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Speaker 2: Hey, hey, oh.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, sweeerld and welcome to the No Dunks podcast

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Speaker 3: on the Athletic Network. It's Tuesday, March nineteenth, twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 3: I'm Jay Skeiths here in the Classic Factory, and alongside me,

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Speaker 3: as always Tasmelice.

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Speaker 1: Fan of No Dunks and Dunks obviously this was for you.

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Speaker 3: Next to him, it's the Beard to one Atapsha hop Boy,

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Speaker 3: Trey Kirby, Hey, hey yo, and last but not least

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Speaker 3: making the magic happen for the final time this week,

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Speaker 3: it's our guy Eshwa kid.

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Speaker 1: Hi, y'all do it? What's up?

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Speaker 3: Esh You're having a day?

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Speaker 4: Eh?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Man?

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Speaker 1: What a day so far? What a day? But it's good.

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Speaker 4: It's all good.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna see all right.

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Speaker 3: The people are here. They're pumped excited to talk about

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Speaker 3: the dunks on No Dunks. Shout out to the stream team.

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Speaker 3: Slight delay getting started here, but hit that like button,

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Speaker 3: and review if you are a podcast listener, and hey,

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Speaker 3: check out tasks on the latest. Is this good episode

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Speaker 3: with Mattio and JD Some larfs were had I sorried

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Speaker 3: that one up yesterday. That link is in the show notes.

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Speaker 3: But before we get into the dunks, we had another weggie,

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Speaker 3: which is great weggie number forty seven on the season.

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Speaker 3: Credit to Thomas Bryant, the big block weggie there on

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Speaker 3: Kelly Oubrey Junior, who is trying to dunk it home.

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Speaker 3: That one really lodged in there nice. So forty seven

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Speaker 3: on pace for fifty nine Weggietracker dot Com breaks it

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Speaker 3: all down as we try and set the all time

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Speaker 3: record for most weggies in a season.

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Speaker 1: Thomas Brian loved it so much, you clap yeah three

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Speaker 1: hard himself.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, good stuff there, Thomas Bryant. Okay, let's get into

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Speaker 3: what you got, What.

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Speaker 1: You got, what you got?

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Speaker 3: Everybody knows where we're starting today because we had two

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Speaker 3: Dunk of the Year contenders submitted within minutes of each other.

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Speaker 3: Last night in Salt Lake City, Anthony Edwards threw down

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Speaker 3: a monster slam over John Collins in the third quarter.

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Speaker 3: It was vicious. Everybody got hurt on the play. The

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Speaker 3: play immediately went viral on social media. What a dunk.

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Speaker 3: A few minutes later, Okay, let's have another look. Yeah sure,

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Speaker 3: why not?

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Speaker 1: Oh my saxy, thanks for that.

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Speaker 3: Yes, a few minutes later over in Los Angeles, Jalen

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Speaker 3: Johnson made Austin Reeves regret trying to draw a charge

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Speaker 3: with a dunk to deliver the first two points of

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Speaker 3: the game. Yeah, Big Johnson, damn near leapfrogged Austin Reeves.

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Speaker 3: So monster dunk of the year candidates there last night.

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Speaker 3: What you got though for dunk of the night? Is

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Speaker 3: it ant Man or is it Jaalen, Big Johnson, Trey Kirby?

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Speaker 3: You get a start it?

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Speaker 5: Who gets your vote? The book question? It's a tough question, skeets.

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Speaker 5: I gotta give them both a win here. Anthony Edwards

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Speaker 5: gets the dunk of the night, clearly the dunk in

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Speaker 5: the night, probably the dunk of the season. Both him

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Speaker 5: and John Collins like had to get examined afterwards. Dislocated

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Speaker 5: finger for Edwards and then John Collins had to go

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Speaker 5: into the concussion protocol. They found out just a bruise

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Speaker 5: from basically getting the finger to the face from Anthony Edwards.

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Speaker 5: But the Jalen Johnson to be gets poster of the

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Speaker 5: night because the picture of it is ridiculous, him dunking

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Speaker 5: on Austin Reeves, putting the dick in ridiculous, Big Johnson

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Speaker 5: going full on growing to face here for Austin Reeves.

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Speaker 5: It just looks terrible for Austin though, things turned around

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Speaker 5: for them the Lakers after this, whereas with Anthony Edwards,

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Speaker 5: his dunk was like a turning point in the gate.

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Speaker 5: He threw it down and the Wolves kind of took

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Speaker 5: over from there. So I think they both get honored

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Speaker 5: for this. Dunk of the Knight to Aunt but poster

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was so fun to watch. It reminded me

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Speaker 1: That one's a dunk of the Year easily, just because

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Speaker 1: Well that's because he poked it in John Collins's face,

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Speaker 1: who was holding his eye afterwards. But that was so

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Speaker 1: much more coolers just the whole thing to me. Kids

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Speaker 1: how cool that that's just cool because he feels he

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Speaker 1: The dunk on Utah watching abbe like those types of

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Speaker 1: Jaylen Brown situation. This one wins, Anthony Edwards wins.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's definitely a very mean dunk an man on Collins.

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Speaker 3: Colin's jumping way too late when he went to go

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Speaker 3: he hurt his finger. He must have heard it on

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Speaker 3: the rim and you're like, no, it's his other hand

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Speaker 3: that he poked in John's cheekbone. Where then he went

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Speaker 3: and then yeah, Trey, you said, it was pretty dominant

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Speaker 3: Reminiscent a little bit Anthony Edwards dunk of Blake Griffin

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Speaker 3: on probably Kendrick Perkins even more than Moscow because it

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Speaker 3: was a thrunk, you know's it's a throw plus a dunk.

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Speaker 3: It's a thrunk. It's just a variation of a dunk.

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Speaker 3: I also was reminded of the poster that wasn't a

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Speaker 3: dunk John Moran over Kevin Love that to me, the

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Speaker 3: Anthony Edwards dunk was almost like if that actually had

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Speaker 3: this is what it was because there's some similarities, you know,

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Speaker 3: But holy crap, it was cool that they had just

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Speaker 1: John Collins really goes for that block and he can jump,

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Speaker 1: part is awesome too. Yeah, strictly violence in that one.

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Speaker 1: We saw Jellen Green do it the other day or

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then all the reactions from players on the

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Speaker 3: these are Utah Jazz fans, but you're seeing their reactions

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Speaker 3: the other guy like looking at his off hand. Oh god,

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Speaker 3: I figured it out. Like there was just so much

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Speaker 3: almost be happy that Anthony Edwards dunked on John Collins

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Speaker 3: last night? Otherwise you know, this is You're like, this

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Speaker 3: Top ten lists and stuff like that. It got it

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Speaker 3: got overshadowed a little bit. Yeah, because it happened first,

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Speaker 3: and it was more violent and probably ultimately the better

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Speaker 5: And everybody loves Anthony Edwards and people don't know quite

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Speaker 4: Also the Lakers went on to win.

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Speaker 5: I don't know how much that factors into it, but

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Speaker 5: it could easily get lost after watching the Anthony Edwards duck.

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Speaker 5: What a landing by this guy. He just goes up

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Speaker 5: without any plan on these sort of things. Same with

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Speaker 5: this block. He's like, I'll figure it out in the air.

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Speaker 5: He comes down hard on his left leg, but it's

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Speaker 5: just his finger that's hurt. So like, I don't know

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Speaker 5: if there's actually a way to hurt Anthony Edwards. He's

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Speaker 5: I guess he hit his head on the backboard and

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Speaker 5: was fine afterwards. Came down hard, landed on his wrist,

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Speaker 5: was like, yeah, my wrist hurts, but didn't miss any

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Speaker 5: time at all. Yeah, he's indestructible.

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Speaker 3: An old segment back in the day was we would

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Speaker 3: a cat or more like a dog. I believe it

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Speaker 3: was Mike Conley that said Anthony Edwards is like a

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Speaker 3: cat the way he lands. He always lands. Yeah, and

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Speaker 3: you know he even called it. Mike Conley like the

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Speaker 3: best dunky he's ever seen in person, probably witnessed right there.

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Speaker 3: So that's saying something. This guy's been around for a

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Speaker 3: long time, seen some good dunks. But I guess he's

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Speaker 3: a cat. But he's got the dog in him, so

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Speaker 3: this is a tough one with him.

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Speaker 4: He's got the cat on his team as well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's right. And he has a good pet dog,

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Speaker 4: Yeah? And then his dog's name Anne.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, oh Jesus Anthony Edwards in him literally, but.

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Speaker 1: He said he couldn't react because he hurt his finger.

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Speaker 1: Poor guy. He landed so well, but it hurt him

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Speaker 3: So we were in a weird way. He was like,

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Speaker 3: I gotta go back to the locker room. I just

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Speaker 3: baptized the baptist there to see you later.

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Speaker 1: I'll be back, yeah, Jalen Johnson, he stared at Austin

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Speaker 1: raised a little bit. Yeah. My quick walk over him.

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Speaker 3: First two points of the game is the weirdest part

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Speaker 3: of that dunk. That's how they started that one in LA.

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Speaker 3: He also had another great dunk Jalen Johnson, not on anybody,

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Speaker 3: but like a backdoor cut, baseline reverse. Get this guy

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Speaker 3: in the dunk contest, moving forward hopefully and as well

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Speaker 3: and John all of them those are awesome, awesome dunks.

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Speaker 3: Let's hear from you which one of those two from

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Speaker 3: last night would get your vote. I would imagine you

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Speaker 3: threw up a pole. It would be heavily favored towards.

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Speaker 4: John roll Up.

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Speaker 3: Oh good.

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Speaker 4: I think we all have a poll up right now.

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Speaker 4: Eighty four percent of people are saying Anthony.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say eighty so even more that

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Speaker 3: makes sense. And even like they showed him the dunk

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Speaker 3: after the game and he's like ooh, He's.

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Speaker 4: Like, it's you got this chance to trash talk John Collins.

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Speaker 1: Then yeah, and he sold some shoes. I'm sure those

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Speaker 1: are nice shoes.

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Speaker 3: Let's get to the actual games a little bit here.

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Speaker 3: Anthony Edwards did have thirty two points, eight assists, seven

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Speaker 3: boards to lead the Wolves over the Jazz one to

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Speaker 3: fourteen to one oh four. He scored twenty five of

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Speaker 3: his thirty two and the second half, including you know,

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Speaker 3: the thrunk of the year dunk of the year, to

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Speaker 3: help the Wolves pull away late. So that win moves

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Speaker 3: Minnesota back into second spot in the Western Conference standings.

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Speaker 3: It's tight at the top. Ok see forty seven and twenty,

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Speaker 3: so they hold a half game lead over the Wolves

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Speaker 5: I'm taking Denver. You say eleven and two since the

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Speaker 3: I think I'm with you. Of the three teams, Denver

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Speaker 4: Now you gotta take care of business.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they were supposed to be there yesterday, I do believe,

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Speaker 3: All right, Moving to some other games, Karris Laverge Jared

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Speaker 3: you know, possibly an NBA play in game, so more

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Speaker 5: It's the Sixers for me, because I don't think they

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Speaker 5: for me. I did love the Kyle Lowry revenge game.

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Speaker 5: looked really great. I thought Kelly Ubre played a really

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Speaker 4: But I also thought Kelly Oubre was playing defense.

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Speaker 1: But it was great to see Uber playing defense on

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Speaker 1: he was kind of behind Kyle Lowry. So Kyle Lowry

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Speaker 3: It was an ultimate grift.

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Speaker 1: That is Kyle Lowry sixteen points to help out. They

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Speaker 3: two against each other, Sabonus and his fifty straight double

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Speaker 3: doubles or de Lo tying and eventually going to be

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Speaker 3: breaking the Lakers franchise record for three pointers made with

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Speaker 3: one hundred and eighty three once you've got tasks.

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Speaker 1: Daniel Russell shocked me that he has tied the record

437
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Speaker 1: for this team that is held by Nick Van Exel

438
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Speaker 1: so far some long ago when the NBA has changed,

439
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Speaker 1: and that there should be somebody somebody. Milik Beasley could

440
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Speaker 1: have done it last year, but he got traded. I

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Speaker 1: think he would have had the record so like half

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Speaker 1: a season, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: He was.

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Speaker 1: He was scorching for that half season then and then

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Speaker 1: it stopped. But that surprised me. Yeah, Like a few

446
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Speaker 1: years ago, it was KCP and the playoffs, he led

447
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Speaker 1: the team in threes as they won the freaking championship.

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Speaker 1: So I'm just surprised that it happened for D'Angelo Russell. Here,

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Speaker 1: this is like a D'Angelo triumphant month or so, you know,

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Speaker 1: as he as he goes and does his his media,

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Speaker 1: this is pretty He had his kid with him at

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Speaker 1: the end of it as he was told by the

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Speaker 1: interviewer that you tied the record. So that's pretty neat.

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Speaker 1: I would say that's that's the one that stood out

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Speaker 1: for me.

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Speaker 5: Okay, what about Utk I think Sabonis, I think that's

457
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Speaker 5: such a low number to be a record for D'Angelo Russell,

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Speaker 5: Like he's fourteenth in the league and made threes this season,

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Speaker 5: so more impressive that Nick van Axels has stood for

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Speaker 5: so long.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, let me give you this from statitudes, only

462
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Speaker 3: three franchises have never had a player reach two hundred

463
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Speaker 3: three pointers in a season. The Lakers obviously one of them,

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Speaker 3: the Nuggets one hundred and ninety two is their record,

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Speaker 3: and the Spurs one hundred and ninety one. So only

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Speaker 3: three franchises have never had a two hundred plus you

467
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Speaker 3: know three pointers made from a guy. But you know,

468
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Speaker 3: D'Angelo Russell very likely, I guess, will do that. But

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Speaker 3: you're going.

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Speaker 5: Simonis, Yeah, definitely going Sabonis. His stats literally just always

471
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Speaker 5: surprised me. Still leading the league in triple doubles twenty three,

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Speaker 5: Jokic has twenty one, Luca has seventeen. He also shoots

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Speaker 5: a better percentage than Nicola Jokic does from two and

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Speaker 5: from three.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Demanto Sabonis wasn't an All Star.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the weirdest one. That's crazy. He's going to

478
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Speaker 3: be better be all NBA, especially now. I mean, you

479
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Speaker 3: don't have to worry about positions.

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Speaker 4: That hurts him.

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Speaker 3: I think you think that he did it, Oh, that

482
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Speaker 3: he won't have.

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Speaker 5: To he would have been locked in as the number

484
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Speaker 5: three center, yeah, I think. But now he's got to

485
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Speaker 5: be a top fifteen guy. But he plays a lot

486
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Speaker 5: which helps.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And as far as the Lakers go, they hit

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Speaker 1: the fewest threes in the NBA. They excuse me, they

489
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Speaker 1: take the fewest threes in the NBA. So that's why

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Speaker 1: D'Angel Russell needs to be shooting each in every possession.

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Speaker 1: That's why Lebron looks at him and passes it to

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Speaker 1: him and says, just fricking shoot it. I need you

493
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Speaker 1: and he needs you to keep on shooting. One thing

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Speaker 1: that stood out for me and has stood out for

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Speaker 1: me with the Sacramento Kings is Kean Ellis coming off

496
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Speaker 1: the bench in this one because Kevin Herder got injured,

497
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Speaker 1: but he has been starting for Kevin Herder occasionally at

498
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Speaker 1: five huge blocks in this game, monstrous montrous blocks. As

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Speaker 1: a guard, he could be their their defensive go to.

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Speaker 1: I think Mike Brown is looking for that, and so

501
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Speaker 1: that could help out in the postseason. They want somebody

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Speaker 1: but Dann Fox to just play defense, and that guy

503
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Speaker 1: plays it and he contrut.

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Speaker 3: With He almost gave us another block wedgie. I think

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Speaker 3: it was on Desmond bain Ellis pinned it off the

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Speaker 3: glass and sort of close to wedging end and then

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Speaker 3: they went the other way, and was it Fox that

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Speaker 3: chucked it over his head to Malik Monk who threw

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Speaker 3: down a two hand slam. Was an awesome double ender there,

510
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Speaker 3: as Lee Ellis used to call them, I heard a

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Speaker 3: double ender, huge, huge play. There's a lot of great

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Speaker 3: plays last night, but it took over time, but they

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Speaker 3: got it done. I mean that could have been another

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Speaker 3: brutal King's loss. You don't love that it took an

515
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Speaker 3: extra five minutes, but took care of business. Maligue monk.

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Speaker 3: I mean honestly, another game where he saved him. He's incredible,

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Speaker 3: like down the stretch, and I do think we'll win

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Speaker 3: six Man of the Year and Sabonis. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 3: it's a good point without all NBA like well people,

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Speaker 3: I mean hopefully his room for maybe both of them,

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Speaker 3: but like Anthony Davis or Sabonis, there will be votes

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Speaker 3: for Anthony Davis for all NBA for sure. I think

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Speaker 3: he's hit the mark now. He played no goggles. Cornea

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Speaker 3: was okay, but man, I would be really weird if

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Speaker 3: he Sabonis is not on one of these teams I had

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Speaker 3: him as when we l last did this. I think

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Speaker 3: I had him on the old NBA second team with

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Speaker 3: guys like Kawhi and stuff like that. So we'll see

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Speaker 3: a month ago. But fifty straight double doubles, it's a lot.

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Speaker 3: That's incredible. I don't see why, unless the unfortunate injury

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Speaker 3: happens here that he won't continue to have a double

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Speaker 3: double for the rest of the year.

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Speaker 5: Somebody's got to keep him off the glass. One guy

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Speaker 5: to worry about.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yes, but he is a beast.

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Speaker 1: Dear. I got Darren Fox tennis. Did you see the assist?

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Speaker 1: We know our man Tom Haberstrow has been checking out

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Speaker 1: these assists. Are they real assists over the years? He

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Speaker 1: passed the ball to Malik Monk was probably like forty

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Speaker 1: feet from the basket. Yeah, and Malik Monk dribbled into

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Speaker 1: the paint and scored.

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Speaker 4: How do you give that an assist?

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Speaker 1: I just don't understand how you possibly give an assist

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Speaker 1: habits Shrow has got to be on that. What the heck?

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Speaker 4: The numbers?

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Speaker 1: What the heck? I was trying to think of something

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Speaker 1: cool to say, what like to have an assist pun there?

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Speaker 1: But I just wouldn't what the heck? What? What the

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Speaker 1: pass was that?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 1: What the ass was that? With the pass? Was that?

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Speaker 1: You know, there's something what the past was that? There's something?

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Speaker 1: There's something weird?

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Speaker 3: What matchups does someoneas have to worry about on the

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Speaker 3: on the boards? I thought you were doing.

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Speaker 4: Some uh not a lot. Honestly, he very well might.

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Speaker 5: I would say that at Orlando on Saturday this coming Saturday,

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Speaker 5: March twenty third, is maybe the biggest question. They got

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Speaker 5: a pretty big front line, and it will be their

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Speaker 5: third game in four nights on the road. That could

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Speaker 5: be a tough one. Okay, But other than that, I

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Speaker 5: guess like they got They have a game in New

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Speaker 5: York against the Knicks in early April that could be

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Speaker 5: a tough one. They're a pretty solid rebounding team as well.

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Speaker 5: Otherwise though, it's they got fifteen games left. He could

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Speaker 5: stretch the thing to sixty five.

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Speaker 3: Jesus, you averages thirteen point seven rebounds per game. Go

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Speaker 3: Bears next twelve point nine. So I mean we're talking

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Speaker 3: nearly another almost a full board a game, more than

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Speaker 3: Rudy an ad In Jokich also over twelve.

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Speaker 1: It's it's amazing. With the Kings, they need him to board.

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Speaker 1: Their second best or the second highest rebounder is Keigan

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Speaker 1: Murray with five point four.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he is an ox for a reason. All Right,

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Speaker 3: that's a little what you got. We're gonna take a

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Speaker 3: quick break when we come back. Is this news, and

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Speaker 3: we will lead with Lebron and JJ Reddick's brand new podcast,

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Speaker 3: Don't Go Anywhere, all right, I told you we'd be

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Speaker 3: back in a hurry. Let's get into Is this news?

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Speaker 3: Is this news? I've got the headlines. You guys will

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Speaker 3: debate whether or not they're newsworthy, and we can break

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Speaker 3: them down. Play along. If you're in the stream team

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Speaker 3: right now live on YouTube or podcast listeners, let us

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Speaker 3: know in the comments or tweet at us at no

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Speaker 3: dunk saying first one. It's from the Athletic Fine website.

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Speaker 3: Lebron James and JJ Reddick teaming up for a new

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Speaker 3: basketball centric podcast, Is This News? Mind the Game? Episode one?

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Speaker 3: Drop this more? What do you think another basketball podcast?

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00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:03,440
Speaker 1: Oh?

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00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 4: This is news?

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00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:06,159
Speaker 5: Okay, this is definitely news. This is news in the

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Speaker 5: NBA world and also in the podcasting streets. Competition is

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Speaker 5: getting tougher and tougher. Ski But Lebron's gonna have to

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Speaker 5: record a lot of episodes to catch us on the

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Speaker 5: all time podcasting leader boards, isn't he? JJ Reddick might

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Speaker 5: be catching us pretty soon, though. This guy's got a

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Speaker 5: billion podcast. Yeah, I mean I watched the first clip.

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Speaker 5: I listened to a little bit of the first episode

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Speaker 5: because I didn't know it was out. I knew it

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Speaker 5: was coming, and then it was suddenly out this morning.

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Speaker 5: But I'm gonna be very interested in these because it

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00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:38,680
Speaker 5: does feel like this is gonna be an education.

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Speaker 4: You're gonna hear.

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Speaker 5: About Lebron talking about bomb plays, not bombs over bagdad, baseline,

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00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:45,560
Speaker 5: out of bounds. I thought we all called those blobs.

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Speaker 5: I'm already learning a guy called screen the screen or

607
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,560
Speaker 5: pick the picker. I gotta change up everything now. He

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Speaker 5: learned all kinds of new terminologies. But it is interesting

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Speaker 5: because I was wondering just seeing the clip hearing Lebron

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Speaker 5: talking about the inbounder should take the guard go into

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Speaker 5: the corner, and then his guy, the X five should

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Speaker 5: take the inbounder. I was like, you're gonna need some

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Speaker 5: visuals to actually understand what these guys are talking about.

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Speaker 5: Some of those visuals apparently just JJ drawn up sets

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Speaker 5: on a clipboard, and some of them will be possibly

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Speaker 5: licensed footage.

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Speaker 4: I don't know Lebron.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if Lebron was getting those ones cleared

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Speaker 5: because they were under ten seconds. Very smart, somebody knows

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Speaker 5: how the YouTube claims work.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, this is going to be interesting to me.

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Speaker 5: I love this stuff, hearing these guys talk actually about basketball.

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Speaker 5: At some point you're gonna get into Lebron talking about

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Speaker 5: like how he scores, and what he thinks when he

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00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:39,920
Speaker 5: gets the ball in the post, things you can actually

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Speaker 5: learn from.

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Speaker 4: So should be interesting.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's getting warm for his post career. It sure

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Speaker 1: feels like, why can't he just talk about basketball for

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Speaker 1: a podcast for you know, you don't have to record

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Speaker 1: it every single week. Like this could just be sort

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Speaker 1: of like Kobe's detail to some degree, just analyzing some

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00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:01,600
Speaker 1: sort of plays and he could just pump out thirty

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Speaker 1: shows in ten days and you can just bank them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they've already done two, I believe, right, they bank

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00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 3: or you know, they recorded them, of course, so a

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Speaker 3: second one will be coming soon.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is like a pilot for me because they

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00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:17,239
Speaker 1: needed more visuals, absolutely needed more visuals. Let's draw these

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00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 1: things up, let's figure these things out. But it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be Lebron explaining every play he's ever had, or you know,

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00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 1: the way he thinks about some particular play and what

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Speaker 1: happened in that particular play, just talking about it with

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Speaker 1: JJ Reddick. So it's gonna be great. But I do

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Speaker 1: think it's a pilot for next season. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: don't know, two shows now before the playoffs, when Lebron

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Speaker 1: gets into the playoffs and will not be recording anything.

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Speaker 3: Oh, you're right, because he usually cuts off from you know,

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00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 3: all media and all social media, and I assume that

650
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 3: includes recording podcasts. Good point.

651
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 1: You can argue that Lebron may not be in the playoffs.

652
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 1: I'm sure people, the anti LA people are watching and

653
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 1: saying that currently as I said that. However, Yeah, I

654
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 1: do think this is long term and JJ Reki keeps starting,

655
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 1: keeps on growing that media center.

656
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 3: Mind the game. I fired it up this morning when

657
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 3: it was released at like, I don't know, four am

658
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 3: Eastern time notification turn, I was like, oh, I pop

659
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:13,720
Speaker 3: right out of bed like lender taker, time to listen

660
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 3: to another basketball podcast. It was good. I mean, surprise, surprise.

661
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,720
Speaker 3: It's like good production. It's these two geeks talking about basketball.

662
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:23,080
Speaker 3: My takeaways from it. I don't think I'm spoiling anything,

663
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 3: but well, first off, this is just gonna be like

664
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 3: meme gold, right, A lot of stuff's gonna get pulled

665
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 3: from this. Some funny things. I love them drinking wine

666
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 3: that was always making me laugh. Like at one point

667
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:37,720
Speaker 3: JJ just stops and goes cheers man, nice cheers with

668
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 3: their red wine. But Lebron was shitting on the two

669
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 3: for one, thinking, you know, the idea that we just

670
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 3: got to get two shots instead of one, and his

671
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 3: like pushback is like the flow of the game and

672
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 3: like basically like also, what you're just get two crappy

673
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 3: shots instead of maybe one good shot, So he's going

674
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 3: in on that. There was some talk about Rondo how

675
00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 3: he should be a coach, and he was surprised they're

676
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 3: talking about like basketball IQ and JJ's asking him, like,

677
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 3: who are the smartes basketball players? You were play with

678
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 3: Rondel right away? And we've heard that before. So the

679
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 3: idea is, like, I guess he just doesn't want to

680
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 3: coach because he easily could be. And then there was

681
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 3: lots of love for Steph Curry and Alan Iverson from

682
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 3: Lebron in terms of guys that have like sort of

683
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 3: changed basketball or impacted basketball, like the youth, uh, sort

684
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:23,959
Speaker 3: of falling in love with how they play and how

685
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 3: cool they were and stuff like that. So that was

686
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 3: sort of cool.

687
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 1: It was good.

688
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 3: Listen, no, you know, first show good stuff. Can't wait

689
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 3: for the next one. But they are gonna be There's

690
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 3: just gonna be some funny thing, especially like Lebron haters

691
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 3: are gonna love it because they're gonna like, oh, they're

692
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 3: gonna pull this clip or maybe he lies about something,

693
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 3: you know, that's the going the going joke that he

694
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 3: always like he just knows or goes back and pretends

695
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:51,120
Speaker 3: to know. So it's gonna be content gold.

696
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:54,640
Speaker 4: There are gonna be full podcasts just about these podcasts.

697
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:56,720
Speaker 3: Oh sure, yeah, sure.

698
00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 4: Like reviewing Lebron's podcast.

699
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, Lakers Fan, you literally have to listen to these, Yeah,

700
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 5: because he's gonna be It's like similar to Draymond's podcast

701
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 5: where he goes on the games like as soon as

702
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 5: they happen and explain what happened in the game.

703
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 4: Lebron's gonna do similar stuff.

704
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:14,960
Speaker 5: And he's got such a great recall that you're gonna

705
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 5: be able to pull the plays that he's talking about

706
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 5: to see what he saw.

707
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 3: It's a good point.

708
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, pull those plays, That's exactly what you need to do.

709
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 1: And he's just gonna bring them up in his head

710
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 1: and how they how he breaks them down. It's gonna

711
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 1: be super fun. I like how the wine bottle was

712
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 1: blared out, the label was blared out. You can't you

713
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 1: can see it, it was blurred, is like, what is the

714
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 1: what are they doing? They didn't want to have the

715
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 1: wine bottle out there. They're looking for a wine sponsory somewhere,

716
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 1: somewhere deep in the archives. They're playing but their they're

717
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:45,959
Speaker 1: recording in front of those would that? Do you know that?

718
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 1: It looked like wood, huge boxes crates?

719
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:51,280
Speaker 3: Yeah?

720
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 1: I love the set.

721
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:53,120
Speaker 4: I just love the set.

722
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 1: Okay, I want to know what's in that? Are in

723
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 1: those boxes?

724
00:32:57,640 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 4: All right?

725
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 3: Next headline NBC Sports, DeAndre Eaton says slow start in

726
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 3: Portland was in part due to him sleeping on an

727
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 3: air mattress. Is this news? He's killing it right now.

728
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 3: I guess he's in a real bed again. But is

729
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 3: this news? DeAndre Eton? This air mattress part getting pulled

730
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,960
Speaker 3: obviously from a bigger story. But what do you think?

731
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 4: No? Okay, no, this is not news.

732
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 5: But it is pretty funny because the only time I

733
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 5: could remember hearing stories like this or getting trapped in

734
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 5: an ice storm were with Kwame Brown when he was

735
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 5: a rookie. There was a story that he went to

736
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:33,880
Speaker 5: a French restaurant, couldn't believe they didn't have French dressing,

737
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:36,280
Speaker 5: and then took French dressing with him. Any other time

738
00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 5: he went to a French restaurant. He ate Popeyes for

739
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 5: every meal because he didn't.

740
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 4: Know how to shop for groceries right.

741
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 5: And of course he ran out of clothes because he

742
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:45,960
Speaker 5: didn't know you had to wash your clothes right or

743
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 5: how to do laundry, so I just go buy new suits.

744
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 4: He was eighteen. DeAndre Eaton is twenty six years old,

745
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 4: just about.

746
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 5: Yeah, he could have gotten a new mattress bed. Yes,

747
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,240
Speaker 5: he doesn't even need a bet. He could have just

748
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 5: gotten the mattress if he wanted to. Right, There's no

749
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 5: reason for a multi millionaire seven foot or to ever

750
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:08,880
Speaker 5: sleep on an air mattress.

751
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was traded on September twenty seventh, so right

752
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 1: before training camp. You can you feel bad for him

753
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:18,839
Speaker 1: and that he needed to get used to things to

754
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:22,719
Speaker 1: be able to play well. But at the same time,

755
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 1: how do you not have a bed? Really? I mean,

756
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 1: that's what it comes down to. If you know, if

757
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:29,799
Speaker 1: you want to play really well and know that you

758
00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 1: need to sleep to play really well, you basically just say, hey,

759
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 1: Sons and Movers, what I'm just naming some company, but

760
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:40,239
Speaker 1: just come take my bed here from Phoenix and put

761
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 1: it in Portland and they'll be there in two days

762
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 1: and for the entire training camp, you could be sleeping

763
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 1: in your bed.

764
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Speaker 3: Was that Sons and movers? Sons? Yeah, or suns.

765
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:50,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good call. Yeah, good call.

766
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 3: Sons and sons. Yeah, yeah, okay, Oh you're right.

767
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 1: I was thinking local. Yeah. And his numbers are exactly

768
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 1: the same year to year, so I mean nothing.

769
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:02,879
Speaker 3: Wow, he's on a tear right now, but.

770
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,800
Speaker 1: They're basically different entirely.

771
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:09,960
Speaker 3: Look like this gets pulled. The air mattress part. Everyone

772
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:12,279
Speaker 3: rolling their eyes, like you guys have just said, hold on,

773
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 3: hold on, you're a multimillionaire and you can't get a bed. Uh,

774
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:18,280
Speaker 3: you know, night one or whatever. They're in your new spot.

775
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 3: The other parts from from him talking about this make

776
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 3: a little more sense. First off, just moving franchises to

777
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:28,320
Speaker 3: a new team and getting some familiarity with the city

778
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 3: and the organization and your teammates. Yeah, he talked about

779
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:32,799
Speaker 3: family coming in and out of town and maybe that

780
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:35,880
Speaker 3: was a distraction and them needing places to stay. The

781
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:39,359
Speaker 3: changes to his young son, you know, Deandret and Junior, Like, yeah,

782
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:42,359
Speaker 3: that that all makes sense. It's like you almost wished,

783
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:44,359
Speaker 3: like you didn't throw in the air mattress part because

784
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:48,239
Speaker 3: again everyone's like, come on, man, what this is a

785
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 3: reason why?

786
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 4: I mean, is it more of a reason that he's

787
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:51,839
Speaker 4: got family in town?

788
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 3: It's at least it's not probably pulled into it. It's not.

789
00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 5: It's not the leading headline. That's a bunch of excuses

790
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 5: easily being distracted, which I think is the problem for DeAndre.

791
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:07,400
Speaker 5: Maybe maybe, so he just keeps adding to it and

792
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:08,480
Speaker 5: piling on and piling on.

793
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 1: He better have a great season next season now that

794
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 1: he knows what Betty's sleeping in. He's got the family

795
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,319
Speaker 1: in town. I mean the number again, the numbers are

796
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 1: slightly different, but they ain't that different. I you know,

797
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:22,960
Speaker 1: the whole ice thing where he couldn't get out of

798
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:25,759
Speaker 1: his house because it did it snowed and there was

799
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:29,840
Speaker 1: ice everywhere. I buy that entirely true, entirely true. Portland

800
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:31,720
Speaker 1: didn't know how to deal with that ice. Okay, except

801
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 1: for everybody else on the Blazer right, yeah, except for

802
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 1: everybody else on the Blazers. But it depends on the

803
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:39,960
Speaker 1: area that you live in, It depends on your car situation, Okay, whatever.

804
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 1: I just didn't feel. I didn't feel I felt that

805
00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:44,800
Speaker 1: was real this is okay.

806
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 3: You know, I would like some follow up to this.

807
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:51,319
Speaker 3: How many nights are we talking? How long was he

808
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:51,840
Speaker 3: on the air.

809
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 5: Mattress for If it's more than one night, it's insane ridiculous.

810
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:58,440
Speaker 5: I know it doesn't take any time to get a mattress.

811
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:02,920
Speaker 3: I know I've seen him unpackaged a mattress that came

812
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:03,480
Speaker 3: in a box.

813
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:06,120
Speaker 5: But you just don't buy one. You don't even have

814
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:08,400
Speaker 5: to order one. You just go to a store because

815
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:09,360
Speaker 5: you don't have a mattress.

816
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:12,720
Speaker 3: There are no more mattress stores. I thought, I don't mattress.

817
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 4: For us is not a thing. Mattress firm. Isn't that

818
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 4: one of them?

819
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 3: Well, he probably needs a specific size. I don't know,

820
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:19,279
Speaker 3: Maybe he needs a custom job.

821
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 4: Anything is better than an air mattress.

822
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:22,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

823
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:25,359
Speaker 5: Or Ikia they sell mattresses. They're not that great. No,

824
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 5: but you can get them and they're always in stock.

825
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:28,719
Speaker 4: Do they have one in Portland? I don't know.

826
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 1: Yeah. Or you come sleep in a room that already

827
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 1: has a bed. You know there are.

828
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:35,200
Speaker 3: Oh like a hotel.

829
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:38,520
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, I want a home. I want

830
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 1: a home, you know, right at home? You move for

831
00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 1: a certain company there's definitely places they can put you.

832
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, didn't Larry Nance move into Josh Hart's house when

833
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 5: he went to the Blazers.

834
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.

835
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 5: There's a bunch of guys that got traded away from

836
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 5: the Blazers. Yeah, that's left in Damian Lillard's house. I

837
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 5: bet he's got a bed.

838
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 3: Jandrayton's bigger. Though he's like a foot bigger than him.

839
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 4: He's not sleeping on a full size air mattress that

840
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:02,479
Speaker 4: fits him, you know what I'm saying.

841
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:04,320
Speaker 3: He could easily get a bed.

842
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 4: This guy's happy to get his second contract. That's what

843
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 4: he said. That's what he said in a draft. Success

844
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:10,800
Speaker 4: for me will be getting a second contract. And he

845
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 4: is good.

846
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:14,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, but he's got he doesn't even know what to

847
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:18,239
Speaker 3: do with that money. Can buy mattress. That's right, all right,

848
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:22,000
Speaker 3: that's long enough. Next one here the from the Athletic again.

849
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:24,840
Speaker 3: The Wizard's rookie blau Kolabali will miss the remainder of

850
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:26,320
Speaker 3: the season due to a wrist fracture.

851
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:30,399
Speaker 1: Is this news this news for you? Ski? It's you're screwed? Why?

852
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:31,120
Speaker 4: Why?

853
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:34,319
Speaker 1: Because we are in a race to determine who has

854
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 1: the worst record in the NBA, and the Pistons are

855
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:39,560
Speaker 1: leading the Washington Wizards, and the Wizards lose Cool Valley,

856
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 1: who along with any Avidya, is the best defender. Those

857
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:45,720
Speaker 1: are the two best defenders on that team. There's no doubt.

858
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:49,839
Speaker 1: And and you lose Blah Kolibali here when you got

859
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 1: all these injuries, Ty Shones injured, Shaman's injury, Danny Avdya

860
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: is dealing with any injury. Bagley is out. So they

861
00:38:56,719 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 1: may just go all in on playing extremely young right here,

862
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 1: right now, Johnny Davis, you're in, baby. You need to

863
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 1: get a second contract, you need another job in the NBA.

864
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,120
Speaker 1: You're in. So I think they may go extremely young.

865
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:11,720
Speaker 1: Kuzma may not play, ad may not play. Tys Jones

866
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:15,280
Speaker 1: may not play as much. Even though Kuzma, as he said,

867
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 1: he wants, he wants to write this thing. He wants

868
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 1: to be here. Apparently he told his front office he

869
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:23,360
Speaker 1: didn't want to be traded. That's a great article in

870
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:25,479
Speaker 1: the Athletic. I don't know why anyone's talking not talking

871
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:28,800
Speaker 1: about that. That was when Kuzma said he was offered

872
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:31,239
Speaker 1: to be delts to the Dallas Mavericks. He said, no,

873
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 1: I want to be here in Washington, where you are

874
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 1: going to win or lose, I should say lose, not

875
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:39,319
Speaker 1: dust bowl. That's it.

876
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:42,400
Speaker 3: We'll see Piston's play the Wizards coming up, but no

877
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 3: Kolabali to put on a I guess Kate or whatever

878
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 3: you consider the best perimeter player because he would get

879
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 3: that match up a lot, and he's solid defensively. His

880
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,160
Speaker 3: stats are not going to wow you. He's very young,

881
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:55,880
Speaker 3: played a lot of minutes I think fifth among all

882
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 3: rookies twenty seven minutes per game. So they've got to

883
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 3: fill that. I guess. I hope like the Wizards pick

884
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 3: up a bunch of guys that are like just fighting

885
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:06,480
Speaker 3: to be in the league and scrap hard and play

886
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:08,719
Speaker 3: hard and pull out some victories here to avoid the

887
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 3: nut dust loss. But we'll see what do you think here? TK?

888
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 5: Well, cool Bally was actually further along this season than

889
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 5: I thought he was gonna be. Is he the youngest

890
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 5: player in the e Laitue's got to be? I think so, yeah,

891
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:21,719
Speaker 5: he's not even twenty years old yet shot almost thirty

892
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:24,880
Speaker 5: five percent from three. I thought he would be lucky

893
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:26,880
Speaker 5: to be in the high twenties just because he wasn't

894
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 5: pegged as a shooter coming from Mets ninety two, could

895
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 5: actually do some stuff with the ball and then had

896
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 5: crazy long wingspan as well, almost a steal and a

897
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:39,359
Speaker 5: block per game. And he's just basically running around out there. So,

898
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 5: I mean, the Wizards, their season is sunk. They've got

899
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,040
Speaker 5: one big game left on the schedule, and it is

900
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 5: against Detroit to see who finishes with the worst record

901
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:50,000
Speaker 5: in the league. You'd rather have him than not, But

902
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 5: I guess it is Johnny Davis time. I told you

903
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 5: guys not too long ago, I saw live Johnny Davis

904
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 5: hit a three watching the game and he made it three.

905
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,359
Speaker 3: It was crazy was that in this where got into

906
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:01,359
Speaker 3: cool Baal He got injured.

907
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:04,759
Speaker 5: It happened against It was uh who did I watch

908
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 5: them play? I watched them play a bad team. I

909
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 5: don't know why I had this game, but I literally

910
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:11,880
Speaker 5: saw him Heath Rison what It's amazing?

911
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:14,400
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, cool Bally. He's gonna miss the remainder of

912
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:16,160
Speaker 3: the season, but he will be back in theory, you know,

913
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:18,279
Speaker 3: at the start of next year, and they're going to

914
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 3: be very you know, cautious with this again, super young,

915
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:24,720
Speaker 3: they're not playing for anything. He will be fine, hopefully,

916
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 3: and he yeah, you're right, Trey. I think he surprised

917
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:29,799
Speaker 3: a lot of people, especially when you, unfortunately look at

918
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:33,360
Speaker 3: some wizard's picks over the last couple of years, You're like, oh, oh,

919
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 3: but they have it feels like they have a building block,

920
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 3: at least a guy on the wing that is a

921
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 3: bit of a defensive force. Final headline from ESPN injury

922
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 3: ravaged Calves signed Marcus Morris Senior to a ten day deal.

923
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:51,359
Speaker 3: Is this news? We just went through all the star

924
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:54,600
Speaker 3: players missing time for the Calves. Can Marcus Moore Senior

925
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:55,440
Speaker 3: help him out?

926
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:58,880
Speaker 1: This is news? If you look back at what the

927
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:01,319
Speaker 1: Calves did last year and postseason, they fell apart. The

928
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:03,120
Speaker 1: lights were too bright. They literally didn't look like the

929
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:06,880
Speaker 1: Cleveland Cavaliers out there. They'd need old guys. Will Marcus

930
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:12,120
Speaker 1: Morris be a huge factor on the floor. Maybe perhaps?

931
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 1: I mean, he had a great game last night. It

932
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:16,880
Speaker 1: was splashing threes, it was at fourteen points he had

933
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:19,719
Speaker 1: off the bench, and his first game. It's why the

934
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: seventy six ers kept him around all season long, because

935
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:26,919
Speaker 1: he is great at that. Last Yesterday's from three point

936
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 1: land in the mid range. The old Marcus Morris who

937
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 1: scored twenty points a game. It felt like out there,

938
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:33,800
Speaker 1: but the cast fell apart last year. They need playoff veterans.

939
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:36,719
Speaker 1: They obviously have a bunch of them. You know, they've

940
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:41,320
Speaker 1: they've got the Tristan Thompson returned, Yes, quick quick return

941
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:46,040
Speaker 1: after he's back. Yeah, the unfortunate suspension that he had.

942
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:48,280
Speaker 1: He's got guys. They have guys that come off the bench,

943
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:51,879
Speaker 1: and but that was their team last year. What they

944
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 1: currently have in a lot of different ways. They just

945
00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:56,839
Speaker 1: need guys in the locker room. And Marcus Morris could

946
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 1: come off the bench and be really really good. So

947
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:01,680
Speaker 1: I I think it's yeah, a guy who will be

948
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:03,440
Speaker 1: around even though it's a ten day contract. I think

949
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:05,359
Speaker 1: it is a guy who will be around long term

950
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 1: because the guy can still play as a support guy.

951
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 3: What do you think because this newsworthy?

952
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:13,319
Speaker 5: It's more newsworthy because he had fourteen points in twenty

953
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:16,280
Speaker 5: minutes last night. Like they needed Marcus Morris. He definitely helped.

954
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:18,480
Speaker 5: But if he's playing big minutes for them in the playoffs,

955
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:20,839
Speaker 5: I think they're in a bad spot because they would

956
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:22,840
Speaker 5: rather be playing a guy like Dean Wade who missed.

957
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:26,360
Speaker 5: I think for personal reasons, against the Pacers or something

958
00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:29,319
Speaker 5: like that, so he should be buried pretty deep in

959
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:32,400
Speaker 5: the rotation once they actually get to playoff time. But

960
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:34,879
Speaker 5: there it's better to have somebody that has a little

961
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 5: bit of experience than a completely raw dude to throw

962
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:41,320
Speaker 5: in there. Like Tasa said, they ran into the playoffs

963
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:44,320
Speaker 5: last year and they all kind of got a little frightened.

964
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:47,200
Speaker 4: At the very least, Marcus Morris ain't gonna be fraighted.

965
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, He's played sixty seven playoff games, started forty five

966
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:53,040
Speaker 3: of them. You know, had some deeper runs with the

967
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 3: Celtics back in the day in seventeen eighteen than a

968
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:58,040
Speaker 3: couple of years there with the Clippers. He played in

969
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:01,400
Speaker 3: a handful of playoff games last year for the Clips,

970
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:03,359
Speaker 3: but couldn't hit a shot to save his life. I mean,

971
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 3: he didn't get a lot of minutes in those games.

972
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:07,799
Speaker 3: So they're gonna hopeful, hope for a little bit more.

973
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:11,359
Speaker 3: But like you said, maybe he's just breaking a case

974
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 3: of emergency when all their guys are not there. But

975
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:16,160
Speaker 3: he can still shoot. You're right, and as an older

976
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:19,919
Speaker 3: guy has been in these postseason fights with some team,

977
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 3: So good pick up there for Cleveland. Before we go.

978
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:25,040
Speaker 3: Let's get to tweet of the night.

979
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 1: Tweet of the night. Wow, oh, tweet good night.

980
00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:37,799
Speaker 5: It's all about fellas practicing some impossible shots. Our first

981
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:40,440
Speaker 5: tweet comes to us from Jonathan Fyen, who covers the

982
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:43,719
Speaker 5: Houston Rockets. He tweeted yesterday, Jalen Green hit the Kyrie

983
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:47,920
Speaker 5: Irving lefty hook after practice today. If he tries, imagine

984
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:52,200
Speaker 5: he won't try it in the game, Okay, Darren, Yeah.

985
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 5: Our own Will Gillory tweeted this Tray Murphy working on

986
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 5: the Kyrie shot after practice today.

987
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:03,440
Speaker 3: Hit it, Hey, look good, look pretty good, like Jordan

988
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:05,520
Speaker 3: hitting the jumper and win it against the Calves back

989
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:05,960
Speaker 3: in the day.

990
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:09,280
Speaker 5: No defense, no pressure. But this is how Kyrie Irving

991
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:11,480
Speaker 5: got it started. He would go on YouTube, he would

992
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 5: find new moves, learn them, master them in practice, and

993
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 5: then you never know when you're gonna need it when

994
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 5: you can reach deep into the bag and pull out

995
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 5: a lefty hook. Now we know at least two more

996
00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:23,160
Speaker 5: guys who can make this shot. Jalen Green could hit it.

997
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:25,880
Speaker 5: Trey Murphy could hit it. I think Jalen Green is

998
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:27,480
Speaker 5: more likely to shoot it in the game, if I'm

999
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:32,239
Speaker 5: being quite honest. Nonetheless, if this becomes a thing, if

1000
00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 5: players start shooting lefty one hand hook shots, that'll be

1001
00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 5: a problem.

1002
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:39,040
Speaker 3: I think, well we call it the Kyrie.

1003
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:42,319
Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, we'll have to Yeah, exactly right. It's

1004
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:45,120
Speaker 5: like it used to be Tracy McGrady was the only

1005
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:47,279
Speaker 5: guy who would go off the glass to himself, right,

1006
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:48,960
Speaker 5: and he would only do it in the All Star Game.

1007
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:50,880
Speaker 5: And then people realize, wait, you can do this in

1008
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 5: the game. Now, you could just do it now, Chat

1009
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:54,920
Speaker 5: Holmgren does it like he's a rookie, just doing it.

1010
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:57,360
Speaker 4: No problem. It could happen.

1011
00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:00,400
Speaker 5: I'm not saying, I'm I'm not calling that this is

1012
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:02,400
Speaker 5: going to become a common shot in the NBA. But

1013
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 5: this is not the last time we've seen a lefty

1014
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:05,600
Speaker 5: hook from a right handed shooter.

1015
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 3: Okay, wow, Well it's the first thing I'm gonna do

1016
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:11,040
Speaker 3: when I play pick up hoops tonight. I'm before everybody

1017
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 3: shows up, I'm gonna practice this shot a few times.

1018
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:14,840
Speaker 3: Going to be difficult. In this one gym we played

1019
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:18,480
Speaker 3: with no lines, no lines, the weirdest gym in the world.

1020
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:22,080
Speaker 3: Very weird to play basketball on no lines. I don't

1021
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 3: really know where you are. It's a big man's game

1022
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:27,000
Speaker 3: on this court, that's fun, ye were you going.

1023
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 4: To say that?

1024
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:29,399
Speaker 1: And shooting a lefty hook is a big man's game,

1025
00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:32,480
Speaker 1: But shooting from twenty two feet on the run, that's

1026
00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 1: freaking far. So that's tough. Hey, Kyrie wevering taking all

1027
00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:39,400
Speaker 1: the spotlight from Brandon Pajemski because he was shooting lefty

1028
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:41,640
Speaker 1: hooks this season as a as a little guard. He's

1029
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:44,239
Speaker 1: left handed, so you know it's his strong hand. But

1030
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 1: is he not or am I mistaken?

1031
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:47,880
Speaker 4: He is left hand?

1032
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:48,160
Speaker 1: Yeah?

1033
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:50,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's probably why it doesn't get brought up.

1034
00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:52,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, he's a guard who shoots him.

1035
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:55,400
Speaker 3: Nobody's just a hook shot, you're saying from a guard?

1036
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:58,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, sure shoot. But yeah, we'll see Trey Murphy

1037
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:00,439
Speaker 1: does because he will be run on off the three

1038
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:03,920
Speaker 1: point line because you know, maybe he'll be Deuce Murphy.

1039
00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 1: Uh but left to dude, left is tough from that

1040
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:14,759
Speaker 1: side of the floor. Did Kyrie call that? Give me

1041
00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:15,920
Speaker 1: in on that side of the floor? I want to

1042
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:19,959
Speaker 1: lefty hook? Yeah, because he couldn't righty hook.

1043
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:22,719
Speaker 4: I know he did say. He did say I knew

1044
00:47:22,719 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 4: my left was open, so I went with it.

1045
00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:25,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1046
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:27,919
Speaker 3: I mean that guy doesn't decide what hand he's gonna

1047
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 3: shoot it with till he's in the air. We've seen

1048
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:31,239
Speaker 3: him a million times, like jump over with his right

1049
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:34,439
Speaker 3: and like, oh okay, I'll just go left or the opposite.

1050
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 1: Like oh, I couldn't shoot the right one in that situation.

1051
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:39,600
Speaker 3: What I'm saying he decides one season the air and

1052
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:41,279
Speaker 3: where the defense is. He's like, ohkay, I guess I'll

1053
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:44,120
Speaker 3: go with this one. It's amazing like them. How what's

1054
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 3: the word I'm.

1055
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:45,760
Speaker 4: Trying to say, ambidex stress.

1056
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:50,680
Speaker 3: That's a tough word for me to say, ambidextrous. Thank you, Hornets, Magic, Tonight, Rockets, Wizards,

1057
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:55,359
Speaker 3: Pelican's Nets, MAVs, Spurs, thank god we got Nuggets, Timberwolves.

1058
00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:57,879
Speaker 3: A big one nine o'clock. I believe it's on NBA TV.

1059
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:01,160
Speaker 3: They're tied uh in the that the number two spot.

1060
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:03,680
Speaker 3: Minnesota leads a head to head right now, taking the

1061
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:05,360
Speaker 3: first one, but we'll have two more after this. So

1062
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 3: there's a big game, big big game Nugs Wolves, nine o'clock.

1063
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:12,480
Speaker 3: We'll be talking about it tomorrow. Here from the Classic Factory, Esh,

1064
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 3: great job over the last you know, basically, well, I

1065
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:18,120
Speaker 3: guess we've been here for a week. Yeah right, yeah,

1066
00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:20,839
Speaker 3: I think JD's supposed to get back today, so who

1067
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:22,840
Speaker 3: is with him? I could see him like purposely missing

1068
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:25,719
Speaker 3: his flight, chilling the beach a little bit longer, but

1069
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:26,399
Speaker 3: great work.

1070
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:27,560
Speaker 1: Appreciate you guys.

1071
00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:28,560
Speaker 4: It's good to be back in.

1072
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:28,880
Speaker 1: Here, you know.

1073
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:30,520
Speaker 3: And I know we're going to see you for some

1074
00:48:30,640 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 3: nobuffs in the future. Hope the plan hopefully all right? Great,

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Speaker 3: So hit the light button for ESH, subscribe for ESH,

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Speaker 3: tell your friends about the show for ESH, and we

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Speaker 3: will see you tomorrow. Until that Clipper Brooks you.

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Speaker 4: Heard it here first, have a great time, turn up.

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Speaker 4: Love you guys, awesome.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining. And remember I have to mention this

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Speaker 1: article on the Athletic that tells us about basketball betting

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Speaker 1: and how it's coming now. As a league past viewer,

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Speaker 1: there's an opt in function. You can choose the odds

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Speaker 1: if you want bet point spreads, money lines and over unders.

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Speaker 1: It's coming so hard, so fast if you want to bet,

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Speaker 1: embrace the day people, mm hm

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Speaker 5: M hm