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Speaker 1: Next same Allday, bad day as elm No No Laura,

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Speaker 1: how's a PM?

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Speaker 2: You wanna Eleve and Taiwan by family?

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Speaker 1: You did?

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Speaker 3: They give you good valley is.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the Nodunks podcast

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Speaker 2: on the Athletic Network. It's Wednesday, April ninth, twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: I'm Jay Skeets here by myself at this desk in

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Speaker 2: the Classic Factory, thankfully over yonder making the magic happen.

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Speaker 2: Super producer jd.

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Speaker 3: Hello, there he is here.

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Speaker 2: We are just the two of us, the two of

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Speaker 2: us spring break for the guys getting away with their

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Speaker 2: families before the start of the second season when it

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Speaker 2: comes to the NBA. You and I just got back

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Speaker 2: from a trip to La slash Palm Spring. That's right

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Speaker 2: for Maddio's bachelor party. Good times were.

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Speaker 3: Had, good times where I had great times where I

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Speaker 3: had I think I'm still hungover. Yeah, it's Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: We are too old for this ship.

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Speaker 3: Definitely too What was.

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Speaker 2: That I guess we got there Thursday night. Yeah, great

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Speaker 2: dinner in La showed up to the server who was

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Speaker 2: a big No Dunks fan at the restaurant Horses. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: awesome meal by the way. Then we went to the

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Speaker 2: comedy store. H so, yeah, we're already going right away.

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Speaker 3: I hit the ground running, literally hit the ground.

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Speaker 2: And then it was off to Palm Springs for a

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Speaker 2: fun time at the Airbnb.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we just well you you went on a hike,

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Speaker 3: but I did. I did not leave that house.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you did nothing but enjoy cocktails.

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Speaker 3: By the backtails by the pool in the pool, many

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Speaker 3: other things.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I did do a hike. Yeah, completely hungover.

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Speaker 3: I can't believe you did that hike.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. At one point I was like, this is a

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Speaker 2: bad idea. Oh really, but then the power through, power through.

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Speaker 2: Luckily I had my stupid little nap sack with my

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Speaker 2: like water pick or whatever the hell it's called a

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Speaker 3: It called the camel back? Yeah that's yeah, I know

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Speaker 3: what you're saying.

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Speaker 2: I took down two leaders in about you know, fifteen minutes,

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Speaker 2: So that was good.

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Speaker 2: Right back to the pool to drink. But we had

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Speaker 2: a blast. And this made me laugh this tweet because

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Speaker 2: we had no show on Monday, no show Tuesday. As

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Speaker 2: we got back on Monday and recovered, we had the

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Speaker 2: championship game in the NCAA tournament on Monday night, so

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Speaker 2: we took the day off. But John Arnold writing in

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Speaker 2: because of a healthy and deserved break from my usual

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Speaker 2: Monday pods and Tuesday one talking about no dunks, of course,

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Speaker 2: and we've got the meme of the angry little kid

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Speaker 2: doing what appears to be almost like an Easter photo shoot. Yes, congrats,

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Speaker 2: happy for y'all. Hope Mattio feels loved. Well, I believe

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Speaker 2: he felt love.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I talked to him last night and yeah,

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Speaker 2: Okay, good, that's all that matters. Yeah, and then the

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Speaker 2: wedding in Montreal right around the corner exactly, So just

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Speaker 2: another three day bender looking forward.

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Speaker 3: To that in Montreal. That's not gonna be Oh yeah,

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Speaker 3: I haven't been in Montreal in a long time, and

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Speaker 3: I love Montreal, and it's it's gonna be messing.

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Speaker 2: Well, it is snowing today in Montreal.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be enough.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be a little different weather than Palm Springs,

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Speaker 3: Anyway, here it we're here, I thought, well.

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Speaker 2: What the hell am I going to talk about? Uh,

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Speaker 2: But then we had a bunch of big news. But

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Speaker 2: before we get to that, we missed a weggie last week.

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Speaker 2: It does, and it was from a game between the

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Speaker 2: thank god for Weggie Tracker. I believe Chrissy Burton contacted trackers.

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Speaker 2: I think you guys missed one something. Yeah, there it is.

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Speaker 2: We're up to forty five. Had to slip it into

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Speaker 3: At this point, they really let it linger that one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great. I love I mean, you think the

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Speaker 2: So they're just amazing at it. Always blows my mind

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Speaker 3: Home stretch, damn. And then the season starts, then.

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Speaker 2: The second season starts. That's right, But we had some

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Speaker 2: the Denver Nuggets fired coach Michael Malone and general manager

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Speaker 2: They've actually now slipped a little bit. But Malone, you know,

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Speaker 2: on the heels of Taylor Jenkins and the Grizzlies being

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Speaker 2: he would have been fired at the All Star break

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Speaker 2: because that's what happened. You know, they were floundering a

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Speaker 2: and then they had a very easy part of their schedule,

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Speaker 2: you know, Coach Malone and GM Calvin Booth and sort

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Speaker 2: and all that. And then the second thing Krunky kept

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Speaker 2: He kept talking about squeezing the juice out of this roster.

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Speaker 2: He said that at least three or four times, about

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Speaker 2: But he just kept saying that, like it squeeze the

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Speaker 3: I can relate to that. I was a real Calvin

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Speaker 3: Booth at the behind the bar at the Josh Cronky. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: because I was cutting the lines. Yeah, for margaritas. We

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there were one hundred and twenty five lines.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, something like that. Yeah, I was on cutting duty

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Speaker 2: The god God. Well, I also did a shift of

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Speaker 2: squeezing lime juice, I know, and mine where there's nothing

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Speaker 3: I think you might have broken the machine. You were like, too.

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Speaker 2: Well, I was told it was an industrial juicer, and

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Speaker 2: But yeah, that's what he kept saying here. And it's

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Speaker 2: and it's very strange, the big the strange part of

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Speaker 2: by now. It's just the timing of it. Like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: no one would have blinked an eye if the Nuggets

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Speaker 2: lost in the first round or flamed out in the

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Speaker 2: second round, and then they fire coach Malone and fired

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Speaker 2: GM Calvin like during the off season, like nobody would care,

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Speaker 2: but to do it now, thinking like I don't know,

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Speaker 2: it's gonna like save your season, salvage your season. I

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Speaker 2: the start. It's like a it's like, uh, they saw

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Speaker 2: confidence in said squad, didn't like how the last couple

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Speaker 2: this losing streak as well, and just defense has fallen

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Speaker 2: we're not winning another title, we're wasting Yokic's prime, blah

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Speaker 2: But for the last six coaches to win the NBA Finals,

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Speaker 2: Steve Kerr and Joe Missoula Curry, you're fine, Like, there's

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Speaker 2: It's literally what have you done for me? And if

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Speaker 2: and if it's not that, it's like, stop bickering with

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Speaker 2: Of course, we're playing particularly defensively. They were twentieth in

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Speaker 2: So this idea of like, Okay, these guys are bickering,

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Speaker 2: You'll hate to hear this jud for the producers and

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Speaker 2: No, no, I hate yeah, yeah, yeah, it's so it's weird.

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Speaker 2: So that's one thing. What do they do, what will

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Speaker 2: in the NBA when it comes to coaches. Popular names

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Speaker 2: could Chris Finch now be fired during a timeout? That

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Speaker 3: So walking into the arena, Oh yeah, you follow me

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, just come here, come here before we

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Speaker 2: My final thought on this, And I know the stream team's,

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Speaker 2: if we're gonna do it in the summer, why don't

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you saw this, but Luca made

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Speaker 2: He's looking at me, he's saying is whatever he's saying

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Speaker 2: That was that Luke, Well, Luca wasn't talking to a

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Speaker 2: wasn't even on him. He was like, hey, Vanderbilt got

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00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:25,399
Speaker 2: hit on the head, you know, F bohm this, F

432
00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:27,359
Speaker 2: on that or whatever he said, and that got the

433
00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:31,959
Speaker 2: first one. But the second one he and the Lakers

434
00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:34,119
Speaker 2: and the coaching staff are like, he wasn't even talking

435
00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:36,560
Speaker 2: to the ref. He was talking to the fan.

436
00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:39,119
Speaker 3: But the ref was into the vicinity he was.

437
00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:41,480
Speaker 2: He wasn't on the other side of the floor. So

438
00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:44,880
Speaker 2: when he looked back to talk his junk, I guess

439
00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:48,560
Speaker 2: jt Or was in his feelings and thought, well, you're

440
00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:51,320
Speaker 2: you're again. You're you're dropping F bombs or whatever you're saying.

441
00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:53,359
Speaker 2: Are you talking to me? Are you talking to me?

442
00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:54,960
Speaker 2: And gave him the second team.

443
00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,320
Speaker 3: Maybe he's got a delicate constitution when it comes to

444
00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:58,120
Speaker 3: F bombs and.

445
00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:03,040
Speaker 2: Stuff's, hey, it could be could Crew chief Tony Brothers

446
00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:05,600
Speaker 2: told a pool reporter that Luca drew that second technical

447
00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:10,440
Speaker 2: because he looked directly at an official and used vulgar language.

448
00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:17,439
Speaker 2: That's what they're saying. Yeah, so people are obviously this

449
00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:19,600
Speaker 2: is again okay. Se goes on to win the game.

450
00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:22,680
Speaker 2: This this put the Lakers up and then okay, see

451
00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:24,800
Speaker 2: ended it in great style and they may have won

452
00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:27,040
Speaker 2: the game anyway because SGA sort of did the takeover moment,

453
00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:29,879
Speaker 2: so who knows, but they outscored them twenty eight thirteen

454
00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:31,600
Speaker 2: the rest of the way and got the victory. So

455
00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:36,639
Speaker 2: on one hand, it's like that's bad officiating, like you know,

456
00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:39,680
Speaker 2: if he really isn't talking to you, and even the fan,

457
00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:41,880
Speaker 2: like they found the fan. You know, he's a guy

458
00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:43,600
Speaker 2: that sits courtside all the time and I think he

459
00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:46,000
Speaker 2: like goes by tattoo guy or something, and he's like

460
00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:48,639
Speaker 2: he's always there, and he has this history of like

461
00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:53,200
Speaker 2: barking with the players and specifically Luca, so maybe like

462
00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:55,520
Speaker 2: the officials should know that. But then the counter is

463
00:22:56,720 --> 00:23:00,320
Speaker 2: it's a little like you're always complaining and all always

464
00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:03,439
Speaker 2: crying and maybe always dropping f bombs. It's like, I

465
00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:05,359
Speaker 2: don't care if it was at me or not. I

466
00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:07,520
Speaker 2: gave you the first one earlier in the game. I

467
00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:09,600
Speaker 2: obviously gave you a warning. I think someone for the

468
00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,919
Speaker 2: Lakers even said and you could argue that this is

469
00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:14,880
Speaker 2: not great to hear him official, but he's like I'll

470
00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:17,640
Speaker 2: hear from everybody, anybody else on your team in regards

471
00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:22,200
Speaker 2: to a complaint, but not him. I'm tired of his bullshit.

472
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:25,959
Speaker 2: So and if that's the case and that message was relayed,

473
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:27,800
Speaker 2: then it's like, Okay, Luca, you gotta be a little

474
00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:28,240
Speaker 2: more careful.

475
00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:29,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, control yourself a little.

476
00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:32,439
Speaker 2: A little bit by that. But he's like, I'm controlling myself.

477
00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:34,120
Speaker 2: I can talk to a fan, can.

478
00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:39,240
Speaker 3: I, Well, Luca, maybe you can't. Actually maybe if you.

479
00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:42,280
Speaker 2: Well, I think that's it. I think that's it. You

480
00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:44,480
Speaker 2: maybe want to keep your mouth shut. Maybe, But then again,

481
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:46,080
Speaker 2: that's what we love about the NBA exact that you

482
00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:48,399
Speaker 2: can even do this. Yeah, talking back and forth in

483
00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:50,640
Speaker 2: a respectful manner. And again there was nothing like, oh

484
00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:52,919
Speaker 2: he was saying something offensive. Like this guy, by all

485
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:56,720
Speaker 2: accounts decent heckler, I guess. In fact, i'd say a brilliant.

486
00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:59,480
Speaker 3: Heckler, exactly, one of the best.

487
00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:01,760
Speaker 2: Put him in the all of bame. We got the

488
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:05,959
Speaker 2: guy tossed and his team won. Yeah, I see both sides,

489
00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:07,800
Speaker 2: Like it's like, okay, yeah, you gotta be a little

490
00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:09,760
Speaker 2: smarter with that. But then it's like, I wasn't talking

491
00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:12,560
Speaker 2: to you, man, You're in like it's not about you, JT.

492
00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:16,560
Speaker 3: Or okay, not everything is about you?

493
00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:20,960
Speaker 2: No, yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, but a lot officials, I know,

494
00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:23,360
Speaker 2: everything is about them. There's a reason why they're officials.

495
00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:27,800
Speaker 2: Yeah uh so yeah. Anyway, entertaining game. It would have

496
00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:29,600
Speaker 2: been fun to see Luca, of course, play the rest

497
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:32,320
Speaker 2: of it and see how it would have unfolded. But okay,

498
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:35,080
Speaker 2: see gets it done, and they look damn good for

499
00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:38,120
Speaker 2: a team that's like got nothing to play for. Like there,

500
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:40,399
Speaker 2: they had a couple losses, bad losses on the weekend,

501
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:42,040
Speaker 2: but this was a good one and maybe get a

502
00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:44,200
Speaker 2: little more momentum going in and they'll just wait to

503
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,960
Speaker 2: see who they're playing after the playing. Let's move to

504
00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:50,840
Speaker 2: the Wolves blowing a twenty four point lead in the

505
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:55,960
Speaker 2: fourth quarter to the Milwaukee Bucks. They now tumble to

506
00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:58,080
Speaker 2: the eighth spot in the West. We'll show you these

507
00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:01,560
Speaker 2: standings in a second. But Milwaukee was down ninety five

508
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:03,840
Speaker 2: to seventy one with less than ten minutes to go,

509
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:07,560
Speaker 2: and then they scored twenty three straight points. They tied

510
00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:10,240
Speaker 2: it up ninety seven all on an aj Green three

511
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:12,399
Speaker 2: pointer in the corner with like three thirty six left,

512
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:16,959
Speaker 2: And this was wild to watch because the Bucks just

513
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:21,600
Speaker 2: like implemented a two three zone and the Wolves forgot

514
00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:24,440
Speaker 2: how to play basketball. It's always blows my mind. It

515
00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 2: this is when NBA basketball looks the most like high

516
00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:31,480
Speaker 2: school basketball or even grade school basketball. Like when a

517
00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:34,080
Speaker 2: team like just like throws a full court press on

518
00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:36,600
Speaker 2: or a zone and it's like the other team, like Panics,

519
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:39,280
Speaker 2: they don't know what they all to do. The Wolves

520
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:42,080
Speaker 2: had like I think six just brutal turnovers down the

521
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:45,280
Speaker 2: stretch in the clutch, Randall throwing it await Ant throwing

522
00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:49,520
Speaker 2: it away, Devincenzo McDaniels. So everybody was guilty, but they

523
00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:51,600
Speaker 2: didn't know what to do against the zone. It was

524
00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,919
Speaker 2: so weird. Credit to Kevin Porter Junior, who felt like

525
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:57,360
Speaker 2: he was everywhere in that zone. He was like all

526
00:25:57,359 --> 00:25:58,760
Speaker 2: over the place and came up with a lot of

527
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:01,000
Speaker 2: those steals and then he was dunk everything in transition,

528
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:03,800
Speaker 2: Bobby portis back for the Bucks. That was good for them,

529
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:05,840
Speaker 2: eighteen points, ten boards. He had missed twenty five games

530
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,600
Speaker 2: with that suspension. But man, this felt like a bit

531
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:12,000
Speaker 2: of a microcosm of the Wolf season. It's like they

532
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:15,000
Speaker 2: look like unbeatable at times, and then within the same

533
00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:18,200
Speaker 2: game looked like complete garbage. Yeah, and they're going to

534
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:20,200
Speaker 2: be a fascinating team to figure out in the playoffs

535
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:23,960
Speaker 2: or play in. But what a comeback. But twenty four

536
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:28,199
Speaker 2: points ten minutes to go, you almost feel pretty good

537
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 2: at packing up your stuff and trying to beat the

538
00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:33,399
Speaker 2: Milwaukee traffic. I don't know what Milwaukee traffic is like.

539
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:35,479
Speaker 2: I don't think it compares to La traffic that we

540
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:35,760
Speaker 2: were in.

541
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:39,359
Speaker 3: A couple of years. But yeah, no, but you know,

542
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:41,679
Speaker 3: you liked to get the kids, you know, kiss the

543
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:45,760
Speaker 3: kids good night and stuff. You get out, Yeah, because

544
00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 3: you can.

545
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:48,920
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean we've said it before. You can't leave

546
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:51,200
Speaker 2: a game, though, you can't. This is a perfect example,

547
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:53,800
Speaker 2: at least not with ten minutes to go. It's an eternity.

548
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:56,639
Speaker 2: And it was tie game in seven minutes. This is

549
00:26:56,680 --> 00:27:00,560
Speaker 2: the thing. Like it was like that, So why stuff

550
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:03,680
Speaker 2: not good for Chris Finch. I didn't love his postgame

551
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 2: comments like they're almost doing the like because they were

552
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:07,959
Speaker 2: on a bit of a win streak and they had

553
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 2: found their footing a little bit and they're like, ah,

554
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:16,600
Speaker 2: it's sort of like, man, crap happens. It's like okay, yeah,

555
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 2: but you know, maybe figure out how to beat his

556
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:22,119
Speaker 2: own Yeah, maybe I think you guys know how to

557
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:25,880
Speaker 2: and it's not working. Just weird to see and good

558
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 2: stuff from the Bucks and they're feeling good. Place was

559
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 2: going bonkers the people that stuck around and again, like

560
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 2: I said, you honest had trouble double I didn't even

561
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 2: say that, But that's like a given at this point.

562
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:37,159
Speaker 2: So Bucks win, those two teams were gonna do like

563
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,639
Speaker 2: random NBA Awards a little bit later, there'll be a

564
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 2: category about like confusing teams. I think these are the

565
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 2: two at the top of my list. Yeah, you, I

566
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:49,320
Speaker 2: swear you could convince me the Wolves and the Bucks

567
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,680
Speaker 2: losing the first round or they can go all the

568
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 2: way to a Western A Conference finals, like if not

569
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:59,120
Speaker 2: further maybe like they're just they look really good at times,

570
00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:01,920
Speaker 2: they look complete girl at other times. But bad loss

571
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,960
Speaker 2: from the Walls, not a good look from Finch, and

572
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:07,320
Speaker 2: he'll probably be fired in four hours or something like that.

573
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,560
Speaker 2: But this is going So let's show you the Western

574
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 2: Conference standings, a bunch of other things to go over.

575
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:15,160
Speaker 2: Rockets clinch the number two seed thanks to the Thunders

576
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:18,040
Speaker 2: win over the Lakers, Lakers lead over the Nuggets, and

577
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:22,080
Speaker 2: Clippers for the number three seed is down to one game.

578
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:25,920
Speaker 2: Clippers beat the Spurs. They're now up to fourth by

579
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:31,399
Speaker 2: way of a four way tiebreaker that you see there, four, five, six, seven.

580
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 2: Warriors remain at number six. You got the Nuggets at five.

581
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 2: I skipped over them because of these tiebreaker and various results.

582
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 2: Grizzlies dominated the Hornets. They improved to the number seventh

583
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 2: seed with a one game lead over the Wolves Kings.

584
00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 2: They're locked into the play in tournament spot thanks to

585
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:51,640
Speaker 2: the Suns lost to the Warriors and those cancud sons.

586
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 2: They lost so badly that they're now three games behind

587
00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:59,480
Speaker 2: the tenth seed in Mavericks. It's looking like the Suns

588
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 2: have decide. Did like like our guys, Trey and Tasks.

589
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 2: Let's hit the beach.

590
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:05,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, why not.

591
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 2: Let's get there early. Let's beat the rush. So that's

592
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 2: the standings as of today here on Wednesday, April ninth,

593
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 2: with a few days left. One note from the Grizzlies game.

594
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:22,040
Speaker 2: Pretty scary moment. Grizzlies rookie jail In Wells. He broke

595
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 2: his right wrist on a very hard fall on his

596
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 2: arm and sort of his head from a mid air

597
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,240
Speaker 2: collision at the end of a fast break dunk last night.

598
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 2: This was this was this was scary, yeah, for a

599
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 2: good you know, until we got the results, like for

600
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 2: at least a good thirty to forty minutes when you

601
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 2: didn't know how serious it was because the hornets kJ Simpson.

602
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:47,320
Speaker 2: He's like trying to track down on the fast break

603
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 2: and maybe prevent an easy dunk or something like that,

604
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:53,760
Speaker 2: and he he inadvertently undercuts him trying to catch up

605
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 2: to the play. It's almost like Simpson like hustled back,

606
00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:00,360
Speaker 2: thought about trying to make a block and and sort

607
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:02,520
Speaker 2: of was like almost very early when he jumped, was

608
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 2: like I'm not going to get to that. Yeah, almost

609
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,800
Speaker 2: tried to duck out of any contact, and I think

610
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 2: his legs like clipped wells well somehow finished the dunk.

611
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 2: It went in, yeah, and then on the fall landed

612
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 2: again sort of on his side or on his wrist

613
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 2: of course that he broke, and like his head and

614
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 2: it was the head that was like the real scary, yeah,

615
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:25,400
Speaker 2: because they're like he didn't move for a long time

616
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 2: and he laid there for a long time, and you know,

617
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:32,720
Speaker 2: Simpson immediately checked on him, but it was like you know,

618
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:36,360
Speaker 2: but then income the Grizzlies player like get away, get away.

619
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,520
Speaker 2: It's like, you know, you don't know how seriously he's

620
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,720
Speaker 2: injured or not, but he was visibly distraught. Yeah, that

621
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 2: arena was silent, dead silent. He was down for about

622
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 2: ten minutes, wells was. They finally got him onto the stretcher,

623
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:53,760
Speaker 2: got his head immobilized, and then he was taken to

624
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 2: the hospital. So again, it looked really really really bad

625
00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,520
Speaker 2: and you're like, God, don't be like any thing more

626
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 2: serious than what it was. Like in the end, he's

627
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 2: on Instagram. His dad said, look, he's shaken up. Did

628
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 2: he have maybe he has a concussion whatever?

629
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 3: Did he lose consciousness that I'm not sure, but he

630
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 3: was not moving.

631
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 2: He was not moving at the hospital though, he's like,

632
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 2: what's the score of the game, Like he knew where

633
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 2: he was, you know.

634
00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 3: What's going on.

635
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:18,960
Speaker 2: And then he had the broken wrist of course, so

636
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 2: he'll be done for the season with that. But thank god,

637
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 2: it was nothing more serious.

638
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 3: Than that scary stuff.

639
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 2: And you know, Simpson, they went and like they went

640
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 2: and reviewed it and flagrant i and he's ejected and

641
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 2: all that, and like he's not putting up a fight

642
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:35,160
Speaker 2: to that he knows how he knew how inadvertent, inadvertently

643
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 2: reckless it was. But again I do believe he like

644
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 2: tried to tried to avoid it when he when he no,

645
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:44,760
Speaker 2: and then clipped because he fell too, and like sort

646
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 2: of their bodies getting intertwined with their lower legs.

647
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 3: So he's like almost reaching out to him, like after the.

648
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 2: He knew right away, like crap, I guess they're friends too.

649
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 2: They know each other for a while, so, uh, you know,

650
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 2: prayers up for wells and happy to hear it is

651
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 2: legit just a broken wrist that he should be obviously

652
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 2: back next season. Can't imagine he's gonna be back during

653
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:08,080
Speaker 2: the play in tournament or whatever. The Grizzlies, however they

654
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 2: go far, he will be in the running for Rookie

655
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:12,960
Speaker 2: the Year. I don't think he's ultimately gonna win, but

656
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 2: I think he'll finish top four to three, probably top three.

657
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:18,440
Speaker 2: Great start to a season, cooled off as it went on,

658
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 2: but unfortunate way for that to end. Moving to the East,

659
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:26,440
Speaker 2: Porzingis Tatum coming through in the clutch big three pointers.

660
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 2: Celtics beat the Knicks again one nineteen, one seventeen but

661
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 2: it took over time. This one was close baby steps

662
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 2: for the Knicks. They still can't beat these elite teams,

663
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 2: but they didn't get crushed like they had in the

664
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 2: previous three games against Boston. The Knicks actually took a

665
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 2: three point lead on a Josh Hart basket with eleven

666
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 2: seconds remaining in regulation. They chose not to foul and

667
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 2: Tatum splashed a three. He was a hell of a

668
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 2: step back. I mean, Og was guarding him all night

669
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:58,200
Speaker 2: as well as you can, but Tatum just kept hitting

670
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 2: ridiculous shots, so that tied it up at one O seven.

671
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 2: Heart had a look then at the end of regulation,

672
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:06,479
Speaker 2: not a bad look, but couldn't knock down the three.

673
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 2: In overtime, Porzingis hit the biggest shot of ot forty

674
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 2: seconds to go, he had a bomb. He had thirty

675
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 2: four points, eight made threes, and then he did a

676
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 2: good job defending on the perimeter against Brunson. On the

677
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 2: next possession, he forced a misshot from deep. The Knicks

678
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,640
Speaker 2: retained the ball, though, and then that's where the play

679
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 2: where Cat passed it to Michal Bridges in the corner

680
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 2: and Bridges did the whole thing where he just took

681
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 2: his eye off the ball for a second, bobbled it

682
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:35,920
Speaker 2: out of bounds and that was sort of the game.

683
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 2: Then it was free throws and it was over. So

684
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 2: I mean, Knicks fans are gonna be upset. They lost

685
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 2: and had chances to win. You know, there was a

686
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 2: play where Towns fouled Tatum as well on a three

687
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 2: late in regulation. He hit two or three, and then

688
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:53,240
Speaker 2: we got to the whole situation where he then buried

689
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 2: the three to tie it up. You lost, but you

690
00:33:56,760 --> 00:34:01,000
Speaker 2: were in it, so again there's something to take from it.

691
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 2: Cat played a lot better. He had struggled against the Celtics,

692
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 2: so he had a monster game at least. You know,

693
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:08,520
Speaker 2: I hate saying this with Cat, but he always he

694
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 2: doesn't have monster first halfs and then cools down. Though

695
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 2: there were a couple of times like he got a

696
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 2: smaller guy on him and he was like he went

697
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 2: to work. Even Tatum, who's a big dude too, but

698
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 2: Cat's just so much bigger, just put him in the

699
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 2: basket a couple of times. So that was good to

700
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:23,959
Speaker 2: see for the Celtics. Jaalen Brown didn't play a lot,

701
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:26,359
Speaker 2: struggled during the time he was out there. He has

702
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:29,239
Speaker 2: a knee injury. Right now, I wonder if they'll just

703
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:31,359
Speaker 2: shut him down for the rest of the season now,

704
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:33,239
Speaker 2: I mean, they're locked into their number two seed, They're

705
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:35,799
Speaker 2: not going anywhere. Maybe you get him some more rest.

706
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:38,359
Speaker 2: In addition to the play in week, that's a whole

707
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 2: other week. So he should be probably good to go

708
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:44,880
Speaker 2: by the postseason. But he looked, he looked rough, He

709
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 2: looked like a guy that was injured, and then they

710
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:47,480
Speaker 2: just shut him down. They didn't. I don't think he

711
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:50,879
Speaker 2: played the final seventeen minutes or so. This was going

712
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 2: around last night, though, Tatum. Since shot tracking began in

713
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:58,359
Speaker 2: ninety seven, sixty five NBA players have taken at least

714
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:01,920
Speaker 2: fifty shots to tie or take the lead in the

715
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,719
Speaker 2: last twenty four seconds of the fourth quarter or overtime.

716
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 2: Tatum had a few of those in this game. Tatum

717
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:10,239
Speaker 2: is the third best field goal percentage in such a

718
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 2: scenario Derk Novitzky, Tim Duncan, and Jason Tatum, and fourth

719
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 2: on the list. Not this guy, Rudy Gay, anybody, but

720
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:21,719
Speaker 2: this guy.

721
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:25,280
Speaker 3: So thanks for making me try to guess.

722
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:28,719
Speaker 2: No, no, no, it would have taken a while, Rudy Gay.

723
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 2: I think that's wild. I mean the percent like, the

724
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:35,319
Speaker 2: percentage is low for all of these guys, like we're

725
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 2: talking like it's in the I think it's for all

726
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:39,320
Speaker 2: of them in the thirties. It's like, I think Tatum's

727
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 2: like thirty six thirty seven percent, which is obviously a

728
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 2: bad percentage. But then again, when you consider it's like

729
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:49,480
Speaker 2: the last twenty four seconds of a tight game to

730
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 2: take the lead or tie it, I mean that's obviously

731
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:54,040
Speaker 2: the defense is locked in, all eyes on you as

732
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:56,520
Speaker 2: a superstar player. So to even to head even over

733
00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 2: a third of them and in those scenarios prettyb incredible.

734
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 2: It was a fun little stat So he's clutch, is

735
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 2: what I'm getting it. He's very clutch. Sure coming through

736
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:07,280
Speaker 2: one funny moment from this game. I should have grabbed

737
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:08,759
Speaker 2: the clip for you, GD. You would have a good laugh.

738
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:12,759
Speaker 2: Kevin Harlan was doing an ad read oh this is

739
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 2: what he reads. I won't I won't try and do

740
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:18,399
Speaker 2: a good Kevin Harlan impersonation, But he says, the NBA

741
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 2: on TNT is brought to you by the new Crispy

742
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 2: Tenders at CarMax. What wait a minute, hold on, are

743
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:29,960
Speaker 2: they serving tenders with cars? And then like him and

744
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 2: Reggie go back and forth. We just had the marriage

745
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 2: of two different sponsors and it was ugly. And then

746
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:38,840
Speaker 2: they did a bit going back to it. Anyway, I

747
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:42,280
Speaker 2: don't know what the hell happened here. Wow, it really

748
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:45,360
Speaker 2: like it feels like somebody did it on purpose. I

749
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 2: mean to get him, But the guy's such a pro

750
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:49,759
Speaker 2: that he makes it into a whole damn bit and

751
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 2: it was going viral.

752
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:56,760
Speaker 3: I mean, what a way to end the Tuesday Night.

753
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 2: TNT podcast. It's right, they raised they raised all their jerseys.

754
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 2: I saw in the studio the laughters and left Coast turtleneck,

755
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 2: which is pretty funny. Yeah, new okay, new Crispy Tenders

756
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:14,560
Speaker 2: at CarMax. And even he started making the joke like

757
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 2: he sort of stopped midways, like do you think of

758
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 2: a car made out of Crispy Tenders? Or do you

759
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 2: think a car full of Crispy Tenders? That's what I

760
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 2: think to Yeah, sun roof pouring.

761
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 3: Out, Yeah, yeah, that's the new rookie prank. Next year.

762
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:37,239
Speaker 2: Popcorn Damn, I guess popcorn can Krispy Tender's ruining your

763
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:41,839
Speaker 2: car more than popcorn? Yeah, unless it's buttered, it would

764
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 2: be a mess.

765
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:45,719
Speaker 3: Be a mess. Would you rather have your car smell

766
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 3: of popcorn or chicken tenders? Your car are probably already chicken.

767
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:54,440
Speaker 2: I think I go popcorn and I love I love tenders.

768
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:57,720
Speaker 2: Popcorn is a good smell, so better smell.

769
00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 3: I'm never mad when I smell anyway.

770
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:04,719
Speaker 2: Amazing moment from Harlan and uh, yeah, you're right. Yeah,

771
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 2: I guess that T and T. That Tuesday Night's done.

772
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:08,600
Speaker 3: Yeah done.

773
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:12,279
Speaker 2: Jesus, what's our guy left? Co gonna do? I mean,

774
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:15,000
Speaker 2: he's got the podcast with Shack still, he's got a

775
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 2: lot of other things left. COO, come on, no dunks.

776
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 1: Yeah.

777
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 2: Eastern Conference standings will show you the breakdown after everything

778
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:26,800
Speaker 2: last night, Calves clinched the number one seed. They punked

779
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:31,120
Speaker 2: Trey Kirby's Chicago Bulls, so they got that. Celtics locked

780
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,719
Speaker 2: in at number two. Pacers beat the Wizards, pulls them

781
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:37,359
Speaker 2: within two games of the number three Knicks. Bucks moved

782
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 2: two games ahead of the Pistons for number five. Magic

783
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 2: beat the Hawks SADCACAF, securing the tiebreaker. They moved two

784
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:45,880
Speaker 2: games up in the race for number seven, and the

785
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 2: Bulls drop into a tie with the Heat, but remain

786
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:51,040
Speaker 2: at number nine by way of the tiebreaker. I think

787
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:55,680
Speaker 2: I feel very confident in saying that, right there, that's

788
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:59,880
Speaker 2: your Eastern Conference matchups. I think we're good to go.

789
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be well, it's gonna be

790
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:06,680
Speaker 2: Magic taking the Hawks in the seven eight game. The

791
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:08,920
Speaker 2: loser will obviously get one more crack at the winner

792
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:11,479
Speaker 2: of the Bulls versus Heat, because that's gonna be that game.

793
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:15,600
Speaker 2: And I think it is set here that three, six,

794
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 2: four or five is Knicks, Pistons, and then Pacers Bucks.

795
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:21,759
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, I think we're there, okay, and which

796
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 2: I'm I love. I love those I can't wait for

797
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 2: Knicks fans to freak out when the Pistons steal a

798
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:29,359
Speaker 2: game in Madison Square Garden in one of the first

799
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:32,800
Speaker 2: two Legit can't wait. It's gonna be great. And Pacers

800
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:36,960
Speaker 2: Bocks like, let's go, Like you know, Pacers beat them

801
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:40,360
Speaker 2: last year. MUCKs say, we didn't have Giannis. It's a

802
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:42,799
Speaker 2: different series if we do, so we'll get to see

803
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 2: if Giannis and the Bucks can get some revenge. So

804
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:46,920
Speaker 2: I think that's great. And then obviously the Kas and

805
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:52,799
Speaker 2: Celtics waiting for the sort of poopy playing teams, right, Yeah,

806
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 2: I guess a small part of me once again hoping

807
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 2: the Hawks win the seven eight matchup, become the seventh seed,

808
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:02,480
Speaker 2: take on the Celtic again because I'll be in Boston

809
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:06,359
Speaker 2: for the opening weekend of the playoffs, as I am

810
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,359
Speaker 2: every couple of seasons because of the Boston Marathon. And

811
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:10,879
Speaker 2: I could maybe go watch a game again.

812
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:15,320
Speaker 3: Well, I think he could watch a game regardless in Boston.

813
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 2: I could, but I could watch the Hawks, yes, and

814
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 2: I have hookups with Hawks.

815
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:20,839
Speaker 3: Oh okay, that's more.

816
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess a long time ago, who did I see?

817
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 2: I must have saw. I saw Celtic. I want to

818
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:31,719
Speaker 2: say I saw Celtics Pacers Round one, game one or

819
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:34,239
Speaker 2: game two. That was a long time ago. I think

820
00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 2: that's who I saw. Sat right by Larry Bird though, wow,

821
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 2: and nor came with me. She's like that Larry Bird.

822
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, not a lot of people look like

823
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:47,720
Speaker 2: Larry Bird. That's definitely Larry Bird. Very confident. But yeah,

824
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:49,840
Speaker 2: so we'll see, we'll see. But though I think we

825
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 2: got the East basically done even the play and I

826
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:56,880
Speaker 2: don't think there's gonna be maybe to see who hosts

827
00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 2: that nine to ten game between the Heat and the Bulls.

828
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:01,880
Speaker 2: But otherwise I think the Magic hosting the Hawks there

829
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 2: in the seven eight. Okay, let's switch it up. That's

830
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 2: last night's games. I thought doing something fun here, doing

831
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 2: the sort of solo pod that later this week because

832
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:16,480
Speaker 2: I'm doing a couple of these with just JD that

833
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 2: will hand out some real NBA awards. Might even do

834
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 2: a check the polls, get the people's opinions on who

835
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:26,799
Speaker 2: should win MVP, who should win obviously rookie and most

836
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:29,400
Speaker 2: Improved and all that stuff. Okay, but to get us

837
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:32,960
Speaker 2: in the mood and inspired a little bit, I'll be

838
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 2: honest by Zach Loowe's return and Bill Simmons' latest podcast,

839
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:42,720
Speaker 2: I have crafted some random NBA awards, all inspired though

840
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:46,279
Speaker 2: by Tim Robinson's hit sketch comedy show. I think you

841
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:47,000
Speaker 2: should leave.

842
00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:58,240
Speaker 1: Random random NBA awards, fake NBA awards, made up NBA awards,

843
00:41:58,280 --> 00:41:59,440
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call them.

844
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:03,399
Speaker 2: This is a unique idea, No, but the awards are

845
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 2: they're different than a majority of other ones you've heard

846
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:08,400
Speaker 2: maybe on some of those other pods. And welcome back

847
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 2: Zachlo Zach Low. I gotta say, though, you could tell

848
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 2: this guy's been gone for way too long because he

849
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:21,479
Speaker 2: fired up the emergency podcast for Michael Malone getting fired, which,

850
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 2: as we led the show with, yeah, very very strange, timing,

851
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:28,200
Speaker 2: a lot to unpack. Even Zach Low, before he left ESPN,

852
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:32,560
Speaker 2: was alluding to some turmoil in the organization, so sort

853
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 2: of he was all over it. But I was like, oh, yeah,

854
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 2: that's a guy that has not podcasts in a while.

855
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:42,400
Speaker 2: There's no way he's doing an emergency podcast if he

856
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 2: had been podcasting all season one, not a chance. Not

857
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:47,239
Speaker 2: a chance now. But good.

858
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 3: Maybe he's in his contract he has like a minimum

859
00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 3: ten emergency podcasts a year. Just front load him, you.

860
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 2: Know, smartest, that's the case. Pretty smart smart. But Matt

861
00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:00,200
Speaker 2: Moore was on with them, who obviously covers THEUGA. It's

862
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 2: so a longtime blog boy, Matt Moore. It was very good. Anyway, Um,

863
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:07,440
Speaker 2: we're giving out awards here, okay, And I've got some

864
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 2: awards and they're all inspired by scenes from I Think

865
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,600
Speaker 2: You Should Leave and our first one, the sketch that

866
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 2: inspires our award is from Baby Cry season two, episode two.

867
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 3: Let Them Hold the Baby. People can change. I used

868
00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 3: to be a piece of shit, spiked a blonde hair,

869
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 3: little bitty jeans, chicken spaghetti and Chicolini's.

870
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 1: People can change.

871
00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 3: Let the boy hold.

872
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 2: The baby, Let the boy hold the baby. Okay, people

873
00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:43,160
Speaker 2: can change. This is the biggest Turnaround Award. And I've

874
00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:45,840
Speaker 2: got a team, and I've got a player. The team

875
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 2: Detroit Pistons. No team in league history had more than

876
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 2: tripled its victory total from one year to the next,

877
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 2: and that's what the Pistons did this year. Last season,

878
00:43:56,040 --> 00:44:00,120
Speaker 2: they were fourteen and sixty eight, NBA's worst record. They

879
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:03,279
Speaker 2: had the all time losing streak, which I tell every

880
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 2: time we bring it up gets forgotten for some reason.

881
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 2: But it's pretty impressive to lose that many games in

882
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 2: a row in today's NBA when there is a bunch

883
00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:13,080
Speaker 2: of other bad teams. But fourteen and sixty eight, So

884
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:15,480
Speaker 2: what do they do? They hire JB. Bickerstaff turns out

885
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:17,799
Speaker 2: having a coach that wants to coach that helps. They

886
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:21,560
Speaker 2: added a group of helpful veterans Tobias Harris, Malik Beasley,

887
00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 2: Tim Hardaway, Junior Dennis Shruder. Coming at the deadline. They

888
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 2: prayed that kid Cunningham could stay healthy and again surround

889
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:30,840
Speaker 2: him with shooters that would open things up and open

890
00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:34,759
Speaker 2: his game up. And it has since January first. Piston's

891
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:39,200
Speaker 2: top three defense in the league, a incredible record, and

892
00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:41,760
Speaker 2: it's been awesome to watch, and it's fun having Detroit

893
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:44,400
Speaker 2: back in the mix. It's been so long since we

894
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:46,879
Speaker 2: got to talk about them in a positive light, and

895
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:49,719
Speaker 2: a lot of us that kept Caid Cunningham's stock and

896
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:51,839
Speaker 2: still believe that it wasn't really him as much as

897
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:55,720
Speaker 2: it was his team and the structure and organization around him,

898
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 2: that once he got something competent in place, he would flourish.

899
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:01,799
Speaker 2: And he did, and I'm excited to see them in

900
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:04,880
Speaker 2: the postseason. So the Piston's biggest turnaround. They used to

901
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:08,320
Speaker 2: be pieces of shit. Yeah, but people can change.

902
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:11,319
Speaker 3: I wish that this we had a physical trophy and

903
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 3: it was a baby for.

904
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 2: The Oh yeah, yeah, great send Kate Cunningham a giant baby.

905
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:20,359
Speaker 2: That baby's huge in that in that sketch, like that

906
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:25,480
Speaker 2: baby's four years old. But in regards to players, I

907
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:29,000
Speaker 2: would go, I'm gonna go with Austin Reeves. Now, I

908
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:31,160
Speaker 2: don't think he's I don't think he's gonna win most improved.

909
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:33,720
Speaker 2: I think there's other guys that are are well deserving,

910
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:35,320
Speaker 2: and again we can do that later in the week.

911
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:40,560
Speaker 2: But Austin Reeves is averaging twenty six and five in

912
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:46,719
Speaker 2: seventy games, plus shooting above average from deep. He's had two, no,

913
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:50,360
Speaker 2: three thirty point games over the last basically a week.

914
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:50,600
Speaker 3: And a half.

915
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 2: So he's like ramping it up here now that he's

916
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:55,960
Speaker 2: getting more comfortable with Lebron, Luca and him, which makes

917
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:58,640
Speaker 2: the Lakers like a dynamite team and got three guys

918
00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 2: that can really handle the ball and cre like that.

919
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:05,879
Speaker 2: And I say he's a big turnaround, because I gotta

920
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:10,640
Speaker 2: be honest, I thought he was a couple years ago

921
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:14,040
Speaker 2: getting overblown. Like I thought people were like getting a

922
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 2: little too excited about how good he was or his potential.

923
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:21,520
Speaker 2: I thought Lakers sensationalism was taken hold here and it's like,

924
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:23,960
Speaker 2: because he plays with the Lakers, people are talking to

925
00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:26,080
Speaker 2: them themselves into this guy maybe being an All Star

926
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:27,680
Speaker 2: and stuff like that. But I think I was wrong.

927
00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:31,399
Speaker 2: You know, his production plateaued last year and this year

928
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 2: it's a sort of shot up again, especially recently, and

929
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 2: in the last thirty years, only two other undrafted players

930
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:41,640
Speaker 2: have averaged at least twenty points per game in a season.

931
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:45,360
Speaker 2: Fred van Vliet twenty point three for the twenty one

932
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:50,240
Speaker 2: to twenty two Raptors and Mike James also for the Raptors. Wow.

933
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:52,960
Speaker 2: Back when I was going to games five oh six

934
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:56,799
Speaker 2: twenty point three, he averaged as well. So Reeves is

935
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,799
Speaker 2: very likely gonna become the third undrafted guy to average

936
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:04,359
Speaker 2: in a season. He's good. I was wrong. He's he's

937
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:07,200
Speaker 2: in fact very good. Will you? I don't know? I mean,

938
00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 2: I'm seeing people. This guy's gonna be a four time

939
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:11,279
Speaker 2: All Star. I would slow your rule on that. But

940
00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:12,920
Speaker 2: does he have an all star season or two in him?

941
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:13,279
Speaker 3: Yeah?

942
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:16,000
Speaker 2: He might, He definitely might. He's really really good and

943
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:19,239
Speaker 2: he's turned it around. That's to me at least. Our

944
00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:23,040
Speaker 2: next one the sketch is Pay It Forward, Season three,

945
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:25,319
Speaker 2: Episode three, How.

946
00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:26,000
Speaker 3: Can I Take Your Order?

947
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:30,919
Speaker 4: Fifty prize, fifty five tackles, fifty five prize, fifty hundred,

948
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:33,360
Speaker 4: Pez hundred tenners, hundred Big Bull one on the Conference,

949
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:38,120
Speaker 4: Smithy fifty post everything, Why Pepperton, one hundred and fifty.

950
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:42,040
Speaker 2: Five tatters Hunter Tenders could fill a car with that?

951
00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:47,759
Speaker 2: This is the most insane box Score award, right, all

952
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:50,960
Speaker 2: those numbers. It feels like some of these box scores

953
00:47:51,239 --> 00:47:55,200
Speaker 2: we've seen this year. Four nominees and then a fifth

954
00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:58,880
Speaker 2: sort of surprising one, but the four nominees for the

955
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:02,279
Speaker 2: most insane box or aka the fifty five burgers, fifty

956
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:07,040
Speaker 2: five fries, fifty five tacos Yiannis versus Detroit mid November.

957
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:09,719
Speaker 2: We gotta go way back for this one. He's the

958
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:14,240
Speaker 2: only player to crack one hundred in ESPN's like Fantasy

959
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:17,719
Speaker 2: Value for one particular game. He scored one hundred in

960
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:20,279
Speaker 2: a game in ESPN Fantasy Basketball. But he had fifty

961
00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:23,560
Speaker 2: nine points on twenty one of thirty four shooting. He

962
00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:26,480
Speaker 2: was sixteen to seventeen at the line. He had fourteen rebounds,

963
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 2: seven assists, two steals, and three blocks. Now, it's funny

964
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:34,160
Speaker 2: because I don't have my eye on the stream team

965
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:35,880
Speaker 2: right this second, but I'm sure people are saying, well,

966
00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:37,759
Speaker 2: what about his game he just had? He had one

967
00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:40,040
Speaker 2: where he went for thirty five points, seventeen rebounds and

968
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:43,080
Speaker 2: twenty assists. Also good, But that fifty nine point game,

969
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:48,080
Speaker 2: that's pretty damn impressive, and just the percentages, and I

970
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:51,360
Speaker 2: had forgotten about it. So many batshit crazy things have

971
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:53,279
Speaker 2: happened this season, and I was like, I was like,

972
00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:55,239
Speaker 2: looking at it, I was like, what the hell did

973
00:48:55,280 --> 00:49:00,600
Speaker 2: he do that? Oh? Mid November an eternity ago. Yeah, Jokic,

974
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:02,719
Speaker 2: he has like five box scores you could pick from,

975
00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:06,160
Speaker 2: but let's go with his fairly recent sixty one ten

976
00:49:06,239 --> 00:49:10,760
Speaker 2: and ten in double overtime versus Minnesota in a loss,

977
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:13,759
Speaker 2: which is very weird. But we've talked about it before.

978
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:16,520
Speaker 2: A lot of Jokic monster box score games they sort

979
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:18,040
Speaker 2: of come in losses because he doesn't want to have

980
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:20,160
Speaker 2: to score that much and when he does, maybe things

981
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:22,320
Speaker 2: aren't happening well for the rest of the team. Sixty

982
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:28,920
Speaker 2: one ten and ten, Yeah, yeah. Luka Dancic when he

983
00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:33,120
Speaker 2: played for the Dallas Mavericks ear muffs mats fans versus

984
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:36,600
Speaker 2: the Warriors mid December, forty five points on sixteen to

985
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:40,320
Speaker 2: twenty three shooting, thirteen assists, eleven rebounds, three steals, two blocks,

986
00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:44,839
Speaker 2: super efficient forty five point game from him. And then

987
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:48,480
Speaker 2: final one Steph Curry. On the same night that Jokic

988
00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:52,719
Speaker 2: posted sixty one, Curry went nuts get against the Grizzlies

989
00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:56,239
Speaker 2: fifty two points thanks to twelve three pointers made eight

990
00:49:56,280 --> 00:50:00,680
Speaker 2: to eight at the line. He had ten rebounds, eight assists, steals,

991
00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:06,319
Speaker 2: and one block. So Jannis, Jokich, Luca and Curry are

992
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:07,480
Speaker 2: the four nominees.

993
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:11,719
Speaker 3: Sorry, how are we picking this? I mean I was

994
00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:13,320
Speaker 3: at first, I was like, this is gonna be like

995
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:16,680
Speaker 3: Billboard the Billboard Awards, where it's literally the highest cell.

996
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 2: You know, but but how do you how do you

997
00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 2: do how do you how do you do this? How

998
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:23,440
Speaker 2: do you do?

999
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:24,600
Speaker 1: Yeah?

1000
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:28,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, because I mean if there's been a lass,

1001
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:29,640
Speaker 3: I think you can't.

1002
00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:32,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, So we scratched Yokich off. I think the others

1003
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:33,640
Speaker 2: all came and wins.

1004
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:36,480
Speaker 3: Okay, I saw.

1005
00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:39,400
Speaker 2: Is it weird? It's weird. I want to give to

1006
00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:42,480
Speaker 2: Curry despite scoring less points than you, honest, I don't

1007
00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:45,200
Speaker 2: know why. Maybe it's the twelve three pointers. Yeah, you know,

1008
00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:48,880
Speaker 2: Jannis had a great night at the line. They're both amazing.

1009
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:52,600
Speaker 2: But how about this one? Then surprising insane box score.

1010
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:57,680
Speaker 2: Pete and Pritchard came off the bench in early March

1011
00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:01,800
Speaker 2: versus the Blazers. Scored forty three points, hit ten threes

1012
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 2: in that game, ten to sixteen from DP. He added

1013
00:51:04,560 --> 00:51:06,960
Speaker 2: ten rebounds in five assists. That that, to me is

1014
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:10,359
Speaker 2: the most surprising box all these others Hall of famers. Yeah,

1015
00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:13,719
Speaker 2: that have either comparable box scores this season or at

1016
00:51:13,760 --> 00:51:18,600
Speaker 2: least in their careers. Pritchard. I mean, jesus, what is

1017
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:22,200
Speaker 2: this guy, Austin Reeves? Um, So we'll give it to

1018
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:22,760
Speaker 2: Payton Pritchard.

1019
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:24,719
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, we'll swerve on it.

1020
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:27,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, because that one is surprisingly insane. All Right. Our

1021
00:51:27,840 --> 00:51:33,120
Speaker 2: next one the sketches Claire's season two episode six.

1022
00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:36,839
Speaker 4: Sometimes I put my dad in jipjab videos so he's

1023
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:37,479
Speaker 4: alive again.

1024
00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:42,040
Speaker 2: Okay, one of the weirder ones I pulled. But this

1025
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 2: one's aka the old guys still got it award And maybe,

1026
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:51,040
Speaker 2: like the box scores JD, I know who I'm ultimately

1027
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:52,840
Speaker 2: going to give it to. But yeah, this was like

1028
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:55,480
Speaker 2: a zoom out And just think about this. Kevin Durant,

1029
00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:59,320
Speaker 2: Lebron James, Steph Curry all rank in the top dozen

1030
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:04,480
Speaker 2: of season scoring leaders at respectively thirty six years old,

1031
00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:08,279
Speaker 2: forty years old, and thirty seven years old. Okay, which

1032
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:13,680
Speaker 2: is ancient in NBA basketball. Sure, that's wild. Harden. He's old.

1033
00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:17,000
Speaker 2: He's having an All Star year, Clippers one of those

1034
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:20,480
Speaker 2: surprising teams of the year. DeRozan he's fairly old. He

1035
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:24,040
Speaker 2: still scores in bunches. At the very least. Jimmy Butler

1036
00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:28,000
Speaker 2: is always a surprising old to me, Sam, I don't

1037
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:30,160
Speaker 2: know why he's got youthful energy to me.

1038
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:33,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, we did a video of a tour of his house.

1039
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:40,200
Speaker 2: Yes, he's like exactly exactly, but he's old. He's still now,

1040
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:43,200
Speaker 2: especially with Golden State contributing to winning basketball thirty nine

1041
00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:46,280
Speaker 2: year old Chris Paul he started every game for the Spurs.

1042
00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:52,160
Speaker 2: Al Horford old. Anytime he plays still a rock is

1043
00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:54,520
Speaker 2: still going to be pretty instrumental. I believe in the

1044
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:57,319
Speaker 2: Celtics hoping to repeat or going very far, he'll play

1045
00:52:57,320 --> 00:53:00,799
Speaker 2: a part at least. So the whole point, old guy

1046
00:53:00,880 --> 00:53:04,480
Speaker 2: still got it more now than ever, and Lebron winsless.

1047
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:06,080
Speaker 2: So he's forty years old for crying out loud, Yeah,

1048
00:53:06,080 --> 00:53:07,839
Speaker 2: and still out of just twenty four to eight and eight,

1049
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:11,400
Speaker 2: which is like nobody even like we don't even talk

1050
00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:12,960
Speaker 2: about it, but because it's like, oh, he's done it

1051
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:14,959
Speaker 2: for twenty years, who cares, but it's twelve.

1052
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:17,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, totally. The weird thing about Alf Horford is that

1053
00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:19,920
Speaker 3: he's always felt old.

1054
00:53:19,719 --> 00:53:21,640
Speaker 2: To me, Yes, you know what I mean. Yes, some

1055
00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:22,640
Speaker 2: guys feel that way.

1056
00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:25,960
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think that's because he's so distinguished in a way,

1057
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:27,320
Speaker 3: the way he carries himself.

1058
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:31,200
Speaker 2: Yeah. Maybe, I don't know. He feels like when he

1059
00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:36,279
Speaker 2: was twenty and he felt like the Yeah, the wisest in.

1060
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:37,200
Speaker 3: The locker exactly.

1061
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:40,040
Speaker 2: You would go to him for advice, right or help.

1062
00:53:40,120 --> 00:53:41,440
Speaker 2: Whether that was the case or not, I don't know,

1063
00:53:41,520 --> 00:53:42,319
Speaker 2: but I think you're right.

1064
00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:43,040
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1065
00:53:43,160 --> 00:53:48,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, does Lebron feel old to you? Wow, that's pretty impressive. Yeah, well,

1066
00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:49,960
Speaker 2: seeing as he's like the oldest.

1067
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know.

1068
00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:53,759
Speaker 2: You think Lebron could do a four day bender in

1069
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:54,480
Speaker 2: Palm Springs.

1070
00:53:55,680 --> 00:53:58,319
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I've seen him. Well, I was gonna

1071
00:53:58,320 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 3: say duran was the one who couldn't. Really he took

1072
00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:04,239
Speaker 3: one sip of beer during the Champion.

1073
00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:08,160
Speaker 2: Durant would have been o'clock at the pool. If he

1074
00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:10,239
Speaker 2: was hanging out the pool day. We have seen him

1075
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:13,680
Speaker 2: like going down water slides on my cruise ships and stuff. Yeah,

1076
00:54:13,840 --> 00:54:16,799
Speaker 2: he's a day drinker maybe, yeah, yeah, a day smoker.

1077
00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:19,480
Speaker 3: Day drink. Yeah. The only NBA player I can think

1078
00:54:19,480 --> 00:54:21,720
Speaker 3: of off the top of my head is Marcasol because

1079
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:23,160
Speaker 3: he chugged an entire bottle.

1080
00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:25,600
Speaker 2: I think Gasol could hang at Magi's party.

1081
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:28,880
Speaker 3: Yes, wow, Yeah, and Pal too. Probably. Let's be honest,

1082
00:54:28,880 --> 00:54:29,280
Speaker 3: I think.

1083
00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 2: Mark more than Powell.

1084
00:54:30,239 --> 00:54:31,840
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I like that.

1085
00:54:32,120 --> 00:54:34,680
Speaker 2: He'd probably hold on. Let me put my brother to bed,

1086
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:42,400
Speaker 2: keep this party going. Put on some Spanish music, all right? Uh?

1087
00:54:42,719 --> 00:54:46,719
Speaker 2: Next catch Babysitter, Hit and Run, Season one, episode five.

1088
00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:49,760
Speaker 3: I told you I was gonna embarrass your Berry.

1089
00:54:50,520 --> 00:54:52,239
Speaker 2: Now we're even come on, we can hang out and

1090
00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:55,640
Speaker 2: have a good time. Now this is the I Told

1091
00:54:55,680 --> 00:55:01,000
Speaker 2: you So Award. I'll preface this by saying I get

1092
00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:05,160
Speaker 2: so much wrong when it comes to the predictions, so much.

1093
00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:07,239
Speaker 2: In fact, at one point I will give you all

1094
00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:10,520
Speaker 2: of our over underwin totals. How we did. I think

1095
00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:12,279
Speaker 2: it's gonna be fairly average. I don't think we knocked

1096
00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:14,799
Speaker 2: it out of the park this year, but every once

1097
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:17,440
Speaker 2: in a while there's some things I get right. This

1098
00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:19,759
Speaker 2: is the I Told you So Award. I have three

1099
00:55:19,880 --> 00:55:24,320
Speaker 2: I think pretty good nominees. The first one I told you,

1100
00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:28,200
Speaker 2: Shake Gilds of Alexander was gonna win MVP. I told you,

1101
00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:31,000
Speaker 2: I told you, and I had I had good reasoning. Obviously,

1102
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:32,320
Speaker 2: he was a runner up last year, so he was

1103
00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:35,040
Speaker 2: very close. But I said it was basically like the

1104
00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:37,040
Speaker 2: thunder A gonna win so many games, He's going to

1105
00:55:37,080 --> 00:55:39,320
Speaker 2: be in the conversation right from the jump, and he

1106
00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:42,839
Speaker 2: probably won't relinquish it. Yeah, and Yokich, you may want

1107
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:45,000
Speaker 2: to vote for him if you had a ballot. That's fine.

1108
00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:45,719
Speaker 3: I could.

1109
00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:49,720
Speaker 2: I honestly could not care who wins because they're both elite,

1110
00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:52,880
Speaker 2: incredible players. But she is going to win it. And

1111
00:55:53,719 --> 00:55:56,040
Speaker 2: got that one right. And I swear, going back on

1112
00:55:56,120 --> 00:56:00,680
Speaker 2: the history of this show, it's the one award I

1113
00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:02,759
Speaker 2: get more than I get, I get right more right

1114
00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:06,279
Speaker 2: than I get wrong. Yeah, I have a decent run

1115
00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:09,520
Speaker 2: of not every year, but like generally, like calling my

1116
00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:10,920
Speaker 2: shot on MVPs.

1117
00:56:11,160 --> 00:56:14,480
Speaker 3: I mean, if Shay feels like a Homer pick, you know, whenever.

1118
00:56:14,960 --> 00:56:17,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because I was saying years ago he'll be

1119
00:56:17,560 --> 00:56:19,160
Speaker 2: an All Star, and that was too early on that

1120
00:56:19,560 --> 00:56:21,480
Speaker 2: he'll be All NBA. It was too early on that. Yeah,

1121
00:56:21,600 --> 00:56:25,600
Speaker 2: But you were got this one. I said the Rockets

1122
00:56:25,600 --> 00:56:29,120
Speaker 2: would continue to improve on last year's record. I pounded

1123
00:56:29,160 --> 00:56:32,360
Speaker 2: the over. Forty three and a half was their win total.

1124
00:56:32,680 --> 00:56:35,359
Speaker 2: They easily hit that. There's a fifty win plus team.

1125
00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:39,920
Speaker 2: And my reasoning, which I think sort of nailed was

1126
00:56:40,400 --> 00:56:44,480
Speaker 2: I had faith in Udoka to take this team defensively

1127
00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:47,680
Speaker 2: to another level. Last year they were ninth in defensive

1128
00:56:47,719 --> 00:56:50,879
Speaker 2: rnning top ten, really good obviously trying to get into

1129
00:56:50,920 --> 00:56:55,080
Speaker 2: the play and came up short. And this year top three,

1130
00:56:55,520 --> 00:56:58,080
Speaker 2: so they took that jump. They're a team that no

1131
00:56:58,120 --> 00:57:00,560
Speaker 2: one really wants to see, I think in the regular season,

1132
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:02,080
Speaker 2: at least, because they play so hard and they have

1133
00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:04,279
Speaker 2: so many guys, and I think Udok is just a

1134
00:57:04,360 --> 00:57:07,239
Speaker 2: damn good coach for the right type of squad. And

1135
00:57:07,480 --> 00:57:09,200
Speaker 2: you know, obviously they got some vets in there as well,

1136
00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:11,720
Speaker 2: and guys that I love in Van Vleet and Brooks.

1137
00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:14,480
Speaker 2: Maybe again playing the homer card in both of those cases. Really,

1138
00:57:15,920 --> 00:57:16,720
Speaker 2: but yeah, got that one.

1139
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:18,240
Speaker 3: Rockets amazing.

1140
00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:20,600
Speaker 2: Didn't sleep on them. And then the final I told

1141
00:57:20,640 --> 00:57:23,880
Speaker 2: you so was that the new All Star game format

1142
00:57:23,960 --> 00:57:29,320
Speaker 2: would suck. This is my biggest win way back when

1143
00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:31,800
Speaker 2: it was announced. Yeah, oh we're gonna try this little

1144
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:32,520
Speaker 2: mini tournament.

1145
00:57:33,640 --> 00:57:37,720
Speaker 3: I still contend that it wasn't necessarily the format's fault.

1146
00:57:39,200 --> 00:57:40,440
Speaker 2: Well, I don't think it helped.

1147
00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:42,919
Speaker 3: It didn't help. You're right, it didn't help.

1148
00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:45,080
Speaker 2: But my I remember at the time saying great, We're

1149
00:57:45,080 --> 00:57:47,400
Speaker 2: gonna take one crappy All Star game and now give

1150
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:52,920
Speaker 2: you three smaller crappy Also, yeah, I'm sorry that's what happened. Yeah. Now,

1151
00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:56,720
Speaker 2: a part of it was the TNT broadcast, Like what

1152
00:57:56,960 --> 00:57:59,240
Speaker 2: was the breakdown? It was like forty minutes of basketball

1153
00:57:59,320 --> 00:58:01,360
Speaker 2: was played in like a three hour windows something. It

1154
00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:04,240
Speaker 2: was something embarrassing. And then we had mister Beasts and

1155
00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:09,240
Speaker 2: we had Kevin Hart and taped music just dance, tap dance,

1156
00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:09,800
Speaker 2: tap dance.

1157
00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:12,920
Speaker 3: Gotta make it appealing for the second screeners out there

1158
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:16,400
Speaker 3: who were looking at their phones. The gen Zers come on.

1159
00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:23,040
Speaker 2: Unbelievable. Yeah, it drew very poor ratings. It was one

1160
00:58:23,080 --> 00:58:27,240
Speaker 2: of the lowest viewed All Star games in history. Okay, uh,

1161
00:58:27,800 --> 00:58:31,320
Speaker 2: you know we had again these little tournament games, shorter games,

1162
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:36,080
Speaker 2: low target scores, with all the bullshit going on amidst

1163
00:58:36,120 --> 00:58:39,800
Speaker 2: it and around it, but the Rising Stars team being

1164
00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:45,080
Speaker 2: in it. Yeah, it was I think really dumb, embarrassing.

1165
00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:47,440
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean Draymond Green he went full blast.

1166
00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:49,640
Speaker 2: Remember he was like what are we doing? Like why

1167
00:58:49,680 --> 00:58:51,760
Speaker 2: are these rookies playing on in this like what was

1168
00:58:51,760 --> 00:58:54,280
Speaker 2: supposed to be a pretty esteemed game.

1169
00:58:54,440 --> 00:58:55,080
Speaker 3: It could have been.

1170
00:58:56,280 --> 00:59:00,760
Speaker 2: It could have been could have been Jelliague guys. Okay,

1171
00:59:00,960 --> 00:59:03,480
Speaker 2: in trying to make the All Star Game more competitive,

1172
00:59:03,560 --> 00:59:06,960
Speaker 2: they forgot to actually play basketball at all, so they

1173
00:59:07,040 --> 00:59:10,160
Speaker 2: made it worse. I am on record. I swear to god,

1174
00:59:10,200 --> 00:59:13,760
Speaker 2: they should just take a year or two off it,

1175
00:59:13,920 --> 00:59:16,640
Speaker 2: make us miss it, and then when they bring it back,

1176
00:59:16,680 --> 00:59:19,000
Speaker 2: we'll be like, oh God, thank god it's back. Even

1177
00:59:19,040 --> 00:59:21,160
Speaker 2: if it's crappy, it'll be like, oh, it's so great

1178
00:59:21,200 --> 00:59:24,400
Speaker 2: to see the guys playing together again. But anyway, it

1179
00:59:24,440 --> 00:59:28,280
Speaker 2: didn't work, and I knew it wouldn't and was I

1180
00:59:28,360 --> 00:59:30,400
Speaker 2: concerned that they would actually try hard and then it

1181
00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:33,360
Speaker 2: would be like, oh, the formats to it gets all

1182
00:59:33,440 --> 00:59:34,840
Speaker 2: the credit. Yeah, there was a part of me, but

1183
00:59:35,720 --> 00:59:39,520
Speaker 2: it didn't do anything. So all right, that's enough gloating here.

1184
00:59:40,080 --> 00:59:43,280
Speaker 2: Next sketch Motorcycles, Season one, episode two.

1185
00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:46,080
Speaker 3: That's a nice photo.

1186
00:59:47,120 --> 00:59:50,480
Speaker 2: Simple one, but I believe one of the weirder bits

1187
00:59:50,800 --> 00:59:54,080
Speaker 2: in the I think you should leave Cannon. I remember

1188
00:59:54,120 --> 00:59:56,680
Speaker 2: the first time I watched this sketch, I did not

1189
00:59:56,920 --> 00:59:59,000
Speaker 2: like it. I didn't find it funny, and it is

1190
00:59:59,160 --> 01:00:04,000
Speaker 2: now one of my favorite. Yeah, because it's the dumbest,

1191
01:00:05,320 --> 01:00:09,440
Speaker 2: most stupid sketch. A guy just go here pointing at

1192
01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:11,880
Speaker 2: nice motorcycles and then it gets his little posse and

1193
01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:15,800
Speaker 2: all that. So this is the weirdest NBA Bit Award,

1194
01:00:16,800 --> 01:00:22,800
Speaker 2: and I have a few nominees getting NBA Senteld. Whether

1195
01:00:22,840 --> 01:00:24,280
Speaker 2: it's a bit, I mean it's a bit, but it

1196
01:00:24,400 --> 01:00:26,080
Speaker 2: was like it sort of became a thing this year.

1197
01:00:26,920 --> 01:00:30,080
Speaker 2: It even it nearly got me once I caught it

1198
01:00:30,320 --> 01:00:33,040
Speaker 2: live on the show or I did it quickly, hold on,

1199
01:00:33,120 --> 01:00:34,720
Speaker 2: hold on, I have to kipp you right. It got

1200
01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:37,440
Speaker 2: our guy Tassi once or twice ye got him. He

1201
01:00:37,560 --> 01:00:39,680
Speaker 2: was a victim of getting NBA sent held. It got

1202
01:00:39,720 --> 01:00:42,080
Speaker 2: a ton of other people in the media. I'm talking

1203
01:00:42,080 --> 01:00:45,560
Speaker 2: about this obviously fake Twitter account that makes it seem

1204
01:00:45,680 --> 01:00:48,880
Speaker 2: like it's real news. And then remember it it went

1205
01:00:48,920 --> 01:00:50,920
Speaker 2: away for a day or two and then it was

1206
01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:54,040
Speaker 2: back as the parody account. So weird bit. That just

1207
01:00:55,160 --> 01:00:58,280
Speaker 2: just a weird account still to me, especially when there's

1208
01:00:58,320 --> 01:01:02,040
Speaker 2: like zero joke involved at all. Right, it's literally just

1209
01:01:02,160 --> 01:01:04,560
Speaker 2: like I'll just say I'll just write some fake news here,

1210
01:01:05,360 --> 01:01:07,600
Speaker 2: but it's not funny, so then we're like, oh is

1211
01:01:07,600 --> 01:01:07,960
Speaker 2: that real?

1212
01:01:08,160 --> 01:01:11,440
Speaker 3: Oh wait, anyway, I remember Lee used to get fooled

1213
01:01:11,520 --> 01:01:16,200
Speaker 3: by fake woes all the time, like trade deadline, and

1214
01:01:16,320 --> 01:01:20,480
Speaker 3: he would just yell at his scream like Durant going

1215
01:01:20,600 --> 01:01:24,760
Speaker 3: to yeah, exactly, dantle the Sonics.

1216
01:01:24,800 --> 01:01:28,720
Speaker 2: He's going back to the Sonics. You sure, oh hold

1217
01:01:28,760 --> 01:01:35,880
Speaker 2: on it, says whooge Okay, So that one. This is

1218
01:01:36,840 --> 01:01:39,360
Speaker 2: a recent development that I do not like. I'm calling

1219
01:01:39,440 --> 01:01:44,560
Speaker 2: it a bit mba YouTube thumbnails going overboard. And here's

1220
01:01:44,560 --> 01:01:46,880
Speaker 2: what I mean by it. We have an example. This

1221
01:01:47,040 --> 01:01:49,479
Speaker 2: happened the other night. The Kings had a good game

1222
01:01:49,600 --> 01:01:51,800
Speaker 2: where there are three star players like sort of all

1223
01:01:51,880 --> 01:01:54,640
Speaker 2: played well, and they put this on the graphic for

1224
01:01:54,720 --> 01:01:59,360
Speaker 2: you audio podcast listeners. It's a photo of the three

1225
01:01:59,400 --> 01:02:03,240
Speaker 2: guys in Vian, Sabonus, and Derozen and then they're a

1226
01:02:03,320 --> 01:02:08,400
Speaker 2: cumulative box score of ninety nine points, twenty two rebounds,

1227
01:02:08,440 --> 01:02:12,880
Speaker 2: and sixteen assists. But what why are we doing this?

1228
01:02:14,640 --> 01:02:17,720
Speaker 2: And I know why we're doing it because I stopped

1229
01:02:17,800 --> 01:02:20,120
Speaker 2: for a second and went, what the hell? Yeah, who

1230
01:02:20,160 --> 01:02:23,760
Speaker 2: scored ninety nine points? Somebody had who had a ninety

1231
01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:26,880
Speaker 2: nine twenty two sixteen game? But then you're like, oh no,

1232
01:02:26,960 --> 01:02:29,440
Speaker 2: it's the three guys. I don't like this NBA, not

1233
01:02:29,560 --> 01:02:31,000
Speaker 2: one bit. I don't know how you feel about it.

1234
01:02:32,120 --> 01:02:37,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, as you say, it's clickie, that's it. Yeah,

1235
01:02:37,200 --> 01:02:38,040
Speaker 3: it's CLICKI.

1236
01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:40,840
Speaker 2: It's CLICKI and I do a lot of our thumbnails.

1237
01:02:41,040 --> 01:02:43,640
Speaker 2: I get it. We gotta grab your attention.

1238
01:02:44,520 --> 01:02:47,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do them phrase that's good as well. And

1239
01:02:48,320 --> 01:02:49,320
Speaker 3: I hate myself.

1240
01:02:49,080 --> 01:02:54,120
Speaker 2: Sometimes exactly exactly. I don't like lying no, no, or

1241
01:02:54,520 --> 01:02:57,640
Speaker 2: really stretching the truth. Yeah, but you gotta, I guess,

1242
01:02:57,680 --> 01:02:59,400
Speaker 2: you gotta get creative. And that's what they're doing here.

1243
01:02:59,680 --> 01:03:02,760
Speaker 2: That's just it's a strange one to me. Yeah, because

1244
01:03:02,760 --> 01:03:04,280
Speaker 2: they're at the point where like, well, we can't just

1245
01:03:04,320 --> 01:03:06,840
Speaker 2: put de rozanhead thirty seven or Levine at thirty seven.

1246
01:03:08,960 --> 01:03:14,880
Speaker 2: Don't like it. Dunk score ruining my life. And what

1247
01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:17,680
Speaker 2: I mean by that is it's my own dumb bit

1248
01:03:17,840 --> 01:03:19,680
Speaker 2: that I committed to the bit, and now I can't

1249
01:03:19,720 --> 01:03:22,080
Speaker 2: stop the bit. Every day on Blue Sky, I share

1250
01:03:22,120 --> 01:03:24,320
Speaker 2: the highest dunk score of the night, I share the clip,

1251
01:03:24,600 --> 01:03:26,200
Speaker 2: I say what it is, I say, who had happened

1252
01:03:26,200 --> 01:03:30,200
Speaker 2: to I sometimes comment on it a little bit. I

1253
01:03:30,360 --> 01:03:33,680
Speaker 2: hate doing it now. I still get upset on their

1254
01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:36,520
Speaker 2: decisions with the dunk score. They still half of them

1255
01:03:36,560 --> 01:03:38,760
Speaker 2: don't make any sense. Of course, some do you know,

1256
01:03:38,800 --> 01:03:40,760
Speaker 2: Anthony Edwards had a big dunk easly that was like

1257
01:03:40,800 --> 01:03:42,479
Speaker 2: a one oh five. Yeah, it was a huge dunk,

1258
01:03:42,800 --> 01:03:46,280
Speaker 2: but like a lot of them are like so many now,

1259
01:03:46,360 --> 01:03:49,320
Speaker 2: I'm like sixty five point four was the dunk score

1260
01:03:49,320 --> 01:03:52,480
Speaker 2: of the night and it's like a just a normal dunk. Yeah,

1261
01:03:53,080 --> 01:03:56,200
Speaker 2: so I hate myself for that one. And uh, I

1262
01:03:56,240 --> 01:03:57,680
Speaker 2: guess it goes hand in hand with Blue Sky. This

1263
01:03:57,760 --> 01:03:59,800
Speaker 2: isn't a weird NBA bit. It's a bit I actually love.

1264
01:04:00,320 --> 01:04:02,960
Speaker 2: But I want to encourage you to check out are you?

1265
01:04:03,120 --> 01:04:04,000
Speaker 2: Are you on Blue Sky?

1266
01:04:05,040 --> 01:04:05,440
Speaker 3: No I'm not.

1267
01:04:05,600 --> 01:04:10,240
Speaker 2: Okay, So Trey Kirby obviously on Blue Sky. But Trey

1268
01:04:10,320 --> 01:04:14,600
Speaker 2: Kirby has turned Blue Sky into a Tumblr account. He

1269
01:04:14,720 --> 01:04:16,600
Speaker 2: made a decision, I guess when he started it. Like

1270
01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:19,760
Speaker 2: he doesn't write things. He doesn't really even seem to

1271
01:04:19,840 --> 01:04:22,520
Speaker 2: like almost use it as promotion for the show or

1272
01:04:22,560 --> 01:04:25,760
Speaker 2: anything or articles maybe like he did or does for

1273
01:04:26,360 --> 01:04:33,120
Speaker 2: for X just images weird weird NBA related images. Okay,

1274
01:04:33,360 --> 01:04:35,840
Speaker 2: so that's why I call it tumblr. Oh yeah, so

1275
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:38,600
Speaker 2: Trey's trace turned his Blue Sky into tumble Remember Tumblr?

1276
01:04:39,560 --> 01:04:40,480
Speaker 3: Of course? Yeah?

1277
01:04:40,760 --> 01:04:42,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, did you have were you dabbling in Tumbler?

1278
01:04:42,840 --> 01:04:43,520
Speaker 3: I had a Tumblr.

1279
01:04:44,560 --> 01:04:47,560
Speaker 2: Octo dad, that's what you're a cal is.

1280
01:04:47,960 --> 01:04:51,960
Speaker 3: Because I with my wife, my two kids, and you guys,

1281
01:04:52,160 --> 01:04:55,640
Speaker 3: I had eight kids. So I called myself octo dad.

1282
01:04:56,400 --> 01:04:57,400
Speaker 2: What were you posting?

1283
01:04:57,760 --> 01:05:00,960
Speaker 3: I didn't post anything, but I was like, yeah, maybe

1284
01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:02,360
Speaker 3: I'll start posting stuff, and I never did.

1285
01:05:02,440 --> 01:05:02,800
Speaker 1: Do you know?

1286
01:05:03,120 --> 01:05:07,520
Speaker 2: I had my own Jay skeets and it was one

1287
01:05:07,560 --> 01:05:09,720
Speaker 2: of like a classic social media like, I guess, why

1288
01:05:09,720 --> 01:05:13,240
Speaker 2: am I doing this? Who knows? But I started another one.

1289
01:05:15,120 --> 01:05:18,280
Speaker 2: It lasted for like maybe three weeks. Do you remember

1290
01:05:18,320 --> 01:05:22,080
Speaker 2: the famous infamous baseball card of Billy Ripkin on the

1291
01:05:22,400 --> 01:05:25,600
Speaker 2: on the knob of his bat it said f face

1292
01:05:26,120 --> 01:05:28,960
Speaker 2: you k face right, and then it was like it

1293
01:05:29,040 --> 01:05:31,280
Speaker 2: got through the printers and then became like a like

1294
01:05:31,320 --> 01:05:34,480
Speaker 2: a collector's item. I don't know why, but I thought

1295
01:05:34,480 --> 01:05:40,520
Speaker 2: it'd be funny to photoshop that into other historical photos. Okay,

1296
01:05:41,280 --> 01:05:43,680
Speaker 2: so I did that for a while. Yeah, and that

1297
01:05:43,760 --> 01:05:44,800
Speaker 2: was its own Tumblr account.

1298
01:05:44,800 --> 01:05:48,120
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I don't hate it, oh no, but also

1299
01:05:48,240 --> 01:05:49,120
Speaker 3: why yeah.

1300
01:05:50,520 --> 01:05:52,800
Speaker 2: That bit I only continued for three weeks, like I said,

1301
01:05:52,880 --> 01:05:56,520
Speaker 2: But Tumblr anyway, Trey Kirby Blue Sky account. It's basically Tumblr,

1302
01:05:56,560 --> 01:05:58,200
Speaker 2: so go check it out. It's very great photos.

1303
01:05:58,280 --> 01:05:59,919
Speaker 3: So I should get onto Blue Sky and not post

1304
01:06:00,080 --> 01:06:00,320
Speaker 3: at all.

1305
01:06:00,680 --> 01:06:04,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, sure, another one, Yeah you don't really need

1306
01:06:04,760 --> 01:06:10,439
Speaker 2: to all right, couple more awards here. This Sketch Prank Show,

1307
01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:11,760
Speaker 2: Season two, episode one.

1308
01:06:12,800 --> 01:06:14,680
Speaker 3: I don't even want to be around anymore.

1309
01:06:15,040 --> 01:06:18,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, no one wants to be around anymore. Most Depressing

1310
01:06:18,480 --> 01:06:23,400
Speaker 2: Team Award. This one's easy. It's the Phoenix Suns. It's

1311
01:06:23,480 --> 01:06:27,440
Speaker 2: the one, two, three Cancuon Sons. They they're over it,

1312
01:06:27,800 --> 01:06:31,360
Speaker 2: they're done, they've been depressing. I was fooled once again.

1313
01:06:31,440 --> 01:06:33,160
Speaker 2: I was fooled in the playoffs last year. I was

1314
01:06:33,240 --> 01:06:35,680
Speaker 2: fooled coming into the season that Budenholzer was going to

1315
01:06:35,760 --> 01:06:39,920
Speaker 2: change things. Nothing changed, And then you saw what they

1316
01:06:39,960 --> 01:06:43,200
Speaker 2: did at the deadline in mid January. I guess they

1317
01:06:43,200 --> 01:06:45,360
Speaker 2: acquired Nick Richards and a second round draft pick from

1318
01:06:45,360 --> 01:06:48,720
Speaker 2: the Hornets for Josha Kogi and three second round draft picks. Okay,

1319
01:06:49,320 --> 01:06:53,840
Speaker 2: one week later, they did the very perplexing flipping their

1320
01:06:53,880 --> 01:06:57,400
Speaker 2: twenty thirty one first round pick to the Jazz for

1321
01:06:57,680 --> 01:07:01,400
Speaker 2: three less favorable pick in twenty five, twenty seven, and

1322
01:07:01,480 --> 01:07:03,800
Speaker 2: twenty nine. We sort of got excited for a second

1323
01:07:03,800 --> 01:07:05,760
Speaker 2: because we thought that that implied that they were going

1324
01:07:05,800 --> 01:07:08,320
Speaker 2: to get Jimmy Butler, who wanted to go to Phoenix.

1325
01:07:08,640 --> 01:07:12,320
Speaker 2: We thought that agreement was all teed up, but in

1326
01:07:12,440 --> 01:07:15,960
Speaker 2: turn it meant it was all hinging on Bradley Beal

1327
01:07:16,680 --> 01:07:19,520
Speaker 2: waving his no trade clause and he wouldn't and so

1328
01:07:19,680 --> 01:07:22,800
Speaker 2: instead Phoenix turns around and uses their twenty twenty six

1329
01:07:22,880 --> 01:07:26,880
Speaker 2: first round pick to salary dump use of Nurkic also

1330
01:07:26,960 --> 01:07:30,360
Speaker 2: to the Hornets, and then they tried and failed to

1331
01:07:30,400 --> 01:07:33,240
Speaker 2: move Kevin Durant as well. They tried to trade everyone

1332
01:07:33,400 --> 01:07:35,680
Speaker 2: on their roster and there was not a lot of takers,

1333
01:07:36,320 --> 01:07:39,160
Speaker 2: and it was like that was the kiss of death.

1334
01:07:39,200 --> 01:07:40,880
Speaker 2: I remember talking about it after they could not move

1335
01:07:40,960 --> 01:07:43,480
Speaker 2: kd and that broke that news. It was like, oh boy,

1336
01:07:43,560 --> 01:07:45,880
Speaker 2: this is bad. They rebounded for a second, then he

1337
01:07:45,960 --> 01:07:48,640
Speaker 2: got hurt and it was a rap. They're depressing. You

1338
01:07:48,720 --> 01:07:50,960
Speaker 2: could pick the Sixers as well with the duel and

1339
01:07:51,000 --> 01:07:55,760
Speaker 2: beat injury. Sure that happened. That at least they have

1340
01:07:55,880 --> 01:07:58,720
Speaker 2: a reason this they don't. They were healthy for the

1341
01:07:58,760 --> 01:08:02,880
Speaker 2: most part they played and they were still bad rough

1342
01:08:02,960 --> 01:08:07,040
Speaker 2: times for the Thin Suns. All right, two more, two

1343
01:08:07,160 --> 01:08:11,000
Speaker 2: or three more? This sketch Game Night, Season one, episode three.

1344
01:08:11,920 --> 01:08:15,000
Speaker 2: All right, this guy ran with Thattius FINKX. He was

1345
01:08:15,200 --> 01:08:17,240
Speaker 2: one of the eight balls in Mookie Kramer and the

1346
01:08:17,280 --> 01:08:21,160
Speaker 2: eight Ball. Okay, this is one of my favorite sketches.

1347
01:08:21,880 --> 01:08:26,760
Speaker 2: This is the roy donk sketch. We're talking jazz. My

1348
01:08:26,920 --> 01:08:29,360
Speaker 2: favorite player is on Men Thompson I think right now

1349
01:08:29,680 --> 01:08:33,360
Speaker 2: in the league. But that's not like obscure by any means.

1350
01:08:33,439 --> 01:08:38,200
Speaker 2: That's not you know Thatteus Finks obscure. So this is

1351
01:08:38,320 --> 01:08:40,320
Speaker 2: tough because all of you people listening and watching are

1352
01:08:40,400 --> 01:08:43,120
Speaker 2: generally sickos. So even like whoever it is like deep

1353
01:08:43,160 --> 01:08:47,040
Speaker 2: on a roster, you're sort of gonna know. So for

1354
01:08:47,120 --> 01:08:49,040
Speaker 2: that reason, I'm cheating a little bit. Just give me

1355
01:08:49,479 --> 01:08:54,479
Speaker 2: half of the Pacers roster because Pacers are not like

1356
01:08:54,600 --> 01:08:57,680
Speaker 2: a popular team obviously not a big market team, and

1357
01:08:57,680 --> 01:08:59,519
Speaker 2: they're probably not talked about enough for how good they've

1358
01:08:59,520 --> 01:09:02,720
Speaker 2: turned around the season. And again, these are all names sickos. No,

1359
01:09:02,880 --> 01:09:06,960
Speaker 2: But like Obi Toppin, he's been amazing suddenly. Him and

1360
01:09:07,040 --> 01:09:09,680
Speaker 2: Jarris Walker are like the new Splash Brothers, which is

1361
01:09:09,720 --> 01:09:12,320
Speaker 2: the weirdest thing going on right now. Those guys hitting threes.

1362
01:09:12,520 --> 01:09:14,760
Speaker 2: I love Andrew Nemhardt because I'm a Homer. I think

1363
01:09:14,840 --> 01:09:17,160
Speaker 2: he's eventually gonna be on a championship winning team. He'll

1364
01:09:17,200 --> 01:09:19,760
Speaker 2: be a pivotal part to a championship winning team. Ben

1365
01:09:19,840 --> 01:09:24,560
Speaker 2: Aedck Mathren another Canadian people know, but he he's like

1366
01:09:24,680 --> 01:09:26,880
Speaker 2: really starting to like, ooh, this guy might be It

1367
01:09:26,920 --> 01:09:29,320
Speaker 2: does have star potential, because it looked like he did

1368
01:09:29,360 --> 01:09:31,360
Speaker 2: early and then it sort of dissipated, and now maybe

1369
01:09:31,400 --> 01:09:35,240
Speaker 2: that's back. Even the Aussie Johnny Furfey I think could

1370
01:09:35,280 --> 01:09:37,599
Speaker 2: be a good player one day once he gets the opportunity.

1371
01:09:37,640 --> 01:09:41,519
Speaker 2: So again, not obscure, not really random. I just like

1372
01:09:41,600 --> 01:09:44,200
Speaker 2: the Pacers team like and you know, I mean obviously

1373
01:09:44,320 --> 01:09:46,559
Speaker 2: like their superstars too, but I really like their their

1374
01:09:46,680 --> 01:09:50,559
Speaker 2: roster makeup, sort of the whole bunch. So I can't

1375
01:09:50,560 --> 01:09:53,160
Speaker 2: wait to see them in the postseason. Sure our next one,

1376
01:09:54,160 --> 01:09:56,960
Speaker 2: supermarket swap VR edition. This one's a quick one.

1377
01:09:58,160 --> 01:09:59,519
Speaker 3: I'm really crossed up.

1378
01:10:01,439 --> 01:10:04,559
Speaker 2: So this is the you can't figure him Out Award.

1379
01:10:04,920 --> 01:10:11,000
Speaker 2: I'm crossed up. I alluded to it earlier. It's the

1380
01:10:11,080 --> 01:10:15,040
Speaker 2: Wolves and it's the Bucks. It's really the Wolves, probably

1381
01:10:15,080 --> 01:10:16,720
Speaker 2: more than the Bucks even, and maybe that's a part

1382
01:10:16,760 --> 01:10:19,560
Speaker 2: of the conference they're in. I don't know what to

1383
01:10:19,680 --> 01:10:21,800
Speaker 2: do with them. I don't know what I'm gonna do

1384
01:10:21,880 --> 01:10:24,400
Speaker 2: when it comes to predictions for playing games or if

1385
01:10:24,439 --> 01:10:27,839
Speaker 2: they somehow get into the playoffs, and who they'll be battling,

1386
01:10:27,960 --> 01:10:30,719
Speaker 2: and whether it'll be a close series, whether they'll get waxed,

1387
01:10:31,640 --> 01:10:35,479
Speaker 2: whether they'll win. Like I guess you know, it could

1388
01:10:35,520 --> 01:10:38,080
Speaker 2: be two seven matchup Rockets Wolves. I don't even know

1389
01:10:38,160 --> 01:10:39,800
Speaker 2: what the odds makers would think of that. That might

1390
01:10:39,840 --> 01:10:43,040
Speaker 2: be almost like a pretty evenly split series in terms

1391
01:10:43,080 --> 01:10:46,879
Speaker 2: of odds. I see why I think I'll take Rockets,

1392
01:10:46,960 --> 01:10:49,599
Speaker 2: but I know I'll feel weird about it because Anthony

1393
01:10:49,720 --> 01:10:52,320
Speaker 2: Edwards has shown at times and he's got another level.

1394
01:10:53,320 --> 01:10:55,760
Speaker 2: They're just weird. It's a perplexing team. They've had a

1395
01:10:55,840 --> 01:10:58,280
Speaker 2: weird year, and that game last night was sort of

1396
01:10:58,320 --> 01:11:00,519
Speaker 2: a bit of a microcosm of that. So I'll go

1397
01:11:00,680 --> 01:11:03,160
Speaker 2: then the Bucks. So to a lesser extent, the Bucks.

1398
01:11:04,200 --> 01:11:06,320
Speaker 2: The Bucks have played their best here, even tho they

1399
01:11:06,320 --> 01:11:08,559
Speaker 2: don't have Damon Lillard. But I do not think they're

1400
01:11:08,600 --> 01:11:11,559
Speaker 2: better than at least two of the top three teams

1401
01:11:11,600 --> 01:11:13,840
Speaker 2: in the Eastern Conference. Like that's gonna be there issue

1402
01:11:13,960 --> 01:11:17,360
Speaker 2: running in If they beat the Pacers, good, could they

1403
01:11:17,400 --> 01:11:20,600
Speaker 2: beat the Calves. Maybe could they beat the Celtics. I

1404
01:11:20,600 --> 01:11:24,040
Speaker 2: don't think so. So that's where I'm at with those

1405
01:11:24,080 --> 01:11:28,559
Speaker 2: two teams. I'm all crossed up. Final one you can't

1406
01:11:28,600 --> 01:11:31,240
Speaker 2: skip lunch. Season two, episode.

1407
01:11:30,880 --> 01:11:34,840
Speaker 4: One, I'm just like the tiredest ever been in my life.

1408
01:11:35,640 --> 01:11:41,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, the most exhausting NBA Narrative Award. I got a

1409
01:11:41,080 --> 01:11:44,000
Speaker 2: couple I think anytime we were talking about and we

1410
01:11:44,080 --> 01:11:45,840
Speaker 2: didn't talk about it a lot here, I guess in

1411
01:11:45,960 --> 01:11:48,639
Speaker 2: our defense on no Dunks, but the Lebron versus stephen

1412
01:11:48,680 --> 01:11:52,240
Speaker 2: A Smith crap that went on for like three weeks,

1413
01:11:53,080 --> 01:11:54,679
Speaker 2: and maybe it is still going on, but I've definitely

1414
01:11:54,720 --> 01:11:59,040
Speaker 2: tuned it out at this point. Yeah, it cares shitting

1415
01:11:59,080 --> 01:12:01,680
Speaker 2: on MVP candidate. It's to make your case for the

1416
01:12:01,720 --> 01:12:03,880
Speaker 2: other guy. I think you don't really need to do that.

1417
01:12:04,120 --> 01:12:06,280
Speaker 2: I think you can do a fine enough job building

1418
01:12:06,400 --> 01:12:08,360
Speaker 2: up your case for Shay or building up your case

1419
01:12:08,400 --> 01:12:11,840
Speaker 2: for Yo Kid Rihanness or Tatum, whoever you want. It

1420
01:12:12,000 --> 01:12:14,320
Speaker 2: just it becomes tiring, and I know that's we're we're

1421
01:12:14,520 --> 01:12:16,240
Speaker 2: equally to blame for that because we start talking about

1422
01:12:16,320 --> 01:12:18,760
Speaker 2: MVP one month into the season. So I get it.

1423
01:12:18,880 --> 01:12:21,439
Speaker 2: It just like it runs its course, and by the

1424
01:12:21,479 --> 01:12:23,479
Speaker 2: time we get to this point, everybody's like, ah, Josh,

1425
01:12:24,320 --> 01:12:25,880
Speaker 2: it's like, how many more times can we just say

1426
01:12:25,920 --> 01:12:27,400
Speaker 2: the same thing over and over again?

1427
01:12:27,520 --> 01:12:27,880
Speaker 3: Right? Oh?

1428
01:12:27,960 --> 01:12:30,000
Speaker 2: Well, yokay, just three time MVP. But he's playing at

1429
01:12:30,040 --> 01:12:31,920
Speaker 2: his best ever. Look at who he has on his team.

1430
01:12:32,000 --> 01:12:34,120
Speaker 2: Oh there's no help, and they're know, how are you

1431
01:12:34,280 --> 01:12:35,400
Speaker 2: not going to give it to a guy that's like

1432
01:12:35,439 --> 01:12:37,679
Speaker 2: basically turned into Michael Jordan when it comes to scoring

1433
01:12:37,720 --> 01:12:40,080
Speaker 2: an efficiency on a team that's like flirting with seventy

1434
01:12:40,120 --> 01:12:43,080
Speaker 2: wins and like blah blah blah. Yeah, yeah, they're both awesome.

1435
01:12:43,800 --> 01:12:45,920
Speaker 2: Shaye is going to win. This is what's gonna happen here,

1436
01:12:46,720 --> 01:12:49,760
Speaker 2: and that's fine. Yeah, it's awesome, But I'm ready for

1437
01:12:49,800 --> 01:12:54,000
Speaker 2: it to be over there and my final one here.

1438
01:12:55,080 --> 01:12:59,599
Speaker 2: Any time we talk about, you know, fixing the NBA

1439
01:13:00,520 --> 01:13:06,080
Speaker 2: and the conversation spins into season is too long. Just

1440
01:13:06,160 --> 01:13:09,120
Speaker 2: got to cut it down to sixty. I think tasked

1441
01:13:09,240 --> 01:13:11,479
Speaker 2: it the other day and I even got on them, like,

1442
01:13:11,600 --> 01:13:15,240
Speaker 2: you know, like stop it, stop saying it. We all agree,

1443
01:13:15,520 --> 01:13:18,040
Speaker 2: but it's never gonna happen. It's never gonna happen. I

1444
01:13:18,320 --> 01:13:21,040
Speaker 2: truly believe that because of the money these guys make,

1445
01:13:22,080 --> 01:13:24,439
Speaker 2: so that one, that one wasn't as bad this year.

1446
01:13:24,439 --> 01:13:27,679
Speaker 2: But anytime it comes up, I'm like, okay, okay, yeah,

1447
01:13:28,040 --> 01:13:30,679
Speaker 2: that's not gonna happen. Yeah, as much as we would

1448
01:13:30,760 --> 01:13:32,200
Speaker 2: like it, too much as a lot of fans would

1449
01:13:32,200 --> 01:13:33,639
Speaker 2: like to, Well, we got a lot of other things

1450
01:13:33,680 --> 01:13:37,840
Speaker 2: we can do before we any before that impossibility.

1451
01:13:37,280 --> 01:13:38,720
Speaker 3: Because it's not happening. Yeah.

1452
01:13:38,840 --> 01:13:40,000
Speaker 2: So that's what I got. Do you have any other

1453
01:13:40,080 --> 01:13:41,599
Speaker 2: exhausting NBA narrative wars?

1454
01:13:41,880 --> 01:13:44,160
Speaker 3: I mean the Elstar discourses.

1455
01:13:44,720 --> 01:13:50,439
Speaker 2: Sure, you know it ramps up before dying and then

1456
01:13:50,479 --> 01:13:51,400
Speaker 2: after for a little bit.

1457
01:13:51,560 --> 01:13:54,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's just exhausting.

1458
01:13:55,040 --> 01:13:58,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. That's why I should just shut her down, Roger, Yeah,

1459
01:13:58,840 --> 01:14:00,000
Speaker 2: get rid of it for a couple of years.

1460
01:14:00,360 --> 01:14:03,240
Speaker 3: I had a stone thought about about that. We were

1461
01:14:03,280 --> 01:14:08,280
Speaker 3: talking about, uh, you know, the NC season tournament. You're

1462
01:14:08,400 --> 01:14:12,000
Speaker 3: talking about, uh, you know, shutting down for a couple

1463
01:14:12,000 --> 01:14:19,080
Speaker 3: of years. I say, let's do three weeks off in February, Okay, right,

1464
01:14:19,560 --> 01:14:22,600
Speaker 3: and then we do like a Champions League worldwide champions

1465
01:14:22,680 --> 01:14:27,240
Speaker 3: style league like tournament, like the four best teams in

1466
01:14:27,320 --> 01:14:30,400
Speaker 3: the NBA take on the four best in the NBL

1467
01:14:31,360 --> 01:14:33,480
Speaker 3: and you know, like a Champions.

1468
01:14:33,160 --> 01:14:36,080
Speaker 2: League, so it souped up version of the NBA Cup exactly.

1469
01:14:36,240 --> 01:14:40,800
Speaker 3: But worldwide, it happens in Europe or wherever, could happen

1470
01:14:40,880 --> 01:14:44,519
Speaker 3: in Australia. I mean, I feel like that would be

1471
01:14:45,080 --> 01:14:46,439
Speaker 3: so no.

1472
01:14:46,560 --> 01:14:49,600
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, almost what the NHL and that

1473
01:14:49,800 --> 01:14:53,880
Speaker 2: face off four nations, four nations, But that's that's different

1474
01:14:53,920 --> 01:14:55,080
Speaker 2: because it's like their countries.

1475
01:14:55,479 --> 01:15:00,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, and those four countries are feed probably seven many

1476
01:15:00,240 --> 01:15:03,720
Speaker 3: percent of the NHL anyway, so that's that doesn't matter

1477
01:15:03,840 --> 01:15:07,000
Speaker 3: but them. Yeah, but you're you know, like you're not

1478
01:15:07,120 --> 01:15:10,040
Speaker 3: if you're an Australian, You're you're on an NBA team

1479
01:15:10,120 --> 01:15:12,840
Speaker 3: who's playing You're playing for your NBA team. It's like,

1480
01:15:13,320 --> 01:15:17,200
Speaker 3: you know, it's like, man, you playing against Real Madrid

1481
01:15:17,280 --> 01:15:17,599
Speaker 3: or whatever.

1482
01:15:17,680 --> 01:15:19,639
Speaker 2: This guy sounds like I'm silver here over here, man,

1483
01:15:20,160 --> 01:15:20,479
Speaker 2: hey man.

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Speaker 3: I was in the room with him and he was

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Speaker 3: very excited about that, and he got me excited.

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Speaker 2: About Oh, you were in the room with him in Paris.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Look, we had way more fun in Paris at

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Speaker 3: a meaningless Pacers uh Spurs game then we would have

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Speaker 3: had an All Star Yeah, buy a lot. Yeah, So

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Speaker 3: let's take some of that magic and put it in

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Speaker 3: an All Star But you want to make it a

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Speaker 3: worldwide game, let's do it.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's all I'm saying. Okay, Well what after.

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Speaker 3: Saying I'm tired of listening to people talk about how

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Speaker 3: to improve the All Star Game? I throw another I

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Speaker 3: love it.

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Speaker 2: That's sports. That's sports talking to Let me whine and

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Speaker 2: complain about being tired of talking about this while I

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Speaker 2: continue to talk about it. Guilty. All right. So there

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Speaker 2: it is. Nine random NBA awards inspired by I think

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Speaker 2: you should leave. I would love to hear other suggestions.

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Speaker 2: Give me the clip and then give me the award.

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Speaker 2: Maybe we'll make this an annual thing here for all

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Speaker 2: I know, but let's call it there. My god, this

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Speaker 2: was a long one. My voice was already shot from

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Speaker 2: the long weekend. It's even more shot now after talking

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Speaker 2: to you, and oh my god, I just realized I'm

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Speaker 2: jumping on the Raptors Show in about ten minutes, so

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Speaker 2: we really got to wrap this up. Thanks for joining us,

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Speaker 2: and let's go to Clipper Bros. You heard it here first.

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Speaker 3: Have a great time.

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Speaker 2: Turn up, Love you guys, awesome, appreciate it. Hit the

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