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Speaker 1: last night for our NBA Happy Hour, especially our guest
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Speaker 1: feel so bad for what's going on in that house
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Speaker 1: never really decided who was doing tweeted the nights. We'll
Speaker 1: figure that out as the show goes on. We've got
Speaker 1: some second returns in the fan voting that we can address,
Speaker 1: but just sort of quickly with the games last night,
Speaker 1: there were some entertaining games. So some tekaways from these ones.
Speaker 1: Steph Curry going off again, Ley ten threes, I mean,
Speaker 1: this is stupid at this point. Ten threes, forty points,
Speaker 1: Warriors hold off to Magic. What's the big takeaway, Lely.
Speaker 7: Well, we're going to talk about the game or do
Speaker 7: we want to get to the juicy stuff about whether
Speaker 7: or not Steph Curry has got himself a seat at
Speaker 7: the MVP table? Is he in the conversation for MVP
Speaker 7: because he's kind of been on the periphery there for
Speaker 7: a while. But I think right now, as Keets the
Speaker 7: other day, when you asked the question on the show
Speaker 7: to myself and Trey, you said, you know, let's say
Speaker 7: the season ended today, would Joel Embiid be the MVP?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 7: But I think for this question, I'm going to project
Speaker 7: out for the remainder of the season, because if the
Speaker 7: season ended today, I don't think Steph Curry would or
Speaker 7: could win MVP, but I think there is a path
Speaker 7: for him to get there if things go a certain
Speaker 7: way throughout the season. There's a few factors, a few
Speaker 7: criteria there.
Speaker 1: Obviously.
Speaker 7: The first one and the most important is that he
Speaker 7: keeps playing at this high level and the Warrior keep winning,
Speaker 7: because Steph can't win the MVP in my opinion, if
Speaker 7: he has a Russell Westbrook like MVP season where the
Speaker 7: team only won forty five games, I think Steph has
Speaker 7: to get.
Speaker 3: His Warrior, you know.
Speaker 7: I mean, so it's a little bit short of course
Speaker 7: this season with seventy two games only, but I think
Speaker 7: Steph has to get the Warriors up to sort of
Speaker 7: third or fourth in the Western Conference at best.
Speaker 1: I think you don't think he can do what Westbrook did.
Speaker 7: No, because the Steph's already won two MVPs, he's a
Speaker 7: three time chap He's already done those accomplishments. Russell Westbrook
Speaker 7: hadn't done those at the time, and it was like
Speaker 7: that triple double, thirty point season that sort of like
Speaker 7: Durance gone, oh my god, Westbrook's done something we've never
Speaker 7: seen before. I think Steph Curry has to have the
Speaker 7: Warriors winning. Then you have to look at a couple
Speaker 7: of other guys who is competing against. And the first
Speaker 7: one of the biggest one I think is Joel Embiid
Speaker 7: who's having by far his best season. But can he
Speaker 7: maintain it, can he stay on the floor, and can
Speaker 7: the Sixers keep winning? Because Embiid is a guy who
Speaker 7: has had significant injuries in the past, and hopefully he
Speaker 7: stays healthy, but let's say he doesn't, then that could
Speaker 7: seriously affect his CA and which I think he's ahead
Speaker 7: of Steph Curry right now, and he's kind to kind
Speaker 7: of get the narrative vote, the storyline voted, like, you know,
Speaker 7: he's really living up to his potential if he stays
Speaker 7: healthy and the Warriors at the Sixers keep winning, and
Speaker 7: then you've course got Lebron out there as well.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 7: Lebron I think is the early season favorite. I picked
Speaker 7: him as the early season favorite. A lot of booking,
Speaker 7: betting websites, and even media votes sort of have Lebron
Speaker 7: as the leader right now. But well, this may be
Speaker 7: almost count against Lebron at some point if he just
Speaker 7: sort of stays at this incredibly consistent level. But if
Speaker 7: the Lakers cruise a little bit and maybe don't have
Speaker 7: that best record in the Western Conference, let's say they
Speaker 7: drop back to second or third, well that may be
Speaker 7: count against Lebron. Where it's like, well, you've got a
Speaker 7: better team, we expected like great results from you, Whereas
Speaker 7: the Warriors came into the season without Klay Thompson, and
Speaker 7: I think a lot of people immediately said, well, the
Speaker 7: Warriors can't win it now without Clay because he's such
Speaker 7: an important player for their team. So, you know, will
Speaker 7: those sorts of things, And then you've got the other
Speaker 7: guys like Yannis Nikolae, Jokich, Luka, Doncic, those sort of
Speaker 7: guys like where well their seasons end up. Yarnis, we've
Speaker 7: kind of just dismissed him from contention this season. I
Speaker 7: think a lot of people it's almost like it doesn't
Speaker 7: matter what numbers he puts up because he's won the
Speaker 7: last two but the Bucks haven't done so well in
Speaker 7: the playoffs. And then you've got someone like Jokich who's
Speaker 7: playing fantastic basketball, but the Nuggets aren't playing great basketball
Speaker 7: right now. So I think that affects him and Doncic.
Speaker 7: Everything about what the Mavericks does comes down to Doncic
Speaker 7: and can the Mavericks get up high enough in the
Speaker 7: Western Conference. I don't think they can right now, but
Speaker 7: if they could, Doncic is going to get all the credits.
Speaker 7: So I think there's a lot of factors in play.
Speaker 7: But I think if Steph Curry continues this incredible hot streak, scoring, shooting,
Speaker 7: doing just amazing things, really taking his back to that
Speaker 7: second MVP season where he led the league in scoring
Speaker 7: when the seventy three and nine Warriors were unbelievable, you know,
Speaker 7: then Steph's going to force himself into contention. But as
Speaker 7: we sit here today, I don't think he can. But
Speaker 7: if all those things happen throughout the course of the season,
Speaker 7: then there's no reason why he can't be a third
Speaker 7: a three time MVP winner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, tass. If he keeps averaging thirty five point three
Speaker 1: points per game and you know, shooting basically fifty percent
Speaker 1: from distance, like eight nine, ten threes a game, and
Speaker 1: they win, Like Lee saying, this is what he's been
Speaker 1: doing basically over his last eight game. Steph Curry, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's in the conversation right, He's at the table. And maybe, maybe,
Speaker 1: like Lee saying, if he continues this rampant pace, he
Speaker 1: could pull this off and win a third. I think
Speaker 1: it's still unlikely because I agree with Lee on the wins,
Speaker 1: Like I think the Warriors have to have a shocking
Speaker 1: amount of wins, especially in comparison to what we thought
Speaker 1: they might sort of follow when we came into the
Speaker 1: season with no Clay.
Speaker 6: But what do you think, Well, I don't know how
Speaker 6: high that win total has to be. I think the
Speaker 6: expectations have dropped after the way the Warriors started this season,
Speaker 6: and so everybody understands that it's Steph and not much
Speaker 6: else offensively as far as scoring the ball. So he
Speaker 6: has to do a ton. So I don't think he
Speaker 6: has to win. They have to win really, you know,
Speaker 6: forty five games out of their seventy two. I don't
Speaker 6: think it has to be that high. I think it's
Speaker 6: all about the narrative you want to choose with the
Speaker 6: MVP vote, and I know that's kind of what happens
Speaker 6: every year, but there's so many good candidates this year
Speaker 6: and it's such a weird season. I think it's just
Speaker 6: which path do you want to pick with your winner?
Speaker 6: And I think Lebron is sort of the default winner
Speaker 6: because there are too many freaking storylines right now, like
Speaker 6: Joel Embiid, Yeah, he's playing his best, Yeah, Nicole Okic,
Speaker 6: Steph obviously, there's so many sort of on a very
Speaker 6: high level. And then I think people will just say,
Speaker 6: when they get their ballot, you know, why not give
Speaker 6: it to a guy who's doing something at thirty six
Speaker 6: that no one has ever done. He's won four MVPs,
Speaker 6: he's kind of got close to the last couple of seasons,
Speaker 6: especially last season. Why don't we just give it to him?
Speaker 6: So I think he could be the default winner. But
Speaker 6: I think Steph is totally legitimate, and you know, there's
Speaker 6: the storyline there like where would the team be without him?
Speaker 6: So that's that's obviously strong. There's obviously going to be
Speaker 6: some nice headlines with that lead. But I think also
Speaker 6: part of it is just the numbers man. That's why
Speaker 6: Steph I think is kind of overlooks sometimes we talk
Speaker 6: about the best in NBA history because it's about numbers
Speaker 6: and it's not about taking over, you know, physically being dominant.
Speaker 6: But yeah, he had ten threes last night. Hohum. He's
Speaker 6: done it seventeen times in his career. The next highest
Speaker 6: player to do that is Clay with five. Like it's
Speaker 6: just stuff that, you know, the points go and they
Speaker 6: keep ticking up on the board because he's a freaking master,
Speaker 6: but it's not you know, it's not done like previous MVP.
Speaker 6: So I think it's kind of overlooked still, even though
Speaker 6: we talk about him a lot. But he's he's tucked
Speaker 6: in at that table. You know, he's got he's on
Speaker 6: that chair and he's he's ready, knife fork up, ready
Speaker 6: to go until the end of the season. I don't
Speaker 6: see how he's gone from the table at any point.
Speaker 6: But there's just so many dudes at that table. I
Speaker 6: think the King is just going to be flick the
Speaker 6: MVP at the end of the season because they all
Speaker 6: have real, real cases, and I think they're all going
Speaker 6: to be there till the end because everybody's really resting
Speaker 6: and chilling out, like Joel Embiid they've gotten smart and
Speaker 6: they rest him. And it's totally accepted in this year's
Speaker 6: NBA that everybody rests. Angel Russell rests every five games.
Speaker 6: It seems like there's an injury, but he rests like
Speaker 6: everybody's resting. And I think Lebron's sketch of the season. No, yeah,
Speaker 6: that's true, that's true. He'll find some rest.
Speaker 1: Though he may. Well, where do you have Curry? Is
Speaker 1: he's at the table for you, Trey? I assume a
Speaker 1: small or big table. He's at this conversation. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: need to.
Speaker 4: Officially figure out how many people are allowed at this table,
Speaker 4: because I mean four is a nice double date dinner reservation.
Speaker 1: No doubt about it. Is Curry in the top four.
Speaker 4: I think he's getting close at the very least, Embiid
Speaker 4: Lebron for sure are there. Jokic and Durant probably are
Speaker 4: in the mix. And then Curry, I think, is really
Speaker 4: knocking on the door with those guys because the Nuggets
Speaker 4: have started to struggle, and you know, Kevin Durant.
Speaker 1: Has missed a few games for the Nets.
Speaker 4: So certainly Curry is right there, especially when you consider
Speaker 4: that people are excited to put Damian Lillard into the
Speaker 4: MVP conversation as well. And what Steph Curry is doing
Speaker 4: is what Damian Lillard is doing with the Blazers. Their
Speaker 4: team that's been kind of their depth has been taken
Speaker 4: away by injuries, similar to the Warriors have, but Curry
Speaker 4: has just in Right now he's looking like the unanimous
Speaker 4: MVP Curry of old. It's pretty funny to think that
Speaker 4: at the start of the season people were saying, can
Speaker 4: this guy carry a team by himself anymore?
Speaker 1: Yes, obviously he can.
Speaker 4: He's still money from three, like Task was saying, seventeen
Speaker 4: times with ten or more threes, incredible stuff. Feels like
Speaker 4: it's going to happen a few more times this year.
Speaker 4: He could make a run at leading the league in scoring,
Speaker 4: I would imagine as well. And if that's the case,
Speaker 4: he's for sure going to be a top five, top four,
Speaker 4: maybe a top three candidate, depending on how many people
Speaker 4: are at the table. He's definitely coming to dinner. But
Speaker 4: it does feel like Lebron is going to be the
Speaker 4: one picking up the check at the end of the year,
Speaker 4: considering his coach is saying, yeah, don't worry, Lebron's got
Speaker 4: this order what you want.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see. I mean last night's shots too. I
Speaker 1: know this is nothing new with Curry, but it's always
Speaker 1: nice to be reminded. And Steve Curra after the game,
Speaker 1: Lee was like, Steph hits these threes there where there's
Speaker 1: nothing happened happening offensively, and then he just uses his
Speaker 1: dribble because he's got some of the best handles in
Speaker 1: the game to free himself up, gets that little bit
Speaker 1: of space just some inches there, right, and then rises
Speaker 1: up and you expect them to go in and when
Speaker 1: he's feeling it, and that's what was happening against this
Speaker 1: magic team. By the way, the Warriors needed all forty
Speaker 1: of these points. They needed all of these threes to
Speaker 1: win the game. And I think that helps, you know,
Speaker 1: the the MVP case for a guy like Curry when
Speaker 1: he's on the floor Warriors or plus sixty seven when
Speaker 1: he's off their minus twelve. And I saw, you know,
Speaker 1: Nick Fridella tweeting that one out. I think it was
Speaker 1: Tom Haberstrow actually, so like, yeah, we know, you know,
Speaker 1: we get into the what's the what's its stand for
Speaker 1: MVP Most valuable? Well, is there anyone more valuable to
Speaker 1: their team than then curry. That's what people are going
Speaker 1: to start saying here if they haven't already.
Speaker 7: Right, Yeah, he's knocking on the door to have a
Speaker 7: seat at the table, to get join the conversation.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's just let's just let's just clarify this. I
Speaker 1: thought we've done this before. I think we're going more
Speaker 1: than four at the table. Though I agree one hundred
Speaker 1: percent with you, Trey. I'm thinking it's a round table though.
Speaker 1: That's a nut. You go out for you get the
Speaker 1: round table on a nice restaurant.
Speaker 3: That's great.
Speaker 1: You know, the conversation is flowing, you're not just stuck
Speaker 1: talking to the person next to you. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it's I feel comfortable with six or seven even I'll
Speaker 1: go six. Seven man reservation, yell, I'll go six. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, you go a couple, You've got a couple
Speaker 1: of couples, and then you got the one friend maybe
Speaker 1: in town you come out. I'll go six. Does anyone
Speaker 1: have any objection against that? Six are at the MVP
Speaker 1: table conversation, the six sharing me.
Speaker 7: Six Six are at the table and someone says, well,
Speaker 7: if someone else turns up, we can just squeeze another one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, right, right, it's easy.
Speaker 7: I think it's easier to do that on a round
Speaker 7: table than a square.
Speaker 1: Now, sometimes you're gonna like your your leg's gonna hit
Speaker 1: like a table leg, right, you have to pick a side.
Speaker 1: We have to straddle it. That can be uncomfortable, but
Speaker 1: you're I'm with you, Lee, It's a little easier to
Speaker 1: squeeze it. Okay, six is the reservation, but you can
Speaker 1: always slip in a seventh. All right, That's where we're at.
Speaker 1: So Curry is one hundred percent there.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Just one thing though, talking about the
Speaker 7: way that they execute those plays, Like, because I'm scouring
Speaker 7: now every game for very solid plays, I get to
Speaker 7: watch tons of the Warriors because Draymond Green is an
Speaker 7: incredible pass of the ball, And the way that some
Speaker 7: of those other players for the Warriors, like Wigans and
Speaker 7: like Ubre, a good couple of dams setting really good
Speaker 7: screens for Steph is really helping him as well, because
Speaker 7: he only needs a split second to get that ball
Speaker 7: and he gets off with such a clean look. So
Speaker 7: you know, the Warriors are sort of making that offense.
Speaker 7: Like listen, I'm not sure how much you can rely
Speaker 7: on those other guys. Although Wiggins was a good again
Speaker 7: for them last night in the fourth quarter, but it's
Speaker 7: a little bit less predictable, whereas with Steph, it's like,
Speaker 7: just get him the ball, set some good screens, and
Speaker 7: we'll take our chances that he's most likely going to
Speaker 7: knock down those shots. And that's what he's been doing.
Speaker 7: And then you saw the magic, like, all right, someone
Speaker 7: else has got to beat to see you guys, someone else,
Speaker 7: anyone else, So they put a little bit more defensive
Speaker 7: pressure on him, but then other guys do step up.
Speaker 7: So that's kind of what the Warriors need, is like,
Speaker 7: we know Steph can take us home, but let's see
Speaker 7: Wiggins and let's see Ubre come up and hit some
Speaker 7: big shots for themselves because they're getting paid big bucks
Speaker 7: as well. Ubra's on eighty two million this year, Isn't
Speaker 7: it exactly?
Speaker 1: Sure? Would you bet tass on Curry having another sixty
Speaker 1: plus game in them season? And I was even going
Speaker 1: to go as far to say, because I know Tray
Speaker 1: threw it out there, I think a couple of shows ago,
Speaker 1: like is seventy in play with him the way he's
Speaker 1: shooting right now? Obviously the three ball, like what is it?
Speaker 1: That far fetch to think like you could do that.
Speaker 6: The booker like number, what's on bet? MGM, I imagine
Speaker 6: sixty plus. You know the smart defenses are taking him
Speaker 6: away a lot of the time, like the Spurs two
Speaker 6: games in a row they allowed thirty two points with
Speaker 6: four to six eyeballs on him at all times. Right,
Speaker 6: but you know you're going to play some bad defenses
Speaker 6: in the NBA. So I could see sixty. I could.
Speaker 6: If there's a line out there, you know, it's probably
Speaker 6: like a plus one thousand or something for a sixty
Speaker 6: point game.
Speaker 1: Oh no, not that high. I wouldn't think. I mean
Speaker 1: it's almost like sixties a lot. Yeah, yeah, sixties a lot.
Speaker 1: I don't be about seven seventy. Yeah, we're definite.
Speaker 6: Sixty is likely.
Speaker 1: Well I'm saying it's not plus one thousand, Yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: I mean it's Leah, would you bet on it?
Speaker 3: Take that bet?
Speaker 7: If he's getting out the spot game this season? For sure,
Speaker 7: I feel.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, will he beat his own record of threes
Speaker 1: made in a game? Yeah, he's right, fourteen, that's Clay.
Speaker 1: Oh will he get it back?
Speaker 3: Is what I think?
Speaker 7: Steph is thirteen? I think yeah, But I think he's
Speaker 7: got another sixteen name for sure.
Speaker 1: All right, let's hear from the stream team tweet at
Speaker 1: us at no dunk sink. If you were a betting
Speaker 1: man or woman, would you be putting some coin down
Speaker 1: on Steph going for sixty plus again in the season
Speaker 1: because he is on fire right now, fifty three for
Speaker 1: a one hundred and one from beyond the arc in
Speaker 1: his last eight games. One hundred and one threes he's
Speaker 1: taken in his last eat games. And it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: you don't even blink at it. Really incredible.
Speaker 4: It's like fifteen minutes before an episode of the Starters
Speaker 4: for Leellis though.
Speaker 1: One hundred and one threes, No problem, no problem, that
Speaker 1: is true. Our next game, you know, he was his
Speaker 1: name got thrown around there. I couldn't really determine whether
Speaker 1: he's at the table or maybe he is squeezing in.
Speaker 1: But it's Damian Lillard, guys, uh not Mellow, But Damian
Speaker 1: Lillard scored thirty. Mellow caught fire and the Blazers beat
Speaker 1: seventy six ers, really really entertaining late game. I stayed
Speaker 1: up for this one one eighteen one fourteen. Mellow is
Speaker 1: the story from it. It was fun. It was vintage Mellow.
Speaker 1: I think Scotts called him twenty four points off the bench,
Speaker 1: including sixteen in the fourth. But the the back and
Speaker 1: forth a fair late in this one was really really entertaining.
Speaker 1: You had Gary Trent Junior breaking the tie at one
Speaker 1: oh nine, so he put the Blazers up three. Lillard
Speaker 1: then added a basket, they're up five. They look like
Speaker 1: they're in the driver's seat. Well, here come the Sixers. Embiid,
Speaker 1: we'll pull up, We'll pull up around the free throw line.
Speaker 1: Splash it goes. Then Ben Simmons, who had an unbelievable game.
Speaker 1: He played really good defense on Lillard, got them in transition,
Speaker 1: pushed the ball. Ben found Seth Curry, Yeah, the other Curry.
Speaker 1: He hit a three to tie it at one fourteen,
Speaker 1: twenty two seconds ago. Then Mellow gets tripped, like bumped
Speaker 1: by Tobias Harris. He goes to the line, hits his
Speaker 1: free throws three seconds remaining, and then the Sixers. I
Speaker 1: did not love what they were running here at the end.
Speaker 1: I don't know what Harris was doing either. He like
Speaker 1: stops midway coming to the ball, but Sir Robert Covington
Speaker 1: sort of jumps the passingly and gets the deflection, gets
Speaker 1: the steal, and game is over after Lillard ices it
Speaker 1: out with the free throws fun one and you got
Speaker 1: a bunch of like MVP candidates right there, Trey with
Speaker 1: Lillard way he was playing in this with the thirty.
Speaker 1: Like I said, Embiide was a monster, and Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: playing great. Now he's an MVP, but good stuff there
Speaker 1: for Mellow. Always fun to see him catch fire, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you that. Yeah, no doubt about it.
Speaker 4: Vintage Mellow is fun to watch and much needed for
Speaker 4: the Blazers, especially on a night like you're saying, Ben
Speaker 4: Simmons was doing a great job of kind of taking
Speaker 4: Damian Lillard out of the game. With CJ McCollum out
Speaker 4: with injury, the Blazers just need somebody that can fill
Speaker 4: it up from time to time. That was Gary Trent
Speaker 4: Junior a little bit last night, and then Mellow obviously
Speaker 4: was awesome. I felt bad last night on the Happy Hour.
Speaker 4: You asked me, He just asked me off the cuff,
Speaker 4: which two players would you like to see switch faces?
Speaker 4: And they ever mad at me that I didn't have
Speaker 4: an answer. No, You're like, how dare you how dare
Speaker 4: you not have a face off switch?
Speaker 1: Ready?
Speaker 4: The answer is Carmelo Anthony and LaMelo Ball. Somebody tweeted
Speaker 4: it to us earlier today because I love to see it.
Speaker 1: You know, we're already talking about is LaMelo the new Mellow.
Speaker 4: He's stealing the celebration. But Carmelo said, no, I'm still Mellow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, still here. I'm still making threes, still hitting it
Speaker 1: to the head.
Speaker 4: So yeah, yes, wow, yeah, well done. But yeah, watching
Speaker 4: Mellow get hot, it's a throwback. It's fun to see.
Speaker 4: And you know, if there's gonna be two good Mellows
Speaker 4: in the league, I'm here for it. They're on completely
Speaker 4: opposite sides of the country. I don't think we're gonna
Speaker 4: have to deal with Mellow versus Mellow all too often.
Speaker 4: And when they get together, we'll probably you know, read
Speaker 4: it the dome it together.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's nice that one's super young, one's very
Speaker 1: you know old in his NBA career. I like the
Speaker 1: timing of that JD. You actually have that photo that
Speaker 1: Tray is alluding to from Yannick, because that was gonna
Speaker 1: be my tweet of the night, the face off photo.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you want to pop it up there,
Speaker 1: but yeah, there it is. Do not get at all.
Speaker 4: I like Carmelo's face on Lamello's head more than the
Speaker 4: other way around.
Speaker 1: I'll say, God, it's so weird when you look at that,
Speaker 1: very weird. Yeah, we're showing for those listening. Yannick tweeting
Speaker 1: in a photo of literally just swapping faces with Carmela
Speaker 1: Anthony and LaMelo Ball. It's as creepy as you think
Speaker 1: it would look. Anyway, anything to add to this game,
Speaker 1: tass orly.
Speaker 6: I just like when the Blazers win. When Dammi Lillard
Speaker 6: doesn't have a really good game, that's just means that
Speaker 6: they're deep enough. Like he had you know, six of
Speaker 6: twenty one from the floor. Ben Simmons was awesome guarding
Speaker 6: him and taking away his looks, but he got to
Speaker 6: the free throw line a ton. Basically half his points
Speaker 6: were from the free throw line. But the Yeah, when
Speaker 6: the Blazers can win, I mean this, this is the
Speaker 6: kind of thing you didn't expect When CJ mccallumood out.
Speaker 6: He's having a career year and now he's out. But
Speaker 6: Carmela Anthony to step in and be old, classic mellow
Speaker 6: for a quarter where yeah, everything was going down, even
Speaker 6: when he thought he was drawing a folly, just crazy,
Speaker 6: hit the glass and go down. He's going to finish
Speaker 6: top ten in scoring. And I know, we know, I
Speaker 6: have numbers battering around in my head all day and
Speaker 6: they sometimes don't mean anything. But when you get top
Speaker 6: ten all time in NBA in scoring, that's pretty neat,
Speaker 6: and he should get there. It could be this season,
Speaker 6: there's a chance, but probably next season he'll he'll stuck around.
Speaker 6: He'll still be around hitting some shots. And I love
Speaker 6: those jerseys too.
Speaker 1: I oh, yeah, they look good.
Speaker 6: They do look good on the court. I know everything
Speaker 6: looks good in Portland. That court is perfect. There's somebody
Speaker 6: on on YouTube that said it looks like a Cleveland
Speaker 6: Browns jersey, which okay, it does. It's kind of, you know,
Speaker 6: that sort of neutral gray brown. But everybody kind of
Speaker 6: loves the Browns. I said, you know, I know you
Speaker 6: feel sorry for the Browns.
Speaker 1: Hold on, let me go, let me go get my plunger.
Speaker 1: As we're talking about all that, Lee, you know, we
Speaker 1: had the conversation about the MVP seas the teable. How
Speaker 1: many people are at it is Ben Simmons at the
Speaker 1: defensive Player of the Year Barrail. That's why we're gonna
Speaker 1: set them up.
Speaker 7: Okay, I mean, if he's not all first team defense
Speaker 7: this season, then I don't know what he has to
Speaker 7: do to do it. He's incredibly he had that great
Speaker 7: block last night that led to transition three there from
Speaker 7: the sixers. He's incredibly quick and athletic, and because of
Speaker 7: his size and the position he plays, he's very, very
Speaker 7: rarely outmatched, you know, and you can switch him on
Speaker 7: to other defenders as well. He can defend the biggest
Speaker 7: guy or the smallest guy on a team because he's
Speaker 7: got that agility. So yeah, I think his defense is
Speaker 7: still somewhat overlooked, But for me, he's easily one of
Speaker 7: the best defenders on ball, perimeter, wherever you want to
Speaker 7: put him in the game. He's as good as anybody
Speaker 7: just denying his opponent because he's so big and strong
Speaker 7: as well. Like guys just can't beat him off the dribble.
Speaker 7: I mean, I think I think Lili it was last
Speaker 7: night sort of shook him to get one shot off.
Speaker 7: But that's different as far as if you go into
Speaker 7: the body and then try to body a guy, you
Speaker 7: just can't do it, you can't move him. So yeah,
Speaker 7: I think I think he's great and I think he
Speaker 7: deserves certainly. I think Rudy Gobe is the favorite for
Speaker 7: that award, and I think it's he's to lose from
Speaker 7: now given everything going on with the Jazz. But Simmons
Speaker 7: has to get a little bit more recognition than he's
Speaker 7: gotten in the past.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The only obstacle for Simmons getting a Defensive Player of
Speaker 4: the Year is that he's a perimeter player, and it seems.
Speaker 1: To go to big guys.
Speaker 4: But on a night in, night out basis, he's the
Speaker 4: most impactful perimeter defender in the league for me, because,
Speaker 4: like Lee saying, he can do it all. He can
Speaker 4: be an inside guy, he can be an outside guy
Speaker 4: Kawhi Leonard. If you need a one on one, lockdown situation,
Speaker 4: that's probably still the guy you're taking. But every single
Speaker 4: night Simmons is bringing it defensively. And Skeetz, yeah, you're right.
Speaker 4: They had a bit of a water we running here
Speaker 4: moment there at the end of the game. But I
Speaker 4: do like the look of the Sixers in the crunch
Speaker 4: time a little bit more than they have in the past.
Speaker 4: They can get Embiid the ball in the post, which
Speaker 4: is a huge improvement that was not always the case.
Speaker 4: He's making quick decisions. You saw him hit Ben Simmons
Speaker 4: in the lane for a lamup and I think that's
Speaker 4: big too, that Ben Simmons is there in the lane
Speaker 4: ready to finish at the rim in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 4: cause you know, we've seen so many times where he's
Speaker 4: just happy to get the ball away for his hands
Speaker 4: so he doesn't get fouled and go to the free
Speaker 4: throw line. He had another post move finish that I
Speaker 4: thought was nice. Joel Embiid is being a little bit
Speaker 4: more patient. You know, it's not just gonna be a
Speaker 4: three from the top of the key off one hundred
Speaker 4: pump fakes. He's being real patient getting to that mid
Speaker 4: range jumper. Very weird to think that Darryl Morey is
Speaker 4: the GM on this team and saying, oh man, all
Speaker 4: we're gonna do is see Simmons and Embiid shooting all
Speaker 4: these threes. Meanwhile, Embiid is a mid range monster right now.
Speaker 4: He's shooting fifty percent from the mid range, and you
Speaker 4: see it every single time. He just takes his time,
Speaker 4: gets the pump fake. The guy bought bumps off him.
Speaker 4: He's got a little bit of space, takes a dribble
Speaker 4: a fifteen footer and it's money. Sixers crunch time offense
Speaker 4: is gonna be or has been an issue at least
Speaker 4: in the past couple of seasons. But they look a
Speaker 4: little bit more organized right now. They lost last night,
Speaker 4: but I don't think it was because they were doing
Speaker 4: dumb stuff until maybe that last one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just that last play was weird. Again. I don't
Speaker 1: know why Harris just straight up stops and looked like
Speaker 1: him and Beid we're gonna collide too. There's just like
Speaker 1: whoever was throwing I forget who was on the inbounce pass,
Speaker 1: but like, yeah, just throwing it into traffic there, Like
Speaker 1: just way too many bodies there. I didn't love that,
Speaker 1: But you're right, really entertaining game, especially for the nightcap there.
Speaker 1: So go check out the highlights at the very least
Speaker 1: quality win from the Blazers, maybe one of their best
Speaker 1: wins I think of the season. All Right, the other games,
Speaker 1: I'll just throw them at you, guys, and if there's
Speaker 1: anything you want to address, feel free. Jimmy Butler triple
Speaker 1: double leads the Heat past the Rockets, Semi Ojelai and
Speaker 1: Peyton Pritchard held in the Celtics take down this the
Speaker 1: Raptors one twenty one oh six. My god, if it's
Speaker 1: not Brad Wanamaker, now it's Pritchard. They just, you know,
Speaker 1: they most of those guys hit six threes. It was
Speaker 1: unbelievab shooting performance from them. They beat the Raps, and
Speaker 1: then the Pacers snapped a four game skid with the
Speaker 1: one eleven ninety five win over the Pistons. Anything jump
Speaker 1: out at you there, Trey Well.
Speaker 4: I think all these games kind of run together for
Speaker 4: me a little bit because Philadelphia and Milwaukee and Brooklyn
Speaker 4: kind of have separated themselves in the Eastern Conference. So
Speaker 4: the question is going to be who gets the fourth
Speaker 4: seed in the East, and we saw four contenders for
Speaker 4: it last night. Miami is definitely rounding into form as expected,
Speaker 4: you know, five and two since Jimmy Butler returned. They're
Speaker 4: now ninth in defense. The offense, it's still a work
Speaker 4: in progress, but it's going to be three point and
Speaker 4: it's gonna be free throws. Jimmy shot eleven three throws
Speaker 4: last night. The pressure he puts on the rim opens
Speaker 4: up the Drive and Kick game. Fifteen threes for Miami
Speaker 4: last night, five for Duncan Robinson, five for Illinois boy
Speaker 4: Max Strus, who might be the next Duncan Robinson, also
Speaker 4: might be the next Test Melus.
Speaker 1: He's got a similar look.
Speaker 4: Yeah like MAXI Yeah, And honestly, Max Streuce is more
Speaker 4: handsome than Hito Turculeu and Test Melus is more handsome
Speaker 4: than Hio Turculeus. So I'm willing to call Tests and
Speaker 4: Max the same guy. Anyways, you look at this other game.
Speaker 4: Raptors lost last night to Fast Peepe and the Bean
Speaker 4: Town Boys, but they've recovered well after a two and
Speaker 4: eight start. Don't forget they are playing all of their
Speaker 4: games away from home in a different country. I think
Speaker 4: we can give them some credit for surviving the first
Speaker 4: ten games of the season because obviously they're playing a
Speaker 4: little bit better right now. The Celtics, they got two
Speaker 4: All Stars Kemba Walker. He struggled so far. They've had
Speaker 4: depth issues. I think that's going to continue, but they
Speaker 4: will probably make some sort of move, so you imagine the.
Speaker 1: Celtics will be there. We got the Pacers.
Speaker 4: They look like they had a chance to be that
Speaker 4: fourth team in the East early in the season, they've
Speaker 4: had a rough patch. In twenty and twenty one they
Speaker 4: are nine and twelve. You're seeing the limitations, no doubt.
Speaker 4: If Sabonis in Brogden, they don't always have an advantage
Speaker 4: every night, But on the nights when Sabonus is able
Speaker 4: to really bully somebody, they look great. They are missing TJ.
Speaker 3: Warren.
Speaker 4: They need somebody who can just go out and get
Speaker 4: a basket. But I don't know a nice win for
Speaker 4: the Pace or somebody. Question to you, guys, if you
Speaker 4: were guessing who's getting that four seed in the Eastern
Speaker 4: Conference come playoff time.
Speaker 1: Of those of those teams specifically, Yeah, because I think
Speaker 1: that's the next tier. Yeah, Yeah, I think you're right.
Speaker 1: I think I go Celtics.
Speaker 6: I do.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think ken Bay. I believe still in
Speaker 1: kemb I know some Celtics fans like trade Kemba, Trade Kemba,
Speaker 1: do all that. He's he's gonna be fine, He's gonna
Speaker 1: round into form. Guy was coming back from an injury.
Speaker 1: And then you've got like last night was a great example.
Speaker 1: The Raptors wisely, you know, try and take away Brown,
Speaker 1: try and take away Tatum with no og By the
Speaker 1: way without their best defender, and they did a pretty
Speaker 1: good job on those guys. But man, those guys like
Speaker 1: they're not afraid to pass the ball. There's some playmakers
Speaker 1: in them. And these guys were just Semi, Ojele and Pritchard.
Speaker 1: You know, they're getting a lot of good open looks
Speaker 1: and they're in the NBA and they can knock them down.
Speaker 1: But I go Celtics. As much as that pains me
Speaker 1: to say, I think I think of those teams we're
Speaker 1: talking about, I believe in them the most has agreed disagree.
Speaker 6: I'm fine with the Celtics. They also lost Jayson Tatum
Speaker 6: for several weeks already this season, and yeah, Kempa does
Speaker 6: not look like himself and Nick Nurse loves taking away
Speaker 6: the stars from the other team. Yeah, they did a
Speaker 6: great job. And Payton Pritchard is, hey, he's capable. Yeah,
Speaker 6: he's bang home those shots. He's obviously very very confident. Uh.
Speaker 6: And then yeah, Chemi, I mean, what the heck are
Speaker 6: you going to do a second start of the season.
Speaker 6: He just bangs home shot after shott shot, and the
Speaker 6: reps were tired. It's fine. I'm fine saying that. It's
Speaker 6: an excuse, but I don't care. I mean, they're hitting
Speaker 6: the front rim a ton in this game, and so
Speaker 6: they lose. But yeah, the Celtics have got off to
Speaker 6: a better start than the Reps and the Heat. You know,
Speaker 6: the Pacers have slowed down. They need carosel Vert as well.
Speaker 6: You mentioned teacher warn. I mean they're super banged up
Speaker 6: as well. But it's good to see the Heat alive
Speaker 6: and the Raps alive. At least, all these teams are
Speaker 6: rounding into form. It's been a freaking weird year, guys
Speaker 6: coming in and out of the lineup, but I felt
Speaker 6: right to see some guy no one's ever heard of
Speaker 6: in Max Strus weird spelling of his name is sixteenth
Speaker 6: game of his season or said of his career, I
Speaker 6: should say, and has this monstrous game where he has
Speaker 6: just dropping shot after shot after shot. Did you guys
Speaker 6: see the line zero everything zero boards assists first guy
Speaker 6: to do that since Katino MOBILEI fourteen years ago. Twenty
Speaker 6: one points and nothing across the board. Wow, Max proces, Yeah,
Speaker 6: to do very hard.
Speaker 1: For a rebound not to fall into your hand, for
Speaker 1: just passing the ball to someone who hits a three.
Speaker 7: It's what counts as an assist that these diuys as well.
Speaker 7: You basically just have to let go of the ball
Speaker 7: and the other guy has to grab it and score it,
Speaker 7: and that counts as an assist.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he just runs corner to corner that guy and shots.
Speaker 6: But the Heat know what they're doing and it was ugly.
Speaker 6: It was super ugly. But it's good to see the Heat,
Speaker 6: you know, be like themselves. Like the end of the game,
Speaker 6: Trey mentioned their end of game execution. It's ugly. They
Speaker 6: miss shots and then they just go get the rebound.
Speaker 6: But they're out fighting teams and that's what they're going
Speaker 6: to do the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Leley, Just to finish this conversation, do you agree
Speaker 1: with tastinize the Celtics of that bunch because it is
Speaker 1: weird to think all those teams that Trey is saying
Speaker 1: there that were playing last night, three of these teams
Speaker 1: might lose in the first round. You know that's going
Speaker 1: to be a blow, right, you know it's possible when
Speaker 1: I'm getting out, very possible, I think. So what do
Speaker 1: you which team of those for do you pick?
Speaker 7: Yeah, the Celtics for sure. I mean between Brown and
Speaker 7: titum last night, they had twenty seven shots for twenty
Speaker 7: nine points. Any other game, especially against a good team
Speaker 7: like the Raptors, you would say, well, the Celtics is
Speaker 7: going to lose that game if they can't get that's
Speaker 7: what a production out of the stars. But all the
Speaker 7: gests did step up, and you know that's just that's
Speaker 7: a good song for the Celtics. They got some depth,
Speaker 7: but they will have two old stars, so they've got
Speaker 7: that superstar talent. It's just that that their only problem
Speaker 7: for me is in the middle. They've got a little
Speaker 7: bit of a problem there at the center. And will
Speaker 7: Danny Ainge make a move or will he be reported
Speaker 7: to make a move? What will happen come trade deadline?
Speaker 7: But I think, well, Jason Tatum's on the court the Celtics,
Speaker 7: you know that they're as good as anyone else pretty
Speaker 7: much in the Eastern Conference. I think he's that good.
Speaker 7: He wasn't that good last night, but he's shown that
Speaker 7: this heat. Where is he at the table? We haven't
Speaker 7: talked about him being at the table.
Speaker 1: He missed too much. He made show up. He might
Speaker 1: be late to the diner.
Speaker 7: When he was playing, though when he was playing he
Speaker 7: was in that conversation, but he missed some time there.
Speaker 7: So But yeah, and the Heat, I mean, you know,
Speaker 7: you guys are pretty much covered it there. But they're
Speaker 7: just winning, ugly and dirty and grind four.
Speaker 3: Straight wins for the Heat. That's all. That's all they do.
Speaker 7: They just know how it doesn't matter how close the
Speaker 7: game is, the Heat seemed to always be ahead when
Speaker 7: it counts.
Speaker 1: One more thing with Pretturan this nickname fast pp What
Speaker 1: am I missing with this? Like, I mean, I know
Speaker 1: it's a weird Celtics twitter and all that, but obviously
Speaker 1: it stands for his initials, I assume, But like it
Speaker 1: is so bad. That's one of the worst nicknames of
Speaker 1: all time. Crazy. It's pretty brutal.
Speaker 4: Because you know, the Celtics fans, the Bean town boys,
Speaker 4: they want you to say fast peepee, nice, slow, nice
Speaker 4: and slow you're separating the peepee. But if you say
Speaker 4: it like a like a fool and you say fast peepee,
Speaker 4: it's really meant. So that's why I say fast. But
Speaker 4: he is fast. He is he's fast, and his initials
Speaker 4: are peepee. So I mean, clearly that's the only possible
Speaker 4: nickname for it.
Speaker 1: That's just I mean again, like where they were calling
Speaker 1: him eight mile right for a while too, or that
Speaker 1: was in play because he's because he's looking like eminem White. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because it's white too. Yeah, But I mean both are
Speaker 1: not great, but fast peepee. I just hate out it
Speaker 1: looks I hate saying it. It's I mean, but hey,
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's all so bad now
Speaker 1: that people are tough. But you know, what can I say?
Speaker 1: The Bean Town Boys, they destroyed the raps there is right.
Speaker 1: They had an excuse, they were tired. It was back
Speaker 1: to back. I think it was their fifth game in
Speaker 1: seven nights, wasn't it in five different cities or something
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 6: And it was just announced that they're going to stay
Speaker 6: the rest of the season in Tampa and and they're
Speaker 6: not moving back to Toronto because that was the hope that
Speaker 6: things would be better. And now Kyle Lowry says, now
Speaker 6: we can all get settled in a little bit, which
Speaker 6: is you know, it's just it's it is a tough
Speaker 6: season for them, but I'm sure they'll be fine, and
Speaker 6: I'm sure Peyton Pritchard will be fine. Although he was
Speaker 6: doing his postgame zoom in a car after Yah, Yeah,
Speaker 6: was he driving. I mean, you can't.
Speaker 1: You can't do that had a driver.
Speaker 6: I don't think fast. PP wants anybody to think I
Speaker 6: think he's driving his own car. Let me throw up
Speaker 6: this photo of Max Struce here because I just googled
Speaker 6: Max Strews, because I've look how handsome it is.
Speaker 1: It is a handsome man.
Speaker 6: This is his DePaul days. He's got to go back
Speaker 6: to this. Look, he's far more handsome than me. This
Speaker 6: long hair. Now he's got a short hair. Look.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got the shorter vibe. All right, that's who
Speaker 1: we were talking about.
Speaker 6: Say that for later, JD.
Speaker 1: Yeah, come back to that.
Speaker 4: From three right now. Though he literally could be the
Speaker 4: next Duncan Robinson, a guy that they just found who
Speaker 4: is nowhere, who can shoot threes. That's all that the
Speaker 4: heat look for, right, compete on defense, be in the
Speaker 4: right spot, and jack the threes. He's doing it so far.
Speaker 4: He played at a tiny school in Illinois, Lewis University
Speaker 4: Division two before going to DePaul. Shout out to the
Speaker 4: Illinois boys.
Speaker 3: It's paying for the Illinois boys. Yeah, he'll get them
Speaker 3: on your teams every show.
Speaker 7: There's someone else this is bowling out from Illinois you got.
Speaker 1: To start collecting the Illinois boys on top. Shot. He
Speaker 1: get a nice showcase going. Maybe that's right, that's right.
Speaker 4: I got got the Fred van Vliet, the star of
Speaker 4: the collection so far. I mean, a Anthony Davis would
Speaker 4: be huge. But I hear Skeets talking about every single
Speaker 4: Canadian player, Like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: There's more players from one state. I got to bring
Speaker 1: up these Illinois boys.
Speaker 6: I love it. You can showcase guys from wherever, like
Speaker 6: you just put him in a Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's basically the equivalent of what you were doing with
Speaker 1: your sexy cards there taking your binder, like, hell, here's
Speaker 1: all my Calgary flames.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's like yapper labs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, reallyant they're not so smart.
Speaker 6: They are so smart making the user generated content.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's right, that's right. We're gonna get to the
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Speaker 1: All Star voting twenty twenty one dropped yesterday. Let's take
Speaker 1: a look at the West votes not a whole lot
Speaker 1: has changed if we were just going by this, and
Speaker 1: we're not because it's only fifty percent of the vote.
Speaker 1: In determining the starters, we got Lebron the Joker and
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard as your front court guys in the West,
Speaker 1: and then Steph Curry and Luka Doncic ekeing out Damian
Speaker 1: Lillard there for the second spot at the guard spot.
Speaker 1: Biggest surprise task from our second returns of note to.
Speaker 6: You, well, I guess that no one cares about more
Speaker 6: than three guards in the West. Just looking at the numbers,
Speaker 6: you know, Steph over four million, Luca near two and
Speaker 6: a half, Damian Lillard over two at the top of
Speaker 6: the Western Conference cards. Then fourth, it's a mere four
Speaker 6: hundred and seventy nine thousand votes for Donovan Mitchell. That's
Speaker 6: less than a quarter of the votes of the third
Speaker 6: guy there. And to top it all off, Clay Thompson,
Speaker 6: the guy hasn't played, is in eighth right, So nobody
Speaker 6: cares about beyond Steph Curry, Luka Doncic and Damian Lillard,
Speaker 6: and my eyes focusing primarily on Donovan Mitchell, who's got
Speaker 6: the best record in the freaking NBA leading that team,
Speaker 6: and then Booker and Chris Paul a bunch of guys
Speaker 6: below him. But just shocking that only those three guys
Speaker 6: because it seems like there's you know, as far as
Speaker 6: the voting goes, it's pretty accurate, but as far as
Speaker 6: who the best players have been this season, but you know,
Speaker 6: Donald definitely deserves a little bit of love. I guess
Speaker 6: that's just it's just the media markets not talking about
Speaker 6: for the media, mainstream media, I guess I should say
Speaker 6: not talking about the Utah Jazz. I think that's the
Speaker 6: biggest thing to take away from it, because the Jazz
Speaker 6: are very, very good, and we're trying to talk about
Speaker 6: them more here, but no one's listening.
Speaker 1: I guess Lee just went on a Utah Jazz podcast.
Speaker 1: He's trying to talk up Donna, aren't you. Are you
Speaker 1: just talking ingles the entire time?
Speaker 7: A little bit of both, Yeah, Yeah, there was plenty
Speaker 7: of talk there about the Jazz on the Jazz podcast,
Speaker 7: as you would expect that it would come out later
Speaker 7: today check my socials for details.
Speaker 4: Ah.
Speaker 7: But it is kind of funny though that the team
Speaker 7: with the best record, you know, great defense, great offense,
Speaker 7: and I think they are going to have two All
Speaker 7: Stars in Mitchell and Gobert, and Gobert isn't even closed.
Speaker 7: I mean, that's not a huge surprise that he's not
Speaker 7: in that top ten because centers, you know, tend to
Speaker 7: not you.
Speaker 3: Know, do all that well in the voting.
Speaker 6: Surprising that he's not top ten, like not above Carmelo Anthony.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean that's you know, he just doesn't get
Speaker 7: that sort of fan love. But I'd be very very
Speaker 7: surprised if the Jazz way things stand that I don't
Speaker 7: have two roll stars. I think the coach is Mitchell,
Speaker 7: absolutely certain, and I mean I think Garber's too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you're right. I don't think they get
Speaker 1: a third in Conley maybe right now a little bit too,
Speaker 1: But I know you would like to get him in there.
Speaker 6: Lee.
Speaker 1: It's fine, he's played great. I just don't think he
Speaker 1: will ultimately make it. He'll continue his streak of never
Speaker 1: making an All Star Game. And I say that's even
Speaker 1: better for his legacy, to be the best player of
Speaker 1: all time to never make an All Star Game. Exactly,
Speaker 1: We'll remember it. He'll always come up. Well, we would
Speaker 1: always be talking about him. I actually think it hurts
Speaker 1: his you know, legacy, a little bit of you actually
Speaker 1: just snuck in one because then we wouldn't talk about
Speaker 1: him as much. Yeah, I mean, I'm being truthful there.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the race is here in the West. It's
Speaker 1: really like all that's left to decide is the third forward?
Speaker 1: Is it Kawir Anthony Davis? Because that's a somewhat of
Speaker 1: a close race, though of course the players are going
Speaker 1: to have a bit of a say and and who
Speaker 1: else they always forget. The media will have a bit
Speaker 1: of a say, so I think it will be Kawhi
Speaker 1: as the third guy, and then Luca or Lillard. That
Speaker 1: one's a little more intriguing. Even if Luca has the
Speaker 1: fifty percent of the fan vote. I think the players
Speaker 1: would lean towards Lillard. My gut says that, and the
Speaker 1: media that one's that one's probably a toss up. That one.
Speaker 1: I have no idea which way it would go. I
Speaker 1: guess it could be there for the taking. Still, if
Speaker 1: somebody goes on a little hot streak here, still have
Speaker 1: a bit of time before those votes are cast, so
Speaker 1: we'll ultimately see. Okay, let's move over to the East Trey,
Speaker 1: same question. As we take a look I'll just let
Speaker 1: you know if you're listening, it's Katie, Jannis and dwell embiid.
Speaker 1: Those are your bigs. Majority of the votes in the
Speaker 1: front court, Tatum a distant fourth, and then the guards
Speaker 1: Bradley Beal still in first, and then Kyrie Irving in second,
Speaker 1: and Harden sort of on his heels there. But biggest
Speaker 1: surprise from the second fan returns, Trey.
Speaker 4: I don't think these changed at all from the first return.
Speaker 4: So to me, the biggest question of this is where's Lamello.
Speaker 4: I wonder if it's just the case of being behind
Speaker 4: a week. You know, Lamello kind of finished his first
Speaker 4: full week of starting in the middle of last week,
Speaker 4: so I don't know when they actually call the data,
Speaker 4: like we're chopping it off here for the returns, but
Speaker 4: him not being in the top ten I think is
Speaker 4: a little bit surprising. He's obviously got a huge social
Speaker 4: media following, a lot of this voting is taking place online,
Speaker 4: and he's been a major story in the NBA for
Speaker 4: this entire week. So maybe when we're talking third returns,
Speaker 4: we'll see Lamello, you know, down at the bottom near
Speaker 4: Fred van Vliet and Russell Westbrook because at the very least,
Speaker 4: he's been more impressive than Russell Westbrook. He's been more
Speaker 4: impressive than Derek Rose. Colin Sexton had a nice start
Speaker 4: to the season. But LaMelo is a guy that's obviously
Speaker 4: in the news a lot right now. He is at
Speaker 4: least competing with Gordon Hayward to see which of the
Speaker 4: Charlotte Hornets might be an All Star.
Speaker 1: Pick during during the game.
Speaker 4: And so yeah, I was a little surprised to not
Speaker 4: see LaMelo, though not really because.
Speaker 1: Because I don't know when when the timeline is with
Speaker 1: this thing.
Speaker 4: But I assume he will make it to the top
Speaker 4: ten by the time we actually get to the All
Speaker 4: Star Game.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, well it's coming up soon. I think they
Speaker 1: announced the starters next week, next Thursday, and then I
Speaker 1: know the reserves come pretty quickly after that, I think
Speaker 1: early then the next week. So we'll have to actually
Speaker 1: make our selections here on the show after we you
Speaker 1: know what, we'll just wait. I mean, I know people
Speaker 1: get so excited about making their All Star picks. You know,
Speaker 1: Zilla's already done it, More has already done it. Zach
Speaker 1: Lowe just did it with Kevin Arnovitz. Like people just
Speaker 1: can't wait.
Speaker 6: To do it. Relax.
Speaker 1: I mean, I started to get worried toasts. I'm like, Jesus,
Speaker 1: should we have already done this? Like what's going on?
Speaker 1: But it's like thirty we're doing our picks after the game?
Speaker 6: Yeah no we All Star game is three weeks away.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, Well they're announcing this stuff though pretty soon.
Speaker 1: I think what we should do though, is let's just wait.
Speaker 1: At this point, they'll announce the starters on Thursday on TNT,
Speaker 1: like coming up here, we'll probably have a watch party
Speaker 1: going on, and then on Friday, so a week from
Speaker 1: today on the Drop podcast, we'll make our picks for
Speaker 1: the reserves, because and then we'll at least know who
Speaker 1: the starters are and that we can make our fill
Speaker 1: out the rest of the rosters and have our debates.
Speaker 1: Then makes sense?
Speaker 3: Why not, right?
Speaker 1: Because then I think they announced them actually early next week,
Speaker 1: like I said on the Tuesday. So all right, anything
Speaker 1: to add there, Leary from these returns.
Speaker 7: Just that I'm happy that Bradley Beal has held onto
Speaker 7: his lead there as the leading guard by a big
Speaker 7: margin too, over Kyrie Irving, because Beal is having a
Speaker 7: great season, but it's on the Washington Wizards, and that
Speaker 7: just is not a market that usually gets any sort
Speaker 7: of national traction, and I'm so happy to see him there.
Speaker 7: I think he's going to hold that lead. And yeah,
Speaker 7: so that doesn't automatically mean he'll start, though, he's still
Speaker 7: got to get thee the.
Speaker 1: Other I think his chances would be high though, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because the players are gonna I don't see why they
Speaker 1: would hold Bradley Beal's crap team against them. Yeah, personally,
Speaker 1: maybe the media does a little bit more, but.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I think Harden will suffer a little bit
Speaker 7: from the media vote because of the start of the season.
Speaker 7: So I think Beal's in a pretty good spot here
Speaker 7: to be the starter alongside How are.
Speaker 1: You I agree? Okay, let's get two worst of the
Speaker 1: week ladies and gentlemen, the worst of the.
Speaker 6: Week three nominees for you. Let's start off with Golden
Speaker 6: State Warriors Draymond Green. You know where I'm going with
Speaker 6: this one. It's an on court play against the Spurs,
Speaker 6: nine seconds left down three Steph is hot like fire.
Speaker 6: Draymond gets the inbound and decides to chuck it up
Speaker 6: basically from mid court. When you see it, Ah, what
Speaker 6: is happening. He thought he was getting fouled, but I
Speaker 6: mentioned nine seconds because he had time to dribble, have
Speaker 6: a quick sip of coffee, and then pass to Curry
Speaker 6: who could take his shot. But Draymond decided to go
Speaker 6: for it. And while he's also the nominee, not just
Speaker 6: the on court play, but he didn't cop to it.
Speaker 6: Postgame he was asked about it, he said it was the
Speaker 6: smartest dumb play in NBA history. What does that mean?
Speaker 6: I mean you're trying to draw a foul. I guess, yeah,
Speaker 6: so that's the smart place. But being smart, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: but you're not gonna draw foul back out there. You
Speaker 6: got the IQ man, you are the smartest player on
Speaker 6: the floor. But yeah, you're not gonna And you just
Speaker 6: missed two free throws.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say what, that's my favorite part. It's
Speaker 1: like you were gonna knock down three free throws? Were you?
Speaker 1: They gotta be betty against that. I think the odds
Speaker 1: are unlikely. But yeah, okay, how often does this work
Speaker 1: at all?
Speaker 4: Where you chuck up the forty footer because you think
Speaker 4: you're gonna get fouled. I remember Chris Paul, another notable
Speaker 4: high IQ guy trying it in the playoffs, chucking up
Speaker 4: a forty footer because they thought he was gonna get fouled.
Speaker 1: Don't do it, just actually get fouled. I would say,
Speaker 1: it's the smart play.
Speaker 4: I mean, you're only taking two free throws, but at
Speaker 4: least you're taking free throws.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, No, it doesn't. It doesn't work often. Definitely
Speaker 1: not Draymond Green from thirty five feet I would say either.
Speaker 4: Which is why to me, no matter what, it's a
Speaker 4: dumb play. The odds of it working, it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 6: Man. Yeah, yeah, that.
Speaker 3: Surprised me just with the time.
Speaker 7: If there was one second to go, it was like, okay,
Speaker 7: there's not really much he could do, but he still
Speaker 7: had plenty of tons of time just to get it
Speaker 7: to carry. De Jontay Mary is doing a good job
Speaker 7: trying to deny Steph, but big time. You know, I
Speaker 7: think Draymond, just knowing how good he's basketball like you is,
Speaker 7: you would hold it. Look out, Okay, I've got two
Speaker 7: or three seconds here to make some sort of play
Speaker 7: to get it to Steph. Because Steph, Steph needs less
Speaker 7: than a second to get that shot off. It doesn't
Speaker 7: matter where he is, it could go in. So that
Speaker 7: surprised me about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Trey wroughte it up on the Daily Show
Speaker 1: after that game. Pop doesn't usually foul too, Like he
Speaker 1: doesn't do when we're when you're we're up three and
Speaker 1: you have the ball, we'll play the foul game and
Speaker 1: we'll do that. He does not do that, So, you know,
Speaker 1: Draymond should have known that really that it was like
Speaker 1: sort of unlikely that a guy would come in there
Speaker 1: and try and just take the quick fellow and maybe
Speaker 1: you could go to him into the shot and get
Speaker 1: the ref to give you three. But yeah, not Pop.
Speaker 1: But anyway, that's a good one.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and it made me think of their last season
Speaker 6: in Golden State together Draymond and Kevin Durant, where you know,
Speaker 6: they had the fallout Draymond Green brought the ball up,
Speaker 6: they didn't give it to Kevin Durant and seemed to
Speaker 6: be the last moment where they I don't know, it
Speaker 6: kind of just you know, it was the beginning of
Speaker 6: the Yeah, for sure, and they play on Saturday ABC.
Speaker 1: Do they really wow?
Speaker 4: I's how people on the stream team were saying, Uh,
Speaker 4: Steph could go for sixty against the Nets. That's maybe,
Speaker 4: but it's also a national TV game against the good team,
Speaker 4: so the Nets are playing defense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 6: That's also a good point. Yeah, they don't want to
Speaker 6: play defense, but when it's a good team, don't play defense.
Speaker 6: Next nominee. Here the Charlotte Hornets because they allowed Kyle
Speaker 6: Anderson of the Memphis Grizzlies to hit four threes in
Speaker 6: two minutes in the exact same spot. He's on the
Speaker 6: far corner, bang all from the exact same spot. This
Speaker 6: is not a joke. There's five possessions in a row.
Speaker 6: Kyle Anderson missed on one of them, and he had
Speaker 6: all the time in the world to chill out. This
Speaker 6: is a third quarter to start the quarter, and the
Speaker 6: Charlotte Hornets came out of looking good.
Speaker 1: But that was a quick rely saw that one.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and then he goes slow for the final one,
Speaker 6: the fourth one. Four straight threes.
Speaker 1: Has some words time out the old Chevy tracks. You
Speaker 1: got to guard me out here tracks.
Speaker 6: The game was over at that point. They really they
Speaker 6: couldn't come back after that. And yeah, when a guy
Speaker 6: hits fourth reach from the exact same spot, that's a
Speaker 6: good one. Got the final one here. It's a fan
Speaker 6: of the show who gets Worse of the Week nominee
Speaker 6: Sam you know No, And he should have, you know,
Speaker 6: noted a lot better. He's been a fan of the
Speaker 6: show for a long, long, long, long time and he
Speaker 6: saw this TBT that I put up. We've shown it
Speaker 6: a couple of times on the show. Now, ye Sex,
Speaker 6: it's me hanging out with my sports cards, sorting them out.
Speaker 1: As to my sports cards cards, it's a seductive look
Speaker 1: for sure.
Speaker 6: I was hanging out there for a long time. This
Speaker 6: is the TVTS several years ago, and I finally got
Speaker 6: to sorting them out. And there's a lot of hockey
Speaker 6: logos in there. There's a Calgary Flames logo very prominent.
Speaker 6: There's there's other sports cards. But Samuel no No writes
Speaker 6: hockey cards. Really yeah, I'm Canadian.
Speaker 1: Yeah you know that.
Speaker 6: The show originated in Canada, Sam, you know No. So
Speaker 6: I understand people don't know what hockey cards are like,
Speaker 6: they just don't get that people trade hockey cards. But
Speaker 6: that's my home country where they put the skates on
Speaker 6: their feet and they skate around and they play the
Speaker 6: hockey game. And even though I wasn't much of a
Speaker 6: hockey player. Of course, I loved hockey. Who doesn't love
Speaker 6: hockey growing up in Canada? Not too many people. Basketball
Speaker 6: I love more, but samue, no, no, you should have no,
Speaker 6: not a lot a lot.
Speaker 7: He's usually watching. I can't see him in the stream
Speaker 7: team here, but.
Speaker 1: Hopefully he's or may we lost a fan.
Speaker 3: Hopefully he would have a retort, but I hope.
Speaker 1: So yeah, what's his possible retort. I guess he's just saying, oh, man,
Speaker 1: I thought better of you. Tasks. I can't believe you
Speaker 1: were when they were twelve years old.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, those are those are prime years. Those are
Speaker 6: good hockey collecting years when I was that young as well,
Speaker 6: and that's what peak sports cards.
Speaker 1: M Yeah. Oh, I don't remember Tasks when, you know,
Speaker 1: because we're basically the same age. Like when we were
Speaker 1: young in Canada especially, I don't really remember buying or
Speaker 1: wanting basketball cards or baseball cards. It was all hockey cards.
Speaker 1: I remember, oh, Peache baby.
Speaker 6: Not where I lived. Yeah, I mean it wasn't America.
Speaker 6: I guess America. Like, yeah, skybox were around in the US,
Speaker 6: but they weren't. They weren't baseball cards, I guess in
Speaker 6: the in terms of the rankings, and what are the
Speaker 6: American cards rankings in the in the nineties, right.
Speaker 4: Like baseball baseball, right, yeah, Baseball cards, and then I
Speaker 4: would say basketball cards, the upper deck and the skybox sets.
Speaker 1: Particularly for me. For me, it was baseball until.
Speaker 4: Like ninety ninety one, and that's when they started out
Speaker 4: with the cool skybox and then it was game over.
Speaker 1: I remember I got into a fight with my next
Speaker 1: door neighbor, Dwayne Kelly over cards. I think, who knows
Speaker 1: what we're arguing about. We were like ten, but a
Speaker 1: Grand Furor card got ripped up. I'm furious. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was don't worry. We were best friends the next day.
Speaker 1: It's like, we're next door neighbors. What are we gonna do.
Speaker 1: We gotta be friends.
Speaker 7: You didn't ever get into a fight with all the sneaky.
Speaker 1: Stinky came later in life. Man, Oh, Grant Fury, he's
Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer. Huh Yeah, I mean I think
Speaker 1: it was actually a good card at the time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wish we could take that one back. I think
Speaker 1: it was like the classic, like we're both holding it,
Speaker 1: like give it. Yikes, that's a nice one.
Speaker 6: Yeah, rare goalies that caught with their right hand. I
Speaker 6: don't see too many of those, thank Anyways. Back in
Speaker 6: my day when I went hockey. It's been been a
Speaker 6: while since I watch hockey, but yeah, I had thousands
Speaker 6: of cards and I still have a decent amount. I
Speaker 6: love when I you know, I shuffle through them and
Speaker 6: I find a football card. There's a random NFL card
Speaker 6: in there? What the heck is this?
Speaker 1: What you do?
Speaker 6: People collected NFL cards?
Speaker 1: I get Steve Tasker, shobble Helm Beabie. Did you what
Speaker 1: was like when you went through it? If you can
Speaker 1: remember a task like, was there anything where you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: this might be of some value, like this is a
Speaker 1: good card or a rookie card for anyone in particular or.
Speaker 6: Not not that one that went that I didn't know prior.
Speaker 6: Like I have, I've got some a lot of Calgary
Speaker 6: flames and screw down cases like oh that if you
Speaker 6: got a fight with Dwayne Kelly and you want to
Speaker 6: use a screwed down case against them, you could do
Speaker 6: some serious right right, hurt somebody with that, yeah, serious concussion.
Speaker 6: But and nothing that popped up like oh this guy
Speaker 6: was a scrub. And I mean it's been so long
Speaker 6: that Uh, you know, just I would have already gone
Speaker 6: through right right you.
Speaker 1: I'm bling upon like a Ken Griffy Junior card.
Speaker 2: I have it.
Speaker 6: I have a Ken Griffy. I had the whole set.
Speaker 6: I went, there you go. I collected that one through
Speaker 6: eight hundred.
Speaker 1: There you go, the whole set.
Speaker 6: Yeah, not buying a box.
Speaker 1: You know this guy talks. When this guy talks cards,
Speaker 1: it's always shirt off. Let's get sexy. Let's talk cars.
Speaker 6: I might I might wear my John Oldrude hard hat,
Speaker 6: but nothing else on yours.
Speaker 1: The little uh, the little cup you would get ice
Speaker 1: cream and that's what you're talking about. Okay, great stuff.
Speaker 1: Sorry Sam for being one of the worst of the
Speaker 1: week nominees. Let's get to tweet of the night. And
Speaker 1: like I said, uh, it's up in the air. Who's
Speaker 1: even gonna take this? But JAD hit the music, tweet the.
Speaker 6: Night, tweet out the night.
Speaker 1: Wow, we left it on Happy Hour last night. I
Speaker 1: mean there was some like negotiations going on, like task
Speaker 1: is asking Lee and then we were like, hey, what
Speaker 1: about JD hasn't done it, And I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 1: technically I did a top five and should I do it? Anyway?
Speaker 1: We left it. I think at saying, hey, everybody, come
Speaker 1: with a good tweet and we'll just figure it out
Speaker 1: on the fly. So does anyone want to get started
Speaker 1: a tasked? Like, do you want to just like jump
Speaker 1: in with your your tweet of the night and then
Speaker 1: we will determine whether we just leave it or somebody
Speaker 1: else will try and one up you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's start us off. First of all,
Speaker 6: I asked Lee on Twitter yesterday, you know what Twitter needs?
Speaker 6: I'm not Twitter on slacks sorry, Yeah, you know what
Speaker 6: slack needs. It needs a red feature like this man
Speaker 6: has red slack mass. Because I said that, Lee just
Speaker 6: went radio silence on me. He didn't want to respond
Speaker 6: because he didn't want to do it. I understand, No, no, no,
Speaker 6: you sent it. Let me see what time you sent it.
Speaker 6: Let me see what time it was early It was coot,
Speaker 6: just to check, so.
Speaker 7: You sent it thirty one. I was horizontal ride into
Speaker 7: the barren steam beds at that time, so I didn't
Speaker 7: say it until I came down.
Speaker 6: I saw a red dot on your on your on
Speaker 6: your name. I think you're around.
Speaker 3: I guess you're but that Yeah, my laptop was open.
Speaker 1: My computer. Well, next time pull down the little thing
Speaker 1: read reading Berenstein Bears as your status.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean you know I had to because I
Speaker 7: know I was coming straight back down to help stride
Speaker 7: into the stream. So I had the computer, I had
Speaker 7: the laptop, but you know I wasn't around.
Speaker 6: All right, that's why it needs a red feature on Slack.
Speaker 6: All right, tweeted and Night. I'll start us off. If
Speaker 6: you saw the Warriors want to Scano Anderson a ridiculous
Speaker 6: celebration Classic Warriors, Steph Curry hitting a shot but once
Speaker 6: to skin. Anderson celebrates way before Steph Curry puts it up.
Speaker 6: He goes, He goes like full Chris Douhan with the
Speaker 6: you know, the the arm. Yeah, full rotation on the floor.
Speaker 6: So that's awesome for him. Then Bleacher Report tweeted out
Speaker 6: the video, which was their caption was sta Curry's teammate
Speaker 6: very excited, So want Ton Anderson said, Hello, I've got
Speaker 6: a name. He got to Twitter and he retweeted Bleach
Speaker 6: Report said, Hi, I'm Steph's teammate. My name's one So
Speaker 6: I just like that with the emoji with the hand raised.
Speaker 1: It's me.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: His Twitter handle is one on one.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: It is incredible. I wish it's It's strange. I don't
Speaker 6: know why he went with ten yea his number. He's
Speaker 6: wearing fifty eight right on the floor.
Speaker 1: Ninety five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a real benbri with it, is he.
Speaker 6: It's a defensive alignment out there with the y I
Speaker 6: wish it was one on one ninety five. Who cares?
Speaker 6: One on one is great? Yeah, I want to point
Speaker 6: that out too. So just a great little exchange there
Speaker 6: from one. Hi. I'm STEP's teammate.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's that's good. That's a great tweet. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm going to sit this one out. I already played
Speaker 1: my card anyway with that weird mellow mellow face swap
Speaker 1: thing from Yennick. But lead you want to try and
Speaker 1: one upcast or do you want to let it lie?
Speaker 7: Well I'm happy to let it lie. I did have one,
Speaker 7: but it's not as good as that.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, okay, perfect.
Speaker 1: Okay, Trey, what do you want? What you want?
Speaker 6: One?
Speaker 1: Skits?
Speaker 5: Do you want?
Speaker 2: Want?
Speaker 1: You tell me?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 1: You know the tweets all right here we go.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, this tweet comes to you from no dump Sinc.
Speaker 4: Which NBA player would you at least want to fall
Speaker 4: on you. We asked that question on our Twitter, a
Speaker 4: lot of great responses. We nailed the majority of responsors.
Speaker 4: You see a lot of people we're voting for Zion,
Speaker 4: a lot of people coming through for Boban yep. But
Speaker 4: my favorite answer was somebody who shouted out an old
Speaker 4: Illinois boy, Thomas Hamilton, who they said the Rockets broadcast
Speaker 4: used to call Thomas handle Hamilton two sandwiches.
Speaker 1: This was a massive man.
Speaker 4: He was like listed at seven to three hundred and
Speaker 4: thirty pounds. They called this guy two sandwiches on the broadcast.
Speaker 4: We were talking about having six or five six inch
Speaker 4: subs on Happy Hour, but two sandwiches.
Speaker 1: I would not like to have that enough? All right,
Speaker 1: what was this good? What was his real name again?
Speaker 1: You said something Thomas Hamilton, Thomas Hamilton was on Broadway.
Speaker 1: My name is Thomas two sandwiches. That's good. Yeah. We
Speaker 1: had a lot of great responses that. There was a
Speaker 1: lot of fackle falls too, I saw, oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: just a lot of course big dudes that you wouldn't
Speaker 1: want falling on you.
Speaker 6: G D.
Speaker 1: I want to bring in here. I know, uh, you
Speaker 1: might have a tweet too, any anything.
Speaker 5: Oh, I'm is prepared. I try to be prepared. But
Speaker 5: first of all, Lee, did you really have a tweet
Speaker 5: because you didn't send me one? That's yeah, I was.
Speaker 7: My mine was Mine was a verbal one because it
Speaker 7: was Bill Russell. Like you've seen them. They're going around lately,
Speaker 7: the Jordan and Tom Brady, you know, with their rings.
Speaker 7: And then you just have Bill Russell's great on Twitter
Speaker 7: and he he just tweeted at that picture of him,
Speaker 7: you know where he's like that just says you're you're
Speaker 7: getting closer.
Speaker 3: That's all.
Speaker 1: That's good. It's his birthday, I believe today.
Speaker 3: I think that's right. Yeah it was.
Speaker 1: I think it's yesterday today. But I saw the photo
Speaker 1: of him with like a million candles on it, so
Speaker 1: happytato the great Bill Russell. Okay, but you didn't send
Speaker 1: the tweet in.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I sort of thought, I know someone else is
Speaker 7: going to have a better one, and I can just
Speaker 7: say mine because we've all seen that part.
Speaker 5: We've all seen the photo. A visual tweet.
Speaker 7: Well's listen, I'm thinking about our audio listeners as well.
Speaker 1: I'm like that does oh yeah, now you are yes.
Speaker 6: Interesting if you want to add me to the Worst
Speaker 6: of the Week nominees because I brought this upon you.
Speaker 6: Oh no, I could have easily just done tweeted the week.
Speaker 3: Now I'm making So who's doing tweet on Monday?
Speaker 7: Then let's let's get this settled right now. I know
Speaker 7: well JD likes to have the whole weekend to get once.
Speaker 3: I do you want it on.
Speaker 5: My because I'm about to do one now, so I
Speaker 5: need some ber So.
Speaker 1: I'll do Monday. I'll do Monday. I'll do money right,
Speaker 1: all right?
Speaker 5: So my tweet comes from, uh, Terry was taken? At
Speaker 5: Terry was taken, and it's he tweeted he or she tweeted.
Speaker 5: No ducks, you have to bring back the mellow drop
Speaker 5: for tomorrow. Okay. So we get these all the time,
Speaker 5: and then specifically at me, please please bring it. It's fine,
Speaker 5: it's fine.
Speaker 4: But.
Speaker 6: It's polite.
Speaker 5: It's polite, it's it's it's people love it here it is.
Speaker 5: But I have to confess something. I hate that drop.
Speaker 5: I've always hated it. What I don't know what it is.
Speaker 5: I just don't like it.
Speaker 1: It's oh, I disagree that everybody loves it.
Speaker 5: I get it, but there's certain things I think I
Speaker 5: just where it comes from. I didn't like I didn't
Speaker 5: like the parody song, you know, and it just it
Speaker 5: just bugs me. It just gets on me, you know
Speaker 5: how sometimes things get under your skin, and it's just
Speaker 5: every time it comes up and like huge eye roll
Speaker 5: from me, and then.
Speaker 1: And then yeah, people are gonna be so excited to
Speaker 1: hear that again though.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, they're They're going crazy in the in the
Speaker 5: chad when I I was just like, okay, it's a drop.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Can you can you go get a swim up bar
Speaker 1: looking good?
Speaker 5: I really like that and I get it, I mean
Speaker 5: I can, well, yeah it's possible, can I not?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: No, I don't mean right this second. I'll tweet at
Speaker 1: you and ask and say please.
Speaker 5: But perfect. That will be my tweet of the night
Speaker 5: next week. So so wait, wait and then I'll create
Speaker 5: one and then that'll be that's that's perfect.
Speaker 1: Maybe we can reach out to Cam Stuart and get
Speaker 1: a photo of him out of swim up which has
Speaker 1: to exist. Yeah right, it's got it out there a
Speaker 1: last Gabe too. Maybe he has it.
Speaker 6: You know. You know, Cam had a waterproof camera that
Speaker 6: was strapped to his wrist hold up to the swim
Speaker 6: up bar with oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we'll try and get the photo of cam
Speaker 1: if it exists at a swim up bar, add the element,
Speaker 1: the video element to the the photo element to the
Speaker 1: audio drop, and then there we go pop. Yeah, okay, great, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a really convoluted tweet of the night. Let's
Speaker 1: not do that again.
Speaker 3: It's just you're on Monday. I'm lucky, I know right now,
Speaker 3: you're on Monday. All right, all right, what about this tweet?
Speaker 1: What about this tweet? Pigum results. It was the Raptor
Speaker 1: Celtics game. Celtics were favored by three and a half.
Speaker 1: We talked a little bit about this game. They got
Speaker 1: the victory, Ojelai and Pritchard catching fire. So Lee, you swerved.
Speaker 1: You had the Celtics, you had the Beantown boys. You're
Speaker 1: marching with them right now. So you got the victory.
Speaker 1: Your four and five lost for everybody else. Drops tass
Speaker 1: to night at four and five and trays right behind
Speaker 1: us at three and six. So not the greatest start
Speaker 1: here for your boys in February. Like to see us
Speaker 1: get over five hundred or at least a couple of us.
Speaker 1: So let's try and do that tonight tasks what's the game?
Speaker 1: Where are we going? There's like twenty six games on
Speaker 1: this weekend, but obviously focusing on Friday night to night.
Speaker 1: Where do you want to go?
Speaker 6: Big battle tonight, Battle of the two best teams? No
Speaker 6: one really wants to talk about Bucks versus the Jazz.
Speaker 6: Jazz are one in the West and a team that's
Speaker 6: getting pretty close to number one in the East. I
Speaker 6: believe they're one and a half back the Philadelphia seventy
Speaker 6: six ers in Utah, which is important. The Bucks are traveling,
Speaker 6: they are on their road swing, but played pretty well
Speaker 6: until that loss on Wednesday night against the Phoenix Suns
Speaker 6: when Yannis had forty seven and almost won them the
Speaker 6: game at the end. So Bucks versus the Jazz trace
Speaker 6: start us up.
Speaker 4: I think I'm gonna go with the Jazz here. They've
Speaker 4: been playing really well and they're at home. Maybe the
Speaker 4: Bucks are tired.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know if that's actually going to be the case,
Speaker 4: but I really like what I've been seeing from the
Speaker 4: Jazz lately. They went on a huge win streak, lost
Speaker 4: the game, started in another huge win streak.
Speaker 1: Great stuff. I am locking in the Jazz for sure.
Speaker 1: Isn't this like a no brainer? It's a Friday night.
Speaker 1: The Utah Jazz will dominate the Bucks tonight, and we
Speaker 1: will not be here to talk about it because we
Speaker 1: won't have a podcast tomorrow. This one. I'm going Utah
Speaker 1: one and a half. That's it. Yeah, that's what's gonna
Speaker 1: happen here, Lely, Are you going with us?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 7: No, Drew Holiday, but no Mike Conley for the Jazz
Speaker 7: kind of cancels each other out. The Jazz has just
Speaker 7: been playing pretty convincing basketball lately.
Speaker 3: I think they've got what is it, one and a
Speaker 3: half points?
Speaker 7: You said, Testy, I think they got two points in
Speaker 7: I'm sorry yet, Jazz tassy.
Speaker 1: I swerve.
Speaker 6: I just don't like I don't like a four man. Yeah,
Speaker 6: so I think I like the four man Yeah, who knows?
Speaker 6: Who the heck knows? But the Bucks have been playing
Speaker 6: very well. But yeah, Drew Holiday not being able to
Speaker 6: guard don Van Mitchell hurt the other night when he
Speaker 6: couldn't guard to perspone them book or but maybe they've learned.
Speaker 1: Maybe the Bucks have learned, okay, task taking the Bucks,
Speaker 1: task taking a walk? Everybody else has you taught to
Speaker 1: win by two or more. Good luck. Okay, let's add
Speaker 1: with a little rapid fire fun. I'll ask the questions.
Speaker 1: This week, after it was reported that the Mavericks had
Speaker 1: not played the national anthem this season, the NBA issued
Speaker 1: a statement basically saying, uh f that noise, you're all
Speaker 1: playing it, and Mark Cuban's response was Okay, Now, this
Speaker 1: is obviously a somewhat serious issue, and many people have
Speaker 1: strong opinions about whether we should keep or as the
Speaker 1: tradition of playing the anthem. But let's have some fun
Speaker 1: with it. This is rapid fire after all. Guys, if
Speaker 1: you were in church and we got to replace the
Speaker 1: national anthem with any song you want, what song are
Speaker 1: you picking? And why leave?
Speaker 7: Yeah? Well, people didn't even know the anthem wasn't being
Speaker 7: played in Dallas. They quite a few people got upset.
Speaker 7: They all got horny for the anthem again. So if
Speaker 7: you want to get horny before a game, let's get
Speaker 7: real horny. Let's go with I Want Your Sex by
Speaker 7: George Michael. Let's get everyone up there dancing and jivick.
Speaker 3: I don't get people in.
Speaker 1: The mood for a game of basketball. Okay, Yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: take our shirts off open some cards. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: to ask, where are you going?
Speaker 6: I'm not going sexy. I'm gonna go, you know, excited.
Speaker 6: I'm going a little off the board for me. Enter
Speaker 6: Sandman by Metallica. Oh wow, okay, Like it's it's kind
Speaker 6: of like Trey's Big Beef bit. At first you're into
Speaker 6: it and I'm but the intro lasts a little bit
Speaker 6: too long, so maybe you might you might just you know,
Speaker 6: drop out for a secon. But then it comes back
Speaker 6: with a vengeance and you can't stop. It's a slow build,
Speaker 6: but not too slow a build, and before you know
Speaker 6: you're banging bodies with everybody around you ready to watch
Speaker 6: some basketball. So I think that's a it's a good
Speaker 6: pump up.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Trey, I have a wild guess where
Speaker 1: you're gonna go with this one. But what's the song
Speaker 1: you're picking to replace the anthem with? And why?
Speaker 4: I don't think you're gonna guess what I am picked?
Speaker 4: What do you think it was gonna be?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 1: I thought you might just go like classic nineties high
Speaker 1: school basketball warm up song, like a rough Rider's anthem,
Speaker 1: my national anthem, Yeah, rough Rider's anthem. Yeah stop dropped,
Speaker 1: shut them down, Open up shop. That's a great choice.
Speaker 4: I actually wish I would have picked that now, but
Speaker 4: I think I have one that has universal approval, which
Speaker 4: is tough to find these days.
Speaker 1: American Girl by Tom Petty.
Speaker 4: Okay, it's about America, about somebody from America, and it
Speaker 4: would have a great sing along part, you know, once
Speaker 4: you get to the part where I assume the anthem
Speaker 4: performer would be doing the part that goes, oh yeah,
Speaker 4: all right, take an easy baby, make it last all night,
Speaker 4: and then the rest of the audience chimes in with them,
Speaker 4: make at.
Speaker 1: All night, being magical perform I'm so happy I asked
Speaker 1: that question. Great answers, guys. Next one, The Raptors announced Thursday,
Speaker 1: tests slipped this into the show that they will finish
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty twenty one season in Tampa, Florida. Because
Speaker 1: of ongoing border restrictions due to the pandemic, and mindful
Speaker 1: of public safety measures in Canada, team has decided they
Speaker 1: will just continue to play their home games down south.
Speaker 1: So we all miss home. We haven't been home in
Speaker 1: a long time. I say home. I know trays in Illinois, boy,
Speaker 1: but you lived in Toronto for a long time. We
Speaker 1: obviously all did. Guys, what will be the first thing
Speaker 1: you do when you are allowed to safely travel to
Speaker 1: Toronto again? And I don't want like, you know, see
Speaker 1: friends and family, that's a no brain early. I want something,
Speaker 1: you know, something maybe specific to the city. What are
Speaker 1: you doing?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 7: First off, I hope I'm a lad back into the
Speaker 7: country because my current visa has expired, so I'm going
Speaker 7: to have to get that taken care of. Okay, I'm
Speaker 7: going to the dam forth. I'm going to Libretto Pizza.
Speaker 7: I'm having the Duck on Feet pizza and if that's
Speaker 7: not open, I'm going to Bomb me Boys and I'm
Speaker 7: getting the duck little bomb visa I have there.
Speaker 3: I just come like, this guy.
Speaker 1: Just wants some duck, big duck.
Speaker 7: As soon as as soon as I get my passport stamp,
Speaker 7: I'm just ordering straight away and saying the text he
Speaker 7: just take me straight to Libretto's. I'll go to the
Speaker 7: hotel of a house where I'm saying afterwards, those pizzas
Speaker 7: are amazing.
Speaker 1: All right, this guy getting me hungry here lately. I
Speaker 1: love it, Tas. What are you doing? First thing you're
Speaker 1: doing in Toronto? Once we can go back.
Speaker 6: I'll join you on the dance fourth Lee. I'm gonna
Speaker 6: have myself a night. I probably won't go to librettos,
Speaker 6: but I'll go to Mazes for some good Greek food,
Speaker 6: because we struggle for that here in Atlanta. Sometimes you
Speaker 6: go to a little zaid Zekie pump for what you
Speaker 6: think would be a Zizekie pump, and all you get
Speaker 6: is ranch sat us. Here there's a there's so many
Speaker 6: mistakes being made here in Atlanta when it comes to
Speaker 6: Greek food. So I'm going to Missess. That's a Zekie pump. Yeah,
Speaker 6: Like there's like a there's a restaurant here with a
Speaker 6: full vat of what you would believe would be to Zekie,
Speaker 6: like one of those what you think is a ketchup
Speaker 6: punk Like there's so much of that white, creamy sauce
Speaker 6: in there. It's so popular, but it's freaking ranch at
Speaker 6: a Greek restaurant Saint mid Middle of America, where everybody
Speaker 6: loves the ranch. We're in a Greek restaurant, right, and
Speaker 6: you get ranch anyway. So I'm going to massess all right.
Speaker 1: I can't believe the da Zekie pump didn't come up
Speaker 1: during our splooge talk on NBA Happy Hour last night.
Speaker 6: It almost said, and then I'm going for a for
Speaker 6: a pet at Athens Bakery with it cispy, and then
Speaker 6: we'll break some glasses as we drink uzo into one am.
Speaker 6: That's that's when they call it on dan Forth, it's
Speaker 6: going home world.
Speaker 1: That's late for us.
Speaker 6: That's pretty good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, that's a great one, Trey. What are you
Speaker 1: doing first thing in Toronto? I'm getting food too.
Speaker 4: I just want to be walking down the street three
Speaker 4: am in the morning, stop in for a shwarma somewhere.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, man, shwarma.
Speaker 4: You don't have a quick shwarma place around here. The
Speaker 4: last time I had shwarma was making it myself out
Speaker 4: of Danielle's cookbook. An incredible recipe, turned out great, but
Speaker 4: I had.
Speaker 1: To make it.
Speaker 4: And you know, I don't got the pickling vegetables skills
Speaker 4: that you're getting inside of Ali Bab is a good one.
Speaker 4: I suppose there's a bunch of different shwarma shops, but
Speaker 4: uh oh yeah, the various sauces. You know, they tend
Speaker 4: to have more of a vat rather than a pump.
Speaker 4: But different sauces for different pluses like I say, give
Speaker 4: me a schwarma.
Speaker 1: Ah right, great answers. Final one, The Daily Dings daved
Speaker 1: to four introduced the concept of the Athletic podcast Universe
Speaker 1: this week, and Trey said that I was Thanos because
Speaker 1: I threatened to snap my fingers and destroy the NBA
Speaker 1: Happy Hour if we didn't reach thirty thousand subscribers. Now,
Speaker 1: luckily we did, Happy Hour went off without a hitch
Speaker 1: again how to blast go check it out. But if
Speaker 1: that makes if I'm Thinos and that makes me the
Speaker 1: super villain, I want to know that makes you guys
Speaker 1: in the of course Marvel universe. So we're doing this
Speaker 1: a little differently, Lee, which Marvel character is Tass?
Speaker 7: You know, I'm going all visual with this one because
Speaker 7: of the tvt that task posted yesterday and I found
Speaker 7: the absorbing Man all the Crusher what I googled? I
Speaker 7: googled Marvel characters and I thought, I'm not just going
Speaker 7: to go with one of the obvious ones. I want
Speaker 7: to dig a little deeper. And I thought, based on
Speaker 7: what we saw yesterday from Tassy, I think this is him.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, the Crusher.
Speaker 1: Can you fill in the blank here on this guy?
Speaker 1: Is this a real character? Who is it?
Speaker 5: I have never never heard of him.
Speaker 1: It's real.
Speaker 5: When I saw this, I thought it was Samman for
Speaker 5: some reason.
Speaker 1: But now that's the Absorbing Man.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: He appeared in Marvel Agents of Shield season two, episode one.
Speaker 7: Maybe this is like egg Candy Batman with I just racha,
Speaker 7: isn't it like?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's just get it.
Speaker 1: That guy absorbs old nineties hockey cards strong. That's just superow.
Speaker 1: I see there's em one. Okay, Hey, it's your answer now.
Speaker 3: Task.
Speaker 1: Which Marvel character is Trey?
Speaker 6: Vacillated between two options here? Captain America the classic being
Speaker 6: the only American on this show. It makes sense, but
Speaker 6: it doesn't really put the personality I think.
Speaker 1: So I don't always do the right thing right he.
Speaker 6: Does personality wise, This isn't a perfect match, but more
Speaker 6: Root's big, he's woodsy. You know you could get a
Speaker 6: car Heart sponsorship.
Speaker 4: Voiced by Vin Diesel catch phrases, it's perfect. I am
Speaker 4: car Heart.
Speaker 1: That's a good answer. He likes it too, so he's
Speaker 1: all I love it all right. Finishes off here tray.
Speaker 1: Which Marvel character is Lee?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 4: Same team as tassies Lee. According to myself, and Joe
Speaker 4: Khindos says that Lee is Drags the Destroyer, the Dave
Speaker 4: Bautista character from Guardians at the Galaxy. He sees the
Speaker 4: world his way and then he states it plainly, and
Speaker 4: it is always hilarious and just like Task and the
Speaker 4: Absorbing Man are both obviously jacked, same with Lee and
Speaker 4: Drags the Destroyer.
Speaker 3: Right killing it.
Speaker 1: Man, it's so good. I guess we'll end this off
Speaker 1: by asking the stream team or anyone listening you can
Speaker 1: tweet at us, who does that make JD? In the
Speaker 1: Marvel universe? JD? Does ayone come to mind? Anyone you
Speaker 1: would love to be associated with?
Speaker 5: Who I am? Yeah, I'm I'm sure.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, just with the the giant beard.
Speaker 5: Well, I've been I got a big beard or gained
Speaker 5: some weight, and I've been gained a little bit of
Speaker 5: weight over this pandemic. So I'm incredibly sexy. I'm I'm
Speaker 5: from a far away land that you literally have to
Speaker 5: cross a rainbow bridge to get to.
Speaker 1: So nice, done, nice.
Speaker 5: I don't know so, and I You're like.
Speaker 1: Sort of you're pretty blunt, but I feel like thor
Speaker 1: is like just gets to the point, right.
Speaker 5: Yep, Yeah, I'm pretty pretty good with a hammer. Yep,
Speaker 5: all right, not really, but I enjoy holding a hammer.
Speaker 4: That counts. All right, you do have godlike powers of production,
Speaker 4: I would say, as well, you actually have skills compared
Speaker 4: to the rest of us running around with crossbows, bows
Speaker 4: and arrows and a knife.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I know he was only saying it because
Speaker 1: I was threatening to get rid of happy hoard. I
Speaker 1: am definitely not fanos. I'm a man. Apparently, as people
Speaker 1: were saying the last three, what's sure he's the funniest. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like man. Oh he does get huge too, doesn't he.
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I forgot about that part. Oh that's cool. All right, Uh,
Speaker 1: that's it. Let's wrap it up there, Rapid Fire Fun.
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Speaker 3: He's a defender of the galaxy.
Speaker 1: Okay, sure, sure, sure, other than absorbing man.
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