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Speaker 3: Here's the thing, very much like.

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Speaker 4: You and I today, Alex Monico dox Me, we are

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Speaker 4: coming off the bench and going into the starting spot.

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Speaker 4: We are in his starting role, much like Shador Sanders

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Speaker 4: is getting his best shot right now that he has

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Speaker 4: had news broke just a couple hours ago. Shador Sanders,

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Speaker 4: not Kenny Pickett, not Joe Flacco, not Dylan Gabriel, not

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Speaker 4: recently signed Tyler Hunting of Cleveland and Miami Fame prior

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Speaker 4: to this. Chador Sanders will be getting the start Friday

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Speaker 4: night against the Carolina Panthers, and Dave Canalis, head coach

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Speaker 4: of the Carolina Panthers, has already said he's starting some

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Speaker 4: of his guys on Friday, So we are going to

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Speaker 4: see Shador Sanders against the starters for the Carolina Panthers

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Speaker 4: in live action preseason albeit, but it's the best football

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Speaker 4: we got right now.

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Speaker 3: This is the best news out of Cleveland potentially all month. Well,

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Speaker 3: it depends on who's asking.

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Speaker 4: I think it's terrible news for Kenny Pickett and Kilan Gabriel.

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Speaker 3: Well, I had tweeted five foot eleven Dylan Gabriel is

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Speaker 3: just killing me with the tape that I'm seeing, and

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Speaker 3: I just feel like Shadur's done to me outside of

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Speaker 3: we know the Cleveland Browns walls, nothing but what you

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Speaker 3: would want a leader to Be's answering questions the right way.

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Speaker 3: He's showing up early, he's leaving ladies, getting in extra reps.

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Speaker 3: And I would toss it back to you, Martin, Is

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Speaker 3: this a guy if he didn't go on Day three

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Speaker 3: of the draft that we would be expected to be

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Speaker 3: in this Friday night slot QB one.

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Speaker 4: I mean there's a lot of people even though he

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Speaker 4: expected this. But the reality is for me, at least,

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Speaker 4: this is how it works in the NFL. Like Shador Sanders,

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Speaker 4: I's not gonna say was always going to get this opportunity,

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Speaker 4: because that's not true. But guys every single year win

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Speaker 4: and lose jobs because somebody else got hurt. It's just

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Speaker 4: the way of this game. In fact, just as Drew bledsoe,

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Speaker 4: if he spins out of bounds instead of taking that

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Speaker 4: shot from mo Lewis, have we ever heard of Tom Brady?

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Speaker 3: Is there a better guy offspring of the man staying

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Speaker 3: I'm rooting for him. It seems like a lot of

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Speaker 3: nothing but this man to prove everyone wrong. Because really,

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Speaker 3: as he's alluded to Martin, this is what he did

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Speaker 3: at multiple phases of his college career. It does seem like,

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Speaker 3: oh Red Carpett was laid out for him. If you

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Speaker 3: that's why he didn't waiver based off the depth chart

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Speaker 3: over the last few weeks. And here he is, and

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Speaker 3: I think he's gonna come in calm, cool and collective,

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Speaker 4: What say you, well, I it depends because if you

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Speaker 4: Now, but she'd be covering to Clue Browns for a

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Speaker 4: to see it. We're well, we're pulling all these clips

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Speaker 3: this the fan wilder at college football. We already know

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Speaker 3: It's just how we got to this conclusion was obviously

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Speaker 4: And we'll talk about another thing that I think the

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Speaker 4: this is one that I think the media is really

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Speaker 4: with everything you said. I watched him to college. I

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Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. That's where I thought your

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Speaker 4: But none of that matters anymore.

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Speaker 3: Does it. Your draft position is irrelevant.

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Speaker 4: You're on the team, and now you have an opportunity

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Speaker 3: No? But they're not, So you do so now what now?

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Speaker 3: What are you going to do? You do the only

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Speaker 4: And if you go out there and you show essentially

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Speaker 4: Then that makes this competition a lot more difficult to

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Speaker 4: Because here's the other thing about this, we aren't going

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Speaker 3: What we will see is Shador.

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Speaker 4: If he comes out and impresses, then it'll be well,

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Speaker 4: he's better than those guys sight unseen, well of what

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Speaker 3: You know, it's a great point. What's interesting about the

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Speaker 3: This is Shadar coming in and being a game manager

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Speaker 4: I think what he does Friday night to move up

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Speaker 4: They're in the right look versus this defensive look first,

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Speaker 4: more than and you know if shador like steps out

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Speaker 3: When when Miles Garrett won't be chasing him, but when

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Speaker 3: It's interesting because he does come under center with a

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Speaker 3: team that's had virtually no leadership for how many years

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Speaker 3: So to me, I think schadur yes, can he do

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Speaker 3: Dylan Gabriel as a leader of men doesn't jump off

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Speaker 4: The only guy, in my opinion, who has the capability

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Speaker 3: It should do it. I love it.

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Speaker 4: I'm in lockstep with Now do I think it'll happen,

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Speaker 4: that's a different question. But of the guys listed on this,

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Speaker 4: do you know we've ran through them a few times now,

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Speaker 4: chaud Door is the only one that has a shot.

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Speaker 3: I'd say is maybe a twenty percent shot.

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Speaker 4: But I'll say this, this is his first best shot

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Speaker 4: to put out the best possible impression. This is his

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Speaker 4: first best shot. Okay, look, yeah, you're in you are

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Speaker 3: The ring around? What is that game? Oh? My goodness around?

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Speaker 4: No musical chairs, the game of musical chairs. There's three

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Speaker 4: chairs and there's four quarterbacks. Right, that's that's the game

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Speaker 4: in Cleveland. Right, we're asking if Shador Sanders gonna get cut.

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Speaker 4: You know what would solve a lot of problems. If

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Speaker 4: Shador Sanders goes out there and plays really well and

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Speaker 4: then you know, because you know what, we saw sixty

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Speaker 4: semi quarterback start games last year.

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Speaker 3: That's it.

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Speaker 4: Matthew Stafford is week to week with the back injury.

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Speaker 4: Rams got two first round picks next year. I don't

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Speaker 4: think they trade a first round pick for Shador Standers,

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Speaker 4: but maybe there's some level, like Shador goes out there

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Speaker 4: plays well in week one of the preseason. Hey, Cleveland,

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Speaker 4: I can solve your quarterback problem for you. I'll take

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Speaker 4: a fourth row. I'll trade you Shador Sanders for a

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Speaker 3: Well, let me ask you, because if you're a Cleveland

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Speaker 4: Honestly, what has me feeling this way is the way

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Speaker 4: Microphone potentially probably didn't upgrade. I said after the draft,

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Speaker 3: Here. It is.

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Speaker 6: When Sean Payton was first looking to replace Drew Brees

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Speaker 3: I'm not saying now Old bow Knicks is Patrick Mahomes.

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Speaker 4: It's a lot of people talking big about how good

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Speaker 4: When your girlfriend asks you, honey, how do I look

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Speaker 3: We all know the truth, but you mean it, though,

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Speaker 4: It was far from a consensus that Patrick Mahomes was

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Speaker 3: nice thing is it's a top three. It's a top

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Speaker 3: three Denver two from last year that added pieces, So

437
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Speaker 3: God has to be factored.

438
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Speaker 4: Counterpoint Din, a top five quarterback in the NFL just

439
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Speaker 4: won the Super Bowl this year, survey.

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Speaker 3: Says, can we call Cam Newton real quick? But I'm

441
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Speaker 3: just out do you see saying? I look, I like

442
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Speaker 3: where you're going with it. I see where you're going

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Speaker 3: with I'm just did a top five quarterback win the

444
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Speaker 3: Super Bowl this year?

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 3: Hello, No they did, No, they didn't. But that's that's

447
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Speaker 3: one of the most stacked rosters I've ever seen in

448
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Speaker 3: our millennial lives.

449
00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:27,080
Speaker 4: So Broncos got two defensive Player of the Year candidate's

450
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Speaker 4: on the roster right now.

451
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Speaker 3: Nick Benito was like third in the league in sacks.

452
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Speaker 3: Ansertain won the damn thing. Suddon and Morvin Mims are

453
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Speaker 3: not aj Brown, Davonte Smith and I'm sorry running back

454
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Speaker 3: who sat Quan? Who are they on the cover in Denver?

455
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Speaker 3: I can't interest you in a little.

456
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Speaker 4: Devon Vley, twenty seven year old rookie wide receiver, I am.

457
00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:49,600
Speaker 3: I am struggling on the depth chart to fight. Look,

458
00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:51,800
Speaker 3: I do like the Evan Ingram pickup I do a lot.

459
00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:57,200
Speaker 3: I just think it's not a stacked roster like Philly,

460
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Speaker 3: and so this team to be in the Super Bowl. Conversation,

461
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:06,359
Speaker 3: they may finish third in the division. They may finish third.

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466
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Speaker 4: I knew that you were super excited as well as

467
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Speaker 4: a lot of Southern California was when Luka Doncics was

468
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Speaker 4: announced and as the newest star centerpiece for the Los

469
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Speaker 4: Angeles like as three years, one hundred and sixty five

470
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Speaker 4: million dollars, which I did not realize this at the

471
00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:39,879
Speaker 4: time when we were discussing this on Saturday. Yeah, lines

472
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Speaker 4: him up in the next from two years from now

473
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Speaker 4: to become the first million ish a game player in

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Speaker 4: the NBA.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we'll be signing for just eighty million dollars.

476
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Speaker 4: Buddy, They only play eighty two so Luca spoiler alert,

477
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:57,919
Speaker 4: Luca will not play eighty two games that year, so

478
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Speaker 4: he will make over a million dollars per game played.

479
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 4: But it was all smiles and el segundo at Lynn

480
00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 4: Lakerland for everyone who was there. Luca don just did

481
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:18,080
Speaker 4: address the crowd of media, reporters and several of his teammates.

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Speaker 4: This is what young Luca had to say.

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Speaker 8: Luca, good to see. Congratulations. You mentioned in kind of

484
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Speaker 8: the post you put out on social media championships being

485
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Speaker 8: important to you. Here, you guys lost in the first round.

486
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Speaker 8: You look like a different person since then. What do

487
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Speaker 8: you feel like you're going to bring to that championship

488
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Speaker 8: pursuit next year? And how do you feel like the

489
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Speaker 8: team is constructed to try to achieve that goal. Yeah, honestly,

490
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Speaker 8: I think we have a great team.

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Speaker 3: We have what we need to compete for the championship.

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Speaker 4: So that was a little bit of a Luca, a

493
00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:56,680
Speaker 4: lot of bit of Dave McManaman. But we got the point,

494
00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:02,520
Speaker 4: Lucas says, we got all we need right here. Now

495
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 4: here's my question to you, Monico hit me, and my

496
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:09,159
Speaker 4: question to America at large, because when I saw Rachel

497
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:14,119
Speaker 4: Nichols tweet this picture out, She's tweeted and said the

498
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Speaker 4: Lakers and Luca right now, she was straight down the middle.

499
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:19,959
Speaker 4: She's not trying to start no stuff.

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Speaker 3: Don't worry, I will I retweet, I said, I see

501
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 3: somebody missing Starling Pop Marsh So.

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Speaker 4: Lucas says, we got all we need to win a

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Speaker 4: championship right here. Notably absent often Reeves, Lebron James and

504
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 4: Lebron James Jr.

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Speaker 3: From said press conference.

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Speaker 4: Now was Lucas saying, we got all we got right

507
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Speaker 4: here in this room. Need to know what kind of

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00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:50,680
Speaker 4: like on Lakers dot Com when you click roster.

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Speaker 3: I would really hope the ladder I I'd like to

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00:27:56,119 --> 00:28:00,840
Speaker 3: hypothesize he meant the ladder. There he insinuated the guys

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Speaker 3: on the room, right Martin, tell me, tell me that's

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Speaker 3: the case. I mean, yeah.

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Speaker 4: I put it like this man had a microphone, a

514
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 4: free reign to say what he wanted if he thinks

515
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:13,040
Speaker 4: he can insinuate nothing if he thinks.

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Speaker 3: Him Da and Marcus Smart, two of those three, as

517
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:19,159
Speaker 3: you alluded to eloquently on Saturday, were paid not to

518
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,200
Speaker 3: be at their previous teams. Are enough to win a ring.

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00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to sign off right now. He had

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Speaker 3: to be meaning Lebron and Reefs.

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Speaker 4: I will say this as much as I chastised Michael

522
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Speaker 4: Pennix earlier in this show for talking about how he's

523
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Speaker 4: about to take the league over. He started three games

524
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Speaker 4: in his career that's far played in five. Luca has

525
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 4: more All pros than Michael Penicks. Michael Penix has starts

526
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Speaker 4: in the NFL. I am fine with Luca Nanta saying

527
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Speaker 4: I have everything I need to win a championship right here,

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Speaker 4: A okay with it, because he should have a level

529
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Speaker 4: of understanding of what it takes to win an NBA championship,

530
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Speaker 4: not because he has done so, but because he lost

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Speaker 4: one in such spectacular fashion that there's some level of

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna figure this out and then to be traded

533
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:15,280
Speaker 4: unceremoniously from the team that you did lose that championship

534
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 4: with is now. Oh and I gotta show my ex

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Speaker 4: just how how much better I look at how much

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Speaker 4: more I'm going out now.

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Speaker 3: Sluca two point zero. This is crazy, stupid love Act three.

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00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 3: This is after the Gospeling makeover, baby, except it's in

539
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:36,720
Speaker 3: the gym, not at North Triumps. But you brought up

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Speaker 3: a phenomenal point when we were talking this out. Because

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Speaker 3: I'm the Laker fan of the room here, I'm a

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00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 3: little emotional looking at the painting. You're a more logical

543
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:50,480
Speaker 3: looking at the painting. Working through this, you said eons

544
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Speaker 3: Lebron is better than a running mate like PJ. Washington

545
00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 3: was in Dallas. Sure, which is a great thought. And

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00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:00,960
Speaker 3: so again we gotta rebring it up up based off

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Speaker 3: the Luca quote here. If Lebron has buy in, I

548
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 3: think they can go to see biscuit distance. The key

549
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:13,320
Speaker 3: is going to be leadership and communication. I think the

550
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 3: issue is going to be the rest of the roster.

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Speaker 4: That may not be the best take, but again they did.

552
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 4: There are two players expected to be in the rotation,

553
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Speaker 4: one a most definite starter who were paid to leave.

554
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 4: They were evicted from their old job. They were paid

555
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Speaker 4: to leave and now are back, you know, I mean

556
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 4: back working good for them, but paid to leave.

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Speaker 3: And I'm not talking for two weeks.

558
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Speaker 4: I'm looking forever, like you get paid to go on vacation,

559
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 4: go two weeks forficat. We trade all the work you

560
00:30:55,200 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 4: do throughout the year fifty my week. Should go in

561
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:02,760
Speaker 4: there and punch the clock. We'll give you two back.

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00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 4: Here you go, No, no, no, Day said we're we are.

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00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 4: We'd rather not. They essacially got laid off, you know,

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00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 4: And so you're telling me that DeAndre Ayton, who I

565
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 4: have not seen played meaningful basketball since Gianna's blocked his

566
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Speaker 4: shot in the finals.

567
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Speaker 3: All those years ago off the hyper extended knee. It's

568
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 3: been that. It's been sus then, yes, but there's something

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Speaker 3: to be said about again playing meaningful basketball. Marcus Smart

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Speaker 3: in the finals fifteen to five and four. Guy had

571
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Speaker 3: three games of three threes, one game of four. DA

572
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 3: had twenty one and nineteen in game one against the

573
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Speaker 3: Bucks in the finals. Two guys that played in the finals,

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00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 3: a leader that got to the finals and lost, and

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00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 3: a guy chasing Jordan. You would like to think and

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Speaker 3: ringless JJ Reddick Noggin he could figure out how to

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00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 3: get out as Jerald Butler three hundred and lead these

578
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 3: guys with a paccino speech.

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Speaker 4: It's been an entire presidential term since any of those

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Speaker 4: guys are in the finals.

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Speaker 3: That's deep.

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Speaker 4: And that's the other thing that you mentioned. Jonathan James Reddick,

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Speaker 4: who made the genius move of Game four, says.

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Speaker 3: You know what I've got it, I know what I'll do.

585
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 3: I'm gonna play.

586
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 4: My starter is the whole second half, Like nobody else

587
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 4: has thought. I think it's a good idea to keep

588
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Speaker 4: my best players in as long as possible.

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Speaker 9: I'm shocked that you're not feeling a little more optimistic

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00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:54,720
Speaker 9: about Luca Lebron and the Lakers a full eighty two, which, oh,

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00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 9: by the way, we got a costco sample of when

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Speaker 9: Luca was festive.

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Speaker 3: We plump and listen.

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Speaker 4: I think Luka Doncics can change the forces of your franchise.

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Speaker 4: I both would have traded him if I was Dallas,

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00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 4: because I don't think you get this version of Luka

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00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 4: Doncics unless you do make a move.

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Speaker 3: I also would have been up there smiling like Ronald.

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00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 4: McDonald as Luca don chet if please let me give

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00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 4: you a hundred and sixty five million dollars, Please let

601
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:24,719
Speaker 4: me give you a hundred and sixty five million dollars,

602
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 4: I'd be begging, please.

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00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 3: I'm begging you to just try to talk to Lakers

604
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,120
Speaker 3: Nation that if we have buy in.

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00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 4: But this is you could look, you'll have the by

606
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:35,240
Speaker 4: you could have the buy in.

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00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 3: But here's the problem. Okaysee is seventy ron Can you

608
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:44,280
Speaker 3: back me up? Please? Luca was taken down this SGA

609
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 3: roster minus of Caruso and Hartenstein with two K seventy eight's.

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Speaker 7: You know, what's funny about the discourse around the Lakers

611
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 7: right now is outside of Okay, see, because you know,

612
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Speaker 7: the defending champ, they had the greatest regular season ever

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Speaker 7: or whatever. The team that most people bring up as

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Speaker 7: the biggest third in the Western Conference of Denver Nuggets,

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Speaker 7: and they're like, hey, they got Jokic, they got Jamal Murray.

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00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 7: You know they're they're legit, and he saw their offseason.

617
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:12,280
Speaker 7: What's funny is all of the issues that Denver has

618
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 7: is like a mere image of what the Lakers are.

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Speaker 7: They got Jokic, we got Luca, they got Jamal Murray,

620
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 7: we got Lebron. They got a defensively challenged roster, we

621
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:23,399
Speaker 7: got a defensive challenge roster.

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Speaker 3: And yet people come in and be like, hey, you

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Speaker 3: see their offseason.

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Speaker 7: They got Bruce Brown back shooting twenty eight percent from three,

625
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 7: but he's gonna be nice next to Yokic. And it's like,

626
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Speaker 7: why do they get the benefit of the doubt with

627
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:40,799
Speaker 7: their one championship versus the Lakers who have Luca who's

628
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Speaker 7: been to the finals and Lebron who's not four.

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Speaker 3: It's a great point, mart Do you want to answer that? Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'll answer that. Because they got Jo Kicch, we got Luca.

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Speaker 3: They the gap between jo Kich and Luca is not

632
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Speaker 3: that big.

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Speaker 4: First of all, we have to now remeasure the gap

634
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Speaker 4: now that Luca's lost all that way.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, remeasure it, babycause the gap was bigger.

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00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 4: Wait, so now we got to remeasage the gap now

637
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 4: that Lugus lost the wight and been out there.

638
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 3: But I think the Nuggets did get better. Adding of

639
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:07,439
Speaker 3: course they.

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Speaker 7: Did, but they get the benefit of the doubt that

641
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 7: the Lakers don't. I don't understand it they do.

642
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 3: And also that team took the thunder the seven AG's

643
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 3: Hammy goes out might be a different entire narrative of

644
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:19,360
Speaker 3: a playoffs.

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00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:24,279
Speaker 4: You said that team, just to be clear, it was

646
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 4: not the Lakers that took them. Nowhere team right, That team,

647
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:35,200
Speaker 4: like the Lakers, went quietly into the night by the

648
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 4: hands of Anthony Edwards.

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Speaker 10: The Giants gus because Luca ate two boxes of bad

650
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:41,239
Speaker 10: pizza and he couldn't move in Game three?

651
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Speaker 4: Or was it because first year Jig first year Coachet

652
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Speaker 4: Reddick said I'm going to burn the boats at halftime

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Speaker 4: of Game four? Or was it the decision to play

654
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Speaker 4: Maxi Kleeber who you know Jackson Hayes was surprised to

655
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Speaker 4: find out had a locker in the locker room.

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Speaker 7: Well, you know, MAXI Cleeber also got and shape this off.

657
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Speaker 7: Seven know what's talking about it because you look at

658
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 7: that Men's Health article last year.

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00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 3: Last year theme wise, gentlemen, it was a year of continuity.

660
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 3: It was the teams that had the most players, ironically

661
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 3: in key roles from the year prior, working their way

662
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 3: and then you pepper in a Caruso and a Hartenstein.

663
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:21,240
Speaker 3: It works out brilliantly. But everyone knew their said roles

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Speaker 3: and they had their set won. Two guys J Dubn Sga,

665
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:29,359
Speaker 3: Siakham and Halley. Now it's a whole new year. Now

666
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:31,879
Speaker 3: you got Jimmy Buckets for a year in Golden State,

667
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:34,759
Speaker 3: you got Luca in La. We have to reset. I

668
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 3: feel the men in Black memory. I genuinely think we're

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Speaker 3: Helli Burton Achilles away from this thunder team, the youngest

670
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Speaker 3: team since the Late Blazers by the way, late Bill

671
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 3: Walton Blazers in seventy seven, from winning it all. I

672
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 3: genuinely feel that way.

673
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Speaker 4: So right now, as I shit neuralives did all. Okay,

674
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 4: she is better than the Lakers. Houston with Kevin Durant

675
00:36:58,560 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 4: is better than the Lakers.

676
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Speaker 7: Why yeah, Why, Like, you're so excited about a team

677
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 7: that got bounced in the first round.

678
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Speaker 3: I'm not. I'm not so excited I'd say that.

679
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Speaker 4: Well, first of all, that's ironic that you would say

680
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Speaker 4: I'm so excited about a team that got bounced, because.

681
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 10: You all talking about ptention for winning, but the two

682
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:21,360
Speaker 10: best players have won at a high level.

683
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:24,960
Speaker 4: The Rockets, to me, had a glaring issue that they addressed.

684
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 4: They needed to improve at the scoring guard has proved

685
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 4: and they get a guy who could hit open shots.

686
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 4: I think that team defensively misses nothing losing even though

687
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:34,919
Speaker 4: they lost Dylan Brooks.

688
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 3: And just gets better offensively.

689
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Speaker 4: And I think Kevin Durant is still a tough matchup

690
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:41,840
Speaker 4: in the postseason, surrounded by all those young dudes. Plus

691
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Speaker 4: I think one of the Thompsons, the Thompson Kid, takes

692
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 4: a step forward. I think the Timberwolves right now are

693
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:49,839
Speaker 4: better than the Lakers. Why do I think that? Because

694
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:53,280
Speaker 4: they just beat the almost swore beat the Lakers pretty

695
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:55,799
Speaker 4: badly in the first round of the playoffs last year.

696
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:58,800
Speaker 3: I think the Nuggets right now are better than the Lakers.

697
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:00,919
Speaker 3: But why why?

698
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:03,440
Speaker 4: Because I think Jokis is the best player. Jokis is

699
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:06,440
Speaker 4: the best player in the NBA. And they improved that.

700
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 4: There's Michael Porter Junior was out to lunch unless he

701
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:11,319
Speaker 4: was hitting them. The Lakers improved their glary weakness too.

702
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 4: You just don't write the Lakers.

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00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 3: I get it. It's wine.

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Speaker 10: Listen, you're living off two thousand and four to this day.

705
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 10: The Pistons got one championship in your lifetime, and you're like, yeah,

706
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Speaker 10: f the Lakers, it's up. We all bum It's Martin

707
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Speaker 10: Lakery a Laker.

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Speaker 4: Hey, you're in the slightest but I'll tell you this

709
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Speaker 4: and said, I say this with no shame because I'm

710
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Speaker 4: somebody who does it all the time. DeAndre Ayton is

711
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 4: a five thousand dollars car off Craigslist. All right, you

712
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 4: can buy it, you're registered, and of course you maybe

713
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Speaker 4: one thousand dollars to fix.

714
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Speaker 3: Up, and you will get around.

715
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Speaker 4: But you ain't impressing nobody with that old four jeep

716
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Speaker 4: terry Key, You're not impress anybody.

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Speaker 3: Would Hey you get married with the four cheap carris, Yeah,

718
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:50,959
Speaker 3: I'm telling you can get married. But she ain't gonna

719
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Speaker 3: love you cut your car. Fifteen and ten is reliable.

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Speaker 3: Fifteen and ten. That's his career numbers. We're not asking

721
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Speaker 3: him to be one the second dude. You can even

722
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 3: make a case he's the fourth best player on the roster.

723
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Speaker 3: This is what you're asking him to do.

724
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Speaker 4: You're asking him to go into the Western Conference playoffs

725
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:12,320
Speaker 4: and go toe to toe with that big band, serbian monster.

726
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:14,440
Speaker 4: That's what you're asking him to do. Because what do

727
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:16,960
Speaker 4: you Because here's I can see it now. Remember Darvinham

728
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Speaker 4: had the solution, but Ruey Hotsimore were out there.

729
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Speaker 3: That's what you sound like, all I missed the hands. No, no, no,

730
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:29,680
Speaker 3: because Andyton, first of all, you got a Caruso headband

731
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Speaker 3: high different to how many inches covering and banging up yokis.

732
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:34,200
Speaker 3: If the refs are gonna let the whistle go and

733
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Speaker 3: he can hand check and do all stuff that's nineties esque.

734
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Speaker 3: In the playoffs, all bets are off because you got

735
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 3: a couple of dogs on this Lakers team, like Ruy

736
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Speaker 3: Hotsimura that could probably play a little bit of second

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Speaker 3: fiddle to eight and knocking up yok It's the point

738
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Speaker 3: is is it's two top. If you're not gonna call

739
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 3: Lebron the top ten player this year. That's fine, but

740
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Speaker 3: he's a top fifteen. I would like to think we talked. Okay,

741
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 3: So two top fifteen guys and four guys that could

742
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Speaker 3: put the ball in the basket upside of fifteen twenty

743
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:08,680
Speaker 3: points per game, and a couple of two way dogs.

744
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Speaker 3: This is almost as much about Redick being able to

745
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:15,400
Speaker 3: manage stars as it is going out winning games. It

746
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:17,359
Speaker 3: gonna win fifty three to fifty four games with their

747
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 3: eyes close.

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Speaker 4: I tell you what, I'm not an agent, but if

749
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Speaker 4: I was, and I needed to like rehab my guys,

750
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:31,799
Speaker 4: you know, image before they jumped overseas. Like if I'm

751
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:35,839
Speaker 4: trying to negotiate between the Sanghai Sharks and you know,

752
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:40,839
Speaker 4: the Korean team or whatever, I'm gonna try my best

753
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:43,239
Speaker 4: to get my client signed by the Lakers, because for

754
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:47,879
Speaker 4: two months, talking heads everywhere, we'll talk about how great

755
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:50,879
Speaker 4: this guy is, and then it'll be a disaster when

756
00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:54,319
Speaker 4: Shanghai somehow shines him away back if the Portland trip

757
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:58,360
Speaker 4: Blazers paying Green American dollars to send this guy home.

758
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 3: When Lebron wins fifth ring with the Luka Doncics lead Lakers.

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Speaker 3: It might be the most impressive one outside of the

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Speaker 3: three one. It just might be.

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Speaker 4: It might be if you can, if you know what

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00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 4: that you want to talk about, having enough to win

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Speaker 4: a championship. Do they get money back if you buy

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Speaker 4: if you're GETNA, if you like get a buyout player.

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Speaker 4: You're gonna rebate on that