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Speaker 1: The Action Network podcast, named vest vetting Podcast or radio

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Speaker 1: show by the Fantasy Sports and Gaming Association and the

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Speaker 1: number one show for the invested sports fan.

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Speaker 2: Without further ado, That's what the game's all about, all asten,

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Speaker 2: you feel like you can't miss I'm gonna leave it

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Speaker 2: up there.

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Speaker 3: You couldn't make that if you try that again. Absolutely.

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Speaker 4: Welcome to the Action Network Podcast, NBA edition. I'm your

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Speaker 4: host Matt Moore, joined today by Brandon Anderson and Raheem Palmer.

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Speaker 4: What's up, fellas?

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Speaker 5: Life is good, moving through the NBA season flying by,

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Speaker 5: So I'm happy.

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Speaker 2: I am happy. I am cold.

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Speaker 6: It dropped below zero degrees here in sunny North Dakota

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Speaker 6: on Saturday and it will not go back above zero

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Speaker 6: until at least next Wednesday, so I'm trying to stay warm.

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Speaker 6: We do this weird thing in North Dakota where when

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Speaker 6: and ready to podcast.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Well, that's just awful in all sorts of ways,

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Speaker 4: that you're in sub zero without heating, that's just awful.

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Speaker 4: I also want to note that Raheem Palmer is the

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Speaker 4: first person in literally what twelve months now to say

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Speaker 4: life is good. Congratulations Raheem, You're the first person since

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Speaker 4: the pandemic began to say life is good.

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Speaker 3: Gotta be positive man.

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Speaker 4: On today's show, we will talk about our marquee event,

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Speaker 4: which is going to be a fun one relay to

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Speaker 4: All Star. We will talk about what's making me feel

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Speaker 4: like I'm taking crazy pills with something to do with

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Speaker 4: the Washington Wizards, and we'll give you our best bets

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Speaker 4: for the week as well as we'll go back to

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Speaker 4: the future. But let's start this week with our marquee,

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Speaker 4: Brandon again back to back weeks with an excellent idea.

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Speaker 4: All Star season is right around the corner. Also, our

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Speaker 4: voting has begun. We have the first turns in lots

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Speaker 4: of deserving names. Also, you know the usual cast of

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Speaker 4: why why are people voting for this person? We are

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Speaker 4: gonna do an All Star draft and we're gonna go

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Speaker 4: ahead and roll through who we think are the top

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Speaker 4: fifteen players in the NBA based out of our selections

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Speaker 4: at the NLC. Who's got the best starting five no

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Speaker 4: conferences for this selection. I'm also going to make the

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Speaker 4: stipulation of no positions for the selection. So I just

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Speaker 4: think it's a lot better to work out that way

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Speaker 4: in terms of who are the actual best players, because look,

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Speaker 4: what are centers in today's NBA If you're not Mbat

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Speaker 4: or Jokic or I guess Rudy Gobert, Like really, what

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Speaker 4: are they? So we're gonna get kick started with our

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Speaker 4: All Star draft. Let's start with Brandon Anderson.

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Speaker 2: All right, So first pig on the board.

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Speaker 6: I gotta go with the guy that I think has

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Speaker 6: been the best player in the NBA this season, the

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Speaker 6: guy that I think should be the MVP right now,

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Speaker 6: though I don't think he would be. But I'm going

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Speaker 6: with Nikola Jokic. It's an All Star game. I want

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Speaker 6: to have some fun. If you're building a fun All

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Speaker 6: Star team and a good one, you want somebody that's

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Speaker 6: going to pass the ball around, get everyone going. Like

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Speaker 6: that's the most important thing in the All Star Game is

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Speaker 6: get some good passers out there. You got a ton

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Speaker 6: of talent. There's plenty of scoring. YA could just doing

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Speaker 6: plenty of scoring too, But I think he's been the

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Speaker 6: best player in the league so far this season. The

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Speaker 6: way that he's elevating Denver. I mean, I guess it

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Speaker 6: feels like he's not elevating Denver because the Nuggets seems

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Speaker 2: So he's my top guy.

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Speaker 4: It's a good pick, Yoga. It's always funny kind of

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Speaker 4: And then I seem like last year guys were like, oh,

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Speaker 4: I think it's a pretty good pick. Rahiem, who's your

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Speaker 5: I'm going with Lebron James. I mean, for me, I mean,

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Speaker 7: Lebron James oldest starting player in the NBA.

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Speaker 5: You know, he's only averaging twenty five points a game

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Speaker 5: I mean, this is a guy who's shooting a career

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Speaker 5: we thought this guy would take a step back in

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Speaker 5: back after the bubble, and this guy is just out

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Speaker 5: there closing games. I mean, Anthony Davis has been hurt,

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Speaker 5: he's taking games off. Lebron is playing every game and

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Speaker 5: he's just out there and he's leading this team. And

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Speaker 5: I think he's eventually going to become the MVP of

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Speaker 5: this league for his fifth time. So I'm wronging with Lebron.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I think in an All Star game, he's

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Speaker 5: He's gonna be duncan. I'm taking Lebron with my first pick.

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Speaker 4: Have you bet Lebron win MVP yet I didn't.

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Speaker 5: One of my friends actually talked me out of it,

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Speaker 5: and it's one of my biggest regrets.

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Speaker 3: I don't know that.

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Speaker 4: I believe you, because the way you've been pumping him up,

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Speaker 4: I think you're trying. I think you're trying to doge

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Speaker 4: him up there. I love the numbers last night. They're interesting.

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Speaker 4: Numbers are interesting. Look, the third best player in the

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Speaker 4: league is Joelle Embiid or third best selection after those two, Like,

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Speaker 4: I think he's probably been the MVP so far. That

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Speaker 2: That's a that's a very stupid question.

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Speaker 3: That's no issue. Were good, which just damn win.

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Speaker 4: I'm not taking him in this spot. It's an All

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Speaker 4: Star game. And granted, don't get me wrong, nobody's gonna

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Speaker 4: double team in the All Star Games, so at least

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Speaker 4: MB can keep the ball. But I don't think that

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Speaker 4: I don't want to start with Embiid. I don't want

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Speaker 4: So I am taking Steph Curry from the Golden State

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Speaker 4: Star of the season, putting up huge numbers. When he

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Speaker 4: Leading the Warriors, he's doing a pretty good job with

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Speaker 4: So he's been amazing. He'll put up threes from the

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Speaker 4: logo the Krabble ooh and ah, I'm taking Steph Curry.

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Speaker 7: Matt Moore hate Steph Curry.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I was hoping you're gonna leave stuph for me

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Speaker 6: for the exact same reason. And Beat is clearly the

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Speaker 6: next deserving player if we're trying to go that way.

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Speaker 6: But it's an All Star game. Dave before on Twitter

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Speaker 6: last night, I put up a stat Steph Curry in

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Speaker 6: his first twenty five games that twenty fifteen to sixteen season,

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Speaker 6: that's the twenty four to one start thirty two points

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Speaker 6: a game, fifty two to forty six ninety one shooting

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Speaker 6: five point one. Three is a game this season through

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Speaker 6: It's a game only down by about two points forty

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Speaker 6: like one shot per game from what I have called

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Speaker 6: the greatest offensive season in history.

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Speaker 4: I gotta stop you hang on. No, no, no, we can't

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Speaker 4: like those numbers. You can't like I love Dave. No,

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Speaker 4: like the fifty to forty ninety part matters. The two

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Speaker 4: more points a game matters, like I'm with you, he's

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Speaker 4: been great, but like, I gotta be real narrow. The

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Speaker 4: reason I gotta be careful on this, Brandon is if

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Speaker 4: he put up the numbers that you put up in

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Speaker 4: twenty sixteen, he has to be MVP. Like it doesn't

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Speaker 4: matter if the Warriors win twenty games. If Steph does

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Speaker 4: that again, he has to win MVP. But he's not

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Speaker 4: doing that this season. I'm finally being like, hey, he's

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Speaker 4: still been awesome. Leave twenty sixteen alone. We're like, I

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Speaker 4: don't know anybody's ever gonna touch that. And I'm very

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Speaker 4: big on the idea of never's a long time, Like

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Speaker 4: I can't imagine anyone ever shooting that many threes on

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Speaker 4: that high high of percentage. Ever, still obviously an All Star, though.

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Speaker 6: I agree, I agree, Yeah, it's he's not touching that season.

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Speaker 6: The fact that it can even you can even cherry

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Speaker 6: look somewhat like that season still speaks volumes.

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Speaker 2: I think.

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Speaker 6: So for my pick, I'm gonna use similar logic to Matt.

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna leave Joelle Embiid out there. I thought about

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Speaker 6: taking embat and Jokic and just moving Jokic to point

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Speaker 6: guard gets an All Star Game and who cares. But

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Speaker 6: instead I'm gonna go with the greatest second banana and

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Speaker 6: NBA history. Kevin Durant said, Kevin Durant, He's just he's

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Speaker 6: a good All Star player. He we already know. The

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Speaker 6: whole thing with Kevin Durant is you put him with

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Speaker 6: any amount of talent and he fits with everyone. He's

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Speaker 6: gonna hit the open shots, he plays with everyone, and

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Speaker 6: he makes every team better.

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Speaker 7: The Kevin Durant Revenge Tour.

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Speaker 6: I don't know you could find a team in NBA

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Speaker 6: history that wouldn't be better by adding Kevin Durant to

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Speaker 6: wherever they have a spot in the lineup. Durant's my pick,

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Speaker 6: and with Jokic and Durant, a pretty fun, easy team

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Speaker 3: You know, this is trash that we're not doing Snake Draft.

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Speaker 3: Now he's mad about it.

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Speaker 5: I mean, like Kevin Durant right now, he's on a

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Speaker 5: verge for a fifty to forty ninety season off a

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Speaker 5: torn achilles like. I mean, it's crazy, there's not It's

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Speaker 5: just insane. So who's your number two for him? My

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Speaker 5: number two, I'm gonna go with Kawhi Leonard. I mean,

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Speaker 5: I don't think he's having like the MVP season that

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Speaker 5: Brandon totus he was gonna have. But I just I mean,

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Speaker 5: for me, if I'm if, I'm if I'm building a

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Speaker 5: team and I can start off with Lebron James and

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Speaker 5: Kawhi Leonard, That's what I'm gonna do.

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Speaker 3: Like I'm building a team. I got my wings taken

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Speaker 3: care of, okay.

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Speaker 4: All right, I mean I respect it. Kau is obviously

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Speaker 4: like a long time All Star. I respect I respect

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Speaker 4: that move. I can't I can't knock that. You guys

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Speaker 4: are making me take him being I don't want to,

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Speaker 4: so I'm not going to. I am wanting to take

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Speaker 4: I heard this pronounciation of his name today and I

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Speaker 4: really liked it on the nets broadcast, Uh right, NBA TV. Rather,

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Speaker 4: Yanni's onto Campo is my second selection. I got Steph,

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Speaker 4: I got Giannis. We're gonna run pick and roll with

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Speaker 4: Jannis going for lobs all day long. I've got athleticism.

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Speaker 4: I feel pretty good about that. Look, the Bucks have

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Speaker 4: And Yannis is still one of the most impactful players

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Speaker 6: So one thing I noticed as I ridiculously made like

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Speaker 6: we've turned this into a big man league or at least,

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Speaker 6: But I'm going with Luka Doncic, my only other guard

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Speaker 6: And No, we're disappointed with Dallas this season. We should be,

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 6: I think Dallas will get better. Dallas has been disappointing.

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Speaker 6: I don't think Luca has been that disappointing. He's still

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Speaker 4: Can one elite player shoot better than thirty percent from three?

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Speaker 4: Because I would like, Yeah that can?

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Speaker 5: I mean, can an elite player show up to the

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Speaker 5: he shooting thirty one percent from three? He hasn't shown

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Speaker 6: What what are their guards other than Steph Curry have

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Speaker 2: Even if I give you a dame, that's still too

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Speaker 3: I mean, are we sure Donovan Mitchell hasn't been better? Oh?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely not.

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Speaker 5: That's a I mean, that's that's be real right now.

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Speaker 3: He's just having the volume, scoring, the volume, assist volume rebounds.

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Speaker 3: So to me, he's not He hasn't been as good

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Speaker 6: So you said, Donovan Mitchell, I know that we all

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Speaker 6: remember how bad Luka Doncic was shooting, especially the star

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Speaker 6: because since those eight games the Jazz are sixty and one,

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Speaker 6: In those eight games, Donovan Mitchell forty nine percent true shooting,

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Speaker 6: He was bad for a third of the season so far.

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Speaker 6: That counts. Those eight games count. Doncic, you know, he's

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Speaker 2: It's got to get better.

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Speaker 6: If you know, every super duper star player has that

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Speaker 6: His defense has improved a lot this year, which has

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Speaker 7: Brandon Anderson is a hater.

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Speaker 4: Okay, so he's taking Luca Rahem, who are you taking?

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Speaker 5: This is so hard for me. He hasn't necessarily shown

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Speaker 5: I'm taking Anthony Davis. Anthony Davis is no doubt one

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Speaker 5: Now he's been hurt. I mean, the Lakers are coasting.

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Speaker 5: But if I'm building a roster, I got Lebron James,

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Speaker 5: I don't see anybody beating me. So I'm I'm I'm

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Speaker 4: Fine, I'll take him. Bead backed me into a corner.

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Speaker 4: I can't not take him. It's insulting that he fell

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Speaker 4: this far. Fine, he is, in my opinion, the MVP

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Speaker 4: right now. I guess we're drawing free throws in the

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Speaker 4: That's like, there's no place for defense in an All

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Speaker 4: oh boy, let's grab these defensive guys. At least they

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Speaker 4: didn't take Abert. That's the only upside, Brandon. Let's go

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Speaker 4: to your fourth pick. You got Nicola Durant and Exercise Harden.

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Speaker 6: I still say that's a compliment. So I'm not going

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Speaker 6: wondering if any of us are going to take him.

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Speaker 6: I don't know if we want him on our starting

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Speaker 6: guys need guards. I Dame helps me a little less

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Speaker 6: than he would help your teams. So we're playing a

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Speaker 6: playing like the full entire half court offense. We're spacing

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Speaker 6: out everywhere. Dame, Luca, Durant, Jokic, We're good.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I'm very angry because I wanted to poor Man

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Speaker 4: Poor Man's staff feels insulting to him at this point.

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Speaker 4: It is no like your balance though, right like you've

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Speaker 4: got you've got shooting with Duran Lillard, you've got playmaking

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Speaker 4: with Jokich and Doncic. Like your team is probably gonna

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Speaker 4: be the most fun. Like right now, you have the

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Speaker 4: most fun All Star team, which that's the whole point

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Speaker 4: make money for the league. Apparently for no parent reason

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Speaker 4: during the pandemic, Rahim, who's your fourth pick? You got Lebron,

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Speaker 4: Kawhi and Anthony Davis. You have a very serious All

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Speaker 4: Star team. That's that's yours is You're you're very serious,

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Speaker 4: like very serious players that are winners. That's your that's

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Speaker 5: I'm going with the league leaguing score. I'm going with

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 5: I wanted to go with Dame, but I already have

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Speaker 5: play making and Lebron James. I have defense with Anthony

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Speaker 5: this guy, you know, he fits perfect next to Lebron.

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Speaker 5: He gives me that spacing. I mean, now he finally

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Speaker 5: has a capable team to play with. I think he's

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Speaker 5: the league this year. Unfortunately, he hasn't been freed and

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Speaker 5: he's playing with a bad roster.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully they free him at some point. Bradley builds my

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Speaker 4: I like it very much.

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Speaker 3: Everybody can hit the three on this team now, not anymore.

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Speaker 4: No. Eight. These numbers are back down to his career levels.

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Speaker 4: This season. He can't hit the three, which is the

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Speaker 4: whole thing. He can't hit three pointers unless he's in

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Speaker 4: the bubble. In the playoffs, when he shot like five

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Speaker 4: fifty percent from three, it's absolutely ridiculous. I'm still kind

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Speaker 4: of mad about it. It's not that the Lakers wouldn't

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Speaker 4: four four five four four four, No, four four five.

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Speaker 3: First they went, they went five five five six.

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Speaker 4: Five five five six, That's right. The bigger reason that

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Speaker 4: they did that, though, was like Anthony Davis reigning threes,

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Speaker 4: and I did not think that that was sustainable whatsoever.

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Speaker 3: He was like almost like fifty percent from mid range.

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Speaker 2: Two.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was ridiculous how well he shot.

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Speaker 3: It was like insane.

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Speaker 4: I mean he he benefit from the bubble as much

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Speaker 4: doing it. It's my All Star team. I get to

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Speaker 4: do it. I'm taking Zach Lavine. That's right, I'm doing it.

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Speaker 4: I'm taking that Levie. Okay, listen to me. Hear me out,

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Speaker 4: hear me out. Twenty seven points, five boards, five assists.

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Speaker 4: The shooting numbers people do not believe. Fifty one forty one.

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Speaker 4: That's his shooting percentages this season, along with eighty six

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Speaker 4: his playmaking has been really solid. He has tried to

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Speaker 4: last year. But he's also shooting the three. Great Zach

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Speaker 4: Levin is a three level scorer. I think he has

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Speaker 4: played absolutely phenomenal. Plus I get to have a dunk

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Speaker 4: contest champion in game for the All Star Team. I

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Speaker 2: I can't support that pick.

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Speaker 4: Coward.

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Speaker 7: Hell, you're just a goddamn colin.

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Speaker 3: I won't have pitches.

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Speaker 4: We're afraid to fight, staking up this place of honor,

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Speaker 4: good hearing, God, damn card.

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Speaker 6: I would not put Zach Lavine on the actual East

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Speaker 6: gets a little udded from there. He's been great. This

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Speaker 6: but he's like twenty five. I think his shooting is incredible.

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Speaker 6: I'd love to see some trade offers go up, especially

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Speaker 6: I hope that they go for Levine. I don't know

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Speaker 6: that he's gonna scale as well on a good team,

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Speaker 6: like an All Star team, for example.

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Speaker 4: You're a hater.

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Speaker 6: You're just an absolutely I am a hater, a hater.

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Speaker 2: I'm ready to be done with him. I'm ready to

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Speaker 4: He's been really good this season. He's good this season,

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Speaker 4: He's given good efforts, been.

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Speaker 6: Great this season, terrific this season. I'll give him credit.

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Speaker 6: There's just been other better players in these.

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Speaker 4: Okay, tell me this, give me five better guards in

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Speaker 4: the Eastern Conference.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the guards part is hard.

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Speaker 6: Okay, so Bill obviously, Trey Young, I'm taking Kyrie Irving.

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Speaker 4: I'm not taking not taking Kyrie. Gotta play games.

432
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Speaker 3: Kyrie took two weeks off to go to a spiritual retreat.

433
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Speaker 7: Like, what do we say Kyrie Irving doesn't talk to Ponds.

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Speaker 2: I'd say.

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Speaker 6: Ben Simmons says, I don't know if he counts as

436
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Speaker 6: a guard, but hasn't The guards aren't great. I don't

437
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Speaker 6: know if I don't know, if I have a fifth yere, take.

438
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Speaker 4: It back, take it back, Say he belongs on the

439
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Speaker 4: All Star team. I want your I want you to

440
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Speaker 4: say it. Say Zach Lavine's an Eastern Conference All Star.

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Speaker 2: Exactly, somebody.

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Speaker 3: Somebodys are counting.

443
00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:02,520
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Dylan Brown, I'm counting him as a guard

444
00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:02,880
Speaker 2: for sure.

445
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Speaker 4: All right, all right, rahiem, let's go to your let's see.

446
00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:09,000
Speaker 2: Wait, I think I'm up still.

447
00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:10,680
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you're up. You got your last night, you

448
00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:14,000
Speaker 4: got you got Joker, you got Katie, you got Luca,

449
00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:14,719
Speaker 4: you got Dane.

450
00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:16,879
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: So I'm just gonna go with the next highest gy

452
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Speaker 6: on my list because I think he deserves a spot

453
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Speaker 6: as a top fifteen player. I think he should be

454
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Speaker 6: an All NBA player. Well, I guess I have to

455
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Speaker 6: look at positioning on that, but I'm taking the top

456
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Speaker 6: guy on my board, and that for me is Chris Middleton.

457
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Speaker 6: Twenty one points, six rebound, six assists. He's shooting fifty

458
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Speaker 6: two to forty five ninety four in the season. He's

459
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Speaker 6: another one of those guys somewhat like Durant and that

460
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Speaker 6: he's just going to be able to shoot and play

461
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Speaker 6: in my lineup, and like he on an All Star team,

462
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Speaker 6: he can take the shots that are there, but he's

463
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Speaker 6: not going to take anything off the table.

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Speaker 2: By the way, I thought Bill was a great pick too.

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Speaker 6: Bill is a really good All Star type guy like

466
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Speaker 6: Durant that you can just put on any team and

467
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Speaker 6: it makes team building so easy. I think Middleton in

468
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Speaker 6: the fit twell, I got him one spot over Paul George.

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Speaker 6: On an All Star team like this, I'd rather have

470
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Speaker 6: Middleton than George. And yeah, that's my pick.

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Speaker 5: I'm so glad that you took Middleton because I want

472
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Speaker 5: Paul George. I mean, big shout out to jeremiahs Engleman

473
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Speaker 5: create a real plus minus. Paul George is fourth in

474
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Speaker 5: real plus minus this year. It feels like every single

475
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Speaker 5: NBA player is having a fifty to forty ninety season

476
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Speaker 5: because Paul George is havn't won two and he's actually

477
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Speaker 5: scoring board and Chris Middleton.

478
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Speaker 3: I love Paul George this year.

479
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Speaker 5: I think he's come back from the bubble and he's

480
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Speaker 5: been rejuvenated. You know, he's he's hitting the three, he's

481
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Speaker 5: playing defense, he's scoring. He got hurt recently, you know,

482
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Speaker 5: he had some time with the he had he was

483
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Speaker 5: out for the COVID protocols. But to me, I think

484
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Speaker 5: he's been one of the top fifteen players in this league.

485
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Speaker 5: He's carried the Clippers along with Kawhi. So I don't

486
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Speaker 5: see any of you guys teams beating me with my

487
00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:04,640
Speaker 5: defense in my score.

488
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Speaker 2: As long as your guys actually decided to try that night.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean you got you got a lot

490
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Speaker 4: of firepower. You got the Clippers, You've got the You

491
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Speaker 4: just took the Clippers and the Lakers and Beal. Let's

492
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Speaker 4: not act like inventive or like super creative here. You

493
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Speaker 4: didn't like, oh man, I have selected. You took the

494
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Speaker 4: Clippers in the Lakers plus Beal. That's all you did. Okay,

495
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Speaker 4: that's all.

496
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Speaker 2: The first three picks.

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Speaker 6: You gause, Remember when for like, I forget how long,

498
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Speaker 6: like a twenty four hour news cycle? You know, so

499
00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:38,359
Speaker 6: rahiem started with Lebron Kawhi and Anthony Davis. Do you

500
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Speaker 6: remember for like twenty four hours when we were all

501
00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:42,919
Speaker 6: worried that Kawhi might actually join the.

502
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Speaker 2: Lakers with those two?

503
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Speaker 6: What an absolute disaster that would have been for the league.

504
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Speaker 6: They would have just demolished people.

505
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Speaker 4: Just absolutely annihilated. Okay, oh this is tough for me.

506
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Speaker 2: There's a few more bots on the table.

507
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Speaker 3: It's Lori marketing.

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Speaker 4: Better than per steps, all right, So I just want

509
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:07,160
Speaker 4: to state for the record that Donovan Mitchell is more deserving,

510
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:12,760
Speaker 4: DeMar Derozen is more deserving, Zion is probably more deserving.

511
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Speaker 4: Jalen Brown is absolutely more deserving. But I'm taking Julius Randall.

512
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Speaker 3: Wow.

513
00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:26,040
Speaker 4: What wow, Julius Randall, do you have any idea how

514
00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:27,600
Speaker 4: disrespectful that is?

515
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:28,640
Speaker 3: Look?

516
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Speaker 8: Wow, look look look look look look I love man.

517
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Speaker 8: Look look look look look, look go through this. Okay,

518
00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:40,240
Speaker 8: twenty two points a game, eleven boards a game, six

519
00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:45,600
Speaker 8: assists a game, shooting forty seven percent from the field, shooting.

520
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Speaker 4: Thirty eight percent for three my guys, Julius little t

521
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Speaker 4: Rex arms shooting thirty eight percent for three this season.

522
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:56,760
Speaker 4: Julius Randall has made the Knicks respectable. That is more

523
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Speaker 4: impressive than anything Anthony Davis has done this season. That

524
00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:03,639
Speaker 4: is more impressive than anything Luka Doncic has done this season.

525
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:06,920
Speaker 4: That is more impressive than anything Bradley Beal has done

526
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:11,879
Speaker 4: this season. Julius Randall has made the Knicks competitive. Also

527
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,959
Speaker 4: the biggest thing, he has one of the best close

528
00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:19,440
Speaker 4: out rates of contest in the league, according to Second Spectrum,

529
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Speaker 4: and I love closeouts. I am a sucker for anybody

530
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 4: who sells out trying to disrupt a three pointer. Randall

531
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Speaker 4: plays hard, nose to nose and to end does it

532
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Speaker 4: all run on the offense, scoring points, doing efficiently. I'm

533
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Speaker 4: taking Julius Randall. Julius Randall deserves to be an All Star.

534
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Speaker 3: You know what, In the words of Chad Millman, I'm.

535
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Speaker 7: Convinced Chad Milman is proud of himself.

536
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Speaker 4: Let's go, Let's go, let's go. Brandon winds up with

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Speaker 4: We'll put Dame at point so Dame, Luca, Middleton, Durant

538
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Speaker 4: and Jokic, so yours is like shooting shooting shooting. Shooting

539
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 4: shooting is basically it, and like Luca, Luka and Jokic

540
00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:10,399
Speaker 4: basically creating. Although I will tell you, like you Brandon,

541
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Speaker 4: you would have a hard time honestly with that team

542
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:14,359
Speaker 4: because Katie's not gonna let Yokis from points. Joki is

543
00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:17,400
Speaker 4: just gonna be there, like Katie's gonna want to do everything.

544
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 4: So I actually don't think that your team is gonna

545
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Speaker 4: be that great because they're gonna be like like it's

546
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:26,359
Speaker 4: a there's too many cooks in that kitchen. You got

547
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 4: too many cooks. And I think Katie's Katie would want

548
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,600
Speaker 4: to do everything, and Jokic just kind of fades at

549
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Speaker 4: the corner, which means that you don't really like you're

550
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,400
Speaker 4: not getting anything from Yokic, h Luca and Dame we're

551
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:39,560
Speaker 4: gonna be fighting over who's got the ball, and then

552
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Speaker 4: Chris Milton is just kind of like sitting there waiting

553
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Speaker 4: to shoot threes.

554
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Speaker 3: So I mean, and Dame, Dam and Steph are gonna

555
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Speaker 3: get abused defensively.

556
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Speaker 4: Again, I don't want to hear about defense in an

557
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:54,119
Speaker 4: All Star game. That's not a thing that we're gonna I.

558
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Speaker 3: Mean, the last five minutes the last five minutes. It

559
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Speaker 3: gets serious, is the thing.

560
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Speaker 4: Okay, Lot, you're gonna win the last five minutes or

561
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Speaker 4: heam because you've got running running point. I guess is

562
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Speaker 4: Lebron uh so Lebron beal at shooting guard Paul George

563
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:12,440
Speaker 4: Kawhi and Anthony Davis. I will tell you this. You

564
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:14,440
Speaker 4: can feel all you you can feel good all you want,

565
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:16,919
Speaker 4: but I'm giving the ball to Embiid versus Davis and

566
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,480
Speaker 4: then b and you know what's going to happen. You're

567
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:21,440
Speaker 4: playing four on five the rest of the game because

568
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:24,119
Speaker 4: we're not doing reserves, and you know Anthony Davis is

569
00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:25,320
Speaker 4: going to be questionable to return.

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Speaker 3: I can't even argue with that. I can't argue with that.

571
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Speaker 4: So that's absolutely gonna happen. I've got Steph, I've got

572
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:40,399
Speaker 4: Zach Levine, I've got Janis, I've got Julius Randall, and

573
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Speaker 4: I've got Embiid.

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Speaker 3: I got nineties.

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Speaker 2: Teams.

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Speaker 4: Right Basically, all I'm doing is Embiid's defending. He's just

577
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,240
Speaker 4: standing at the rim doing this, just have his hands

578
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 4: over his head. And then I got Steph Levine and

579
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Speaker 4: Jannis running in transition with Julius Randall as my trailer.

580
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:03,040
Speaker 4: Oh man, my team makes sense. My team makes sense

581
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,200
Speaker 4: that it would be the best. All right, it's gonna

582
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Speaker 4: wrap it up our All Star Draft. We're gonna move

583
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 4: on to our next segment, and we're gonna go back

584
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Speaker 4: to the future.

585
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Speaker 3: Back to the future.

586
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 4: It's time to go back to the future where we

587
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:28,400
Speaker 4: talk about future bets that we wish that we had

588
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 4: made in the past. We could travel back in that

589
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:33,920
Speaker 4: DeLorean back to a sweeter time and take a bet.

590
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 4: I will kick off this week because I never do

591
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 4: these kick off these things, and I will start with

592
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 4: saying that I wish I'd taken the Jazz to win

593
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 4: the Northwest Division. So obviously after the big game they

594
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 4: beat the Celtics, running away from them late in the

595
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:51,720
Speaker 4: game on Monday night or on Tuesday night, rather really

596
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 4: impressive performance, best record in the league, best start in

597
00:28:55,360 --> 00:29:00,000
Speaker 4: Jazz history. Usually when that happens, I'm always kind of like, Okay, well,

598
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 4: well you know you're the Wolves or whoever, like your

599
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 4: history is not very long and it's not very good.

600
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 4: But like the Jazz have been around forever. They have

601
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 4: a long outstanding history that goes back even the New

602
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 4: Orleans days. This team obviously had the Karl Malone era,

603
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:16,959
Speaker 4: but they've been good consistently. Like this team has always

604
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:20,160
Speaker 4: been competitive, They've always been good, So to start off

605
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 4: with that kind of a record I think is incredible.

606
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Speaker 4: The question is should I want to have gotten a

607
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 4: division bet or should I have wanted to get their

608
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 4: over on win total which is obviously much easier one,

609
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:33,880
Speaker 4: or should I have wanted to take them to win

610
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 4: the Western Conference? Is their value there? I still kind

611
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 4: of maintain that I don't believe that this team won.

612
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 4: I'm getting a lot of flack for this on Twitter,

613
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 4: and I don't understand why. I'm more about them peaking

614
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 4: too early, Guys, like this is a thing. The Atlanta

615
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 4: Hawks peaked too early in twenty fifteen, the Indiana Pacers

616
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 4: peaked too early in twenty fourteen, The Denver Nuggets peaked

617
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 4: too early in twenty and nineteen. We see this consistently

618
00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 4: over and over again, where a team is at the

619
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 4: top of their conference or the league and they just

620
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 4: cannot maintain I love this Jazz team. How can you not?

621
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 4: They have shooting thefense, they have elite rim protection, They've

622
00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:12,240
Speaker 4: got a superstar and Donovan Mitchell. They can run pick

623
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 4: and roll with four different dudes. They can run pick

624
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:20,480
Speaker 4: and roll with Mitchell, Conley, Bugdanovich, and Ingles, and you've

625
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:22,560
Speaker 4: got favors if you want to mix up the coverage

626
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 4: and with with Gobert. But in the playoffs, I still

627
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:29,720
Speaker 4: feel like it'll get harder for their shooters to knock

628
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:32,959
Speaker 4: down shots because teams will close out on them harder

629
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 4: and switch a lot more. And I think honestly that

630
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 4: Gobert is still going to have the problem of his

631
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 4: not able to be as effective because he's not an

632
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 4: elite like perimeter guy. But if I could get anything,

633
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 4: I do think they're gonna win the Northwest division. Denver's

634
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 4: roster is just simply not good enough. I don't think

635
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 4: to hang. Portland is too banged up, and their roster's

636
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 4: not very good even to begin with. There's nobody else

637
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 4: in that division that's going to be even a serious threats.

638
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:02,880
Speaker 4: To me, the best value on return for that, if

639
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 4: you're looking back at the Jazz and you could still

640
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 4: get it, is division odds for the Jazz to win

641
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 4: the Northwest. What do you guys think?

642
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 5: I have to push back on the whole peaking too

643
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 5: early thing, because I mean, you know, both of those teams.

644
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 3: Ran into Lebron James and the Heatls.

645
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,040
Speaker 4: I understand what you're saying, But here's the problem is,

646
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:25,360
Speaker 4: like I don't think Lebron was just impossible to beat.

647
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 4: Now the twenty fifteen Hawks didn't remember they framed the Calves,

648
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 4: so the Caves the first year of the Calves. The Pacers. Sure,

649
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 4: but if we remember the Pacers were like this this

650
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 4: close to beating them in twenty thirteen, that's true, Like

651
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 4: the buzzer beater, the broken coverage with Hibbard not out there,

652
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 4: like a bunch of stuff went against that Pacers team

653
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 4: the season after though. In twenty fourteen, that's when they

654
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,000
Speaker 4: started to have chemistry issues. Right the second half of

655
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 4: the season, they just looked like they did not want

656
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 4: to play.

657
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,120
Speaker 5: And I do remember that. I think it was like

658
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 5: they played the Clippers in and you just never would

659
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:56,400
Speaker 5: a Saint.

660
00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm like, nothing was the same afterwards. And then

661
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 4: with the Hawks, a lot of it was honestly, they

662
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,520
Speaker 4: were injured. They were so banged up. If you remember

663
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 4: del Vadova hurt Kyle Korver in that series. That was

664
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 4: a big, big turning point. They got swept so everyone

665
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:12,320
Speaker 4: just doesn't take them seriously. But I'm like, if that

666
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 4: if the Hawks had played the Cavs, even in a

667
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 4: playoff series in like February or March, it looks different.

668
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 3: But this is me.

669
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 5: Actually they beat them. I remember, like during the regular

670
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 5: season they beat them a couple of times. So yeah,

671
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 5: I see what you're saying.

672
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 4: This is the thing. And even if you want to

673
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 4: say like Lebron would have won because like Lebron's Lebron,

674
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 4: I hear you, but it would have been more competitive.

675
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 4: At least they would have been able to make a

676
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 4: serious run rather than getting swept out. And they're not

677
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 4: the only teams. We're just looking at the teams that

678
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 4: were like leading the league in whatever. We've seen a

679
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 4: lot of teams get off to really good starts, but

680
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 4: you just have to maintain it. The season is so

681
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 4: damn long. It's six months of the regular season, and

682
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 4: trying to maintain this pace and that energy the whole way,

683
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 4: it gets really exhausting, especially when you become the hunted. Brandon,

684
00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 4: do you have a back in the future this week?

685
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 6: I do, just to comment on that. I wonder if

686
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:04,480
Speaker 6: on the Jazz Back to the Future, I wonder if

687
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 6: maybe Quinn Snyder Coach of the Year might have been

688
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 6: interesting play yeah, especially if they stay as a one

689
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 6: or two seed even now. I don't have the odds

690
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 6: on that up, but I wonder if that might even

691
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 6: be a play now if they if they beat out

692
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 6: one or both LA teams for the record, and especially

693
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 6: the Jazz were interesting in this All Star exercise that

694
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 6: we did because I'm really curious how many Jazz and

695
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 6: which Jazz players will end up on the All Star team.

696
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 6: They don't quite have the top of the league superstar

697
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 6: like the other top of the league all stars. I

698
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 6: think Mitchell and or Gobert probably end up there. But

699
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 6: when there's not the one superstar player to give some

700
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 6: award to, maybe that's Gobert for defense. But I wonder

701
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:47,400
Speaker 6: if Snyder could could be an interesting coach of the

702
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 6: year play my future what I would play, and I

703
00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 6: think there's still some value there is. I'm keeping an

704
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 6: eye on Joel Embiid for Defensive Player of the Year.

705
00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 2: Oh okay, I do not.

706
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 6: Think Joel Embiid is the best or the most deserving

707
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 6: defensive player of the year right now. I think it

708
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:08,799
Speaker 6: probably is either Gobert or maybe Miles Turner. I'm not

709
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 6: sure that I see Indiana's defense stacking up with the

710
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 6: very top ones in the league enough to get Turner

711
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 6: enough support. I know, all we love the block numbers.

712
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:19,640
Speaker 6: I just don't know if I can really see Turner

713
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 6: winning that award when there are other very strong candidates.

714
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 6: I think right now go Beart would probably be the pick.

715
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:29,399
Speaker 6: I think that's the good way, you know, when there's

716
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:31,080
Speaker 6: a team as good as the Jazz, we look for

717
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 6: some award to recognize them with, and I think Gobert

718
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 6: as Defensive Player of the Year is a way to

719
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:39,400
Speaker 6: do that. My angle on Embiid is kind of the

720
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:42,719
Speaker 6: same angle. My angle is that the Jazz fall back

721
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:44,680
Speaker 6: a little bit into the pack just over the course

722
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:47,879
Speaker 6: this season. I think that Embiid is not my pick

723
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 6: for MVP, but he's going to continue to be very strong,

724
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,399
Speaker 6: and I wonder if he could get the Defensive Player

725
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:56,440
Speaker 6: of the Year award as something of a career achievement.

726
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 6: He's always been very awesome on defense. As an awesome

727
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,000
Speaker 6: defender anyway, it's clearly like top five in the league

728
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,400
Speaker 6: at least, and maybe even as a bit of like

729
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 6: consolation for a while we're gonna give the MVP to

730
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:10,439
Speaker 6: Lebron or whoever it ends up being. It wasn't quite

731
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:13,239
Speaker 6: Joelle embiid. Maybe he didn't play enough games, whatever it is,

732
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:16,280
Speaker 6: but what about giving him an award for his defense.

733
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 6: He's plus one thousand right now and bet MGMs, so

734
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:22,520
Speaker 6: I think there's still some value there. But I think

735
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 6: that that's an interesting futures play.

736
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 4: He's actually I got Fandel up. He's at plus thirteen hundred. Wow, Fandal, Yeah,

737
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:34,279
Speaker 4: Go Bear's plus two ten. I mean, I think Go

738
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:35,759
Speaker 4: Bear is the easy one because I think a lot

739
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 4: of others won't take this seriously and they'll just be like, oh,

740
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 4: it's Rudy, because Rudy's really good, and it's Rudy. Look

741
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 4: at the jazz and Rudy and that's crap. It's not

742
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,320
Speaker 4: Rudy Gobert at all. He can't defend on the perimeter.

743
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:49,480
Speaker 4: His switch numbers are poor, Like, there's just a lot

744
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 4: of indications that Rudy Gobert is a really elite rim

745
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 4: protector and that's it. Whereas a turner, you can switch,

746
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 4: you can hedge, you can blitz, you can do all

747
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:00,720
Speaker 4: this stuff with I'm gonna lose money on the Defensive

748
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 4: Player the Year because I know I'm gonna want a

749
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 4: betting Turner because I think he's the best, and no,

750
00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 4: like just could be Gobert. Like the the voting on

751
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 4: this is usually it's like it's more it's more infuriating

752
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,759
Speaker 4: the MVP because the work doesn't go into it. You

753
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,480
Speaker 4: have to really do work in order to get it,

754
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:17,239
Speaker 4: and a lot of it is like the coaches are

755
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:19,400
Speaker 4: just if you ask the coaches, they're just gonna be like,

756
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:22,839
Speaker 4: it's probably Rudy, Like we can't drive on him, Like

757
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:24,880
Speaker 4: my guards don't want to drive on him, So it's Rudy.

758
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:29,479
Speaker 4: But if we're actually talking about ability, it's I would

759
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 4: want Myles Turner at plus three fifty.

760
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:36,200
Speaker 5: You know, I always found it hilarious that I've never

761
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 5: seen a defensive Player of the Year and.

762
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 3: Get abused the way Rudy does.

763
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 5: Against Oki, Like does anybody watch the Nuggets versus the Jazz?

764
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:46,759
Speaker 5: Like he always gets abused, So how can he be

765
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:47,920
Speaker 5: the defensive player a year?

766
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,239
Speaker 4: Like It's just I don't know, because he's able to

767
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:52,399
Speaker 4: play drop coverage better than just about anybody. I will

768
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 4: say this, like Gobert is literally probably the best drop

769
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 4: coverage defender in the league. His main the way that

770
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:03,440
Speaker 4: he may spacing, being able to contest with his length

771
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:06,200
Speaker 4: when that guard comes off that screen to bother them

772
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 4: on even floaters, and be able to maintain space to

773
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,360
Speaker 4: prevent the lob. Now, like his size is part of this,

774
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:14,760
Speaker 4: but he's also nimble as all hell. But you also

775
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 4: the big thing is, like you got guys that are

776
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 4: as nimble and as big as Gobert, but they all

777
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 4: understand how to maintain that spacing and he's got such

778
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:25,440
Speaker 4: good awareness of those kind of things, and that's what

779
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 4: makes him really great. He's a great defender. I just

780
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 4: for me in the NBA today, I want a guy

781
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:33,800
Speaker 4: that can switch, that can drop, that can challenge on

782
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 4: the weak side, that's a great Rebounder's a great rebounder.

783
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 4: I want a guy that can do everything. I think

784
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 4: versatility is the name of the game. That's why I

785
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:44,360
Speaker 4: think Miles Turner is still Defensive Player of the Year. Rahim,

786
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 4: do you have a future you want to go back to?

787
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:50,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, we talk a lot about rewarding this Jazz team,

788
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 5: and I think the value was there at the start

789
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:54,759
Speaker 5: of the year. I mean, I mean it's probably like

790
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 5: if you you want to double your money, it's probably

791
00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 5: go some value now. But I'm going with Jordan Clark's

792
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:02,080
Speaker 5: and six Man of the Year. Like, I think all

793
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 5: the signs were there. You know, in the playoffs last year,

794
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 5: he averaged sixteen to assist in three rebounds in twenty

795
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 5: eight minutes, and I think, you know, sixth man a

796
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:13,759
Speaker 5: year is just instant offense and he's providing that. You know,

797
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:17,240
Speaker 5: he's scoring seventeen point five points per game. He's shooting

798
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:20,240
Speaker 5: almost forty six percent from the field, almost forty percent

799
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:22,880
Speaker 5: from three. I mean, this Jazz team is just I mean,

800
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 5: their roling and I think if anyone saw how good

801
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:30,280
Speaker 5: this Jazz team was, the value was there at plus

802
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:31,799
Speaker 5: seven hundred to start the year.

803
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 3: So I think that was the best one on the board.

804
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:37,360
Speaker 5: That was just kind of like a gimmy because I

805
00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:39,719
Speaker 5: don't really see much competition for him. I mean, there's

806
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 5: Eric Gordon who's already won. Chris Bousche has been solid,

807
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:47,920
Speaker 5: but he's fallen off Gordon drug Dragas has been solid,

808
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,279
Speaker 5: But I mean it's just no like to me, he's

809
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:54,359
Speaker 5: DIDs on favoriteyear. He's one sixty five right now and

810
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 5: you know, a lot of times we tend to look

811
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 5: for the higher payout bets. But if you tell me

812
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 5: that you could all double your money and you know

813
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 5: six months were an investment, I think most people would

814
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:09,400
Speaker 5: take it, And so I think there's still some value

815
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:10,680
Speaker 5: from that standpoint.

816
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 4: I mean, I want to pay one to sixty five

817
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 4: on FanDuel Shop. But I'm with you. I don't think

818
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 4: anybody's gonna challenge I think because this is another award

819
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:21,240
Speaker 4: that's just voted on in a really dumb way.

820
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:23,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, not that Clarkson is not deserving.

821
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:25,240
Speaker 4: He's been great, Like, his defense is better, he doesn't

822
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:27,719
Speaker 4: take as many terrible shots. Like Clarkson's made so many

823
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:30,319
Speaker 4: improvements to his game, He's gonna be completely deserving. It

824
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 4: does annoy me that basically the vote comes down to, uh,

825
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,719
Speaker 4: who's leads the league and scoring off the bench? Oh

826
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 4: that guy? Like that's just as all matters is. If

827
00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:40,799
Speaker 4: you score points off the bench for a winning team,

828
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:43,399
Speaker 4: you're a six Man of the Year. Congratulations. You want

829
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:45,239
Speaker 4: to know who I actually think is the is the

830
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 4: sixth man of the Year. I think it's Patty Mills.

831
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:51,480
Speaker 4: The Spurs bench is insane, like the Spur bench and

832
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:53,840
Speaker 4: this is like the fourth year running where if you

833
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 4: come off the bench, your plus minus numbers are incredible.

834
00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 4: DeMar de Rosen is a negative player until he plays

835
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 4: with Patty Mills, and it's a positive. The only player

836
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:05,279
Speaker 4: that Mills can't bring up is LaMarcus Solidrich. I got

837
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:07,359
Speaker 4: a big thing on the Spurs coming out today, by

838
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:10,040
Speaker 4: the way, on Action Network, lots of stuff on that.

839
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 5: That's the nice game was that Dad was one of

840
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 5: the most brutal things I've ever seen. That's second, Like,

841
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:15,080
Speaker 5: I mean they could not score.

842
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it was brutal. So that's gonna wrap up.

843
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:20,919
Speaker 4: Back to the future. I do, however, have a question

844
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 4: for you guys. Am I taking crazy pills?

845
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 7: And now am I taking crazy pills with Matt Moore?

846
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 3: Doesn't anyone know this?

847
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:33,720
Speaker 4: I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Why won't Bradley

848
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:38,560
Speaker 4: Beal pisser get off the pot? I reported, Okay, last week,

849
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 4: about ten days ago, I reported that Lee insiders feel

850
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:45,279
Speaker 4: that Beal does not want to get traded during a

851
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,799
Speaker 4: COVID season, which I totally understand. That's his right. They're

852
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 4: happy to keep him. I get it every single time

853
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:53,919
Speaker 4: that they lose, like they're playing better, but they get

854
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 4: they have a bad game two games ago, and he

855
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 4: comes out and he says, like, we're just getting run over.

856
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:00,720
Speaker 4: We gotta stop getting run over. And then there's another

857
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:04,360
Speaker 4: gift of him like laying on the ground, like looking

858
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 4: like he's in agony. Bradley, like, you're either there or

859
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 4: you're not. I'm fine with either. If you want out,

860
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 4: request the trade and we will, trust me, the league

861
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:18,320
Speaker 4: will get you out of there. If he requests the trade,

862
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:20,560
Speaker 4: the Wizards are gonna move him. They're not gonna fight it.

863
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:22,880
Speaker 4: They're gonna be like, all right, Bradley's done. Bradley's done

864
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 4: what he's asked, Like he took the money, and even

865
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:28,319
Speaker 4: even after taking the money, I'm fine with it, Like

866
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 4: I'm fine with it. This Wizards team is bad enough

867
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:34,480
Speaker 4: that I'm okay with that. But you've got to make

868
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:37,280
Speaker 4: that decision and go all the way in. You cannot

869
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 4: be half asking this thing. Either you're there or you're not.

870
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:42,320
Speaker 4: Am I taking crazy pills?

871
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:46,120
Speaker 6: You're not taking crazy pills? I fully agree, And I

872
00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:50,279
Speaker 6: would add two, what are the Washington Wizards doing here?

873
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 6: Shouldn't whether Beale is requesting the trade, or not. Isn't

874
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:57,000
Speaker 6: it time for Washington also to turn the page. The

875
00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:59,919
Speaker 6: price on Beal is gonna be there for some lang,

876
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:02,400
Speaker 6: but as the as the contract runs down, they're just

877
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:05,799
Speaker 6: gonna potentially lose value on what they begetting. That might

878
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:07,840
Speaker 6: not be true the way that we're trading like every

879
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:10,200
Speaker 6: pick in the world for guys. Now, maybe that package

880
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:13,800
Speaker 6: will just always be there for Beal. But if I'm Washington,

881
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 6: Bal can really only help this roster be just good

882
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:21,360
Speaker 6: enough to not get a top pick this year, maybe

883
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:23,279
Speaker 6: not even that. As it's turning out right now, we

884
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:26,279
Speaker 6: still got Westbrooks, so we're gonna lose plenty. But if

885
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:29,799
Speaker 6: I'm Washington, whether Beal is telling me trade me or not,

886
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 6: the body language says plenty anyway. But if I'm Washington,

887
00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:35,720
Speaker 6: why am I not just looking to turn the page?

888
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 6: And Bill is clearly not part of the long term plans.

889
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:40,880
Speaker 6: I don't care what he says. You can read it

890
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:43,240
Speaker 6: all over his body language and everything that we're seeing

891
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 6: where there's smoke through this fire, and there's been like

892
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 6: smoke coming out for weeks out of the Washington camp.

893
00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:51,640
Speaker 6: So I do not see any crazy pills here. I

894
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:52,239
Speaker 6: think it's time.

895
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:56,920
Speaker 4: All right, let's go to our Wednesday Night best bets.

896
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:00,719
Speaker 7: Dig in certain my dish, Little Delicious.

897
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:05,640
Speaker 1: It's the Wednesday NBA buffet shoot and swallow no.

898
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:08,799
Speaker 4: Saving Rahiem, what's your best bet for Wednesday Night?

899
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:11,120
Speaker 3: I had three, but I'm gonna I'm gonna go with

900
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:11,359
Speaker 3: this one.

901
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go with Toronto Raptors Washington Wizards over two

902
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:16,440
Speaker 5: thirty two.

903
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:16,920
Speaker 3: And a half.

904
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:22,000
Speaker 5: I think, you know, you can't make these totals high enough.

905
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,000
Speaker 5: When these Wizards games, I mean, the Wizards has been

906
00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 5: struggling offensively the last couple of games. They haven't scored

907
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:29,719
Speaker 5: you know, one hundred and three games. But when I

908
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:32,879
Speaker 5: look at this Raptors team, they're rolling, especially if Norman

909
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:35,960
Speaker 5: Piles in the lineup, I mean, without Ananobi on the floor,

910
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:40,759
Speaker 5: the Raptors are seven point seven points worse defensively, but offensively,

911
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:43,399
Speaker 5: I mean Norman Pile has been putting up twenty two

912
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 5: points shooting fifty fifty percent from three. I mean this

913
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:53,120
Speaker 5: offense right now, I mean right now, they're scoring one

914
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 5: hundred and fourteen points per one hundred possessions for the season,

915
00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:59,200
Speaker 5: but over the past two weeks they're scoring one hundred

916
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:01,799
Speaker 5: and twenty one points per one hundred possessions. The only

917
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:04,320
Speaker 5: teams have been better going that Tome Frame or the Bucks,

918
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:07,000
Speaker 5: the Nets, the Jazz, the Pelicans, and the Clippers, which

919
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:09,400
Speaker 5: are basically the offense the best offenses in the league.

920
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 5: You know, during the six game road trip, they're actually

921
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 5: scoring one twenty five per one hundred. I think they

922
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:18,920
Speaker 5: found something offensively. But at the same time, I think

923
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:22,360
Speaker 5: this Raptors team really isn't defendant, and you know against

924
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:25,320
Speaker 5: the Washington team that's been you know, struggling defensively.

925
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:27,080
Speaker 3: I think Washington can put up some points here.

926
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:29,360
Speaker 5: Also, you know the Washing the Wizards, they're playing the

927
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:31,719
Speaker 5: fastest place in the league one hundred and four possessions.

928
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 5: So I mean at two thirty two, I think it's

929
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 5: a little low. My line makes it two thirty four.

930
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:39,480
Speaker 5: If you can get anything under two thirty four or

931
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:41,919
Speaker 5: two thirty four, I think you have a good over here.

932
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:44,520
Speaker 4: Two thirty four is what we got in the app.

933
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:44,800
Speaker 3: Currently.

934
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:46,360
Speaker 4: By the way, you should download our app. It's the

935
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:49,759
Speaker 4: best app in the world for tracking your bets. Has

936
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:51,960
Speaker 4: up to the information all of our analysis. You're gonna

937
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:55,040
Speaker 4: get the money percentages bet percentages all of that, so

938
00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:57,839
Speaker 4: make sure to check that out. I had a really

939
00:44:57,840 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 4: hard time finding one on the slate, fellas like I

940
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:01,760
Speaker 4: had her really hard time finding one on the slate.

941
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 4: I am, however, gonna go reluctantly with the Cavaliers over

942
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 4: one oh five versus the Denver Nuggets. In UH sixteen

943
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:15,759
Speaker 4: games this season, leading the league, the Cavs have hit

944
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:20,600
Speaker 4: their over on their points total. Nuggets opponents have allowed

945
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:24,320
Speaker 4: and over on points total in over half of their games.

946
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:29,080
Speaker 4: You have a banged up small Denver team without Gary Harris,

947
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:33,160
Speaker 4: without probably without Faco Compazo, without PJ. Doser. We saw

948
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:35,760
Speaker 4: that the you know, they couldn't do anything versus Chris Middleton.

949
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:40,760
Speaker 4: They had problems with sex Land, which is Darius Garland

950
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:46,560
Speaker 4: and Collin Sexton last year. The problems with Sexland last year,

951
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 4: they'll probably have trouble with them tonight. Even without Larry Nance.

952
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:52,319
Speaker 4: The over is probably a pretty good play here too,

953
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 4: because Nance's out and that gives you the opportunity for

954
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:56,799
Speaker 4: Denver to put up a big number as well. The

955
00:45:56,840 --> 00:46:00,879
Speaker 4: totals only two nineteen has gone down twenty five. It's

956
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:03,759
Speaker 4: been bet down at two nineteen. But I do think

957
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 4: the Denver's defense I think is good. I honestly think

958
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:08,360
Speaker 4: Cleveland's offense is being a little underrated here, and I

959
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:11,320
Speaker 4: think Denver's defense is being overrated here. The pace is

960
00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:13,080
Speaker 4: a big factor. But I will go ahead, and it's

961
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:15,200
Speaker 4: only one hundred and five. I'm taking Cavs over one

962
00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 4: oh five for the night. Brandon, what's your best bet

963
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:19,440
Speaker 4: for the night? I'm betting it's a prop.

964
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:21,160
Speaker 2: It's a prop. You know it is.

965
00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:23,919
Speaker 6: So I'm sticking in that game and I'm gonna play

966
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 6: Will Barton. And for some reason, tonight, Will Barton's line

967
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:32,400
Speaker 6: for assists is still at two point five. Wow, Will Barton,

968
00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 6: that's it. Only at FanDuel it's at three point five. Elsewhere,

969
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 6: Hopefully it's still at two point five when you can

970
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:39,440
Speaker 6: play this Now, I'm taking the over. It is at

971
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:42,040
Speaker 6: minus one sixty four. If you don't play a lot

972
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:44,800
Speaker 6: of props, you might be turned off by that number

973
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:46,120
Speaker 6: because it looks.

974
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 2: Like a lot of juice. It is a lot of juice.

975
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 6: We've got this handy dandy tool on the app that's

976
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:54,799
Speaker 6: an evy expected value calculator. If at one sixty four

977
00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:57,400
Speaker 6: you need to hit this prop sixty two percent of

978
00:46:57,440 --> 00:46:59,879
Speaker 6: the time in order for that to be in your favor,

979
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:03,160
Speaker 6: so will Barton. If you've played fantasy basketball at all

980
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:05,440
Speaker 6: the last few years, you know that he gets these

981
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:07,880
Speaker 6: streaks sometimes where he just starts piling up the numbers.

982
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:10,439
Speaker 6: And he's on one of those right now. He's last

983
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:12,840
Speaker 6: four games, he's playing over thirty seven minutes a game.

984
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:15,840
Speaker 6: He's at four point eight assists per game in that stretch.

985
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:19,680
Speaker 6: That's double the number here we're projecting him over four.

986
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:22,560
Speaker 6: I could see him easily go over that, even if

987
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:25,359
Speaker 6: it's a bit of a blowout against Cleveland. I think

988
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:27,640
Speaker 6: that Barton's going to be the guy soaking up some

989
00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:29,200
Speaker 6: of the minutes to keep them just kind.

990
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:29,840
Speaker 2: Of humming along.

991
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:34,680
Speaker 6: Yeah, our app actually likes Barton's overs across the board,

992
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:38,000
Speaker 6: over points, over rebounds as well. At some apps you

993
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:40,880
Speaker 6: can combine some of those. You can do point rebound assess,

994
00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:43,719
Speaker 6: but just that over two point five assess, I think

995
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:45,280
Speaker 6: that's a very strong play it tonight.

996
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:48,759
Speaker 4: Well, I'm gonna be on it. One important thing to note,

997
00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:51,440
Speaker 4: there is somebody that covers the Nuggets locally here in Denver.

998
00:47:51,719 --> 00:47:54,880
Speaker 4: I will say this, Barton is force feeding MPJ a

999
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:57,200
Speaker 4: lot and since mbj's playing a lot of minutes and

1000
00:47:57,320 --> 00:47:58,920
Speaker 4: has to play a lot of minutes with the injuries

1001
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 4: to their back and their wings, they're low on wing depth.

1002
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:05,800
Speaker 4: They're low on guard depth right now because of injuries.

1003
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:07,840
Speaker 4: That means a Bard and MPJ want up sharing the

1004
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:11,120
Speaker 4: floor quite a bit. And he is looking constantly for

1005
00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 4: MPJ like it's a point of emphasis for him to

1006
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:16,839
Speaker 4: try and get MPJ going. And obviously Mpg's a lot

1007
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:20,040
Speaker 4: spot up shots. He hasn't shot well lately, but you know,

1008
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:22,040
Speaker 4: he's always a kind of threat I think to make buckets.

1009
00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:23,440
Speaker 4: So love that play.

1010
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:24,000
Speaker 3: That's great.

1011
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:26,240
Speaker 4: That's gotta wrap it up to the Action Network NBA Podcast.

1012
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:28,960
Speaker 4: Thanks for joining us, guys. Make sure a download our app.

1013
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:30,480
Speaker 4: Stay tuned the.

1014
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Speaker 3: Rest of the week.

1015
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:35,200
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1016
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1017
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1018
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1019
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 4: guys again next time on the Action Network NBA Podcast.

1020
00:48:55,120 --> 00:48:56,200
Speaker 8: We're finished talking