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Speaker 1: Welcome to this League Uncut in you rule.

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Speaker 2: A twenty four hour NBA news.

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Speaker 3: This is you, Chris Haynes.

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Speaker 1: It's time, Mark's time.

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Speaker 2: It's some time.

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Speaker 1: This league Uncut is underway and on fire.

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Speaker 2: This should be a good one.

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Speaker 4: Hey, everyone, welcome in to another edition of this League Uncut.

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Speaker 4: Mark Stein here with Chris Haynes. Hope everybody had a

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Speaker 4: great Saint Patrick's Day. I have to say it is

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Speaker 4: not a holiday that this probably won't surprise you, not

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Speaker 4: a holiday that I typically participate in in any meaningful way.

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Speaker 4: I'm way too old to get wild and crazy on

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Speaker 4: a Saint Patrick's Day. Did not wear any green, Chris Haynes,

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Speaker 4: did you wear any green yesterday?

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Speaker 1: I didn't.

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Speaker 5: I didn't even know it was Saint Patrick's Day till

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Speaker 5: I went downtown, went to church.

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Speaker 1: And then when I got outside of church, I saw.

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Speaker 5: A bunch of people wearing green and they were stumbling

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Speaker 5: to walk, so they were already drunk around noon, one

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Speaker 5: o'clock PM.

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Speaker 2: That was your conclusive medical diagnosis.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, it didn't take much. You know, you don't

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Speaker 5: need a degree to be able to tell if somebody's drunk.

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Speaker 5: You know, the church, I go to. It's, like you said,

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Speaker 5: right downtown, so there's a bunch of bars and everything,

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Speaker 5: so you could you can see people bar hopping and

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Speaker 5: wearing green.

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Speaker 1: I know that was such a big deal.

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Speaker 5: So but no, I don't, you know, I've never I

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Speaker 5: don't know if he knows stein, but you know, I

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Speaker 5: don't drink, never drink, never smoked.

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Speaker 1: I don't you know.

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Speaker 5: I took a sip of some wine of some people

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Speaker 5: that made me, made me consume it because I was

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Speaker 5: around them, but I don't so from that, I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't drink, so I wouldn't know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, neither one of us does. He never asked, no, Okay.

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Speaker 4: On my twenty first birthday, I was forced to consume

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Speaker 4: some rum and coke.

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Speaker 2: Did not go well. I couldn't do it. I didn't

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Speaker 2: taste it. Awful. Yeah, that's it.

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Speaker 1: I'm crazy as it is, starn so I felt like,

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Speaker 1: you know, I.

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Speaker 5: Don't need liquor anything else to make me even crazier.

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Speaker 1: So you know, I've been you know, so far, so good.

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Speaker 5: I don't think and hopefully there's nothing that causes me

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Speaker 5: to drink. There's timestinying, times in your life where you

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Speaker 5: feel like you need a drink.

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Speaker 1: I don't you know what I mean. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what that feeling is after you have one, but you

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Speaker 1: know it'd be sometimes from like, hey, maybe this.

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Speaker 5: Is a good time for a drink, this good time

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Speaker 5: for smoke. But I've never I've never done done.

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Speaker 4: Them so well, we probably should have worn something green

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Speaker 4: one of us, just to say we like. Even your

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Speaker 4: guy Tim McMahon showed up for the Mavericks Nuggets game

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Speaker 4: Sunday afternoon, an incredible Mattene game in Dallas. Even your

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Speaker 4: guy McMahon had on a pair of green Adidas gazelles

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Speaker 4: that I had to say, looked pretty They looked pretty good.

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Speaker 5: If there was anybody that you can tell me who

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Speaker 5: will probably be the most excited about yesterday in the

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Speaker 5: media corps, Tim will probably be a the top of

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Speaker 5: my list.

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Speaker 4: I don't know how excited he. I don't know if

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Speaker 4: he gets to you know, he's so grumpy. I don't

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Speaker 4: know if he ever gets excited. But all of this

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Speaker 4: was my preamble to say that I did nothing wild

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Speaker 4: still hard to believe. Almost twenty four hours later that

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Speaker 4: Kyrie Irving game winner, leave up looking.

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Speaker 3: In curving, curving for the wind, just ups.

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Speaker 4: Going to his left running floater hook shot. I'm still

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Speaker 4: not sure what to call it, but with his left

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Speaker 4: hand a buzzer beater.

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Speaker 2: And for Dallas, huge redemption.

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Speaker 4: Because it was just a few weeks ago that they

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Speaker 4: lost an absolute heartbreaker in Cleveland when Max Struce drained

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Speaker 4: a sixty footer at the buzzer. I thought that was

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Speaker 4: and crazily. Kyrie Irving has not been a Maverick for

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Speaker 4: a long time. It's only been about thirteen months. But

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Speaker 4: if you're a calendar nerd like me, you know that

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Speaker 4: on March seventeenth, twenty twenty three, Maxi Klieba beat the

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Speaker 4: and then March seventeenth, twenty twenty four, Saint Patrick's Day

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Speaker 4: twenty twenty four, Kyrie Irving only the second career buzzer

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Speaker 4: beater for Kyrie Irving. But man, what a shot I mean,

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Speaker 4: and he is I mean he is known as a

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Speaker 4: shot maker. Your guy Damian Lillard took right to Twitter

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Speaker 4: to call him the most skilled player ever. I talk

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Speaker 4: about the Mavericks all the time, so I want to

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Speaker 4: hear your thoughts not just on the game, but what

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Speaker 4: do you think of this Mavericks team? What do you

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Speaker 4: think people in the West think of this Mavericks team.

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Speaker 4: I'll weigh in after you. But how good are these guys?

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Speaker 4: How dangerous are the Mavericks of Dallas.

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Speaker 5: They're definitely a dangerous opponent for anybody, particularly in that

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Speaker 5: first round. You cannot sleep on any time you got

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Speaker 5: a guy like Luka Dakich, who's going to be in

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Speaker 5: the MVP conversation year after year as long as he's healthy.

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Speaker 5: And Kyrie Irvin, who we know the heroics, you know,

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Speaker 5: the skill said that he brings to a team. Anytime

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Speaker 5: you got those two guys in the fold and they're healthy,

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Speaker 5: you got a shot.

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Speaker 1: Just like you know, it's a similar situation with the

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Speaker 5: Anytime you got healthy KD Devin Booker, Bradley beal, you're

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Speaker 5: going to give yourself a shot and you're going to

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Speaker 1: Now are they going to be the favorites?

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Speaker 5: That's a different question and most of the times I

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Speaker 5: would probably say probably not probably won't be be the favorites.

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Speaker 5: But you know, you look at a team like the Mavericks,

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Speaker 5: if they can get that seventh seed, like if they

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Speaker 5: can lock into that seventh seed, you know obviously.

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Speaker 2: They need six not seven, but go ahead.

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Speaker 1: They need six. Now, Okay, I get you there.

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Speaker 5: Well, you're assuming the Nuggets are going to Nuggets or

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Speaker 5: Thunder is going to stay at one or two.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean to me, you know, I think Minnesota,

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Speaker 4: because they don't have Karl Anthony Towns, is gonna end

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Speaker 4: up third and as great as season as the Wolves

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Speaker 4: have had, as good defensively as the Wolves are, And look,

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Speaker 4: when the Timberwolves woke up on this Monday morning, they

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Speaker 4: have truly been the team of the regular season. So look,

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Speaker 4: I'm not saying that you want to see the Minnesota Timberwolves,

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Speaker 4: but if my choices are the Denver Nuggets, the defending champions,

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Speaker 4: probably gonna have to play without Karl Anthony Towns for

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Speaker 4: Cat back from his recent mniscus surgery, that puts a huge,

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Speaker 4: huge burden offensively on Anthony Edwards. Karl Anthony Towns was

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Speaker 4: having a great season offensively, so to me, Dallas and

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Speaker 4: the team closest to where you reside, Sacramento, these two

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Speaker 4: teams are locked in this battle for number six and

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would agree with you on that.

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Speaker 5: I'm just not sure Minnesota is gonna slide like that

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Speaker 5: that sixth seed. But even with that being said, I

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Speaker 5: still think Dallas would like their chances against Minnesota and Oka.

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Speaker 1: See.

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Speaker 5: You know, I think that you're in pretty good shape

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Speaker 5: if you could get that six or seven seed. And

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Speaker 5: I do think Denver. I'm not a betting Man. But

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Speaker 5: I would think denver By seasons in will we'll get

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Speaker 5: that number one seed.

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Speaker 1: That's what they're going after, and you know.

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Speaker 5: They had the championship pedigree, they experience to to do

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Speaker 5: what it takes to get to that spot.

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Speaker 1: So that's the way I see things going. Do I

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Speaker 1: know for sure? Hell no, I don't.

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Speaker 4: I'd really like to hear more of your take on

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Speaker 4: this because I'm always talking about the MAVs. As you know,

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Speaker 4: I have a Saturday radio show in Dallas which is

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Speaker 4: super MAVs heavy.

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Speaker 2: So I'm going to follow up after you.

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Speaker 4: But I got to ask you now, thirteen months into this,

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Speaker 4: when the Mavericks first traded for Kyrie Irving, what did

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Speaker 2: Did you think he and Luca would be a good pairing.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know. I honestly didn't know.

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Speaker 5: You know, this is you know, Kyrie coming from his

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Speaker 5: other two stops in Boston.

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Speaker 1: And Brooklyn, and you know it didn't go too well there.

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Speaker 5: But what I did did it feel like is that

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Speaker 5: Dallas did the best that they could and it was

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Speaker 5: a good pickup considering they lost Jalen Brunson. So from

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Speaker 5: that standpoint, I looked at it as it was definitely

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Speaker 1: How would he and Luca fair and messed together?

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Speaker 5: I didn't know, but they were definitely talented enough to

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Speaker 1: And you know, it's always something starting.

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Speaker 5: You know, it's like when two stars, even three stars

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Speaker 5: team up together. You know, people will automatically look at,

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Speaker 5: you know, their connection on the court. Can they play

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Speaker 5: well when a lot of times these coaches they staggered

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Speaker 5: good chemistry wise between the two, you can, you know,

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Speaker 1: And that way both both stars.

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Speaker 5: Can be in the rhythm, be in the groove, because

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Speaker 5: that's why they really do it, son each being the rhythm,

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Speaker 1: Knowing that they're they're at least going to have.

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Speaker 5: To play together the last six seven minutes of the game,

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Speaker 5: and then you're hoping like them being in the groove

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Speaker 5: you know, I thought, look, you know, they this is Kyrie.

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Speaker 5: You know, we know what he brings to a team,

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Speaker 5: and you know, I felt like it was definitely worthwhile

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Speaker 5: you know today it was definitely worth it. Kyrie has

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Speaker 5: been a model citizen over there. He I mean, like

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Speaker 5: he's doing a good shot. Now. I'm not with that

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Speaker 5: team all day, like I mean all day every day,

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Speaker 5: like you How has Kyrie been with the team, the

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Speaker 2: He's beloved in this locker room.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you could see it the way this team celebrated,

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Speaker 4: how happy it was after he made this ridiculous shot.

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Speaker 4: And look when he first Scott here. The Mavericks tried

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Speaker 4: to throw this thing together on the fly. Luca and

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Speaker 4: Kyrie were five and eleven last season in games when

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Speaker 5: to I don't know if that he has to go

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00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:54,240
Speaker 5: out there and just ball out but locker room guy. Obviously,

436
00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:57,320
Speaker 5: they want to see if he can steal play. I mean,

437
00:24:58,119 --> 00:24:59,840
Speaker 5: he tore up the G League in a handful of

438
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:03,359
Speaker 5: that they play this season, so he can still play,

439
00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:05,880
Speaker 5: but the Sons want to get a glimpse up close

440
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:06,480
Speaker 5: and personal.

441
00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:07,119
Speaker 1: You know.

442
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:08,800
Speaker 5: I don't know how much playing time he's going to

443
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 5: get during it during his stint, but I think most

444
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:15,120
Speaker 5: importantly it's going to be about what type of locker

445
00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,200
Speaker 5: room presence is he going to provide. Can he help

446
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:22,440
Speaker 5: out since Phoenix Suns are not really playing the traditional

447
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 5: point guard, is there anything he can instill in Bradley Beal,

448
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:30,400
Speaker 5: Devin Booker to kind of help them see certain things

449
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:33,359
Speaker 5: that maybe a conventional point guard would see. You know,

450
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:36,120
Speaker 5: I think that's where he's going to probably help more

451
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:38,600
Speaker 5: so now if he could go out there and if

452
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:42,159
Speaker 5: he gets a couple of play playing stints and he

453
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:44,879
Speaker 5: goes out there and balls out, that's that's just extra

454
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:47,600
Speaker 5: for him. But he has he has an opportunity to

455
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 5: get signed for the rest of the season and going

456
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:52,919
Speaker 5: to the playoffs. That's definitely what he wants. But the

457
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:57,080
Speaker 5: Sons are still giving themselves an out just in case

458
00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:01,120
Speaker 5: if they see that this is probably not the best fit.

459
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:03,320
Speaker 1: They can try to go in another direction.

460
00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:06,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I feel like I say it on

461
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:10,560
Speaker 4: every single podcast. I have no doubts that Isaiah Thomas

462
00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 4: will fit in locker room wise. I mean, he's always

463
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 4: been a popular teammate pretty much everywhere he's played, and

464
00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:18,840
Speaker 4: I think a lot of people are rooting for him

465
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:21,600
Speaker 4: on this comeback now, So I mean, I can't see

466
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:23,359
Speaker 4: any issues there.

467
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:24,840
Speaker 2: But it's just the Suns this.

468
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,159
Speaker 4: You know, It's not like there's anything they could do

469
00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:31,159
Speaker 4: about it. The injuries are what they are. But you know,

470
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:35,040
Speaker 4: that game in Milwaukee was just the twenty seventh time

471
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:37,920
Speaker 4: that Durant, Beal, and Booker have all played together, and

472
00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:38,840
Speaker 4: it's just not enough.

473
00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:41,119
Speaker 2: They just have not played.

474
00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:46,240
Speaker 4: Together enough, and so they don't have continuity. Defense is

475
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:49,480
Speaker 4: an issue with this team. Yes, Nurkic is going to

476
00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:53,399
Speaker 4: rack up rebounds, but as a defensive center, I mean

477
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:56,679
Speaker 4: there are question marks there, and so I think the

478
00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:59,359
Speaker 4: sixth spot is going to Sacramento or Dallas. The Sons

479
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,640
Speaker 4: also have a brutal schedule the rest of the way.

480
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:09,960
Speaker 4: According to Tankathon on this Monday, Phoenix's fourteen games left

481
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:13,840
Speaker 4: the opponent winning percentage is five sixty three, so the

482
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:19,240
Speaker 4: second hardest remaining schedule in the league in terms of

483
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:25,600
Speaker 4: opponent winning percentage, whereas Dallas, for example, Dallas is looking

484
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:30,879
Speaker 4: at the second easiest remaining schedule opponent winning percentage of

485
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Speaker 4: four point fifty five. Sacramento's top ten in terms of

486
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:39,439
Speaker 4: remaining schedule. The Kings, their sixteen remaining opponents, have a

487
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 4: composite winning percentage of five oh seven on this Monday.

488
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 4: But the point is the Suns don't have a lot

489
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:49,640
Speaker 4: of continuity. They've got a really tough schedule the rest

490
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,840
Speaker 4: of the way, and even if they're fortunate enough to

491
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:56,120
Speaker 4: get up to number six, that would get them out

492
00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 4: of the plane. But they're going to have to play

493
00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 4: on the road every round in the playoff. And so

494
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:03,359
Speaker 4: that's why the Sun seem to be a popular choice

495
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:07,679
Speaker 4: of they're the scariest of the lower seeds in the West.

496
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:11,720
Speaker 4: But I just don't feel that way, and it's for

497
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:14,160
Speaker 4: me just because I haven't seen enough of them.

498
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:17,679
Speaker 5: Yeah, mam b I think you know there's teams that

499
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:21,680
Speaker 5: fit in that boat where the continuity isn't there, and

500
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:25,879
Speaker 5: you know, they don't win games at a consistent clip

501
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:30,119
Speaker 5: but the players scare you. You know, you got a

502
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,439
Speaker 5: KD who if the game is close, KD can get

503
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 5: you a bucket when you need it. Except similar to

504
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:39,400
Speaker 5: the Los Angeles Lakers. Nobody wants to see the Lakers. Really,

505
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,080
Speaker 5: I'm not saying anybody's scared of them, but you got

506
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,960
Speaker 5: Lebron there and then you know ad depending on how

507
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 5: with this eye injury, how effect that he's going to

508
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:54,200
Speaker 5: be once he returns, I would assume he'll have to

509
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:57,080
Speaker 5: wear some type of eye protection. I don't know, I

510
00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,360
Speaker 5: haven't heard anything, you haven't checked in on it to

511
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 5: be exact, but you know they did Lakers Warriors. These

512
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 5: are scary team Stephen Curry, you know, like these teams

513
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 5: that have been there. So but stein that play in Man,

514
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 5: I maybe going out on a limb, but I think

515
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 5: the player is going to feature Golden State and the Lakers,

516
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 5: and that's big. That's huge now for for even more drama,

517
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 5: more star power. Phoenixes. They're acting like they want to

518
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 5: be a part of it. They're they're acting like they

519
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:26,560
Speaker 5: want it. They want to get in that mix. And

520
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 5: you know, so you know there's still time, but you

521
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 5: know that playing is going to have a lot of

522
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 5: star power, and I think it's going to start with

523
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Speaker 5: the Lakers and the Warriors, and I think you can't

524
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 5: ask for a better scenario. Since this playing has been

525
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:45,560
Speaker 5: implemented over the last few years, it has been some

526
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 5: entertaining matchups and this could has the potential to be

527
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 5: the best set of games in that play in format.

528
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 2: Well I mentioned it.

529
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:57,480
Speaker 4: I genuinely feel sorry for Anthony Davis because a corneal

530
00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 4: abrasion is just a brutal, freakish injury. To take a

531
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 4: scratch to the eye, and again he's had to endure

532
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 4: a ton of criticism, all the street closed nonsense from

533
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:12,120
Speaker 4: previous seasons. But the man has he has played. He

534
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 4: has been a rock for this team. He's going to

535
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 4: qualify for all NBA and MVP consideration based on games played.

536
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 4: But it's look the most worrisome thing for the Lakers.

537
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 4: Lebron James has defied Father Time and had the best

538
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 4: season we've ever seen from a player his age, and

539
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 4: Anthony Davis has been there far more often than not.

540
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 4: And the Lakers are even with lots of Lebron and

541
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 4: lots of ad. On this Monday, they woke up number

542
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 4: ten in the West number eighteenth in the league in defense,

543
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:55,959
Speaker 4: I mean that is stunning when you have a defensive

544
00:30:56,040 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 4: anchor of Anthony Davis's caliber. And yeah, I mean there

545
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:05,960
Speaker 4: are a bazillion question marks. Again, there are three races

546
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:11,000
Speaker 4: in the West for me, but six through ten is

547
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:14,760
Speaker 4: my favorite race anywhere in the NBA standings.

548
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 2: To see who's.

549
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 4: Gonna sneak out with that number six spot in the West,

550
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 4: and then how the play in round shapes up, because

551
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 4: the playing round is going to be an absolute steel

552
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 4: cage match. Let's switch now to the East because the

553
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 4: team that blasted the Suns, a certain Damian Lillard had

554
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 4: a field day without yannas Ante Decompo.

555
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:54,120
Speaker 2: What was it thirty one and sixteen Dame had in Milwaukee.

556
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 5: Franchise best thirty plus fifteen plus assist.

557
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:00,479
Speaker 2: And look by all counts.

558
00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 4: Doc Rivers has tried to make it clear since he

559
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 4: has taken over that team that the offense needs to

560
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:11,959
Speaker 4: start with Damian Lillard. That's obviously going to be the

561
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 4: case when janis on Titokumpo is not on the floor.

562
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 4: But the Bucks also welcome back Chris Middleton. In Sunday's game,

563
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 4: they went ten to six, without Middleton sixteen games lost.

564
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 2: To an ankle injury, serious ankle injury. But Chris Middleton

565
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 2: came back a.

566
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:33,920
Speaker 4: Very sharp twenty two points in his return, And once

567
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 4: they get Giannis Antetokounmpo back, the Bucks will be trending

568
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 4: towards full strength.

569
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Speaker 2: They're not going to catch the Boston Celtics. The East

570
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 2: is gone. The Celtics are going to get the top

571
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 2: seed in the East. Man the Celtics lead.

572
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 4: The Celtics, the first fifty win team in this season's NBA,

573
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 4: and the Celtics on this Monday nine and a half

574
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 4: game lead in the East over the Bucks entering Monday

575
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 4: Nights game. So the number one seed is gone. But

576
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 4: give me your pulse check on the Bucks, who you.

577
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 2: Know as well as anyone.

578
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 1: Well, so let me correct you a little bit. You said.

579
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Speaker 5: Doc has made sure the offense runs through Dame. I

580
00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 5: don't know if it should be phrased that way. I

581
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 5: would say that he's empowered Dame to be the point

582
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 5: guard to bring the ball up more. Before Doc came aboard,

583
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:33,040
Speaker 5: it was like a point guard by committee. Giannis would

584
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 5: bring the ball up a lot initiate the offense. Chris

585
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 5: Middleton would do the same, and so Doc has changed

586
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 5: that where he's allowing Dame to be the point guard

587
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 5: of the team and you know, primarily handled the ball.

588
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 5: The office is still going through Giannis. That's always going

589
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:52,720
Speaker 5: to be the case. The Bucks beat they beat the Sons,

590
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 5: took care of them without Giannis, and then the Bucks

591
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 5: took care of him a week ago, took care of

592
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 5: the Clippers without Giannis.

593
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 1: As well, and Dame had a big game. And you know,

594
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Speaker 1: I see people kind of overreacting to you know, Damians

595
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 1: can't play together Dame.

596
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 5: You well, yeah, Dame is, you know, comfortable being the

597
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:19,520
Speaker 5: league guy, and he is comfortable running the team and

598
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,840
Speaker 5: getting guys going that that is true. But if you

599
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:26,320
Speaker 5: look over the last couple of weeks between Dame and Giannis,

600
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 5: Dame has thrown more love passes that have connected with

601
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:35,400
Speaker 5: Giannis than he has in all this season prior to

602
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:38,839
Speaker 5: these past couple of weeks. So the chemistry is getting there,

603
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:41,320
Speaker 5: the continuity is getting there. There's more pick and rolls

604
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:44,359
Speaker 5: now they're playing together. There's more two man action, there's

605
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:48,320
Speaker 5: more dribble handoffs now. They've had a couple of hiccups

606
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:54,360
Speaker 5: in between, but for the most part, they're playing probably

607
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:58,319
Speaker 5: the best basketball team wise that they played in all

608
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:01,360
Speaker 5: year over the stretch. So Doc River is doing a

609
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:10,279
Speaker 5: good job of holding guys accountable and establishing roles, redefining roles,

610
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:15,080
Speaker 5: I should say, and clarifying what what it is that

611
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 5: he needs from the players and the coaching staff. So

612
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:22,399
Speaker 5: when Giannis gets back, Chris Milton, they're they're they're they're

613
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 5: going to be a threat. You know, we want to

614
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 5: see you want to see more dominance for sure with

615
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 5: Dame and Giannis together. But you know, it's it's been

616
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,640
Speaker 5: you know, it's been a struggle. It's been uh, you know,

617
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 5: Dame is still adapting, and but that I think I

618
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:40,800
Speaker 5: think they're starting to slowly turn that corner.

619
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Speaker 4: All right, then I stand corrected. The better way to

620
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:47,440
Speaker 4: phrase it, what I should have said, is Damian Lillard

621
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Speaker 4: orchestrating the offense more instead of the offense running through him.

622
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure. All right.

623
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Speaker 4: Well, look, and you know, we talk so much about

624
00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:58,759
Speaker 4: the West, and I think part of it is because

625
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 4: both you and I live in West Stern conference cities.

626
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 4: I don't want to completely sleep on what's happening in

627
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:08,280
Speaker 4: the East standings either, because there is plenty of intrigue

628
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 4: there as well the fact that Orlando is flirting with

629
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 4: the number four spot. Nobody saw that coming, and that's

630
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 4: why Jamal Moseley is firmly entrenched in the Coach of

631
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:23,400
Speaker 4: the Year race and again starting a new week basically

632
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 4: four weeks to go.

633
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 2: A month ago.

634
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 4: In the regular season, Orlando and Indiana in the five

635
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 4: and six slots, Miami and Philly in the play in zone.

636
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 4: Nick Nurse said over the weekend that he does think,

637
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:42,280
Speaker 4: or he does have a level of optimism that Joel

638
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:45,440
Speaker 4: Embiid is going to make it back into the Sixers

639
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:49,160
Speaker 4: lineup before the end of the regular season.

640
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 2: They desperately need that badly. The Sixers need that.

641
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:58,360
Speaker 4: I think they're eleven and twenty two without Joel Embiid.

642
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 4: So the Sixers love, of course to haul themselves out

643
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:05,720
Speaker 4: of the playing zone so they can at least ensure

644
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 4: that they're in the playoffs when Joel Embiid gets back.

645
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 4: But as it stands, I mean Miami and Philly very

646
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:16,880
Speaker 4: unexpectedly in the playing seven to ten range, along with

647
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:22,240
Speaker 4: Chicago and Atlanta. I got to hang on Stein Cry

648
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:24,919
Speaker 4: So that means I need to pitch the ball back

649
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 4: to Fresno's finest.

650
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:32,839
Speaker 5: I cannot let you go without getting your thoughts, your

651
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 5: reaction to the jersey swap that caught everybody by surprise

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Speaker 5: over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Are you familiar with what I'm talking about?

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Speaker 4: Stein, is that the Grady Dick Anthony Black scenario? Yes, yes,

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Speaker 4: I might have heard about it.

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Speaker 1: You might have heard about it.

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Speaker 2: I might have seen a few I might have seen

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Speaker 2: a few clips. Why are you bringing that up?

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Speaker 1: I'll bring it. I wouldn't know what you thought about

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Speaker 1: what you think this was. Obviously it was organized, and.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna I'm gonna go out in a very very

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Speaker 4: sturdy limit say that it might have been premeditated.

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Speaker 5: You know what I mean, because they could have They

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Speaker 5: could have, you know, switched the order of which which

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Speaker 5: they were standing. It could have been Dick then Black,

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Speaker 5: but it was the other way.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it was.

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Speaker 5: Premeditated, so that their positioning and everything was premeditated.

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Speaker 1: It all, okay, I just want to get your thoughts started.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you don't agree, you think it was just

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Speaker 4: you think it was just a coincidence.

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Speaker 5: So you're telling me these rookies when they knew they

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Speaker 5: were about to play, so they called each other up.

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Speaker 4: Well, nah, I mean no, I didn't say all that,

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Speaker 4: But I mean I think I don't know, baby, who knows?

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Speaker 4: I guess it's a story we need to dig into

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Speaker 4: and get some answers.

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Speaker 1: So my question to you is, start, can the league

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Speaker 1: do anything? Because this is why?

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Speaker 5: Who has What's another name that can go with Dick

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Speaker 5: that that can cause some problems?

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Speaker 1: What's another name out there?

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Speaker 4: I mean, I have some ideas, but I'm not I

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Speaker 4: don't think I'm gonna throw it out there.

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Speaker 1: You can't, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 5: You can't see a scenario where everybody start wanting to

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Speaker 5: swamp jerseys with mister Grady here, and they may have

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Speaker 5: some crazy name and it just becomes a phenomenon.

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Speaker 1: I you don't think the league will be like a

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Speaker 1: hold old all right? All right?

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 4: You got me thinking I need to lob a call

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Speaker 4: into the league office to see if they're monitoring this situation.

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Speaker 5: Is there any is there anybody out there with the

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Speaker 5: last name, oh, Kobe White?

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Speaker 1: What if Kobe White and Grady Dick swamp jerseys.

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Speaker 4: Like I said, I've got other ideas. I was not

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Speaker 4: going to nominate Kobe white, but I'm not. I'm going

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Speaker 4: to keep them to myself.

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Speaker 1: Oh, anybody last name Long out.

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Speaker 2: There, Grant Long can make a comeback.

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Speaker 1: I'll stop starting thoughts. I'll stop.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we I think.

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Speaker 4: I think, with an abundance of caution, we're going to

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Speaker 4: stop and put a bow on this edition.

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Speaker 2: Although on this.

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Speaker 4: There are supposed to be no topics off limits, but

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Speaker 4: I think again, I'm going to be extra cautions. Let's

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Speaker 4: wrap this. Let's wrap this show up before we get

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Speaker 4: in any more trouble.

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Speaker 1: I'm fine with that, all right.

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Speaker 4: That will do it for this edition of this League

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Speaker 4: uncut Mark Stein with Chris Haynes.

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Speaker 2: We will be back with you again soon.

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Speaker 4: The next time we do this, I think it's time

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Speaker 4: to start getting into the final few weeks of the

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Speaker 4: MVP race. My sources say that Chris Haynes will be

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Speaker 4: casting an official NBA Season ending Awards ballot. I do not,

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Speaker 4: but Chris Haynes does, so we will get into that

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Speaker 4: the next time. As always, friends, please follow us, rate, review, Spotify, podcast,

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Speaker 4: will do this again very very soon. Thanks for listening,

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Speaker 4: and that'll do it. For us see you next time.

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