that never turned the ball over. You know,

701
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 1: that's the one thing maybe really well. They run an

702
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 1: offense and they don't kill you, at least in terms

703
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: of giving it to the other team or taking shots

704
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:27,479
Speaker 1: that they probably shouldn't. So I'll go over, but probably

705
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 1: under the fifty win mark. Sacramento Kings is the final

706
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 1: team in the Pacific Division. Forty six and a half

707
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 1: is the line, which is a tiny bit more than

708
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 1: last year. They went forty six and thirty six, so

709
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 1: they're being, you know, possibly picked to win one more game,

710
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 1: lost to the Pelicans in the play in for the

711
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 1: final playoff spot, you know, so bounced in the play in.

712
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 1: They were they were sort of like the Lakers, sort

713
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 1: of average offensively, average defensively. And that's weird because you

714
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 1: had Dearon Fox having a career year. Sabonis was another

715
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,719
Speaker 1: All NBA guy for the second time in his career.

716
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 1: Monk was amazing, nearly one sixth Man of the Year.

717
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 1: Keegan Murray was pretty damn good. But the defense sort

718
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 1: of an issue again and that really held them back.

719
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 1: But they re signed Malik Monk and Alex lann They

720
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 1: added Demarta Rozen and Jalen McDaniels in trades. They signed

721
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 1: Jordan McLaughlin Orlando Robinson. They drafted Devin Carter but he

722
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 1: will not be playing, and they lost Harrison Barnes, Chris Duarte,

723
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 1: Davion Mitchell, Sasha Visit, how do you say his name? Zenkov?

724
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:32,960
Speaker 1: He's not even in the league anymore, is it. No?

725
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 3: I saw on the NBA GM survey he was the

726
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 3: best player in your not nationally, not in the NBA.

727
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 4: I was like, no, he's not. I saw him in

728
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 4: the NBA. He couldn't do anything.

729
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's gone, get out of here.

730
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 4: I thought he said, nah, yeah, yeah, I'm playing for

731
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 4: this day.

732
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 2: He thought he'd be able to shoot. They just didn't

733
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 2: play him a lot in Sacramento.

734
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 1: And Kessler Edwards is also gone. So Sacramento King's forty

735
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 1: six and a half.

736
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 2: I'm going under it. It is Uh. Basically, I think

737
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 2: they may get the same record as last year in

738
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 2: this tough, tough West. I think that doesn't benefit them,

739
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 2: but also doesn't benefit them. Is they got thinner? I

740
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 2: mean they don't have as much depth. They went and

741
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 2: got Devin Carter, as you said, drafted him. He could

742
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:19,160
Speaker 2: be a great player to do the grinding work, but

743
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 2: he's injured. As Monte McNair said, did you see the

744
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 2: NBA playoffs last year, there's a ton of Devin Carter's

745
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 2: out there. Unfortunately they don't have him. And by trading

746
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 2: all these guys UH to Toronto and losing some guys,

747
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 2: they're just they're not all that deep, and so there's

748
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:37,080
Speaker 2: gonna be working move like these these these moving pieces

749
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 2: here with Tomatow Rosen where they kind of have to

750
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:42,040
Speaker 2: figure out who they are, uh, and they'll probably be

751
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:47,200
Speaker 2: again average on both ends. Will they be good offensively, yeah,

752
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 2: will they be average defensively yeah. I think it'll be

753
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:52,320
Speaker 2: really similar to last year. I am looking forward to

754
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 2: watching how their offense works. Apparently Demantes Sibonus is shooting

755
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 2: threes in training.

756
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 1: Can everybody is shooting threes?

757
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 2: You got to, man, I think simonas Can especially. The

758
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:05,840
Speaker 2: addition of Demato Rosen is why they're doing that, to

759
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 2: get a little more space for DeMar to work in

760
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:10,319
Speaker 2: the mid range. So that makes sense. But the West

761
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:12,680
Speaker 2: is just so ridiculous. You got to bring in this

762
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 2: new part. I think. Yeah, forty six thirty six is

763
00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:16,440
Speaker 2: a damn good season.

764
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:18,400
Speaker 1: Do you think they're the best team in California?

765
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:24,360
Speaker 2: The best team in California probably record wise? Okay, yeah, Okay,

766
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 2: that's gonna be close. That's all gonna.

767
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:33,400
Speaker 3: I've got wins as well in the in California, California.

768
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:37,880
Speaker 3: Like the beam I saw like a King's season ticket

769
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,440
Speaker 3: holders got like an awesome little what's their Golden one

770
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 3: Center that's what it's called, right, And he has like

771
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 3: a little button, you press on it and it lights

772
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:45,399
Speaker 3: up a beam it's on top of it looks really

773
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 3: really cool.

774
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:47,319
Speaker 4: This looks like a.

775
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 3: Fun team, like they're gonna play in a bunch of

776
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:51,279
Speaker 3: close games. And they got two great closers in de

777
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 3: Rozan and Fox, guys who are like finishing top three

778
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:58,840
Speaker 3: in clutch points every single year since we've started tracking

779
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 3: that sort of thing. That droze fit is super interesting

780
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 3: to me because the Kings during the light the Beam era,

781
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:06,359
Speaker 3: they've been all about ball movement. They're a top ten

782
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:10,120
Speaker 3: assist team. The past couple of seasons, derozen As always

783
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 3: on a bottom ten assist team. The guy loves to dribble.

784
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 3: He's a good playmaker, but it takes a while to

785
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:18,880
Speaker 3: get into the play making. I would actually like to

786
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:20,799
Speaker 3: see the Kings play a little bit more like the

787
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:22,799
Speaker 3: twenty two to twenty three season when they were the

788
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:25,520
Speaker 3: best offense in the league and terrible on defense. I

789
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 3: think they're gonna be really bad on defense this year

790
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:31,360
Speaker 3: because they're going to start Fox, Ellis, DeRozan, Murray, and Sabonis.

791
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:37,800
Speaker 3: That's one defender, yeah, Ellis, Yes, I agree, he can defend,

792
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:39,399
Speaker 3: but now he's going to have to defend up. He's

793
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 3: going to have to guard fors and he's going to

794
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 3: have to guard the best wing on the other team.

795
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 3: He's their best wing defender probably, but in the rankings

796
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:50,680
Speaker 3: in the NBA, he's not a top twenty defender, so

797
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 3: I think that's going to be a problem.

798
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 4: But that's fine. Try and score more.

799
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:56,319
Speaker 3: Your offense is going to be better now that you're

800
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,840
Speaker 3: bringing into rows and gives you a little bit different

801
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 3: look than a guy like even and heard her who's

802
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 3: just gonna catch and shoot really fell off last year.

803
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 3: So I think they will play a ton of close games,

804
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:08,960
Speaker 3: and if they're able to get the kind of performances

805
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,359
Speaker 3: from Fox and DeRozan that those two guys have had

806
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 3: the past two or three seasons, they will probably exceed

807
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:17,879
Speaker 3: like their net rating if they're expected wins. So I'm

808
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 3: going under here, but I think they're about the same

809
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:20,319
Speaker 3: as last year.

810
00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I agree one hundred percent with you guys.

811
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 1: I'm just under. I think you could see the exact

812
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,919
Speaker 1: same record from them forty six and thirty six. They're

813
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 1: gonna hope it means getting in if they have to

814
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 1: go through the play into the actual playoffs, But yeah,

815
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:35,919
Speaker 1: We can't wait to see the end of games with them.

816
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 1: You know, Fox is amazing. DeRozan of course was incredible

817
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 1: when he was with the Bulls. And how will that work?

818
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:43,880
Speaker 1: I mean, is it just double up their potency in

819
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 1: the clutch or do they like almost like uh oh,

820
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 1: how do we run this?

821
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:47,279
Speaker 2: Now?

822
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 1: Who should be taking these shots and who should be operating?

823
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:52,480
Speaker 1: But two of my favorite guys to watch and now

824
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 1: they're on the same team with the bonus Ls. Yeah,

825
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 1: obviously he has to bring it defensively. He has to play,

826
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 1: and he's got to be stopping the best sort of

827
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:03,479
Speaker 1: like remender guy on these all these Western Conference teams

828
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:05,760
Speaker 1: that have all these all star level talent at those positions.

829
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 1: He has to at least sort of contain them. So

830
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: he is very important to their success.

831
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's starting from day one, unlike last year. Yeah,

832
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 2: where he started twenty games into the season it was

833
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:17,880
Speaker 2: pretty late. So they have that and Fox has that

834
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:20,239
Speaker 2: going for him beside him, you're taking the best guy,

835
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:23,440
Speaker 2: and so it's like Beale and Phoenix, like he guarded

836
00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:26,320
Speaker 2: too many good players, and I think same goes for Fox.

837
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:29,319
Speaker 2: I mean, Keon, it's your time and he's good at it.

838
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 1: Obviously, all right to the Northwest Division over unders. We

839
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:36,319
Speaker 1: have the Nuggets at fifty one and a half, We

840
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:39,360
Speaker 1: got the Wolves at fifty two and a half. We

841
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 1: got the Thunder at fifty six and a half. So

842
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:46,240
Speaker 1: three teams right there from the jump over fifty wins

843
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:49,320
Speaker 1: from bet MGM and then the two sort of teams

844
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:51,239
Speaker 1: that are expected to be among the worst in the

845
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 1: West Blazers at twenty two and a half and the

846
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:57,319
Speaker 1: Jazz at twenty nine and a half. TK will start

847
00:37:57,360 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 1: with you Denver Nuggets again fifty one and a half.

848
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:03,720
Speaker 1: They went fifty seven and twenty five last year, tied

849
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:07,359
Speaker 1: for the best record really in the Western Conference. Didn't

850
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 1: get that number one seed. They lost to the Wolves,

851
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:11,359
Speaker 1: though in the second round they blew a twenty point

852
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:14,919
Speaker 1: leading Game seven. Still seems crazy to say that out loud.

853
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:17,439
Speaker 1: Good on both sides of the ball. Top ten, both

854
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:21,280
Speaker 1: offensively and defensively. Re signed DeAndre Jordan, added Dario Sarich

855
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:25,879
Speaker 1: and Russell Westbrook drafted de Ron Holmes a second he's

856
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 1: lost for the rookie season Kille surgery. And then the

857
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:30,759
Speaker 1: lost CACP to the Magic and Reggie Jackson to the

858
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:34,879
Speaker 1: seventy six ers. So you know, again, fifty seven wins

859
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 1: last year, the line fifty one and a half. Why

860
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 1: the drop off do you think could be expected or

861
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 1: do you think they're easily going to hit that over?

862
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 3: Why the drop off is because the Western Conference is

863
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 3: going to be better. I believe I don't think CACP

864
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:50,879
Speaker 3: by himself is worth six wins when you're talking about

865
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 3: fifty one and a half versus fifty seven last year.

866
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:55,799
Speaker 3: But that is the big question for the Nuggets is

867
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:59,279
Speaker 3: how do they replace Kentavious Caldwell Pope. Unfortunately, it looks

868
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 3: like they're gonna have to do with one way players.

869
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,520
Speaker 3: That was the great strength of KCP. He's a good

870
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 3: three point shooter and then he could guard on the

871
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:09,640
Speaker 3: perimeter as well. So the options are Peyton Watson all defense,

872
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 3: Julian Strawther all offense, or Christian Brown kind of like

873
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 3: the best case of playing two ways. He shot thirty

874
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:19,279
Speaker 3: eight percent from three last year. That's awesome. He took

875
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:21,839
Speaker 3: to a game. That's not nearly enough. The Nuggets need

876
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 3: more three point shooting. That's why this is a huge

877
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:27,000
Speaker 3: season for Michael Porter Junior. He's got to be the

878
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:29,799
Speaker 3: guy they expected when they signed into their huge extension,

879
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:31,880
Speaker 3: not just a three point shooter, a guy that they

880
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 3: are envisioning could carry some second units, be another go

881
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:36,360
Speaker 3: to scorer.

882
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:38,440
Speaker 4: He hasn't been that guy for the Nuggets.

883
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:40,239
Speaker 3: He's become a really good player, a vital piece of

884
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 3: their team just with the shooting he does bring. But

885
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:46,839
Speaker 3: they're bottom five in three point shooting. That just doesn't

886
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 3: win anymore in twenty twenty four. They need to figure

887
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 3: out ways to get some shooting on the court while

888
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:54,840
Speaker 3: letting their defense stay in the top ten to twelve

889
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,920
Speaker 3: sort of range. So I'm probably going under here, but

890
00:39:58,000 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 3: I think they're like just barely under.

891
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:01,360
Speaker 4: I had mark him for fifty one wins.

892
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:04,920
Speaker 2: A big thing that's also looking like a problem for

893
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 2: them is Jamal Murray. He is a huge reason why

894
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:11,279
Speaker 2: this team was good last year, and they still managed

895
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:13,360
Speaker 2: to win fifty seven when he lost a lot of

896
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 2: games to injury in twenty three games that he was out,

897
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:18,920
Speaker 2: So that's a pretty remarkable thing when you think about it.

898
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 2: They weren't a good shooting team, but Jokic does so

899
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:25,440
Speaker 2: much for them offensively. They overcame what Jamal Murray was,

900
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:28,239
Speaker 2: But he looks so poor in the playoffs and in

901
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:30,960
Speaker 2: the Olympics. That's one reason why the number looks like

902
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:32,919
Speaker 2: it might come down. But Calvin Booth said, hey, here's

903
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:35,759
Speaker 2: two hundred million dollars Jamal Murray. So I gotta think

904
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 2: that he is going to be way better than he

905
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:38,719
Speaker 2: was at the end of the year. I don't think

906
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 2: they're paying a guy who's going to be stinky. So

907
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:43,360
Speaker 2: there's that, there's the KCP thing coming out, But I

908
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:46,880
Speaker 2: think Christian Brown can be a very very good defender.

909
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:48,920
Speaker 2: He's bigger than KCP. He saw him in the playoff

910
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:52,240
Speaker 2: against Anthony Edwards on some possessions. He's a big dude.

911
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 2: Will he be able to shoot more when he's taking

912
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 2: more shots, Yeah, tbd. But he'll be playing with the starters,

913
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 2: I think, just so those are nice and open, and

914
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:03,279
Speaker 2: I think they do need a guy like Westbrook coming

915
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 2: off the bench. I know this is the last straw

916
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 2: for Westbrook to be on a championship type team as

917
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 2: a rotation guy, but they need somebody that's got a

918
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 2: lot of oomph, that's going to run the ball as

919
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:16,440
Speaker 2: much as possible. That's what Westbrook does. He's just kind

920
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:18,799
Speaker 2: of push it as much as possible and set guys

921
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 2: up like Dario Sarch opens up the floor for them.

922
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 2: Julian Strather, I think, is going to be a guy

923
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:25,560
Speaker 2: who shoots a lot for them. And he can shoot,

924
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 2: so that's that's the recipe. I think they have a

925
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 2: quiet locker room. They just have lost, you know, a

926
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 2: tiny step since Bruce Brown left and they're happy to

927
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 2: see Reggie Jackson go in all honesty and now Russell

928
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:39,920
Speaker 2: Westbrook takes over. They need some juice back. That's what

929
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:42,279
Speaker 2: happens to championship teams. They just need somebody talking, and

930
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:44,319
Speaker 2: I think Westbrook will do that. They were just so

931
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:47,319
Speaker 2: bad when Jokic sat last year, their minus eight point

932
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:50,239
Speaker 2: four when he sat points per present and so well,

933
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:53,160
Speaker 2: Westbrook be better than that, I think, so I think

934
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:55,359
Speaker 2: he'll improve that. And again their fifty seven win team

935
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:58,120
Speaker 2: and a lot of it comes down to Jamal Murray.

936
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 1: But it's a huge question mark what we saw for

937
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:03,760
Speaker 1: Team Canada. And you know, even at times in the playoffs,

938
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:05,439
Speaker 1: it's sort of forgotten because he had those game winners

939
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 1: against Lakers, but he wasn't good. You know, how badly

940
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 1: is he injured? Is it still lingering? Is he some

941
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: for some weird reason hit a wall. He's a huge,

942
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:17,400
Speaker 1: huge part of this equation. But I think I think

943
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 1: Vegas bet MGM, whatever you want to call it, I

944
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:21,960
Speaker 1: think they went a little too low on this one.

945
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:23,960
Speaker 1: At fifty one and a half, I'm gonna take the over.

946
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,880
Speaker 1: And here's like my simple reasoning. Only once in the

947
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:29,959
Speaker 1: last six seasons has a Yo kicch led Nuggets team

948
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 1: not won their regular season games out of sixty three

949
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 1: percent winning clip, which is basically fifty two wins when

950
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:39,920
Speaker 1: you get to sixty three percent win clip. And that

951
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:41,879
Speaker 1: one season was twenty one to twenty two where Jamal

952
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:43,360
Speaker 1: Murray didn't play at all, he was out for the

953
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:46,120
Speaker 1: entire season, torn acl and they still won forty eight

954
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:48,960
Speaker 1: games because Yo Kich if he plays and he always plays,

955
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:51,640
Speaker 1: you're just like a fifty win team. And I know

956
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:53,600
Speaker 1: you got to get a couple more, but for all

957
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 1: the reasons you guys were going through, if guys can

958
00:42:57,080 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 1: step up the development of those young guys in brown

959
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:02,680
Speaker 1: and watch sinist author like, I think they get to

960
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 1: that fifty you know, three fifty four win mark just

961
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 1: having Jokic cha Loon, I guess I'm hoping Jamal Murray.

962
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 1: That was like, throw that summer out. They'll you know,

963
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:12,480
Speaker 1: throw it out into the trash and sort of have

964
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:14,279
Speaker 1: a bounce back as well. So I'll go just over.

965
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:17,440
Speaker 1: Ultimately you're going I'm going over yet going over TK,

966
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:19,880
Speaker 1: You're going under, just under on that one. All right,

967
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:23,480
Speaker 1: to the next team here in the Northwest Division, we

968
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:26,760
Speaker 1: go to the Minnesota Timberwolves. Fifty six and twenty six.

969
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 1: Last year, the line is fifty two and a half.

970
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:33,000
Speaker 1: They lost to the MAVs in the Western Conference Finals.

971
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:36,200
Speaker 1: Amazing time, second time in franchise history they got that far.

972
00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:39,879
Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards turns into like a superstar. Ridgo Bear wins

973
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:42,120
Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the Year, nas Reed drop it in

974
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:43,920
Speaker 1: the chat. He wins six Man of the Year. It

975
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 1: was a good year. So you're like, ah, they'll just

976
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 1: run it back right, No, no, no, no no. They

977
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:53,400
Speaker 1: added Julius Randall, Dante DiVincenzo, Bates, Jiapp, Rob Dillingham who's

978
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:56,680
Speaker 1: looked really good in preseason, fast got that Bowl in

979
00:43:56,719 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 1: a string, Tarren Shannon Junior, Joe Ingles, PJ. Doser. They

980
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:04,480
Speaker 1: re signed Luke Garza, and they lost kat Kylie Anderson,

981
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:08,280
Speaker 1: Jordan McLaughlin, Monte Morris, Wendell Moore Junior, and TJ. Warrens.

982
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:12,760
Speaker 1: So big, big turnover here for the Wolves, especially Kat

983
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:15,839
Speaker 1: leaving to New York, Julius Randall and Devincenzo coming in

984
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:18,400
Speaker 1: fifty two and a half tasks.

985
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:21,600
Speaker 2: Quite the drop off after winning fifty six games, right,

986
00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 2: just because Caad is gone. So the question is do

987
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:26,600
Speaker 2: they have the leaders to bring it back? And I

988
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:31,080
Speaker 2: do believe in Anti Edwards and just the confidence slash

989
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:34,640
Speaker 2: cockiness slash I'm the guy. And he said it in

990
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:37,279
Speaker 2: the off season, he said Minnesota, it was great going

991
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:39,680
Speaker 2: to the conference finals, but that was just the appetizer.

992
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:42,320
Speaker 2: We want the whole meal. And so I do believe

993
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:44,400
Speaker 2: in a team led by Anthony Edwards, just like we

994
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:46,640
Speaker 2: did during the regular season, and that was his first

995
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:49,879
Speaker 2: time going to a conference finals. And I do think

996
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 2: fifty two and a half is just too low. I know,

997
00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:53,440
Speaker 2: obviously Cat is going to be missed, but they did

998
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 2: get a little bit deeper getting de Vincenzo and Julius

999
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:59,640
Speaker 2: Randall and Rob Dillingham, as he said, and their defense

1000
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:01,879
Speaker 2: was just so good last year. I don't think it's

1001
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 2: gonna take that much of a drop off at all,

1002
00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:06,080
Speaker 2: and so I don't think their offense will take a

1003
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 2: drop off. Really, their offense was really mediocre last year,

1004
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think I think after winning fifty six

1005
00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 2: games last year, obviously Kat's gonna be missed. I think

1006
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:18,520
Speaker 2: this is an over and I'm not I'm not too

1007
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 2: worried about it. Obviously, the Western Conference is the toughest

1008
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:22,359
Speaker 2: part when you look at this division. I mean, it's

1009
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 2: a oh gosh, the Nuggets and the OKC in Minnesota,

1010
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:29,319
Speaker 2: those are three great teams. So it's gonna be hard

1011
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:30,799
Speaker 2: that way. But I think they get over fifty two

1012
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:31,160
Speaker 2: and a half.

1013
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:34,360
Speaker 3: The questions I had after the Randall Traders, how's the

1014
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:38,440
Speaker 3: spacing gonna be? Because it's clunky with Gobert, especially the

1015
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:40,279
Speaker 3: first year. Like the timber Wolves couldn't figure it out

1016
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:42,160
Speaker 3: right away. It took till year two to figure out

1017
00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:44,120
Speaker 3: how to play alongside go Beart. They brought in Mike

1018
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:46,839
Speaker 3: Conley to throw him lobbs. Anthony Edwards got better at

1019
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 3: throwing lobbs. Now you're putting Julius Randall in for Carl

1020
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 3: Anthony Towns. Randall has had one good season shooting the ball.

1021
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:56,880
Speaker 3: Maybe he has another one, but there should be a

1022
00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 3: little bit less spacing for the Timberwolves. And like you said,

1023
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:01,719
Speaker 3: task our offense wasn't that great last year. They were

1024
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 3: right in the middle of the pack, and then in

1025
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:06,440
Speaker 3: the clutch they had some serious problems. How's the defense

1026
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:10,160
Speaker 3: gonna be? Randall is now gonna be the four. He's

1027
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:12,920
Speaker 3: smaller than Karl Anthony Towns. We were talking all last season.

1028
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:14,920
Speaker 3: It's great to have two seven footers out there. They

1029
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:17,360
Speaker 3: don't have two seven footers anymore. He's six', eight not

1030
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:19,720
Speaker 3: a great, defender but he played on some Decent knicks

1031
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:22,919
Speaker 3: teams that had good, defense and he's got guys around

1032
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:25,360
Speaker 3: him and McDaniels And gobert who make it easier for.

1033
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 3: Him so they maybe aren't the number one defense this,

1034
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 3: year but they're probably still a top. Five and then

1035
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:33,680
Speaker 3: how good Is randal gonna be when he's the second,

1036
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:36,799
Speaker 3: option when he's a playmaker And Anthony edwards goes to the.

1037
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:38,320
Speaker 4: Bench there are Great randall.

1038
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 3: Moments you love it he looks like An ALL nba,

1039
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:42,239
Speaker 3: Guys and then there's sometimes he's giving a thumbs down

1040
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:44,360
Speaker 3: to the fan and you're, like you're taking the hardest shots.

1041
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:46,880
Speaker 3: Imaginable that's the thing to. Me randall is such a

1042
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:49,680
Speaker 3: tough shot, maker but that means you're a tough shot taker.

1043
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:51,759
Speaker 3: Too they don't always go. IN i got them a

1044
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:53,840
Speaker 3: little bit, under BUT i still think they're one of

1045
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:55,120
Speaker 3: the top four teams in The Western.

1046
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:58,720
Speaker 1: Conference, yeah worst case scenario is Definitely randall And gobert

1047
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:02,440
Speaker 1: getting each in each other's that's some. Concern and then

1048
00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:04,359
Speaker 1: them getting in each other's way gets an ant's way

1049
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 1: and they're sort of a girl gets clogged. UP i

1050
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 1: wanted to point out. Too you, Know kat did miss

1051
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:11,960
Speaker 1: time last, year but everybody else was really healthy on this,

1052
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:14,319
Speaker 1: squad and you, know you don't want to talk that

1053
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:16,560
Speaker 1: into existence that suddenly one of their other guys gets

1054
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:19,959
Speaker 1: the banged. Up but Like aunt Go, Bear, conley, McDaniels Nos,

1055
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 1: reid And Nikhil Alexander. Walker they missed twenty six games

1056
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:27,600
Speaker 1: combined last. Year that's like six of their best. Guys,

1057
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:29,719
Speaker 1: Again kat did miss, time so there was, that but,

1058
00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:32,560
Speaker 1: like that's that's pretty. Good can they do that? Again you,

1059
00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:34,600
Speaker 1: know Obviously connley being the oldest of the bunch. THERE

1060
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:38,239
Speaker 1: i just like that they're banking on increased opportunity for

1061
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 1: McDaniel's Nas. Reid that's a part of the. Trade it

1062
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:43,319
Speaker 1: really is the nos read equation With kack going out

1063
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:48,120
Speaker 1: and can he like continue, to like obviously, shine just

1064
00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:51,239
Speaker 1: in a bigger role in more, minutes more. Opportunities sometimes we, think, oh,

1065
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 1: yeah why wouldn't that? Happen but sometimes it always. Doesn't

1066
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:56,799
Speaker 1: SO i go just over though that's a bit of

1067
00:47:56,840 --> 00:47:59,839
Speaker 1: a drop off again from, yeah fifty six last year

1068
00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:02,040
Speaker 1: TO i guess fifty two and a, Half so call

1069
00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 1: it fifty. THREE i think THERE'S i don't think they're drastically.

1070
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:09,080
Speaker 1: WORSE i, don't So i'll go just over on The

1071
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:13,160
Speaker 1: wolves to, ok, see fifty six and a, half people

1072
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:15,799
Speaker 1: gonna be pounding the over. Here they went fifty seven

1073
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:21,080
Speaker 1: and twenty five last, year top five offensively and defensively

1074
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:25,319
Speaker 1: incredible third offensive, rating fourth in defensive. Rating they lost

1075
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:27,200
Speaker 1: to The MAVs in the second, round really tight. Series

1076
00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:30,839
Speaker 1: here's what they. Did they Resigned Isaiah joe And Aaron.

1077
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:33,800
Speaker 1: Wiggins they Added Alex caruso in a, trade they Added

1078
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:37,719
Speaker 1: Isaiah hertenstein in free, agency and they Lost Giddy, Waters

1079
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:41,959
Speaker 1: Biambo hayward And. Mescala so like comparing what they lost

1080
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:46,880
Speaker 1: to what they. Added hell of an, offseason so a

1081
00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 1: little strange that the lines fifty six and a, half.

1082
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:53,920
Speaker 4: You, know basically last year's. RECORD i guess a.

1083
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 1: Lot of people think they're gonna be, better maybe a

1084
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:58,920
Speaker 1: sixty win, team gonna run roughshd over The Western. Conference

1085
00:48:58,960 --> 00:48:59,319
Speaker 1: what do you, Think?

1086
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 3: TIKI i think they should challenge The celtics for the

1087
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:05,160
Speaker 3: best record in THE. NBA i think The thunder came

1088
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 3: in and, said we Know Josh getty doesn't, Fit let's

1089
00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:10,720
Speaker 3: replace him With Alex. Cruso gives us another perimeter, defender

1090
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:12,600
Speaker 3: a guy that can shoot. Threes then they went out

1091
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:15,400
Speaker 3: and Got Isaiah hartenstein as well to address the. Rebounding

1092
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:19,640
Speaker 3: and guess, What Isaiah hartenstein shooting. Threes oh, yeah, yeah that's.

1093
00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:21,919
Speaker 3: Nice people are saying he's a stretch. FIVE i think

1094
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:23,920
Speaker 3: he'll probably, start. THOUGH i think that moves check to the.

1095
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:26,040
Speaker 3: Four that makes their defense even. Better and they're already

1096
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 3: a great defensive, team not just from like a fundamental,

1097
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:31,640
Speaker 3: standpoint but they make a lot of plays defensively as.

1098
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:33,360
Speaker 3: WELL i think they're going to be tough to score.

1099
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:36,400
Speaker 3: ON i Assume Jalen williams will take another step. Forward

1100
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:39,319
Speaker 3: he'll surely be getting Most Improved player buzz once we

1101
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:40,560
Speaker 3: get to our awards.

1102
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:41,640
Speaker 4: PICKS i think.

1103
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:44,360
Speaker 3: Their starting lineup is probably a little bit. Unsettled Maybe

1104
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:47,120
Speaker 3: caruso comes off the bench to start the. SEASON i

1105
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:50,239
Speaker 3: personally think he's a better defender and player Than Lou,

1106
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:53,400
Speaker 3: Dort But dort has the institutional knowledge there with The,

1107
00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:55,719
Speaker 3: thunder and he's like a forty percent three point shooter as.

1108
00:49:55,719 --> 00:49:56,600
Speaker 4: Well but The.

1109
00:49:56,640 --> 00:49:59,120
Speaker 3: Thunder it looks like they've got a perfect top, seven

1110
00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 3: and that's kind of what you need to be a championship.

1111
00:50:01,239 --> 00:50:03,840
Speaker 2: Contender, yeah the top four on both sides of the

1112
00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:07,320
Speaker 2: floor last year and they won those fifty seven. Games

1113
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:10,960
Speaker 2: But vegas is very good and making a line, here

1114
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:12,560
Speaker 2: fifty six and a half would be the number one

1115
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:14,680
Speaker 2: seed in The Western conference cording to these over under,

1116
00:50:14,760 --> 00:50:17,359
Speaker 2: lines and you got to expect that they would get back,

1117
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:20,360
Speaker 2: there because, YES i do think they got better with

1118
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:23,160
Speaker 2: The hartenstein and The caruso, acquisition but as he, Said

1119
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:25,600
Speaker 2: Jalen williams And Chet holgrin have to take a little

1120
00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:27,839
Speaker 2: bit of a step just to get. Better chet also

1121
00:50:27,880 --> 00:50:30,160
Speaker 2: has the help With Isaiah hartenstein to help him out

1122
00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:33,840
Speaker 2: around the rim to rebound for. Everything And harpstein's just

1123
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:37,120
Speaker 2: damn good shooting. Threes also in the, preseason he's being

1124
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:39,799
Speaker 2: that hub where he's getting the ball above the three

1125
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:43,600
Speaker 2: point line and dribbling into the. Lane he had an

1126
00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:46,759
Speaker 2: over the head pass To Alex caruso for a. Jumper Like,

1127
00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:49,680
Speaker 2: hartenstein this big guy dribbling into the lane just throws

1128
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:51,760
Speaker 2: it over his. Head he also had to play above

1129
00:50:52,320 --> 00:50:54,640
Speaker 2: the arc where he basically kind of did a dribble

1130
00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:56,319
Speaker 2: handoff for Chet holger and it was like a four

1131
00:50:56,360 --> 00:50:58,400
Speaker 2: to a five or five to, five a six to,

1132
00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 2: five calm, whatever and Chet holnggridg just drives to the.

1133
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:04,400
Speaker 2: Lane so that that wheeling game play reminded me Of

1134
00:51:04,560 --> 00:51:08,040
Speaker 2: bron And, wade that handoff wheeling thing that they were

1135
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:11,560
Speaker 2: going to. Love that's gonna love this. Stuff he's gonna

1136
00:51:11,560 --> 00:51:14,160
Speaker 2: have so much fun playing with these. GUYS i just

1137
00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:17,719
Speaker 2: think that they're they're. Better it's just is The west too.

1138
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:20,160
Speaker 3: TOUGH i know you're gonna get a photo Of Isaiah

1139
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:24,080
Speaker 3: hartenstein and Chat holmgren doing The lebron And wade and

1140
00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:25,680
Speaker 3: saying in, Comparison, YEA i love.

1141
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:29,360
Speaker 4: It these guys are The lebron And wade of The Western.

1142
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:31,520
Speaker 4: Conference why so you're leaning?

1143
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 2: Over? Yes, yeah.

1144
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:36,839
Speaker 1: Yeahs my only concern is it feels like everybody's going

1145
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:39,719
Speaker 1: over on. This it's, like what that can't? WORK i don't,

1146
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:42,440
Speaker 1: know Because i'm with, you. Guys they had two like,

1147
00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:44,759
Speaker 1: flaws right if you want to call him. That it

1148
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:46,439
Speaker 1: was Like giddy could be played off the floor because

1149
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:48,080
Speaker 1: he didn't have to worry about him as a, shooter

1150
00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:51,000
Speaker 1: and then they were not great at offensive. Rebounding. Uh

1151
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:53,280
Speaker 1: they just fixed both of those things and They giddy's

1152
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:56,359
Speaker 1: gone for Carus, so who can play defense much much

1153
00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:58,759
Speaker 1: better and can hit a, shot and Then hertenstein is

1154
00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:01,000
Speaker 1: one of the best offensive. Rebunds it's like they already

1155
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:03,400
Speaker 1: had an elite team that's super young with guys that

1156
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:05,719
Speaker 1: are probably only going to get, better and they filled

1157
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:08,960
Speaker 1: in those. Gaps it's, like, what this is. Incredible they

1158
00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:11,360
Speaker 1: also have like it's not like they went to the conference.

1159
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:13,759
Speaker 1: Finals they went to the finals and lost and it's, like,

1160
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:15,839
Speaker 1: ah we can take our foot off the gas a little.

1161
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:17,480
Speaker 1: Bit it's like they're pissed off they lost to The,

1162
00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:19,400
Speaker 1: mass like they didn't go as far as they probably

1163
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:21,799
Speaker 1: even thought they. Could SO i like that only one

1164
00:52:21,800 --> 00:52:24,080
Speaker 1: team at a better record last year Than. Oksee only

1165
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:26,560
Speaker 1: one outscored opponents by more than points per one hundred,

1166
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:29,000
Speaker 1: possessions and only one joined them in the top five

1167
00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:31,919
Speaker 1: in both offensive and defensive. Efficiency it was the team

1168
00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:33,879
Speaker 1: that won the title in The, Celtics so, like they're

1169
00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:36,480
Speaker 1: sort of on par with them in a Loaded. West

1170
00:52:36,719 --> 00:52:38,799
Speaker 1: i'm with, you, Guys i'm going. Over they have so many.

1171
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:42,040
Speaker 1: SHOOTERS i liked re Signing joe And, Wiggins like those

1172
00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:44,839
Speaker 1: guys can shoot, man and in a long regular, season

1173
00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:47,719
Speaker 1: they'll get, minutes they'll get opportunity if guys get banged

1174
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:49,960
Speaker 1: up and stuff like. That So i'm going. OVER i

1175
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:52,799
Speaker 1: think this could be a sixty win, team just like

1176
00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:54,640
Speaker 1: we think sort of The celtics in The Eastern conference

1177
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:57,759
Speaker 1: just could easily be a sixty win. Team it just

1178
00:52:57,760 --> 00:52:58,200
Speaker 1: seems too.

1179
00:52:58,239 --> 00:53:00,440
Speaker 4: Easy, yeah it seems to be the. Sake he seems too.

1180
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:01,320
Speaker 1: EASY i don't know WHAT i.

1181
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:03,360
Speaker 3: Think last year was the same case. Though everybody's like

1182
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:05,040
Speaker 3: over on the thunder and you're, LIKE i don't, KNOW

1183
00:53:05,080 --> 00:53:08,200
Speaker 3: i don't, know and then, yeah they're. Awesome but the biggest, concerns,

1184
00:53:08,239 --> 00:53:10,960
Speaker 3: right now it's that. Chat holmgren changed his shooting. Form,

1185
00:53:11,239 --> 00:53:14,080
Speaker 3: odd you, know just always keep getting. Better and number,

1186
00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:16,399
Speaker 3: two not only they have Two, jalens they now have Two.

1187
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:18,280
Speaker 3: Isaiahs SO i know that's compusing For thunder.

1188
00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:20,640
Speaker 1: Fans, JESUS i like to double, up don't?

1189
00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:21,200
Speaker 4: They they love?

1190
00:53:21,239 --> 00:53:24,440
Speaker 1: It AND i guess if we're thinking they're a sixty win,

1191
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:26,759
Speaker 1: TEAM i know we will get to award talk later

1192
00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:28,520
Speaker 1: in the week On friday, Show but that would put

1193
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:32,360
Speaker 1: Probably sga in THE i don't, know he'd be sitting

1194
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:34,600
Speaker 1: at the table for, sure he'd never left the, table

1195
00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:36,840
Speaker 1: but maybe has the menu in his hand as the

1196
00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:39,120
Speaker 1: front runner FOR. Mvp if we're saying this a sixty

1197
00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:42,040
Speaker 1: win team and he puts on similar, stats.

1198
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:43,959
Speaker 2: He's at the. Table does he have a digital menu

1199
00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:47,480
Speaker 2: or he's got an actual? Menu, oh, Coach, yeah he's,

1200
00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:47,920
Speaker 2: kid you.

1201
00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:49,440
Speaker 4: KNOW i Mean Jason tatum was on the best team

1202
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:50,319
Speaker 4: in the league last. Year.

1203
00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:54,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah it's a good. Point so you think the

1204
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:56,000
Speaker 1: same could be true.

1205
00:53:55,719 --> 00:53:57,680
Speaker 3: For are people gonna hold out against The thunder that

1206
00:53:57,719 --> 00:54:00,640
Speaker 3: their team is too good? Now doesn't seem. Likely, Also

1207
00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:02,719
Speaker 3: shay's stats are a lot better Than. Tatum it's like

1208
00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:04,879
Speaker 3: thirty per. Game will he be thirty per game this? Year,

1209
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:08,000
Speaker 3: yeah probably might go down a little. BIT i would

1210
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:08,799
Speaker 3: say they got a better.

1211
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:11,239
Speaker 1: Team, yeah, Yeah, okay we're all taking the Over Trail

1212
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:13,839
Speaker 1: blazers twenty two and a. Half they won twenty one

1213
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:16,400
Speaker 1: games last, year finished dead last in The Western. Conference

1214
00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:19,920
Speaker 1: they were near the bottom when it came to. Offense

1215
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:22,560
Speaker 1: a little bit better, defensively but still in the bottom.

1216
00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:25,359
Speaker 1: Third this was year one Without Damian. Lillard it's sort

1217
00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:28,120
Speaker 1: of went as. Expected had a lot of injuries. Too

1218
00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:32,480
Speaker 1: they lost fifteen to their final seventeen, games like they ended.

1219
00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:36,799
Speaker 1: Poorly so what did they? Do they Added Avdia DeVante,

1220
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:40,080
Speaker 1: Graham they Drafted clinging with the number seven, pick and

1221
00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:44,040
Speaker 1: they Lost brogden to The, Wizards so you, Know avdya

1222
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:45,680
Speaker 1: is sort of their big. Move and then obviously the

1223
00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:49,360
Speaker 1: draft pick task get us started here twenty two and a.

1224
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:51,799
Speaker 1: Half is there a tiny bit of improvement from The

1225
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:53,279
Speaker 1: blazers same or?

1226
00:54:53,320 --> 00:54:56,480
Speaker 2: WORSE i think it's gonna be under BUT i think

1227
00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:59,040
Speaker 2: it's going to be a beautiful mess to. Watch there's

1228
00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:03,080
Speaker 2: just so man any players that you're interested. In but

1229
00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:05,600
Speaker 2: at the same, time they Were, yeah as you said

1230
00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:07,759
Speaker 2: one of the worst. Offenses AND i Know denny is

1231
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:10,879
Speaker 2: a really damn good playmaker and had a really good

1232
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:13,800
Speaker 2: year last year and plays like a modern player, should

1233
00:55:14,880 --> 00:55:17,879
Speaker 2: but he's gonna be the secondary. Guy AND i think

1234
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:21,080
Speaker 2: it's gonna be all Through scoot one more time And

1235
00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:23,640
Speaker 2: simon's And Jeremy grant And. Ayton when you look at,

1236
00:55:23,640 --> 00:55:27,640
Speaker 2: that you, Think, squint maybe they should win twenty three freaking.

1237
00:55:27,719 --> 00:55:32,160
Speaker 2: GAMES i ain't that. Much, maybe BUT i just think

1238
00:55:32,239 --> 00:55:35,040
Speaker 2: there's there's a lot on scoot shoulders and there will,

1239
00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:37,799
Speaker 2: be Especially Shaden sharp's injury right now, too that kind

1240
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:40,960
Speaker 2: of hurts. Them BUT i think this is another is

1241
00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:43,319
Speaker 2: a year to another year Of, hey let's figure this thing.

1242
00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:44,840
Speaker 2: Out let's see if we're, Good let's see what we.

1243
00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:47,759
Speaker 2: Got and they have a bunch of injuries and a

1244
00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 2: bunch of good quality players that have. Won denny's a

1245
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:54,200
Speaker 2: damn good. PLAYER i think Don Van klean's gonna play

1246
00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:57,320
Speaker 2: minutes with Behind DeAndre aydon Because Robert williams is. Injured

1247
00:55:57,560 --> 00:55:59,600
Speaker 2: klangon is a. Winner there's a bunch of guys there

1248
00:55:59,640 --> 00:56:04,760
Speaker 2: that have. Experience but if you're looking at This Western

1249
00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:06,919
Speaker 2: conference and you're looking at the bad. Teams you gotta pick.

1250
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:10,360
Speaker 2: One this is unfortunately it's gonna be, one but AGAIN

1251
00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:12,200
Speaker 2: i can enjoy watching. IT i think it's gonna be

1252
00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:12,480
Speaker 2: a Nice.

1253
00:56:12,480 --> 00:56:14,759
Speaker 1: Manny, Yeah, trey where are you?

1254
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:16,840
Speaker 3: GOING i would say watch him early in the season

1255
00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:19,160
Speaker 3: BECAUSE i think this is a trade. Team there are

1256
00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:22,480
Speaker 3: two replacements on the roster For Anthony simons In Shaden

1257
00:56:22,520 --> 00:56:24,520
Speaker 3: sharp And Scoot, henderson so maybe that's a guy that

1258
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:27,400
Speaker 3: draws interest around the. League Time, lord to me is

1259
00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:29,120
Speaker 3: kind of just lost in the shuffle. Here you got

1260
00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:31,680
Speaker 3: eighton who doesn't seem to have much of a market right,

1261
00:56:31,680 --> 00:56:34,680
Speaker 3: now and then they just Drafted. Clinging so maybe there's

1262
00:56:34,719 --> 00:56:38,279
Speaker 3: some team that's, saying, Hey Robert williams the third he

1263
00:56:38,360 --> 00:56:39,760
Speaker 3: was awesome for The celtics before.

1264
00:56:39,560 --> 00:56:41,759
Speaker 4: They traded him away and then immediately won the. Championship

1265
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:42,520
Speaker 4: and then they Got Jeremy.

1266
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:45,600
Speaker 3: Grant why is he still? Here he's just completely. Miscast

1267
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:48,239
Speaker 3: see on The. Lakers eventually they just traded For Danny,

1268
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:50,560
Speaker 3: abdia so that seems, like, yeah.

1269
00:56:50,280 --> 00:56:51,440
Speaker 4: Probably their replacement.

1270
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:54,000
Speaker 3: There the BEST i can say is THAT i Think

1271
00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:56,239
Speaker 3: Denny abdia wins more games this season than he wore

1272
00:56:56,280 --> 00:56:58,520
Speaker 3: that won last. Season he was on a fifteen Win

1273
00:56:58,600 --> 00:57:00,839
Speaker 3: wizards team last. YEAR i think they'll win more than,

1274
00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:02,680
Speaker 3: fifteen but less than twenty two and a.

1275
00:57:02,719 --> 00:57:06,680
Speaker 1: Half, Okay, okay so a good year for. Him, Yeah,

1276
00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:08,839
Speaker 1: hey we won six more games THAN i won last

1277
00:57:08,920 --> 00:57:11,520
Speaker 1: year with The. Wizards, Okay i'm going under as. Well

1278
00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:13,440
Speaker 1: there has to be bad. Teams they're gonna be one of.

1279
00:57:13,480 --> 00:57:16,880
Speaker 1: Them good call on guys probably being. Moved they have

1280
00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:20,560
Speaker 1: a weird, roster crazy, overlap like so many guards and

1281
00:57:20,640 --> 00:57:23,760
Speaker 1: so many, centers and it's like you probably don't need

1282
00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:27,760
Speaker 1: all of. Them. Here Will billups survive this season as

1283
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:30,840
Speaker 1: the head? Coach does he get the whole? Runway you,

1284
00:57:30,840 --> 00:57:33,920
Speaker 1: know if they do have another twenty one, season it's

1285
00:57:33,920 --> 00:57:34,680
Speaker 1: gonna be year.

1286
00:57:34,520 --> 00:57:35,360
Speaker 4: Four For Chauncey.

1287
00:57:35,360 --> 00:57:39,280
Speaker 3: Billups you said this is figure it out time for The.

1288
00:57:39,320 --> 00:57:41,920
Speaker 3: Trailblazers this is like year four of trying to figure

1289
00:57:41,920 --> 00:57:43,800
Speaker 3: it out because they tanked the last Two Damian lillard,

1290
00:57:43,800 --> 00:57:46,400
Speaker 3: seasons acted like they weren't and then they were obviously

1291
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:50,800
Speaker 3: bad last year and probably bad this. Year but you

1292
00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:52,680
Speaker 3: gotta have some sort of an identity when you're on

1293
00:57:52,720 --> 00:57:54,800
Speaker 3: a bad team or when you're the coach of a bad.

1294
00:57:54,800 --> 00:57:56,640
Speaker 3: Team you have to have some sort of an identity

1295
00:57:56,680 --> 00:57:59,080
Speaker 3: Like Brett brown lasted a long time with The Process

1296
00:57:59,120 --> 00:58:01,680
Speaker 3: sixers because they at least play. DEFENSE i don't know

1297
00:58:01,720 --> 00:58:03,320
Speaker 3: what The trailblazers.

1298
00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:06,400
Speaker 1: Do RIGHT i SAW i think it Was Jason quick

1299
00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:09,520
Speaker 1: for The athletic in The Bold predictions article on The

1300
00:58:09,560 --> 00:58:13,360
Speaker 1: athletics that his prediction Is sharp leads the team in.

1301
00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:15,960
Speaker 1: SCORING i was, like, oh, okay but then he said

1302
00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:18,240
Speaker 1: the one bright spot for The blazers will Be sharp

1303
00:58:18,320 --> 00:58:20,360
Speaker 1: going in The Dunk contest and winning. It, okay and

1304
00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:23,080
Speaker 1: maybe that will be that'd be fun Over All star

1305
00:58:23,120 --> 00:58:25,840
Speaker 1: weekend that he finally would go. In he was gonna

1306
00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:28,080
Speaker 1: go with it until they snubbed him from the was

1307
00:58:28,120 --> 00:58:30,720
Speaker 1: it The Rising stars? Game and he was all. Pissed

1308
00:58:31,360 --> 00:58:34,000
Speaker 1: i'll going to The Dunk, contest all, Right we're going

1309
00:58:34,080 --> 00:58:36,280
Speaker 1: under on The. Blazers as low as that line is

1310
00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:39,640
Speaker 1: twenty two and a. Half, wow The jazz twenty nine

1311
00:58:39,680 --> 00:58:41,880
Speaker 1: and a. Half their line Is they went thirty one

1312
00:58:41,960 --> 00:58:44,440
Speaker 1: and fifty one last, year finished twelfth in the. Conference

1313
00:58:45,120 --> 00:58:48,600
Speaker 1: they were the worst defensive team in the. League that surprised.

1314
00:58:48,600 --> 00:58:50,080
Speaker 1: ME i knew they were, bad BUT i didn't know

1315
00:58:50,120 --> 00:58:53,160
Speaker 1: they were the worst one nineteen point six defensive.

1316
00:58:53,240 --> 00:58:53,880
Speaker 2: Rate, yeah.

1317
00:58:53,920 --> 00:58:56,920
Speaker 1: Garbage UM i looked at it, too, like, wow they

1318
00:58:56,960 --> 00:58:59,120
Speaker 1: got the thirty one. WINS i thought they were really really.

1319
00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:02,000
Speaker 1: Bad they weren't that bad at the beginning of the.

1320
00:59:02,040 --> 00:59:05,640
Speaker 1: Season they won five games by my account after The

1321
00:59:05,680 --> 00:59:08,360
Speaker 1: All star, break twenty six and thirty before five and

1322
00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:10,680
Speaker 1: twenty one. After, yeah and that to me was the

1323
00:59:10,720 --> 00:59:14,240
Speaker 1: old were Hosting All Star. WEEKEND a part of the

1324
00:59:14,320 --> 00:59:15,320
Speaker 1: equation that was the year.

1325
00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:18,080
Speaker 4: Prior last year was In. Indiana oh, god you're.

1326
00:59:18,160 --> 00:59:20,680
Speaker 3: Right the year prior though they were three, seventeen and

1327
00:59:20,720 --> 00:59:23,720
Speaker 3: then when eight and fourteen after makes you wonder what's

1328
00:59:23,800 --> 00:59:26,120
Speaker 3: going on In utah because they're not one of the

1329
00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:27,680
Speaker 3: worst teams in the, league like you see that all

1330
00:59:27,720 --> 00:59:30,680
Speaker 3: over under is basically thirty. Wins we were seeing some

1331
00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:33,480
Speaker 3: here in the low. Twenties but they also don't really

1332
00:59:33,520 --> 00:59:38,040
Speaker 3: have a young cornerstone. Star Lowry markinen is twenty eight

1333
00:59:38,080 --> 00:59:40,480
Speaker 3: at the end of this. Season John collins is younger

1334
00:59:40,520 --> 00:59:42,760
Speaker 3: Than Lowry markin And John collins also still on The.

1335
00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:46,080
Speaker 3: JAZZ i don't know if anybody knew, that but what

1336
00:59:46,120 --> 00:59:47,720
Speaker 3: they do is like they come out of the. Gates

1337
00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:50,080
Speaker 3: they surprise people by playing in the five out, style

1338
00:59:50,480 --> 00:59:53,640
Speaker 3: playing no, defense even though they got a guy Like

1339
00:59:53,640 --> 00:59:56,080
Speaker 3: Walker kessler who's allegedly a good. Defender they got a

1340
00:59:56,120 --> 00:59:59,600
Speaker 3: lot of future. Picks they've Got John. Collins they've Got,

1341
00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:02,480
Speaker 3: collins they Got Jordan. Clarkson these are the vets they

1342
01:00:02,480 --> 01:00:05,520
Speaker 3: would trade at the trade deadline to get. Worse but

1343
01:00:05,720 --> 01:00:09,200
Speaker 3: you're giving teams quite a head start on the tanking.

1344
01:00:09,320 --> 01:00:14,240
Speaker 3: Race For Cooper, flag a White, american would probably go

1345
01:00:14,360 --> 01:00:17,680
Speaker 3: overwell In. Utah i'm, thinking BUT i don't know That, Collins,

1346
01:00:17,680 --> 01:00:20,840
Speaker 3: sexton And clarkson have any sort of a market right,

1347
01:00:20,880 --> 01:00:23,720
Speaker 3: really SO i don't know exactly What utah is. Doing

1348
01:00:23,800 --> 01:00:27,160
Speaker 3: i'm going under here just because they did the deal

1349
01:00:27,200 --> 01:00:29,440
Speaker 3: with market and the time they did. It he can't be,

1350
01:00:29,440 --> 01:00:32,320
Speaker 3: traded so he'll be. Around their twenty five pick is

1351
01:00:32,400 --> 01:00:34,160
Speaker 3: top ten. PROTECTED i think they'll be one of the

1352
01:00:34,240 --> 01:00:36,520
Speaker 3: ten worst teams in the. League but if you want

1353
01:00:36,560 --> 01:00:38,160
Speaker 3: a chance at the number one, pick he got to

1354
01:00:38,200 --> 01:00:39,520
Speaker 3: be one of the four worst teams at the.

1355
01:00:39,560 --> 01:00:40,680
Speaker 4: LEAGUE i don't.

1356
01:00:40,720 --> 01:00:43,120
Speaker 3: Know they're gonna probably play their young. Guys they Got Cody,

1357
01:00:43,160 --> 01:00:44,640
Speaker 3: williams maybe the skinniest guy in the.

1358
01:00:44,720 --> 01:00:45,280
Speaker 4: League Isaiah.

1359
01:00:45,320 --> 01:00:47,440
Speaker 3: Collier i'm actually excited to see him. Play but they

1360
01:00:47,440 --> 01:00:50,320
Speaker 3: didn't really do anything beefing up the. Team SO i

1361
01:00:50,320 --> 01:00:51,600
Speaker 3: think The jazz are going to be, bad AND i

1362
01:00:51,640 --> 01:00:52,240
Speaker 3: think it's kind of the.

1363
01:00:52,240 --> 01:00:52,479
Speaker 4: Point.

1364
01:00:52,520 --> 01:00:55,960
Speaker 1: Now, yeah they just added You, Banks Patty, mills And Sphiemkay.

1365
01:00:56,000 --> 01:00:58,320
Speaker 1: Luke that's really all they added here in the, offseason

1366
01:00:58,320 --> 01:01:00,840
Speaker 1: along with their draft, picks their number of ten pick

1367
01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:01,240
Speaker 1: Being Cody.

1368
01:01:01,240 --> 01:01:05,520
Speaker 2: Williams, yeah they're so. Young Cody williams, nineteen call her.

1369
01:01:05,560 --> 01:01:08,440
Speaker 2: Twenty Taylor hendrick's gonna Play, County george's gonna play both,

1370
01:01:08,440 --> 01:01:13,240
Speaker 2: Twenty Kyle, Flapowski Brice, sense The bah. Twenty there's six

1371
01:01:13,360 --> 01:01:18,200
Speaker 2: guys under twenty, one their kids that are gonna. PLAY

1372
01:01:18,240 --> 01:01:20,720
Speaker 2: i do agree they kind of toss this season and, say, Yeah,

1373
01:01:20,760 --> 01:01:23,240
Speaker 2: lowry you're a very good, player and we're gonna sign

1374
01:01:23,280 --> 01:01:25,160
Speaker 2: you to a long term. Deal but we're gonna see

1375
01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:27,040
Speaker 2: if we can get That. Coop they're gonna try and

1376
01:01:27,080 --> 01:01:29,080
Speaker 2: Get cooper. Fly that's what they're gonna try and. Do

1377
01:01:29,680 --> 01:01:33,320
Speaker 2: last year it was, Similar like you, Said skeatzy, said

1378
01:01:33,320 --> 01:01:35,840
Speaker 2: they won thirty one. Games it doesn't seem that. LOW i,

1379
01:01:35,840 --> 01:01:37,600
Speaker 2: mean it seems like they have a really good offense

1380
01:01:37,640 --> 01:01:39,240
Speaker 2: when they come out of the, gates and they, do

1381
01:01:40,080 --> 01:01:42,240
Speaker 2: and so they can With Loarry markin in the. Lineup

1382
01:01:42,240 --> 01:01:44,560
Speaker 2: that's why they have to sit. Him that's what they

1383
01:01:44,560 --> 01:01:46,880
Speaker 2: did last. YEAR i, mean you got air quotes. Hurt

1384
01:01:47,720 --> 01:01:50,440
Speaker 2: BUT i think they they'll just make a. DECISION i

1385
01:01:50,440 --> 01:01:53,040
Speaker 2: think it's time to sit, You, lowry even though him

1386
01:01:53,040 --> 01:01:56,160
Speaker 2: And County george they played together In Finland County george

1387
01:01:56,160 --> 01:01:59,640
Speaker 2: when Visited Loarry markin in this. Summer wonderful relationship with

1388
01:01:59,720 --> 01:02:03,160
Speaker 2: those you. Have but, yeah AS i, said they're really really.

1389
01:02:03,240 --> 01:02:06,080
Speaker 2: YOUNG i, think, yeah you mentioned the guys that they

1390
01:02:06,080 --> 01:02:10,040
Speaker 2: could trade In clarkson And, sexton AND i don't know

1391
01:02:10,040 --> 01:02:12,280
Speaker 2: Who Walker kessler is. Really they didn't start him last

1392
01:02:12,360 --> 01:02:16,000
Speaker 2: year for much of the, year and that's a confusing

1393
01:02:16,040 --> 01:02:18,080
Speaker 2: thing for. Me they have to figure that. Out BUT

1394
01:02:18,680 --> 01:02:20,640
Speaker 2: i don't know this team. Will harry always gets them

1395
01:02:20,640 --> 01:02:23,400
Speaker 2: to play, offensively really really, well so they can win

1396
01:02:23,480 --> 01:02:25,440
Speaker 2: games If lowery's. Playing but as soon as you sit,

1397
01:02:25,480 --> 01:02:26,480
Speaker 2: them then they're not going to.

1398
01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:28,840
Speaker 1: Good job on catching me mixing up those two years

1399
01:02:28,880 --> 01:02:31,760
Speaker 1: because they were basically the exact same. SEASONS i got

1400
01:02:31,800 --> 01:02:33,800
Speaker 1: that confused then when we were In Salt Lake.

1401
01:02:33,840 --> 01:02:38,120
Speaker 2: City kind of the same cities, too you. Know. White, yes.

1402
01:02:39,920 --> 01:02:42,440
Speaker 1: We've gone back to Back white cities And All Star

1403
01:02:42,520 --> 01:02:45,320
Speaker 1: weekend we had a. Blast But i'm with, you, Guys

1404
01:02:45,360 --> 01:02:48,360
Speaker 1: i'm going to be locking this one. Under i'm telling

1405
01:02:48,360 --> 01:02:51,360
Speaker 1: you right, now tipping my. HAND i think they're going

1406
01:02:51,400 --> 01:02:55,400
Speaker 1: to wisely play the young. Kids maybe there's moves to

1407
01:02:55,520 --> 01:02:58,640
Speaker 1: unlock more opportunity and playing time in trading those guys

1408
01:02:58,640 --> 01:03:01,200
Speaker 1: that you said some of their you know that they

1409
01:03:01,240 --> 01:03:05,240
Speaker 1: should be, bad they should take a stab at Getting

1410
01:03:05,280 --> 01:03:08,520
Speaker 1: cooper flag by helping their. CHANCES i just think it's

1411
01:03:08,520 --> 01:03:10,560
Speaker 1: going to be a bad season for, them and they will.

1412
01:03:10,600 --> 01:03:12,920
Speaker 1: Be i'm going to significantly say under actually twenty nine

1413
01:03:12,960 --> 01:03:15,680
Speaker 1: and a. Half we got one more division, here and

1414
01:03:15,680 --> 01:03:20,760
Speaker 1: that is The Southwest. Division Dallas mavericks at forty nine

1415
01:03:20,800 --> 01:03:23,360
Speaker 1: and a, half they just went to THE Nba finals

1416
01:03:23,400 --> 01:03:26,520
Speaker 1: and it's under. Fifty The rockets forty three and a.

1417
01:03:26,520 --> 01:03:29,800
Speaker 1: Half that's a sexy, pick isn't. It grizzlies forty seven

1418
01:03:29,800 --> 01:03:32,960
Speaker 1: and a, half what a bounce, Back pelicans forty six

1419
01:03:32,960 --> 01:03:34,960
Speaker 1: and a, half and The spurs at thirty six and a.

1420
01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:38,000
Speaker 1: Half so that's The Southwest. Division we start with The

1421
01:03:38,040 --> 01:03:40,480
Speaker 1: MAVs again forty nine and a. Half they went fifty

1422
01:03:40,480 --> 01:03:42,280
Speaker 1: and thirty, two went all the way to the. Finals

1423
01:03:43,080 --> 01:03:46,520
Speaker 1: really came. Together luca Massive year scored nearly thirty four

1424
01:03:46,560 --> 01:03:49,560
Speaker 1: points per. Game this Guy kyrie looked, happy he looked.

1425
01:03:49,600 --> 01:03:52,520
Speaker 1: Comfortable they made the mid season. Trades they bring IN. Pj,

1426
01:03:52,720 --> 01:03:55,640
Speaker 1: Washington they bring In Daniel, Gafford Derek. Leively the second

1427
01:03:56,040 --> 01:03:59,000
Speaker 1: really surprised a lot of. People he really. Progressed and

1428
01:03:59,040 --> 01:04:02,000
Speaker 1: what else they? Do they had A Klay, Thompson Quinton.

1429
01:04:02,040 --> 01:04:05,760
Speaker 1: Grimes they Got Nausey marshall to replace Basically Derreck, Jones

1430
01:04:05,840 --> 01:04:09,800
Speaker 1: junior Din witti's back In. Dallas uh Lost Josh, green

1431
01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:13,560
Speaker 1: Lost Tim, Hardaway, JUNIOR i SAID. Djj and they Resigned

1432
01:04:13,560 --> 01:04:16,640
Speaker 1: Markith morris And Brandon. Williams So trey forty nine and a?

1433
01:04:16,680 --> 01:04:19,320
Speaker 1: Half is this one perplexing? Me you are you confused by this?

1434
01:04:19,360 --> 01:04:20,320
Speaker 1: One or sound about?

1435
01:04:20,360 --> 01:04:22,000
Speaker 4: Right this is the Team i'm excited to. See?

1436
01:04:22,400 --> 01:04:25,800
Speaker 3: Uh The Klay thompson addition is pretty interesting Because dallas

1437
01:04:25,920 --> 01:04:28,600
Speaker 3: was only tenth in offense last?

1438
01:04:28,640 --> 01:04:29,200
Speaker 2: Season is that?

1439
01:04:29,280 --> 01:04:29,440
Speaker 4: Right?

1440
01:04:29,680 --> 01:04:31,880
Speaker 1: YEAH i have a, mates but yeah it's.

1441
01:04:31,920 --> 01:04:37,520
Speaker 3: Okay, nonetheless this should be a team that's an elite.

1442
01:04:37,560 --> 01:04:39,400
Speaker 3: Offense they should be a top five, offense AND i

1443
01:04:39,400 --> 01:04:41,360
Speaker 3: think that's what The Klay thompson trade. Is they're, saying

1444
01:04:41,440 --> 01:04:44,280
Speaker 3: we can be, elite we can be a record setting

1445
01:04:44,280 --> 01:04:46,680
Speaker 3: offense like they were a couple of seasons, ago and

1446
01:04:46,720 --> 01:04:49,720
Speaker 3: that will then offset having a very mid, defense because

1447
01:04:49,760 --> 01:04:52,880
Speaker 3: it's gonna be tough to build a great defensive team Around,

1448
01:04:52,960 --> 01:04:55,280
Speaker 3: Luca kyrie And Klay thompson as your back.

1449
01:04:55,320 --> 01:04:56,080
Speaker 4: Court it's just gonna be.

1450
01:04:56,080 --> 01:04:56,680
Speaker 2: Tough you.

1451
01:04:56,720 --> 01:05:00,520
Speaker 3: Know it's kind of MISCASTING Pj washington and as the wing.

1452
01:05:00,600 --> 01:05:03,800
Speaker 3: Stopper so Maybe Naji marshall eventually. STARTS i think it

1453
01:05:03,840 --> 01:05:07,280
Speaker 3: will Be. CLAY i think they can get to being

1454
01:05:07,440 --> 01:05:10,600
Speaker 3: an elite. Offense i'm not totally convinced that they can

1455
01:05:10,640 --> 01:05:12,720
Speaker 3: be a mid. Defense they could be a very bad,

1456
01:05:12,840 --> 01:05:15,800
Speaker 3: defense which would show itself more so in the. Playoffs

1457
01:05:15,800 --> 01:05:18,320
Speaker 3: But i'm going. OVER i think they're a fifty win

1458
01:05:18,480 --> 01:05:21,760
Speaker 3: team just because as long As kyrie is able to

1459
01:05:21,760 --> 01:05:24,880
Speaker 3: stay on the court for a variety of, reasons as

1460
01:05:24,920 --> 01:05:27,560
Speaker 3: long As luca stays, HEALTHY i think they're gonna be

1461
01:05:27,600 --> 01:05:28,560
Speaker 3: pretty tough to.

1462
01:05:28,600 --> 01:05:30,360
Speaker 4: Stop on the offensive, end they will.

1463
01:05:30,400 --> 01:05:32,720
Speaker 2: Be, yeah the question is the defense because they all

1464
01:05:32,760 --> 01:05:35,600
Speaker 2: came together when they got those. Traits, yeah when they

1465
01:05:35,640 --> 01:05:39,760
Speaker 2: made them for both those guys that ended up losing

1466
01:05:39,760 --> 01:05:41,880
Speaker 2: one of, them they end up Losing Derek Jones, junior

1467
01:05:41,920 --> 01:05:44,040
Speaker 2: who was the guy guarding the best ball handler on

1468
01:05:44,080 --> 01:05:44,480
Speaker 2: the other. Team.

1469
01:05:44,520 --> 01:05:46,160
Speaker 1: Yeah putting pressure on the, perimeter yeah for.

1470
01:05:46,200 --> 01:05:48,840
Speaker 2: Sure and now you are going to roll With clay

1471
01:05:48,920 --> 01:05:51,800
Speaker 2: most likely to start With kyrie And. Luca those are

1472
01:05:51,840 --> 01:05:55,320
Speaker 2: gonna be your perimeter, players and THEN. Pj washington starting

1473
01:05:55,320 --> 01:05:57,000
Speaker 2: at the four most. Likely so how are they going

1474
01:05:57,080 --> 01:06:01,440
Speaker 2: to do? Defensively can't be there, great but they should outscore,

1475
01:06:01,480 --> 01:06:04,000
Speaker 2: teams that's for. Sure And i'm sure they're excited to

1476
01:06:04,000 --> 01:06:06,480
Speaker 2: Have clay come playoff time. WIN i, say, yeah they

1477
01:06:06,480 --> 01:06:07,960
Speaker 2: may not be a good defensive, team but when they

1478
01:06:08,000 --> 01:06:10,360
Speaker 2: want to, grind when they want to play, like they'll

1479
01:06:10,360 --> 01:06:14,160
Speaker 2: play hard ENOUGH i imagine come playoff time or they

1480
01:06:14,200 --> 01:06:16,880
Speaker 2: tried The Naji marshall, thing that's for. Sure but they're

1481
01:06:16,880 --> 01:06:20,280
Speaker 2: excited to Get clay because they couldn't shoot in the.

1482
01:06:20,320 --> 01:06:23,680
Speaker 2: Post they couldn't shoot Versus, boston especially in the, finals

1483
01:06:23,680 --> 01:06:26,600
Speaker 2: so they're excited about. That BUT i think that's it's

1484
01:06:26,640 --> 01:06:30,520
Speaker 2: a little Bit clay is obviously an incredible, score BUT

1485
01:06:30,720 --> 01:06:33,000
Speaker 2: i wonder about the defense and the grind and how

1486
01:06:33,400 --> 01:06:35,800
Speaker 2: that team again was, like you, know a mediocre and

1487
01:06:35,800 --> 01:06:39,800
Speaker 2: then bang The Washington. GAFFORD i, mean they all came

1488
01:06:39,840 --> 01:06:42,680
Speaker 2: together really. Quickly SO i wonder how that's all gonna.

1489
01:06:42,720 --> 01:06:45,200
Speaker 2: Go So i'm gonna go, under but it's gonna be

1490
01:06:45,280 --> 01:06:47,919
Speaker 2: like they're just that's a good.

1491
01:06:47,960 --> 01:06:48,200
Speaker 4: Line.

1492
01:06:48,240 --> 01:06:51,400
Speaker 1: Again The MAVs won sixteen of their final twenty regular season,

1493
01:06:51,440 --> 01:06:54,320
Speaker 1: games including these two losses that they punted away because

1494
01:06:54,320 --> 01:06:57,600
Speaker 1: they're resting, guys and they had the NBA's second best

1495
01:06:57,640 --> 01:07:00,000
Speaker 1: defense during that, span so it was like really. Elite

1496
01:07:00,040 --> 01:07:02,040
Speaker 1: it stayed pretty good in the. Playoffs their defense as,

1497
01:07:02,040 --> 01:07:04,720
Speaker 1: well you, know knocking off the clips and the thunder

1498
01:07:04,800 --> 01:07:08,320
Speaker 1: and the. Wolves they've won fifty plus games in two

1499
01:07:08,320 --> 01:07:10,600
Speaker 1: of the last three. Seasons i'm with, you, guys the line's.

1500
01:07:10,600 --> 01:07:12,920
Speaker 1: Perfect it's going to be like one side or the

1501
01:07:12,920 --> 01:07:15,800
Speaker 1: other by one or two. GAMES i will go just over.

1502
01:07:15,880 --> 01:07:19,520
Speaker 1: Again i'm sort of Ex i'm cheering On Klay. THOMPSON i,

1503
01:07:19,520 --> 01:07:22,440
Speaker 1: MEAN i hope this goes. Well he's gonna fire. Away

1504
01:07:22,480 --> 01:07:25,400
Speaker 1: he's been like one of the best catch and shoot three.

1505
01:07:25,480 --> 01:07:28,520
Speaker 1: PLAYERS i don't know in the last ten years of all.

1506
01:07:28,600 --> 01:07:30,480
Speaker 1: Time really when you think about it in terms of,

1507
01:07:30,560 --> 01:07:32,360
Speaker 1: volume how much does he have left in the? Tank and,

1508
01:07:32,440 --> 01:07:36,040
Speaker 1: yeah when will kid? Go we're getting exposed with those

1509
01:07:36,040 --> 01:07:37,920
Speaker 1: three guys And, Klay kyrie And luke on The. Premier,

1510
01:07:37,960 --> 01:07:39,880
Speaker 1: Okay Naji, marshall you got to do your Best Derek

1511
01:07:39,960 --> 01:07:42,760
Speaker 1: jones junior, impersonation, like AND i think you. Can but

1512
01:07:43,480 --> 01:07:47,000
Speaker 1: how will that balance? Go i'll go just, over just

1513
01:07:47,880 --> 01:07:50,280
Speaker 1: over the what DID i? Say forty nine and a? Half,

1514
01:07:50,440 --> 01:07:51,520
Speaker 1: yeah so you're going just.

1515
01:07:51,560 --> 01:07:54,720
Speaker 2: Over i'm Going i'm going just Under. Trey trey will

1516
01:07:54,720 --> 01:07:56,920
Speaker 2: go just. Over, Okay and this is sort of like

1517
01:07:57,200 --> 01:07:59,880
Speaker 2: A yokic kind of team that, wins you, Know. Luca

1518
01:08:00,080 --> 01:08:02,280
Speaker 2: luca is kind of like. That four of his five

1519
01:08:02,360 --> 01:08:05,200
Speaker 2: last years they're winning. Records there was that really weird

1520
01:08:05,280 --> 01:08:07,080
Speaker 2: year where they said we don't want to, winow we

1521
01:08:07,120 --> 01:08:08,880
Speaker 2: don't want to play in the. Playoffs when they were

1522
01:08:08,920 --> 01:08:12,040
Speaker 2: able to get they were able to get Their.

1523
01:08:12,080 --> 01:08:13,640
Speaker 1: Pively yeah they kept.

1524
01:08:13,680 --> 01:08:15,840
Speaker 2: It they Got lively and that whole weird case And

1525
01:08:15,880 --> 01:08:18,920
Speaker 2: walls trade. Thingy but that's a good team because It's.

1526
01:08:18,880 --> 01:08:21,639
Speaker 1: Luca, Right so Like jokich, like, yeah there are these

1527
01:08:21,640 --> 01:08:23,920
Speaker 1: guys that just raised the level of your team to

1528
01:08:23,960 --> 01:08:25,720
Speaker 1: basically a fifty win. Mark so it's gonna be right,

1529
01:08:25,720 --> 01:08:28,439
Speaker 1: there all. Right H Houston rockets forty three and a. Half,

1530
01:08:28,479 --> 01:08:30,360
Speaker 1: Oh i'm excited to talk about this. One last year

1531
01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:32,680
Speaker 1: one of the surprise, teams one of the feel good,

1532
01:08:32,720 --> 01:08:35,760
Speaker 1: Stories udoka coming in, there getting these guys to go

1533
01:08:35,800 --> 01:08:37,719
Speaker 1: forty one and forty. One they brought in some vets

1534
01:08:37,760 --> 01:08:39,559
Speaker 1: to help out the young guys and it. Worked now

1535
01:08:39,560 --> 01:08:41,320
Speaker 1: they finished eleventh in The. West they didn't make the

1536
01:08:41,320 --> 01:08:44,240
Speaker 1: play and didn't make the. Postseason but, man they had

1537
01:08:44,280 --> 01:08:47,960
Speaker 1: that late run Where Jalen green like caught. Fire they

1538
01:08:47,960 --> 01:08:50,840
Speaker 1: won eleven straight and again they just ran out of.

1539
01:08:50,840 --> 01:08:53,120
Speaker 1: GAMES i guess they ultimately came up like four or

1540
01:08:53,160 --> 01:08:55,439
Speaker 1: five games short of even making a playing. Spot but

1541
01:08:55,479 --> 01:08:58,400
Speaker 1: what they. Do they re Signed Aaron, holiday Resigned Nate,

1542
01:08:58,400 --> 01:09:01,120
Speaker 1: williams and they added reidshep with the number three, pick

1543
01:09:02,200 --> 01:09:05,679
Speaker 1: and they Add Steven adams who didn't play it because

1544
01:09:06,120 --> 01:09:09,360
Speaker 1: he was. Injured when are you going to start a?

1545
01:09:09,439 --> 01:09:12,400
Speaker 1: Task forty three and a. Half it's improved from that

1546
01:09:12,439 --> 01:09:15,639
Speaker 1: five hundred season last, year but not. Drastically but people

1547
01:09:15,640 --> 01:09:18,240
Speaker 1: are like convinced this could be one of, like you,

1548
01:09:18,280 --> 01:09:20,920
Speaker 1: know the up and coming. Teams why couldn't they easily

1549
01:09:20,920 --> 01:09:22,080
Speaker 1: clear forty three and a? Half what do you?

1550
01:09:22,120 --> 01:09:24,519
Speaker 2: Think, yeah the team is stacked in. Depth they may

1551
01:09:24,520 --> 01:09:27,479
Speaker 2: not have like championship type, leaders but it is one

1552
01:09:27,479 --> 01:09:30,000
Speaker 2: of the best teams in terms of. Depth you've got

1553
01:09:30,000 --> 01:09:32,320
Speaker 2: guys who aren't going to play that are good. Players

1554
01:09:32,400 --> 01:09:36,080
Speaker 2: Jeff green game, Playing Jack, Landale, okay call him good

1555
01:09:36,120 --> 01:09:38,080
Speaker 2: player if you, want but he's not. PLAYING i, mean

1556
01:09:38,120 --> 01:09:42,439
Speaker 2: they just have way too many. Guys fred Van, Vliet Jalen,

1557
01:09:42,479 --> 01:09:46,599
Speaker 2: green whitmore from last. Year you Mentioned reid and then

1558
01:09:46,640 --> 01:09:50,280
Speaker 2: You're Dylan. Brooks i'm In. Thompson it doesn't stop. Us

1559
01:09:50,360 --> 01:09:52,479
Speaker 2: Shng gun obviously is going to play a. Lot Jabari,

1560
01:09:52,560 --> 01:09:54,880
Speaker 2: smith Sorry easton didn't play last. Year he's gonna be,

1561
01:09:54,880 --> 01:09:58,519
Speaker 2: There like it doesn't. Stop so all that, said they're

1562
01:09:58,560 --> 01:09:59,840
Speaker 2: gonna trade a bunch of those. GUYS i think it's

1563
01:10:00,040 --> 01:10:03,080
Speaker 2: point they. Have they have way too many guys and

1564
01:10:03,120 --> 01:10:06,840
Speaker 2: they have, to you, know, decide Is Jalen green going

1565
01:10:06,920 --> 01:10:08,240
Speaker 2: to be that same guy he was for a month

1566
01:10:08,280 --> 01:10:09,960
Speaker 2: and a half at the end of the. Season maybe,

1567
01:10:10,000 --> 01:10:11,519
Speaker 2: yes maybe, No but then he has they have to

1568
01:10:11,520 --> 01:10:13,360
Speaker 2: trade somebody else if they're going to sign him to

1569
01:10:13,760 --> 01:10:16,599
Speaker 2: a near max, deal which he comes up for later

1570
01:10:16,680 --> 01:10:19,720
Speaker 2: on this month here In. October he's. Good can't wait

1571
01:10:19,760 --> 01:10:22,960
Speaker 2: to see what he does here in his fourth, year you,

1572
01:10:23,000 --> 01:10:25,120
Speaker 2: know as a young, player fourth years, Matter so we'll

1573
01:10:25,160 --> 01:10:27,320
Speaker 2: see about. That i'm And thompson can't wait to see about.

1574
01:10:27,320 --> 01:10:31,640
Speaker 2: That him And Sheng goon aren't exactly capable players are

1575
01:10:31,640 --> 01:10:34,960
Speaker 2: playing together because they don't shoot that. Deep BUT i,

1576
01:10:34,960 --> 01:10:36,559
Speaker 2: mean they're both so, good SO i wonder if they

1577
01:10:36,640 --> 01:10:38,479
Speaker 2: decide on one of those guys to go back and

1578
01:10:38,520 --> 01:10:41,639
Speaker 2: get somebody in. RETURN i think that's WHY i pick,

1579
01:10:41,760 --> 01:10:43,760
Speaker 2: under just because they have a lot of damn good

1580
01:10:43,760 --> 01:10:46,040
Speaker 2: players and they are going to trade a couple of.

1581
01:10:46,080 --> 01:10:48,439
Speaker 1: Them so you think this is a team that's set

1582
01:10:48,520 --> 01:10:52,559
Speaker 1: up to put together good, players some young players for

1583
01:10:52,640 --> 01:10:54,040
Speaker 1: what a star player that comes.

1584
01:10:54,040 --> 01:10:57,320
Speaker 2: Apail, yeah that was the rumor at the trade deadline last.

1585
01:10:57,360 --> 01:11:00,240
Speaker 2: Year who are they looking to get at the h

1586
01:11:00,880 --> 01:11:03,440
Speaker 2: the trade? Deadline was it somebody.

1587
01:11:03,360 --> 01:11:05,600
Speaker 4: Somebody's marketing and MAYBE i don't know he was a

1588
01:11:05,680 --> 01:11:06,400
Speaker 4: name that it?

1589
01:11:06,479 --> 01:11:09,800
Speaker 2: Was he? Was it was SOMEBODY i should, Recall SHOULD

1590
01:11:09,840 --> 01:11:11,360
Speaker 2: i not know who's.

1591
01:11:11,160 --> 01:11:11,640
Speaker 4: Going to be the.

1592
01:11:11,720 --> 01:11:14,519
Speaker 1: Name, yes year is the. Question, yeah like you, Know,

1593
01:11:14,680 --> 01:11:17,599
Speaker 1: booker if it goes poorly In, phoenix you, Know I'm Jimmy,

1594
01:11:17,640 --> 01:11:18,840
Speaker 1: butler you, know stuff like.

1595
01:11:18,880 --> 01:11:21,679
Speaker 2: That, yeah they were rumored to be going After phoenix

1596
01:11:21,720 --> 01:11:24,800
Speaker 2: for last in the off season as. Well so, YEAH

1597
01:11:24,840 --> 01:11:26,880
Speaker 2: i think they lose some of these, guys especially Like

1598
01:11:26,960 --> 01:11:29,360
Speaker 2: fred Van vliet has got a team option for next.

1599
01:11:29,400 --> 01:11:31,280
Speaker 2: YEAR i wonder if they pick it up With Jalen,

1600
01:11:31,320 --> 01:11:34,880
Speaker 2: Green Cam witmore And Rea. Shepherd, now, like there's a

1601
01:11:34,880 --> 01:11:37,519
Speaker 2: bunch of guys you can. Play so there's so many

1602
01:11:37,560 --> 01:11:39,040
Speaker 2: of them on this, TEAM i think at some point

1603
01:11:39,040 --> 01:11:39,679
Speaker 2: they got to bundle.

1604
01:11:39,720 --> 01:11:41,200
Speaker 1: Them and so what do you think for the over?

1605
01:11:41,280 --> 01:11:45,320
Speaker 2: UNDER i, go, YEAH i said. UNDER i think again

1606
01:11:45,320 --> 01:11:48,000
Speaker 2: it's Stuff, West but forty two wins still damn good. Year,

1607
01:11:48,479 --> 01:11:48,920
Speaker 2: Yeah i'm with.

1608
01:11:48,960 --> 01:11:50,599
Speaker 3: YOU i was, like forty three. WINS i think they'll

1609
01:11:50,600 --> 01:11:52,920
Speaker 3: be a little bit better than last, season but it's

1610
01:11:52,960 --> 01:11:54,439
Speaker 3: just a competitive.

1611
01:11:54,240 --> 01:11:56,080
Speaker 4: Thing And test really nailed.

1612
01:11:56,080 --> 01:11:58,080
Speaker 3: IT i think this is a kind of a strange

1613
01:11:58,120 --> 01:12:00,479
Speaker 3: season for The rockets because they had that great last.

1614
01:12:00,560 --> 01:12:02,599
Speaker 3: Year but it's also very strange in, that like Shen

1615
01:12:02,640 --> 01:12:04,400
Speaker 3: gun was awesome for the first half of the, year

1616
01:12:04,400 --> 01:12:06,360
Speaker 3: then he gets hurt and then Some Jalen green's. Awesome

1617
01:12:06,400 --> 01:12:08,880
Speaker 3: they're both eligible for. Extensions, now which one do you?

1618
01:12:08,920 --> 01:12:11,280
Speaker 3: Pick i'm more of a sheng gun, guy But Jalen

1619
01:12:11,360 --> 01:12:13,720
Speaker 3: green looked awesome in the second half of last. Year

1620
01:12:13,960 --> 01:12:15,479
Speaker 3: is he for real a good player or is he

1621
01:12:15,840 --> 01:12:19,120
Speaker 3: trade bait for somebody during this? Season Fred Van vliet

1622
01:12:19,200 --> 01:12:21,000
Speaker 3: is a great question because wouldn't you want to start

1623
01:12:21,000 --> 01:12:24,000
Speaker 3: the guy who just drafted number, three who's the favorite

1624
01:12:24,040 --> 01:12:26,519
Speaker 3: For rookie of The. Year it feels like right, NOW

1625
01:12:26,720 --> 01:12:28,439
Speaker 3: i don't. Know they've got a lot of decisions to,

1626
01:12:28,520 --> 01:12:32,280
Speaker 3: make a lot of mouths to. Feed Imo UDOKA i

1627
01:12:32,320 --> 01:12:33,960
Speaker 3: do think is a good, coach but he's got a

1628
01:12:34,000 --> 01:12:36,479
Speaker 3: lot of decisions to make BECAUSE i don't really think

1629
01:12:36,520 --> 01:12:39,840
Speaker 3: their starting lineup is. Settled Like Dylan brooks seemed like

1630
01:12:39,880 --> 01:12:42,519
Speaker 3: an important player for him for them last. Year i'd

1631
01:12:42,600 --> 01:12:44,920
Speaker 3: rather start On Men thompson because he's a young guy

1632
01:12:44,960 --> 01:12:47,120
Speaker 3: and you need to see what you got going. Forward

1633
01:12:47,320 --> 01:12:49,719
Speaker 3: because their contracts kind of line up him And Dylan.

1634
01:12:49,760 --> 01:12:52,080
Speaker 3: Brooks Maybe brooks is the guy that gets. Traded there's

1635
01:12:52,120 --> 01:12:55,200
Speaker 3: just so many players on this, team so many questions

1636
01:12:55,200 --> 01:12:57,920
Speaker 3: to answer that it can be hard to actually get

1637
01:12:57,920 --> 01:12:59,920
Speaker 3: everybody on the. Court it's, like, man this is awesome

1638
01:13:00,080 --> 01:13:02,760
Speaker 3: That Steven adams is coming. Back set some screams be a. Vet,

1639
01:13:02,960 --> 01:13:05,360
Speaker 3: okay is he playing Over? Shangoon is he playing Over Jabari?

1640
01:13:05,400 --> 01:13:08,200
Speaker 3: Smith is he playing Over Jeff green who played seventy

1641
01:13:08,200 --> 01:13:10,640
Speaker 3: six games for this team last? Year Jason tata is

1642
01:13:10,680 --> 01:13:12,800
Speaker 3: still around? Now was the guy people were hyped out

1643
01:13:12,840 --> 01:13:15,519
Speaker 3: once upon a. TIME i Like Tary, easton but is

1644
01:13:15,560 --> 01:13:17,439
Speaker 3: he gonna get on the? COURT i don't. Know just

1645
01:13:17,560 --> 01:13:21,000
Speaker 3: a lot of players, around and The rockets actually have

1646
01:13:21,120 --> 01:13:23,599
Speaker 3: to start figuring out who's going to be a part

1647
01:13:23,640 --> 01:13:23,800
Speaker 3: of this.

1648
01:13:23,840 --> 01:13:26,559
Speaker 1: Future, yeah it feels like they should be better than

1649
01:13:26,560 --> 01:13:28,439
Speaker 1: forty one and forty one last, year just with the

1650
01:13:28,479 --> 01:13:30,360
Speaker 1: growth of all these young. Guys but a lot of

1651
01:13:30,400 --> 01:13:32,160
Speaker 1: question marks as you just went, through of like who

1652
01:13:32,240 --> 01:13:34,160
Speaker 1: are you, playing who are you pairing? With how does this?

1653
01:13:34,320 --> 01:13:36,320
Speaker 1: WORK i, MEAN i guess that's a good issue to.

1654
01:13:36,320 --> 01:13:38,000
Speaker 1: Have you have all this, talent you just got to

1655
01:13:38,040 --> 01:13:40,160
Speaker 1: like put all the pieces. TOGETHER i do think they

1656
01:13:40,240 --> 01:13:43,120
Speaker 1: could still have another level to go defensively that sorry

1657
01:13:43,120 --> 01:13:45,640
Speaker 1: Of yudoka's calling. CARD i think they have guys that

1658
01:13:45,680 --> 01:13:48,200
Speaker 1: can get them even higher than tenth that they finished

1659
01:13:48,200 --> 01:13:50,240
Speaker 1: in defensive, rating which is really good for a young,

1660
01:13:50,240 --> 01:13:52,760
Speaker 1: team but they could go up a. Step they need

1661
01:13:52,800 --> 01:13:55,160
Speaker 1: to win road games is their main. Thing they went

1662
01:13:55,240 --> 01:13:57,760
Speaker 1: fourteen and twenty seven on the road last, year one

1663
01:13:57,800 --> 01:14:00,160
Speaker 1: of the worst in The Western. Conference if they want

1664
01:14:00,160 --> 01:14:02,320
Speaker 1: to crack the play in, tournament you gotta clean that

1665
01:14:02,400 --> 01:14:04,280
Speaker 1: up a little, bit, Right you just gotta win more

1666
01:14:04,479 --> 01:14:06,720
Speaker 1: of those road, games AND i think they. Will i'm

1667
01:14:06,760 --> 01:14:09,120
Speaker 1: gonna go. OVER i have faith in this. TEAM i

1668
01:14:09,120 --> 01:14:10,439
Speaker 1: have a lot of faith In yudoka is just as

1669
01:14:10,439 --> 01:14:13,840
Speaker 1: a head, coach and, MAN i love The adams coming

1670
01:14:13,880 --> 01:14:15,720
Speaker 1: in there now and Read, Shepherd you're right like just

1671
01:14:15,760 --> 01:14:18,479
Speaker 1: a shooter and then obviously a. Playmaker feels like they

1672
01:14:18,479 --> 01:14:21,000
Speaker 1: can just have like like again it's up to him

1673
01:14:21,000 --> 01:14:22,960
Speaker 1: to figure, out but, like really forty eight minutes of

1674
01:14:23,040 --> 01:14:25,080
Speaker 1: quality minutes at every position because they have so many,

1675
01:14:25,080 --> 01:14:28,400
Speaker 1: guys but can it all. Click i'll go just over

1676
01:14:28,479 --> 01:14:31,280
Speaker 1: though that they will be a little bit closer to

1677
01:14:31,360 --> 01:14:33,720
Speaker 1: sniffing the plan or maybe even getting in. There this.

1678
01:14:33,800 --> 01:14:35,680
Speaker 1: Year it's gonna take probably like it did last, year,

1679
01:14:35,760 --> 01:14:38,880
Speaker 1: right forty five forty, six so sort of forty seven

1680
01:14:38,960 --> 01:14:42,599
Speaker 1: Win Mark Memphis grizzlies forty seven and a. Half.

1681
01:14:43,520 --> 01:14:43,840
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1682
01:14:43,960 --> 01:14:46,559
Speaker 1: Yeah they went twenty seven and fifty five last, year

1683
01:14:46,600 --> 01:14:51,040
Speaker 1: finished thirteenth worst offensive team in the. League their season

1684
01:14:51,120 --> 01:14:54,120
Speaker 1: was basically a wash With Ja morant's twenty five game

1685
01:14:54,160 --> 01:14:57,680
Speaker 1: suspension to, Start denny had season ending, injury and there

1686
01:14:57,720 --> 01:15:00,040
Speaker 1: was a bunch of other. Injuries bright spots where G,

1687
01:15:00,320 --> 01:15:03,439
Speaker 1: Jackson Vince, williams they sort of emerged as rotational. Players

1688
01:15:03,720 --> 01:15:06,360
Speaker 1: they re Signed Luke, kenard they Added Zach, edie the

1689
01:15:06,400 --> 01:15:08,160
Speaker 1: big guy with the number nine pick in the. DRAFT

1690
01:15:08,280 --> 01:15:10,360
Speaker 1: i Added jill and Will wells in the second round as.

1691
01:15:10,360 --> 01:15:16,960
Speaker 1: Well Lost, Goodwin, Stevens, Watanabe, Williams Derrek rose, Retired Trey

1692
01:15:17,000 --> 01:15:18,720
Speaker 1: getta started here forty seven and a. HALF i, mean

1693
01:15:18,800 --> 01:15:20,840
Speaker 1: this is Obviously vegas Going they're going to bounce back

1694
01:15:20,880 --> 01:15:23,640
Speaker 1: to what they were two seasons, ago three seasons ago

1695
01:15:23,680 --> 01:15:25,799
Speaker 1: when they had a healthy drummerant and a healthy. Squad

1696
01:15:25,800 --> 01:15:26,240
Speaker 1: do you believe?

1697
01:15:26,240 --> 01:15:28,479
Speaker 4: IT i tend to agree with the projection.

1698
01:15:28,560 --> 01:15:31,160
Speaker 3: Here i'm going to go over BECAUSE i think at

1699
01:15:31,160 --> 01:15:33,000
Speaker 3: the very, least The grizzlies are going to be a

1700
01:15:33,040 --> 01:15:36,120
Speaker 3: good regular season team with the style they, play the,

1701
01:15:36,160 --> 01:15:40,120
Speaker 3: toughness the fast. Breaking sometimes the shooting becomes a problem

1702
01:15:40,120 --> 01:15:42,679
Speaker 3: in the. Playoffs AND i mean when your best outside

1703
01:15:42,680 --> 01:15:46,200
Speaker 3: shooter outside Of Edismon baine is Like Marcus smart in

1704
01:15:46,240 --> 01:15:48,439
Speaker 3: the starting, LINEUP i don't know that's a question mark to.

1705
01:15:48,439 --> 01:15:49,720
Speaker 4: Me Marcus, smart he's on The.

1706
01:15:49,720 --> 01:15:52,720
Speaker 3: GRIZZLIES i think that's something to forget, about, Ye but,

1707
01:15:52,840 --> 01:15:54,800
Speaker 3: YEAH i like the look of this. Team, unfortunately all

1708
01:15:54,800 --> 01:15:57,439
Speaker 3: their juniors are banged up right, NOW, Gg jared And

1709
01:15:57,640 --> 01:16:01,080
Speaker 3: vince all banged. Up i'm not a big fan of

1710
01:16:01,120 --> 01:16:03,400
Speaker 3: their depth. Either WHEN i look at, him good That

1711
01:16:03,520 --> 01:16:05,920
Speaker 3: Brandon clark is, Back but other than, that It's Luke,

1712
01:16:05,960 --> 01:16:07,960
Speaker 3: Canard santi Al dama who for me is in the

1713
01:16:08,000 --> 01:16:11,840
Speaker 3: beat crazie versus true underrated players that people don't know.

1714
01:16:11,880 --> 01:16:14,800
Speaker 3: About he is, Good Santi aldama is. Good conchar is.

1715
01:16:14,840 --> 01:16:17,479
Speaker 3: Not La rabia is. Not this is a team that

1716
01:16:17,600 --> 01:16:20,160
Speaker 3: used to have like ten great, players but some of

1717
01:16:20,200 --> 01:16:22,720
Speaker 3: those guys have been, leaving Like Kyle anderson is. Gone

1718
01:16:22,720 --> 01:16:24,920
Speaker 3: they used to Have Jonas valanciunis, Around they used to

1719
01:16:24,920 --> 01:16:27,519
Speaker 3: Have Steven adams. Around they don't really have any wings

1720
01:16:27,520 --> 01:16:31,080
Speaker 3: WITH Gg jackson going. Down Vince williams will be helpful,

1721
01:16:31,080 --> 01:16:34,840
Speaker 3: there but Like Marcus smart is gonna have a big responsibility,

1722
01:16:35,280 --> 01:16:37,920
Speaker 3: defensively and he's a Former Defensive player of The. Year

1723
01:16:38,400 --> 01:16:40,040
Speaker 3: we'll see if he can get back to that. Level

1724
01:16:40,120 --> 01:16:41,440
Speaker 3: but weird, Team.

1725
01:16:41,520 --> 01:16:41,920
Speaker 4: BUT i like.

1726
01:16:42,000 --> 01:16:43,880
Speaker 1: IT i like the over for the Grizz oh forty

1727
01:16:43,920 --> 01:16:45,640
Speaker 1: son and a half. Over what do you, Think, Tess.

1728
01:16:45,600 --> 01:16:47,840
Speaker 2: I'm going under part of the reasons that you. Said

1729
01:16:47,840 --> 01:16:52,280
Speaker 2: they're banged, up as you, SAID Gg, Jackson Vince, WILLIAMS Jjj,

1730
01:16:52,600 --> 01:16:55,679
Speaker 2: JACKSON J Jackson junior also. HURT i mean that's a good.

1731
01:16:55,760 --> 01:16:59,360
Speaker 1: Chunk John morant just hurt his ankle in. Preseason, ESPECTUALLY i, think,

1732
01:17:00,720 --> 01:17:01,280
Speaker 1: yeah a bunch of.

1733
01:17:01,280 --> 01:17:05,160
Speaker 2: Weird apparently he'll be. Fun, yeah, yeah But i'm not

1734
01:17:05,160 --> 01:17:07,519
Speaker 2: sure If Brandon clark's return is going to be all that.

1735
01:17:07,600 --> 01:17:10,240
Speaker 2: Great off the, Bat Marcus smart missed a lot of

1736
01:17:10,280 --> 01:17:12,800
Speaker 2: time last. Year was that just because they wanted to

1737
01:17:12,880 --> 01:17:15,280
Speaker 2: plummet for a? Pick i'm not. SURE i, Mean Marcus

1738
01:17:15,320 --> 01:17:17,719
Speaker 2: mar's a guy who's played hard for his whole, career

1739
01:17:17,720 --> 01:17:19,280
Speaker 2: and he's started to slow down the last couple of.

1740
01:17:19,320 --> 01:17:21,840
Speaker 2: Years SO i think those injuries are a factor in

1741
01:17:21,880 --> 01:17:26,920
Speaker 2: a Tough. West, Yeah i'm excited to See Zach edy

1742
01:17:26,960 --> 01:17:29,599
Speaker 2: play Alongside Jared Jackson junior when they're both. Healthy if

1743
01:17:29,920 --> 01:17:31,719
Speaker 2: If jared Jacks junior goes to the foig And zachie

1744
01:17:31,880 --> 01:17:34,639
Speaker 2: ends up, starting that is. Exciting John, Morant, yes he got,

1745
01:17:34,680 --> 01:17:37,080
Speaker 2: hurt but he also threw a beauty alley to Zach

1746
01:17:37,240 --> 01:17:39,400
Speaker 2: edy who threw it down and he had a block

1747
01:17:39,439 --> 01:17:42,320
Speaker 2: in that. Game so's that's. Exciting BUT i think there's

1748
01:17:42,640 --> 01:17:45,559
Speaker 2: a few. THINGS i, mean the, injuries The, west AND

1749
01:17:45,960 --> 01:17:48,120
Speaker 2: i don't know about, this this home court advantage That

1750
01:17:48,160 --> 01:17:49,840
Speaker 2: memphis used to. Have we went to the, Game we're.

1751
01:17:49,880 --> 01:17:53,479
Speaker 2: Excited this is. Fun they went under some, renovations they

1752
01:17:53,560 --> 01:17:55,720
Speaker 2: got some new foods on the food. Court as a

1753
01:17:55,760 --> 01:17:59,280
Speaker 2: man Laying whitaker, said but they won nine games Food

1754
01:17:59,560 --> 01:18:02,519
Speaker 2: they wouldn't nine games at home last, year nine thirty.

1755
01:18:02,520 --> 01:18:04,920
Speaker 2: Two how does that? HAPPEN i, mean they're way better

1756
01:18:05,000 --> 01:18:07,400
Speaker 2: on the road when they went double the games on the. Road,

1757
01:18:07,600 --> 01:18:10,120
Speaker 2: now is that just BECAUSE i don't? Know bad feelings at?

1758
01:18:10,120 --> 01:18:11,719
Speaker 1: Home bad food in the? Concourse?

1759
01:18:11,720 --> 01:18:14,559
Speaker 4: Apparently SO i GUESS i had a brisket notcho.

1760
01:18:14,640 --> 01:18:18,040
Speaker 3: There it was really, Good, yeah. Delicious but Maybe lang

1761
01:18:18,120 --> 01:18:20,719
Speaker 3: is opening in its Own. Kiosk cooking With lang cooking

1762
01:18:20,760 --> 01:18:23,800
Speaker 3: With lang'll tune into griz dot com see what he.

1763
01:18:23,800 --> 01:18:26,439
Speaker 5: Makes you can buy it at. Night that's a great.

1764
01:18:26,479 --> 01:18:29,400
Speaker 5: Promotion he would go with that. Brisket he loves cooking the.

1765
01:18:29,400 --> 01:18:32,840
Speaker 5: Meats BUT i don't, know it's just it's JUST i

1766
01:18:32,840 --> 01:18:34,639
Speaker 5: think there's too many questions being in The Western. Conference

1767
01:18:34,640 --> 01:18:35,280
Speaker 5: So i'm gonna take the.

1768
01:18:35,320 --> 01:18:37,559
Speaker 1: Under i'm going under because they could still win twenty

1769
01:18:37,560 --> 01:18:39,519
Speaker 1: more games than they won last year and still actually

1770
01:18:39,560 --> 01:18:42,080
Speaker 1: hit the. UNDER i think they'll Be they're going to

1771
01:18:42,120 --> 01:18:44,880
Speaker 1: be in the play and race, personally is WHAT i.

1772
01:18:44,920 --> 01:18:47,519
Speaker 1: Believe and again that's gonna be forty, four forty, five forty,

1773
01:18:47,560 --> 01:18:49,040
Speaker 1: Six SO i think they'll just go. Under it will

1774
01:18:49,080 --> 01:18:51,200
Speaker 1: be a much improved. Year we sort of get into

1775
01:18:51,240 --> 01:18:53,559
Speaker 1: like we talked about stars raising the level of a.

1776
01:18:53,600 --> 01:18:55,920
Speaker 1: Team jaw is. THAT i, mean he plays and it

1777
01:18:55,920 --> 01:18:58,200
Speaker 1: feels like they're more of a forty five to fifty one.

1778
01:18:58,240 --> 01:19:00,600
Speaker 1: Team so if he's, helty then they're going to be

1779
01:19:00,640 --> 01:19:02,880
Speaker 1: around that. Mark But i'll go just. UNDER i just

1780
01:19:02,920 --> 01:19:05,200
Speaker 1: think the rest of The west we're talking about those

1781
01:19:05,280 --> 01:19:08,040
Speaker 1: couple of years. AGO i think it's, improved and like you,

1782
01:19:08,080 --> 01:19:10,720
Speaker 1: KNOW i Guess i'm almost convinced like The rockets might

1783
01:19:10,760 --> 01:19:12,519
Speaker 1: have a better record than The, grizzlies or at least

1784
01:19:12,640 --> 01:19:15,720
Speaker 1: very very. Close so the math ain't, math and for,

1785
01:19:15,760 --> 01:19:17,519
Speaker 1: ME i gotta go under on the Grizz two more

1786
01:19:17,560 --> 01:19:19,680
Speaker 1: teams left The pelicans forty six and a. Half they

1787
01:19:19,720 --> 01:19:21,840
Speaker 1: went forty nine and thirty. Three last. Year they lost

1788
01:19:21,840 --> 01:19:24,840
Speaker 1: To okac in the first. Round they were really good

1789
01:19:24,840 --> 01:19:28,960
Speaker 1: defensively sixth, overall eleventh offensive. Rating zion went down with

1790
01:19:29,000 --> 01:19:32,160
Speaker 1: a late season. Injury he was really good when, healthy

1791
01:19:33,520 --> 01:19:35,320
Speaker 1: and you know they did win forty nine. Games got

1792
01:19:35,320 --> 01:19:39,320
Speaker 1: contributions From ingram and McCollum And Trey. Murphy they added

1793
01:19:39,320 --> 01:19:45,040
Speaker 1: To Jonte, murray they Signed Javonte, Green Daniel, Tice Dyson daniel's,

1794
01:19:45,040 --> 01:19:47,400
Speaker 1: Gone Larry nance, Junior Cody zeller all traded to The,

1795
01:19:47,400 --> 01:19:50,000
Speaker 1: hawks and That murray. Trade Valancoun is, gone Al Jiam marshall.

1796
01:19:50,040 --> 01:19:54,240
Speaker 1: Gone De Jontay murray's the big part. Here trey added

1797
01:19:54,280 --> 01:19:57,320
Speaker 1: To zion still for, now Brandon ingram still for? NOW. Cj.

1798
01:19:57,479 --> 01:20:01,000
Speaker 1: McCollum are they a better team than forty six and a?

1799
01:20:01,040 --> 01:20:01,680
Speaker 2: Half to?

1800
01:20:01,760 --> 01:20:02,599
Speaker 4: You forty nine?

1801
01:20:02,600 --> 01:20:04,679
Speaker 3: Wins with another surpriser one for, ME i like Man,

1802
01:20:04,800 --> 01:20:08,040
Speaker 3: pelicans especially considering they didn't have like a great early

1803
01:20:08,080 --> 01:20:10,320
Speaker 3: season From. Zion you, know the guy who's getting dunked

1804
01:20:10,360 --> 01:20:12,960
Speaker 3: on like crazy during the nd season. Tournament people are,

1805
01:20:12,960 --> 01:20:15,519
Speaker 3: saying lose some, weight, Buddy so he, did but he

1806
01:20:15,560 --> 01:20:19,160
Speaker 3: also got hurt last. Year this team feels so unsettled to.

1807
01:20:19,200 --> 01:20:22,000
Speaker 3: Me how much Is zion going to? Play are they

1808
01:20:22,000 --> 01:20:24,519
Speaker 3: going to Trade ingram who's actually starting for this?

1809
01:20:24,560 --> 01:20:24,960
Speaker 4: Team LIKE.

1810
01:20:25,000 --> 01:20:27,719
Speaker 3: Cj McCollum has been around for a long, time respected,

1811
01:20:27,800 --> 01:20:29,880
Speaker 3: Dude time for him to come off the. Bench Is

1812
01:20:29,960 --> 01:20:32,680
Speaker 3: Daniel tye really going to be their starting? CENTER a

1813
01:20:32,920 --> 01:20:35,880
Speaker 3: very weird Team i'm going under just because a few

1814
01:20:35,880 --> 01:20:37,840
Speaker 3: too many question marks for me to.

1815
01:20:37,920 --> 01:20:40,040
Speaker 4: Answer but Maybe zion.

1816
01:20:39,800 --> 01:20:41,680
Speaker 3: Can be a fifty win, guy, Right, like maybe he

1817
01:20:41,680 --> 01:20:43,839
Speaker 3: can be the kind of player who win he's healthy

1818
01:20:44,000 --> 01:20:46,800
Speaker 3: and on the, court lifts a team to fifty wins.

1819
01:20:46,840 --> 01:20:49,640
Speaker 4: EASILY i could definitely see that happening with The.

1820
01:20:49,680 --> 01:20:52,719
Speaker 3: Pelicans but this is a team to me that will

1821
01:20:52,880 --> 01:20:54,960
Speaker 3: probably be better at the end of the season than

1822
01:20:55,000 --> 01:20:56,400
Speaker 3: they are at the beginning of the season when they're

1823
01:20:56,400 --> 01:20:57,639
Speaker 3: having to figure out all this weird.

1824
01:20:57,680 --> 01:20:59,920
Speaker 2: Stuff, yeah they do have a lot of clouds hanging

1825
01:21:00,240 --> 01:21:02,880
Speaker 2: the Brandon ingram is kind of a cloud hanging over

1826
01:21:02,920 --> 01:21:06,559
Speaker 2: the trade talk that happens all the. Time cyrus Cloud serrus.

1827
01:21:06,640 --> 01:21:10,519
Speaker 2: Next oh, yeah and they're flying around here and just

1828
01:21:10,560 --> 01:21:10,920
Speaker 2: like your.

1829
01:21:10,880 --> 01:21:14,400
Speaker 3: Voice, there, yeah spitting too much hot fire.

1830
01:21:14,439 --> 01:21:19,599
Speaker 2: Here we see those clouds around here in the. SOUTH

1831
01:21:20,040 --> 01:21:22,639
Speaker 2: a lot of chemicals going up in the. South winds are.

1832
01:21:22,680 --> 01:21:26,640
Speaker 2: Happening it's. HAPPENING i do, think you, know in the,

1833
01:21:26,640 --> 01:21:29,800
Speaker 2: summer we have all these sort of fictional tales about

1834
01:21:29,800 --> 01:21:32,559
Speaker 2: guys who are getting stronger and bigger and working. OUT

1835
01:21:32,680 --> 01:21:35,200
Speaker 2: i think The Zion williamson thing is the most believable

1836
01:21:35,240 --> 01:21:37,639
Speaker 2: out of all of, them because, yes he did get

1837
01:21:37,720 --> 01:21:40,680
Speaker 2: hurt last, year but it was basically on the last

1838
01:21:40,760 --> 01:21:43,479
Speaker 2: couple of, years If David, griffin their front office, leader,

1839
01:21:43,560 --> 01:21:45,880
Speaker 2: Saying zion's gotta get, Better son's got to get, Healthier

1840
01:21:45,920 --> 01:21:48,479
Speaker 2: sion's gonna get more. Shape and this year he basically

1841
01:21:48,479 --> 01:21:50,960
Speaker 2: Said i'm doing. It he said him out for straight,

1842
01:21:51,240 --> 01:21:55,720
Speaker 2: vengeance not against any particular, person just for. Myself and

1843
01:21:55,960 --> 01:21:58,919
Speaker 2: it sure looks like he's. Healthy sure looks like everybody

1844
01:21:59,000 --> 01:22:00,760
Speaker 2: In New orleans is going to start growing a. Beard

1845
01:22:00,800 --> 01:22:02,840
Speaker 2: if you're a male who can grow a, beard you're

1846
01:22:02,840 --> 01:22:04,640
Speaker 2: gonna look Like zion won you want to want to

1847
01:22:04,640 --> 01:22:06,920
Speaker 2: look like that. Guy and SO i think that even

1848
01:22:06,920 --> 01:22:10,160
Speaker 2: if they have some clouds hanging over, them just just with,

1849
01:22:10,280 --> 01:22:14,840
Speaker 2: yeah they're questionable. DEPTH i, Mean i'm A Daniel tice,

1850
01:22:15,000 --> 01:22:17,680
Speaker 2: guy but watching him out there and then when he

1851
01:22:17,720 --> 01:22:19,240
Speaker 2: goes to the bench and who is gonna play the?

1852
01:22:19,240 --> 01:22:20,720
Speaker 2: FIVE i think they're gonna play small And zion is

1853
01:22:20,720 --> 01:22:23,400
Speaker 2: gonna play more of the. Five AND i do have

1854
01:22:23,479 --> 01:22:26,519
Speaker 2: faith that he'll play again a lot of, GAMES i

1855
01:22:26,600 --> 01:22:29,519
Speaker 2: should say, Again So i'm gonna take the OVER i

1856
01:22:29,640 --> 01:22:31,639
Speaker 2: just think they have a lot of. Talent are you.

1857
01:22:31,640 --> 01:22:34,320
Speaker 1: Concerned of the overlap between To Johntay murray And Brandon

1858
01:22:34,439 --> 01:22:36,759
Speaker 1: ingram how they, Play, yeah.

1859
01:22:36,560 --> 01:22:37,080
Speaker 4: They're the same.

1860
01:22:37,120 --> 01:22:40,840
Speaker 3: Guy, yeah one is, taller one's a serious, cloud and

1861
01:22:40,840 --> 01:22:42,400
Speaker 3: one is a Smaller Cerrus.

1862
01:22:42,080 --> 01:22:46,960
Speaker 1: Cloud H, Murray Zion, Ingram, Murphy Herb, Jones. Alvarado they're

1863
01:22:47,000 --> 01:22:49,519
Speaker 1: all like in their prime or near, it so they're

1864
01:22:49,560 --> 01:22:52,559
Speaker 1: all sort of on that same trajectory in terms of.

1865
01:22:52,600 --> 01:22:55,320
Speaker 1: Age but you, guys, men they have no.

1866
01:22:55,360 --> 01:22:57,320
Speaker 4: Size they have no.

1867
01:22:57,360 --> 01:23:01,080
Speaker 1: Size it's. Entice they don't Have Larry Dance junior, anymore you,

1868
01:23:01,080 --> 01:23:03,120
Speaker 1: know to play at center as sort of a guy

1869
01:23:03,160 --> 01:23:05,080
Speaker 1: that can play above the rim a little, bit Or

1870
01:23:05,120 --> 01:23:06,960
Speaker 1: Cody zeller. EVEN i, mean those guys went in this

1871
01:23:07,040 --> 01:23:10,000
Speaker 1: De Jontay murray. Trade, well how are they going to fix?

1872
01:23:10,080 --> 01:23:11,800
Speaker 1: That and is that a part of The ingram trade

1873
01:23:11,840 --> 01:23:14,200
Speaker 1: or some sort of a column. Trade Like i'm with,

1874
01:23:14,240 --> 01:23:17,400
Speaker 1: You i'm buying The zion. HYPE i think just even

1875
01:23:17,600 --> 01:23:20,080
Speaker 1: forget physically as important as that is for, HIM i

1876
01:23:20,120 --> 01:23:22,360
Speaker 1: think mentally it feels like he's coming in in a

1877
01:23:22,360 --> 01:23:27,200
Speaker 1: better headspace into this. Year SO i am gonna go.

1878
01:23:27,320 --> 01:23:29,519
Speaker 1: OVER i am gonna go over on forty six and a.

1879
01:23:29,560 --> 01:23:33,519
Speaker 1: HALF i don't get why they're going to bed not,

1880
01:23:33,600 --> 01:23:37,800
Speaker 1: drastically but worse than they were last year with, maybe you,

1881
01:23:37,800 --> 01:23:39,760
Speaker 1: know the the injection of De Jontay. MURRAY i guess

1882
01:23:39,760 --> 01:23:41,240
Speaker 1: that's the. THING i guess people are. SAYING i don't

1883
01:23:41,240 --> 01:23:45,040
Speaker 1: think that's gonna work work With ingram, there but somebody's

1884
01:23:45,040 --> 01:23:49,800
Speaker 1: got to get, Traded like somebody's gonna trade For. Ingram they.

1885
01:23:49,840 --> 01:23:51,639
Speaker 1: Will they don't want to right, now BUT i think

1886
01:23:51,680 --> 01:23:55,840
Speaker 1: they will inevitably when a season goes awry FOR x

1887
01:23:55,920 --> 01:23:58,520
Speaker 1: team and then the packages put, Together.

1888
01:23:58,680 --> 01:24:01,600
Speaker 4: Rockets can As warriors.

1889
01:24:01,120 --> 01:24:02,479
Speaker 1: There's, teams, teams there's.

1890
01:24:02,520 --> 01:24:05,000
Speaker 2: Teams and if there's any defense That Jontay murray will

1891
01:24:05,000 --> 01:24:06,880
Speaker 2: start to play like his old good defense, itself it's

1892
01:24:06,880 --> 01:24:10,120
Speaker 2: probably The pelicans because they're, good all.

1893
01:24:10,200 --> 01:24:12,320
Speaker 1: Right i'm going just over a, year just, over, yeah

1894
01:24:12,360 --> 01:24:15,320
Speaker 1: and tkgo and just. Under final Team San Antonio spurs

1895
01:24:15,320 --> 01:24:19,519
Speaker 1: thirty six and a half high, line big nine for

1896
01:24:19,560 --> 01:24:21,400
Speaker 1: a team that went twenty two and sixty last, year

1897
01:24:21,439 --> 01:24:25,040
Speaker 1: finished fourteenth in The, west lower third on both sides

1898
01:24:25,040 --> 01:24:28,120
Speaker 1: of the ball in terms of offense, rating defensive. Rating you,

1899
01:24:28,160 --> 01:24:32,320
Speaker 1: know they land generational talent in Women yama and they

1900
01:24:32,439 --> 01:24:35,519
Speaker 1: still lost what twenty six of twenty eight games from

1901
01:24:35,640 --> 01:24:38,599
Speaker 1: late fall to, Midwinter, like there was a bad stretch.

1902
01:24:38,640 --> 01:24:41,040
Speaker 1: There we were all caught up in the in The

1903
01:24:41,080 --> 01:24:44,080
Speaker 1: pistons losing. Streak but The spurs were rough. There now

1904
01:24:44,080 --> 01:24:46,479
Speaker 1: they were doing some weird, things you, know pop was getting.

1905
01:24:46,479 --> 01:24:50,920
Speaker 1: Funky but here they are at thirty six and a.

1906
01:24:50,960 --> 01:24:51,320
Speaker 4: Half.

1907
01:24:51,360 --> 01:24:54,160
Speaker 1: Now they Added Harrison, barnes they Added Chris paul so

1908
01:24:54,240 --> 01:24:57,000
Speaker 1: some vets in but they Drafted Stefan castle with the

1909
01:24:57,080 --> 01:24:59,960
Speaker 1: number four. Pick he had a big throwdown in. Preseason

1910
01:25:00,439 --> 01:25:05,519
Speaker 1: they Resigned Charles, bassi they re Signed sandro. Mamu i'm

1911
01:25:05,560 --> 01:25:07,760
Speaker 1: just calling a. Mom i'm not going to attempt to

1912
01:25:07,800 --> 01:25:11,120
Speaker 1: say that last. Name they Lost, Barlow Devonte, Graham Jeddy.

1913
01:25:11,120 --> 01:25:14,160
Speaker 1: Osmond they didn't lose a. Lot but this line to

1914
01:25:14,280 --> 01:25:17,720
Speaker 1: me feels high at thirty six and a. Half but

1915
01:25:17,800 --> 01:25:20,639
Speaker 1: maybe that's, like, hey Maybe wemby is for. Real maybe,

1916
01:25:20,680 --> 01:25:24,200
Speaker 1: he's you, know Like lebron in his second. YEAR i

1917
01:25:24,240 --> 01:25:26,000
Speaker 1: think had The cavs at forty two and forty you

1918
01:25:26,000 --> 01:25:29,920
Speaker 1: know above five. Hundred took one year for. Him you,

1919
01:25:29,960 --> 01:25:32,519
Speaker 1: know how did He Anthony? DAVIS i don't think it

1920
01:25:32,600 --> 01:25:34,240
Speaker 1: went as well in his second year with The. Pelican

1921
01:25:34,280 --> 01:25:36,439
Speaker 1: i'm trying to think of like generational number one picks

1922
01:25:36,479 --> 01:25:38,439
Speaker 1: that's sort Of wenby obviously lumps into.

1923
01:25:38,479 --> 01:25:39,920
Speaker 2: It so that's what they're banking on, here Tasks, oh,

1924
01:25:39,920 --> 01:25:42,400
Speaker 2: absolutely are? You that's what this line is. About it's

1925
01:25:42,400 --> 01:25:46,800
Speaker 2: about do you believe In? Victor? NOW i. Do i'm buying. It,

1926
01:25:47,000 --> 01:25:50,679
Speaker 2: Whoa i'm buying. It i'm buying the the talk from

1927
01:25:50,720 --> 01:25:53,600
Speaker 2: everybody around, him to talk from. HIM i, mean he

1928
01:25:53,680 --> 01:25:56,719
Speaker 2: went as simple as, saying you know, WHAT i gotta

1929
01:25:56,800 --> 01:26:00,920
Speaker 2: play like fundamental, basketball just the simple and If Victor.

1930
01:26:00,920 --> 01:26:06,240
Speaker 2: Wambinama this giant can just get, simple he is going

1931
01:26:06,280 --> 01:26:08,519
Speaker 2: to get a lot. BETTER i mean it's simple as

1932
01:26:08,560 --> 01:26:10,880
Speaker 2: that he's bigger than everybody and if he can handle

1933
01:26:11,040 --> 01:26:14,880
Speaker 2: a little bit better like he did this offseason even

1934
01:26:14,880 --> 01:26:16,519
Speaker 2: when he played For, FRANCE i mean he looked like

1935
01:26:16,560 --> 01:26:19,679
Speaker 2: he he stepped into three point, Shots like the first

1936
01:26:19,680 --> 01:26:22,679
Speaker 2: shot of The france team was a step back three

1937
01:26:23,600 --> 01:26:25,880
Speaker 2: from that. GUY i, mean if he's, good it just

1938
01:26:26,160 --> 01:26:27,920
Speaker 2: like he, said the fundamental has just taking the ball

1939
01:26:27,960 --> 01:26:29,920
Speaker 2: like a guard to the. Hoop if he can do,

1940
01:26:29,960 --> 01:26:32,519
Speaker 2: that who's gonna stop? Him SO i think that's a big.

1941
01:26:32,600 --> 01:26:34,559
Speaker 2: Part and he gained twenty six. POUNDS i think he

1942
01:26:34,600 --> 01:26:38,160
Speaker 2: should try and get one point per pound per. Game

1943
01:26:38,240 --> 01:26:40,320
Speaker 2: should be his, Goal like twenty six points per, game

1944
01:26:40,360 --> 01:26:42,160
Speaker 2: that's the. GOAL i got twenty six, POUNDS i got

1945
01:26:42,160 --> 01:26:44,320
Speaker 2: twenty six. Points AND i just think this team has,

1946
01:26:44,360 --> 01:26:46,519
Speaker 2: got you, know a pretty good chemistry around, him you,

1947
01:26:46,560 --> 01:26:49,400
Speaker 2: know With Chris paul, Obviously Stefan castle is pretty damn.

1948
01:26:49,439 --> 01:26:51,920
Speaker 2: Good Keldon johnson picked a new, number he went from

1949
01:26:52,040 --> 01:26:54,479
Speaker 2: zero to three that he's wearing because he's a new

1950
01:26:54,520 --> 01:26:56,759
Speaker 2: player and he's a good player that we've all forgotten.

1951
01:26:56,800 --> 01:27:00,599
Speaker 2: About and this team was just. Good With speaking of good,

1952
01:27:00,600 --> 01:27:03,240
Speaker 2: Players Greg pofy is gonna play. Them last year he, said,

1953
01:27:03,320 --> 01:27:05,960
Speaker 2: Hey Jeremy, stihan you're playing point? Guard WHAT i made no?

1954
01:27:06,000 --> 01:27:07,880
Speaker 2: Sense so he takes him off the. Floor he puts

1955
01:27:07,920 --> 01:27:10,840
Speaker 2: Wem minyamo With Trey. Jones in mid middle of the,

1956
01:27:10,840 --> 01:27:13,400
Speaker 2: season they were good and. Improved, yeah what was? It it

1957
01:27:13,360 --> 01:27:15,680
Speaker 2: was plus four five point two per hundred possessions and

1958
01:27:15,680 --> 01:27:18,200
Speaker 2: then you Add Devin vassel in they're they're plus ten point.

1959
01:27:18,240 --> 01:27:22,080
Speaker 2: Two those numbers are really. Good SO i think people

1960
01:27:22,080 --> 01:27:26,160
Speaker 2: weren't paying attention to this. Team same for me at,

1961
01:27:26,160 --> 01:27:28,280
Speaker 2: times but once they got, GOOD i think it's just

1962
01:27:28,320 --> 01:27:29,120
Speaker 2: got to carry over to.

1963
01:27:29,160 --> 01:27:32,280
Speaker 1: Me they were an abysmal thirteen and twenty. Eight that

1964
01:27:32,400 --> 01:27:35,879
Speaker 1: was the record in clutch time. Situations so you gotta

1965
01:27:35,920 --> 01:27:38,840
Speaker 1: Think Chris paul and Even Harrison barnes helps in that

1966
01:27:38,880 --> 01:27:41,160
Speaker 1: department if you're in close games to close them out

1967
01:27:41,200 --> 01:27:45,160
Speaker 1: and get some more ws along obviously riding Wemen yama

1968
01:27:45,200 --> 01:27:47,800
Speaker 1: And vassell And Kelvin johnson And johan and maybe a better.

1969
01:27:47,880 --> 01:27:50,000
Speaker 1: Role but thirty six and a half is a hell

1970
01:27:50,040 --> 01:27:52,479
Speaker 1: of a jump, here tk in All i've heard for

1971
01:27:52,560 --> 01:27:55,200
Speaker 1: every team, is how loaded The Western conference is and

1972
01:27:55,240 --> 01:27:58,280
Speaker 1: how difficult it. Is task is convinced That wemby can

1973
01:27:58,320 --> 01:28:01,800
Speaker 1: get them To. No thirty seven? Plus are you as?

1974
01:28:01,840 --> 01:28:03,599
Speaker 4: CONVINCED i am not as.

1975
01:28:03,760 --> 01:28:07,160
Speaker 3: Convinced Okay lebron in his second season forty two, wins

1976
01:28:07,160 --> 01:28:08,320
Speaker 3: you're exactly that's pretty.

1977
01:28:08,320 --> 01:28:12,439
Speaker 4: Good Brendan malone was the coach the second half of that.

1978
01:28:12,479 --> 01:28:13,640
Speaker 4: Season what a weird team this.

1979
01:28:13,800 --> 01:28:17,519
Speaker 3: Is, look The spurs won eleven games before The All star,

1980
01:28:17,600 --> 01:28:19,920
Speaker 3: break and Then Trey jones became the point guard and

1981
01:28:19,920 --> 01:28:22,600
Speaker 3: they won eleven games after The All star. Break that

1982
01:28:22,680 --> 01:28:24,200
Speaker 3: was a lot better than we played twenty seven game

1983
01:28:24,600 --> 01:28:26,679
Speaker 3: All star. Break that was literally like a thirty five

1984
01:28:26,800 --> 01:28:29,160
Speaker 3: thirty six win. Pace BUT i was like a Young

1985
01:28:29,240 --> 01:28:31,760
Speaker 3: follies with the proofs. HERE i was going through wind

1986
01:28:31,760 --> 01:28:35,439
Speaker 3: shares per forty eight. Minutes frost with who played the

1987
01:28:35,439 --> 01:28:37,840
Speaker 3: most minutes in the league last, year trying to, say

1988
01:28:38,200 --> 01:28:41,479
Speaker 3: If Victor Webber yama becomes literally the best player in

1989
01:28:41,520 --> 01:28:44,639
Speaker 3: THE nba and plays the most minutes in THE, nba

1990
01:28:45,040 --> 01:28:50,440
Speaker 3: The spurs get to like exactly forty. Wins, interesting but

1991
01:28:51,080 --> 01:28:53,360
Speaker 3: imagine he's only a top five player and he only

1992
01:28:53,400 --> 01:28:58,240
Speaker 3: plays twenty five hundred. Minutes then they're underneath, there they're

1993
01:28:58,280 --> 01:29:00,360
Speaker 3: over under, Here SO i think they'll be a lot.

1994
01:29:00,400 --> 01:29:02,680
Speaker 3: Better BUT i don't think The spurs are trying to

1995
01:29:02,760 --> 01:29:05,240
Speaker 3: hit the gas all that. Quickly they traded a lottery

1996
01:29:05,280 --> 01:29:08,080
Speaker 3: pick this year for one further down the. Line they

1997
01:29:08,080 --> 01:29:11,400
Speaker 3: did bring In Chris paul And Harrison, barnes veteran dudes

1998
01:29:11,680 --> 01:29:14,160
Speaker 3: who are gonna help the team be a little bit more.

1999
01:29:14,160 --> 01:29:16,559
Speaker 3: Professional you saw how much better they were With Trey,

2000
01:29:16,680 --> 01:29:18,720
Speaker 3: jones who was probably like the worst starting point guard

2001
01:29:18,760 --> 01:29:21,160
Speaker 3: in the. League Chris, paul he's not The Chris paul Of,

2002
01:29:21,160 --> 01:29:23,840
Speaker 3: bold but he's gonna help this. Team so expecting a

2003
01:29:23,920 --> 01:29:26,000
Speaker 3: huge season From. VICTOR i think he'll be an ALL nba.

2004
01:29:26,080 --> 01:29:29,280
Speaker 3: PLAYER i think he could be a top ten guy

2005
01:29:29,400 --> 01:29:31,920
Speaker 3: in the league pretty. EASILY i don't think he'll be

2006
01:29:31,920 --> 01:29:33,760
Speaker 3: the number one, guy AND i don't think he'll play

2007
01:29:33,760 --> 01:29:34,240
Speaker 3: three thousand.

2008
01:29:34,320 --> 01:29:35,880
Speaker 4: Minutes ERGO i have to be under.

2009
01:29:35,920 --> 01:29:39,639
Speaker 1: Here, Yeah i'm going Under obviously an approved. Season those

2010
01:29:39,640 --> 01:29:41,240
Speaker 1: guys are gonna. Help they're gonna win some of those

2011
01:29:41,240 --> 01:29:43,840
Speaker 1: close games more WITH cp three And Harrison barnes And

2012
01:29:43,880 --> 01:29:46,760
Speaker 1: wemby should continue on his trajectory to be you, know,

2013
01:29:46,840 --> 01:29:49,160
Speaker 1: look maybe one of the greatest we ever. See BUT

2014
01:29:49,560 --> 01:29:51,400
Speaker 1: i think that's a hell of a jump they're asking

2015
01:29:51,439 --> 01:29:54,080
Speaker 1: for there in a loaded. Conference So i'll go just.

2016
01:29:54,200 --> 01:29:57,519
Speaker 1: Under but over thirty, wins, yes over thirty seven or

2017
01:29:57,600 --> 01:30:01,400
Speaker 1: getting over thirty. Seven, no that's The. West that's fifteen. Teams,

2018
01:30:01,400 --> 01:30:03,439
Speaker 1: now let's get our, picks let's get our, locks the

2019
01:30:03,479 --> 01:30:06,920
Speaker 1: three you're most confident about, task get us started. Again my,

2020
01:30:07,000 --> 01:30:07,559
Speaker 1: man who are your?

2021
01:30:07,560 --> 01:30:11,360
Speaker 2: Three The Denver nuggets are not. Dead Nicole oki is

2022
01:30:11,360 --> 01:30:13,120
Speaker 2: one of the best players in the. Game he asked

2023
01:30:13,120 --> 01:30:15,240
Speaker 2: For Russell westbrook in the offseason to get him. There

2024
01:30:16,160 --> 01:30:18,400
Speaker 2: he Got Russell. Westbrook SO i don't. THINK i don't

2025
01:30:18,439 --> 01:30:20,640
Speaker 2: Think Nicole oka is gonna go. Away you're just not

2026
01:30:20,720 --> 01:30:23,080
Speaker 2: gonna DECIDE i don't want to play. BASKETBALL i know

2027
01:30:23,120 --> 01:30:25,240
Speaker 2: we all, think, oh he doesn't like basketball all that.

2028
01:30:25,320 --> 01:30:27,320
Speaker 2: Much that's bull. Crap he's just one of the best

2029
01:30:27,320 --> 01:30:29,280
Speaker 2: players in the. WORLD i think fifty one and a

2030
01:30:29,320 --> 01:30:32,280
Speaker 2: half is way too low for this. TEAM i believe

2031
01:30:32,280 --> 01:30:34,000
Speaker 2: In Christian, BROWN i believe in the guys who will

2032
01:30:34,360 --> 01:30:38,120
Speaker 2: substitute in FOR. KCP i Think Dario sarchiz should be

2033
01:30:38,160 --> 01:30:41,600
Speaker 2: respected in this. LEAGUE i go over fifty one and a.

2034
01:30:41,640 --> 01:30:42,920
Speaker 1: Half, Okay, okay keep it.

2035
01:30:43,000 --> 01:30:45,600
Speaker 2: Going, Yeah i'm under in The Memphis. Grizzlies there's just

2036
01:30:45,600 --> 01:30:48,720
Speaker 2: too many things. There there's too many. Injuries it is

2037
01:30:48,720 --> 01:30:51,120
Speaker 2: a Tough, west, obviously there's JUST i don't know About

2038
01:30:51,120 --> 01:30:54,880
Speaker 2: marcus mart being healthy. Anymore so the question marks for

2039
01:30:54,920 --> 01:30:59,120
Speaker 2: me are. Real they have a lot of injuries, now

2040
01:31:00,080 --> 01:31:02,240
Speaker 2: gonna get. WORSE i do think so fir seven and a.

2041
01:31:02,280 --> 01:31:04,680
Speaker 2: Half ALTHOUGH i looked at it, FIRST i, said, Well

2042
01:31:04,720 --> 01:31:07,160
Speaker 2: john's gonna get them back. THERE i think the sporting

2043
01:31:07,160 --> 01:31:09,960
Speaker 2: guys just aren't good. Enough that being, SAID i do

2044
01:31:09,960 --> 01:31:12,240
Speaker 2: think sporting guys for The Oklahoma City thunder are good

2045
01:31:12,320 --> 01:31:14,519
Speaker 2: enough to get them over fifty six and a. Half

2046
01:31:15,080 --> 01:31:17,800
Speaker 2: it is a tough, line BUT i do think they're

2047
01:31:17,840 --> 01:31:20,040
Speaker 2: just too. Good they had fifty seven wins last year

2048
01:31:20,040 --> 01:31:22,639
Speaker 2: and got, better so it would be weird to see

2049
01:31:23,479 --> 01:31:27,160
Speaker 2: that in terms of their. Acquisitions plus just the guy's

2050
01:31:27,160 --> 01:31:29,320
Speaker 2: getting a little, older Like Jaylen. Williams he's just a

2051
01:31:29,360 --> 01:31:30,840
Speaker 2: good player to At, holmgers just a good player and

2052
01:31:30,880 --> 01:31:34,200
Speaker 2: he's super. Young so that, COMBINED i go. Over SO

2053
01:31:34,439 --> 01:31:37,759
Speaker 2: i got, okay see Over, grizzlies Under nuggets.

2054
01:31:37,800 --> 01:31:40,200
Speaker 1: Over, Okay trey where are you? Going in The, west we.

2055
01:31:40,400 --> 01:31:42,760
Speaker 3: Got some, overlap, Buddy, OH i too like The Oklahoma

2056
01:31:42,800 --> 01:31:47,439
Speaker 3: City thunder over not. Under on The, thunder we're going

2057
01:31:47,560 --> 01:31:52,400
Speaker 3: over fifty seven wins and they got. Better that's. Awesome shake.

2058
01:31:52,479 --> 01:31:57,479
Speaker 3: Kill Just alexander's wearing long. Shorts we love, It we love.

2059
01:31:57,479 --> 01:31:59,320
Speaker 3: It will he be able to go between the legs

2060
01:31:59,320 --> 01:32:02,240
Speaker 3: the way he likes? TOO i don't. Know he stretches

2061
01:32:02,280 --> 01:32:04,479
Speaker 3: them out way. Far those things will be billowing. Skates

2062
01:32:04,479 --> 01:32:07,879
Speaker 3: you gotta be. CAREFUL i also like The Phoenix suns

2063
01:32:08,040 --> 01:32:10,800
Speaker 3: over forty seven and a. Half i'm a bud ball.

2064
01:32:10,880 --> 01:32:18,960
Speaker 3: Boy we Got Nurkicen jones leading us to fifty plus. Wins,

2065
01:32:18,960 --> 01:32:21,680
Speaker 3: NOW i do like the fun The sun's, over and

2066
01:32:21,720 --> 01:32:24,040
Speaker 3: then my under That i'm locking in is The Utah.

2067
01:32:24,160 --> 01:32:26,040
Speaker 3: JAZZ i think they don't want to try and win

2068
01:32:26,200 --> 01:32:28,439
Speaker 3: thirty ish. Games they would be happier in the twenty

2069
01:32:28,640 --> 01:32:29,120
Speaker 3: to twenty.

2070
01:32:29,120 --> 01:32:29,360
Speaker 4: Five.

2071
01:32:29,760 --> 01:32:32,479
Speaker 1: Wow this is a lot different than The Eastern, conference

2072
01:32:32,520 --> 01:32:34,240
Speaker 1: WHERE i was surprised because we don't talk about this,

2073
01:32:34,360 --> 01:32:37,240
Speaker 1: beforehand where we had we all had nine different picks

2074
01:32:37,240 --> 01:32:39,439
Speaker 1: when we did our locks in The. East but there's

2075
01:32:39,479 --> 01:32:41,400
Speaker 1: some overlap. Here i'm with some of you guys on

2076
01:32:41,439 --> 01:32:44,800
Speaker 1: both of. THEM i did one from each. Division, Again

2077
01:32:45,439 --> 01:32:47,840
Speaker 1: i'm With. TESS i like The nuggets over fifty one

2078
01:32:47,840 --> 01:32:50,720
Speaker 1: and a. Half Jamal murray is not, Dead, Okay they're.

2079
01:32:50,800 --> 01:32:52,439
Speaker 1: Not your kitch is always going to get you fifty.

2080
01:32:52,439 --> 01:32:54,680
Speaker 1: Wins he can hear the, horses he can hear them,

2081
01:32:54,720 --> 01:32:56,600
Speaker 1: grazing but that's. Okay he'll get to them in the.

2082
01:32:56,640 --> 01:32:59,120
Speaker 1: Summer they're gonna win fifty two games. PLUS i have

2083
01:32:59,160 --> 01:33:02,360
Speaker 1: confidence in. THAT i think from you, know The westbrook. Injection,

2084
01:33:02,479 --> 01:33:05,080
Speaker 1: sure but it's more to me The Christian, brown The,

2085
01:33:05,120 --> 01:33:09,400
Speaker 1: watson The, strawther the little improvement. THERE i Like nuggets.

2086
01:33:09,439 --> 01:33:11,960
Speaker 1: Over i'm with, YOU. TK i like The jazz under

2087
01:33:12,080 --> 01:33:13,640
Speaker 1: twenty nine and a. HALF i think they're going to

2088
01:33:13,720 --> 01:33:15,760
Speaker 1: lean into playing the young guys and it's going to

2089
01:33:15,800 --> 01:33:18,640
Speaker 1: result in a lot of. Losses that's, okay try and

2090
01:33:18,680 --> 01:33:21,800
Speaker 1: go capture the flag AND i will also go one more.

2091
01:33:21,880 --> 01:33:25,400
Speaker 1: Under disagreeing With tass one of his. Leans at, Least

2092
01:33:25,640 --> 01:33:28,559
Speaker 1: i'm taking The spurs under thirty six and a. HALF

2093
01:33:28,720 --> 01:33:31,080
Speaker 1: i looked it. Up you Said lebron second season forty

2094
01:33:31,120 --> 01:33:33,840
Speaker 1: two and. Forty, okay that's that's. Incredible maybe when you

2095
01:33:33,920 --> 01:33:37,080
Speaker 1: can do. It Anthony davis with The pels thirty four

2096
01:33:37,080 --> 01:33:39,720
Speaker 1: and forty, eight that would just be. Under and Even

2097
01:33:39,800 --> 01:33:42,000
Speaker 1: zion with The pells second, season and he played a

2098
01:33:42,040 --> 01:33:45,120
Speaker 1: decent chunk that year thirty one and forty, one so

2099
01:33:45,240 --> 01:33:47,720
Speaker 1: a shortened season would have got very. Close But i'll

2100
01:33:47,760 --> 01:33:50,720
Speaker 1: go just around that mark Like ad And. ZION i

2101
01:33:50,720 --> 01:33:53,200
Speaker 1: Think wemby gets symptom to like the thirty three to

2102
01:33:53,240 --> 01:33:56,479
Speaker 1: thirty five win. Mark So nuggets Over, jazz, Under spurs

2103
01:33:57,000 --> 01:34:00,720
Speaker 1: under those are the. Picks but tell us where we're,

2104
01:34:00,800 --> 01:34:03,800
Speaker 1: right where we're, wrong your. Locks drop them in the.

2105
01:34:03,840 --> 01:34:06,000
Speaker 1: Comments love to hear from. You tweet at us At

2106
01:34:06,040 --> 01:34:08,719
Speaker 1: no Dunk. Sinc all, right we've done all thirty. Teams

2107
01:34:08,720 --> 01:34:11,840
Speaker 1: when it comes to over. Unders On, friday we're going

2108
01:34:11,920 --> 01:34:16,120
Speaker 1: to be DOING Nba award. Projections, yeah that's, right we're gonna.

2109
01:34:16,120 --> 01:34:17,840
Speaker 1: BE i think what we should do is pick your

2110
01:34:17,840 --> 01:34:19,719
Speaker 1: favorite who you think is gonna, win and then maybe

2111
01:34:19,720 --> 01:34:22,719
Speaker 1: a dark horse like somebody not in the top ten

2112
01:34:23,200 --> 01:34:25,800
Speaker 1: odds or something like. THAT i got real stab in the.

2113
01:34:25,880 --> 01:34:28,240
Speaker 1: Dark but we'll be going THROUGH, Mvp rookie of The,

2114
01:34:28,280 --> 01:34:31,200
Speaker 1: Year Most, improved all your major. Awards that's On friday

2115
01:34:31,479 --> 01:34:34,599
Speaker 1: live at ten Am. Eastern appreciate you guys joining us live,

2116
01:34:34,600 --> 01:34:36,760
Speaker 1: though hit the like, button, subscribe five star, ratings and

2117
01:34:36,800 --> 01:34:40,640
Speaker 1: review if you're A survivor. Fan it's on tonight And

2118
01:34:40,680 --> 01:34:43,760
Speaker 1: No bus is back tomorrow eleven Am. Eastern we're gonna

2119
01:34:43,760 --> 01:34:47,439
Speaker 1: go live On No buff's YouTube account to recap episode.

2120
01:34:47,479 --> 01:34:52,160
Speaker 1: Four they're gonna be throwing a bag through a frame

2121
01:34:53,000 --> 01:34:54,320
Speaker 1: back good, shot.

2122
01:34:54,360 --> 01:34:57,800
Speaker 2: Soul it's like the skills. Competition, yeah, yeah you're, Right you're.

2123
01:34:57,920 --> 01:35:00,000
Speaker 2: Right what's up we're doing?

2124
01:35:00,080 --> 01:35:02,519
Speaker 1: There yeah he's doing a little. Cheapot he's walked. In

2125
01:35:02,720 --> 01:35:05,439
Speaker 1: yeah he's watching so all, yeah kick. Guess so That's No.

2126
01:35:05,560 --> 01:35:08,080
Speaker 1: Bust that's Our survivor. Podcast that's tomorrow at. Eleven but

2127
01:35:08,120 --> 01:35:10,920
Speaker 1: Otherwise Hero No dunk's back On. Friday until, Then clipper.

2128
01:35:10,920 --> 01:35:13,800
Speaker 4: Bros you heard it here. First have a great, time turn.

2129
01:35:13,880 --> 01:35:15,840
Speaker 4: Up love you, guys, awesome.

2130
01:35:15,479 --> 01:35:17,800
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining. US i remember two quick. Things i'm

2131
01:35:17,840 --> 01:35:20,080
Speaker 2: going to be a fact. Checker we're going old school

2132
01:35:20,320 --> 01:35:22,599
Speaker 2: as far as the Basketball, jones the, Starters No dunks.

2133
01:35:22,600 --> 01:35:24,760
Speaker 2: GOES i made a, MISTAKE i. Said Kelvin johnson was

2134
01:35:24,840 --> 01:35:28,120
Speaker 2: changing his jersey from three to. Zero it's from zero to.

2135
01:35:28,160 --> 01:35:29,759
Speaker 1: Three you said zero to three?

2136
01:35:30,040 --> 01:35:32,240
Speaker 4: Today, YEAH i Mean Chris paul's got to be wearing three.

2137
01:35:32,320 --> 01:35:35,439
Speaker 2: Right, oh so The navy's gone to. Zero, YEAH i

2138
01:35:35,479 --> 01:35:38,000
Speaker 2: gotta look that. Up but he gave up. BUCkies that's a.

2139
01:35:38,040 --> 01:35:40,000
Speaker 2: Fact to give up BUCkies to get really healthy this,

2140
01:35:40,080 --> 01:35:41,280
Speaker 2: year that's a.

2141
01:35:41,360 --> 01:35:42,840
Speaker 1: FACT i didn't know you could give up a.

2142
01:35:43,000 --> 01:35:45,840
Speaker 2: Buckets, YEAH i mean he stopped. Eating but it's.

2143
01:35:45,880 --> 01:35:48,800
Speaker 4: Awesome goes to a different gas.

2144
01:35:48,840 --> 01:35:52,240
Speaker 2: Stage, YEAH i guess so the loves second.

2145
01:35:52,280 --> 01:35:53,760
Speaker 1: Thing maybe bign.

2146
01:35:53,960 --> 01:36:00,120
Speaker 3: Myself, sorry, sure buckets is, Awesome siko, says go, Though.

2147
01:36:01,080 --> 01:36:05,599
Speaker 2: Okay last thing maybe we'll have On. Friday we got

2148
01:36:05,600 --> 01:36:08,400
Speaker 2: to have an over under for anger moments on our

2149
01:36:08,439 --> 01:36:10,240
Speaker 2: show that will have this. Year you got you got

2150
01:36:10,240 --> 01:36:12,320
Speaker 2: a little feisty to start the, Show, skeets you got little.

2151
01:36:12,320 --> 01:36:14,439
Speaker 1: Fisty twenty. Years it's twenty, years.

2152
01:36:14,439 --> 01:36:16,519
Speaker 4: Guys, okay that's What i'm. Saying that's What i'm.

2153
01:36:16,520 --> 01:36:19,080
Speaker 2: Saying it happens a, LOT i mean a. Lot, Yeah

2154
01:36:19,160 --> 01:36:21,200
Speaker 2: that's WHY i want people out there to give us

2155
01:36:21,479 --> 01:36:23,920
Speaker 2: and over under. Number we're we're one.

2156
01:36:23,840 --> 01:36:26,720
Speaker 1: Now temper boy. Moments, yeah, sure so what you want

2157
01:36:26,800 --> 01:36:27,880
Speaker 1: set the over under, Then.

2158
01:36:27,920 --> 01:36:29,519
Speaker 2: That's Why i'm asking the. Face, OH i mean we

2159
01:36:29,520 --> 01:36:33,479
Speaker 2: can do. IT i think it's gonna be fairly. Gentle

2160
01:36:33,600 --> 01:36:35,559
Speaker 2: seven and a half for the entire.

2161
01:36:35,640 --> 01:36:38,120
Speaker 4: Season, Interesting, yeah less than one a.

2162
01:36:38,160 --> 01:36:42,360
Speaker 2: Month, yeah basically basically one one per, month pump it

2163
01:36:42,439 --> 01:36:44,000
Speaker 2: up hit the over.

2164
01:36:44,520 --> 01:36:47,960
Speaker 3: Stressful time the election coming into remember, right might just

2165
01:36:48,000 --> 01:36:49,559
Speaker 3: go over that month for.

2166
01:36:49,640 --> 01:36:53,160
Speaker 2: Sure how things, go silver is gonna. Be that's what

2167
01:36:53,240 --> 01:36:53,639
Speaker 2: we're gonna.

2168
01:36:53,680 --> 01:36:55,840
Speaker 1: Do all, right, guys we'll see you On. Friday here

2169
01:36:55,880 --> 01:36:57,280
Speaker 1: on no, dunks embrace The Eight people

2170
01:37:00,040 --> 01:37:00,080
Speaker 2: And