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Speaker 2: That last one kind of fucking slaps. Good morning, sweet world,

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Speaker 2: and welcome to the Nodunks podcast on the Athletic Network.

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Speaker 2: It's Wednesday, October twenty three, twenty twenty four. I'm Jay

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Speaker 2: Skeets here in the Classic Factory and alongside me as

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Speaker 2: always task Melice NBA.

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Speaker 3: I missed you. This one's for you.

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Speaker 2: Next to him, it's the Bearded One, a tough shot boy,

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Speaker 2: Tray Kirby, hey yo, and over Yonder filling in for

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Speaker 2: JD today on the ones and Tuesday, it's our guy Eshua.

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Speaker 3: Kid Hi, y'all doing what's up?

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Speaker 2: Shay Man? We're actually running with a fifth today, gentlemen,

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Speaker 2: you've likely read seen his work at The Score or

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Speaker 2: the Athletics NBA Daily, which relaunched this week and should

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Speaker 2: His family calls him espandi are Barraheney, but his friends

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Speaker 2: call hims and by god, we're his friends.

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Speaker 1: Yes, we got s. What's up? Best? What up? What up?

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Speaker 1: What up? What UPHI you guys doing?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: S is the name people go by. That's just what

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Speaker 1: it's been since I was like five years old. Man,

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Speaker 1: this is this is a really cool moment for me

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Speaker 1: obviously being from Toronto and knowing the Canadian connection for

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Speaker 1: you guys, just like being able to talk to coops

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Speaker 1: with you guys, crazy crazy moment here the bucket list

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Speaker 2: Dice. Nice, Well, we appreciate you jumping on here, and yeah,

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Speaker 2: the little hoops with us. Uh, we're gonna get right

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Speaker 2: into it. Actually s because we have basketball back in

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Speaker 2: our lives last night, so let's play a little. It's

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Speaker 2: just one game, but okay, all right, yeah, time to

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Speaker 2: overreact to just one game. So the twenty four to

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Speaker 2: twenty five NBA season picked up right where it left

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Speaker 2: off Celtics dominant performance. The raigning champs crushed the Knicks

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Speaker 2: one two, one nine in the first game of the season.

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Speaker 2: Boston tied an NBA record by hitting twenty nine to

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Speaker 2: three pointers in the blowout win. So I think this

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Speaker 2: one is ripe for over exaggeration. So as our guests,

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Speaker 2: you get it started.

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Speaker 1: It's just one game, but yes, uh, it's just one game.

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Speaker 1: But the Celtics might have broke basketball sixty one three

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Speaker 1: point attempts. You guys mentioned the twenty nine May threes.

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Speaker 1: It just seemed like everything was working for them. Now,

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Speaker 1: for what it's worth, the Knicks defense was just terrible

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Speaker 1: it feels like an impossible task to try to beat them. Now.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's necessarily the case. Obviously we're

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Speaker 2: Sixty four point two percent of Boston shots came from three,

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Speaker 4: And they didn't break it, and they didn't break it out.

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Speaker 4: They disrespected the game. Yeah, thirteen straight misses at the end.

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Speaker 3: Something to play for this year this is not just

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Speaker 3: the team that won the championship. That's just being fat.

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Speaker 3: And quite often you see teams when they get their

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Speaker 3: That was ridiculously good. Yeah, in terms of their style.

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Speaker 5: This is their third season. Sixty four percent of their

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Speaker 2: It is so true. Everything is scrambled. Celtics got great looks.

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Speaker 5: You can tell they're a team that's been together for

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Speaker 5: They got to figure out their defense. They did not

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, you're not only great on the NBA Daily Podcast,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they took seventeen more shots because of that, right,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny you say that. It felt like after

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Speaker 3: But s is right.

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Speaker 5: The problem is that other teams will try and copy it,

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Speaker 5: and they're not the Celtics. The Celtics have five shooters

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Speaker 5: you got to take problem. Only thirty to forty three

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Speaker 5: it kind of works out to almost every possession you

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think it just was a special night

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Speaker 3: are not going to keep up these percentages. Jalen Brown

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Speaker 3: gonna shoot fifty five percent from three all season, don't

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Speaker 3: I don't think so. I don't think those numbers are

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Speaker 3: They shot fifteen percent from three point land, right, and

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Speaker 3: so yes, they're stocked. We're totally looking past Kristaps porzingis

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Speaker 2: He stretches the floor even more exactly, opens up even

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you brought up the ticker talk about Joe Mozoula.

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Speaker 3: He's a great dude, and that guy should be loved more.

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Speaker 3: I love I love Joe Mazola.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, cold machine right now, Yes, season kiss on the

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Speaker 2: floor and what's it taste like?

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Speaker 3: Blood?

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Speaker 2: What amazing answer to that guy? All right, let's keep

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Speaker 2: it going here, do you have another one? It's just

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Speaker 2: one game, but from this game test.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's just one game, but Jason Tatum is gonna

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Speaker 3: win Most Improved Player.

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Speaker 3: Had to debate which one I was going with because

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Speaker 3: he could seriously win Most Valuable Player. Joe Mozulla could

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Speaker 3: coming off a championship year. And obviously in the finals

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Speaker 3: he did not shoot the three well, but he did

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Speaker 3: all looking at Michel Bridges and where the hitches in

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Speaker 2: Do you roll your eyes at the Jason Tatum revenge

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Speaker 3: And he didn't have to improve the three point shot.

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Speaker 2: TK, you got one for this. It's just one game.

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Speaker 5: But it's just one game. But Michale Bridges is now

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the first half. Luckily he settled down. Yeah, luckily

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Speaker 2: I don't remember him doing He did nothing. He was

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Speaker 2: Any other thoughts on Celtics Knicks and the beat down

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Speaker 3: Well, a positive for every home team going into their

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Speaker 2: Especially these teams that lost last night, they have brand

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Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, that's a big ironically trading with each other.

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Speaker 3: that's exactly what the Celtics were doing. Come up top,

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Speaker 3: bridge's thing is definitely weird. But the mid range shot

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Speaker 3: it's a real set shot. There's there's no movement, but

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Speaker 3: York nextent just sucks. You got to go into the

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Speaker 2: Obviously they're literally chanting Yankee suck at one point because

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Speaker 2: one more three broadcasters, we're just naming old Charlotte Curry either,

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Speaker 2: all right, Yeah, it was not the type of game there.

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Speaker 2: So great win, great start for the Celtics. Let's go

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Speaker 2: to the second game. Last night, the Lakers opened their

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Speaker 2: bit closer. Yes, we got our Lebron James and Browny

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Speaker 2: it's just one game.

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Speaker 1: But okay, this is this is spicy. I think this

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Speaker 2: He is rubbing his hands together.

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Speaker 1: He's on flat out yeah yeah, Okay, So it's just

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Speaker 1: one game, but JJ Reddick is the greatest Lakers coach

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Speaker 2: There we go, I love it, There we go better

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Speaker 2: vogvogt him a Championshipeah.

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Speaker 1: I well sorry, I'm sorry, Frank, but yeah, let's just

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Speaker 1: They had more offensive rebounds, they took like fifteen more

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Speaker 1: thing is they have unlocked Anthony Davis as a playmaker

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Speaker 1: their shooters well, like Dalton connect is looking good. In

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Speaker 1: big role for this Lakers team. So yes, JJ Reddick

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 1: I love it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Ad thirty six points, sixteen boards, four assists, three blocks,

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Speaker 2: I mean you said, where was og in that Nick

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Speaker 2: still they all had matching pandas, right, yea, so they

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00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:43,480
Speaker 2: were all wearing the Lakers' staff. I didn't notice that.

435
00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:47,800
Speaker 2: I did hear him talking about his trousers I'll I'll

436
00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:49,160
Speaker 2: give JJ this. He's not a liar.

437
00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:51,040
Speaker 5: He told us the offense is going to run through

438
00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:53,200
Speaker 5: Anthony Davis, and it actually did. It led the team

439
00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:57,040
Speaker 5: in shots, usage rate and total touches. Yeah, he dominated.

440
00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:59,280
Speaker 5: He's great at finishing plays. That's kind of a given

441
00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:01,639
Speaker 5: with Anthony Davis. They can find him for alley oops,

442
00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:03,680
Speaker 5: no problem. But I was super impressed with the way

443
00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:07,000
Speaker 5: he's creating for himself, hitting all these Dirknovisky one legged

444
00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:09,040
Speaker 5: shots off the dribble from the high post.

445
00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:09,600
Speaker 3: That was great.

446
00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:11,520
Speaker 5: All three of his blocks I thought were cool. The

447
00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:14,080
Speaker 5: go bear one was cool, blocking de Vincenzo in the

448
00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:16,480
Speaker 5: corner on a three sick, and then the one at

449
00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:18,480
Speaker 5: the rim that turned into a highlight for I guess

450
00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:21,000
Speaker 5: Austin Reeves had a layup on the other end that

451
00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:24,080
Speaker 5: was awesome. Lakers still got out shot. JJ said they're

452
00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:26,080
Speaker 5: gonna shoot more threes. It seemed like they were going

453
00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:28,560
Speaker 5: to shoot a ton. They went five for thirty. Timberwolves

454
00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:30,840
Speaker 5: went thirteen for forty one. Still a problem, but they

455
00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:32,800
Speaker 5: forced a ton of turnovers that was huge as well.

456
00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:36,159
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was He's an extremely focused coach. We know

457
00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:40,080
Speaker 3: that he is detail oriented and that is entirely true.

458
00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:44,119
Speaker 3: But also part of it is start ruyat Chimura and

459
00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:46,480
Speaker 3: that works. I mean, he was so good in this

460
00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:49,120
Speaker 3: team or in this game, it just it'll go under

461
00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:52,040
Speaker 3: the radar. Yeah, but he had that huge dunk to start.

462
00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:54,920
Speaker 3: It was doing everything he had to do, shooting the three.

463
00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:58,000
Speaker 3: He was a rock. But yeah, Anthony Davis seeing him

464
00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:02,439
Speaker 3: out there, and also the broadcast crew mentioning how many

465
00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:05,080
Speaker 3: games Anthony Davis played last year, it's just it's forgotten.

466
00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:07,800
Speaker 3: It is forgotten that this guy maybe has learned to

467
00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:09,840
Speaker 3: stay on the floor. He played seventy six games last

468
00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:12,640
Speaker 3: year and then he was key. It was a close game,

469
00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:14,600
Speaker 3: two forty five left. It could have been a six

470
00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:18,119
Speaker 3: point game, but Dante de Vincenzo came down that baseline.

471
00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:20,400
Speaker 3: But it was a triple d was Dante de Vincenzo

472
00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:22,680
Speaker 3: denied by AD. It could have been a six point game,

473
00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:25,080
Speaker 3: but it turned to ten because he is there. Nic

474
00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:27,720
Speaker 3: shit probably passed Julius Randall underneath a little bit. Anyway,

475
00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:31,480
Speaker 3: they're trying to figure that out. But Yestick Reddick pressing

476
00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:33,360
Speaker 3: all the bright buttons right now, give it to AD

477
00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:34,560
Speaker 3: play the good guys.

478
00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:37,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, you brought up Dalton Connect. He looked good

479
00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:40,200
Speaker 2: obviously as a roock there, I thought him and even

480
00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:44,040
Speaker 2: Jackson Hayes, Like with that Lebron second unit, you got

481
00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:47,320
Speaker 2: a little shooting threat in Connect. You got Jackson Hayes

482
00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:50,200
Speaker 2: as definitely a lob threat. Like I at times don't

483
00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:52,879
Speaker 2: think he's a great basketball player, but man, you have

484
00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,920
Speaker 2: to respect the lob capabilities off a pick and roll.

485
00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:58,000
Speaker 3: So yeah, block in the corner was this sweet one

486
00:22:58,080 --> 00:22:58,960
Speaker 3: that was nice as well.

487
00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:02,560
Speaker 2: Like if both those play can give the Lakers some depth,

488
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:05,560
Speaker 2: you know they're a different team because I think as

489
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:07,720
Speaker 2: that was one maybe concern we had with this squad,

490
00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:09,440
Speaker 2: and maybe it still will be after one game, but

491
00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:10,560
Speaker 2: they were great.

492
00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were. Look, the depth is definitely going to

493
00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:15,159
Speaker 1: be a concern.

494
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:16,000
Speaker 3: You know.

495
00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:18,160
Speaker 1: They put Max Christy out there, who I think they're

496
00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:20,440
Speaker 1: expecting a lot out of you think of Obviously you

497
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:23,080
Speaker 1: mentioned Jackson Hayes, who I thought was pretty good. Like

498
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:25,760
Speaker 1: him and Connect had that connection where no pun intended.

499
00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:28,639
Speaker 1: They had that connection where he kind of dumped it

500
00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:30,600
Speaker 1: off to him and Jackson Hayes went down for the dunk,

501
00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,040
Speaker 1: Like that's that's the type of way you can pair

502
00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:35,640
Speaker 1: a really really great rim runner and a shooter next

503
00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,399
Speaker 1: to each other and they it's just smart basketball that

504
00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:40,479
Speaker 1: they're playing right now. That's why I have the Reddick

505
00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:42,640
Speaker 1: take where it's like they're just executing all the things

506
00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:45,120
Speaker 1: that they need to. I also thought by the way

507
00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:48,760
Speaker 1: that he handled like the browny Lebron thing in a

508
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:52,600
Speaker 1: good way, absolutely, like there's a way to do it,

509
00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:54,320
Speaker 1: and there there's a way to not do it, and

510
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,000
Speaker 1: doing it towards the end of the half where everybody

511
00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:59,639
Speaker 1: can kind of just embrace that moment, celebrate, and then

512
00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:02,400
Speaker 1: we have this break in action where you can kind

513
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:04,440
Speaker 1: of focus on the next game or focus on the

514
00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:06,280
Speaker 1: second half. But yeah, I thought he did a good

515
00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 1: job of all that stuff, and especially doing it as

516
00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:12,960
Speaker 1: as your first like ever coaching game, not just anything.

517
00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:14,200
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's impressive.

518
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:15,320
Speaker 2: It's really crazy.

519
00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:21,840
Speaker 5: Like Lebron started his career, JJ Reddick played his entire career, retired,

520
00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:25,280
Speaker 5: became a coach before Lebron finished his career.

521
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:29,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was well, you guys were you guys were

522
00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:31,520
Speaker 2: all nodding when S said that, right, And he.

523
00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:34,800
Speaker 3: Started his career before Brianni was born, And now Brian's

524
00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:38,600
Speaker 3: here playing with him. Yeah, two thousand and three. Bronnie

525
00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:39,400
Speaker 3: is not that old.

526
00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:44,000
Speaker 2: No, that's amazing. Yeah, so hold on, he said Lebron

527
00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:46,800
Speaker 2: started his basketball career before Bronnie was born.

528
00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:49,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, when that's amazing.

529
00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:53,760
Speaker 2: I really thought about that. You guys were nodding when

530
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:57,359
Speaker 2: s said, uh, the way Reddick did handle the father

531
00:24:57,520 --> 00:24:59,600
Speaker 2: son duo. They're playing for the first time in an

532
00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 2: NBA game. Yeah. You waited for Joe Ingles to check in.

533
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:06,240
Speaker 5: It's like, it's fine now. Everybody else on the timber

534
00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 5: Wolves is like a great player in the top eight.

535
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:09,879
Speaker 2: Joe Ingles came in. I was like, oh, this is

536
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:10,280
Speaker 2: the time.

537
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,440
Speaker 5: Because every time they would run back down towards the

538
00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:14,440
Speaker 5: Lakers side of the bench in the second quarter, I

539
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:16,199
Speaker 5: was seated like Brian Windhorst told me.

540
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:16,720
Speaker 2: To be yep.

541
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 5: I would just look over down at the end of

542
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:20,320
Speaker 5: the bench see Lebron and Bronnie hanging. I was like, well,

543
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:22,040
Speaker 5: not quite time. Then Joe checked in.

544
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:24,560
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, here we go. It was exciting.

545
00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:25,280
Speaker 3: It was cool.

546
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 2: Too bad Brownie missed the three on the pass from Lebron.

547
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:30,120
Speaker 5: They had the one where like they passed it back

548
00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:31,639
Speaker 5: and forth to each other three times, and that was

549
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:32,399
Speaker 5: almost the highlight.

550
00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:38,000
Speaker 2: You see those quick passes. I was honestly a little disappointed.

551
00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:40,040
Speaker 5: I was like, Lebron should be going out of his

552
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:42,720
Speaker 5: way to get Bronnie a basket. Yeah, set up a

553
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,560
Speaker 5: basket for him. So they played it very coolly, but

554
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:46,359
Speaker 5: they did it coolly.

555
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:48,800
Speaker 3: But that pass you mentioned, that was it. That was

556
00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:51,000
Speaker 3: what Ja Reddick set up a play for Lebron to

557
00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:54,760
Speaker 3: penetrate defense went to him. He passed the ball and

558
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:57,680
Speaker 3: you can hear him on the live mic take that

559
00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:00,400
Speaker 3: shot or hit that shot, whatever it was. I thought

560
00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:02,200
Speaker 3: I heard it correctly, and then they were they audio

561
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:04,640
Speaker 3: assisted it later on because Lebron did have a mic

562
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:06,440
Speaker 3: in that jersey. I thought it was I was making

563
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:09,679
Speaker 3: it astute observation. I heard him say that, but then

564
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 3: the mic picked it up, so then you're it was

565
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 3: hit that shot. And I think there will be some

566
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:17,440
Speaker 3: edits of this that shot that go in, but yeah,

567
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:22,639
Speaker 3: there's gonna be yes. Yeah, the one pass that Lebron

568
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:25,080
Speaker 3: made to Brianni James, it is good to get it

569
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:27,439
Speaker 3: out of the way. That's entirely true. He played two

570
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 3: minutes and forty one seconds. Yeah, and it's over. Yeah,

571
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:33,480
Speaker 3: and now that's not another topic of conversation in the

572
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:37,280
Speaker 3: Lakers locker room, amongst the media, amongst everybody. They just

573
00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:39,560
Speaker 3: don't have to do it. It was phenomenal seeing him

574
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:42,680
Speaker 3: do that. There was some weird plays where Bronni was

575
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:45,680
Speaker 3: covering Julius Randall and lebron was getting a playoff guarding

576
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:49,160
Speaker 3: Joe Ingles. I mean what, that's probably not the good

577
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:53,200
Speaker 3: randal a little too strong for Brownie. Yeah, Bronnie looks

578
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 3: tiny compared to everybody on the core. Gabe Vincent's out there,

579
00:26:57,359 --> 00:26:59,560
Speaker 3: He's a small guy. Mike Conley's out there. He's a

580
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:02,680
Speaker 3: small guy, and they look massive compared to Browny, who's

581
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:04,440
Speaker 3: listed at six to No way.

582
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:06,680
Speaker 2: He does look like he's got some braun to him.

583
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,159
Speaker 2: But that is a little fella right sign for.

584
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,680
Speaker 3: The jiligue, just for him to get better. But it

585
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:13,359
Speaker 3: is good to get it out of the Way's no

586
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 3: doubt about.

587
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 2: That, all right, TK, What about you for Lakers Wolves here?

588
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:17,359
Speaker 2: What do you got?

589
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:19,240
Speaker 5: It's just a one game, but the Timberwolves want to

590
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 5: do over on the trade. Just call it back and

591
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 5: say I thought these were overreactions.

592
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I love it.

593
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:29,840
Speaker 5: This is a bad Julius Randall game. It was all

594
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:32,320
Speaker 5: the bad stuff you get from Julius Randall over dribbling,

595
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 5: no flow to the game, very slow decisions. The McDaniels, Randall,

596
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 5: go Bear front court. They can't score. They played nine

597
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:43,639
Speaker 5: minutes together sixty three points per one hundred possessions. You

598
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:45,960
Speaker 5: can extrapolate that even further. Go Bear and Randall. They

599
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:48,560
Speaker 5: played more together, twenty two points twenty two minutes. They

600
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 5: scored one hundred points per one hundred possessions. That would

601
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 5: be last This last night at least did not fix

602
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:58,440
Speaker 5: the Timberwolves offense. It looked like Randall was completely out

603
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 5: of sorts, I thought, And it looked like like he

604
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 5: didn't know where to be on the floor. It looked

605
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:04,920
Speaker 5: like the rest of the Timberwolves didn't know where to

606
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 5: expect him on the floor. You saw the bad stuff

607
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:10,440
Speaker 5: where he's just dribbling, dribbling, dribbling for ten seconds, gives

608
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:12,200
Speaker 5: it to Anthony Edwards and suddenly it's a shot clock

609
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:14,639
Speaker 5: violation because he just wasted so much time. So I

610
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:16,960
Speaker 5: think if they come into this game with Karl Anthony Towns,

611
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:20,640
Speaker 5: probably a better flow to the game, maybe some more

612
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:23,119
Speaker 5: cohesion on offense in the fourth quarter, because that was

613
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 5: another thing that needs fixing for the Timberwolves this season.

614
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 5: Edwards kind of just went into takeover mode and it

615
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:32,400
Speaker 5: wasn't happy. He tried pretty brutal. He was not efficient

616
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:35,080
Speaker 5: last night, and it just looked like a team played

617
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:35,920
Speaker 5: their first game together.

618
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 2: I mean, Ant was trying to rally the troops like

619
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 2: he was like screaming at them. It felt like any

620
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 2: time he did have a big bucket or a big

621
00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 2: and one inside. But it obviously no one woke up

622
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 2: as what do you think of Julius Rantle and Dante

623
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 2: DiVincenzo in their first games? What jumped out to you?

624
00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 1: This is one of those times where the box score

625
00:28:57,560 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 1: could actually lie to you because if you look at it,

626
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:04,520
Speaker 1: sixteen points, nine rebounds for assists, he was plus two,

627
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:08,240
Speaker 1: shot fifty percent from the field, Like you could be like, hey, yeah,

628
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 1: he had a pretty good debut game, but that is

629
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 1: not the case. Completely agree. He fell asleep on defense.

630
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 1: They tried these like small ball lineups with him and

631
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 1: nasried together that just were terrible. They tried his zone

632
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:22,480
Speaker 1: with those two that didn't work out at all. It

633
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 1: was layup lines for the Lakers. I think they have

634
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:27,480
Speaker 1: a lot of things that they have to work on,

635
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 1: both offensively and defensively. And to your point about Dante,

636
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 1: I thought it like their offense looked excellent when Dante

637
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 1: was on the floor and Nasried were on the floor,

638
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 1: Like this floor spacing just made so much more sense.

639
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 1: And I saw tweet. I can't remember who it was

640
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:45,320
Speaker 1: last night who mentioned it, but like Julius Randall's slower

641
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:49,000
Speaker 1: motion three point shot and his least, he's like not

642
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:51,120
Speaker 1: as frequent of a three point shooter as Karl Anthony

643
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 1: Towns is compared to Kats, Like quick trigger threes is

644
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 1: actually morphing the offense for the For the Timberwolves, they

645
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 1: just don't have that same like release valve that they

646
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:04,560
Speaker 1: had with Kat that they do with Randall. Now it's

647
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 1: a completely different ball club. And it's it's similar to

648
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:08,800
Speaker 1: the Knicks, where it's like you got to figure out

649
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:12,080
Speaker 1: what your new identity is because whatever you had last

650
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Speaker 1: year is not gonna look the same as it does

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Speaker 1: this year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the Wolves were used to throwing it out to

653
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Speaker 3: Karl Anthony Townc. He would release the ball no matter what.

654
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Speaker 3: I mean, they need Lebron on their team to say,

655
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Speaker 3: knock it down, like he did to Brianni James. That's

656
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Speaker 3: what he just just shoot it. Knock it down is

657
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 3: exactly what he said. I should have looked at it

658
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Speaker 3: any notes, knock it down. But Julius Randall wasn't ready

659
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Speaker 3: for that. And that's the worry is that he will

660
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Speaker 3: be his old self. We've seen it before. We've seen

661
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Speaker 3: him just slow it down too much and go into

662
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Speaker 3: his own dribbles and go into that sort of finish,

663
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Speaker 3: you know, like the ISO ball. He's obviously good enough,

664
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Speaker 3: the stat line is good enough, but he has to

665
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Speaker 3: just be able to release it. It's as simple as

666
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Speaker 3: that on that end. I mean, he did do some

667
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Speaker 3: great things. I think he was with his own team,

668
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Speaker 3: and he's probably overpassing even though he's a fantastic passer,

669
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Speaker 3: and that's something he doesn't get enough credit for. The

670
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 3: possessions to start, it was just you got to be

671
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Speaker 3: an offensive player.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you just pretty clear. He was like, I don't

673
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Speaker 2: really know where I fit in here, and I'm gonna

674
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Speaker 2: try and be the guy that's just like overpassing. And yeah,

675
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 2: it was maybe hurting them for sure, and there's a

676
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 2: ton of turnovers as well. It was sloppy. Somebody said

677
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 2: on Twitter it was like Randall felt like the guy

678
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 2: that's like a former football player that shows up to

679
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:27,960
Speaker 2: you to your run and just barrels through guys. It's like,

680
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 2: whoa man like trying to like destroy each other's careers here,

681
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 2: Like that's you just bullied his way through everybody. It's like,

682
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 2: I know, that's sort of his game. He's not the

683
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 2: most you know, finesse game to him, but it was

684
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 2: a little much. He's just like just really drying. No,

685
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,400
Speaker 2: and then Dante DiVincenzo ten points on eleven shots. Yeah,

686
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 2: the spacing for sure, you can see Widal work, but

687
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 2: I thought a really rough start at least for him

688
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 2: as well. One more from you? You got anything else?

689
00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 2: Is just one game?

690
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Speaker 3: But well I'm gonna go away from the basketball floor

691
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:00,719
Speaker 3: for a second. It's just one game, but no dunks

692
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Speaker 3: and The Athletic NBA Daily Show will have ads on

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Speaker 3: scorers tables in NBA games this season. What deep cut

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Speaker 3: do you know that you don't know? Did you the

695
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Speaker 3: fourth quarter of a TNT game home opener here we're

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Speaker 3: talking about in Los Angeles homeopener national TV game. Did

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Speaker 3: you see the ad on the scorer table. It was

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Speaker 3: for a podcast, the Deep Three Pod on YouTube, specifically

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Speaker 3: on YouTube, the Deep three Pod. Yeah yeah, well it's

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Speaker 3: a podcast. It's a podcast. It's a podcast that talks

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Speaker 3: about basketball. It's three faces cool of of three young

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Speaker 3: men that talk about basketball, there's three young men to

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Speaker 3: talk about basketball here. We're not as young as.

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Speaker 2: Those Isaac, Mojo and Donnie.

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Speaker 3: Those are the ones I don't know that. I bet

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Speaker 3: people I didn't know them until yesterday.

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Speaker 2: You just gave them even more of a plug.

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Speaker 3: Well, the Athletic NBA Daily will be on scors tables

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Speaker 3: and so should not do.

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Speaker 2: Okay, how do you feel about that? Anne?

711
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:05,000
Speaker 1: And yeah, yeah, I'm down, no problem. Free promotion is

712
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 1: good with me. I actually didn't know that that even happened.

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Speaker 1: I'm sad I missed that because I would have overreacted,

714
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Speaker 1: just like I would be like, what is going on here?

715
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Speaker 3: If you guys see it now, I'm starting to think

716
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Speaker 3: I was watching it on my my NBA. I'm watching

717
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Speaker 3: it on the NBA Apple TV version of the NBA app.

718
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Speaker 3: But it has to be everybody has the same.

719
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll go back.

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Speaker 3: We'll get a scream anyway this quarter? You're telling me

721
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Speaker 3: that was all the fourth quarter, the entire thing.

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Speaker 2: Before we let you go. Any other thoughts on either

723
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Speaker 2: those games last night or or just having basketball back

724
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Speaker 2: in our lives.

725
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Speaker 1: Man, I'm just I'm excited. Yeah, like you said, basketball

726
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 1: is back. We got a lot of games tonight to

727
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 1: which I'm looking forward to.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

729
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just good to be on this chair watching

730
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Speaker 1: basketball from like seven to one of the Well, how

731
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Speaker 1: did how did you?

732
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Speaker 2: How did everybody hold up last night with like really

733
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Speaker 2: the first like late night of watching hoops, you know,

734
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 2: because sometimes you got to make the decision, like maybe

735
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 2: the eyelids are getting a little heavy, and you're like a,

736
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Speaker 2: do I catch the second half in the morning? Do

737
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Speaker 2: I fight through this? Did you stay up? I guess

738
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Speaker 2: what I'm getting at And I stayed in.

739
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. The Wolves made it close enough. They were keeping

741
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:19,320
Speaker 2: it interesting. Yeah, Yeah, I was into it.

742
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 1: Then.

743
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Speaker 2: I'm always playing the game in the fourth quarter, like

744
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:27,279
Speaker 2: if I close my eyes at this break, will they

745
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 2: open again? The game is over?

746
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 1: No.

747
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 5: I wasn't willing to risk it last night. I didn't

748
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 5: feel like I was in mid season.

749
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Speaker 2: Formula asked, how did you hold off last night.

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Speaker 1: I made it through, man, I made it through. Look,

751
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 1: I made the mistake last year of trying to watch

752
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:44,840
Speaker 1: the Pacific Coast Games in bed, and I was like this.

753
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Speaker 2: You can't do it.

754
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,239
Speaker 1: It's a recipe for disaster. This is not going to work.

755
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're doing that, you might as well just

756
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Speaker 2: go to bed and watch it in the morning.

757
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Speaker 1: For sure.

758
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,399
Speaker 3: You do two skates at times, right.

759
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Speaker 2: I even did it last night and I regretted it.

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Speaker 3: I did you put it the AirPods in your year

761
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Speaker 3: to listen?

762
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, Nora, right beside me. Air pods in linked to

763
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 2: the TV. But here's the thing. You can't lie down completely.

764
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 2: I prop up a million pillows. I'm basically sitting in bed, right,

765
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 2: but you still get pretty damn comfy. All right. You

766
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Speaker 2: can catch S on the Athletic NBA Daily podcast. This

767
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 2: is going up, I guess six times a week in total,

768
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Speaker 2: because we got the Slamming Jam on the weekend, but

769
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Speaker 2: we got Dave and Xena and s breaking down all

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Speaker 2: of the games and big storylines from the night before.

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Speaker 2: And this thing is up mad early. So S, I

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Speaker 2: know you're having a blast with this already. But we

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Speaker 2: look forward to catching you all seasonone.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, man, thank you again, Thank you again for having

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Speaker 1: me on. This is very very cool moment for me.

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Speaker 2: We will have you back for sure, So go check

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Speaker 2: out and download NBA Daily. All right, let's get in

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Speaker 2: to fill in the blank. What did I tell you?

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Speaker 2: I knew this was going to be a tricky trans

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Speaker 2: my man. I told you I just do it because

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Speaker 2: there was a lot of moving parts there. But you

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Speaker 2: got there, so who cares. I was clicking over here,

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Speaker 2: but it just nothing was working right, Okay.

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Speaker 3: Okay, give me an ad over there managing the board.

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Speaker 3: We need help send someone.

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Speaker 2: We generally we could have two of them over there,

788
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Speaker 2: but you know, JJ had things going on today. Yes,

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Speaker 2: all right, fill in the blank. Play along if you're

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Speaker 2: live on YouTube right now, and while you play along,

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Speaker 2: hit the light buttons subscribe.

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Speaker 1: Come on.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 2: It took sixteen years, but the Celtics officially raised banner

795
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Speaker 2: number eighteen to the TD Garden Rafters last night ahead

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Speaker 2: of the season opening win. So filling the blank. Favorite

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Speaker 2: moment from the Celtics banner slash ring ceremony was.

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Speaker 3: My favorite moment was Drew Holliday busting out the pinky.

799
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Speaker 3: He raised that pinky with that ring on it, and

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Speaker 3: he tried to be cool, tried to look cool.

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Speaker 2: Look at me.

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00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,840
Speaker 3: It can be somebody drinking a cup of tea with

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Speaker 3: that pinky up. But he was just rolling with that

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00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:04,840
Speaker 3: pinky up after getting the ring. I say that, but

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00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 3: there's so many good moments. I think they did a

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Speaker 3: pretty good job here of producing this whole thing. I

807
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Speaker 3: think it was pretty steamless and pretty good. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: I go with that one before I talk about every

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Speaker 3: single other one, because I know everybody misses probably missed that.

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Speaker 3: But Drew, Drew doesn't act cool usually, it doesn't like,

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Speaker 3: look at my ring, look at look at that? So

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Speaker 3: help him doing the pinky Yes, two time champ Drew Holidays,

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Speaker 3: So good for him.

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Speaker 2: Double pinkies up, Yeah, double pink Wow. Crazy to get

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Speaker 2: that ring.

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Speaker 3: The opposite of the Brian Windhorse, the two fingers, the

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Speaker 3: two what.

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Speaker 2: Do you got? Took.

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Speaker 5: I did like seeing all the guys, like when Tatum

820
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Speaker 5: is giving his speech to the crowd, let's do it again,

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Speaker 5: and you see all of the guys in the background,

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Speaker 5: just like examining their rings and seeing all the parts

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Speaker 5: to know how it comes apart.

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Speaker 2: And all that kind of stuff. I thought that was cool.

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Speaker 5: But my favorite part was then just bringing out all

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Speaker 5: the Celtics legends. This is legitimately NBA history. You got

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Speaker 5: a ninety six year old Bob Coozy out there hanging

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Speaker 5: out with Kevin Garnett. These guys go out and party

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Speaker 5: after the game last night, doubtful.

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Speaker 2: But they were there together.

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Speaker 5: You know, the Celtics have been good for the entirety

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Speaker 5: of the NBA's existence, and they basically had guys from

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Speaker 5: the entire NBA's existence out there on the court.

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Speaker 2: That was pretty special. I thought to go back to

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Speaker 2: the ring. I love that little clip we got of

836
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Speaker 2: Al Horford talking to the guys like, so I think

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Speaker 2: I got my ring size wrong.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: The first clip was he said I wouldn't call that

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Speaker 3: a ring, and then and then he figured it out.

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Speaker 3: The next clip was, I got my measurements wrong, so

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Speaker 3: it was just too big finger.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he's not wrong. It's not really a ring.

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Speaker 2: The thing is.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like you don't wear that like I.

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Speaker 2: Know they put them on from time to time like

847
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 2: you see Shaq wear off.

848
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, that is a ring.

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Speaker 2: It's like a normal size ring for him, but for

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Speaker 2: everyone else it's pretty large.

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Speaker 3: Corford, it's huge, so it's big Al Horford, who's a

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Speaker 3: big man.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you.

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Speaker 6: Though.

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Speaker 2: Overall I thought it was run really well thought. I

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Speaker 2: thought Tatum was even pretty good on the mic. He's

857
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Speaker 2: had some sort of I don't know, rolling of your

858
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:20,319
Speaker 2: eyes moments on mics before, obviously when he won the title,

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Speaker 2: But this one I thought he nailed. He had a

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Speaker 2: great pause before the let's do it again.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and the crap pop so do it again.

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Speaker 2: It was well done.

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00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:29,719
Speaker 3: Wick grouseback was good on the mic. The owner was

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Speaker 3: good the mic.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I never only had one botch. He said something

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Speaker 2: like you're the greatest fans in Boston.

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Speaker 3: Yeah there, then correct.

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Speaker 2: It was only screwl Yeah it was. Otherwise it was

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Speaker 2: pretty good. If I was a Celtics fan, I would

870
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 2: get one of those jackets.

871
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 3: The jackets.

872
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:51,880
Speaker 2: These were very cool, eighteen Larry's.

873
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:55,239
Speaker 5: On the shoulder, the gold I thought those looked pretty sweet. Yeah,

874
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 5: except for I had like an insurance company on the

875
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:57,359
Speaker 5: right arm.

876
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, those I didn't. I didn't notice that.

877
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:06,919
Speaker 2: I think it's an insurance sponsored jacket, not that unless

878
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:09,879
Speaker 2: it says deep three podcasts on my jacket. I don't

879
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 2: want it.

880
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 3: Ash, I saw you excited. I know you're a Celtics bandwagon.

881
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:17,240
Speaker 3: I saw you not. Yeah, I'm yeah.

882
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:19,920
Speaker 2: I'm a real fan. Yeah you are. Yeah, don't insult

883
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 2: me like that.

884
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:22,239
Speaker 3: Well, you're a Hawk's season seaholder.

885
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:23,320
Speaker 2: I live in Atlanta.

886
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 6: I can't own season tickets to the Celtic bar.

887
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:28,879
Speaker 3: But I saw you like the Jackets as Trey made

888
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 3: that comment.

889
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 6: Yeah, the Jackets were fire man. I was thinking the

890
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 6: same thing last land. I was like, man, I hadn't

891
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:35,239
Speaker 6: bought an NBA jacket in years since I worked at Nike.

892
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:38,280
Speaker 6: But I might have to give me got the discount.

893
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:43,279
Speaker 6: I gotta think, jacket, do we even know you?

894
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:44,359
Speaker 3: Do you know who?

895
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 2: You can buy them? I really can I know.

896
00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:49,799
Speaker 6: I mean the last one I feel like I saw

897
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:51,400
Speaker 6: it was when the Warriors won. You could go to

898
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:54,439
Speaker 6: dot com and get one, but I don't know for sure.

899
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:56,480
Speaker 6: Maybe hopefully if anybody wants to buy me one.

900
00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 2: Though there's a regular podcast.

901
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:03,120
Speaker 5: I like porzingis being in warm ups for the ceremony

902
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:04,399
Speaker 5: then changing into suit for the game.

903
00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, three piece suit.

904
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:07,320
Speaker 3: I didn't notice.

905
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 2: People were wondering, do you think he put the warm

906
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:13,800
Speaker 2: up on over the suit. I mean he wears a

907
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 2: narrow suit. Yeah, he could have done it. Yeah, that'd

908
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:19,239
Speaker 2: be very funny. But otherwise yeah, yeah, just go back

909
00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:22,520
Speaker 2: and change. Wanted to look good while you've said on fresh,

910
00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 2: let's gep it going here. The Minnesota Timberwolves and star

911
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:27,400
Speaker 2: center Rudy Gobert reached a three year, one hundred and

912
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:30,920
Speaker 2: ten million dollar contract extension on Tuesday. Gobert entered the

913
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:33,480
Speaker 2: season with two more years left on his current contract,

914
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:37,359
Speaker 2: including a player option for forty seven million in twenty

915
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:42,000
Speaker 2: five to twenty six next season, but instead obviously reworks

916
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:46,239
Speaker 2: that extension and gives himself some long term security and

917
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:51,160
Speaker 2: probably helps the Wolves out in tandem there, but fill

918
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:53,240
Speaker 2: in the blank TK you go first here, Wolves signing

919
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 2: Gobert to the three year, one hundred and ten million

920
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:58,680
Speaker 2: dollar contracts extension is like defensible.

921
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 5: I think at the very least, I'll say it's defensible

922
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:04,840
Speaker 5: because Rudy Gobert is gonna be thirty six at the

923
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:07,040
Speaker 5: end of this contract. That's pretty old in NBA years,

924
00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:09,160
Speaker 5: but he's still gonna be tall. That's one thing you

925
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:10,840
Speaker 5: don't lose as you get older. Well, I mean a

926
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 5: little bit, you shrink a little, but I don't think

927
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:15,200
Speaker 5: it's gonna happen to Gobert. It'll still be seven foot

928
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:17,799
Speaker 5: four at the end of this contract. It's a big bet, though,

929
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:21,120
Speaker 5: I think from Tim Connolly basically saying he's confident that

930
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:23,880
Speaker 5: he is the one who can figure out how to

931
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 5: win a championship with Rudy Gobert, because nobody else has

932
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 5: been able to do it yet France included, you know,

933
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 5: I think that's the big question. He's an awesome floor raizer.

934
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:35,800
Speaker 5: If you've got Goberart on your team, you're gonna be

935
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:37,920
Speaker 5: excellent in the regular season. You're gonna have one of

936
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:40,759
Speaker 5: the five best defenses in the league, and then come

937
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:44,400
Speaker 5: playoff time, you might run into problems depending on the matchups.

938
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:46,680
Speaker 5: But Tim Connolly's saying, give me a little bit of

939
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:49,239
Speaker 5: money back, so we're not hitting all these taxes, so

940
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 5: we can do some maneuvers and maybe then we can

941
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 5: keep nas Read around, Maybe we can keep Nikhil Alexander

942
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:59,080
Speaker 5: Walker around, build on the continuity, let Anthony Edwards develop,

943
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 5: and you're out the perfect postseason lineup that somehow includes

944
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 5: Rudy Gobert. It's a big challenge. Tim thinks he's going

945
00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:07,880
Speaker 5: to be able to pull it off.

946
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:10,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, So that's why I look at this and I

947
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 3: think it's solid. It's solid as a rock, it's solid

948
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:16,480
Speaker 3: as Rudy Gobert's core. I mean, he is a very

949
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:19,080
Speaker 3: good defensive player. But you are banking on Anthony Edwards

950
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 3: being a great player, as they should because he has

951
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 3: shown that he is able to take that next step,

952
00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:29,239
Speaker 3: and they're banking on that this coming year. It would

953
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:32,239
Speaker 3: look as like a bad contract if Anthony Edwards wasn't

954
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 3: this phenomenal. But if you have Anthony Edwards as your

955
00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:38,279
Speaker 3: number one perimeter player, the ball handler, you're happy to

956
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 3: have Rudy Gobert play defense on your team. And I

957
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:43,560
Speaker 3: know it is until he's thirty six, but I think

958
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:45,960
Speaker 3: I'm fine with that. I think he's he's shown that

959
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:49,680
Speaker 3: he's he's recovered it. When we all questioned his ability

960
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 3: to recover on shots from a three point line and

961
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 3: get to the ram in this modern NBA after the

962
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 3: Utah days, was he is this lateral movement getting a

963
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:02,239
Speaker 3: little too slow. It ain't. It's very very solid. So

964
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:04,759
Speaker 3: you've got a great defensive player that's the backbone of

965
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:07,200
Speaker 3: your team. So if you have a great offensive player

966
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 3: with Anthony Edwards, yeah, you are banking on those two

967
00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:12,759
Speaker 3: and Jane McDaniels and whatever trickles down from there, because

968
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 3: those are the only three guys that are signed extremely

969
00:44:15,719 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 3: long term on this team. It is just after what

970
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:22,960
Speaker 3: happened with the Julius Randall debut and and that obviously

971
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 3: that wasn't phenomenal. But that's the next big question for

972
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 3: me is Julius Randall's contract, which is a player option

973
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 3: next year. So yeah, they're banking on this team being

974
00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:36,360
Speaker 3: very good, and you're really banking on Anthony Edwards asserting

975
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:39,160
Speaker 3: himself as the number one guy, and he is doing

976
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:40,080
Speaker 3: that already really well.

977
00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 2: And go Bert, Yeah, and you said TK he's doing

978
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:44,800
Speaker 2: them a favor here. But it sounds like he likes Minnesota.

979
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 2: He likes the franchise and the team, And Okay, I'm

980
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:51,319
Speaker 2: going to obviously give a little bit of money back,

981
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 2: but get longer term money for longer years there and

982
00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:57,880
Speaker 2: hopefully you can either keep this team together if we

983
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:01,399
Speaker 2: dominate once again or go very far, or obviously try

984
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:03,359
Speaker 2: and pick up another piece to take us over the edge.

985
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:05,840
Speaker 2: Like he likes the situation. I mean, you talked about this,

986
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 2: so yeah, this is a you guys nailed it. I

987
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:12,040
Speaker 2: think it's very solid, good work from both sides. You know,

988
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:16,320
Speaker 2: Rudy being fairly selfless a little bit here because he

989
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 2: likes the position he's in and this team can hopefully

990
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:22,359
Speaker 2: do something with it now. Yesterday, the Philadelphia seventy six

991
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:25,160
Speaker 2: ers announced that Joel Embiid and Paul George will both

992
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:29,200
Speaker 2: miss their season opener against the Bucks. In fact, Embiid

993
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:31,880
Speaker 2: will miss the first week to ramp up his return

994
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:34,759
Speaker 2: to play activities, and Paul George will be reevaluated later

995
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:37,600
Speaker 2: this week after he suffered that hyper extended left knee

996
00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:41,239
Speaker 2: in the preseason task Get Us Started Here. Embiid and

997
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:45,640
Speaker 2: PG both missing the Sixers season opener tonight.

998
00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:49,440
Speaker 3: Is it is a flat tire. You can hear it,

999
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:54,120
Speaker 3: the air seeping out of whether you're driving a car,

1000
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 3: whether you're biking a bike. What else do you bike,

1001
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 3: whether you're riding in I here, where you're driving, you

1002
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:05,399
Speaker 3: just feel that, you feel it seeping.

1003
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:05,760
Speaker 2: Out, flating.

1004
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:09,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, it sure is that being set. I know it's

1005
00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 3: opening night, but this was bound to happen, and I

1006
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 3: know we obviously all know Joel Ebid was going to

1007
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:16,719
Speaker 3: miss a lot of games. He purple has said that,

1008
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:18,880
Speaker 3: but there are Morey said in September there's gonna be

1009
00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:20,719
Speaker 3: a bunch of guys who have to sit this year,

1010
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 3: and he had to have been hinting at Paul George

1011
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:26,919
Speaker 3: just a little bit because they know Paul George hasn't

1012
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:28,920
Speaker 3: been healthy every single postseason, and so that's that's a

1013
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 3: part of it. So I do think this was going

1014
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:34,880
Speaker 3: to happen next week quite possibly, and beating playing in

1015
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:37,200
Speaker 3: back to backs, we could see Paul George doing the

1016
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:40,560
Speaker 3: absolute same. So it is deflating that it's opening night,

1017
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:44,279
Speaker 3: more pressure on MAXI, but I guess it was gonna happen.

1018
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 3: It just it's just.

1019
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:49,719
Speaker 2: It's like the season opener. It's on national television. I

1020
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:51,800
Speaker 2: know there's other guys, big star names that we just

1021
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:53,440
Speaker 2: found out this morning that are going to miss their

1022
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 2: games tonight too. Zion Williamson, de Jontay Murray is gonna

1023
00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 2: They're both gonna be out for the Pelicans. I mean,

1024
00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:01,000
Speaker 2: it's not a great way to start of season. I mean,

1025
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:03,160
Speaker 2: Paul George, look we saw him get injured. You got

1026
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:05,480
Speaker 2: banged up. Yeah, So there is that it's the Embeid part.

1027
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:07,360
Speaker 2: I know he's not really playing there in the preseason

1028
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 2: and all this talk about we're gonna slow play it,

1029
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:11,840
Speaker 2: don't worry about the individual accolades. But still it's like

1030
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:15,360
Speaker 2: game one and it's like here sort of here we

1031
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:15,839
Speaker 2: go again.

1032
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:19,120
Speaker 5: Already sort of here we go again, because it feels

1033
00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 5: like Philly just loves to have something hanging over their

1034
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:23,120
Speaker 5: heads at the start of the season. We had the

1035
00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:25,520
Speaker 5: hard and trade. Last year, we had Ben Simmons holdout,

1036
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:28,000
Speaker 5: and I guess twenty twenty one we had Markel Fultz

1037
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 5: way back when they just love a little bit of

1038
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:32,760
Speaker 5: controversy and drama to start the season. I thought Andrew

1039
00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:35,440
Speaker 5: Unterberger nailed it on Twitter. He said, everyone wants him

1040
00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:37,439
Speaker 5: bid to play fifty five games until he misses twenty

1041
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:37,959
Speaker 5: seven games.

1042
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:40,560
Speaker 2: That's the thing. You want him to be healthy at

1043
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:42,680
Speaker 2: the end of the season. Everybody agrees.

1044
00:47:42,719 --> 00:47:44,680
Speaker 5: The smart way to do this is to barely play

1045
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:47,400
Speaker 5: during the regular season, ramp up in time for April,

1046
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:50,200
Speaker 5: because he hasn't been able to finish a playoffs healthy.

1047
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:52,719
Speaker 5: But that means he has to miss time during the

1048
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:54,240
Speaker 5: regular season, and when he misses time.

1049
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:54,919
Speaker 2: During the regular season.

1050
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:57,440
Speaker 5: You're like, oh, this again is in a no win

1051
00:47:57,560 --> 00:48:00,480
Speaker 5: situation unless he wins in the playoffs, So have a

1052
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:01,440
Speaker 5: fun ten month season.

1053
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:03,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, they should just shut him down for the entire

1054
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:07,480
Speaker 2: regular season. Roger Clemens mode. There you go, Yeah, bring

1055
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:09,880
Speaker 2: them in. I didn't even know that was that a

1056
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:11,080
Speaker 2: thing that they did with Clemens.

1057
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:13,080
Speaker 5: I feel like that's what Clemens was at the end

1058
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 5: of his career, Like he would be out for months

1059
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:16,879
Speaker 5: and months, and then the Houston Astros are like, yeah,

1060
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:18,080
Speaker 5: come throw ninety eight miles an hour.

1061
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:21,239
Speaker 2: There you go, there you go do that with Indeed.

1062
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:25,080
Speaker 5: Is PPP still a thing? Player participation policy? You don't

1063
00:48:25,160 --> 00:48:27,279
Speaker 5: hear much about it? Great question here a lot about

1064
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 5: players sitting though to start the season.

1065
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:34,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, it was last year. I

1066
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:36,319
Speaker 3: think that was just to encourage guys to play more.

1067
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:37,840
Speaker 2: That was to sign a big CBA.

1068
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:40,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I feel like that was that was the discussion.

1069
00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 2: All right. Next one, here to quote ghost Faceziller, this

1070
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:48,320
Speaker 2: is opening night for real sickos. We got ten games

1071
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:52,359
Speaker 2: on the docket. We got Survivor as well. Oh dear lord.

1072
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:55,320
Speaker 2: Uh So, here's a quick look at the full schedule

1073
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:57,719
Speaker 2: for everybody on YouTube. I'm not going to read them

1074
00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:00,879
Speaker 2: all for you podcast listeners, but the ESPN games are

1075
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:05,840
Speaker 2: Bucks Sixers, Bucks versus Maxi, and we got then of

1076
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:08,759
Speaker 2: course the Suns in the new Into It Doome. They're

1077
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 2: in La taking on the clip. So I just want

1078
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:13,320
Speaker 2: to know, fill in the blank, what game are you

1079
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:15,879
Speaker 2: most excited for tonight, Trey Kirby, What are you putting

1080
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:16,400
Speaker 2: in that blank?

1081
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:19,680
Speaker 5: I think I'm putting Magic Heat into that blank because

1082
00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:21,719
Speaker 5: there's not a lot of games between teams that you

1083
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:23,960
Speaker 5: think are actually going to both be playoff teams at

1084
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 5: the end of the season. Obviously the two ESPN games are,

1085
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:29,480
Speaker 5: but one of them is kind of ruined a little bit,

1086
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:31,200
Speaker 5: and the other one is going to be missing Kawhi Leonards,

1087
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 5: So I'm checking those ones off. Magic Heat are two

1088
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:36,680
Speaker 5: teams that maybe they're going in opposite directions right Like

1089
00:49:36,719 --> 00:49:39,600
Speaker 5: they're both in the forty five win range. The Magic

1090
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:42,359
Speaker 5: feel like they're ascending, whereas the Heat feels like maybe

1091
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:44,440
Speaker 5: their time has passed. Even though they're the only team

1092
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:46,720
Speaker 5: that's made it back to the finals since twenty nineteen.

1093
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:49,720
Speaker 5: That's pretty crazy, right, Like we haven't had repeat champions.

1094
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:52,280
Speaker 5: We also haven't had repeat people going to the finals

1095
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:54,960
Speaker 5: even but I'm a little higher on the heat than

1096
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:57,920
Speaker 5: most people are in for a locked in Jimmy Butler season.

1097
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:01,760
Speaker 5: But they're similar teams. They played great defense, sometimes offense

1098
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:03,719
Speaker 5: can be a struggle. Would not be as surprise to

1099
00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:06,080
Speaker 5: see both teams finish under one hundred points in this game,

1100
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:08,520
Speaker 5: but I'll be tuning in.

1101
00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 3: Okay, it's a great schedule. Albeit, as you said, are

1102
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:15,280
Speaker 3: there two playoff teams really going head to head tonight?

1103
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:19,719
Speaker 3: That's why I say I'm excited for Nets Hawks. Yes, WHOA,

1104
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 3: I'm going with that real the Atlanta Hawks of all teams. Now,

1105
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:29,160
Speaker 3: I will say I'm enthused by a bunch of games.

1106
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:31,400
Speaker 3: I am going to be watching the Toronto Raptors at

1107
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:33,879
Speaker 3: home to the Cleveland Cavaliers. I'm going to be watching

1108
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 3: the Detroit Pistons at home to the Pacers. I am

1109
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:38,600
Speaker 3: going to be watching Magic Keep. But there are there

1110
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:40,759
Speaker 3: are road game road teams. There in a couple of

1111
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:43,680
Speaker 3: scenarios there where you think the Reps are going to

1112
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:45,279
Speaker 3: be able to beat the Calves at home, or the

1113
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:46,680
Speaker 3: Pistons to be able to beat the Pacers at home.

1114
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:50,720
Speaker 3: Probably not, But these home games for the home opener.

1115
00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:54,279
Speaker 3: First of all, I think they're scheduled well because it's

1116
00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:56,879
Speaker 3: home opener. Everybody's watching every single game, it doesn't matter.

1117
00:50:57,440 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 3: And second, I think home teams just play a little

1118
00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:03,400
Speaker 3: bit higher than their ability and so something, I think

1119
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 3: you're gonna see a bunch of home games that are

1120
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:07,680
Speaker 3: wins for some of these teams. So I'm excited for

1121
00:51:08,239 --> 00:51:11,239
Speaker 3: all those and my dexterity being able to click over

1122
00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:14,680
Speaker 3: to each game because it's a packed schedule and there's

1123
00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 3: just all good teams and all the optimism going on

1124
00:51:17,719 --> 00:51:19,960
Speaker 3: right now, so good skeedch.

1125
00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:22,120
Speaker 2: You gotta shake off the rust when it comes to

1126
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 2: bouncing around all these games. If you're firing them up

1127
00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:27,200
Speaker 2: on League Pass. Maybe you're joining us tonight on playback.

1128
00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:29,799
Speaker 2: We'll get to that in a second. But yeah, if

1129
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:33,040
Speaker 2: last night's first test was just staying up late for

1130
00:51:33,120 --> 00:51:36,880
Speaker 2: those West Coast games, reconditioning your body tonight, it's all

1131
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:41,880
Speaker 2: about you know, working the thumbs, working, clicking around, clicking

1132
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:45,200
Speaker 2: your computer. However you're consuming your NBA League Pass games

1133
00:51:45,239 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 2: where you're bouncing all around. If you're trying to do that,

1134
00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:50,600
Speaker 2: some people just walk in respect to you. But a

1135
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:52,080
Speaker 2: lot of games on It's gonna be fun, all right,

1136
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:53,600
Speaker 2: final one here, I had to slipped this in. The

1137
00:51:53,719 --> 00:51:56,120
Speaker 2: NBA has a new way to track the top throwdowns.

1138
00:51:56,719 --> 00:51:59,879
Speaker 2: It's called the Dunk Score, and it measures over twenty

1139
00:51:59,880 --> 00:52:03,160
Speaker 2: five dunk characteristics in real time, using a combination of

1140
00:52:03,239 --> 00:52:07,640
Speaker 2: player tracking technology and data science to output a score

1141
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:10,760
Speaker 2: for the best slams. So the dunk score is broken

1142
00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:16,840
Speaker 2: down into four distinct sub scores. Got the jump that subscore.

1143
00:52:16,840 --> 00:52:20,719
Speaker 2: It's all about the athletes verticality and explosiveness in the air.

1144
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:25,320
Speaker 2: We got power that's capturing the raw force of the

1145
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:30,880
Speaker 2: dunk style, of course, measuring dunk flashiness. Flashiness quantifying how

1146
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:33,440
Speaker 2: much creativity the player adds to their dunk. And then

1147
00:52:33,480 --> 00:52:37,839
Speaker 2: we have the defensive contest subscore, which adds context by

1148
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:41,719
Speaker 2: evaluating how much defensive pressure the dunk her face. That's

1149
00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:45,680
Speaker 2: a real thing, we think, we believe it's on the

1150
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:48,360
Speaker 2: NBA app, but it's very We could not find dunk

1151
00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:51,680
Speaker 2: score scores for last night's dunks. Couldn't find them. Maybe

1152
00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:54,239
Speaker 2: it takes a while to compute to calculate them. Yeah,

1153
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:54,880
Speaker 2: I don't know.

1154
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:58,919
Speaker 3: Yeah, believe everything, Yeah, don't believe everything, including Zion being

1155
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:01,480
Speaker 3: out tonight, He's question this question de Jontay Murray also

1156
00:53:01,560 --> 00:53:03,920
Speaker 3: question Zion is sick.

1157
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:05,640
Speaker 2: And Deshonte Murray has a family emergency.

1158
00:53:06,120 --> 00:53:06,919
Speaker 3: I don't believe stuff.

1159
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:09,839
Speaker 2: Okay, fill in the blank, though, test the new data

1160
00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:11,279
Speaker 2: driven dunk score is.

1161
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:14,520
Speaker 3: I think it's a slam dunk. I'm gonna say it.

1162
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:17,120
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say it. I am excited to see how

1163
00:53:17,239 --> 00:53:20,040
Speaker 3: high the dunker jumps, how high he gets his hand,

1164
00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:23,759
Speaker 3: how high the defensive blocker gets his hand as well. Now,

1165
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:25,520
Speaker 3: you can't mess that up. You can't make that up.

1166
00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:28,600
Speaker 3: We track it. You're just tracking it. We saw some

1167
00:53:28,719 --> 00:53:31,160
Speaker 3: own biles jump into the sky in the Olympics and

1168
00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:33,520
Speaker 3: they were able to track that. So I am interested

1169
00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:37,160
Speaker 3: to see both those things. Now, the power, I don't

1170
00:53:37,239 --> 00:53:39,280
Speaker 3: I don't know if that's extremely accurate.

1171
00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:42,960
Speaker 2: You know, we've just we have sensors in the balls

1172
00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:43,640
Speaker 2: and the rims.

1173
00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:48,600
Speaker 3: I think so, I think there is some some form

1174
00:53:48,800 --> 00:53:52,719
Speaker 3: of trying to track that. Style is totally subjective.

1175
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:55,360
Speaker 6: On that.

1176
00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:57,759
Speaker 2: That is just obviously like if a guy does a

1177
00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:00,839
Speaker 2: windmill or a guy it's an l u or whatever. Yeah,

1178
00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:02,719
Speaker 2: you just get a certain score.

1179
00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:05,719
Speaker 5: So they say the evaluation is consistent from dunk to

1180
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:08,959
Speaker 5: dunk and vitally afforded to capturing the quality.

1181
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:09,080
Speaker 2: Of a dunk.

1182
00:54:10,640 --> 00:54:14,320
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I think there's enough accurate things here, and

1183
00:54:14,360 --> 00:54:16,680
Speaker 3: I'm basically I'm meaning that the height of both the

1184
00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:19,560
Speaker 3: dunker and the blocker. That's good enough for me. Okay,

1185
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:22,880
Speaker 3: I think that's that's enough. I don't even know if

1186
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:25,120
Speaker 3: I'm gonna look at the style number. Well, I can't.

1187
00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:27,600
Speaker 2: It's gonna be baked into your dunk score, my man.

1188
00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:29,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, we'll see it all separated.

1189
00:54:29,520 --> 00:54:31,360
Speaker 2: In I don't know if you're gonna see it all separated.

1190
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:34,240
Speaker 2: You're gonna be giving a cumulative score, a dunk score

1191
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:37,160
Speaker 2: that they have computed and figured out. It's like vegetables

1192
00:54:37,239 --> 00:54:39,520
Speaker 2: baked into your chocolate chip cookie. You can't avoid it. Yeah,

1193
00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:41,080
Speaker 2: oh gosh, Yeah, and they did it.

1194
00:54:41,320 --> 00:54:42,680
Speaker 3: I like my vegetables, for sure.

1195
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:44,960
Speaker 2: They did it for last season. All of the dunks.

1196
00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:48,360
Speaker 2: I read that most of the dunks fall between like

1197
00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:51,320
Speaker 2: forty and fifty, like a majority of dunks, but obviously

1198
00:54:51,400 --> 00:54:53,760
Speaker 2: there are outliers, and those are maybe your best dunks

1199
00:54:54,719 --> 00:54:55,960
Speaker 2: and your most memorable dunks.

1200
00:54:56,040 --> 00:54:58,080
Speaker 3: I see all four in each corner of the screen.

1201
00:54:58,239 --> 00:55:01,759
Speaker 3: And then they merge to the middle. Yeah, why not?

1202
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:03,880
Speaker 3: I mean it's probably that's not gonna happen on the

1203
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:06,520
Speaker 3: NBA app, I guess, but we don't even a video.

1204
00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:08,399
Speaker 3: We don't know if you know how to look at.

1205
00:55:10,160 --> 00:55:13,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, the new data driven dunk score is Kevin Durant

1206
00:55:13,239 --> 00:55:15,239
Speaker 5: to Matt Moore, who the f wants to look at

1207
00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:16,760
Speaker 5: grafts while having a hoop convo?

1208
00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:23,800
Speaker 2: This is stupid. We're never gonna look at this again

1209
00:55:23,880 --> 00:55:26,040
Speaker 2: after today. Well, is that just because we're called no dunks?

1210
00:55:26,640 --> 00:55:27,560
Speaker 3: This is ridiculous.

1211
00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:31,440
Speaker 5: Let's have a cool shot award. Who did the coolest

1212
00:55:31,480 --> 00:55:33,919
Speaker 5: spin move? Will measure how fast they spin.

1213
00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:36,960
Speaker 2: That's called it's called the top ten plays of the night.

1214
00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:39,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, we got a top ten plays. Guess what's involved

1215
00:55:39,360 --> 00:55:41,640
Speaker 5: in that? All of these things except for the force

1216
00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:43,719
Speaker 5: of the ball going through. I'll admit that part is

1217
00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:46,799
Speaker 5: it's interesting. I will at the end of the year

1218
00:55:47,200 --> 00:55:49,680
Speaker 5: if I remember dunk score, I'll see who jumped the

1219
00:55:49,719 --> 00:55:50,480
Speaker 5: highest on a dunk?

1220
00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:51,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly right.

1221
00:55:52,080 --> 00:55:54,080
Speaker 2: Maybe took off the furthest yeah, something like that.

1222
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:56,279
Speaker 3: Okay, they should be able to measure where the ball

1223
00:55:56,360 --> 00:55:58,560
Speaker 3: got to Oh yeah, the height of a ball.

1224
00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:01,960
Speaker 2: Hell, yeah, that's that's in the power on it. Man,

1225
00:56:02,040 --> 00:56:05,759
Speaker 2: it's in the power to twenty five dunk characteristics, and

1226
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:08,719
Speaker 2: that's included twenty five. Hell yeah, man, what.

1227
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:11,359
Speaker 3: A lot of them?

1228
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:15,040
Speaker 2: You can do it time on this less than five

1229
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:17,279
Speaker 2: out of twenty four? No, no, no, I think I

1230
00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:21,800
Speaker 2: think within those sub scores there are particular things. Okay

1231
00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:24,120
Speaker 2: that that gets us to twenty five total.

1232
00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:27,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'm more concerned just about the one thing.

1233
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:30,480
Speaker 3: Like Lebron had a great left handed layup yesterday that

1234
00:56:30,640 --> 00:56:32,680
Speaker 3: was almost at the corner of the back off the

1235
00:56:32,719 --> 00:56:34,440
Speaker 3: corner of the backboard. Why don't they come back from

1236
00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:37,920
Speaker 3: commercial and say that was three feet thirty seven inches

1237
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:43,000
Speaker 3: away from the rim Sports sciences, I'm interested. Yeah, well

1238
00:56:43,120 --> 00:56:45,560
Speaker 3: that's all we're gonna care about. I think it's just distance.

1239
00:56:45,320 --> 00:56:47,800
Speaker 2: I'm bringing up. I'm bringing up dunk score any chance

1240
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:51,239
Speaker 2: I get where you I don't know where do you find?

1241
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:53,800
Speaker 5: I looked in three places today. I couldn't find a

1242
00:56:53,880 --> 00:56:56,600
Speaker 5: single dunk score. I went and watched the Jackson Hayes

1243
00:56:56,640 --> 00:57:00,359
Speaker 5: Alley you highlight on the NBA app, hoping to get

1244
00:57:00,360 --> 00:57:01,000
Speaker 5: a dunk score.

1245
00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:04,080
Speaker 2: Nothing. So what was if you had to guess what

1246
00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:09,000
Speaker 2: was the highest dunk score of last night a little

1247
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:09,439
Speaker 2: bit here.

1248
00:57:11,440 --> 00:57:14,399
Speaker 3: With Brown on the floor. Lebron had that hammered down.

1249
00:57:14,520 --> 00:57:18,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, the dunk score going way down, just doing challenge.

1250
00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:21,560
Speaker 3: Contest challenge contests, but the power was extremely high.

1251
00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:25,360
Speaker 2: First one was pretty good. I thought, Yeah, two really

1252
00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:27,919
Speaker 2: solid dunks. It's probably our score leader at this point.

1253
00:57:27,960 --> 00:57:28,280
Speaker 5: I like it.

1254
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:31,080
Speaker 3: Now, are you talking about it? Yes?

1255
00:57:31,960 --> 00:57:38,200
Speaker 2: I don't actually want to see the scores. Scores, all right,

1256
00:57:38,280 --> 00:57:41,680
Speaker 2: let's get to pick them four tonight. I will say

1257
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:45,000
Speaker 2: we had Trey and Esh correctly picking the Lakers last night.

1258
00:57:45,040 --> 00:57:48,840
Speaker 2: We will start adding our scores to this, but we'll

1259
00:57:48,880 --> 00:57:51,920
Speaker 2: do that on tomorrow's show. But just know, I'm all

1260
00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:54,400
Speaker 2: w one test one. These guys want to know Tonight's

1261
00:57:54,440 --> 00:57:57,320
Speaker 2: game though. Suns favored by four and a half in

1262
00:57:57,440 --> 00:58:00,320
Speaker 2: the Intoit Dome against the Clippers, and a lot of

1263
00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:03,360
Speaker 2: us are taking the Sun's tasks. Yeah, you've been talking

1264
00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:06,600
Speaker 2: up this dome for a weeks. You like the dome

1265
00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:07,400
Speaker 2: bump tonight.

1266
00:58:07,960 --> 00:58:13,360
Speaker 3: You built a stadium for two billion dollars. Yeah, yeah,

1267
00:58:13,440 --> 00:58:15,880
Speaker 3: you ditched your old roommate. The Lakers know we're gone.

1268
00:58:16,720 --> 00:58:20,080
Speaker 3: You've got Sebastian man Scalco doing shows and you're into

1269
00:58:20,160 --> 00:58:24,800
Speaker 3: a dome. You deserve one win or that the very

1270
00:58:24,920 --> 00:58:28,480
Speaker 3: least lose by four or less. Yeah, all that. You

1271
00:58:28,560 --> 00:58:30,400
Speaker 3: can't lose by four or less. I think you can.

1272
00:58:30,480 --> 00:58:32,320
Speaker 2: Yeah. The Suns for those who don't know, have to

1273
00:58:32,480 --> 00:58:35,080
Speaker 2: win by five points or more for the people that

1274
00:58:35,160 --> 00:58:37,240
Speaker 2: back the Suns to win this. Yeah, that's why the

1275
00:58:37,280 --> 00:58:37,560
Speaker 2: lines for.

1276
00:58:37,640 --> 00:58:40,960
Speaker 3: Now home team's overachieved. That's why I'm interested in the Raptors,

1277
00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:45,600
Speaker 3: still interested against the Calves, still interested in obviously the

1278
00:58:45,680 --> 00:58:48,480
Speaker 3: Hawk's nets, of course I am. But the Pistons at

1279
00:58:48,480 --> 00:58:50,360
Speaker 3: home to the Pacers at the home gate, we've been

1280
00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:54,640
Speaker 3: there before. You overachieve early and the Clippers you just

1281
00:58:54,680 --> 00:58:55,440
Speaker 3: got to lose by four.

1282
00:58:55,640 --> 00:58:58,880
Speaker 2: Just do it. Fans, some of you might be wondering

1283
00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:02,360
Speaker 2: why there is a little photo of a man dressed

1284
00:59:02,360 --> 00:59:06,160
Speaker 2: in a pickle costume on the graphic where we show

1285
00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:08,320
Speaker 2: you our pick them games. That's because that's what's gonna

1286
00:59:08,320 --> 00:59:11,000
Speaker 2: be the pick and payoff at the end of the month.

1287
00:59:11,040 --> 00:59:14,200
Speaker 2: Whoever's in last place, we'll have to not only wear

1288
00:59:15,080 --> 00:59:19,080
Speaker 2: the pickle costume right after Halloween. Uh, you're gonna have

1289
00:59:19,080 --> 00:59:21,000
Speaker 2: to wear it for a week. We've decided.

1290
00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:25,919
Speaker 5: I can't take it off and home, well maybe at home,

1291
00:59:25,960 --> 00:59:27,680
Speaker 5: but to and from the Classic factory.

1292
00:59:27,720 --> 00:59:29,000
Speaker 2: I think you have to wear it in the car.

1293
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Speaker 2: I put it on in the car makes it one

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00:59:33,720 --> 00:59:36,400
Speaker 2: level more annoying. So yeah, that's what we're playing for.

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00:59:36,560 --> 00:59:39,080
Speaker 2: This is a short month of October. A suggestion sentiment,

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00:59:39,240 --> 00:59:42,919
Speaker 2: great stop from Pierre Publico. It's the pickle payoff, it is. Yeah,

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00:59:43,360 --> 00:59:47,080
Speaker 2: that's a pickle payoff. Yeah, you're right, it's famed all season. Wow,

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Speaker 2: that'd be now you as a man that loves you

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Speaker 2: love episode one of those big jars. I was gonna say,

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Speaker 2: he loves pickles like you love pickles.

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Speaker 4: Are you?

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Speaker 2: Are you trying to throw this pick them round to

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01:00:01,760 --> 01:00:05,760
Speaker 2: wear the pickle costume or is it actually? Is it

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01:00:05,880 --> 01:00:08,160
Speaker 2: more desiring to you to look at someone else dressed

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01:00:08,160 --> 01:00:11,040
Speaker 2: as a pickle and just like your lips. I'd love

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01:00:11,080 --> 01:00:11,760
Speaker 2: to eat that pickle.

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01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:13,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't like hot pickles. I know if you're

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01:00:13,800 --> 01:00:16,440
Speaker 3: wearing that thing, you're gonna be hot. I just feel it.

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01:00:16,880 --> 01:00:19,280
Speaker 3: I feel it in this room where we do our show.

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01:00:19,400 --> 01:00:21,760
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be stupid hot. And I'm already saying it's

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Speaker 3: me because I've already I'm ari O for one, I've

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01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:26,720
Speaker 3: already taken the Clippers. I could be down two games.

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01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:29,560
Speaker 2: Well you are gonna be down two gates or down

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Speaker 2: at least to h and two after tonight, depending on

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01:00:31,840 --> 01:00:32,200
Speaker 2: the result.

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Speaker 3: But I do love pickles. I thought Gershon Yapisoli's name

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01:00:36,040 --> 01:00:38,400
Speaker 3: was girkin, you Asli's name at first. I love a

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01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:39,600
Speaker 3: good gerkin pickle.

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01:00:40,120 --> 01:00:42,040
Speaker 2: But you're a good friend to have when you're out

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Speaker 2: at like lunch or dinner, and the pickles usually lunch.

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01:00:44,640 --> 01:00:46,680
Speaker 2: I guess when the pickles there. I don't like pickles,

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01:00:46,760 --> 01:00:47,600
Speaker 2: so you're always.

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Speaker 3: Like, thank you, I'll take that. Yeah, pickles, that is good.

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Speaker 3: I thought they were.

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Speaker 5: You were the king when we would order Jimmy John's,

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01:00:54,760 --> 01:00:57,840
Speaker 5: none of us wanted our pickles, and you, you would

1327
01:00:57,920 --> 01:01:01,080
Speaker 5: like you would go from having one zero picks around

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01:01:01,800 --> 01:01:06,480
Speaker 5: to joining four sliced spears into one that was amazing

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Speaker 5: pickle down economics into a full cucumber old classic factory.

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Speaker 2: They're killing it right, Yes, all right, let's call it there.

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Speaker 2: We gotta thanks so much for coming on to play

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01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:23,960
Speaker 2: a little. It's just one game, but gotta thank Ash

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01:01:24,000 --> 01:01:26,840
Speaker 2: for filling in for JD. My Man and uh hey,

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Speaker 2: join us tonight on playback around seven thirty pm Eastern.

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Speaker 2: That link is in the show notes already to join

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Speaker 2: our playback room. But uh yeah, bouncing around, look at

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01:01:38,520 --> 01:01:42,200
Speaker 2: men TV's we got this year. Wo yeah, we got

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Speaker 2: so many TVs. We put a logo in one. Yeah right, yeah,

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01:01:46,360 --> 01:01:48,080
Speaker 2: I put red Panda in there too, because you never

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01:01:48,160 --> 01:01:49,880
Speaker 2: know what you're gonna catch on leak fens. Yes, how

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Speaker 2: you tweeted about Christian and Scooby last night?

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Speaker 3: Tests they got it?

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01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:56,920
Speaker 2: You said something along or somebody responded to you like

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01:01:56,960 --> 01:02:01,400
Speaker 2: they've they've upped their game. Yeah, is Ristan dunking Scooby?

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Speaker 6: Now?

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01:02:02,760 --> 01:02:04,800
Speaker 3: I think Scooby's gotten a little bigger thing has grown.

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01:02:04,920 --> 01:02:06,880
Speaker 3: I think you know what you watch muscle watch every

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Speaker 3: single summer.

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01:02:07,880 --> 01:02:09,200
Speaker 2: Scooby's out of twenty pounds.

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Speaker 3: He's huge too.

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01:02:13,680 --> 01:02:17,200
Speaker 2: All right, So playback tonight seven thirty pm Eastern. Join

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01:02:17,280 --> 01:02:19,600
Speaker 2: your boys over there to watch some basketball until Dan

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01:02:19,600 --> 01:02:20,200
Speaker 2: Climber Bros.

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Speaker 1: You heard it here first. Have a great time, turn up,

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Speaker 1: love you guys awesome.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us, and remember learned this last night.

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Speaker 3: TNT hosts Adam Lefko can walk and talk at the

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Speaker 3: same time. That's what they said, Embrace today people