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Speaker 1: Do you know who I am? I'm a working man.

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Speaker 1: I'm a postman, I'm a delivery boy. I'm a transportation expert.

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Speaker 1: I'm just a construction worker. Do I have any Special

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Speaker 1: Forces experience? Of course I do.

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Speaker 2: Uihully Ully Westin job? You got a job, westag job?

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Speaker 1: What did I use to take down those nine men?

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Speaker 2: Just to suck?

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Speaker 3: Who am I?

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Speaker 2: You tell me?

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Speaker 1: Do you not know who I am? I don't think

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Speaker 1: he knows who I am. Seems like you don't know

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Speaker 1: who I am. Everybody knows who I am except you?

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Speaker 2: Who are you? Who are you? Who are you?

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Speaker 4: Good morning, sweet Wirl, and welcome to the Nodongks podcast

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Speaker 4: on the Athletic Network. It's Monday, January thirteenth, twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 4: I'm Jay Skeetz back in the Classic Factory in alongside me.

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Speaker 4: If you're cold, he's cold, bring him inside. It's tass Milly, Oh,

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Speaker 4: come on, I had it easy out there. Podcast listeners.

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Speaker 3: This for you.

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Speaker 4: Next to him, it's the beer Well. I'm a top

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Speaker 4: shot boy. Trey Kirby, Hey and over Yonder making the

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Speaker 4: magic happen. Super producer JD Hella. There he is here,

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Speaker 4: we are We should say JD. Last week TASS Pick

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Speaker 4: and Payoff outside all Week looked amazing and sounded amazing.

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Speaker 4: A lot of people were like listening to the podcast

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Speaker 4: and coming over to YouTube to make sure you were

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Speaker 4: even outside.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because.

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Speaker 4: It somehow sounded better, I think.

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Speaker 5: So, yeah, well we need more sound baffling in here,

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Speaker 5: or just do the show outside because you know the

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Speaker 5: snow it adds a dampening effect.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the grass in the tree.

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Speaker 4: We did have big plans for the Friday episode where

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Speaker 4: we're going to be here TASS all week was just

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Speaker 4: outside the Classic Factory. We were going to open the

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Speaker 4: garage door. That would have been the funny reveal, but

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Speaker 4: then we got blasted with the snow and kept everybody

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Speaker 2: But it ended up working out.

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Speaker 4: You were in your backyard and you had you had

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Speaker 4: Danny going through the background.

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Speaker 2: We saw and then you did a little tobogganing.

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Speaker 3: At the end. Yeah wow. Air quotes. I tried. I tried,

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Speaker 3: and it started raining midway through our show, so the

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Speaker 3: snow was already wet, so I just couldn't slide on it. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: but I will say that my my mic sock that

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you couldn't really tell like you were getting rained

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Speaker 4: on led but great stuff and kudos to you JD

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Speaker 4: for the production elements on that. Also want to say

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Speaker 4: thank you to the Skyhawks for having no dunks out

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Speaker 4: yesterday in College Park to call the Cruise Skyhawks G

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Speaker 4: League games. Thanks to everybody that checked it out as well.

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Speaker 4: I know Nora checked it out online on YouTube. She

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Speaker 4: said it's full of the stream teamers, the normal dough

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Speaker 4: dunk sickos. So that was cool to see. So thanks

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Speaker 4: to everybody. Here's a photo my buddy Grish, your buddy Grish,

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Speaker 4: our buddy Grish took of us doing our our quick

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Speaker 4: intro all in because it was blue day.

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Speaker 2: GK.

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Speaker 6: Wow that Grisham took this picture. Yeah, he's never taken

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Speaker 6: a better picture in his life. Well, his first good

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Speaker 3: Well that's the best photo of us from yesterday. You know,

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Speaker 6: For sure. Harrison, part of the Motor City Cruise Operation,

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Speaker 6: came up and said Hi, very cool to meet him.

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Speaker 6: And I know there were some fans in the stands

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Speaker 2: For coming out. Fun time. Unfortunately a loss. First, we

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Speaker 4: The Skyhawks were on a four game home win streak

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Speaker 4: and then here comes no dunks to ruin it.

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Speaker 2: But it was an entertaining game, back and forth.

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Speaker 4: And we are scheduled to do another Skyhawks game on

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Speaker 2: But thanks again the Skyhawks. Look, every time we do this,

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Speaker 2: But kudos to the pros for doing it all right.

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Speaker 3: It's tough to officiate. It's tough to do anything out there.

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Speaker 3: It's just there are a lot of hard jobs there.

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Speaker 2: Saw Trey Kirby grab a couple of minutes.

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Speaker 6: I had two mints and I had one apple, Jolly

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Speaker 6: I was so happy to see that trade of snacks

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Speaker 3: Goes away like dis right doesn't distegrate.

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Speaker 2: Do a couple of rounds. Winters. You gotta start. He's

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Speaker 6: I believe thirty four games for the Orlando Magic, played

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Speaker 2: He hit five.

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Speaker 6: Threes, three mid range jumpers, just two layups in this one.

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Speaker 6: Polo is usually a driver type. He is getting to

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Speaker 6: But Polo was good again, I thought Sunday against Philadelphia.

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Speaker 6: by Trevel and Queen. Paul's only played seven games this year,

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Speaker 6: but the Magic are awesome. They are They've got sixteen

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Speaker 6: literally for an All Star push for Paula Boncaro in

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Speaker 6: the Eastern Conference? You're looking talent wise. He was one

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Speaker 6: the Magic deserve an All Star. Yeah, the coaches be like,

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Speaker 6: Paula Boncaro, you're an All Star. You missed half the

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Speaker 3: Yeah. That is the weird thing because Franz Wagner can't

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Speaker 3: I think that boosts the four Calves push a little

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Speaker 3: And as you said, Paula bunkerre hits a window winner

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Speaker 3: was making beautiful backcuts that Jonathan Isaac was feeding him before.

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Speaker 3: This was the best game I think of Jonathan Isaac's career.

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Speaker 3: He had thirteen fourth quarter points twenty and eleven, eight

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Speaker 3: And there was a really weird, crazy coaches challenge call

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Speaker 3: was a really weird one of the Magic broadcasters were saying,

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Speaker 3: what game are these refs watching? Are they watching a

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Speaker 3: different game? They needed some G League referees in there.

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Speaker 3: It was an odd call. But all that to say,

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Speaker 3: eight Magic players come out and win this basketball game

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Speaker 3: because they just do it every single night. Against the

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Speaker 3: the seventy six ers. We'll get into them. Yeah, because

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, to speak to your could Pallo Bankroll make

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Speaker 4: to fan return, so there was you know, there was

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Speaker 4: it was a huge drop off. I should make this

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Speaker 4: very clear. It's Giannis. He had like over two million votes.

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Speaker 4: It was Tatum and Karl Anthony Towns with a lot

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Speaker 2: Vote drop off to fourth.

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Speaker 4: But that was Polllo there just at that point had

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Speaker 4: only played five games. So you're right, if he plays

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Speaker 4: some more here and will they get a representative, it

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Speaker 4: it's going to be crazy if like Paolo makes it

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Speaker 2: Stuff like that. I feel like that could be a

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Speaker 2: Games when they're shorthanded. All right, let's keep it going. Task.

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Speaker 3: But the Pacers have been good over the last fifteen games.

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Speaker 3: that's going to Paris, where no dunk should be representing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, San Antonio Indiana are those two games. So they

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and they were missing what Andrew Nemhard there for

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Speaker 4: We saw him in the postseason justly, just like gives

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Speaker 4: They snap obviously the Cavs winning streak, like you said,

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Speaker 6: he's a cutter and it's working. That's why it might

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Speaker 3: win a championship he left, They just didn't have it like.

433
00:18:57,200 --> 00:18:59,399
Speaker 4: That because Jokic is not like that that's not in

434
00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:02,919
Speaker 4: his DNA, not Murray, not Porter, not Aaron Gordon.

435
00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:05,359
Speaker 2: So yeah, we're Russ is very different.

436
00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:08,119
Speaker 3: But it is odd here seeing it in December and

437
00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:10,159
Speaker 3: January because we watched the first month where he was

438
00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:12,600
Speaker 3: coming off the bench and it wasn't pretty. But you

439
00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:15,399
Speaker 3: know who it works for, the relentless guy, and that

440
00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:17,960
Speaker 3: who is exactly what Russell Westbrook was. It didn't matter

441
00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:19,800
Speaker 3: that he stunk coming off the bench. He got put

442
00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:21,920
Speaker 3: into the starting lineup and he continues to move. So yes,

443
00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:24,600
Speaker 3: when Jokic gets the ball on offense, that guy just

444
00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:27,520
Speaker 3: does not stop moving. And so when the focus has

445
00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:29,120
Speaker 3: to be on Nikoliokich has to be on the best

446
00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:30,680
Speaker 3: player in the world and people are looking at him,

447
00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:32,439
Speaker 3: you can back up. You can back out over and

448
00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:34,879
Speaker 3: over and over again. And Westbrook will do that and

449
00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:37,280
Speaker 3: it has helped big time. He also just pushes the balls,

450
00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:39,720
Speaker 3: being of the rundleousness. They lead the league in fast

451
00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:43,359
Speaker 3: break points. That's shocking to me. They were middle of

452
00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:45,240
Speaker 3: the pack last year. They were better the year before

453
00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:49,080
Speaker 3: when Bruce was around, but now leading the pack is

454
00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:53,119
Speaker 3: surprising because of just how old they are getting. It

455
00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:57,280
Speaker 3: is interesting you bring up Jamal Murray Tray because he

456
00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:00,600
Speaker 3: is he is more prominent in this team right now.

457
00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:02,960
Speaker 3: The way they play, because it used to be when

458
00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:04,840
Speaker 3: they won the championship, it's just a one two combo.

459
00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:07,639
Speaker 3: Let's pick a roll to death. But Jamal's hasn't been

460
00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:10,800
Speaker 3: the same guy. So the way they work is definitely different.

461
00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:14,040
Speaker 3: And yeah, the Aaron Gordon insertion now will be different.

462
00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:17,320
Speaker 3: Michael Porter Junior looks really good. Yeah, it's changing. The

463
00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:18,359
Speaker 3: Denver Nuggets are changing.

464
00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:20,439
Speaker 4: And so do you think Malone will go back to

465
00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:22,360
Speaker 4: Aaron Gordon in the starting lineup or do you sort

466
00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:24,280
Speaker 4: of just got to run with this and continue with

467
00:20:24,359 --> 00:20:27,280
Speaker 4: the success of Westbrook starting until you maybe hit a

468
00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:30,000
Speaker 4: rough patch, Like the decision is to be made here,

469
00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:32,080
Speaker 4: and I don't know what the right answer is. I

470
00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:33,280
Speaker 4: think Aaron Gordon will start.

471
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Speaker 6: Yeah, they need his defense on the wing, and he's

472
00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:39,080
Speaker 6: established there. They gave him a big contract. He's like

473
00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:41,720
Speaker 6: just as good with Jokich as Westbrook. As we've talked

474
00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:45,240
Speaker 6: about Jokic revitalizing Aaron Gordon's career, and honestly, it's better

475
00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:47,760
Speaker 6: for the playoffs because Westbrook. The question is still going

476
00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:48,919
Speaker 6: to be in the playoffs. You got to be able

477
00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:50,720
Speaker 6: to make shots in the playoffs. He was good for

478
00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:52,760
Speaker 6: the Clippers during the regular season last year as well,

479
00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:55,480
Speaker 6: and then helped shoot them out of games come playoff time.

480
00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:58,760
Speaker 6: So I think the best version of the Nuggets probably

481
00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:02,240
Speaker 6: has Westbrook in a heavily featured role as their six man.

482
00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:03,359
Speaker 2: Nuggets are now.

483
00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:05,840
Speaker 4: Twenty three and fifteen, eight games over five hundred, first

484
00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:08,240
Speaker 4: time this season they've got that far above five hundred,

485
00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:09,760
Speaker 4: and they're right back in the mix when you look

486
00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:13,240
Speaker 4: at the standings with the Rockets and the Grizzlies, when

487
00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:15,840
Speaker 4: you're looking at teams basically two through four, which is

488
00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:19,720
Speaker 4: pretty amazing after that very disappointing start where we were like,

489
00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:20,720
Speaker 4: oh no, what are they going to do?

490
00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:21,880
Speaker 2: And they might still make some moves.

491
00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:23,919
Speaker 4: Of course, you know, ken they get a taker from

492
00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:25,400
Speaker 4: Michael Porter Junior in that contract.

493
00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:26,320
Speaker 2: Remains to be seen.

494
00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:28,439
Speaker 4: Maybe that easily opened up a spot for Gordon and

495
00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:30,879
Speaker 4: Westbrook to be in the starting lineup if something like

496
00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:32,800
Speaker 4: that were to happen, but who knows. I just love

497
00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:35,880
Speaker 4: this line from Brad backin about Westbrook. For a guy

498
00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:38,280
Speaker 4: who racked up such historic stats over the course of

499
00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:41,359
Speaker 4: his career, It's interesting that Westbrook's always felt more like

500
00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:45,240
Speaker 4: someone who impacts the game in ways less quantifiable. He's

501
00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:47,920
Speaker 4: an energy guy who for a long time just also

502
00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:50,040
Speaker 4: happened to be a superstar. So now that he's not

503
00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:53,159
Speaker 4: a superstar, he remains a nightly jolt of adrenaline for Denver.

504
00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:55,320
Speaker 4: That's what they wanted, that's what they were hoping for,

505
00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:58,399
Speaker 4: and that's what they're getting right now. And the two guys, man,

506
00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:01,680
Speaker 4: it's Westbrook and Yokich, I guess. Entering play on Friday,

507
00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:04,840
Speaker 4: Westbrook had delivered eighty four assists to Jokic on the season,

508
00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:07,680
Speaker 4: which was the third highest total for any two man

509
00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:11,760
Speaker 4: combo in the league, trailed only Chris Paul to Victor

510
00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:14,800
Speaker 4: Webbin Yama also known as Hector Banana Bread, and then

511
00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:16,800
Speaker 4: Trey Young to Jael and Johnson were the two guys.

512
00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:18,840
Speaker 4: So yeah, right there, Westbrook.

513
00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:20,159
Speaker 2: To Yokich and then there's obviously a lot of Yolkic

514
00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:21,960
Speaker 2: to wetch. Yeah. How high is Yokich to Westbrook on

515
00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:23,800
Speaker 2: the back? Probably top ten? Ye yah exactly.

516
00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:26,240
Speaker 3: Brett Usher on Twitter put together a good video of

517
00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:29,320
Speaker 3: the Jokic to Westbrook passes throughout the season.

518
00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:32,000
Speaker 2: They're pretty you move, he's gonna find in you. All right,

519
00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:33,560
Speaker 2: let's do another round of winners.

520
00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:33,959
Speaker 3: What do you got?

521
00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:36,440
Speaker 6: T K I got the Memphis Grizzlies they out topped

522
00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:40,760
Speaker 6: the Minnesota Timberwolves on Saturday night. Twenty one offensive rebounds

523
00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:43,880
Speaker 6: for the Grizzlies in this one, throwback to their playoff

524
00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:46,480
Speaker 6: series a couple of years ago that ended up with

525
00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:48,879
Speaker 6: the Turimberwolves making a trade for Rudy Gobert because they

526
00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:51,960
Speaker 6: couldn't rebound against this Memphis Grizzlies team, turned into twenty

527
00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:56,120
Speaker 6: five second chance points. The Grizzlies also forced nineteen turnovers

528
00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:59,440
Speaker 6: off the Minnesota Timberwolves that turned into twenty seven points.

529
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Speaker 6: So Memphis in this game took one hundred and eight shots.

530
00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:05,280
Speaker 6: That's a crazy number to see anytime you're in triple digits.

531
00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:06,120
Speaker 2: That's good.

532
00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:09,359
Speaker 6: John Morant was sick in this game, in the clutch,

533
00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:11,600
Speaker 6: at least with a four point game. Jah checks back

534
00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,120
Speaker 6: in two minutes and forty five seconds left. Right away,

535
00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:17,240
Speaker 6: gets an oop to Brandon Clark. Very interesting alleyup. He

536
00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:21,040
Speaker 6: threw it twenty feet in the air, four an Alleu layup.

537
00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:22,920
Speaker 6: It looked really weird, but a great pass. Then he

538
00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:25,240
Speaker 6: has a tough layup to tie the game. Then that

539
00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:28,200
Speaker 6: crazy baseline shot over Anthony Edwards, and I should mention

540
00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:32,000
Speaker 6: all of these buckets and assist were with Aunt guarding him.

541
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:35,560
Speaker 6: He was just getting by him, no problem. Anthony Edwards

542
00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:38,480
Speaker 6: did not look locked in defensively at all for the Timberwolves.

543
00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:40,879
Speaker 6: I thought in this one. Jared Jackson Junior was so

544
00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:43,320
Speaker 6: good in this game. Thirty three points, eight rebounds. He

545
00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:45,439
Speaker 6: had nine of his points in the fourth quarter. He's

546
00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,399
Speaker 6: averaging twenty six a game right now, six boards, just

547
00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:51,640
Speaker 6: like a guard would to assist a steal and a half,

548
00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:54,040
Speaker 6: a block and a half. But the most impressive thing

549
00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:56,560
Speaker 6: is that he's getting a lot of these buckets by himself.

550
00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:59,520
Speaker 6: It's his lowest percentage of made field goals in his career.

551
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:02,560
Speaker 6: The gap yard did him some good, like he used

552
00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:05,119
Speaker 6: did not have a go to offensive game, much like

553
00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:07,880
Speaker 6: bam Outebaiyo, where you're like, he can do a lot

554
00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:10,239
Speaker 6: of stuff, but what's he really good at. He's good

555
00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:11,920
Speaker 6: at putting the ball on the floor and getting inside.

556
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:14,560
Speaker 6: Right now, he's gotten stronger, the handle is tighter and

557
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 6: he's able to finish inside. Very impressive. And the last

558
00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 6: thing I got for the Grizzlies, Jalen Wells. He's the

559
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:22,639
Speaker 6: rookie of the year. I've given a fake Rookie of

560
00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:23,960
Speaker 6: the Year to a lot of guys when they have

561
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:26,160
Speaker 6: one good game. But this guy has had a really

562
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:29,400
Speaker 6: solid half season. We're halfway through the season at this point.

563
00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:32,760
Speaker 6: He helped hold Anthony Edwards to fifteen points in this

564
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:35,720
Speaker 6: one on four of thirteen field goal shooting. He always

565
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,679
Speaker 6: takes on the toughest assignment and he always wants to

566
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:41,880
Speaker 6: lay his head right on the offensive player's chest.

567
00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:42,959
Speaker 2: I'm gonna call him the cuddler.

568
00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:46,640
Speaker 6: Oh wow, It's an amazing thing. Steph Curry was talking

569
00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:48,879
Speaker 6: about it after the Grizzlies played the Warriors. He's like,

570
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,400
Speaker 6: I've never had somebody do that to me, just put

571
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,600
Speaker 6: his face on me, like he wants to eat me.

572
00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:57,879
Speaker 6: Weird stuff. But he's thirty minutes among rookies. He's first

573
00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:00,560
Speaker 6: in scoring. He's shooting thirty seven percent from three.

574
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:02,040
Speaker 2: It's on a good team.

575
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,879
Speaker 6: He's on a good team. He's been starting the entire season.

576
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:07,560
Speaker 6: It's a Malcolm Brogdon Rookie of the Year where you're like,

577
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:10,600
Speaker 6: maybe not star potential for this guy, but you see

578
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:12,520
Speaker 6: exactly how he's going to be a good role player

579
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,080
Speaker 6: going forward. So a nice win for the Grizzlies and

580
00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:17,480
Speaker 6: just some absolute bonehead stuff from the Timberwolves.

581
00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:18,720
Speaker 2: I thought down the stretch in this one.

582
00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:21,200
Speaker 4: And this was also the game where Anthony Edwards got

583
00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:26,120
Speaker 4: a text for flexing on the bitch after a Roodie score, which.

584
00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:26,960
Speaker 2: Was very weird.

585
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,600
Speaker 3: And it's just the normal flex. Yeah, I thought, it's

586
00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:31,280
Speaker 3: just like it didn't even look like much of a

587
00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:36,679
Speaker 3: flex because it was a double hand chest, big traps flex.

588
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 3: It wasn't anything even what did call that one time.

589
00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:43,760
Speaker 2: The crazy kangaroo flex Australia.

590
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:46,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, what a weird one. That was weird. Jalen

591
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,720
Speaker 3: Wills is awesome the way he was face guarding Anthony

592
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:53,480
Speaker 3: Edwards literally just putting his face towards his chest. I

593
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 3: didn't realize it really was on his chest. But a

594
00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:57,720
Speaker 3: cuddler is a good one. I mean it is face

595
00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:00,879
Speaker 3: guarding in a new way because other teams have tried it,

596
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:03,200
Speaker 3: you know the twenty nineteen finals, Fred van Vliet was

597
00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:05,920
Speaker 3: kind of doing that to staff as they tried anyway

598
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:08,119
Speaker 3: to just face guard. And that's what gentlen Wells is

599
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:11,119
Speaker 3: doing this game was awesome. That's why parody in the

600
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:13,760
Speaker 3: NBA is great. Who cares what people say, This is

601
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:14,160
Speaker 3: just fun.

602
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:14,800
Speaker 2: It was.

603
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:18,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely like what happened in the playoffs two years

604
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 3: ago between these two teams. But really it came down

605
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:24,720
Speaker 3: to offensive rebounds. As you said, that was a lot

606
00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,639
Speaker 3: more shots for one team than the other team. The

607
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 3: Memphis Grizzlies took twenty five more shots than the Minnesota Timberleves.

608
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:33,000
Speaker 3: That's a freaking lot, you know, one O eight to

609
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:36,760
Speaker 3: eighty three. And Dante de Vincenzo said, it's really that simple.

610
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 3: Take care of the ball and rebound the ball, and

611
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 3: we win this game by double digits. Wasn't He didn't

612
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,119
Speaker 3: even just say we win, he said by double digits

613
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:47,359
Speaker 3: because they played awesome offensively. They were so good. They

614
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:50,119
Speaker 3: had one hundred and three points on Memphis through three quarters.

615
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 3: And that guy de Vincenzo, they were undefeated with him

616
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 3: in the starting lineup until this game, and he came

617
00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:57,680
Speaker 3: in and he was so good. Twenty seven points, ten boards,

618
00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:00,680
Speaker 3: seven assist, six threes. He dropped Scottie Pip Junior once

619
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 3: he grabbed a huge offensive rebound to give them another

620
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:05,960
Speaker 3: opportunity to tie the game at the fourth quarter. This

621
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 3: looked or that fourth quarter try there, I should say,

622
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 3: with Anthony Edwards at the end, this looked like Dante

623
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,840
Speaker 3: DiVincenzo with the Knicks. And then Nazrita five threes off

624
00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 3: the bench, Jane McDaniels nine to twelve, three threes, twenty

625
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:20,760
Speaker 3: one points. They looked good. They shot fifty seven percent

626
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,040
Speaker 3: from the floor, and then they lose.

627
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:26,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, So the Grizzlies now take on the Rockets again.

628
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:28,639
Speaker 4: They just played not long ago. They played ten night

629
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,639
Speaker 4: on NBATV exactly. That one's on at eight pm Eastern tonight.

630
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:32,880
Speaker 4: That one's in Houston.

631
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:34,960
Speaker 2: Your final winner of the weekend tests.

632
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,200
Speaker 3: I'm going with something simple, but I just loved watching

633
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 3: the Oklahoma City passing strictly the passing this weekend. It

634
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,200
Speaker 3: looked great versus the next They destroyed them on Friday.

635
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:48,560
Speaker 3: Fun part for me was Isaiah Hartenstein back door passes

636
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 3: t Isaiah Joe over and over and over again. He

637
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:55,600
Speaker 3: had six assists that you could see why OKAC brought

638
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,239
Speaker 3: him in to stretch out the floor to give them

639
00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:00,680
Speaker 3: lots more space and why they gave him a big

640
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 3: contract to get him away from those New York Knicks,

641
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 3: and he was pulling out the binoculars after his big passes.

642
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:11,120
Speaker 3: Beautiful celebration, but really just watching that and watching Shay

643
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:15,200
Speaker 3: operate in the space to score more points than he

644
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 3: usually does. He dropped the thirty nine. Usually he's always

645
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:20,720
Speaker 3: the thirty one guy, but he dropped thirty nine on

646
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:23,000
Speaker 3: twenty one shots. It was hard not to see Kobe

647
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:25,920
Speaker 3: Bryant the way Shay was moving around that floor in

648
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:29,359
Speaker 3: the mid range, and I just see Isaiah Hartenstein stretching

649
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,920
Speaker 3: the floor letting Shay work. And you start to think

650
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,120
Speaker 3: about Chet Holmgren coming back and the four or five

651
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 3: working together heart and sign and Chet as Chet is

652
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 3: ramping up his return, he should be coming back soon.

653
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:40,960
Speaker 3: There's gonna be lots of room. And so to watch

654
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:44,480
Speaker 3: those passes was awesome. Against the Wizards, they had nine

655
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 3: rotation players with an assist in their second game of

656
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 3: this weekend. And you know, the numbers aren't all that sexan,

657
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:52,920
Speaker 3: it's the freaking Wizards, but they scored a ton of

658
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 3: points and I can't wait to see their offense take

659
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 3: another step when Chet Holmgren comes back, because of course

660
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 3: their defense is good, but the Hertenshein, chet Ying and

661
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:06,479
Speaker 3: Yang along with the guys who will have more space,

662
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 3: is going to be really interesting. And you know, they're

663
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 3: close now to the Caves in the standings. I know

664
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 3: I'm looking way ahead, but they're only one game back

665
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:16,720
Speaker 3: of the cas in terms of record now because the

666
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 3: Caves lost this weekend, so they may have the best

667
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:20,720
Speaker 3: record not only in the West but in the entire NBA.

668
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,479
Speaker 3: So damn they look good and here comes chet here

669
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 3: comes their best team. It still hasn't really put together

670
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:28,640
Speaker 3: everything quite yet.

671
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a scary part. They're like maybe the best

672
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:33,560
Speaker 2: team in the league and they don't have chet Holmgrin, yeah,

673
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 2: which we've seen when he's there, it takes them to

674
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:37,360
Speaker 2: another level. So that's huge for them.

675
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,960
Speaker 4: An obvious winner of the weekend should be the Sacramento Kings.

676
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 4: It should be Sibonis went for twenty three and twenty

677
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:44,680
Speaker 4: eight Trey Kirby.

678
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 3: That's a lot of roast.

679
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:48,320
Speaker 4: You did that in a win against the Celtics, and

680
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:50,800
Speaker 4: then he followed it up with twenty two, fifteen and

681
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 4: eight against Trey Kirby. Chicago Bulls Darren Fox back after

682
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 4: missing three games with a bruised right gluted bruise.

683
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 2: But the Kings approved move.

684
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 4: To seven and one under interim head coach Doug Christy.

685
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 4: Seventh straight now that's their first one. But the problem is,

686
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:08,520
Speaker 4: you can't give the Kings a winner of the weekend.

687
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 4: You can't talk about the Sacramento Kings when they're rolling.

688
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 4: Fool me once, sham on, sham on me. You can't

689
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 4: get fooled again, quote George Bush. There, So I can't

690
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 4: give it to the Kings. You just can't do it.

691
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:23,080
Speaker 4: It's like it's like a picture who has a no

692
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 4: hitter going. Just don't look at him, don't talk about them.

693
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:28,000
Speaker 4: As soon as you do, you're gonna ruin it. And

694
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 4: I amproof. I've done it multiple times here on No

695
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 4: Dunks over the years. When the King's got it going,

696
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 4: I come.

697
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:35,320
Speaker 2: On here, I say, oh, this team's amazing.

698
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 4: Oh I'm Malik Monk's amazing, Oh this, this, this, this,

699
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 4: and then that blows up in your face. So I'm

700
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:41,560
Speaker 4: not giving them a winner of the weekend.

701
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:41,720
Speaker 2: No.

702
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:45,240
Speaker 4: Instead, I'm giving it to the crappy teams, to the

703
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:47,480
Speaker 4: capture of the flag lottery teams. That's the winner of

704
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:50,200
Speaker 4: the weekend. Because that number one pick just got even

705
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,400
Speaker 4: more enticing if you saw what Duke forward Cooper Flag

706
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 4: did over the weekend on Saturday, Forty two points career

707
00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 4: high to help his team get the win over Notre

708
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 4: Dame only set Duke's new single game freshmen scoring records,

709
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 4: surpassing Zion Williamson, who had thirty five for Syracuse against

710
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 4: Syracuse Excuse me in twenty nineteen, but Flag also set

711
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 4: the ACC single game freshman scoring record. This guy, these

712
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 4: highlights are awesome, made eleven of his fourteen shots, four

713
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 4: of his six threes, money at the free throw line

714
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 4: sixteen to seventeen for the big guy, added six boards

715
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 4: and seven assists. He's a two way force. He defends exceptionally.

716
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 2: Well I think for a very switchable power forward. He's

717
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 2: a number one pick.

718
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 4: I know there are other good talent in this obviously

719
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 4: mock drafts that you see, but he's going number one.

720
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 4: And so that's why the five NBA teams that still

721
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:45,480
Speaker 4: haven't surpassed ten wins are winners of the weekend because

722
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 4: they're gonna have a pretty good chance at getting Cooper Flagg.

723
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 4: The Wizards six and thirty one, the Raptors Pelicans and

724
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 4: Hornets all at eight wins, and then the Jazz got

725
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 4: their tenth win over the weekend. Those are your five

726
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 4: teams with over a ten percent chance of winning the

727
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 4: number one pick in June. But let's not count out

728
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 4: with the Brooklyn Nets.

729
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 2: Don't do that.

730
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 4: Because they lost the Utah last night. They're thirteen and

731
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 4: twenty six. They've already traded some guys, they might trade

732
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 4: some more. They've lost five straight. They're leaning hard into

733
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 4: the tank, and I.

734
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 2: Think they could give themselves a chance to you know,

735
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 2: maybe jump.

736
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 4: Let's say the Jazz or the Hornets, maybe the Raptors.

737
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 4: Probably not the Raptors, but they could be in the

738
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 4: mix there for a good chance. But man, he looked awesome,

739
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 4: and these teams are gonna have the best chance. So

740
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:34,239
Speaker 4: one of these teams will likely get the number one

741
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 4: pick when you add it all up the odds.

742
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 2: But you never know. You get those slim chances when

743
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 2: you're lower in the standings. So good game from him. Man,

744
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 2: That's like I don't like we say it a million times.

745
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:46,960
Speaker 2: We're not draft experts. You obviously got to follow the

746
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 2: star elite players though that are going to be one

747
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 2: two or three, and this guy, Holy crap, this was

748
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 2: his best game. I'd see, Yeah, he's good. I don't

749
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:55,040
Speaker 2: know if not are games any good?

750
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:55,800
Speaker 3: They're not.

751
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 6: My guess is no, unless they got pat commenton back.

752
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 6: But two points. The guy gets compared to Kawhi Leonard

753
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 6: a lot, which I think is kind of odd. It's

754
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 6: because he's a sterling defensive prospect, like he's the best

755
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:08,960
Speaker 6: defender in the draft, which you don't even see in

756
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:11,200
Speaker 6: these highlight packages, but you watch it like, oh, I

757
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 6: see where the comparisons come from. The way he's getting

758
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 6: into his mid rangers, the physicality he brings as a

759
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 6: big wing. I think I want him on the Hornets.

760
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 6: I think that's the team of those that I would

761
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 6: be most excited for.

762
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,480
Speaker 2: Interesting, well, I'll personally pick the Raptors. But yeah, no,

763
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:26,160
Speaker 2: we don't need him going north way.

764
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:28,680
Speaker 6: No way. Do people call him the main event now?

765
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 6: They call him the Maynor Cooper flag. The Maynor Cooper

766
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 6: had a guy right in for five Star Friday once

767
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 6: upon a time, Sam. When he starts getting hyped up,

768
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 6: you got to call him the.

769
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 2: Maynor Cooper flag. So I'm calling him the Maynor like

770
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 2: the main event, though, nobody's going with that. That is

771
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 2: what they call him. Okay, good, good good.

772
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 4: Anyway, he looks awesome, so these teams are gonna have

773
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 4: a good crack at him. So we'll give that to

774
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 4: the final winner of the weekend.

775
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:52,720
Speaker 2: But it's, you know, sort of slightly the Kings. Okay,

776
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 2: let's go to losers, Trey.

777
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 6: Who you got, Zion Williamson, You loser, biggest loser of

778
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 6: the weekend for me. Suspended Friday for being late to

779
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 6: the team plane. That's exactly what it was. According to

780
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 6: ESPN sham Sharanya, Williamson was late for Thursday's team flight

781
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 6: to Philly ahead of their game Friday against the seventy

782
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:12,440
Speaker 6: six ers, so he didn't play. Willie Green added there

783
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 6: were several occasions.

784
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 2: That led to this.

785
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 6: That's how we got to this decision. It's just a

786
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:21,400
Speaker 6: complete lack of professionalism from Zion. Embarrassing for the franchise

787
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:23,399
Speaker 6: to get him back. He has the three sixty game,

788
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:26,440
Speaker 6: everybody's excited. We're like, that's the best moment the Pelicans

789
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:28,759
Speaker 6: are going to have this season. Didn't play the next game,

790
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,360
Speaker 6: suspended for the game after that. His return week, he

791
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:34,719
Speaker 6: played once ridiculous it's honestly ridiculous and you could just

792
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:37,759
Speaker 6: it just reeks of I don't care at all. And

793
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 6: that's the main criticism of Zion. You haven't been able

794
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 6: to be on the court because of your body. You

795
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 6: should be able to be on the court because you

796
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:45,399
Speaker 6: show up on time.

797
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 2: Yeah. Simple.

798
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:48,799
Speaker 4: And this is not like any sort of like one

799
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:51,240
Speaker 4: off thing where hey, I just got caught in traffic

800
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 4: and I missed the plane.

801
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:54,799
Speaker 2: Well all accounts. This is like on ongoing. You're late

802
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 2: for everything.

803
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:59,399
Speaker 4: You're always last year and that's starting to irritate people

804
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 4: when you're not playing. So yeahs Iion Williamson an obvious loser.

805
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:05,960
Speaker 3: Yeah. For Willie Green the head coach, to come out

806
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:07,880
Speaker 3: and say it wasn't just this one time, yeah, they

807
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 3: could easily just say you missed the flight, you're suspended,

808
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 3: but they were verbal about it, and that to me

809
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:14,960
Speaker 3: is a sign that they're not going to try and

810
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 3: trade him, that they're trying to make it work internally,

811
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:20,360
Speaker 3: because they wouldn't say this guy doesn't come to anything

812
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 3: if they wanted to train a good play you know,

813
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 3: that's not really helping his trade value. They're saying, we've

814
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:30,319
Speaker 3: got this great talent somehow miraculously, we're going to try

815
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:32,759
Speaker 3: and fix his body and we're going to get through

816
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:35,640
Speaker 3: to him mentally, because it was frustrating and to see

817
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:37,920
Speaker 3: him in that, you know, the second game. First of all,

818
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 3: they win without Zion on Friday, and then the second

819
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:44,240
Speaker 3: game he was just extremely frustrated with himself. It seemed

820
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:49,360
Speaker 3: like against Boston just wasn't happy. So a lot of

821
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 3: problems unfortunately with Zion was.

822
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 2: And then now Herb Jones is also out indefinitely for

823
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 2: the Pelicans. Season from hell for this team, and yeah,

824
00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:59,440
Speaker 2: this doesn't help. Where Zion comes back, Oh okay, it

825
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:01,879
Speaker 2: looks pretty goo and then can't show up on time,

826
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 2: and so they got to suspend them. They're like, what

827
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 2: do you want us to do?

828
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:06,960
Speaker 4: Man, Like, we can't let you keep getting away with

829
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,399
Speaker 4: this is a bad sort of culture we're setting here

830
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 4: if we let you keep just showing up whenever you

831
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 4: want and sort of going through the motions. So smart move,

832
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 4: I guess by them. But tough position they were in.

833
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:18,799
Speaker 4: All right, tass, what do you have for a newser.

834
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:21,719
Speaker 3: Well to extend it to the Philadelphia seventy six ers

835
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 3: who lost to those Pelicans, I think their prospect at

836
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 3: actually making the NBA playoffs is dead. And I mean,

837
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:31,719
Speaker 3: they can still make it if they make the play

838
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:34,920
Speaker 3: in tournament and get in. But when Joel Embiid came

839
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:40,600
Speaker 3: back and Paul George was healthy again, there seemed a

840
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 3: path to make it into the top six. It seemed legitimate,

841
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 3: especially in the Eastern Conference. But I think that's gone.

842
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:49,800
Speaker 3: I think with the way that other teams are playing

843
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:53,799
Speaker 3: in Indiana, there's too many there's too many teams now

844
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:56,279
Speaker 3: in the Eastern Conference that are playing well. They're not

845
00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:59,120
Speaker 3: that far back of six seed. There were five games back.

846
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:02,919
Speaker 3: But now Joe Embiid actually is legitimately injured and they're

847
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:04,759
Speaker 3: not just trying to rest in and ramp him up.

848
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:07,400
Speaker 3: He's got an ankle injury. It ain't anywhere close to

849
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 3: the knee, which is constantly injured, unfortunately. But you lose

850
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:14,799
Speaker 3: a game without himbi to the Orlando Magic, who are

851
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:18,239
Speaker 3: playing eight guys, because you aren't playing as hard. And

852
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 3: this is a time where Paul George is really having

853
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 3: good games here, his last couple of games, he's starting

854
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:25,080
Speaker 3: to feel it feel better. But I just don't think

855
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:29,880
Speaker 3: that they can make up that five game deficit. I

856
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:32,160
Speaker 3: just don't think they can do it. When you look

857
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:35,840
Speaker 3: at all the teams there, as I said, Orlando, Indiana,

858
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 3: Milwaukee are four, five six. Those teams, yeah, I mean

859
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 3: Milwaukee's not gonna Yeah, we'll talk about the Bucks and

860
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 3: how they're they're falling apart a little bit. But beyond that,

861
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 3: you know, there's there's a Miami team that is playing

862
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 3: better in a Detroit team and Atlanta team. Those are

863
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 3: the seven, eight nine. So then you can say, oh,

864
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 3: they could they could overcome those teams. Sure, maybe perhaps,

865
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 3: but you have to win basketball games. And they lost

866
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 3: to a zionist Pelicans team that allowed thirty eight to

867
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 3: see J mccollins, who was awesome in that game. They

868
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 3: just don't seem like they have it. And they lose

869
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:10,959
Speaker 3: to an Orlando team that literally is playing eight guys

870
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 3: eight guys.

871
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:15,000
Speaker 4: I would say, yeah, they could get to the top

872
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:17,760
Speaker 4: six seeds if you were to tell me Joelle Embiid

873
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:19,719
Speaker 4: will play every game from here on out. But you're

874
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 4: never going to tell me that, and I wouldn't believe

875
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:23,719
Speaker 4: you if you did. So that's the unfortunate part here,

876
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 4: and that's why I don't have a lot of confidence,

877
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:27,360
Speaker 4: but I was ready to write them off even weeks

878
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:27,840
Speaker 4: prior to you.

879
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm way too positive. I'm way too positive. So

880
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:33,120
Speaker 3: now I actually see the five games that they're behind

881
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 3: the Milwaukee Bucks, who aren't going to die. The Milwaukee

882
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:36,360
Speaker 3: Bucks are only twenty and seventeen.

883
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:38,839
Speaker 4: Now the Bucks just suck against really good teams. Yeah,

884
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:41,359
Speaker 4: they're okay against all the crapit teams. It's Philly losing

885
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 4: these games that they probably should win embeid or not.

886
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:46,479
Speaker 4: If we're being honest in the Pelicans case, you should

887
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:46,799
Speaker 4: still win.

888
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 2: That they haven't caught the Bulls. Yeah, the Bulls are terrible.

889
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:53,919
Speaker 2: Somehow they're near five hundred. But everybody who's a Chicago.

890
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:55,359
Speaker 6: Fan has thought, Okay, the Sixers are going to catch

891
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 6: us soon enough, and then the Bulls will finally start

892
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:00,400
Speaker 6: losing here. But Philly hasn't been able to play it off.

893
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:02,239
Speaker 6: I kind of disagree about Paul George. He had a

894
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:05,359
Speaker 6: nice second half against Orlando, but he filed out when

895
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 6: they needed him most. He said he was bored playing

896
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,359
Speaker 6: center on Friday, which I feel like his quotes getting

897
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:12,759
Speaker 6: taken out of context a little bit. He's basically saying,

898
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:14,360
Speaker 6: when I play on the wing. There's a lot I

899
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 6: gotta do. I got to chase people around it and

900
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:18,759
Speaker 6: fight through screens. He's saying, when I play big guy,

901
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 6: just stand around all the time. It just sounds bad.

902
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 6: It just sounded bad. But they really had poor execution

903
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 6: down the stretch against Orlando. They gave up three offensive

904
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:29,680
Speaker 6: rebounds in the last five minutes plus. There's that weird

905
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 6: play where like the ball just got jostled out it

906
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:34,120
Speaker 6: ends up with an easy Jonathan Isaac dunk. They had

907
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:36,839
Speaker 6: a five second called down five with ten seconds left,

908
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:39,920
Speaker 6: like a timeout was called, a play was brought in and.

909
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,160
Speaker 2: They couldn't even inbound it within five seconds.

910
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:44,399
Speaker 6: You might have thought that's a fast count, but still

911
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 6: get the ball in, grab a rebound. You gotta do

912
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 6: the little things to win games when you're a bad team,

913
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:51,920
Speaker 6: and the Sixers are a bad team right now. If

914
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 6: you come in with bad vibes, you can get them

915
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 6: back by beating the Sixers.

916
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it was.

917
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 4: Ziller in his newsletters this morning throughout the idea of

918
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 4: like are said all on the hot seat here with

919
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 4: this Philadelphia team, with the way they're playing, and like,

920
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:06,399
Speaker 4: I know some of it's not his fault of course,

921
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 4: and the Embeid factor and all that, but like, yeah,

922
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 4: they don't.

923
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 2: There's no cohesion here now. And I thought it was

924
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 2: like I hadn't really thought about it. He hasn't been

925
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 2: there all that long. Interesting. Maybe I don't know.

926
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 3: Maybe his seat is hot because he is jumping off

927
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:20,759
Speaker 3: of it and yelling a lot.

928
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:23,040
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, over and over he's he's trying.

929
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 3: He is trying, and it's not really working there. Yeah,

930
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 3: there's some guys like Kelly you Bray who's really trying,

931
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:32,919
Speaker 3: Kershon Yabasel who's really trying. And I just said Paul

932
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 3: George is playing well because he's had a bad season,

933
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 3: and when he goes twenty eleven ten and five followed

934
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:42,759
Speaker 3: by a twenty five ten and six, that's good for

935
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:45,400
Speaker 3: Paul George this season. The numbers are not good overall.

936
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:47,759
Speaker 3: He ain't being that efficient, he ain't leading all that well.

937
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 3: It is odd to time it with Joel Embiid, the

938
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:56,000
Speaker 3: signing happens with Paul George. It's four years and they're

939
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 3: really pushing for him to kind of be like Joel Embiid.

940
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:00,840
Speaker 3: We don't know what's going on behind the scenes, but

941
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:02,880
Speaker 3: it sure seemed like, we'll sit you out games so

942
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:04,919
Speaker 3: you're ready for the postseason. So those guys, it seem

943
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:07,400
Speaker 3: like they're sort of in tandem in doing that, and

944
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:10,120
Speaker 3: unfortunately they need Paul George to lead when Joel Embi's

945
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 3: not doing that. I was not playing, but that ain't happening.

946
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:16,440
Speaker 3: So it is odd. You think about that four year contract.

947
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:21,240
Speaker 3: It's obviously looking bleak and how long it was period?

948
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:24,839
Speaker 3: Do they redo it? You know, in a perfect world,

949
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:26,799
Speaker 3: does Darryl Morey say, oh, no, that's long.

950
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 6: I should have given it to James. Actually he plays,

951
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:34,239
Speaker 6: his team makes the playoffs.

952
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 3: But I'll say they'll say the top six and the

953
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 3: way I should have said him Cavs, Celtics, Knicks, Magic, Pacers, Bucks.

954
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 3: They're not better than one of those teams. They're not passing,

955
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:46,840
Speaker 3: they're not overcoming that five game deficit with any of those, and.

956
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 4: Then a bunch of other teams like still in the

957
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:52,319
Speaker 4: way teams. If Paul George is bored playing the five,

958
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:54,799
Speaker 4: we should show him tape from that Cruise Skyhawks game

959
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,840
Speaker 4: we had yesterday. You know, the post play we watched

960
00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:02,239
Speaker 4: totally Smith begging against Dominic Barlow. What Paul would play

961
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 4: in the G League Center. They used the big guys

962
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:05,440
Speaker 4: at least in that game.

963
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:09,879
Speaker 2: Tolu versus Dominic. Tune in, Paul, you nailed at the test.

964
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 6: They have no leadership. If their leadership is Joel Embiid.

965
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:14,279
Speaker 6: The leadership message you're getting is you don't have to

966
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:16,960
Speaker 6: play every game. Paul George is like, sweet, sign me up.

967
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:20,200
Speaker 6: I don't have to play every game. That's awesome. And

968
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 6: that's the whole team. Those are your top two guys

969
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:24,920
Speaker 6: and it's filtering all the way down through and look

970
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 6: at their season.

971
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:26,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a mess.

972
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 3: What's going on with podcast p though, is that is

973
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:29,760
Speaker 3: having a good season.

974
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:33,840
Speaker 2: I don't know what to see the numbers he's still uploading.

975
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:37,760
Speaker 6: I saw a screenshot from a YouTube video this weekend

976
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 6: that says, podcast pee podcasting is harder than basketball.

977
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 2: That's his title.

978
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:44,720
Speaker 3: That was his title.

979
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:48,320
Speaker 6: It was a photoshop, but you believed it, don't you?

980
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:53,840
Speaker 6: And that's the problem exactly like that sounds like a

981
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 6: Paul George's podcast blow.

982
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:58,600
Speaker 2: It was fake though. That's pretty good.

983
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 6: He just wants to run around screens. He just wants

984
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 6: to take every last shot. He wants to run around screens.

985
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 6: He wants to handle and pick and roll. He doesn't

986
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:06,920
Speaker 6: want to do the hard stuff.

987
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:09,200
Speaker 2: No, no, I can't blame him.

988
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:11,759
Speaker 4: I guess the hard stuff though. Come on, he's got

989
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:14,520
Speaker 4: to come up with content for a podcast every week.

990
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:17,720
Speaker 2: Got to book the guests. See, you get the conversation flows.

991
00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:20,440
Speaker 4: So you guys picked the Pelicans or by extension, Zion

992
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:23,799
Speaker 4: obviously Philadelphia. Maybe both of those teams their seasons maybe

993
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:26,479
Speaker 4: are over. This team that I'm picking for a Loser

994
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:28,320
Speaker 4: of the Weekend, it's not over because you already Saidy're

995
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:29,880
Speaker 4: probably still a top six team they are in the

996
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:32,360
Speaker 4: Eastern Conference. But Milwaukee Bucks get my loser of the

997
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:35,440
Speaker 4: weekend for this reason. Jealen Brunston scored forty four points

998
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 4: against them, despite missing a good chunk of the third

999
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:41,280
Speaker 4: quarter with an apparent leg injury, as the Knicks crushed

1000
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 4: Milwaukee won forty to one oh six on Sunday. Milwaukee

1001
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:48,080
Speaker 4: has now been blown out in both trips to New York,

1002
00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:51,080
Speaker 4: and in this one they allowed the highest point total

1003
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 4: of the season, one hundred and forty points. That's a

1004
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:54,880
Speaker 4: hell of a lot of points. The Bucks are now

1005
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:57,880
Speaker 4: zero to eight guys versus the top three teams in

1006
00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 4: the Eastern Conference, Cleveland and New York. You know, small

1007
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:05,760
Speaker 4: sample size. I get it, but that's not great because

1008
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:07,759
Speaker 4: you're going to be comparing yourself to those teams who

1009
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:10,279
Speaker 4: you could potentially be playing obviously in.

1010
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:11,200
Speaker 2: A postseason matchup.

1011
00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 4: And again, we've seen times before where you like, you

1012
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 4: go over against a team of the regular season and

1013
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:17,000
Speaker 4: you have your number in the postseason. I get that,

1014
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:19,719
Speaker 4: that's happened many times in NBA history, but still a

1015
00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:22,040
Speaker 4: little alarming. Yanna says, we got to get our stuff together.

1016
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:24,200
Speaker 4: It's as simple as that. So they know that they

1017
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:26,799
Speaker 4: haven't played well against the better teams in the East.

1018
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 4: But Lillard said, hey, this requires some context. Okay, he said, quote,

1019
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 4: you have to have watched the games, and he was

1020
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:36,239
Speaker 4: citing the Bucks two losses to the Calves by a

1021
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:38,600
Speaker 4: combined three points, so they're right there, they're right in it,

1022
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:41,480
Speaker 4: and two other defeats to the Celtics that were decided

1023
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:42,399
Speaker 4: pretty late.

1024
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:44,080
Speaker 2: But eight is owen eight.

1025
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:47,440
Speaker 4: Against the Calves, the Celtics, and the Knicks, and this

1026
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:50,399
Speaker 4: was pretty embarrassing getting beat by thirty four.

1027
00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:54,799
Speaker 3: I appreciate the context because Lillard is right about those

1028
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:57,680
Speaker 3: games against the Celtics. I remember those those were close

1029
00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:00,640
Speaker 3: games back when they stuck to start the season, when

1030
00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:02,640
Speaker 3: they're too intent to start the season, if I'm am correct.

1031
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:05,839
Speaker 3: Two of those losses, yeah, the Celtics back to back,

1032
00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:08,840
Speaker 3: which were good losses, and watching this weekend when they

1033
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:12,800
Speaker 3: beat the Magic, they just simply went to Dame Yannis

1034
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:14,239
Speaker 3: pick and roll at the end of games and it

1035
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:17,880
Speaker 3: worked those last few last three minutes. It was so simple.

1036
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 3: It was things that you know, you could ridicule Doc

1037
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 3: Rivers for you other three guys just go stand there,

1038
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 3: Dame Yannis pick and roll, and that chemistry was getting

1039
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:27,800
Speaker 3: better and they ended up winning the game. It was

1040
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:29,680
Speaker 3: super simple, and it is getting better.

1041
00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 4: But there are some bad losses, yes, And look the

1042
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:36,040
Speaker 4: most part, they did a great job to like rebound

1043
00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:38,319
Speaker 4: here after that slow start twenty and seventeen, Like they're

1044
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:40,200
Speaker 4: right back in the mix with Champs and stuff like that.

1045
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:40,839
Speaker 3: Champs.

1046
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:42,840
Speaker 2: Yes, they beat the Thunder, they're a good d end

1047
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:43,960
Speaker 2: of game that doesn't even count.

1048
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:46,400
Speaker 4: Yes, but five and five were the last ten And

1049
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:49,080
Speaker 4: just like it is somewhat alarming against the elite teams

1050
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:50,600
Speaker 4: in the East that they've yet to find a w.

1051
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:53,239
Speaker 2: Some of them close, some of them not. It's more

1052
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:56,440
Speaker 2: how they lost there on Sunday, which was they got destroyed.

1053
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:56,719
Speaker 3: And they lost.

1054
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 6: Should it come down to a tiebreaker, they lost the

1055
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:01,400
Speaker 6: tiebreaker against the They had a chance to kind of

1056
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:04,479
Speaker 6: put themselves in the pole position for getting a decent seed.

1057
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:07,040
Speaker 2: But the Bucks are just a middling team this season.

1058
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:09,600
Speaker 6: They are now ten and ten because I'm counting that

1059
00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:12,000
Speaker 6: game against the Thunder ten and ten against teams that

1060
00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:14,400
Speaker 6: are five hundred and above, and that seems about right.

1061
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:16,239
Speaker 6: It's like, if the Bucks have a hot shooting night,

1062
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 6: they'll probably win, but that it's a real dice roll

1063
00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 6: of a game because they're not always going to shoot

1064
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:26,200
Speaker 6: very well and the offense is just sticky sometime, like

1065
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:28,279
Speaker 6: you don't the only teams you see posted up this

1066
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 6: much are the MotorCity Cruise. There ain't no totally smith

1067
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 6: there for the Bucks. It's like so many post uffs

1068
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:37,000
Speaker 6: for you, honest, so many post ufs for Lopez, so

1069
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:38,360
Speaker 6: many post ups.

1070
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:40,319
Speaker 2: For Bobby Portos. It's twenty twenty five.

1071
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 6: I almost set twenty twenty four, but I remembered because

1072
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:44,920
Speaker 6: Doc rivers, that's not the game anymore.

1073
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:46,920
Speaker 2: Shoot more threes, play better.

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Speaker 3: So there you go.

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Speaker 4: Those are our losers of the weekend. Obviously, did the

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00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:52,640
Speaker 4: winners tell us who we missed? Let us know in

1077
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:54,359
Speaker 4: the stream team as you are, let us know when

1078
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:56,399
Speaker 4: the YouTube comments tweet at us at no dunk. Think

1079
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:59,720
Speaker 4: there's still a lot of players and performances and teams

1080
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:02,040
Speaker 4: that you could put into either bucket winners and losers

1081
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 4: in the NBA.

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00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 2: Weekend, But we got to call it there. At a

1083
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 2: certain point, you just have to stop talking, all right.

1084
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 2: That's just a little advice for everyone. Paul George included,

1085
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 2: just stop talking.

1086
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:18,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, so let's get to the Pickham where I am startragling.

1087
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:21,720
Speaker 2: I'm one in five in the month of January.

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00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:27,279
Speaker 4: I just I mean, god, damn it skeets. After combined

1089
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:29,759
Speaker 4: a couple of months in Pickham. I added it all

1090
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:31,400
Speaker 4: up just to see how everybody was doing. I was

1091
00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:33,320
Speaker 4: a couple of games up on you guys, Like overall,

1092
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:35,640
Speaker 4: I was like feeling good this year. I was seeing

1093
00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:39,919
Speaker 4: the games, seeing the number, seeing the lines. I wasn't wait,

1094
00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:40,840
Speaker 4: it was bullshit.

1095
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:43,440
Speaker 2: I didn't see anything. I got lucky, and now I

1096
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:46,400
Speaker 2: suck at this and then you really start sucking guessing yourself.

1097
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 2: So what's our games.

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00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:50,479
Speaker 3: Yeah, what's interesting is that through the first three months,

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00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 3: we're the three that have lost, and Esh, the fourth

1100
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:57,600
Speaker 3: here is not lost. He's doing I mean, he's lost games,

1101
00:47:57,640 --> 00:47:59,600
Speaker 3: but he hasn't been the worst in a single month.

1102
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:02,680
Speaker 4: He's probably never has he ever won a month. I

1103
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:04,359
Speaker 4: don't think somebody's never lost a month.

1104
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:05,359
Speaker 2: And that's the important part.

1105
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:09,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is the important part. Memphis going to Houston

1106
00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:12,000
Speaker 3: for a rematch. What they just had a great game.

1107
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 3: Old Stevie Adams, the old Memphis Grizzly. He came off

1108
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:18,120
Speaker 3: the bench for the Rockets nine boards in twelve minutes

1109
00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:22,279
Speaker 3: after eating his caveman meal. I was just gonna say ye,

1110
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:25,600
Speaker 3: Tarry Easton photograph Steven Adams eating a meal which was

1111
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:29,480
Speaker 3: a bowl of beef, just brown beef, beef. Yeah, a

1112
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 3: piece of bread with nothing on it. And it was fruit,

1113
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:38,200
Speaker 3: just fruit yogurt sitting there as well.

1114
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:40,040
Speaker 2: Oh it was Yeah. Everybody overlooked.

1115
00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:43,320
Speaker 3: Oh, I thought he must have photoshopped that out just

1116
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:47,239
Speaker 3: with nothing on it. Try toast Yeah, yeah, I mean

1117
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:50,359
Speaker 3: cave man ate fruit. But this doesn't seem as cave

1118
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 3: many as you would think. With the definition the This

1119
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:59,320
Speaker 3: caption of Cape cave man. I don't it looks like

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00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:03,560
Speaker 3: a cave man, that's what say. Yeah, okay, anyway, he's

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00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:06,920
Speaker 3: playing his old team. I still think that they're going

1122
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 3: to win again. Why why shouldn't Memphis be able to

1123
00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:13,000
Speaker 3: bounce back? I don't know. And that's why Trey and

1124
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:16,799
Speaker 3: Esh are taking the Grizzlies. Mosquits is with me seeing

1125
00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 3: Houston win this game and cover two and a half

1126
00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:25,960
Speaker 3: point lyne there, which is basically, yeah, pretty clo. This

1127
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:27,719
Speaker 3: was a fun game the first time it was. Here

1128
00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:28,879
Speaker 3: they go again and again.

1129
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:32,680
Speaker 2: This one's on NBA TV. Trey and Esh both tied

1130
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:35,640
Speaker 2: three and three, taking the grizz tasks are good right now?

1131
00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:37,200
Speaker 2: Five and one. Nice bounce back for you.

1132
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:38,040
Speaker 3: And I'm one and five.

1133
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:43,440
Speaker 2: See if my bad luck that stink gets on you tonight.

1134
00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:46,759
Speaker 3: Okay, well, are you riding my five and one because

1135
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:49,799
Speaker 3: you picked after me? Maybe just riding my huge I said,

1136
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:52,719
Speaker 3: test is hot right now? Yeah, it might be over.

1137
00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:55,160
Speaker 3: I don't know it will be no, yeah for sure.

1138
00:49:55,239 --> 00:49:57,319
Speaker 4: All right, So that's our pick'em game tonight. We'll call

1139
00:49:57,360 --> 00:50:00,440
Speaker 4: it there no playback tonight. Besides that game, it's not

1140
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:03,480
Speaker 4: the sexiest schedule in Golden State in Toronto.

1141
00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:05,359
Speaker 2: Who my god, give it up?

1142
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 3: Will you?

1143
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:06,400
Speaker 2: With the Raptors?

1144
00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 3: Man, they play game.

1145
00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:12,000
Speaker 2: I'm saying that now, it's annoying me. They're not they're asking.

1146
00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 3: They can tell it's annoying.

1147
00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:13,879
Speaker 2: It's not bad.

1148
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:16,320
Speaker 3: They're getting their asses handy. Yeah, are you kidding me?

1149
00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:19,840
Speaker 3: Did you watch them this weekend? They played an enjoyable

1150
00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 3: game of basket.

1151
00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:23,400
Speaker 2: Enjoyable men.

1152
00:50:24,239 --> 00:50:25,919
Speaker 3: They played the Pistons. It was fun.

1153
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:28,640
Speaker 2: Hey, that was cool. Bickerstaff did.

1154
00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:30,800
Speaker 4: He said, I'll get to give five hundred dollars to

1155
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:34,520
Speaker 4: the LA Wildfires, like, you know, charity and organizations to

1156
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:36,240
Speaker 4: help bounce back for every.

1157
00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:38,320
Speaker 2: Assist we get. So what did the Pistons do?

1158
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:40,920
Speaker 4: They went up racked up a whole bunch of assists

1159
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:42,560
Speaker 4: against the Raptors. I want to say it was like

1160
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:46,120
Speaker 4: thirty seven. Kate had a lot of himself seventeen.

1161
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:47,799
Speaker 2: I think that's cool. That's pretty slick.

1162
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:50,200
Speaker 3: So, yeah, that's cool.

1163
00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:53,000
Speaker 2: And I'm just saying, did you, like you keep convincing

1164
00:50:53,080 --> 00:50:54,800
Speaker 2: me that they're like a good team. No, no, no, no,

1165
00:50:55,520 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 2: I look up like they're on this long a losing streak.

1166
00:50:58,239 --> 00:50:58,840
Speaker 2: Yeah they're not.

1167
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:01,440
Speaker 6: Sixteen out of seven ten test is telling me throw

1168
00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:03,400
Speaker 6: it back to twenty twenty four, and I'm sorry, like

1169
00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:05,840
Speaker 6: even like, well we get quickly back you watch it.

1170
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:08,239
Speaker 2: I was like, no, no, that's not it either. We

1171
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:09,520
Speaker 2: sort of have everybody back now.

1172
00:51:09,640 --> 00:51:12,279
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, they needed him back and it hasn't worked

1173
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:14,920
Speaker 3: out since he's been back. These they're one in six

1174
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:17,759
Speaker 3: since he's been back, most losses.

1175
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 6: Seat.

1176
00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:20,600
Speaker 2: It was a big one though, tough season.

1177
00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:23,839
Speaker 3: Big one. Yeah they beat Broke. Okay, so they lost Orlando, Milwaukee, Nicks,

1178
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:27,040
Speaker 3: Caves and the Pistons. Yeah, that's it. Those are good

1179
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:32,000
Speaker 3: those they're good teams. Yeah, yeah, they're what's the record,

1180
00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:34,480
Speaker 3: doesn't matter what records?

1181
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:36,600
Speaker 2: Well, no reason I asked that.

1182
00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:39,000
Speaker 4: I saw somebody did the photoshop because the Raptors are

1183
00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:42,080
Speaker 4: celebrating their thirtieth anniversary and they have that cool like

1184
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:45,640
Speaker 4: the Raptor eating sort of the thirty logo for the

1185
00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:48,759
Speaker 4: thirtieth anniversary. But somebody made a grabbing at.

1186
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:53,439
Speaker 2: Eight and thirty with that lower class A God that hurts.

1187
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:55,000
Speaker 2: That's all right, we're gonna get Cooper flag. It's gonna

1188
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:57,120
Speaker 2: be worth it. We'll call it there. But play back

1189
00:51:57,200 --> 00:51:59,040
Speaker 2: later this week was the whole point of that and

1190
00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:00,680
Speaker 2: we'll tell you when we're doing that, probably.

1191
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:02,560
Speaker 4: On Wednesday night, so put that in your calendar. Thanks

1192
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:04,880
Speaker 4: for joining us live here on YouTube or listening to

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00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:07,480
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1194
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1195
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Speaker 2: Clipper Bros. You heard it here first, have a great time,

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Speaker 2: turn up, Love you guys. Awesome.

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Speaker 3: First thing I gotta say, I made a mistake saying

1198
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:20,160
Speaker 3: Philadelphia started too and ten. They're two and eight of

1199
00:52:20,239 --> 00:52:24,640
Speaker 3: their first in their first ten. Okay, Second thing, Cooper

1200
00:52:24,680 --> 00:52:29,160
Speaker 3: Fly coming to Canada. Maybe maybe, maybe will he just

1201
00:52:29,239 --> 00:52:31,800
Speaker 3: bring the American flag because Canada might not hold have

1202
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:33,040
Speaker 3: their own flag anymore.

1203
00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:38,239
Speaker 4: Well, somebody said he'll be going south because where he's

1204
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 4: from is more north than Toronto.

1205
00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 2: So it'll be ball me.

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00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:45,400
Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 2: Price today people,