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Speaker 1: Wellchi wellgy wellichie.

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Speaker 2: Guess who's crawling back.

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Speaker 1: They thought they could defeat us, but we are undefeated.

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Speaker 1: It's episode one oh three, and guess what we're talking

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Speaker 1: about the Boston Celtics putting up I would say numbers

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Speaker 1: from another dimension that we are trying to process what

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Speaker 1: is happening with this team and are they going to go.

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Speaker 3: All the way?

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Speaker 2: And we'll also check in just just trying to ask

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Speaker 2: our office.

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Speaker 3: Is too good?

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Speaker 4: Now?

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Speaker 3: Are they just too good? Yes? Yeah, yeah, please and

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Speaker 3: make the basket smaller for the make the ball like

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Speaker 3: a weird shape so that they can't make it as good.

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Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, And we're gonna be doing all of that

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Speaker 1: with comedian Josh Gondleman on today's episode.

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Speaker 3: I'm Miles Gray and I'm Jack O'Brien and.

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Speaker 4: This is sorry, look as okay, there.

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Speaker 2: You be driving Spinny.

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Speaker 3: LNS got up with five? Is gonna try another three?

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Speaker 4: Mister hook On, James, be honest, look out show.

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Speaker 1: Time, oh man, Josh Gondleman, thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: joining him.

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Speaker 3: A Gondan, He's a gondole.

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Speaker 4: Job. I'm always telling people that exactly makes sense the

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Speaker 4: way Jay Z says it, but not.

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Speaker 3: The way that doesn't work at all.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: For people who don't know, Josh has worked on everything

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Speaker 1: including last week tonight, Missus mays Well, Jesus and Marrow.

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Speaker 3: You got a new.

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Speaker 1: Comedy special, people Pleaser that's out now, and you're yeah.

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Speaker 4: On tour and I'm recording a new special in Brooklyn

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Speaker 4: in June. Yeah, I'm all over the place. I'm all

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Speaker 4: over the country and then walking down this hour in Brooklyn.

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Speaker 4: I'm very excited for our little do I need the

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Speaker 4: home field advantage.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, such a people pleaser. He came back a second

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Speaker 3: time on our podcast. Yeah, and you've taken advantage of it.

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Speaker 3: We're thrilled to have you.

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Speaker 2: Last time you were on, I felt like it was

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Speaker 2: in the postseason.

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Speaker 1: I think it was in the summer, so we didn't Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're in the season. What are we about three fourths

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Speaker 1: hate to say this, but I love to see it.

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Speaker 1: I guess your Boston Celtics are freaking me out. They're

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Speaker 1: soaking me out, man, freaking me out.

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Speaker 3: The Celtics are in the midst of what is being

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Speaker 3: described as quote, perhaps the most dominant eleven game stretch

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Speaker 3: in NBA history. Yeah, they have the largest point differential

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Speaker 3: over any eleven game stretch in NBA history, seven points

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Speaker 3: better than the next best, which was Bucks team with

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Speaker 3: around the time they were like, we got to change

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Speaker 3: the rules. Man, this guy is like too good at basketball.

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Speaker 3: So that's like, you guys are better than that team

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Speaker 4: They're like, we're so racist. We need to make dunking Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Exactly, exactly should we just do that? What do we

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Speaker 3: do here? Yeah? What about that? Like, what do you

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Speaker 3: just pitches? What pitches were for? Rule changes?

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Speaker 4: New legal defenses? You can crouch in the paint and

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Speaker 3: That's just hilarious.

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Speaker 4: That's just good old, good old fashioned fun.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I don't know how how has this felt

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Speaker 4: I am finally starting to like feel not confident because

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Speaker 4: I never feel confident, like as a person or a

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Speaker 4: shouldn't have lost this game, right. They lost a couple

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Speaker 4: of close games, but most mostly they were losing occasionally

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Speaker 4: against good teams. And now they're doing the thing that

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Speaker 4: I need to do is just beating most good teams

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Speaker 4: and beating the hell out of bad teams. They've got

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Speaker 4: three fifty point wins this season, which is more than

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Speaker 3: Yes, too, that's too many.

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Speaker 1: I mean the beating up on the amount of that

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Speaker 4: His his history, Yeah, and they have within the last

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Speaker 3: They're beating up on bad teams. But they're also I

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Speaker 3: think our last episode, or maybe it was two episodes ago,

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Speaker 3: Boosties Bowl, you know, the Mad Boostis Bowl. Everyone was

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Speaker 3: like the two teams they talked about in the most

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Speaker 3: gonna have to win, and the Celtics beat them by

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Speaker 3: fifty two points. It was like, not fair. It just

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Speaker 3: seemed unfair. Again. I like back to the nineteen seventy

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Speaker 3: something here about the rule in this an exhibition charity game.

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Speaker 4: Well, yeah, in fairness to the Bucks, they didn't have

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Speaker 4: would have been a different game, right, Yeah, completely different,

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Speaker 4: it was the next time. I actually I listened the

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Speaker 4: whole game on the radio.

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Speaker 3: At ESPN Radio dot Com.

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Speaker 4: No, no, no, I did the local, the NBA l's

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Speaker 4: the local call. So I listened to Mike Gorman and uh,

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Speaker 4: Cedric Maxwell, Sewn Sean Grandy and Centric Maxwell. Like Gorman

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Speaker 4: did TV. He's about to retire. But it was so

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Speaker 4: were just saying that we got nothing more to say

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Speaker 4: I like, I know sometimes for when it is not

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Speaker 4: And I kept the whole thing on and was just like.

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Speaker 3: More har right, yes, yes, of course.

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Speaker 4: Through you, which is like twiddling my fingers together, doctor evil,

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Speaker 3: The rings off the ground, right, Yeah, great, I had

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Speaker 3: a great time. Oh man, that's the best feeling in

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Speaker 1: Was what about the expectation, right, because a lot of

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Speaker 1: times we're we're getting closer to the postseason, the Celtics

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Speaker 1: look amazing, and are you You're fully embracing You're like,

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Speaker 1: this is like does it feel different? Are you doing

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Speaker 1: the kind of thing You're like, I don't want to

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Speaker 4: I don't feel you know, I'm not like we're doing it.

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Speaker 4: This is the year. But it does feel different in

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Speaker 4: the last couple of years. It feels like twenty twenty

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Speaker 4: two when they went to the finals, they had a

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Speaker 4: terrible first half of the season, great second half of

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Speaker 4: the season. This season, they've played uniformly pretty well, with

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Speaker 4: So it's just like they've they've played uniformly while they're

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Speaker 4: playing better than they have all season right now. And

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Speaker 4: I kind of feel like if you don't let yourself

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Speaker 4: that might be when you win the title, right, And

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Speaker 4: if that's your answer, like if you're a Warriors fan

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Speaker 4: you can say that. But like, I live around Knicks

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Speaker 4: first quarter and just be like, this is the greatest

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Speaker 4: team of my life life. Yeah, it always a genius

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Speaker 4: in my biological father.

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Speaker 3: That's what I was saying last week.

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Speaker 1: Jack, my friend who was like, yo, Jalen Brunts is

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Speaker 4: This is it, this is it truly respected so much

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Speaker 4: as someone who has has lived in you. I've lived

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Speaker 4: Yorkers like anytime there's a glimmer of hope for any

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Speaker 4: of the teams, they're like, this is the year, right,

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Speaker 4: And the Yankees were like straight up bad this year,

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Speaker 4: and the Red Sox were worse, but the Yankees were bad,

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Speaker 4: It's like the next year they'll just be like, this

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Speaker 3: Well because they have like a propaganda TV network in

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Speaker 3: like historic victories by the Yankees, so you could just

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Speaker 4: Truly, like watching like the Vladimir Putin news exactly.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they have that for sports in New York it's

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Speaker 3: such an interesting thing. I don't think it like I

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Speaker 3: mean the Lakers like have you know, like there are

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Speaker 3: there's not just like a closed universe where Yankees Yankee

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Speaker 1: It's interesting because there's also like that happens in Europe too,

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Speaker 3: Like Glory Days.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, some teams are just like that, where they're like,

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Speaker 4: I again I respect because Knicks fans also will go

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Speaker 4: which I respect. The Knicks win two games in a row,

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Speaker 4: and yeah yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: The guy in the Spider Man suit is out in

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Speaker 3: They're like, what, Okay, he's getting sturdy.

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Speaker 3: But I will say the Celtics are I think last

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Speaker 3: week we were marveling at the fact that the Celtics

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Speaker 3: had entered the top ten for not Peer net rating

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and Sylvester are still don have like equally thick accents,

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Speaker 3: Want to be with my horses?

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Speaker 4: You know?

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Speaker 3: I want to do? Who are you?

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Speaker 2: Is there anyone you know looking?

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Speaker 1: Because I'm I mean, I think you know Jackson been

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Speaker 1: This is one thing I am We really will have

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Speaker 3: Guys are bad at basketball. Actually turns like.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, leave it alone. Yeah that sucks.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then it's the Nuggets, right, like yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: I think the Nuggets have the best chance for sure.

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Speaker 4: I think it would be a real knockdown, drag out

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Speaker 4: I don't. I have a little less confidence in them,

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Speaker 4: But I just feel like shake Gill, just Alexander is

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's perfectly fair.

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Speaker 4: And I will say on the record, I'm a huge

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Speaker 4: He's just so good. But like, yeah, but I also

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Speaker 3: Yeah, with like a ninety eight percent usage, Like yeah, like.

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Speaker 4: He's amazing at basketball. But it's like, let's be serious.

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Speaker 3: Here, Yeah, amazing highlight reel though, one of the best

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Speaker 3: shot makers. Should we take a break and come back

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Speaker 3: I mean just quickly around the league. Bucks also looking good.

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Speaker 3: put in his forty thousandth point. There was a cool

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Speaker 3: every one of his shots going out. That was kind

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Speaker 3: Yeah, more shot charts.

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Speaker 4: Might have been Kirk Goldsberg. Someone did a Kaitlin Clark

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Speaker 3: Oh my god. Yeah, Kaitlyn Clark, I mean broke the

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Speaker 3: then on the other side of the spectrum, Washington, we

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Speaker 3: but they are now. They now have a worse record

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Speaker 4: I think it's not their year.

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Speaker 1: There's still time, right, wasn't Kuzma saying Son is like,

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Speaker 3: All right now the real question. Yeah. Tim Bo Temps

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just straight up.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, just like real stiff rebound that fly.

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Speaker 3: Oh man, now you're talking my language, you know, yeah,

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Speaker 3: second violations. Love it all. Love. The article is incredible

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Speaker 4: It's it's also there were like twenty five years of

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, I don't know if there's anything that could

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Speaker 1: People are shooting the best ever from three point range.

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Speaker 1: And these aren't like just open looks, these are like

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Speaker 4: Defense.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they're making more free throws. Turnovers are at

439
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Speaker 1: their lowest.

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Speaker 3: That's like again like turnovers, they're taking care of the ball,

441
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Speaker 3: they're doing all the things that your high school basketball

442
00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:46,440
Speaker 3: coach shouts at you to do, Yeah, make your free

443
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Speaker 3: throws and take care of the ball. They're doing both

444
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Speaker 3: of those things.

445
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Speaker 1: We're running ladders for every turnover.

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Speaker 4: No, I think the one proposal that I heard that

447
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Speaker 4: I was like, actually, this sounds kind of good is

448
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:02,280
Speaker 4: to for the I forget who said it, it.

449
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Speaker 3: Was, it was me earlier, different rights.

450
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Speaker 4: For the reps to call games more like the playoffs,

451
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Speaker 4: so to let it get a little more physical, and

452
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Speaker 4: I think the one the good thing about that is

453
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:19,399
Speaker 4: it empowers great defenders, because I do like watching great

454
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Speaker 4: defenders play defense. But also when there are fewer calls,

455
00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:26,840
Speaker 4: there are fewer replays, so you also thin out the replays, right,

456
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:28,920
Speaker 4: because it's not just like, oh I called a foul.

457
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Speaker 4: Is it a fowl? Is it not? It's like it's

458
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Speaker 4: not a foul and you have no chance to say yeah, sorry,

459
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Speaker 4: yeah yeah. So I'm like yeah, sure, Like that's that

460
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Speaker 4: seems exciting. But outside of that, it's like, let's do

461
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Speaker 4: away with the corner threes.

462
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Speaker 3: Why, yeah, right, so that you just can't shoot them anymore? Yeah?

463
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Speaker 3: Why what? What would that even look? Like? The three

464
00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:53,200
Speaker 3: point arc would just end over it.

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Speaker 4: Just yeah, it would just stop it would be like

466
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Speaker 4: a map in the fourteen hundred that there's just dragons

467
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Speaker 4: made it on the corn here there at the end

468
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Speaker 4: of the loss.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like do not go there.

470
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Speaker 4: But yeah, this is so silly.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean also just on on a continuum.

472
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Speaker 1: Like we've said, even from the start of the show,

473
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Speaker 1: players are getting better and better. It's fun to watch

474
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Speaker 1: people get better and better. And not only that, the

475
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Speaker 1: game is becoming more popular around the world and we're

476
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Speaker 1: getting there's just more people. There's just a larger sample

477
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Speaker 1: of people that are getting better and better at basketball,

478
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Speaker 1: and we just benefit from that. I mean, I get

479
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Speaker 1: the thing of like being like, hey, let them play,

480
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Speaker 1: because I do miss those, you know, like nineties playoff basketball,

481
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Speaker 1: But at the same time like seeing some of these performances,

482
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Speaker 1: just like what is going on and how.

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Speaker 4: I also think it's not like we're not seeing thrilling

484
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Speaker 4: defense played right, Like right numbers too high is like

485
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:53,320
Speaker 4: a banana's complaint. Like you watch an All Star game

486
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Speaker 4: and you go, oh, that's what it looks like when

487
00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:59,399
Speaker 4: nobody plays defense. Yeah, exactly, Watch Victor wein Banyama play

488
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,320
Speaker 4: and you're like, he's making defensive plays that I've never seen.

489
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Speaker 3: I just watch him play defense. I like pay attention

490
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Speaker 3: to only him on defense.

491
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Speaker 4: Because human body is capable of playing defense like that.

492
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Speaker 4: So it's like, okay, there there are examples, right, Like

493
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Speaker 4: there are teams that are worse at defense. So it's

494
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Speaker 4: not like defense doesn't make a difference in the league.

495
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Speaker 4: Does that make sense? Yeah, Like you watch the the Celtics,

496
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Speaker 4: you watch the Timberwolves, the Knicks when they're healthy, and

497
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Speaker 4: you're like, oh, yeah, these teams can like lock down

498
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Speaker 4: when it's time to lock down. It's just that, like

499
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,919
Speaker 4: the level of locking down has has gone up with

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Speaker 4: the the you know, the floor is a little higher,

501
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:39,320
Speaker 4: the ceilings a little higher. But like if defense weren't

502
00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:42,080
Speaker 4: a thing that then you there wouldn't be teams that

503
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Speaker 4: were better at it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, right, there should be. Making has gotten so good

505
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,800
Speaker 3: that they can lock down less than they used to.

506
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally.

507
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Speaker 3: Like but they can still they'll still lock down and

508
00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:58,560
Speaker 3: the Yeah, the shot making is just at a different level.

509
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Speaker 3: It's a luxury that they have now. And like that.

510
00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:05,000
Speaker 3: The thing with the playoffs is, yeah, the refs call

511
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 3: it a little bit differently, but also people are playing

512
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:10,920
Speaker 3: much more intensely, you know, at a higher level with

513
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:16,680
Speaker 3: more physicality, because it's like one of you know, sevens,

514
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,840
Speaker 3: it's not one of eighty two. And so it's just

515
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Speaker 3: a change of the mentality. Yeah, but yeah, I truly

516
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:27,920
Speaker 3: I think the thing that people are witnessing is that basketball,

517
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 3: more than any other sport, is like everyone's getting better

518
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 3: every season. Like you can just see it, like the

519
00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 3: like I remember watching like basketball in the nineties and

520
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 3: then like seeing a clip from the eighties and being like,

521
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 3: who are these guys out there just like running around

522
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:50,960
Speaker 3: with like the mustaches, you know, guys like in short

523
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,679
Speaker 3: shortes with like big knee pads, and like he's just

524
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 3: doesn't Yeah, there's no athleticism. And then the nineties it

525
00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:59,880
Speaker 3: got better. And now if you look at like today's

526
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:04,399
Speaker 3: players compared to then, it's just a completely different level

527
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Speaker 3: of everybody being able to make shots, make like more

528
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:12,119
Speaker 3: difficult shots. It's incredible and it's fun. Like that's what's

529
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,000
Speaker 3: great about the Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 4: Who's ever seen a made basket in the envy had

531
00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 4: been like two eies. This is an affront in the

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Speaker 4: eyes of basketball fans.

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Speaker 1: Well, because you have like you know, like you know

534
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Speaker 1: Drew Holliday has said, like, just let us play a

535
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Speaker 1: little bit more physically, yeah, and then I can then

536
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Speaker 1: like you know, cause those are like that's sort of

537
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Speaker 1: like the level of dissent is like people, I don't

538
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Speaker 1: know if people are gonna put up he said, pe

539
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:37,600
Speaker 1: quote people like to see people get sixty and seventy

540
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Speaker 1: and do all that. How are you going to do

541
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 1: that if somebody can be physical and be handsy and

542
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:43,400
Speaker 1: be aggressive in that way. So I personally don't think

543
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 1: that the balance is there, And that's more of like

544
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Speaker 1: that's more level than people being like completely off balance.

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Speaker 2: This is the world's gone ay wire. Like yeah, that

546
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 2: that's a small tweak.

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Speaker 1: And Joe Dumars he's just saying like, yeah, man, a

548
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:58,160
Speaker 1: lot of people are calling us saying like you need

549
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 1: to look into this, and he's saying for his sort

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00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:02,960
Speaker 1: of defense here as quote, it's not to that point

551
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,719
Speaker 1: yet in terms of like looking at what can be

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00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 1: done specifically from a rules standpoint. It's like, quote, we're

553
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 1: diving into the data right now, just a ton of

554
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 1: film and putting together ton of reels to be able

555
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 1: to look at this and go, okay, yeah, we do

556
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:16,440
Speaker 1: have a problem, but you don't make changes like that

557
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 1: just on.

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00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:19,280
Speaker 2: An anecdotal call, right, Yeah.

559
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Speaker 1: And to his point too, I think he said people

560
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 1: are like with all these high scoring games, people were like.

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Speaker 3: Did you see what Booker did?

562
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 2: Did you see what Embiid did?

563
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 4: Did you see?

564
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 3: Like?

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Speaker 1: Those are those are the moments that I am texting

566
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 1: other people about because it is just so different.

567
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 2: And yeah, there's some.

568
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:37,600
Speaker 3: People who cause it don't play defense.

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Speaker 1: But at the same time like, yeah, but I think

570
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 1: it's cool to see somebody just go out of body

571
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 1: like that.

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00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:45,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, And like Garl Anthony Town's scoring sixty in a loss,

573
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:49,320
Speaker 4: and it's like they that that's like seventy to win.

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00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:53,960
Speaker 4: There wasn't a Karl Anthony Towns twenty years ago. There

575
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 4: wasn't like, you know, until like Dirk Nowitsky started shooting

576
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 4: from distance at that size. It's like that that guy

577
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,960
Speaker 4: just didn't exist in nineteen ninety two, whatever, thirty three,

578
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 4: thirty two years ago. They would have had him on

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Speaker 4: the block just like thumping against other guys and some

580
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 4: of them. It's like a beautiful style of basketball.

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Speaker 3: And it came from outside of the US, you know.

582
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:19,080
Speaker 3: Direk was like, oh yeah, what And now we have

583
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:22,640
Speaker 3: Embiid who's like, what if Shack had the touch of dirt?

584
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Speaker 4: Like shock, oh, Joel Embiid the what he does for

585
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 4: the myth of you can't shoot free throws because you're

586
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 4: a real.

587
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Speaker 3: Big they're too big.

588
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:35,160
Speaker 4: So funny, we're just like someone should just make Shack

589
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 4: watch Joel Emband shoot free throws for like an hour

590
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Speaker 4: and be like and you couldn't have gotten half this good.

591
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:47,880
Speaker 4: It's my wrist, okay, the same begands. Yeah, so silly.

592
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,960
Speaker 4: It's it's such a goofy, like it's such an ESPN

593
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 4: pilled conversation, like you've gone through the looking glass.

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Speaker 3: To their defense. I think they knew that because the

595
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:02,520
Speaker 3: article like just a very clear like has like five

596
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 3: great arguments. Like it turns out the biggest driver in

597
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 3: the NBA's recent residents scoring is team's getting smarter about

598
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 3: how to attack defense. It's just like, no, everyone's better

599
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 3: and smarter and doing exactly what they should do if

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Speaker 3: they want to score.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and Drew Holiday is also like exactly the guy

602
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 4: who would make that argument right of like, yeah, you

603
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 4: let me body a guy up and he's not going

604
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 4: to score seventy times. Yeah, I believe that from him.

605
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 4: He's a guy that like makes his money being just

606
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 4: like an incredible defensive player, and he would be more

607
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 4: incredible if the rules permitted. But like, do we want?

608
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 4: Is that what we want from.

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00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 3: The least what we need? Yeah? Ah, when you guys

610
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 3: got through Holiday, I was just like, we're all screwed.

611
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,480
Speaker 3: Let's see, all right, maybe maybe five years.

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Speaker 4: I was so sad when they traded Marcus Smart. I

613
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 4: was in I remember where it was. I was in

614
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 4: Oklahoma City and I was like on a in a

615
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:57,400
Speaker 4: hotel room and I was just like, oh man, I'm

616
00:31:57,440 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 4: sad about this team. It's it's like the end of

617
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 4: an era. And then they got through Holiday and I

618
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 4: was like, or he's really filled the Marcus Smart shaped

619
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Speaker 4: hole in my heart as they say where I'm from,

620
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 4: the Marcus Smart shaped hole in my hat?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, smart shaped hole in the hot amazing. Let's uh,

622
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,480
Speaker 3: should we take a break and come back and put

623
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Speaker 3: Josh through the gauntlet? Yeah the yeah, that's what you think.

624
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 3: And then already come at you.

625
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 2: Got some got some tough ones party, John.

626
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Speaker 3: We'll be right that.

627
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:39,400
Speaker 4: Dan.

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00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 3: We're back, I've heard Miles say, And we're back before,

629
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 3: but not liking his chops.

630
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 4: Right, he's at playoff intensity.

631
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Speaker 3: Like this in a little right now. I've never seen

632
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Speaker 3: them like this. Josh.

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Speaker 1: We love you, man, We love you, but it's time

634
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 1: to cook you in the fourth quarter. It's the rapid

635
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 1: fire round of questions, the fastest question answer segment of

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Speaker 1: all sports podcasting history on NBA Podcasts, hosted by two

637
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: guys who also do a daily show about news and politics.

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00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 3: Okay, very specific category, but we do in that category

639
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 3: top three. I mean to be fair, Yeah, exactly, that's right.

640
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 3: So we are too. Okay, So here we go.

641
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 4: In the league. It sounds just say South francey.

642
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 3: The south of Boston.

643
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'm from the south of Yeah, south from

644
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 4: the south of Boston.

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00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 1: Now get ready, Josh, We're gonna ask you a question.

646
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Speaker 1: Just don't think respond, reply rapidly so we can maintain

647
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 1: our crown of being in the top three. Okay, here

648
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Speaker 1: we go. You've done it before, so I don't have

649
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 1: to tell you anything. But I do have to tell.

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Speaker 4: Brian start the clock.

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00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 3: Okay, Brian, just do what he says. Yeah, got a

652
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 3: crazy all right, he did it, he did it, he

653
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:08,840
Speaker 3: did it. He's got it. He's got it. Okay, what

654
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Speaker 3: do you want? Do you want to start first? You

655
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:11,439
Speaker 3: want to start first?

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Speaker 4: Want to start first?

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Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, here's an easy one.

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Speaker 2: We're talking nineties throwback jerseys.

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Speaker 1: Okay, you can pick three of these nineties throwbacks to

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Speaker 1: preserve forever. What are your top three nineties throwbacks from

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Speaker 1: this image?

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Speaker 4: We are going Sonics obviously for posterity.

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Speaker 2: Then Gary Peyton Sonics yep, yep, Yah Friday Nineties yep.

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Speaker 3: We are in orbit around the Sonics logo.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it rules. We are going Sons, incredible basketball sons

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Speaker 4: streaking across the jersey. Yes.

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Speaker 3: And this guy likes basketballs and his logos.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. And then we're switching it up. Charlotte Hornets Classics

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Speaker 4: starter jacket colors.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Larry Johnson Charlotte horn Its colors.

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Speaker 1: That was honestly such an iconic era, like aesthetically in

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Speaker 1: the NBA, like when that when that team was out,

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Speaker 1: I remember buying like every pair of Converse like I

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Speaker 1: used to be a Nike head. But Grandmama, that blew

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Speaker 1: my mind. I was like, Mom, I need cons with React.

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Speaker 4: Juice, cos I need cons with the React juice, the

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Speaker 4: regular ones, the juice in these cons What the heck?

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Speaker 2: This ain't react juice.

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Speaker 4: This is sunning here.

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Speaker 3: I know this one.

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Speaker 4: It's fits the fruit punch one.

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Speaker 3: We got purple stuff, react juice. What do you want

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Speaker 3: all about the react? Yeah? I never fully understood the promise,

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Speaker 3: the physics that were implied by react juice. It was like,

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Speaker 3: I go this way, the juice goes the other way.

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Speaker 3: It balances you out and allows you to react. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: don't worry, we were It's you know how you play

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Speaker 3: your best basketball when your shoes are wet? Yeah, just

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Speaker 3: imagine that the heaviness. Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: You ever been in the rain and your your shoes

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Speaker 1: get soaked down to the insole and then you walk.

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Speaker 3: Out there in reaction juice converse, react juice. Just a

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Speaker 3: clip of Larry Johnson dunking with like a squaw sound?

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Speaker 3: Does he take?

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Speaker 4: So?

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Speaker 3: All right? We got some more likely to happen for you,

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Speaker 3: our patented more likely to happen. Second more likely to happen?

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Speaker 3: And why Orlando Magic Eastern Conference Finals run or the

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Speaker 3: Cleveland Calves Eastern Conference Final run.

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Speaker 4: Cleveland Calves Eastern Conference Finals run, But neither one's gonna

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Speaker 4: happen yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the correct answer.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, okay, Thunder or Wolves Western Conference Final run.

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Speaker 4: I think Thunder, Yeah, I think is the best player

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Speaker 4: on either of those teams.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, she is so good.

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Speaker 2: You see the loose to the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys got that what they

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Speaker 1: lost to the don't if you saw that to the Lakers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I did think. And Miles, you were proposing

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Speaker 3: a rule. You were saying enough like the offense the

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Speaker 3: offensive defensive balance is fine? Yeah, world chance and just

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Speaker 3: a just an idea that you're spitball in here. But

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Speaker 3: do you want to pitch it to Josh.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it's like it's it's called like the warrior logic

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Speaker 1: of the ancient times, which is you assume the position

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Speaker 1: in the standings of the team you beat.

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Speaker 4: Oh sure, kind of like Mega man, you steal their

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Speaker 4: power exactly. Thank you. I think that's fine.

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Speaker 2: I Rockaman for my Japanese listeners.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I thought you were going to say, any player

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Speaker 4: who is thirty nine and over, they get an extra

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Speaker 4: point five point every bad.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, no, we don't need to encourage that.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to say this and curse the Lakes.

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Speaker 3: But it is interesting to me that of all the

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Speaker 3: teams in the top net rating top ten, uh, the

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Speaker 3: only ones that didn't win the title were beat by

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Speaker 3: Lebron James. Jeames.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's you know, he's really good.

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Speaker 3: He's still pretty good.

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Speaker 2: He's good when he wants, he's good when you he

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Speaker 2: can be. Yeah, that's we just needed to be a

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Speaker 2: little more consistent.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, it's not about them, it's about you. Who's more

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Speaker 1: likely to happen? What's more likely to happened to?

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Speaker 3: Why?

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Speaker 2: Tatum finals MVP or Jokic second finals MVP.

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Speaker 4: Oh? I think Jokic second finals MVP because I think

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Speaker 4: that there's a better chance that if the Celtics win,

741
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Speaker 4: it could be one of a couple guys. And I

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Speaker 4: think if the Nuggets win, it's Jokic. Yeah, I see,

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Speaker 4: I see, okay, Okay, that's fair. The Celts are stacked.

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Speaker 4: How you say stacked?

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00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:51,799
Speaker 3: How you say.

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Speaker 4: That's still yeah?

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Speaker 3: How you say, uh, what is the one moment or

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Speaker 3: game from NBA history you wish Twitter had been around for?

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Speaker 4: Oh man, that's a great question. One game from NBA history?

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Speaker 4: I think what's like a maybe the Rudy tom Janovic punch.

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Speaker 4: Oh my god, maybe that or or you know what,

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Speaker 4: I think the greatest. I think this would have sent

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Speaker 4: New York City, like New York City's power would have

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Speaker 4: gone out from all the tweets. Is Stark stunking over Jordan?

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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, New York and just exploding.

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Speaker 3: It's been so long since they've been good that, Like,

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Speaker 3: I that's a really good point. Like that's gonna be

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Speaker 3: a whole social media event when they're making finals runs

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Speaker 3: like yeah, oh yeah, oh my god, yeah, insufferable.

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Speaker 4: Oh, it's gonna be so bad.

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Speaker 2: Who's the most underrated NBA social media follow.

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Speaker 4: Oh that's a good question. I'm not. I don't follow

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Speaker 4: a ton of players. I do think. I do love

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Speaker 4: both art, but maked sports and NBA. I think NBA

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Speaker 4: dats is great. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I have the Jason Potato hat where it's Jason Tatum

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Speaker 4: as little Potato. I almost got my dad. The Derek

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Speaker 4: Walter white hoodie was just Derek front of the band

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Speaker 4: from Breaking Bad.

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Speaker 3: With the shaved head.

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Speaker 4: Now obviously I think this is pre shaved head.

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Speaker 3: Oh wow, wow, Yeah that's a better yeah right ye,

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Speaker 3: just his little flat top with around it Eisenberg.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it should they should have one of him chasing

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Speaker 4: down opposing player that says I am the one who blocks.

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Speaker 3: That would be pretty I'm in.

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Speaker 1: I like that.

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Speaker 3: I like that. That's I hope they're listeners. I mean

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Speaker 3: they probably are. We are the number two NBA.

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Speaker 1: I'm already selling it on red Bubble now. I just

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Speaker 1: designed to what's for sale now? Yeah, look for my

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Speaker 1: red Bubble store.

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Speaker 3: All right, NBA player who is not Blake Griffin that

785
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:09,239
Speaker 3: could have a comedy career.

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Speaker 4: You know who's been I'm trying. I've been really thinking

787
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 4: about whether this guy's funny or he's just on a

788
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:22,600
Speaker 4: heater right now. Luke Cornett, Lake Cornett, he he like hit,

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Speaker 4: he hit a shot and then did this weird like

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Speaker 4: celebration where he was just kind of like karate chopping

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Speaker 4: his face and then he recently they talked about this

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Speaker 4: on No Dunks Today, but Celtics Twitter was a buzz

793
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:35,840
Speaker 4: about it the other day that they were like favorite

794
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Speaker 4: movie villain, like one of those like in Arena pro

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Speaker 4: like Little Bumpers, and Luke Cornett went personal trauma from

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Speaker 4: Goodwill on Oh my God, She's so funny.

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Speaker 3: That's really good.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I'm kindad. I made a mental note

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Speaker 4: today to be like, I get to reach out to

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Speaker 4: my sources to see if he's really funny, right right?

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Speaker 3: Oh man, okay, cents, well know uh, Boosty's listeners will

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Speaker 3: know Lou Cornett from the inventor of the Cornett Contest,

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00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:09,239
Speaker 3: which I think I haven't seen as much of it

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00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:11,560
Speaker 3: this season, but I feel like we're going to start

805
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:14,520
Speaker 3: seeing it come back because web Bingama is going to

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Speaker 3: use it to actually blockshot somehow.

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00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, from the paint mister Burns blocking out the sun.

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00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:22,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: Houser did it in the game against the Warriors, I think,

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00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 1: and then shout it out Cornett after so funny.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a thing. That's the thing. That's what you

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Speaker 4: showed when you say.

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Speaker 3: It used to be kobeb but now it's Cornette cold

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Speaker 3: straight up.

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Speaker 4: Okay.

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00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:44,919
Speaker 2: And this is a real important question, Josh.

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00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,960
Speaker 1: You're on a life raft in the sea and you

818
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:52,879
Speaker 1: come upon Jason Tatum and Bill Russell in the water.

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00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:55,400
Speaker 3: They need help, but you.

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Speaker 2: Can only fit one more person in the raft.

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Speaker 3: Who are you saving? Look?

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Speaker 4: Bill Russell's playing dancer long behind him as wow as

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Speaker 4: he did pass away a couple of years ago. Wow,

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Speaker 4: he is an American civil rights icon, so I think

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Speaker 4: it has to be. And he's an older man, less

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Speaker 4: good at swimming somewhere, you go. It's assuming he's.

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Speaker 3: Still alive at all swim. Yeah.

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00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's got that.

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00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 3: He's going to fight in him.

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00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:21,360
Speaker 4: Yeh, he's playing those thirty eight minutes a game. You

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Speaker 4: can swim, Bill wrestle gets in the raft gets you

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Speaker 4: or nine rings in eleven years gets you in the raft,

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Speaker 4: or eleven and.

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Speaker 3: Thirteen gets you in the raft.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fair, that's fair.

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00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:32,279
Speaker 3: That's fair.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're trying to design that question to really really

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Speaker 1: put a twist. How about this, What if it were

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Speaker 1: Twan or Paul Pierce?

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Speaker 4: Oh, I think it's I think I'm taking the truth. Yeah, okay,

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00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:50,959
Speaker 4: he's God, he's such a funny figure around the league

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00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:53,520
Speaker 4: where he just goes to Celtics regular season games like

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Speaker 4: like a twenty two year old at his old high school.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're like, you know where I am. Yeah this

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Speaker 2: was Paul Pierce. Yeah, yeah, that's me.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're like one of the best to ever play

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00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 3: for our team. Yeah yeah, I just wanted to make sure.

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Speaker 3: Yeah my jacket, yep, what was The best anecdote we

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00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:18,759
Speaker 3: got from Doc Rivers' brief break from coaching was when

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Speaker 3: he was talking about how the Celtics coaches when Paul

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Speaker 3: would get on the team bus with the sunglasses on,

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Speaker 3: they would be like, oh, no, Pierre's here, which meant

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Speaker 3: like he'd gone out the night before, like he was

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Speaker 3: not going to be very good.

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Speaker 4: Pierre documentary about over called Pierre up there.

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Speaker 3: The Pierre up there. Josh gondle Man. Yeah, what a

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Speaker 3: pleasure in the books. Thank you so much for doing it.

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Speaker 3: Where can people have me? Where can people find you?

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Speaker 3: Follow you, see you all that good stuff.

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Speaker 4: I'm at Josh Gondleman across social media Josh Gondleman dot

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Speaker 4: com for tour dates. I'm going all over the country,

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Speaker 4: coming up Bloomington, Indiana, next to the New Orleans shooting

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Speaker 4: for LeHo and I do a weekly newsletter called That's Marvelous.

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Speaker 4: That is it's free, you can sign up for it.

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Speaker 4: It's full of pep talks and sometimes I talk hoops.

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Speaker 4: But I think a lot of people get bored when

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Speaker 4: I do that, So.

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Speaker 2: Well, here, come back and do that with us because

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Speaker 2: I appreciate.

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Speaker 4: This is such a pleasure as allways, and make.

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Speaker 3: I'm at Jack Underscore O'Brien, and that's going to do

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Speaker 3: it for us. Another one in the books. Many they said,

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Speaker 3: I mean more than anything. They said yes, they said

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Speaker 3: we couldn't make it to one hundred episodes. They definitely

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Speaker 3: said no chance one hundred and three. Well look at us.

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Speaker 2: Now and another banner, Doctor Carter, you were wrong all

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Speaker 2: right for us? See you next week or we'll hear

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Speaker 2: you next week. Take care, bye, yo, Kiah, you want

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Speaker 2: to come out here.

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