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Speaker 2: and a record nights of scoring. The Sixers are streaking
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Speaker 2: more to discuss with our guy NBA analyst Raj Chapalu
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Speaker 2: the league today.
Speaker 4: Man, I remember when scoring seventy used to mean something.
Speaker 1: I just saw some one a tweet.
Speaker 4: Get truly get out of here, Get out of here
Speaker 4: with that, watching basketball, Get out of here with that.
Speaker 4: They never did it. MJ never put up seventy. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's true.
Speaker 1: What you like what sixty nine? Sixty eight?
Speaker 4: Yeah you go to sixty nine. Yeah, but still.
Speaker 1: It's one one point off.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean that's definitely I think the biggest
Speaker 2: news as as of today, as of this recording, Embiid
Speaker 2: Joel Embiid putting Joel Embiid.
Speaker 1: Yes, Joel Embiid. We will get to my plans for Joel.
Speaker 2: Embiid when we welcome him to the Lakers.
Speaker 4: Weeks for him. Last week late Miles and Jabbari decided
Speaker 4: that he was worthy of wearing the purple and gold.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: He responds by honoring Kobe Bryant getting up seventy on
Speaker 4: the anniversary of Kobe's eighty one. He in the post
Speaker 4: game was like, you know, Kobe was my favorite player,
Speaker 4: Like you, you're you must have known that. That was
Speaker 4: a clear message to you and other Lakers fans that
Speaker 4: get me. Yeah, come pick me up. I've been here forever.
Speaker 4: I'm so bored. I want you to be Lakers.
Speaker 2: And also Jabari points out something very true also that
Speaker 2: Joel and Be clearly listener of this podcast just based
Speaker 2: on all that he knows.
Speaker 1: He knows, he's seen, he's heard.
Speaker 4: But yeah, very popular podcast with the players even say
Speaker 4: oh yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean I can't stop players saying, hey, please keep
Speaker 2: my name out your mouth. But yeah, with that, seventy
Speaker 2: points breaks Wilt Chamberlain's franchise record versus wen beg Yama
Speaker 2: the Spurs, I do before we talk about Embiid. Wen
Speaker 2: beIN Yalma also had a really good game despite the loss.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, offensively so sly.
Speaker 4: I think I think this game officially puts his uh
Speaker 4: my prediction that he was going to be defensive player
Speaker 4: of the Year away. I don't think that's happening after
Speaker 4: he gave up seventy. But yeah, he I mean he
Speaker 4: looked good. I love the clip of Embiid walking out
Speaker 4: seeing how tall he is and uh.
Speaker 1: Everybody, yeah like Embiid.
Speaker 2: I think it was that was before the tip, right
Speaker 2: when Embiid was walking behind him and he did this
Speaker 2: face like what is this okay?
Speaker 1: He was sort of like being like all right, dude.
Speaker 2: That was like his dispositions are of looking at him like,
Speaker 2: we get it, You're gigantic, we get it. And then
Speaker 2: Kelly oubre June, you're doing the let me just bring
Speaker 2: let me see how I stack up to you. And
Speaker 2: then I like how his face it was like a
Speaker 2: full comedic performance. He's like, okay, a lot taller than.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, I see that. I see that.
Speaker 4: And Beid is now averaging more points per minute than
Speaker 4: Wilt Chamberlain did in his fifty points per game season.
Speaker 1: So wow, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's durable.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying. Play the guy.
Speaker 1: What'd you make of that seventy pointer?
Speaker 5: Well, I was just gonna tell you know, Jack, welcome
Speaker 5: to the club of having your favorite player score seventy plus.
Speaker 5: You know, that's like a very exclusive club to be
Speaker 5: a part of, and we are a part of that club. No, seventy,
Speaker 5: Yeah is seventy Mitchell guy, right, Yeah, yeah, I forgot
Speaker 5: he did. He did it as well. Seventy is seventy.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 5: I've seen people try to downplay it with the free
Speaker 5: throws or the flailing, which Embads definitely is a part of.
Speaker 5: But I mean, seventies is tough. That's it's a legit
Speaker 5: point total, no matter you know, how you get to that,
Speaker 5: get to that range, and Bead's one of the best
Speaker 5: scorers in the league. Has that thirty and ten streat
Speaker 5: going crazy? Yeah, I thought that was I thought that
Speaker 5: was nuts. What it tells me, though, I still don't
Speaker 5: think anyone's touching the eighty one, Like I just I
Speaker 5: just don't. I don't see it. I just don't think
Speaker 5: anyone's getting to that number.
Speaker 2: I know. He part of me felt a little bit like, eh,
Speaker 2: I mean, you think he had time to get close
Speaker 2: to eighty, but you know, Jack wanting out like he
Speaker 2: was definitely the tank was emptying rapidly.
Speaker 1: He was yah at the end.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that's a lot of there's a lot
Speaker 4: of body to be moving around. I think somebody's gonna
Speaker 4: get to eighty one because of three point shooting. The
Speaker 4: thing that was wild about this is how much of
Speaker 4: the damage he did from the mid range like shooting
Speaker 4: what are in today's NBA seen as.
Speaker 1: Like low like low value shots.
Speaker 4: But he's just completely unstoppable from that like those places
Speaker 4: on the court. And so yeah, yeah, he just ate
Speaker 4: and ate and ate.
Speaker 2: Lethal, lethal, and then then towards the end of the game,
Speaker 2: just taking kids lunch money in the second half, just
Speaker 2: like just bullying these I was really like, okay, you're
Speaker 2: really Oh, we get it, Joel.
Speaker 1: You're doing it all the jab step is lethal.
Speaker 2: You're giving people their COVID jabs, and now you're taking
Speaker 2: the kids lunch money, doing a little bit of old
Speaker 2: fashioned uncle ball. We'd like to see that. We like
Speaker 2: to see that. But yeah, it's true though, seventy is
Speaker 2: seventy points. So as much as like you have weird
Speaker 2: Like I really don't understand people who are trying to
Speaker 2: like be like, yeah, well, it's the thing about that
Speaker 2: is I'm like, really, it's just there's more hate.
Speaker 4: There's more haterism than there is like fandom. I feel
Speaker 4: like it's louder and gets shared more.
Speaker 2: As a Laker fan, I one hundred percent I've seen this.
Speaker 2: I think it's really disturbing. I know, you know, I
Speaker 2: think it's really weird when people do that. It's really
Speaker 2: really strange. But like I mean, speaking of which, seventy
Speaker 2: is difficult. Sixty two like obviously getting there, Karl Anthony Towns.
Speaker 1: Got to sixty two. Yeah, but seventy seventy and he
Speaker 1: can't lose a game.
Speaker 5: He can't lose lose. He got sixty two and lost, Like, yeah,
Speaker 5: what can I mean?
Speaker 2: He is the twenty first player to ever score sixty
Speaker 2: plus points in a game in a loss. Sixty two
Speaker 2: put him at the fourteenth highest.
Speaker 1: And I don't like. I guess the Timberwolves again. They
Speaker 1: started the year.
Speaker 2: Defending and now they're like, eh, just maybe not so
Speaker 2: much right now, just because I heard there was a
Speaker 2: rumor or report that they were also kind of clocking
Speaker 2: what Embiid was doing and trying to be like, all right,
Speaker 2: let's help Cat, Like, let's see if we can help
Speaker 2: Cat out. And that's what it looked like towards the game,
Speaker 2: because I thought to bring back a Wu Tang interlude.
Speaker 1: It looked like they just couldn't stop.
Speaker 2: Feeding him and feeding him and feeding him, even to
Speaker 2: the point where it's like, I, yeah, he might. I
Speaker 2: think we've wrung every little drip out of this thing.
Speaker 4: I don't think they consulted their coach on that, because
Speaker 4: he was not happy how the needs No looked after
Speaker 4: that one.
Speaker 1: What did he say?
Speaker 2: It was like the saddest defending I've ever seen, or
Speaker 2: something like that. Yeah, he yes, that's a hard one.
Speaker 2: I mean, like what I don't understand was it just
Speaker 2: basically them being too focused on like trying to get
Speaker 2: Cat to like, you know, as many points as possible,
Speaker 2: or they forgot like they also have to win the
Speaker 2: game and not allow Charlotte to put up like shoot
Speaker 2: fifty six percent or something.
Speaker 4: It was the tough you know, I'm gonna say, Jordan
Speaker 4: put up sixty three in the playoffs against the like
Speaker 4: one of the best Boston Celtics teams of all time,
Speaker 4: and he lost, but like that was still a moral
Speaker 4: victory and like him announcing himself and like.
Speaker 1: This is similar, you know, Charlotte is something.
Speaker 4: Nah, they shouldn't have lost to Charlotte. They're supposed to
Speaker 4: be one of the best teams in the league. Uh,
Speaker 4: this is just me being mean. It's still impressive. He's
Speaker 4: still a great shooter as a center, you know, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a tough time. It's a tough time. Uh, Roger,
Speaker 1: how do these Timberwolves end up?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's interesting. I think they're more of a regular
Speaker 5: season peak team. To me, I just I don't believe
Speaker 5: in the Gobert Towns pairing and I just don't believe
Speaker 5: in Gobert as a defensive matchup in the playoffs. I
Speaker 5: just think you're gonna eventually get to a team that's
Speaker 5: gonna be able to take advantage of like what he
Speaker 5: struggles with, which is switching on the pick and roll,
Speaker 5: and their whole defense is kind of based upon him
Speaker 5: and Jada McDaniels and Anthony Edwards, and I think they're
Speaker 5: just a year early, but they're the one seed there,
Speaker 5: but they're tied with the thunder and losses and the
Speaker 5: Clippers are starting to roll and starting to catch them.
Speaker 5: So we'll see. But I think they're having a great
Speaker 5: regular season. I just see them as like a second
Speaker 5: round probably exit to like I don't like, I don't
Speaker 5: think that would beat Denver. I still probably would have
Speaker 5: Oklahoma City above them, But Anthony I were just having
Speaker 5: a great season. I just like, I don't believe in Gobert.
Speaker 5: I didn't like the trade when it happened, like it's
Speaker 5: working out this regular season. I just think like his
Speaker 5: deficiencies in the playoffs I've shown out way too many times.
Speaker 5: You saw it with the Utah Jazz consistently every single
Speaker 5: series that series they lost to the Clippers with Kawhi out,
Speaker 5: I believe, and with Paul George and Terrence Mann dropping
Speaker 5: forty in like a game six to eliminate them. I
Speaker 5: just that's where I think they'll struggle. But they're having
Speaker 5: a good regular season for sure. I'm just not highed
Speaker 5: them in like a playoff type atmosphere.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: Do you feel the same way about okay See or
Speaker 4: you think okay See is legit like playoff contender.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're probably also a year early, but I like
Speaker 5: I just like their style better than the Minnesota I
Speaker 5: just have liked how they played, and I like their
Speaker 5: picking popability with ch at home grin and Shade to
Speaker 5: me is like played like a top five player this season.
Speaker 5: He's averaging thirty on the year. So I'm higher on
Speaker 5: them just against Minnesota. I just still think Denver is
Speaker 5: better than the crowd. Like, I don't think anyone's beating
Speaker 5: Denver in four out of seven. But I like Oklahoma
Speaker 5: City a little bit better than Minnesota for sure. Both
Speaker 5: of those teams are like have a young superstar rising
Speaker 5: where this year still feels like well, I mean, Oklahoma City,
Speaker 5: forget about house money. They just bought the whole casino.
Speaker 5: I mean, like this whole year is just for them,
Speaker 5: that they're way ahead of schedule. But I'm hih on
Speaker 5: Oklahoma City than the Minnesota for sure, say.
Speaker 4: Feels like different to like just his ability to get
Speaker 4: buckets down the stretch, feels like I could see that
Speaker 4: making a deep run. Obviously, I still think Dever's the favorite,
Speaker 4: but like his ability to just score whenever, and like
Speaker 4: the fact that nobody has come up with anything to
Speaker 4: stop him at any point that I've been able to see,
Speaker 4: Like there's just no scheme to really slow him down.
Speaker 4: I think they could could be pretty scary.
Speaker 2: But yeah, Raja, how are you feeling about the crosstown team,
Speaker 2: the Clippers. Yeah they are, they're putting it together. Russ
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 1: I said this.
Speaker 2: I think like earlier on when they were starting to
Speaker 2: like Russ was kind of coming back. I had to say, like,
Speaker 2: I'm I do I do appreciate like seeing Russell kind
Speaker 2: of re emerge, just because it was such dark days
Speaker 2: at the Lakers that I was like, oh no, like
Speaker 2: I don't know if this, I don't know if he's
Speaker 2: right anymore, but he is fully like come online for them.
Speaker 2: And then plus just the rest of that team just
Speaker 2: looks so good. They're eight and two over the last
Speaker 2: ten games. What do you are you look? Jabbari's like,
Speaker 2: we'll see, we'll see what happens. Part of me, deep
Speaker 2: down is like a Laker.
Speaker 1: Fano, like it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2: But like I'm like saying that with like tears running
Speaker 2: down my face too.
Speaker 1: But how are you looking at them?
Speaker 2: Because it just seems like they're really figuring it out
Speaker 2: and they're staying help.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, it's sad because I was kind of off
Speaker 5: of the hardened move as well. Honestly didn't think they
Speaker 5: needed James Harden. I was wrong, and I think a
Speaker 5: lot of people were on the rush point that you
Speaker 5: just brought up. I don't like seeing it like it
Speaker 5: annoys me. I watched two years of It's a great
Speaker 5: NBA story. Yeah, yeah, you know, and people have starting
Speaker 5: to rewrite what the Lakers stint was because of what's
Speaker 5: happening now. As a person who had eyeballs and every
Speaker 5: single one of those games, yeah, and you would agree
Speaker 5: with me as well, this is not the Russell Westbrook
Speaker 5: we got at all, Like, no, not a not a
Speaker 5: bit like this is Russell Westbrook fully engaged on the
Speaker 5: defensive end. He's there like like he's there Tasmanium Devil
Speaker 5: just coming off the bench and kay Havoc and like
Speaker 5: he's like people are singing an All Defense team for him,
Speaker 5: which I don't think he'll make because he's playing like
Speaker 5: fifteen to twenty minutes a game and guys who get
Speaker 5: on the All Defense don't make that. But like you
Speaker 5: just come in and be like super energy doesn't take
Speaker 5: bad shots. I don't know what voodoo Tylo has done,
Speaker 5: but like Russell Westbrook comes in the game and it's
Speaker 5: full on. I'm gonna be a playmaker. I'm gonna un
Speaker 5: pick and roll, and I'm gonna be an assists man.
Speaker 5: Doesn't take a lot of mid range pull ups. His
Speaker 5: threes are corner threes only, like how many Caasty take
Speaker 5: on the Lakers, which you're terrible. But the Clippers have
Speaker 5: really found something where it's almost unfair. They have Paul
Speaker 5: George in this Michael Porter junior role, which just is
Speaker 5: very unfair. Like, well, George is their off ball shooter
Speaker 5: and it's their whole offense. Is funny as James Harden Zubac,
Speaker 5: which again another knife to the heart. Like these super
Speaker 5: trades still still hurts me. I met Zoo in Vegas.
Speaker 5: By the way, he was the first Summer League I
Speaker 5: remember looked like he just got to America and he's
Speaker 5: like in the middle of eating crab legs and reading it.
Speaker 5: But like so I'm like super sad about Zoo, one
Speaker 5: of the guys that, like I heard Salse, but like
Speaker 5: their whole offense is hard and Zoo pick and roll
Speaker 5: and then however you react to that, whatever you defend that,
Speaker 5: that's where their offense plays out of So if you
Speaker 5: help off the strong side corner, it's Paul George, it's
Speaker 5: the weak side it's Kawhi Leonard. Yeah, and you know
Speaker 5: they just and Norm Powell has turned into the best
Speaker 5: shooter in the league. Somehow, He's shooting forty eight percent.
Speaker 5: I'll catch and shoot threes. Please go look up that
Speaker 5: Norm Powell Robert Coverington trade that the Clippers did, like
Speaker 5: I would. It's it's absolute highway robbery. I still don't
Speaker 5: understand that from the Blazer's perspective, but yeah, the Clippers
Speaker 5: are legit. I think the only thing that's holding back
Speaker 5: the Clippers is the Jabbari's point is there the Clippers,
Speaker 5: Like something goes wrong with the Clippers every single year,
Speaker 5: just something like breaks for them. But they look like
Speaker 5: just the most connected team and like the best team
Speaker 5: in the league the last month and a half since
Speaker 5: their six game losing streak ended. So they have like
Speaker 5: three centers that are good and we're playing jackson A
Speaker 5: and Christian Wood. It's just it's it's it's upsetting to me,
Speaker 5: Like they got me, they got they got Daniel Tyes
Speaker 5: for free from Indiana, right, and I'm over here, like,
Speaker 5: please let me see calin Castleton, Like I'd like to
Speaker 5: see him. Who's our two way guy?
Speaker 1: Let's see less cam reddish please?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Twenty four and six over there, last thirty I think.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm surd, playing absurd.
Speaker 1: I say, obscene, that's what I have. Yes, the signs
Speaker 1: seven and three. Uh, they've won the last six. I
Speaker 1: mean they're also.
Speaker 4: They're in fit now, they're making they're making some noise,
Speaker 4: they're doing their thing.
Speaker 1: Will that will that?
Speaker 2: What do you think is that sustainable or would we
Speaker 2: we think it'll get wobbly there?
Speaker 4: I think it's as sustainable as they as their health
Speaker 4: and yeah, yeah, yeah they can remain healthy. I feel
Speaker 4: like this is who we expected them to be.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the Suns are interesting too, because I think the
Speaker 5: whole story sorry for them was do they need a
Speaker 5: point guard?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 5: And kind of Devin Booker got promoted to their main
Speaker 5: point guard, and I think that's not who he really is.
Speaker 5: I just think, like Booker, Beal and KD is so
Speaker 5: much offensively, it probably doesn't matter. You're gonna have to
Speaker 5: You're gonna have to send two to all those dudes.
Speaker 5: Bradley Beal just didn't look healthy to me to start
Speaker 5: the season, and like people haven't, like like Adrian Griffin
Speaker 5: just got fired today, right with with Milwaukee, Phoenix kind
Speaker 5: of had has had a similar type. Well, Milwaukee's thirty
Speaker 5: and thirteen, which again is just insane to think about.
Speaker 5: A coach got fired for that. But Phoenix is like
Speaker 5: twenty five and eighteen. They've won a lot of games
Speaker 5: they probably shouldn't, a lot of close games against bad teams,
Speaker 5: just caring because one of their three stars has been
Speaker 5: out pretty much the whole time. But they're just trying
Speaker 5: to click.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 5: Frank Vogel, I feel like inherited the most non Frank
Speaker 5: Vogel team to ever exist, just of a team with
Speaker 5: that's fully offensive focused. But they're playing well. Twenty five
Speaker 5: and eighteen, we're seven game backs of the Suns. Guy,
Speaker 5: but yeah, they really started to click. I swear like
Speaker 5: two days ago we were tied with them. Understandings, doesn't
Speaker 5: it feel that way? I swear I thought like we
Speaker 5: were right now the.
Speaker 4: Seven games behind the Suns. You're three and a half
Speaker 4: behind the Suns, right.
Speaker 5: I mean seven, Well, yeah, there's seven games above five hundred.
Speaker 5: We're at five hundred. That's but yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: for sure. Yeah, it still feels like there's so far.
Speaker 4: Hey, you guys are in the playing I would be
Speaker 4: come on, guys, this is great.
Speaker 1: Ch up.
Speaker 4: Now you guys are in the plane. That's exciting. I'm
Speaker 4: just happy that the Suns and the Lakers are in
Speaker 4: the plan because I think a week ago they were
Speaker 4: both like on the outside, they were under the ten spot,
Speaker 4: and like, that's kind of a bummer. You want those
Speaker 4: guys around like in the postseason.
Speaker 2: I mean yeah, in the Western Conference sort of playoff
Speaker 2: playing race, Like you know, RAJ, who do you think
Speaker 2: is more likely to have a second half surge?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 2: The Jazz is it the Lakers, Rockets, Warriors.
Speaker 1: What are you thinking?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it depends on what move the Lakers make.
Speaker 5: The Lakers are playing at this uh. I guess they're
Speaker 5: gonna have enough of a floor to me because Lebron
Speaker 5: and ad are just gonna care about enough games to
Speaker 5: where they're going to win. But I think whatever trade
Speaker 5: they make is gonna kind of determine that the vibes
Speaker 5: just look strange. I think a lot of West teams
Speaker 5: are starting to kind of normalize. I think the Kings
Speaker 5: are starting to fall off a little bit of Dallas.
Speaker 5: I think Luca's back as well. Utah, I just don't
Speaker 5: think that's real. Also, like, I'm not sure you don't
Speaker 5: want to see Consexton the plane that you know you don'
Speaker 5: want to see Consexton killed in the plan. But yeah,
Speaker 5: Like I think I think the Lakers should have like
Speaker 5: at least some type of bounce back because I just
Speaker 5: don't think they're gonna stand still. I think the top
Speaker 5: four is locked though, Like I'd be surprised if Minnesota, Okay,
Speaker 5: see Denver and the Clippers fall out of that top four.
Speaker 5: I'd be pretty sure they're there. The Pelicans will see
Speaker 5: like you'll never you never know a Zion's health. But
Speaker 5: I think the top nine are also locked. Like I
Speaker 5: think the Warriors are done in my opinion, Like I
Speaker 5: just don't think anything's going there Memphis, and then all
Speaker 5: those other teams are kind of tanking. But man's what
Speaker 5: the Lakers do. They had a big trade last season
Speaker 5: that turned their season around, and they're gonna have to
Speaker 5: rely trade another Rustle most likely. I guess they're like
Speaker 5: another Russell this season to turn their team around.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's let's see if it's the right combination of
Speaker 2: things to just keep keep kicking the can down the
Speaker 2: road and seeing how far this thing goes, because it
Speaker 2: ain't gonna be too far, I don't think.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break. We'll come back.
Speaker 2: Talk a little bit about the top five most improved players,
Speaker 2: because there's some some interesting ones there.
Speaker 1: Right back, and we're back most Improved race.
Speaker 4: There are some moments from in the and the just
Speaker 4: talking about the we're playing Jackson Hayes, the pain in
Speaker 4: your voice when you said that, the just looking at
Speaker 4: the Lakers being seven back. Uh, These Lakers fans suffer
Speaker 4: for it. Yes, they can be difficult to uh, you know, we.
Speaker 1: Feel it all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's why it's an illness, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, It's not a superpower. It makes me either
Speaker 2: insufferable as a fan or my life becomes just pure suffering.
Speaker 1: It's hard.
Speaker 4: Six in a row, by the way, I don't know,
Speaker 4: that's uh the second best point differential in the league
Speaker 4: and have won six in a row.
Speaker 1: I know, Jack, I love that.
Speaker 2: That's what I was saying off Mike Jabari and I
Speaker 2: are like, yeah, man, let's go give me my sixers merch.
Speaker 1: Because I would. I would, I could stand by that.
Speaker 1: It's that's a that's a tough thing.
Speaker 4: You wouldn't feel as bad once mbad leaves them comes
Speaker 4: to the Lakers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, obviously.
Speaker 2: I mean like everybody's got to come home eventually, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But Maxie, like the I feel like everyone's saying it's
Speaker 1: his to lose at this point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I don't know. How did I just not
Speaker 4: think that he was going to keep getting better. I
Speaker 4: don't think I picked this. Maxi is most improved, But yeah,
Speaker 4: he feels like a shoeing at this point. Not a shoeing.
Speaker 4: I mean, there's a lot of a lot of other
Speaker 4: options here that look great. Haliburton makes a lot of
Speaker 4: sense to me because he's just had such a great season,
Speaker 4: and sometimes they do go with like person who has
Speaker 4: gone from All Star to like All NBA First Team candidate,
Speaker 4: like they did with Jaw a couple years back. So
Speaker 4: that would be the other option that would make sense
Speaker 4: to me is Haliburton. But you know, Maxi is kind
Speaker 4: of in that same ballpark. Maybe not quite as high
Speaker 4: as Haliburton, but he's you know, single handedly like obviously
Speaker 4: Embid's been incredible this season. He is also he was
Speaker 4: the MVP last season. I think he's playing better this
Speaker 4: season by kind of a lot. Yeah, but Maxi being
Speaker 4: taking it up to like a whole another level is
Speaker 4: really the thing that makes what the Sixers are doing
Speaker 4: so far this season possible that I don't think a
Speaker 4: lot of people were expecting. Well I was clearly, but
Speaker 4: of course you know.
Speaker 1: And your children who are big fans, sex yep, it
Speaker 1: is even though it isn't but a football player, but.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean it's like one of those things
Speaker 2: that like every you know, fan of every team is like,
Speaker 2: oh man, if this guy can make the leap next year,
Speaker 2: like this is we got something and like the way
Speaker 2: he's doing it is like to your point, I think
Speaker 2: it's only just because embiide is doing just putting up
Speaker 2: obscene numbers that people completely are kind of like, oh right, right, right, Max.
Speaker 4: I think it's also that he seems like kind of
Speaker 4: a jerk. You know, every Maxie just seems like he's
Speaker 4: no fun and.
Speaker 1: A real chair.
Speaker 4: Now he seems he's like the most impossible person not
Speaker 4: to love, Like he seems like the best dude, like
Speaker 4: he'd be he'd be a lot of fun to just
Speaker 4: like go out with, you know, yeah, oh, like for anything,
Speaker 4: like I feel like you go bowling, bowling and yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: because he's probably.
Speaker 2: Doing some fun trick shots. He's like watch how much
Speaker 2: English I put on this one?
Speaker 1: Like oh, he's got.
Speaker 4: Like little brother energy, you know, like yeah yeah, even
Speaker 4: though how tall is I don't mean little brother like,
Speaker 4: you know, but I just I like, like just his stature,
Speaker 4: you know, despite.
Speaker 2: That, even though what he's like six foot three at
Speaker 2: four right six two apparently Okay, that's a little bro.
Speaker 2: Yeah we can if I wear tims on with lifts,
Speaker 2: like you know, I might be able.
Speaker 5: To tower over it's his award for sure. I think
Speaker 5: Tyres Maxie gets shut. I'm jealous of like the Maxie
Speaker 5: experience just as a as a Laker fan, Like how
Speaker 5: I fan? I like, I really like players that are
Speaker 5: like drafted and like develop in your system, and the
Speaker 5: Lakers kind of are just hired gun after hired, gun
Speaker 5: hired gun let that just continue to flip their rosters,
Speaker 5: which is why I think Austin Reeves has such an
Speaker 5: attachment to like Laker fans where it's like, hey, like
Speaker 5: we saw this dude undrafted and you know, playing summer
Speaker 5: league games and and like now is up. But yeah,
Speaker 5: I think that's what makes I don't know if Jack
Speaker 5: you agree with this, but I think watching Maxie that's
Speaker 5: probably a little bit more special about it too.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 5: You saw Tyres Maxy kind of have to give James
Speaker 5: Harden the ball a bunch at first, and now Max
Speaker 5: He's like feels like a free kind of bird out there.
Speaker 5: He's like, oh, like there's no hard in round. Oh,
Speaker 5: it's just me. I get to create everything. I can
Speaker 5: take as many shots as I want. I think he's
Speaker 5: really benefited from that. But yeah, I think Max is
Speaker 5: the clear cut winner of this he's become like he.
Speaker 5: I had doubts, honestly, I know you both you didn't
Speaker 5: you both didn't, But like I had doubts of him
Speaker 5: becoming just this type of offensive option. I thought he
Speaker 5: was more in the Emmanuel quickly, no disrespect, but I
Speaker 5: thought like that's I thought like he was in that
Speaker 5: kind of vein of a score. But he's obviously way
Speaker 5: past that. And uh, he's like a movement shooter. He's
Speaker 5: an elite movement Shooter's an elite pitch off the dribble shooter.
Speaker 5: And that pairing with embiid is so tough. But Maxi
Speaker 5: as the winner, Yeah, yeah, not fun to play against.
Speaker 5: It's not fun to play against. He torched us.
Speaker 1: There's a humidity.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Vitorian prints on him, which you know which.
Speaker 2: Look look, look, look, I've been doing a lot of
Speaker 2: work about not crying on Mike Man. Let's just stay
Speaker 2: focused on other teams that might also be struggling, like
Speaker 2: the Bucks. Huh, what is your talk real quick about
Speaker 2: the Calves, Because I've felt just on the subject of
Speaker 2: like addition by subtraction, right, Harden, getting out of there,
Speaker 2: letting Maxi fly free like a bird. The Calves needed
Speaker 2: to lose two of their three best players, Uh to
Speaker 2: injury to go Suddenly they are the best hottest team
Speaker 2: in the league thirteen and three since losing Mobile and
Speaker 2: Garland to injuries.
Speaker 4: How sustainable do we think this is?
Speaker 2: I mean, it sounded like from when jab the way
Speaker 2: Jabari was speaking like it, it seems like this might
Speaker 2: be working out in their favor. Yeah, I don't Again,
Speaker 2: I don't know how much of that is. Like, obviously
Speaker 2: you get that bounce from being like, Okay, it's on
Speaker 2: us to do something. But the redundancy of sort of
Speaker 2: like their play styles may be the thing that's helping.
Speaker 1: But I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't watch enough of the Calves to have a
Speaker 2: fully informed, toxic opinion like.
Speaker 1: I normally would.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I don't watch a lot of them either,
Speaker 5: But I'm like, your if your guards are that small,
Speaker 5: the amount of offensive production you would need to kind
Speaker 5: of make up for that is a ton. So I
Speaker 5: think just having a more system approach to their offense
Speaker 5: has helped.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean they've won eight in a row, so I
Speaker 5: mean they're just like killing it right now. I think
Speaker 5: their defense is starting to settle down as well. And
Speaker 5: Mitchell has gone just absolutely nuts. That's another future Laker shoutout,
Speaker 5: like it's another in every single Jersey swap that that exists.
Speaker 5: Like you said, the embiid got the future Laker treatment
Speaker 5: just recently, so he's kind of entered that club. But yeah,
Speaker 5: Donovd Mitchell another guy that I'm a big fan of.
Speaker 5: So I don't think it's that sustainable. I think they're
Speaker 5: gonna need those guys back to make any type of
Speaker 5: real run. But they've kind of separated themselves at least
Speaker 5: from the like bottom pack because they struggle. I think
Speaker 5: they were struggling to come out the gates. There was
Speaker 5: a little bit of a drop off from last season.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, but they really they've really picked it up.
Speaker 4: So maybe they just give you Mitchell now, you know,
Speaker 4: if they're like this isn't this isn't sustainable, Like why
Speaker 4: not just flip them over?
Speaker 5: You know, we have a nice Gabe Vincent waiting for them.
Speaker 4: Just yeah, yeah, the future rights to James and uh,
Speaker 4: if you're interested.
Speaker 1: If you're interested, interest, we got we got a lot
Speaker 1: on offer. Tommy Berger. The chili there.
Speaker 2: It will destroy your insights, but if you survive, you
Speaker 2: will have superhuman powers, just like me and Rock. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I guess you mentioned earlier Raj. The Bucks they fired
Speaker 2: their head coach, Adrian Griffin, despite having the they were
Speaker 2: thirty and thirteen. There're seventeen games above five hundred, and
Speaker 2: you just get the sack like that. Yeah, I from
Speaker 2: what I was reading, like Giannis was big on him.
Speaker 2: It sounds like he was big on him because he
Speaker 2: was really not wanting to play for Nick Nurse. So
Speaker 2: that's why apparently maybe his support for Adrian Griffin sort
Speaker 2: of had manifested.
Speaker 1: But what I mean, what what? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I mean to fire a coach halfway through their first season,
Speaker 4: Like I think the last time I remember that happening
Speaker 4: was Jerry Tarkanium with the Spurs. Do you remember that experiment?
Speaker 4: But like that that is a quick trigger, like usually
Speaker 4: things have to be going disastrously for that what happened,
Speaker 4: So thirty and thirteen is wild. A lot of people
Speaker 4: are speculating the like Doc Rivers was like advising him
Speaker 4: at the Buck's request, like behind the scenes, and then
Speaker 4: like that's somehow involved here and it's going to be
Speaker 4: a Doc Rivers higher, which as a Sixers fan man,
Speaker 4: that hurts. Oh, oh you got Doc, dang it, and
Speaker 4: we're gonna have to face you in the second round
Speaker 4: of the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Come on, man, that is not what I wanted for one.
Speaker 4: Dang it. Oh well, uh well, we'll we'll have to
Speaker 4: just figure out a.
Speaker 1: Way to a game plan against Doc.
Speaker 2: You're gonna look, I think you stamp your ticket to
Speaker 2: the Eastern Conference finals.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, this is not gonna I say,
Speaker 1: that's done done.
Speaker 4: But the reason that Sixers fans were like kind of
Speaker 4: maybe excited to see another look, see another coach on
Speaker 4: the bench was the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Right, And the irony too is like we don't want
Speaker 2: to play for Nick Nurse and then you're like, oh, well,
Speaker 2: what's going on over there?
Speaker 1: Whatever? We got maybe Doc Rivers now. But yeah, like Roger,
Speaker 1: I know, what did you think of Doc?
Speaker 2: Because it felt like he was auditioning for gigs left
Speaker 2: and right recent oh with his desert thirst approach to
Speaker 2: his commentary, what what do you think of like of
Speaker 2: the whole situation and where the bucks go from here?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so it's interesting I was looking this up. I
Speaker 5: think David Blatt was fired pretty much in the exact
Speaker 5: same day twenty sixteen, yeah. Yeah, And he was fired
Speaker 5: in twenty sixteen January twenty third, which is which is today.
Speaker 5: So I think like it was very similar kind of approaches.
Speaker 5: And I think the way I look at this is
Speaker 5: there's things that are right and there's things that are fair.
Speaker 5: Is it fair that he got fired at this time?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: But I think was it right? Probably? Like what he
Speaker 5: was doing was some We had Malik Beasley on their
Speaker 5: team last year, and he was having Leak Beasley as
Speaker 5: their defensive ace, the guy that they throw on other
Speaker 5: team's best, you know, best players. They were not running
Speaker 5: Damian his pick and roll. The offense looked really clunky.
Speaker 5: I think he just kind of lost the locker room.
Speaker 5: No matter what the record is. I think that's I
Speaker 5: think like if you could talk to Bucks, if you
Speaker 5: talk to Bucks fans, they'll kind of tell you there
Speaker 5: are a lot of issues. And it was the first
Speaker 5: time I head coach, so you know, they're kind of
Speaker 5: admitting a mistake there. It is wild, Doc Rivers. If
Speaker 5: you listen to a Laker game, you'll hear him pretty
Speaker 5: much asked for the Laker job. It's wild, not not directly,
Speaker 5: but as direct as you could if I.
Speaker 1: Were to be there. Easy, easy, you get it. You're
Speaker 1: calling Darkenham out constantly, exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's like one of the best people to hear
Speaker 4: talk about basketball, Like I get, I get exactly why
Speaker 4: he keeps getting higher. Man, He's so fun, so interesting
Speaker 4: to hear talk about basketball. Yeah, were there not a
Speaker 4: competitive advantage in it, I would be wishing that he
Speaker 4: stayed doing podcast appearances and doing the games. But you know,
Speaker 4: be being a Sixers fan, I do have to hope
Speaker 4: that he is the new Bucks head coach.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I'm I think it could it could
Speaker 2: be a thing, but yeah, just it's it is wild
Speaker 2: to just when you hear about like the informal like
Speaker 2: consultant role that he had at the Bucks behest and.
Speaker 5: Is that legal? Is that even allowed? Like is that
Speaker 5: like is a loud yeah, be a consultant?
Speaker 4: Well it was dirty man. That It's like just the
Speaker 4: feeling of feeling like, hey, so look, you're new, it's
Speaker 4: your first time head coaching. We just want to bring
Speaker 4: this guy in here to talk to you. He's not
Speaker 4: after your job that Like can you imagine then, like
Speaker 4: how many assurances they had to give him to be like, yeah,
Speaker 4: Doc's just here to out man, that's cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then oh yeah, it's like being a relationship.
Speaker 2: And then like the person you're with is like, you know,
Speaker 2: I feel like my ex could really help our relationship
Speaker 2: go to the next.
Speaker 1: Level if you just just let's just bring them into
Speaker 1: the picture real quick.
Speaker 3: It's not don't be.
Speaker 1: Threatened by it. Oh my gosh, tripping cut to.
Speaker 5: Terry Scotts, like, you know, wishes he stayed on, Like
Speaker 5: Terry Stotts, I think, right, like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, right, yeah, and the.
Speaker 5: Season he just he just left, they just parted ways.
Speaker 5: He might be the head coach right now if if
Speaker 5: if he stayed on. So it's just a weird situation.
Speaker 5: And this was this was touted as Janice's guy to right,
Speaker 5: it was an Adrian Griffin kind of Janice's first head coaches.
Speaker 4: They looked very unhappy this year. I feel like, just yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: so that's why.
Speaker 2: Yeah again, I think we gotta we're seeing Look, the
Speaker 2: player is GM thing not not the best. Let's we're
Speaker 2: not seeing a great track record here. But hey, look,
Speaker 2: we gotta gotta stick to what we know. Like from
Speaker 2: what the reporting I'm hearing is just because it wasn't
Speaker 2: so much that like Jannis wanted Adrian Griffin is that
Speaker 2: he didn't want Nick Nurse. So it's like, let me
Speaker 2: put my weight behind Adrian Griffin. So okay, huh, it's
Speaker 2: a chin rubber, for sure, it's a chin rubber.
Speaker 4: We'll see what happened, Well, we shall see. And me
Speaker 4: talking all this trash is of course going to mean
Speaker 4: that the Sixers get knocked out in the second round
Speaker 4: by uh.
Speaker 1: The Duck Rivers and the Box.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but while I was doing it in a.
Speaker 2: Black hole, is going to like just appear in like
Speaker 2: the fabric of space time because it's to be so anomalous.
Speaker 1: It's like, well, what happens? Is it? Is it? Is
Speaker 1: it doc or is it the Sixers who was supposed
Speaker 1: to go out?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Probably rather that than the Celtics losing to the
Speaker 4: Celtics again.
Speaker 1: But yeah, well.
Speaker 4: Anyways, Uh, these are the things that I think about
Speaker 4: it night when I'm trying to go to sleep.
Speaker 2: Well, one thing I think about is wembin Yama. Some
Speaker 2: recent images of Victor webbin Yama. Yeah, I'm still processing
Speaker 2: these images against the Wizards.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's this image of him dunking over Marvin Bagley.
Speaker 4: I don't think he actually ends up making the dunk,
Speaker 4: but it is straight up space jam. Yeah, it's the
Speaker 4: space Jam dunk. It's very true.
Speaker 1: He's Marvin Badley's six ten.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Marvin Bagley is six ten, and he looks like
Speaker 4: a child.
Speaker 1: It looks like.
Speaker 2: When Bin Yama got like the mushroom in Mario to Go,
Speaker 2: like he somehow was also growing on top of.
Speaker 1: Being like seven five or whatever we're officially saying he is.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, It's just just like one of those pictures
Speaker 2: you're not sure how to process mentally.
Speaker 1: I feel like, have you.
Speaker 5: Guys seen him yet in person? Have you seen Yama
Speaker 5: in person?
Speaker 2: We were we went to one of his greatest performances
Speaker 2: I think of his career, which was his first game
Speaker 2: in the Summer League, Okay, and we just.
Speaker 4: Like bought tickets off vivid seats, so we weren't that
Speaker 4: close close enough to like really see him.
Speaker 2: Plus a bunch of people standing in front of us
Speaker 2: during the game, and we had to be like, hey man.
Speaker 1: Sit down, man, we're all trying to see It's like, well.
Speaker 4: We did lie to ourselves and say that we got
Speaker 4: the high up seats so that we could just see
Speaker 4: him eye to eye.
Speaker 5: Right, that's why. Yeah, now he's he's in crow. I
Speaker 5: saw him, yeah, in Summer League as well. Then I
Speaker 5: saw him, I think play the Clippers here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 5: He just he makes no sense. I haven't seen anything
Speaker 5: like that ever. Guy with that type of handle, step
Speaker 5: back threes, just dunks while on his tippy toes. Super
Speaker 5: super insane, insane prospect.
Speaker 2: There was even a moment against the Sixers where like
Speaker 2: Embid was just was defending and then he just kind
Speaker 2: of was like, well, I use my long arm, just
Speaker 2: kind of put it around your body, just like laying in.
Speaker 2: It was like it was like the and even Embiid
Speaker 2: was like what he's like, I was up straight up
Speaker 2: and he just was just like, no, sir, my arm
Speaker 2: is actually four feet longer than you expected to be.
Speaker 2: So yeah, there's he's confounding. He is confederating. Should we
Speaker 2: take another break?
Speaker 4: And one other thing I just wanted. The Lakers tweeted
Speaker 4: out that Lebron has played against thirty five percent of
Speaker 4: all players in NBA history, which is why I saw
Speaker 4: somebody replied crazy that he's duck in the sixty five
Speaker 4: percent other players.
Speaker 1: What's he afraid of?
Speaker 2: Exactly, But I wonder what numbers, like how what that
Speaker 2: would percentage be for like Vince Carter, you know, like harder, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: because he played, he played many decades. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm curious just to see, like how that stat stacks
Speaker 2: up to.
Speaker 1: Other players like long careers too.
Speaker 2: But yeah, when you look at him, look, father time,
Speaker 2: you're doing your thing.
Speaker 1: Shout out all the thirty nine year olds out there.
Speaker 1: We're doing us.
Speaker 4: I mean, he's still one of the best players in
Speaker 4: the league. I don't know, he looks awesome. I think
Speaker 4: maybe I haven't been watching as much Lakers basketball as
Speaker 4: you guys.
Speaker 5: But he looks ok, he looks he's good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll say that Lebron James is good.
Speaker 4: He's pretty good.
Speaker 1: Pretty good. Yeah, it's time.
Speaker 4: It is time for rabid Fire to close it out.
Speaker 4: So let's take a quick break. We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: And we're back.
Speaker 2: Super producer Jabbari with the facts. The stats comes through
Speaker 2: ol Vince Carter. He's played against thirty.
Speaker 1: Seven percent of all the players in the league.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a nice try, Lebron. Maybe try a little
Speaker 4: bit harder.
Speaker 1: Yeah about down to the real goat VC Bro.
Speaker 4: That's true.
Speaker 2: I mean that that dunk contest. We talk about it
Speaker 2: all the time. Vince Carter, please come on the show.
Speaker 2: We love you, yeah, Page love.
Speaker 4: Pand of the All Star Weekend. Speaking of Uh and Rod,
Speaker 4: you have stepped in it. It is the rapid fire
Speaker 4: round of question. Man, we're gonna do a little bit
Speaker 4: All Star Weekend theme to some of these questions. That's
Speaker 4: more prep than most of our guests get. So you're welcome.
Speaker 4: This is We're in the final minutes. The heat is on.
Speaker 4: You just gotta react. You can't, you can't think about it.
Speaker 1: Don't embarrass us, man, Just immediately respond. Do not humiliate us.
Speaker 1: Right now.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're trying to get Vince Carter on the show,
Speaker 2: and hopefully he will hear this and recognize that he
Speaker 2: would be a great fit.
Speaker 1: But are you ready for this?
Speaker 2: Let's do it all right, do some brain stretches because
Speaker 2: it's time, Bryan, start the clock.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be fast. It's gonna be so fast, bro,
Speaker 1: I don't even know how to warn you.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be ugly.
Speaker 1: Man, It's gonna be ugly.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 2: You'd be slipping and sliding like Luca when he got
Speaker 2: crossed up that one.
Speaker 1: Did his head band fall off or did it just
Speaker 1: fall off?
Speaker 2: In my mind, I think his headband came on, like
Speaker 2: you know, like in a cartoon thing. Yeah, or like
Speaker 2: you know, like a cartoon thing, like suddenly a guy
Speaker 2: like walks in and like you hear a bunch of
Speaker 2: casts and comes out. They have like their arm in
Speaker 2: a cast and they got like one crutch and their
Speaker 2: heads wrapped up like I feel like Luca just like
Speaker 2: suddenly had his head wrapped after that. But anyway, the
Speaker 2: speed RAJ, you got to keep us on point, man,
Speaker 2: and I already Bryan start the clock man, this is
Speaker 2: on you bro.
Speaker 5: Yeah wow, my job yeah, all.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, my job exactly. Roger, who should go first?
Speaker 1: Jack or me?
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, slow Jack?
Speaker 1: Who should go first? Wow?
Speaker 4: You know I think he said. I think Roger told
Speaker 4: us who who he wants to go first? Sounds like
Speaker 4: a few miles.
Speaker 1: Okay, well guess what roch Topaulu question number one? Wow?
Speaker 1: Like this, Yeah, what's your favorite All Star Weekend moment
Speaker 1: or game?
Speaker 5: Bro All Star Weekend moment or game?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's cool. And I think I like the
Speaker 5: last the Kobee. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: It along your answers with this.
Speaker 5: I love the Kobe Lebron one. I thought that that's
Speaker 5: my favorite one where I think Lebron didn't shoot it
Speaker 5: at the end and Kobe was kind of pissed at
Speaker 5: him because they were having this one on one kind
Speaker 5: of monoymno fourth quarter match, and Kobe was kind of
Speaker 5: going at him and like he wanted the one on
Speaker 5: one against Lebron. I think Lebron kicked out. We got
Speaker 5: to keep it out to Carmelo whoever it was, and
Speaker 5: Kobe kind of gave a look at him like, hey,
Speaker 5: we're like having this one on one moment here, you're
Speaker 5: supposed to take the shot. So that's my favorite All
Speaker 5: Star Game moment for sure. I really like cherished that one.
Speaker 5: That's that was a really cool moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that was the right answer just for people
Speaker 1: listening at home.
Speaker 4: So yeah, you've regained their trust. And now I can
Speaker 4: ask you another All Star weekend, throw them off, throw
Speaker 4: them off. So Pro Bowl, the NFL Football's All Star weekend,
Speaker 4: kind of does like I think I saw that like
Speaker 4: in their commercial, like a game of dodgeball.
Speaker 1: The players are playing in what schoolyard game Raj.
Speaker 4: Do you want to see added to the NBA All
Speaker 4: Star Weekends cool yard game?
Speaker 5: Well, I'll give two answers. Number one, I'd like to
Speaker 5: see like pick a ball. I think that's it's really
Speaker 5: competitive at least when I play, Like that's a fun matchup,
Speaker 5: but like I'm just gonna cheat and just go quickly.
Speaker 5: I'd love like a one on one or a two
Speaker 5: on two, like that schoolyard basketball, Like one on one
Speaker 5: is like that that's like the most popular, or like
Speaker 5: two on two. I would like to see some sort
Speaker 5: of that like incorporated into All Star Weekend, like it's fun,
Speaker 5: doesn't have to be super serious. But yeah, I think
Speaker 5: you'll get guys being competitive and not this bowl that
Speaker 5: we're seeing. Sometimes we're like, guys just don't play hard.
Speaker 5: Shaye was asked after an All Star game. He said, uh, like,
Speaker 5: what will make you guys play harder? He said, more money.
Speaker 5: It was like, Shay, this is your first.
Speaker 4: All Star game. I love that. What do you mean
Speaker 4: more money?
Speaker 5: I'm so yeah.
Speaker 4: Look so this is kind of my answer too, is
Speaker 4: we're letting everybody gamble now, like the you know gambling,
Speaker 4: various gambling outlets are the like key sponsors. These guys
Speaker 4: will like fight each other to the death to win
Speaker 4: a shooting contest after practice for like a ten dollars,
Speaker 4: Like with ten dollars on the line, right, Like, so
Speaker 4: we know, we know they like to play cards. We
Speaker 4: know they like to play a two K against each other.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying there's definitely money on the line. I'm
Speaker 4: just saying I could theoretically conceive of that. So, like
Speaker 4: I would love to see a televised.
Speaker 1: Two K tournament.
Speaker 4: Yeah, two K tournament, you know them streaming on Twitter.
Speaker 4: You know the story they're competitive about behind the scenes,
Speaker 4: Like that's the stuff I want to see, like that
Speaker 4: them turn into somehow and and do like a heads
Speaker 4: up poker, you know, Like that would be fun. I
Speaker 4: would love to see who's the best card player in
Speaker 4: the NBA.
Speaker 2: They could play heads up seven up? Yeah for money,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Just bring it back to
Speaker 2: rainy day school games, you know what I mean. I
Speaker 2: just think that would work. Anything I think would just
Speaker 2: I think the weirder the game the better, Like bottle flipping.
Speaker 4: Bottle flipping would be fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but you put like a hundred racks on it,
Speaker 2: it would be exactly. It would be monumental and it
Speaker 2: has their money. Yeah, it's a ten G buy in. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that would be something else. You got to keep this
Speaker 2: segment moving. Man. Man, that was really poor form on
Speaker 2: your part. But guess what we will forgive you, which
Speaker 2: brings you to my next question. If you could have
Speaker 2: any player's skills set for a day, who's and what?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: I think like if I had Kyrie's handles, I don't
Speaker 5: think I'd ever leave the gym, Like, I don't think
Speaker 5: i'd ever I'd take a basketball with me wherever I went.
Speaker 5: I would not, I'd bring it every single place. If
Speaker 5: I can dribble, I do that sometimes now, and I
Speaker 5: don't dribble as well as Kyrie. But like, if I
Speaker 5: could dribble like Kyrie or even Steph who has just
Speaker 5: I think really underrated handles, I'd dribble basketball. So that
Speaker 5: that's what I would do. Because I feel like you
Speaker 5: can bring a ball anywhere pretty much. I would like
Speaker 5: to have their handles for a day. That'd be That'd
Speaker 5: be something I'd like for sure.
Speaker 2: Wait, you shout out to the people who really are
Speaker 2: the Ball is Life type people, like the way you said,
Speaker 2: like you can pretty much bring a ball anywhere, like
Speaker 2: like I've seen where like a teenage dude has a
Speaker 2: basketball in the movie theater. Yeah yeah, and it's like
Speaker 2: bro really like, I mean, they were respectful. Once the
Speaker 2: trailer started, they stopped dribbling, like there's a dude drib
Speaker 2: I remember seeing the due dribbling in by the concession stand.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, you're really You're on that life. You
Speaker 2: got the bopsack too on you like I used to
Speaker 2: have in ninety eight, But that's.
Speaker 4: A different wearing strength shoes into those jump shoes.
Speaker 2: Yeah I got, I got jump soles and I have
Speaker 2: a full lak or uniform on with a headband, Like
Speaker 2: what is wrong with this sixteen year old boy?
Speaker 1: Like I'm trying to get on JV?
Speaker 4: Yeah all right, you could recommend one southern California restaurant
Speaker 4: someone visiting.
Speaker 1: What is that place? And what is your order when you.
Speaker 5: Go on California restaurant? Well, I think the main one
Speaker 5: would be in and out that you tell them. And
Speaker 5: when I go to in and Out, I get people
Speaker 5: haven't tried this, and they call me crazy. But sometimes
Speaker 5: I'll get the grilled cheese just no meat on it
Speaker 5: and it's it's really good. Actually, the grilled cheese in
Speaker 5: and out it is awesome, especially if you don't want
Speaker 5: something to filling. Uh, you just get that and and
Speaker 5: they make that really well. So and then that would
Speaker 5: be the one I would tell people to go to
Speaker 5: the lines a little bit long, but yeah, the main one.
Speaker 2: I like how you I would I would recommend in
Speaker 2: and out. And the thing I would recommend is not
Speaker 2: the burger, but it's just a grilled cheese.
Speaker 5: And make sure the fries are well done. You got
Speaker 5: to tell them that, yeah, white friese fries.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I will eat the I ask for them, like, I.
Speaker 6: Like rare, give me those fries, rare mashed potato sticks?
Speaker 6: Oh yeah yeah, like what soggy? Then like like yeah
Speaker 6: really yeah you like mash potato, yeah, massotato sticks. And
Speaker 6: also I like to get chopped chili's on my burger.
Speaker 2: That's the other one because then you can actually make
Speaker 2: it spicy because I love a bit of spice.
Speaker 5: Are you animal style person or now you guys getting.
Speaker 2: The fries animal because I want to Max. I just
Speaker 2: want to freak out my doctor by eating like that
Speaker 2: all the time. But other than that, night, like the
Speaker 2: if the for the for the burger, no, I don't.
Speaker 2: I mean, I like the grilled onions and stuff, but
Speaker 2: it's not it's not. It's not an always kind of thing.
Speaker 2: I always get animal fries, though light fries. He massed
Speaker 2: potato sticks. Sorry, y'all, I just I think we just
Speaker 2: lost some listeners with that. But hey, you gotta live
Speaker 2: your truth. Well, Raj Chappalu, thank you so much man
Speaker 2: for joining us on Miles and jackot mad Boosti's where
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Speaker 5: Yeah we do. We know. We do live shows and
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Speaker 5: Then you just follow all my content at Raj Chapalu
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Speaker 5: which has been really fun. Our Lakers have a rookie
Speaker 5: jailed Hood Chapino, which if people in La I would,
Speaker 5: you know, tell them to go watch a game. It's
Speaker 5: it's fun. South Bay Games are really nice. You can
Speaker 5: go watch a first round pick playing those game. So yeah,
Speaker 5: just follow me on Twitter at Roschapalu And yeah, this
Speaker 5: was fun. It's a lot of fun.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and guess what, We've reached the end, my friends,
Speaker 2: that's what.
Speaker 1: We did it again. I know you did.
Speaker 4: You didn't think we could. I know you said seventy
Speaker 4: points doesn't matter anymore.
Speaker 1: Well, guess what we'll guess what? News flash, tough guy,
Speaker 1: news flash. That's right.
Speaker 2: Well, news flash. Also, we will be back next week.
Speaker 2: Despite what you may think, it will be said.
Speaker 4: We couldn't do it. And here we are on episode
Speaker 4: ninety seven, a mere three episodes away from the one hundred.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: Think about that, and if I know us, we will
Speaker 4: do absolutely nothing to commemorate that.
Speaker 2: Yep, really bad at show adversaries for people that follow
Speaker 2: our other shows, we just we're.
Speaker 4: Just we're out here, just like oh man, did you
Speaker 4: know yesterday was our thousandth episodes.
Speaker 1: Wow, that would mean we're getting old already.
Speaker 2: Points is nothing, one hundred episodes and nothing, but we
Speaker 2: will be back.
Speaker 1: Thanks everybody for listening. We'll see you next time or
Speaker 1: hear you next time, bye, or smell you next time.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, okay, we have right, but I
Speaker 2: got the implication there