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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What is up,

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Speaker 1: straight Fire Fan? It is me Jason McIntyre, Straight Fire

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Speaker 1: for Thursday, April twenty first, and boy, do we have

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Speaker 1: a great podcast for you today. Oh what a night

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Speaker 1: in the NBA playoffs. Craziness, injuries. I've got a theory

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Speaker 1: about the injuries. Listen. The NBA Playoffs are getting flipped

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Speaker 1: upside down. The Brooklyn Nets favorites for much of the season,

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Speaker 1: down oh two, Joel embiids buzzer beaters, sends the Sixers

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Speaker 1: to a three oh lead, and the defending champions lose

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Speaker 1: a star in Chris Middleton and then lose the game

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Speaker 1: to the Chicago Bulls. What a night in the NBA.

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Speaker 1: But first, obviously, I've got to talk about our guest today.

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Speaker 1: Got a great guy on Mark Willard. I think we've

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Speaker 1: had him one before. He is from the Bay Area.

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Speaker 1: When I first moved to l a E. In six

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Speaker 1: I had a radio show on Saturday mornings. I had

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Speaker 1: on the East Coast at six Am, and then I

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Speaker 1: moved to the six am, sorry seven am Saturday Pacific

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Speaker 1: day as soon as I got back at ten thirty

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Speaker 1: am or whatever. And the show after mine was Mark

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Speaker 1: Willard and I think it was Deve Haartment and I

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Speaker 1: got to know Willard, super good guy. Then he ended

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Speaker 1: in the Bay Area. So we're gonna talk to him

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Speaker 1: about the Deebo Samuel situation, which with the Will ferrell

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Speaker 1: Um meme in mind, that escalated quickly. Deebo Samuel demanding

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Speaker 1: out of San Francisco. Is it employed to get more money?

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Speaker 1: Does he want to get back to the East Coast?

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Speaker 1: Do my Jets have a chance. Yes, I'm giddy about

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Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel. What I part with the tenth pick, I

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Speaker 1: think I would. I mean, the Jets are gonna draft

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Speaker 1: and Deepo Samuel is gonna be better than whoever they

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Speaker 1: Jets are in the mix re member. They went after

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Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill. They've been rumored to be trying DK Metcalf,

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Speaker 1: but the asking price is too high. We'll see what happens.

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Speaker 1: But Willard talks about that. And of course the Golden

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Speaker 1: State Warriors, who suddenly are looking really really good out west,

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Speaker 1: I mean, Devin Booker are gonna miss the next two

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Speaker 1: games at least for the Sons. They're tied one one

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Speaker 1: against the Pelicans, and I just I know I haven't

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Speaker 1: talked a lot about the Pelicans, and New Orleans fans

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Speaker 1: early in the year when they were a three and

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Speaker 1: sixteen dumpster fire and Zion Williamson wanted out and all

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Speaker 1: this it was ugly. So at the time I said

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Speaker 1: and they had a right to be their owners cheap.

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Speaker 1: He's never gone into the lug jury tax. I'm sorry

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Speaker 1: But they've they've been cheap historically. They've never gone into

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Speaker 1: the luxury tax. And now you got Zion, they're screwing

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Speaker 1: in the playing game, and now Devin Booker goes down

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Speaker 1: like maybe it's karma for losing Zion Williamson for the

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Speaker 1: So we'll talk to Mark Willard about the playoffs and

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Speaker 1: disaster of a fourth quarter they had, folks. I cannot

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Speaker 1: recall two superstars melting down like k D and Kyrie

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Speaker 1: in his first year in Miami. That's how bad the

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Speaker 1: Celtics war in the fourth quarter, folks. Some of these

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Speaker 1: numbers are absolutely staggering. We'll start with Kevin Durant, who

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Speaker 1: you guys know, I'm in the tank for Kevin Durant.

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Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of Kevin Durant's work. I think

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Speaker 1: is he tired? They pulled the numbers on Kevin Durant

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Speaker 1: I don't think you will find a worst half of

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Speaker 1: not accurate. He was four of seventeen shooting. More importantly,

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Speaker 1: the second half. Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant made a

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Speaker 1: play the tired card, Okay, Kyrie played forty minutes. He's

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Speaker 1: lot of minutes. True, But Kevin Durant, if you remember,

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Speaker 1: he comes back, plays he missed the bubble season, right,

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Speaker 1: you know he's healthy. He plays thirty two games for Brooklyn,

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Speaker 1: he had the injuries. And we're talking about a Kevin

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Speaker 1: didn't have an amazing game, but he had a good game.

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Speaker 1: And you just watched Durant go for for seventeen back

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Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant shot a combined one of

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Speaker 1: three from deep. Celtics came back with a barrage of threes.

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Speaker 1: not blaming Steve Nash for any of this. You can't

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Speaker 1: Steve Nash cannot. Steve Nash absolutely cannot say hey, Kyrie,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Duran's not gonna shoot nine for twenty four again,

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Speaker 1: Oh well, he shot four seventeen and they lost. They

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Speaker 1: exhausting series for them. Tatum again forty one minutes. Al

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Speaker 1: you know, million a year because they lost a tough game.

423
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Speaker 1: That that you know that that that seems odd to

424
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Speaker 1: be sure, there's frustration with that offense and that it

425
00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:38,600
Speaker 1: does feel like they're a high performing quarterback away from

426
00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,960
Speaker 1: being the best team in football. Um. And again, the

427
00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:46,600
Speaker 1: receivers are gonna know more about Trey than we do. UM.

428
00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:49,359
Speaker 1: Interesting little nugget though, This is a fun little nugget.

429
00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:53,560
Speaker 1: Small sample. Trey Lance throws many touchdown pass Steve o

430
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Speaker 1: Samuel last year is Jimmy Garoppolo did and Andre played

431
00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,760
Speaker 1: two and a half games and Jimmy the rest. So

432
00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:06,000
Speaker 1: I just, yes, there's something out there that we don't know,

433
00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:08,280
Speaker 1: and maybe it does trace back to money and they

434
00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:11,520
Speaker 1: just don't want to say it. But um, but but

435
00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:13,720
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know what it is yet because

436
00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:18,119
Speaker 1: this is this his entire career. Cale Sanny had had

437
00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:21,320
Speaker 1: deep off the Senior ball targeted in that he was

438
00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:23,840
Speaker 1: their second round plan three years ago. It worked out.

439
00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:26,600
Speaker 1: From the moment this guy got out of South Carolina,

440
00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:30,600
Speaker 1: it looked like absolute perfect mad So the fact that

441
00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:34,080
Speaker 1: he wants out is just very, very surprising. All right,

442
00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:36,680
Speaker 1: to two other theories that just hit me. Number one

443
00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:39,960
Speaker 1: his agent, of course, Jimmy Sexton. Jimmy Sexton also represents

444
00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:43,399
Speaker 1: a guy named A. J. Brown so complaining wide receivers

445
00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:46,159
Speaker 1: demanding a lot of money, represented by Jimmy Sexton. And

446
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:48,480
Speaker 1: the other one is you said, South Carolina just looked

447
00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,280
Speaker 1: this up. So Samuel grew up in South Carolina, went

448
00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:54,080
Speaker 1: to the University of South Carolina. And I wonder, I mean,

449
00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:57,040
Speaker 1: is he is he just homesick? Maybe he doesn't like

450
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Speaker 1: the Bay Area. I know the Bay Area is awesome

451
00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:02,680
Speaker 1: and cool, but could he see an opportunity? Hey, Atlanta's

452
00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:05,400
Speaker 1: desperate for receiver. Can I get back near my hometown

453
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:08,560
Speaker 1: and be near my family? Uh, Carolina, they got nobody.

454
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:10,919
Speaker 1: I'll go, I'll go help him out. Is this just

455
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:14,240
Speaker 1: an opportunity he sees too? Maybe get back Obviously this

456
00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:16,160
Speaker 1: would not bode well for the Jets. A deep guy

457
00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:19,280
Speaker 1: from the Deep South going to New York. But anything

458
00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:22,679
Speaker 1: any ideas on those I mean the Carolina Panthers are

459
00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:24,480
Speaker 1: a team that a lot of people are thinking about.

460
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Speaker 1: Because he had the extension of Sexton with ci a

461
00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:30,960
Speaker 1: Tory Dandy who who works with Deebo, samuel A J. Brown,

462
00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:35,560
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf, the wide receiver market has gone crazy. Carolina

463
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:38,480
Speaker 1: a potential many spot for Jimmy Garofolo. They want to

464
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Speaker 1: get rid of Christian McCaffrey, who went in the Bay

465
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Speaker 1: Area College at Stanford. So it's kind of like, yeah,

466
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Speaker 1: do you start putting puzzle pieces together? But that feels

467
00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:51,800
Speaker 1: like that feels like a lot. You would think that

468
00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:54,720
Speaker 1: the forty Niners have given Debot everything he's wanted. They

469
00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:57,119
Speaker 1: made him the centerpiece of the offense. From what I

470
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Speaker 1: hear they're sitting. They are sitting at a marketing table

471
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:04,000
Speaker 1: with a bag of money. Uh, they have said, they

472
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:08,320
Speaker 1: have said throughout December, January, February, we have budgeted for this.

473
00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:12,359
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo's contract is not getting in the way. We

474
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Speaker 1: are ready to pay Deebo Samuel and he won't engage.

475
00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:19,240
Speaker 1: And if you look at some of the highlights the playoffs,

476
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Speaker 1: the way he talked to teammates on the sideline, the

477
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:24,480
Speaker 1: way he said that locker room out on the field,

478
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Speaker 1: the way he and Kyle Shanna had interacted through the years,

479
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Speaker 1: this is shocking. If they're like, if there's something that's

480
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:34,120
Speaker 1: relationship built here, it is, it is absolutely shocking. Um

481
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Speaker 1: So if it does come back to money, then this

482
00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:39,920
Speaker 1: is where I think support for the forty niners executive

483
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Speaker 1: staff grows. Because the wide receiver market has gone has

484
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 1: gotten out of control, you know, I mean, it's just

485
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:49,200
Speaker 1: it's too much. And you people will talk about Tyree

486
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,960
Speaker 1: and DeVante, but it's the Jacksonville Jaguars may Christian kirk

487
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Speaker 1: e E. Then that's the one where I'm like, come on, like,

488
00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:00,160
Speaker 1: what are we what are we doing over here? And

489
00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 1: and so they're not gonna set their roster upside down

490
00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:07,120
Speaker 1: to play this game and catch up to the wide

491
00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:10,679
Speaker 1: receiver market if it's out a lot, I totally agree

492
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,040
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk broke everything. All right, Let's get to the

493
00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:15,600
Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors pivoting because the Bay Area is just

494
00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:18,920
Speaker 1: on fire right now. And I don't know, Mark uh

495
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:21,120
Speaker 1: if if I'm a gambling man, and I certainly am,

496
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:23,560
Speaker 1: as you know, I love all of a sudden the

497
00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors to win the West. Now they were

498
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:28,840
Speaker 1: like not really talked about because of the Curry injury,

499
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,879
Speaker 1: the Draymond injury, Jordan Pool had not become you know,

500
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:34,919
Speaker 1: the best uh shooting guard in the league, and all

501
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:36,879
Speaker 1: of a sudden, Devin Booker now out games three and

502
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,640
Speaker 1: four in New Orleans. Pelicans are a different team than

503
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:42,639
Speaker 1: they were two months ago, five months ago. This is

504
00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:45,000
Speaker 1: a scary series for the Sons. And you know, I

505
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:46,480
Speaker 1: don't want to say Chris Paul is gonna be the

506
00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:48,840
Speaker 1: next guy to go down. He gets hurt every playoffs.

507
00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 1: But all of a sudden are the Warriors looking like

508
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:53,960
Speaker 1: they could be going back to the finals? Mark, Well,

509
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:57,280
Speaker 1: they definitely could be. I would top the Brakes a

510
00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:00,760
Speaker 1: little bit on them being the favorite. Something markets now

511
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:04,160
Speaker 1: suddenly have them as the favorite. That feels a little early.

512
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 1: They haven't even played a road game yet. But but

513
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 1: I will I will say this. We've watched this every

514
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:15,240
Speaker 1: year in the NBA playoffs. If your stars get hurt,

515
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 1: you're you're in trouble, and and and if you can

516
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:21,719
Speaker 1: stay healthy, um you're not. And the Warriors are the

517
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:24,800
Speaker 1: healthiest they've been all year long, even though they've got

518
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 1: stuff coming off the bench right now, like their load

519
00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 1: bandagement drops. As much as we hated it, it's worked.

520
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 1: And uh, they slow played Clay, they slow played Draymond,

521
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 1: and they kind of slow played Steff there again, And

522
00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 1: so what we've been waiting for all year. It felt

523
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:43,959
Speaker 1: in the second half of the year like we were

524
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:47,520
Speaker 1: chasing daisies. But it was like, man, if this group

525
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 1: could all play together at once, maybe they do find

526
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:54,159
Speaker 1: the fountain of youth. Maybe they do find the Warriors

527
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 1: of days gone by. But we never really saw it,

528
00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 1: so we never really knew. And then in two games

529
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:03,880
Speaker 1: in I mean that third quarter in Game two, Jay

530
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:07,679
Speaker 1: for me was emotional, like that was so reminiscent of

531
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 1: seventeen and eighteen when they were more than a basketball team.

532
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 1: They were a transcendent show. They were somewhere between basketball

533
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:20,280
Speaker 1: meets a rock concert meets and uh and and if

534
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:22,760
Speaker 1: you got those three guards and they're all pumping their

535
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 1: threes at once, you can't stop it. You're like they're

536
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 1: they're plus minus rating as a group is off the map.

537
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:31,840
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I mean, we're too early to

538
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 1: know about Booker and the consistency of it. But but

539
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 1: everything the Warriors had hoped would happen in mid April,

540
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 1: so far as it happened. The way they've rebooted Mark

541
00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 1: going from D'Angelo Russell to Andrew Wiggins to Kominga, who

542
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 1: looks good pool blowing up, we haven't even really seen Wiseman.

543
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:55,600
Speaker 1: I don't want to get ahead of myself. Mark. But

544
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 1: the way this team is structured. Wiggins, you know they

545
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:00,400
Speaker 1: pay him this year next year that he's a free agent.

546
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 1: You've got to assume that that money is just. And

547
00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 1: again it's a small sample. It's just gonna go to

548
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:08,240
Speaker 1: Jordan's pool right in some way, shape or form. You

549
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 1: gotta keep pooling cominga because you want to keep Currie

550
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:14,239
Speaker 1: and Thompson going longer. You need the ancillary pieces, and

551
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 1: those two guys honestly look like they can keep golden

552
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 1: staying on top of the West for a couple more years. No, well,

553
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 1: I mean Pool is going to extend the career careers

554
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 1: if you will, to staph and play, because less will

555
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 1: be asked of them and uh, you know it makes

556
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 1: them harder to guard. Um, it's like Pool right now

557
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 1: is making me think of Kauai Leonard with the Spurs

558
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 1: and how he was able to transition one championship roster

559
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:42,920
Speaker 1: to another. You know what I mean, Like, that's that's possible.

560
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 1: There are all kinds of question marks you mentioned Wiseman. Yeah,

561
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 1: it's easy to dream like cominga looks like he's just

562
00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 1: got athleticism, uh, you know, to burn and then Pool

563
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 1: is going to be a star. And if Wiseman could

564
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 1: just in some ways stay healthy and actually work out,

565
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 1: then yeah, the Warriors really might have the pieces to

566
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 1: let this thing stay at a high level the whole time. Um.

567
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:07,480
Speaker 1: But again, we're in a small sample and there's a

568
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 1: whole lot of questions for me. The parts that we know.

569
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 1: You're right, Wiggins is an expiring deal next year. Do

570
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 1: they trade him before then or does he just walk

571
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:19,760
Speaker 1: the year after you hand the money to Pool? And

572
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:22,320
Speaker 1: and you know you can you can keep this thing going.

573
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 1: And but I'll say this also the Jordan Pool James

574
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 1: Wiseman experience. Take Jordan Pool's career and let's apply it

575
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:32,800
Speaker 1: to Wiseman because so many people are calling him a

576
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:37,080
Speaker 1: bust and and it didn't work out. Jordan Pool was

577
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 1: in the T League a year and a half ago,

578
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:43,760
Speaker 1: and now you can't keep him under twenty five points.

579
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 1: Uh and even in the playoffs and so um. These

580
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:51,160
Speaker 1: guys do pop sometimes in year two, year three, and um,

581
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:53,640
Speaker 1: and if Wiseman does that as well, then yeah, man,

582
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 1: they're they're really I didn't realize it. It looks like

583
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,120
Speaker 1: Wiseman actually played a bunch of games. I thought he

584
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 1: had played like ten games, but it's closer to h Yeah,

585
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 1: he he did, and he showed, you know, he showed

586
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 1: the athletic promise that you would guess, and then he

587
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 1: showed like on the defensive end, expect especially he's showing

588
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 1: a basketball like you that's not up to the level

589
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: of a Draymond Green as of yet, and you'd expect that.

590
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 1: He's a pup and he's played very few basketball games.

591
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 1: So there were moments where you're like, hey, this guy,

592
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 1: you know, like you can see the raw talent, it

593
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 1: needs to be refined and he needs to play basketball games.

594
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 1: And so if he gets some health, yeah, there's still

595
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 1: there's plenty of optimism there. So yeah, we'll close out

596
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 1: with the gambling pick for the crowd. Do you think

597
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:40,480
Speaker 1: the Warriors win the next two games in the series

598
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 1: and sweep them? You know what I'm gonna say, No,

599
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:45,720
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go five. I'm gonna say that finish. I

600
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 1: could chase center uh in in game five, just because

601
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 1: uh Denver the desperation of a game three team down,

602
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: Oh to a home court environment that is difficult, and

603
00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 1: we know them like with with their eyes, you know,

604
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 1: Hurt Murray and Porter, they're there, yo kitchen, and then

605
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 1: someone else needs to play well. And in the first

606
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 1: two games they haven't played well. But role players like

607
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:12,280
Speaker 1: that tend to be better at home. I think somebody

608
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 1: will start hitting some threes, whether it's Morris, Barton, Gordon, whatever,

609
00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 1: I give. I give Denver a game over the break

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Speaker 1: Samuel and folks if they do. You know, I'm putting

624
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Speaker 1: I can't say that with a straight face. All right,

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Speaker 1: gonna be tough for me to watch all the games tonight,

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Speaker 1: and there are two good ones. I'll say. I don't

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Speaker 1: I'm not giving Denver the chance there. I actually I

631
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Speaker 1: didn't pick any games straight up. I really had wanted

632
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Speaker 1: let me take a money line. Now, let me take

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Speaker 1: the points. I can't. I'm kind of rooting for Boston.

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Speaker 1: I think they can pull it off. And then I

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Speaker 1: luckily did not bet on Brooklyn. Some numbers lined up

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Speaker 1: for Brooklyn to win that game, and you know, pre

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Speaker 1: flop of course, and then you watch the game and

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Speaker 1: they're up seventeen, You're like, I should have taken Brooklyn,

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Speaker 1: and then the fourth quarter comes, you're like, wolf, glad

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Speaker 1: it didn't take Brooklyn. But tonight I feel pretty confident

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Speaker 1: in two games. First off, Golden State Warriors. I don't

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Speaker 1: know who exactly is betting the Nuggets, but this opened

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Speaker 1: Warriors two and a half and it's down to one

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Speaker 1: and a half. I think my gut is telling me,

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Speaker 1: if you want about the Nuggets, I would give it

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Speaker 1: a shot in the first half. It's if you want

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Speaker 1: about the Nuggets now. That's what I did with the Raptors.

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Speaker 1: In Game three at home, I bet money line first

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Speaker 1: quarter they were up by like nine. I'm not touching

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Speaker 1: the Nuggets here. I think the Warriors are gonna outclass them.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's particularly close, close joke. It will

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Speaker 1: play well as usual, it won't be enough. The other

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Speaker 1: game Memphis open two and a half point favorites, it's

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Speaker 1: down to one and a half. A lot of money

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Speaker 1: coming in on Minnesota, and understandably they are really impressive

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Speaker 1: at home. That went over the Clippers in the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 1: wore to come back, Anthony Edwards Beverly. They feed off

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Speaker 1: that Minnesota vibe, that energy in that building. I like

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Speaker 1: Minnesota here. I think they could win by double digits.

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Speaker 1: So I'm I'm betting Minnesota. I'm betting Golden State. I

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Speaker 1: think you taw which opening at seven and a half,

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Speaker 1: it is down to seven. I think Utah puts it

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Speaker 1: on Dallas. I think they were humiliated in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: I think they changed things up defensively. Mike Conley could

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Speaker 1: barely guard me. There's no way they keep him on.

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Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson. I think Mitchell says I will rise to

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Speaker 1: the occasion. I will take Brunson, and all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: the offense for Dallas is ground to a halt. If

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Speaker 1: there's no Luca, which it doesn't sound like there's gonna be,

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Speaker 1: and then I think Utah wins handling. They bring back

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Speaker 1: Utah Luca don't just probably for Game four, I'll have

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Speaker 1: player props online. But for now, let's roll with Minnesota

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Speaker 1: a minus plus one and a half at home and

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Speaker 1: Golden State minus one and a half on the road.

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Speaker 1: Let's make a couple more winners happen, and um, we'll

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Speaker 1: talk to you tomorrow