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Speaker 2: right into it. Weekend winners and losers will start with

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Speaker 2: the winners, learly, why don't you get to started today?

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Speaker 1: Where are you going for a winner.

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Speaker 4: Well, I really want to sort of talk about last

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Speaker 4: night's game the Nets and the Wizards. Incredible game. Their

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Speaker 4: Wizards came back late, won this game when they should

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Speaker 4: have lost. It kind of similar to what happened on

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Speaker 4: Saturday night to the Bulls again playing against the Portland

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Speaker 4: Trailblazer's a crazy game. But there's something that really stood

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Speaker 4: out to me from this was Bradley Beal. There's been

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Speaker 4: a lot of speculation about whether or not he would

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Speaker 4: like to be traded from the Washington Wizards. Now. He

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Speaker 4: hasn't made anything public, any statements verbally, but his body

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Speaker 4: language in the first half of last night's game was

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Speaker 4: was reminiscent of James Harden's last game or so there

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Speaker 4: And Worldwide Wild put up a little compilation and I

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Speaker 4: don't know I'm speculating here, but I think Bradley bial

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Speaker 4: at halftime and he was like, whoa it's pretty obvious

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Speaker 4: what's going on here. And I think someone said to him,

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Speaker 4: Westbrook was incredible and the Wizards came back and won

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Speaker 4: this game in the most unlikely of circumstances. But forget

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, here we go. Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 4: So I was working at working at working at now.

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Speaker 4: At the end of the game, I'm like, ah, man,

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Speaker 4: I mean, if they get smoked last night, there's no

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Speaker 4: So I tried to find the right deal, and I

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Speaker 5: Real beal deal.

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Speaker 4: Because there's obviously a few teams that he's not getting

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Speaker 4: He's not going to the next Okay, he's not going

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Speaker 4: So I've found a couple of destinations I think could

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Speaker 4: it's the Denver Nuggets now Gary Harris. According to Brian

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Speaker 4: Windhors a couple of weeks ago, the Nuggets are trying

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Speaker 4: which is surprising because he's not a terrible player. He

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Speaker 4: he's kind of called off. He was really good a

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Speaker 4: which is two years and nineteen million per left on it,

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Speaker 4: I think the Wizards would say give us Michael Porter Jr.

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Speaker 4: Then now do the Nuggets do that. That's a big question.

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Speaker 4: I'm not sure Porter is potentially a legit scoring star

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Speaker 4: got to work on his game defensively. But Bradley Beal

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Speaker 4: is an immediate upgrade. And in the Western Conference the

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Speaker 4: Nuggets and the Nuggets aren't on the Lakers level. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: but they are missing a piece still. I think if

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Speaker 4: saying to the Wizard, you have to take Gary Harris's

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Speaker 4: contract as well, I think both teams do that deal.

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Speaker 4: I think so they're not giving up Jamal Murray. I

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Speaker 4: know that's been rumored. You know, people saying Bale for Murray. No,

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Speaker 4: I don't think. So, you need that third star and

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Speaker 4: they get that with Bradley Beal. They keep Jamal Murray

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Speaker 4: and they say, Okay, we give up a Michael Porter.

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Speaker 4: He's a good player, but Bial is better and Beal

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Speaker 4: is more in a win now mode.

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Speaker 2: So that's one deal, okay, And hypothetically the Wizards are

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Speaker 2: all right with that because they're getting a promising young

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Speaker 1: Michael Porter Union the builder exactly.

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Speaker 2: So to the idea that I was thrown around with

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Speaker 2: and he'd be like the young promising piece that would.

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Speaker 1: Be Michael Porter Junior in the centsus.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. So, and that's my second trade is I went

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Speaker 4: back to that Wizards and Heat deal. Now, basically you

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Speaker 4: need to put in Iguadala and Avery Bradley. And now

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Speaker 4: Bradley can't be traded for a couple of weeks, I'll

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Speaker 4: just say that. But but to make the money work,

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Speaker 4: because Bial's on twenty eight million this year, So to

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Speaker 4: make the money work, you have to give up Iguadala,

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Speaker 4: Avery Bradley, Tyler Hero, and I think also a first

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Speaker 4: round draft pick. The Wizards are going to give up.

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Speaker 4: And how have I got that here? Yeah, to the

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Speaker 2: Sense, yeah, yeah, yeah, the Wizards are gonna want draft picks.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, exactly right, and young guys both. So they

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Speaker 4: say basically, the deal is Tyler Hero and a first

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Speaker 4: just to make the money work. And I think that

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Speaker 4: I think the Hate would do that as well. I

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Speaker 4: think Iguodala it was very very good for them in

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Speaker 4: the playoffs last year, but you're getting a lot more,

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Speaker 4: a longer, longer time with Bradley Beal there, and I

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Speaker 4: think that's the sort of deal again that gives him

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Speaker 4: that third legit star. You've got Butler, you've got Bam,

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Speaker 4: you've got Bradley Beal, and you're keeping Duncan Robinson or

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Speaker 4: Tyler Hero, whichever won the Wizards one out of that

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Speaker 4: they can pick.

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Speaker 1: So fair enough, fair enough.

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Speaker 2: If you were the Wizards tasks, would you prefer a

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Speaker 2: package with Michael Porter Junior or would you prefer a

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Speaker 2: package with Tyler Hero? Well, let's say, like they're very

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Speaker 2: similar packages, like which player would you want?

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Speaker 3: It's Michael Porter Junior?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: I think that's sort of what most people would say too.

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Speaker 2: Because when I was thrown out the Hero idea last week,

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Speaker 2: I had a bunch of people on Twitter saying, now,

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Speaker 2: forget that one, do the Nuggets. We want Michael Porter

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Speaker 2: Junior as the building block as a potentially and I

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Speaker 2: get it. I could see it. I mean, I'm still

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Speaker 2: high on Hero, but I could also see why you

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Speaker 5: I think these are actually both good for the Wizards.

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Speaker 5: They would take either of them. I would have to

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Speaker 5: think who would I rather have. Honestly, I kind of

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Speaker 5: think I would rather have Taylor Hero. I don't know why.

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Speaker 5: It's just off the top of my head. I would

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Speaker 5: want him running the peck and roll with Davis Burton's.

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Speaker 5: You got a couple of shooters out there, that's the

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Speaker 5: basis of an NBA offense. Who knows how it would

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Speaker 5: actually pan out. I don't know. I mean that's pretty

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Speaker 5: pretty fair either way, MPJ or Hero. That's a good

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Speaker 5: young player you're getting in return for Bradley bial These

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Speaker 5: are both good Tradesly, keep it going.

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Speaker 1: What do you got next? Now?

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Speaker 2: These have sort of been these have sort of been

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Speaker 2: Heat some sort of deals here? What else you got there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but I've put them in the machinet and they work. Actually,

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Speaker 4: so you're not the.

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Speaker 3: Only one that knows you're the first one. You are,

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Speaker 3: absolutely okay.

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Speaker 4: Now listen, I've got two trades for this next team. Now,

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Speaker 4: you guys, remember the start of the season, I said

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Speaker 4: I want a Bradley Beial on the Mavericks. So here's

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Speaker 4: the first offer, Tim Hardaway junior, Josh Richardson and young

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Speaker 4: Josh Green the Australian rookie there. Now you need to

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Speaker 4: basically put all those three together to make the money work. Now,

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Speaker 4: Bell is an upgrade immediately, and the young prospect you

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Speaker 4: giving up there is Josh Green, Hardaway Junior, Josh Richardson.

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Speaker 4: You know, not too bad players.

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Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on, I'm the Wizards. I'm saying. Is

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Speaker 1: that it that's what you're offering?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Bye, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 5: I know. Well that's Green's right there.

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Speaker 4: That's the young prospect that you're trying to throw in there,

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Speaker 4: because yeah, I know it's it's basically we.

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Speaker 2: Were debating Michael Porter Junior and Taylor Hero. Which one's

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Speaker 4: Okay, so now when we talked about the MAVs last week,

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Speaker 1: It's a great question. That's a great question. I guess

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Speaker 4: That's why I keep here, That's why I think this

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Speaker 5: Okay, which on there? Why not?

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Speaker 6: But Andrew Wiggins.

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Speaker 4: The Wizards are getting young star in the ish Andrew Wiggins.

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Speaker 4: But what's more important here, what's more important here right

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Speaker 1: Now, where will that be?

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Speaker 4: You know they're not going to be last, so it's

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Speaker 4: you can get any first round pick plus you know Wiggans.

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Speaker 3: But you said it's the Wolves pick, so the Wolves

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Speaker 3: would have to be bad. Yeah, not the Warriors.

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Speaker 2: Three protected pick, I believe though. Yeah, so the Wolves

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you're you're going back to the Nuggets,

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Speaker 2: You're going back to the Heat. Those are more enticing

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that pick is unprotected. Then we're talking if you

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Speaker 5: can almost guarantee Andrew Wiggins would lead them in scoring.

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Speaker 5: There's a Josh Green in that trade. I think that's

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Speaker 4: Point, Well sell high right now. If you're the Warriors

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Speaker 3: You probably have to give up a lot more. I

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Speaker 4: I realized that. But also remember, like a couple of

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Speaker 4: Like like sometimes we I think people go, well, you should,

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Speaker 2: Well, that's why I'm surprised you didn't throw in a

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Speaker 2: You make the money work, you send them over to

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Speaker 2: it's just willing whether they're willing to give up. They're

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Speaker 2: all all the assets they have acquired and trading all

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Speaker 1: I guess that's a question.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you know, I was going deep into

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Speaker 4: I just sort of tried to find destinations that you know,

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Speaker 5: It's okay, you put in the time. I like it.

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Speaker 5: The trade machine was around for ten years. You said,

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Speaker 5: there's no way I'm touching it. About as soon as

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Speaker 5: you know we've still got another four episodes to do

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Speaker 5: this week. Maybe you can hop on what you need

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Speaker 5: to know a task, break it down for another few teams,

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Speaker 1: I like it.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's a great idea. Every day this weekly you

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Speaker 2: should have another Bradley Beal trade offer that you got

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Speaker 2: to present.

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Speaker 4: Hey, I'm trying to get him to the Raptors too, right.

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Speaker 2: Fin all ears Okay, so despite the Wizards winning the game,

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Speaker 4: Man, what a fourth quarter that was Westbrook just going

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Speaker 4: He was guarding Kevin Durant there on the inbounds pass

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Speaker 3: But money, Yeah, that was Kyrie Irvings inbound pass and

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And Timothy Love Cabareat doesn't practice with the left, I guess.

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Speaker 3: I mean that was a layout.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, messed it. Great game though, great game. All right,

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Speaker 2: Wow, I did not expect that's where you were going

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Speaker 5: I guess right, two years. He's still got a long contract.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, well I'll go next here. My winner

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Speaker 2: playing him strangely. I mean, they were trying smaller guys

431
00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:16,600
Speaker 2: on him, and then Gobert was sort of the help

432
00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:19,679
Speaker 2: and it you know, the dinkers and dumpers task that

433
00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:22,600
Speaker 2: we know Jokic can do. It was like just floater

434
00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:24,800
Speaker 2: after floater. It felt like in there, but O'Neil had

435
00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:27,159
Speaker 2: to turn on him and Bogdanovic and then Favors and

436
00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:29,040
Speaker 2: you know, Gobar at times matched up on him and

437
00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:32,000
Speaker 2: it didn't matter. Jokic just that was one of the

438
00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:34,560
Speaker 2: best performances of the seasons, one of the best lines,

439
00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:36,920
Speaker 2: at least when it comes to Woboy. It was impressive.

440
00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:38,359
Speaker 2: He had thirty three at the half. I mean it

441
00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:41,360
Speaker 2: became like must watch. If you weren't watching, must watch

442
00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:43,040
Speaker 2: second half to see how many points this guy could

443
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Speaker 2: put up. I don't know if you caught that game.

444
00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:47,399
Speaker 2: I'm sure you did, but that was just that's just

445
00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:49,040
Speaker 2: elite to do it against the best team in the

446
00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:50,760
Speaker 2: league right now, the way the Jazz have been playing

447
00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:52,560
Speaker 2: and obviously a great defense.

448
00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:55,280
Speaker 3: I think he likes playing against Rudy Gobert. Yeah. I

449
00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:58,879
Speaker 3: think they wanted revenge against the Utah Jazz, revenge on them.

450
00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:01,080
Speaker 3: Last year in the play they were up three to

451
00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:03,920
Speaker 3: one the Utah Jazz. Where then they came into this

452
00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:06,240
Speaker 3: season when they played him. Utah beat Denver the first time,

453
00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:08,879
Speaker 3: and then Denver saw I think Rudy Gobert on the

454
00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:12,359
Speaker 3: schedule again and Joker was sensational. The NBA has cut

455
00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:15,760
Speaker 3: just a three minute little recap of every move of

456
00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:19,879
Speaker 3: his He shows every move, he beats every defender, every

457
00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:22,560
Speaker 3: guy guards him, He's on the move for a seven footer.

458
00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:25,560
Speaker 3: The footwork was amazing. He's on the fast break, he's

459
00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:29,760
Speaker 3: in the posts, he beats everybody. It's just special stuff

460
00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:32,960
Speaker 3: from Nicole. Jokichi did everything yesterday. It was wild.

461
00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:36,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, when the three is dropping, he's literally unguardable because

462
00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:37,960
Speaker 5: they were trying a small guy on him. Like you

463
00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:39,440
Speaker 5: mentioned in What You Need to Know a test and

464
00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:42,000
Speaker 5: there was a great line on the Nuggets broadcast. Usually

465
00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,280
Speaker 5: when you see a small guy in the post guarding

466
00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:47,119
Speaker 5: a big guy, it's mouse in the house. Jokic hit

467
00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:48,879
Speaker 5: him with the spin move an easy lamp and they

468
00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:51,840
Speaker 5: just say bye bye baby. I loved it. I love it,

469
00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:54,760
Speaker 5: similar to rocking the baby, Bye bye baby. It's the

470
00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:57,280
Speaker 5: new mouse in the house. But man, that was that

471
00:19:57,359 --> 00:19:59,159
Speaker 5: was impossible, Like, how do you, honestly, how do you

472
00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:00,920
Speaker 5: guard him? He was taking go bear off the dribble,

473
00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:03,280
Speaker 5: he was shooting three's over his head, he was spinning

474
00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:05,240
Speaker 5: around him, he was giving him every single move in

475
00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:08,760
Speaker 5: the book. That was impressive. Impressive stuff from Nikola Jokic.

476
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Speaker 1: Absolutely.

477
00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:12,880
Speaker 2: The MVP race continued to heat up two over the weekend.

478
00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:14,879
Speaker 2: It wasn't just Jokic Embiid in his one game on

479
00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:17,679
Speaker 2: Friday night, thirty seven and eleven and twenty six minutes.

480
00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:21,439
Speaker 2: Just obviously huge numbers. We had been debating, you know,

481
00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:24,760
Speaker 2: like if you're making all NBA first center right now, is.

482
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Speaker 1: He Jokic is Embiid?

483
00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:28,919
Speaker 2: I mean it's a toss up. They're both playing elite basketball.

484
00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:32,560
Speaker 2: But then Embid missus Sunday's game versus the Pacers with

485
00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:35,679
Speaker 2: lingering back tightness from you know that fall that he

486
00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:37,760
Speaker 2: took earlier in the week, I think against the Lakers,

487
00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:39,600
Speaker 2: right and I thought it was actually going to help

488
00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:41,679
Speaker 2: his case again, but the Sixers won the game. And

489
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Speaker 2: what I mean by that is Sixers are fourteen and

490
00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:46,800
Speaker 2: two with Embiid and now one and four because they

491
00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:49,639
Speaker 2: rallied to beat Indiana one and four without Embid. I

492
00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:51,119
Speaker 2: mean if they had fallen too oh to five, its

493
00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:54,480
Speaker 2: actually helps his case there. But anyway, still incredible numbers. Durant,

494
00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:57,000
Speaker 2: He's still there. Don't forget about him. Thirty seven, seven

495
00:20:57,040 --> 00:20:59,920
Speaker 2: and six in that crazy loss to beal n Westbrook.

496
00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:02,880
Speaker 2: Kawhi returned to action this weekend. There's a guy we're

497
00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:06,760
Speaker 2: sleeping on, but not me, Isaac, not me. I believe

498
00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:08,240
Speaker 2: in Kawhi Leonard's chances to do this.

499
00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:08,520
Speaker 1: Now.

500
00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:11,040
Speaker 2: He helped the Clippers win both games versus Orlando and

501
00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:13,000
Speaker 2: the Knicks. He average twenty six points per game over

502
00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:16,960
Speaker 2: the weekend. Just he just looked a lot more explosive.

503
00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:19,120
Speaker 2: I mean, the rest obviously probably did him some good.

504
00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:21,200
Speaker 2: Did you see his bullyball dunk on RJ.

505
00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:21,800
Speaker 1: Barrett?

506
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Speaker 2: I mean, he just drove baseline on the kid and

507
00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:27,160
Speaker 2: just like Tass, you're nodding like he just I mean,

508
00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:29,119
Speaker 2: I don't he didn't push him, He just like, is

509
00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:32,439
Speaker 2: sos much stronger that Barrett just went flying off him.

510
00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:34,879
Speaker 2: Then Kawhi dunked it just barreled through him. It was

511
00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:35,840
Speaker 2: pretty impressive.

512
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Speaker 1: So he looked good.

513
00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:38,080
Speaker 2: And then finally, and I don't want to step on

514
00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:40,840
Speaker 2: Trey's toes because we're gonna get to loser in the Bulls,

515
00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:45,000
Speaker 2: but Damian Lillard, my goodness, with the game winning three

516
00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:48,160
Speaker 2: versus Chicago to finish with forty four points. So I'm

517
00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:51,000
Speaker 2: just saying all of that to say, like Lebron, sure, Lee,

518
00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:53,480
Speaker 2: you had him as your favorite at the quarter mark

519
00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:55,159
Speaker 2: here of the season, but man, this is gonna be

520
00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:57,000
Speaker 2: a fun one. I think with Yokichin and Beii. If

521
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Speaker 2: they can continue to play healthy, be healthy and play

522
00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,040
Speaker 2: the way they are, the Lord's gonna come on here.

523
00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:03,239
Speaker 2: We're gonna get some like forty point games here from

524
00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:05,640
Speaker 2: Littard over the stretch. And then let's not forget about

525
00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:08,240
Speaker 2: obviously Kuhi and Durant and stuff like that fun MVP

526
00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:09,680
Speaker 2: race TK I think already.

527
00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,479
Speaker 5: Yeah, and like you mentioned it, if Lebron decides, hey,

528
00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:14,399
Speaker 5: I'm just gonna play for the whole rest of the season,

529
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Speaker 5: it feels like he could easily win it, right because

530
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Speaker 5: I don't know they it was what seventy five days

531
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Speaker 5: basically from the end of last season to the beginning

532
00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:23,359
Speaker 5: of this season. That's not dissimilar to when you would

533
00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:25,399
Speaker 5: be starting the preseason. So I kind of feel the

534
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Speaker 5: first two and a half three weeks of the year

535
00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:29,919
Speaker 5: for the Lakers were the preseason, and Lebron was just

536
00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:32,080
Speaker 5: out there putting up a Measley twenty four to seven

537
00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:34,199
Speaker 5: and seven. Turn it up a little bit. He's in

538
00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:37,600
Speaker 5: the lead. But yeah, there was some crazy, crazy performances

539
00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,280
Speaker 5: over the weekend. I love to see these two big

540
00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:42,159
Speaker 5: men climbing that MVP ladder.

541
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, for sure, all right, Tess, let's go to

542
00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:46,200
Speaker 2: you next. Who do you got a winner of the weekend?

543
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Speaker 3: Well, the Miami Heat have really only been a storyline

544
00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:53,720
Speaker 3: this season because of coronavirus protocol and just being bad

545
00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:56,560
Speaker 3: after going to the NBA Finals against the Lakers. They're

546
00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:59,240
Speaker 3: six and twelve going into Saturday night versus the Kings.

547
00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:04,280
Speaker 3: Protocol absences have included Jimmy Butler, who basically hadn't played

548
00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:07,240
Speaker 3: in three weeks and missed ten straight games, so there's

549
00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:10,240
Speaker 3: a good reason why they were bad. But mostly the

550
00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:13,000
Speaker 3: guys have come back and look fine. But when a

551
00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:16,440
Speaker 3: guy comes back from weeks off, you don't usually see

552
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Speaker 3: a performance like Jimmy Butler's against the Kings on Saturday.

553
00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:22,800
Speaker 3: He was full Jimmy. Twenty points in the first half,

554
00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:25,760
Speaker 3: thirty points overall to go ahead, layup with forty seconds left,

555
00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:29,560
Speaker 3: sixteen free throws. That's Jimmy Butler, no minutes restriction, that

556
00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:33,000
Speaker 3: is Jimmy Butler, and just the will to win guys.

557
00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:35,240
Speaker 3: And as his head to coach Eric Spolster said after

558
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Speaker 3: the game, you simply cannot put a modern day analytic

559
00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:41,400
Speaker 3: to Jimmy's will to win. And that's a man who

560
00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:46,040
Speaker 3: appreciates analytics, but he knows some things cannot be measured

561
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:50,480
Speaker 3: by a database, by an Excel sheet. And at seven

562
00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:54,680
Speaker 3: to twelve, now, well, this team turned around. I say, yay.

563
00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:57,720
Speaker 3: I think they just have enough heart. Everyone is back

564
00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:01,240
Speaker 3: healthy and still know Gore and Dragic, but everyone kind

565
00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:03,000
Speaker 3: of goes back to their proper spots. You know, we

566
00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,359
Speaker 3: talked about Tyler Hero. He has sort of been in

567
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:08,159
Speaker 3: a number one guy role with everybody being out, he

568
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:11,520
Speaker 3: doesn't have to be that lead guy. It's just strange, though.

569
00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:15,200
Speaker 3: This season is the strangest season if you actually read

570
00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 3: into the details Tyler Hero in this one. After the game,

571
00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:21,600
Speaker 3: he played. After the game, he revealed that he learned

572
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:24,920
Speaker 3: a housemate has tested positive for COVID nineteen. He got

573
00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:28,760
Speaker 3: that news at halftime, but he played. What the heck

574
00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:31,199
Speaker 3: is going on? He's got housemates. What the heck is

575
00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:31,760
Speaker 3: going on?

576
00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:32,239
Speaker 5: I don't know.

577
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Speaker 3: And they play with their fourteenth lineup in nineteen games

578
00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:39,400
Speaker 3: this season. That's a crazy, crazy turnaround for the Miami Heat.

579
00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:41,880
Speaker 3: But yeah, when Jimmy comes back, now that he's back

580
00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:46,280
Speaker 3: three weeks gone, things can turn around and we've forgot

581
00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:48,080
Speaker 3: about the Miami Heat. It's kind of like, I don't know.

582
00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:50,600
Speaker 3: We're just talking about Michael Porter Junior being traded. He

583
00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:53,520
Speaker 3: was untouchable before the season, but he was gone for

584
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:57,359
Speaker 3: three weeks because of the coronavirus protocol. It's like we

585
00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,439
Speaker 3: forget real quick. But Jimmy Butler, I think with this

586
00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:02,760
Speaker 3: Miami Heat team, they can get that thing back going,

587
00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:05,520
Speaker 3: especially in the Eastern Conference. I think they can fight

588
00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:08,920
Speaker 3: for a top four seed. And Jimmy Butler scored ten

589
00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:10,880
Speaker 3: thousand point in this game. Wanted to give that shout out.

590
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:13,560
Speaker 3: There's always the Hall of Fame debate with Jimmy Butler.

591
00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:15,479
Speaker 3: Ten thousand points not a lot of points. Thirty one

592
00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:18,000
Speaker 3: years old. It's not going to get to twenty g's

593
00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:20,520
Speaker 3: a doubt, which is sort of a benchmark. You never know,

594
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 3: you never know. I mean, he's going to be around

595
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Speaker 3: a while.

596
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Speaker 1: I don't think he's.

597
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Speaker 3: No, it's unlikely. It's very unlikely. But that's why I

598
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:30,320
Speaker 3: mentioned the twenty thousand benchmark because that's usually where you

599
00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:33,800
Speaker 3: got to get to. But you know, if you're a Jimmy,

600
00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:36,639
Speaker 3: if you're a Kyle Lowry, maybe you've got other accolades

601
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:37,000
Speaker 3: to get you.

602
00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, you need Jimmy needs a title.

603
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:40,239
Speaker 3: What that would help.

604
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:42,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely helpless chances to get in. Yeah, you're right.

605
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Speaker 2: I mean, you know we were wondering, like, whoa, I'm

606
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Speaker 2: going to start writing off the Heat because they're not

607
00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 2: winning any of these games.

608
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Speaker 1: But Jimmy's back.

609
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,080
Speaker 2: They' seven to twelve and like the Celtics are ten

610
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:53,000
Speaker 2: and eight in the fourth seed, right, I mean, they're

611
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:55,560
Speaker 2: not that many games back. It's actually bad Newsley for

612
00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 2: you know, Butler being back. I mean for like your

613
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:02,000
Speaker 2: your hornets, right and yours and your necks. These are

614
00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:04,440
Speaker 2: all your teams, by the way, your favorites. Yeah, and

615
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:06,359
Speaker 2: you know Trey's balls and stuff like that, just like

616
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,360
Speaker 2: my wraps. Like it's you know, the Heat, like Tass said,

617
00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 2: it is like in theory, full squad Heat are a

618
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:15,960
Speaker 2: different beast and you know, are probably gonna jump a

619
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:18,399
Speaker 2: lot of those teams I just mentioned here over you

620
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 2: would think, you know, the next couple of.

621
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Speaker 1: Weeks, right.

622
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Speaker 4: Well, that's the thing with Jimmy Butler. This is actually

623
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:24,800
Speaker 4: a great position for him to be and where people

624
00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,200
Speaker 4: are kind of overlooking the Heat a little bit dismissing him,

625
00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 4: this is exactly what he thrives on because Ordinarily, you

626
00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:33,480
Speaker 4: would take the Heat to win against the Sacramento Kings

627
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:35,119
Speaker 4: pretty comfortably. It was only a one point game in

628
00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 4: the end. It was actually a pretty good game this one.

629
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Speaker 4: But Jimmy obviously, you know, he needs He's going to

630
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:41,320
Speaker 4: take a few games to get back. But you can

631
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:43,000
Speaker 4: sort of see the Heat going on a bit of

632
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 4: a run here and Jimmy really making some noise because

633
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:47,159
Speaker 4: that's what he likes to do. He likes to be

634
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:49,119
Speaker 4: the sort of you know, he likes to call himself

635
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,359
Speaker 4: the underdog, you know, so he can really fight and

636
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:54,399
Speaker 4: use that as motivation. But yeah, I do believe that

637
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:57,360
Speaker 4: the Heat, when they are at full strength, they've got

638
00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 4: the they've got the structure there under our expultra complete defense.

639
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,879
Speaker 4: They're a tough team at home. They are going to

640
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,400
Speaker 4: be a tough team. And again, doesn't really matter where

641
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:08,200
Speaker 4: they finish in the playoffs, they're going to be tough

642
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:10,159
Speaker 4: no matter who faces them in that first round. If

643
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 4: they can get into that top four, that's idea. So

644
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:14,520
Speaker 4: you get at least one round of home court advantage.

645
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Speaker 4: But if they don't, like we saw last season, now,

646
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Speaker 4: no it's the bubbles, different circumstances, but They just like

647
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:21,679
Speaker 4: to go out there and make things as tough as

648
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Speaker 4: they can. They like to play their own style, and

649
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 4: it starts with someone like Jimmy Butler, who at both

650
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 4: ends of the floor puts in. Now, you know, how

651
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:29,959
Speaker 4: many games are you going to play in the regular season? Now?

652
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:31,639
Speaker 4: I expect he's going to miss a few more just

653
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 4: because of load management and issues like that. But when

654
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 4: it comes to winning time, there's not many players who

655
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,360
Speaker 4: you'd rather have on the court or on your team

656
00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:41,720
Speaker 4: than Jimmy Butler because he's approved it that he can

657
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,240
Speaker 4: get those wins in those in those tough circumstances. So

658
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 4: I'm not too worried about the heat. As you mentioned,

659
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:49,639
Speaker 4: they're those teams ahead of them don't quite have the

660
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 4: same history of winning in tough circumstances like Jimmy Butler's

661
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:57,040
Speaker 4: teams do, so I think this is okay for them.

662
00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:58,879
Speaker 4: Still plenty of season to go as well. It's not

663
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:01,240
Speaker 4: like it's they have to win straight away. They just

664
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Speaker 4: have to get everyone healthy and get back on the court.

665
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Speaker 5: Tass, you mentioned that quote from Eric Spoulstra.

666
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Speaker 1: I loved it.

667
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,800
Speaker 5: You can't measure will to win with analytics fair enough,

668
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:11,560
Speaker 5: but you can measure free throws, which is huge because

669
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 5: Jimmy took sixteen, which is an efficient way for the

670
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 5: Heat to score. They've been pretty bad on offense so

671
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,680
Speaker 5: far this season. They're not making threes, and they didn't

672
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,359
Speaker 5: have Jimmy there generating those easy free throw attempts. He

673
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 5: gets to the line all the time, and that's a

674
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 5: good way for the Heat to be efficient on offense

675
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:27,640
Speaker 5: because they've been okay on defense. It'll certainly get better

676
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:29,879
Speaker 5: with Jimmy, especially once he starts putting on that weighty

677
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:32,600
Speaker 5: loss during his time off. But getting to the line

678
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 5: is an easy way to score, especially if you're not

679
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 5: making threes from outside, so that definitely helps. You can't

680
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 5: measure will to win, but free throws is kind of

681
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:40,280
Speaker 5: part of that.

682
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Speaker 3: That's interesting that Jimmy lost weight.

683
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Speaker 5: I mean they said he lost twelve pounds.

684
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 2: He looked, he looks he legit looks it. Yeah, he

685
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 2: looks like just like half the guy. It's like, Wow,

686
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 2: where'd that go? You're right, you would think the opposite

687
00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:54,960
Speaker 2: task a little bit, but I guess he was quite sick.

688
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Speaker 1: You're not, you don't got an appetite or was he sick?

689
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Speaker 3: I mean, well, a good point. I guess it couldn't

690
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 3: work out as much at least.

691
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 5: I don't know if it was sickness or just happen.

692
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 3: To be away, But wow, I thought, yeah, I would

693
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 3: assume he'd get beef here. If you can't work out,

694
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,440
Speaker 3: you know, you're just you just put on some LB's.

695
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:13,480
Speaker 3: But I guess he was smart. I guess he was

696
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 3: just coffee and only coffee.

697
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 2: That's right, it's going straight through, all right. Trey finished

698
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 2: it off here for winners of the weekend.

699
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Speaker 1: What do you have?

700
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Speaker 5: Oh what a weekend for no dunks. We talked about

701
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:28,720
Speaker 5: the no dunks trifecta last weekend. We almost hit it

702
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 5: over the weekend. First, let's talk about the Wedgies. Baby

703
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 5: Pascal Siakam stuck number fifteen against the Kings on Friday,

704
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 5: Gentle little finger roll wedgie crazy. I would have appreciated

705
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 5: a shout out from Matt Devlin, people, come on, come on, buddy. Nonetheless,

706
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 5: it's all good because on Sunday we got number sixteen.

707
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 5: This one came from the Timberwolves, all right, I guess

708
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:56,480
Speaker 5: technically from the Calves. Torrian Prince sticking one from deep

709
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 5: This is just a classic Weggie right here the three pointer.

710
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 5: The broadcast, the Timberwolves broadcast said, shout out to the starters.

711
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Speaker 3: Rip.

712
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 5: We are still alive, but we appreciate the shout out.

713
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 5: We're at no dunk snow you can find us. We're

714
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 5: talking to Lamar Hurt. He knows what's up. He's educating

715
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:13,720
Speaker 5: the rest of the broadcasters out there. It'll make its

716
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 5: way around. That was incredible. But that's not all, folks.

717
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 5: The big boys we're hitting the boards all weekend. We

718
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 5: doubled up on wedgies. We doubled up on big beef.

719
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Speaker 1: We had to do it to him.

720
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Speaker 5: JD rolled that beautiful beef footage. We don't needy forget

721
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 5: about it, yea, what's going on? That's all good.

722
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:41,680
Speaker 3: We'll roll it back so mean it's meatless Mondays mess Monday.

723
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Speaker 2: Here's what we'll do anyway, if we will just post

724
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Speaker 2: it by itself on our attach channel. So there you go,

725
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 2: just enticing you to go check that out and subscribe.

726
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 2: But why do you tell us who got the beef?

727
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 2: At least you want to hear.

728
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 5: About some beef. Steven Adams got beef. Finally, the guy

729
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 5: was destined to get beef, as everybody knows. He made

730
00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:00,719
Speaker 5: a commercial with the Oklahoma Beef Council. You know, just

731
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,600
Speaker 5: a group of men getting together to talk about steaks.

732
00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 5: He made one of those. He had a nice beef

733
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:08,520
Speaker 5: on Friday, twenty rebounds, only four points. People were loving

734
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 5: the four to twenty beef and the fact that he

735
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 5: ate so much that Brandon Ingram scored thirty five points

736
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 5: zero rebounds. This was a great beef. Steven Adams ten offensive,

737
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 5: ten defensive. The guy was on the board or on

738
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 5: the floor all the time. The tips were hilarious. This

739
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 5: is a very scrappy beef from Steven Adams. Andre Drummond

740
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 5: got his third big beef of the season. He had

741
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 5: twelve last year. We're up now to wait for ten

742
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 5: beefs on the season. Last season we had fifty big beefs.

743
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 5: I went back and checked the twenty rebound stats, which

744
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 5: is hilarious because my man Big Smooth challenged me to

745
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 5: a bet over the weekend. He said, I think we're

746
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 5: getting fifty big beefs this season. Winner buys the other

747
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 5: one a romantic big beef dinner. I'm not exactly sure

748
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 5: what that is, but but it's on the table. We

749
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 5: talked about the trifecta. We got pretty close. We had

750
00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 5: the weggie and the beef. It both happened on Friday

751
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 5: and set off on Sunday. But what is the third

752
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,480
Speaker 5: thing that's out there? All teams probably had vsps, but

753
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 5: that's a little bit more subjective. I think you know

754
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 5: you can have multiple vsps during a game. Everybody disagrees

755
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 5: a couple of more options here. Tyrese Halliburton hit a

756
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 5: dagger late against the Raptors. Would have been a great

757
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 5: time for a Curtains pali. Yeah. I was happy to

758
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 5: see that come across. Like Skeet said, I caught my

759
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 5: first big bass of the year.

760
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:24,920
Speaker 1: Yep.

761
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Speaker 5: I don't know if that's part of the trifecta or

762
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 5: maybe it's something else. There's got to be something else

763
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 5: out there that is a perfectly discreete event for the

764
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 5: No Dunks trifecta. A beef, a wedgie, and a something else.

765
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 2: Yeah'll you tell us. Let us know in the stream

766
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 2: team right now, tweet at us at no Dunk Sink.

767
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 2: What completes the No Dunks trifecta, especially like in a

768
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Speaker 2: game or over a weekend. I love that question, and

769
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 2: I'm sure you guys will have some great answers. All right,

770
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 2: good stuff, good stuff. Well again, we'll get the Big

771
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Speaker 2: Beef Volume seven. I think we're up to right, try

772
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Speaker 2: number seven. That'll be up on our YouTube channel by

773
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Speaker 2: the time you're listening to this podcast, so go check

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00:32:57,720 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 2: it out.

775
00:32:58,200 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 5: All right.

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Speaker 3: I love Steven adams beef, especially because he said, well,

777
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Speaker 3: if you're not scoring any points, mate, you might as

778
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 3: well do something else. Yeah, because he said I only

779
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 3: had four points, I got to do something else, and

780
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 3: so he was going after that beef. Good for him.

781
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:14,720
Speaker 3: Good for him making a difference.

782
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 2: Out there, smashing that beef. All right, let's take a

783
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 2: quick break to hear from our sponsors. Okay, NBA Weekend Losers, Trey.

784
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 2: I teased it when we were talking winners and Lillard

785
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 2: hitting a big bomb.

786
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: To win the game. But we got an idea where

787
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 1: you're going for your loser the weekend.

788
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 5: Yeah, baby, heart crushing loss for the Bulls on Saturday,

789
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 5: And to be quite honest, I felt like I was

790
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 5: caught in a Doctor Strange time loop. On Saturday night.

791
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:43,160
Speaker 5: I tried to watch another Captain America movie. Last time

792
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 5: I was interrupted by Shay Gilgess Alexander and Dork destroying

793
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:49,960
Speaker 5: the Bulls. This time you mentioned at skeets it was

794
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:52,480
Speaker 5: Damian Lillard. I was in the group chat with my bros.

795
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 5: We were all sending pictures of how beautiful our hands look.

796
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 5: I was ready to make another declaration that the Bulls

797
00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 5: were coming back, and they did coming back from down.

798
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 5: They take the lead in the fourth quarter. I had

799
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 5: the tweets all crafted in my brain, ready to proclaim

800
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:09,439
Speaker 5: this game two of the ninety two finals. The balls

801
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:11,799
Speaker 5: are back, Zach Levine should start the All Star Game.

802
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:14,759
Speaker 5: But then Dame Lillard makes a thirty seven footer with

803
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:18,280
Speaker 5: eight seconds left, cuts the lead to two. The Bulls

804
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:20,880
Speaker 5: get jobbed on a jump ball call. It was a

805
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 5: quick call. That was a quick call. There was a

806
00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:25,839
Speaker 5: lot of arms there. I'm a man, Zach Levine. If

807
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 5: he's already starting the All Star Game, I guarantee you

808
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:30,720
Speaker 5: he gets that call. But he didn't. He also lost

809
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 5: the jump ball to Gary Trent. I love when guards

810
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:35,760
Speaker 5: do jump ball. Zach Levine has maybe the best vertical

811
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:37,880
Speaker 5: in the NBA, but you can tell he's not used

812
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,600
Speaker 5: to jumping for jump balls. I was the rudy gay

813
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 5: guy again, not this guy. Of course, somehow the ball

814
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 5: gets tipped out to Damian Lillard. He sidesteps Lowry Markinin

815
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:50,960
Speaker 5: wins it for the Blazers, and I just honestly had

816
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,759
Speaker 5: to go head and shirt for five minutes straight just

817
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 5: like this. I cannot believe it happened. I wasn't upset, though,

818
00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 5: right because you're like, Okay, if Lillard's gonna beat you,

819
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 5: if he's gonna hit two thirty footers in the last

820
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 5: eight seconds of a game to beat you, you just

821
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,880
Speaker 5: got to tip your beret to that guy. Incredible stuff.

822
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 5: But I'm just happy to be done with the Captain

823
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 5: America series because every time I turn it on the

824
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 5: Bulls somehow ripped my heart from my chest as if

825
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 5: I were Bucky Barnes. It was an ugly loss, but

826
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 5: that was incredible from Lillard. Man, Oh my goodness. He

827
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 5: was money the entire second half. Anytime he shot it,

828
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:28,200
Speaker 5: it was going in. He had I think he got

829
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 5: thirty seven footer from the left wing, kind of his

830
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:32,759
Speaker 5: classic spot. I remember Trey Young had the point at

831
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:35,280
Speaker 5: the same spot not too long ago. The guy was money.

832
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 5: Every time he touches the ball, You're like, it's going in.

833
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:40,280
Speaker 5: I felt like Michael Jordan again, you made it personal

834
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:42,440
Speaker 5: to me because it felt like Lillard had seen my

835
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:44,360
Speaker 5: tweets that I did not have him starting in the

836
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:46,520
Speaker 5: All Star Game. He's like, oh, oh, is that what

837
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 5: you think? In your face?

838
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:52,239
Speaker 4: Stupid off that jump boll to. It wasn't like it

839
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 4: was clean possession. Yeah, no, it sort of was a

840
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:57,560
Speaker 4: bit of a scramble, just ended up in the if

841
00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 4: you're a Bulls fan, the worst possible person pair of

842
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:05,400
Speaker 4: hands in Lillard and Marketing's right there. Oh yeah, Lillard

843
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 4: sort of falling out of bounds, you know, rising up

844
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:10,879
Speaker 4: and just knocked it in clean. Pretty cold celebration there

845
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 4: from Lylard too, just raises the hounds like it's just incredible.

846
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:18,239
Speaker 4: Because prior to that as well, Kolby White had he

847
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,400
Speaker 4: basically had a layup and he turned that down. He

848
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 4: got fout. Now he made both free throws, but for me,

849
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:25,359
Speaker 4: it was like, you know, you may as well dunk

850
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:26,880
Speaker 4: that or lay it up. You're that close to the

851
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 4: hoop anyway, But he made them both, so it was like, okay,

852
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:31,719
Speaker 4: that didn't cost his team. But then Lilard just comes

853
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 4: down steps into the first three and obviously the Blazers

854
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 4: were very lucky to get a jump ball as as

855
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 4: you mentioned, they looked like zach Lavin got wrapped up

856
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:42,400
Speaker 4: and had plenty of contact, but they call it and

857
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:44,680
Speaker 4: then and then, yeah, Zachel was almost like he wasn't

858
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:48,239
Speaker 4: even paying attention to that jump ball. I'm not sure

859
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 4: what was happening there, but then you know, it sort

860
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:53,120
Speaker 4: of the scramble happened. It fell out lilid. I mean, yeah,

861
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:55,399
Speaker 4: you don't mind. You can take a loss if it's

862
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:57,279
Speaker 4: a liard hitting a three like that, because he's done

863
00:36:57,320 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 4: that to so many teams. He's done it in much

864
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:02,800
Speaker 4: biggest circumstance in terms of playoffs as well. So thankfully

865
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:04,920
Speaker 4: it wasn't ending a playoffs series or anything like that.

866
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 4: But yeah, tough one for the Bulls to swallow and

867
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 4: zach Lavine it was funny. I think it was Garrett

868
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:12,279
Speaker 4: Temple as well. He didn't even leave the court. He

869
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 4: was just staring like that didn't happen.

870
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 5: I can't.

871
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 4: There's no way we could have lost this game. It's impossible,

872
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 4: but they did. And yeah, sorry, sorry TK. It was

873
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 4: a tough one.

874
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 5: Those are fun ones to lose, man, when you lose

875
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:27,280
Speaker 5: to like something amazing like that that everybody's talking about.

876
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 5: You get sad, but it's also just just like you're marveling.

877
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:32,800
Speaker 5: Not supposed to be a reference. They're not supposed to

878
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 5: be a superhero reference, but you're definitely marveling. That's what

879
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 5: happens on the screen. It's like, of course this is

880
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 5: gonna happen. The only way the Bulls can lose this

881
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:42,439
Speaker 5: game is if Damian Lillard makes two threes from thirty

882
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 5: feet away. And he did it. That's awesome.

883
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:47,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, we had some awesome, awesome endings like games this weekend,

884
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:50,320
Speaker 2: right because that one the Nets Wizards one we already

885
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 2: talked about. I would throw the Lakers Celtics in there.

886
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, where Kemba had a you know, obviously a

887
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 2: great look.

888
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:55,879
Speaker 1: Yeah.

889
00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 2: I'm probably forgetting a couple other ones as well. There's

890
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 2: some really really close games. Okay, doubles loser of the weekend, Learly,

891
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 2: it's got to you next, who do you have?

892
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 4: Well, probably, considering how much drama there was on the weekend,

893
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 4: was a good weekend for the Bucks to lose a

894
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:13,400
Speaker 4: couple of stinkers because they got big ballered on the

895
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:17,240
Speaker 4: weekend burst. It was a Lonzo Ball hitting seven threes

896
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:19,879
Speaker 4: against them, and so Eric, let's so, yeah, yeah, he's

897
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 4: got revenge. He's got to be angry against the team

898
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 4: that traded him away. They gave him a great situation

899
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:26,799
Speaker 4: he couldn't deliver. He hit seven threes once as a

900
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:31,800
Speaker 4: Milwaukee Buck. Oh yeah great. But anyway, look the Milwaukee Bucks,

901
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:35,480
Speaker 4: you know, the last couple of seasons, their approach to

902
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:38,880
Speaker 4: defense has been like, we'll let teams shoot threes. Yeah,

903
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:42,719
Speaker 4: and okay, the Bucks are the Pelicans and then the

904
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:45,759
Speaker 4: Hornets on Saturday night both said okay, we will hit threes,

905
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:47,839
Speaker 4: and they hit twenty one each at a pretty good

906
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 4: percentage too, well over forty percent. And yeah, the Bucks,

907
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:54,400
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know if we should sort of

908
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 4: start worrying about them, but they're certainly not playing very

909
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 4: convincing basketball right now, Yahniss. And numbers are great, you know, fine,

910
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:04,800
Speaker 4: no significant injury concerns there, but certainly not intimidating teams.

911
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 4: And their defense has been missing a lot, so you know,

912
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:10,960
Speaker 4: there's still plenty of time here. And I think they've

913
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,400
Speaker 4: got a good team, but certainly not like where they

914
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:16,399
Speaker 4: were last season, where it's like they're they're the best

915
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 4: team in the Eastern Conference certainly, you know, in terms

916
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:20,839
Speaker 4: of the regular season, and you just wonder when they're

917
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 4: going to get it together because the Hornets, i mean,

918
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:26,440
Speaker 4: the Hornets hammered them late in that game, really, and

919
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 4: that was the sort of game you would expect a

920
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:30,440
Speaker 4: team like the Bucks to bounce back from after losing

921
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 4: one to the Pelicans the night before, but they didn't

922
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:36,000
Speaker 4: do that. So yeah, it was they ran into the

923
00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 4: Ball brothers, and the ball brother I mean, LaMelo had

924
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:44,440
Speaker 4: twenty seven and nine was a plus thirty seven's camp. Yeah,

925
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:48,440
Speaker 4: twenty seven and nine plus thirty seven just incredible numbers

926
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:49,840
Speaker 4: for him. I mean, you can take that plus and

927
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 4: miners and do whatever you want with it, but when

928
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 4: you see it that significant, it's like, Okay, I'm going

929
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 4: to use it to help my argument here.

930
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 6: To say that's great.

931
00:39:57,239 --> 00:40:01,319
Speaker 4: But the Bucks stunk it up on the weekend. So yeah,

932
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:03,360
Speaker 4: bad weekend FA Milwaukee.

933
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:04,239
Speaker 1: Big ball aer branded.

934
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:04,880
Speaker 5: I love that.

935
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 2: Yeah. Remember, we had a debate. I don't know it

936
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 2: was much of a debate, but we had the question

937
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 2: going around a couple of weeks ago, like if if

938
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:14,840
Speaker 2: we were building the Charlotte Hornets in NBA Jam twenty

939
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 2: twenty one, like today, who is Lamello's partner? I mean

940
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 2: it's a no brainer. It's Bridges just for pure entertainment factor.

941
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 2: I know, like, Heyward's the better player and all that,

942
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 2: but man, how many dunks? How many alley oops does

943
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:31,319
Speaker 2: LaMelo and Bridges already have that are like amazing?

944
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 4: They're well well, but how many of them as well?

945
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:37,200
Speaker 4: Are in bellish just because of Eric Collins on the call, Like.

946
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:41,920
Speaker 5: He goes crazy like a Ridge One guy in these highlights.

947
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:45,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he Bridges is like looking at the rim

948
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 2: in a couple of these, like obviously Lamello throws it

949
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:49,840
Speaker 2: with flair too. My point is like these are I

950
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 2: think they're up to like four or five, like just awesome,

951
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 2: awesome place. It feels like, so they are the NBA

952
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:57,239
Speaker 2: Jam duel. If we're building this in twenty twenty one,

953
00:40:57,280 --> 00:40:58,319
Speaker 2: I think you can lock that in.

954
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:01,759
Speaker 5: So that Hope was ridiculous, Like you're saying he's looking

955
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:03,919
Speaker 5: at the hoop and then he's basically laughing at how

956
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 5: hard or how high he had to jump to catch

957
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:08,400
Speaker 5: it and throw it down as he's coming down, And

958
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:10,799
Speaker 5: when a guy is reacting to his own dunk as

959
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:12,879
Speaker 5: it's still happening. You know, it's a classic. I loved

960
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:16,080
Speaker 5: what James Barrego said after LaMelo getting all these minutes.

961
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:18,320
Speaker 5: He's like, he brings out the joy in everybody. People

962
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 5: love playing with them. He brings out their joy. He

963
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:22,839
Speaker 5: even brings me more joy coaching. Why are you keeping

964
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 5: them on the bench, buddy, you're having such a good time.

965
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:26,879
Speaker 5: Put them in and let your team run wild. It's

966
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:28,759
Speaker 5: going to start happening now with Terry Rozier going out

967
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 5: with an ankle injury. Fun times in Charlotte.

968
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:32,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, but LaMelo's going to get some more minutes here.

969
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:34,320
Speaker 2: The numbers are going to be higher. It's going to

970
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 2: be some more trouble doubles and hopefully some more highlights

971
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 2: and hopefully for Hornets fan some more wins. Are you

972
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 2: worried about the Bucks at all tests with their slow,

973
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 2: very slow start for them, of course, being a dominant

974
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:45,200
Speaker 2: regular season team over the last couple of years.

975
00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 3: Oh, there's a lot of slow start. He's out there,

976
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 3: and I think the Bucks are sort of one of them.

977
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:53,400
Speaker 3: I don't know why. I understand why you leave lounesow

978
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 3: Ball and Eric Bledsoe open on Friday night. Sure, they

979
00:41:57,480 --> 00:41:59,840
Speaker 3: don't hit threes, so they both tied their career high

980
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:03,320
Speaker 3: with seven threes each. So they make decisions and sometimes

981
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 3: they're not great once because guys are confident, guys are

982
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:09,160
Speaker 3: three point shooter, guys are NBA players, So sometimes they

983
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:11,439
Speaker 3: have special nights. Eric, but it's a revenge game, sure,

984
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 3: lons of all special game. Sure, Yet, you know, I'm

985
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:16,560
Speaker 3: more worried about what Yannis that Koumpo did on Saturday,

986
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:19,239
Speaker 3: missing a lot of free throws again, going ten to

987
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 3: eighteen from the free throw line. He banged some knees.

988
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 3: So not concerned about their you know, quote unquote slow start.

989
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:27,719
Speaker 3: It just seems like there's a lot of teams out

990
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:32,239
Speaker 3: there doing that. But some small stuff, for sure, some

991
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:32,880
Speaker 3: small stuff.

992
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 2: Well, a team I think we could maybe genuinely be

993
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:38,960
Speaker 2: disappointed about enough so that Lee's trying to get Bradley

994
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:41,399
Speaker 2: Beal on their team is the Mavericks. I'll give them

995
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:44,120
Speaker 2: a loser of the weekend. Not a good weekend for Dallas.

996
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 2: They've lost five straight. Now, they've lost to Utah by nineteen.

997
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:49,200
Speaker 2: I followed that up with a loss of the Suns

998
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:55,839
Speaker 2: by six. You know, following the Jazz game. Specifically, Luca's concerned,

999
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 2: no doubt. He said, quote, We've got to step up

1000
00:42:58,200 --> 00:42:59,799
Speaker 2: and just talk to each other and play way better

1001
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:02,680
Speaker 2: than this. It's mostly effort. He also talked about like

1002
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 2: he's just not used to this, this losing again five

1003
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 2: in a row. Here, Mavericks are just below average on

1004
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:12,480
Speaker 2: both sides of the ball. They're just not that great offensively.

1005
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 2: They're not that great defensively despite a strong start, and

1006
00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:18,680
Speaker 2: we've talked about it with Bil there Lee, they really

1007
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 2: truly need another playmaker because when Luca isn't on the floor,

1008
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 2: well there's no one really running the offensive creating for

1009
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 2: other guys because it's not Porzingis. You know, it's not

1010
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:31,680
Speaker 2: Jalen Brunson. He is not JJ Burre at two point

1011
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,720
Speaker 2: zero really in that and I thought it was gonna

1012
00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 2: be Josh Richardson. Oh, I know, I's missed time this season,

1013
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 2: and the Mavericks have been hurt with COVID, you know,

1014
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 2: health and safety protocols, a lot of guys missing time.

1015
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:44,160
Speaker 2: I get all that, but like Josh Richardson, if you remember,

1016
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:46,000
Speaker 2: I was pumped like coming into the season because he

1017
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:48,919
Speaker 2: was awesome in the preseason and I thought, Okay, maybe

1018
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 2: this is like the secondary playmaker, a guy that can

1019
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:52,279
Speaker 2: shoot the three and stuff like that, and he has

1020
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:55,360
Speaker 2: just been brutal over the last three games. Legally he

1021
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:58,040
Speaker 2: hasn't hit a three. I mean that's bad. I mean

1022
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:00,919
Speaker 2: he's playing too, he's getting minutes. He's averaging just twelve

1023
00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:03,440
Speaker 2: points per game this season, and he can't hit a shot,

1024
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:06,840
Speaker 2: so he has he's disappointed me. I like Josh Richardson,

1025
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:08,319
Speaker 2: but he's just had a bad goal of it here.

1026
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 2: And maybe the missing time was part of it and

1027
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 2: the injuries and stuff like that. But yeah, Dallas just

1028
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 2: not high on the Mavericks right now. And you know,

1029
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:19,400
Speaker 2: we'd already talked about KP so we don't have to

1030
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:21,440
Speaker 2: go over that again. But it's not looking that great here.

1031
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:23,839
Speaker 2: That's one of those teams tasks that has started very

1032
00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:24,759
Speaker 2: very disappointingly.

1033
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 3: Mm hmm. Yeah, yeah, I gotta blame it on Luca.

1034
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:30,719
Speaker 3: The guy has to do too much, and then he

1035
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:34,279
Speaker 3: wasn't ready for doing like beyond that. I mean he

1036
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 3: had to like he had to play like five positions,

1037
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:38,160
Speaker 3: it felt like for a lot of those games. So

1038
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 3: I yeah, once they get their guys back, I mean

1039
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:43,480
Speaker 3: I'm worried about their front court, that's for sure. And

1040
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:46,719
Speaker 3: it was, you know, one of the teams that had

1041
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 3: the lowest ceiling and the highest. No, the other way,

1042
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:52,320
Speaker 3: the lowest floor in the highest ceiling. Where Dallas mavericks

1043
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 3: coming into the season because he doesn't have enough help.

1044
00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:57,719
Speaker 3: And then you throw in the that guys are just

1045
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:00,239
Speaker 3: missing game after game after game. He had like half

1046
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 3: the rotation was out. So it's and and Luca wasn't healthy. Yeah,

1047
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:09,120
Speaker 3: he needs help, man, he needs help.

1048
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 4: Well, well, they like, you know, they had the second

1049
00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 4: best defense, yeah, you know, And I remember we talked

1050
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:16,279
Speaker 4: about it and I said, like, it doesn't feel like

1051
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 4: that now. The dann to like twenty eth I remember

1052
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 4: someone in the comments is like, no, Lee Man, our

1053
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:23,400
Speaker 4: defense is legit. I'm like, I think so. And we

1054
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:25,000
Speaker 4: started to see a little bit more of it now.

1055
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:28,520
Speaker 4: But you know, the MAVs aren't known for the defense.

1056
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:30,720
Speaker 4: It's it's on offense how they're gonna win games, especially

1057
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:33,320
Speaker 4: in a Rick Carlisle system. But that's sort of also

1058
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 4: just struggling a little bit right now.

1059
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:37,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I'm with your skeets. I think Josh Richardson

1060
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:41,120
Speaker 5: has certainly been disappointing. For whatever reason. It happened the

1061
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:43,040
Speaker 5: exact same way with the seventy six ers. Last year

1062
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:44,960
Speaker 5: they brought in Josh Richardson. We think, oh man, he's

1063
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:46,880
Speaker 5: gonna help defensively, he's gonna hit some threes. He can

1064
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:49,399
Speaker 5: be a playmaker. But the decisions just don't come quick

1065
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 5: enough and it slows down the offense. And if you're

1066
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:53,719
Speaker 5: not hitting the threes, what's the point. It could end

1067
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:55,440
Speaker 5: up bad for the Mavericks. Though they don't have their

1068
00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:57,359
Speaker 5: first round draft pick this year, that's going to New

1069
00:45:57,440 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 5: York because of the Kristaps Porzingis trade. They also traded

1070
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 5: twenty twenty three. I mean, that's another couple of seasons.

1071
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:06,359
Speaker 5: Likely they will get it back on track, but things

1072
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:08,040
Speaker 5: need to change for the Mavericks. They got to shoot

1073
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:09,920
Speaker 5: threes to be able to win games, and so far

1074
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:12,360
Speaker 5: they haven't been able to shoot threes. If you're basing

1075
00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:14,600
Speaker 5: your team around offense and the offense isn't there, what

1076
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 5: do you have left? It ain't defense for Dallas, but

1077
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:19,360
Speaker 5: I don't know. They just need a hot month of

1078
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:21,239
Speaker 5: shooting you're able to turn it around. And like we've

1079
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:23,440
Speaker 5: seen with a bunch of these teams, all the standings

1080
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:25,759
Speaker 5: are all jammed up together. You just need a quick

1081
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:27,319
Speaker 5: run to be able to get back to the top

1082
00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:29,400
Speaker 5: of the conference. But the maps are gonna have to

1083
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:31,719
Speaker 5: figure out how to make some shots. That's what it

1084
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:34,800
Speaker 5: comes down to. I think finishing go ahead.

1085
00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:34,879
Speaker 1: Go ahead.

1086
00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:36,799
Speaker 3: And they're playing at home for a good chunk of

1087
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:40,359
Speaker 3: this next month. And their head coach at Carlisle said,

1088
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:43,480
Speaker 3: we just went through the toughest stretch of schedules in

1089
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 3: NBA history, So you know, he's been a little dramatic

1090
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:48,640
Speaker 3: about that, but they did have a tougher schedule with

1091
00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:51,680
Speaker 3: literally like half their rotation being out. It was like

1092
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:55,319
Speaker 3: Russell Westbrook yelling at Kyrie Irving yesterday when they're taking

1093
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:57,279
Speaker 3: a free throw. Hey, we had seven guys here for

1094
00:46:57,320 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 3: like two weeks. Can you just like relax and give

1095
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:02,799
Speaker 3: us a win in here? Man? The maps are just there.

1096
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:06,279
Speaker 3: They are a thin team in terms of just terms

1097
00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:08,920
Speaker 3: of depth coming into the season, coming in just in

1098
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:11,880
Speaker 3: terms of talent, and then yeah, they were decimated, So

1099
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 3: I think they can turn it around.

1100
00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:15,440
Speaker 1: All right, Taz finish us off here losing the weekend,

1101
00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:16,359
Speaker 1: you got what you got?

1102
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 3: Well, I'm going deep in a rotation the Pistons Rodney Magruder.

1103
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:23,560
Speaker 3: Magruder pissed off plenty of people in a blowout lost

1104
00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 3: to the Warriors on Saturday, including Klay Thompson, who was

1105
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,680
Speaker 3: on the broadcast being Clay. He was great. So here's

1106
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 3: the situation. After the final buzzer, Macgruder went and had

1107
00:47:33,080 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 3: some words with Golden State's want Ascano Anderson. And what

1108
00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:40,360
Speaker 3: you're gonna hear right now is, while it's happening, Warriors

1109
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:43,480
Speaker 3: analyst Kelenna Azubuki asking Clay to find out what the

1110
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:45,759
Speaker 3: scuffle is all about. So listen to the call.

1111
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:47,359
Speaker 1: What's m bruder doing over there?

1112
00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 5: It's a little talking about stuffle.

1113
00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 3: I'm talking about one.

1114
00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:53,840
Speaker 1: And then everything seems to be okay there Clay's figuring

1115
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:54,960
Speaker 1: out what's.

1116
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:55,080
Speaker 2: Going on over there?

1117
00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:57,200
Speaker 6: Clay Rodney Macgruder, Oh no.

1118
00:47:57,239 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 3: This dude might be out the league soon.

1119
00:47:58,480 --> 00:47:59,440
Speaker 1: He's probably mad about that.

1120
00:47:59,520 --> 00:47:59,959
Speaker 4: Who knows.

1121
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:03,319
Speaker 3: Oh shots over here?

1122
00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:04,080
Speaker 1: Checking my guy?

1123
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:09,400
Speaker 3: You're good? What's Savage five trying to start something like

1124
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 3: he's a good player or something like, bro get out

1125
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:15,919
Speaker 3: of here. You might be sorry. All right, We're done? Easy? Yeah,

1126
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 3: Clay breaking it down. Yeah, Clay not hesitating and not hesitating.

1127
00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:24,760
Speaker 3: I love how the Warriors are playing the elder Statesmen

1128
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:28,680
Speaker 3: who have accomplished everything, and somebody comes in question steps

1129
00:48:28,719 --> 00:48:32,160
Speaker 3: to them. Some guy who's playing at the end of

1130
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:35,359
Speaker 3: a blowout game. Ronnie McGruder only played a few minutes

1131
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 3: in this game. He was part of garbage time, and

1132
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:40,960
Speaker 3: Clay immediately doesn't hesitate calling him out. I love how

1133
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:43,520
Speaker 3: these guys, you know, are on their high horse. I

1134
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:45,520
Speaker 3: love that about him. And then Draymond Green after the game,

1135
00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:47,560
Speaker 3: didn't even see what happened. He was in the locker

1136
00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:51,240
Speaker 3: room when it happened. He was just asked about Rodney McGruder.

1137
00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:53,880
Speaker 3: He just went off for two minutes like he was

1138
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:57,720
Speaker 3: an MMA fighter, just swearing and cursing all over the places,

1139
00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:00,360
Speaker 3: all over Twitter, no bleeps and bloops. I don't know

1140
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:02,759
Speaker 3: how if you guys are good with the exploit is

1141
00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 3: just flying around like the league is just different in

1142
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:08,040
Speaker 3: terms of just bleeping everything because they just let it fly.

1143
00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:12,200
Speaker 3: He was just going after Rodney McGruder. Call him, why

1144
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:14,040
Speaker 3: you're a tough guy. You're trying to I guess he's

1145
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 3: sort of trying to be a tough guy. Like Draymond

1146
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 3: Green is a tough guy and he didn't like him,

1147
00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:20,879
Speaker 3: you know, stepping on his turf, but also just coming

1148
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 3: after one of their players. So that was crazy to see.

1149
00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:27,360
Speaker 3: Rodney McGruder, you didn't think you'd be making headlines, but

1150
00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:32,719
Speaker 3: just decimated by the Golden State Warriors after they got decimated.

1151
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:35,880
Speaker 3: So it's just a lose, lose, lose situation for Rodney McGruder.

1152
00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:38,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's one thing for Draymond Green to sound off

1153
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:42,080
Speaker 2: for two minutes about McGruder, but for Clint Thompson, you

1154
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:44,440
Speaker 2: know that that was sort of the shocking part. Like

1155
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:45,319
Speaker 2: you said to us, he just.

1156
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:48,600
Speaker 1: Like right away went in on him. This guy's a

1157
00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:51,040
Speaker 1: bum basically, I mean surprises in the league.

1158
00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:52,759
Speaker 2: Look at ruthless to the point where you can hear

1159
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:54,320
Speaker 2: the rest of the Warriors broadcast going.

1160
00:49:54,239 --> 00:49:57,440
Speaker 1: Like easy, easy, okay, okay. To get the point man,

1161
00:49:57,560 --> 00:50:00,799
Speaker 1: like you're not a fan of magruder, but amazing.

1162
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:04,640
Speaker 5: Like Jan Tuscano Anderson, I've always said they got his back.

1163
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:07,360
Speaker 2: I guess, so, I mean, mondays, we do the winners

1164
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 2: and weekends, sorry, the winners and losers of the weekend,

1165
00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:12,360
Speaker 2: but I was gonna throw at you guys, are what

1166
00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:13,960
Speaker 2: you got better?

1167
00:50:14,040 --> 00:50:14,360
Speaker 1: Beef.

1168
00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:17,040
Speaker 2: Actually, well we could put the rebound beefs in there too,

1169
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:20,359
Speaker 2: better beef from the Weekend Magruder versus the Warriors, all

1170
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:24,439
Speaker 2: of those rebounds from Drummond Adams or Kyle Lowry versus

1171
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:28,319
Speaker 2: Aaron Gordon, who kicked back up their beef Lee. You're

1172
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:30,399
Speaker 2: leaning towards that one. It feels like they were going

1173
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:31,320
Speaker 2: at it on Sunday.

1174
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:32,879
Speaker 4: I guess, yeah, so there's a bit of history there.

1175
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:36,960
Speaker 4: But Gordon just flattened Kyle Lowry last night when Lowry

1176
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:39,560
Speaker 4: wasn't even what He only got a flagrant one for that.

1177
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:41,719
Speaker 4: I'm shocked that he didn't get ejected for that. That

1178
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:44,600
Speaker 4: was a cheap shot. And I know there's some history

1179
00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:47,200
Speaker 4: there between them, but to just line a guy out

1180
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:51,640
Speaker 4: like that was that was very very bad from Gordon.

1181
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:54,320
Speaker 4: So he got away with the Kyle as always, he

1182
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:56,000
Speaker 4: wants to get up and he's ready to keep going.

1183
00:50:56,080 --> 00:50:59,600
Speaker 4: But the SlowMo replay from the sort of reverse or

1184
00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:02,759
Speaker 4: base on camera angle, you see Gordon just like see

1185
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:05,480
Speaker 4: him coming and he just steps in and knocks him down.

1186
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 4: It was that was very very bad.

1187
00:51:08,239 --> 00:51:10,360
Speaker 2: A g was pissed from the play prior, where you

1188
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:12,120
Speaker 2: know Lowry got like a little knee into him and

1189
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:14,320
Speaker 2: then back to the bubble of course when that was

1190
00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:17,160
Speaker 2: a hard foul right lowry on on Gordon at the time,

1191
00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:19,960
Speaker 2: and then there was the big exchange of like Kyle

1192
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:22,640
Speaker 2: asking or was he telling him his room number?

1193
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:22,919
Speaker 3: Right?

1194
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:24,400
Speaker 1: Is that that's right? Yeah?

1195
00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:29,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, so then definitely Aaron Gordon, I don't think we'll

1196
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:31,319
Speaker 2: be being traded to the Raptors task. I think we

1197
00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:34,160
Speaker 2: can locked at it and he's going to be traded

1198
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:36,319
Speaker 2: somewhere still. I think the Mavericks are in play, but

1199
00:51:36,360 --> 00:51:37,960
Speaker 2: I don't think it's gonna be the Raps. Not a

1200
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:39,560
Speaker 2: flowery is there? At least maybe we'll be traded for

1201
00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:39,960
Speaker 2: each other.

1202
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:43,839
Speaker 3: Pascal's dunk on him was very nice as well, very

1203
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:44,279
Speaker 3: very nice.

1204
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:45,839
Speaker 1: Raptors got much needed to win there.

1205
00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:49,560
Speaker 2: Okay, so those are our winners and losers of the

1206
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:50,080
Speaker 2: NBA weekend.

1207
00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:51,960
Speaker 1: But you tell us who we miss. Obviously lots out

1208
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:52,319
Speaker 1: there still.

1209
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:53,719
Speaker 2: Let us know in the stream, team, let us know

1210
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:56,680
Speaker 2: in the YouTube comments. Tweet at us at no dunk's ink.

1211
00:51:56,760 --> 00:51:58,560
Speaker 2: We got to take one more break to hear from

1212
00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:10,840
Speaker 2: our sponsors though. Okay, we got some rumors here. The rumor,

1213
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:16,759
Speaker 2: according to Shams Sharanya Hum Sharanya of the Athletic. The

1214
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:20,880
Speaker 2: seventy six Ers, Nets, and Celtics have emerged as potential

1215
00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:24,960
Speaker 2: trade destinations for the Pelicans JJ Reddick, though, as Shamp's

1216
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:27,920
Speaker 2: points so, nothing is imminent. The decision to focus on

1217
00:52:28,040 --> 00:52:32,399
Speaker 2: these three Northeast teams comes with Reddick's interests in mind,

1218
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:34,960
Speaker 2: as his family still lives in Brooklyn and he would

1219
00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:37,320
Speaker 2: in theory like to play closer to home up there.

1220
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:39,960
Speaker 2: He is on a thirteen point one million dollar contract

1221
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:44,200
Speaker 2: that expires at the end of the season. So tasks Sixers, Nets, Celtics.

1222
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:47,480
Speaker 2: You know, JJ Reddick, which team makes the most sense?

1223
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 2: What do you think?

1224
00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:51,840
Speaker 3: I think Boston is the best fit. They're desperate for

1225
00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:55,160
Speaker 3: a third guard, and I don't think Brooklyn, even though

1226
00:52:55,239 --> 00:52:59,640
Speaker 3: it sounds all well and good at everybody. If you're

1227
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:02,880
Speaker 3: the brook Nets, just add everybody. They don't play defense,

1228
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:06,000
Speaker 3: and JJ Reddick that's not his strong suit, so I

1229
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:08,160
Speaker 3: don't think it makes sense. They just signed Emon Trumpert

1230
00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:13,080
Speaker 3: for exactly that reason, to help out on the defensive end.

1231
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:16,239
Speaker 3: They don't need more offense. The Philadelphia seventy six Ers.

1232
00:53:16,239 --> 00:53:18,319
Speaker 3: That kind of sounds good in theory. Hey, come back.

1233
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:21,120
Speaker 3: You were just here two years ago. But JJ's thirty

1234
00:53:21,160 --> 00:53:23,200
Speaker 3: six years old. It hasn't been a good season thus

1235
00:53:23,239 --> 00:53:25,160
Speaker 3: far in New Orleans. Is just coming off of a

1236
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:30,160
Speaker 3: couple d NPCD Healthy's there, and they've got enough guys

1237
00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:32,800
Speaker 3: in front of him who are younger, healthy and Seth Curry,

1238
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:36,160
Speaker 3: Danny Green and Shake Milton. I think he probably won't

1239
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:39,160
Speaker 3: be taking minutes Boston. When Kemba Walker was out, they

1240
00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:42,120
Speaker 3: missed guard play big time. So beyond those two guys,

1241
00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:45,160
Speaker 3: I think JJ Redick beyond sorry Kemba Walker and Marcus Smart,

1242
00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:48,000
Speaker 3: Beyond those two guys, they need guard help and he

1243
00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:51,839
Speaker 3: would fit the absolute best right there. And they can

1244
00:53:52,040 --> 00:53:55,600
Speaker 3: just absorb his money because of a contract trade exception

1245
00:53:55,719 --> 00:53:59,480
Speaker 3: that they got from the Gordon Hayward move. So that's it.

1246
00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:01,960
Speaker 3: I think. I think that's the one, even though he

1247
00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:04,719
Speaker 3: may not want to be there. Maybe there's you know,

1248
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:07,560
Speaker 3: maybe he would pick those other two destinations because of familiarity,

1249
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:10,279
Speaker 3: because of family, But I think Boston's too good.

1250
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:12,839
Speaker 2: I saw John Hollander on the Athletic this morning says

1251
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:15,719
Speaker 2: he likes the Celtics one the most too. He said,

1252
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:18,880
Speaker 2: if I'm New Orleans, I ask for time, Lord, I

1253
00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:21,240
Speaker 2: get laughed at, and then I settle for two second

1254
00:54:21,320 --> 00:54:23,360
Speaker 2: round picks and then taking a bit of a debtish

1255
00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:25,840
Speaker 2: money back from Boston. As you talked about with the

1256
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:29,120
Speaker 2: Gordon Hayward trade exception, there makes sense they could absorb

1257
00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 2: them there. Marcus Smart's going to be out what two

1258
00:54:31,200 --> 00:54:33,879
Speaker 2: or three weeks? I think too, Tray and yea, yeah,

1259
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:36,640
Speaker 2: it possibly could be longer. Obviously they thought it might

1260
00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:38,240
Speaker 2: have been even worse than that because it looks scary.

1261
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:40,879
Speaker 2: But do you think it's Boston in this case, Trey

1262
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:43,319
Speaker 2: or can you make more of a case? I guess

1263
00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:45,919
Speaker 2: for the Sixers of the Nets, I think Boston is good.

1264
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:48,279
Speaker 2: From a regular season standpoint, they don't have a ton

1265
00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:48,640
Speaker 2: of depth.

1266
00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:51,160
Speaker 5: He would get a lot of minutes, and you know what,

1267
00:54:51,239 --> 00:54:53,160
Speaker 5: the Marcus Smart injuries certainly there are going to be

1268
00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:55,840
Speaker 5: minutes there as well. But I think from a playoff standpoint,

1269
00:54:55,840 --> 00:54:56,680
Speaker 5: it's the Sixers.

1270
00:54:56,680 --> 00:54:56,960
Speaker 1: For me.

1271
00:54:57,680 --> 00:55:00,279
Speaker 5: Their offense looks better this year, it seems to make

1272
00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:03,040
Speaker 5: more sense, but they're still just twenty sixth and three

1273
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:05,719
Speaker 5: pointers attempted. They need somebody else to get out there

1274
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:08,560
Speaker 5: who can chuck it. Obviously, JJ was a seventy six Er.

1275
00:55:08,640 --> 00:55:10,719
Speaker 5: At one point he also played for Doc Rivers, who

1276
00:55:11,239 --> 00:55:12,880
Speaker 5: knows his playbook and will be able to get the

1277
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:15,080
Speaker 5: best out of him, just like he has with Tobias Harris.

1278
00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:18,240
Speaker 5: I think if JJ's going to be playing actual playoff

1279
00:55:18,239 --> 00:55:20,319
Speaker 5: minutes that matter, it would be most likely for the

1280
00:55:20,320 --> 00:55:22,000
Speaker 5: seventy six Ers, because when it comes down to it,

1281
00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 5: for the Celtics, you're going to be playing those four

1282
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:27,080
Speaker 5: perimeter guys they have in Kemba, Marcus, Jalen, and Jason,

1283
00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:29,080
Speaker 5: along with a big guy whoever that happens to be.

1284
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:33,600
Speaker 5: So if JJ's wanting to contribute in the clutch, to me,

1285
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:35,840
Speaker 5: it's the Sixers, but he certainly makes sense on the

1286
00:55:35,840 --> 00:55:38,279
Speaker 5: Celtics as well. It's hard to see him there in

1287
00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:40,600
Speaker 5: the nets, despite the fact that obviously he lives in

1288
00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:42,160
Speaker 5: Brooklyn and wants to be back home.

1289
00:55:42,520 --> 00:55:42,840
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1290
00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:45,440
Speaker 2: I mean he was playing for Philadelphia and had his

1291
00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:47,440
Speaker 2: family in Brooklyn. I think he was commuting if I remember.

1292
00:55:47,480 --> 00:55:47,960
Speaker 1: That's close.

1293
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:50,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, Lee, what do you think is it? Are you

1294
00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:53,640
Speaker 2: with these guys? It sounds like the Celtics or the Sixers,

1295
00:55:54,080 --> 00:55:55,080
Speaker 2: you know, over the nets.

1296
00:55:55,520 --> 00:55:57,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just can't see how he can get there

1297
00:55:58,080 --> 00:56:01,880
Speaker 4: to the nets, right now because he's because of his contract.

1298
00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:04,440
Speaker 2: Dinwiddy would literally have to be involved in which the

1299
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:05,160
Speaker 2: Pelicans doing that.

1300
00:56:05,520 --> 00:56:07,879
Speaker 4: No, And I just that would seem a bit weird

1301
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:10,080
Speaker 4: to trade a guy who's out with that injury, but

1302
00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:12,879
Speaker 4: maybe you know who knows it's a business. But really

1303
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:16,160
Speaker 4: surprised things haven't gone better for JJ, understand van Gundy.

1304
00:56:16,200 --> 00:56:18,399
Speaker 4: I thought that was a great situation for him coming

1305
00:56:18,400 --> 00:56:19,960
Speaker 4: off the bench. He had those six threes against the

1306
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:21,520
Speaker 4: Raptors in the first game. It was like, oh, yeah,

1307
00:56:21,520 --> 00:56:23,160
Speaker 4: this is a perfect role for him, a veteran on

1308
00:56:23,200 --> 00:56:25,600
Speaker 4: that team who just comes out and shoots. But really

1309
00:56:25,640 --> 00:56:27,360
Speaker 4: that was almost the high point of his season that

1310
00:56:27,440 --> 00:56:31,440
Speaker 4: first game. So I can definitely see the Sixers wanting

1311
00:56:31,480 --> 00:56:34,239
Speaker 4: another a little bit more shooting, especially Daryl Moreyhill love

1312
00:56:34,239 --> 00:56:37,200
Speaker 4: another three point shooter out there, veteran at this stage

1313
00:56:37,239 --> 00:56:40,320
Speaker 4: of his career. So I can see it coming down

1314
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:43,040
Speaker 4: to pretty much the Celtics or the Sixers, just who's

1315
00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:46,240
Speaker 4: prepared to give up a little bit more to get him,

1316
00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:49,200
Speaker 4: you know, I guess, I guess if the price is right,

1317
00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:51,359
Speaker 4: the Pelicans will just deal him to wherever they get

1318
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:54,640
Speaker 4: the better option for But yeah, JJ, he can still

1319
00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:56,839
Speaker 4: shoot those threes. I'd still have him on the quarter

1320
00:56:56,960 --> 00:57:00,000
Speaker 4: end of games in crut clutch situations because he can

1321
00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:02,360
Speaker 4: knock down those shots. You can get hot. And I

1322
00:57:02,400 --> 00:57:05,560
Speaker 4: think just that situation in New Orleans is like, it's

1323
00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:07,319
Speaker 4: not works. Has time to move on, getting to a

1324
00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:10,719
Speaker 4: team where they've got playoff hopes and we'll be there,

1325
00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:13,120
Speaker 4: and I think he ken throv again coming off the bench.

1326
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:16,240
Speaker 2: The NBA has two upcoming dates relating to that March

1327
00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:19,280
Speaker 2: twenty fifth trade deadline two February second, Tomorrow is the

1328
00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:21,600
Speaker 2: last day a player can be traded and still be

1329
00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:25,600
Speaker 2: aggregated into a multiplayer transaction at that trade deadline, So

1330
00:57:25,840 --> 00:57:27,560
Speaker 2: you got to be traded by tomorrow to then be

1331
00:57:27,640 --> 00:57:30,160
Speaker 2: traded again with other players and another type of deal

1332
00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:32,720
Speaker 2: at the deadline. And then February sixth, which is right

1333
00:57:32,720 --> 00:57:34,840
Speaker 2: around the corner, is when most players who signed free

1334
00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:37,400
Speaker 2: agent contracts in the off season can begin to be traded.

1335
00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:39,640
Speaker 2: So just something of note, we could have some trades

1336
00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:42,160
Speaker 2: start coming our way pretty soon, all right, taus, Let's

1337
00:57:42,160 --> 00:57:43,360
Speaker 2: get to tweet of the night.

1338
00:57:45,480 --> 00:57:54,480
Speaker 3: Tweet out the night. Wowwit I went with the heartwarmer variety.

1339
00:57:54,760 --> 00:57:58,400
Speaker 3: Just a nice little moment here it comes from ESPN.

1340
00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:01,720
Speaker 3: You may have heard from them. They captured a real

1341
00:58:01,840 --> 00:58:04,960
Speaker 3: nice moment between Nick' rookie Emmanuel Quickly and sixteen year

1342
00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:07,560
Speaker 3: VET Lou Williams. When Lou checked in for the first time,

1343
00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:09,800
Speaker 3: Quickly went right up to him and said, you're one

1344
00:58:09,800 --> 00:58:13,160
Speaker 3: of my favorite players. So that's pretty cool. It's pretty

1345
00:58:13,200 --> 00:58:15,200
Speaker 3: cool for Quickly to jump over there and give them

1346
00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:19,760
Speaker 3: a little handshake. It's special. It's special for him. And yeah,

1347
00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:22,200
Speaker 3: I like how it's Lou Williams, you know, a guy

1348
00:58:22,240 --> 00:58:26,240
Speaker 3: who obviously established in the league. But for us you

1349
00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:29,080
Speaker 3: think favorite players, you probably don't think Lou will immediately.

1350
00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:33,200
Speaker 3: So it was cool that Quickly appreciated that and Quickly, Yeah,

1351
00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:36,640
Speaker 3: it's it's cool to appreciate a guy coming off the bench.

1352
00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:39,440
Speaker 3: There's nothing wrong with playing off the bench in the NBA.

1353
00:58:39,680 --> 00:58:41,960
Speaker 3: And Lou Williams has been in the year six or

1354
00:58:42,040 --> 00:58:46,280
Speaker 3: been in the league sixteen years, because he's okay with that,

1355
00:58:46,360 --> 00:58:50,440
Speaker 3: because he showed that there's more positions than just the start.

1356
00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:53,160
Speaker 3: In five he's the leading scorer off the bench in

1357
00:58:53,320 --> 00:58:56,240
Speaker 3: NBA history. So that's a pretty cool, pretty cool moment,

1358
00:58:56,320 --> 00:58:59,240
Speaker 3: especially that we got to read the lips of Emmanual

1359
00:58:59,320 --> 00:59:02,080
Speaker 3: quickly say you're one of my favorite players. Man, A

1360
00:59:02,120 --> 00:59:06,160
Speaker 3: little headshake. Nice, nice little Sunday moment. God, I loved it.

1361
00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:09,320
Speaker 2: That was a fun game too, Clippers Nicks the matinee

1362
00:59:09,400 --> 00:59:12,439
Speaker 2: game there on Sunday. Quickly have an awesome game too, Lely.

1363
00:59:12,680 --> 00:59:13,800
Speaker 2: I mean, he's playing.

1364
00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:14,160
Speaker 1: Really, really well.

1365
00:59:14,200 --> 00:59:14,440
Speaker 4: He is.

1366
00:59:14,600 --> 00:59:17,680
Speaker 2: He's good for him going as low as he did

1367
00:59:17,720 --> 00:59:18,200
Speaker 2: in the draft.

1368
00:59:18,480 --> 00:59:20,240
Speaker 4: I mean, you can kind of see why he liked

1369
00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:22,080
Speaker 4: Lou Williams because he's kind of got a similar game.

1370
00:59:22,120 --> 00:59:23,640
Speaker 4: He just goes out there faring away.

1371
00:59:23,800 --> 00:59:25,720
Speaker 1: Got that floater for sure. Inside.

1372
00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:29,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's I'm not sure what his free throw percentage

1373
00:59:29,160 --> 00:59:31,160
Speaker 4: up to, but the only he only missed one for

1374
00:59:31,240 --> 00:59:33,880
Speaker 4: a while. They quickly. So that's that's what I like

1375
00:59:33,920 --> 00:59:35,360
Speaker 4: to see a rookie coming out there. He can hit

1376
00:59:35,400 --> 00:59:37,880
Speaker 4: his free throwst in it's not right future.

1377
00:59:38,040 --> 00:59:41,080
Speaker 2: All right, A nice little moment there, quickly and Li

1378
00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:43,480
Speaker 2: Williams caught by the cat by the cameras tas you

1379
00:59:43,520 --> 00:59:44,439
Speaker 2: love a good lip reading.

1380
00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:46,120
Speaker 1: You're right, it's been a while.

1381
00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:47,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, when you see what they can say to each

1382
00:59:47,960 --> 00:59:49,760
Speaker 2: other in there, I mean that one was pretty clear.

1383
00:59:49,960 --> 00:59:53,880
Speaker 3: There was no doubt, absolutely so, no need to do

1384
00:59:53,880 --> 00:59:54,520
Speaker 3: pick a results.

1385
00:59:54,520 --> 00:59:57,640
Speaker 2: We didn't pick a game on Friday night. Tasks lost

1386
00:59:57,880 --> 01:00:00,520
Speaker 2: the month of January. He finished in last. You don't

1387
01:00:00,520 --> 01:00:02,040
Speaker 2: want to finish the last place because you got to

1388
01:00:02,080 --> 01:00:02,600
Speaker 2: pay it off.

1389
01:00:03,120 --> 01:00:04,400
Speaker 1: We will be doing that this week.

1390
01:00:04,480 --> 01:00:06,160
Speaker 2: Let's try and lock that in. Task got to pay

1391
01:00:06,200 --> 01:00:09,080
Speaker 2: it off either on this show or on social media.

1392
01:00:09,120 --> 01:00:12,000
Speaker 2: But if you have a last minute suggestion, you can

1393
01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:13,880
Speaker 2: still get it in. Email it in No dunks at

1394
01:00:13,880 --> 01:00:15,480
Speaker 2: the athleta dot com. Let us know in the YouTube

1395
01:00:15,480 --> 01:00:18,600
Speaker 2: comments tweeted in at No Dunksinc. And yeah, Tasks will

1396
01:00:18,600 --> 01:00:21,640
Speaker 2: be paying it off. But we started all over again here.

1397
01:00:22,120 --> 01:00:26,680
Speaker 2: February first, Monday. Nora said this morning, this is like

1398
01:00:26,760 --> 01:00:29,960
Speaker 2: the perfect month, you know what I mean. I think

1399
01:00:29,960 --> 01:00:33,280
Speaker 2: it's like, if you look at the calendar February first,

1400
01:00:33,320 --> 01:00:36,120
Speaker 2: starting on the Monday, how many days are in February again?

1401
01:00:36,320 --> 01:00:36,880
Speaker 1: Twenty eight?

1402
01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:38,360
Speaker 5: I think they got twenty eight this year.

1403
01:00:38,960 --> 01:00:41,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like fits it just you know, it's just perfect.

1404
01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:43,600
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, that's okay. She called it a

1405
01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:46,840
Speaker 2: square month. I've never heard of that. Maybe that's the thing.

1406
01:00:46,880 --> 01:00:49,120
Speaker 2: Maybe Nora made it up. Anyway, it's a perfect slash

1407
01:00:49,160 --> 01:00:53,240
Speaker 2: square February here so task, what's our game tonight? We're

1408
01:00:53,240 --> 01:00:55,560
Speaker 2: all zero and zero across the board.

1409
01:00:56,320 --> 01:01:00,280
Speaker 3: Wow, little calendar talk for you. Yeah, March first. Mars

1410
01:01:00,280 --> 01:01:03,640
Speaker 3: first will be lining up on a Monday too. It

1411
01:01:03,720 --> 01:01:05,160
Speaker 3: doesn't get much better than this.

1412
01:01:05,200 --> 01:01:07,000
Speaker 2: If you it is nice, you gotta admit it is

1413
01:01:07,080 --> 01:01:08,680
Speaker 2: nice to have the first on a Monday.

1414
01:01:08,720 --> 01:01:09,880
Speaker 1: I do really really like that.

1415
01:01:10,480 --> 01:01:14,560
Speaker 3: I'm a Sunday first, first day of the calendar. Man, God,

1416
01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:16,800
Speaker 3: I love it. I love it. I love to start

1417
01:01:16,800 --> 01:01:22,240
Speaker 3: my week with rest. Anyway. Phoenix is visiting Dallas, second

1418
01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:25,320
Speaker 3: game of their little Baseball Dollar header. Phoenix won that one.

1419
01:01:25,320 --> 01:01:27,960
Speaker 3: As we've talked about Dallas, I've lost what is it

1420
01:01:28,040 --> 01:01:28,680
Speaker 3: six in a row?

1421
01:01:28,720 --> 01:01:29,800
Speaker 1: Now five?

1422
01:01:30,040 --> 01:01:34,040
Speaker 3: Just five? It feels like six. They're at home one

1423
01:01:34,080 --> 01:01:36,240
Speaker 3: and a half point, Doug. So it's basically a pick them.

1424
01:01:36,640 --> 01:01:38,480
Speaker 3: Can Phoenix went too in a row? Can they go

1425
01:01:38,520 --> 01:01:41,760
Speaker 3: back to back in this doubleheader matchup with the MAVs

1426
01:01:41,760 --> 01:01:43,520
Speaker 3: that gave away a double digit lead in that first

1427
01:01:43,560 --> 01:01:46,200
Speaker 3: game against the Phoenix Suns. So who you got, skeet

1428
01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:46,919
Speaker 3: start us off?

1429
01:01:47,440 --> 01:01:50,120
Speaker 2: I would just love to know, I mean, Schuman, are

1430
01:01:50,120 --> 01:01:52,000
Speaker 2: you there in the stream team? I'd love to know

1431
01:01:52,080 --> 01:01:55,160
Speaker 2: the breakdown of these little baseball back to back series.

1432
01:01:56,240 --> 01:01:59,440
Speaker 2: You know what's what's been the more likely outcome, is it?

1433
01:01:59,480 --> 01:02:03,760
Speaker 2: I think it feels like there's been more like splits

1434
01:02:03,800 --> 01:02:05,880
Speaker 2: than not right, you know, where it's a one team

1435
01:02:05,880 --> 01:02:07,720
Speaker 2: takes one game and they lose a second.

1436
01:02:08,040 --> 01:02:10,800
Speaker 3: Start a season, it was more sweeps actually, okay, for

1437
01:02:10,960 --> 01:02:12,360
Speaker 3: like for like eight of them.

1438
01:02:12,560 --> 01:02:14,840
Speaker 1: Okay, And yeah, when.

1439
01:02:14,760 --> 01:02:17,160
Speaker 3: We started it was majority with sweeps, which is surprising.

1440
01:02:17,560 --> 01:02:18,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, very surprising.

1441
01:02:19,800 --> 01:02:22,280
Speaker 3: Roads sweeps as well, But maybe that's changed the last

1442
01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:24,040
Speaker 3: couple of weeks. I don't know. I mean, splits are

1443
01:02:24,080 --> 01:02:25,680
Speaker 3: the norm.

1444
01:02:25,320 --> 01:02:28,360
Speaker 2: Yeah you would think so, but I'm sticking with that

1445
01:02:28,360 --> 01:02:29,520
Speaker 2: that early season.

1446
01:02:29,200 --> 01:02:30,480
Speaker 1: Trend tests mm hmm.

1447
01:02:30,600 --> 01:02:32,320
Speaker 2: I don't like what I'm seeing from the Mavericks right now.

1448
01:02:32,320 --> 01:02:33,800
Speaker 2: Maybe the tonight's the night where they hit a bunch

1449
01:02:33,800 --> 01:02:36,040
Speaker 2: of threes. Watch watch Tim Hardway go for fifty tonight.

1450
01:02:36,360 --> 01:02:38,120
Speaker 2: This will be the night. But I'm taking the Suns.

1451
01:02:38,920 --> 01:02:40,680
Speaker 2: I think they're just a better basketball team right now.

1452
01:02:40,880 --> 01:02:42,880
Speaker 2: So I'll go Suns to do it to win sort

1453
01:02:42,920 --> 01:02:45,320
Speaker 2: of two in a row here against Dallas. Suns one

1454
01:02:45,360 --> 01:02:47,040
Speaker 2: and a half favorites for me, right.

1455
01:02:47,600 --> 01:02:51,200
Speaker 5: Gotta get nice. February started off on a bank Skeeed's

1456
01:02:51,240 --> 01:02:53,960
Speaker 5: gotta get that square February started, right. I also am

1457
01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:56,840
Speaker 5: going to go with the Suns here, just because I

1458
01:02:56,840 --> 01:02:58,680
Speaker 5: think the MAVs have been doing pretty bad. It's their

1459
01:02:58,720 --> 01:03:01,560
Speaker 5: third game in four nights, so that doesn't bode well

1460
01:03:01,600 --> 01:03:03,400
Speaker 5: for the three point shooting. And as we've talked about,

1461
01:03:03,400 --> 01:03:04,960
Speaker 5: you got to make threes if you're the MAVs.

1462
01:03:05,280 --> 01:03:07,680
Speaker 3: Give me Phoenix Leeward, I.

1463
01:03:07,720 --> 01:03:10,360
Speaker 4: Think, Yeah, it's tough. I mean, it was a Chris

1464
01:03:10,360 --> 01:03:13,640
Speaker 4: Paul take over light in that game on Saturday, and

1465
01:03:13,680 --> 01:03:16,320
Speaker 4: there's no Devin Booker apparently again tonight. While pausingis is

1466
01:03:16,360 --> 01:03:20,120
Speaker 4: back for the Mavericks. But I just don't feel that

1467
01:03:20,200 --> 01:03:24,040
Speaker 4: confident in Dallas right now, so I too, will take

1468
01:03:24,080 --> 01:03:25,200
Speaker 4: the Phoenix Suns tonight.

1469
01:03:25,400 --> 01:03:28,800
Speaker 2: Wow, Tas, are you gonna swerve to start us off here?

1470
01:03:29,080 --> 01:03:31,680
Speaker 3: Yeah? I got no problems swerving. Yeah, I got no

1471
01:03:31,760 --> 01:03:35,640
Speaker 3: problem staying in the loser lane. Yeah. Give me Willie

1472
01:03:35,640 --> 01:03:38,280
Speaker 3: college Staining, Christaps Porzingis and Dwight Powell have a big one.

1473
01:03:38,320 --> 01:03:41,200
Speaker 3: Give me Willie, Chrissy and Dwighty Way.

1474
01:03:41,880 --> 01:03:43,920
Speaker 2: So you got the Mavericks and they don't have to

1475
01:03:43,920 --> 01:03:45,280
Speaker 2: win the game, but they got to keep it.

1476
01:03:45,320 --> 01:03:47,680
Speaker 1: Oh, so so close if they don't.

1477
01:03:47,680 --> 01:03:49,680
Speaker 2: All right, Tas has that Dallas Mavericks plus one and

1478
01:03:49,680 --> 01:03:51,200
Speaker 2: a half. Everybody else has the Suns to win, buy

1479
01:03:51,200 --> 01:03:53,400
Speaker 2: two or more. Good look, good look, all right. That's

1480
01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:56,280
Speaker 2: it for Monday show. Really Fun One Love an NBA

1481
01:03:56,320 --> 01:03:59,200
Speaker 2: weekend winners and losers. We teased it off the top.

1482
01:03:59,240 --> 01:04:01,000
Speaker 1: There. I told you about it, top. Let's tell you again,

1483
01:04:01,280 --> 01:04:02,080
Speaker 1: jd rack it up.

1484
01:04:02,120 --> 01:04:07,919
Speaker 2: Grab your new No Dunks merch at no dunks dot com.

1485
01:04:07,960 --> 01:04:09,000
Speaker 5: Which of these are you peeping?

1486
01:04:09,080 --> 01:04:09,160
Speaker 3: Lee?

1487
01:04:09,240 --> 01:04:11,960
Speaker 5: These are all your favorite teams if you're choosing.

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Speaker 4: One, Probably the Knicks because I love that baby blue.

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Speaker 4: It's not really baby blue.

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Speaker 5: Those play into the big fan base once again. The

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Speaker 5: Bell trade, the New York Knicks, your two loves.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that was one team I stayed away from it.

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Speaker 4: I've tried to get Bill. The Mavericks don't really fit

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Speaker 4: the Bill, but I tried to get into a team

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Speaker 4: that he's gonna be contending if he goes there. So okay, yeah,

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Speaker 4: I'll keep working. I'll keep working.

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you I want a Bradley Beal new trade

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Speaker 2: package tomorrow on Tuesday's show.

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Speaker 4: I'll get you one. I'll get you one.

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Speaker 1: I just wanted a new team.

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Speaker 2: We've done the Nuggets, We've done the Hue, done the Mass,

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01:04:52,560 --> 01:04:54,720
Speaker 2: you know, talked about a few other teams with something new.

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Speaker 2: beach step in podcast usually hit the beach on Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: With that deal.

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Speaker 2: we sent you. It helps your boys out, all right,

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Speaker 2: Fun show, guys, Fun Monday here in this perfect month,

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Speaker 2: this perfect square February. Can't wait to go classic after

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Speaker 2: classic after classic with you bros.

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Speaker 1: Clipper Bros.

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Speaker 5: You heard it here first. Have a great time, turn up,

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Speaker 5: love you guys awesome.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us, and remember Being a square keeps

1525
01:05:50,280 --> 01:05:53,600
Speaker 3: you from going round in circles. Thanks to Jay Vernon

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Speaker 3: McGhee for that quote.

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Speaker 1: Embrace the day people, You guys day.

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Speaker 3: Every day, and and you happy every minute.

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Speaker 1: It's been so long that you're the one I've wait for.

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Speaker 3: It's happened already.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be grivy.