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Speaker 1: Game up. Welcome to the No Dunks podcast here on

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Speaker 1: the Athletic Network.

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Speaker 2: It's April eighth.

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Speaker 1: There are six nights left in the NBA regular season.

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Speaker 1: It's happening very quickly. I'm Tasmels beside me, the man

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Speaker 1: in the middle, because he plays basketball in the middle,

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Speaker 1: and he's sitting directly in the middle of JD. And

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Speaker 1: I say it's Trey Carby. Hey, Hey, and JD. As

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Speaker 1: I mentioned, making the magic happen over there? What's up? JD?

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Speaker 1: Hello there? He has no j skeets today. He's running

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Speaker 1: a marathon. A good time from what I saw in

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Speaker 1: Las Vegas, better.

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Speaker 2: Than my time, better than still incomplete for me trying

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Speaker 2: to get to up to twenty six miles of running lifetime.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you said you're never gonna do it. We talk

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Speaker 1: about sometimes and you say, nah's not gonna do it

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Speaker 1: because you're a very fit guy.

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Speaker 2: I feel like I'm one of those guys will never

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Speaker 2: run a marathon. There's many of us out there, yes,

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Speaker 2: but who knows? Who knows? Things change as you get older.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I'm unable to jump, so I just take to running.

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Speaker 2: Seems unlikely, but weirder things have happened.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you. I'm with you. I'm not good

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Speaker 1: on though I do. I had to run halfs but

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Speaker 1: I'm with you. I'm not gonna do it. But I

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Speaker 1: think maybe, who knows, things may change before we get

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Speaker 1: to the winners and losers. This is a very general question.

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Speaker 1: It's probably a non answerable question. Is the NBA drunk

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Speaker 1: right now? I mean, there's just so many things happening

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Speaker 1: and b comes back, then he sits, the Bucks can't

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Speaker 1: beat anybody. We get kicks to the head this weekend.

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Speaker 1: What's going on?

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Speaker 2: It's it's weird. I think it's because of March badness

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Speaker 2: coming in. Obviously we're into angry April at this point.

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Speaker 2: But it's like one night you've got thirteen games, the

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Speaker 2: next night you've got four games, then you're back to thirteen.

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Speaker 2: It's just weird for everybody.

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Speaker 1: It is.

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Speaker 2: We all know we can't go outside right now because

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Speaker 2: we can't look at the eclipse, So maybe people are

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Speaker 2: going stir crazy. I don't know what it is, but

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Speaker 2: the NBA, they're jamming in like a lot of weird

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Speaker 2: content and memes into the last week of the season

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Speaker 2: while we still got thirty teams going memes.

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Speaker 1: That's true. Yeah, so many memes out there. Well, let's

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Speaker 1: get started. We'll get to the losers a little bit later.

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Speaker 1: But there are so many winners. What is your first one?

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Speaker 1: The winner of the weekend.

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Speaker 2: Winner of the weekend for me, the Dallas Mavericks. Two

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Speaker 2: beauties this weekend. Two clutch wins for Dallas on Friday

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Speaker 2: against the Warriors. No Luka doncicch In this one. PJ.

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Speaker 2: Washington goes for thirty two points, the most he's scored

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Speaker 2: since joining the Mavericks. Hit a game winner as the

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Speaker 2: Mavericks survived the Warriors comeback. Some big shots by Steph Curry.

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Speaker 2: That was an awesome game. Also of note in this one,

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Speaker 2: Luka Doncic, like I said, he wasn't playing. He was

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Speaker 2: wearing a hat on the sideline. I don't know if

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Speaker 2: I've seen Luca wear a hat since Draft night, but uh,

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Speaker 1: The NBA is yeah, puts on a hat. No, I

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Speaker 1: can't believe it.

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Speaker 2: We're all feeling funny right now, So wore a hat

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Speaker 2: on Friday Friday. Hats for everybody. Another win though, on

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Speaker 2: Sunday for Dallas against Houston. Kyrie Irving goes for forty

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Speaker 2: eight points, Luka Doncics thirty seven, nine rebounds, and twelve assists.

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Speaker 2: That's the most points they've scored in a game together

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Speaker 2: on the Dallas Mavericks. I think maybe the first time

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Speaker 2: they both scored over thirty five as well. But it

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Speaker 2: was Dante Exhem who actually played the hero in this one.

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Speaker 2: Just like last weekend against the Sacramento Kings, he forced

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Speaker 2: overtime with a buzzer beating three pointer, then PJ Washington

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Speaker 2: he was back in the next a couple of big

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Speaker 2: threes in overtime for Dallas. Two games over the weekend

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Speaker 2: for the MAVs. I heard Mark Followill call this squeaky

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Speaker 2: bum time because these excuse me, yeah, squeaky bum time.

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Speaker 2: But two game trusting, two games where their MAVs were

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Speaker 2: really trusting their teammates. I thought in this one that

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Speaker 2: Warriors game, Kyrie Irving gets double teamed. He dished to

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Speaker 2: Tim Hardaway Junior, who drives to the hoop and he

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Speaker 2: against the Rockets, Jabari Smith Junior, he could have iced

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Speaker 2: the game for Houston, misses two free throws Dante Exhem

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Speaker 2: grabs the rebround, he gets it to Luca, Luca brings

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Speaker 2: the wing for the three. Derek Carper Yell's got it

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Speaker 2: as the balls in the air really swish bomb as

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Speaker 2: I thought that was super impressive. You got the stars

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Speaker 2: playing well in both of these games. But they understand

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Speaker 2: when I get double teamed, there's great players around me now,

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Speaker 2: so I can get off the ball. Let somebody else

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Speaker 2: make a play. That gives everybody confidence going forward into

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Speaker 2: the playoffs. Since the trade deadline, the MAVs are nineteen

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Speaker 2: and seven. They've got the second best record in the league,

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Speaker 2: behind only the Celtics, their fourth in offense, their seventh

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Speaker 2: up to fifth in the West, just a couple of

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Speaker 2: games behind fourth, but a couple of games up still

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Speaker 2: on sixth and seventh in the Western Conference. U, who

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Speaker 2: is that the Pelicans.

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Speaker 1: And chang change every day? Well, yeah, it's the Sons

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Speaker 1: and the Pelicans.

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Speaker 2: Sons and Pelicans right now in sixth and seventh exactly right.

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Speaker 2: But it's looking like once again a showdown between the

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Speaker 2: Clippers and the MAVs is likely what's going to happen

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Speaker 2: in the Western Conference. We'll see who actually ends up

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Speaker 2: fourth and fifth. But the MAVs look really good, stealing

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Speaker 2: a couple of wins here, getting contributions from everybody. They

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Speaker 2: made some great moves. I mean maybe long term, maybe

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Speaker 2: they regret trading the picks and maybe that comes back

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Speaker 2: to haunt them. But they're versatile right now. They play defense,

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Speaker 2: They've got a lot of guys who can score. Luca

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Speaker 2: and Kyrie seem like they got a mind meld right now.

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Speaker 2: They understand how to play off each other, and most importantly,

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Speaker 2: that are in town. I'm liking what I'm seeing from Dallas.

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Speaker 1: I was wrong about the trades and how they would

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Speaker 1: all come together. Their defense is playing extremely hard for

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Speaker 1: as you said, he hit that three to send the

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Speaker 1: game to overtime against Houston. The guy is shooting fifty

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Speaker 1: a lot of them, but yes, that is great. He

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Speaker 1: in years that he's going into. So there's that. They do.

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Speaker 1: Just look so fricking good. And don't dropping Dylan Brooks, Well,

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Speaker 1: like he's good Canadian days. I'm sure he played on

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Speaker 1: played hockey. I'm sure who knows what.

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Speaker 2: Do you think he was? You think he's like a center?

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Speaker 2: I think he's addished it out there. Is he like

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Speaker 2: just a goon racking up the penalty mates?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I think the center for or just just third

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Speaker 1: I don't know why I'm dropping him to a third

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Speaker 1: Landeal he probably played some hockey. How why why would

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Speaker 1: Thirteen points in sixteen minutes for the Rockets. Just a

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Speaker 1: strange weekend in the NBA, But yeah, Dallas looking awesome.

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Speaker 2: Dallas is looking good. They've got two players who are clutched,

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Speaker 2: and Luca and Kyrie. They're two of the best shot

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Speaker 2: performances out of their others, that makes them a really,

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Speaker 2: really dangerous team going forward. Because you think Luca can

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Speaker 2: win a game in a playoff series by himself, Kyrie

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Speaker 2: could likely win a playoff game in a series like himself.

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Speaker 2: Then you just got to get two games out of

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Speaker 2: five where your role players are playing really well. Maybe

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Speaker 2: or maybe it's shooting fifty percent from three during the

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Speaker 2: course of the series. Who does The Clippers have eliminated

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Speaker 2: the Mavericks twice, even though it feels like Dallas has

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Speaker 2: don't know which way that would go, but I would

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Speaker 2: But i'd like to see Dallas lac That sounds good

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And as I said, Kyrie's got to come back

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Speaker 1: And Luca after a conference finals a couple of years ago,

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Speaker 1: Moving on a team that did very, very well in

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Speaker 1: last year's postseason, the Denver Nuggets winning the championship. To me,

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Speaker 1: team because Jamal Murray is back. He's so important. They

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Speaker 1: they do. This is what Atlanta's bogged down. Bogdanovic said

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Speaker 1: to score, he's got Murray and that's basically it simple

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Speaker 1: to two game, Jamal Urray had sixteen points, six assists,

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Speaker 1: to be great. That is essential. They need him to

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Speaker 1: be a great score because he's missed two weeks and

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Speaker 1: they went four and three without him, and head coach

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Speaker 1: Michael Malone said after the game, we need Jamal Murray

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Speaker 1: flowing again here before the postseason, especially because the regular

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Speaker 1: season ends and then we have five or six days

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Speaker 1: him to get flowing. And with Jamal Murray back, Denver

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Speaker 1: about the Nuggets, the Nuggets begin, JD. I think you

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Speaker 1: have that weird clip. Are you ready for it?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 1: Taylor Swift doesn't say the Nuggets begin at all, but

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Speaker 1: every time I played that song with my kids, it

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Speaker 1: feels like she says the Nuggets begin. So I decided

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Speaker 1: that's what she says. It's like in Denver Nuggets anthem.

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Speaker 2: Did you make that? Yeah, yeah, it sounds like somebody

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Speaker 1: Yes, for months, I've been listening to that. But they

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they basically played eight guys throughout the playoffs last season.

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Speaker 2: They shot sixty percent against the Hawks. They hit twenty

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Speaker 2: So I think it's been a season long experiment to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Murray in that flow. You mentioned the loss

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Speaker 2: Going from the West, Taylor Swift as a Nuggets fan, No,

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Speaker 1: Back to t Swift, who would she be a fan of?

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Speaker 2: She's from Tennessee, right, Yeah, I know they're not making

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think she has a team that she likes.

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Speaker 2: That's two really nice wins. I think Sunday one of

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Speaker 2: I'll never forget that one called lane violation. It can happen.

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Speaker 2: They've won ten of their last fifteen. They're into the

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Speaker 2: They beat the Grizzlies on Friday. Embiid went for thirty

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Speaker 2: sweet win for Philadelphia. Five straight w's, including one on

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Speaker 2: still performing pretty well. Friday, though, is gonna be a

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Speaker 1: The Eastern Conference standings are a little bunkers, so when

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Speaker 1: He had thirty five points and eleven assists, and his

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Speaker 1: Julius Randall really was Josh Hart. That's the guy starting

430
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Speaker 1: in place of Julius Randall, and the Kings were doubling

431
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Speaker 1: Jaylen Brunson at times at the mid court line. They're saying,

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Speaker 1: we're getting the ball out of your hands. It looked

433
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Speaker 1: like Steph with the Golden State Warris, We're getting the

434
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Speaker 1: ball out of your hands, and Josh Hart looked like

435
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Speaker 1: Draymond Green. He was able to get the ball and

436
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Speaker 1: make things happen, hit shots, do whatever. When they were

437
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Speaker 1: playing four on three, thirty one points, nine boards, eight

438
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Speaker 1: assists for Josh Hart. Going on to Friday, back to

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Speaker 1: back for them. They're playing the Chicago Bulls. The Bulls

440
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Speaker 1: are nice and rested three days off them. Am using

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Speaker 1: that excuse, but also Josh Hart got ejected. We'll get

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Speaker 1: to that foot ejection a little bit later, and that hurt.

443
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Speaker 1: You can lose Julius Randall because Jalen Brunson is so

444
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Speaker 1: awesome and you have others, but you can't lose Josh Hart.

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Speaker 1: That hurt. Brunson had thirty five points, eleven assists in

446
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Speaker 1: a game where og Anenobi came back. He had missed

447
00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:53,760
Speaker 1: nine games with inflammation because of that elbow he had surgery.

448
00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:56,600
Speaker 1: He went back out now he looked good in that game.

449
00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:59,760
Speaker 1: They do lose against the Chicago Bulls. And then on

450
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Speaker 1: some Jolen Brunson man. The footwork was awesome. Forty three

451
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Speaker 1: points against the New York Knicks. He was just so nimble,

452
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Speaker 1: even though they tried to double him. Again, if you're

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Speaker 1: doubling him at the mid court line, josh Artz getting

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Speaker 1: the ball, if you're doubling him in a pick and

455
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Speaker 1: roll situation. Isaia Hartenshein's getting the ball. As you said

456
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Speaker 1: last week, hert Andshein is their starting center. Mitchell Robinson

457
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Speaker 1: came back. He was their starting center, but you said, nah,

458
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Speaker 1: I think Hertenstein's still going to start. And he's so good.

459
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Speaker 1: He hit floater after floater after floater. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you can call a monstrous guy like that a

461
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Speaker 1: floater maker. Are they push shots or they float? Whatever

462
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Speaker 1: they were? He hit four of those things, four floaters

463
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Speaker 1: for Hartenshein in an eighteen point and ten game, eighteen

464
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Speaker 1: point ten rebound game, and then bug down Bogdanovic, No,

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Speaker 1: not bugg dan boy on Bogdanovic off the bench. He

466
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Speaker 1: had fifteen points. He is their sixth man, which I

467
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Speaker 1: think he likes. He just can get in and just fire.

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Speaker 1: Alec Berks had a DNP in this game. Bugdanovic is

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Speaker 1: their guy now, and he's going to be relied on

470
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Speaker 1: a lot without Julius Randall in there. So it's up

471
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Speaker 1: obviously to Jalen Brunson. But then there's got to be

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Speaker 1: guys who produce the Hart brothers and Hart and Sein

473
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Speaker 1: and Josh Hart Ojananobi who's looking good after coming back

474
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Speaker 1: looking decent. Anyways, Dante Divioncenzo or could be Miles McBride

475
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Speaker 1: in some scenarios, Mitchell Romson, as I said, Boyan mcnaas.

476
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Speaker 1: There's lots of guys. I don't know how the Knicks

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Speaker 1: do it. I don't know how Jalen Brunson does it,

478
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Speaker 1: but he does look pretty good. And I wouldn't want

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Speaker 1: to see this team in the postseason.

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Speaker 2: It's still gonna be interesting to see what they're like

481
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Speaker 2: in the postseason because Brunson's going to be the man.

482
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Speaker 2: The guy's basically been playing forty minutes a night for

483
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Speaker 2: the past couple of weeks, so the week off in

484
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Speaker 2: between the season and when the playoffs actually start is

485
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Speaker 2: going to be huge for him to actually get some rest.

486
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Speaker 2: And then, like you're mentioning all these other guys without Randal,

487
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Speaker 2: it's gonna have to be by committee for the next cuz.

488
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Speaker 2: Butgdanovic hasn't been that great really since coming to New York.

489
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Speaker 2: But it's good to see him have a good game

490
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Speaker 2: because they will need him to have moments if they

491
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Speaker 2: don't have Randall out there to soak up some ISO

492
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Speaker 2: possessions and take over when Brunson actually gets a chance

493
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Speaker 2: to sit down. Miles McBride has had some really big

494
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Speaker 2: games lately. That's really cool. We'll see how that turns

495
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Speaker 2: out in the playoffs. And then it's great to get

496
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Speaker 2: Og back. He had one good game, he had one

497
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Speaker 2: game where he didn't really do much, but just having

498
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Speaker 2: the option, having the size and additional shooting out there

499
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Speaker 2: makes things a little bit easier for Brunson. And then yeah,

500
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Speaker 2: Hertenstein's man. This guy is just a really solid player.

501
00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:27,440
Speaker 2: He seems like a big time athlete. He obviously offensive rebounds,

502
00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:29,200
Speaker 2: he dunks a lot, but he does have nice touch.

503
00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:31,960
Speaker 2: He can pass the ball, and he can't serve as

504
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Speaker 2: a release valve for the Knicks and for Brunson now

505
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Speaker 2: that he doesn't have Randall running alongside him. So the

506
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Speaker 2: Knicks they've got a great identity. They play defense, They've

507
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Speaker 2: got a really deep team. It'll be a matter of

508
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Speaker 2: who actually shows up consistently in the playoffs and if

509
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Speaker 2: Josh Hart can just stop kicking guys in the head.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's get this some kick talk. So who's your

511
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Speaker 1: next winner of the weekend?

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Speaker 2: Here, I'm giving a winner of the weekend to Javonte

513
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Speaker 2: Green because I love it when a random dude has

514
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Speaker 2: his best game. You mentioned it. On Friday, Javonte Green

515
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Speaker 2: went off twenty five points. That's a career high. Thirteen rebounds,

516
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Speaker 2: that's a career high. He's an energy guy. It was

517
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Speaker 2: just his fourth game of the season after suffering an

518
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Speaker 2: injury last year. Bulls picked him up on a ten

519
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:15,639
Speaker 2: day at the end of the season this year, then

520
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:18,360
Speaker 2: gave him a really an actual contract, and it did

521
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Speaker 2: feel like there were five Javantes out there. But he

522
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Speaker 2: does kind of get a winner here because I love that.

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Speaker 2: He added to one of my favorite genres of NBA photos,

524
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Speaker 2: and that's a guy getting kicked in the face. It

525
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Speaker 2: always looks worse than it does, cause when Josh Hart

526
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Speaker 2: caught Javonte Green with his kick in the lane, you know,

527
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Speaker 2: like I think Green pump fake. So Heart goes up

528
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Speaker 2: to try and block his shot. His leg kind of

529
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Speaker 2: goes crazy and it looks like he's doing a nasty

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Speaker 2: roundhouse kick to Davonte Green's head, very much like I

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Speaker 2: Renewable kicking Mike Dunlevy in the face. The play looks

532
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Speaker 2: super innocent if you watch it live, but it looks

533
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Speaker 2: like he's a UFC fighter. Otherwise, there's a great Rondo one,

534
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Speaker 2: there's some great Bruce Bowen kicks, and I think the

535
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Speaker 2: Javonte Green should be added to the mix there. Heart

536
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Speaker 2: did get ejected in this one, but I didn't think

537
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Speaker 2: he was doing it on purpose. I guess Draymond Green

538
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Speaker 2: is right sometimes leights just flail.

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Speaker 1: I totally agree with you that I don't think he

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Speaker 1: actually meant to. He was trying to, like, you know,

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Speaker 1: sell it a little bit, so he kicked his leg

542
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Speaker 1: up and it happened to hit Javonte Green in the head.

543
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Speaker 1: But as you said, the photo looks way worse than

544
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Speaker 1: it actually was. It didn't hurt John Tay Green. He

545
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Speaker 1: obviously kept going to have his career high everywhere. So

546
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Speaker 1: great moment for him, great moment for NBA memes. I mean,

547
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Speaker 1: when it comes down to.

548
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Speaker 2: It, yeah, looks vicious and it worked out for the

549
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Speaker 2: Balls getting Josh Hart ejected on and you know, yeah,

550
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Speaker 2: if your foot touches somebody's face, I suppose that counts

551
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:47,080
Speaker 2: as a flagrant too. But Balls got to win on Friday,

552
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Speaker 2: lost on Sunday, so they got a one game lead

553
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,960
Speaker 2: on Atlanta plus the tie break for ninth. We'll see

554
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:52,640
Speaker 2: how that turns out.

555
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Speaker 1: Great story for Javonte Green, the guy's thirty undrafted game

556
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Speaker 1: of the season here, especially because the last year game

557
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Speaker 1: of the career, I should, yeah, end game of the season,

558
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:03,800
Speaker 1: but also game of his career because as you said,

559
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:07,239
Speaker 1: he had surgery last year and at thirty you go

560
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 1: back to the g League. Look like, who knows what

561
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,600
Speaker 1: his NBA career would become. But to have your best

562
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,960
Speaker 1: game here pretty cool, and it looked good doing it.

563
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,639
Speaker 1: Like the reverse dunk that was sweet. I mean it

564
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Speaker 1: looked like that was a practice dunk that he could

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Speaker 1: just do. Apply. Yeah, So one more Winter of the

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Speaker 1: weekend before we get to a break. Sticking with the Greens,

567
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Speaker 1: I'm going all Houston Rockets and we'll get to Jalen

568
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:32,639
Speaker 1: Green in a second. The Houston Rockets, you can call

569
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Speaker 1: them a loser, I suppose, because it's official. They will

570
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 1: not make the postseason. They'll not make the playing tournament,

571
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Speaker 1: they'll not make the playoffs. But it's a really good

572
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Speaker 1: season all in all because they'll probably end with like

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Speaker 1: forty wins when it's done around there after a twenty

574
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Speaker 1: two win season last year and there was a point

575
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Speaker 1: this year where they're twenty five and thirty three, and

576
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Speaker 1: that's what I want to get to how they came

577
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Speaker 1: back from that because Jalen Green's growth happened after they

578
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Speaker 1: were twenty five and thirty three, because before that he

579
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Speaker 1: had struggled a lot. I mean, he looked like essentially

580
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Speaker 1: he did last year. But it was in those few

581
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Speaker 1: games late February where even though he was watching a

582
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Speaker 1: lot of film all season long, because he had a

583
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Speaker 1: different type of offense. It wasn't Kevin Porter Junior where

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Speaker 1: it was like my year turn type thing. It was

585
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Speaker 1: Fred VanVleet who controlled the ball and he had to

586
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Speaker 1: playoff that and get better. He had to playoff Alprin

587
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Speaker 1: Shecheng Gun, who had an awesome year while he was there.

588
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Speaker 1: So it was very different for him, but he wasn't

589
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Speaker 1: the same type of guy. So those two games in

590
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Speaker 1: late February against Phoenix, where he had sixty eight points,

591
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 1: thirteen threes, fourteen boards, six assist, five seals combined, he

592
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 1: said it just clicked, and it obviously did because he

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Speaker 1: followed that with the month of his career, the best

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Speaker 1: month of his career, where he showed he wasn't just

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Speaker 1: an isolation player. Yes, there was the violent dunk, that

596
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 1: punishing dunk, and the threes were falling. That's important. He

597
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 1: had four threes in the month of March where he

598
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Speaker 1: turned his back to the basket after just putting it up,

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00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 1: you know, after shooting the ball. I don't know why

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Speaker 1: I'm coming up with that stat of four threes in

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Speaker 1: a month, but I don't think that's ever been done before.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the only guy who would think is maybe

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Speaker 2: Steph Curry. We'd have to go back and watch all

604
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Speaker 2: the ties from the twenty sixteen season.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but just all in all, he looked like a

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Speaker 1: different player in March, where watching all that film may

607
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 1: have helped, because he was running a pick and roll

608
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 1: effectively scoring point nine points per possession on those, shooting

609
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Speaker 1: seventy one percent in the restricted area, up from fifty

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Speaker 1: five percent from all of last year. And he was

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Speaker 1: shooting the second most threes. I found this surprising. The

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Speaker 1: second most threes in the NBA. When a player goes

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Speaker 1: under a pick when guarding him like that is a

614
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Speaker 1: lot of threes. I mean, you're getting into like the

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Speaker 1: Luca Trey numbers. He shoots more than those guys, it's

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Speaker 1: like Steph territory, but that is the second most threes

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Speaker 1: and he hit a great percentage of thirty eight percent.

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Speaker 1: Now you look at the stats and he might say

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Speaker 1: he's not really a great three point shooter this season,

620
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Speaker 1: but I don't think that really matters if he gets

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Speaker 1: close to average because of how spectacular he is athletically.

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Speaker 1: Luca wasn't a great three point shooter until this year, really,

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Speaker 1: so I don't think that really matters. I think overall,

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Speaker 1: just his March the numbers, I gotta give him to

625
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Speaker 1: twenty seven point seven points, six boards, four assists, forty

626
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Speaker 1: nine percent from the floor, forty one percent from three,

627
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Speaker 1: sixty one percent true shooting percentage, and the team was

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Speaker 1: awesome thirteen to two in March, six thirty point games

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Speaker 1: for him to forty point games. Kelly Eco has a

630
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 1: great breakdown on the athletic of Jalen Green period, but

631
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Speaker 1: obviously his best month of the season, and I assume

632
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Speaker 1: I gotta assume that he is just going to get better. Overall,

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Speaker 1: I think he will carry some of that forward going

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Speaker 1: to next season. It's just not March madness. I don't

635
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Speaker 1: think I think he looks good and he's going to

636
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Speaker 1: be you know, maybe not those types of numbers, but

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Speaker 1: I think he got better as the season went along,

638
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 1: and he's going to carry that some of that well.

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Speaker 2: Actually, unfortunately it's April now it's true, and he's shooting

640
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Speaker 2: thirty eight percent and twenty five percent from three in

641
00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:59,640
Speaker 2: April and the Rockets haven't won a game. They won

642
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 2: eleven straight and then of the loss five straight. So

643
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 2: hopefully it's not an outlier shooting month for Jalen Green

644
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 2: because he is thirty three percent on the season. That's

645
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 2: why people are going underneath the screen. He's a great athlete.

646
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 2: He's done an awesome job of actually getting to the

647
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 2: rim as the Rockets have started playing five out with

648
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 2: Jabari Smith and Aman Thompson kind of serving as the five,

649
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 2: whether it be as a pick and pop guy or

650
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,959
Speaker 2: as a role guy. But if he's able to shoot

651
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 2: a league average percent, if he's shooting thirty six percent

652
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 2: on pull up threes, maybe they stop going underneath him

653
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 2: and on screens and he's able to attack even more so.

654
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 2: But when you look at the the month shooting splits

655
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 2: twenty five percent, thirty eight percent, thirty two, thirty twenty six,

656
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 2: forty one, twenty five, which is going to be the

657
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 2: real Jalen Green for the Rockets. They better hope it's

658
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 2: the guy who hits forty one percent from three because

659
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 2: that changes the ceiling of their team. But the most

660
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 2: important thing is that the Rockets young guys actually played

661
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 2: important games for a month. Even these losses here, as

662
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:57,320
Speaker 2: they've lost five straight, have been against playoff teams who

663
00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 2: are playing for seeding, who still have something to play for,

664
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 2: and obviously the Rockets, though they've been eliminated, were still

665
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 2: trying to play for something. So I think it's important

666
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 2: that he showed his best month of the season for

667
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:12,280
Speaker 2: the first time when there were some sort of stakes

668
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 2: for Houston. So I'm a little bit more encouraged about

669
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 2: Jalen Green than I was heading into the second half

670
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 2: of the season. Smart of the Rockets, I think to

671
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 2: not trade him, though that was in the mix, I

672
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:26,280
Speaker 2: suppose during the trade deadline with him being offered for

673
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,960
Speaker 2: Michale Bridges. I think the Rockets made the right move

674
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 2: standing patt even if ema Udoka was kind of pushing

675
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 2: for veterans to get them to the playoffs.

676
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, they have fought something in the second half here,

677
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 1: they've fought for something. I should say, like you said,

678
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,880
Speaker 1: they're twenty five and thirty three at one point, easy

679
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 1: to say a team that also loses outprincheng gunt injury

680
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:51,239
Speaker 1: would just sort of pack it in a little bit.

681
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 1: You're young guys anyways, But they have done a good job.

682
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 1: Raphael Stone has done a good job of building a

683
00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 1: team that has a lot of veterans to show you

684
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 1: it's important to fight, even in March when it was

685
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 1: not guaranteed by any means that they would make the

686
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 1: play in tournament. So all in all, a good season.

687
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 1: All in all, a good season for the young guys

688
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 1: to play alongside those veterans. So they've accomplished a lot.

689
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 1: All right, we'll get to our losers after this break.

690
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 1: We got to take a quick break. But after what

691
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 1: is going on with the teams that were supposed to

692
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,480
Speaker 1: be right below the Boston Celtics. What the heck is

693
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 1: going on? We'll be right back back with no ducks

694
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 1: here to get to losers of the weekend. It was

695
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 1: a very hectic weekend, I thought, because, as you said,

696
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 1: a load of games Friday, very few on Saturday, and

697
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:40,480
Speaker 1: then a load on Sunday, So.

698
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 2: I wasn't tough to manage.

699
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 1: It was tough to manage how many games were going on,

700
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 1: how many teams What was it like, thirteen or something,

701
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 1: eight to eleven, Yeah, thirteen, that's right, twenty six teams

702
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 1: were playing. So I assumed that we could just skip

703
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:56,280
Speaker 1: over the Milwaukee Bucks game, that they would take care

704
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 1: of business against the New York Knicks. But they did

705
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:00,960
Speaker 1: not take care of businesses against the New York Knicks.

706
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:02,600
Speaker 1: Why I thought they'd take care of business against the

707
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:04,480
Speaker 1: New York Nicks because they came in having lost three

708
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 1: straight to three bad teams. They had lost to the Wizards, Grizzlies,

709
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:12,399
Speaker 1: and Raptors, all teams that aren't in the playoffs. They've

710
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 1: already been eliminated. They averaged like twenty two or twenty

711
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:19,359
Speaker 1: three wins. So against New York, I thought, Okay, we'll

712
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 1: figure it out. And I thought after the first two

713
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 1: quarters that they would. But then they came out of

714
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:29,440
Speaker 1: the locker room and they were just poor defensively, they

715
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 1: just weren't active. Watching that team in the second half,

716
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 1: the Nick shot sixty three percent from the floor, sixty

717
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 1: six from three, and then watching Chris Milton get hurt.

718
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:41,879
Speaker 1: He was hit in the face by de Vincenzo. He's

719
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:44,600
Speaker 1: on the ground. Hartenstein fell on his back. Okay, that's

720
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:47,879
Speaker 1: a dual injury, I felt like. And then he left

721
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,839
Speaker 1: the game because he lost a tooth after that first

722
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 1: hit and he had to see a dentist post game.

723
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 2: So hoof trauma. You don't see that on the injury

724
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 2: report all that offense?

725
00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 1: Is that what it said?

726
00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, health trauma not return via mouth trauma.

727
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 1: That stinks obviously for the Bucks, could hurt them long term,

728
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 1: but just overall, losing four straight here, I guess you can,

729
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 1: you know, be sort of positive. Hey, the Denver Nuggets

730
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 1: lost four straight games last year and they went and

731
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 1: won the title. And this Milwaukee Bucks team can still

732
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 1: be the second seed because they hold it right now,

733
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:23,920
Speaker 1: and that's all people really expect that after watching the

734
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:26,359
Speaker 1: Boston Celtics be awesome, But you look at the rest

735
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:30,360
Speaker 1: of their schedule. They've got Boston on Tuesday, that's obviously tough,

736
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 1: then Orlando, then at okay see then at Orlando to

737
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 1: finish their schedule. That is hard. And watching this team

738
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:46,240
Speaker 1: and listening to their broadcast, no one knows why they're

739
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 1: so bad. Nobody, the broadcasters don't know, the team doesn't know.

740
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 1: Everybody just looks sort of down, sort of everything around

741
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:57,560
Speaker 1: that team is just kind of negative right now. They

742
00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 1: don't play hard. So I don't really have an answer

743
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 1: for this team why they're not playing as hard defensively,

744
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:09,320
Speaker 1: especially and Dame as well, just not being Dame that hurts.

745
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 1: You don't think him as a great defense a defensive guard,

746
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 1: but he needs to help offensively. So I really don't

747
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 1: have an answer. Nobody has an answer for this Milwaukee

748
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 1: Bucks falling.

749
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:22,960
Speaker 2: Here, And as it turns out, Doc Rivers did not

750
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 2: have the answer either fifteen and seventeen. Since Doc took over,

751
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 2: and you would think him coming in. The main thing

752
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 2: to fix is the defense. Make them more defensive focus.

753
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:35,720
Speaker 2: They have done a better job in general of transition defense,

754
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:37,320
Speaker 2: but I had to give him Worse of the Week

755
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 2: last week because their transition defense against the Wizards was

756
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 2: so poor. And that's the thing to me, is that

757
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 2: when Adrian Griffin was the coach, they at least had

758
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:49,880
Speaker 2: an identity where they were awesome on offense and terrible

759
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:53,240
Speaker 2: on defense. Right now, they're just eh on both sides

760
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:55,319
Speaker 2: of the ball. They're not giving the effort out there.

761
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:57,759
Speaker 2: Dame has not been the Dame that we saw in

762
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 2: Portland the entirety of the season. I know he had

763
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 2: a core injury, which is something that kept him out

764
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:04,759
Speaker 2: of the ends of some of the seasons when he

765
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,759
Speaker 2: was a Trailblazer as well. But I've been trying to

766
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:10,399
Speaker 2: hold out hope for this Bucks team because I think

767
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 2: the ceiling is still there. You see some great games

768
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 2: like when they take it to didn't they beat the

769
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,879
Speaker 2: Celtics pretty recently, or who they beat by forty points,

770
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 2: I don't know who it was. But they've had some

771
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 2: good wins in the second half of the season. It

772
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:26,840
Speaker 2: felt like maybe they were turning the corner corner, but

773
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 2: they've lost six out of seven. They got to win

774
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 2: against the Hawks, which was a nice game. Giannis was

775
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:34,759
Speaker 2: dunkin like crazy. But this team just doesn't feel like

776
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:38,280
Speaker 2: they have the athletes to compete with the most athletic teams,

777
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:40,839
Speaker 2: and then it doesn't feel like they're able to win

778
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 2: the games where they're scrapping it out, which is kind

779
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 2: of a Bucksy way of winning things. I think Portos

780
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 2: has been playing over Brook Lopez a lot since Doc

781
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:51,480
Speaker 2: took over. I don't know if that's the smartest thing

782
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:54,400
Speaker 2: for the Bucks, because there are times I feel like

783
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 2: Brook Lopez looks unengaged, disengaged on either side of the basketball.

784
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 2: But it seemed like bringing in Doc would at least

785
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:07,479
Speaker 2: fix things from a we have a standard NBA coach

786
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 2: who's gonna get us all on the same page. But

787
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:13,000
Speaker 2: this team feels lost to me right now. You would

788
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:15,160
Speaker 2: like to be ramping things up in the second half

789
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:17,160
Speaker 2: of the season, but they're twelve and ten since the

790
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 2: All Star break and they don't have anything they can

791
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:21,920
Speaker 2: hand their hat on. When it was Bud, they were

792
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 2: with top five defensive team, and maybe they would scrap

793
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 2: it out offensively. When it was Adrian Griffin, maybe we

794
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:30,319
Speaker 2: can outscore you. Right now, it's tough to figure out

795
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:32,759
Speaker 2: how the Bucks win and who they can beat, So

796
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't anticipate them losing a first

797
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 2: round series to a play in team again, but it's

798
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:40,440
Speaker 2: not off the table right now.

799
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:42,320
Speaker 1: I don't think, no, it's not. It could be the

800
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 1: Philadelphia seventy six ers. That would be a really tough

801
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 1: matchup for them, and as you said, it appears that

802
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 1: they lack some athleticism. So if you don't have the

803
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 1: effort when you're not as athletic against the other team,

804
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:59,839
Speaker 1: then that's a problem. Just playing and simple and defensively,

805
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 1: it just feels like if you watch these losses, especially

806
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 1: against the New York Knicks on Sunday and obviously to

807
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:10,320
Speaker 1: the Wizards, Grizzlies and Raps, it just feels like you

808
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 1: don't want it as simple as that. They just weren't

809
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:16,960
Speaker 1: bouncing around defensively, and you're right, earlier on in the season,

810
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 1: it just felt like, Okay, this team can outscore anybody.

811
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 1: They had the second best offense for a long time,

812
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:25,839
Speaker 1: but that's fallen off a little bit. And maybe they

813
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 1: just won the championship in twenty twenty one and they

814
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:32,400
Speaker 1: just haven't found that chemistry night in and night out,

815
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:34,360
Speaker 1: because there are nights where they do look awesome. You

816
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:37,439
Speaker 1: mentioned that big win. They beat Okac, and they took

817
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:39,759
Speaker 1: care of them, and they handled Shay extremely well on

818
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 1: the defensive end. They put up a wall against him

819
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 1: and they're able to bounce around, But it does look

820
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 1: like their athleticism isn't there. Watching Brook Lopez, who obviously

821
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 1: is getting older. I mentioned Chris Middleton's tooth loss. I mean,

822
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 1: he's coming back from a surgery as well, So they're

823
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:03,400
Speaker 1: just getting older in general, and maybe they just reached

824
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 1: their peak and they just don't feel it. But it

825
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:09,960
Speaker 1: is odd. You know, we're early here. You just expect

826
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:11,879
Speaker 1: them to be turning it up and obviously they are

827
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 1: doing the opposite of that with four games remaining.

828
00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:16,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they are lucky that My loser of the

829
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 2: weekend has been pretty bad on the second half of

830
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 2: the season. That's why the Bucks have even been able

831
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 2: to make or to able to stay in the second seed.

832
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:26,759
Speaker 2: But I guess they could get caught, could be caught

833
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:28,759
Speaker 2: by Orlando. Absolutely could have been a winner of the

834
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 2: weekend as well. But my loser of the weekend the

835
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 2: Cleveland Cavaliers. An ugly weekend for them. They came in

836
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:37,359
Speaker 2: to the weekend third seed going into Friday, but they

837
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:40,400
Speaker 2: lost a crypto double header. They fell apart in the

838
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:44,240
Speaker 2: second half defensively in a loss to the Lakers on Saturday,

839
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:47,960
Speaker 2: eighteen turnovers, gave up sixteen threes. Then they turned around

840
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 2: and lost a heartbreaker on Sunday against the Clippers. Blew

841
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:54,400
Speaker 2: a twenty six point third quarter lead Paul George hit

842
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:55,960
Speaker 2: a game winner in this one. He's a winner of

843
00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:58,440
Speaker 2: the weekend. I think crossed up Evan Mobley then had

844
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 2: a nice block on Darius Darlin trying to shoot a

845
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:04,280
Speaker 2: layup at the rim. There three straight losses though for Cleveland,

846
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 2: which has dropped them to fifth in the standings. They're

847
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:10,799
Speaker 2: ten and sixteen post All Star Break when they've had

848
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 2: a little bit better health. I know Mitchell has been

849
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:16,719
Speaker 2: out for a variety of reasons. They're definitely trying to

850
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 2: manage his minutes and get him in top form for

851
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 2: the playoffs. They've been missing Dean Wade like a surprising

852
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 2: guy to really be missing. I know he's had some

853
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:29,319
Speaker 2: great on off numbers defensively, but he does give them

854
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 2: some size. He can hit threes as well. Their defense

855
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 2: just hasn't been the same, and that's what the Cavs

856
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 2: calling card is right now. Going into the playoffs. I

857
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:41,120
Speaker 2: think this is the first round opponent most teams are

858
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:42,840
Speaker 2: going to want to play. Maybe the Magic are in

859
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:44,840
Speaker 2: there as well since they don't have the experience. But

860
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:47,560
Speaker 2: the way things went for Cleveland last year, the way

861
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 2: things have gone in the second half of the season,

862
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 2: and just the fact that all of their stars don't

863
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:57,000
Speaker 2: necessarily mesh perfectly well. So it's like you want to

864
00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:00,120
Speaker 2: have Evan Mobley and Jared Allen on the court for

865
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:02,879
Speaker 2: the final defensive possession of the game, but that ends

866
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 2: up having Evan Mobley guarding Paul George. That's advantage for

867
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 2: the Clippers, and as you saw, put him on the

868
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 2: floor hit a jumper to win the game. So I

869
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:13,560
Speaker 2: don't know, Cleveland hot start had a great run when

870
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:15,960
Speaker 2: Donovan Mitchell was carrying the team and it was Mitchell,

871
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:19,279
Speaker 2: Allen and shooters. The shooters aren't there. They're playing some

872
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:24,680
Speaker 2: lesser offensive players right now. Not great in Cleveland, not

873
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:27,479
Speaker 2: at all that and you brought up some good points.

874
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:29,080
Speaker 2: There's there's a few reasons I think you got to

875
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:32,880
Speaker 2: be skeptical of this Cleveland Cavaliers team. Donovan Mitchell returning

876
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 2: from that procedure that he had has not looked like himself,

877
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:38,919
Speaker 2: and he sits out a second game of a back

878
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:42,560
Speaker 2: to back in Crypto there because of it. But those

879
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 2: four games that he's come back since he had that

880
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:49,400
Speaker 2: PRP done to his knee, he shot thirty percent, twenty

881
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:51,879
Speaker 2: five percent, then a decent one. It looked like for

882
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:53,800
Speaker 2: forty seven percent and then that first game against the

883
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:58,000
Speaker 2: Lakers thirty percent. He does not look right, and I

884
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:00,120
Speaker 2: think that's that's the important part here. He would This

885
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:02,360
Speaker 2: team was awesome when Donovan Mitchell was just the number

886
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:05,400
Speaker 2: one guy and they didn't have to try and figure

887
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:08,279
Speaker 2: things out with Evan Mobley and Jared Allen because it

888
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 2: Mobiley was out and there was just four shooters out

889
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:13,799
Speaker 2: because Mobiley was was out there or was.

890
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:16,800
Speaker 1: Out with injury. It was four shooters around Jared Allen.

891
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 1: And that's where the spacing was great. That's where Donovan

892
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:21,680
Speaker 1: Mitchell was great. So the fact that he just hasn't

893
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:26,280
Speaker 1: come back, specifically looking like anywhere close to the superstar

894
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:27,960
Speaker 1: he was is a huge problem.

895
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 2: Now.

896
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:31,799
Speaker 1: Dariuscarland, you can say he looked pretty good a couple

897
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:36,399
Speaker 1: times this weekend in both those games, but overall, even

898
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:38,399
Speaker 1: though the Clippers had to come back from a big

899
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:42,399
Speaker 1: deficit in that one, yeah, the next excuse me, the

900
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:46,280
Speaker 1: Calves just aren't right and it's going to be difficult

901
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:49,319
Speaker 1: for them to get that going this close to the

902
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:51,760
Speaker 1: postseason here with so many good teams in the Eastern Conference.

903
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:53,839
Speaker 1: You're You're totally right. I think the Calves might be

904
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:59,600
Speaker 1: the team that you most want to play out of Celtics, Box, Magic, Knicks, Pacers,

905
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:02,680
Speaker 1: six and Heat could be done.

906
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:05,120
Speaker 2: Pacers have been pretty good second half of the season,

907
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:07,799
Speaker 2: the Knicks the next I don't. I just don't really

908
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 2: know what to make of the Knicks right now. I

909
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:12,399
Speaker 2: think Brunson's gonna be awesome, but missing Randall I think

910
00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:15,000
Speaker 2: is huge. But at least they've got an identity and

911
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:19,320
Speaker 2: they're probably like a seven game series waiting to happen. Obviously,

912
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:23,040
Speaker 2: the Sixers are better getting him Beied back and getting

913
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:27,080
Speaker 2: him integrated with Lowry and Buddy Healed. The Magic. They're

914
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:30,160
Speaker 2: a young team, but they've stayed consistent in the second

915
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:32,480
Speaker 2: half of the season, which has been super impressive. And

916
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 2: the Cavs just it's tough to figure out if they're

917
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 2: an offensive team, if they're a defensive team, because I

918
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 2: think of them as a defensive team, but they're not

919
00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:42,239
Speaker 2: playing defense. They're like twenty second in defense since that

920
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:45,360
Speaker 2: big winning streak they had, and if they're not playing defense,

921
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:47,799
Speaker 2: I don't think their offense is quite good enough to

922
00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 2: overcome that. Part of the reason the defense has fallen off,

923
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 2: I suppose is that Kerris Lavert's been playing a lot

924
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 2: more with Mitchell missing time for the knee and the nose.

925
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:58,279
Speaker 2: But Mitchell can elevate his game in the playoffs sometimes,

926
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 2: and it kind of feels like they're going to need

927
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 2: him to be thirty five points ten assists for a

928
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:05,239
Speaker 2: series if they're going to be able to win one

929
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 2: in the first round.

930
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:08,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels that he's got to get back to

931
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:11,399
Speaker 1: Superstar Wars, and he has not been that since coming back.

932
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:13,839
Speaker 1: I'd totally forgotten about the nasal problem that he had

933
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 1: watched the nose, and obviously the knee issues. He just

934
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 1: hasn't looked right. I don't like the fact that he

935
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 1: didn't play in the second half of it back to back,

936
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:26,439
Speaker 1: because wouldn't you want to get going and to feel good.

937
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:29,919
Speaker 1: That being said, it's probably because they want his knee

938
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:31,600
Speaker 1: to get better. So there's just not a lot of

939
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:34,680
Speaker 1: games here for him to get right before the postseason.

940
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:37,400
Speaker 1: All right, we got to take another quick break, but

941
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:40,960
Speaker 1: after it, we are going to grit and grind. We'll

942
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:45,280
Speaker 1: be right back. We are back. Thank you to everybody

943
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:48,360
Speaker 1: watching live on YouTube. Alle hundred thousand of you, I

944
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:52,040
Speaker 1: mean not one hundred thousand watching like a thousand watching,

945
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:54,440
Speaker 1: but one hundred thousand subscribers.

946
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:55,280
Speaker 2: Feels like one hundred thousand watching.

947
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:57,880
Speaker 1: It does, doesn't it? It feels great. I was on

948
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 1: a boat last week. I was on vacation using while

949
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:03,400
Speaker 1: we got to one hundred thousand, and I went and

950
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 1: told one hundred thousand people on a boat, I said, hey,

951
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:08,640
Speaker 1: have you been on no Dunks? Hey have you subscribed

952
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:09,920
Speaker 1: to No Dunks? That would help it?

953
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 2: Ful it no wonder the numbers were tacking up. I

954
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:14,960
Speaker 2: know there's a lot of people on a cruise getting

955
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 2: the word out very smart.

956
00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 1: Could have been one hundred thousand if I'm not mistaken.

957
00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 1: It's like a.

958
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 2: Full city block just floating on the ocean. Buoyancy.

959
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:27,920
Speaker 1: It's magical being on a boat. You just brought me

960
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:32,759
Speaker 1: back to that. But just seeing such a massive structure floating,

961
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:33,520
Speaker 1: it's amazing.

962
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 2: It is actually amazing. When you stand next to a

963
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 2: cruise ship, it's ridiculous's not tall it is to be

964
00:46:38,239 --> 00:46:40,680
Speaker 2: floating on water. Man doesn't make sense. It does not

965
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 2: make sense at all, and you barely feel it.

966
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 1: Danielle, my wife, was She was wondering, do you feel sick?

967
00:46:48,239 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 1: Because we got back from the cruise, and she said,

968
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:52,640
Speaker 1: does it still feel like we're on the boat to you?

969
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:55,120
Speaker 1: Because it does for me. And I said, what really? Yeah,

970
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:57,759
Speaker 1: I felt pretty normal coming back. But you do feel it,

971
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:01,000
Speaker 1: you do feel it, but such a massive structurally just floats.

972
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:03,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, the sea legs is a real thing, though. Yeah,

973
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:05,839
Speaker 2: I've felt the same way. I've only ever been on

974
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:08,239
Speaker 2: one cruise, but I remember getting off. I felt very

975
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 2: jelly leg when I was walking on the mainland. Once again,

976
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:13,560
Speaker 2: Where is your favorite place? You went?

977
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 1: Bahamas beach mode? Yeah it was nice.

978
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:21,239
Speaker 2: I see, I see your Your sunburn has already turned

979
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:21,680
Speaker 2: to tan.

980
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:24,280
Speaker 1: No surprise, Yeah I did. I did burn.

981
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:28,719
Speaker 2: Jealousill take me another four months. I'll be ten at

982
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:29,840
Speaker 2: the start of next season.

983
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:33,080
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to tweet out of the night.

984
00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:42,120
Speaker 1: Tweet out the night. Wow, our man, Marcus sol the

985
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:45,440
Speaker 1: big Burrito, Big Mark, Big Spain, Big Burrita.

986
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:47,200
Speaker 2: I forget about that weird Dick Dave.

987
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:49,799
Speaker 1: It is weird, but he had his jersey retired in

988
00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:52,440
Speaker 1: Memphis this past weekend. Number thirty three played ten and

989
00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:54,440
Speaker 1: a half seasons in Memphis, three time All start, two

990
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:57,560
Speaker 1: time All NBA Player, Defensive Player of the Year, of course,

991
00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:02,319
Speaker 1: his family was there, his team mates were there, the

992
00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 1: big ones, you know, Zach Randolph, Mike Conley, Tony Allen.

993
00:48:07,719 --> 00:48:10,280
Speaker 1: I love the speech that he had out there because

994
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 1: he basically said, you know, after I got traded to

995
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:15,479
Speaker 1: Toronto and we had a championship ron, I was thinking

996
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:17,920
Speaker 1: to myself during the run, what would Tony Allen do

997
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:20,799
Speaker 1: against the best player on the other side? And what

998
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 1: would Zach Randolph do if I needed to beast like

999
00:48:24,680 --> 00:48:27,880
Speaker 1: him down in the post? Or what if Mike Conley

1000
00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:30,719
Speaker 1: was trying to put this team together, what would he do?

1001
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:32,799
Speaker 1: So a nice tribute to all those guys that he

1002
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:39,280
Speaker 1: played with. Just a great dude period and a great

1003
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:44,360
Speaker 1: comment I think by our man Tim Bontemps about this

1004
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:47,920
Speaker 1: whole ceremony and when it took place for Marcus Sol,

1005
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:53,960
Speaker 1: Bonteps tweeted, you know what I like the after games ceremonies. Essentially,

1006
00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:56,680
Speaker 1: he said, the Spurs have always done these events after

1007
00:48:56,719 --> 00:48:59,960
Speaker 1: the game like the Grizzlies are doing now and makes

1008
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:02,440
Speaker 1: for a very cool event when teams do it this week,

1009
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:06,719
Speaker 1: do it this way, excuse me, rather than halftime. So

1010
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:08,759
Speaker 1: we can talk Mark, but I also want to talk

1011
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:13,960
Speaker 1: about postgame ceremonies. You dig them. You like them more

1012
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:17,359
Speaker 1: after the game rather than a halftime when teams would

1013
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:18,240
Speaker 1: do them quite often.

1014
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:21,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like we had another one this. Yeah,

1015
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:22,640
Speaker 2: I forget what it was.

1016
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 1: I wasn't I was thinking Dallas, but I was too.

1017
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 2: I was thinking it was dark, but I know they

1018
00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 2: previously it was somebody.

1019
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:30,799
Speaker 1: It was somebody.

1020
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:35,560
Speaker 2: But it is good when I'm thinking about it, like logistically,

1021
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:36,960
Speaker 2: I'm like, well, that seems like it's going to be

1022
00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:39,200
Speaker 2: a long night. But then they just then it happens.

1023
00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:41,960
Speaker 2: Everybody sticks around, or at least it feels like, you know,

1024
00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:44,200
Speaker 2: I'm sure some people leave, but like eighty percent of

1025
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:47,480
Speaker 2: people are sticking around, and it feels like a party afterwards,

1026
00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 2: regardless of the result of the game. So I do

1027
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:53,400
Speaker 2: think the postgame is smarter than trying to jam in

1028
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:56,839
Speaker 2: a ten minute ceremony at halftime or something like that,

1029
00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:59,920
Speaker 2: or extending the halftime and you know, messing with the

1030
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:02,279
Speaker 2: rhythms of the game. So it is cool when you

1031
00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:04,600
Speaker 2: can do a post game and bring everybody back and

1032
00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 2: give everybody a chance to say stuff. Like Mark Gasol,

1033
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:10,640
Speaker 2: the way it worked out with him playing so long

1034
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:14,000
Speaker 2: for the Grizzlies eventually had to lead to win a championship,

1035
00:50:14,040 --> 00:50:15,640
Speaker 2: but that's the way you want it to happen. Like

1036
00:50:16,040 --> 00:50:18,760
Speaker 2: still a legend in the city. He left because everybody

1037
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:20,439
Speaker 2: wanted to see him win, and then he went out

1038
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:23,319
Speaker 2: and he won. Very cool. I like that him and

1039
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:26,520
Speaker 2: Zach Randolph are the first two Grizzlies numbers to be

1040
00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:29,440
Speaker 2: retired because those are the GrITT and grind guys. I

1041
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:32,720
Speaker 2: think absolutely so. Mike Conley, who knows how much longer

1042
00:50:32,719 --> 00:50:35,160
Speaker 2: he's going to play, but he will be the next one.

1043
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 2: I assume to get his jersey retired by Memphis, as

1044
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:41,279
Speaker 2: he's the career leader in games there just the head

1045
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:44,480
Speaker 2: of Gasol and Randolph. You think of those three together

1046
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:46,239
Speaker 2: all the time. The question mark, I think would be

1047
00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:49,200
Speaker 2: Tony Allen, the grind father himself. Does he get his

1048
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:52,800
Speaker 2: jersey retired by Memphis? I don't know. They're obviously honoring

1049
00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:56,080
Speaker 2: this era of the Grizzlies, the best era of the

1050
00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:59,440
Speaker 2: Grizzlies that we've seen up until this point, so I

1051
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:01,279
Speaker 2: don't know. It depends on what kind of franchise that

1052
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:02,880
Speaker 2: want to be the Spurs would do it. You know,

1053
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:06,719
Speaker 2: Bruce Bowen has his number retired by San Antonio. Do

1054
00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:08,840
Speaker 2: they decide to go fan favorite route, because if so,

1055
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:10,839
Speaker 2: I think Allen is getting his number hunk for sure.

1056
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:14,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you. It's a tough one. Conleague guaranteed him.

1057
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:18,239
Speaker 1: Randolph Gasol will be there. Comley's there eleven years. It's

1058
00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:22,360
Speaker 1: a long time. Tony Allen is different. If the Grizzlies

1059
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:24,680
Speaker 1: want to be like the NBA is with the Hall

1060
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:26,640
Speaker 1: of Fame, where you put a guy like Michael Cooper

1061
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:30,440
Speaker 1: in and Tony Allen's got to be retired. I just

1062
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:34,640
Speaker 1: think the Memphis probably does that in general, just because

1063
00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:36,880
Speaker 1: why not I bring up Cooper in the Hall of

1064
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:39,840
Speaker 1: Fame because it just feels like everybody gets a tribute.

1065
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:43,560
Speaker 1: Why shouldn't Tony Allen get one. That's the NBA these days.

1066
00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:45,319
Speaker 1: But I do like the post game. I am so

1067
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:50,360
Speaker 1: fixated on figuring out the other postgame ceremony.

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00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:54,640
Speaker 2: Shaq was postgame. I'm seeing here in uh the stream

1069
00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:55,120
Speaker 2: tream team.

1070
00:51:55,160 --> 00:51:57,960
Speaker 1: The stream team came through nice in Orlando. It is good.

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00:51:58,000 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 1: It's also good for the other team, not that they

1072
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:03,200
Speaker 1: care about the other team, but often a halftime ceremony

1073
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:07,000
Speaker 1: is like twenty five minutes minutes thirty five minutes and

1074
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:09,399
Speaker 1: the other team just has to sit there in their

1075
00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 1: locker room, like, come on, I want to play basketball now.

1076
00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:14,560
Speaker 1: So it sucks for everybody, but it is great for

1077
00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:17,719
Speaker 1: the fans afterwards because you know, you just sit there

1078
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:20,719
Speaker 1: and you enjoy it. It is just a tribute like

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00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:24,120
Speaker 1: it was in Memphis. There they beat all right, I'm

1080
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:27,120
Speaker 1: sorry they lost to Philadelphia. They played Philadelphia, who also

1081
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:30,239
Speaker 1: had Kyle Lowry in the lineup, got the shake Marcusle's

1082
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:33,200
Speaker 1: hand after winning a championship with them. Head coach Nick

1083
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:35,959
Speaker 1: Nurse was the Raptors head coach when they won the championship,

1084
00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:39,279
Speaker 1: and he had this to say afterwards. He said about

1085
00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:45,680
Speaker 1: the Raptors championship parade, incredible parade experience by Marcasol, because

1086
00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:47,919
Speaker 1: Marcusol did have a great parade. He had so much

1087
00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:54,120
Speaker 1: fun the athletics. John Hollinger covers the retirement of the

1088
00:52:54,480 --> 00:52:58,080
Speaker 1: of the jersey for Marcasol. It was a good, good article,

1089
00:52:58,080 --> 00:53:01,520
Speaker 1: good read. Hollinger ran that team, so he went back

1090
00:53:01,560 --> 00:53:05,640
Speaker 1: there to experience it and it was great. Marcasol obviously

1091
00:53:06,239 --> 00:53:06,920
Speaker 1: just a good dude.

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00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:09,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a good dude. He helped us arrange furniture

1093
00:53:09,280 --> 00:53:12,120
Speaker 2: on our set Once upon a Time. Like Mark Gasol,

1094
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:14,760
Speaker 2: I will always remember him as a great basketball player,

1095
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:17,239
Speaker 2: but we've talked about it a few times. Like things

1096
00:53:17,239 --> 00:53:20,360
Speaker 2: I'll remember him for are his high school basketball photos

1097
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:22,160
Speaker 2: where you're like, this guy is going to grow up

1098
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:23,160
Speaker 2: to become a Hall of Famer.

1099
00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:25,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he played two years in Memphis. I had

1100
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:29,120
Speaker 1: totally forgotten about that, even though it's those famous photos

1101
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:30,839
Speaker 1: where he's huge.

1102
00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:34,680
Speaker 2: Yes, he's he hasn't necessarily grown into his body in

1103
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:37,680
Speaker 2: those and then helping us arrange furniture. He was apparently

1104
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:40,920
Speaker 2: a gardener. There's the so famous photo of him as

1105
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 2: an anthropology holding a baby. Like there are some very

1106
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:46,960
Speaker 2: funny things I think about Marc Gasol off the court

1107
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:49,640
Speaker 2: and then a great player as well on it because

1108
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:53,400
Speaker 2: when he got traded for Pau Gasol, nobody knew anything

1109
00:53:53,480 --> 00:53:55,880
Speaker 2: about Marcasol. It seemed like just a home run trade

1110
00:53:56,239 --> 00:53:58,920
Speaker 2: for the Lakers. And now both guys numbers going up

1111
00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:00,680
Speaker 2: in the rafters after the trade. Pretty cool.

1112
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:04,520
Speaker 1: It is very cool. Yeah, it was twenty fifteen. I

1113
00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:08,400
Speaker 1: guess we were working on our All Start show and

1114
00:54:08,480 --> 00:54:11,359
Speaker 1: it was in New York. And what did he do?

1115
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:14,400
Speaker 2: Like you just we just had to scramble or something

1116
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:16,759
Speaker 2: like that, and there was there was chairs up there,

1117
00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:19,280
Speaker 2: so him and Power were just like moving stuff around.

1118
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:21,680
Speaker 1: Those guys are too nice, They're super nice.

1119
00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:24,640
Speaker 3: They were super late too, and then we're fighting with

1120
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:27,759
Speaker 3: each other blaming. I think Mark was blaming Pow like

1121
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:31,120
Speaker 3: he made us late or whatever. Yeah, so I think

1122
00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:32,719
Speaker 3: that's part of why they were helping us.

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00:54:32,640 --> 00:54:34,279
Speaker 2: Smooth stuff I felt out.

1124
00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:36,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, fair but fair enough.

1125
00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:37,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, at least they feel the guilt.

1126
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:41,400
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think Mark kind of hinted that Pow was

1127
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:43,640
Speaker 1: always late, right, I think you're right.

1128
00:54:43,680 --> 00:54:44,400
Speaker 3: I think it was that.

1129
00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:48,759
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, and Mark was with his babies, so why

1130
00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:52,080
Speaker 1: should why should Pow be late? Mark should be late

1131
00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:56,040
Speaker 1: if he brought his kid anyways. Yeah, that was fun,

1132
00:54:56,480 --> 00:55:00,840
Speaker 1: all right, fun show here on Monday. Again. I'm baffled

1133
00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:03,080
Speaker 1: by the fact that there are only six nights left

1134
00:55:03,120 --> 00:55:05,640
Speaker 1: in the regular season. Just feels like there's more time.

1135
00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:07,400
Speaker 1: It always comes fast.

1136
00:55:07,239 --> 00:55:09,160
Speaker 2: As the sixth nights, but no games tonight.

1137
00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:12,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why I said six oh, okay, six days

1138
00:55:12,719 --> 00:55:15,560
Speaker 1: of games, six days of games, but technically seven nights.

1139
00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:19,200
Speaker 1: We will be watching the NCAA final. I'm sure tonight,

1140
00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:19,920
Speaker 1: I will.

1141
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:23,600
Speaker 2: Be clinging versus Edie. What do you think who's gonna

1142
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:24,760
Speaker 2: take it, Purdue or Yukon.

1143
00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:29,600
Speaker 1: I'm cheering for Perdue, but it feels like Yukon's gonna win.

1144
00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:32,600
Speaker 2: Yukon has been pretty solid. But also Eadie hasn't had

1145
00:55:32,640 --> 00:55:35,239
Speaker 2: to go up against the guy basically his size. I mean,

1146
00:55:35,320 --> 00:55:38,880
Speaker 2: Klingon obviously moves a little bit differently than Edie does.

1147
00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:42,920
Speaker 2: Haven't heard as much Eadie talk from my Toronto boys

1148
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:44,879
Speaker 2: out here. You haven't think i'd be hearing all about

1149
00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:47,640
Speaker 2: this guy, considering he's got He's probably the best college

1150
00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:51,920
Speaker 2: player from Canada. Ever, you guys never mentioned him best called.

1151
00:55:51,760 --> 00:55:58,279
Speaker 1: Ye're right, I did. I've mentioned Zekiel, Edie, Zekille. Yeah,

1152
00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:02,320
Speaker 1: he's getting the shack. I was cool to see Shack

1153
00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:07,440
Speaker 1: shake his hand. I'm just holding back until they win

1154
00:56:07,520 --> 00:56:10,680
Speaker 1: the thing. I don't want to be premature and say, WHOA,

1155
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:13,799
Speaker 1: what a what a great tournament. I want him to

1156
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:14,160
Speaker 1: win it.

1157
00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:14,520
Speaker 2: Nice.

1158
00:56:14,680 --> 00:56:16,799
Speaker 1: We'll be cheering on. I'm sure we'll be talking about

1159
00:56:16,840 --> 00:56:19,960
Speaker 1: it tomorrow. Because there are no NBA games tonight. We

1160
00:56:20,040 --> 00:56:23,000
Speaker 1: will be back on Tuesday. I'm sure Skeets will be

1161
00:56:23,040 --> 00:56:25,360
Speaker 1: back unless he's running another marathon. I'm not sure.

1162
00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:27,319
Speaker 2: Just get another one in?

1163
00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:29,120
Speaker 1: Why not? He would? You would?

1164
00:56:29,280 --> 00:56:32,880
Speaker 2: Training Clipper bros. You heard it here first. Have a

1165
00:56:32,880 --> 00:56:36,120
Speaker 2: great time, turn up. Love you guys awesome. Thanks for

1166
00:56:36,239 --> 00:56:39,759
Speaker 2: joining us and remember Perdue wins seventy two to sixty

1167
00:56:39,840 --> 00:56:40,279
Speaker 2: nine tonight.

1168
00:56:40,600 --> 00:56:43,040
Speaker 1: Yes, can't wait to talk about it tomorrow.

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00:56:43,160 --> 00:56:43,600
Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 1: Embrace to night people,