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Speaker 1: Podcast on the Athletic Network Monday, January thirteenth. I'm Jay

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Speaker 1: on a Wednesday, Guys, Monday though, winners and losers from

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Speaker 1: the NBA weekend. Let's start with the winners. Who wants

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Speaker 1: to get us started? Here on a fine Monday morning.

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Speaker 2: I can kick us off because I do believe it's official.

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Speaker 2: The Grizzlies should be everyone's sweetheart team. The Memphis Grizzlies

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Speaker 2: are who everyone should root for to get into the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Preach where they are right now because they beat the Spurs,

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Speaker 2: who are battling for that last spot. A good win

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Speaker 2: for the young Memphis Grizzlies and the Warriors. Grizzlies have

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Speaker 2: won five in a row. Why should you cheer for them? Well,

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Speaker 2: they're a small market, they're young. They're led by John Morant,

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Speaker 2: a man who will win Rookie of the Year and

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Speaker 2: who is must watch television. The best part about Jaw

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Speaker 2: he's not selfish. This team has hit over thirtieth their

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Speaker 2: last five games. It's great for a young team, but

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Speaker 2: not only that. They're modern. Jared Jackson junior modern day

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Speaker 2: big man a three pointer and twenty eight straight games.

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Speaker 2: That's a lot, nearly a franchise record, and he passes

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Speaker 2: they're wheeling. Jonas had thirty one and nineteen, a guy

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Speaker 1: And they do have a couple of Canadians too. That

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Speaker 2: There's lots to like about this team. And Joe Morant,

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Speaker 2: you know, he's wise beyond his years. Against those Spurs

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Speaker 2: fourth quarter, went six of eight in the fourth, twelve

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Speaker 2: I'm sure what he's expecting out of that team. So

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Speaker 1: I want the Grizzlies to make the playoffs two, specifically

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Speaker 1: to see John Morant in a playoff series. Sure, Like

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Jah Moran is averaging nearly eighteen points per game,

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Speaker 4: but they weren't able to do that. And again, Morent

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Speaker 4: I don't think. I don't think Zion could steal it

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Speaker 1: I would say, of a horrible John Moran injury. So

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Speaker 2: But he's not playing, but Zion would have to crush him, right,

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Speaker 2: Zian would have to come out him be amazing.

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Speaker 1: Oh, if Zion comes back, I mean I don't think

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he'd have to do those, but he literally would

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Speaker 4: That if the Pelicans would a surge into the playoffs

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this season, Yeah, I think it would

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Speaker 2: and now you've got a John Morant who's you know,

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Speaker 2: want to play with that Joe Murant, guy who gets

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Speaker 3: Well, how good do the Grizzlies have to be before

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Speaker 3: Igwidala says, hey, I just stick around. This looks like fun. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: to watch John Morant and Jaron Jackson and how they're

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you're right there.

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Speaker 2: What are the odds Andre Goodolla comes back? I would

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Speaker 2: say one billion to one, as.

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Speaker 1: I have no intel on this by any means, I

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Speaker 1: have no sources, but I do like looking at the

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Speaker 1: calendar here, looking at the schedule and seeing a week

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Speaker 1: from today, January twentieth, Martin Luther King Day, Pelicans versus

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Speaker 1: the Grizzlies'd be a perfect fig day for Zion Williamson

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Speaker 1: to make his NBA debut. I'm just saying, I just

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Speaker 3: Trey, WHU do you have another winner of the weekend?

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Speaker 3: The shorthanded Los Angeles Los Angeles Lakers one on Friday.

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Speaker 3: One on Saturday, the Friday win. Lebron came in questionable

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Speaker 3: and he looked to me very casually dominant playing that game.

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Speaker 1: Well, I got another game. We got two more games

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Speaker 1: played since December eighteenth. I think it was he was

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Speaker 1: out with the groin injury, so started hot, cooled off

428
00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:13,840
Speaker 1: and then and then the Spurs got the w But

429
00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:16,239
Speaker 1: he's back, so that's good. And then Kyrie irving a

430
00:19:16,280 --> 00:19:18,960
Speaker 1: third guy there, a potential Eastern All Star guy that's

431
00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:20,920
Speaker 1: been an All Star before. Of course Kyrie he hadn't

432
00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:23,879
Speaker 1: played in two months. Wow, he comes back, Yeah, two

433
00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:27,400
Speaker 1: months he had been out, comes back, makes his return,

434
00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:31,200
Speaker 1: hits ten of eleven shots in the best shooting night

435
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Speaker 1: of his career. He should take more two month chunks off,

436
00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:35,680
Speaker 1: I think, and then come back fresh after that. Yeah,

437
00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:37,679
Speaker 1: he's scored twenty one points in twenty minutes coming back

438
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Speaker 1: from the injured right shoulder. And like a week ago

439
00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:42,200
Speaker 1: we were like, uh, is Kerry having done for the

440
00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:44,639
Speaker 1: rest of the season. He's getting this quartzone shot, Like

441
00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:47,800
Speaker 1: what's going on there? But he's back and they killed

442
00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:50,320
Speaker 1: the Hawks. I mean the Nets did one eight eighty six.

443
00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:52,159
Speaker 1: It wasn't even that close, no Trey Young in it.

444
00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:54,879
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's uh, you know, the Nets did all

445
00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:56,679
Speaker 1: right without Kyrie. I think we got to say that

446
00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:58,720
Speaker 1: they went I believe they went like thirteen and thirteen.

447
00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:01,679
Speaker 1: They were a five hundred squad. But you know, you

448
00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:04,000
Speaker 1: add Kyrie back into that bunch. Yeah, you're playing the Hawks,

449
00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,159
Speaker 1: but your confidence, you just see it, like their confidence,

450
00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:08,320
Speaker 1: it just goes up a level, because that's what Kyrie

451
00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:11,480
Speaker 1: brings to your squad. And here he is back and

452
00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:13,200
Speaker 1: they had a seven game losing street there too, to

453
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Speaker 1: despite the thirteen and thirteen record. Now they've won two

454
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Speaker 1: in a row and you know it'll you talk about

455
00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:21,000
Speaker 1: con Lee and when he comes back and what Snyder does.

456
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Speaker 2: Well.

457
00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:23,760
Speaker 1: Something to watch is Kenny Atkinson juggling in the minutes

458
00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:26,119
Speaker 1: of Kyrie irving Spencer Dinwitty who was balling out when

459
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Speaker 1: Kyrie was out, and even Carris Lavert who has come

460
00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:31,080
Speaker 1: back briefly. So just to watch that. But again, two

461
00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:34,359
Speaker 1: good wins over the weekend and a winner to having

462
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Speaker 1: some more star power back in the Eastern Conference.

463
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was good to see you, good to see

464
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Speaker 3: Kyrie looking good. And I like seeing Spencer Dinwiddie and

465
00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:43,720
Speaker 3: Kyrie getting the starts together because yeah, Dinwidy was pretty

466
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Speaker 3: solid while Kyrie was gone. Put his name at least

467
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Speaker 3: up for consideration as an All Star player. But the

468
00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:51,760
Speaker 3: three point shooting wasn't there for the Nets with Kyrie

469
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Speaker 3: on the bench, and that's something additional that he adds

470
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Speaker 3: when he's in the lineup. The Nets were basically a

471
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Speaker 3: five hundred team last year. They were forty two and

472
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Speaker 3: forty you lost the Russell. You brought in Kyrie Irving,

473
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Speaker 3: but then he was gone. You're still a five hundred

474
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Speaker 3: team with an fringe All Star guy in Spencer Dinwiddy.

475
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Speaker 3: They did a good job of holding the fort and

476
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Speaker 3: hopefully now they're able to string some wins together getting

477
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Speaker 3: their starback.

478
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Speaker 1: It's just good to have Kyrie back. For the top

479
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Speaker 1: ten players too, you see on mb dot com. I

480
00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:18,879
Speaker 1: mean he's just had a couple of beautiful finishes, you

481
00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:20,280
Speaker 1: know with the left he had that one where he

482
00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:22,760
Speaker 1: kissed off the glass looking like MJ fading away. I mean,

483
00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:24,399
Speaker 1: he was putting on a show. And there's the dribbling,

484
00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:26,359
Speaker 1: of course. Just nice to have him back again, and

485
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Speaker 1: just highlights alone.

486
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Speaker 4: He's so much fun to watch. He's got a cool

487
00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:31,800
Speaker 4: look to him. He's got a cool shot, he's got swag. Guys,

488
00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:32,720
Speaker 4: he's everything.

489
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Speaker 2: Man trimmed his hair a little bit. Yeah, yeah, it's

490
00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:39,480
Speaker 2: a little fresher and as he said last week, it's

491
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Speaker 2: an entertainment league, and I think I've put in a

492
00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:43,440
Speaker 2: lot of work in this league to be up there,

493
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Speaker 2: whether I'm playing or not. And if you want to

494
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Speaker 2: see an All Star Game. I'd vote for myself as well.

495
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Speaker 1: That's why people, that's why there's some maybe Kyrie haters,

496
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Speaker 1: if you want to call them, at saying tweeting, Oh,

497
00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:54,520
Speaker 1: he's only come back because he wants to get in

498
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Speaker 1: the All Star Game. He wants to play in the

499
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Speaker 1: All Star Game. Yeah, so and like he's like, he'll

500
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Speaker 1: come back, he'll play well for a couple of weeks here,

501
00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:03,640
Speaker 1: he'll make the Ulstar Game. He'll play and then soon

502
00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:06,800
Speaker 1: after that, Oh ah, that right, shoulders, slare it up.

503
00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:09,239
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to miss a couple a couple more

504
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Speaker 1: weeks here.

505
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Speaker 3: The conspiracy theorists are already out there saying, wow, he

506
00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:17,399
Speaker 3: looked great for supposedly having an injured should Is that easy?

507
00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:17,680
Speaker 1: Huh?

508
00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:20,600
Speaker 3: One shot a quartzone and you could score that many

509
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Speaker 3: points in twenty minutes.

510
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Speaker 1: I don't know.

511
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I did say it last week. It

512
00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:26,639
Speaker 2: was odd the way he planned it all out, the

513
00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:28,240
Speaker 2: way he talked to the media and said, hey, I

514
00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:29,920
Speaker 2: might be out for the season. Five days later, I'm

515
00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:32,840
Speaker 2: coming back within a week. It's a little weird. Yeah,

516
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Speaker 2: it's a little weird. But that quote was from ESPN's

517
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Speaker 2: and Milie Andrews had to mention it, and that's why

518
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Speaker 2: it's bad for Tree Young. I'm just gonna jump into

519
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Speaker 2: my Tree Young loser of the weekend. Oh ok, because

520
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Speaker 2: Trey Young's All Star chances, they're not guaranteed despite his numbers.

521
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Speaker 2: Absolutely not. As of the latest fan voting on January night,

522
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Speaker 2: Trey was first among Eastern Conference cards. Good fans make

523
00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:56,359
Speaker 2: up only fifty percent of the All Star voting equation

524
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Speaker 2: for the starts of the game. As we know, the

525
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Speaker 2: other half of the eight equation media and players who

526
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Speaker 2: are getting their ballots soon because the starters are revealed

527
00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:06,359
Speaker 2: in ten days, and the Hawks are firmly in dead

528
00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:10,520
Speaker 2: last in the East because the Knicks one. Yeah they're

529
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Speaker 2: one game back. Yeah, one game back of the Warriors.

530
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Speaker 2: But I think when the ballots are come out right now,

531
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Speaker 2: they're voting within ten days, they're gonna look at there's

532
00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:21,280
Speaker 2: no way they're going to catch the fourteenth place New

533
00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:24,560
Speaker 2: York Knicks. So that's that's horrible for them. Obviously, Kyrie

534
00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:27,160
Speaker 2: comes back, Bill comes back, who's in this very similar scenario,

535
00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:30,280
Speaker 2: bad team, good points, and if he doesn't make it

536
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Speaker 2: as a starter, then he goes through the process of

537
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Speaker 2: coaches voting as him as a reserve. I don't think

538
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Speaker 2: it's a guarantee there either, because Kemba Walker will be

539
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:41,800
Speaker 2: making it. There's probably about five guards, and then it

540
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Speaker 2: could be Kyrie Benson as Jalen Brown Beale and then

541
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Speaker 2: he's he's in amongst.

542
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Speaker 4: It's definitely going to get in ahead of him in

543
00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:54,920
Speaker 4: my opinion, the respect vote. I don't know the Joe

544
00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:55,800
Speaker 4: Johnson vote.

545
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Speaker 1: My gut says Trey Young is going to be in

546
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Speaker 1: the All Star Game.

547
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Speaker 3: I mean, I guess I'm leaning towards thinking he'll be

548
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:05,320
Speaker 3: there as well. The games played between Trey Young and Beale,

549
00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:08,840
Speaker 3: I think is gonna be gonna be perhaps a determining factory.

550
00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:11,520
Speaker 1: Yeah that's that's that's fair. But you're right, Uh, Kyrie

551
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:13,920
Speaker 1: coming back doesn't help his chances there. There's no doubt

552
00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:14,359
Speaker 1: about that.

553
00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:16,840
Speaker 2: So you got and the fact that they stink, I mean,

554
00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:19,320
Speaker 2: they can't win a game and they got blown out.

555
00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,200
Speaker 1: They had like forty points or something like that in

556
00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:23,639
Speaker 1: this game. It was close to I don't know, I

557
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:25,760
Speaker 1: couldn't even do the math. Where are you right now?

558
00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:26,960
Speaker 4: In Lowry? Is the old stuff?

559
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:31,960
Speaker 1: Well? Yeah, I had been saying all earlier in the season.

560
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Speaker 1: I was just like, I just don't see it. You know,

561
00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:36,679
Speaker 1: he was he was injured, Van Vliet was balling. I

562
00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:38,280
Speaker 1: was like, you know, the Rapt's going to really get

563
00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:40,600
Speaker 1: more than one All star. Saam is the all star.

564
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:44,200
Speaker 1: Things turned after got hurt. Everybody got hurt on the

565
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:47,399
Speaker 1: wraps and Lowry I mean was carrying them for for

566
00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,040
Speaker 1: good chunks of games. He was. He was the Chris

567
00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:53,920
Speaker 1: Paul of the Easter for a while in his impact

568
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,840
Speaker 1: in the Raptors, still winning games despite not having and

569
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Speaker 1: not having Gasol and not having Norman, not having surge

570
00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 1: of times, not having amble to times. I say all

571
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:06,880
Speaker 1: of that to get to I'm still thinking he doesn't

572
00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:10,639
Speaker 1: make it. But but it is the coaches picking this reserves.

573
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:12,160
Speaker 1: He's not gonna make it as a starter. We know that,

574
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Speaker 1: and they're in theory are gonna be high on a

575
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Speaker 1: guy like that. I think they're going to be very

576
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Speaker 1: high on a guy like Lowery, especially over probably a

577
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Speaker 1: young or a Biel or something like that. So yeah,

578
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Speaker 1: I'll put it at I'll put a fifty to fifty

579
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Speaker 1: right now.

580
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Speaker 4: I mean, I say it, Yeah, I guess if.

581
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:32,800
Speaker 1: Siakam is voted in. I mean really does in a

582
00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:34,959
Speaker 1: weird way helps his chances, I think, because then it's

583
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,840
Speaker 1: then it's the coaches not having to select two Raptors, right,

584
00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:40,119
Speaker 1: which might be a real stretch, and it's just like,

585
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:41,960
Speaker 1: you know, having to pick one. So yeah, I don't

586
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:45,000
Speaker 1: know where do you guys fall Like Lee's pretty confident.

587
00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:46,240
Speaker 1: I'm split still.

588
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:48,560
Speaker 3: Look, I was happy to have Kyle Lowry a vote

589
00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 3: after he kissed his son.

590
00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:51,639
Speaker 1: That was pretty awesome.

591
00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 3: But I'd also be more interested in giving two Raptors

592
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:56,240
Speaker 3: votes if they would stop blowing ten point ly it's

593
00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:57,000
Speaker 3: what's going on here.

594
00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:58,919
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a rough one there on Sunday. It's

595
00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 1: happened a lot lately. They were up big again on

596
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:04,280
Speaker 1: the Spurs. Yeah, yeah, not good, not a good look.

597
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 1: And then well then that was a weird game. And

598
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:07,159
Speaker 1: we can get into that if we want to, but

599
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:09,679
Speaker 1: that was just strange. They were up huge and the

600
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 1: Spurs are suddenly up big, and then the Raptors hit

601
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:14,680
Speaker 1: three threes and then there's you know, Bell and Ellie

602
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:16,960
Speaker 1: hits them a massive three and Aldridge just missing free

603
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,440
Speaker 1: throws and then yeah, I feel like that's weird game.

604
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 3: Every Raptors game right now, I feel like I see

605
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:24,800
Speaker 3: Alex Wong tweeting, never underestimate the heart of a champion

606
00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:26,679
Speaker 3: in every single game, because it's like the Raptors get

607
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 3: up big, then the Raptors are down big.

608
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,520
Speaker 1: Then the Raptors went big, then they're down big steady.

609
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 1: The ship Boys, Yeah, Tydwa Lowry all Star chances.

610
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 2: Though, I think very slim. Slim, Yeah slim.

611
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:39,240
Speaker 1: I'm like Lowry's butt.

612
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:40,520
Speaker 2: I'm like the boose.

613
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:42,960
Speaker 4: He's coming back to Chubby Lowry, which is great.

614
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:46,680
Speaker 1: He went if I don't know, for a while there

615
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:49,639
Speaker 1: he was all right, well, we got Trey Young his

616
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Speaker 1: All Star chances at the very least as a loser

617
00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,119
Speaker 1: of the weekend. Uh, Lee, who do you have?

618
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:58,040
Speaker 4: I'm going with a very specific loser, and it's the

619
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Speaker 4: Los Angeles clip is it's specifically Beverly and Doc Rivers

620
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:04,120
Speaker 4: closing out last night's game against the Denver Nuggets, because

621
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:06,639
Speaker 4: this was an eighteen point lead by the Nuggets with

622
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 4: six minutes ago, and you know, in a game where

623
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:11,200
Speaker 4: the Clippers led early and then the Nuggets started playing

624
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:13,120
Speaker 4: really well, and the Nuggets coming off a terrible home

625
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,400
Speaker 4: loss the night before against the Cavaliers. Anyway, Clipper's going

626
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:18,399
Speaker 4: to ten. Oh run, It's like they're back in it.

627
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:20,919
Speaker 4: They're back in it again. And then all of a sudden,

628
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 4: the Clippers, for a team that's got a lot of

629
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:24,359
Speaker 4: veterans on it, and there's a team that we consider

630
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:28,760
Speaker 4: a championship contender, really unraveled some really bad, sloppy defense.

631
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:34,040
Speaker 4: Montre has Harold laid out what's his name, Grant, Jeremy Grant.

632
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 4: Now he got a flagrant for that, and I thought

633
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 4: it was fair. He was slightly moving, but it was

634
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:40,240
Speaker 4: kind of timing there. But then Patrick Beverley, who's a

635
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:43,680
Speaker 4: guy who I respect as a defender, but he clearly

636
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,680
Speaker 4: at times goes way over the top in his flopping

637
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 4: and his embellishment, and it cost his team. It cost

638
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:51,880
Speaker 4: his team last night. And if this is a playoff

639
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 4: game or a game that you know, could decide a

640
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:58,120
Speaker 4: seeding in the West, that's just bad. It's just bad.

641
00:27:58,160 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 4: And then Doc Rivers getting a tacked. By the time

642
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 4: Doctor has got the ejections, it was only a minute

643
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:03,200
Speaker 4: or so to go and they were down ten.

644
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:05,479
Speaker 1: Does Doc do this all the time and they are crazy?

645
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 4: But that done this?

646
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 1: I feel like four or five times now whereas he loses,

647
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,199
Speaker 1: the scheme is over, so to speak, again, and he's

648
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:12,880
Speaker 1: upset and then he's like, well, just let me get

649
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 1: out of here. Yeah.

650
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:16,160
Speaker 4: And if you if you remember back to the Clippers

651
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:19,200
Speaker 4: days when sorry, he still don't mean the big three

652
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,159
Speaker 4: of Chris, Paul and Blake and DeAndre. Remember, Doc Rivers

653
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,960
Speaker 4: also said he composure starts with the coach. Composure starts

654
00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:27,119
Speaker 4: with and he was getting ejected and tech fowls and

655
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 4: they were complaining all the time because it started with him,

656
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 4: and he said, look, we've got to we've got to

657
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:32,160
Speaker 4: do better, and I've got to do better. But again,

658
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:33,920
Speaker 4: this is a this is a bit of a bad

659
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:36,119
Speaker 4: sign I think for the Clippers that they do lose

660
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 4: their composure in games where the game was still there

661
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,840
Speaker 4: to be won. The Nuggets offense, the Nuggets offense really

662
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:44,680
Speaker 4: grinded to a halt there. They couldn't get anything going,

663
00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 4: they were taking bad shots.

664
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 1: Do you think these sixth fouls, specifically on Beverly was

665
00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 1: warranted where he was like, you trying like a ruby.

666
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I don't even watch rugby, but it was

667
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 4: a rugby tackle. But he'd done that he'd done that

668
00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 4: on a couple of plays earlier where he was trying

669
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 4: to establish positions and it does that.

670
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 2: And then you know rugby either though, do they not

671
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 2: use their arms because I don't think he used his

672
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 2: arms well.

673
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,720
Speaker 4: But what he's doing is not defense, like he's there

674
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,800
Speaker 4: just trying to get a stupid call on an offensive foul.

675
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 2: That's not like trying to get away with it.

676
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, but he did it. He did it on the

677
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 4: other play and Jokis just kind of bashed him out

678
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 4: the way and they didn't call it, which was the

679
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 4: right thing to do because he was being stupid. But

680
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 4: then he does this other one where again it costs

681
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 4: his team. He's got to be better than that. He's

682
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 4: foiled out several times this season, and the Clippers need

683
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 4: to be much better in these clutch moments if they

684
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:34,840
Speaker 4: are going to be considered a legit contend. I know

685
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 4: they're resting Paul George.

686
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:38,960
Speaker 5: The games have Paul George and quite played I think

687
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 5: sixteen or eighteen, But it's just for me, you know,

688
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 5: they get up for the Lakers and then these other games.

689
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 4: I think they almost just.

690
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 1: Try to.

691
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 4: Squeeze wins out when they should be better than they were,

692
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 4: so I just thought it was a bad look for

693
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 4: the Clippers.

694
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:59,720
Speaker 1: Beverly has fouled out five times yeah this season.

695
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 2: Already as an active, active leader. I would guess this

696
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 2: isn't his first year doing this, right, yea, he fails out? Yeah.

697
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 4: I mean, it's one thing to be a good defender,

698
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 4: but it's another thing if you're just going to keep

699
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 4: on failing and make stupid fails when they cost your team.

700
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:18,160
Speaker 3: I think the Clippers in general have been underwhelming this season.

701
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 3: I picked them to win the championship, and after half

702
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 3: the season, I'm starting to think more towards the Lakers,

703
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:26,240
Speaker 3: to be quite honest, I mean, it is interesting to

704
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 3: see that the Clippers.

705
00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 1: Always show up for the big games.

706
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:31,600
Speaker 3: Kawhi is able to always show up in a big game,

707
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:35,680
Speaker 3: but the Lakers have been locked in one hundred this season.

708
00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 3: They had an incredible win over the weekend without any

709
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 3: of their top guys, And you know, the Clippers, we

710
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:44,480
Speaker 3: just assumed everything would be smooth sailing, but they play

711
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 3: like they've already won two championships. They're mailing in the

712
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:49,720
Speaker 3: easy games, showing up for the big games, trying to

713
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 3: flip the switch there are times when they flip the

714
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 3: switch and it looks like you can't complete a pass anywhere,

715
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:56,120
Speaker 3: you can't get the ball inside, and that's when you're like, Okay,

716
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 3: this is a championship team here, but over the course

717
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:01,800
Speaker 3: of forty games, they don't look like a championship team.

718
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 2: But they only really get up for the big games

719
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 2: against the Lakers. I mean, that's who they're smashing. They're

720
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 2: two to zero against them. They're zero to one now

721
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 2: against the Nuggets, one and two against the Jazz, one

722
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 2: and two against the Rockets. But they're right there. I

723
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 2: can't count them out because they're they just they haven't

724
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 2: played a lot together. It's totally true. But they're literally

725
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 2: right there with all those teams behind the Lakers. And

726
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,480
Speaker 2: so if they have the second seed behind the Los

727
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 2: Angeles Lakers, which they should because I think they're all

728
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 2: going to start to play more in the second half

729
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 2: the season, and they're still basically with the Nuggets, Jazz, Rockets,

730
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 2: I mean they are. I think they're totally fine walking

731
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 2: into the Staples Center where it's their home barn and

732
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:36,719
Speaker 2: beating the Lakers.

733
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, here's the weird part with them. I think the

734
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 1: Clippers have one when you look at at least the

735
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 1: elite teams in the West, like those top teams, they

736
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:46,479
Speaker 1: have one of the easiest schedules remaining. But is that

737
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: good or bad with these clips? Right right? That's the

738
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 1: weird part with them. You would think at one point, Yeah,

739
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:53,239
Speaker 1: they get both those guys playing at the same time,

740
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 1: Kawi Paul George to get their their lineups a little bit,

741
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 1: make a little bit more sense or more evenly weighted.

742
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 1: Then yeah, they should run rough shadow over the rest

743
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 1: of the league, especially with an easier schedule. And maybe

744
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 1: not because they seem to only really care against the

745
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 1: against the sort more of the elite teams, but we

746
00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: will see. Yeah, Beverly and Doc getting your worst of

747
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 1: the weekend? Trey, who do you have?

748
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 3: Loser of the weekend? Andre Drummond, I just feel bad

749
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 3: for the guy at this point. Wow, I'm gonna reach

750
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 3: back a little further. The Pistons lost to the Cavs

751
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 3: on Thursday. Okay, so not quite the weekend, but you know,

752
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 3: a pre weekend if you ask me, also lost Saturday

753
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 3: to the miserable Chicago Bulls, and Andre Drummond to me

754
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 3: just looks completely checked out. He guys are driving down

755
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 3: the lane. He's there, he could challenge a shot. He's

756
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 3: just not gonna He's just gonna glare at the guy

757
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 3: who got burned. And fair enough, you're not wanting to

758
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:43,239
Speaker 3: pick up files if you're the only guy who can

759
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 3: really do anything on both ends of the court. Eric

760
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 3: Rows has been playing fine, That's that's enough. But then

761
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 3: eventually Daniel Gafford, a rookie, bodies Andrea Drummond, pushes them

762
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 3: into the basket, drops in a hook shot. Drummond throws

763
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 3: the ball at his back, just like, seriously, my dad

764
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 3: did that to me all the time. Anytime I would

765
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 3: score on just whip the ball at me. You see

766
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:04,560
Speaker 3: Derek Rose look at Andrey Drummer, He's like, what are

767
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 3: you doing? Come on, man. The problem is that every team,

768
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 3: at some point the season gets to be the main

769
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 3: story in the league. The Calves have been the main

770
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:14,800
Speaker 3: story in twenty twenty because they have been the bad team.

771
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:17,640
Speaker 3: And I unfortunately think that the Pistons are taking the

772
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:20,960
Speaker 3: bad team main story from the Calves right now, and

773
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 3: Drummond is going to be the guy who has to

774
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 3: deal with it until he's traded. We got about three

775
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:28,240
Speaker 3: weeks into the deadline. That's a lot of angry, sad

776
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 3: looks from Andre Drummond.

777
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 1: Well, what about the rumor that was going around this

778
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:33,880
Speaker 1: weekend the Knicks for the team that was interested in

779
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 1: trading for Andre.

780
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:36,720
Speaker 2: Drudd's right, that's why he's the loser.

781
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:37,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's tough.

782
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 2: That's tough to be rumors targeting being being going back

783
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 2: there yet. Ian Begley reported that, But last week, you know,

784
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:45,920
Speaker 2: he was led the show as a winner because at

785
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 2: least he was going to get out of Detroit. But

786
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 2: you're right, the next few weeks might be tough. I

787
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:50,680
Speaker 2: just feel bad that he didn't get his money's worth

788
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 2: for that little bop that that's what he got tossed for.

789
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 2: Ye for a little boop to Daniel Gaffert's back.

790
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 1: You can't even say he threw them. That's not throwing.

791
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 1: It's like, come on, man, I don't know what tech

792
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 1: was worse that one, or the fact that Demarto Rosen

793
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:12,239
Speaker 1: somehow got a tech for detonating on Chris Bouchet and

794
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 1: he fell on him because he dunked on his head

795
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 1: and then he's going to because he was just getting up,

796
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:20,480
Speaker 1: literally was just getting up and he got a tech

797
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 1: for that.

798
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:24,399
Speaker 4: That was an incredible dunk by the way, Oh yeah,

799
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:24,759
Speaker 4: for sure.

800
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,240
Speaker 1: But I think world Will described it as he basically

801
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 1: rock bottomed him after the That's sort of what it

802
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:32,320
Speaker 1: looked like. He's sort of like threw him down by accident.

803
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,279
Speaker 4: I have to have a little bit more respect here

804
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 4: for Gaffert after having the ball thrown and did not react.

805
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 2: He didn't.

806
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 4: Know, which is like, which the guy's crazy, which.

807
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 1: Also shows how just lightly it was thrown, like he

808
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:47,839
Speaker 1: barely was like there's a flying here.

809
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:50,839
Speaker 4: Those sort of guys that it's just browing with him,

810
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:52,960
Speaker 4: He's gonna snap one day, and uh, you know.

811
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:53,719
Speaker 1: Because if he can can.

812
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:56,359
Speaker 4: He didn't turn around to do any of the chesting anything,

813
00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 4: hold me back, Home, me back.

814
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:00,239
Speaker 2: He threw down the hook shot and then he talk

815
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,840
Speaker 2: trash to drop, so he was expecting some retaliation and

816
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 2: when it was a light boot, I mean, what is

817
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:07,359
Speaker 2: he going to turn around for the back? But yeah,

818
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:10,360
Speaker 2: Audrey Drummers just frustrated in that same game that was

819
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 2: in the third quarter when when that happened. But when

820
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:15,640
Speaker 2: he locked walked to the locker room, he tore his

821
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 2: jersey off for half like for before halftime, before he

822
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:21,279
Speaker 2: came out for that third quarter. So he tore it

823
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 2: and he like he took it off like it was

824
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 2: a jacket, like it was like it was pretty amazing. Actually,

825
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 2: he took it off all He ripped it all the

826
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 2: way down. You don't see that very often.

827
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 1: Luca ripped a jersey on Friday night too.

828
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:33,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, Luca was not proud of his jersey ripper.

829
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 1: He ripped it together the second time he's done it.

830
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:38,279
Speaker 1: Didn't they did it last year?

831
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 2: Yeah.

832
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:40,399
Speaker 4: Yeah, he kept playing a little bit too with it.

833
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:40,920
Speaker 2: Like they did.

834
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 3: They should make them play in there. Yeah, you tear

835
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 3: your jersey, you have to play the rest of the game.

836
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:48,279
Speaker 3: If it gets caught on anything, it's your fault, your

837
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:49,239
Speaker 3: foul for freaking out.

838
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:51,400
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give a loser of the weekend to the

839
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:53,759
Speaker 1: Miami Heat. They had a bad weekend. They went over

840
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:56,400
Speaker 1: too in New York this past weekend. They lost to

841
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:58,440
Speaker 1: the Nets on Friday night, then they lost to the

842
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:00,879
Speaker 1: Knicks on Sunday afternoon. They he blew a lead down

843
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:03,959
Speaker 1: the stretch in both games. The Knicks was especially bad.

844
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,280
Speaker 1: The Knicks put forty points on them in the fourth quarter.

845
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 1: It's Miami Heat here though he'd had their chances. Butler

846
00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:13,719
Speaker 1: specifically had his chances to tie the game twice in regulation.

847
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:16,319
Speaker 1: They were down three about twenty one seconds ago. He

848
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 1: got a pretty favorable call. Reggie Bullock got called for

849
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 1: the foul on the three point shot. I thought that

850
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 1: was the old classic bumbler jumping into the guy got

851
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 1: the call, and then I guess it's ball, don't lie.

852
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:27,840
Speaker 1: He only made two of the three free throws, so

853
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 1: they're still down. Barrett's foult he only makes one of two,

854
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 1: so now it's a two point lead. And then Butler drives.

855
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:37,799
Speaker 1: This was weird. I mean, he looks like he has

856
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:41,719
Speaker 1: a layup, like a chance at the rim, and you know,

857
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 1: sorry I should say this was after there was one possession,

858
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 1: but the Heat kept the ball. But then Butler he

859
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 1: turns the ball over trying to pass it to Bam,

860
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:51,239
Speaker 1: even though again he has a pretty good look up

861
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:54,879
Speaker 1: around the rim and it wasn't really even a bad pass,

862
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:56,839
Speaker 1: Like I don't think Bam was ready for it at all,

863
00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 1: Like he thought Jimmy like shooting it. Yeah, and then

864
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:02,400
Speaker 1: he's dropped and then it's uh, the Heat blew the

865
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,920
Speaker 1: game and the Knicks had a great performance. Julius Randall

866
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 1: after the passing his grandmother like monster game, MSG was

867
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 1: going bonkers. That was cool to see. It always is,

868
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:13,880
Speaker 1: even when the Knicks still stink. Overall, they've been playing

869
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,400
Speaker 1: well recently under their new head coach Mike Miller. But

870
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 1: that place was rocking. But the heat, what are you doing?

871
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:20,320
Speaker 1: I mean, these are these are two bad losses. You

872
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:22,359
Speaker 1: should lose both of those, not both of them.

873
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 4: And Bam actually hit the game tie out. Oh I

874
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:29,920
Speaker 4: know it well well, but yeah, Jimmy Butler very weird

875
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 4: that he. I mean he he's the closer. She was shut.

876
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 2: What are you doing?

877
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was very strange.

878
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:39,720
Speaker 3: I think he was adjusting to what had been happening.

879
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 3: Todd Gibson had to take to the hoop a couple

880
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 3: of possessions earlier, where he was a guy was all

881
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 3: over him. No, Kyle, Jimmy Butler had to take a

882
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:48,799
Speaker 3: possession before this final play. He took it to the rim.

883
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 3: Guy all over him, no call. Yeah, so maybe he's

884
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 3: just thinking we're not getting calls here at the end

885
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 3: of the game. I'll try and pass it off. But

886
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:56,719
Speaker 3: definitely looked like you gotta twist it up a little

887
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:58,560
Speaker 3: right and lay shoot it left you. I don't know,

888
00:37:58,560 --> 00:37:59,920
Speaker 3: it looked like it was there because he looked.

889
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 1: Like a fun above everybody else. Yes, guy in Tess

890
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:06,359
Speaker 1: was back from Canada by then. You were tweeting about

891
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 1: that game. You're right.

892
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he made a decision when he saw

893
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:11,160
Speaker 2: three guys go by him that I'm not going to

894
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 2: get the shot off, and he kind of mentally made

895
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 2: a decision I gotta pass it. But he should have scored. Yeah,

896
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:19,480
Speaker 2: it was. It was Toaj Gibson, who is you know,

897
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:24,040
Speaker 2: his former Bulls teammate, who's not very young anymore, who

898
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 2: was barely could get above the rim. So those hands

899
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 2: were there from Taj. But yeah, Jimmy could have finished

900
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 2: that and finished the game. He didn't go in it

901
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:32,680
Speaker 2: with the mentality to finish it. There's something going on

902
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:33,479
Speaker 2: in Jimmy's brain.

903
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 1: Oh, I'd like to give one more, one more loser

904
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 1: of the weekend to the Insane Prize discrepancy for fans

905
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 1: hitting half court shots. At NBA Arenas. On Friday, a

906
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:50,799
Speaker 1: Knicks fan hit a half court shot. Amazing. What did

907
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 1: he win?

908
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 2: A million bucks?

909
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 1: No? Well, maybe I guess potentially he won one thousand

910
00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 1: dollars in lottery scratch off ticket. Like that is embarrassing.

911
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 3: I mean I thought Tae embarrassing, especially for the Knicks.

912
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 1: I thought tatering out that my life was pretty bad

913
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:12,799
Speaker 1: when the Grizzlies did that way back in the day.

914
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 1: Remember that.

915
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:15,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's a tough call.

916
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 1: What's worse?

917
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:18,919
Speaker 2: Cots of scratches scratchy is way worse.

918
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 1: I agree. What if you hit it? No you're not,

919
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:23,760
Speaker 1: you're not.

920
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:26,080
Speaker 2: Come on, give because here's the crazy and you hit

921
00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 2: it bigger than.

922
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 1: The next fan won one thousand bucks in lottery scratch

923
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:35,719
Speaker 1: off tickets. A week ago, a mere week ago, a

924
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:40,719
Speaker 1: Lakers fan netted a cool one hundred thousand dollars for

925
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:44,359
Speaker 1: hitting the exact same shot. How is this going on?

926
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 1: This doesn't make any sense. And it's like all over

927
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 1: the board with these Like I did like some quick research.

928
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 1: I was watching like a YouTube compilation of half court

929
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:55,719
Speaker 1: shots hit over the last couple of years or so

930
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:59,279
Speaker 1: up on YouTube. Okay, okay, See, they've given away ten

931
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:02,080
Speaker 1: thousand first shot, the Warriors have given away five thousand.

932
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:04,799
Speaker 1: They've also given away a brand new Beamer. The Kings

933
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:06,800
Speaker 1: have given a brand new car away the Heat that

934
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:08,239
Speaker 1: one time ago. This was a bit a little bit

935
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 1: longer ago, when Lebron was on the Heat. That was

936
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:12,040
Speaker 1: for seventy five thousand dollars and then he got a

937
00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:14,839
Speaker 1: bear hug from Lebron. Yeah, the MAVs have given away

938
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:16,960
Speaker 1: three thousand dollars. That's a little low.

939
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 3: The MAVs also once gave away a seventy inch TV.

940
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, the Ducks TV five thousand dollars, the Sun

941
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:26,760
Speaker 1: seventy seven seven and seventy seven dollars. Yes, this casino

942
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:29,360
Speaker 1: was involved in that one. The Blazers and New Toyota,

943
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:31,759
Speaker 1: the Clippers of Jeep Rennegade, the Grizzlies. As I said,

944
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 1: the Tater for like, it's all over the board here.

945
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 1: What I think there should be I don't know what

946
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:38,399
Speaker 1: it is. We can decide right now. There should be one,

947
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:41,440
Speaker 1: you know, prize for hitting a half court shot. I

948
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:44,120
Speaker 1: think it should be minimum ten thousand dollars.

949
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:46,799
Speaker 4: I think it's way we know how hot it is

950
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:48,719
Speaker 4: to hit a half court shot. Yeah, we're over get

951
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:53,440
Speaker 4: forty multiple shots at Summer League. This guy was at

952
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 4: Madison Squake on a Sunday. I know he should be

953
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 4: getting two hundred grand. Okay, I think that's a little

954
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 4: what how many is how many times in New York

955
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:06,879
Speaker 4: does a fan hit it? Like once a year?

956
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:10,719
Speaker 1: Well, somebody hit it last year. This is interesting you

957
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:12,919
Speaker 1: bring this up. I saw at Clarky tweet. I need

958
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:16,120
Speaker 1: Kirk Goldsberry to break down what a half court shot

959
00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:18,720
Speaker 1: is worth across the NBA. The difference between the teams

960
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:21,160
Speaker 1: is big. The prize value has decreased in recent years,

961
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 1: and there seems to be a perception that people are

962
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 1: making more of them because every make is now recorded

963
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 1: and posted online. That's interesting, little little part. There are

964
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:32,839
Speaker 1: people truly making more of them. Have fans gotten better

965
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:34,320
Speaker 1: at half court shots? Or is it just because we

966
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:34,839
Speaker 1: see them all?

967
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:37,480
Speaker 4: I think we see Yeah, we see the fun ones.

968
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:40,080
Speaker 4: But come on for the Knicks for any any range

969
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:41,759
Speaker 4: two hundred thousand dollars for a fan to hit that,

970
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 4: I think it looks great on the team because we're

971
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:47,360
Speaker 4: looking at this team now going what a bunch of

972
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:50,800
Speaker 4: cheap scats you've given that guy. I basically a thousand

973
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 4: dollars worth of garbage.

974
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:56,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's basically what you're giving is fact he's wasting

975
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:58,239
Speaker 5: time having to scratch all.

976
00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 4: The imagine said, geez, that guy went to under grand Yee,

977
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:02,240
Speaker 4: that's life changing, live change.

978
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 1: Over Christmas at the Armenian Christmas family, you know, the

979
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 1: grandpa grandfather gives everybody the scratch tickets, right, and then

980
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:12,040
Speaker 1: you got those packages ones like I don't probably they're

981
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:13,680
Speaker 1: like twenty bucks, twenty five bucks, but it's got a

982
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:16,080
Speaker 1: bunch of tickets in them. Yeah, so everybody gets one

983
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:18,880
Speaker 1: and then everybody for an hour's ye're scratching with a

984
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 1: coin and just wasting time. Oh I need a If

985
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:23,720
Speaker 1: only I had an E in the class word scratch,

986
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:26,480
Speaker 1: I would have one hundred thousand. It's like, what a scam.

987
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:30,080
Speaker 1: I literally just I waste hours doing those because everybody

988
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:31,879
Speaker 1: gets tired of them, and I'm like, all right, I can't.

989
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 1: I'm not throwing them out at least got to see, right.

990
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:34,720
Speaker 3: You gotta see.

991
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:36,480
Speaker 1: But it's such a waste. I'm wasting time.

992
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:37,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right.

993
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:38,799
Speaker 1: It's even worse than a thousand because you have.

994
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:40,640
Speaker 4: To pay text on it in this country too, don't you.

995
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 4: I think if you get two hundred grand you have

996
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:44,399
Speaker 4: to sure, yeah, you have to pay texting.

997
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:46,279
Speaker 1: Okay, I think two hundred thousand dollars for a half

998
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:47,960
Speaker 1: court shot made is a little too much.

999
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 4: Man, it's the Knicks.

1000
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:54,279
Speaker 1: Ten thousand minimum again. But okay, yeah, I'd be talked

1001
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:56,680
Speaker 1: into a cool fifty thousand or one hundred thousand, sure,

1002
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 1: but it's got to be a baseline.

1003
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:00,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's got to be a baseline. Yeah, I mean

1004
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:01,640
Speaker 3: maybe ten thousand is right.

1005
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:02,719
Speaker 1: I don't know.

1006
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 3: I actually think fans are making him more. Everybody's a

1007
00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 3: better shooter these days. You know, Steph Curry started hitting

1008
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:10,360
Speaker 3: those long shots and now everybody thinks they can hit

1009
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 3: long shots.

1010
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, but what they'll say, great, Sometimes when you see

1011
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 4: the person who's probably never picked up a basketball and

1012
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:18,240
Speaker 4: I just throw it and it just goes.

1013
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:22,279
Speaker 1: Watching this compilation, I had forgotten about two, you know,

1014
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:25,800
Speaker 1: sort of classic half court shots. There is the one

1015
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:27,600
Speaker 1: where the guy hits it and he does like a

1016
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 1: hook shot, he straight up hook shots, and it is like, wow,

1017
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:33,319
Speaker 1: that's quite the technique. But he drops it and then

1018
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:35,399
Speaker 1: I had forgotten about this is a long time ago.

1019
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:38,319
Speaker 1: Now the Hawks game where the guy, no doubt, the

1020
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:41,799
Speaker 1: ball is a little deflated, but he hits a leggie. Yeah,

1021
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:47,840
Speaker 1: that cord shot. The ball sticks not leggie, more of

1022
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:49,719
Speaker 1: a leggie. I guess it's sort of a Edgi leggie

1023
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:52,840
Speaker 1: because it sticks between the backboard and then the exact

1024
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 1: top of the rim, the back of the top of

1025
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:57,759
Speaker 1: the rim, and then I forget that the guy, like

1026
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:01,359
Speaker 1: the guy hosting the Hawks in arena stuff, he goes up,

1027
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:05,239
Speaker 1: jumps up, grabs the mesh, and the ball pops up

1028
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:07,839
Speaker 1: and then goes in and they're like, hey, we got

1029
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 1: to check, but we should count that the count it's

1030
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:12,320
Speaker 1: pretty amazing. That's awesome. I don't know if they did anyway.

1031
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 1: I mean, you should get a million dollars if you

1032
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:14,919
Speaker 1: wedge your leg.

1033
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:20,560
Speaker 3: That's the first like fan distance shot I remember was

1034
00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:22,040
Speaker 3: at a balls game. The guy shot it from the

1035
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:25,319
Speaker 3: other free throw line, so three quarters court million bucks?

1036
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:27,319
Speaker 4: He guy, Okay, but they didn't pay out on that,

1037
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:30,680
Speaker 4: did they? I thought this is one the rest of

1038
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:34,080
Speaker 4: the story. I'm pretty sure that was the controversy one

1039
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 4: because they they deemed that he played some level of basketball,

1040
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:39,440
Speaker 4: so he wasn't.

1041
00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:40,880
Speaker 1: He's a pro at three quarter court shots?

1042
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:45,280
Speaker 4: You went eligible because I remember it was controversial because

1043
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 4: it was the big like.

1044
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:51,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, basically have to do that cos yeah, you

1045
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 1: have a a baseline value and a half.

1046
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:55,640
Speaker 2: Court shot O case sounds about.

1047
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:58,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a decent chunk of money.

1048
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:01,560
Speaker 3: Come on, man, that's now you're talking sixty five hundred.

1049
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:04,400
Speaker 1: That's tough. Let's hear from you guys. What should be

1050
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 1: the baseline there on a half court shot made? Is

1051
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:09,080
Speaker 1: it a ten to fifty hundred two hundred? Like lisays,

1052
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:10,880
Speaker 1: I loll about what you go two hundred two hundred grand?

1053
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:13,719
Speaker 4: Man, sponsor it? Get a sponsor on that, and they.

1054
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:17,319
Speaker 3: Think not one hundred grand the candy bar. Yeah, and

1055
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:19,600
Speaker 3: you get one hundred grand. They got to get those

1056
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:21,040
Speaker 3: underrated candy bars out there.

1057
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:24,120
Speaker 4: You get two shots. Though, that's a good idea.

1058
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:27,239
Speaker 1: That's why there are these discrepancies, I should point out.

1059
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:30,360
Speaker 1: It's generally because it's the sponsor's decision. It's like, oh,

1060
00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:33,480
Speaker 1: seventy seven, seven hundred and seventy seven, okay from Casino

1061
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 1: Rama or whatever, you know, like that makes sense the

1062
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:39,799
Speaker 1: sevens and then oh this, uh, you know, this New

1063
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:42,640
Speaker 1: York lottery is giving away money, but they're just gonna

1064
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:44,400
Speaker 1: give you a scratch off tickets. That's the weird part.

1065
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 1: It's the damn lottery. They got money expect the money

1066
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:48,439
Speaker 1: from behind them, like we don't.

1067
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:51,320
Speaker 4: We see jackpots regularly of like one hundred and eighty

1068
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 4: five million dollars. Like, okay, set aside a million every

1069
00:45:54,719 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 4: year and say we got five half court shots, we

1070
00:45:57,640 --> 00:45:59,239
Speaker 4: can afford to lose in the next game.

1071
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Speaker 1: Crazy, would you rather? But you'd rather have Tater totsley

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Speaker 1: than even a thousand dollars in lottery? Scratch off. I

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Speaker 1: know you don't like Tater tots.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think I want them for life. Now

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Speaker 4: I'll take my chances with the scratches.

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Speaker 1: Boom.

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Speaker 4: What are you gonna do with the Tita tuts for you?

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Speaker 4: Imagine when you're sixty five, here's your more Tita Touts

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Speaker 4: and nahn Even your family and your friends won't want him.

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00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:22,880
Speaker 3: At that point, you'll be all your boys.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:25,200
Speaker 3: Maybe someday they'll have kids. You have grandkids, they call

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00:46:25,239 --> 00:46:29,680
Speaker 3: you Grandpa Tater tot Come Ombat Touts always got taters.

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Speaker 1: Alright. Those are our winners and losers from the NBA weekend.

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Speaker 1: Who do we miss?

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00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 3: We got one more another loser of the weekend, the

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Speaker 3: Bulls ever signing Anthony Davis. Anthony Davis showed up to

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Speaker 3: lambeau Field wearing a Packer jersey, cheering for the Packers.

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00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 3: No wonder he didn't want to come to Chicago. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it was honestly devastating.

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Speaker 6: Guy.

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Speaker 1: Oh oh that hurt, did it? Yeah? It did?

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Speaker 3: But it looked good for the Packers. Super Bowl pick.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, got on that one's packs with what we got Niners,

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Speaker 1: Packers and Titans with the big upset kicking on the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Chiefs came back see that leth Oh my god,

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00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:10,160
Speaker 1: Texans are up twenty four to nothing. Twenty four nothing.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs won fifty one to thirty one.

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Speaker 4: Really yes, got likes football?

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Speaker 2: Interesting?

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get to tweet of the night.

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Speaker 2: Tweet out the night.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Twitt Our friends at slam online tweeted this, it wasn't

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Speaker 2: about the Utah Jazz, but they have made it back again.

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Speaker 2: Slam online tweeted who is the coolest player in the NBA?

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Speaker 2: WHOA A whole yamut of different votes from people out there.

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Speaker 2: Started with Damian Lillard. He got a few, Kelly Ubray,

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Speaker 2: he got a few. Lou Williams, you got a few.

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Speaker 2: Those are good? Then this response. Nowadays everybody want to

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00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:52,920
Speaker 2: talk like they got something to say, but nothing comes

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Speaker 2: out when they move their lips. Just a bunch of

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Speaker 2: gimberish and but Zach like they forgot about Clay. Yep,

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Speaker 2: it's a good one.

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Speaker 1: Johnson. He is because he doesn't care.

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Speaker 2: He's cool. Yeah. Then people respond to that as in

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Speaker 2: a cool or is he you know, more dorky and

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Speaker 2: he just doesn't have the swagger? Where which is you know?

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00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:16,120
Speaker 2: The spectrum's on Clay Thompson. Maybe he doesn't bring enough

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00:48:16,239 --> 00:48:20,440
Speaker 2: swag to the game. Jimmy Butler, Dangel Russell, Frankney Lakina,

1121
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 2: Interesting Donovan Mitchell, Devin Booker, Steven Adams, Lebron James in

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00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:31,200
Speaker 2: a cool dad sort of way, says one guy. Somebody responds, Lol, no, Kyrie,

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00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:34,719
Speaker 2: Joe Ingles more votes for Clay, But I'm gonna have

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Speaker 2: to give this unofficial winner to the Slam vote here,

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Speaker 2: Damian Lillard. He got the most and it's hard to

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Speaker 2: argue with that. I would say that's not that.

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00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, I cannot sit here and argue that.

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Speaker 2: Can Rapt looks cool, cool, game, takes himself lightly. I

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Speaker 2: do believe like he dresses up and has some fun.

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Speaker 2: He lets people insult him and goes back at them,

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00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 2: but you know, taking it all in stride.

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Speaker 1: Good celebrator Liller time had the wave.

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00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:07,319
Speaker 2: Very cool, lots of cool. He's cool in game, no

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00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:07,920
Speaker 2: doubt about that.

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Speaker 1: It's good pick, good pick, You got your team.

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Speaker 4: Clay though a team play, Yeah, but you're a dork, so.

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Speaker 1: Play.

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Speaker 4: Clay's just like perfect perfect on social media, perfect at

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00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:24,239
Speaker 4: the game's great player, doesn't care, wins his championship, loves

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Speaker 4: his dog.

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00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:26,839
Speaker 1: Can I can a dork be cool?

1142
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:27,280
Speaker 2: Of course?

1143
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:29,480
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, Steve.

1144
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:32,520
Speaker 3: When in the machine came out Steph on our col

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00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:33,680
Speaker 3: very cool.

1146
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:35,280
Speaker 1: I think my voters for Lou Williams.

1147
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:38,640
Speaker 3: Though Lou Williams is he doesn't care just as much

1148
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:41,960
Speaker 3: as Clay doesn't care, but he's cooler about it. Nobody

1149
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:43,400
Speaker 3: thinks Lou Williams is a dork at all.

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00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:45,160
Speaker 1: I'm not so sure that he doesn't care. He blocks

1151
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:47,240
Speaker 1: me on Twitter. He cares about very cool.

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00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:51,839
Speaker 7: Steven Adams, Yeah, I think he's again.

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00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:54,960
Speaker 1: He's like, uh, he's sort of dork cool in a

1154
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:57,120
Speaker 1: weird way too. I mean, like I'm not it's not

1155
00:49:57,160 --> 00:50:00,879
Speaker 1: even dork cool. It's not care cool, which is called bowski. Yeah, yeah,

1156
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:03,399
Speaker 1: that's right, that's a good way to put it. Those

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00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:06,680
Speaker 1: are all good nominations to hear from you guys, or

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Speaker 1: go you know what, don't tell us, Go vote in

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Speaker 1: the slam online pool. Was it closed still open kind.

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Speaker 2: Of vote or was it more of it? Or applies?

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00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:16,560
Speaker 1: Okay, so listening answers, all right, go find that.

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00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:18,719
Speaker 2: They wanted their engagement up high. So yeah, go ahead

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Speaker 2: them up engage.

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Speaker 1: Friday Night, Lakers Mavericks. MAVs were favored by one and

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Speaker 1: a half. Tass and I liked that line. We really did.

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00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:25,480
Speaker 1: We took Dallas and we were wrong. Lakers smoke shows

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00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:27,919
Speaker 1: that's a win for Trey and Lee. On Friday Night,

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Speaker 1: Ley remains hot is the hottest dork. I know you

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00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:38,960
Speaker 1: don't fire me. You are the step on quel of

1189
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Speaker 1: the well.

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00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:42,840
Speaker 3: He takes off his glasses and becomes Lee. A list.

1191
00:51:44,320 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 1: Tweeted at who the hottest is?

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00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:48,839
Speaker 2: Oh, he would love to lick his finger and put

1193
00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:50,120
Speaker 2: it on his bumb Lee alist.

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Speaker 1: So hots, Uh, you're six and one mate, right, that's

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Speaker 1: really solid. Trey right behind you, five and two. I'm

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Speaker 1: four and three and then tasked and four. So sixty

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Speaker 1: five four three? What's our game here?

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Speaker 2: This season? Charlotte Hornets struggling visiting the Portland trail Blazers.

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Speaker 2: Also struggling. Hornets have lost four in a row. Blazers

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00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:13,000
Speaker 2: have lost four in a row at home in eight

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00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 2: of ten. Blazer's big favorite though, in this game minus

1202
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:20,279
Speaker 2: eight point five you picked them. They have to win

1203
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:23,759
Speaker 2: by nine or more. Hornets good, lose by eight or

1204
00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:26,520
Speaker 2: less or win obviously what you got.

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00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:31,640
Speaker 1: That's tough where you go, Leally, it's a big line

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00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:32,440
Speaker 1: for the Blazers.

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00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:35,919
Speaker 2: I know, big old blazerlan not good.

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00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:38,760
Speaker 4: I'm going Hornies. I think they I think the Hornies

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00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:41,000
Speaker 4: can cover that. They know they haven't been right either,

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00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:41,760
Speaker 4: But that's.

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Speaker 1: A sexy guy, right. You like the Hornets to cover

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00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:48,040
Speaker 1: the uh eight and a half.

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Speaker 4: They'll lose full large, straight up wine. All right, the

1214
00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:55,440
Speaker 4: loser win for sure, one of the others will definitely happen.

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00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:57,879
Speaker 1: Line on loser win.

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00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:02,000
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, four straight losses for the Hornets. Also, third

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00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:04,600
Speaker 3: game in four nights. I'm likely. I'm feeling horny right now.

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00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:08,480
Speaker 3: Yim me Charlotte off the schneid or at least they're

1219
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:08,879
Speaker 3: gonna live.

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Speaker 1: I hate picking against Lee right now, but I'm gonna

1221
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:16,120
Speaker 1: do it again. I'm taking the Blazers. They haven't played.

1222
00:53:16,239 --> 00:53:17,640
Speaker 1: You know, they had the one game on Saturday. They

1223
00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:20,200
Speaker 1: played the Bucks, best team in the league. Okay, that's

1224
00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:22,880
Speaker 1: gonna be an l But second game at home here,

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00:53:24,880 --> 00:53:26,600
Speaker 1: it's a line that I don't like, but I'll take

1226
00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:27,920
Speaker 1: them to cover. I'll take Porland.

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00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:30,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Portland bounces back as well. They've lost

1228
00:53:30,600 --> 00:53:33,040
Speaker 2: four straight at home and they see the Hornets come

1229
00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:36,240
Speaker 2: to town, who they've beat eleven straight times in Portland.

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00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:37,759
Speaker 2: I'll take them.

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00:53:38,080 --> 00:53:40,960
Speaker 1: Take the Hornet, all right, Cash, we need this one man, Yeah,

1232
00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:42,520
Speaker 1: we do. Yeah, we need this, sorry, Tess, and I

1233
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:44,600
Speaker 1: taken the Blazers to win big. I got a win

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00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:46,080
Speaker 1: by nine or more of the other two guys taking

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00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:48,920
Speaker 1: the Hornies. All right. That's it for us here on

1236
00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:51,799
Speaker 1: a Monday. Thanks so much for joining us. JD. Any

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00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:55,480
Speaker 1: quick reactions to the Oscar nominations that did come out today.

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Speaker 6: Sure, I mean there's I haven't seen the joker, but

1239
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:00,600
Speaker 6: oor joker?

1240
00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:01,919
Speaker 7: Is it just joker? At the joke?

1241
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:03,680
Speaker 1: I can't remember if it's just joker.

1242
00:54:04,160 --> 00:54:06,240
Speaker 7: I think it is just no way it's that good.

1243
00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:10,400
Speaker 6: There is no way that it deserves eleven Oscar nominations.

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00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:10,680
Speaker 2: Wow.

1245
00:54:11,080 --> 00:54:16,120
Speaker 6: Also, where's gretit Kerway? Yeah right right, where's Adam Sandler?

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00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 1: Yeah that people are very upset by that anyway, what else?

1247
00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:24,799
Speaker 1: So what who has the Is it the Irishman? Joker? Like,

1248
00:54:24,840 --> 00:54:26,440
Speaker 1: who's pulling? Is it nineteen seventeen?

1249
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Speaker 3: I assume Yeah, there Parrisite, I believe is getting a

1250
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Speaker 3: lot of action.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I haven't seen some of these.

1252
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:35,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like JD How you just come out and say, Joker,

1253
00:54:35,840 --> 00:54:37,719
Speaker 2: haven't seen it? No way, it's not good enough. Have

1254
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:39,200
Speaker 2: you seen Adam Sandler's movie?

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Speaker 7: No?

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00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:41,879
Speaker 2: Okay, but he does.

1257
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Speaker 1: But his performances.

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Speaker 7: I have not seen that Little Little Women yet.

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Speaker 6: But I do know this. The Irishman sucks. It shouldn't

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Speaker 6: have gotten any nominations.

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Speaker 2: So that's a.

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Speaker 7: Slot that should have gone to any of those guys.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm glad, I asked glad.

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Speaker 2: I mean, let's say the Irishman's supporting I I agree.

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Speaker 2: I didn't enjoy watching The Irishman, but the supporting actor's role,

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Speaker 2: they did their job. Okay, sure, yeah, all right, Al

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Speaker 2: too Salacino and Robert de Niro or no, it's Alpaco

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Speaker 2: Joe Pest Yes, yeah, say yeah, my mistake. Because there's

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00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:15,919
Speaker 2: so many actors in that there really is, and they're

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Speaker 2: all supporting.

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Speaker 1: It's called an ensemble cast. Look it up, all right, guys,

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Speaker 1: heard it here first.

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Speaker 7: Have a great time, turn up.

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Speaker 1: Love you guys awesome.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us. And remember, whether it's ensemble or ensemble,

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Speaker 2: the Irishman was long.

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Speaker 1: Embrace the day. People you could stay every day, they

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Speaker 1: d be happy every minute.

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Speaker 6: It's been so long that.

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Speaker 2: Way.

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Speaker 1: Ready, it's gonna be good for me.