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Speaker 2: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntire.

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Speaker 1: What is up, Straight Firefam, It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight

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Speaker 1: Fire for Monday, April twenty fourth. We are recording this

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Speaker 1: at the end of another long day of hoops in

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Speaker 1: the NBA. Holy cow, four straight games. My goodness. The

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Speaker 1: first round is fun, but it is exhausting if you're

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Speaker 1: an NBA fans. There's so much hoops to watch, long

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Speaker 1: hoops filled weekend. I had some volleyball in it. We

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Speaker 1: had a church camp out. It was a long weekend.

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Speaker 1: And yes, I know you're waiting with baited breath to

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Speaker 1: find out about the championship game in the men's league

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Speaker 1: out here in California, and I'm sad to report we

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Speaker 1: took an l to the four time defending champs, defensive

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Speaker 1: slug fest, forty four to thirty eight. All right, it

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Speaker 1: was a little disappointing, guys, I don't know what else

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Speaker 1: to say. We had we had them scouted perfectly. I

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Speaker 1: was talking to their point guard after the game. He

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Speaker 1: said that they've been playing together for like several years

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Speaker 1: in various leagues, and that was the lowest point total

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Speaker 1: that they've had since they've been playing together. I mean

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Speaker 1: one of their guys had forty seven on us in

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Speaker 1: the last meeting, like forty seven actual points, and we

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Speaker 1: held them the forty four here, I didn't play great. Listen,

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Speaker 1: these guys have They're like fourteen fifteen years younger than

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Speaker 1: several of us, And I don't know what. We just

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Speaker 1: fell behind early. We I think we were down twenty

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Speaker 1: one to seven at one point, and then we came

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Speaker 1: out incredible in the second half. We cut it to one.

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Speaker 1: We had like a transition miss lay up. We missed

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Speaker 1: a lot of bunnies, we missed a lot of threes,

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Speaker 1: and ultimately there was a late technical on our team,

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Speaker 1: on our like our best big guy. And here's the

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Speaker 1: part the stinks if in this league, if you get

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Speaker 1: a tech, you have to sit for four minutes like

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Speaker 1: a cooling off period. And in a strange twist that

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Speaker 1: I did not know what was going on at the time.

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Speaker 1: So our guy, you know, I guess he was warned earlier.

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Speaker 1: He scores a bucket and then he like coming up

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Speaker 1: wrist as if to say, come on, he got me.

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Speaker 1: And you know, these guys are fouling a lot. Their

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Speaker 1: best player had I think was in foul trouble. Their

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Speaker 1: second best player of the point guard, I nearly fouled out.

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Speaker 1: So they're, you know, they're they're going at our bigs.

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Speaker 1: And as the refs are coming down the floor, one

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Speaker 1: And I have no idea what's going on. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm still rattled by the tech to our big guy.

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Speaker 1: It was like a five point game at the time.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, really, are you gonna give us a tech

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Speaker 1: I'm like, uh, it's just stinks. So I had no

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Speaker 1: was a guy I didn't recognize him. Whatever. So anyways,

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Speaker 1: after the game we end up losing, I will just

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Speaker 1: admit whatever. I didn't shoot well and it hurts. I'm

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Speaker 1: in there for two things. Lockdown defense, Like, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I played good defense on the guy was guarding their

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Speaker 1: point guard, who played like at a low level in

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Speaker 1: I think Taiwan really quick he's just a smart player,

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Speaker 1: great player, and I got to make open shots and

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Speaker 1: I missed my open shots. It hurt. I think we

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Speaker 1: were like three for eighteen from three. I like a loser.

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Speaker 1: I'll watch the video. I know Rob g is like,

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Speaker 1: all right, can we get to the Lakers and Job

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Speaker 1: Moran and the King? And there was yeah one second.

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Speaker 1: So this is the part that is weird. So after

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Speaker 1: the game, you know, we're walking out and the people

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Speaker 1: really weird because the guy didn't use any profanity. He

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Speaker 1: So it turns out this guy is a big listener

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Speaker 1: Who doesn't, you know? Rob G's telling me our numbers

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Speaker 1: rec league basketball team. Anyways, that was not the best

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Speaker 1: looking basketball game on Sunday. My men's rec league team,

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Speaker 1: we will be looking to We've already signed up for

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Speaker 1: next season. We'll be coming at them again. It was

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Speaker 1: our game was nothing compared to King's Warriors. I mean, goodness, gracious,

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Speaker 1: just getting loose, and I'm watching this and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: out of their minds. Andrew Wiggins shot seven of twelve,

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Speaker 1: they won by one at home barely what, folks. I

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Speaker 1: just saying right now this idea that like, oh, they

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Speaker 1: It was a nice wrinkle that Steve Kerr and Draymond

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Speaker 1: the third quarter. Warriors were up ten entering the fourth,

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Speaker 1: and then oh, by the way, like dearon Fox is

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Speaker 1: Like he it's tiring chasing around dearon Fox, And I'll

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Speaker 1: here's the scary part for the Warriors. They tried everything

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Speaker 1: Kuminga came in, gave him three minutes and folks, this

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Speaker 1: believe the Kings are still the favorites in this series. Now,

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Speaker 1: I don't think the gambling odds agree with me, but

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Speaker 1: I make the King's favorites. So it's essentially as a

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Speaker 1: three game series. Kings have two of them at home.

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Speaker 1: There's only one day off in between games, right, so

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Speaker 1: the next game in this series is Oh wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: is there an extra day off?

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Speaker 1: The next game off is Wednesday. Oh wow, that is massive.

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Speaker 1: So they get Monday Tuesday off. No, that can't be

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Speaker 1: right because it has game so Rob I'm looking at ESPN,

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Speaker 1: and they have Game five Wednesday, Game six Thursday. That's impossible, right,

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Speaker 1: that's gotta be a mistake.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they don't play it Thursday. It's Wednesday and Friday.

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Speaker 1: Hmmm. And then then yeah, and then they have Game

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Speaker 1: seven for Saturday, so I don't know. Again, this is

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Speaker 3: It's Wednesday, Friday, Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Wednesday Friday, so there's an extra day off before Game five.

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Speaker 1: That is huge for the Warriors because again, you look

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Speaker 1: at the minutes guys, Steph Curry forty three minutes, Klay

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Speaker 1: listen this game five, you don't you don't want to

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Speaker 1: go in without a couple of surprises. Like again not

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Speaker 1: to reference the Men's League for the tenth time, but

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Speaker 1: we had two gimmick defenses ready for them. Problem is

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Speaker 1: They just made a billion free throws. I don't know

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Speaker 1: Warriors lost the battle in the offensive glass. They're still

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Speaker 1: turning the ball over too much and three pointers each

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Speaker 1: team made fourteen, Like, guys, this is I think this

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Speaker 1: has to be scary. Rob if you're the Golden State Warriors,

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Speaker 1: I do not feel good at all. Clearly, Davion Mitchell

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Speaker 1: listen to the pod. Davion Mitchell is a problem for

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Speaker 1: my guy Steph Curry. He's just hounding him up and

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Speaker 1: had a good game. And how about this Keegan Murray,

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Speaker 1: divan Mitchell. They've got to figure out the the lineup,

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Speaker 1: great look for the victory. It would have been the

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Speaker 1: ultimate revenge three to go up three to one headed home.

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Speaker 1: Harrison Barnes is gonna lose sleep over that one, folks.

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Speaker 1: He is a former Warrior. I'm sure he's That has

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Speaker 1: to be a painful miss for him. He has shot

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Speaker 1: horribly from three in the series. Harrison Barnes one of

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Speaker 1: six Sunday. Now, let's see five of twenty from three

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Speaker 1: point range for Harrison Barnes. That's you know, that's not

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Speaker 1: how you as they like to say, that's not how

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Speaker 1: you get capone. Harrison Barnes has got to be better.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna really regret that miss. I still give the

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Speaker 1: Kings the advantage. I think the Kings win it. Evan Robb.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's not really going out on a limb

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Speaker 3: considering how bad the Warriors are, you know, on the road.

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Speaker 3: But my opinion of the Golden Day Warriors has really

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Speaker 3: shifted over these last two games.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 3: I know that we've recorded after Game three, and I

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Speaker 3: said that I didn't think they played very well. You know,

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Speaker 3: I didn't think that it was more about the Kinks

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Speaker 3: missing shots than anything else. And I still feel that

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Speaker 3: way to an extent. But the thing is is that

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Speaker 3: Sacramento is not doing anything, in my opinion watching these

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Speaker 3: a lesser extent, Klay Thompson uncomfortable. Right because you just

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Speaker 3: mentioned it that their their best lineup. It feels like

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Speaker 1: So the Nixon Calves, I don't remember who I picked

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Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell is a baller. They will not roll over

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Speaker 1: It's either a Darius Garland eruption for a few moments,

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Speaker 1: you could never really trust them, even though Osmond an

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Speaker 1: okay game. But Rob, you know, if you're Donovan Mitchell,

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Speaker 1: bounce first round. Rudy Gobert, big trade Timberwolves, and you

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Speaker 1: very tumultuous with Karl Anthony Townsend the guy to keep

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Speaker 1: Three big moves and again it's only year one. You

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Speaker 1: Moderately interesting, Rob, that all three teams that made a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's an understatement. I mean, uh, I don't.

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Speaker 1: Is this a Cavs thing? I mean, do you really

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Speaker 3: If Miami gets through and it's Miami in New York,

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Speaker 1: So give me the short version of how the heat

426
00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:52,480
Speaker 1: blasted the Bucks by twenty.

427
00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:55,040
Speaker 3: Well, I mean they were getting some good shooting efforts.

428
00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:58,040
Speaker 3: I mean Duncan Robinson, who rose from the dead, hit

429
00:21:58,080 --> 00:21:59,920
Speaker 3: a couple of threes and and and you know they

430
00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:02,760
Speaker 3: have guys who can get streaky, and the way Milwaukee

431
00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:04,879
Speaker 3: plays their defense, you're gonna get a lot of those looks.

432
00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:06,200
Speaker 3: You just gotta knock them down. And they did.

433
00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:09,360
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Robinson five of six from three? Did

434
00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:10,920
Speaker 1: he even see?

435
00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,679
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. The Tyler hero injury switch to everything.

436
00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:16,679
Speaker 3: But look, going back to New York, they may not

437
00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:21,320
Speaker 3: have the ceiling right of a Milwaukee when they're healthy, Boston,

438
00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:23,560
Speaker 3: even Philadelphia they don't. I'm not going to say it

439
00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:26,440
Speaker 3: they do. But what they do have is a floor

440
00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:28,199
Speaker 3: that I think is higher than a lot of than

441
00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:31,080
Speaker 3: those teams other than Boston, right because on a night

442
00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:33,199
Speaker 3: to night basis, if you want to get into a

443
00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:35,480
Speaker 3: rock fight and they can get you to play that way,

444
00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:38,040
Speaker 3: they can win a lot of games like that, doesn't

445
00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:39,880
Speaker 3: matter who it is, because they are going to play

446
00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:43,480
Speaker 3: a certain style at a certain pace that is going

447
00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:47,080
Speaker 3: to be effective anywhere Now, if you beat them, you

448
00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:48,480
Speaker 3: beat them. That's just the way it is. But they're

449
00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:50,760
Speaker 3: not going to be the kind of team that has,

450
00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:54,760
Speaker 3: you know, a three for twenty three point shooting night

451
00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:56,359
Speaker 3: and it just derails the whole team. That's not the

452
00:22:56,359 --> 00:23:00,639
Speaker 3: way they operate. So I'm on the bing bong train

453
00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:01,760
Speaker 3: in New York.

454
00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:05,120
Speaker 1: Well, listen, we've had some wacky conference finals the last

455
00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:07,840
Speaker 1: two years, Trey Young and the Hawks, Luca and the MAVs.

456
00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:11,240
Speaker 1: I'll say this. I just looked up Nick's heat this season,

457
00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:12,879
Speaker 1: and again I didn't dig into the box score to

458
00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:15,119
Speaker 1: see who played and who didn't. But Nicks beat the

459
00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:17,880
Speaker 1: Heat by two. Knicks beat the Heat by two, Nicks

460
00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:20,720
Speaker 1: beat the Heat by nine, Heat one by seven. Now,

461
00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:23,240
Speaker 1: again that's just surface level stuff. I don't know if

462
00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:26,439
Speaker 1: you know Jalen Brunson played or what. But it is

463
00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:30,480
Speaker 1: an interesting matchup because this NIXT team they're not having

464
00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:33,600
Speaker 1: trouble against Cleveland's guards. Like we know, Mitchell is not

465
00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:37,159
Speaker 1: a great defender and Garland is not great. Miami's got

466
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:40,040
Speaker 1: some guys to get into it, and Jimmy Butler will

467
00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:43,399
Speaker 1: gladly take on the Jalen Brunson assignment. So I'm never

468
00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:45,960
Speaker 1: gonna count Miami out of you know that heat culture

469
00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:49,600
Speaker 1: hashtag heat culture is a thing, but we're getting out

470
00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:52,960
Speaker 1: of ourselves. I quickly want to touch on since I

471
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:54,800
Speaker 1: mentioned Saturday's games, Rob and I know you've got a

472
00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:57,000
Speaker 1: busy life. You got the wife, the kid, You're always

473
00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:57,719
Speaker 1: at Disneyland.

474
00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:00,320
Speaker 2: Is it?

475
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:03,440
Speaker 1: We got to just talk about this Clipper situation real quick.

476
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:08,000
Speaker 1: I don't know how people can't be super into this story.

477
00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:10,639
Speaker 1: And Rob and I'll be full confession. Rob was even like,

478
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:12,240
Speaker 1: I don't know if we should talk about this because

479
00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:14,919
Speaker 1: my first thought was, man, did you see the Kawhi

480
00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:17,120
Speaker 1: Leonard news over the weekend? And it's like, oh yeah,

481
00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:18,840
Speaker 1: Kawhi was heard he missed two games? What a wis

482
00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:21,000
Speaker 1: or whatever you want to call it. And I was

483
00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:25,040
Speaker 1: like no, no, no, no, no, no no, no. Saturday, I met

484
00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:26,760
Speaker 1: my son's volleyball tournament, and all of a sudden, I

485
00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:29,440
Speaker 1: start getting texts did you see this Kawhi Leonard news?

486
00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:33,679
Speaker 1: And it was like Kawhi Leonard's sister sentenced to like

487
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:39,679
Speaker 1: I think life in prison or life in prison with

488
00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:43,720
Speaker 1: no pro crazy headline for murder of women at casino

489
00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:48,080
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen, and I'm like, whoa what? Wait? That

490
00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:52,400
Speaker 1: is this why Kawhi Leonard has missed the two games.

491
00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:54,919
Speaker 1: I know he's got the knee injury, but like, is

492
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:58,080
Speaker 1: he mentally not there because his sister's going to prison

493
00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:01,240
Speaker 1: for and the story is I mean, I shouldn't laugh

494
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:04,480
Speaker 1: when I say that, but the story is brutal. Allegedly,

495
00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:06,880
Speaker 1: I can't say allegedly, she's now guilty and going to jail.

496
00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:12,600
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard's sister and her friend, who had been banned

497
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:17,080
Speaker 1: from this Pachungo casino for a variety of stuff they fought.

498
00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:19,480
Speaker 1: They they were leaving the casino and they see this

499
00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 1: eighty four year old woman walk in and I guess,

500
00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:24,520
Speaker 1: you know, it looks like she has money and she

501
00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:27,880
Speaker 1: has like a pink purse or whatever. They follow her

502
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:33,920
Speaker 1: into the bathroom, end up smashing her skull and killing her,

503
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,160
Speaker 1: and they catch them like three days later, because there's

504
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,920
Speaker 1: a million cameras in a casino. Like, I don't I'm

505
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:41,639
Speaker 1: not bashing her. How dumb do you have to be

506
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:43,920
Speaker 1: to commit a murder in a casino? Like obviously they're

507
00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:46,560
Speaker 1: gonna catch you if you commit a murder. Almost anything

508
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:50,080
Speaker 1: that happens to casino. There's fifty billion cameras there, so

509
00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:52,840
Speaker 1: it didn't take long for them to find her. And

510
00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:57,040
Speaker 1: now I believe Kawhi's dad, Rob, I this happened in

511
00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:59,520
Speaker 1: La way before we got here. But I guess he

512
00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,160
Speaker 1: was gunn down when Kawhi was in high school, maybe

513
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:04,879
Speaker 1: your college, something like that. And then now his sister's

514
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:07,399
Speaker 1: going to like he's had a lot of strife. I

515
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:10,080
Speaker 1: don't I mean, what was your initial takeaway, Rob, Like,

516
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,119
Speaker 1: I don't want to go overboard here and be like, geez,

517
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:16,199
Speaker 1: something's going on, but I don't know. It just it

518
00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:20,400
Speaker 1: seemed the timing for Kawhi Caulse remember, no injury designation

519
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:23,680
Speaker 1: heading into game two, nothing on his knee. I didn't

520
00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:26,800
Speaker 1: see any ice, there was no like even at the

521
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:28,920
Speaker 1: end of the game, I didn't see any weirdness or Kawhi.

522
00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:34,560
Speaker 1: There was like nothing. It's like, boom, he's not playing. Uh.

523
00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:38,520
Speaker 3: I mean the given that, I mean, it's a terrible story,

524
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:42,400
Speaker 3: but given that Kawhi has to my knowledge, never spoken

525
00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:45,120
Speaker 3: publicly in all the years that this, you know, this

526
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:50,440
Speaker 3: first happened to was it twenty nineteen to now, it's

527
00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:52,160
Speaker 3: hard for me to comment on it, because I don't

528
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:54,400
Speaker 3: know how close they are. I don't know if it's

529
00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:57,920
Speaker 3: you know, in a strange sister you know. So it's

530
00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:00,520
Speaker 3: it's really difficult as far as him sitting out games.

531
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 3: It's weird to say, but I kind of give him

532
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:07,480
Speaker 3: the benefit of the doubt. And the only reason being

533
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 3: is the last time that something like this happened where

534
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,639
Speaker 3: he was held out with like a knee sprain and

535
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,239
Speaker 3: knee soreness, and it was very vague. They say we're

536
00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:17,240
Speaker 3: day to day, you know, they're not going to say

537
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:19,840
Speaker 3: exactly what the injury is. He ended up having a

538
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 3: torn ACL. So it's possible that this is another one

539
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 3: of those situations where the Clippers are just trying to

540
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:28,760
Speaker 3: use a little gamesmanship with Phoenix and let them think, oh,

541
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,560
Speaker 3: maybe he might come back for a game five, Maybe

542
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 3: he'll come back for Game six, Maybe he's there for

543
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:36,640
Speaker 3: game seven, Like maybe it's something as yeah, he tore

544
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:39,960
Speaker 3: his MCL this time or his PCL and he's out period,

545
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 3: he's not going to play, but we don't want to

546
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:42,960
Speaker 3: let you know that he's not going to play.

547
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:48,440
Speaker 1: Hmm. I like the positive book, positive rob gh be

548
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,080
Speaker 1: a positive like'll go to give give Kawhi a benefit

549
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:53,120
Speaker 1: of a doubt. Let's just spin it forward real quick

550
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:58,520
Speaker 1: briefly before we get to Lakers and Tonight's games. I

551
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,120
Speaker 1: I keep and back and forth, who do you trade

552
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 1: out of these two Paul Georgia Kawhi and and then

553
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, who's going to trade for Kawhi? Because

554
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 1: given what we've seen in the last like three or

555
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,399
Speaker 1: four years, he's hurt every year. I don't know that

556
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:20,400
Speaker 1: this is a scenario where Toronto can make up. Remember

557
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,080
Speaker 1: when they made the Hail Mary for Kawhi he had

558
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:25,880
Speaker 1: that issue, or like yeah, right, you know Toronto was like, hey,

559
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,439
Speaker 1: we're close. We could never get over the top. We

560
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:35,879
Speaker 1: got who's it uh DeRozan and Kyle Lowry and we

561
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 1: can hit a ceiling. Lebron kept blocking us. Let's just

562
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 1: let's go all in. Let's just get a chance a

563
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 1: Kawhi and they trade DeRozan, they bring on Kawhi, things

564
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:48,960
Speaker 1: break their way and they went right. It worked. Do

565
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 1: you think rob another team would take a chance on

566
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:56,600
Speaker 1: Kawhi having seen that or is it just like dude,

567
00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 1: no way, I don't need that everyday burden of Is

568
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 1: he gonna play is he not, Like, I don't want to.

569
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 1: I don't want to bring that on my franchise the fans.

570
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 1: But man, if he's healthy, oh boy, would love to

571
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 1: have Kawhi Leonard. I just it's so tough for me

572
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:15,480
Speaker 1: to even envision what a trade would look like for him,

573
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 1: because frankly, there's not I don't know that there's a

574
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 1: lot of teams that are close and he would put

575
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 1: them up, Like at least the Raptors at the time

576
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:26,360
Speaker 1: were in the playoffs every year and they just couldn't

577
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 1: break through. Like I'm sorry, I don't think like the

578
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 1: Mavericks could say we'll give up everything, but Luca give

579
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 1: us Kawhi Leonard like that to me, I don't think

580
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:38,880
Speaker 1: that really does anything. You know. It seems like the

581
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 1: Rockets Grizzlies, like I'm looking out oh for freak fine.

582
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 1: We could even forget the West and we could just say, oh,

583
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,320
Speaker 1: like the Spurs, they didn't want to, they didn't want

584
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 1: to keep him in the West. They send him, so

585
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:54,240
Speaker 1: like what maybe if Boston comes up short, do they say, Hey,

586
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,719
Speaker 1: we'll part with Jalen Brown, get us Kawhi Leonard, and

587
00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 1: we'll roll the dice Kawhi and Tatum or is that

588
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 1: kind of just duplicating with one guy less reliable than

589
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 1: the other. It's just so tough to find a team.

590
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:09,000
Speaker 2: Like the Sixers.

591
00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 1: You really think they do it by the way, they've

592
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:14,560
Speaker 1: got Joel embiid injury issue issues. I don't know Rob.

593
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:17,240
Speaker 1: For me, it's tough to see Kawhi getting dealt which

594
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 1: leaves Paul George and then it's like, well, all right,

595
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:23,200
Speaker 1: well we better get somebody really good because Kawh I

596
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:26,239
Speaker 1: don't always play, I just Ballmer's got to be just

597
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 1: seething at this point.

598
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 3: Absolutely, And given the way this conversation going makes you

599
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:33,480
Speaker 3: think that you listen to Friday's edition of The Odd

600
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,240
Speaker 3: Couple on Fox Sports Radio, I miss it because I

601
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 3: know you did. I know you don't listen.

602
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:40,719
Speaker 1: It's okay, no, only when you're filling in for Parker.

603
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:44,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, So Chris Brussard and Rob Parker jumped down my

604
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:47,800
Speaker 3: throat on Friday night when I suggested that maybe they

605
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:51,160
Speaker 3: look in at trading Kawhi Leonard. Now I had facetially,

606
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 3: facetiously thrown out Trey Young because he happened to be

607
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 3: playing that night. And basically what their argument was Brustar's

608
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:06,840
Speaker 3: specific was with, given Kawhi's injury history, he's more likely

609
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 3: to be relied upon as a sixth man than a

610
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,800
Speaker 3: face to your franchise. Wow, And they seem to be

611
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 3: of the belief and I want to put words in

612
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 3: their mouth, but the way their commentary was going is

613
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 3: that his contract is almost like an albatross at this

614
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 3: point because of how hurt he is. And and I disagree,

615
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:26,719
Speaker 3: like his his peak is too high no matter how

616
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 3: many games he plays, where I don't think that you're

617
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 3: not going to find a trade. You can't find a

618
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 3: willing trade partner, Like he's not Ben Simmons. Right, So

619
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,600
Speaker 3: if you're a team, you know, Philadelphia, there's a there

620
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 3: was a report over the weekend that James Harden wants

621
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 3: to go back to Houston, right he you know, maybe

622
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 3: he just loves the strip club life. He wants to

623
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 3: get to Jersey retired and all that stuff. Would if

624
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 3: they flame out with the playoffs against Boston, would you

625
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 3: do with James Harden for Kawhi Leonard type deal to

626
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 3: go to Houston? Yeah, but maybe he maybe he's cool

627
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:00,240
Speaker 3: with coming back home in La right, I mean, I

628
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 3: don't know. I'm just throwing it out there.

629
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 1: If you're, if not the worst trade in the world, if.

630
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 3: You're the Miami Heat and even with Janni's being banged up,

631
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 3: you get bounced in the first round, would you do

632
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 3: like Tyler Hero and some picks or whatever for Kawhi

633
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 3: Leonard You knowing that Kawhi is not reliable, but we

634
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 3: have Jimmy and Bam, Like, there are ways you can

635
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,760
Speaker 3: make it work that I think would make everybody happy.

636
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,440
Speaker 3: All I'm saying is, if you are the Clippers, and

637
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 3: this goes back to what you just mentioned, if you're

638
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Speaker 3: going to keep Kawhi on your roster, then whoever your

639
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 3: number two guy is, quote unquote needs to be a

640
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:39,000
Speaker 3: number one really because Kawhi can't be counted on to

641
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 3: be your number one.

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Speaker 1: So that's interesting. Like Heat culture is grind, toughness, work

643
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,640
Speaker 1: your butt off. That's Kawhi's the antithesis, right, he doesn't

644
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 1: ever play. But can they fix that in him? Well,

645
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's fixable. I'm just looking at

646
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 1: games played. My gosh, are you ready for this? Twenty

647
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 1: twenty three regular Kawhi fifty two twenty twenty two zero

648
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, fifty two, twenty twenty, you know, weird

649
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:14,600
Speaker 1: year fifty seven, twenty nineteen, sixty twenty eighteen nine, twenty seventeen,

650
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 1: seventy four. That was when he was playing seventy four.

651
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 1: And then I guess I don't know what happened with Antonio.

652
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:21,760
Speaker 1: We've never heard the full story as to why he

653
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 1: fell out with Pop and wanted wanted out like it

654
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 1: was very weird. But it's just if you're a Clippers fan,

655
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 1: you've just got to be Crestfallen.

656
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657
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Speaker 1: Before we uh, we'll talk about the tonight's games. But

661
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 1: Rob I just wanted to say, because I saw Rob

662
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 1: G tweeting this Saturday night, and again I was out

663
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 1: and I had spotty cell service, so I didn't I listen.

664
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 1: I didn't fully see the fight. But I do follow

665
00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:00,719
Speaker 1: this dude on the Gram. His name is Ryan Garcia,

666
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 1: and yeah, obviously I started following him because he is

667
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 1: super interesting on the Gram. He does like this all

668
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 1: these weird challenges. His name is King Ryan. He's got

669
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:16,399
Speaker 1: ten million followers. He does this thing where you can

670
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:19,200
Speaker 1: put on like this chest plate and he still punches you,

671
00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:22,399
Speaker 1: and it like just destroys all these guys. He's got

672
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 1: like the quickest hands maybe ever, I don't I don't know,

673
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:29,439
Speaker 1: it's super fast. But in a like, I think he's

674
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 1: got good content, so I follow him, And in a

675
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:35,040
Speaker 1: weird way, the boxing community doesn't seem to respect him

676
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 1: because he's seen as like a bit of an Instagram boxer,

677
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 1: not like Jake Paul, but just like more flash and substance.

678
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:46,480
Speaker 1: You know, he's a handsome guy. He's pretty ripped, you know,

679
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 1: six pack, all that fun stuff, and it's just a weird.

680
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that the boxing community did not really

681
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:56,759
Speaker 1: love or respect him because I started asking people like

682
00:34:57,800 --> 00:34:59,840
Speaker 1: the night of the fight, hey, who are you rooting for,

683
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 1: and like everybody was against the guy, And I was like,

684
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:04,440
Speaker 1: that's weird. I thought he was well liked. You know,

685
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:06,759
Speaker 1: he has like ten million followers, but I guess like

686
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 1: the like the hardcore boxing fans are just out on

687
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 1: him at any rate. I saw Rob tweeting about it,

688
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:15,240
Speaker 1: and I did not watch the fight. I do have showtime,

689
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 1: but I didn't watch a fight, and all of a

690
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 1: sudden I see Garcia knocked down. I was like, wow, okay,

691
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:21,880
Speaker 1: that's a surprise. I thought he was gonna win. Now

692
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 1: I don't know who. I don't follow tank, so I

693
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:27,080
Speaker 1: didn't know. I just liked the guy. And then next

694
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:30,359
Speaker 1: thing you know, he takes this like body shot. At

695
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 1: the time, you couldn't really tell, and then he backs

696
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:34,319
Speaker 1: up and then he goes down to one knee and

697
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 1: then you're like, oh no, he probably got hit in

698
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 1: the liver. And then you finally see the slow motion

699
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 1: shot that was just a brutal, just kill shot right

700
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 1: to the liver and he could not recover. Now, it

701
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:46,480
Speaker 1: was weird because he went to a knee and then

702
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 1: he stood up and he's like, I can't go, but

703
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 1: he was like fine in terms of speaking, and he

704
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:56,399
Speaker 1: looked like he could go another several rounds. The liver

705
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 1: shots are things that you just it's almost impossible to

706
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:02,360
Speaker 1: know what that's like until you get one. No, I

707
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 1: have not had one, but other boxers have been hit

708
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 1: with them and they just can't continue. But at anyway, Rob,

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00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:10,920
Speaker 1: I saw you were hot for this, and you have

710
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 1: some theories. I don't know how far you want to

711
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 1: go out on a limb given our large audience, and

712
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:17,719
Speaker 1: you know, Garcia has a lot of fans. I don't

713
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 1: need them coming after you. But where are you at

714
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 1: on the Garcia Tank Showdown? Oh?

715
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Speaker 3: I'm out on I'm out on Ryan Garcia. I mean

716
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 3: it was bad. It was bad enough. There's a three

717
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:31,719
Speaker 3: step process. It's bad enough that I had to pay

718
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 3: the eighty five dollars pay per view for a knockout

719
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:36,239
Speaker 3: that I couldn't even see in real time out of wait,

720
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 3: like seven minutes after the fire for them to show

721
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,279
Speaker 3: the replay from the correct angle to see where he

722
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 3: got hit. So that's number one, but number two to

723
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:45,759
Speaker 3: your point. Look, I'm not going to say I'm like

724
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 3: a boxing offician out of but I watch a good

725
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 3: amount of boxing. I watch pretty much all of the

726
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:51,680
Speaker 3: pay per views when I can, I'll watch them, you know,

727
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 3: the the fights when they come on ESPN and so

728
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:56,279
Speaker 3: far I don't they don't do at HBO anymore, but

729
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:59,120
Speaker 3: you know, I'll watch them. So I'm familiar with both

730
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 3: fighters to a decent amount. And when Ryan got hit

731
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:06,439
Speaker 3: in the liver and they show the replay he saw

732
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 3: what happened. But when they're doing the count, he winces

733
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:11,440
Speaker 3: the first time when he takes a knee, and I

734
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 3: understand that because it's like a delayed reaction from the

735
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:17,799
Speaker 3: liver shot. I understand that, but he didn't look to

736
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 3: me like he was like, Oh, I'm in a ton

737
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:22,360
Speaker 3: of pain, like I really can't move. This is really bad.

738
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 3: And then as soon as the count gets to ten,

739
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,759
Speaker 3: he stands right up and walks to the corner. So

740
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:31,279
Speaker 3: it gave me the impression that I'm not going to

741
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 3: say that he quit, but that he just decided, you know,

742
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 3: I don't want to do this anymore, Like I don't

743
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 3: want to continue. I've been knocked down twice. I really

744
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:41,760
Speaker 3: haven't done a whole heck of a lot of damage

745
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 3: to the other fighter that I'm going against.

746
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:45,439
Speaker 1: But he's one of these guys he could eat. I don't.

747
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: My only push to get back against the quit is

748
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:49,200
Speaker 1: like he's the kind of guy who can ease the

749
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 1: He's got such a powerful left he could just knock

750
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:53,399
Speaker 1: it can be over in one shot, you know.

751
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, But he was never getting that shot off. Like

752
00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 3: when I was watching the fight, you could tell that

753
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 3: he was looking to throw the left, and he was

754
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 3: trying to throw it in either was getting blocked or

755
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 3: he was just missing. And so even the announcers we

756
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:08,239
Speaker 3: were saying, like, hey, you got his corner was saying too,

757
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 3: But the announcers were saying, you got to start throwing

758
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:12,840
Speaker 3: the right because you're not gonna he's shutting off your

759
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:14,799
Speaker 3: left hand. You're not going to be able to get

760
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:17,160
Speaker 3: that big shot. Use your right hand. And he started

761
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,239
Speaker 3: to do that, I believe actually in that in that

762
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 3: sixth and seventh round, and he was connecting a little bit,

763
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:23,480
Speaker 3: but then once he went down it looked like it

764
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 3: was over. But now the third reason why I'm out

765
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 3: on him, and this is the most important, late Sunday

766
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:32,319
Speaker 3: evening ish, almost late night, probably even Monday morning on

767
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:35,880
Speaker 3: the East coast, he goes on Instagram and says that

768
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:39,399
Speaker 3: he had a mole in his camp. And he tries

769
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 3: to say, I'm not saying that's an excuse that I lost,

770
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 3: but it's interesting to know that I have a mole,

771
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:45,840
Speaker 3: and his testimony it's testament to the people that you

772
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 3: have around you. It's like, so you have a mole

773
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:54,400
Speaker 3: from Tanks camp in your camp, that's not an excuse

774
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:55,759
Speaker 3: why you lost. I just want to point it out,

775
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:58,239
Speaker 3: like that's the kind of thing that people say when

776
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:02,840
Speaker 3: you're fishing for excuse me, Like you lost fair and square.

777
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 3: It is what it is. I don't want to hear

778
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:05,240
Speaker 3: about a mole in your camp.

779
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:06,839
Speaker 1: What is supposed to mean.

780
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 3: I have no idea it could you know, somebody knew

781
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 3: a strategy. But he also said after the fight on

782
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,440
Speaker 3: another and even though he was very gracious in defeat

783
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 3: or at the podium in the ring, during the interview,

784
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 3: he went on Instagram Live and he's like, yeah, I

785
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 3: want to fight again, but without the rehydration clause. So

786
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 3: he was kind of peppering, and I'm not with that.

787
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 3: Oh listen, I don't know.

788
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:36,360
Speaker 1: I mean, again, you're way more plugged into the boxing

789
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 1: community than I am. I will maybe have to lean

790
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:44,399
Speaker 1: on others, but I don't are those really excuses. I mean,

791
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:48,040
Speaker 1: he does seem like a very lightweight guy. He doesn't

792
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 1: seem like a heavy dude. And you know, a guy

793
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:56,280
Speaker 1: nicknamed Tank looks more fire hydroney to me. So I again,

794
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:58,759
Speaker 1: I'm now I'm stepping into a domain I'm not really

795
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:03,440
Speaker 1: an expert in, and I you know, I'm out on it,

796
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:07,279
Speaker 1: but I don't know. I love rematches. I would I

797
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:09,719
Speaker 1: would definitely try to do my best to see the

798
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:12,840
Speaker 1: rematch or even maybe go to the fight. I have

799
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:13,759
Speaker 1: him to do a boxing fight.

800
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:16,400
Speaker 3: Ever, at least, how is that possible?

801
00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 1: I don't know.

802
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:19,840
Speaker 3: You go to like nine Laker games a year, you

803
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:20,440
Speaker 3: can't get to one.

804
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:22,399
Speaker 1: I don't match nine Laker games a year.

805
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 3: Seven.

806
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:25,839
Speaker 1: No, I got as many as possible. By the way,

807
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:27,759
Speaker 1: that's a good segue. Yeah, that's that's why he's a

808
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 1: good producer. Let's segue into tonight's games. I know it's

809
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:34,839
Speaker 1: gonna be not popular, but I can't get into Bucks Heat.

810
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:36,719
Speaker 1: Bucks are favored by five and a half. I can't

811
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:38,440
Speaker 1: get into it until I know if jannest is playing,

812
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 1: and it's kind of unwatchable. The Heat had been bombing threes.

813
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:44,000
Speaker 1: I'm sorry for saying, I don't know if Jimmy Butler's

814
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:46,239
Speaker 1: a great enough three point shooter. I mean, it's four

815
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 1: or four Friday and they were just bombs away. But again,

816
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:56,319
Speaker 1: we're talking about like Greason Allen. Bobby Portis like, this

817
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:59,839
Speaker 1: team is like, what's going on? I don't know, Rob,

818
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:02,920
Speaker 1: you know, this is just stay away from me. I

819
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 1: need you honest back. By the way, I did see

820
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:09,359
Speaker 1: that bam Adebayo, Jimmy Butler, and Jannis all on the

821
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:13,879
Speaker 1: injury report tonight. We'll see, but I know Rob needs

822
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 1: to talk about his Lakers, the big one Lakers GRIZ.

823
00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:22,120
Speaker 1: Now again, I was at like this church event Saturday

824
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:25,440
Speaker 1: night and I had to call up the game on

825
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:27,879
Speaker 1: my phone and I'm watching it. I'm like, oh, fourteen two,

826
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 1: what a start for the Lakers, and then you know,

827
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: you go out, you mingle, I come back, It's like

828
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:34,640
Speaker 1: thirty seven to nine. I was like, what is happening?

829
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 1: I mean, the Lakers totally dominated this game. Every time

830
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:39,719
Speaker 1: I look up, Lakers are winning. I do need to

831
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:41,760
Speaker 1: go in, Rob. I don't know if you agree or disagree,

832
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:46,759
Speaker 1: it's fine, but the fact that Dylan Brooks is not

833
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 1: suspended for Game four is a travesty that was as

834
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:54,319
Speaker 1: blatant of a dick shot as I've ever seen. And

835
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:56,920
Speaker 1: I'm talking dating back to Chris Paul at wake Forest.

836
00:41:57,320 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 1: I mean, Lebron put the ball behind his back. You're

837
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:03,840
Speaker 1: not going through his groin and abdomen and stealing the

838
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:07,280
Speaker 1: basketball that was right to the junk I understood the ejection.

839
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:10,400
Speaker 1: I thought he should have been suspended. This is a

840
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 1: guy who I think led the league in technical fouls.

841
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:15,800
Speaker 1: He has a goon label. He's out there talking trash

842
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 1: and like trying to like do all this nonsensical garbage.

843
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 1: And then he tries to say, oh, the media has

844
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:24,880
Speaker 1: made me the villain. Dude, you're the ass clown standing

845
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 1: up shirtless, wearing a vest and shades and saying Lebron

846
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:32,400
Speaker 1: is old, screw him. He's just to drop forty on me.

847
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. Like Dylan Brooks, You're trying to create

848
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:37,960
Speaker 1: a narrative, and that's fine. People know who you are now.

849
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Speaker 1: Nobody knew who you were before that. Like, it's not

850
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:42,400
Speaker 1: a big deal to me that you wanted to do

851
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:45,400
Speaker 1: this and be this guy. I get that, totally get that,

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00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 1: but don't try to spin it around. You deserve all

853
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:52,360
Speaker 1: the smoke, and if you were ejected, I think it

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00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:54,279
Speaker 1: would have been I'm sorry. If you were suspended for

855
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:57,520
Speaker 1: Game four, it had have been well warranted. It overshadowed

856
00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:01,240
Speaker 1: what actually was a pretty solid fourth quarter from Ja Morant.

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00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, twenty two straight points in the fourth.

858
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 1: He clearly looks healthy. And let me just quickly check

859
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Speaker 1: the line here, Rob, I don't have any money on

860
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:16,240
Speaker 1: this game yet, but it is Lakers favor by four

861
00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 1: and a half. Interesting that the let's see here the

862
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:27,919
Speaker 1: Lakers in this series. Other than a Game two bedshitting

863
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 1: when John Morant was out and they clearly took them lightly,

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Speaker 1: the Lakers have pretty much dominated the series. Can I

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00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 1: say that? I mean the Game three they dominated soup

866
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:41,480
Speaker 1: to nuts. Fourth quarter a bit of a letdown. Whatever.

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Speaker 1: Game one was mostly even through three quarters, Lakers led

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00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:46,520
Speaker 1: for a large portion of it, then just pulled away

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00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:48,840
Speaker 1: in the fourth. Yes, Jaw's injury had something to do

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00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:53,880
Speaker 1: with that, and Game three they played extremely poor. What

871
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:55,359
Speaker 1: can you say? But I feel like the Lakers have

872
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:57,760
Speaker 1: been the better side and I actually like them tonight

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00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:00,440
Speaker 1: favor by four and a half. My concern would be,

874
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Speaker 1: of course, if everybody else on their mom is on

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Speaker 1: the Lakers.

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Speaker 3: Well, I am one of those everybody in their mom

877
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:09,560
Speaker 3: because I'm in on the Lakers. And and even though

878
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 3: everything you said about Dylan Brooks is correct, I'm gonna

879
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:15,359
Speaker 3: have a hot take here. I am so happy, Yes

880
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 3: he didn't get suspended because he has been absolutely terrible

881
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:22,240
Speaker 3: in this series. Like his defense has been okay, like overall,

882
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 3: but I think I saw before Game three that Lebron

883
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 3: was shooting sixty percent on him on actual shot attempts by.

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Speaker 1: Kevin Hey, it's zero turnovers, right deliver.

885
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:36,960
Speaker 3: So if your defense is not going to be like

886
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:41,239
Speaker 3: absolutely elite, then what you're doing on all, like it's

887
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 3: not making up for how bad he's been on offense

888
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:44,240
Speaker 3: like he has been.

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Speaker 1: Just yeah, thirty from three, I'm like high volume he's shooting,

890
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Speaker 1: He's yeah, he is the guy with their rational confidence

891
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:56,080
Speaker 1: that should not have confidence exactly.

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Speaker 3: So I'm so glad we'll see Dylan Brooks here in

893
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:02,480
Speaker 3: Game four. I'm expecting a real bounce back game from him.

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00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 3: By bounce back, I mean like six points, three rebounds

895
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 3: on two of nine shooting, Like that'd be really a

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00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:11,440
Speaker 3: bounce back. Ever fro him, Lakers going away again, maybe

897
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:13,920
Speaker 3: not by twenty like they did on Game three, but

898
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:16,080
Speaker 3: I think they pull away there in the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 3: cover the four and a half.

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Speaker 1: It feels to me like the refs need to be

901
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:24,920
Speaker 1: on alert for Dylan Brooks shenanigans, Like you don't want

902
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,279
Speaker 1: this to become a subplot like he wants it to

903
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 1: all be about him. And that's fine because it's probably

904
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 1: hurting the Grizzlies. But Rob, it's not a good thing

905
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 1: when he's going at and trying to like cheap shot

906
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:39,840
Speaker 1: the greatest player in the history of the game, who

907
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:42,319
Speaker 1: is now with the Lakers and they have a chance

908
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:44,040
Speaker 1: to make a run, Like if can you imagine what

909
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:47,560
Speaker 1: happens if he injures Lebron James at this stage in

910
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 1: his career, Like, I think there's gonna be some blood

911
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 1: on the hands of the league for not doing something,

912
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:54,040
Speaker 1: because Brooks does look like he's out to get Lebron.

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Speaker 1: He is gooning it up and I know people think

914
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 1: I'm caping up for Lebron. That's fine at it. I

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00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:02,720
Speaker 1: think the Lakers win tonight cover the four and a half.

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Speaker 1: If they don't, they're in some trouble this series, obviously,

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Speaker 1: because Memphis will have home court advantage back. All Right,

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Speaker 1: that's a long Monday Pod. We do a lot of

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Speaker 1: NFL Draft tomorrow. We have a special guest. I think

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Speaker 1: you'll like it. We'll talk to you then