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Speaker 1: Happy Wednesday, everybody, hopefull if you guys are having a

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Speaker 1: great week. Quick show today, We're just gonna hit one game,

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Speaker 1: because it's just unusual, right, Like Steph Curry is the

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Speaker 1: making it a pain in the butt for everybody in

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Speaker 1: the details, and they've actually been good, not great offensively.

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Speaker 1: That to me is a really strong indicator of like

434
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Speaker 1: an identity shift within this team. But they're moving towards

435
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Speaker 1: their strengths, which is we're fast as hell, so teams

436
00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:07,760
Speaker 1: can't guard us on the perimeter, but we can flip

437
00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:09,359
Speaker 1: that on them on the other end too, and we

438
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Speaker 1: can chase them off the three point line and we

439
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Speaker 1: can rotate, which is exactly what they did to slow

440
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Speaker 1: down the Warriors last night. In addition to that, several

441
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Speaker 1: key guys are playing well. Kevin Herder, he was broke

442
00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:22,959
Speaker 1: to start the season, but he's up to forty four

443
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Speaker 1: percent from three on eight attempts per game over this

444
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Speaker 1: ten game span. On the season, he's shooting sixty six

445
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Speaker 1: percent in effective field goal percentage on pull up jumpers,

446
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Speaker 1: way up from last year. And then he's one of

447
00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:35,800
Speaker 1: those guys too that's like doing a good job in

448
00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:39,400
Speaker 1: the dirty work. He's winning a lot of contested rebound battles.

449
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Speaker 1: He's making efforts on the perimeter. Defensively, I think Herder

450
00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:45,280
Speaker 1: has been really good. Malik Monk is playing super well.

451
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Speaker 1: He's just I tell you, I have as a Laker fan.

452
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Speaker 1: I regret that we got him when we got him,

453
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Speaker 1: because we had no opportunity in hell to maintain to

454
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Speaker 1: keep him because of the situation with the salary cap

455
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Speaker 1: and where they were at with the Russell Westbrook situation,

456
00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:05,720
Speaker 1: and so it was inevitable that he was going to leave.

457
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Speaker 2: And it just it's one of.

458
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Speaker 1: Those things where man like he's literally exactly what the

459
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Speaker 1: Lakers need right now in terms of offensive pop in

460
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Speaker 1: dynamic scoring ability. Right so, Bonus has been incredible. Ten

461
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Speaker 1: games span twenty one points, eleven rebounds, eight assists. He's

462
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Speaker 1: also making almost forty percent of his catch and shoo

463
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Speaker 1: jumpers this year, which is pretty significant considering teams basically

464
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Speaker 1: just ignore him. Sasha vaz Aankov was awesome in this

465
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Speaker 1: Warrior game. He's looking like a really smart addition. And

466
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Speaker 1: then Dearon Fox is like flat out playing at a

467
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Speaker 1: superstar level. He is going toe to toe with the

468
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Speaker 1: best players in the league and beating them and confident

469
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Speaker 1: and talking shit and having a good time. Like he's

470
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Speaker 1: he's playing at an extremely high level right now. It's

471
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Speaker 1: fifty four percent on floaters this year. The pull up

472
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Speaker 1: shooting is up from last year. Again, Like, specifically, they're

473
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Speaker 1: figuring out that these ball screens far away from the

474
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Speaker 1: basket are just giving him too much ahead of steam.

475
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Speaker 1: And when he gets ahead of steam, he has all

476
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Speaker 1: the reads down and then he can stop short to

477
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Speaker 1: make that floater and then he can get all the

478
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Speaker 1: way to the basket. He's just one of those guys that,

479
00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:12,080
Speaker 1: like right now, with the actions that they're running and

480
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Speaker 1: getting him those advantages that far away from the basket,

481
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Speaker 1: he's one of the hardest players in the league to

482
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Speaker 1: guard right now. It's that that's classic combination. I always

483
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Speaker 1: talk about a reliable pull up shooting with real downhill athleticism.

484
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Speaker 1: But yeah, this is the version of the King that

485
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Speaker 1: can make the Kings, that can make noise in the playoffs.

486
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Speaker 1: Not last year's version. This version can make noise. Only

487
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Speaker 1: tenth in offense over this winning this winning stretch, but

488
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Speaker 1: thirteenth in defense, and they've been the third best defensive

489
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Speaker 1: rebounding team.

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Speaker 2: In the league.

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Speaker 1: This is the way, this is the way, all right

492
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Speaker 1: on the Warriors front. Now, important context here is that

493
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Speaker 1: I am not mister overreact to regular season stuff guy.

494
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Speaker 1: I just have seen too many examples over the years

495
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Speaker 1: of teams that dominate the regular season and then struggle

496
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Speaker 1: in the playoffs. And I see teams that struggle all

497
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Speaker 1: year in the regular season and then beat dominant regular

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Speaker 1: season teams. I mean, we literally saw this with the

499
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Speaker 1: Warriors last year, with the Lakers last year, with the

500
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Speaker 1: Miami Heat last year. It's a thing right now, it's

501
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Speaker 1: I want to be careful with this because also if

502
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Speaker 1: we go back through NBA history, it's typically a all

503
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Speaker 1: time great player on a team that is dominating the

504
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Speaker 1: regular season that wins the title. Right, if we go back,

505
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Speaker 1: it's like it's last year, it's from day one. The NuGet,

506
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Speaker 1: like the Nuggets are the one seed. Nuggets were the

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Speaker 1: one seed, they won the title. Yoki is an all

508
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Speaker 1: time great player.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: Twenty twenty two, the Warriors ended up finishing with the

511
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Speaker 1: three seed, but I think they started fifteen to one.

512
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Speaker 1: They were the one seed basically most of the season

513
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Speaker 1: until injuries struck. And remember Steph ended up missing the

514
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Speaker 1: tail end of the season with that foot sprain, which

515
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Speaker 1: directly affected them in the standings. But the Warriors were

516
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Speaker 1: a team that dominated the regular season that year for

517
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Speaker 1: the most part. Twenty twenty one, we have the Milwaukee

518
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Speaker 1: Bucks one seed dominated the regular season that year. Twenty twenty,

519
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,480
Speaker 1: the Lakers one seed dominated the regular season that year.

520
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Speaker 1: If you go back through NBA history, it's that combination

521
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Speaker 1: dominate regular season with a like an all time great,

522
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Speaker 1: like pantheon type of basketball player. Right, So I always

523
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Speaker 1: have to be I have to balance the reality of

524
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Speaker 1: Like I don't think the regular season is that important

525
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Speaker 1: as it pertains to playoff success, but at the highest

526
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Speaker 1: levels in terms of like hoisting the trophy, it's typically

527
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Speaker 1: a good indicator for you to be dominating the regular season, right.

528
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't even say a good indicator. It's a vital

529
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Speaker 1: indicator in a lot of cases. But we have seen

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Speaker 1: teams get very close without that, And so that's the thing.

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Speaker 2: Like, I think the Warriors are very far.

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Speaker 1: They're a very long way away from being like a

533
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Speaker 1: championship favorite type of team. But I still it's gonna

534
00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:59,200
Speaker 1: take so much for me to get to the point

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Speaker 1: where I don't think this team is capable, where I

536
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Speaker 1: don't put them on that tier. And there's a couple

537
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Speaker 1: of specific things that I keep looking at, Like even

538
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Speaker 1: forget about the big picture for a second, let's just

539
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Speaker 1: look at last night. You're blowing them out until Gary

540
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Speaker 1: Payton got hurt. Gary Payton with Andrew Wiggins, Steph Curry,

541
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Speaker 1: Clay Thompson, and Dremont Green was dominating that basketball game.

542
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Speaker 1: Corey Joseph had to play big fourth quarter minutes, he

543
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 1: shout a pull up jump shot on Alik Mounk got

544
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Speaker 1: absolutely stuffed, which led to a runout dunk from Alik

545
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Speaker 1: Monk on the other end of the floor, or yeah,

546
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Speaker 1: from Alak Monk on the other end of the floor, Like,

547
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Speaker 1: that's a huge swing in that game. That doesn't happen

548
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Speaker 1: if Chris Paul's out there, and if it's a playoff game,

549
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:38,960
Speaker 1: he's probably out there. If I remember, if I'm familiar

550
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Speaker 1: enough with the situation, I believe Chris Paul was just

551
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Speaker 1: dealing with soreness and was just playing it safe. And

552
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Speaker 1: despite all of that, despite everything I just said, you

553
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,880
Speaker 1: still win that game if you don't make several crucial

554
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Speaker 1: mistakes at the end, most of which came from your

555
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Speaker 1: best players in Steph Curry and Draymond Green. Like, and

556
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Speaker 1: it's a road game in Sacramento against the team that's

557
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Speaker 1: arguably the best team in the league over the last

558
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Speaker 1: three weeks. Who's been blowing everybody out, including two top

559
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Speaker 1: tier contenders on my list over the last couple of weeks.

560
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Speaker 1: Like that was a tough game to win anyway. The

561
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Speaker 1: Kings were favored despite the fact that the Warriors have

562
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,920
Speaker 1: dominated that matchup forever. So, like, I'm not going to

563
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Speaker 1: overreact to that game. Do I think the Warriors need

564
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Speaker 1: to make a trade at some point, Yes, especially now

565
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Speaker 1: that the the Gary Payton injury has come down, right,

566
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Speaker 1: But like I've been telling I've been telling Warriors fans

567
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Speaker 1: that I think they need to make a trade to

568
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Speaker 1: upgrade that forward spot that's between Andrew Wiggins and Draymond Green.

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Speaker 1: I've been saying that forever. I was saying that during

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Speaker 1: the championship season, if you guys remember, I literally was saying, like,

571
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Speaker 1: you will have more margin for air if you make

572
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Speaker 1: that trade. And then I had to apologize to the

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Speaker 1: Warriors front office and ownership after the season because they

574
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Speaker 1: ended up not needing it. Right, But like like that,

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Speaker 1: my take on this stuff is always like increase your

576
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Speaker 1: odds where you have an opportunity, push your chips in.

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Speaker 1: That's always my point of view. Now they literally have

578
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Speaker 1: to because of the Gary Payton. But even if Gary

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Speaker 1: Payton it did not get hurt. And even if the

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Speaker 1: Warriors were ten and five right now, you know, or

581
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Speaker 1: something way over five hundred, I still would be sitting

582
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 1: here saying like, yeah, they should probably make a trade

583
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Speaker 1: because they have some personnel weaknesses and they are things

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Speaker 1: that they need to upgrade. They need more speed, they

585
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Speaker 1: need more athleticism. Ideally, in my opinion, Andrew Wiggins is

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Speaker 1: on the up and up. This is the thing.

587
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Speaker 2: There's a lot of upside here. Guys.

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Speaker 1: They have played the toughest schedule in the league. They

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Speaker 1: have a fifty five percent opponent win percentage by far

590
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Speaker 1: the highest in the league. They have the fourth easiest

591
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Speaker 1: remaining schedule as a result, that's a big that's a

592
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Speaker 1: big positive thing to look forward to. Right There are

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Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of easy games on the schedule

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Speaker 1: in the future. Andrew Wiggins is waking up two massive

595
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Speaker 1: scoring out bursts in his last four games.

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Speaker 2: So is Clay.

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Speaker 1: Clay had zero twenty point games in the first fourteen

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Speaker 1: games of the season. He's had three in the last four.

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Speaker 1: That's a great sign. Moses Moody, who's going to be

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Speaker 1: playing a lot now that Gary Payton's out. He looked

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Speaker 1: great last night in that fourth quarter, I would have

602
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Speaker 1: closed with him over Kavon Loney and then Draymond Green's

603
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Speaker 1: jump shot. He' shooting sixty four percent effecive field goal

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Speaker 1: percentage on jump shots this year. That like, and he's

605
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Speaker 1: barely played. Like even when you're looking at the record,

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Speaker 1: it's like, how should we evaluate the Warriors. Should we

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Speaker 1: evaluate them with Draymond or without Draymond, Because if we're

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Speaker 1: evaluating this chunk of games, it's been mostly without Draymond.

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Speaker 1: That's the fact, right, So all of that stuff, to

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Speaker 1: me is trending in the positive direction. But even with

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Speaker 1: all of that, even if they were sitting at a

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Speaker 1: much better record right now, I would still be recommending

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Speaker 1: a trade to upgrade specific roster groups because I've said this.

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Speaker 1: I said this with the Nerd Sash guys.

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Speaker 2: Today.

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Speaker 1: I have my top tier contenders, and right now I

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Speaker 1: have them listed at the Nuggets at one, Celtics at two, Bucks,

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Speaker 1: at three, Lakers, Suns, Wolves, Warriors is where I'm at.

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Speaker 1: But like, I think there's a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: gap between the top three and the bottom four. I

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Speaker 1: think once you go a nugget Celtics. I think there's

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Speaker 1: even a little gap between Celtic Bucks, and then there's

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Speaker 1: a little gap and then it's Lakers and the rest

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Speaker 1: of the group. All of those teams in the in

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Speaker 1: that lower level, in my opinion, are a trade away

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Speaker 1: from being in that tier. With all those guys you

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Speaker 1: just now are in a more serious predicament because Gary

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Speaker 1: Payton's out, I'd be looking at guys like Jeremy Grant.

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Speaker 1: I'd be looking at guys at like Lori Markinen. I mean,

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Speaker 1: who knows. Maybe if the you know, the Hawks are

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Speaker 1: having a lot of success with Jalen Johnson and Sadiq

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Speaker 1: bays On in a contract year, maybe you can get

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Speaker 1: Maybe you can I don't know, who knows if they're

634
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Speaker 1: preferring DeAndre Hunter or Sadik bay in the long run,

635
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Speaker 1: but maybe you can steal one of their wings. I

636
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Speaker 1: don't know you but they need a big forward that's

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Speaker 1: bigger than Wiggins, that's a good athlete in a plus

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00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:42,880
Speaker 1: offensive player that they can slot between Andrew Wiggins and

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Speaker 1: Draymond Green. That is the one thing, in my opinion,

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Speaker 1: that will push this team over the top, like way

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Speaker 1: over the top, and so like you're that close, you're

642
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Speaker 1: still within striking distance. You need to make a deal.

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Speaker 1: So to the Lakers, the Lakers entire championship potential this

644
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 1: year comes to to what D'angela Russell trade they make

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Speaker 1: the Bucks. In my opinion, their entire championship potential this

646
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 1: year comes down to whether or not they can upgrade

647
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 1: them Elik Beasley position. Right, Like, all of this stuff

648
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 1: is normal for teams that are at the top of

649
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 1: the league. The difference is is the Warriors have had

650
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 1: bad injury luck. They've had bad suspension luck. Obviously with

651
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:23,479
Speaker 1: Draymond Green. They I mean Draymond had the injury and

652
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 1: the suspension, so he's barely played. You know, Steph Curry

653
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 1: randomly missed two games and you ended up losing both

654
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Speaker 1: of them. Klay Thompson was playing like shit, Andrew Wiggins

655
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 1: was playing like shit, and you played the.

656
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 2: Hardest schedule in the league. So of course you're you're gonna.

657
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 1: Look up and be like, oh man, we're a couple

658
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 1: games under five hundred. That's not that's not to me

659
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:43,360
Speaker 1: some sort of of death sentence.

660
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 2: It's just not.

661
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 1: I still believe, you know, Klay Thompson after the game

662
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 1: last night was like, I still believe this group can

663
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 1: do special things. I one hundred percent agree your core

664
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:58,479
Speaker 1: guys Draymond Wiggins, Klay Staff, they are they are what

665
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 1: you need at those position groups. You just need an

666
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Speaker 1: upgrade at that four spot.

667
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 2: You need Like.

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Speaker 1: We've learned this in the Lakers series last year, but

669
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 1: against the teams are starting to figure out that with

670
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 1: Draymond Green and Cavan Luoni on the floor, there's just

671
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 1: not enough offense and so they find ways to guard.

672
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Speaker 1: And I mean you saw that again at the end

673
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 1: of that Kings game last night when Steph was really

674
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 1: struggling to get any openings right. So, like, at a

675
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 1: certain point, a plus offensive player who's also big and

676
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 1: a great athlete at that four spot literally fixes all

677
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 1: their problems. It's something that I that I that I

678
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:34,960
Speaker 1: think this hit this season hinges on at this point.

679
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 1: But no I've seen I saw a Warriors fan say

680
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 1: something along the lines of like everyone's up to be

681
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 1: traded except for Steph, And I'm like, what, Like, why

682
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 1: would you blow the team up over less than a

683
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 1: fourth of the season with the type of luck you've

684
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:53,520
Speaker 1: had in the schedule you've played. I just don't get it,

685
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 1: but again, like I'm not there are certain things that

686
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:00,200
Speaker 1: people listen to the show should know about me. I'm

687
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:01,640
Speaker 1: not the guy to go to if you want to

688
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 1: hear me bitch and moan about the refs in terms

689
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 1: of like, uh, I will bitch and moan about the refs,

690
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 1: but not about specific teams. I'll bitch about him in

691
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 1: the big picture. And I'm not the guy to come

692
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 1: to if you want to have me overreact to regular

693
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 1: season results. I'm just not that guy. Like I have

694
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 1: just seen too much in the regular season in huge

695
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Speaker 1: sample sizes to feel differently in that regard. All right,

696
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Speaker 1: let's move on to the mailbag. Hey, Jason, I'm curious

697
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Speaker 1: about Starver's role player growth. Take Stephan Clay for instance.

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Speaker 1: Lifelong Warriors fan, excuse me. Every year, as Steph loses

699
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 1: some quickness, the league adapts to his game plan, and

700
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 1: his need for elite ball handling ramps up. In the playoffs,

701
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:41,360
Speaker 1: he seems to add exactly the thing to keep him

702
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 1: effective strength elite ball handling, pick and roll mastery, et cetera.

703
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:47,720
Speaker 1: On the other hand, Clay loses some of his athleticism

704
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Speaker 1: and he seems to degrade as a player. The loss

705
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 1: of his step makes him a less effective defender, and

706
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 1: he doesn't seem to have the same separation he used

707
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 1: to get that made his hot streaks unstoppable. But he

708
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Speaker 1: doesn't seem to add pieces to make up for these losses.

709
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Speaker 1: Is there some difference in what's asked of stars and

710
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 1: role players that leads the former to adapt and grow

711
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 1: and the latter to stagnate in the grade? Really good question.

712
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Speaker 1: I you know, I have another question later on. I'll

713
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Speaker 1: just read you the question real quick. It's the third

714
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 1: mail back question. Why has Anthony Davis's jump shot regressed

715
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 1: so much? Is the third question? And this is what

716
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Speaker 1: I would say. When you're talking about the real all

717
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Speaker 1: time greats, and I'm talking Stephan lebron right, I have

718
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 1: both of them in my top five perimeter players of

719
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Speaker 1: all time. And you're talking Jokic, You're talking you know,

720
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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant, You're talking these these like all these like

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00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:42,640
Speaker 1: top twenty all time players. If you start to compare

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00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:46,400
Speaker 1: them to anybody else you're going to, it's just a

723
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 1: ridiculous standard. And what I mean by that is like,

724
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Speaker 1: imagine the level of psychotic competitiveness. It takes to be

725
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Speaker 1: as good as these guys are to where like specifically Steph,

726
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:08,280
Speaker 1: Lebron and Jokic, those three guys are the three most inevitable,

727
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:11,840
Speaker 1: unstoppable offensive, playoff offensive players that I've seen in my lifetime,

728
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Speaker 1: and they like when they were at their best, specifically

729
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 1: when Lebron is at his best, he's older now, but

730
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Speaker 1: like Stephan Jokic are still there. It's like they have

731
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:23,439
Speaker 1: patched every single hole in their offense and have made

732
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 1: it so that there is no coverage that works, there's

733
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 1: no personal type of defender that works. There's no nothing

734
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:32,760
Speaker 1: that works. It took psychotic competitiveness to get to that point.

735
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:35,880
Speaker 1: It's not like they get old and they would accept it.

736
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Speaker 1: That same psychotic competitiveness kicks in that causes them to

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Speaker 1: evolve and adapt and like a lot of times, we

738
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Speaker 1: forget that, there's levels to that even within the NBA.

739
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:50,400
Speaker 1: Like they're four hundred and fifty NBA players, Do you

740
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 1: think all four hundred and fifty of them are psychotic competitors. No,

741
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 1: there's levels to it. Like Clay and Anthony Davis, for instance,

742
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 1: those are guys that are very, very competitive and they're

743
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 1: winners and they're foxhole guys, and they're tough, and they're

744
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,920
Speaker 1: good leaders, and they're good teammates and they're all of

745
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 1: those things. But like, like the gap, there's still a

746
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Speaker 1: gap there between those guys and what those all time great,

747
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:19,360
Speaker 1: pantheon type of guys do. And so, like I think

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00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 1: a lot of times it's what I what I'm saying

749
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Speaker 1: is with that specific Steph Clay dynamic, I wouldn't focus

750
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Speaker 1: so much on on on what Clay is doing and

751
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 1: what he's not doing, and more just put the appreciation

752
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:34,320
Speaker 1: on Steph for what he is, which is an outlier

753
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:36,759
Speaker 1: in NBA history, one of the all time greats, like

754
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:38,840
Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty players in the league.

755
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:42,240
Speaker 2: Over what is this the.

756
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Speaker 1: Like, I mean, it's been like seven or eight decades

757
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:48,240
Speaker 1: of NBA basketball now, so I mean we're talking thousands

758
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:50,920
Speaker 1: and thousands and thousands and thousands of players and then

759
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 1: there's like these fifteen to twenty guys that are just

760
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 1: at another level. And so I don't think it's realistic

761
00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:00,680
Speaker 1: to expect the other guys to be wired the way

762
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 1: that those guys are. Why for the same reason where

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00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, Tom Brady can do all the

764
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 1: podcasts he wants, and he can tell the young quarterbacks like, hey,

765
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 1: you gotta do this, you gotta do that, like this

766
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,319
Speaker 1: is your professional blah blah. No, most of them are

767
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 1: going to work as hard as Tom Brady.

768
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 2: They just won't. They won't because Tom Brady is a psychopath,

769
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 2: which is why he has seven Super Bowls. Right.

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Speaker 1: So, like a lot of this time, a lot of

771
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: these situations, we just kind of have to acknowledge the

772
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 1: stars for what they are, which is outliers in the

773
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Speaker 1: human experience. I had a bunch of people I didn't

774
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:32,799
Speaker 1: pick a specific question, but I had at least like

775
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:36,280
Speaker 1: six or seven people bitching and moaning in the comments

776
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,400
Speaker 1: that I didn't have the Suns in my Power rankings

777
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,840
Speaker 1: last on Monday. Okay, So I wanted to address that

778
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:45,319
Speaker 1: real quick. It's really simple. There were a lot of

779
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:47,359
Speaker 1: teams that I considered in that top ten. There's like,

780
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 1: there's a lot of really good teams in the league.

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00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 1: There's like, I don't know, the top off top of

782
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 1: my head, there's like seventeen or eighteen teams that have

783
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 1: like legitimate cases to be top ten, right based on

784
00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 1: their records. The Suns have played made by far the

785
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 1: easiest schedule in the league. They're like the opposite of

786
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Speaker 1: the Warriors. When Devin Booker made that game winner against

787
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 1: the Knicks the other night, that was just the second

788
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:12,480
Speaker 1: time this season that the Suns beat a team that

789
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:15,959
Speaker 1: was five hundred or better. These are the other teams

790
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:19,840
Speaker 1: in the league that have two or fewer wins against

791
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:22,279
Speaker 1: teams that are five hundred are better. The Knicks, who

792
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 1: are the team that the Sun's beating that game, The Jazz,

793
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 1: the Hornets, the Blazers, the Bulls, the Grizzlies, the Wizards,

794
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:31,400
Speaker 1: the Pistons. So I'm just gonna be honest with you.

795
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Speaker 1: This has absolutely nothing to do with what the Sons

796
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 1: are capable of in the big picture. I'm excited when

797
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,840
Speaker 1: the Suns finally start playing real teams for us to

798
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:43,720
Speaker 1: talk about what they're capable of. But to this point,

799
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 1: they've had a cupcake schedule. They've beat every bad team

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00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:48,839
Speaker 1: they've played for the most part, except for that one

801
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 1: crazy game against the Spurs, right, and then they every

802
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:53,959
Speaker 1: time they've gone up against a good team, they've lost,

803
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:56,720
Speaker 1: except for the Knicks game, right, and then the Warriors.

804
00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:58,320
Speaker 1: I think there's one other I can't remember what the

805
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 1: other win was. But like they've struggled, struggled to beat

806
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:03,279
Speaker 1: winning teams. They're two and four in the sixth game,

807
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 1: the small sample size we have of them playing winning teams,

808
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 1: they're two and four. Like even the Lakers, who have

809
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:11,080
Speaker 1: had their issues against winning teams, they've won five games

810
00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:13,279
Speaker 1: against winning teams, so like they've won five games and

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00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:15,720
Speaker 1: they beat the Suns twice. So like, if you're expecting

812
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:18,439
Speaker 1: me to bump the Lakers down for a Suns team

813
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:22,279
Speaker 1: because they've won more regular season win or two more

814
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 1: regular season wins when they haven't played anybody, Like, I'm

815
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:26,399
Speaker 1: not gonna do that. And if I was gonna bump

816
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:28,359
Speaker 1: the Lakers for somebody else, it'd beat they're like three

817
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:30,320
Speaker 1: or four other teams I would have picked before the Suns.

818
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:34,239
Speaker 1: And like, again, it's a long season, guys, Like they

819
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 1: everybody plays eighty two games. Everybody plays the good teams eventually,

820
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:40,839
Speaker 1: So like if the Suns get to that point and

821
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 1: they're still winning and Brad Beil comes back, and you know,

822
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 1: everyone's out there and they're healthy and they're playing good basketball,

823
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 1: they're gonna win games and then they'll be in my

824
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 1: power rankings. I have no interest in in I have

825
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:56,719
Speaker 1: no interest in like personal vendettas against any team. That's

826
00:39:56,719 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 1: just not the case. I'm gonna call out who I

827
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Speaker 1: think is playing the best right now. For instance, Like,

828
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Speaker 1: the one of the big reasons why I'm not all

829
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:06,239
Speaker 1: that intense on the Warriors right now is guess who

830
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 1: was fourth in my power rankings on Monday. The Sacramento Kings.

831
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Speaker 1: I think they're awesome, And so a road game against

832
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:13,920
Speaker 1: the Sacramento Kings is gonna be a really tough one

833
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 1: to win, right So, Like, but yeah, like I'm gonna

834
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Speaker 1: be doing the power rankings every single Monday moving forward,

835
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Speaker 1: and I'm when it comes to teams that have similar records,

836
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:24,800
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be looking at the quality of the opponents

837
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 1: they've want played a heavy emphasis on the previous week,

838
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 1: because I want it to be reflective of the u

839
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:32,959
Speaker 1: of the who's playing the best basketball right now? Right

840
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 1: and that, Yeah, like that's gonna be a tiebreaker for me,

841
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 1: Like what is your like what kind of wins are

842
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:40,160
Speaker 1: you putting up at this point? As I've said, like

843
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:41,719
Speaker 1: one of the people said in the comments are like

844
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:43,600
Speaker 1: they've won seven games in a row, Like how could

845
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:45,799
Speaker 1: you ignore that, and I want to be like, yeah,

846
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:47,880
Speaker 1: they won seven games in a row against bad teams.

847
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:51,280
Speaker 1: What do I What do I say are the driving

848
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:55,520
Speaker 1: forces between bad stretches and good stretches. Nobody goes and

849
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:57,760
Speaker 1: wins a bunch of games in a row against good teams,

850
00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:02,120
Speaker 1: even the Kings, who kind of did dropped two against

851
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 1: the Pelicans, Right, That's the point. Whenever you actually play

852
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,640
Speaker 1: seven or eight tough games in a row, the good

853
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 1: teams go like five and three and the okay teams

854
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 1: go like three and five, right, Like that, that's what happens.

855
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:19,760
Speaker 1: When you rip off a bunch of wins. It's usually

856
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Speaker 1: easy schedule, healthy roster. When you drop a bunch of games,

857
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:25,600
Speaker 1: it's usually guys down with injury playing a tougher schedule.

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Speaker 2: Right.

859
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:28,319
Speaker 1: So we got to like kind of sift through some

860
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:30,479
Speaker 1: of that data, especially when we have this many good teams,

861
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:33,160
Speaker 1: because we're splitting hairs in all these cases. The Sons

862
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:34,960
Speaker 1: are still in my list of top tier contenders. So

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00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:36,759
Speaker 1: I'm not over here saying that they can't win. Of course,

864
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 1: I'm saying they can win. Now, if you're looking for

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Speaker 1: a more basketball analysis surrounding the Suns and specific things

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Speaker 1: I've noticed. Go over to the nerd sessh Feed did

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Speaker 1: an hour and a half with them today, talked tons

868
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Speaker 1: of suns specific issues that I'm worried about.

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Speaker 2: Third mail back.

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Speaker 1: Question, why has Anthony Davis's jump shout regressed so much?

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00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 1: In your opinion, I've thought a lot about this. I've

872
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 1: heard people say muscle, I've heard people say injuries, blah

873
00:41:57,640 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 1: blah blah blah.

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00:41:58,560 --> 00:41:59,920
Speaker 2: To me, the big one.

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00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: Is is the time he takes off every off season.

876
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 1: From what I've heard, the dude takes two months off

877
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:08,760
Speaker 1: every single off season at the beginning of the summer.

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00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 1: And I'm a big believer that, like, specifically when it

879
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:13,759
Speaker 1: comes to jump shooting, it's very rhythm based. It is

880
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 1: like tinkering, and like it's one thing to take a

881
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:18,080
Speaker 1: week or two off, it's one thing to take a vacation.

882
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 1: But like, even when you're taking time off, you should

883
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:23,360
Speaker 1: be working on your jump shot in my opinion, and

884
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:25,439
Speaker 1: I think I think the people that are truly great

885
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 1: transcendent jump shooters around the league are all obsessive about it,

886
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 1: and they work about they work on it. You know,

887
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, I'm gonna take an easy week, I'm

888
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 1: gonna give my.

889
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 2: Legs a break. Those dudes are still.

890
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:37,560
Speaker 1: Shooting three four times that week like that, Like it's

891
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:40,480
Speaker 1: it's such an important part of like polishing and in

892
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:42,799
Speaker 1: tinkering with your with your form and tinkering with your

893
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 1: muscle memory and just it's like a perfectionist attitude, right,

894
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 1: And like Anthony Davis is one of those guys that like, like,

895
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:51,360
Speaker 1: I don't think he necessarily views his jump shot is

896
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 1: that important to his game, which I would disagree, but

897
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:55,800
Speaker 1: that's clearly the way he feels. Watch the way he's shooting.

898
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 1: But it becomes a problem right when he's hit missing

899
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 1: every pick and pop jump shot that he takes, and

900
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:04,719
Speaker 1: he's when he's catching those little short you know, pocket

901
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:07,560
Speaker 1: passes around twelve to fifteen feet, he's missing those jumpers.

902
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 1: It's a problem. And like, at the end of the day,

903
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:12,319
Speaker 1: this is where I'm saying, like, don't hold him to

904
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 1: the Lebron James Steph Curry standard in terms of competitiveness

905
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:18,360
Speaker 1: and obsessive work, because that's just silly. Anthony Davis is

906
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:21,319
Speaker 1: not that guy, right, Like he's something below that, right,

907
00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 1: And so I've just kind of grown to accept it.

908
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:27,560
Speaker 1: At this point rooting for the Lakers. Last question, what

909
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:29,360
Speaker 1: can the NBA do about the rules so that we

910
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:32,280
Speaker 1: don't have so many games with seventy plus free throws?

911
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 1: Having the game stop every minute for foul and some

912
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:35,960
Speaker 1: free throws is just unwatchable.

913
00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:36,640
Speaker 2: Totally agree.

914
00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:38,600
Speaker 1: I think it's a huge problem in the league right now.

915
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:41,240
Speaker 1: In terms of fixing it, it really is this simple

916
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:43,720
Speaker 1: to me. I would you know how like the standard

917
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:49,400
Speaker 1: of proof idea, right, So, like if you're being accused

918
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:51,839
Speaker 1: of something in court, different places around the world, there's

919
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:53,920
Speaker 1: a different standard of proof, right, And essentially it's like

920
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 1: a moving goalpost, and like they inform the jury like, hey,

921
00:43:58,160 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 1: this is the standard of proof, Like they need to

922
00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:05,400
Speaker 1: demonstrate within this realm of possibility that there was guilt.

923
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Speaker 1: And depending on the country, depending on the political system,

924
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:11,400
Speaker 1: depending on the legal system, there's this goal line that

925
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 1: they have to reach, right, and then the jury will

926
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Speaker 1: make a call from there, or the judge will make

927
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Speaker 1: a call from there. Right. Well, Like that's kind of

928
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Speaker 1: the way I look at it. With officiating right now,

929
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Speaker 1: they are calling defensive fouls on a whim way too frequently,

930
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:28,000
Speaker 1: and so as a result, you're seeing dozens of calls

931
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Speaker 1: every single night where it's like, what, like, nothing even

932
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Speaker 1: happened there. Specifically, the one that's killing me is like

933
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:36,520
Speaker 1: the hard dribble move to one direction, dude slides his feet,

934
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:38,279
Speaker 1: takes a little bit of contact in the chest, and

935
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 1: the dude just throws the ball up and he gets

936
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Speaker 1: two free throws. Like that's driving me insane at this point.

937
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:44,759
Speaker 1: So what I would do is I would raise the

938
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Speaker 1: standard of proof to where it's like, you do not

939
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 1: blow the whistle unless it is very clearly a foul

940
00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:54,040
Speaker 1: because above and beyond what it should be considered fair

941
00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:57,640
Speaker 1: for defense, they're obsessed with scoring for the television product.

942
00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 1: I would argue that freedom of movement, or I should say,

943
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 1: the stoppages of play are more important than the freedom

944
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:06,880
Speaker 1: of movement. They want freedom of movement. So the games

945
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:09,400
Speaker 1: high flying and exciting and all this cool shit's happening,

946
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:12,799
Speaker 1: but in the process, it's a terrible watch because dudes

947
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:14,440
Speaker 1: are going to the line all the time. And again

948
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 1: this is where the competitiveness comes in. We have these

949
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:20,280
Speaker 1: competitors that are doing everything they can to win these games, right,

950
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:22,880
Speaker 1: and so of course they're taking advantages of the advantage

951
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:25,759
Speaker 1: of the rules. Right, if you drop the standard to

952
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:29,160
Speaker 1: where the ref does not call the foul unless they

953
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:32,879
Speaker 1: are one thousand percent certain that a physical altercation took

954
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:35,880
Speaker 1: place that disrupted that a player's ability to, you know,

955
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:39,239
Speaker 1: to make the shot in a significant manner, essentially like

956
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 1: moving the margin a little bit. I believe that yes,

957
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 1: there would be a lot more uncalled fouls, and yes

958
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:47,680
Speaker 1: there'd be some offensive players that get pissed off, and

959
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:50,400
Speaker 1: yes there'd be some more lower scoring games, but the

960
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:54,080
Speaker 1: actual television product would be better because it would flow

961
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:56,200
Speaker 1: on TV and you wouldn't be going to the line

962
00:45:56,239 --> 00:45:58,080
Speaker 1: every five seconds. I think it's a huge problem in

963
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Speaker 1: the NBA. I think I think it's like one of

964
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Speaker 1: the biggest ones standing in the way of the NBA's

965
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:06,239
Speaker 1: long term success. Then he shortened the regular season and

966
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:08,279
Speaker 1: they need to fix the officiating. I think those two

967
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 1: particular things with how good the league is right now

968
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:13,759
Speaker 1: from a talent standpoint, the nd season tournament has been hit,

969
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:17,200
Speaker 1: the playing tournament's been a hit. If they can fix

970
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:20,640
Speaker 1: those issues, If they could fix specifically the officiating in

971
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:22,239
Speaker 1: the length of the regular season, I think the league

972
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:24,799
Speaker 1: could explode around the globe at that point, all right, guys,

973
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Speaker 1: that is all I have for today.

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Speaker 2: We'll be back.

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow with more instant reactions.

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Speaker 2: I will see you guys.

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Speaker 1: Then the volume