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Speaker 1: Good Good morning, Swirl, and welcome to the Nodungks podcast

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Speaker 1: on the Athletic Network. It's Wednesday, December eleventh, twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jaski's here in the Classic Factory and alongside me

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Speaker 1: as always tas.

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Speaker 3: Mellus fans of meaningful December basketball games. That's us for you.

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Speaker 1: Next to him, it's the Bearded One, a tough shot boy,

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Speaker 1: Trey Kirby Yo and over yonder making the magic happens.

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Speaker 1: Super producer JD. Hello, there is here. We are on

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Speaker 1: today's pod. We're going to get into the up Down

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Speaker 1: Report to talk some Jimmy Butler trade rumors, oh a

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Speaker 1: juicy Schum's inside pass, and we'll have a little mini

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Speaker 1: preview for tonight's two quarterfinal games. But before we look forward,

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Speaker 1: we look back, and let's start with the Bucks beating

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Speaker 1: the Magic one fourteen one oh nine. I was wrong.

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Speaker 1: I thought it might be all blowout. It was a

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Speaker 1: really close game, and Milwaukee returns to the NBA Cup Semifinals.

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Speaker 1: They are headed back to Vegas. Task we had this

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Speaker 1: on playback. What jumped out to you? What are your

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Speaker 3: Well, the Orlando Magic staying in this game without their

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Speaker 3: top two scores. They're all Star and they're soon to

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Speaker 3: be All Star Banco and Franz Wagner. And then Jealen

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Speaker 3: Sucks goes down with a thumb injury in this game,

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Speaker 3: and it sure looks like, my goodness, are they going

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Speaker 3: hard not to think, Yeah, this team is going to

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Speaker 3: I can't wait to see them. Let's how they're healthy

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Speaker 3: against all these teams. So I think this was yes,

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Speaker 3: moral victories. You can't make a lot out of them.

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Speaker 3: And I know when I say moral victory means something

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Speaker 3: people say, hear an idiot, But I do think this

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Speaker 3: Orlando Magic team and who they are trying to become,

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Speaker 3: it's exactly what they're trying to become.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 3: It would have been nice to the guy that they

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Speaker 3: that's with all these guys injured that I mentioned. But

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Magic push the Bucks all game there. Trey

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Speaker 1: Suggs was awesome. Career high thirty two. He eventually had

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Speaker 1: all things consider twelve to twenty six though from Suggs,

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Speaker 4: There, couldn't get over the hump. This is the exact

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Speaker 4: They won the turnover battle sixteen to fourteen. They won

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Speaker 1: He's been a basically a forty percent three point shooter

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and their chemistry between dam and Yannis has definitely grown.

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Speaker 3: But at the same time, you can just say, damn time.

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Speaker 3: Those blocksies had in a wild most blocks the Milwaukee

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Speaker 1: And for the second consecutive game, Bobby portis giving them

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Speaker 4: it's like, you can't guard either of you can't guard

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Speaker 4: it was Bobby, And I guess Bobby shooting the three

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Speaker 4: for eazy dunk. But I mean, yeah, that was ridiculous. Yeah, Hey,

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Speaker 4: like Anthony Black can't get beat off the dribble at

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Speaker 3: But also.

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Speaker 4: They didn't know and it was out was off a

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Speaker 4: but they had enough chance to set up. That was

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Speaker 4: and I think it's also good that Pat Conaton is

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Speaker 4: He was there to close for the Bucks as well,

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Speaker 3: Yes, and just yes, it looks nice for the Milwaukee Bucks.

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Speaker 3: They're starting to use their athleticism, as you said, Like

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Speaker 3: to spread the flour around, yannest that's what they need

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Speaker 3: this guy is for real, for real, and he plays

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Speaker 3: So I'm just impressed with the magic.

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Speaker 1: The magic appeared to potentially force a jump ball with

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Speaker 1: a foul called on Goga, but Bobby Portis they said,

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Speaker 1: jump ball. I mean, it was a huge review in

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Speaker 1: the end. Otherwise it's a jump ball and maybe Orlando

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Speaker 3: I had to I could ruminate for hours. It felt

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Speaker 1: It's the number one biggest problem with the NBA right now,

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Speaker 1: it's the end of games of like two minutes o'clock

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Speaker 3: That's what Adam Silver. Adam Silver said it years ago

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Speaker 4: Sprite sponsoring a coaches review to making money on these

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Speaker 4: You just got to buckle in for the last two

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Speaker 1: Yeah you were Did you stay buckled up while you

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Speaker 4: The audience literally captive is what it feels like.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, exactly prison.

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Speaker 3: You heard the broadcasters say Kevin Harlan Regumlar, who were

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Speaker 1: Oh my god. You should have seen him at times

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Speaker 4: Great vibes guy, Great vivees Guy, Ultimate Vibes Guy. Also

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Speaker 4: Darvin Ham and Tory and Prince have improved to twelve

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Speaker 1: That's right, that's right, never lost a Cup.

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Speaker 4: Games, never lost the Cup games.

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Speaker 1: The Lakers and now the bussing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, those coaches Mike's fanatis could be picked up

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Speaker 3: on those coaches Mike's that they were broadcasting yesterday. They're

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Speaker 3: That's the added it coo, bros. That's all for me

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Speaker 3: Four guys have an ab line.

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Speaker 1: Yeah what did you think of that? Yeah? I guess

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Speaker 3: I don't mind hearing them, Yeah, I don't really want

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that feels weird. That's the problem because you know

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Speaker 3: I thought they were better in the second broadcast to

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Speaker 4: You're just gonna hear them.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was unusual to be like at times, especially

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Mosley was the best because he's actually I think

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Speaker 4: Oh that one is on TNT watch the game might

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Speaker 1: SGA scored thirty nine as the Thunder beat the MAVs

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Speaker 4: Yes, this was an impressive performance by the Thunder and

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Speaker 4: Last season. The Mavericks made it to the Western Conference Finals.

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Speaker 3: had his own five. I mean from everywhere from and

433
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Speaker 3: they keep turning teams over. They're leading the league and

434
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Speaker 3: turning teams over almost twenty per game this season. Again, yeah,

435
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Speaker 3: and that would be the most of any team in

436
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Speaker 3: twenty eight seasons to turn a team over almost twenty times.

437
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Speaker 3: And they almost did it. I mean they did enough

438
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Speaker 3: at half. They they beat everything by half. But it

439
00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:31,240
Speaker 3: was a close enough game because Nagia Marshall was awesome.

440
00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:35,840
Speaker 3: Klay Thompson did enough in this game. Nagee Marshall with

441
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Speaker 3: fourteen points in that first half. I mean, that was

442
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Speaker 3: that was key. And then that's a key pickup. I

443
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Speaker 3: think you know. I mentioned him yesterday on guys who

444
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Speaker 3: are flourishing in other areas and other scenes. I should

445
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Speaker 3: say he was with New Orleans last year. Can he

446
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Speaker 3: replace Derek Jones Junior? He's played so well recently for

447
00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:55,040
Speaker 3: this team that held him together for a while. But

448
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Speaker 3: Luca just wasn't in a flow with all the doubles.

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Speaker 1: And he was in the door to Chaber baby not

450
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Speaker 1: in that. Then you got Cruise on you. He's amazing.

451
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Speaker 1: Oh then Caseon Wallace, get switched on you. And like

452
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Speaker 1: you said, just blitz blitz blitz Look scored one field

453
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Speaker 1: goal in the game's first thirty five minutes. I mean

454
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Speaker 1: he started to get it going late. I mean it

455
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Speaker 1: was sort of over by then. It got a little close,

456
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Speaker 1: I guess. But they just do an incredible job because

457
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Speaker 1: they have these elite defenders and then you know, they

458
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Speaker 1: take away all these easy lobs and they take away

459
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Speaker 1: all these free runs to the basket. They do that

460
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Speaker 1: as well. Just a nightmare to play against this team.

461
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Speaker 1: Maverick's definitely missing PJ. Washington because he was a huge

462
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Speaker 1: reason they won last ye playoff. Serious, I mean, he

463
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Speaker 1: was always opening the corner. He couldn't miss them from

464
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Speaker 1: three basically. Yeah, And so you remove him, and you know,

465
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Speaker 1: there's one piece off the chessboard. So it is what

466
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Speaker 1: it is. They've split the season series. Now, I hope

467
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Speaker 1: we see I love this rivalry. I mean, I'd love

468
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Speaker 1: to see these teams again because Luca, it's only one game,

469
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Speaker 1: so they're bounced. But they lost that first game in

470
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Speaker 1: that series last year. And then Lucas starts to figure

471
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Speaker 1: things out, starts to see the floor where he can

472
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Speaker 1: pick a spot. So there's that part of it as well.

473
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Speaker 1: I just hope we get another four to seven games

474
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Speaker 1: series between these teams. But man, the fixing the problem

475
00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:05,879
Speaker 1: with the rebounds, with getting Hartenstein, holy crap.

476
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Speaker 4: Why we destroyed them in the playoffs last year, destroyed them.

477
00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:11,720
Speaker 4: Gafford was catching lobs all the time last year and

478
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Speaker 4: they weren't getting either of those last night.

479
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and then yeah, maybe we glossed over it.

480
00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:18,840
Speaker 1: But Sga with the sixteen points on seven of eight

481
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Speaker 1: shooting in that third quarter, which did blow the game open,

482
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Speaker 1: and that increased confidence, Like you said, just with the

483
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Speaker 1: three ball, you said he took nine, hit five of them, yep,

484
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Speaker 1: in credible percentage, and he sort of he's added it

485
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Speaker 1: more and more here to his to his game. And

486
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Speaker 1: that was probably the one knock on him. He's like,

487
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Speaker 1: he's not a three point shooter. Well, he's starting to

488
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Speaker 1: add that, and then he comes next to him. Possible

489
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Speaker 1: to stop when he has confidence in that. So the thunder.

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Speaker 1: You think they're the favorites to win the Cup? Here?

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Speaker 1: Oh just a cup, Just a Cup. You thought I

492
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Speaker 1: was gonna ask you the title, but we'll say that.

493
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Speaker 3: Well, they're gonna say West West, Yes, yes, title. I

494
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Speaker 3: guess they're not, but the Cups better be. They're not.

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Speaker 1: Well, well, okay, they have the best rat of the

496
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Speaker 1: six remaining teams at I guess nineteen and five now,

497
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Speaker 1: But the Warriors and Rockets both beat them this season,

498
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Speaker 1: so you know there are two of their five losses.

499
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Speaker 1: But I think they are They might be a favorite

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Speaker 1: in Vegas to actually win the Vegas Cup. What do

501
00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:17,240
Speaker 1: you think? Would you have them as your favorite overall?

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Speaker 4: Not until Darvin ham loses.

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Speaker 1: That's a good point.

504
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Speaker 4: It's a only team with Cup experience the same coach

505
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Speaker 4: d This is true that Vegas appearances.

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Speaker 1: That's right, That's right. They know what it's like to

507
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Speaker 1: play that, they know the sight lines of that team

508
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Speaker 1: obile arena. They know what it's like. Well, they know

509
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Speaker 1: it's like to lose. I guess the Bucks do, but

510
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Speaker 1: not Darvin.

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Speaker 4: Not Darvin.

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Speaker 1: Any other thoughts, Yeah, the thunder depth.

513
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Speaker 3: I know we talked about Caruso coming off the bench,

514
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Speaker 3: but Hartenstein in his first half minutes he got beat.

515
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Speaker 3: They're they're minus. I lost my stat here, but they're

516
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Speaker 3: minus seven in Harnstein's fifteen Minutes. The guy who came

517
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Speaker 3: off the bench for him as the backup center, Kenrish Williams.

518
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Speaker 3: What's awesome. I know they're plus ten. So that's a

519
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Speaker 3: guy's name you'll never hear. You'll just never hear ken

520
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Speaker 3: Rick Williams.

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Speaker 1: John Schuman.

522
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Speaker 3: Yeah, unless you're good.

523
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Speaker 4: No one loves.

524
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Speaker 1: Kenrick Williams more than John Schuman in respect. He is good.

525
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Speaker 3: He's good. He's good, and he takes part in that

526
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,560
Speaker 3: all five of us flying around type of defense. So

527
00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:19,440
Speaker 3: they're just they're too good. They're too good to bring

528
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Speaker 3: be able to bring Caruso and that guy that you

529
00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,840
Speaker 3: don't know his name, and Isaiah Joe I mean, and

530
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Speaker 3: Wiggins will play some minutes.

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Speaker 1: A J.

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Speaker 3: Mitchell is a guy you know, I know his name sometimes,

533
00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:30,960
Speaker 3: but they played him.

534
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Speaker 4: In the fourth quarter though, like this was a close

535
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Speaker 4: enough game and they're still like, yeah, we can go

536
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Speaker 4: with our third string point guard. Yeah, yeah, that's amazing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

538
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Speaker 4: Lot think about how many teams are like, we can't

539
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Speaker 4: play a rookie, he's not good enough. They're like, we're

540
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Speaker 4: gonna play this guy so he gets good enough. Yeah,

541
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Speaker 4: that's the difference with the thunder. I watched the fourth

542
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Speaker 4: quarter on the two K broadcast.

543
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Speaker 1: Oh, how was that? Didn't look like two K? Who

544
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Speaker 1: plays two K on broadcast?

545
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Speaker 3: Oh?

546
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Speaker 4: Everybody goes from like the baseline angle where you can

547
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Speaker 4: see the whole court. So that part was weird. But

548
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Speaker 4: you know, it looked like a game that like when

549
00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 4: Luca's handling the ball, it says Doncic okay, a little

550
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Speaker 4: star by him. It has like the little turbo meter

551
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Speaker 4: on the bottom two, which I don't know. Like I said,

552
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Speaker 4: I only watched the fourth quarter, so the turbo meters

553
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:13,040
Speaker 4: were only half all right. I don't know if they

554
00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:16,400
Speaker 4: started completely green, but like Kyrie started hitting a couple

555
00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:19,640
Speaker 4: of threes from the corner, big green splashes go through

556
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Speaker 4: the hoop and it pops up like a little badge,

557
00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:28,920
Speaker 4: like silver badge, sweet shooter. Who knows, but I think

558
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Speaker 4: it's kind of tough.

559
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Speaker 3: It was.

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Speaker 4: It was an interesting panel. It was left Go, it

561
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Speaker 4: was Vince Carter, it was Jalen Rose Golder. Yeah, they

562
00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:43,480
Speaker 4: were calling him solid Goldsberry. Jalen Rose absolutely loved it.

563
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Speaker 4: It was funny to hear left Coo trying to get

564
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Speaker 4: Vince Carter to talk about how good of a dunker

565
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Speaker 4: Zach Lavine is, and he they were talking about best

566
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Speaker 4: dunkers that came up and he didn't want to once

567
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Speaker 4: once left, Coo mentioned that Levine won the dunk contest twice.

568
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Speaker 4: Everyone's like, oh, yeah, he is actually one.

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Speaker 1: Of the best. Interesting.

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Speaker 4: I think it's a tough spot though, because obviously they're

571
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Speaker 4: not doing this live in the arena. Yeah, So I

572
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Speaker 4: think it's kind of hard to modulate the volume of

573
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Speaker 4: your voice compared to the broadcast because at times I

574
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Speaker 4: feel like when they're doing these simulcasts from somewhere else,

575
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Speaker 4: the guys are almost whispering yeah yeah, Whereas when you're

576
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Speaker 4: in the arena and it's like Brian Anderson and stand

577
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Speaker 4: Ban Gundy calling it like they can hear how loud

578
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Speaker 4: the arena is and kind of match it. So at

579
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Speaker 4: times I'm feeling like huge plays are happening and it's

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Speaker 4: just whisper Yeah.

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Speaker 1: You almost need to put those guys on the call,

582
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Speaker 1: like in a in a loud bar or something, you

583
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Speaker 1: just have a bunch of people around them, because they'll

584
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Speaker 1: just raise the volume of their voice.

585
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Speaker 3: And just get a video game track behind you. I

586
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Speaker 3: mean just in your earbuds. It help.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'll have to check that out. I'll have to

588
00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 1: check that out. But you didn't like the angle, or

589
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:45,840
Speaker 1: at least you should be able to pick your angle.

590
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Speaker 1: I'd be really cool.

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Speaker 4: That would be cool.

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Speaker 1: Click, that'd be cool. All right, let's uh circle back

593
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Speaker 1: to the NBA Cup a little bit later when we

594
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Speaker 1: preview tonight's games.

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Speaker 4: We let's get into the updown report.

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Speaker 1: All right, into the updown report first one. On Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: ESPN's Shams Sharania reported that the Miami Heat are quote

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Speaker 1: open to listening to offers for Jimmy Butler and making

599
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:15,199
Speaker 1: a deal if the proposal is right. ESPN also reported

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00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,480
Speaker 1: that Jimmy is open to trades that would send them

601
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Speaker 1: to the Warriors, the Rockets, or the Mavericks, and that

602
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 1: he does not intend to pick up his player option

603
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:29,120
Speaker 1: of fifty two point four million for next season. That's

604
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:32,160
Speaker 1: an interesting little wrinkle there, So the up or down question, TK,

605
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 1: you gotta start here up or down on the Heat

606
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 1: listening to offers for Jimmy Butler.

607
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,879
Speaker 4: I'm up, okay, I think they have to. And the

608
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,760
Speaker 4: way it's described as pretty funny, they're open to listening

609
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:46,479
Speaker 4: to offers. This is December slop. We are going to

610
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:49,479
Speaker 4: take phone calls if people call us. But Jimmy Butler's

611
00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:51,679
Speaker 4: thirty five years old, like you said, Skeats, he can

612
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Speaker 4: be a free agent in the offseason if he wants to,

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Speaker 4: and he'd probably be the biggest name available because right now,

614
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Speaker 4: scheduled to be the biggest name is Miles Turner. Jimmy

615
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:03,760
Speaker 4: Butler's better two finals, one conference finals appearance, and two

616
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Speaker 4: first round losses for the Heat since Butler has been there,

617
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:08,400
Speaker 4: so it's been very up and down, and it's because

618
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:11,200
Speaker 4: they're really a middle of the pack team that's able

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Speaker 4: to elevate in the playoffs. So I don't know how

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Speaker 4: long that pat Riley and the rest of the Heat

621
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Speaker 4: brain trust can think, Okay, we're going to keep getting

622
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 4: hot in the playoffs and the matchups are going to

623
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:23,480
Speaker 4: fall perfectly for us because they didn't last year. Right, Yeah,

624
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:26,160
Speaker 4: they have, And that looks awesome and it like kind

625
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 4: of colors the way you think about the Heat, like

626
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 4: we can never count him out now. I agree with that.

627
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:31,600
Speaker 4: Part of that is Jimmy Butler, the way he's able

628
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:33,040
Speaker 4: to raise his game in the playoffs, but I don't

629
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:35,159
Speaker 4: think he's looked great this season. He's going to the

630
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:38,000
Speaker 4: free throw line NonStop, like that's something that's not going

631
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:39,920
Speaker 4: to go away. He's got the savvy, but the burst

632
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 4: isn't quite the same. We know he doesn't really want

633
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:45,080
Speaker 4: to take three pointers, so it's kind of just drifting

634
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 4: to the free throw line. So I can understand why

635
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:52,360
Speaker 4: they would be looking to possibly trade him if the

636
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 4: offer is right. I don't necessarily think that I would

637
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 4: say it's even a fifty percent chance the Butler gets moved,

638
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Speaker 4: just because the trade rules are very very coming. It's

639
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 4: not easy and there are not a lot of teams

640
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Speaker 4: that can do it, and that some of the teams

641
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,080
Speaker 4: that can, you're like, okay, if you trade all the

642
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 4: salary that equals Jimmy Butler, then you've got five players

643
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 4: left on their team on your team. So it's tough

644
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 4: to figure out. But the heat should be taking calls on.

645
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 1: Jimmy and then the element of Jimmy Butler basically saying

646
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Speaker 1: because I have the player option and I could test

647
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Speaker 1: for agency, like I want to go to these teams,

648
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Speaker 1: so make it these teams or or you know, I

649
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 1: won't be signing long term, so that complicates things even more.

650
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 1: But man work in the trade machine is tough with

651
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:33,520
Speaker 1: this with these new you know, cap rules and second aprons,

652
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 1: and it's it's very difficult tests to make it actually work.

653
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 1: And obviously, guys are what eighty seven percent of the

654
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 1: league on December fifteenth can be technically traded. So there's

655
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Speaker 1: that part two. So this is not happening if it

656
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 1: does for a couple of days. But what do you think?

657
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,320
Speaker 3: It is complicated with the new CVA, And that's why

658
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:51,480
Speaker 3: I think from my perspective, third teams get involved and

659
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:54,719
Speaker 3: four teams get involved. But that's way too difficult for

660
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 3: many people to figure out. So it is hard to

661
00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 3: imagine the number going back from let's say the go

662
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:04,960
Speaker 3: Golden State Warriors with Jonathan Kaminga as the primary part. Right,

663
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 3: it ain't that much right now, he's barely making anything.

664
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 3: I mean, he's making seven million dollars per year right now,

665
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 3: So that's a drastic difference. So the number that you

666
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 3: have to throw in there, if it's just the Heat

667
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 3: and the Warriors, would be Andrew Wiggins's number to start yeaheah,

668
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 3: So that's twenty six yeah plus Kaminga. Now, I said,

669
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:24,600
Speaker 3: bring up to the Golden State Warriors.

670
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,160
Speaker 1: You're still like fifteen million under You're so short, so

671
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 1: you got to like Melton.

672
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's tough. You got yeah, then you

673
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:34,800
Speaker 3: get close, but it is difficult. So I feel like

674
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 3: the Warriors, I'm buying the juice because Draymond Green pushed

675
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 3: this the other day when Jonathan Kminga was pushed into

676
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 3: the starting lineup for the first time in his career,

677
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 3: you know, as that as the next guy, as the

678
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,840
Speaker 3: guy to take over, and Raymond said, hey, I'm happy

679
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 3: going to the bench. I'm a product of my vet

680
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 3: being willing to take a back seat for me. So

681
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:57,560
Speaker 3: you got to give back what came to you, all right,

682
00:30:57,600 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 3: So they gave us that. I was buying that slop.

683
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 3: I said, okay, now you guys are doing it. But

684
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,960
Speaker 3: as Jonathan Kaminga being showcased here for a couple of months, yeah,

685
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 3: it sure feels like you.

686
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 1: Can picture if a trade went down where Kaminga is

687
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 1: the main piece for Jimmy Butler. Two days later, Draymond

688
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 1: Green on his podcast saying, oh yeah, I said all that,

689
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 1: and we started Kaminga just to like build up his

690
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,200
Speaker 1: stock to go get Jimmy Butler, like you can picture

691
00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 1: him saying it, you know, playing chess while everybody else

692
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 1: was playing checkers.

693
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 3: But they tried in the off season. I mean it

694
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 3: goes back. They tried to get a third part, They

695
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 3: tried to get marketing, they tried to get Paul George.

696
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 3: So it is Jimmy the guy to take over. He

697
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 3: looks old, There's no doubt about that. But he is

698
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 3: Jimmy Butler, and it just feels like it fits more

699
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 3: with the pieces with a fantastic big and Draymond Green

700
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 3: and Steph than that it does with the MAVs.

701
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 2: Really.

702
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 3: I know the MAVs went to the finals, but it

703
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 3: just doesn't feel the same way two ball handlers bringing

704
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 3: in Jimmy Butler, although they would make it happen, but

705
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 3: it ain't the same Now they rockus getting a number

706
00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 3: one score makes sense one, but he's old comparison in

707
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 3: comparison to what the Rockets are currently constructed of. So

708
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 3: I'm buying the Warriors fit.

709
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 4: It makes the.

710
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 1: Most sense and you can get there, I think the easiest.

711
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 1: Despite him making nearly forty nine million this season. Jimmy

712
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 1: Butler but yeah, you do have to send out Andrew

713
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 1: Wiggins is twenty six million there now. I think last

714
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 1: year we're like that might be untradable. That's not the case, imman.

715
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 1: Wiggins is like obviously sort of proven that he still

716
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 1: has a little bit left, So maybe that's a player

717
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 1: that'll come back. I think Melton has to be included.

718
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 1: Like you said, Kaminga is the main piece. I don't

719
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 1: even think you can technically trade Moody, so it's Kaminga.

720
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 1: But then you're gonna need some players coming back. So

721
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 1: can you get to what do you think about this,

722
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler, Let's say Kevin Love, Josh Richardson for Wiggins, Melton, Kaminga, Abe,

723
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 1: Gary Payton the second and then potentially draft capital the

724
00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 1: Warriors do have fully unprotected for round picks. Yeah, in

725
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 1: twenty five and twenty seven, Like are we are? We

726
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 1: there is? Are the Heat looking at that?

727
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 3: Going? What?

728
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 1: No, we don't want that? What's your take on that?

729
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 4: I think it would require the Heat to think they

730
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 4: can get the best at Kaminga and maybe they're the organization.

731
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 4: They can give him the ball, let him cook in,

732
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 4: you know, get him into the culture system. So that

733
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 4: he gets bought in on defense, though he can be

734
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 4: a decent defensive player as we see. I think the

735
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 4: Warriors should do it like of these three teams, I'm

736
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 4: one hundred percent with you task. The Rockets don't need

737
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 4: to do it right now. They need to go okay

738
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 4: ce mode, make it to the playoffs once, see what

739
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 4: you would need, and then go from there. The Warriors

740
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 4: just or the Maps just doesn't make sense. They don't

741
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 4: have the contract they don't have the contracts.

742
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 1: Because it's either Kyrie or Luca making forty million plus

743
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 1: you're not training either one of them. And then the

744
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 1: drop off is to like fifteen million contract fifteen million

745
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 1: dollar contracts to like ten million, Like we're talking Clay

746
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 1: and Cleeban and Gafford and stuff like that, Like, yeah,

747
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 1: you're not gonna pair You're not going to put three

748
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 1: of those guys together for Jimmy Butler. I wouldn't think.

749
00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 4: I think it's probably it probably leaves their team too

750
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 4: thin if they were to trade for Jimmy Butler. But

751
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:05,719
Speaker 4: I would like the fit of Jimmy playing alongside Luk

752
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 4: and Kyrie. That'd be awesome. But I think the Warriors

753
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:09,880
Speaker 4: makes a ton of sense, like, yeah, you would have

754
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 4: to give up Wiggans, so you're getting an upgrade over Wiggins.

755
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 4: Melton's out for the season. The Kaminga pieces questionable, like

756
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:18,400
Speaker 4: I think he's a good player. The Warriors are acting

757
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:20,239
Speaker 4: like they think he's a good player. But you know,

758
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 4: as they say on the hoop collective actions over words,

759
00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:24,279
Speaker 4: they didn't sign him to an extension when they had

760
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 4: a chance. They need toughness outside of Draymond. They need

761
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 4: somebody else who can score. Jimmy can do that. They

762
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:33,879
Speaker 4: would be a very, very old team with like three

763
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 4: thirty year old guys leading the way, thirty and a

764
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:40,359
Speaker 4: half year old guys. But if they're trying to give

765
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:43,360
Speaker 4: Steph Curry a chance to win another championship with the Warriors,

766
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:45,760
Speaker 4: he needs an upgrade as a second guy, and Jimmy

767
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 4: would be an awesome fit next to stuff as well.

768
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 1: I thought it was of note that in Sham's article

769
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:53,359
Speaker 1: it said quote rival executives are surely keeping an eye

770
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,880
Speaker 1: on Cominga's play, as he's set to be a restricted

771
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:59,000
Speaker 1: free agent in July. In his career, Kaminga has played

772
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 1: thirty minutes or more in forty one games, averaging twenty points,

773
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:04,879
Speaker 1: fifty four percent from the field and forty percent from three.

774
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 1: He has played thirty minutes or more in two of

775
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 1: the past three games. Like this is this is the

776
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 1: whole showcase in Spotlight we're talking about and Sham's is

777
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 1: including that, Like, let me break down the numbers when

778
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 1: this guy plays having minutes. I think that's a little

779
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 1: telling personally, but.

780
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,800
Speaker 3: He's looking at those numbers for three point shooter.

781
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, guy's given a starting role. This guy's lights out. Yeah,

782
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:26,920
Speaker 1: and it might be I mean he is. He's got

783
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:27,879
Speaker 1: a lot of talent.

784
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and trading Jimmy would also showcase Tyler hero into

785
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 3: a new role. I know it's reaching a little bit here,

786
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:38,319
Speaker 3: but Tyler Heroes look damn good in the next last

787
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:42,400
Speaker 3: couple of months, and that has not happened for a

788
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 3: while in Tyler Heroes career. So there's that. I mean,

789
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,960
Speaker 3: I have just a little, a little incline to say

790
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:51,080
Speaker 3: the Miami Heat and pat Riley just want to keep

791
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 3: Jimmy Butler because he's Jimmy Butler and because they're focused

792
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 3: on keeping the guys that win in their locker room.

793
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 3: That being said, there's a day when you will get

794
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 3: the most for Jimmy Butler in that day is now

795
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:07,400
Speaker 3: because he's thirty five plus and he looks older. So

796
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:11,400
Speaker 3: if there's a time, it is now. And obviously Jimmy

797
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 3: is saying, hey, other team, I'm not going to take

798
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 3: that fifty million dollar player option, according to Sham's report,

799
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:21,400
Speaker 3: So that bodes well because I know he's not signed,

800
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 3: but he's basically saying, you know, train him to a

801
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 3: good team. These are the good teams Golden State, Dallas

802
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:29,880
Speaker 3: and Houston, and I will sign longer than that. So

803
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 3: I mean, he's setting himself up for a leaving. But

804
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 3: it just feels weird. If it does feel odd that

805
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:35,879
Speaker 3: pat Riley would do that and just.

806
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 1: To go back to the Houston. Even though I'm with you,

807
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:39,759
Speaker 1: I think they should slow play this. I mean, I

808
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 1: don't think they should go overboard, even though they could

809
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: get them, because they have the contracts they have with players.

810
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:48,239
Speaker 1: They have like young prospects that are almost way down

811
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 1: on their pecking order that you could like be it

812
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 1: Cam Whitboll Cam wentmore excuse me. You know they seem

813
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:55,480
Speaker 1: to love Tarry Easton. There's Jamar Smith unr like they

814
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:57,399
Speaker 1: you could take sort of your pick. I think they'd

815
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,239
Speaker 1: be willing to, but I guess they have some pick

816
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:04,000
Speaker 1: swaps as well, so there's draft capital. But I don't

817
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 1: think they should. The Warriors make the most sense for

818
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 1: for Jimmy, whether or not the heat, like the return

819
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:10,920
Speaker 1: and believe in coaminga enough is really all we're getting

820
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 1: at here, and then just to make the numbers work again,

821
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:15,280
Speaker 1: it's really dicey.

822
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 3: It's not easy dice and Daniel is out there.

823
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:19,800
Speaker 4: Apparently. Windhorse said today on Get Up that the Warriors

824
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:25,440
Speaker 4: are targeting Jimmy and Lebron James, Lebron James whoa, who whoa.

825
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:27,000
Speaker 1: I'm not ready for that. I'm not ready for them.

826
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:28,360
Speaker 4: Well, I watched the Olympics.

827
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 3: I'm ready for all right. And I will say, just

828
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 3: about the Warriors, it feels like if they're trading for Jimmy,

829
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 3: that they're basically getting really old and putting five years

830
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:41,120
Speaker 3: of socking to these guys and they're not going to

831
00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:43,239
Speaker 3: have how long can they win? So that I think

832
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:45,719
Speaker 3: the people who will criticize it will say it that way.

833
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 3: But they're only paying Steph now right now, Wiggins and

834
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 3: Draymond Green for another two years after this one it's

835
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 3: not forever, and Steph is still going to be that

836
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 3: good two years from now. Jimmy can last that long.

837
00:37:57,719 --> 00:37:59,960
Speaker 3: So it's not doesn't it's not it. It feels longer.

838
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:03,320
Speaker 3: It feels like Steph's sign until I don't know, twenty

839
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 3: forty five or whatever. But he's not.

840
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 1: All right, Let's move on to our next one. Here

841
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:09,760
Speaker 1: in the updown report, the NBA is promoting its slate

842
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 1: of games on Christmas Day by remixing a classic commercial,

843
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:17,719
Speaker 1: jingle Hoops from over a decade ago. So let's just

844
00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 1: play this thing here. It is tune it up, Katie

845
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 1: Let's art in bed.

846
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 4: I got I think we still guys, We'll give me there,

847
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:32,920
Speaker 4: I got you.

848
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:34,359
Speaker 3: That's the spirit.

849
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:51,360
Speaker 1: Already, I'll ready many cares. All right, there it is, guys,

850
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:54,840
Speaker 1: are you up or down on the NBA revisiting jingle Hoops?

851
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 1: That commercial with the players now is toys?

852
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:01,279
Speaker 3: Huge jump for me?

853
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:04,319
Speaker 1: Huge jump? Yeah, okay, I think it's better number one,

854
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 1: better than the original.

855
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:08,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like it more. What I feel like him.

856
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 3: I'm in the kids shopping, I'm ready to buy all

857
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:17,160
Speaker 3: these things that I see Anthony Edwards dancing on a xylophone.

858
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 3: I see a better range of players, and I like

859
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:25,240
Speaker 3: how they're number one. I like the let go oh kids,

860
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:28,400
Speaker 3: love that Lebron's doing that. I like how they're pushing

861
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:31,720
Speaker 3: Anthony Edwards to be the next face of this league.

862
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:33,880
Speaker 3: As he throws it down between his legs and throws

863
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:37,759
Speaker 3: it down there. I like, well, they are pushing him.

864
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 3: He's sharing that last camera shot with Victor Webgyao the

865
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 3: smart smart stuff. I mean, who's the next guy. It's

866
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:47,880
Speaker 3: either him or him? And I like how Durant he

867
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 3: shoots first, but then he's on a rope, so I

868
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:53,440
Speaker 3: think he's preventing injury by not jumping on his legs.

869
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 1: Barreled into everybody.

870
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 3: Oh yeah he did. Yeah, anyways, I like it. I

871
00:39:57,719 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 3: felt good.

872
00:39:58,280 --> 00:39:59,799
Speaker 1: Okay, up or down?

873
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:02,759
Speaker 4: I'm up, all right. It's gladiat or two to me.

874
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:07,239
Speaker 4: Not as good as the original, too much CGI, but

875
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 4: I still like it.

876
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:11,160
Speaker 1: Spot On man Well said.

877
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:14,799
Speaker 4: Luckily they weren't fighting a lot of animals in this one.

878
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:17,120
Speaker 4: But uh yeah, I mean, who's not gonna like this?

879
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:18,840
Speaker 4: If you saw the original, you're like, this is cool.

880
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:22,400
Speaker 4: I thought the first one was better than doing it live.

881
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:25,960
Speaker 4: I mean, obviously they're faking it. But still like they're there.

882
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:28,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's cool. The original one For those that don't know,

883
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 1: I mean, you should go look at it. It's from

884
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:34,320
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen. It's KD, it's Hardened, it's Rose, it's Nash,

885
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 1: and it's Steph Curry making shots into baskets that are

886
00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:41,560
Speaker 1: tuned with the bells there to reprise the song jingle bells.

887
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:44,480
Speaker 1: And then there's the lebron James dunk at the end

888
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 1: off a Nash pass I believe, and then similar to

889
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 1: this one. He also says the please tell me the

890
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 1: camera was on, So there's some similarities to that they've pulled.

891
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:55,800
Speaker 1: It's it's yeah, it's not as good as the original.

892
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 1: This one's for the kids. My god, all these broadcasts

893
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:02,400
Speaker 1: were doing for children, be it Simpsons and toy stories

894
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:05,520
Speaker 1: and uh, what else do we have coming in the

895
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:08,360
Speaker 1: two K last two K? But there's something else in

896
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:08,879
Speaker 1: that coming.

897
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:12,280
Speaker 4: Oh it's the Mickey Mouse, Yeah, Christmas.

898
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:16,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, Pluto on the block going nuts. So it's that

899
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 1: it's it's designed for that. But it's fine. It's just

900
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:19,880
Speaker 1: not as good as the original.

901
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:22,040
Speaker 4: I agree. It was all m vps in the original.

902
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 1: Apparently, the NBA says the original was the league's most

903
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 1: viewed commercial ever and most watched video on its YouTube

904
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 1: channel Jingles. I watched it again, forty one million views.

905
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 4: I did laugh at Tyrese Maxie being the Sixers representative.

906
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 4: You cannot put him beat in there. Who knows how

907
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 4: long that took to make. They're like, we're not going

908
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 4: to not knowing if this guy's actually going to play

909
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:48,319
Speaker 4: the game, Maxie should be there.

910
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:52,960
Speaker 1: Maxie looked the craziest though, Definitely his toy was like, Uh,

911
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:55,239
Speaker 1: did love the little easter egg. I guess you want

912
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:59,319
Speaker 1: to call that a yokich in the sledg with the

913
00:41:59,400 --> 00:41:59,960
Speaker 1: range are Yeah.

914
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:03,120
Speaker 3: I did like that little touch and Luca yeah, and

915
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:05,239
Speaker 3: Steph doing the home alone thing.

916
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:06,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, lots of good stuff.

917
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 3: Everything is Ai man, Everything is a okay.

918
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:15,799
Speaker 1: Final one here in building. It's NBA broadcasting franchise for

919
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 1: next season. NBC is making some moves here. So NBC

920
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:22,440
Speaker 1: secured a deal with Jamal Crawford. Sources told the Athletics

921
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:26,439
Speaker 1: Andrew Marchan on Tuesday. The contracts aren't signed yet, nor

922
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 1: is Crawford's exact place on NBC's depth chart fully defined,

923
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:34,600
Speaker 1: but he is expected to call games and NBC also

924
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:37,600
Speaker 1: showing some interest in T and t's lead analysts, Reggie

925
00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:41,840
Speaker 1: Miller for its game broadcast, So up or down on

926
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 1: NBC landing Jamal Crawford here to call games and maybe

927
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:46,800
Speaker 1: showing some interest in Reggie Miller.

928
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:49,759
Speaker 4: Sounds like anything T and T can do, Peacock can

929
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:52,719
Speaker 4: do better. It's going Reggie Miller mode.

930
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:53,799
Speaker 1: And appreciate that.

931
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:56,840
Speaker 4: Geez, I like Jamal Crawford on the broadcast or in

932
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 4: the studio. So it kind of makes sense to me

933
00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 4: that Peacock would be like, yeah, we'll sign you. Figure

934
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:04,799
Speaker 4: out exactly what you're gonna be doing. Seems like they're

935
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 4: putting together a decent little team here. Mike Trico is

936
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 4: gonna be their number one play by play guy. Noah

937
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 4: Eagle also getting a taste. He was awesome during the

938
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:15,840
Speaker 4: Olympics alongside Dwayne Wade, who I hope is with Peacock

939
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 4: as well on some of these NBA broadcasts, whether he

940
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:23,239
Speaker 4: be a studio guy or color commentator as well.

941
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 1: But yeah, cool, they have a lot in theory broadcasts

942
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:30,160
Speaker 1: to build here. Tests like they have a lot of games,

943
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:31,840
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of spots they're gonna be putting

944
00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:34,560
Speaker 1: these games, you know, gonna have these Peacock games obviously,

945
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:37,520
Speaker 1: then the major games on the NBC broadcast network later

946
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:40,359
Speaker 1: on after football and all that. So it makes sense

947
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 1: that they're gonna have to have a couple of guys

948
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 1: in their rosters.

949
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:44,839
Speaker 3: Well out of depth. Yeah, they start getting those big

950
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:46,920
Speaker 3: ones after football, but they start the season with a

951
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:50,200
Speaker 3: Monday Tuesday. Not every single game Monday Tuesday, but they

952
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:54,360
Speaker 3: own that those days in terms of Peacock and NBC broadcasts,

953
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:57,200
Speaker 3: So yeah, they gotta get depth. I do find it

954
00:43:57,239 --> 00:43:59,600
Speaker 3: funny that they say, Jamal Crawford, you're signed. We don't

955
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 3: know the dea, we don't know, we don't know. I

956
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:05,840
Speaker 3: also find finally listening to Reggie Miller on TNT and

957
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:09,640
Speaker 3: then seeing this report, it's like an assistant coach being

958
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 3: interviewed for a head coach position, but he's still an

959
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:14,279
Speaker 3: assistant coach in the playoffs for that, you know, like,

960
00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:17,279
Speaker 3: we don't know, we don't know. But yeah, there's a

961
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 3: lot of games, you know period.

962
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:22,520
Speaker 1: Do you like Jamal Crawford on the call, like in

963
00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:24,399
Speaker 1: his limited role that we've seen him do games?

964
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 4: I think I do. I don't remember if I've heard

965
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:28,800
Speaker 4: him this year maybe. I'm sure I have, but it

966
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 4: doesn't stick out necessarily. But he's a super well prepared guy.

967
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 4: He was always known in NBA circles as knowing every

968
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:36,520
Speaker 4: other NBA player's contract.

969
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:40,799
Speaker 1: Oh interesting, he's counting everybody's money, is hess man?

970
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:41,920
Speaker 4: That's true? True?

971
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:45,839
Speaker 1: Well, he's also notoriously the guy that films every pickup run.

972
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:48,239
Speaker 1: That's exactly right, he's ever played it. He goes and

973
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 1: crunches the tape. He has tape on you. He's got

974
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 1: tape on tape.

975
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:55,320
Speaker 4: He's got a son who's apparently an incredible basketball player

976
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:57,920
Speaker 4: as well. Looks like he plays exactly the same as

977
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:00,840
Speaker 4: Jamal Crawford did. So that I flashed back to his

978
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:03,959
Speaker 4: NBA career when he said he never practiced. He said

979
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:07,120
Speaker 4: he never worked on dribbling moves. And then he's like

980
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:10,880
Speaker 4: the best prepared analyst. He's videotaping all of his pickup

981
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 4: runs after being retired. I think he was fooling us.

982
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, Mike or Noah Eagle. I called Mike Eagle.

983
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:21,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know you were done with that.

984
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:24,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, one of those guys will ask him.

985
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:26,960
Speaker 3: I think no Eagle will be comfortable asking him. Hey,

986
00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:30,480
Speaker 3: did you practice. Yeah, so they're doing extremely well on

987
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:33,640
Speaker 3: that side. I want to mention Tarico, not Mike Eagle

988
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:37,799
Speaker 3: and No Eagle. They very solid. So the depth chart

989
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:39,279
Speaker 3: is Tarico one. No Eagle too.

990
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:41,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, from what we know.

991
00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:43,920
Speaker 3: Has been there forever. Obviously the Olympics master.

992
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:47,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, and football, he's just the number one guy everything.

993
00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:49,839
Speaker 1: I loves all the sports. He's a real Rod Black

994
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:50,920
Speaker 1: hero America.

995
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 4: Really, that's true.

996
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 1: Alright. I like my favorite thing of Jamal Crawford. He

997
00:45:58,040 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 1: actually likes basketball and it comes podcast and you know what,

998
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 1: for as much fun as we make fun of Reggie

999
00:46:03,719 --> 00:46:07,160
Speaker 1: Miller at times, Reggie does too. I llegit loves hoops

1000
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:10,360
Speaker 1: and that's good. That's a good quality I think to

1001
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 1: have on your broadcast call. So yeah, we'll see who

1002
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:15,680
Speaker 1: else they add to the team. Okay, let's quickly look

1003
00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:19,439
Speaker 1: at tonight's NBA Cup quarterfinal games. First one, we've got

1004
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:22,919
Speaker 1: Hawks Nicks. What's something you're watching for in this game

1005
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:24,719
Speaker 1: at seven o'clock and we will be on playback. What

1006
00:46:24,719 --> 00:46:25,080
Speaker 1: do you think?

1007
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 3: Yes, Madison Square Garden hosting a quarterfinals game here.

1008
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:30,279
Speaker 4: I'm excited for it.

1009
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:33,120
Speaker 3: I gotta I am drinking the NBA cup kool aid,

1010
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:36,560
Speaker 3: because it feels like the quarterfinals games mean more. I

1011
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:39,680
Speaker 3: like the fact that we are getting just these two

1012
00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 3: games on one night and everybody can watch them, yea,

1013
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 3: And it has felt like playoff type games. Now. I

1014
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:49,200
Speaker 3: bring up Knicks and MSG because the NBA quarterfinal home

1015
00:46:49,239 --> 00:46:52,359
Speaker 3: teams are now five and one. You know, I mean

1016
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:55,200
Speaker 3: it means something, especially with this Knicks team that did

1017
00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 3: lose to the Hawks a few weeks ago in their

1018
00:46:57,560 --> 00:46:59,480
Speaker 3: only game that they've played this season. They got to

1019
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:02,799
Speaker 3: be a little angry, a little feisty about that. But

1020
00:47:03,360 --> 00:47:06,040
Speaker 3: at the same time, Dree Young and MSG for a

1021
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:09,359
Speaker 3: bigger game, I'm buying that as well. At the same time,

1022
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:13,319
Speaker 3: Trade doesn't look like his lower extremities are feeling all

1023
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:15,120
Speaker 3: that right, and he is a little banged up, but

1024
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:17,640
Speaker 3: he's fighting through it and he's playing through it. And

1025
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:19,719
Speaker 3: it's gonna be tough for all these young guys that

1026
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:22,640
Speaker 3: they have that Tray's thrown it out too to show

1027
00:47:22,719 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 3: up in Madison Square Garden. But I have faith in them.

1028
00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a weird first game between these two

1029
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:30,640
Speaker 1: teams this season because the Hawks beat the Knicks one sixteen.

1030
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:33,919
Speaker 1: That was the game that Rischachet went for thirty three points. Yeah,

1031
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 1: he was on fire. But then the Knicks hit a

1032
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:38,439
Speaker 1: million threes in that game despite losing, they hit twenty

1033
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:41,480
Speaker 1: two to three pointers, so a little weird. I'm excited

1034
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:43,799
Speaker 1: to see how they play Cat, who's on a heater

1035
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:46,400
Speaker 1: right now. He's a I mean, look, he's a matchup

1036
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:48,360
Speaker 1: nightmare for a lot of teams, but I think especially

1037
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:51,359
Speaker 1: the Hawks, like he's too fast for Capella, and then

1038
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:54,320
Speaker 1: like if Jalen Johnson, if he plays and leaving Yanka

1039
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:56,719
Speaker 1: like he's sort of just too big. He's a big

1040
00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:58,520
Speaker 1: ass dude. Cat is for those guys. So it's a

1041
00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:00,680
Speaker 1: tough matchup. And the way he him and Brunton are

1042
00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:02,960
Speaker 1: cooking right now, that'll be fun. Can they slow him?

1043
00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:05,239
Speaker 1: Can they slow this next team that's the number one

1044
00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:05,400
Speaker 1: in the.

1045
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:08,359
Speaker 4: League, tak Yeah, we shall see. Maybe they like even

1046
00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:10,960
Speaker 4: dust Off Larry nance Junior to be their small ball five,

1047
00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:14,960
Speaker 4: though a Conglu's like he's a medium ball. I think, yeah,

1048
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:17,600
Speaker 4: it's not a great small ball five, but he's better

1049
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:20,520
Speaker 4: than Capella when they're trying that. I'm interested to see

1050
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:22,800
Speaker 4: if the Hawks bench can win them this game. The

1051
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 4: Knicks definitely have an advantage in the starting lineup, but

1052
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:28,680
Speaker 4: they're really only a six deep team. Only Duce McBride

1053
00:48:28,719 --> 00:48:31,239
Speaker 4: gets twenty or more minutes off the bench for them.

1054
00:48:31,239 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 4: He plays twenty five after that. It's like precious that

1055
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:35,320
Speaker 4: Chew I just came back. He hasn't really gotten in

1056
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:39,000
Speaker 4: Rhythm campaign gets minutes for this team, and he's one

1057
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:41,640
Speaker 4: of the ultimate dice role players in the league. He's

1058
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:44,279
Speaker 4: taken the same shots no matter what. Sometimes they go in.

1059
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:46,480
Speaker 4: We'll see if that happens. Meanwhile, the Hawks are the

1060
00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:49,360
Speaker 4: third best scoring bench in the league. Hunter, A, Coongwu

1061
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:52,440
Speaker 4: and Bogie all played twenty five minutes per game off

1062
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:55,840
Speaker 4: the bench, So that could be an advantage for Atlanta

1063
00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:58,720
Speaker 4: or Tom Thibodeau could play all the starters forty five minutes,

1064
00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:00,719
Speaker 4: it could easily happen. Yeah, they don't have another They

1065
00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:03,360
Speaker 4: wouldn't have another game until what Saturday, Saturday.

1066
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:04,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a lot of rest.

1067
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:07,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they did have to play Monday, one of

1068
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 3: the few teams that play.

1069
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:10,040
Speaker 1: I only had one day of rest.

1070
00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:13,120
Speaker 3: But yeah, the scheduling is good for teams getting rest

1071
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 3: before the AMBA.

1072
00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 1: And they had to go through customs m playing up

1073
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:19,880
Speaker 1: and drum. Wow. Yeah, I wonder what TIBs is like

1074
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Speaker 1: through customs, not.

1075
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Speaker 4: Just game film.

1076
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:29,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you can't bring that much game film across

1077
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:35,560
Speaker 1: the bordering the game film and a big cat. Yes

1078
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:37,960
Speaker 1: that's right, Yeah, right right, but he's going to take

1079
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:41,520
Speaker 1: pets across the border. We are on playback tonight again,

1080
00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:45,439
Speaker 1: just a reminder around seven pm Eastern for Hawks Nicks. Yeah,

1081
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:47,680
Speaker 1: you know, the MSG crowd is going to be hyped

1082
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 1: with the villain Trey Young in their building, and I

1083
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 1: thought like Milwaukee was in a tough spot last night

1084
00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 1: with their crowd. That game started at like six o'clock

1085
00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:59,720
Speaker 1: local time, so it was a you know, late arriving crowd,

1086
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:01,880
Speaker 1: even blame them, but it was pretty hyped at the

1087
00:50:01,960 --> 00:50:03,960
Speaker 1: end in that close game. Then the thunder crowd is

1088
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:06,359
Speaker 1: always good, So hopefully that continues here. Yeah, in these

1089
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:08,160
Speaker 1: games that do felickly, you mean a little bit more.

1090
00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:13,399
Speaker 1: The second game tonight, Juicy Warriors Rockets. What's one thing

1091
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:14,440
Speaker 1: you're watching for TK?

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00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:17,920
Speaker 4: Well, I don't know, actually, because when I wrote it down,

1093
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:20,240
Speaker 4: I was like, the Warriors need a second scorer tonight,

1094
00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:23,040
Speaker 4: and then I went into the games between the Rockets

1095
00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:25,920
Speaker 4: and the Warriors, and the Warriors had beat the Rockets

1096
00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:27,120
Speaker 4: twice without Steph Curry.

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Speaker 1: Yeah weird, and they beat them in a blowout like sorry,

1098
00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:32,160
Speaker 1: I scoring a fair one game and then like.

1099
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:34,960
Speaker 4: A dug closey Yeah, yeah, weird stuff in the first way,

1100
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:36,960
Speaker 4: and it was an overtime win for Golden State. Buddy

1101
00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:39,480
Speaker 4: Healed hit six to threes, scored twenty seven points. Kaminga

1102
00:50:39,520 --> 00:50:41,680
Speaker 4: went for twenty three. Then the second Golden State win

1103
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:43,600
Speaker 4: was that huge Kaminga game and we got the start

1104
00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:46,680
Speaker 4: scored thirty three. So I'm kind of looking at Jonathan

1105
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:49,839
Speaker 4: Kaminga to carry for the Warriors alongside Steph Curry, who

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00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:52,600
Speaker 4: I assume is going to be playing and going to

1107
00:50:52,640 --> 00:50:54,440
Speaker 4: be playing well in this one. It might just come

1108
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:56,279
Speaker 4: down to be in a three point advantage game. The

1109
00:50:56,360 --> 00:50:58,800
Speaker 4: Rockets are bottom ten in the league in three point shooting.

1110
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:01,400
Speaker 4: The Warriors are top ten league in three point shooting.

1111
00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:03,800
Speaker 4: From a makes perspective, so the Rockets are going to

1112
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:05,759
Speaker 4: have to hit. It's gonna have to be a game

1113
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:08,440
Speaker 4: where they're hitting I don't know, fourteen threes shooting a

1114
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:10,839
Speaker 4: decent percentage. They can't have like a six for thirty

1115
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:11,319
Speaker 4: kind of night.

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00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:14,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think their their depth. You brought up

1117
00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:16,680
Speaker 3: the Hawk's depth. The rocket stuff is just damn good

1118
00:51:16,680 --> 00:51:18,920
Speaker 3: as well. To be able to take away those Warriors

1119
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:21,680
Speaker 3: threes should be there. I mean, they are a good

1120
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:25,640
Speaker 3: defensive bunch. And will they be hungry enough after those

1121
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:28,400
Speaker 3: two wins? Gold Stays beat them two straight games in Houston.

1122
00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:31,480
Speaker 3: Where As I said, quarterfinals teams are just good at home.

1123
00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:35,960
Speaker 3: So that part of it is the hunger level for

1124
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:39,400
Speaker 3: ema Udoka's push for this team. As he said after,

1125
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:42,439
Speaker 3: I didn't see this quote until I started looking up

1126
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:46,240
Speaker 3: stats and info for this game. He said about Albern Schangun.

1127
00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:48,680
Speaker 3: My biggest thing with him, I say to him, get

1128
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:51,200
Speaker 3: the European out of your game and play through stuff.

1129
00:51:51,239 --> 00:51:53,360
Speaker 3: Stop crying. And he kind of laughed as he said that,

1130
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:55,879
Speaker 3: but he told reporters that it's an interesting line, get

1131
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:58,919
Speaker 3: that European out of your game. That dude plays tough.

1132
00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:01,760
Speaker 3: And I wonder if I'm Shangun because he was initially

1133
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:02,640
Speaker 3: on the injury report.

1134
00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:05,200
Speaker 1: I think questionable, isn't he Yeah that's what it said.

1135
00:52:05,280 --> 00:52:08,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, but uh yeah, I assume he's playing it. And

1136
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:11,439
Speaker 3: Steve Kerr said that Moses Moody is the only guy

1137
00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:15,000
Speaker 3: out today, and Andrew Wiggins will be back. He didn't

1138
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:16,920
Speaker 3: play in the last game, so I am curious how

1139
00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:19,879
Speaker 3: they do start. Kamega was supposed to start beside Andrew

1140
00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:22,360
Speaker 3: Wiggins and Dream and Green coming off the bench, which

1141
00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:24,840
Speaker 3: is not what happened their last game because Wiggins washt.

1142
00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:26,560
Speaker 3: So did they go back to Green coming off the

1143
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:30,920
Speaker 3: bench and the Green fighting versus whoever's on the Houston

1144
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:32,239
Speaker 3: Rockets thing could come up.

1145
00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:34,279
Speaker 1: I mean, Kan's going to be on Shan Gun a lot.

1146
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:36,359
Speaker 1: I assume in this game. Well, he matched up on him,

1147
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:38,680
Speaker 1: and I like to see Dylan Brooks try and get

1148
00:52:38,719 --> 00:52:40,960
Speaker 1: under the skin of Steph Curry if possible. That those

1149
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:43,359
Speaker 1: are gonna be fun little one on one matchups to watch, yea,

1150
00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:45,640
Speaker 1: whether your best defensive player can shut down the best

1151
00:52:45,640 --> 00:52:46,160
Speaker 1: offensive player.

1152
00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:49,279
Speaker 3: Andre played it pretty cool with Rudy Gobert in the

1153
00:52:49,320 --> 00:52:52,440
Speaker 3: last game, who even though he poked him in the eye,

1154
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:53,759
Speaker 3: he didn't fight him.

1155
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:55,160
Speaker 1: No, I didn't fight him, didn't put him in a

1156
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:57,719
Speaker 1: choke cold. That was nice, exactly. The first step went

1157
00:52:57,760 --> 00:52:59,840
Speaker 1: from a choke was poking him in the eye.

1158
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:01,560
Speaker 3: And he went to sleep at the end. What does

1159
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:04,200
Speaker 3: he do here against Houston Rockets. Yes, he'll guard Shedd

1160
00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:06,520
Speaker 3: and Goude, but there'll be other As you said, Dylan Brooks,

1161
00:53:06,880 --> 00:53:10,120
Speaker 3: feisty guys. I'm on tops. I don't know if Tarry

1162
00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:12,000
Speaker 3: Easton plays. He was on the injury report as well.

1163
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 3: I mean there's a lot of dudes.

1164
00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:16,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Well that is our game tonight in

1165
00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:18,640
Speaker 1: the pick them because it's a close line task between

1166
00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:19,520
Speaker 1: the Warriors and Munkets.

1167
00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:21,640
Speaker 3: Yeah. The Rockets favored just by one and a half

1168
00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:25,440
Speaker 3: at home, so you're just picking a winner. And it's interesting.

1169
00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:29,200
Speaker 3: We have two people picking the Houston Rockets, two people

1170
00:53:29,239 --> 00:53:32,640
Speaker 3: picking the Golden State Warriors Esch and Skeets taking Golden

1171
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 3: State train, myself taking Houston esh at a pitifold one

1172
00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:40,080
Speaker 3: and six through the first setting games of this month,

1173
00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:43,600
Speaker 3: and we're going into January with the bed on December

1174
00:53:43,680 --> 00:53:46,560
Speaker 3: here being you're probably gonna have to do a show

1175
00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:49,799
Speaker 3: out doors for the week, for an entire week. Wow,

1176
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:51,640
Speaker 3: I didn't realize that that was happening.

1177
00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:54,000
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, wow, got sleep out there and everything.

1178
00:53:54,040 --> 00:53:57,960
Speaker 3: Yep. Wow. The technology will be working from beyond the doors,

1179
00:53:58,040 --> 00:54:01,160
Speaker 3: beyond the garage. It'll be fun. It'll be fun esh

1180
00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:02,520
Speaker 3: be outside for a while.

1181
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:11,200
Speaker 1: You're saying it right, well, record, yeah, two games, respect it.

1182
00:54:11,239 --> 00:54:14,600
Speaker 3: We got to talk trash. I definitely don't feel entirely

1183
00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:17,080
Speaker 3: great about taking the Houston Rockets here against the Golden

1184
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:20,840
Speaker 3: State Warriors. The Warriors played an incredible game against the Timberwolves,

1185
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:23,480
Speaker 3: but again they have beat the Houston. You have beat

1186
00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:27,200
Speaker 3: using twice. And this team fights. This Rockets team is,

1187
00:54:27,560 --> 00:54:30,319
Speaker 3: you know, somewhat like the Orlando Magic yesterday. They will

1188
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:32,120
Speaker 3: play defense no matter what.

1189
00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:35,480
Speaker 1: And I don't feel great picking with esh. I did

1190
00:54:35,560 --> 00:54:37,600
Speaker 1: it last night. What am I doing? I was cooking

1191
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:39,319
Speaker 1: in this month, but I took the Mavericks with them

1192
00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:41,680
Speaker 1: and we lost last night. Now now I'm with them

1193
00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:43,560
Speaker 1: here with the Warriors. Yeah, I guess I'm baking on

1194
00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:48,520
Speaker 1: the Warriors just having the Rockets number. Uh they might yeah,

1195
00:54:48,719 --> 00:54:51,680
Speaker 1: And I wonder if shan Gun is feeling comfortable playing

1196
00:54:51,719 --> 00:54:53,759
Speaker 1: because I made I put up this line here in

1197
00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:55,799
Speaker 1: our our Google doc that we share.

1198
00:54:55,880 --> 00:54:57,560
Speaker 3: I put it in and I said, oh, the Rockets

1199
00:54:57,560 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 3: are going to take it. They can't lose three games

1200
00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:01,440
Speaker 3: to the Warriors. And I saw as jump in with

1201
00:55:01,480 --> 00:55:03,640
Speaker 3: the Warriors pick. So after I saw the shang Dun,

1202
00:55:03,719 --> 00:55:06,280
Speaker 3: I was like, maybe I go back, but I couldn't

1203
00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 3: change it on Ash. No, that felt dirty because he

1204
00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:12,160
Speaker 3: has two games behind me in a slightly shorter month.

1205
00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:15,680
Speaker 1: There are yes, right, yes, that's right, Good luck Ash,

1206
00:55:15,840 --> 00:55:18,080
Speaker 1: that's yeah, I guess. Oh wow, are we going to

1207
00:55:18,120 --> 00:55:20,920
Speaker 1: be doing pick them for the Cup games in Vegas?

1208
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:23,960
Speaker 1: I thought about that game.

1209
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:24,760
Speaker 4: Eighty three counts.

1210
00:55:29,239 --> 00:55:31,439
Speaker 1: All right, we'll find out. We'll find out. So we're

1211
00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:32,600
Speaker 1: going on tonight's game.

1212
00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:34,040
Speaker 3: We've got to go into a sports book.

1213
00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:36,759
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, put some real cool pick.

1214
00:55:36,719 --> 00:55:37,640
Speaker 4: Him from a sportsbook.

1215
00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:38,000
Speaker 3: I love that.

1216
00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:42,640
Speaker 1: Allright. Just remind you we are on playback tonight at

1217
00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:45,960
Speaker 1: seven pm Eastern for that first game Hawks and Nick.

1218
00:55:46,040 --> 00:55:47,680
Speaker 1: So hope to see you there. That link is in

1219
00:55:47,719 --> 00:55:50,480
Speaker 1: the show notes. Had a blast last night, so come

1220
00:55:50,560 --> 00:55:53,080
Speaker 1: hang out with us. Maybe we're a second screen experience

1221
00:55:53,160 --> 00:55:55,600
Speaker 1: for you people here in America. We did slip some

1222
00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:59,560
Speaker 1: people some VIP passes last night so they could watch

1223
00:55:59,560 --> 00:56:02,200
Speaker 1: along with us, but international people usually have it pretty good.

1224
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:04,800
Speaker 1: If you've got lead passo. We got some fun there tonight.

1225
00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:08,520
Speaker 1: We're back tomorrow ten am Eastern to break down these

1226
00:56:08,560 --> 00:56:11,040
Speaker 1: two final quarterfinal games tonight and a whole lot more.

1227
00:56:11,040 --> 00:56:13,200
Speaker 1: I hope to see you then, Clipper Brose, you.

1228
00:56:13,160 --> 00:56:15,600
Speaker 4: Heard it here first, have a great time, turn up.

1229
00:56:15,760 --> 00:56:17,080
Speaker 4: Love you guys awesome.

1230
00:56:17,239 --> 00:56:19,360
Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us, and remember, if you join us

1231
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:22,719
Speaker 3: on playback, you may get a VIP pass or I

1232
00:56:22,760 --> 00:56:24,600
Speaker 3: may screw up again as I did yesterday trying to

1233
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:27,399
Speaker 3: slip someone VIP pass by I slipped to may join

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00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:31,520
Speaker 3: us on stage. Click Hey, you could get one of those.

1235
00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:34,799
Speaker 1: Bring your thoughts, bring your takes in tonight's broadcast, all right,

1236
00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:35,680
Speaker 1: Brace the day, people,