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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Jason tim Podcast. Thank you guys so

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Speaker 1: much for taking time out of your Wednesday to hang

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Speaker 1: out with me. I'm super happy today because I know

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Speaker 1: for a fact that the WiFi, I although I'm jinxing

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Speaker 1: myself here, that the WiFi is gonna hang in with

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Speaker 1: me through this podcast. Because I am no longer at

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Speaker 1: the house that I was trying to record at the

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Speaker 1: last few weeks until I can get that situation remedied.

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Speaker 1: I am at the place where I grew up. I'm

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Speaker 1: in my old childhood bedroom, so there's some nostalgia here,

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Speaker 1: but I've got I just set up a brand new

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Speaker 1: mesh WiFi network um for my parents here, so I

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Speaker 1: could take advantage of that just to kind of float

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Speaker 1: me until I can get the WiFi situation fixed out

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Speaker 1: where I'm living right now. Um, but I was super excited.

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Speaker 1: Tommy is really busy with work this week, so he

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Speaker 1: was unable to record with me this week. UM, So

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna be going solo today and then Rog

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Speaker 1: and I are gonna be going on Friday morning. And

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Speaker 1: then Rog and I talked about maybe doing one of

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Speaker 1: those locker room chats after the Clippers Lakers game on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: which is exciting. I'm excited to try that out because

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Speaker 1: I haven't done the locker room thing before, but I

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Speaker 1: think it'll be interesting. And then we can give some

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Speaker 1: of you guys a chance to hop in and actually

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Speaker 1: ask us questions directly. Um. But so today I just

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Speaker 1: wanna kind of stay really macarrol. I'm not gonna die

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Speaker 1: too much into analysis and just talk about some macro

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Speaker 1: NBA topics. I wanted to talk about for like two

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Speaker 1: seconds about the this JJ Reddick thing because I think

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Speaker 1: it's super interesting. And then uh um uh the I

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Speaker 1: want to talk about this thing with Katie and the

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Speaker 1: nets and just some of the discourse surrounding, you know,

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Speaker 1: people getting really upset about him being on a really

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Speaker 1: good team, how I feel about that. And then I

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Speaker 1: want to talk about a couple of these buyout candidates.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna do that at the beginning, the little bit

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Speaker 1: of analysis type stuff, um, and then at the end

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Speaker 1: I wanted to respond to a little conversation that was

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Speaker 1: bouncing around Twitter today because of the Dan Lebotard show, uh,

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Speaker 1: surrounding just some of the differences between Lebron and Steph. Um.

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Speaker 1: But I want to start with the buyout stuff. So

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Speaker 1: because the story just came down from Shams that uh,

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Speaker 1: the Lakers are expecting to umu, the Lakers are expecting

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Speaker 1: to play Andre Drummond upwards of thirty minutes at night,

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Speaker 1: and that it might end up sending Marc Gasol out

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Speaker 1: of the rotation. And it's interesting for a bunch of

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Speaker 1: different reasons, uh for starters, you know, when the Lakers

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Speaker 1: got to the playoffs last year, because Andre Drummond kind

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Speaker 1: of fits more of that JaVale McGhee, uh Dwight Howard

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Speaker 1: type of role. He's not your uh when the Lakers

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Speaker 1: wanted to be more versatile, they played a lot of

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Speaker 1: Marquis Morris last year, and they played a lot of

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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis at the five. So even if Marcosol was

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Speaker 1: Drummond thirty minutes and it doesn't really make a ton

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Speaker 1: of sense to me. But I think, you know, first

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Speaker 1: of all, in this stage where where uh Anthony Davis

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Speaker 1: been playing so well. As I pointed, out the other day.

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Speaker 1: He's still shooting over from three in his last I

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Speaker 1: can't remember exactly something like his like a dozen games

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Speaker 1: really well. He's a really high i Q defender. He

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Speaker 1: always ends up in the right spot. And then he

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Speaker 1: adds all of that, you know, uh, playmaking ability from

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Speaker 1: the top of the key. It's one of the biggest

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Speaker 1: things that allows the Lakers to run their off ball

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Speaker 1: So I still think Marcusol has to play um, but

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Speaker 1: it'll just be interesting to see. And it all comes

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Speaker 1: down to attitude. You know. There was something a little

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Speaker 1: all this other stuff. There wasn't anything where he directly

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Speaker 1: it's not something that he dislikes. And if it costs

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Speaker 1: the Lakers, Marcusol, if he ends up getting bought out,

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Speaker 1: that would make me really sad, because I do think

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Speaker 1: But I I also that doesn't change the fact that

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, he's he's infusion of talent on

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Speaker 1: a team that, without Lebron and a D, is at

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Speaker 1: the infusion of talent is unmistakable and and gives them

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Speaker 1: a little bit better chance of stealing games that are

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Speaker 1: in that fringe. You know, it's easy for them to

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Speaker 1: it's easy for them to beat Cleveland with as bad

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Speaker 1: the Lakers have a chance to steal. And another example

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Speaker 1: that's not an easy win. And my guest is without

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Speaker 1: Andre Drummond, that's a game the Lakers would lose. And

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Speaker 1: Andre Drummond, the infusion of town, it gives them a

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Speaker 1: And what that means is like, you know, if you

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Speaker 1: to me would be ideal. Obviously, I still would pick

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Speaker 1: the Lakers out of the West as long as they're healthy,

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Speaker 1: to kind of rectify some of that. A question in

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Speaker 1: the comments is what's the biggest strength Andre Drummond brings

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Speaker 1: to the Lakers. To me, it's size and physicality. It's

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Speaker 1: really that simple. The biggest thing that the Lakers brought

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Speaker 1: you know, bringing in Marcus Solo, who is a much

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Speaker 1: more skilled big. Montrese Harrold is not as physically imposing

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Speaker 1: guy who's a really really good offensive rebounder. Now you

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Speaker 1: bring in uh, Andre Drummond, and you're kind of getting

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Speaker 1: while still having the marcusol and Montrese Harold on the

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Speaker 1: And you know, this is what I think is super

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Speaker 1: interesting about the LaMarcus Aldridge signing. Uh. When you're in

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Speaker 1: a playoff series, it helps to just have other options.

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Speaker 1: It helps to just have you know, other cards in

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Speaker 1: working out. It's counters, it's audible. So that's the way

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Speaker 1: these playoffs series works. You move a guy in and

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Speaker 1: simplify things, you overcomplicate things, You do whatever it takes

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Speaker 1: LaMarcus Aldridge on your roster, that just gives you another

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Speaker 1: the first round, we can go to LaMarcus. Jeff Green

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Speaker 1: We're gonna go to LaMarcus Aldridge. Having that just options

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Speaker 1: a chance to adjust over the course of the playoff series.

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Speaker 1: I thought LaMarcus Aldridge was the best buyout guy available.

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Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong. As a Laker fan, you should

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Speaker 1: be stoked to have Andre Drummond, and I do think

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Speaker 1: he's gonna do a lot for the Lakers. However, I

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Speaker 1: thought on Aldridge was clearly the most talented player in

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Speaker 1: that set. But that sort of versatility is the same

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Speaker 1: thing that the Lakers gain with Andre Drummond. It's just

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Speaker 1: an option. They can go huge, and they can play

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Speaker 1: you know, uh, Lebron and Alex Crusoe and Can Davids

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Speaker 1: Or they can go small with a d at the

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Speaker 1: they have all this versatility that they can go to now.

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Speaker 1: And I don't think you can have enough of that.

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Speaker 1: And so I hope that Marcusol doesn't get too upset

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Speaker 1: I saw the Clippers signed to Marcus Cousins and and

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Speaker 1: playing with j J. Zion went on JJ's podcast earlier

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Speaker 1: this year and they talked at length about how much

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Speaker 1: they enjoy playing with each other and the extensive stretches

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Speaker 1: this year where they had success running dribble handoff actions

433
00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:43,960
Speaker 1: where Zion would be a ball handler and all this

434
00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:47,199
Speaker 1: other stuff, like you mean to tell me Zion is

435
00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:49,879
Speaker 1: not gonna have a phone conversation with j J and

436
00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:52,120
Speaker 1: be like, hey, j J, what happened? And and JJ

437
00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:54,560
Speaker 1: is gonna tell him what happened? And so I think,

438
00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:57,399
Speaker 1: like I think, you know David Griffin. David Griffin has

439
00:21:57,440 --> 00:21:59,800
Speaker 1: a reputation as a great GM strictly because of something

440
00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:02,760
Speaker 1: that Braun did with with the Cleveland Cavaliers, and a

441
00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:04,639
Speaker 1: lot of the stuff he's been is non done. His

442
00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:08,240
Speaker 1: nonsensical didn't make any sense to sign stay in van Gundi.

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Speaker 1: He was a coach that was from a bygone era

444
00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:15,120
Speaker 1: in the and and was gonna naturally struggle with defensive

445
00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:17,920
Speaker 1: schemes and stuff that work and this era. And then

446
00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:20,359
Speaker 1: and then you go and sign you trade for Steven

447
00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:23,439
Speaker 1: Adams which whatever, but then you extend him and and

448
00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:25,679
Speaker 1: that made absolutely no sense given the fact that he

449
00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:30,119
Speaker 1: doesn't shoot the ball well and Zion Zion Zion is

450
00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:32,879
Speaker 1: literally running the best offense in the league over this

451
00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,440
Speaker 1: most recent span. I can't remember the exact number of games,

452
00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:38,240
Speaker 1: but the Pelicans are number one in offense and he's

453
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Speaker 1: doing that with terrible spacing, in large part because of

454
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Speaker 1: of the decisions that David Griffin has made. So I

455
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Speaker 1: I think that that that whole thing is off to

456
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Speaker 1: a really bad start in the in the Zion experiment,

457
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Speaker 1: all right, So I wanted to talk about this Kevin Duranting,

458
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Speaker 1: so I myself sent out a tweet shortly after the

459
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Speaker 1: LaMarcus Aldrige thing, um, foolishly comparing them to the to

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Speaker 1: the two thousand seventeen Warriers. And I was stupid. I

461
00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:12,640
Speaker 1: was just overreacting, um, But I just where that came from.

462
00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:16,000
Speaker 1: The place that that came from was the simple fact

463
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Speaker 1: that the that the UH the Brooklyn Nets for beating

464
00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:22,360
Speaker 1: the ship out of everybody, They're beating the ship out

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Speaker 1: of everybody easily limited without UH, without Kevin Durant, and

466
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Speaker 1: even in a lot of games without Kyrie Irving because

467
00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:35,879
Speaker 1: they because James Harden is extremely good, he's one of

468
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Speaker 1: the best, He's probably the best regular season player of

469
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:43,760
Speaker 1: this era, and they're switching defensive scheme is completely throwing

470
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Speaker 1: everybody off because it's it's difficult to handle in one

471
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Speaker 1: game sample sizes when you can't scheme for it tonight

472
00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:53,080
Speaker 1: after night, and uhum, a lot of the role players

473
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Speaker 1: are playing better than we expected. Jeff Green and I,

474
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Speaker 1: as I've said at length, is like the best veteran

475
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Speaker 1: minimum guy in the entire league. He's consistently on veteran

476
00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:03,480
Speaker 1: minimums and then every team that he's on, he's plays

477
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:05,920
Speaker 1: like a fifteen million dollar a year player. Doesn't make

478
00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:08,680
Speaker 1: any sense to me that a guy like Danilo Gallinari

479
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Speaker 1: can go out and get twenty something million a year,

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Speaker 1: but Jeff Green is gonna get two point seven, Like,

481
00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:17,000
Speaker 1: someone please explain that to me. And then Joe Harris

482
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Speaker 1: is just one of the best spot up shooters in

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Speaker 1: the league who can also make shots on the move

484
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Speaker 1: and is an average two above average defensive players. So

485
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Speaker 1: they're just way better than I thought. And so my

486
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Speaker 1: tweet was strictly just like man and then I talked

487
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Speaker 1: about at length earlier about why I thought LaMarcus Aldridge

488
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Speaker 1: was the best buyout candidate available. So I was just

489
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Speaker 1: you know, getting off my chest the fact that I

490
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Speaker 1: thought it was crazy. I talented this team is. And

491
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Speaker 1: then Kevin Duran's coming back, you know, the guy who

492
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Speaker 1: I don't think is the best player in the league,

493
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Speaker 1: but the guy that a lot of people think is

494
00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:49,639
Speaker 1: the best player in basketball is coming back and joining

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Speaker 1: all of this. And so, you know, obviously there's a

496
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Speaker 1: lot of crazy people, particularly and in the in uh,

497
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Speaker 1: you know, the Lebron James fan base, which is seven

498
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Speaker 1: and has a lot of crazies. In the fringes. They

499
00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:05,840
Speaker 1: were constantly saying about how this is unfair, and you know,

500
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Speaker 1: Katie's always stack in the deck and blah blah, blah blah.

501
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Speaker 1: And there are a couple of things that I think

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Speaker 1: are interesting about that. First of all, as I've said

503
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Speaker 1: at length, Lebron also tries to stack the deck. He's

504
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Speaker 1: just not as good at it like Kevin Durant. If

505
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Speaker 1: he has a talent, it's that he's he's good at

506
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Speaker 1: putting this sort of thing together. And he's done it

507
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,560
Speaker 1: in two different ways. Now. He did it by straight

508
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Speaker 1: up signing with the Golden State Warriors because of a

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Speaker 1: cap spike, uh and a team that had already won

510
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Speaker 1: seventy three games and came within a couple of minutes

511
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Speaker 1: of winning the title the previous year, and then he

512
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Speaker 1: did a different version of it here in Brooklyn. He's

513
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Speaker 1: absolutely better at building that type of team. However, the

514
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Speaker 1: flip side of that is, like, you know, there is

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Speaker 1: there is a reality, a harsh reality to the way

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Speaker 1: that we discussed basketball. It's a team sport, right, It's

517
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Speaker 1: a It's not like comparing, uh, you know, Jimmy Johnson

518
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Speaker 1: to Jeff Gordon when you're strictly talking about a bunch

519
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Speaker 1: of guys in identical vehicles racing in a circle under

520
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:07,280
Speaker 1: identical circumstances, and you have and there's only one person involved,

521
00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:10,120
Speaker 1: and it's very clear cut who the winner is. It's

522
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 1: a team sport and the only result that we have

523
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Speaker 1: his team results. So all of us, myself included, and

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Speaker 1: every single one of the millions of people on Twitter,

525
00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:20,160
Speaker 1: they come up with their own opinion about how this

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Speaker 1: one individual plays a role in the larger scheme of

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Speaker 1: what the team is trying to do, and all of

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Speaker 1: that is subjective. We do our best to try to

529
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Speaker 1: build all of that together into a story of why

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Speaker 1: we think player A is better than player B. But

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Speaker 1: no matter what it's subjective, it is up for debate.

532
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Speaker 1: And the problem with Kevin Durant being so good at

533
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Speaker 1: putting himself in situations where the team is so incredible,

534
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:50,520
Speaker 1: he makes it easy for the people who don't like

535
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Speaker 1: him to undercut what he does on the basketball court.

536
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:56,960
Speaker 1: And and that's the thing that's funny, is like Lebron,

537
00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:01,240
Speaker 1: you know, because he's less good at it. He joined

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00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 1: the Miami Heat team, you know, and didn't properly account

539
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 1: for the fact that Dwyane Wade, as a chaotic, driving,

540
00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:11,840
Speaker 1: slashing guard, was probably going to break down, and that

541
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Speaker 1: had already experienced health issues in a previous season where

542
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 1: his shoulder came out because he was falling on the

543
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:21,679
Speaker 1: ground like crazy. The uh, he didn't properly account for that,

544
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:23,879
Speaker 1: and then the Miami Heat broke down, and so he

545
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:27,000
Speaker 1: even though he won two titles there, there's a perception

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Speaker 1: that surrounds what he did in Miami that made it

547
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:35,240
Speaker 1: look difficult and the stakes in like Game six, after

548
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 1: Chris Bosh tore his abdominal muscle, and they're about to

549
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:43,000
Speaker 1: lose to the Boston Celtics. The circumstances of the Wheels

550
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 1: coming off of what he tried to build in Miami

551
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:50,920
Speaker 1: forced him to play so incredibly well to save that

552
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 1: team that now the entire perception surrounding that team is

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Speaker 1: Lebron was amazing and that's the only reason why they

554
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,959
Speaker 1: one go on to two thousand thirteen, same thing. They

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00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 1: go to Game seven against the Pacers. They go to

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00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 1: Game seven against the Spurs. They're down ten in Game six.

557
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 1: In the fourth quarter, Lebron goes crazy. This is the game.

558
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:13,359
Speaker 1: He loses his head band, and then he scores an

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00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 1: assists on every point in overtime, and then he goes

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00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 1: off for thirty seven or whatever in Game seven to

561
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 1: barely beat the Spurs. Again, the perception around that team

562
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:27,639
Speaker 1: is Lebron was amazing and that's why they won. But

563
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:31,960
Speaker 1: because Kevin Durant has put himself in these situations where

564
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,919
Speaker 1: the team is so so good, he hasn't had to

565
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:38,080
Speaker 1: be that good for the team to win. So now

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Speaker 1: you can point to, oh, he made he made a

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00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:42,360
Speaker 1: shot over Lebron in Game three of a series that

568
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 1: the Warriors probably would have swept if they tried hard

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Speaker 1: in Game four, and they probably would have gone undefeated

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Speaker 1: in the entire playoff run. And then the following year,

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Speaker 1: they literally b s through the entire season and they

572
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Speaker 1: still uh win the title, not defending nearly as well

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Speaker 1: as they had in years past. Kevin Durant basically broke

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Speaker 1: away from the offense and started doing crazy isolation stuff

575
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 1: all the time. It is a problem that started to

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Speaker 1: build between him and kerr And and literally the even

577
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:14,240
Speaker 1: though they were nowhere near as good as they were

578
00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 1: the previous here, they didn't play nearly as well as

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00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:19,400
Speaker 1: they did the previous here, they still won. And so

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00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 1: the perception surrounding that team once again is that they

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00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 1: didn't need Kevin Durant. And then what do you know,

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Speaker 1: in two thousand nineteen, Draymond basically says that to Kevin

583
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Speaker 1: Durant while calling him a bit, and it continues to

584
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 1: build that narrative, and now he finds himself in that

585
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 1: situation again. Here he is in Brooklyn and the team

586
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 1: appears to be a championship contender without Kevin Durant. I

587
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,959
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that I'd picked them over Philly but

588
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 1: there's a chance that I might pick them over Philly

589
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 1: even if Kevin Durant never plays again. That's how good

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00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:57,440
Speaker 1: the team is. And so the downside to him being

591
00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 1: so good at building these types of teams is that

592
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 1: he puts himself in this situation where that subjective analysis

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Speaker 1: of what he brings individual individually to the team is different,

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Speaker 1: and it's clouded because now it just looks like he's

595
00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:16,960
Speaker 1: kind of out there just doing k D stuff and

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00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 1: the team's winning. Anyway, Whereas you look back at two

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Speaker 1: thousand sixteen Lebron, in two thousand and twelve, two thousand

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Speaker 1: and thirteen Lebron, it's like, man, if he wasn't every

599
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:30,240
Speaker 1: single bit of the best version of what he could be,

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Speaker 1: they would have lost. Literally, they would have lost in

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Speaker 1: the Conference uh Finals against the Boston Celtics in two

602
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Speaker 1: thousand twelve. If he wasn't amazing, they would have lost

603
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 1: in the in the in the finals against the Spurs

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Speaker 1: in two thousand thirteen. If he wasn't amazing, they would

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Speaker 1: have lost to the to the to the Warriors, if

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Speaker 1: he wasn't amazing. Even this Lakers season in when when

607
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,760
Speaker 1: they were favored throughout, but there was still a great

608
00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 1: deal of pessimism surrounding that team because the rest of

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00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:02,400
Speaker 1: the roster after lebron Na d wasn't that talented. There

610
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 1: was this perception like, oh, they might lose to Portland,

611
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 1: they might lose to Houston, they might lose to Denver.

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00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 1: Denver just beat the Clippers. Oh, like a third of

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00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: the analysis UH analysts picked the Miami Heat to beat

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00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 1: the Lakers. Now, that perception is, they overcame a lot

615
00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 1: of this stuff, even though that was probably the weakest

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00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: of his four championships. And that's all it is, is

617
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:26,040
Speaker 1: like you know, if you were if you're a simple

618
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 1: man in terms of the way you feel about the public,

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00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 1: like Steph Curry is a great example of this. Steph

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00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 1: Curry doesn't give a damn when any of you guys

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Speaker 1: think that's why he had Kevin Durant come on board

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00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 1: in the first place. Steph Curry doesn't give a damn.

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Speaker 1: He just likes winning basketball games. So he's more than

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00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 1: happy not caring about your subjective analysis. Any subjective person

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00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: who's in analyzing, and we're gona talking about Steph Lebrown

626
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:50,920
Speaker 1: here in a second, any subjective person looking at the

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Speaker 1: Steph Lebron. Thing is like, yeah, you went three and

628
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 1: one against him, but you added Kevin Durant for those

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00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:57,880
Speaker 1: last two. So it's not exactly an even playing field.

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Speaker 1: So whatever the differences between you and Lebron, it's certainly

631
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 1: not three to one finals. It's some other sort of analysis.

632
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 1: And he subjective person is going to say that. However,

633
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 1: Steph doesn't care because he doesn't care what you think,

634
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 1: and he doesn't care what I think. He's happy. He

635
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 1: just likes winning. Kevin duran is different. That's why he

636
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 1: left the Warriors to begin with. He does care about

637
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 1: that sort of thing. He might tell you he doesn't.

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00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 1: He might come on Twitter and and act a certain way,

639
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 1: but he obviously cares about that stuff. Otherwise he never

640
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 1: would have left Golden State to begin with. So it's

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Speaker 1: just it's just unfortunate because now he's because he's so

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00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:35,120
Speaker 1: good at this, picking a situation and maximizing it. Because

643
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 1: he's so good at this, he's put himself in a

644
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 1: situation where if he wins the title again this year

645
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:44,479
Speaker 1: and James Harden and Kyrie play great, and Lamark Saldiers

646
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 1: helps him off the bench and all this other stuff,

647
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 1: there's gonna be another trophy sitting in his trophy case

648
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 1: and another Finals MVP in another series where he maybe

649
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 1: outplayed Lebron, even though people oversimplify that as well, There's

650
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 1: gonna be another one there where the vast majority of

651
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 1: basketball twitters gonna be like, all right, fine, you want

652
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 1: again with a ridiculously good team. That's the unfortunate part.

653
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 1: And you know, again this is shallow, but just as

654
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 1: a basketball fan, I want to see Kevin Durant have

655
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 1: his two thousand, twelve Lebron games sixth moment. I want

656
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 1: to see Kevin Durant back against the wall, going to

657
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 1: lose unless he rises to the absolute peak of what

658
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant can be as a basketball player and he

659
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 1: brings a team over the top. That's what we want

660
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 1: to see. And it because that that that is what

661
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:39,280
Speaker 1: brings the best out of you. Like that, that that

662
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 1: performing performance from Lebron in that game thirty in the

663
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:45,920
Speaker 1: first half. Lebron never does that. He's never that aggressive

664
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: as of a of a score. He strictly did that

665
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 1: out of necessity. The necessity, the steaks, the fear of

666
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 1: loss is what brings the best out of these guys

667
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 1: and So that's the thing, like, just as a basketball fan,

668
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 1: you'd prefer to see in for the record, I might

669
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 1: still pick the Lakers against this next team. I might.

670
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:09,960
Speaker 1: I feel like that'd be lying in the face of

671
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:12,479
Speaker 1: tons of evidence because of how good this Brooklyn Nets

672
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 1: team has been. But we might see how how difficult

673
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:19,200
Speaker 1: it is for the Nets, and we might earn that

674
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 1: respect for Kevin Durant this year. But but if it

675
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 1: does look really easy, that's where you're gonna have all

676
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:28,480
Speaker 1: that doubt creep in from all the people. But but

677
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:30,400
Speaker 1: if you're stuff, it's the reason why step doesn't care

678
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:32,560
Speaker 1: is he's like, y'all aren't gonna like me anyway. And

679
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,719
Speaker 1: that's the mentality that I would have. KD is like,

680
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:37,360
Speaker 1: you guys aren't gonna like me anyway. So I'm just

681
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:39,960
Speaker 1: gonna win easy championships and who cares what you guys think.

682
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,480
Speaker 1: I'm happy and now I have three rings. That that's

683
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 1: the way that he should look at it. I just

684
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:47,839
Speaker 1: don't think he's necessarily wired that way. One last thing

685
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:58,839
Speaker 1: before we're out of here, alrighty um, so the uh

686
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 1: I saw a tweet from um This is from the

687
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 1: Lebertard Show. So I haven't actually listened to it yet.

688
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 1: I've just seen you guys talking about it. But there's

689
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 1: apparently somebody on the Dan Lambertard Show said that if

690
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 1: Lebron was swapped for Steph on this year's Warriors team,

691
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:16,440
Speaker 1: that they could win an NBA championship. That's obviously completely ridiculous.

692
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 1: And this is the most frustrating thing about the Lebron

693
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 1: and Steph conversation is everything everybody says is completely ridiculous.

694
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,960
Speaker 1: The other day, the Warriors literally won a game against

695
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bowls, who are working in new pieces and

696
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 1: our a bottom tier playoff team in the Eastern Conference,

697
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:33,479
Speaker 1: and everybody in Warrior's Twitter was on the timeline saying

698
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 1: that Steph Curry's the best player in basketball. Again, it's

699
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 1: like they're operating from a complete uh you know, asinine

700
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 1: plays themselves. But you've got all these other people on

701
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 1: the other side that say equally crazy things about what

702
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:46,840
Speaker 1: step can't do, and and it and it ruins what

703
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:49,480
Speaker 1: should be a really interesting conversation, which is the difference

704
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,280
Speaker 1: between Lebron and Steph. For the record, coming into the season,

705
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:54,840
Speaker 1: I said Steph was the second best player in basketball.

706
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 1: I said that because I also see the value that

707
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 1: he brings offensively to a basket team, the amount of

708
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 1: attention he gave Gardners, the the ability for other players

709
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 1: around him to play an easier form of basketball because

710
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:11,120
Speaker 1: of what he does off the ball. All of those

711
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:14,719
Speaker 1: things I believe in, and I do think he's arguably

712
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 1: the best offensive player in basketball. I think him and

713
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 1: Lebron and Nicol Yogi is another guy like this who

714
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 1: are are so unbelievably good offensively that you can build

715
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:26,359
Speaker 1: an entire system around them, and I would put them

716
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 1: all on the same tier. The reason why I think

717
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 1: Lebron is better and it's a scene shallow again, and

718
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 1: it's something that you will never be able to argue

719
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:36,399
Speaker 1: with Steph fans about because they love that he's small.

720
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 1: It's like part of his likability to them. But Lebron

721
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 1: has this physical gear that he can hit in these

722
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 1: playoffs series that Steph can't hit. And it's the reason

723
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:51,759
Speaker 1: why there's always been this discernible gap between the two

724
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 1: of them. For me, even when Steph is at his

725
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 1: absolute peak, I think there's a gap between what he

726
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:59,719
Speaker 1: does and what Lebron does. And it's that physicality. I'll

727
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:03,360
Speaker 1: give you just a random example, fourth quarter against the

728
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:08,319
Speaker 1: Denver Nuggets in Game five, the Nuggets almost come back

729
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 1: there to start the fourth quarter, Lebron goes on his

730
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:13,839
Speaker 1: crazy run. In that crazy run, there's a play where

731
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,879
Speaker 1: he gets Jamal Murray on the switch and he does

732
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 1: an aggressive driving move to the right, and he does

733
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 1: a really really hard physical spin move, and in the

734
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:25,080
Speaker 1: spin move, he covers a ridiculous amount of ground. He

735
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 1: starts outside the right side of the block and finishes

736
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 1: outside the left side of the block on the spin move,

737
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 1: and he knocks down this turnaround jump shot over the top.

738
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 1: It was one of several jump shots that he hit

739
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 1: at the end of that game. And that is the

740
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:41,719
Speaker 1: physical gear that Lebron can hit that Steph is incapable

741
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:44,799
Speaker 1: of hitting, and it's the reason why I give him

742
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: an edge over step in a lot of those cases.

743
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:48,480
Speaker 1: I'm not even talking about defense. There's a whole other

744
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:51,360
Speaker 1: conversation we can add about what Lebron brings defensively to

745
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:53,920
Speaker 1: the table. The most iconic play of his career is

746
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,239
Speaker 1: him hitting an extra gear physically to block his shot

747
00:37:57,280 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 1: from Andrea Guadala that literally change the ends at the

748
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 1: end of an NBA finals championship series. So that's a

749
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:04,800
Speaker 1: whole other conversation. I'm not even gonna get into that

750
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:06,879
Speaker 1: because I don't even think it's worth debate. There's a

751
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:10,840
Speaker 1: massive chasm between the two defensively, but even offensively, that

752
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 1: physical gear matters because also at the end of the

753
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen finals, Steph couldn't get separation. Now people

754
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:21,400
Speaker 1: will tell you it's because of his knee, but for

755
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 1: some reason he was having no trouble getting separation against

756
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 1: the Oklahoma City Thunder, and he did have success in

757
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 1: late round playoff series getting separation against in two thousand

758
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 1: seventeen and two thousand eighteen, but he had this whole

759
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:36,440
Speaker 1: other release Valve and Kevin Duranted that made it so

760
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:38,479
Speaker 1: that his physical wear and tear what he was asked

761
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 1: to do offensively wasn't the same. But you saw it

762
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:44,560
Speaker 1: again against Toronto in the two thousand nineteen finals. He

763
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:48,759
Speaker 1: just wasn't quite as good at generating that separation in

764
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 1: a really physical playoff series that wore down on him

765
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:56,800
Speaker 1: when he had a lot of playmaking responsibility. Meanwhile, Lebron James,

766
00:38:57,800 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 1: you know he's playing with the post player who also

767
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 1: it's a lot of touches. But at the same time,

768
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 1: Lebron was their primary offensive initiator on almost every possession,

769
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 1: yet he was able to hit a physical gear to

770
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 1: create shots off the dribble that Steph isn't able to hit.

771
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 1: And to me, that physical gear, I know it's superficial.

772
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:20,560
Speaker 1: I know it bothers people because you you're dying for

773
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 1: this like small guy hero that you can have as

774
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:27,880
Speaker 1: your your go to uh you know, uh guy to

775
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,880
Speaker 1: root for because you can be like him. Okay, that's great,

776
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:36,320
Speaker 1: but I'm sorry that physicality does matter. I am six

777
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 1: ft six, I wait two and seven pounds. I have

778
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:44,360
Speaker 1: a six ten wingspan. My ability to get separation against

779
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:48,720
Speaker 1: people on the perimeter is unparalleled compared to any small

780
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:52,040
Speaker 1: guard that I run into. I I like my chances

781
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 1: to generate a high quality shot over any of those

782
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,239
Speaker 1: guys because I've put the work in to have that

783
00:39:57,320 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 1: polish out there. But at the same time, I have

784
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:02,000
Speaker 1: these zical tools and I'm not even in the same

785
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:06,239
Speaker 1: universe physically as what Lebron does. But I have five

786
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:09,360
Speaker 1: times the physical tools that Steph Curry has, and that

787
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 1: sort of thing does matter in a in a physical

788
00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 1: playoff series. That wears people down in by game six.

789
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:20,839
Speaker 1: In game seven, everyone's banged up, everyone's tired. But that's

790
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 1: two seventy pounds six nine guy, for whatever reason, can

791
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 1: still get separation, and he can still get into your

792
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 1: body and play bullyball and all those sorts of things.

793
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 1: And I think that gap is significant, and that's the

794
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:37,399
Speaker 1: reason why, even at steps absolute best, I never thought

795
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:40,720
Speaker 1: he passed Lebron. Uh in terms of what he brings

796
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 1: on a basketball court. Good luck telling anybody that from

797
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 1: Warriors Twitter, there absolutely love with the guy, and I

798
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:50,400
Speaker 1: think that's great. That's fantastic part of of the basketball

799
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 1: fan experience. However, the vast majority of people that you

800
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:56,880
Speaker 1: talk to outside of Warriors Twitter, I feel like agree

801
00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:59,319
Speaker 1: with me in that regard. There's a difference. Uh, there's

802
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 1: a difference, queen. You know, being a really really gifted

803
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:05,600
Speaker 1: offensive engine in the ability to hit that extra gear,

804
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:09,839
Speaker 1: that that extra that extra gear is the is the

805
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:13,319
Speaker 1: separation factor from the elite of the elite and the

806
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: guys beneath them. Um, do you guys have any questions

807
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:25,279
Speaker 1: before I get you out of here, Let's see, are

808
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 1: you worried Lebron might not be fully healthy? With his

809
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:29,920
Speaker 1: ankle spraying for the rest of the season. Yes, I

810
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:32,439
Speaker 1: am worried, just because of the fact that I don't

811
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:36,239
Speaker 1: love the idea of all these other guys peaking and

812
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:38,920
Speaker 1: getting in a rhythm, guys like Jannice, guys like Kauai

813
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:41,120
Speaker 1: and Kevin Duran is gonna be coming back here shortly

814
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:43,239
Speaker 1: and having a lot of time to get ready. And

815
00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:45,840
Speaker 1: then apparently there's a report that came out this morning

816
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 1: that Sham said that it might have been last night

817
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:50,719
Speaker 1: that Sham said that Lebron is gonna be out at

818
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 1: least another three to five weeks. Like, I don't love

819
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:55,840
Speaker 1: the idea of Lebron getting ten regular season games and

820
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 1: then jumping into a first round series where he's gotta

821
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,759
Speaker 1: play Steph Curry or he's got to play Loud or

822
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:04,600
Speaker 1: something along those lines. I don't love it. Uh. If

823
00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:07,880
Speaker 1: there's one guy that can defy any sort of of uh,

824
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:12,640
Speaker 1: you know, basic common common sense type of approach to

825
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 1: this sort of thing, it would be Lebron. Um. But

826
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 1: I think we're all lying if we're acting like we're

827
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 1: super optimistic about the way it's gonna go. This is

828
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 1: so far from my deal. It's not even funny. It's

829
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 1: an impact injury. It's a lower leg injury, which means

830
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:27,480
Speaker 1: he's literally not able to work out right now. Like that,

831
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:31,320
Speaker 1: all of that is just not good. I will completely

832
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:33,880
Speaker 1: change my take about that if he runs off a

833
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:37,280
Speaker 1: three or four game stretch where he just looks physically great. Um,

834
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:40,239
Speaker 1: when he comes back, I wouldn't look at all at

835
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:41,960
Speaker 1: the way his jump shot looks, or the way his

836
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:44,239
Speaker 1: handle looks, or any of that stuff. When he comes back,

837
00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:46,359
Speaker 1: I would pay strict attention to just the way he's

838
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:55,279
Speaker 1: moving around in his mobility. Already, Let's see quick one

839
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:57,759
Speaker 1: on the last roster spot for the Lakers. Who's your pick?

840
00:42:57,920 --> 00:42:59,640
Speaker 1: So I have a couple of names in mind. There.

841
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:01,440
Speaker 1: He say I would love to have Auto Porter, But

842
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 1: it appears that he doesn't appeared to get it. Doesn't

843
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:07,400
Speaker 1: look like he's gonna get bought out. Um, I was

844
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 1: super high on uh. Avery Bradley is a backup option,

845
00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 1: but I'm not sure he's necessarily gonna get bought out.

846
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:16,800
Speaker 1: Avery Bradley was the guy that I had in mind

847
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 1: when I wanted the Lakers to make the Kyle the

848
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:22,320
Speaker 1: Kyle Lowry trade. But it's I mean, honestly, at this point,

849
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:24,399
Speaker 1: you know, you've got you've got a guard core that's

850
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 1: five deep, um and really really solid. You've got uh,

851
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:31,719
Speaker 1: Kyle Kuzman and Lebron James on the wing, and you've

852
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:38,200
Speaker 1: got five forwards in Mark Kief, Marcus Markief, marcusol Montrez, Harrold,

853
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 1: Andre Drummond, and uh and Anthony Davis. So you're the

854
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:44,440
Speaker 1: Lakers are twelve deep right now, so they don't really

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Speaker 1: need anything. Uh. It's just if if auto Porter is

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Speaker 1: just an absolute no brainer, UM, but I just don't

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Speaker 1: think he'll get bought out. And for the record, if

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Speaker 1: auto Porter gets bought out and the Lakers signed him,

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Speaker 1: that's that would be the best buyout guy out of

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Speaker 1: any of these guys. Auto Porters like a legitimate at

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Speaker 1: three and D guy, um and like good on both

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Speaker 1: ends too. So he'd be an example of someone that

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Speaker 1: would kind of be similar in impact to what La

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Speaker 1: Marcus Aldridge brings to the to the nets. All right,

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Speaker 1: last question, I'll get you guys at here. How do

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Speaker 1: you think Tres's robot is affected by Drummond getting thirty

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Speaker 1: plus minutes? I don't know. I would imagine that Shred's

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Speaker 1: is going to continue to play a lot of minutes

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Speaker 1: at the power forward. The Lakers played a lot of

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Speaker 1: Montrez Harrold at the four this year, Um they haven't

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Speaker 1: played They played more at the five with Anthony Davis out,

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Speaker 1: but I expect him to play a lot at the

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Speaker 1: four the way he did to start the year. I

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Speaker 1: think the guy that's gonna get squeezed as Marcus Al alright,

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Speaker 1: guys again, thank you guys so much for just persevering

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Speaker 1: with me through that ridiculous WiFi saga. I think from

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Speaker 1: what I can tell on my end that there were

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Speaker 1: no drops today, so that's good news. As crazy as

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Speaker 1: it sounds. I was so discouraged in the middle of

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Speaker 1: that podcast on Friday that I was like after I

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Speaker 1: went back to listen too it just to see how

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Speaker 1: bad it was, and I remember thinking, like, this is

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Speaker 1: gonna be bad because I was so piste off. I

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Speaker 1: was literally just sitting in the chair just like seething

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Speaker 1: mad because I could not believe that this is still happening,

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Speaker 1: because I thought I had it solved by doing the

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Speaker 1: phone hotspot thing. Um. Anyway, even with that, over two

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Speaker 1: hundred of you downloaded the uh the full length podcast

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Speaker 1: that butchered up terrible podcast that Roger and I did

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Speaker 1: on Friday. So I sincerely appreciate you guys continuing to

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Speaker 1: support us through the through the chaos. But I will

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Speaker 1: be here for every one of these recorded podcasts for

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Speaker 1: so on, so I should have good infrastructure for this.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys supporting. I'll have the podcast version

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Speaker 1: of this up here in about fifteen minutes and then

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Speaker 1: I will see you guys on Friday. Enjoy the rest

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Speaker 1: of your day.