1
00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:05,760
Speaker 1: I was ten years old when my parents died aboard

2
00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:16,080
Speaker 1: the Hindenburg, and I'm twenty now, so do the math. Morning,

3
00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:19,239
Speaker 1: sweet world, and welcome to the No Dunks Podcast on

4
00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:23,880
Speaker 1: the Athletic Network. It's Friday, February seventh, All Star Weekend,

5
00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:26,200
Speaker 1: just one week away. I'm Jay Skeets and alongside me

6
00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:27,600
Speaker 1: as always taskinlists.

7
00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:29,000
Speaker 2: Good morning everybody.

8
00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,520
Speaker 1: We got the Bearded one. Tray Kirby. Hey, hey yo,

9
00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:33,960
Speaker 1: the international man of mystery taking it to the max.

10
00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:38,720
Speaker 1: Leelis friends, last, but not least, making the magic happens. JD. Hello,

11
00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:40,760
Speaker 1: there he is, and here we are. Thanks so much

12
00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:42,640
Speaker 1: for joining us here on a Friday. Follow us on

13
00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:46,000
Speaker 1: social media Twitter and Instagram at No Dunksinc. You know

14
00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:49,199
Speaker 1: we're on Facebook at Facebook dot com slash no Dunksinc. Well,

15
00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:50,080
Speaker 1: I guess it's official.

16
00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:51,280
Speaker 3: We're now on Facebook.

17
00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:54,600
Speaker 1: Email us your NBA questions and comments to No dunks

18
00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:57,080
Speaker 1: at the Athletic dot com and don't forget to grab

19
00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:00,000
Speaker 1: your official No Dunks merch at no dunks dot com.

20
00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:01,240
Speaker 1: All right, on today's.

21
00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:01,840
Speaker 3: Drop lots to talk about.

22
00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:04,720
Speaker 1: We're gonna discuss the Sixers disappointing loss on Thursday night

23
00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:07,399
Speaker 1: and they're disappointing season so far. We'll get to the

24
00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:10,920
Speaker 1: biggest surprise and takeaways from last night's All Star Game.

25
00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:14,520
Speaker 1: Draft Team Giannis and Team Lebron have been constructed. We

26
00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:16,720
Speaker 1: got worse of the week, we got pun gun, we

27
00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:20,399
Speaker 1: got so much more. But first, just wanted to put

28
00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:24,160
Speaker 1: a little button on the very busy NBA trade deadline.

29
00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:29,360
Speaker 1: We did our Trade Deadline Grades special podcast late Thursday night,

30
00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:31,600
Speaker 1: So if you haven't caught that one yet, go ahead,

31
00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:34,400
Speaker 1: download and listen to that one. We dropped it on Thursday,

32
00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:36,720
Speaker 1: where we went through all the big deals and put

33
00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:40,200
Speaker 1: a grade on each team involved in that particular deal.

34
00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:41,760
Speaker 1: But I wanted to ask you guys, now you've had

35
00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:44,319
Speaker 1: a little time to digest it all, who was your

36
00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:48,640
Speaker 1: biggest winner from the trade deadline? Be it a team,

37
00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:51,360
Speaker 1: a player, wherever you want, biggest winner, what do you got.

38
00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:53,360
Speaker 2: I'll start with the Atlanta Hawks because I think they

39
00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:56,880
Speaker 2: didn't overdo it. They set themselves some guidelines and they

40
00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:00,800
Speaker 2: didn't go crazy. They got Clint Capella, staring center cost

41
00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:03,800
Speaker 2: controlled for years, they didn't overpay him, a decent backup

42
00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:06,880
Speaker 2: center in Dwayne Deadman, and a third line center in

43
00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:09,440
Speaker 2: Scala BC Air. How many centers do you need? But

44
00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:11,440
Speaker 2: the thing that they didn't overdo they didn't go for

45
00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:16,160
Speaker 2: the center in Andre Drummond that they would somehow fall

46
00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:19,520
Speaker 2: in love with and overpay. He may be the biggest name,

47
00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:22,600
Speaker 2: the biggest center on the on the trade market. He

48
00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:26,359
Speaker 2: probably was. Steven Adams was there, but Andre Drummond you

49
00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:28,000
Speaker 2: could fall in love with. I guess he's a two

50
00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:30,240
Speaker 2: time All Star. But they just didn't overdo it. They

51
00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:33,640
Speaker 2: just spent the right amount of money, got cost certainty,

52
00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:38,320
Speaker 2: and they're waiting for their young guys to develop around

53
00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:41,440
Speaker 2: Clint Capella. Now you know, it is about Trey Young,

54
00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:43,960
Speaker 2: It is about John Collins and Kevin Hrder and DeAndre

55
00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:47,760
Speaker 2: Hunter and Cam Reddish and down the line. So I

56
00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:49,639
Speaker 2: think they just didn't go nuts. And all they gave

57
00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:52,440
Speaker 2: up was Evan Turner, alex Lanjabari Parker in Brooklyn's first

58
00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:57,120
Speaker 2: round pick. It's nothing extraordinary, it's nothing that anyone's going

59
00:02:57,200 --> 00:02:59,160
Speaker 2: to salivate over. But it was smart.

60
00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:02,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tough to disagree with that, yeap. You know

61
00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:05,120
Speaker 1: they could have gone all in. It wouldn't have taken

62
00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:07,400
Speaker 1: much as we saw it to probably get an Andre Drummond,

63
00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:09,440
Speaker 1: but they didn't want to have to worry about being

64
00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:12,880
Speaker 1: the one to pay Andre Drummon. And like you said, Cappella,

65
00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:16,399
Speaker 1: that's a nice contract. No matter what you really think

66
00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:19,800
Speaker 1: about him in today's game, you're not locking up your

67
00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:21,560
Speaker 1: books there with him on that deal. So that's a

68
00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:24,519
Speaker 1: I'm with you with that. The Hawks just not going overboard,

69
00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:25,240
Speaker 1: playing it slow.

70
00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:27,720
Speaker 3: And then when you think about it, it's like about

71
00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:30,919
Speaker 3: seventeen mil for Capella, about thirteen mil for Dwayne Deadman.

72
00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:33,600
Speaker 3: That equals one Andre Drummond basically, So I think you

73
00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:36,400
Speaker 3: would rather have those three guys or those two guys

74
00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:38,680
Speaker 3: for the next three seasons than having to pay Andre

75
00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:41,160
Speaker 3: Drummond the same amount for the next three seasons. Let's

76
00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:43,080
Speaker 3: just hope that Capella can get on the court soon

77
00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:45,480
Speaker 3: for the Hawks. Give him a little bit of defensive presence,

78
00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:47,520
Speaker 3: and he's going to be an incredible role man for

79
00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:49,080
Speaker 3: Trey Young. We're going to see that high screen and

80
00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:52,520
Speaker 3: roll even more so than we have been lately. And

81
00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:54,640
Speaker 3: I guess he'll probably be trading between doing it with

82
00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:58,200
Speaker 3: John Collins doing it with Quint Cappella. So Collins jumper

83
00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:00,000
Speaker 3: is going to be an important part of the puzzle

84
00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:01,560
Speaker 3: now for the Hawks. Is he going to be a

85
00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:03,400
Speaker 3: reliable shooter or is he going to be a guy

86
00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:06,480
Speaker 3: that makes thirty five percent on wide open shots? Or

87
00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:07,960
Speaker 3: is there going to be somebody you fear a little

88
00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:09,720
Speaker 3: bit and you actually have to jump out. That's going

89
00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:11,920
Speaker 3: to be something that the Hawks will have to track.

90
00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:13,800
Speaker 1: And will we see whether or not Duene Deadman can

91
00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:16,440
Speaker 1: only hit threes here in Atlanta, that seems to be

92
00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:18,039
Speaker 1: the case. This is the only place in the world

93
00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:20,400
Speaker 1: where you can knock him down with some consistency. Couldn't

94
00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:22,440
Speaker 1: do it in Sacramento. We'll see if he can get

95
00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:24,679
Speaker 1: back to his format prior time with the Hawks.

96
00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:26,760
Speaker 4: Earlier in the season, we saw Trey Young was apparently

97
00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:29,920
Speaker 4: upset with the front office in Atlanta because the losses

98
00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:31,720
Speaker 4: were starting to pile up. Now they haven't gone out

99
00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:33,960
Speaker 4: there and reshaped the entire franchise. They've got a couple

100
00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,760
Speaker 4: of nice little picks, but also sort of showing Trey Young, hey,

101
00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:39,680
Speaker 4: you know, we believe in our draft structure as well.

102
00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:41,479
Speaker 4: You know, they've got some good young guys in Reddish

103
00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:44,600
Speaker 4: and DeAndre Hunter and Kevin Guerreta, So you know those

104
00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:46,960
Speaker 4: guys are coming along, but they're not quite ready yet.

105
00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:48,960
Speaker 4: So they're sort of saying to Trey, listen, we're getting

106
00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:50,560
Speaker 4: you a little bit of help in the short term,

107
00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:53,440
Speaker 4: but we're also playing the long game. Yeah, we're not

108
00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:56,360
Speaker 4: really ready to contend just yet. But if all these

109
00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:58,520
Speaker 4: other pieces come together, and we've shown that we've drafted

110
00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:01,839
Speaker 4: pretty well, you should expect to see improvements over the

111
00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:04,480
Speaker 4: next couple of seasons as you get better and as

112
00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:05,560
Speaker 4: these guys developed together.

113
00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:08,000
Speaker 2: So I didn't know Marcelo Juertas was back.

114
00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:10,359
Speaker 4: In Yeah, I just love saying Kevin.

115
00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:14,360
Speaker 2: And I know people look at the Duane Deadmon contract

116
00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:16,400
Speaker 2: and they're like, why why would they do that? Why

117
00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:18,799
Speaker 2: would they acquire it? And the Sacramento Kings just signed

118
00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:20,920
Speaker 2: him and traded him, just like they did with Trevor Reza.

119
00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:23,720
Speaker 2: But it really is only guaranteed next year and then

120
00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:25,400
Speaker 2: they can just they could let him go, So it's

121
00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:27,800
Speaker 2: not it's it's one year. Yeah, so it's not. It's

122
00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:31,080
Speaker 2: not bad even though traded. The math there Capella Plist

123
00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:34,000
Speaker 2: Deadman is fine. The worrisome part is how does Collins

124
00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:36,000
Speaker 2: fit because he was his pick and roll. Part was

125
00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:37,360
Speaker 2: Trey Young's pick and roll partners.

126
00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:40,880
Speaker 1: So TBD Hawks get the winner of the trade deadline

127
00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:42,400
Speaker 1: from task trade.

128
00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:44,720
Speaker 3: What about you winner same trade? But my winner is

129
00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:47,960
Speaker 3: the Houston Rockets because they are all in on small

130
00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:50,880
Speaker 3: in all in on small, and they're balling small and

131
00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:53,279
Speaker 3: they were calling it micro ball on the ding today

132
00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:55,400
Speaker 3: and I just think it's cool to see a team

133
00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:58,160
Speaker 3: kind of look at what they have. And you know,

134
00:05:58,279 --> 00:06:02,360
Speaker 3: with Mike D'Antoni, he was criticized in LA for trying

135
00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:04,760
Speaker 3: to play fast with Paugasol and that didn't make any sense.

136
00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:07,080
Speaker 3: And you can see that things have changed now because

137
00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:10,640
Speaker 3: he's basically saying, our best players are all tiny guys,

138
00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:12,640
Speaker 3: So get the people who can't shoot out of here.

139
00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:14,960
Speaker 3: We can only have one non shooter on the court,

140
00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:18,040
Speaker 3: and now that's Russell Westbrook. That's pretty crazy. The team

141
00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:21,720
Speaker 3: is essentially built around Russell Westbrook. Now, yeah, I mean,

142
00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:24,159
Speaker 3: because Harden is going to do the same thing, regardless,

143
00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:26,560
Speaker 3: he's gonna be iso ball. They're gonna get the switches

144
00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:28,320
Speaker 3: on the pick and roll and then try and get

145
00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:30,680
Speaker 3: to the hoop. But now you're just making it so

146
00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:33,120
Speaker 3: Westbrook is the only non shooter on the team, and

147
00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:36,359
Speaker 3: it worked well last night. And you know, it's just

148
00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:39,600
Speaker 3: fun to watch because I feel like Maury and D'Antoni

149
00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:42,080
Speaker 3: are like, this might be our last year. Anyways, Let's

150
00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:45,360
Speaker 3: see if this thing works. And there are definitely teams

151
00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:48,200
Speaker 3: that it'll be a problem against come playoff time. But

152
00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:50,120
Speaker 3: for the regular season, I think it's going to be

153
00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:53,080
Speaker 3: successful because this is a different looking team than every

154
00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:55,080
Speaker 3: other team you're gonna see from night to night. Once

155
00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:56,920
Speaker 3: you get into a playoff series, it's the same team

156
00:06:56,920 --> 00:06:58,719
Speaker 3: seven times. That's when you get figured out. But for

157
00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:00,600
Speaker 3: the next thirty games, I think they're going to be

158
00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:01,000
Speaker 3: pretty good.

159
00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:03,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll get to that Rockets Lakers game from last night.

160
00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:05,440
Speaker 1: You know, so far, so good with comington in the mix,

161
00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:08,440
Speaker 1: had some big shots, but you said micro ball. The

162
00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:10,160
Speaker 1: ding was calling it. Obviously a lot of people just

163
00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:12,680
Speaker 1: going with the simple super small ball. I saw the

164
00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:17,960
Speaker 1: dream Shake suggest pocket rockets, which I really really like.

165
00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:21,760
Speaker 1: I love it, And I was in the shower this

166
00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:23,840
Speaker 1: morning and I was thinking pocket Rockets is pretty funny,

167
00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:25,840
Speaker 1: and then I was like, well, is there something off

168
00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:28,000
Speaker 1: of d'An Toni's seven seconds or less that we could

169
00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:30,120
Speaker 1: do with the rockets? So I did the math quickly.

170
00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:32,440
Speaker 1: I could be wrong, but what about seventy nine inches

171
00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:36,160
Speaker 1: or less? Sure six seven and under. I think the

172
00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:38,520
Speaker 1: math checks out. But I love pocket Rockets. I saw

173
00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:40,360
Speaker 1: the dream Shake had that first and Twitter was going

174
00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:43,760
Speaker 1: nuts with that. But yeah, the Rockets leaning all in

175
00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:46,600
Speaker 1: to whatever you want to call the super small ball.

176
00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:48,800
Speaker 2: It's fun, it's gilful. I saw a skill ball from

177
00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:52,040
Speaker 2: our friend David before. It's just hey, our best guys

178
00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:55,360
Speaker 2: and gila, Yeah, I guess that's what he wants to do.

179
00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:57,240
Speaker 2: That's what Mikey d wants to do, and they're just

180
00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:00,880
Speaker 2: trying to maximize Russell Westbrook. It's really it is. I

181
00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:02,600
Speaker 2: talked about the last couple of years, how he went

182
00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:04,920
Speaker 2: out with a whimper in the playoffs. How is Russell

183
00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:06,720
Speaker 2: Westbrook going to get better? Well, he said he was

184
00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:09,160
Speaker 2: going to shoot better going into the offseason. That's one

185
00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:12,360
Speaker 2: way that hasn't worked. The other way scoring inside, so

186
00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:14,920
Speaker 2: they've opened it up and so he's just one on

187
00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:18,760
Speaker 2: one inside and so far, so good. That it really

188
00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:21,560
Speaker 2: is just trying to make Russell Westbrook a better player.

189
00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:25,760
Speaker 2: And those are the only ways, plus resting, which they're

190
00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:29,160
Speaker 2: also doing to make him a better player. In the playoffs,

191
00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:29,960
Speaker 2: that's the hope.

192
00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:31,000
Speaker 1: All right, Lee, who you got?

193
00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:33,880
Speaker 4: I'm going with the New York Knicks team. That has

194
00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,520
Speaker 4: been a bit of a joke the last couple of years.

195
00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:38,720
Speaker 4: But I think they actually got this deadline right. I

196
00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:41,240
Speaker 4: really do, because Marcus Morris wasn't really a part of

197
00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:42,880
Speaker 4: the future. I know there was talk that they were saying, hey,

198
00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:44,600
Speaker 4: we want to resign him. I think it was probably

199
00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:47,280
Speaker 4: more to say, we're not giving away for nothing. And

200
00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:49,160
Speaker 4: in the end, they get a late first round pick

201
00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:51,240
Speaker 4: from the Clippers this season, so you know that'll fall

202
00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:54,520
Speaker 4: somewhere twenty four to twenty five somewhere around there. Probably

203
00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:57,240
Speaker 4: they get a pick swap for next season, and they

204
00:08:57,240 --> 00:08:59,480
Speaker 4: get a second rounder as well from the Clippers. In

205
00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:02,200
Speaker 4: this I think, considering where you are with the Knicks,

206
00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:04,959
Speaker 4: you've got a couple of draft assets here, and really

207
00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:07,240
Speaker 4: for a guy who you know, like I say, likely

208
00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:10,120
Speaker 4: wasn't going to be there for much longer. They usually

209
00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:13,000
Speaker 4: get these things wrong, the Knicks, and they didn't yesterday.

210
00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:16,200
Speaker 4: I think they decided, sure, why not, let's cash in

211
00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:18,320
Speaker 4: what we can here and get something. Again, it's not

212
00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:20,560
Speaker 4: an unprotected first or anything like that. It's not going

213
00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:23,120
Speaker 4: to be the top three pick. But this is what

214
00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:26,280
Speaker 4: smart teams do, is they just acquire these assets and

215
00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:28,199
Speaker 4: whether or not you want to parlay that into something

216
00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:30,640
Speaker 4: else down the road, at least you have that power

217
00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:31,200
Speaker 4: to control it.

218
00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:31,400
Speaker 2: Now.

219
00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:33,400
Speaker 4: You look at what Danny Ainge has done over the years,

220
00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:37,400
Speaker 4: what Sam Hinkey did in Philadelphia, what Sam prest he's doing,

221
00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:40,560
Speaker 4: and Okay, see, you don't necessarily have to hold on

222
00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:42,199
Speaker 4: to all these picks, but it's good to have them,

223
00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:44,760
Speaker 4: to have that option to give yourself an opportunity down

224
00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:45,040
Speaker 4: the road.

225
00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:46,880
Speaker 1: Right, And during free agency, they obviously struck out on

226
00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:49,200
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant, they struck out on Kyrie, they struck on

227
00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:51,079
Speaker 1: all the big names, and then they panicked and signed

228
00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:53,400
Speaker 1: a bunch of power forwards because Morris being one of them,

229
00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:56,080
Speaker 1: but to at least short term deals that maybe you

230
00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:58,600
Speaker 1: could then flip some of these guys in the next

231
00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:01,680
Speaker 1: couple of years for picks or for young talent. Yeah,

232
00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:03,199
Speaker 1: so they got one of them done.

233
00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:05,840
Speaker 4: And remember they fired their president forty eight hours before

234
00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:08,559
Speaker 4: the deadline as well, So it was like, oh, this

235
00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:10,440
Speaker 4: is a classic what the hell are they doing? But

236
00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:12,520
Speaker 4: it turned out, I think if you're a Knicks fan,

237
00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:14,400
Speaker 4: You're like, we might as well, We might as well

238
00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:16,520
Speaker 4: have these assays rather than a player who's just gonna

239
00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:18,960
Speaker 4: put up decent numbers for us on a meaningless season.

240
00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:21,959
Speaker 1: Right next, get a winner from there, Lee, you're back

241
00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:24,520
Speaker 1: on the band. Congratulations on getting back on the payroll.

242
00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:30,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, well possibly possibly yeah, possibly later of the years.

243
00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:31,959
Speaker 4: I just want to, you know.

244
00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:34,800
Speaker 3: Pretty suspicious that one of the worst teams in the

245
00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:37,200
Speaker 3: league trades their best player and you call them a winner.

246
00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:41,320
Speaker 3: I don't know. And that Leon Rose pocket too, I see.

247
00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:45,640
Speaker 2: Hmmm, worldwide, Ellis, I'm going to give.

248
00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:49,120
Speaker 1: A winner of the trade deadline to the Minnesota Timberwolves. Okay,

249
00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:53,640
Speaker 1: And here is why. D'Angelo Russell is a life preserver

250
00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:56,200
Speaker 1: for a lot of people in that organization.

251
00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:57,760
Speaker 3: Everyone escaping Wiggans Island.

252
00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:00,960
Speaker 1: Well from the front office. I mean, he's a life

253
00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:03,040
Speaker 1: preserver because they wanted this guy for like six months,

254
00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:04,920
Speaker 1: so they got their guy. I mean, did you even

255
00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:07,480
Speaker 1: see like the tweets the Wolves were sharing over the

256
00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:10,360
Speaker 1: last twenty four hours or so here, Like it's like

257
00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:12,760
Speaker 1: they had been planning this, because there was one that

258
00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:16,959
Speaker 1: was literally like a minute long video of Wolves fans

259
00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:19,600
Speaker 1: tweeting in Hey, get d LO. We need d LO

260
00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:22,200
Speaker 1: all this and it's like loading bar to the point

261
00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:23,960
Speaker 1: where they didn't get them, like we got them, ladies

262
00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:26,200
Speaker 1: and gentlemen, we got them. And of course they've got

263
00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:29,000
Speaker 1: all these photos of Towns showing Russell's jersey, so they're pumped.

264
00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:29,679
Speaker 1: So they got their guy.

265
00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:33,720
Speaker 2: Town's looking at a phone in essence seeing the news

266
00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:36,440
Speaker 2: and smiling, Oh yeah, very funny stuff.

267
00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:39,400
Speaker 1: Okay, he's a Russelling theory is a life preserver for

268
00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:41,840
Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns. I mean, the guy has lost seventeen

269
00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:44,600
Speaker 1: consecutive games that he's played in. He hasn't won forever.

270
00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:47,280
Speaker 1: He needs a friend more than anything right now. He

271
00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:49,640
Speaker 1: needs talent and a friend, and turns out rustles both

272
00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:51,640
Speaker 1: of them to him and then for Minnesota fans. And

273
00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:54,199
Speaker 1: I said this on our Trade Deadline Grades podcast last night,

274
00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:58,200
Speaker 1: this is you know, he is some hope, That's what

275
00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:00,400
Speaker 1: he is. Whether or not it's gonna work, whether or

276
00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:02,640
Speaker 1: not they'll win more than thirty five forty games, at

277
00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:05,360
Speaker 1: least you can sort of squint and say, well, it's

278
00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:07,600
Speaker 1: better than it was, because it couldn't really get much worse.

279
00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:10,000
Speaker 1: And with Wiggins contract and he was never gonna live

280
00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:11,280
Speaker 1: up to it. You just had to move on and

281
00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:13,320
Speaker 1: they and they got off of it. You got Russell

282
00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:17,479
Speaker 1: a really good player. I know people have differing opinions

283
00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:20,040
Speaker 1: on how good he maybe is. You know, is he

284
00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:23,520
Speaker 1: an elite point guard in this league? Is he a

285
00:12:23,559 --> 00:12:26,000
Speaker 1: top thirty guy like wherever? Like it's you know, it's

286
00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,719
Speaker 1: all across the board. He saw it. I mean on

287
00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:30,680
Speaker 1: one end of the floor. He's awesome and it's gonna work.

288
00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:33,400
Speaker 1: Really I do. I'm excited about the Towns Russell offensive

289
00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:35,080
Speaker 1: pairing and the pick and roll that they can do,

290
00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:37,240
Speaker 1: and just having a point guard that can shoot first

291
00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:39,079
Speaker 1: off of the teams drop under and that he can

292
00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:41,400
Speaker 1: get Towns the ball because they have that connection. So

293
00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:42,959
Speaker 1: I'm in on it.

294
00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:43,720
Speaker 5: I like it.

295
00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:47,200
Speaker 1: They got a better, younger, cheaper dude at a position

296
00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:49,000
Speaker 1: they need at the point guard spot. And yeah, it

297
00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:51,560
Speaker 1: cost them a first round pick, potentially a high one.

298
00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:53,480
Speaker 1: Who cares. The Wolves would have screwed it up anyway.

299
00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:55,720
Speaker 1: They always do with their picks for the most part,

300
00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:58,680
Speaker 1: So I like it. I'm giving them a winner.

301
00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:02,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's the thing, the picks that they've screwed up.

302
00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:06,040
Speaker 2: They've got two good players. Now, the reason why they're

303
00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:10,000
Speaker 2: still in that thirty five win probably ballpark is because

304
00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:13,200
Speaker 2: they don't have anybody else around them that's yet. Sure,

305
00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:16,360
Speaker 2: they've got Russell and they've got Towns, but looking back

306
00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:20,199
Speaker 2: on these picks, it's, you know, Joshuakogi in twenty eighteen,

307
00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:22,959
Speaker 2: Lowry Markinden who was flipped for Jimmy Butler who's now gone,

308
00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:26,120
Speaker 2: Chris Dunn Towns was a good one, Zach Lvine who's

309
00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:28,679
Speaker 2: now gone, Trey Burke who's sent to Utah. Like they

310
00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:32,640
Speaker 2: just don't have Robbie Hommel on that that's we're going

311
00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:36,400
Speaker 2: Derek Williams as an as an number two, Wesley Johnson

312
00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:39,400
Speaker 2: as the number four pick, Rocky Rubio was a good one.

313
00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:40,920
Speaker 2: If we're going way back, like they just haven't hit

314
00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:44,360
Speaker 2: any home runs. Yeah, they've been found things off. Really

315
00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:46,800
Speaker 2: they're not. They're not even I mean they can call

316
00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:49,160
Speaker 2: them a single, probably an infield single.

317
00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:51,560
Speaker 1: Once in a while, but the field.

318
00:13:51,640 --> 00:13:53,480
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's why they're a thirty five win team.

319
00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:55,120
Speaker 2: And I saw you going back and forth with one

320
00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:57,559
Speaker 2: particular Bulls fan yesterday on Twitter skeets.

321
00:13:57,280 --> 00:13:59,440
Speaker 1: After we were hard on them, for sure, I mean

322
00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:00,000
Speaker 1: we heard.

323
00:13:59,880 --> 00:14:04,160
Speaker 2: Of but thirty five wins is fine. It's better than

324
00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:06,200
Speaker 2: what they're gonna do this year. It's probably ten wins better.

325
00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:09,320
Speaker 2: So they did get better. Yeah, but it's not a

326
00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:11,920
Speaker 2: playoff team in the West, especially if they're in the East.

327
00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:12,440
Speaker 2: It's different.

328
00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:15,080
Speaker 1: Kevin Pelton also pointing out it's not just Russell. They

329
00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:16,640
Speaker 1: made a lot of other moves, right, I mean, there

330
00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:18,360
Speaker 1: was some action. They had a lot of turnover I

331
00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:21,360
Speaker 1: guess I should say with the roster, and they were

332
00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:23,560
Speaker 1: trying to play a bit of a rocket style ball

333
00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:26,240
Speaker 1: there under Saunders, like a little more, you know, get

334
00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:28,520
Speaker 1: the threes up and let them fly, and just weren't

335
00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:31,720
Speaker 1: doing it well. They improve their team shooting in Russell. Yes,

336
00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:35,120
Speaker 1: also Malik Beasley in theory Wancho even could get a

337
00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:38,040
Speaker 1: burn there and at times in limited minutes in his

338
00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:40,160
Speaker 1: career has looked like he could be a player in

339
00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:43,600
Speaker 1: this league. So they've gotten better. And again that pick

340
00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:45,720
Speaker 1: could look it could be a top four, it could

341
00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:48,080
Speaker 1: be a top four, top five pick, and the Warriors

342
00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:49,400
Speaker 1: can knock it out of the part because the Warriors

343
00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:51,720
Speaker 1: are betting on the Wolves being garbage, like that's a

344
00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:53,680
Speaker 1: big part of it. They're like all right, here's Russell.

345
00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:56,360
Speaker 1: We'll take Wiggins, but we still think you're gonna stink

346
00:14:56,680 --> 00:14:58,160
Speaker 1: and we're gonna get a pretty damn high pick.

347
00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:00,680
Speaker 3: And if you read the reports out of Golden State,

348
00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:02,880
Speaker 3: they kind of think the Wolves are gonna stink because

349
00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:06,520
Speaker 3: D'Angelo Russell stinks. The Warriors were not impressed with him

350
00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:07,920
Speaker 3: having him for three months.

351
00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:09,160
Speaker 2: They're like, he is.

352
00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:11,200
Speaker 3: Not a long term piece for us. We would rather

353
00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:14,520
Speaker 3: have picks. So I don't know, I don't know. I

354
00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:17,400
Speaker 3: was I was higher on this, uh yesterday before I

355
00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:19,440
Speaker 3: was reading everything coming out of Golden State. I'm like,

356
00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:22,040
Speaker 3: if these guys are trashing Russell on the way out,

357
00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:24,920
Speaker 3: and I've heard what people have had to say about Towns,

358
00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:28,040
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know. I'm they're gonna be good

359
00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:29,800
Speaker 3: on offense. That's all you can say. They're gonna be

360
00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:30,520
Speaker 3: good on offense.

361
00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:33,440
Speaker 1: Hey, why do we click here at no dunks? Because

362
00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:36,160
Speaker 1: we're friends, man, That's right. So maybe that's all it takes.

363
00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:41,080
Speaker 1: This is all This is a lowry DeRozan situation. Here

364
00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:44,400
Speaker 1: a bond and they would be happy. I mean, I

365
00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:46,640
Speaker 1: know they had to trade DeRozan for Kawhi. Leonard had

366
00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:48,800
Speaker 1: to throw friendship out the window to then take it

367
00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:50,600
Speaker 1: to the next level in total. But let's be honest,

368
00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:53,120
Speaker 1: the Wolves would be happy with the Raptors' success there

369
00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:55,360
Speaker 1: with the DeRozan and Lowry, you know, winning fifty games

370
00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:57,560
Speaker 1: and at least getting into the playoffs and winning some series.

371
00:15:57,880 --> 00:15:58,520
Speaker 1: Will that be enough?

372
00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:01,960
Speaker 2: Piece Cluttery and Derozen weren't friends before.

373
00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:05,000
Speaker 1: Though they weren't they were, But that's why this is better. Yeah,

374
00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:07,520
Speaker 1: coming in with learn it.

375
00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:08,000
Speaker 3: I get it.

376
00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:10,080
Speaker 1: So those are Look, I know, the Heat. We had

377
00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:12,120
Speaker 1: a big winner. We had the Heat excuse me as

378
00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:14,440
Speaker 1: a winner on our Trade Deadlines. Great podcast. Go check

379
00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:17,360
Speaker 1: that out again. We posted that later on Thursday night

380
00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:17,760
Speaker 1: going I.

381
00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:19,560
Speaker 3: Was a little surprised that you guys all picked bad

382
00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:22,520
Speaker 3: teams as your winners. Yeah, so I'm does this mean

383
00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:24,920
Speaker 3: that we're saying Aguadala and Marcus Morris not really that

384
00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:26,960
Speaker 3: big of acquisitions.

385
00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:28,680
Speaker 1: I guess I didn't pick the Heat in Nigodola because

386
00:16:28,680 --> 00:16:30,520
Speaker 1: we we went sort of long on it last night.

387
00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:33,400
Speaker 1: But no, it's a good point. Marcus Morris does not

388
00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:36,480
Speaker 1: move the needle all that much for me. I get it.

389
00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:39,680
Speaker 4: He's an upgrade over Mohawkless though. Yeah, right, and and

390
00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:42,000
Speaker 4: again Patrick Patterson's the other one who's probably not going

391
00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:44,760
Speaker 4: to play much anymore either. So I think the clip

392
00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:47,920
Speaker 4: has improved. Yeah, you know, I think getting Morris was

393
00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:50,240
Speaker 4: good for them, but uh, you know, they're already pretty

394
00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:53,120
Speaker 4: good if everyone's healthy, So I think it's fine. I

395
00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:53,960
Speaker 4: think it's fine for them.

396
00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:54,280
Speaker 2: Yeah.

397
00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:57,280
Speaker 1: Look of all the teams that are the title contenders

398
00:16:57,400 --> 00:16:59,320
Speaker 1: or even in that next tier, not a ton of

399
00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:01,800
Speaker 1: them made a lot of moves. The Rockets, of course,

400
00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:04,560
Speaker 1: maybe the biggest one. Getting comented the Heat, I guess

401
00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:08,480
Speaker 1: with Igodola. But Bucks and Lakers and Wraps and Celtics

402
00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:11,679
Speaker 1: and Picers if you're if they're in there, and Sixers,

403
00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:15,960
Speaker 1: I guess the Jazz had already got Clarkson before the deadline.

404
00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:18,560
Speaker 2: I just made I just made an editorial decision. And

405
00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:20,959
Speaker 2: I think we talked about the Heat enough. I think

406
00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,080
Speaker 2: the Grizzlies are winner. I think the heater a winner.

407
00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:27,000
Speaker 1: And our grades were fairly high across the board. I

408
00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:29,679
Speaker 1: thought on last night show there weren't. There weren't a

409
00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:31,560
Speaker 1: lot of bad grades.

410
00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:34,320
Speaker 3: Yeah we're nice guys, Yeah we'll be nice guys.

411
00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:34,680
Speaker 2: Yeah.

412
00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:37,560
Speaker 3: It was always exciting. It's always exciting. When the trades happen,

413
00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:38,919
Speaker 3: you don't think about the bad stuff. You're like, oh,

414
00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:39,840
Speaker 3: here's how this could work.

415
00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:42,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, like the Warriors could go in the toilet. Sure,

416
00:17:43,359 --> 00:17:45,439
Speaker 2: the Wigans situation could go in the toilet, but they

417
00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:48,000
Speaker 2: got a pick and they got the talented guys, so

418
00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:49,080
Speaker 2: yeah for now.

419
00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:51,240
Speaker 1: And they're the whole luxury tax and all that too.

420
00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:52,879
Speaker 1: That's a big part of the why they were doing that.

421
00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:55,760
Speaker 2: And the Kings. Kings were bad, but they recovered from

422
00:17:56,440 --> 00:18:00,000
Speaker 2: something even worse. So you know, those bad those bad contry.

423
00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:02,040
Speaker 2: I think they would be a loser other than that.

424
00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:03,359
Speaker 1: Pistons were a loser.

425
00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:06,000
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, we'll get to that.

426
00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:09,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, okay, okay, great. Let's get to some of

427
00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:11,600
Speaker 1: last night's games on Thursday night, because I believe there

428
00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:13,439
Speaker 1: was five on in total, had a couple on TNT.

429
00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:18,040
Speaker 1: Let's start with the Bucks and Sixers. Giannis dominant again.

430
00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:21,480
Speaker 1: Is he going to be a unanimous MVP? Yes, I

431
00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:23,640
Speaker 1: think it's Look, if they win seventy games, I don't

432
00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:26,000
Speaker 1: see how he couldn't be. But then again, maybe a

433
00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:28,680
Speaker 1: vote will be thrown to a Lebron or a vote

434
00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:32,439
Speaker 1: will be thrown to uh maybe even a quiet Probably not,

435
00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:35,760
Speaker 1: but it's damn Well should be his MVP. Bucks are

436
00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:37,600
Speaker 1: forty four and seven and they are still on pace

437
00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:38,959
Speaker 1: to become the third team in league history to win

438
00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:42,680
Speaker 1: seventy games. Jana said, thirty six and twenty clowned Dwell

439
00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:46,720
Speaker 1: Embiid a couple of times, straight up embarrassed them and

440
00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:49,919
Speaker 1: Sixers lose again. This is now what They're fourth in

441
00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:51,640
Speaker 1: a row on the road. They went oh and four

442
00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:54,880
Speaker 1: on the road trip, and uh, they're the most disappointing

443
00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:57,000
Speaker 1: team in the league. And there's been a lot of

444
00:18:57,040 --> 00:19:00,360
Speaker 1: finger pointing, both from you know, outsiders and maybe even

445
00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:02,600
Speaker 1: internally in that locker room that were you know, you're

446
00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:05,960
Speaker 1: you're hearing whispers of like we're soft, and Horford saying

447
00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:08,879
Speaker 1: things and Embiid being frustrated. Who is to blame for

448
00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:12,680
Speaker 1: this mess? Is it Embiid? Is it the structure of

449
00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:16,000
Speaker 1: the team. Is it Coach Brown, who's got to be

450
00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:18,000
Speaker 1: on the hot seat at this point if he wasn't already.

451
00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:21,199
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's a combination. But I think you

452
00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:23,400
Speaker 4: have to look at your star players first. I think

453
00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:25,720
Speaker 4: that's where it starts, and it's Embiid and Ben Simmons

454
00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:28,560
Speaker 4: and you know, Embiid settled I think last night a

455
00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:32,800
Speaker 4: few too many times for threes, and Jannis basically went

456
00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:35,440
Speaker 4: the opposite way at him. On the defensive Endianna sort

457
00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:36,800
Speaker 4: of said, I'm just going to go in and try

458
00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:39,480
Speaker 4: to score here when he could. And the Sixers just

459
00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:44,159
Speaker 4: they looked discombobulated last night. I thought they just they

460
00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:46,520
Speaker 4: just didn't look like on offense there was there was

461
00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:47,960
Speaker 4: a cohesive unit out there.

462
00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:50,320
Speaker 1: There were some possessions. Go back and watch. There is

463
00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:54,240
Speaker 1: nothing happening. No, there's nothing al Horford has. It's five

464
00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:56,919
Speaker 1: guys around, yeah, and it's like there's not even a

465
00:19:57,320 --> 00:19:59,800
Speaker 1: I don't know, someone cutting baseline or setting a pick over.

466
00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:00,720
Speaker 1: There's nothing.

467
00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:03,480
Speaker 4: Al Hoefe, it took twelve threes now hit five, which

468
00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:06,119
Speaker 4: is not a bad return. And we want him to

469
00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:06,760
Speaker 4: spice the floor.

470
00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:11,320
Speaker 1: That's what say Al Horford sending a message space floor,

471
00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:12,760
Speaker 1: okay here that shoot it every time.

472
00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:15,000
Speaker 4: That's what I thought, I mean. But then again, Embiid,

473
00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:17,040
Speaker 4: he took ten threes himself and hit three of them.

474
00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:19,200
Speaker 1: So and he says after the game, Embiid like, look,

475
00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:21,680
Speaker 1: this was the Bucks game plan. It is their game plan.

476
00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:23,680
Speaker 1: We'll give you threes. We don't think you'll hit a

477
00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:25,399
Speaker 1: lot of them. And so he was saying, yeah, you know,

478
00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:28,040
Speaker 1: I had the looks. They were there. I didn't knock

479
00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:28,640
Speaker 1: them down.

480
00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:30,960
Speaker 2: But they did a great job. When somebody dribbled into

481
00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:33,879
Speaker 2: the paint, they collapsed perfectly. They're just so in sync.

482
00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:36,560
Speaker 2: And that's the exact opposite of what's happening with the Sixers.

483
00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:39,200
Speaker 2: They're just so out of sync on both ends. And yeah,

484
00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:41,439
Speaker 2: all this talk coming into the game, you've got a

485
00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:43,399
Speaker 2: guy like Al Horford saying, we have problems in our

486
00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:45,840
Speaker 2: locker room, a guy who never talks. Harford never talks,

487
00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:49,240
Speaker 2: so there's there is a big problem. But a guy

488
00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:52,359
Speaker 2: like Joel Embiid said, we don't know what our identity is.

489
00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:54,520
Speaker 2: So you can put down on Brett Brown, sure, but

490
00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:56,040
Speaker 2: I think you have to put it on Joel Embiid.

491
00:20:56,880 --> 00:21:00,359
Speaker 2: You know, I we know who this team is to

492
00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:02,640
Speaker 2: be centered around. It's it's supposed to be centered around him.

493
00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:06,000
Speaker 2: He has to lead. And ever since that the old

494
00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:08,400
Speaker 2: up and down thing where Shaq and and Chuck got

495
00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:10,760
Speaker 2: on him and he came on there and he was

496
00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:12,639
Speaker 2: kind of sad, like, I don't know if any something's

497
00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:14,600
Speaker 2: going on in his life. But he is not ready

498
00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:16,840
Speaker 2: to play. He's not ready to lead. He's not ready

499
00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:20,120
Speaker 2: to be the best player on this team. And could

500
00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:22,520
Speaker 2: be something physically or maybe he just doesn't work out

501
00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:25,480
Speaker 2: hard enough, but he's not ready to be a leader.

502
00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:28,280
Speaker 2: And that's I think that's it. Has LEAs said, you

503
00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:30,520
Speaker 2: have point at the at the best players. Brett Brown

504
00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:31,719
Speaker 2: is the one who's going to be fired. If they

505
00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:33,520
Speaker 2: get bounced in the first or second round.

506
00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:36,000
Speaker 1: He's gone. He's gone. Regardless, how could he not be

507
00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:37,960
Speaker 1: at this unless they go.

508
00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:40,800
Speaker 2: On the run, he's probably he's probably gonna want to

509
00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:43,840
Speaker 2: pay pay the price. And then eventually, like if Joel

510
00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:46,320
Speaker 2: Embiid is playing this way under a new coach, then

511
00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:48,480
Speaker 2: he's one of the one of the guys that's going

512
00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:50,240
Speaker 2: to be traded next year as well, Like they're gonna

513
00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:52,520
Speaker 2: have to split them up. But it's it's on Embiid

514
00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:56,000
Speaker 2: to me, he has to he has to be better

515
00:21:56,080 --> 00:21:58,360
Speaker 2: and and regardless of you know where the three pointers

516
00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:01,520
Speaker 2: come from and all that, like they're just not running anything.

517
00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:04,199
Speaker 2: And I think that's, yeah, it's on Brett Brown, But

518
00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,520
Speaker 2: I think it's all it has to fall into the starters.

519
00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,560
Speaker 3: Man let's toss a little blame, I would say towards

520
00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:13,000
Speaker 3: Elton Brand. Ben Simmons creates almost every shot for the Sixers.

521
00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:14,960
Speaker 3: Sometimes it'll be Embiid getting it in the post, but

522
00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:17,920
Speaker 3: he's creating shots mostly for himself. If you're talking about

523
00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:20,600
Speaker 3: somebody creating for others, it's Ben Simmons. So he drives inside.

524
00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:22,800
Speaker 3: Joel Embiid is just standing there, or he's out on

525
00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:25,439
Speaker 3: the three point line, So Ben Simmons is then kicking

526
00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:28,879
Speaker 3: to either two centers. A shooting guard in Shake Milton,

527
00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:32,159
Speaker 3: who is doing fine as a spot starter, maybe Furkhonkork

528
00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:34,720
Speaker 3: Moses out there. Thi Bolt is hitting the three a

529
00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:37,040
Speaker 3: little bit this year, but he's not a shooter who

530
00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:40,800
Speaker 3: scares anybody. Al Horford has to take twelve priests. Tobias

531
00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:43,040
Speaker 3: Harris took six threes last night, made five of them.

532
00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:44,800
Speaker 3: He should have been the one taking twelve threes. I

533
00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:48,400
Speaker 3: just the team that has been built around Embiiden Simmons

534
00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:50,960
Speaker 3: could make a lot more sense than having Tobias Harris

535
00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:53,600
Speaker 3: and now Horford out there. Josh Richardson in theory would

536
00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:55,840
Speaker 3: help whenever he gets healthy, but he hasn't really been

537
00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:58,560
Speaker 3: an impact player for Philadelphia yet this year could have

538
00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:01,320
Speaker 3: used the money on Horford and in other places.

539
00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:03,880
Speaker 1: For sure, it's starting to look that way, there's no doubt.

540
00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:05,600
Speaker 1: And I'm with you on the Embiid, Like I think

541
00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:08,520
Speaker 1: he's actually avoided quite a bit of criticism so far

542
00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,399
Speaker 1: this season, but here it comes now at this timing,

543
00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:14,320
Speaker 1: and rightfully. So you guys had him as an MVP,

544
00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:16,960
Speaker 1: you know, as your pick, and he should be as

545
00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:21,240
Speaker 1: an MVP candidate. And you imagine this is like Lebron's

546
00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:24,720
Speaker 1: team or even Giannis's team for Coriola, like playing like

547
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:28,120
Speaker 1: this and the star guy in him looking a little

548
00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:30,920
Speaker 1: lethargic obviously just hanging out the three, they'd be like

549
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,160
Speaker 1: they'd be getting killed killed.

550
00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:35,680
Speaker 3: Look what happened with Kyrie Irving, right, He took a

551
00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:37,720
Speaker 3: lot more shots than Joel Embiid has been so far

552
00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:40,199
Speaker 3: this season, right, right? And I mean the Sixers are

553
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:42,840
Speaker 3: the Celtics from last year. Yeah, every year we're having

554
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:45,040
Speaker 3: another we're having a player's only a meeting. We got

555
00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:45,680
Speaker 3: to get this together.

556
00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:46,160
Speaker 1: We're soft.

557
00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:48,080
Speaker 3: There's stuff going on in our locker room. It's all

558
00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:51,040
Speaker 3: the exact same stuff that happened in Philadelphi or in Boston.

559
00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:53,680
Speaker 3: Last year, but right now it's basically just trying to

560
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:56,119
Speaker 3: split up Embiden Simmons. It seems to be the solution

561
00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:56,639
Speaker 3: for people.

562
00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:59,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Embiid, Yes, he looks lethargic on the floor.

563
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:04,679
Speaker 2: He's also talking to himself on the floor. He's talking

564
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:07,160
Speaker 2: to himself, you know, I think off the floor as well.

565
00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:09,880
Speaker 2: Like I said, he was sad earlier in the year,

566
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:13,399
Speaker 2: Like it's a I think it's a whole situation, a

567
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:18,280
Speaker 2: whole universe and orbit around Joel andbi that's just not

568
00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:20,359
Speaker 2: going right because when he's off the floor, they at

569
00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:22,840
Speaker 2: least know what they are to some degree. It's Ben

570
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:26,560
Speaker 2: Simmons running and everybody else spacing and we know what

571
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:30,400
Speaker 2: we're doing, you know. And it could be Joel Embiid's

572
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:32,640
Speaker 2: orbit versus Ben simmons orbit. They don't like each other,

573
00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:34,679
Speaker 2: but you know, they do pass it to each other.

574
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:37,720
Speaker 2: It's not like they're freezing each other out by any means.

575
00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:41,080
Speaker 2: But I think it has to start with Joel and

576
00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:43,879
Speaker 2: Bid like that's in the locker room. I don't know.

577
00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:45,480
Speaker 2: I don't know it's gonna fall on Brett Brown, but

578
00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:47,439
Speaker 2: he has to be able to coach those guys. They

579
00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,840
Speaker 2: also have to be coachable. And Joel embiid all this

580
00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:53,800
Speaker 2: talk about hey, I'm not drinking Shirley Temples anymore and

581
00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:57,080
Speaker 2: being healthy, it doesn't look like that's played out. I

582
00:24:57,119 --> 00:24:58,520
Speaker 2: don't know what's going on in his world.

583
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:01,680
Speaker 1: I wonder if this of road swing it happened one

584
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:05,000
Speaker 1: week prior, just in the schedule, what impact it could

585
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 1: have had on the trade deadline, Like you know what

586
00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:09,159
Speaker 1: I mean, Like just if you if you bump this

587
00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:11,840
Speaker 1: all up a week or two, and just how bad

588
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,880
Speaker 1: they've looked losses to Atlanta, Boston, Miami and then now

589
00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:16,920
Speaker 1: the Bucks. You know, some of those really good teams,

590
00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:19,440
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, but to not even have to

591
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:21,320
Speaker 1: put up a fight in some of them, if that

592
00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:24,880
Speaker 1: happens a little prior, Man, I you know, does Elton say,

593
00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:28,240
Speaker 1: all right, well forget fireing the coach. We might get

594
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:29,920
Speaker 1: to that, but we got to make a move here,

595
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,600
Speaker 1: like a big, big move instead. This is obviously the

596
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:35,080
Speaker 1: squad they're going with here. I'm getting to the point

597
00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:37,119
Speaker 1: where I will be shocked at by Brown survives this season.

598
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 1: If this continues in the regular season after the All

599
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,359
Speaker 1: Star break, then he will be They'll they'll have to

600
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:44,080
Speaker 1: fire them. They'll either just go to their you know,

601
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:45,919
Speaker 1: someone else on the bench and say well, you have

602
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:48,480
Speaker 1: a crack at it, and we'll see. Yeah.

603
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:50,119
Speaker 4: The only problem with that is they're going to make

604
00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 4: the playoffs. It's not like they can slip out. So

605
00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:55,800
Speaker 4: it'd be unusual, I think for a team to make

606
00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 4: that big a change when they're going to the playoffs.

607
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:01,760
Speaker 4: Not saying it couldn't happen, but certainly it feels like

608
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:03,800
Speaker 4: he has he's lost a little bit of grip of

609
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:07,240
Speaker 4: that team because he's looking is so frustrated on the

610
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:10,680
Speaker 4: sides because again, offensively, nothing just flows at all with

611
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:13,239
Speaker 4: that team. Is It's just the ball just sticks and

612
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:16,000
Speaker 4: it just doesn't It doesn't look cohesive out there. But

613
00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:18,560
Speaker 4: of course going up against a team like Milwaukee, which

614
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:20,879
Speaker 4: is a fantastic defensive team and the best team in

615
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:25,159
Speaker 4: the league, that it gets exposed even more. And if

616
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:27,359
Speaker 4: you look at like the bench contributions the Bucks got

617
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:29,640
Speaker 4: last night, you know everyone had came on Devincenzo, pat

618
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,360
Speaker 4: Conn and Kyle korvo Is diving on loose balls late

619
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:34,960
Speaker 4: last night. That just shows the complete opposite. I think

620
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:37,879
Speaker 4: that the team knows exactly what each other's role is

621
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:39,360
Speaker 4: and they all play for each other. They have great

622
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:43,119
Speaker 4: chemistry and they understand Yannis runs the show. We just

623
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:46,280
Speaker 4: have to fill in around the edges there, so you know,

624
00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:48,520
Speaker 4: you've got sort of basically a mirror image of what

625
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 4: you're seeing from Philadelphia out of Milwaukee.

626
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:53,919
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's why they have a NANEA N eighteen

627
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,920
Speaker 2: road record, because they don't care enough to play hard

628
00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,640
Speaker 2: together and that's what they're twenty two and two at home,

629
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:02,600
Speaker 2: which is which is wild, because they're talented enough to

630
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 2: win games. And that's probably why they survive is because

631
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 2: math check seventeen games at home left and thirteen games

632
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:11,720
Speaker 2: on the road. You know they're going to win more

633
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 2: games than not the rest of the season and probably

634
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:17,440
Speaker 2: win fifty games, which is bonkers to say. Yeah, and

635
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:19,200
Speaker 2: we'd still be worried about them, but they're sitting at

636
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:21,920
Speaker 2: thirty one and twenty one. It's just that the offense,

637
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:24,800
Speaker 2: like with all these talented dudes, you see a guy

638
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 2: drive in like we talked about, like Trey mentioned earlier,

639
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:30,520
Speaker 2: and there's a lot of drop offs drop off to

640
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 2: Joel Embiid if he's standing there. But it's like they're

641
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 2: not dedicated to the plan, which is then you got

642
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 2: to swing it. If we're doubled, it's just they don't

643
00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:42,480
Speaker 2: care or they just don't want to they just don't

644
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:45,000
Speaker 2: want to do it. And that's just guys that they're

645
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 2: not all on the same page.

646
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, the other game I wanted to address Covington, I said,

647
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,159
Speaker 1: made his debut the pocket Rocket. So last the Lakers

648
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:55,080
Speaker 1: one twenty one one to eleven. So the first real

649
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:58,120
Speaker 1: experiment with the extremely small ball, with that least Covington

650
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:01,200
Speaker 1: in the mix so far as six Westbrook had forty

651
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:05,280
Speaker 1: one and Bobby cove hit two clutch late threes get

652
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 1: fourteen points eight boards. I mean, really really solid game.

653
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:10,480
Speaker 1: Defensive numbers there as well. He used to hit nineteen

654
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,360
Speaker 1: threes overall, What did you think from this ruck?

655
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:13,679
Speaker 3: Is this?

656
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 1: I mean, this is fun. We like it because it's

657
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 1: unique and it's wild to see. And we said the

658
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:20,400
Speaker 1: Lakers would be one of those teams like, I don't

659
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:23,679
Speaker 1: know they're gonna get killed inside. Well they didn't. I

660
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 1: mean the Lakers scored a bunch of points in the paint,

661
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:28,720
Speaker 1: but on the boards was pretty even. And the Rocks

662
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 1: also don't care if you're gonna score outscore them in

663
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 1: the paint because they're like, well, we're gonna outscore you

664
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 1: by thirty from the three point line, which is what

665
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 1: they did in this game. It'll be fun to see

666
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:36,720
Speaker 1: if this can last.

667
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right. They get a very impressive win because

668
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 4: they came back late and Robert Comin hit one of

669
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 4: those threes, like I think it was Anthony Davis was

670
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 4: right there in his face he hit it, so they

671
00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:50,160
Speaker 4: win the game. He hits those shots. Oh it's working. Well,

672
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 4: we need a little bit more of a sample size

673
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 4: to really see if it can hold up. But good

674
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 4: on Russell Westbrook again. I mean, man, he's playing. He

675
00:28:58,160 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 4: only took two threes last night, hit one of them.

676
00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:02,720
Speaker 4: He does seem to have actually been able to reel

677
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 4: that three point shooting in for this season because in

678
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 4: the past he's gotten sucked into that to shooting where

679
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:10,360
Speaker 4: hasn't been a great shooter. He's still only shooting like

680
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 4: twenty four percent on the season, so he's realizing that's

681
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 4: not my bag. Baby. Instead he's finding otherwise and he's

682
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 4: I mean, this is the best Russell Westbrook when he's

683
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:23,239
Speaker 4: going inside and taking advantage of matchups where he can

684
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 4: use his athleticism and speed. So I mean he's worked

685
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 4: himself into the All Star Game too, for his play

686
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 4: over the last month or so. Honestly, I believe that

687
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 4: because early on it didn't look great, and last night

688
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 4: he loves the big stage. He loves the big challenge.

689
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:38,960
Speaker 1: I love when Russ has it going and he's feeling

690
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 1: it a little bit.

691
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:40,560
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, he.

692
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:43,480
Speaker 1: Starts barking at everybody and staring at the crowd. It

693
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 1: is fun when he's got to go and he's feeling it.

694
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 3: You can see exactly watching this game. You can see

695
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 3: exactly why the Rockets made the trades they did. They

696
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 3: may be got and dunked on ninighteen times, but they're fine.

697
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 3: They made nineteen three, so that's an extra nineteen points

698
00:29:57,600 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 3: right there. You gotta win the math. Clint Capella's not

699
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,360
Speaker 3: flipping the math for the Rockets, so they're going all

700
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 3: in on it. I definitely thought it was hilarious seeing

701
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 3: the clips from Mike D'Antoni ple pregame where he's like,

702
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 3: we might be short, but we're stout. James Harden, he's stout,

703
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 3: he's strong. Eric Gordon, he can guard Biggs. PJ. Tucker

704
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:15,280
Speaker 3: he can guard Biggs, And then Anthony Davis went out

705
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 3: and was like, who cares that you guys are even

706
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:20,000
Speaker 3: out here just dunking every single time it was roast mode.

707
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:22,080
Speaker 3: But those are only twos.

708
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 1: I think there's a couple things to remember when you

709
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:27,800
Speaker 1: do go super small. Yeah, you like, you gotta play hard.

710
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 1: All these young guys small guys, excuse me, sort of

711
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:32,360
Speaker 1: got a box out and like, bust the rass and PJ.

712
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 1: Tucker's incredible and all that. I love them. But the

713
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 1: other thing you get from playing small is in a

714
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 1: forty eight minute game in theory, in theory, if the

715
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 1: other team are playing their bigs, they're not gonna be

716
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 1: able to sustain that effort over the course of the game.

717
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:47,800
Speaker 1: And I thought you saw the Lakers look a little

718
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 1: more tired as the game went on a little bit,

719
00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 1: where the Rockets, being just the smaller guys, more athletic guys,

720
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:54,440
Speaker 1: are gonna be able to sustain it in theory a

721
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:56,600
Speaker 1: little bit more. That's one thing. The other thing, though,

722
00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 1: the big benefit over this like five game stretch here

723
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:01,200
Speaker 1: where they've gone super small, where they've gone pocket Rocket,

724
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 1: they're forcing more turnovers and that is huge I mean

725
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:08,080
Speaker 1: last night the Rockets scored thirteen points on sixteen Laker turnovers,

726
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:09,960
Speaker 1: and then the Rocks okay, you flip it, well, they

727
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 1: gave up eleven second chance points on six Lakers offensive rebounds.

728
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:15,719
Speaker 1: But that's still you know, do the math on that.

729
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 1: That's still you're coming out positive. That's a plus two

730
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 1: when you're looking at turnovers that you're creating into points

731
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:22,239
Speaker 1: and then oh yeah we're small on the glass, but

732
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:24,640
Speaker 1: it's okay, those are the second chance points and that's

733
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:26,959
Speaker 1: been the big difference they're averaging. The other team is

734
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:29,480
Speaker 1: like eighteen turnovers per game over this little run here

735
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 1: with the super small ball experiment. So yeah, that's a

736
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 1: big positive, and I think just again, Covington's gonna help

737
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:38,440
Speaker 1: with that. There's no doubt about that, you know, getting

738
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 1: deflections and getting these steals and letting Westbrook go to

739
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 1: either then attack or then here comes the you know,

740
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 1: the the second wave of three point shooters that you

741
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:47,520
Speaker 1: got to try and get a body on Harden or

742
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:49,400
Speaker 1: Gordon or a Tucker in the corner or something like that.

743
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: So that to me is the obviously two little positives

744
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 1: of this going really small. I'm excited to see if

745
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 1: it can continue in the regular season and then into

746
00:31:58,640 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 1: the playoff series.

747
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 2: Think they got sucked into playing the Rockets style of

748
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:04,680
Speaker 2: bit they sped up a little bit. They didn't. They

749
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:07,120
Speaker 2: just saw, hey, Anthony Davis are a big man, let's

750
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 2: just throw it to him. And they weren't really setting

751
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:12,960
Speaker 2: up posts moves as well, although you know, Anthony Davis

752
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 2: was awesome. I think they would they would slow it

753
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 2: down and get a game plan going, and they would

754
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 2: get back on defense because they know the Rockets would

755
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 2: run it down their throats. If this was a playoff series,

756
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 2: they just would be a lot more prepared for it.

757
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 2: They would plan a scheme and then it would be different.

758
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 2: And they just wouldn't speed it up and get into

759
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:31,600
Speaker 2: the small ball mote because they should be bigger. And

760
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 2: that's what hurt them, I think a little bit. They

761
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:37,280
Speaker 2: just this isn't a playoff series. This is a game

762
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 2: in February. Yeah, I get that. Yeah, but it obviously

763
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 2: it's it is a two for three thing, and that helps.

764
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 2: And I do agree with the stout comment of like

765
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 2: D'Antoni watching those dudes when they get switched. A bunch

766
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:54,400
Speaker 2: of them. Anyways, and Robert Covington as well. I think

767
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 2: you can add him to the stout factor. But they

768
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 2: want a big to be able, Like they can't go

769
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 2: into a series with Anthony Davis or Nikola Jokic if

770
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 2: they play him and give up forty five fifty points

771
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 2: at night. I just I think they need They might

772
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 2: think they can, They need somebody, I think.

773
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 1: But yeah, well but.

774
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 2: This sets up Russell Westbrook so nicely. On the other end,

775
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 2: you know, you had twenty points in the paint because

776
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 2: they're playing small because it's it's not Clin Cappella in there,

777
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 2: and that's he's been doing it all year. He's been

778
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 2: going in there. But I think is his percentage within

779
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 2: three feets even going to go up higher? And that

780
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 2: that just that just elevates Russell Westbrook. They're making him

781
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:36,560
Speaker 2: a better player, and that's that's the important part. It's

782
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 2: skill ball, it's small ball, it's pocket rockets. It's what

783
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 2: else am I forgetting.

784
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,960
Speaker 1: Seventy nine inches or less? Okay, no one's not gonna

785
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 1: catch on. It's too bad.

786
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 3: Not everybody's six foot five and under seventy seven inches.

787
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 3: Last would work perfectly. Unfortunately, we have to see Toablo

788
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:52,480
Speaker 3: Cephalosha last night. Well, welcome back, buddy.

789
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 1: Yeah.

790
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 3: Is he gonna stay in the rotation? Probably?

791
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 1: He's six seven. I think that helps.

792
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:58,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why I was confused with the TNT graphic

793
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 2: going around. Did you see the old graphic of the

794
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 2: game from the fifties or sixties, first game since whatever

795
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:08,359
Speaker 2: it was nineteen fifty something, where there is guys six

796
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 2: to six are smaller. I mean Robert Covington was playing.

797
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, six to seven?

798
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Tabo's six seven or whatever.

799
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 1: Were they alluding to the game before Covington was there

800
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 1: and it was just the starters? I think it was. Yeah.

801
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 1: I think it was so weird like that. I do

802
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 1: love the Rockets jump ball situation. Oh yeah, Harding just

803
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:28,759
Speaker 1: goes yeh, all right, you guys take it. We'll get

804
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:29,399
Speaker 1: in the second half.

805
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:30,399
Speaker 4: Dude.

806
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:33,439
Speaker 1: I find that fascinating. I saw Zach lowright today here too.

807
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:36,239
Speaker 1: The Lakers, Clippers, Nuggets, and Mavericks, they all rank among

808
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:39,879
Speaker 1: the league's best offensive rebounding teams. So they're gonna try

809
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:42,080
Speaker 1: and bludgeon Houston on the glass when they played them

810
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 1: in these games and maybe series. But Houston is just

811
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:48,440
Speaker 1: counting on go ahead, go for your offensive rebounds. If

812
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:52,239
Speaker 1: you don't get it, we're gone and we're probably hitting

813
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 1: a fast break three in transition. So you know, go ahead,

814
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 1: and I can't wait to see You were sort of

815
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 1: alluding to it there. I think tasks like because you

816
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:02,799
Speaker 1: said it last night, the Lakers started to play their game.

817
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 1: That's the thing. To me. It's like, do this was

818
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 1: the same thing with Dan Tony seven seconds or less

819
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:09,359
Speaker 1: way back in the day. It's like, do you try

820
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 1: and play that way? Do you fall into the trap

821
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 1: of playing fast at that time or now in today's

822
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:16,600
Speaker 1: game with this team, play small or do you say no, no, no,

823
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,960
Speaker 1: we are who we are. We are gonna either back

824
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 1: in the day, slow it down, you know, spurs like

825
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:23,800
Speaker 1: type ball, like just pound the ball out of the

826
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 1: rock for twenty three seconds, or now against them like

827
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:30,279
Speaker 1: post up. You know, we don't got a fire away

828
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:32,279
Speaker 1: at threes, you know, like we'll catch up there at

829
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 1: the free throw line and just by dunking on their

830
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:35,400
Speaker 1: heads and stuff like that and getting them in the

831
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:38,920
Speaker 1: foul trouble. That's always the fun battle. I think that

832
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:41,880
Speaker 1: coach is probably trying to decide within the game. It's like, well,

833
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:43,359
Speaker 1: what do we do here, do we play their type

834
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 1: of game and go small or do we just continue

835
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 1: to think what might work and that's just out out killing.

836
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:53,839
Speaker 4: Yeah, but if Paja Talking gets injured or misses any time,

837
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:57,880
Speaker 4: then then then they're in trouble even more are with that?

838
00:35:57,920 --> 00:35:59,280
Speaker 1: He is so important out.

839
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 2: Of this And I was thinking last night watching him.

840
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 2: I know we've talked about his development as a three

841
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 2: point shooter, but the dude was drafted in two thousand

842
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 2: and six as the second rounder who had, you know,

843
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 2: virtually no shot. He was just a grinder. He goes overseas,

844
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 2: he comes back and is a new player, and he's

845
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:17,919
Speaker 2: underpaid big time for the Houston Rockets, and he's old

846
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 2: for a basketball player. He's going to be thirty five

847
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 2: during the postseason. It's testament to him to what he

848
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:25,840
Speaker 2: was when he was drafted by the Raptors. He was

849
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 2: a real Colangelo type guy when they drafted him in

850
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 2: six to be a tough dude and didn't get paid

851
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:34,600
Speaker 2: so he said I'm gone. Now he's back and he's

852
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:38,800
Speaker 2: playing a perfect role and it worked well. He was

853
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 2: guarding Anthony Davis. It's just I think you post up

854
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 2: obviously over and over but you have Anthony Davis like

855
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 2: he can run back. I just think they weren't ready

856
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:49,080
Speaker 2: to run. I think that's a part of it.

857
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:50,719
Speaker 3: Like see, I think that the post up is part

858
00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 3: of the trick of this thing, is that you go

859
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:53,879
Speaker 3: out there, you're like, oh man, all those guys are small.

860
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 3: Let's post up every single possession. And that's what the

861
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 3: Rockets want. That's what like George Carl's teams wanted back

862
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:02,399
Speaker 3: in the day. He's like, yeah, we'll switch, go ahead

863
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:03,839
Speaker 3: and try and score in the post every single time.

864
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 3: We're gonna shoot a three because you're not gonna make

865
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:07,840
Speaker 3: every single post shot. I don't know they gotta. I

866
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 3: would imagine once it comes down to playoff time, a

867
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 3: team like the Lakers will say, Okay, you've got all

868
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 3: six foot five guys, we're gonna do a pick and

869
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:15,359
Speaker 3: roll every time. We'll throw a lob to the rim

870
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 3: every time. That's different than trying to back down PJ Tucker.

871
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 3: He definitely cannot jump with Anthony Davis.

872
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:22,440
Speaker 2: Yeaheah. I just thought they were coming down and just

873
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 2: throwing an entry pass immediately. There was like a pass

874
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:27,759
Speaker 2: prior to it. But I think you run more action

875
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:30,920
Speaker 2: to get some movement before the post, and then it's

876
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 2: a lot different. Then it's then it's you know, we're

877
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,880
Speaker 2: sort of in position to get back on defense. But yeah, totally, totally.

878
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:39,359
Speaker 2: I think they just this was a game number one

879
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 2: I think for the Lakers seeing it, and they got

880
00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 2: that little like, oh we got a big on a

881
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 2: little just throw it to them. Yeah, but if you

882
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 2: get more action going then then the guys will get back.

883
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:52,839
Speaker 2: And hey, it was a close game, but good win quickly. Here.

884
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 1: The race for the eighth spot in the West had

885
00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 1: a couple teams involved last night some other games. You

886
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 1: had Zion williamson'scoring twenty one shot nine to eleven as

887
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 1: the Pelicans held off the Bulls one twenty five, one

888
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:06,880
Speaker 1: to nineteen, so they got the win. That's big for

889
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 1: them obviously in this race. And then we had Spurs Blazers.

890
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:11,960
Speaker 1: Lillard scored twenty six points, Whiteside had a big game.

891
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:15,720
Speaker 1: Blazers beat the Spurs one twenty five to one seventeen.

892
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:18,920
Speaker 1: So Portland now two and a half back from the Grizzlies.

893
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 1: San Antonio falls to a full four games back and

894
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 1: New Orleans is holding out hope here, but they improved

895
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: to five and a half back sort of just holding

896
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:28,920
Speaker 1: on to the rope. Obviously, big games in that in

897
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 1: that race, that's gonna be fun to watch. Here Ken

898
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:34,799
Speaker 1: the Grizzlies, you know, you know, stiff arm, the Blazers,

899
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 1: stiff arm the Spurs and maybe even the Pelicans here.

900
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 1: Who got who got a quality win on the road,

901
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 1: even if it's against the Bulls.

902
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 4: Sian Williamson, Man.

903
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:46,760
Speaker 3: That guy's awesome. He he He's just awesome. And it really, honestly,

904
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,319
Speaker 3: it shows you how good the Milwaukee Bucks are. Seeing

905
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 3: the way Zion has dominated since he came into the league.

906
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:53,400
Speaker 3: He's had one bad game so far, and it was

907
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 3: against the Bucks. They blocked a shot three times. He

908
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 3: went five for nineteen. You want to talk about how

909
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 3: good the Bucks are. They've got a lot of tall

910
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:00,799
Speaker 3: guys in there who can play d and I mean

911
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 3: they shut it down against Zion earlier this week. The

912
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 3: Balls do not have that deterre at the rim.

913
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:09,759
Speaker 2: But you know, Zion.

914
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 3: Dunked on Fad Young, But it was just in the

915
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:14,440
Speaker 3: in the grand history of Zion dunks, well, I don't

916
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:17,360
Speaker 3: even remember, no, that was that was a minor exactly.

917
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 4: He went in a couple of times and bodies were

918
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 4: sort of bouncing off him from from almost like a

919
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:24,319
Speaker 4: stop standing start, you know, like he wasn't like getting

920
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 4: a huge, big run up. He was just sort of

921
00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:28,839
Speaker 4: grabbing the ball and then throwing bodies off him. So, man,

922
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:31,360
Speaker 4: when he when he gets fully healthy and gets a

923
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:33,759
Speaker 4: full pre season under his belt next year, it's it's

924
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:35,840
Speaker 4: going to be scary just how tough he's going to

925
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:39,319
Speaker 4: be underneath and in his That spring that he has

926
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 4: is just incredible. It is like a young Charles Barkley.

927
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 4: How we just can get up and elevate so quickly

928
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 4: from nothing. So yeah, it's uh. You know, we talked

929
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 4: about would there be enough time for him to catch

930
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 4: John Moran for Rookie of the Year. I don't think

931
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 4: so still, but certainly, I mean, putting up twenty points

932
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 4: a game on fifty seven percent shooting, like it hasn't

933
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:01,319
Speaker 4: taken him too long to I try to mention the

934
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 4: one game really was against the Bucks that he struggled.

935
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 4: Otherwise he's uh, I mean he's scoring pretty well and

936
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:09,880
Speaker 4: you know, taking shots that he can mike. So this

937
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:11,399
Speaker 4: is this is turning up pretty well for him.

938
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:13,319
Speaker 1: It would have been awesome. If Zion was playing from

939
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:15,800
Speaker 1: the start of the season and putting up these numbers,

940
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:18,399
Speaker 1: in theory, the Pelicans would have a better record. Let's

941
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 1: say and then and the Grizzlies and jaw were still

942
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 1: doing this. This would be one hell of a rookie

943
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:24,640
Speaker 1: of the years. I think people would be going back

944
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:28,000
Speaker 1: and forth sort of every week with if the Zion

945
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 1: was doing this from the start of the season. But yeah,

946
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 1: I think he just built up too big a lead.

947
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 1: But Zion's sprinting trying to catch him, but he might

948
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,799
Speaker 1: run out of run out of track, as they say,

949
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:40,320
Speaker 1: I have no idea. If you're right, I think that

950
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:43,319
Speaker 1: might be a same that's pretty cool saying yeah, run

951
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:44,440
Speaker 1: out of track. All right, let's get to the worst

952
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:44,960
Speaker 1: of the week.

953
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:47,800
Speaker 5: Ladies and gentlemen, the worst of the week.

954
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:54,240
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go through the losers of the trade deadline,

955
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 2: but not really get into the transactions and who did

956
00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 2: poorly in those. Gonna go a little bigger picture our

957
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:05,359
Speaker 2: Trade Deadlines Grades podcast, Trade Deadline Grades podcast for all

958
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 2: the Losers, etc. Okay, bigger picture second runner up from

959
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 2: the trade deadline losers of people, the people living in

960
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:17,439
Speaker 2: the Eastern time zone. Why, well, the Warriors they always

961
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 2: play in that late game this season on the West coast,

962
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:21,960
Speaker 2: but this year no one has had to watch them.

963
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 2: We get to go to sleep. It's great now they

964
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:26,600
Speaker 2: make them move for Wiggins plus Curry and Thompson coming back,

965
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:28,480
Speaker 2: and us on the East coast have to stay up

966
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 2: and watch them next season. I know you international folks

967
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 2: are saying, why don't you cry? You bet you got

968
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:37,399
Speaker 2: to be up till eleven twelve one. Well, we got

969
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:39,279
Speaker 2: to be up at five in the morning. Okay, you're right,

970
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 2: but this is my situation, this is my life. It's

971
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:44,839
Speaker 2: gonna stick next year, having to watch getting wiggy with

972
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:47,480
Speaker 2: it every single night if he's in that time slot.

973
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:49,760
Speaker 2: And I imagine they're gonna get national TV after National

974
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:50,600
Speaker 2: TV game.

975
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 1: Right with kurryan Claybacks, you would think, so that's gonna

976
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:57,160
Speaker 1: be weird actually to see Wiggins in sort of national

977
00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:00,400
Speaker 1: TV games because you don't see it a lot. With

978
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:00,920
Speaker 1: the Wolves.

979
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:02,600
Speaker 3: It's definitely that.

980
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:04,800
Speaker 2: I didn't really thought of that that and people still

981
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:06,399
Speaker 2: hate them with.

982
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:09,800
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's going to be good or

983
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 1: band for it.

984
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:13,719
Speaker 2: Vitriol will be a spewing I'm sure next season, as

985
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:16,400
Speaker 2: I think it was Michael Lee said, you know, scrub

986
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:19,760
Speaker 2: those wiggans takes, scrub them out of your your your tweets,

987
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:22,839
Speaker 2: because maybe you'll turn it around. We'll see first runner

988
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 2: up very tall boys and young men because the center

989
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 2: position in the NBA just doesn't pay like it used to.

990
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:34,480
Speaker 2: I won't say it's extinct because tall, tall players will

991
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:37,359
Speaker 2: still be desired in the NBA, So tall boys can

992
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:39,719
Speaker 2: still make it there, but only the cream of the

993
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:42,240
Speaker 2: crop are going to get paid, like high paid wings

994
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:45,320
Speaker 2: or guards for the foreseeable future, like Jokic or Embiid

995
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:49,200
Speaker 2: or Anthony Davis or Towns the rest. They'll have jobs.

996
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:52,000
Speaker 2: It just ain't as desirable as it was a few

997
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:55,759
Speaker 2: years ago. So young tullies can go back to modeling

998
00:42:55,960 --> 00:43:00,960
Speaker 2: or being a cameraman and scrums and poor position. Yeah,

999
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:03,720
Speaker 2: but do you want to play in the NBA anymore?

1000
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:08,759
Speaker 2: Just not as I was, Uh, that's great, you know,

1001
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 2: that's not as desirable.

1002
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:14,120
Speaker 1: I would say, if the tall buzz i don't want

1003
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 1: to play basketball, I suggest you stick to wings and

1004
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:18,280
Speaker 1: play stations.

1005
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna give the worst of the week to

1006
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 2: the Pistons. I wasn't gonna get transactional, but they couldn't

1007
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:29,439
Speaker 2: get a first round pick for Andre Drummond. One second

1008
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:32,279
Speaker 2: round pick and two guys who can't even play significant

1009
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 2: minutes for the Calves is what they got back. We

1010
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:37,720
Speaker 2: got into it on the pod. But if the market

1011
00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 2: was that dry, why deal him now? Deal him months

1012
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:45,879
Speaker 2: ago when he was absolutely balling. There's literally conversations about

1013
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 2: him being the best center in the NBA along with

1014
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:51,920
Speaker 2: those guys I mentioned Jokic NBA. I know it sounds crazy,

1015
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:54,200
Speaker 2: but he was when he was doing twenty twenties. He

1016
00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 2: was in that conversation. Anyways, he was at the table.

1017
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 2: He wasn't, he wasn't one of the best bigs, but

1018
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 2: one not dealing den or wait till June. They got nothing.

1019
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 2: They literally got nothing. I don't see why you rush

1020
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:10,400
Speaker 2: it when you when you look at it now in hindsight,

1021
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:13,560
Speaker 2: because you because you didn't want two more months of

1022
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:17,959
Speaker 2: bad chemistry in the locker room. Well it's already bad,

1023
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:20,319
Speaker 2: I mean bad culture. Why not have two more months

1024
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 2: and potentially get a first round pick, that's all we're

1025
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:27,319
Speaker 2: asking for. I think that that's nuts. It's really nuts

1026
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:28,239
Speaker 2: when you look at it.

1027
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:30,160
Speaker 1: It is wild. We couldn't believe it. The bag of

1028
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:33,040
Speaker 1: beans came back from drum Man. It's it's shocking. Yeah,

1029
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:35,719
Speaker 1: you would think a guy that is a two time

1030
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:39,040
Speaker 1: All Star again, that is an elite rebounder, who is

1031
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:43,239
Speaker 1: a seventeen and what fifteen type of guy, who's pretty consistent,

1032
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 1: he plays a lot. Yeah, you can't even get a

1033
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:49,400
Speaker 1: first round pick in today's NBA. That's tough. Yeah, but

1034
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:52,120
Speaker 1: they but they picked their direction. They did. The Pistons

1035
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:56,160
Speaker 1: definitely picked a direction and said we are we are rebuilding.

1036
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:58,319
Speaker 1: There is no doubt. We don't even want to be

1037
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 1: worried about whether or not he picks up the option.

1038
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 1: And it's then under contract for one where you're which

1039
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:05,520
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna do anyway still, but they

1040
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 1: didn't want that concern.

1041
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:09,080
Speaker 2: So yeah, but then trade him in June, like somebody

1042
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 2: else is also going to give you a bag of beans.

1043
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:13,760
Speaker 3: In June summer beans.

1044
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:16,080
Speaker 2: It is crazy because we've been watching basketball for a

1045
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 2: long time and when you say those numbers, like he's

1046
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:20,200
Speaker 2: literally averaging eighteen and sixteen.

1047
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:22,080
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's I mean, it is good.

1048
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:27,400
Speaker 3: But yeah, those are some big old numbers and I

1049
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:29,680
Speaker 3: mean there's a reason Andre Drummond was the first name

1050
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:31,799
Speaker 3: really on the trade block. It was him and Kevin Love,

1051
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 3: and nobody's giving him up the first round pick, right

1052
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 3: like they're just like they're like, hey man, Andre Drummond,

1053
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 3: people might want him for a first round pick, and

1054
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:42,799
Speaker 3: everybody in the league was like, huh huh uh actually no,

1055
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 3: So I don't know. This has got to be a

1056
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:45,839
Speaker 3: tough one for him.

1057
00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:48,399
Speaker 2: So now they're playing together those two guys you mentioned

1058
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:49,280
Speaker 2: were on the trade.

1059
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 3: Blocke Oh my goodness, yeah, yeah, what literally, what is

1060
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:54,480
Speaker 3: their lineup going to be? They gotta buy out Tristan

1061
00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 3: Thompson or what they're going to play Kevin Love at

1062
00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:56,439
Speaker 3: the three?

1063
00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:57,480
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I.

1064
00:45:57,400 --> 00:45:59,239
Speaker 4: Hope touch bullets. Clients don't get bullet out.

1065
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:01,000
Speaker 3: Apparently never give up money.

1066
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 1: That's for sure. That's right.

1067
00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:02,400
Speaker 3: They are.

1068
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:04,919
Speaker 1: They are the opposite of the Rockets. Now, yeah, we've

1069
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 1: got the Giant Calves.

1070
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:09,040
Speaker 3: At least in terms of owning the Giant caves.

1071
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. I like it because we always got

1072
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:14,960
Speaker 1: those like seven o'clock starts. The Calves are generally involved

1073
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:16,960
Speaker 1: in one of those games. The Pistons used to be

1074
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 1: and or will still be. But you know what I mean,

1075
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:22,240
Speaker 1: I'll be watching. I'll be tuning in for the first

1076
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:24,600
Speaker 1: you know, six minutes of the of those Cavs.

1077
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:27,640
Speaker 3: First man, who loves a rebound highlight? You should watch

1078
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:28,560
Speaker 3: every Calves game.

1079
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:30,840
Speaker 1: I can't wait, Man, I can't wait.

1080
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:34,000
Speaker 3: You're gonna be going crazy all by yourself. Waybody, you

1081
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 3: know all these highlights and be like, what on the

1082
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:37,000
Speaker 3: in the Calves game, You're like, yeah, there was like

1083
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:38,479
Speaker 3: sixteen rebounds in the first quarter.

1084
00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:43,040
Speaker 1: You know who'll be watching, John Human. I respect that,

1085
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:45,919
Speaker 1: all right. So those are the worst of the week.

1086
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:48,839
Speaker 1: Let's get to last night's NBA All Star Game draft.

1087
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 1: We have the captains Lebron and Giannis picking their teams

1088
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:53,200
Speaker 1: for the matchup in Chicago next week. Guys, we're head

1089
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:57,120
Speaker 1: to Chicago a week from today. Team Lebron his starters,

1090
00:46:57,160 --> 00:47:01,320
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis, surprise surprise, Kawhi Leonard Luka, Doncics, James Harden,

1091
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:05,600
Speaker 1: his reserves, Damian Lillard, Ben Simmons, Nicolo Jokic, Jason Tatum,

1092
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:10,800
Speaker 1: Chris Paul Russell Westbrook, and Demontes Simonis. Team Jannis his starters,

1093
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:13,319
Speaker 1: Dwell Embid, Pascal s the Akam, Kemba Walker and Trey Young.

1094
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:17,439
Speaker 1: His reserves, Chris Middleton, bam Adebayo, Rudy Gobert, Jimmy Butler,

1095
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:22,680
Speaker 1: Kyle Lowry, Brandon Ingram, and Donovan Mitchell. So, biggest takeaway,

1096
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:26,400
Speaker 1: biggest surprise, whatever you want to call it, from the

1097
00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:29,840
Speaker 1: draft that they did again. They pre recorded it yesterday

1098
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:32,320
Speaker 1: afternoon and then aired it last night before the games.

1099
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 1: What did you think, what's surprise? You're shocked here or whatever.

1100
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:39,760
Speaker 2: I'd say, quickly, the starters, literally, Lebron has Western Conference starters,

1101
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 2: and Yanni says Eastern Conference.

1102
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:44,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, pretty weird they picked they didn't even have

1103
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:47,200
Speaker 1: to draft though. Yeah, that was a bummer. That was

1104
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:48,160
Speaker 1: That was a bummer.

1105
00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:50,759
Speaker 2: And then I'd say the starters who dribble the most

1106
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:56,480
Speaker 2: were picked last, hard and right right right right they.

1107
00:47:57,239 --> 00:47:59,040
Speaker 3: I mean, you can add Luca and Kemba to the

1108
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:00,719
Speaker 3: list too, Yeah.

1109
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:03,839
Speaker 2: For sure, that goes. It seems like lebronianis want passed

1110
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:05,880
Speaker 2: the ball a little bit. Let's have some fun passing.

1111
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:09,839
Speaker 2: Because Lebron's like, ah, who do I pick? Picked hard

1112
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:11,759
Speaker 2: and last and Timmyskate Young last.

1113
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:15,120
Speaker 4: I'm a little surprised. Bam Adebayo win a before Jimmy

1114
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:17,799
Speaker 4: Butler the pick. I would have though Jimmy was gonna

1115
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:22,240
Speaker 4: go maybe second, after Middleton was obviously going to Jannis

1116
00:48:22,239 --> 00:48:26,759
Speaker 4: and Davis. Who's going to Lebron? Uh yes, no, no, sorry,

1117
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:28,919
Speaker 4: I've got that wrong. That's the start. Yeah, I'm talking

1118
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 4: about the reserves here. I just thought Jimmy Butler would

1119
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 4: have gone higher than that because he's a you know,

1120
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:35,879
Speaker 4: he's a VET. But then again, maybe Jimmy's like, guys,

1121
00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:37,640
Speaker 4: I'm not even gonna play in this game anyway, so

1122
00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:38,840
Speaker 4: I don't care who picks me.

1123
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 3: I think Bam and Yiannis are pretty close friends. I

1124
00:48:41,560 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 3: think the reason why he was drafted number two.

1125
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 1: Oh, Jannis was trying to do what you suggested. He

1126
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:49,879
Speaker 1: was one hundred percent trying to do Team World because

1127
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:52,680
Speaker 1: he was the most upset when Lebron took Luca. Yeah,

1128
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:55,040
Speaker 1: that's when he was like, damn, oh man, I would

1129
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:57,640
Speaker 1: have had all the World starters if I could have

1130
00:48:57,680 --> 00:49:00,000
Speaker 1: got Luca, but Lebron took him, and then you know,

1131
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:02,040
Speaker 1: then things so he still got like he still took

1132
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:04,440
Speaker 1: Bam being a friend and Rudy Gobert and then but

1133
00:49:04,520 --> 00:49:06,560
Speaker 1: it you know, again Simmons and Yolk then of course

1134
00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:08,279
Speaker 1: went to Lebron. But I think that really uh that

1135
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:10,279
Speaker 1: got him off the rails because he's like, I'm doing

1136
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:12,600
Speaker 1: this team world thing. Yeah he did, He definitely wanted.

1137
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:14,480
Speaker 4: It got kind of evenly spread out though. You got

1138
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:18,920
Speaker 4: Bonus on one team and Ben Simmons, then you got

1139
00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:23,920
Speaker 4: Embiid and who am I missing there? Rudy god on

1140
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:27,680
Speaker 4: the on Yanna, So yeah, too bad we couldn't get

1141
00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:30,320
Speaker 4: them all internationals versus the US.

1142
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:32,840
Speaker 1: Was there a favorite moment from this draft?

1143
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:37,360
Speaker 3: I thought it was pretty low key all things considered, agree,

1144
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:40,000
Speaker 3: But I guess the James Harden joke was the big,

1145
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 3: the big joke of the night. You know, Chuck saying

1146
00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:45,719
Speaker 3: to Yannis, you don't want the dribbler? He said, no,

1147
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:48,480
Speaker 3: I want somebody that will pass me the bomb was good.

1148
00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 3: Thought it was funny. And Yannis's postgame interview, he was

1149
00:49:52,080 --> 00:49:55,080
Speaker 3: asked what he thought about is his selections like feeling

1150
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:57,759
Speaker 3: really good? Feeling really good took all the grinders. I

1151
00:49:57,800 --> 00:50:00,239
Speaker 3: was like, uh, okay, all right, well you and see

1152
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:02,080
Speaker 3: who's drafting with their head and who's drafting with their

1153
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:06,120
Speaker 3: heart here because Lebron's team is miles better than team.

1154
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:07,640
Speaker 3: It's ridiculous.

1155
00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:11,879
Speaker 1: It's stacked compared to Again, he's done this a couple

1156
00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:13,480
Speaker 1: of years, you know, the second year in a row

1157
00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:18,720
Speaker 1: with these two guys as captains. Team GM Lebron kills GM.

1158
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:20,680
Speaker 1: Be honest, I'm sorry, it's just the truth. This team

1159
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:23,680
Speaker 1: is way better. Ye, different game this year, different game,

1160
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:26,319
Speaker 1: different game. Fair enough, Yeah, I got all the quarters there,

1161
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:26,799
Speaker 1: and then.

1162
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:29,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah's team is gonna have to outscore Lebron's by

1163
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 3: like fifty points in the fourth quarter to beat him

1164
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:33,040
Speaker 3: to the target score.

1165
00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:36,440
Speaker 4: They'll win those three games. So first the money.

1166
00:50:36,640 --> 00:50:40,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like the I did like Giannis's notebook. I

1167
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:43,960
Speaker 1: really really liked that. I actually I tweeted this. I

1168
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:46,520
Speaker 1: I want them, like everybody, to line them up before

1169
00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:48,520
Speaker 1: the game and do playground style where they just pick

1170
00:50:48,560 --> 00:50:50,680
Speaker 1: the teams right there. I think could be must watch television.

1171
00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:52,240
Speaker 1: I think it'd be a lot of fun. Of course,

1172
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:55,760
Speaker 1: here's your here's your jersey throwing on, let's go. Maybe

1173
00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:58,279
Speaker 1: we'll get to that point. But I do love how

1174
00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:00,960
Speaker 1: much fun these two guys have. They seem to be

1175
00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:04,360
Speaker 1: really enjoying just the just the duty of having to

1176
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:06,960
Speaker 1: pick these teams and they're making some jokes like I

1177
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:10,400
Speaker 1: liked Giannis, Like, was he jokingly calling brandon Ingram Kevin Durant?

1178
00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:12,080
Speaker 1: Did you hear that part where he says Kevin and

1179
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:14,680
Speaker 1: he sort of doesn't lean into the joke completely. I

1180
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:16,960
Speaker 1: think that's what he was doing. It seems like in similarities,

1181
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 1: I guess between their games and obviously they're build but

1182
00:51:19,680 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 1: I like how much fun they have doing this that

1183
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:23,960
Speaker 1: I hope we get to the point again where they

1184
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:25,640
Speaker 1: do it right there on the court. But uh, these

1185
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:27,920
Speaker 1: two guys are great. It's just fun and I was

1186
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:29,319
Speaker 1: just smiling the whole damn time.

1187
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:32,240
Speaker 3: Oh yeah. And you can just see the different points

1188
00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 3: that they are in their career in the different ways

1189
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:36,680
Speaker 3: that people relate to him. Because if Lebron were to

1190
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:41,720
Speaker 3: pick both Raptors and both Heat when he's in Giannis's position,

1191
00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:44,960
Speaker 3: people be like, he is leaving, He's leaving immediately, look

1192
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:46,200
Speaker 3: at me. He's trying to get up, He's trying to

1193
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:47,680
Speaker 3: get teamed up here with the Raptors in the Heat.

1194
00:51:47,719 --> 00:51:49,799
Speaker 3: But with the honest it's like this guy, Yeah, he's

1195
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:50,440
Speaker 3: having a good time.

1196
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:53,160
Speaker 1: It's just a joke. In the Raptors. Twitter Spey for

1197
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:55,520
Speaker 1: sure that that Nick Nurse will be coaching him, that

1198
00:51:55,640 --> 00:51:57,960
Speaker 1: he took the raps, it's absolutely right, and that they'll

1199
00:51:57,960 --> 00:52:00,440
Speaker 1: then eventually be coming to Toronto in twenty one. But

1200
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:02,080
Speaker 1: you're right, it's a bigger deal if it's Lebron.

1201
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:04,520
Speaker 2: Oh yeah. Getting back to the quality of the teams though,

1202
00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:08,560
Speaker 2: Lebron definitely definitely outdrafted him, But maybe Ans was drafting

1203
00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 2: a bad team so he could have a better chance

1204
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:14,600
Speaker 2: at MVP. Yeah, yeah, I think that's he's got more

1205
00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:17,960
Speaker 2: for first year players on his team, first year All Stars,

1206
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:20,520
Speaker 2: I should say, on his team, and that always bodes well.

1207
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:22,839
Speaker 2: I think for the Vets. You know, those guys aren't

1208
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:24,239
Speaker 2: gonna get it. The young guys aren't gonna get him.

1209
00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:25,759
Speaker 2: They're not gonna get their feet wet. They're not gonna

1210
00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:28,359
Speaker 2: feel as good in this game. It's got a chance.

1211
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:30,319
Speaker 4: It's too bad we haven't got done Chichen Harden on

1212
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:32,560
Speaker 4: different teams because people have sort of made the comparison

1213
00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 4: there and an old style game. Be good to see

1214
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:36,919
Speaker 4: Luca go for a step back and then James Harden

1215
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:38,840
Speaker 4: go for a step back on Luca the next possession,

1216
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:41,080
Speaker 4: you know, something like that. But maybe they'll be a

1217
00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:42,760
Speaker 4: tried it, although I guess they can't try it anymore,

1218
00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:43,120
Speaker 4: can they?

1219
00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:45,560
Speaker 1: Well yeah, no, I guess not. Well, who knows they could?

1220
00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:47,800
Speaker 1: But who cares what anybody stops them? Yeah, I don't

1221
00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:50,080
Speaker 1: like that we have. I mean, this was obviously gonna

1222
00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:51,400
Speaker 1: be the case where Lebron was going to take a

1223
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:53,799
Speaker 1: d and that Giannis was going to take Middleton. It's

1224
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:56,440
Speaker 1: always fun when teammates can go against each other in

1225
00:52:56,520 --> 00:52:59,640
Speaker 1: this new format that we have, but never happens because

1226
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:01,279
Speaker 1: when they are the captains, they want to take their

1227
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:03,080
Speaker 1: own guys. I get that, But then to have both

1228
00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:05,880
Speaker 1: Heat guys on the same team, to have both Raptors

1229
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:06,840
Speaker 1: guys on the same.

1230
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:10,600
Speaker 3: Team, both Jazz Jazz on the same tam Yeah, it's.

1231
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:13,520
Speaker 1: Like at least you sometimes get a fun moment where

1232
00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:16,040
Speaker 1: it's like we saw in in you know World Cup

1233
00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:19,040
Speaker 1: player or whatever international player, you know, Rudy versus Donovan Mitchell.

1234
00:53:19,080 --> 00:53:21,040
Speaker 1: It's like it's just fun to see because you never

1235
00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:21,360
Speaker 1: see it.

1236
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:24,080
Speaker 3: I guess it's just Simmons and embiid, right, they could

1237
00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:25,520
Speaker 3: theoretically try and dunk on each other.

1238
00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:26,080
Speaker 2: They might.

1239
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:29,560
Speaker 1: That's actually okay, okay, you're right that could be a

1240
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 1: little spicy, but anyway, it looks like Team Lebron could

1241
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:35,680
Speaker 1: run away with this again, who knows. Maybe Honest, it's

1242
00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:38,399
Speaker 1: like one step ahead, He's light years ahead. You're right,

1243
00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:40,839
Speaker 1: task not even m VP in this game. So I'm

1244
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:42,799
Speaker 1: just gonna take these guys. They'll give me the ball.

1245
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:46,360
Speaker 2: And like it's like Joe Embiid is gonna be chilling.

1246
00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:49,279
Speaker 2: He's chilling in regular season, but yeah, super chill.

1247
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:52,319
Speaker 4: Go Jimmy Butler and Kyle Aarry. So you know those guys,

1248
00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:54,560
Speaker 4: you gotta play tough. You know they're not going to

1249
00:53:54,640 --> 00:53:55,319
Speaker 4: just give this game.

1250
00:53:55,880 --> 00:53:57,600
Speaker 2: Jimmy by he doesn't want to.

1251
00:53:57,640 --> 00:54:01,600
Speaker 4: Jimmy, you don't even want to play, not calling. They'll

1252
00:54:01,640 --> 00:54:04,200
Speaker 4: have a team mating after the second game. Jimmy were

1253
00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:05,759
Speaker 4: gett him in the get angry with him in the

1254
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:06,440
Speaker 4: locker room.

1255
00:54:06,560 --> 00:54:10,279
Speaker 1: All always always a lot of fun getting to see

1256
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:12,000
Speaker 1: the captains pick their teams. All right, let's fire the

1257
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:15,319
Speaker 1: punk gun gun Dad.

1258
00:54:18,200 --> 00:54:22,279
Speaker 6: Last week, my thirteen year old son out of the

1259
00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:29,560
Speaker 6: Blue suggested NBA fetish for pun gun. I tweeted it out.

1260
00:54:29,640 --> 00:54:34,960
Speaker 6: He had the the examples of Fred Van Feet and

1261
00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:39,960
Speaker 6: Steph Furry couldn't be more proud anyway, I tweeted it

1262
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:42,600
Speaker 6: out as I said, and we got some great responses.

1263
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:45,719
Speaker 6: But let's hear your NBA fetish puns and I'll throw

1264
00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:47,040
Speaker 6: in some of my favorites.

1265
00:54:46,719 --> 00:54:47,080
Speaker 1: As we go.

1266
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:49,960
Speaker 3: Eric Kinky Floyd.

1267
00:54:53,000 --> 00:55:00,400
Speaker 2: Fetish Eric, let's say with the erics, Eric montaus cific.

1268
00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:01,799
Speaker 2: I know, but it's all right.

1269
00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:13,319
Speaker 3: It's a sub fetish, yeah, Harry Harris, Harry people, I.

1270
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:17,840
Speaker 4: Guess Matisse Thible, Yeah.

1271
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:18,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, thie Man.

1272
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:23,080
Speaker 2: Any anything can be a fetish. Yeah, okay, any word?

1273
00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:27,359
Speaker 6: Yeah, literally anything is from comrade A three one. There's

1274
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:37,000
Speaker 6: two orgy dang Ticklas Batoom, Yeah, said Al threesomesh Smith.

1275
00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:46,200
Speaker 2: Good, yeah, great one.

1276
00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:48,120
Speaker 1: Is there a leather one? I couldn't. I was trying

1277
00:55:48,120 --> 00:55:49,200
Speaker 1: to think of a leather name.

1278
00:55:49,600 --> 00:55:51,320
Speaker 3: Jonah Golden Showers.

1279
00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:57,080
Speaker 6: Yeah, job for ninety nine, Joel s n M Bead.

1280
00:55:57,840 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, Tassleks calm host think what about just straight up

1281
00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:07,040
Speaker 1: TJ Leaf? I don't know kinky stuff out in the Yeah,

1282
00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:12,560
Speaker 1: all right, it's aggestion.

1283
00:56:12,600 --> 00:56:14,160
Speaker 3: Who tweet us in your best fetishes?

1284
00:56:14,360 --> 00:56:17,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, favorite fetish at no dunks hashtag no ducks.

1285
00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:21,319
Speaker 1: All right, Time for tweet of the night.

1286
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:26,839
Speaker 2: Tweet of the Knight Wow twitt.

1287
00:56:29,480 --> 00:56:32,400
Speaker 1: Tweetlan and I goes to at Spike Eskin, who tweeted

1288
00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:34,520
Speaker 1: last night. One of the things about getting old I'm

1289
00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:37,399
Speaker 1: forty three, he put in brackets, is when you see

1290
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:40,520
Speaker 1: a pro athlete and you're like, man, he's old and

1291
00:56:40,640 --> 00:56:43,880
Speaker 1: you're five years older than him. I tweeted back. I

1292
00:56:43,920 --> 00:56:46,400
Speaker 1: said that happens to me all the time. You know,

1293
00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:49,520
Speaker 1: I'm thirty nine. Been in this game for a long time.

1294
00:56:49,680 --> 00:56:52,040
Speaker 1: Started in like two thousand and five, writing and podcasting

1295
00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:54,239
Speaker 1: about the league. And then I told him that he

1296
00:56:54,320 --> 00:56:56,920
Speaker 1: wrote back when Lavigne was in the Dunk Contest, I

1297
00:56:57,000 --> 00:56:59,719
Speaker 1: told my wife I could be his dad. And it

1298
00:56:59,920 --> 00:57:01,920
Speaker 1: wasn't in a I had a baby when I was

1299
00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:05,759
Speaker 1: fourteen type of way. It's horrifying, but yeah, I mean

1300
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:07,040
Speaker 1: it comes up every once in a while here on

1301
00:57:07,080 --> 00:57:08,880
Speaker 1: the podcast where we're just like, what how old is

1302
00:57:08,920 --> 00:57:10,680
Speaker 1: that guy? First off, you either think the guys like

1303
00:57:10,800 --> 00:57:13,680
Speaker 1: ten years older. It's like Andre Drummond, he's only twenty six. Huh,

1304
00:57:13,719 --> 00:57:15,600
Speaker 1: feels like he's been around a lot longer. And then

1305
00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:19,000
Speaker 1: you're like, even if he was thirty six, you would

1306
00:57:19,040 --> 00:57:21,640
Speaker 1: be saying, oh my god, that's old. And we're all

1307
00:57:21,720 --> 00:57:24,480
Speaker 1: older still than that. Like I said with PJ. Tucker,

1308
00:57:24,520 --> 00:57:26,680
Speaker 1: it's like he's an old thirty.

1309
00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:28,840
Speaker 4: Five and you're like, my god, I always remember it

1310
00:57:28,960 --> 00:57:30,320
Speaker 4: some of league when we would have some of the

1311
00:57:30,720 --> 00:57:32,840
Speaker 4: guests on our show, and these guys are like eighteen

1312
00:57:32,920 --> 00:57:34,880
Speaker 4: years old, nineteen years old, and you know, some of

1313
00:57:34,920 --> 00:57:37,960
Speaker 4: them are barely even shaved in their life, and you're thinking, man,

1314
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:41,280
Speaker 4: when I was eighteen, like, I can't imagine being on

1315
00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:44,320
Speaker 4: the on the biggest platform, biggest stage of my what

1316
00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:47,600
Speaker 4: the starter said, No, no, I mean to be a

1317
00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:50,400
Speaker 4: professional appet already. And you come and you you know, like,

1318
00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:50,880
Speaker 4: what were you?

1319
00:57:51,040 --> 00:57:52,760
Speaker 1: What was Leelis doing at eighteen?

1320
00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:53,360
Speaker 2: Shaven?

1321
00:57:53,480 --> 00:57:57,560
Speaker 4: Everything I wasn't. I was a shaven, full face by eighteen.

1322
00:57:59,080 --> 00:58:01,960
Speaker 1: McDonald's, Oh you are, that's when you were. That's when

1323
00:58:01,960 --> 00:58:02,120
Speaker 1: you were.

1324
00:58:03,440 --> 00:58:07,160
Speaker 4: Not at eighteen. I think I was nineteen. I was

1325
00:58:07,240 --> 00:58:07,720
Speaker 4: making it up.

1326
00:58:07,800 --> 00:58:11,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you were working at McDonald's, living at home?

1327
00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:14,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, it's great.

1328
00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:16,440
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1329
00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:19,520
Speaker 4: I got my driver's license. Okay, yeah did you have

1330
00:58:20,520 --> 00:58:20,840
Speaker 4: I did?

1331
00:58:20,960 --> 00:58:21,240
Speaker 2: I did.

1332
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:24,880
Speaker 4: I did have my own car because my brother, older brother,

1333
00:58:25,080 --> 00:58:27,000
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, and he won. My older brother he left,

1334
00:58:27,040 --> 00:58:28,920
Speaker 4: he went and lived overseas for us. He left his car,

1335
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:29,760
Speaker 4: so I just sort.

1336
00:58:29,640 --> 00:58:31,200
Speaker 1: Of was creating in the wings.

1337
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:33,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, what'd you have? It was like it would have

1338
00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:36,480
Speaker 4: been the equivalent of a Chevy, But what's the one

1339
00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:37,040
Speaker 4: you've got now?

1340
00:58:37,440 --> 00:58:38,840
Speaker 1: They don't have a crow now.

1341
00:58:40,680 --> 00:58:40,919
Speaker 2: Cruise.

1342
00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:42,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, it'd kind of be like the equivalent of a

1343
00:58:42,640 --> 00:58:46,480
Speaker 4: modern day cruise. Was called a holding commodore. Yeah, I

1344
00:58:46,520 --> 00:58:54,280
Speaker 4: did it right with the chicks. No I didn't. Yeah, man,

1345
00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:54,720
Speaker 4: that was me.

1346
00:58:56,760 --> 00:59:03,120
Speaker 1: What about you were still in stracton Yeah, definitely. I

1347
00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:05,880
Speaker 1: was still in high school for sure. At eighteen.

1348
00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:07,440
Speaker 4: I was at a high school. I finished.

1349
00:59:07,840 --> 00:59:09,440
Speaker 1: Man, I was in high school when I was nineteen.

1350
00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:10,160
Speaker 2: That was the one.

1351
00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:15,400
Speaker 1: I was one of the rare five year high school guys. Yeah,

1352
00:59:15,680 --> 00:59:18,560
Speaker 1: it was the best. The last year high school was amazing.

1353
00:59:18,680 --> 00:59:19,680
Speaker 3: Big man on campus.

1354
00:59:19,720 --> 00:59:22,000
Speaker 1: Well yeah, and you just like by then you only

1355
00:59:22,040 --> 00:59:24,720
Speaker 1: had to go to like three classes and like all

1356
00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:27,400
Speaker 1: we did was play cards and you had a jaw

1357
00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:30,000
Speaker 1: like a part time job, and like you could drink

1358
00:59:30,040 --> 00:59:32,080
Speaker 1: in Ontario, So that was even weird.

1359
00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:41,880
Speaker 5: Like legally, yeah, Brandon, Yeah, that was the girl.

1360
00:59:43,680 --> 00:59:45,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, she was like thirty five.

1361
00:59:45,920 --> 00:59:51,720
Speaker 4: Wasn't Dylan was, wasn't he? Yeah? What's his name, late

1362
00:59:52,080 --> 00:59:53,840
Speaker 4: Perry Perry. Yeah, he was like twenty seven.

1363
00:59:55,520 --> 00:59:57,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were all I think, quite old. Oh yeah,

1364
00:59:57,920 --> 01:00:00,440
Speaker 1: I was living it up. But yeah, otherwise living at

1365
01:00:00,480 --> 01:00:03,680
Speaker 1: home too, and it's working the part time jobs yourself.

1366
01:00:04,400 --> 01:00:07,720
Speaker 3: School I was, I was in college. I graduated at seventeen, so,

1367
01:00:08,160 --> 01:00:10,680
Speaker 3: you know, living in a dorm, cleaning out test tubes

1368
01:00:10,720 --> 01:00:13,560
Speaker 3: in the lab, and then working at the hospital on

1369
01:00:13,600 --> 01:00:16,280
Speaker 3: the weekends, pushing the dead bodies all around the hospital.

1370
01:00:18,640 --> 01:00:20,520
Speaker 3: But it was fine, you know. And then I liked

1371
01:00:20,560 --> 01:00:23,160
Speaker 3: science back then. Cool the science.

1372
01:00:23,600 --> 01:00:28,480
Speaker 1: Cool. Let's get to pick them results from last night.

1373
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:32,680
Speaker 1: Oh god, this one upset me. It was Philly Milwaukee

1374
01:00:32,760 --> 01:00:34,360
Speaker 1: that was our game. Bucks were favored by nine and

1375
01:00:34,400 --> 01:00:36,920
Speaker 1: a half, nine and a half. I was the only

1376
01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:39,480
Speaker 1: one to take Philly to cover. I lost. They won

1377
01:00:39,600 --> 01:00:43,040
Speaker 1: by eleven in the end, passing tray, you're three and one, Lee,

1378
01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:44,560
Speaker 1: You're two and two. I'm one and three. So I'm

1379
01:00:44,600 --> 01:00:46,800
Speaker 1: trailing here in the month of February. I lost because

1380
01:00:46,840 --> 01:00:48,760
Speaker 1: Yiannis he's got no quit in them.

1381
01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:48,920
Speaker 2: Man.

1382
01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:52,520
Speaker 1: Do you see the ending of this. Yes, the Sixers

1383
01:00:52,560 --> 01:00:55,520
Speaker 1: got the ball with like still a shot clock's worth

1384
01:00:55,560 --> 01:00:57,920
Speaker 1: of game to go, so Simmons like sort of realized

1385
01:00:57,920 --> 01:00:59,680
Speaker 1: it and was like, well, I might as well go

1386
01:00:59,760 --> 01:01:01,520
Speaker 1: and score, Like I might as well go down the

1387
01:01:01,560 --> 01:01:04,360
Speaker 1: other end and either dunk it or whatever. He's on

1388
01:01:04,480 --> 01:01:06,600
Speaker 1: his way, he's in transition, and you're honest, like, no, no, no, no,

1389
01:01:07,040 --> 01:01:08,800
Speaker 1: we're not giving up any easy buckets. I don't care

1390
01:01:08,800 --> 01:01:12,320
Speaker 1: if we're up eleven at the point he fouls Simmons

1391
01:01:12,360 --> 01:01:13,880
Speaker 1: because he doesn't want to give up the easy lay

1392
01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:16,840
Speaker 1: up or dunk. Oh god, So then it's Ben Simmons

1393
01:01:16,880 --> 01:01:19,480
Speaker 1: at the free throw line. Yeah, good luck with that.

1394
01:01:19,680 --> 01:01:22,200
Speaker 1: Like he's gonna hit both of them. He misses both

1395
01:01:22,240 --> 01:01:24,920
Speaker 1: of them. So you guys pulled it out. It was close.

1396
01:01:25,080 --> 01:01:25,720
Speaker 2: I mean, if he.

1397
01:01:25,720 --> 01:01:28,480
Speaker 1: Honest doesn't hustle back, I think I think I cover

1398
01:01:28,600 --> 01:01:31,280
Speaker 1: because he dunks, and then I don't think the Sixers

1399
01:01:31,280 --> 01:01:33,520
Speaker 1: would have fouled. Yeah yeah, But anyway, you guys got

1400
01:01:33,600 --> 01:01:36,280
Speaker 1: to win all because he's honest. So congrats to do you.

1401
01:01:36,400 --> 01:01:39,360
Speaker 2: What's tonight's game, Well, I'm gonna stay with those Houston

1402
01:01:39,480 --> 01:01:42,560
Speaker 2: Rockets on a back to back. They're visiting the Phoenix Suns.

1403
01:01:44,280 --> 01:01:48,520
Speaker 2: So the Russell Westbrook not playing second night of a

1404
01:01:48,600 --> 01:01:51,000
Speaker 2: back to back. That's why. That's why it's a little interesting.

1405
01:01:51,080 --> 01:01:55,240
Speaker 2: The Suns are two point five dogs, so it's basically,

1406
01:01:55,320 --> 01:01:56,600
Speaker 2: you know, it's a coin flip, but you get a

1407
01:01:56,640 --> 01:01:59,480
Speaker 2: couple extra points with the Suns. Phoenix has lost thirteen

1408
01:01:59,520 --> 01:02:02,919
Speaker 2: straight to Houston, eleven straight at home to Houston where

1409
01:02:02,920 --> 01:02:05,720
Speaker 2: they will be hosting the Houston Rockets.

1410
01:02:06,440 --> 01:02:10,480
Speaker 1: So Rockets gotta win by three on the road in Phoenix.

1411
01:02:10,600 --> 01:02:17,080
Speaker 2: Okay, with Westbrook does really changes a little squiggly. And

1412
01:02:17,320 --> 01:02:20,040
Speaker 2: the Suns have lost four in a row overall. Yeah,

1413
01:02:20,040 --> 01:02:23,640
Speaker 2: I do believe I'm playing well. Yeah, so they gonna

1414
01:02:23,760 --> 01:02:25,919
Speaker 2: snap that streak at home to a team that they've

1415
01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:29,400
Speaker 2: lost thirteen straight games overall, which is kind of nuts

1416
01:02:29,440 --> 01:02:31,680
Speaker 2: to think about. And the Rocks have won four straight.

1417
01:02:32,280 --> 01:02:33,360
Speaker 2: You know what, I'm taking the Suns.

1418
01:02:33,880 --> 01:02:34,720
Speaker 1: I'll take the Rockets.

1419
01:02:35,760 --> 01:02:38,800
Speaker 2: Good, good pick, good pick With the Rockets, I'm flipping it.

1420
01:02:39,040 --> 01:02:40,280
Speaker 2: I'm not feeling good about my pick.

1421
01:02:41,560 --> 01:02:44,439
Speaker 3: Man, man, oh man, I'll go with the Rockets. I'll

1422
01:02:44,520 --> 01:02:47,640
Speaker 3: go with the silly Rockets, those silly shorties.

1423
01:02:48,960 --> 01:02:50,280
Speaker 4: I think I'll take the Rockets too.

1424
01:02:50,520 --> 01:02:53,000
Speaker 1: Okay, three, you guys taking the Rockets gotta win by three?

1425
01:02:53,080 --> 01:02:56,560
Speaker 1: More tasks taking the Suns, big.

1426
01:02:56,480 --> 01:02:58,640
Speaker 3: Game, DeAndre eight pounding them inside.

1427
01:02:58,720 --> 01:03:04,920
Speaker 1: Oh okay, let's end this bad boy with some rapid firefun.

1428
01:03:07,400 --> 01:03:12,320
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. First one from Kai in Germany, who writes, Hey, Dinkers,

1429
01:03:12,400 --> 01:03:15,440
Speaker 1: you recently hit episode one hundred and only then did

1430
01:03:15,480 --> 01:03:18,320
Speaker 1: I realize that I've listened to you guys talking over

1431
01:03:18,480 --> 01:03:22,240
Speaker 1: one hundred hours in the past couple of months. It's

1432
01:03:22,240 --> 01:03:25,000
Speaker 1: a good point. What is something you've done a lot

1433
01:03:25,080 --> 01:03:27,320
Speaker 1: of but didn't realize it until later.

1434
01:03:28,840 --> 01:03:31,640
Speaker 4: Every Sunday I realize I find out how much time

1435
01:03:31,640 --> 01:03:33,920
Speaker 4: I've spent on my phone for the week, and it's

1436
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:34,480
Speaker 4: never pretty.

1437
01:03:34,640 --> 01:03:36,240
Speaker 1: Weekly screen time never.

1438
01:03:36,160 --> 01:03:39,440
Speaker 4: Pretty, especially in the last week or so. In Kobe's

1439
01:03:39,640 --> 01:03:41,960
Speaker 4: death that was it was right up there was up

1440
01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:44,680
Speaker 4: over six hours a day or something crazy like that.

1441
01:03:44,960 --> 01:03:48,280
Speaker 4: So yeah, that's that's a notification that I should turn off,

1442
01:03:48,320 --> 01:03:50,640
Speaker 4: But I don't because I kind of want to try

1443
01:03:50,680 --> 01:03:52,760
Speaker 4: to get it down each week. But you need to

1444
01:03:52,800 --> 01:03:54,840
Speaker 4: feel it, Yeah, you do. You need to see it,

1445
01:03:55,240 --> 01:03:57,200
Speaker 4: so you're like, oh man, I got to get off

1446
01:03:57,240 --> 01:03:57,720
Speaker 4: my phone.

1447
01:03:58,000 --> 01:03:58,360
Speaker 1: Good one.

1448
01:03:58,480 --> 01:04:01,400
Speaker 2: Also a trade deadline, you know, oh man? Yeah, increased

1449
01:04:01,400 --> 01:04:05,680
Speaker 2: to everybody, every basketball fan, myself flexing in the mirror.

1450
01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:09,280
Speaker 2: Sometimes my wife will catch me doing some flexing and

1451
01:04:09,360 --> 01:04:11,200
Speaker 2: say so, I'm like, you've been doing that for like

1452
01:04:11,320 --> 01:04:13,680
Speaker 2: thirty seconds, and I wouldn't have known. I would have

1453
01:04:13,680 --> 01:04:17,720
Speaker 2: just kept going. And so I stopped, ashamed, hang ayhead

1454
01:04:17,720 --> 01:04:20,200
Speaker 2: and walk away. But I enjoyed it for the thirty seconds.

1455
01:04:20,240 --> 01:04:22,760
Speaker 2: I was doing it like while you're working out, and no, no,

1456
01:04:23,240 --> 01:04:27,000
Speaker 2: just like who works out? Oh yeah, you got a

1457
01:04:27,040 --> 01:04:29,720
Speaker 2: whole gym in the basement. It doesn't mean I work out.

1458
01:04:30,640 --> 01:04:31,320
Speaker 3: It looks like you do.

1459
01:04:32,240 --> 01:04:33,520
Speaker 1: It's like the dungeon down there.

1460
01:04:33,640 --> 01:04:35,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's awesome. It's a real rocket situation.

1461
01:04:35,920 --> 01:04:38,280
Speaker 1: You're like the Heart family with.

1462
01:04:38,520 --> 01:04:43,600
Speaker 2: Canned led lights and painted walls and designer couches down there.

1463
01:04:43,680 --> 01:04:45,760
Speaker 2: I need a real gym. That's why I don't work out.

1464
01:04:46,200 --> 01:04:49,080
Speaker 2: But yeah, see a mirror. Just need a flex because

1465
01:04:49,080 --> 01:04:51,120
Speaker 2: I don't work out. It really pulls things up into

1466
01:04:51,160 --> 01:04:51,920
Speaker 2: the right spots.

1467
01:04:52,200 --> 01:04:54,640
Speaker 3: What are you flexing? Mostly here? The buys are the tries.

1468
01:04:54,720 --> 01:04:57,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I got a lot of time.

1469
01:04:59,240 --> 01:05:05,080
Speaker 1: Mirror located. That's OK. He's got to get up on

1470
01:05:05,160 --> 01:05:09,400
Speaker 1: a chair. Then look at his cat, j D.

1471
01:05:09,560 --> 01:05:09,960
Speaker 3: What about you?

1472
01:05:10,760 --> 01:05:14,520
Speaker 6: It's Guinness For me, I have an unlimited capacity to

1473
01:05:14,640 --> 01:05:17,520
Speaker 6: drink it, and uh, whenever I get the bill at

1474
01:05:17,520 --> 01:05:19,000
Speaker 6: the end of the night, I'm like.

1475
01:05:19,160 --> 01:05:25,040
Speaker 1: What, I drank a helmet? Oh, that's funny you say that.

1476
01:05:25,160 --> 01:05:27,360
Speaker 1: I have that receipt where we went out one night,

1477
01:05:27,960 --> 01:05:30,040
Speaker 1: a couple of us. I don't know if I think

1478
01:05:30,080 --> 01:05:31,520
Speaker 1: that's was there, and I think Mattio was there.

1479
01:05:31,600 --> 01:05:34,040
Speaker 3: You were and we were not.

1480
01:05:34,120 --> 01:05:36,240
Speaker 1: Going out to eat at all because we did it.

1481
01:05:36,720 --> 01:05:40,080
Speaker 1: All we did was drink Guinness. And so the receipt

1482
01:05:40,280 --> 01:05:43,520
Speaker 1: is like, it doesn't say like twenty five times Guinness.

1483
01:05:43,560 --> 01:05:47,640
Speaker 1: For whatever reason, they put like Guinness and then like

1484
01:05:48,000 --> 01:05:53,800
Speaker 1: twenty down. I think it says fish trout something like that.

1485
01:05:53,920 --> 01:05:59,080
Speaker 1: We got Maddio must have got a little hungry. Definitely

1486
01:05:59,120 --> 01:06:01,240
Speaker 1: something he would have. I think it was something like that.

1487
01:06:01,360 --> 01:06:03,600
Speaker 1: I'll find it on my phone and then it's like Guinness.

1488
01:06:04,560 --> 01:06:07,160
Speaker 6: It was great and Ordian was that the night we

1489
01:06:07,240 --> 01:06:12,120
Speaker 6: were arguing about Prince and George Michael who had more

1490
01:06:12,240 --> 01:06:12,919
Speaker 6: hits or something.

1491
01:06:13,160 --> 01:06:16,479
Speaker 1: I remember that. I don't know the rating was their task,

1492
01:06:16,600 --> 01:06:19,280
Speaker 1: because I think we were we were in the Virginia Highlands.

1493
01:06:19,840 --> 01:06:22,120
Speaker 2: Was he there? Wow?

1494
01:06:22,560 --> 01:06:24,840
Speaker 1: So he got on the Guinness train. Nobody broke the

1495
01:06:24,840 --> 01:06:25,360
Speaker 1: Guinness train.

1496
01:06:25,440 --> 01:06:26,240
Speaker 2: That was the best part.

1497
01:06:27,400 --> 01:06:32,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, Guinness love it next one here. Andre Drummond shared

1498
01:06:32,160 --> 01:06:34,960
Speaker 1: his thoughts on being traded by the Pistons yesterday, and

1499
01:06:35,080 --> 01:06:37,480
Speaker 1: he was not happy. The Big Penguin tweeted, if there's

1500
01:06:37,520 --> 01:06:40,040
Speaker 1: one thing I learned about the NBA, it's that there's

1501
01:06:40,160 --> 01:06:42,760
Speaker 1: no friends or loyalty. I've given my heart and soul

1502
01:06:42,840 --> 01:06:44,960
Speaker 1: to the Pistons and to have this happen with no

1503
01:06:45,080 --> 01:06:47,080
Speaker 1: heads up makes me realize even more this is just

1504
01:06:47,160 --> 01:06:51,520
Speaker 1: a business. I love you Detroit guys. What have you

1505
01:06:51,640 --> 01:06:53,880
Speaker 1: given your heart and soul to over the last seven

1506
01:06:54,000 --> 01:06:54,560
Speaker 1: or eight years?

1507
01:06:55,160 --> 01:06:57,640
Speaker 4: Like the three point shootout at the All Star Weekend?

1508
01:06:57,760 --> 01:07:00,880
Speaker 4: My personal one, that's only six years. But sure, man,

1509
01:07:01,080 --> 01:07:02,680
Speaker 4: I tried tried to get twenty.

1510
01:07:03,120 --> 01:07:03,720
Speaker 1: You thought you did?

1511
01:07:06,720 --> 01:07:10,800
Speaker 4: I did, yeah, nineteen twice. I think probably that'll be

1512
01:07:10,840 --> 01:07:13,560
Speaker 4: the last time I do it. I hope not, but

1513
01:07:13,680 --> 01:07:16,760
Speaker 4: if so that nineteen hopes.

1514
01:07:18,440 --> 01:07:22,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, no plans for a week, it's only a week away.

1515
01:07:23,640 --> 01:07:26,160
Speaker 4: I wouldn't say no plans. I would say it's I'd like.

1516
01:07:26,960 --> 01:07:29,600
Speaker 1: Well, what happens with this mountain dube crap?

1517
01:07:29,680 --> 01:07:31,920
Speaker 4: Well, see that's the thing. I would like to try it,

1518
01:07:32,000 --> 01:07:34,080
Speaker 4: of course, for that, just to see, you know. Oh yes,

1519
01:07:35,120 --> 01:07:39,360
Speaker 4: so JD want if you make a few funds. You know, people, you.

1520
01:07:40,080 --> 01:07:42,840
Speaker 3: Would you drink a full twenty ounce mountain Dew to

1521
01:07:42,960 --> 01:07:43,920
Speaker 3: be able to do the mountain?

1522
01:07:44,400 --> 01:07:44,560
Speaker 1: Sure?

1523
01:07:44,680 --> 01:07:48,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, sure, Well if I get to do the whole thing, yeah.

1524
01:07:48,160 --> 01:07:51,120
Speaker 2: Okay, they do have mountain dew zero now oh yeah zero?

1525
01:07:51,200 --> 01:07:54,400
Speaker 3: Sure we might even be better than the original.

1526
01:07:55,400 --> 01:07:55,680
Speaker 1: Great.

1527
01:07:56,240 --> 01:07:58,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know what a con that is.

1528
01:08:02,800 --> 01:08:05,320
Speaker 2: What have I given my heart? Sold? Paperwork? God? I

1529
01:08:05,440 --> 01:08:07,920
Speaker 2: love it, you know, coming to the US about seven

1530
01:08:08,000 --> 01:08:11,320
Speaker 2: years ago, applying for a work visa, getting a driver's license,

1531
01:08:11,320 --> 01:08:14,160
Speaker 2: applying for health insurance, applying for a Social Security number,

1532
01:08:14,280 --> 01:08:17,000
Speaker 2: selling a house, applying for a morgeplying for Carl, applying

1533
01:08:17,040 --> 01:08:20,840
Speaker 2: for permanent residency, having kids, picking names, getting their social

1534
01:08:20,880 --> 01:08:23,439
Speaker 2: Security numbers. My youngest is starting doing some modeling at

1535
01:08:23,479 --> 01:08:26,760
Speaker 2: one week old, so yeah, the social Security number is

1536
01:08:26,840 --> 01:08:27,519
Speaker 2: really paying off.

1537
01:08:30,080 --> 01:08:33,160
Speaker 1: You just gave me anxiety because I've got a green card,

1538
01:08:33,439 --> 01:08:36,360
Speaker 1: paperwork to do. I've got taxes obviously like everybody else

1539
01:08:36,400 --> 01:08:39,320
Speaker 1: to do. God Almighty, pay somebody.

1540
01:08:39,320 --> 01:08:41,160
Speaker 2: I have the exact same answer. Wow.

1541
01:08:41,520 --> 01:08:44,800
Speaker 6: Living in the US is just from the year and

1542
01:08:44,840 --> 01:08:48,479
Speaker 6: a half leading up to it to today and beyond

1543
01:08:49,120 --> 01:08:51,840
Speaker 6: is nothing but paperwork. And just trying to stay here

1544
01:08:51,880 --> 01:08:55,880
Speaker 6: and work here has taken my every bit of my heart.

1545
01:08:56,000 --> 01:08:58,080
Speaker 4: And so yeah, that's rough.

1546
01:08:58,360 --> 01:09:00,639
Speaker 2: Death and taxes, final one.

1547
01:09:00,760 --> 01:09:03,080
Speaker 1: Let's try and end on a positive note. Hare the

1548
01:09:03,240 --> 01:09:06,040
Speaker 1: NBA trade deadline. It has obviously come and gone, but

1549
01:09:06,160 --> 01:09:09,160
Speaker 1: I'm the commissioner here of this rapid fire, and I

1550
01:09:09,400 --> 01:09:13,400
Speaker 1: say deals still count. So, guys, I want you to

1551
01:09:13,520 --> 01:09:15,680
Speaker 1: make me a trade offer for something I might have

1552
01:09:15,920 --> 01:09:18,839
Speaker 1: that you want. Okay, I'm all ears, how about it, plea.

1553
01:09:19,000 --> 01:09:21,439
Speaker 4: Well, you like to go for runs. I've never been

1554
01:09:21,479 --> 01:09:23,600
Speaker 4: a jogger in my life, so I would like to

1555
01:09:23,680 --> 01:09:27,320
Speaker 4: have your jogging ability, and in return, I'll give you

1556
01:09:28,439 --> 01:09:29,760
Speaker 4: a little bit of a bit of beard.

1557
01:09:32,120 --> 01:09:32,720
Speaker 1: I could use it.

1558
01:09:32,840 --> 01:09:33,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, I could use it.

1559
01:09:34,040 --> 01:09:35,920
Speaker 1: I respect me. I could really fill in.

1560
01:09:36,200 --> 01:09:38,400
Speaker 4: You've leaned into it this year. You've gone for the beard.

1561
01:09:38,680 --> 01:09:40,880
Speaker 4: I think I've got a little bit more coverage than yours.

1562
01:09:40,920 --> 01:09:43,240
Speaker 1: So you're gonna give me, actually the hair off you.

1563
01:09:43,720 --> 01:09:46,280
Speaker 4: I'm going to fill in the gaps if you like. Okay, Yeah,

1564
01:09:46,439 --> 01:09:47,720
Speaker 4: I have to take a few of the grays too,

1565
01:09:47,840 --> 01:09:48,960
Speaker 4: but that's fine, that's fine.

1566
01:09:48,960 --> 01:09:49,920
Speaker 1: I've already got somewhere on.

1567
01:09:51,080 --> 01:09:52,759
Speaker 4: Then I can go for a great jog on Saturday,

1568
01:09:52,840 --> 01:09:54,880
Speaker 4: and you know, have a great time.

1569
01:09:55,200 --> 01:09:57,240
Speaker 3: Look I can beat his offer man, and I'm slow

1570
01:09:57,360 --> 01:10:00,400
Speaker 3: to Let me get that running ability. I'll give you

1571
01:10:00,479 --> 01:10:00,920
Speaker 3: my beer.

1572
01:10:01,000 --> 01:10:04,960
Speaker 2: Wow wow, Oh, let me get in on this. Let

1573
01:10:05,000 --> 01:10:09,120
Speaker 2: me get in on this running thing. I'm not I

1574
01:10:09,160 --> 01:10:10,920
Speaker 2: don't want to steal your ability skits. You keep that,

1575
01:10:11,479 --> 01:10:15,439
Speaker 2: keep that. I just want. I know you've got like

1576
01:10:15,720 --> 01:10:20,360
Speaker 2: multiple running watches. I bet like I like jogging to

1577
01:10:20,560 --> 01:10:22,400
Speaker 2: some degree, but I'm not going to go out and

1578
01:10:22,479 --> 01:10:24,960
Speaker 2: buy all the year. I just don't care enough. But

1579
01:10:25,040 --> 01:10:26,479
Speaker 2: I want to watch because I don't want to run

1580
01:10:26,520 --> 01:10:28,920
Speaker 2: with my phone. I want to watch.

1581
01:10:29,000 --> 01:10:30,680
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I might be able to help you out.

1582
01:10:30,720 --> 01:10:33,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you have like a third generation sentence somewhere.

1583
01:10:33,479 --> 01:10:37,599
Speaker 1: You're drawing, absolutely sweet, I think Tom Tom draw. You're right, Tom.

1584
01:10:40,040 --> 01:10:41,720
Speaker 2: I'll just give you those wrestlers. I know you want

1585
01:10:41,760 --> 01:10:45,240
Speaker 2: my thirty action wrestlers from nineteen eighties and nineteen nineties.

1586
01:10:45,400 --> 01:10:47,880
Speaker 2: If we bargain, I'll throw in the ring. I don't

1587
01:10:47,920 --> 01:10:49,080
Speaker 2: have it. I don't have that anymore.

1588
01:10:49,200 --> 01:10:50,439
Speaker 1: Oh you said you did have the ring.

1589
01:10:50,600 --> 01:10:52,360
Speaker 2: I used I used to have it. Okay, I have

1590
01:10:52,479 --> 01:10:52,840
Speaker 2: the cage.

1591
01:10:53,000 --> 01:10:54,519
Speaker 1: You got a couple Hogans. You said you got a

1592
01:10:54,520 --> 01:10:56,080
Speaker 1: matchra man, you got a brutus to barber beef?

1593
01:10:56,160 --> 01:10:56,599
Speaker 2: Can you bet?

1594
01:10:56,760 --> 01:10:59,240
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm interested. You got a hundred of the drivet No?

1595
01:10:59,479 --> 01:11:02,280
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay, that's too big for my small hands.

1596
01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:06,559
Speaker 1: What about your beard? I'm interested in you JD. Make

1597
01:11:06,640 --> 01:11:07,000
Speaker 1: me a deal.

1598
01:11:08,360 --> 01:11:10,400
Speaker 6: Well, I I too have a beard. I could offer you,

1599
01:11:10,439 --> 01:11:12,960
Speaker 6: but I'm not willing to give it up. So I

1600
01:11:13,000 --> 01:11:17,200
Speaker 6: would like a little bit of your skills behind the mic.

1601
01:11:17,400 --> 01:11:19,640
Speaker 6: You're very good on the mic and I am not.

1602
01:11:20,040 --> 01:11:22,160
Speaker 6: So I'll take some of that and in return, do

1603
01:11:22,200 --> 01:11:27,280
Speaker 6: you mean or just wrapping podcasting, just speaking into a microphon.

1604
01:11:27,360 --> 01:11:30,920
Speaker 6: I'm stumbling and mumbling a lot, So I would like

1605
01:11:31,000 --> 01:11:33,600
Speaker 6: some of that, and in return, I will give you.

1606
01:11:34,680 --> 01:11:37,680
Speaker 6: I don't want to say my musical talent, but my

1607
01:11:37,960 --> 01:11:41,680
Speaker 6: sort of my musical sensibility. Like I'm a person who

1608
01:11:41,800 --> 01:11:44,960
Speaker 6: if there's a guitar sitting in the corner, I'm gonna

1609
01:11:45,000 --> 01:11:46,880
Speaker 6: have to at some point get up and play that guitar.

1610
01:11:47,280 --> 01:11:49,400
Speaker 6: And I think you should be learning the guitar that

1611
01:11:49,960 --> 01:11:52,680
Speaker 6: Maddio gave you. So if you had a little bit

1612
01:11:52,720 --> 01:11:54,479
Speaker 6: of that, it's like it's like viagra for.

1613
01:11:54,560 --> 01:11:55,720
Speaker 2: Your musical.

1614
01:11:57,520 --> 01:11:59,960
Speaker 6: Interest or your your musical design.

1615
01:12:00,280 --> 01:12:00,800
Speaker 3: I like this.

1616
01:12:01,160 --> 01:12:03,639
Speaker 1: I think we've got something there. Okay, yeah, we will

1617
01:12:03,720 --> 01:12:06,840
Speaker 1: talk off mic for sure. I'm intriguing that. I would

1618
01:12:06,880 --> 01:12:08,960
Speaker 1: love to have your ability. I love to look I

1619
01:12:09,080 --> 01:12:11,599
Speaker 1: should learn the guitar because I have one. Definitely still

1620
01:12:11,640 --> 01:12:13,640
Speaker 1: interested in learning the drums too, And I know you

1621
01:12:13,760 --> 01:12:16,200
Speaker 1: got that. I want to be a one man band.

1622
01:12:16,960 --> 01:12:19,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, honestly, we haven't had an update on

1623
01:12:19,280 --> 01:12:21,640
Speaker 3: picking and tickling for a while. I don't know if

1624
01:12:21,680 --> 01:12:22,519
Speaker 3: you guys been getting together.

1625
01:12:22,720 --> 01:12:25,720
Speaker 1: No, the only update for me is in my bookmarks

1626
01:12:25,760 --> 01:12:29,799
Speaker 1: at the top of my chrome. It does say guitar lessons.

1627
01:12:29,960 --> 01:12:32,400
Speaker 1: There is a link. That's as far as I've gotten.

1628
01:12:33,040 --> 01:12:36,680
Speaker 1: It's there. I look at it every day. Also, right

1629
01:12:36,720 --> 01:12:38,439
Speaker 1: beside it, watch rad HD.

1630
01:12:40,720 --> 01:12:43,040
Speaker 3: And I see you googled this trap.

1631
01:12:48,080 --> 01:12:50,320
Speaker 4: If you become a good musician and could form a

1632
01:12:50,400 --> 01:12:52,120
Speaker 4: band in the.

1633
01:12:55,600 --> 01:12:55,720
Speaker 2: Oh.

1634
01:12:55,840 --> 01:12:58,040
Speaker 1: That's not that I haven't done anything with the guitar,

1635
01:12:58,120 --> 01:13:00,920
Speaker 1: but tassa in terms of the tap, I was the pickling.

1636
01:13:02,960 --> 01:13:04,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're looking at a bookmark. I'm looking at a

1637
01:13:05,320 --> 01:13:07,800
Speaker 2: mark in my house because it's sitting there.

1638
01:13:08,200 --> 01:13:08,839
Speaker 1: You're keyboard.

1639
01:13:09,040 --> 01:13:09,839
Speaker 2: I gotta keyboard.

1640
01:13:10,479 --> 01:13:12,080
Speaker 1: We'll get to it, man, We'll get.

1641
01:13:11,920 --> 01:13:12,840
Speaker 3: To it all right.

1642
01:13:12,920 --> 01:13:16,400
Speaker 1: That's rapid fire. That's another classic edition of the Drop podcast. Guys,

1643
01:13:16,439 --> 01:13:18,559
Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us today and all week long.

1644
01:13:18,640 --> 01:13:21,880
Speaker 1: Don't forget to rate and review No Dunks on Apple

1645
01:13:21,960 --> 01:13:24,800
Speaker 1: Podcasts five Stars only, Baby, follow us on Twitter and

1646
01:13:24,920 --> 01:13:27,360
Speaker 1: Instagram at No dunks Ink. Don't be afraid to tweet

1647
01:13:27,400 --> 01:13:29,920
Speaker 1: at us, hit us up on Instagram in the comments,

1648
01:13:29,960 --> 01:13:32,479
Speaker 1: and keep your emails coming No dunks at the Athletic

1649
01:13:32,720 --> 01:13:33,240
Speaker 1: dot Com.

1650
01:13:33,760 --> 01:13:34,679
Speaker 2: You heard it here first.

1651
01:13:34,840 --> 01:13:37,639
Speaker 3: Have a great time, turn up. Love you guys awesome.

1652
01:13:37,880 --> 01:13:42,080
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us, and remember rate, subscribe it really helps.

1653
01:13:42,120 --> 01:13:42,680
Speaker 2: Appreciate it.

1654
01:13:43,160 --> 01:13:45,080
Speaker 1: Race the weekend people, you.

1655
01:13:45,160 --> 01:13:56,360
Speaker 4: Could stay every day, be happy. And it's been so

1656
01:13:56,640 --> 01:13:57,120
Speaker 4: long a.

1657
01:13:58,680 --> 01:14:02,440
Speaker 2: Way it's happened already.

1658
01:14:03,920 --> 01:14:05,040
Speaker 1: It's gonna be great.

1659
01:14:05,160 --> 01:14:05,320
Speaker 2: Rea