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Speaker 3: talk about as always here on no dunks, But perfectly
Speaker 3: we had five games on last night, so we gotta
Speaker 3: do five games one thing, and we're gonna we're gonna
Speaker 3: flip up the order in terms of the way we
Speaker 3: saw the games last night because we gotta go to TK.
Speaker 3: He's pumped. He had a great Tuesday, which has bled
Speaker 3: into Wednesday. Guy was up late last night. Trey Kobe
Speaker 3: White scores twenty one and the Bulls rally to beat
Speaker 3: the Blazers one eleven, one o eight. They were down
Speaker 3: twenty but they came back.
Speaker 2: What's the big takeaway, well, Skeets, I only got one
Speaker 2: thing for you. Ball stop ball stop ball stop ball
Speaker 2: stop ball stop balls. The balls are back. Are you
Speaker 2: hitting me? Win of the year? The first twenty point
Speaker 2: comeback in the NBA this season. I saw some highlights
Speaker 2: from the Clippers versus the Spurs. They were talking could
Speaker 2: they be the first team to pull off a twenty
Speaker 2: point comeback? No, they can't, but the Bulls did. This
Speaker 2: was a crazy game. What a night in the Kirby household,
Speaker 2: Bulls blazing on the deck, Blazers on deck, election results
Speaker 2: trickling in on the computer. A luxurious matchup out there,
Speaker 2: Red and Black, both teams January five going down in history.
Speaker 2: But this was a weird one. Like I said, the
Speaker 2: Bulls gave up a twenty point lead. They gave up
Speaker 2: thirty nine points eighty three pointers in the first quarter.
Speaker 2: The Blazers looked like they were on fire. It looked
Speaker 2: like it was gonna be sad Trey Kirby coming in
Speaker 2: on the show today. But I had the faith skeets.
Speaker 2: I said, just stick around. The comeback Bulls will take
Speaker 2: care of this, and somehow they did. Billy Donovan has
Speaker 2: gotten something out of Zach Lavine that feels a little
Speaker 2: bit different. He was out there overpassing the ball in
Speaker 2: the first half of the game, but kept getting teammates involved.
Speaker 2: This ended up being a really nice team win. The
Speaker 2: Bulls had so many guys in double figures. They ended
Speaker 2: up with seven players in double figures. Everybody was doing something,
Speaker 2: everybody was boreding. This was a fun game to watch.
Speaker 2: Like I said, the Bulls have this huge comeback. Zach
Speaker 2: Lavine had said dagger three under a minute left. I'm upstairs.
Speaker 2: Everybody else in the house is asleep. I'm just yelled
Speaker 2: like this back in my arms against each other. It
Speaker 2: was legendary stuff. Damian Lillard basically didn't make a shot
Speaker 2: in the second half, but did make the one that
Speaker 2: was most important, knocked down that three from the right wing,
Speaker 2: the purest Swiss you could ever hope to see if
Speaker 2: you're Damian Lillard. But this was just this was just exciting. Man.
Speaker 2: I was going nuts in the house. Batteus Young playing
Speaker 2: small ball five auto porter, thirteen rebounds, including a huge
Speaker 2: rebound highlight under a minute skeets didn't even jump off
Speaker 2: the FLOORI to grab it. This was legendary stuff. And
Speaker 2: you know, if you are a Bulls fan, you'll look
Speaker 2: at Jim Boylan being hired as an assistant coached by
Speaker 2: the Trailblazers and you say, this was a revenge game.
Speaker 2: Where's your defense, Blazers. You can't stop the Bulls, the unstoppables.
Speaker 6: What this feels finals, Yeah, he just called the Bulls
Speaker 6: win in Portland in early January legendary twice.
Speaker 3: And I'm pumped for you, man, I'm excited, but I'm
Speaker 3: also pissed.
Speaker 2: I marked it down. I was like, I was getting
Speaker 2: ready to go to bed last night, I was like,
Speaker 2: I got I got to write this down. I gotta
Speaker 2: remember January fifth, What a night the election, the Bulls
Speaker 2: I was flying.
Speaker 3: It felt like, I'm a little pissed with that Bull's
Speaker 3: victory because this is what I saw in the Bulls
Speaker 3: last year. Tray like a quarter contributing, Saudius Young contribute.
Speaker 3: This is what I've envisioned, and maybe yeah, just took
Speaker 3: getting Boiling out of there and Billy in there to
Speaker 3: help put it all together. But yeah, Lee, this was
Speaker 3: I mean, really, it is an impressive comeback. And as
Speaker 3: Trey said, the first time this season that a team
Speaker 3: came back from twenty down. There's been a lot of
Speaker 3: teams down twenty so far this season. The numbers are crazy,
Speaker 3: the blowouts we've had, and we've had some teams get
Speaker 3: back into games. You know, the Clippers being one of
Speaker 3: the last night, but always tough to come back from
Speaker 3: twenty and then to continue to get to victory. You
Speaker 3: see it come back a lot of times, but then
Speaker 3: you know the other team start of takes control and
Speaker 3: ultimately closes it.
Speaker 4: Out.
Speaker 3: But Bulls, what do you think about this one?
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I'm mocking and either there for the bull
Speaker 5: sided a little bit shortand but yeah, they just basically
Speaker 5: with that first quarter and after that they clearly outplayed
Speaker 5: Portland for three quarters in this game. I thought Portland
Speaker 5: just sort of got on. I think they hit their
Speaker 5: first four to three pointers and sort of got off
Speaker 5: to that lead. But that was really the best they
Speaker 5: did in that first quarter. They built that big lead
Speaker 5: and that was it. After that, Chicago and the Chicago
Speaker 5: Bulls went into the paint anytime they wanted, which is
Speaker 5: a real concern here. I think for the Blazers. Their
Speaker 5: defense was very, very ordinary, particularly in that second half
Speaker 5: there last night. That's a question here for Portland going forward,
Speaker 5: but for the Bulls to go on the road to
Speaker 5: get this win. This season started off so badly and
Speaker 5: they'd look badly, but now they're starting to resemble the
Speaker 5: team that's starting to just change a little bit. And
Speaker 5: Zach Lavine was asked after the game, you know, would
Speaker 5: you guys have won this game last year? And he
Speaker 5: was like, no, no way, because they wouldn't have. You know,
Speaker 5: you give the Bulls a punch last year and they
Speaker 5: lie down straight away. But this season does feel a
Speaker 5: little bit different already. I mean it did get off
Speaker 5: to a bit of a slow start there with Billy Donovan,
Speaker 5: but sometimes that can be the way with a new coach.
Speaker 5: So you know, I think there's two sides here. I
Speaker 5: think you should I go, very impressive win the Blazers
Speaker 5: another just ordinary performance by them, and I wonder if
Speaker 5: they will be a move made there at some point
Speaker 5: in the season.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of people wanting you to start to
Speaker 3: fire up the trade machine to get the Blazer is
Speaker 3: a defensive big if you can.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, see Nerk should be that guy though, really
Speaker 5: shouldn't he. I Mean he was very very good down
Speaker 5: in the bubble there, but last night a couple of
Speaker 5: times just got beaten very very easily. And also, you
Speaker 5: cannot have Canter and mellow out on the court together.
Speaker 5: You just cannot do that. That's just a recipe for disaster.
Speaker 5: But again, I think what Chicago did, which was smart.
Speaker 5: They just sort of kept attacking, attacking, attacking, in the paint,
Speaker 5: and then when someone was over for three, they'd fire
Speaker 5: it out to that guy to shoot the three. So yeah,
Speaker 5: this was a fun win and you can just see
Speaker 5: with Trade like look happy. Isn't it that exciting to
Speaker 5: see when someone has a big comeback, because I imagine
Speaker 5: in that first quarter, Tray was pretty much almost ready
Speaker 5: to just jump into bed and say, screw this, this
Speaker 5: one's all over.
Speaker 2: No way, no way. I had a tweet during the
Speaker 2: first quarter a Blazers fans had to me, Man, I'm
Speaker 2: so sorry you got to watch the Bulls every single night.
Speaker 2: This is my first time catching him. They're terrible. Zach
Speaker 2: Lavine barely touched the ball in the first court and
Speaker 2: I said, just stick around the comeback Bulls. They've got
Speaker 2: this taken care of. Guess what they did. Stacy King
Speaker 2: said on the broadcast. Who could have predicted this? Only
Speaker 2: a being of pure positivity? And that's what it's all about.
Speaker 2: This year the Bulls, they looked like the team everybody
Speaker 2: thought they were going to be last year, is what
Speaker 2: it was to me. You saw Kevin O'Connor tweet last
Speaker 2: night where he's saying, I love the blend of youth
Speaker 2: and veterans that they have, and that's exactly what it
Speaker 2: seemed like coming into last season. The difference, obviously, there's
Speaker 2: a new coach in charge, and honestly felt last night
Speaker 2: watching the game that Billy Donovan had had some sort
Speaker 2: of effect on the Bulls, right Zach Levine, like I said,
Speaker 2: he was overpassing a little bit. People were calling him
Speaker 2: Rondo last night because he wasn't looking for a shot.
Speaker 2: He was just trying to force passes. He didn't have
Speaker 2: his shot for the most part, but he did a
Speaker 2: great job of getting people involved. And Billy Donovan is
Speaker 2: a point guard coach. Point guard's team tend to play
Speaker 2: well underneath him. So I liked what I saw from
Speaker 2: Zach Levine. I liked what I saw from Pat Williams.
Speaker 2: He hid a nice little uh his push shot to
Speaker 2: get things started there in the fourth quarter. Garrett Temple
Speaker 2: had a huge game. We already mentioned Otto Porter hitting
Speaker 2: the glass. Apparently he's a small ball four now. He
Speaker 2: was a rim runner last night. Bad Young a small
Speaker 2: ball five. That was a game changer when he came
Speaker 2: in and kind of took Wendell Carter out of that
Speaker 2: drop defense was able to play a little quicker and
Speaker 2: that kind of shut things off for Damian Lillard and
Speaker 2: c J McCollum a little bit. The Bulls they looked
Speaker 2: good last night. They've won four out of five. Will
Speaker 2: it keep going? Yes it will? Oh here positivity.
Speaker 3: Here, positivity.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I wish it was still called the Rose Garden because
Speaker 3: we had the florists. Pat Williams do it. Some heist
Speaker 3: things late. That Zach Lavine three to that was ultimately
Speaker 3: the game winner was huge. Just you know, that was
Speaker 3: a one point game and he drains the big three
Speaker 3: and you know, you guys know I love a rebound highlight.
Speaker 3: But let's go next level with this. I thought Wendell
Speaker 3: Carter Junior laid down some huge highlight picks last night.
Speaker 3: He was dropping guys. Yes, yeah, dropped like two. I
Speaker 3: was able to call him twice. Maybe they got that
Speaker 3: sugarman call him and Lollard was but he drops on
Speaker 3: the big picks that the guys were not calling out
Speaker 3: because they were not ready for the big Wendel Courage Junior,
Speaker 3: you know screen there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but that team needs a bit of toughness too.
Speaker 5: I mean that's one thing where you know that does
Speaker 5: send a bit of a message to other teams when
Speaker 5: you've got to go out there and nothing dirty. No
Speaker 5: one was really upset with him because he was just
Speaker 5: doing his playing his role there, Like he's a big guy,
Speaker 5: make those screens, make your body get felt there, and
Speaker 5: he did that. So yeah, I mean that's what Chicago
Speaker 5: has lacked in the last couple of years, is any
Speaker 5: real defensive toughness. You know, you sort of look at
Speaker 5: that team as pretty flimsy. You can score on them
Speaker 5: any time, So you do need a guy who can
Speaker 5: sort of, you know, show his size. And this is
Speaker 5: his third season now, so you expect him to start
Speaker 5: feeling a bit more in control out there. The Bulls
Speaker 5: have got high hopes for Wendell Carter too. I mean,
Speaker 5: he's been injured a lot through his career so far,
Speaker 5: but if he can stay on the floor, he's a
Speaker 5: pretty talented guy. I mean, I don't know really what
Speaker 5: the ceiling is until we get a good sustained period
Speaker 5: from him.
Speaker 3: But it was Al Horford. We always heard the Al Horford.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean that that'd be incredible. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: We just again like they need to need to see
Speaker 5: him put it together for most of a season anyway.
Speaker 3: Yeah, injuries have played a huge part, all right. Congrats
Speaker 3: to Tree, Kirby and the Chicgo Bulls fans out there.
Speaker 3: I love it. I love it. Big victory in Portland.
Speaker 3: All right, our next game, let's keep a moving here.
Speaker 3: Kyrie Irving leads the undermanned Nets to the one thirty
Speaker 3: to ninety six blowout over the Jazz. Here's one of
Speaker 3: those blowouts, Lee, what's your tickaway?
Speaker 5: Well, I was very excited for this game, especially because
Speaker 5: Kevin Durant wasn't playing. He's out for the next few
Speaker 5: games here with coronavirus protocols, and so I was like, Okay,
Speaker 5: let's just see because the Nets are under a little
Speaker 5: bit of pressure.
Speaker 2: They need to win.
Speaker 5: They're playing against a very good team, a very good
Speaker 5: defensive team. But Kyrie was in his bag, as the
Speaker 5: kids say, in that first quarter, he was just incredibly
Speaker 5: hit so many shots, the threes, to step backs inside
Speaker 5: the paint. And this was a blowout in the first quarter.
Speaker 5: And again in the NBA, we know first quarter, as
Speaker 5: we were just talking with the Bulls and the Blazers
Speaker 5: there that that usually doesn't count for anything, but in
Speaker 5: this game it absolutely did. The Jazz had no real
Speaker 5: counter at all. Kyrie was just incredible. They couldn't stop him,
Speaker 5: even when they double teamed him. He was just too good.
Speaker 5: He made the right play, he made the right read
Speaker 5: or just hit the shot. And really disappointing performance here
Speaker 5: from the Utah Jazz. I mean, this is a team
Speaker 5: that you know, I've looked at a couple of times.
Speaker 5: I thought they're very good offensive there makes such a
Speaker 5: difference when you have Bogdanovic back in that lineup, and
Speaker 5: he stunk it up last night. Mitchell played okay, but
Speaker 5: that was really it.
Speaker 3: And Rudy Gobert, you know.
Speaker 5: He's got into it a little bit with shack Over
Speaker 5: on the weekend there Shaq saying that you can get
Speaker 5: paid two hundred million if you don't have to score.
Speaker 5: And I thought it was not a good response there
Speaker 5: from Rudy last night. Defensely wasn't good.
Speaker 3: He got his ass handed to him by Jared.
Speaker 5: Allen exactly like and that's the sort of thing that like,
Speaker 5: you know, the haters of Rudy Gobert look at a
Speaker 5: game like that and think, I mean, Jared Allen, he's
Speaker 5: a solid player, but Rudy Gobert, if you're an all
Speaker 5: NBA player, all Star, you should dominate that matchup. But
Speaker 5: he didn't do that last night. So yeah, this one
Speaker 5: turned into a real snoozer, So the question has to
Speaker 5: be asked the Nets better without Kevin Durant call him.
Speaker 3: Lee Ellis later on The Athletic I love it. Well,
Speaker 3: here's the other takeaway too, not just Kyrie cooking early,
Speaker 3: but the starting lineup tray that Steve Nash ultimately went with,
Speaker 3: you know, raised some eyebrows. At least they went with
Speaker 3: because there's no Katie Kyrie starting. Okay, Bruce Brown to
Speaker 3: a lot of people, that's a who you know, he
Speaker 3: played for the Pistons. He's there with the Nets now,
Speaker 3: Torrian Prince okay, Jeff Green getting the start, and then
Speaker 3: finally finally DeAndre Jordan, we're gonna start the better center
Speaker 3: that we have, you know, the better version of basically
Speaker 3: you younger you. Jared Allen he got the start. He
Speaker 3: was huge nineteen and eighteen for Jared Allen, three steals,
Speaker 3: two blocks, he thoroughly Oh played Rudy Gobert. But that
Speaker 3: was It was a lot of names like shuffling around
Speaker 3: here from Steve Nash and the Nets coaching staff, well,
Speaker 3: a lot of guys that were you know, Joe Harris
Speaker 3: to the bench and stuff like that. And for one
Speaker 3: night it works out, But I guess Steve Nash says,
Speaker 3: we're just going to try things here and see what
Speaker 3: what lineups sort of click. So far, so good with
Speaker 3: this one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not bad. A little experimentation by Steve. Curry is
Speaker 2: put in a place where he's got to make some
Speaker 2: decisions on what to do with Kevin Durant coming out,
Speaker 2: and I think it's kind of interesting that he decided
Speaker 2: to go defense first, because that's definitely what this is.
Speaker 2: Jared Allen moves better than DeAndre Jordan at this point.
Speaker 2: Bruce Brown a defensive player for the most part, Tory imprince.
Speaker 2: Maybe he stretches the corp, but he's out there for
Speaker 2: his defense. And Jeff Green you just want to highlight
Speaker 2: done from him every once in a while. But it
Speaker 2: was good for the Nets that they went and tried
Speaker 2: to figure out their defense. We've been talking about it
Speaker 2: for the past couple of shows that the Nets haven't
Speaker 2: committed to defense. This is a move by Steve Kersey
Speaker 2: or sorry, by Steve Nash. Wrong coach Steve saying, yeah,
Speaker 2: we're coming out and we're playing defense. They didn't actually
Speaker 2: need to play defense so much last night, only ninety
Speaker 2: six to the Jazz, which is impressive, but it's a blowout.
Speaker 2: Who knows the defensive stats there, But Jared Allen getting
Speaker 2: the start, you gotta think he's going to be starting
Speaker 2: from here on out. There's been a lot of talk.
Speaker 2: Obviously the Internet wants him to start over DeAndre Jordan.
Speaker 2: He seems like the better player to me. The important
Speaker 2: thing is that he has mostly been finishing their games,
Speaker 2: which I think is a bigger deal, and he seems
Speaker 2: to be fine with come off the bench, knowing he'll
Speaker 2: get his chance eventually. He did last night. He was incredible.
Speaker 2: He was being compared to Kenyon Martin. I love to
Speaker 2: see that felt like a throwback as well. But he
Speaker 2: was great, dominating Gobert. There's some great highlights. Crushed one
Speaker 2: on top of his head, blocked him a couple of
Speaker 2: times at the rim. He was an impact player and
Speaker 2: that's exactly what the Nets needed with Kde going out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my thing with him is whether he's starting or finishing. Okay,
Speaker 3: he just needs more minutes. I mean he's He's much
Speaker 3: better than DeAndre Jordan's. I love him. I've loved his
Speaker 3: games basically since he was a rookie. He is just
Speaker 3: a great you know, third fourth guy. If he's like
Speaker 3: that type of in the pecking order on your team. Man,
Speaker 3: you got a really good squad. I loved what he did.
Speaker 3: He also said this. He credited a change of his
Speaker 3: pregame meal from pasta with pesto sauce to pasta with
Speaker 3: Alfredo sauce for his season high in points and rebounds
Speaker 3: in last night's game. I had to get your take
Speaker 3: on this, because you're a big pesto man.
Speaker 5: Big pesto, big homemade pesto.
Speaker 1: Go.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I love the basil in there.
Speaker 3: So he switched it up with the creamier, thicker Elfred.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Interesting, interesting choice there, the sort of dairy option, which
Speaker 5: is probably not my profet. He didn't specify what type
Speaker 5: of pasta he was using, either, did he. That's what
Speaker 5: we need to find out, really the sauce here, you know,
Speaker 5: is he going with a what did he going with?
Speaker 5: A ravioliatoni? Just a flain Spaghetti doesn't Spaghetti doesn't go
Speaker 5: all that well pesto. Usually you need something a little
Speaker 5: more curly and they're a little shorter, a little stuff
Speaker 5: that's your favorite my favorite pasta, Well, that's a tough one.
Speaker 5: I probably I mean knock, he doesn't really count as pasta,
Speaker 5: does it.
Speaker 2: It's a gray area.
Speaker 5: It's because it's potato, is it.
Speaker 2: I mean it's not really.
Speaker 5: I mean probably I'm probably going to default back to
Speaker 5: the fusilli.
Speaker 2: I like.
Speaker 3: You just watched sin Felt bro.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that that is a great one with Crme Mom
Speaker 5: when he calls he makes it silly Jerry because he's silly.
Speaker 3: Pasta trey.
Speaker 2: Uh cavatapi. A favorite pasta depends on the sauce trick question,
Speaker 2: that's right answered.
Speaker 5: I will say this ravioli is great, but you cannot
Speaker 5: put like a lobster in a ravioli or anything like that.
Speaker 5: You get those in like try to Joe's I have
Speaker 5: lobster ravioli, Like no, no, you can't do it like that.
Speaker 5: It's going to be more vegetable. Uh in there for the.
Speaker 3: Okay, I will say insane. I feel bad. I actually
Speaker 3: felt bad for the jazz fans last night because I
Speaker 3: don't know. I have nothing to back this up, Like
Speaker 3: I haven't crunched the numbers or ever gone back and
Speaker 3: looked at other shows. But it feels like, to me,
Speaker 3: tell me if I'm wrong. Guys that like on a
Speaker 3: night where there's not a lot of games, and then
Speaker 3: of course we're going to be talking about it the
Speaker 3: next day and it's like, oh, this Jazz Nets game,
Speaker 3: Like you said, You're like, oh, that's you know, that's intriguing.
Speaker 3: The O KD is maybe more competitive. The Jazz has
Speaker 3: been playing all right, you know, like, well this could
Speaker 3: we could be talking about Utah. That's what I'm getting
Speaker 3: at here. Yeah, and then they lay a stinker and
Speaker 3: you know they're just like sort of forgotten about and
Speaker 3: with gloss over them. I feel like that happens with
Speaker 3: the Jazz. Yeah, with our show, I don't know what
Speaker 3: it is. And then I think the flip of it
Speaker 3: is they have like really good Friday and eight performances
Speaker 3: and like winner of something, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: It's like Mitchell will go for forty and then they're
Speaker 3: you know, it's buried because we're not talking about on
Speaker 3: the weekend again. It just feels that way to me.
Speaker 3: I don't know it does.
Speaker 5: Last night's game was a real snooze and again a
Speaker 5: great opportunity for Utah to get a win against a
Speaker 5: team that has been struggling a little bit and without
Speaker 5: their best player. But instead they lay an egg from
Speaker 5: the start, and you just was like, where's the comeback?
Speaker 5: Because Mike Conley, surprisingly, I don't know if you guys
Speaker 5: knew this that he was leading the team in scoring
Speaker 5: prior to last night. I'm not sure if he is
Speaker 5: now because Mitchell had thirty one. I think Conley only
Speaker 5: had ten in the end, so so Mitchell was probably
Speaker 5: overtaken him. But it was like, Okay, he's starting to
Speaker 5: fit into that role a little bit more than he
Speaker 5: did last season. And again, bugg Downham should tald about
Speaker 5: him a lot. He can lie up anytime. Joe Ingles
Speaker 5: can be good as well. He can get it going.
Speaker 5: But they were just kind of like ah not last night,
Speaker 5: not interested. And again you know Joe Harris coming off
Speaker 5: the bench, so it was like a defensive look here
Speaker 5: from the nets, and it was almost like the Jazz
Speaker 5: had no CounterPunch or no way of sort of firing
Speaker 5: back on the nets. And it was a real snoozer
Speaker 5: in the end.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Donovan Mitchell, I believe averaging twenty two basically points
Speaker 3: per game, and conn Lee's there at nineteen, so not
Speaker 3: far behind. And then you got Colbert at fourteen and
Speaker 3: thirteen doing his thing, and yeah, I mean there are
Speaker 3: four and three. I'm not saying the Jazz are like brutal.
Speaker 3: I still like them, but again, they have this habit
Speaker 3: of putting up stinkers on a note where you could
Speaker 3: really focus on them and want to focus on them
Speaker 3: and maybe talk about them in great detail, and they
Speaker 3: just got hammered.
Speaker 2: All right, you gotta play well on a five game night.
Speaker 2: You still want to get talked about on No Dogs.
Speaker 2: But I'm also willing to pump the brakes on the
Speaker 2: Jazz because it kind of feels like this every single year.
Speaker 2: Slow out of the gate. Then they'll have a month
Speaker 2: where they win eighteen out of twenty games or something. Right,
Speaker 2: So we'll talk about you a bunch of March Jazz.
Speaker 3: Probably all right, next next game you'll kitchen. The Nuggets
Speaker 3: regroup to rally past the Wolves one twenty three, one sixteen.
Speaker 3: It came back in this one Trey big takeaway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a rally, but to me, it didn't
Speaker 2: really feel like the Nuggets were ever in danger of
Speaker 2: losing this game because Nicola Jokic is making an MVP
Speaker 2: case right now, and it wasn't actually that hard for
Speaker 2: him last night. He had thirty five points. He went
Speaker 2: twelve for twenty from the field, fifteen boards, a measly
Speaker 2: six assists. Come on, man, step up your game. But
Speaker 2: watching Jokic, there were so many times he would just
Speaker 2: catch the ball turn and there was nobody even touching
Speaker 2: him at the free throw line, underneath the basket. There's
Speaker 2: just no resistance inside from the Timberwolves at all. Obviously
Speaker 2: no Carl Town's last night. There was a lot of
Speaker 2: skinny what's his name, Jared Vanderbilt, Like that guy's a
Speaker 2: little too skinny to be able to handle Jokic in
Speaker 2: the back guys.
Speaker 3: Though he was fun to watch.
Speaker 2: He was definitely fun to watch, but he's not really
Speaker 2: in Jocica's class right now. You know, there was some
Speaker 2: nas read minutes. It just was the resistance wasn't there
Speaker 2: from the Timberwolves. They don't have the defense for it.
Speaker 2: But it was great to see Yokich come out and
Speaker 2: dominate once again. And he's you know, if if the
Speaker 2: Nuggets had won a couple of games earlier in the week,
Speaker 2: we were probably be talking about him at the top
Speaker 2: of the MVP. Don't you think I'd bean the guy's
Speaker 2: going to be leading the league in assists as a
Speaker 2: big man. Incredible stuff. But if you are the Timberwolves.
Speaker 2: Some good things to take away from this game. The
Speaker 2: Wancho revenge game. That was pretty wild. I think we're
Speaker 2: probably the biggest Wancho Hernan Gomez fans in the world.
Speaker 2: Twenty five last night he was balling for the Timberwolves
Speaker 2: and Anthony Edwards. He is a fun watch as well.
Speaker 2: He was taking the ball strong to the hoop. He
Speaker 2: had a huge dunk. He had a nice little jelly
Speaker 2: on the break. The guy's been much more of a
Speaker 2: driver than I thought he was going to be coming
Speaker 2: into the league. The scouting report on him was that
Speaker 2: he's going to take one hundred step back jumpers. He
Speaker 2: still takes them, but he also gets to the hoop.
Speaker 2: Looks like an NBA player. That was fun to watch,
Speaker 2: but you gotta play defense eventually.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what do you think about what Trey said there?
Speaker 3: Lead denvers three and four. If they're five and two,
Speaker 3: is your kitch like at the top of everybody's MVP
Speaker 3: leaderboard this early in the season.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think so, especially with Jamal Murray sort of struggling.
Speaker 5: Struggles continue there because Yokich's leading that team. He's doing everything.
Speaker 3: And if you've got and it's not just the stats,
Speaker 3: if you got to you gotta watch a Nugget game.
Speaker 3: Every single possession goes through him. Yeah oh yeah, like everything,
Speaker 3: either he's bringing it up as the giant sun footer
Speaker 3: or then you know, the guards bring it up and
Speaker 3: then it's past to him. Let's operate, you know. It's
Speaker 3: it is really wild to watch that every single player
Speaker 3: goes through So he interrupt.
Speaker 5: You there, Yeah, no, no, I mean, but that's it.
Speaker 5: He's got the skill set as well where he doesn't
Speaker 5: like he scored thirty five as you mentioned there last night,
Speaker 5: but he doesn't ever feel to me like he's a scorer. First,
Speaker 5: you know, he just wants to get his players involved,
Speaker 5: get his teammates involved. But one thing I learned last
Speaker 5: night was that if you get a technical fail for
Speaker 5: hanging on the rim, it doesn't count as a personal
Speaker 5: technical fan.
Speaker 3: Right, it's sort of like an unsportsman like, it's.
Speaker 5: A non unsportsman like an it's negative there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very weird.
Speaker 5: Because Jokic last night threw down a couple of dunks.
Speaker 5: With the first one he goes baseline dunks it and
Speaker 5: it does give himself a chin up, gets a technical
Speaker 5: foul for it, and then only like a minute or
Speaker 5: so later, he's drawing at the ref and he gets
Speaker 5: another tech.
Speaker 3: You're like, oh, he's gone.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but he doesn't get ejected for that, So he
Speaker 5: gets fine for the personal for the for the non
Speaker 5: unsportsmanlike but it doesn't count as a personal tech, which.
Speaker 3: Is weird because why wouldn't it.
Speaker 5: Count as a personal technical foul? I mean, I understand
Speaker 5: the illegal defense ones goes against the team, okay, because
Speaker 5: that's like a team concept, But how is this not
Speaker 5: a personal technical foul? And how did I not even
Speaker 5: know this? I've been following this game forever because John
Speaker 5: Krasinski and I last night were exchanging a little bit
Speaker 5: on Twitter, like he was like, oh, Yokich is gone,
Speaker 5: and I was like, yeah, I'm pretty sure that's his
Speaker 5: second tech.
Speaker 3: He's gone.
Speaker 5: And then and then he stayed out there and it
Speaker 5: wasn't until he looked into it and we found out
Speaker 5: that it doesn't count as a technical foul against your
Speaker 5: own So does that mean? I mean, you can get
Speaker 5: as many of those as you want throughout a game.
Speaker 5: You can get five of those technicals. You know, if
Speaker 5: you keep hanging on the rim and it doesn't count
Speaker 5: against you, I guess, so, yeah, he wouldn't be tysed.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah. But to see Nikola Jokic actually do
Speaker 5: a chin up on the rim that should not be
Speaker 5: a technical foul. He should be applauded. And then he
Speaker 5: had another thrown out later on. But it's so funny
Speaker 5: because he's just not a high leaper. So when he
Speaker 5: does get up for a dunk, it's like, wow, this guy.
Speaker 5: It takes all his effort to get up there and
Speaker 5: throw it down. But fun to watch. Yeah, crazy stuff, man,
Speaker 5: crazy stuff. You learn something new every day. This guy's
Speaker 5: sixty eight years old and still learning. But also Nikola
Speaker 5: Jokic must have known that, I guess, because you know
Speaker 5: he got the tea. He nearly got another tech after
Speaker 5: that as well. He was really pushing it last night.
Speaker 5: He was really trying to get himself thrown out. But
Speaker 5: you know what, the Wolves, they could end up with
Speaker 5: the worst record in the NBA this season, especially if
Speaker 5: Towns is out for a prolong period here, because I
Speaker 5: actually thought they were competitive last night. Russell was good,
Speaker 5: but it did always feel that the Nuggets were just
Speaker 5: going to get there because as I just there a
Speaker 5: better take, you know, not playing at home. But yeah,
Speaker 5: when you look at the Wolves and you just think,
Speaker 5: oh man, it's really hot. Say, they're not a great
Speaker 5: defensive team offensively, They've got some talent there, but just
Speaker 5: not enough if the other team has a decent defense
Speaker 5: to throw at it.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it could.
Speaker 5: Be another rough, rough season there in Minnesota.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like to see Denver turning it around here too.
Speaker 3: You're right, Jamal Murray, you know, is not Bubble Murray
Speaker 3: by any means. Y'll Kich is leading the way. But
Speaker 3: Jamichael Green is back to this team, or you know,
Speaker 3: with this team, I should say. And by playing the
Speaker 3: last couple of games, I think he played really well
Speaker 3: in his two game series versus Minnesota. Hit three threes
Speaker 3: in both games, grabbed eleven rebounds total. He had seventeen
Speaker 3: specifically off the bench last night. Those were key. And
Speaker 3: Will Barton this his frantic energy is very I don't
Speaker 3: know if it's because the way Yokud sort of plays,
Speaker 3: I don't know what, Like maybe it sticks out more
Speaker 3: than it would on another team, but like it feels needed,
Speaker 3: just that that manic energy. You ever watch him when
Speaker 3: they like go to like the timeout like camera, like
Speaker 3: we're in the huddle, they're on their chairs and stuff
Speaker 3: like that. He is always like just like lobbing around.
Speaker 3: He's like, no, you can never stop moving, and he
Speaker 3: of course does that on the floor. But twenty seven
Speaker 3: and three last night, and I think he's very important
Speaker 3: to their success moving forward to and I like that
Speaker 3: he talks up Yolkic too. He had he had a
Speaker 3: quote like saying, like he tells Yolkic before every game,
Speaker 3: just go out there and win MVP, Like you're the
Speaker 3: best player in the world. If you want to, would
Speaker 3: you know, like be aggressive and no one can stop you.
Speaker 3: And you know, some nights it works definitely with Yokich.
Speaker 3: So he was big down the stretch thirteen of his
Speaker 3: thirty five and the fourty sort of again, it's amazing everything,
Speaker 3: every every single play goes through him. So he's either scoring,
Speaker 3: you know, or attempting a shot, or of course trying
Speaker 3: to set a guy up or setting up the next
Speaker 3: thing that sets up a guy, like the hockey assist.
Speaker 3: It's it's wild. So good win by Denver and Yep
Speaker 3: a couple more, you know, they put together a little
Speaker 3: streak here, four wins in a row. Whatever. Yeah, the people,
Speaker 3: the national media will start taking notice of what the
Speaker 3: heck yolkicch is really doing there. I know the diehards
Speaker 3: know what's up and know how special he is, but
Speaker 3: you'll start seeing it on some of your other shows
Speaker 3: that maybe don't follow the league all that closely. All right,
Speaker 3: our next game here, Lakers stretched the winning streak to four,
Speaker 3: four straight for them. They beat the Grizzlies ninety four
Speaker 3: ninety two. Honestly, there's not a lot to take from
Speaker 3: this one. The first one is the score may jump
Speaker 3: out at you. Ninety four ninety two. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3: You know, it was a defensive minded game. The Anthony
Speaker 3: Melton actually had a wicked block on Anthony Davis and
Speaker 3: then dunked it, punched one home on the other end
Speaker 3: with about six minute remaining, And that's what it looked like.
Speaker 3: The Grizzlies might win this game. But you didn't think
Speaker 3: that if you saw the game prior, because this was
Speaker 3: another like mini series where the Lakers had just played
Speaker 3: the Grizzlies like two nights prior. I guess it was
Speaker 3: on Sunday night, and in that one which I watched,
Speaker 3: Lebron just took over. He literally just decided, Okay, games close,
Speaker 3: I'm going to start to try now, and I'm just
Speaker 3: gonna put my stamp on this game. We'll get the victory.
Speaker 3: He sort of did it again last night. I mean
Speaker 3: it was it was the same movie. It really really was.
Speaker 3: La trailed seventy nine to seventy seven with about five
Speaker 3: minutes ago, and and then Lebron and Ad he got
Speaker 3: some help in this one. They went on a combined
Speaker 3: nine to two run. They had the lead, and they
Speaker 3: held on for dear life at the end. It got
Speaker 3: really weld at the end with some crazy turnovers. But Lebron,
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's wild to watch a guy coasting
Speaker 3: through games. And now his version of coasting is still
Speaker 3: damn impressive, but he really is. I'm not exaggerating. The
Speaker 3: Lakers there as a team are doing this, and I
Speaker 3: don't know if it's going to come back to buy
Speaker 3: them in the ass, but it's pretty amazing to watch
Speaker 3: them sort of just half asset for you know, two
Speaker 3: to three quarters and then turn it on when they
Speaker 3: need to.
Speaker 5: Did you see any resemblance to the Lebronto to Lebron
Speaker 5: out there last night, because it felt like that to me.
Speaker 3: Where it was like, I mean, he knows he's going
Speaker 3: to win the game, but.
Speaker 5: Some of the shots he hit as well, you know,
Speaker 5: just those those crazy sort of fallaway step backs that
Speaker 5: like just go perfectly through the net as well, it
Speaker 5: was kind of like he was just toying with him.
Speaker 5: And I think a part of it was Dylan Brooks
Speaker 5: had that little show of strength there with Lebron where
Speaker 5: he got the ball. Lebron was on his butt and
Speaker 5: Dylan Brooks in and got the foul and he did
Speaker 5: the big flex. And this also reminds me a little
Speaker 5: bit of like the Last Dance where we saw Michael
Speaker 5: Jordans sometimes needed anything just to motivate. And well, here
Speaker 5: we are on a Tuesday night in January and Lebron's
Speaker 5: in Memphis. He knows he can win this game. And
Speaker 5: it was almost like, oh, thank you, thank you Dylan
Speaker 5: Brooks for giving me just that little bit of like,
Speaker 5: all right, now I have to show this guy because
Speaker 5: you saw it later on as well when he hit
Speaker 5: that crazy fallaway he did drop the two Yeah, I
Speaker 5: don't know if you saw as well. And I play earlier,
Speaker 5: Lebron was blowing kisses to the Memphis bench as well,
Speaker 5: So I didn't see that. Yeah, so so he was
Speaker 5: kind of I think that's what it was.
Speaker 2: Last night.
Speaker 5: He's like, all right, I have to win this game,
Speaker 5: but someone give me, give me a reason. Hit right up,
Speaker 5: and Dylan Brooks did that and then it was great,
Speaker 5: see because it is just so much fun when you
Speaker 5: just see Lebron just just get into that rhythm where
Speaker 5: he's like, Okay, thanks for coming guys. Now I'm going
Speaker 5: to win this game and it's good night, greeted Memphis.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Anything from this.
Speaker 2: One, Trey Well, I didn't watch this one very closely.
Speaker 2: I did see a fast break where Grease and Allen
Speaker 2: just kind of tipped the body on this Valentounis running
Speaker 2: dow on the middle of the lane. He finished with
Speaker 2: a very slow layup and it may be misplaying pickup ball.
Speaker 2: I was like, this would have been the biggest highlight
Speaker 2: from any game on a Wednesday night if we were
Speaker 2: out there playing. But you look at the box scores
Speaker 2: and it's just evident how much the Lakers are in
Speaker 2: flip the switch mode this season. Every one of their
Speaker 2: starters except for Dennis Shruder, who is a minus one,
Speaker 2: has massive plus minus splits for last night, whereas the
Speaker 2: bench was struggling. And that's the difference there. Once the
Speaker 2: Lakers put in their starting lineup, the game's going to
Speaker 2: be over because Lebron and eighty know exactly what they
Speaker 2: need to do to get a win. In a scenario
Speaker 2: against the Grizzlies, it's not necessarily needing to play one
Speaker 2: hundred percent strength the entire night. We're worried about the
Speaker 2: Lakers taking games off last season coming in, you know,
Speaker 2: because we're like Lebron, he knows his body. The guy
Speaker 2: manages the season as well as anybody does. That wasn't
Speaker 2: the case for last season. The Lakers were one hundred
Speaker 2: percent locked in we're winning the title from day one.
Speaker 2: This year, they came in, they said, we already got
Speaker 2: the title. We had to play seventy five days ago,
Speaker 2: so let's take it a little chill this year, turn
Speaker 2: it on when we need to. They're preserving themselves by
Speaker 2: load managing during games. Lebron's quarterbacking out there. The guy
Speaker 2: doesn't put in the effort until he needs to absolutely score.
Speaker 2: And it's fine because he knows exactly what to do.
Speaker 2: Impressive stuff from the Lakers. They're not even trying hard
Speaker 2: and they're the best team in the West.
Speaker 3: And the Grizzlies are, of course playing with other two
Speaker 3: best players and John Moran and Jaron Jackson junior. They
Speaker 3: put up a fight. I mean, it's nice to have
Speaker 3: Melton back. You know, what do they call him? Mister
Speaker 3: do Something? I think is his nickname, which is a
Speaker 3: fascinating nickname. But he does a little bit of everything.
Speaker 3: He was helping, of course, stay in this game and
Speaker 3: give them a lead late, and they fought. They put
Speaker 3: up a valiant effort, but you know, it was a
Speaker 3: little big brother little brother scenario there where it's like, Okay,
Speaker 3: this is a little too close here, I'm just gonna
Speaker 3: pull out this victory and what are you gonna do? Yeah,
Speaker 3: you're right. Lebron is load managing during games, and we
Speaker 3: talked about it. I think a big part of it
Speaker 3: is like, hey, well I could take the night off.
Speaker 3: I mean, I could just take the night off, but
Speaker 3: I play rack up twenty to twenty five points. That's
Speaker 3: gonna help in the total accumulation of catching.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: Kareem Abdul Jabbar for the most points everyone, why not,
Speaker 3: that's what he's doing it. It's really astonishing totally.
Speaker 2: The jumper is money enough now that he can hang
Speaker 2: out on the perimeter, right, Like he can make rees
Speaker 2: at a high enough rate, he can hit these fallaways
Speaker 2: at a high enough rate that he can just hang
Speaker 2: out on the perimeter not take a million bumps. Yeah,
Speaker 2: pick teams apart, like I remember in the bubble watching
Speaker 2: him pick apart zones from Miami. It's similar stuff. When
Speaker 2: Lebron is just out there like moving people around with
Speaker 2: his eyes. It feels like until there's a split second
Speaker 2: where he can fit a pass in. And that's why
Speaker 2: he's one of the goats for sure.
Speaker 3: All right, final game from last night, Spurs stop a
Speaker 3: four game skid one sixteen, one thirteen victory over the Clippers.
Speaker 3: We sort of alluded to this one. Crazy crazy Spurs
Speaker 3: up a massive amount. The Clippers have been playing in
Speaker 3: weird games this year. Man, They are either up thirty
Speaker 3: or down thirty, feels like in every single game they've played.
Speaker 3: But it came back, but in the end Spurs pull
Speaker 3: it out. Lea anything to take away from this one,
Speaker 3: your assie mate, pretty.
Speaker 5: Miller, Let's see when this Biznaydawi and Hood has cut,
Speaker 5: Popovich go to Paddy thrill Is coming in off the bench.
Speaker 5: I think in that first quarter he hit four threes
Speaker 5: in like the last ninety seconds of that first quarter.
Speaker 5: It was incredible performance, and he finished with eighth for
Speaker 5: the game, twenty seven points.
Speaker 2: Missed one free throw.
Speaker 5: At the end, which really could have seen it kept
Speaker 5: the Clippers within a chance of tying the game least,
Speaker 5: but they weren't able to do that. No, Paul George
Speaker 5: here for the Clippers, and we'll find out tonight if
Speaker 5: he was lured managing or if he was genuinely sore
Speaker 5: with that ankle there last night. I suspect it was
Speaker 5: probably a little bit more of the former rather than
Speaker 5: the latter. But yeah, the Clippers just a weird team again,
Speaker 5: as you mentioned there, like they were killing the Suns
Speaker 5: on what night, Sunday night that was, and then the
Speaker 5: Suns nearly pulled that out, and then last night they
Speaker 5: were half asleep in that first half, got themselves back
Speaker 5: into it late, but the Spurs managed to hold on.
Speaker 5: I will say those Spurs jerseys look unreal.
Speaker 3: On the court.
Speaker 5: I thought they looked gorgeous out there last night, the
Speaker 5: Fiesta jerseys, and you know you saw as well, like
Speaker 5: that the young stars, you know, the Keldon Johnson, the
Speaker 5: Loneie Walker, Dejonte Murray. Like again, how they went on
Speaker 5: that four game losing streak is kind of weird because
Speaker 5: they've got some very good, young, talented athletic players who
Speaker 5: played defense. But then last night having LaMarcus and DeRozan
Speaker 5: out there was just the experience. Perhaps that's maybe that's
Speaker 5: what they've been missing, because I thought they're a good
Speaker 5: team with the young athletic guys and then you have
Speaker 5: the veterans out there who can just steer your team home.
Speaker 5: And Patty Mills as well, did that late in the game.
Speaker 5: He's a veteran. Now, of course we don't make him
Speaker 5: one of the young guys anymore. But the funny thing
Speaker 5: about Patty Mills is the shot selection has never really
Speaker 5: changed throughout his career. Some of those shots are a
Speaker 5: little bit wild, a little bit early in the shot, cluck,
Speaker 5: they just go in.
Speaker 3: Now that's the difference.
Speaker 5: I think that's the difference. When you look at Patti's
Speaker 5: highlights from his Portland days and even when he first
Speaker 5: got to San Antonio, a couple of those shots, who's
Speaker 5: just like but now he's just it's the repetition, it's
Speaker 5: the experience, and he knocks him in. It was It
Speaker 5: was great to see him have such a great performance.
Speaker 3: He's shooting fifty seven point five percent from three on
Speaker 3: the season right now. He's on fire. Yeah, he shoots
Speaker 3: a lot of them, as you would if you shot
Speaker 3: the well. They hit twenty threes of Spurs. I think
Speaker 3: Tyer franchise wreck. That's a ton for them. Speaking of
Speaker 3: the Clippers, I remember this tweet from Tim Reynolds last night.
Speaker 3: I remember I liked it for a reason so I
Speaker 3: could bring it up on the show. Listen to this.
Speaker 3: This season, games the Clippers have played, they trailed by
Speaker 3: fifty seven to the Mavericks. They led by thirty one
Speaker 3: against Minnesota, They led by thirty one against Phoenix, They
Speaker 3: led by thirty against Portland. They led by twenty four
Speaker 3: against Denver. They trailed by twenty four against the Spurs
Speaker 3: last night when we're talking about here. They led by
Speaker 3: twenty two against the Lakers, and they trailed by twenty
Speaker 3: against the Jazz. Twenty or more up or down in
Speaker 3: every game they've played this year, that's really really strange. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's a big gap. I mean a lot of those
Speaker 3: were thirties for crying out loud, if not more so
Speaker 3: weird weird stuff. But they missed Paul George, no doubt.
Speaker 3: I mean, guys, he's having a good year. Obviously helps
Speaker 3: your permanent defense too. Go ahead, right, he's having a
Speaker 3: good year. But a guy that's not having a good year.
Speaker 3: Luke the Nard Dog. Canard just nine points last night,
Speaker 3: three of ten. He's shooting all right from the field
Speaker 3: so far this season, He's forty three percent from three.
Speaker 3: But I think he was supposed to kind of be
Speaker 3: the third initiator perhaps for the Clippers this season. You know,
Speaker 3: Landry Shammant went out in the trade kind of more
Speaker 3: just the shooter that compared to Canard, where Canards should
Speaker 3: theoretically be able to handle the ball and pick and roll,
Speaker 3: make some plays and space the floor.
Speaker 2: He's been underwhelming so far. He's only been in double
Speaker 2: digits two games so far this season. And if the
Speaker 2: Clippers are going to go further this season then they
Speaker 2: went last season, they're going to need more from him,
Speaker 2: because all the talk in the off season was they
Speaker 2: need another secondary creator they need somebody else who's going
Speaker 2: to be able to make plays.
Speaker 5: Well, we've lost him.
Speaker 3: He froze from me. He's so pumped, still over.
Speaker 5: The back o there is Oh did you put a
Speaker 5: spell on him? Lee? Maybe he's just watching more highlights
Speaker 5: of the Bulls last night. He's just captivated and.
Speaker 2: Just all right.
Speaker 3: Well, as we try and get Trey Kirby back, let's
Speaker 3: take a quick break to hear from our sponsors.
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Speaker 3: Who buys cereal online? I said, well, first off, you
Speaker 3: can buy anything on the exactly. Who doesn't do this
Speaker 3: shopping online these days? I thought that was just weird. Sorry,
Speaker 3: you're about to say something. We're you gonna say that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I can't really remember, but I think, oh, yeah, no, Well, like,
Speaker 5: you know, you rank the cocoa fourth because you have
Speaker 5: to rank them, of course, but it's like, you know,
Speaker 5: it's almost like at the Olympics if there was a
Speaker 5: fourth place as well, you're still doing It's still a
Speaker 5: great place to finish fourth at that level.
Speaker 3: You think, yeah, you think, you think? You think the
Speaker 3: guy that is the fourth best bobsledder in the world
Speaker 3: is walking around with his chest puffed out look.
Speaker 5: He wants to be on the in the medals, among
Speaker 5: the medals, of course, but you know his family and
Speaker 5: friends are saying, listen, man, there's only three people in
Speaker 5: the world better than you, like, in.
Speaker 3: The whole world. So they were only better than you
Speaker 3: on that given day, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: So, yeah, I mean, you know, of course people want
Speaker 5: that top nudge, but not everyone can win it. Not
Speaker 5: everyone can have the top the top spot on the
Speaker 5: das there.
Speaker 3: Do you think it's worse to be silver, second or fourth?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it depends if you I mean, because
Speaker 5: you can get defeated and get the silver medal, but
Speaker 5: you can also like, like, you don't get defeated if
Speaker 5: you if you run second, if you know what I mean,
Speaker 5: You know what I mean. Yeah, so if you lose
Speaker 5: by half a second in the it's like, well you
Speaker 5: came second rather than getting defeated into second place, if
Speaker 5: you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Sure, sure, So what's your what's your answer? Well, I
Speaker 3: guess you would you would you be content with a
Speaker 3: silver medal, you know, instead of no medal?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think you'd want the silver medal. Yeah, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 5: you'd want that silver metal. Wouldn't you show it after
Speaker 5: the kids and the grandkids?
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe bronze is the worst. I'd almost rather just
Speaker 3: be fourth at that point.
Speaker 5: Well, I see, I don't know what it was like
Speaker 5: for Canada in the eighties and early nineties, but Australia,
Speaker 5: most of our medals at the Olympics were bronze.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: It wasn't until wet around the two thousands when we
Speaker 5: started picking up a few more gold medals. But the
Speaker 5: bronze was always like yeah.
Speaker 3: Well that's the thing. When you're not winning any medals,
Speaker 3: then win was making the front front page of the newspaper.
Speaker 3: But then when your country starts winning some medals, then
Speaker 3: you win bronze and everyone's like.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so you can you can win bronze, you know,
Speaker 5: because you might be battling that person for fourth, so
Speaker 5: you win that bronze.
Speaker 3: Yeah, why keep saying it like that? I mean, every
Speaker 3: Olympic event is different. Yeah, I know, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Like, you can win bronze or you can lose silver,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. Like, so you finished with
Speaker 5: a win, but you have to rank right right, right, right.
Speaker 3: Right, Okay, I'm glad we've cleared that up. Are we
Speaker 3: stalling just to try and get trade back that baby?
Speaker 3: I don't know, maybe a little bit did it work?
Speaker 4: Does not look good.
Speaker 3: He does not look good. Thought he was gonna he's
Speaker 3: got a black screen. Tray Kurby coming in fourth on
Speaker 3: today's No Ducks podcast, JD. You're always Gold. Congrats to
Speaker 3: you late. You and I are battling now for Silver.
Speaker 3: He's back. Hey, we got a fifth mysterious black Box. So,
Speaker 3: like I was saying about Luke missed us talking about
Speaker 3: the Olympics. Yeah, I'm not even gonna tell you how
Speaker 3: we got onto that tangent. Okay, let's get to some news.
Speaker 3: Nice to have you back to k We have a
Speaker 3: report coming out over the last couple of days. The
Speaker 3: NBA is seriously discussing expansion. You know, Adam Silver has
Speaker 3: said that himself makes sense. You know, profit's probably down
Speaker 3: here during the pandemic. Expansion bees fees are a great
Speaker 3: way to just inject a bunch of cold, hard cash
Speaker 3: to the other owners who are possibly hemorrhaging money here.
Speaker 3: Well how much money well, according to ESPN's Brian Windhorse,
Speaker 3: within the League office, sources said officials have floated the
Speaker 3: price tag of two point five billion each for two
Speaker 3: expansion teams in the near future. We're at thirty right now.
Speaker 3: Let's say we go bumping up to thirty two, but
Speaker 3: two point five bill. I have a couple questions off
Speaker 3: this Lee expansion you think is a good idea right
Speaker 3: now in today's NBA, And if you do, where would
Speaker 3: you locate let's say, two teams, how about it?
Speaker 5: I think expansion is a good idea if it's for
Speaker 5: the right reasons. This doesn't feel like the right reasons
Speaker 5: for me. This feels more like we need some cash.
Speaker 5: We need some quick, hard cash as soon as we can,
Speaker 5: because I think they'll have no shortage of takers to
Speaker 5: come up with that two and a half billion dollar fee,
Speaker 5: because there's always interest from people to buy a team
Speaker 5: because it usually is a cash cow. Now, if you
Speaker 5: get two teams and that's a five billion dollar cash
Speaker 5: injection that gets split amongst the other owners, the players
Speaker 5: don't get any of that, nop, So that would be
Speaker 5: around about one hundred and sixty odd million per team,
Speaker 5: which sounds like a lot of money, and it is,
Speaker 5: But to me, it's like I would like to see
Speaker 5: a more sustainable way of trying to generate the money
Speaker 5: that they're losing, because ultimately, if you have more teams
Speaker 5: and you get that one hundred and sixty million, you're
Speaker 5: going to be diluting the TV revenue that comes in.
Speaker 5: So is that sort of like a short term like
Speaker 5: cash quick hit, which I don't think is the right
Speaker 5: reason to do it, So I'd be a little bit
Speaker 5: careful right now now. I think a big part of
Speaker 5: this is because we simply don't know when we'll have
Speaker 5: full arenas in the NBA. Again, that might not be
Speaker 5: for a couple of years. Potentially we might start seeing
Speaker 5: fans strictly in and I know there's some fans at
Speaker 5: games now, which doesn't seem like the smartest idea, but
Speaker 5: there are some fans there. But also from what I've
Speaker 5: seen around the world in soccer at England and cricket
Speaker 5: in Australia, they have brought crowds back, but as sort
Speaker 5: of social distance, there hasn't been a capacity at any
Speaker 5: game or anything that I've seen so far. So and
Speaker 5: I think America, considering where they are with the virus,
Speaker 5: is still just a long, long long way away from that,
Speaker 5: even though we're started to get the vaccine rolling out now.
Speaker 5: So my ultimate point is, I think, don't do this
Speaker 5: unless it is really going to be done with a
Speaker 5: long term financial plan in place that isn't just going
Speaker 5: to then create a headache further down the line, because
Speaker 5: it may just cause even more financial grief for other teams,
Speaker 5: because again, more teams means more competition. It might be
Speaker 5: a little bit harder to sell season tickets to in
Speaker 5: some cities, depending on how the tea has been. And
Speaker 5: as Danny LaRue often points out, ownership is the most
Speaker 5: competitive advantage in the NBA, So you want to make
Speaker 5: sure you get If you're going to get more owners,
Speaker 5: make sure they're good owners. Because there are a lot
Speaker 5: of NBA owners right now. I won't name names, but
Speaker 5: I think we know who they are who aren't very
Speaker 5: good owners and their teams have been terrible for a
Speaker 5: long time. So it's a it's a dicey proposition right now,
Speaker 5: I think for the NBA. But if you were to
Speaker 5: bring teams back, Seattle's obviously going getting a team, and.
Speaker 3: That's a no brainer. I think, Trey, you'd agree with that.
Speaker 3: Seattle would be one of the teams that is automatically
Speaker 3: given one of these expansion teams, even though they'd be
Speaker 3: bringing them back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it would be exactly like the Charlotte Hornets, you know,
Speaker 2: when the Pelicans became a team and then the Bobcats
Speaker 2: turned back into the Hornets. I think it would be
Speaker 2: exactly like that. Obviously, Seattle would be great. You know,
Speaker 2: they've got a championship history. We all remember the Sonics
Speaker 2: being there ten seasons ago basically, So yeah, I think
Speaker 2: that one is a lot. The other place I would
Speaker 2: like to see the NBA expand into is Mexico City,
Speaker 2: the biggest city in North America, bigger than New York City,
Speaker 2: who has two teams. They've been playing occasional games in
Speaker 2: Mexico City for years. That'd be a great place to
Speaker 2: grow the game ethic.
Speaker 3: What do you think about that, Lee, you know, Mexico
Speaker 3: City or another place.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I would love the NBA to go back
Speaker 5: to Vancouver, but I just don't think that would happen.
Speaker 5: I just don't think they had the interest there in
Speaker 5: that city to sustain an NBA team. But as far
Speaker 5: as beautiful cities, Vancouver for me would be top of
Speaker 5: the top of the pile. They'd love to hear some
Speaker 5: more Dennis Scott stories from his time playing for the
Speaker 5: Vancouver Grizzlies. We know he had a great time there.
Speaker 5: But other than that, Mexico City, absolutely, I think that
Speaker 5: would be fantastic for the NBA to do that, because
Speaker 5: I don't think travel would be much of a concern
Speaker 5: there because the way these teams travel around anyway, so
Speaker 5: it's I think it's Central time zone there in Mexico City.
Speaker 5: I'm not sure, but any whatever it is, it would
Speaker 5: be great for the NBA to expand across the border
Speaker 5: if they could.
Speaker 3: Yeah, their cities being thrown out. Louisville is sort of
Speaker 3: at the top of a lot of people's list. Las Vegas,
Speaker 3: I know, is a hot one. You know, obviously they
Speaker 3: have a hockey team there. They've got a brand new
Speaker 3: arena there. It's Vegas. You got many people. Is there
Speaker 3: a football travel, Yeah, there's football tea yeah. Rash Marcozi
Speaker 3: actually he tweeted this out yesterday, an online an idea
Speaker 3: online for a thirty two team NBA with Seattle in
Speaker 3: Las Vegas in the west, and then you'd have to
Speaker 3: bump Minnesota to the east and you could do eight
Speaker 3: divisions in two sixteen team conferences. What do you think
Speaker 3: about this? We're showing the map and the sort of
Speaker 3: like the division for everybody joining us on YouTube. You know,
Speaker 3: if they were in Vegas and Seattle trade that that
Speaker 3: makes sense to me. I don't. I don't really have
Speaker 3: an issue with putting, you know, lump in Minnesota in
Speaker 3: with the Bucks and the Bulls and the Pistons.
Speaker 2: No, oh yeah, I think that makes sense. It's kind
Speaker 2: of you know, if they expanded, you need to take
Speaker 2: one team to the Eastern Conference. If it's going to
Speaker 2: be Vegas and Seattle added, it's gonna be between the
Speaker 2: Grizzlies and the Timberwolves, right, those are the teams that
Speaker 2: are furthest east on the map, and it seems like
Speaker 2: they should actually kind of be in the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 2: Both of those teams would be a lot more competitive
Speaker 2: in the Eastern Conference as well, And so yeah, I
Speaker 2: would be down this. It definitely feels like Las Vegas
Speaker 2: and Seattle would be the cities that get teams. Seattle,
Speaker 2: like we're saying the history, and Vegas has shown that
Speaker 2: they are ready for pro sports teams. Teams seem to
Speaker 2: be doing well once they get to Las Vegas. Maybe
Speaker 2: not successful. I know the Raiders haven't had a great season,
Speaker 2: but the Aces were great in the WNBA. What's the
Speaker 2: hockey team, the Golden Whites, and they went to the
Speaker 2: finals their very first season, right, and they were a
Speaker 2: huge success story. So you know, pro sports leagues were
Speaker 2: very nervous to go to Las Vegas when betting was
Speaker 2: completely outlawed. Now that it's more legalized, makes sense to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's tear from you guys out there. Where would
Speaker 3: you put two expansion teams? Or do you sort of
Speaker 3: agree with Lee? Maybe like is this the right idea?
Speaker 3: You know, so a lot of people think there's enough
Speaker 3: talent in the league Lee to sustain two more teams
Speaker 3: in terms of like obviously distributing like these great players
Speaker 3: to have then star players on other teams.
Speaker 5: That's an interesting point because every year, we know a
Speaker 5: lot of teams tank though early into the season, so
Speaker 5: you know, you don't want more teams coming into then
Speaker 5: potentially water down the league even more, you know. So
Speaker 5: that's I'm not sure I completely agree with that. I
Speaker 5: mean against that comes again from ownership and management, where
Speaker 5: if they're like, listen, we want to we want this
Speaker 5: team to suck, so we try to get a higher
Speaker 5: draft pick. But yeah, I'm not I'm not convinced that
Speaker 5: that's entirely true myself. I think sometimes less is more
Speaker 5: in that state an instance where you have more competitive
Speaker 5: league with perhaps not as many teams, you know, once.
Speaker 3: Again, let's hear from you guys out there on the
Speaker 3: stream team and tweet at us at no, don't think. Finally,
Speaker 3: I just wanted to bring this to your guys attention.
Speaker 3: Last night I tweeted my early all disappointing team, sort
Speaker 3: of just like off the top of my head, guys
Speaker 3: that just have been pretty garbage to start the year.
Speaker 3: It's obviously super early. Still, I had DeVante Graham and
Speaker 3: these were these were stats heading into last night's games
Speaker 3: for some of them, but Davante Graham nine point nine
Speaker 3: points per game, twenty seven percent shooting. My other guard
Speaker 3: was Norman Powell with the Raps. Yeah, you could have
Speaker 3: picked a lot of raps. Eight point five points for game,
Speaker 3: thirty one percent shooting for him. I had Karris Lavert. No,
Speaker 3: he had a pretty decent game last night, but coming
Speaker 3: into it thirteen point one points for games, thirty seven
Speaker 3: percent on the floor. Kelly Bray Junior ten point nine
Speaker 3: points per game, thirty four percent from the floor and
Speaker 3: even way worse from three. And then Davis Bertons I
Speaker 3: had is my other forward, eleven points for game, thirty
Speaker 3: five percent from the floor. Again, I tweeted this out.
Speaker 3: We got a lot of great responses, but I want
Speaker 3: to ask you, guys, is there anyone I missed or
Speaker 3: you know, like who you would add if we even
Speaker 3: if we were building like an all disappointing second team,
Speaker 3: who would be who would be in play there for you?
Speaker 2: Trey Well, when I was running up and downstairs trying
Speaker 2: to make sure my internet was right, I was fretting
Speaker 2: about this Skeets, thinking I wasn't going to be able
Speaker 2: to get back for this question. To address your anti
Speaker 2: big man bias once again, Not only are there no
Speaker 2: centers on your all disappointing team, there's only one guy
Speaker 2: over six foot ten, Davis Burton's, and he takes all
Speaker 2: of his shots outside. We've already lost the center spot
Speaker 2: on the All Star Game. You guys want to get
Speaker 2: rid of it in the All NBA. And now Skeets
Speaker 2: is not even letting the No Dunks audience have a
Speaker 2: center on his all disappointing team when Skeets has been
Speaker 2: bringing up the most disappointing centers in the league for
Speaker 2: the first two weeks in the season. Aaron Bains, He's
Speaker 2: right there for you. Marvin Baga, Beans Bagley, the third
Speaker 2: and the second they're right there for you. Marvin Bagley's
Speaker 2: six eleven and he's shooting thirty seven percent. About Al
Speaker 2: Horford nine seven and three, he's got nineteen combined stats
Speaker 2: and he's making twenty seven million dollars a year use off.
Speaker 2: Nurkic also putting up a big triple single nine seven
Speaker 2: and three. The No Dunks audience demands a center on
Speaker 2: this team, skeets, no more anti big man bias.
Speaker 3: That's fair. I got a lot of votes for nurk
Speaker 3: last night. Siakam was in the mix too. There was
Speaker 3: people saying, what about Jimmy Butler. I gave Jimmy Butler
Speaker 3: a pass because of injuries. He's missed like half their games.
Speaker 3: He's been bad. But you know, in terms of shooting
Speaker 3: the ball, fair fair. Yeah again, I was doing this quick.
Speaker 3: I was actually like struggling just on the fly to
Speaker 3: think of big guys. Badley, good one, really really good one.
Speaker 3: I guess I didn't have high hopes for Beansy as
Speaker 3: it was so yeah, I had a Raptor on the
Speaker 3: team already, yeah, that he could be added anyone else
Speaker 3: leave well.
Speaker 5: After the first game of the season, the Raptors and
Speaker 5: the Hornets jj Reddick had twenty three points, went six
Speaker 5: for eleven. I said, oh, there was some six man
Speaker 5: buzz there right now for JJ Reddick. Since then, he's
Speaker 5: gone three for twenty six and he scored twenty four
Speaker 5: points in the other games, and he has just been
Speaker 5: ice cold out there. He just can't hit a shot,
Speaker 5: which is incredible because he's got such a beautiful shooting stroke,
Speaker 5: and he's a veteran, he's been around. This is a
Speaker 5: great role for him and a good team, good opportunity.
Speaker 5: But he Yeah, he's just been clunking it a lot lately,
Speaker 5: so I expect he will shake out of that slump.
Speaker 5: But yeah, overall, he's shooting twenty four percent on the season.
Speaker 5: He went six for eleven in that first game and
Speaker 5: a great win against Maybe it was because it was
Speaker 5: the Raptors, although he's played the Raptors again, So but yeah,
Speaker 5: I just you know, you know, for a guy like
Speaker 5: him at his stage of his career, with his shooting stroke,
Speaker 5: it's like I could easily see him getting sort of
Speaker 5: fifteen points a game in that team in New Orleans,
Speaker 5: but not happening right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: John Hollander also suggested a good one last night to
Speaker 3: me Gary Harris, who heading into last night's game again,
Speaker 3: I don't have the updated stats, but was averaging seven
Speaker 3: points seven points per game on thirty six percent shooting
Speaker 3: from the floor and twelve point five percent from three. Ooh.
Speaker 5: There was some I don't know who was who was
Speaker 5: reporting it saying that the Nuggets were trying to shop
Speaker 5: him around, but there wasn't a lot of interest for
Speaker 5: Gary Harris.
Speaker 3: I wunder way right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5: I still sort of have belief for him.
Speaker 2: I think it's a good thing for him.
Speaker 3: You're still Team Gary.
Speaker 2: I am.
Speaker 5: I'm not ready to jump ship just yet. But but
Speaker 5: maybe Will Barton coming back as well, because Will Barton
Speaker 5: wasn't there in the bubble is impacted. He's roll a little.
Speaker 5: I'm not sure, but interesting been back.
Speaker 3: You can't hit a shot right now, Team Gary. Shout
Speaker 3: out to our old volleyball team up in Canada. What
Speaker 3: a team three times on the beach? Oh man, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that crazy Toronto beach.
Speaker 2: Beach.
Speaker 3: Sometimes you'd be paying angle of sticks and rocks. You
Speaker 3: didn't want to die for the ball. Yeah, but show
Speaker 3: team Carrey. I was always fun. Missed those days. Let's
Speaker 3: take one more break to hear from our sponsors before
Speaker 3: tweeted the night. Let's get to tweet of the night.
Speaker 6: Tweet of the night.
Speaker 3: Wow, what do you got?
Speaker 1: Gen?
Speaker 4: So this is a real simple today. It's a tweet
Speaker 4: from Crooked Media producer Michael Martinez and it's just this
Speaker 4: just says mood. And it's a picture, a lovely picture
Speaker 4: of a man and his dog for those for the listeners,
Speaker 4: it's noted dog enthusiast Reverend or Raphael Warnock holding what
Speaker 4: I think is a beagle. It's damn cute. Anyways, all
Speaker 4: this to say congratulations to Reverend Warnock. He beat an
Speaker 4: unelected incumbent who was, is to put it politely, a scumbag.
Speaker 4: But you know what, it's a new day. Let's keep
Speaker 4: it positive and we're rooting for us off over here
Speaker 4: in this house. I'm sure you guys are as well.
Speaker 4: And uh oh yeah, shout out to the Cab County.
Speaker 4: During the show, Tas sent me a bunch of tweets
Speaker 4: about the pronunciation of Dacab County, which was good. And
Speaker 4: speaking of Tas, he mentioned this morning Lebron thinking about
Speaker 4: uh putting together an ownership group for the Dream who's in.
Speaker 4: That's a great idea.
Speaker 2: You love to see.
Speaker 3: It, to see it. That is a cbe eagle too.
Speaker 3: I assume that's his dog.
Speaker 4: Right, I don't know, he's a real puppy guy.
Speaker 5: Was that the same one he used in that commercial?
Speaker 2: I think so? Yeah?
Speaker 5: At the dog poo and great commercial, well done commercial.
Speaker 3: I saw it about twenty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Man, good, you're gonna miss those ads. But I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe no dungs can chip in on buying the dream
Speaker 2: here exciting, right, I don't know it's a contact of
Speaker 2: interest for a NBA podcast to own a w NBA team,
Speaker 2: But send us that kick fund raiser things, Lebron, whatever
Speaker 2: you're getting for your owner bull chip in a little
Speaker 2: bit twenty five bucks let us in.
Speaker 3: All right, let's get to pick the results from last night.
Speaker 3: It was the Bulls Blazers game. Blazers were favored by
Speaker 3: ten and a half. They didn't even win, so good
Speaker 3: call by Task and Tray to take Chicago to cover again.
Speaker 3: They just get the outright victory. So Lee and I
Speaker 3: were wrong with that one. We got three of us
Speaker 3: four and four. That's Tassley in myself. And then tray
Speaker 3: your three and five. It's very, very close, and there's
Speaker 3: a lot of January left. So tonight's game is the
Speaker 3: Clippers Warriors. Interesting line, Warriors not the favorites at home.
Speaker 3: They're they get They're getting four and a half points,
Speaker 3: so Clippers got to win by five or more. We
Speaker 3: got a busy eleven games schedule tonight, and this is
Speaker 3: the second game of the ESPN doubleheader Celtics Heat at
Speaker 3: seven thirty, and then this one our pickum Clippers at Warriors.
Speaker 3: So let's go to you first, Leley Clippers favored by
Speaker 3: four and a half on the road in Oakland. What
Speaker 3: do you got?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not sure if Paul Georgie is back, second
Speaker 5: old of it, back to back. The Warriors have been
Speaker 5: playing so well right now, and the Clippers, you just
Speaker 5: don't know what you're getting. So I'm going to take
Speaker 5: the Warriors. I think they've I think they can keep
Speaker 5: it close enough even if they don't win, to cover
Speaker 5: the spread there. So I give me the Warriors.
Speaker 3: Okay, And I gotta correct myself. They don't play in
Speaker 3: Oakland anymore. I forgot.
Speaker 5: Oh that's right, Yes, I wear the Oakland jerseys though.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. That's why it's very confusing. Slap in
Speaker 3: the face if you ask me, what do you got
Speaker 3: to k.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with Lee on this one. I'm going to
Speaker 2: go with the Warriors as well. They've been playing pretty
Speaker 2: pretty nice basketball since Draymond Green came back. Four and
Speaker 2: a half points. Not a huge line, but a little
Speaker 2: bit too big for my liking. So give me the Warriors.
Speaker 3: I don't sweerarve, I'll go Clippers. As we pointed out,
Speaker 3: they're going to be down twenty or up twenty, So
Speaker 3: which one will it be? Flip a coin, give me
Speaker 3: La to win by five or more, and then let's
Speaker 3: hear task this pick.
Speaker 4: Give me the Warriors and the four points, and give
Speaker 4: me a verbal altercation between Draymond Green and somebody on
Speaker 4: the Clippers.
Speaker 2: Maybe many people on the Clippers.
Speaker 3: Patrick Beverley would be at the top of that list.
Speaker 3: Seez always got a thing to say. We will see,
Speaker 3: all right, I'm the only one taking lac to cover
Speaker 3: the spread. Everybody else got the Warriors. Okay, we'll call
Speaker 3: it there. Glad we got your back there, Tray. I
Speaker 3: mean you started with a bang, then you were gone,
Speaker 3: and then in style I'm trying to do my part
Speaker 3: over here, you know, I mean, what happened just a
Speaker 3: classic Wi Fi situation or who knows, just.
Speaker 2: A classic Wi Fi situation.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: I ran upstairs, had to turn off the router, plug
Speaker 2: it back in. Now I'm hardwired in like the old
Speaker 2: school days, dialing in on my modem. But it's feeling reliable,
Speaker 2: feeling like the Bulls, ultra reliable, the comeback kids. First,
Speaker 2: the Bulls did it. Now I did it all right?
Speaker 3: Well, make sure yeah you double triple checked that Wi
Speaker 3: Fi or your internet can, because we got another podcast
Speaker 3: record later today. We don't want you freezing on the beach. Man,
Speaker 3: oh man, it gets cold on the beach. You can
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