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Speaker 2: on the Athletic Network, A fine Network. It's Monday, April fifteenth,

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Speaker 2: and reviews. We got a whole lot to break down here.

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Speaker 2: We'll look ahead the playing games. We've got a fun

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Speaker 2: tweet of the night, obviously setting up some of the

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Speaker 2: playoff matchups and talking about the weekend. But but, but,

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Speaker 2: but Before all that, we had two weggies on the

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Speaker 2: going bonkers for number fifty eight. That's important because that

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Speaker 2: ties the all time record for weggies in a season. Yes,

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Speaker 3: We are absolutely gonna set a record for wedgies in

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Speaker 4: Be careful what you wish for, Skeets.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's called tanking. Come on, they can say

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Speaker 4: They're like, these idiots are gonna play.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they can't help it. That's true that they will

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Speaker 5: I think he's got a good cage for clutch Player

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Speaker 4: That moves you up into number nine where you've bet Brunson.

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Speaker 2: Brunson almost had the game winner two and the you know,

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Speaker 3: I gotta play your game. Yeah, DeMar Derozen led the

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Speaker 3: weird thing. I just thought, because divisions still do exist,

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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, let's move to just biggest winner or loser

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Speaker 4: What do you got?

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Speaker 2: We thought that was like, you're right. We were talking like, oh,

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Speaker 2: that's a lock. At least we're going to get Zion

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Speaker 4: Right now, they're playing for four or five.

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Speaker 5: I think you throw the Suns in as a winner

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Speaker 5: really nicely for the Celtics. All of the good teams

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good one. You could do the opposite

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Speaker 4: That we see.

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Speaker 5: You know, you're oh, we're at the thunder we want

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Speaker 4: I think that would be cool watch.

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Speaker 5: It doesn't feel like something that happens in sports, though

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Speaker 4: That's true.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the West is when you look at it, it's

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Speaker 2: So he delighted the fans there because he purposely, at

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Speaker 2: That was amazing, And then the broadcast, Oh he gave

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Speaker 2: him chicken. He's a man of the people. He's a

434
00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:22,359
Speaker 2: man of the people, and he is so winter of

435
00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:24,360
Speaker 2: the weekend to Boba. There should be more of this,

436
00:19:25,119 --> 00:19:27,199
Speaker 2: just like a pander to the crowd. If you're like

437
00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:29,160
Speaker 2: in a blowout situation, just give hi chicken.

438
00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:30,800
Speaker 4: I love it. I want to see him eating the chicken.

439
00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:34,199
Speaker 4: I want to see him cashing in on it. He

440
00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:34,560
Speaker 4: was there.

441
00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:35,480
Speaker 2: It's almost like a prompt.

442
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Speaker 5: He doesn't doesn't have a ticket stuff. I guess that

443
00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:40,480
Speaker 5: could be the problem. Well, he may had family there,

444
00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:42,560
Speaker 5: so yeah, use theirs.

445
00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:45,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good call. He should go to Chick

446
00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:49,040
Speaker 3: fil A for sure. He was doing a great job afterwards,

447
00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:52,359
Speaker 3: pointing at himself as you said, oh, I got it,

448
00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:55,640
Speaker 3: and then shooting a very nice misshot. Yeah he didn't

449
00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:57,680
Speaker 3: chuck it off the rim. He shot it with some

450
00:19:57,800 --> 00:19:59,720
Speaker 3: nice rotation to hit on the left side. He's a

451
00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:03,240
Speaker 3: great actor. He was great John Wick. He was so

452
00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:04,280
Speaker 3: good with those fits.

453
00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:07,479
Speaker 2: That was very funny. What I loved about yesterday Sunday.

454
00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:10,720
Speaker 2: We had all these games still deciding playoff seedings. So

455
00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:13,119
Speaker 2: that's fun like, and some of them huge obviously, you know,

456
00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:16,200
Speaker 2: Pelicans they want to win and the Knicks they probably

457
00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:19,359
Speaker 2: want to win all this, but amongst all that, we

458
00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:21,760
Speaker 2: still had all these insane like moments going on in

459
00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:23,840
Speaker 2: some of these other games that maybe didn't matter as much.

460
00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:27,200
Speaker 2: I'm talking about players that never play, I mean help

461
00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:29,359
Speaker 2: back to the Hornets game, poku inbounded the ball to

462
00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:31,159
Speaker 2: a referee like there's a lot of there's a lot

463
00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:33,080
Speaker 2: of weirds, you know. Pete Pritchard went off again.

464
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Speaker 3: You can Yeah, you.

465
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Speaker 5: Want me to hit you with some ben Uzzo last

466
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Speaker 5: weekend winners here?

467
00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:39,160
Speaker 4: All right, we'll go back to Friday.

468
00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:42,760
Speaker 5: Adamas Sonogo, who plays for the Chicago Bulls, went for

469
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Speaker 5: twenty two points and twenty rebounds in thirty five minutes.

470
00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:47,720
Speaker 5: But that's a lot of roast beef. The rest of

471
00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:50,639
Speaker 5: the season, he's played thirty one minutes, has fourteen points

472
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Speaker 5: and sixteen rebounds.

473
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Speaker 3: I love this.

474
00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:55,280
Speaker 5: That's a great one. You gotta throw Gigi Jackson in

475
00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:57,680
Speaker 5: the mix went for a career high forty four points

476
00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:01,359
Speaker 5: and twelve rebounds as a forty fifth in a big

477
00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:05,040
Speaker 5: time blowout loss to the Nuggets, and absolutely sees loved

478
00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:08,080
Speaker 5: the church drumming video. This guy was incredible. A lot

479
00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:10,080
Speaker 5: of times you're like, oh, this guy can play the drums,

480
00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:12,359
Speaker 5: or he was a saxophonist or whatever, and you hear it.

481
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Speaker 4: I get you played in high school and this.

482
00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:17,359
Speaker 6: Guy was shredding. I couldn't believe this right hand was

483
00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,200
Speaker 6: going so fast. A nice season for him, though, fourteen

484
00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:22,920
Speaker 6: a game, four rebounds a game, forty three from the field,

485
00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:24,560
Speaker 6: thirty five from three, Like he's gonna play for the

486
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Speaker 6: Grizzlies next year. Well they're a real team. Yeah, once again.

487
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Speaker 5: And then Peyton Pritchard I think is the ben Uzo

488
00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:33,760
Speaker 5: of this NBA season because on Friday in a win

489
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Speaker 5: against the Hornets, he went for thirty one points and

490
00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:39,159
Speaker 5: eleven assists in a win. And then yesterday against the

491
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Speaker 5: Wizards in a win, thirty eight points and twelve assists

492
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Speaker 5: for Peyton Pritchard.

493
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Speaker 4: I looked it up.

494
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Speaker 5: He's got one other thirty point game in his entire career.

495
00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:50,040
Speaker 5: It came in the last game of last season. Thirty points,

496
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Speaker 5: fourteen rebounds, and eleven assists, his only triple double. Peyton

497
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Speaker 5: Pritchard is ben Uzo.

498
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Speaker 2: Oh my god.

499
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they were talking on during Friday's game. He sat

500
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Speaker 3: for the entire fourth quarter and they said, did you

501
00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:04,600
Speaker 3: want to go for your new Careerhi goes, I'll do

502
00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:06,560
Speaker 3: that later in my career. And then he did it,

503
00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:09,560
Speaker 3: did it on Sunday Sunday two days later, and he

504
00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:10,800
Speaker 3: could have got even more too.

505
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Speaker 2: I think they did pull him as well. Those are great.

506
00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:16,320
Speaker 2: I'll give you a funny one as well from yesterday.

507
00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:20,080
Speaker 2: Delano Banton. He plays with the Blazers. Maybe he thought

508
00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:22,000
Speaker 2: he still played for the Raps, but he's on the Blazers.

509
00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:27,720
Speaker 2: Ice cold from three point range on Sunday, historically ice cold.

510
00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:32,960
Speaker 2: The Blazers guard shot an abysmal zero for fifteen from

511
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,479
Speaker 2: behind the arc. This is one game, guys, on Sunday.

512
00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:37,639
Speaker 2: No player in NBA history has attempted as many threes

513
00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:40,520
Speaker 2: without making a single one during a game. To make

514
00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:43,439
Speaker 2: matters worse, he got ejected from this game in the

515
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Speaker 2: fourth quarter. He had seventeen points, finished six to twenty six,

516
00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:49,720
Speaker 2: shooting again, oh for fifteen from deep and I looked

517
00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:51,720
Speaker 2: it up because I was like, this guy's chucking like

518
00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:56,160
Speaker 2: crazy over his last two games, Dolano Banton. He got

519
00:22:56,240 --> 00:23:00,440
Speaker 2: up fifty two shot attempts over the weekend and in

520
00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:02,280
Speaker 2: a game where we got tossed it on one of them.

521
00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:04,960
Speaker 2: So he was going out guns blazing there. I mean,

522
00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:07,000
Speaker 2: and he had, like, you know, he was getting opportunity

523
00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:09,040
Speaker 2: in Portland. He had been playing okay for a couple

524
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Speaker 2: of weeks there. But this, I mean this, I love

525
00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,560
Speaker 2: these results, the Benuz Alliance as you call them, where

526
00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:16,800
Speaker 2: you're just like, what is going on? It's just pandemonium,

527
00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:21,480
Speaker 2: so very funny. All right, let's pivot here, guys. Fifteen

528
00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:23,680
Speaker 2: different seeds were decided on the final day there of

529
00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:27,399
Speaker 2: the regular season. We now have the complete postseason field.

530
00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:29,960
Speaker 2: It's set. Let's show you the playoff picture there. It

531
00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,760
Speaker 2: is oh so sexy. Obviously, we got the play in

532
00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:34,280
Speaker 2: games and we're gonna get to those and we'll go

533
00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:36,840
Speaker 2: through each one of those and maybe call our shots

534
00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:39,679
Speaker 2: in a second. I just want to know though, the

535
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Speaker 2: ones we have locked in here or not. I mean,

536
00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:43,600
Speaker 2: you don't need to pick a locked in one, but

537
00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:47,480
Speaker 2: what playoff matchup are you most excited for tasks from

538
00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:48,680
Speaker 2: from this playoff picture here.

539
00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:52,080
Speaker 3: I think it is the Wolves and the Suns, because yes,

540
00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:54,920
Speaker 3: the Wolves have had a great season overall. They get

541
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Speaker 3: to host a playoff series the first time in twenty years.

542
00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:01,399
Speaker 3: It's kind of hard to get your head around that,

543
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,720
Speaker 3: but that's the first time. But they dropped to the

544
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Speaker 3: three seed and now they host the Suns, who have

545
00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:08,760
Speaker 3: shlacked them three times this year. We talked about it

546
00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:11,240
Speaker 3: after seeing the second one, because the second one was

547
00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:14,320
Speaker 3: a bad one nine days before the third one, and

548
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:17,480
Speaker 3: it looked bad. It was eighteen the first time, which

549
00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:21,359
Speaker 3: was just bumped up in garbage time. It was actually

550
00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:23,800
Speaker 3: like a twenty five point deficit. And then Game two

551
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:27,000
Speaker 3: they lost by double digits, again bumped up in garbage time.

552
00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:30,080
Speaker 3: And then in Game three, final day of the season.

553
00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:32,760
Speaker 3: You'd think, okay, we just played them not too long ago.

554
00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:35,720
Speaker 3: But in the first quarter they got stopped. It was

555
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:38,200
Speaker 3: forty four to twenty two. After the first quarter. They

556
00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:41,320
Speaker 3: turned it over nineteen times in the first half. These

557
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:44,880
Speaker 3: are all blowouts. So this is a good Phoenix Suns

558
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:47,480
Speaker 3: team that goes in doubles. Anthony Edwards gets the ball

559
00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:52,680
Speaker 3: out of his hands and it's remarkable all three games.

560
00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,119
Speaker 3: I mean, the Wolves have never been within single digits

561
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:57,760
Speaker 3: in the second half in any of the games. It's

562
00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:02,240
Speaker 3: so strange. But the Suns look great. I know they

563
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:05,480
Speaker 3: got on the Wolfs side, they got cat back, but

564
00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:10,320
Speaker 3: it's remarkable watching every team, every guy on that team.

565
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:12,919
Speaker 3: Bradley Beal, not only has he been good against the

566
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:17,200
Speaker 3: Timberwolves this season, but he's just come back flying. Last

567
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:20,280
Speaker 3: twelve games, he's been shooting sixty percent from three point lane.

568
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,679
Speaker 3: I could go even back further, but I wanted to

569
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:25,040
Speaker 3: get up to sixty percent, so I said twelve games.

570
00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 3: But he's been playing really, really well, and he plays

571
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:30,680
Speaker 3: defense really hard. He's averaging a steal and a block

572
00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:32,520
Speaker 3: in those last twelve games. I don't know. This team

573
00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 3: looks different. I know we saw them get smacked last

574
00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:40,040
Speaker 3: week once, but against the against the Wolves, it feels

575
00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:43,280
Speaker 3: like they are going to steal one in Minnesota at

576
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Speaker 3: least at least steal one. And it feels like game

577
00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:48,080
Speaker 3: one is almost a game two just because they got

578
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,680
Speaker 3: smacked by Phoenix. So the Wolves, he shouldn't you shouldn't

579
00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:53,960
Speaker 3: lose a game too. That just doesn't happen in the NBA.

580
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,560
Speaker 3: But I like the Sun seam against them. Looking and

581
00:25:56,600 --> 00:26:00,159
Speaker 3: watching those games, they literally just can't find scores. The

582
00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:03,080
Speaker 3: Sun's play d against them some way somehow, and the

583
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:06,680
Speaker 3: bigs are too big eye for the Wolves on this team,

584
00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 3: they just they don't get a lot from Rudy Gobert

585
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 3: and Nirkic plays them pretty well.

586
00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:12,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the thing. They can't really play Nurkic off

587
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:15,120
Speaker 2: off the floor because they've got big I mean, they

588
00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 2: need Cat of course back and playing and shooting well,

589
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,520
Speaker 2: even Nasri. They need some stretch shooting there from those guys. Otherwise,

590
00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:23,880
Speaker 2: the Suns, yeah, they're they're licking their chops that they

591
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:26,320
Speaker 2: got the Wolves here. They feel good against them. They've

592
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,159
Speaker 2: proven it at least. I mean, sometimes we look at

593
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:30,240
Speaker 2: the regular season matchup, we go not just throw it out.

594
00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:34,040
Speaker 2: Those games happened, you know, in January, they had different rosters,

595
00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:36,119
Speaker 2: the trade deadline came and gone. They've looked like a

596
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:37,960
Speaker 2: different team of the last six weeks. Blah blah blah.

597
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,840
Speaker 2: But like these are recent games, you're right task and

598
00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:43,600
Speaker 2: some high stakes games and they feel comfortable, so that

599
00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:45,040
Speaker 2: that is a great matchup that three.

600
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Speaker 5: To six might be some ugly fourth quarters in that

601
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 5: one true true to pour fourth quarter offenses.

602
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 2: Right, do you have another matchup you got circle here

603
00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:54,120
Speaker 2: that you're interested about.

604
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:56,280
Speaker 5: Well, I've got it, pencil circle. The Knicks versus whoever

605
00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:58,440
Speaker 5: they play. I think that's gonna be good. It's either

606
00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:00,520
Speaker 5: gonna be the heater, the Sixers getting that sund and seed.

607
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 5: Those are both quality teams playing against a Knicks team

608
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 5: that can at least win a first round and maybe

609
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,200
Speaker 5: with the we'll see what happens in the second round

610
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:10,000
Speaker 5: for them. But I think that one that could go

611
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:11,720
Speaker 5: seven games, depending on who it is, and you know,

612
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 5: depending on health of course within b to if he

613
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:16,600
Speaker 5: is looking good after the play in. But I think

614
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 5: for teams that are locked right now, Clippers versus MAVs,

615
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:21,200
Speaker 5: we've been looking forward to it for three straight weeks.

616
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 5: Feels like a conference finalist could come out of this matchup.

617
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 5: With the way the bracket has broken so far. They

618
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:28,919
Speaker 5: both had like thirty game stretches where they look like

619
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:31,199
Speaker 5: one of the three best teams in the league, and

620
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:34,680
Speaker 5: then they've both had stretches where they didn't look as good. Obviously,

621
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:37,359
Speaker 5: the MAVs are clicking right now, but we don't know

622
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:40,399
Speaker 5: what's going on with Kawhi. Leonard hasn't played since March thirty. First,

623
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:43,199
Speaker 5: you would like to see him on the court before

624
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:47,119
Speaker 5: heading into the postseason against a hot Mavericks team, But

625
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 5: allegedly he's going to play. We'll see if he's able

626
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,080
Speaker 5: to finish the series, because that's always a question mark

627
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 5: with Kawhi. We've seen him be the best player in

628
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:56,440
Speaker 5: the series and then be gone by Game four. So

629
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Speaker 5: I think that one has the potential to be a classic.

630
00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:01,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then any other quick thoughts on one series.

631
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,000
Speaker 2: We haven't really talked about a lot here Bucks Pacers

632
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 2: in the three six. We've obviously seen these two teams

633
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 2: go at it a couple times in this regular season.

634
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:10,359
Speaker 5: You want to talk about a one he can chuck out.

635
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 5: All of those games happened up till January or third,

636
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 5: so Adrian Griffin was still the coach, the Pacers had

637
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,480
Speaker 5: yet to make them move for Siakam. Jannis was healthy.

638
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:22,399
Speaker 5: I don't know exactly what you can take from that,

639
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:26,400
Speaker 5: but they have played each other intensely, and the Pacers

640
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 5: have looked good enough against the Bucks that if Jannis

641
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:31,199
Speaker 5: isn't able to come back, you gotta at least give

642
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 5: the Pacers a chance to put the upset.

643
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 2: I think, Yeah, Joannis is calf there the ultimate question here.

644
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 2: I mean, he usually is, He's like Superman when it

645
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:42,000
Speaker 2: comes with injuries. He's usually back way sooner than you anticipate,

646
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:43,479
Speaker 2: and he usually looks pretty good. I mean, he's done

647
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 2: it time and time again, is my point. But yeah,

648
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 2: if he's lingering, if he's not even out there. Yeah, Pacers,

649
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:50,960
Speaker 2: I mean they're good. You're obviously the underdog. It's like

650
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 2: no one's really picking them, so they get to play

651
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:55,040
Speaker 2: fast and free and that's what they flourish at. And

652
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,840
Speaker 2: Halliburton he was dominant in those early season games trail.

653
00:28:57,840 --> 00:28:59,480
Speaker 2: Like he said, the first half of the season cooled

654
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:00,880
Speaker 2: off there, but it's like he's starting to get it

655
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:01,560
Speaker 2: going a little bit.

656
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:01,880
Speaker 4: You know.

657
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:03,239
Speaker 2: It helps when you play the Hawks and you get

658
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 2: to put up a one hundred and fifty in your sleep,

659
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 2: as they always do against them. But yeah, I mean,

660
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 2: I think all four of these ones locked in.

661
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 3: They're intriguing.

662
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,720
Speaker 2: Even if you're not looking forward to a you know,

663
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 2: Calves Magic NBA TV series. I think that one could

664
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 2: go long. I think it could, so maybe we'll get

665
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 2: a seven game series for the first time in forever

666
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,240
Speaker 2: in the Eastern Conference first round. I think he said

667
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 2: it was like five years since we've had one. Wasn't

668
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 2: it five or six yeries? I think right, Yeah, it's

669
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 2: a long time, a long time. Just a programming note

670
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 2: when we're talking about all these playoff matchups. On Wednesday,

671
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:37,960
Speaker 2: we're gonna preview and predict the three Western Conference series

672
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:40,920
Speaker 2: two seven. We'll know by then, we'll know who the

673
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 2: Nuggets are playing, either the Pelicans or Lakers, three, six

674
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:48,320
Speaker 2: and four five. So we'll do the Wolf Suns, we'll

675
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 2: do the Clippers, Mavericks, we'll talk them out, we'll make

676
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,160
Speaker 2: our predictions, and then on Thursday we'll do the same

677
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 2: with the Eastern Conference two seven, three six, four five,

678
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,600
Speaker 2: because we'll know those three series and we'll go from there.

679
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 2: And I'm so happy you brought up his name, we

680
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 2: might as well just say it now. Tomorrow's guest, ESPN's

681
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 2: Tim Bontemps is joining the show to break down the postseason.

682
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 2: We'll talk to some NBA Award lowlah blasts with Tim Bontemps.

683
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:14,800
Speaker 2: So that's tomorrow show. That's Tuesday, and while we're doing it.

684
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 2: Tas Malis did lose the nut dust bowl, right, my

685
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:21,719
Speaker 2: Wizard's losted again on the final day, but so did

686
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 2: tast his pistons to the spurs there. So you come

687
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,640
Speaker 2: up one game short. You got roped into this damn

688
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 2: bet that Trey and I started when you weren't even here,

689
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:32,479
Speaker 2: and Trade had the hornets and I had the Wizards.

690
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 2: When you showed up a couple of weeks later, we

691
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 2: just gave you the pistons. But Friday, you were going

692
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,080
Speaker 2: to attempt to do the I don't know, a shot

693
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 2: glass of the nut dust and maybe and maybe I

694
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 2: don't know, have to answer rapid fire questions or ask

695
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:47,920
Speaker 2: them I don't know something where you got to talk.

696
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 2: I guess after you try to.

697
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the discussion. What will happen on Friday? Yes,

698
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 3: I got roped in. I was in a hospital while

699
00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 3: guys this bet actually dying from things and you know,

700
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 3: not wanting to put things in my mouth. And now

701
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have some flashbacks, I imagine, But it's some

702
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 3: It's like the cinnamon challenge. It sure feels, which I've

703
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 3: hated when I've done before. You had that once just

704
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 3: for fun, just to see what all this talk is about.

705
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 3: It ain't easy to swallow cinnamon.

706
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 4: No, no, your body doesn't want to.

707
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 3: But I shall say about nut dust and whatever whatever

708
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 3: it is, rosemary or whatever, whatever you got, it's it's

709
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 3: a lot easier. It's it's just so much more. The

710
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 3: powder is just it globs up everything, It cakes up.

711
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 2: In your mouth. The cinemon, Yeah, you don't think that

712
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:44,000
Speaker 2: will not watch an issue are Yeah?

713
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, so TV. Maybe it'll be fun.

714
00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 2: I don't know for the first people to do this,

715
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 2: we don't know what's about. I hope you don't go

716
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 2: back in the hospital. But I think you're gonna be okay.

717
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 2: I think you're gonna be able to yeah, power three.

718
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:57,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, if people haven't done it ever, like like just

719
00:31:57,440 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 3: herbs in their mouth, just just swallowing herbs.

720
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 4: It's gonna be delicious.

721
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:07,720
Speaker 3: You think it's gonna be very salty, very salty, super salty. Yes, yeah,

722
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 3: which is great. Salt is great. All right, it's better

723
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 3: than eating cinnamon. I think you're oh yeah, it'll be tastier.

724
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 3: It'll it'll be tasteier. It won't be dense, So TV.

725
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 2: Okay, that's that's Friday. But Tim Bontemps tomorrow. That'll be

726
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 2: a good time, and then really into our playoff previews

727
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 2: on Wednesday and Thursday, we'll be talking about the playing

728
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:29,840
Speaker 2: games that happened to and then Friday we got the

729
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 2: Drop podcast, which will include a man trying to eat

730
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 2: a bunch of nut dust. Cool because the Pistons won

731
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:37,719
Speaker 2: what they win in the end, thirteen games?

732
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 4: What do they get?

733
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:42,719
Speaker 2: Fourteen? Fourteen, fourteen? The way's got to fifteen? All right,

734
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 2: let's talk about those playing games. We can move through

735
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:48,840
Speaker 2: these with some pace, but we'll start by showing you

736
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 2: the schedule. Here it is, so we've got the two

737
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 2: Western Conference games first. I don't know why that doesn't sit.

738
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 4: Right with me.

739
00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 2: It's something to do Philly, right because is there a

740
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:05,000
Speaker 2: there's a game going on in Is it a hockey game?

741
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 1: Maybe?

742
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 3: Yeah? I have the Philadelphia Flyers play Tuesday nights, so

743
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 3: the Philadelphia seventy six ers cannot allowed.

744
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 2: But am I crazy thinking? It's just I don't know.

745
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 2: It just feels weird that these powerhouse Western Conference playing

746
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 2: games are going to be happening before you know, some

747
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 2: of these East games. Just me just used to the

748
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:24,560
Speaker 2: East going first, I don't know why, but Lakers Pelicans. Guys,

749
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 2: that's our first one, you know, a rematch of what

750
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:30,600
Speaker 2: we just saw on Sunday tasks. This is the first

751
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 2: game on Tuesday night, seven thirty. I might jump on

752
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,760
Speaker 2: playback for that one, so keep you know, make sure

753
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 2: you subscribe to our playback room. But what do you

754
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:40,480
Speaker 2: what do you think and who you like moving through

755
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 2: to win that seventh seed? Because it's winning you're in.

756
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 3: I shall say just quickly. We haven't seen a first

757
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 3: round Eastern Conference series go to seven games since twenty

758
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 3: seventeen eighteen. Yeah, yeah, it's been a minute. Wow, we

759
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 3: had a couple. We had a couple of that season.

760
00:33:54,360 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 3: But anyway, ye Lakers Pelicans. Wow, I am watching the

761
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 3: centers really. I know that may not sound exciting, but

762
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 3: yesterday Anthony Davis and the Lakers were able to get

763
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 3: into paint over and over and over. They outscored the

764
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:12,800
Speaker 3: Pelicans fifty to twelve in the paint in the first half.

765
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 3: That's kind of hard to do. You think about Zionomson,

766
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 3: you knows, valanchoos, but they couldn't do it. I mean,

767
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:21,319
Speaker 3: they weren't able to move quickly and there was just

768
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:24,440
Speaker 3: drop off after drop off after drop off, and so

769
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 3: Willie Green said, Valentunuz, you're out, Larry Nancy, you're in,

770
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:31,120
Speaker 3: Cody Zeller, you're in. They were playing guys going so deep,

771
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:34,880
Speaker 3: and so yeah, if you look back in the nd

772
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:39,360
Speaker 3: season tournament, a seven seeded team has never not advanced.

773
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 3: They've always advanced at some point in the playing season tournament.

774
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:46,919
Speaker 3: But I am scared. I'm scared for the Pelicans for sure,

775
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 3: because number one, they're not a great home team. I

776
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 3: guess that's something. Anthony Davis is going to play, said

777
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 3: he's going to play. He got He left this game

778
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:56,719
Speaker 3: because Larry Nance pushed him in the back. He said,

779
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 3: he's not a dirty guy. He just pushed me in

780
00:34:58,040 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 3: the back. All good. And he said he'll be test

781
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 3: heating pads that he could wear underneath his jersey to

782
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 3: keep his back loose. From ESPN. Interesting, and Lebron just

783
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 3: looks great against this team. He was passing everybody thirteen

784
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:11,759
Speaker 3: assist in the first half, a record for the old man.

785
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 3: That's surprising for Lebron.

786
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:14,879
Speaker 5: Here.

787
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:17,360
Speaker 3: Lebron's in his twenty first season sometimes still gets me.

788
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 3: That is an amazing accomplishment. But they somehow some way,

789
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 3: they get the Pelicans down, and the Pelicans can't overcome deficits.

790
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 3: If you look at the stats all season long, I

791
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 3: think it's four and eighteen. When they get down at

792
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:35,759
Speaker 3: half their record, they can't come back. It's even worse

793
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 3: than the fourth quarter. They're literally winless a couple of

794
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 3: weeks ago if they're down in the fourth quarter. To

795
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:42,719
Speaker 3: start the fourth quarter, so I don't know, they just

796
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:45,759
Speaker 3: get into the lane, they drop off, and they're they're

797
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 3: too quick for the bigs. Anthony Davis is going to

798
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 3: have a great game. So that's a tough one.

799
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,400
Speaker 2: You're leaning Lakers here, Yeah, thanks? Moving on, Yeah, I

800
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,400
Speaker 2: mean you're going to see a lot of highlights for

801
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:58,359
Speaker 2: Lakers fans, low lights for Pelicans fans of that embarrassing

802
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 2: one thirty three to eighty nine victory by La over

803
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:05,400
Speaker 2: over the Pels in the in season tournament SEMIS that

804
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 2: started the whole Zion doesn't have it discussion that was it.

805
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 2: Season was over at that point. They rallied, they play well,

806
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:15,359
Speaker 2: but yeah, have faltered, you know, down the stretch here

807
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:17,360
Speaker 2: and now they get the Lakers. Where you leaning in

808
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:17,719
Speaker 2: this one?

809
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:20,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, between this and the Bucks and Pacers, meeting each other.

810
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:22,879
Speaker 5: I can't wait to see those in season tournament courts

811
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:24,879
Speaker 5: and give me those courts, you know they're like, oh yeah,

812
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 5: I remember those courts. Does anybody actually want to win

813
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:31,879
Speaker 5: this game? If you win seven eight, guess what you're

814
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:34,920
Speaker 5: playing the Denver Nuggets. They've beaten the Lakers nine straight times.

815
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:37,279
Speaker 5: New Orleans has had some success against Denver. They're one

816
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 5: and two.

817
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:38,240
Speaker 4: Okay.

818
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,719
Speaker 5: I don't necessarily know that you would tank this game

819
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 5: to then try and play against the Warriors versus the

820
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 5: Kings winner. That's risky business, but you would certainly rather

821
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:49,479
Speaker 5: play against Oka. See I think both of these teams

822
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:51,840
Speaker 5: would rather go against the Thunder than against the Nuggets,

823
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:54,799
Speaker 5: the defending champion, who, unless you have Victor Wembanyama, seem

824
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 5: pretty unbeatable down the stretch. But Tess's completely right. Valence

825
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:01,239
Speaker 5: Tunis may not be able to play minute period in

826
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 5: this game. He can't move well enough to stick with

827
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:06,880
Speaker 5: Anthony Davis. And then on the flip side, it's like

828
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,239
Speaker 5: when Nance's in, Davis runs wild hitting the glass. So

829
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 5: that's a tough matchup, certainly for New Orleans. But if

830
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,239
Speaker 5: you lose this one, you got a chance against the

831
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 5: Kings and the Warriors. I think both teams match up

832
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 5: pretty well in that matchup. But yeah, I can't imagine

833
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:23,480
Speaker 5: the Lakers coming out and giving a stinker and you know,

834
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 5: limiting minutes for Lebron and eighty hoping to prioritize the

835
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 5: next game. You want to win and get in. But

836
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 5: it is a question with Denver dropping into number two,

837
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 5: number seven doesn't look as good.

838
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:37,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right. And look if this was like the

839
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:40,239
Speaker 2: Eastern Conference and it was like for some weird reason,

840
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,800
Speaker 2: you're like, hey, we prefer the eight seed over the

841
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 2: seventh seed, and yeah, we'll lose the first game and

842
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:48,839
Speaker 2: then we just have to beat the Bulls or the Hawks. Okay, yeah,

843
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 2: but we're talking about it could be Steph Curry, who

844
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:54,440
Speaker 2: in a one game situation, No, thank you, no, no, no,

845
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:56,040
Speaker 2: I don't want anything to do with that to then

846
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 2: push me out of even making the playoffs. And look,

847
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 2: and the Kings, you know, get to that game in

848
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 2: a second. But I don't think they'll be doing that.

849
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 2: But it's a fascinating thought experiment. And yeah, they don't

850
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:07,719
Speaker 2: want to play Denver, but Denver's in the second seed.

851
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 2: You know what they do? They don't want. They don't

852
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 2: want to not be in the postseason and have a

853
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 2: chance to beat Denver. So I'm leaning towards the Lakers

854
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 2: in this one too, just because they've, like in the

855
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 2: three wins against Pelicans, they.

856
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:16,759
Speaker 4: Just crushed them.

857
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:19,399
Speaker 2: I just hope we get a close game in this one.

858
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:21,759
Speaker 2: It doesn't turn into a snooze fest, all right, so.

859
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:24,400
Speaker 3: Then we should go You want to go down the street?

860
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:25,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, down the street.

861
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:28,800
Speaker 3: It's like an eight hour six seven for six to seven.

862
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:30,919
Speaker 4: Hour rides Western Conference game.

863
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:33,920
Speaker 3: They get to host. They get to host a game here.

864
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:36,359
Speaker 3: I do expect Zion to have a bounce back game

865
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 3: because you look at the games where he's had poor games,

866
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 3: and this one where he was twelve eight and eight,

867
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 3: he was not good. He does bounce back throughout the

868
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:45,359
Speaker 3: season when he does have a poor game. So I

869
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:48,719
Speaker 3: talked about the Minnesota Timberwolves losing on Sunday to the

870
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 3: Phoenix Suns. They feel like they will be playing a

871
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:53,920
Speaker 3: game two in their game one. This kind of feels

872
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 3: like a game two for the New Orleans Pelicans. They've

873
00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 3: got to be better. So I do want to see it.

874
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:01,719
Speaker 3: But yeah, the Lakers will not be giving up. That's

875
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 3: absolutely the truth. But the Pelicans they want to get

876
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 3: this done. They want to be in the postseason, so

877
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:07,760
Speaker 3: it should be a great battle.

878
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:11,239
Speaker 2: Second Western Conference playing game is the number ten Warriors

879
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:15,360
Speaker 2: at the number nine Kings or Sacramento. This is a

880
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:18,360
Speaker 2: repeat of last year's seven game first round series that

881
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:23,320
Speaker 2: saw the Warriors prevail thanks to Steph Curi's fifty point

882
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:26,880
Speaker 2: game in game seven to knock out the Kings. The

883
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:28,839
Speaker 2: Warriors are going to try and make history here. We've

884
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:32,440
Speaker 2: never had a number ten seed get into the actual postseason,

885
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 2: like get out of the play in and win that

886
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:38,440
Speaker 2: eighth seed. But what do you think trey of Warriors

887
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:40,400
Speaker 2: Kings here? Ten nine, it's in Sacramento.

888
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 4: It's in Sacramento where Steph went for fifty. Yeah.

889
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 5: Last last season last a bummer and the Kings five

890
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:50,319
Speaker 5: and eight to end the season, which is not how

891
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 5: you want to be going into the postseason. Obviously, they

892
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:55,840
Speaker 5: lost Herder and Monk. I guess Monk could return if

893
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 5: they're able to extend this. Here's a silver lining for

894
00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 5: you though, Kings fans CA only Kevon Looney has only

895
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 5: played more than twenty minutes three times in twenty twenty four.

896
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:07,400
Speaker 5: Two of those were in the first week of January.

897
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:09,560
Speaker 5: He's basically not a part of the rotation for the

898
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 5: Warriors right now, and he dominated Demonta Saboni's last season

899
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:15,919
Speaker 5: on the glass, like Sabonis could not get going because

900
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,799
Speaker 5: Looney was the better rebounder, even though sabonas had led

901
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 5: the league in rebounding during the season. So if Looney's

902
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:24,400
Speaker 5: not able to give the Warriors anything, I think that

903
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 5: Sabonis can have a better game, which is something that

904
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:28,880
Speaker 5: the Kings are going to need if they're able to

905
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:31,480
Speaker 5: win this one. But I would not be super confident

906
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 5: because the other side does have Steph Curry.

907
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:36,799
Speaker 3: Ye simple as that the Warriors are moving the thing.

908
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:39,400
Speaker 3: They're moving the ball and they are seem to be

909
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 3: matching up to the King's offense, which is good, but

910
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 3: without Malik Monk, that's a huge problem with this team.

911
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 3: So Keigan Murray has to be awesome as sort of

912
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:51,759
Speaker 3: the third guy behind Fox and Sabonis, and he has

913
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 3: been playing well recently, but they need the offense and

914
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:56,480
Speaker 3: then yeah, the defense is going to be a question

915
00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:01,640
Speaker 3: just just boarding and playing with Trace Jackson Davis playing

916
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:04,279
Speaker 3: against him, who's been awesome recently, and that's why Kamon

917
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 3: Luney has been out of the rotation. Kings, I don't know.

918
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 3: I don't know if they're going to score en off

919
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:10,759
Speaker 3: against this Warriors team because the Warriors defense right now

920
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 3: with Trey Jackson Davis playing center and then you got

921
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 3: jim On Green being comfortable playing the four, can take

922
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 3: some more gambles with tjd at the back blocking shots.

923
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:24,359
Speaker 3: This Warriors team is the best version that they've been

924
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:27,640
Speaker 3: all season right here right now. So that's that's a problem.

925
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 2: That's the weird part. They're the tenth seed in the

926
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:31,760
Speaker 2: Western Conference and they've been one of the best teams

927
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 2: over the last like six weeks record wise. The Warriors have,

928
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:37,359
Speaker 2: I mean unfortunate for the Kings. I mean again, they're

929
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:38,880
Speaker 2: one of these teams that were like looking good for

930
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 2: a while and then it's completely falling apart. And now

931
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 2: they can play their arch nemesis Warriors, and they gotta

932
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:46,239
Speaker 2: win and then maybe win another one. I think a

933
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:49,320
Speaker 2: lot of people will be leaning with these like veteran

934
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:52,360
Speaker 2: squads here led with the old timey superstars and Lebron

935
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:54,880
Speaker 2: and Steph Curry in these two matchups, maybe you disagree,

936
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:57,320
Speaker 2: let's hear from you in stream team. Let's pivot to

937
00:41:57,360 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 2: the East here. Start with the number eight Heat in

938
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:02,920
Speaker 2: Philly had taken on the number seven six Ers. That's

939
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:06,680
Speaker 2: Wednesday night at seven pm Eastern. Philly ended the season

940
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:09,000
Speaker 2: on an eight game win streak and it took them

941
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:11,560
Speaker 2: from number eight in the Eastern Conference to number seven.

942
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 2: They're still playing, but it's at their barn. What are

943
00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:16,240
Speaker 2: you looking for in this one?

944
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:19,239
Speaker 3: Well, I'm looking forward to Joel Embiid playing against this

945
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 3: Heat team. Period that he sat the last game here

946
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 3: for the Sixers to get rest, but he has looked

947
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 3: pretty good since coming back from the knee injury.

948
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:32,799
Speaker 2: Well, he still gets his numbers, Yeah, I guess pretty good.

949
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:35,319
Speaker 4: The defense is like beat never looks good.

950
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 5: Eve wore he's playing well, he falls down a lot.

951
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:39,320
Speaker 5: He looks very tired.

952
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's tired. There's no doubt his defense is lacking.

953
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:44,160
Speaker 3: The Sixers defense is lacking, and that's why it was

954
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:46,399
Speaker 3: surprising to me that they'd sit him in the last

955
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:49,719
Speaker 3: game because he hasn't been his best self and you'd

956
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 3: think he want to get into a flow before the postseason.

957
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 3: But I guess they thought that there was a chance

958
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 3: there playing Wednesday, so they wanted to get him as

959
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:02,240
Speaker 3: much rest as pot possible because he's not playing Tuesday,

960
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:05,160
Speaker 3: which I'm okay with they're playing hockey on Tuesday. I

961
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:07,440
Speaker 3: still think that's a pretty Yeah, that's a pretty good

962
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:10,399
Speaker 3: opening for Wednesday night Philly and Miami because who are

963
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:13,120
Speaker 3: we getting from the Miami Heat team? That's a fair question,

964
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:16,880
Speaker 3: like what version of this team are we getting? Should

965
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:19,279
Speaker 3: we be scared of them like everybody was, you know,

966
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:21,839
Speaker 3: after seeing what they did last year?

967
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 4: I don't know.

968
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 3: I don't know. They will move the ball, but Jimmy

969
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 3: hasn't looked great either, so that's a worry. Yes, mb

970
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:33,000
Speaker 3: is knee is a problem, but Jimmy just doesn't look

971
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 3: great game in game out right now.

972
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 2: The good thing for the Sixers, they're thirty and seven

973
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:40,520
Speaker 2: in games where Beat and MAXI play together. That's a

974
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:42,279
Speaker 2: damn good record and they should be in the line

975
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:44,520
Speaker 2: up there on Wednesday night. But yeah, what do you

976
00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 2: think about the Heat here? You scared it all again?

977
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:50,279
Speaker 2: They're gonna do it again. They're gonna fool us once again?

978
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:51,160
Speaker 2: Or is that done?

979
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 5: They lost their first playing game last year? Yeah, got

980
00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:55,880
Speaker 5: crushed on the grass by the Atlanta Hawks, and then

981
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 5: we're getting beat by the Balls before Max Drus went

982
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:00,879
Speaker 5: crazy to actually get him in to the eighth seed.

983
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:03,760
Speaker 5: So I think that neither team is feeling any pressure

984
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:05,719
Speaker 5: in the eight seven game because they have to be

985
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:08,319
Speaker 5: confident against both the Bolls and the Hawks coming out

986
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:10,480
Speaker 5: of the nine to ten game. Like, these teams have

987
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:13,359
Speaker 5: almost ten more wins than those teams sitting there at

988
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:15,839
Speaker 5: the nine to ten I'm excited to see Jimmy Butler

989
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:18,279
Speaker 5: versus Tobias Harris again. He loves playing against that guy.

990
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:21,320
Speaker 5: When Miami bounced Philadelphia in the twenty twenty two playoffs,

991
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:24,320
Speaker 5: that's when Jimmy's walking down the hallway saying, Tobias Harris

992
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 5: over me after he had thirty two, eight and four

993
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:30,160
Speaker 5: in Philadelphia to bounce them in Game six. So that's

994
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 5: gonna be fun to watch. But this is the first

995
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 5: chance we're gonna get to see if Jimmy Butler can

996
00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:37,920
Speaker 5: become playoff Jimmy again. He was awesome in the play

997
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:40,239
Speaker 5: in tournament and the first round last year, and then

998
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:42,960
Speaker 5: he sprained his ankle against the Knicks and kind of

999
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:45,319
Speaker 5: coasted on the reputation of playoff Jimmy from the first

1000
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:48,680
Speaker 5: couple of rounds, but they're gonna need him if they're

1001
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:50,959
Speaker 5: gonna be able to take down this Sixers team, who

1002
00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:53,719
Speaker 5: at least is getting better. Like I agree, and Beid

1003
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:57,399
Speaker 5: looks good, not great, but he should, with a little

1004
00:44:57,400 --> 00:44:59,600
Speaker 5: bit more time off, with some more games under his belt,

1005
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 5: get better as the postseason goes on. So the time

1006
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:06,879
Speaker 5: to beat Philadelphia is right away. So Miami shouldn't mess

1007
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:09,040
Speaker 5: around in this one and they should rebound.

1008
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:09,439
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1009
00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 2: That and to go to that series that you're talking about,

1010
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 2: six Ers Heat, that was the one that Bam did

1011
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:16,319
Speaker 2: a pretty damn good job on Joel Embiid at least

1012
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:17,880
Speaker 2: as well as you can do one on one, So

1013
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:20,200
Speaker 2: he's got to be huge for them to win this

1014
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:22,799
Speaker 2: game in Philly there on Wednesday night. And then the

1015
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 2: final game it's Trey Kirby's Chicago Bulls. They'll be hosting

1016
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:28,600
Speaker 2: the Atlanta Hawks.

1017
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:28,960
Speaker 4: Cucka.

1018
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 2: That's the ten nine matchup, nine to thirty. Saving the

1019
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:33,920
Speaker 2: best for last when it comes to the playing tournament.

1020
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:37,440
Speaker 2: The Bulls won the season series two to one. The

1021
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:40,160
Speaker 2: only game Atlanta one was oddly without Trey Young, but

1022
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:43,840
Speaker 2: he is here. What do you expect here. Do we

1023
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 2: know the status of DeRozan's daughter. Yeah, I guess you

1024
00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:50,720
Speaker 2: wouldn't have school at nine thirty, right.

1025
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:53,000
Speaker 5: It's a late one, a late one. Is she going

1026
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:54,680
Speaker 5: to go to school on Thursday afternoon?

1027
00:45:54,719 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 3: I don't know.

1028
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 5: I feel confident because the Hawks had vat Crazy on

1029
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:00,759
Speaker 5: a two way contract and they did convert into a

1030
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:03,319
Speaker 5: regular contract, so we can't play in the postseason. In

1031
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:05,640
Speaker 5: the one game the Hawks beat the Bulls beat Crazy,

1032
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:06,839
Speaker 5: went six for six from three.

1033
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:12,400
Speaker 2: What was what's the decision behind this? This is fascinating. Yeah,

1034
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:13,239
Speaker 2: but you've.

1035
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:15,360
Speaker 5: Got to say, you got to save a whole thousand

1036
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:17,000
Speaker 5: bucks or whatever it is.

1037
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:17,759
Speaker 4: I mean, it can't be.

1038
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:20,080
Speaker 2: A lot, I know. That's Yeah, it's a bizarre, very

1039
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:22,279
Speaker 2: weird that. Yeah, this guy was a two way and

1040
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:23,719
Speaker 2: they didn't convert it, so he won't be on the

1041
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:24,839
Speaker 2: Hawks roster here.

1042
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:27,000
Speaker 5: Somehow, this is going to come down to tomatoes and

1043
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 5: then de Jontay Murray taking mid range jumpers make more

1044
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 5: in the fourth This is got to be a five

1045
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:32,400
Speaker 5: point game.

1046
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:33,360
Speaker 4: In the fourth quarter somehow.

1047
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1048
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:37,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right, You're right. It's going to come down

1049
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:39,879
Speaker 3: to being a close game, that's for sure. And Trey

1050
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:42,280
Speaker 3: will be taking those shots and maybe making those shots.

1051
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:44,800
Speaker 3: Where am I leaning? I don't know. I'll be leaning

1052
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:48,720
Speaker 3: towards watching it on playback, that's for sure. Oh wow, yeah,

1053
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:52,319
Speaker 3: come on, this is it. This is it. When we

1054
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:58,360
Speaker 3: watched the Bulls Raptors playing game, we did months to

1055
00:46:58,400 --> 00:46:58,840
Speaker 3: do it again.

1056
00:46:59,200 --> 00:46:59,800
Speaker 4: More pumped.

1057
00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:02,879
Speaker 3: This is it is so wild to see a thirty

1058
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 3: nine versus a thirty six win team here in the

1059
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:08,719
Speaker 3: play in tournament the Western Conference seeds Like if if

1060
00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 3: you got into it, like the Pelicans and all that,

1061
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:13,720
Speaker 3: in the play in tournament, they would be the literally

1062
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:18,520
Speaker 3: be up in the three seed in the In the East,

1063
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:20,520
Speaker 3: I should say that's it's wild.

1064
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:23,239
Speaker 2: Well, do you think with teams if they're so far

1065
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:26,680
Speaker 2: back from you know, the sixth seed or whatever or

1066
00:47:26,719 --> 00:47:28,200
Speaker 2: I guess eight seed, however you want to put it,

1067
00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:30,239
Speaker 2: that we shouldn't even have these games like they used

1068
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:31,839
Speaker 2: to do the first time they did this and we

1069
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:34,040
Speaker 2: were in the bubble, well that what happened. You had

1070
00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:36,560
Speaker 2: to be like within oh was it? What was it?

1071
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:36,759
Speaker 5: Like?

1072
00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:38,279
Speaker 3: Five? Yeah?

1073
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:42,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you triggered the game. You think all

1074
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 2: of this is a waste.

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00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:46,960
Speaker 3: Maybe in the East a little bit Yeah, I think

1076
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:49,440
Speaker 3: both teams are going to get popped in the first round.

1077
00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 3: We know whoever they're playing, if they're playing anybody.

1078
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:53,239
Speaker 2: You think either of these teams are going to be

1079
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:56,040
Speaker 2: in Well.

1080
00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:58,800
Speaker 3: We saw as Trey brought up with Jimmy Butler lost

1081
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 3: last year, Game One, got into became became a team

1082
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:04,719
Speaker 3: that went to the freaking finals. Yeah. I will say

1083
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:07,600
Speaker 3: the Bulls are better than a thirty nine win team.

1084
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:09,279
Speaker 3: They played pretty freaking hard this year.

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00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, They're more like a forty one win Yeah.

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00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:14,600
Speaker 3: At least. I mean if Zach Levine's playing all season long,

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00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:21,400
Speaker 3: like they got any hard. Maybe the Hawks. I don't know.

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00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:23,360
Speaker 3: I don't know about the Hawks. That's why it's fun.

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00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 3: This could be a team that could go over. I

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00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:27,880
Speaker 3: could go to double overtime.

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Speaker 4: Is a great point.

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00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:31,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, go bet go bet on that. That's a good bet.

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00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:35,200
Speaker 2: This game's going to overtime. Bulls howks there on Wednesday night?

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00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:38,640
Speaker 2: All right, let's move to some other news. According to

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00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:42,680
Speaker 2: Sham's former Bucks championship head coach Mike Budenholzer, King's assistant

1096
00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:46,040
Speaker 2: Jordi Fernandez, and Son's assistant Kevin Young are among the

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00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:50,000
Speaker 2: finalists for the Brooklyn Nets coaching job. I guess Nets

1098
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:54,879
Speaker 2: owner Josiah is holding in person finalist meetings with all three.

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00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:56,839
Speaker 2: There's some reports that he's meeting a bunch of other

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Speaker 2: people as well, but a final decision decision is looming

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00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:03,920
Speaker 2: in the near future. That's from Sean's at the Athletic

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00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:08,560
Speaker 2: Budenholzer is the name that Scott. Everybody intrigued here. Trey

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00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:12,080
Speaker 2: by far the most accomplished, you know, coaching prospect available

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Speaker 2: for the Nets. What do you think about that?

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00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:17,560
Speaker 5: I think it's interesting, but I don't think the Nets

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00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:19,600
Speaker 5: should hire Mike Budenholzer. I don't think he's the right

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00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:21,440
Speaker 5: coach for them. He took over a forty four win

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00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:24,320
Speaker 5: Hawks team, they became a conference finalist, took a forty

1109
00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:28,080
Speaker 5: four win Bucks team, they become an NBA championship. Budenholzer

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00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:30,279
Speaker 5: hasn't done like a development thing, and I don't think

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00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:32,480
Speaker 5: the Nets are in development mode, or I don't think

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00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:34,239
Speaker 5: the Nets are in like we're trying to make a

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00:49:34,239 --> 00:49:36,920
Speaker 5: conference finals mode. They're going to be in for a

1114
00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:40,080
Speaker 5: long rebuild here, I do believe. But Sean Marx and

1115
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 5: Mike Budenholzer have a connection from their time with the Spurs.

1116
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:46,040
Speaker 5: I think Marx was there for like three years plus

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00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:48,640
Speaker 5: a season as an exec when Budenholzer was still coaching

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00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:51,280
Speaker 5: with Pop and then but I guess has coached Dennis

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00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:54,880
Speaker 5: Schruder in Atlanta. Here Dennis Schruder plays for the Nets.

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Speaker 4: I've heard out about that. Yeah, so there's a connection.

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Speaker 5: But I think they should hire an assistant because I

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00:49:59,239 --> 00:50:00,680
Speaker 5: think this is a going to be a thing that

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00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:01,799
Speaker 5: doesn't get fixed in a year.

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00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:02,359
Speaker 4: Like they're not.

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Speaker 5: The Nets don't need to be a forty forty two

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00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:07,759
Speaker 5: win team next season. They need to continue to be

1127
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:11,360
Speaker 5: a bad team and trade McHale Bridges and get some

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00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:14,080
Speaker 5: picks back, and then eventually they'll have these Sun pick

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00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:16,759
Speaker 5: these Suns picks further down the line. But I think

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00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:19,920
Speaker 5: if they do hire Mike Budenholzer, it kind of gives

1131
00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:23,360
Speaker 5: you a look into what they're planning for this summer. Well,

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00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:25,839
Speaker 5: they'll probably try and make a trade, try and bring

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00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:28,160
Speaker 5: in veterans, try to be a winning team, rather than

1134
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:31,080
Speaker 5: go the other way and build from the bottom, which

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00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 5: I personally think they should do. I think they only

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00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:35,000
Speaker 5: hire Bodenholder up they're trying to make a run for

1137
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Speaker 5: the playoffs. Next year, which seems unlikely.

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00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:38,839
Speaker 2: To and so if they do hire him, you think

1139
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:41,040
Speaker 2: that'll sort of tip their hand of what they'll be

1140
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:43,279
Speaker 2: doing in the offseason. That's interesting. What do you think?

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00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:45,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, I totally agree that Buonholzer is there because they

1142
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:48,200
Speaker 3: have faith number one in the roster they currently have

1143
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:51,440
Speaker 3: with mckel, Bridges and Cam Johnson as sort of their

1144
00:50:51,520 --> 00:50:54,839
Speaker 3: leaders on this team and potentially doing more around them.

1145
00:50:55,040 --> 00:50:57,480
Speaker 3: But if you go and go get a Kevin Young,

1146
00:50:57,520 --> 00:51:00,760
Speaker 3: who is supposed to take over the Phoenix Suns last season,

1147
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:03,520
Speaker 3: but that didn't happen, well, not supposed to, but there

1148
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:07,720
Speaker 3: was hot rumors that he'd be the head coaching pick,

1149
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:11,920
Speaker 3: but Frank Vogel got the job there. Matti Shpia went,

1150
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:13,920
Speaker 3: you know, with the older guy rather than a guy

1151
00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:16,919
Speaker 3: who can probably develop players. As you said, Kevin Young

1152
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:20,839
Speaker 3: and Jody Fernandez are probably that type of coach. So

1153
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 3: really it's yeah, the direction that they're choosing, you know,

1154
00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:28,520
Speaker 3: current now do it And it is odd because then

1155
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:30,439
Speaker 3: nets you know, we're like a five hundred ish team

1156
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:33,200
Speaker 3: after trading Kevin Durant and they should be better. But

1157
00:51:33,719 --> 00:51:35,480
Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't even know how much mckel

1158
00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:39,280
Speaker 3: Bridges really really believes in this team and the structure

1159
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:41,279
Speaker 3: that they have. It's just so odd there he goes

1160
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:44,239
Speaker 3: and shakes hands with his former Villanova Knicks players all

1161
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:46,800
Speaker 3: the time, as he did on Friday. I don't know

1162
00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:48,640
Speaker 3: if he's going to be there, but if they do

1163
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:51,719
Speaker 3: get Budenholzer, then they are absolutely trying to win with

1164
00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:55,120
Speaker 3: Bridges and Johnson and the same type of guys.

1165
00:51:55,239 --> 00:51:57,960
Speaker 2: Since becoming the nets GM in twenty sixteen, Sean Marks

1166
00:51:57,960 --> 00:52:00,600
Speaker 2: has hired Kenny Atkinson, Steve Nash, and then Jacques Vaughan

1167
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:03,560
Speaker 2: to the full time coaching jobs. Von let go in

1168
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:06,640
Speaker 2: February or they dismissed him. That's when Kevin Ollie took over.

1169
00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:09,680
Speaker 2: I guess he is not getting a chance to become

1170
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:12,879
Speaker 2: the full time head coach again. Those were Sham's three

1171
00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:15,480
Speaker 2: names or some other reports from nets Daily I know, saying, oh,

1172
00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:18,640
Speaker 2: there's a lot of other people that Josiah is meeting with,

1173
00:52:18,680 --> 00:52:21,399
Speaker 2: but we'll see if they go with Bud as their

1174
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:23,359
Speaker 2: guy or one of these assistants. You know, A big

1175
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:25,480
Speaker 2: fan of Jordy Fernandis, can't wait to see him as

1176
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:25,919
Speaker 2: a head coach.

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00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:26,279
Speaker 3: One day.

1178
00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:28,160
Speaker 2: It'll be some spot will it be in Brooklyn.

1179
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:31,920
Speaker 3: We'll find out it'll be in Paris this year. That's right, Canada.

1180
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:34,480
Speaker 2: All right, before we go, let's get to tweet of the.

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00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:39,680
Speaker 3: Night, tweet over night. Wow.

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00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:43,440
Speaker 2: Before we get to the tweets, let me set the table.

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00:52:43,560 --> 00:52:46,440
Speaker 2: The seventy six Ers unveiled a statue in Alan Iverson's

1184
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:50,400
Speaker 2: honor along legends walk outside the team's practice facility in

1185
00:52:50,440 --> 00:52:55,040
Speaker 2: Camden on Friday afternoon. The statue shows off AI's signature

1186
00:52:55,080 --> 00:52:57,600
Speaker 2: crossover there, but when it was unveiled to the public,

1187
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:01,480
Speaker 2: most people had just one thought, why is it so

1188
00:53:01,719 --> 00:53:04,920
Speaker 2: damn small? And Twitter had a field day with this.

1189
00:53:05,080 --> 00:53:08,759
Speaker 2: One of my favorites at NBA paint. What is this

1190
00:53:08,880 --> 00:53:12,759
Speaker 2: a statue for ants? Old Zoolander reference? There a great

1191
00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:16,719
Speaker 2: photoshop and then Jasmine Watkins tweeted and this was very

1192
00:53:16,719 --> 00:53:19,800
Speaker 2: timely with other things going on in the world. Drake diss,

1193
00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:23,520
Speaker 2: you know with the handshake with the Sixer statue, can't

1194
00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:26,840
Speaker 2: tell if it's Ai. That was the rumor this weekend.

1195
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:29,920
Speaker 2: Is the Drake diss back to Kendrick Ai And you

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00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:33,200
Speaker 2: got a squint to see the Sixer statue. Now, all

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00:53:33,280 --> 00:53:37,600
Speaker 2: the statues outside of the Sixers practice facility. They're all

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00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:42,480
Speaker 2: similar small size. I mean, they're all around the same side. Now,

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00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:45,200
Speaker 2: maybe Iverson's looks a little smaller because he's like crouched

1200
00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:48,880
Speaker 2: over doing the crossover, but generally they're all the same.

1201
00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:51,200
Speaker 2: So you know, once people start to learn that, it

1202
00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:53,560
Speaker 2: was like okay. Maybe it's because people at first were

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00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:56,240
Speaker 2: like literally offended. This is the one of the greatest

1204
00:53:56,239 --> 00:53:58,200
Speaker 2: players in your franchise history. You gave him a statue.

1205
00:53:58,200 --> 00:53:59,799
Speaker 2: You gave him a statue like fourth feet time.

1206
00:54:00,040 --> 00:54:02,200
Speaker 4: You give him a statue that's smaller than the Rocky statue.

1207
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:03,200
Speaker 4: He's not even real.

1208
00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:05,919
Speaker 2: That's right, that's the Rocky statue is quite big.

1209
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:07,280
Speaker 4: It's gigantic.

1210
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:08,920
Speaker 2: So maybe they have a point. I also love that

1211
00:54:08,960 --> 00:54:13,160
Speaker 2: it's outside the practice facility Alan Iverson practice.

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00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:16,080
Speaker 4: Pretty funny. Oh it's amazing, I don't think.

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00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:17,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, is that the thing?

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00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:17,319
Speaker 4: Yeah?

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00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:20,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, so uh anyway, a lot of funny tweets, you know,

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00:54:20,719 --> 00:54:23,560
Speaker 2: a lot of people saying they who was it Little

1217
00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:25,920
Speaker 2: Bow Wow, Calvin Cabridge or whatever in that movie with

1218
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:27,879
Speaker 2: Ai and it looks like him more than it looks

1219
00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:31,239
Speaker 2: like Iverson. There's a million tweets about this, Mike. Yeah, yeah,

1220
00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:32,719
Speaker 2: like Mike.

1221
00:54:32,760 --> 00:54:33,360
Speaker 3: That's what it was.

1222
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:38,960
Speaker 2: Bonus tweeted the night though. Oh h Hussey, We've been

1223
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:42,040
Speaker 2: burning this Jason Tatum prayer candle every game all season long,

1224
00:54:42,080 --> 00:54:44,120
Speaker 2: and I ordered a new one for the playoffs. They

1225
00:54:44,160 --> 00:54:47,440
Speaker 2: sent me the wrong Tatum just sad me laugh. We

1226
00:54:47,520 --> 00:54:51,959
Speaker 2: have a sexy Saint Jeff Probes candle that we burn

1227
00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:55,560
Speaker 2: on no Buffs our Survivor podcasts very similar to these.

1228
00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:58,160
Speaker 2: But uh, we'll see how this goes. I mean, we're

1229
00:54:58,200 --> 00:55:01,440
Speaker 2: gonna know if they somehow have a s rectacular flame

1230
00:55:01,480 --> 00:55:05,480
Speaker 2: out pun intended in the postseason. It's because this rong

1231
00:55:05,560 --> 00:55:07,680
Speaker 2: candle didn't get the Jason got the Channing.

1232
00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:10,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, who's the number one Tatum these days?

1233
00:55:11,840 --> 00:55:14,920
Speaker 3: I think it's Jason Channing.

1234
00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:17,239
Speaker 2: Tatum has he gotten It's got a little quiet for him,

1235
00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:17,919
Speaker 2: is what you're thinking.

1236
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:21,120
Speaker 5: Well, he did another Magic Mike with uh Salma Hayek,

1237
00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:21,839
Speaker 5: I know is in it.

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00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:23,600
Speaker 2: Oh he's still making those.

1239
00:55:23,680 --> 00:55:25,799
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was Magic Mike's last dance. But it wasn't

1240
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:28,919
Speaker 5: a big of a hit, right, Like it's not. He's

1241
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:30,239
Speaker 5: not on top of the world like he was in

1242
00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:31,600
Speaker 5: the twenty one Jump Street days.

1243
00:55:31,719 --> 00:55:33,520
Speaker 2: I think he's in a new movie called fly Me

1244
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:35,799
Speaker 2: to the Moon. Is this right? He's he seems to

1245
00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:38,160
Speaker 2: be tweeting about it, so that's what Channing's up to.

1246
00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:43,240
Speaker 2: But anyway, it's very funny. Rong candle. That's for a Tatum.

1247
00:55:43,239 --> 00:55:48,280
Speaker 2: Oh there's our sexy saint Jeff oh kinkick baby too creepy.

1248
00:55:49,560 --> 00:55:52,160
Speaker 2: Any thoughts on the AI statue or Tatum candles?

1249
00:55:52,400 --> 00:55:56,839
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, Magic Mike. You know it had its day.

1250
00:55:56,880 --> 00:56:02,040
Speaker 3: The first one killed it. He killed it, Magic like Mike. Yeah, yeah,

1251
00:56:02,120 --> 00:56:06,080
Speaker 3: a lot of movies, a lot of movie a lot

1252
00:56:06,120 --> 00:56:08,520
Speaker 3: of movie references. What was better magic mic.

1253
00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:09,719
Speaker 4: Or like Mike, Magic Mike.

1254
00:56:09,800 --> 00:56:11,040
Speaker 3: Yeah that was a good movie.

1255
00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:14,560
Speaker 4: Uh, second one, Magic Mike's Last Dance isn't bad.

1256
00:56:14,960 --> 00:56:18,880
Speaker 2: You've seen it too, Yeah, I seen the trilogy. In

1257
00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:22,200
Speaker 2: the trilogy, that's what we should do for our film

1258
00:56:22,239 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 2: session this summer.

1259
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:29,000
Speaker 3: So yeah, the second one was Magic Mike xx L bigger, sexy, bigger,

1260
00:56:29,280 --> 00:56:30,200
Speaker 3: everything was bigger.

1261
00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:33,600
Speaker 4: I think I had diesels in that one. Kevin Nash,

1262
00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:35,360
Speaker 4: I've seen the first one. I don't remember.

1263
00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:39,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, Matt familiar Matt Booner, not Matt Boner, was also

1264
00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:42,440
Speaker 3: in that movie. Interesting stuff.

1265
00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:46,160
Speaker 2: We'll call it there, we'll call it there, let us

1266
00:56:46,200 --> 00:56:49,000
Speaker 2: know what was better Magic Mic or Like Mike. We'll

1267
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:52,520
Speaker 2: get the poll going fun show. Thanks for joining us

1268
00:56:52,520 --> 00:56:55,160
Speaker 2: live here on YouTube, hit the like butt subscribe podcast listeners,

1269
00:56:55,160 --> 00:56:57,000
Speaker 2: do us a solid leave your boys a five star

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00:56:57,120 --> 00:57:02,480
Speaker 2: rating and review. Big Guest Tomorrow ESPN's Tim bond Temps

1271
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:05,080
Speaker 2: Good time, Oh my god, good times.

1272
00:57:05,120 --> 00:57:06,960
Speaker 4: I got to ask him which is his favorite movie?

1273
00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:09,160
Speaker 4: Like Micro Magic? My first question.

1274
00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:12,319
Speaker 2: We'll get into, obviously his thoughts on the postseason and

1275
00:57:12,360 --> 00:57:15,399
Speaker 2: how that'll shook out there over the weekend awards talk.

1276
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:17,840
Speaker 2: You know, this guy loves a straw pole, so we'll

1277
00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:19,920
Speaker 2: get into the MVP race and all the other stuff.

1278
00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:22,240
Speaker 2: There's no short of things we can talk to Tim

1279
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:24,520
Speaker 2: bond Temps about. So very excited about that. That's tomorrow

1280
00:57:24,520 --> 00:57:27,160
Speaker 2: Live at ten am Eastern. And then yeah, playoff previews

1281
00:57:27,200 --> 00:57:30,480
Speaker 2: and predictions. We really lean into them starting on Wednesday

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Speaker 2: and then Thursday, and then we'll have to drop on Friday.

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00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:35,200
Speaker 2: Nut dust will be had consumed.

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Speaker 3: What a week?

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Speaker 2: What a week? I mean, I don't usually set up

1286
00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:40,360
Speaker 2: the week for you like that, but had to this week.

1287
00:57:40,360 --> 00:57:42,480
Speaker 2: And we've got the playoffs starting on Saturday Sunday. Can't

1288
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Speaker 2: wait so until then, Clipper Bros. You heard it here first.

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Speaker 4: Have a great time, turn up. Love you guys, awesome.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us. I gotta give a shout out here.

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00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:53,920
Speaker 3: Shout out to the top tier North team they won

1292
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Speaker 3: the I e M Invitational in Canada. Where you go, Kipton,

1293
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Speaker 3: wait to get it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll go rich to day people,