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Speaker 2: Yeah, Welcome to new year.

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Speaker 3: Nutting twenty twenty one, twenty Shee twenty four, Happy New

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Speaker 3: Year two on the twenty four twenty four Sir measure

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Speaker 3: from and just letting you know that you're not the

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Speaker 3: long Balance Harmonia's self groups you condrich, your highest, protect

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Speaker 2: Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the Nodunks podcast

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Speaker 2: on the Athletic Network. It's Tuesday, January second, twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 2: Happy New year everyone.

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Speaker 4: I'm J. E.

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

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Speaker 2: always Tasmelice.

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Speaker 1: Hey, basketball lovers podcast listeners, this one's for you.

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Speaker 2: Next to him, it's the Bearded One, Matasha hop Boy,

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Speaker 2: Trey Kirby, Hey yo, and over yonder the man making

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Speaker 2: the magic happen. Super producer JD. Hello, there he is

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Speaker 2: and here we are the boys back together. Oh it's

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Speaker 2: great to see you guys and to be all back

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Speaker 2: in the same place. I know we did an emergency

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Speaker 2: podcast on Saturday last year Get one more in, but

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Speaker 2: it's been a while. Uh go blue by the way,

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Speaker 2: What a game there?

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Speaker 4: What a game? You might think? This is a Charles

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Speaker 4: Woods in Jersey. No skates this is a Blake Koorham, Jersey.

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Speaker 2: So what is it? It's Michigan and Washington.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, w versus n flip them over same letter. I

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Speaker 4: got that. That's next month for Ty Detmer and Tim Biakabatuca. Guys.

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Speaker 2: I know, crazy start to this year. Shout out to

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Speaker 2: the stream team for joining us live right now on YouTube.

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Speaker 2: Smash that light button, make sure you subscribe as we

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Speaker 2: inch our way to one hundred thousand subs, and comment away.

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Speaker 2: As you guys already are podcast listeners, leave your boys

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Speaker 2: a five star rating and review. The bosses are still

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Speaker 2: watching and five star Friday could be coming up as

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Speaker 2: early as potentially this Friday on the drop or maybe

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Speaker 4: I think we got to do it. That's Friday. We

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Speaker 4: got some good ones that I've seen coming in, but

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Speaker 4: I think I just got us at best four star

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Speaker 4: review because Ty Detmer, of course, was the quarterback for

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Speaker 4: BYU oh not for the University of Washington, That's right.

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Speaker 1: What aboute Trent Dilferd. I don't know, just say that

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Speaker 1: sounded like Ti depver.

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Speaker 2: We had a weggie before we jump into everything, and

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Speaker 2: it happened on Friday night. I want to say the

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Speaker 2: twenty ninth, and it was a wild one. Cody martin

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Speaker 2: Man sticks it right as the shot clock expired, but

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Speaker 2: it was like a you know, turnaround, fade away, wedgie.

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Speaker 1: Don't see those.

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Speaker 2: Varieties too often. We're at twenty two on the season.

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Speaker 2: That piece. I saw it get as high as fifty eight.

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Speaker 2: But we've gone a couple of days now with that one,

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Speaker 2: But we're happening that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a bad, bad shot. Looked like tim

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Speaker 1: Biakabatuca taking him. Was he a quarterback? Is a great name?

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Speaker 2: I have a zero idea who you're talking about. I

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Speaker 2: can't picture this.

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Speaker 4: You're more of a Tyrone Wheatley guy.

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Speaker 1: Oh gosh, Well you guys are sharing the chat in

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Speaker 1: the slack. Well what a game?

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Speaker 1: From Michigan. I didn't I didn't care. I was watching

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Speaker 1: were saying. Well, there was pop tarts this past week.

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Speaker 4: Apparently the pop Tart mascot is the O G Benny

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Speaker 1: That's a good scot exactly.

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Speaker 2: That man was a legend.

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Speaker 4: That man was a bull. That man was a legend,

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Speaker 2: This makes some sense you could see why they did this.

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Speaker 2: That seems like the keyword here. Balanced rosters for both

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Speaker 2: He does many other things and an elite level, but

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Speaker 2: that is not one of them where you can give

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Speaker 2: But quickly fourteen six and three. He sort of went

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Speaker 2: You agree with this idea though, of a balanced roster

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Speaker 2: after one game. It makes some sense for the Knicks

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it definitely makes sense because you've got fans on

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Speaker 4: must be a fair trade. And I can kind of

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Speaker 4: the NBA's YouTube page gave this a fantastic finish, but

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Speaker 4: this is a close finish. Everybody was missing down the stretch.

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Speaker 4: consider r. J. Barrett the throw in here, despite the

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Speaker 4: fact that he averages the most points per game, is

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Speaker 4: feels like the third guy in this trade because, like

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Speaker 4: you're saying, Quickly, is the potential bruntson deal here? Right?

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Speaker 4: Like Dallas didn't want to pay Jalen Brunson, so Nick

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Speaker 4: hoping with the manual Quickly as well. I'm not on

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Speaker 4: the flip side, oh Jannonoby. All he has to do

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: It works, and he just needs the ball so little

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Speaker 4: Pistons might get two wins in a row. They end

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Speaker 4: He didn't do that.

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Speaker 2: I didn't hear anything that from him. You know, every

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Speaker 1: There, Well, just watching Kate Conneham turn his ankle looked

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Speaker 1: He's had thirty against the Reps, coming off thirty one

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Speaker 2: Did you see what they're doing, the Pistons and Rockets

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Speaker 2: a bobblehead joint bubbleheads, but one bobblehead in Detroit last night,

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Speaker 2: and then they play again in Houston or do I

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Speaker 2: have that flipped around? They play again very soon for

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Speaker 2: the second bobblehead. So you got to go to both locations.

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Speaker 2: I believe.

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Speaker 4: Both of them at both spots. I'm not sure that's

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Speaker 4: how they should do it. Yeah, nobody going to Detroit

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Speaker 4: and then.

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Speaker 2: No, I wouldn't think something. Maybe you want to get

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Speaker 2: one off of eBay and you know skyrocket those prices.

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Speaker 2: But I did get one of those Kirwin Frost nugget

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Speaker 2: buddies recently. What Yeah, you know it's the new thing

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Speaker 2: of McDonald's. They basically have adult happy meals. I got

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Speaker 2: a big Mac with a nugget buddy in there. Oh,

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Speaker 2: I got a pencil tattoo on his face. I was

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Speaker 2: hoping for Don Bernice, but I got Kurwin Frost.

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Speaker 1: Okay, you do what did you so many names in

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Speaker 1: this show?

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Speaker 2: I know I can't new segment McDonald's toy or college

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Speaker 2: football player. I had no clue. What he what did

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Speaker 2: he run for?

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Speaker 5: Don McCloy, Don Bernice, Don Bernice went for three hundred

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Speaker 5: yards in the air, in the in the pop tart boy,

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Speaker 5: tittle bull, the nugget ball.

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Speaker 1: Tom Bernice looks cool too.

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Speaker 4: They all look cool, man. So what did you do

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Speaker 4: with it? I put it in the glove compartment.

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Speaker 2: Oh cool.

457
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Speaker 4: I forgot about it until I'm packing yesterday.

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Speaker 2: When you get pulled over for rolling through a stop

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Speaker 2: signing and show that to the officer you got this,

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Speaker 2: I was like.

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Speaker 4: I checked to Eva. I was like, man, I wonder

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Speaker 4: how much this is worth. Let's pay ten dollars for

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Speaker 4: a happy beat fourteen bucks? Well see yea by open mind?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, to play with it.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Pistons, you got a winner of the NBA Lucky Task.

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Speaker 2: Who you got for a winner.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 1: The Indiana Pacers and the Milwaukee Bucks. It's a fun

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Speaker 1: series to watch, and the Indiana Pacers have won three

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Speaker 1: of the four games that they've played and they're gonna

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Speaker 1: get them again on January third, tomorrow for game number five.

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Speaker 1: And this was a healthy Bugs Bucks team that the

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Speaker 1: Indiana Pacers beat. And you'd think Tyre Salivernan must have

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Speaker 1: gone off. He was good, but he couldn't shoot. He

475
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Speaker 1: hit one of seven threes, couldn't shoot. The Pacers overall

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Speaker 1: hit five threes. Yet somehow, somehow they were able to

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Speaker 1: pull it out. Now, Halbert was great from inside two,

478
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Speaker 1: was inside three, I should say from two point line.

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Speaker 1: He was on fire. Twenty six, eleven and nine rebounds.

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Speaker 1: Cool for him. He's from Oshkosh, Wisconsin. They're playing in

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Speaker 1: Milwaukee close enough, so great win for them, great win

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Speaker 1: for this Pacers team. They have just come together. And

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Speaker 1: it was pretty cool because they went down in the

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Speaker 1: first and the third quarter by double digits because their

485
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Speaker 1: starters were just getting hit, but their bench came through

486
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Speaker 1: even though they were shot fourteen percent from three overall,

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Speaker 1: which is wild, and they still won. They were able

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Speaker 1: to just fight bendic Mathrin twenty five and a career

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Speaker 1: high thirteen boards. As they had Jackson eighteen off the bench,

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Speaker 1: TJ McConnell sixteen off the bench. They scored seventy points

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Speaker 1: off the bench. And I think their defense has picked up,

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Speaker 1: if you look at their numbers last five games or so,

493
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Speaker 1: a little bit better now. They give up a lot

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Speaker 1: of points and there's gonna be lots of Pascal Siakam

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Speaker 1: talk for them, I'm sure as the trade deadline comes up,

496
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Speaker 1: because they do need a little bit of help on

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Speaker 1: the bench. But they were just able to wall off

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Speaker 1: Jannistad Kubo, who scored sixty four against them the last

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Speaker 1: time that they played. You remember ballgate at the end

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Speaker 1: of that one. But the Pacers, yeah, walled them off

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Speaker 1: and he had he had a really good game. But

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Speaker 1: they were just able to come through and fight through

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Speaker 1: every single possession and fourth quarter. They were just smart defensively,

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Speaker 1: and they were going at Malik Beasley in any way

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Speaker 1: they could to score on him. So shout out to them.

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Speaker 1: They look a little bit different and that they're they're

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Speaker 1: playing for Rick Carlisle and this series would be fun now.

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Speaker 1: Helbern said, this isn't a rivalry after the game, just

509
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Speaker 1: because they've won a championship and we haven't made the playoffs.

510
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Speaker 1: But that's a good sign. He wants them to get

511
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Speaker 1: to the playoffs quite clearly. And in game number five

512
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Speaker 1: that they play on Wednesday, it should be fun as well.

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Speaker 1: The Bucks should come back. But the Pacers have been fighting,

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Speaker 1: winning three of those four games.

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Speaker 2: All right, they've already played for times that they play

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Speaker 2: a fifth time on whatever you said, yeah tomorrow, I

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Speaker 2: guess Wednesday. And Halliburton over the break too, did something

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Speaker 2: that's only been done by Magic Johnson and John Stockton,

519
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Speaker 2: and that's to have that twenty and twenty in consecutive games,

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Speaker 2: twenty points, twenty assists. And Halliburton did that in two

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Speaker 2: games over this little holiday break where he did it

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Speaker 2: against the Nicks. He did against the Bulls there in Chicago.

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Speaker 2: That's that's incredible. And he had like how many turnovers?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no turnovers against the Bulls. Yeah, he was slacking

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Speaker 4: these last two games. Had two turnovers the Yeeps and

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Speaker 4: like pass said, can't make a three right now. But

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Speaker 4: they're just scoring inside. And you know that's the thing

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Speaker 4: with the Pacers. They are a good three point shooting team,

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Speaker 4: but the speed they play at, let's then get a

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Speaker 4: whole bunch of laoffs. They had sixty four points in

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Speaker 4: the paint against the Bucks, a team that wants to

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Speaker 4: take away the paint. So great stuff from Indiana. Kind

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Speaker 4: of finding their footing because they were in sputder mode

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Speaker 4: right after the ist and they've played a little bit

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Speaker 4: better defense, and you know, their offense is getting back

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Speaker 4: on track.

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Speaker 2: Especially winner of the m Long Weekend to Malik Monk's

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Speaker 2: sixth Man of the Year campaign. On December thirty, first,

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Speaker 2: so New Year's Eve, Monk came off the bench as

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Speaker 2: he always does. He scored a game high twenty seven

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Speaker 2: points and just twenty one minutes played as the Kings

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Speaker 2: blew out the Grizzlies one twenty three to ninety two.

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Speaker 2: Monk ten to thirteen from the field, four or five

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Speaker 2: on threes, five assists, zero turnovers. You know, huge plays,

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Speaker 2: big highlights, as he's always good for all season long.

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Speaker 2: So that final game on Sunday finished an incredible December

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Speaker 2: for Monk. Thirteen games, He's averaging fifteen and a half

548
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Speaker 2: points per game, six point one assists per game, shooting

549
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Speaker 2: forty nine percent from the field and forty two percent

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Speaker 2: from deep. His true shooting percentage is an insane sixty

551
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Speaker 2: three point five percent in the month, with his usage

552
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Speaker 2: percentage actually decreasing. That's the crazy part. Compared to the

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Speaker 2: months prior. He's doing all of this in under twenty

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Speaker 2: six minutes a game, and I think that where he

555
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Speaker 2: is right now. According to Bett MGM. Last I checked

556
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Speaker 2: on the sixth Man of the Year odd for this season,

557
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Speaker 2: they have him fifth, and I think that's quite low

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Speaker 2: with how well the Kings are playing and how just

559
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Speaker 2: important he is. He finished fifth last year, if you remember,

560
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Speaker 2: Brogden won it quickly with second Bobby Portis and Norman Powell.

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Speaker 2: But for him to be behind this year, monk in

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Speaker 2: the betting odds Reeves, Tim Hardaway, junior cole Anthony Bogdanovich,

563
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Speaker 2: who's come on as of late for the Hawks, I

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Speaker 2: don't think that's right. I think he should at plus

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Speaker 2: eight hundred. Look, I'm not gonna be going betting on it.

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Speaker 2: I'm not telling you to do that by any means,

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Speaker 2: you know, not financial advice. But that seems strange to

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Speaker 2: me because he's been he's so instrumental to this King's

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Speaker 2: team and he's played so well. His counting stats are

570
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Speaker 2: comparable to last year, but he's been way more efficient.

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Speaker 2: And he also has going for him, Like I said,

572
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Speaker 2: those like those highlight alley oops and these big donks,

573
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Speaker 2: and he had that game winner, that wild game winner

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Speaker 2: against the Warriors. Like sometimes his buckets feel like more

575
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Speaker 2: than two or three points, just the backbreaking for variety.

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Speaker 2: So I just think he should be higher than plus

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Speaker 2: eight hundred and behind a lot of those guys who

578
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Speaker 2: are having good years off the bench. Don't get me

579
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Speaker 2: wrong in terms of scoring them all and stuff like that,

580
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Speaker 2: but Monk's significance to the King's success, I think should

581
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Speaker 2: bump them up a little bit. So I think he's

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Speaker 2: going to start getting a little more six Man of

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Speaker 2: the Year love as we move forward here. Who would

584
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Speaker 2: you put him ahead of Tim Hardaway Junior. Yeah, he

585
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:24,640
Speaker 2: plays like nearly thirty minutes a game. He scores a lot.

586
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Speaker 2: He really started hot. I think that's going to come

587
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:31,960
Speaker 2: back to earth now that Kyrie's back. Cole Anthony vital

588
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Speaker 2: to Orlando success. He's like to me, he's like the

589
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Speaker 2: comparison to Monk, especially with how well the Magic have

590
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Speaker 2: played too. I would have them like comparable odds, I think,

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Speaker 2: and the Reeves one. I mean, I know we're gonna

592
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Speaker 2: get to the Lakers. It's a bit of a mess,

593
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Speaker 2: like who's starting and who isn't. I mean, he started

594
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Speaker 2: and then he didn't. I think he should be right

595
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Speaker 2: there with those guys, Like, I think it should be

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Speaker 2: all pretty close. Not plus two fifty for Reeves to

597
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Speaker 2: plus eight hundred.

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Speaker 1: For a month.

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Speaker 4: Oh, it has definitely been better though, But he's not

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Speaker 4: going to call they're comparable, Sat, They're very comparable. Yeah, yeah,

601
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Speaker 4: but I mean reeves Is percentages are definitely better, and

602
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Speaker 4: scoring it's about the same. Same with Bogdanovic, Like scoring

603
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Speaker 4: is about the same. Bogdanovich percentages are a little bit

604
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Speaker 4: better as well. But yeah, I would say Monk probably

605
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Speaker 4: top three, but I don't even know who the leader is.

606
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Speaker 2: Probably well, I was sort of surprised.

607
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Speaker 4: I've seen Bogdan Bogdanovic people are saying should be the

608
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Speaker 4: leader right now. Okay, I mean he is good.

609
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's been one of the.

610
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Speaker 4: Top three three point shooters in the leagueires.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's been fire the last twenty games. He's streaky, though,

612
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,679
Speaker 2: so watch you know, he'll go on a ten game slide, but.

613
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Speaker 1: You got on a stinky streak recently, and that's why

614
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 1: the Kings beat them last week. They're down eighteen to

615
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Speaker 1: the Hawks at half and they needed somebody to help

616
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Speaker 1: them out. It was Monk Yeah, and Chris Duarte, who's

617
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Speaker 1: starting now for the Sentimento Kings. They benched Kevin Herder

618
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Speaker 1: put to Urte in there, and I think, you know,

619
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Speaker 1: bogged down by Damach. I thought, yep, it's definitely a

620
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Speaker 1: part of it, even though Tim Hardaway was the number

621
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Speaker 1: one score from the bench. But I think this is

622
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Speaker 1: all about big name teams and that's why the Austin

623
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Speaker 1: Reeves was there just guys who people are betting on.

624
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Speaker 1: At this point, I think more people would be betting

625
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Speaker 1: on Austin Reeves. So it's just it's just the casinos

626
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Speaker 1: making dollars.

627
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Speaker 2: Well, I had to remind myself that Brogden won it

628
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Speaker 2: last year. I mean, he won it on a good

629
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Speaker 2: Celtics team, but it wasn't like Brogden was a twenty

630
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Speaker 2: point per game score, right, Yeah, he was good. Look

631
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Speaker 2: when I listed to those guys that won it last year,

632
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Speaker 2: brogdenn't win in it again. Quickly ain't gonna win it

633
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Speaker 2: because he's gonna be starting of course for the raptors

634
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 2: portis no always tough for a big guy anyway, and

635
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Speaker 2: he's been bad at Norman Powell is like not even

636
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Speaker 2: close to what he was doing last year. So there's

637
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Speaker 2: an opening for any of those other guys. We said,

638
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Speaker 2: I think Monk should be. Yeah, top three is right

639
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 2: right there with Cole Anthony and then yeah, Reeves is

640
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 2: going to be in there. The Lakers market and all that,

641
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:47,959
Speaker 2: but I mean they're a bit of a mess right

642
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 2: now too, and it's not like he's killing so Monk

643
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:53,200
Speaker 2: his six man in their campaign. A little love for him.

644
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 2: One more round of winners? Why not TK what he got, Oh.

645
00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 4: Chunky Phoenix Suns, they get a winner. We got to start.

646
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 4: Devin Booker, Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal in two straight games.

647
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 4: They beat the Hornets December twenty ninth. They beat the

648
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 4: Magic December thirty. First, I got to write the dates

649
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 4: down because I have literally no idea what days we're

650
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:17,240
Speaker 4: talking about a year. Kevin Durant did rest for the

651
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:19,760
Speaker 4: win over the Blazers yesterday, but I kind of consider

652
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:21,840
Speaker 4: that a win when you have enough players back that

653
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,400
Speaker 4: you can actually arrest Kevin Durant, who's playing a ton

654
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 4: of minutes right now. And the win over the Hornets,

655
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 4: Devin Booker went for thirty five, Kevin Durant went for

656
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 4: twenty one, and Bradley Beal went for six six points

657
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:36,800
Speaker 4: in his return. I don't care if that's fine. Against Orlando,

658
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 4: Kevin Durant thirty one. Bo went for a season high

659
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 4: twenty five and looked awesome. I thought he was looking fast,

660
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:45,240
Speaker 4: he was looking crafty. And then Devin Booker added twenty

661
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 4: one in the victory over Orlando, one of the best

662
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 4: defensive teams in the league. And these guys went for

663
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 4: a combined seventy seven points after basically like the third

664
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 4: game together. That was pretty impressive. Bal then went for

665
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:59,640
Speaker 4: twenty one in the win against Portland. Choppy start to

666
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:02,400
Speaker 4: the season, no doubt for the Suns. They did not

667
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 4: have a good December, but they have had guys in

668
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 4: and out of the lineup. They've had some complaints around

669
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 4: Christmas time, with Kevin Durant saying, wait a second, all

670
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:14,040
Speaker 4: these minimum contract players are looking like minimum contract players.

671
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 4: What a surprise. But they got a couple three wins

672
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 4: over the weekend, and Bull Bowl even got to play.

673
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 4: I saw three Bull Bull highlights against the Trailblazer, So

674
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 4: we're gonna be talking about this guy for the next

675
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 4: five seasons. Seven before he can handle I've never seen

676
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 4: it before.

677
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's taken the minutes from U Banks. And after

678
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:35,600
Speaker 1: I saw those highlights, I thought, this guy, this guy

679
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:37,600
Speaker 1: must have like a twenty five point game in him.

680
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 1: I checked the box score and no, sir, that didn't happen.

681
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 1: Although he ended all right. He ended all right with

682
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 1: eleven points and nine boards. That's great. If he's going

683
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,280
Speaker 1: to take the starting or sorry, the backup center spot

684
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 1: from JUIU Banks, he might make his minimum contract look

685
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 1: like a deal. But yeah, he hasn't been playing, and

686
00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:00,360
Speaker 1: uh yeah, Frank Vogel's changing some things up there. So

687
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 1: they have looked a lot better, yeat, mainly because Bradley

688
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: Beal's back is better and his ankle is better and

689
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 1: everything looks fine.

690
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 2: Yeah. Now Suns fans knock on wood that all these

691
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 2: guys can stay healthy and play, and they need to,

692
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 2: like what is it, six weeks before the All Star break,

693
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 2: like they need to have a nice little stretch here

694
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 2: and like start moving up the Western Conference standings if

695
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 2: they're really going to be considered, you know, a championship

696
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 2: contender there, what are they like eighteen fifteen, Yeah, after

697
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 2: winning four in a rows, a nice little win streak here,

698
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 2: but you know they're not far behind hosting a playoff

699
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 2: series in the first round. Like, there are a couple

700
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 2: of games back, I believe with the Clippers, so I

701
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 2: if these guys are playing, I still have a lot

702
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 2: of faith in them. That he was like, it's like

703
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:44,000
Speaker 2: seventy five points, like sort of in your sleep. Yeah,

704
00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 2: and then you're just like you hope on any other night, like, hey,

705
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 2: what or two of these minimum guys like pops off

706
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 2: and that's a recipe for a win.

707
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 4: Yeah. And I in that Orlando game, I thought the

708
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,920
Speaker 4: first half it definitely looked a lot of your turn,

709
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 4: my turn, which is can definitely work when you've got

710
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 4: three guys who can score thirty in every single game.

711
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 4: But then in the third quarter, they were getting into

712
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 4: a lot of two man actions, sometimes three man actions,

713
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:08,640
Speaker 4: just giving Kevin Durant a chance to attack against a

714
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 4: one on one. Like that's a win right there for

715
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 4: the Suns. And then the fourth quarter.

716
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:13,440
Speaker 1: He was just on fire.

717
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 4: He was just knocking down jumpers over everybody. They're a

718
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:19,720
Speaker 4: game out of the sixth seed right now. Like for

719
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,840
Speaker 4: playing two straight months of not knowing who's actually going

720
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 4: to be healthy amongst your stars and which of your

721
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 4: non stars are actually going to be able to stay

722
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 4: on the court, that's a decent start. And if they

723
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:34,240
Speaker 4: weathered the dramatic storm in December, then maybe things will

724
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 4: be looking upwards for the Suns here in twenty twenty four.

725
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 2: Task who else you have for a winner?

726
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon of the Denver Nuggets because he was bitten

727
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 1: by a doc his own dock and on Christmas he

728
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 1: got twenty one stitches on his hand and face. So

729
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 1: he missed a couple of games, and then he was

730
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 1: back at practice on Sunday when his teammate DeAndre Jordan

731
00:33:55,600 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 1: said he literally barked, and DeAndre Jordan Judge George said

732
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 1: is that cool? I is that cool? If I still

733
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:04,959
Speaker 1: do that? And Aaron Gordon said, yeah, that's all right.

734
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 1: I guess they've always used to do that with Aaron Gordy,

735
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:08,960
Speaker 1: that's just a bark thing. He showed up at the

736
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 1: game on Monday with the dog around his chain. He

737
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:15,800
Speaker 1: just likes dogs. He loves dogs. He played on Monday

738
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 1: U and he was asked about his dogs. He said, quote,

739
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 1: I love dogs. I grew up with dogs my whole life.

740
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:23,040
Speaker 1: But because we're on the road so much, my dad's

741
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: taking care of him, so I can't really train him

742
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,400
Speaker 1: how I need him to be. So there was something

743
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:32,240
Speaker 1: that happened on Christmas where he got upset.

744
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 2: Well, he said dog. He said, what happened? Did you

745
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:34,920
Speaker 2: see this?

746
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:35,400
Speaker 3: So?

747
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 4: I got drunk? It was massive with my dogs.

748
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 2: He said it was egg dog. He blamed on eggnog

749
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 2: that he had too much. He doesn't drink a lot,

750
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 2: had too much eggnog and got to like rough housing

751
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:46,320
Speaker 2: with his dog, and the dog got a little excited,

752
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:48,920
Speaker 2: chomped down on him, gave me a bite, and I

753
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:51,359
Speaker 2: was basically wrestling him off of me, and he bit

754
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:51,880
Speaker 2: my hands.

755
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:54,799
Speaker 1: Ah yeah, Why did he say two different things?

756
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:56,840
Speaker 2: Well, I think he said what you said prior. And

757
00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 2: then he came out and said sort of like clarified

758
00:34:59,080 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 2: a little bit more.

759
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 4: He bets.

760
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:03,919
Speaker 2: He said, for lack of better words, I was fucking

761
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 2: around with my dog. And when you fuck around, you

762
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:07,239
Speaker 2: find out that's what he said.

763
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:10,080
Speaker 1: All right, so yeah, that sounds like the first time

764
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:13,919
Speaker 1: he didn't want to save my dogs eye screwed up dog.

765
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 1: He was trying to say, I wasn't drunk, really, and

766
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 1: then he came out with the truth. Because I read

767
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 1: that that first one, I thought, Nicola Jokic loves horses.

768
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:27,479
Speaker 1: We'll start a pets podcast. Just start talking about talking

769
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:30,319
Speaker 1: about your dogs and your horses. I think Michael Porter

770
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 1: Junior has a podcast to saw.

771
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 2: On Curious Mike.

772
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 1: Podcasts about animals. And that time he got drunk and

773
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 1: he bit you, so drinking an eggnog full of alcohol was.

774
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:42,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what he said. I don't drink a lot

775
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 2: during the season, and you know, hit him at the

776
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 2: Holidays and he got wrestling with the dog and dog

777
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 2: he was, I guess not trained well enough, as he said,

778
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:50,840
Speaker 2: like you said.

779
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 1: It must have been a late night too, because they

780
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:55,800
Speaker 1: played Christmas and it said it happened on Christmas. So

781
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:58,280
Speaker 1: when he didn't he didn't you really.

782
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:01,720
Speaker 2: Want to deep dive started if I had to thirty

783
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 2: on Christmas?

784
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:04,839
Speaker 4: Right? Yeah? So twelve thirty nuggets time?

785
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so after the game went back, Yeah, started

786
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 2: drinking that nog.

787
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:12,399
Speaker 4: Drinking the nog wrestling the dog.

788
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 2: That's a good shot. Drinking nog wrestling dogs.

789
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 4: Drink nog wrestling dog. Picture Aaron Gordon's face.

790
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 2: He's fine, though.

791
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 1: I guess his hand like yesterday it was bandit. Jopp

792
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 1: looked like most of the stitches were on his hand

793
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 1: and not his face. Yeah, or that face heeled. I

794
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 1: don't know. I was looking at his face.

795
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 2: Look fine, he doesn't have that dog him. He's got

796
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:39,839
Speaker 2: that dog on him. All right? Uh, final one here

797
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:43,319
Speaker 2: for me, Oklahoma City Thunder as a winner on New

798
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 2: Year's Eve. The thunder won their fourth consecutive game as

799
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:48,360
Speaker 2: they defeated the Nets one twenty four one. Wait, just

800
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:52,840
Speaker 2: just a professional win here from OKC. SGA led the

801
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:54,839
Speaker 2: way with twenty four points, but you had all five

802
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:58,880
Speaker 2: starters scoring in double figures. Okc's seventh win in their

803
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 2: last eight games. They've improved to twenty two to nine.

804
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:05,319
Speaker 2: They're in second place in the Western Conference. Also file

805
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 2: this one under things I didn't know. The thunder of

806
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 2: hosted a New Year's Eve game every year since the

807
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 2: franchise moved to OKC, and they're twelve and four in

808
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 2: those games. On New Year's Eve, really really good in

809
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 2: front of their fans there on New Year's Eve. But

810
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 2: I saw Andrew Schleck pointing this out. The Thunder went

811
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:25,320
Speaker 2: ten and three in the month of December. Fourth overall

812
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:28,880
Speaker 2: in net rating, third in defense, seventh in offense. They

813
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 2: beat the Nuggets twice, they beat the Wolves, they beat

814
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 2: the Clippers, they beat the MAVs, they beat the Warriors,

815
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 2: they beat the Knicks. Just a really really good month

816
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 2: for this team. As they start to convince people like, wait,

817
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:44,280
Speaker 2: how good is this team? Immediately here, like how much noise?

818
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:46,879
Speaker 2: How far are they gonna go in the postseason? Because

819
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 2: they're gonna be there, so just want to give them

820
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 2: some love, because absolutely they're just rolling right now. And

821
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 2: everybody on that team, I mean all their main players

822
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 2: are doing their part, everybody contributing on both ends.

823
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:03,399
Speaker 1: Second in the freaking Western Conference. They seem a little

824
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:05,800
Speaker 1: bit too young to go deep into the playoffs, but

825
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 1: who cares go for it because they're that solid, they're

826
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 1: that good. Driving in today, I saw a big rig

827
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:17,280
Speaker 1: truck with an Oklahoma license plate. Don't see that very often.

828
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 1: It's meant to be try and get them to horn.

829
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 1: No I got, I got a great snap of the

830
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:25,759
Speaker 1: license plate. I got a photo, JD. I think we

831
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 1: have it, and I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I saved it.

832
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 1: I did get a photo. But I think I think

833
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:34,160
Speaker 1: the records of teams that play on New Year's Eve

834
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 1: or New Year's Day, it's just their opponents have a

835
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:39,800
Speaker 1: little too much fun. Yeah, probably that's.

836
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 4: What That's probably what it is. They're like, let's get

837
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:44,560
Speaker 4: this game over with so we can get the hell

838
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:51,279
Speaker 4: out of here. It's like the Miami flu, but the opposite. Yeah,

839
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 4: so you say they should go for it, What do

840
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 4: you mean do you think they should make a trade?

841
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:57,880
Speaker 4: They've got every pick in the next three drafts coming up.

842
00:38:58,120 --> 00:38:59,240
Speaker 4: They're one of the best teams.

843
00:38:59,480 --> 00:38:59,920
Speaker 1: Absolutely.

844
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 4: Larry Markinen's the that's the name that keeps coming up

845
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:05,719
Speaker 4: for this team is if they could They're a team

846
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 4: that could be like, hey, Utah, you want five first

847
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:10,840
Speaker 4: round picks. We can do it. It's not even a problem.

848
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 4: And that would definitely improve them because it is such

849
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 4: a question mark. You don't see a lot of teams

850
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:20,240
Speaker 4: go from winning zero playoff series to winning four playoff series.

851
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 4: Winning two isn't impressive, right, Like you look back at

852
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:26,480
Speaker 4: the twenty twelve Thunder, a team that was very good,

853
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 4: very young. They had until their third playoffs before they

854
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 4: went to the finals. This team is second in the

855
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 4: Western Conference, and you're like, are they good enough to

856
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:36,920
Speaker 4: actually win a bunch of rounds here? Shake kill? Just

857
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:40,279
Speaker 4: Alexander a little bit older? Then you think, you know,

858
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:42,960
Speaker 4: he's not a twenty one year old out there like

859
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,320
Speaker 4: a lot of their other guys are. But I don't know.

860
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,839
Speaker 4: It seems to me they would most likely just wait

861
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 4: out this trade deadline and keep rolling them over all

862
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 4: the over there's always going to be an opportunity.

863
00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:54,400
Speaker 2: I think that's exactly what they should do, because you,

864
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 2: like you said it, and I know there's been like

865
00:39:56,719 --> 00:39:59,120
Speaker 2: some debate within you know, the Thunder fan base and

866
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:01,439
Speaker 2: stuff like that of like what you're saying, like whoa,

867
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:04,960
Speaker 2: these windows, these like championship windows if you want to

868
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 2: call them, that you know, are a lot smaller than

869
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:09,319
Speaker 2: you usually think, and like do we push in right

870
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:11,960
Speaker 2: now to get like another star player to go with

871
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 2: all of our talent or do you slow play it

872
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:16,920
Speaker 2: and like relax, let's not get ahead of ourselves. Because

873
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:19,399
Speaker 2: you make that move, then there's pressure to win, right away,

874
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 2: suddenly there's media scrutiny and all that. It's like, I'm

875
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,839
Speaker 2: with you, Trey. I think that they should I mean,

876
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:29,120
Speaker 2: get into the postseason, try and win a playoff series

877
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:30,959
Speaker 2: as you should be able to do with this team,

878
00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:34,960
Speaker 2: and just go from there. And they've slow played it

879
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:36,759
Speaker 2: to death over these last couple of years, and it's

880
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 2: worked out with a lot of these picks hitting and

881
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 2: the way they've built this team. And you said, like

882
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 2: you brought this up a week or so ago, I

883
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:46,480
Speaker 2: mean they're Big three. It's like it feels perfect in

884
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 2: today's NBA game with Sga, JDub and Chet Holmgren and

885
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:52,839
Speaker 2: then all the other guys around them. I wouldn't get

886
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 2: ahead of myself task unless they would, I guess, unless

887
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:57,200
Speaker 2: there was a trade just too good to be true.

888
00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:59,880
Speaker 2: And it's like a why not. But I wouldn't go

889
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:02,759
Speaker 2: overboard like trying to get like a I don't know,

890
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 2: a superstar by caching in a million picks. Though if

891
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 2: any team could do it, they could. You could do

892
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:09,759
Speaker 2: it like twice. They have so many picks because a

893
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 2: lot of them are on their own.

894
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:13,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, to support that big three. I don't see

895
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:15,760
Speaker 1: why they wouldn't do it if it's not a superstar.

896
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 1: I agree, just like a fourth guy to support Shaye

897
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,279
Speaker 1: jalen Chet that's not super old. I think they would

898
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:25,839
Speaker 1: do it. I think, why the heck not, as long

899
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:28,440
Speaker 1: as that guy is again not a superstar and not

900
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 1: taking away from their top guys, and and just sort

901
00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:36,400
Speaker 1: of a guy who's young enough as well, because they

902
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:39,799
Speaker 1: are all super young other than Shake. I mean, they're

903
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:41,400
Speaker 1: like twenty one and a half in terms of their

904
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:47,480
Speaker 1: rotations average age. That's frickin Yeah, So they have so

905
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:48,400
Speaker 1: many young guys.

906
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:50,160
Speaker 2: And those are teams that do not usually go to

907
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 2: win a title, right with a average age of that,

908
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 2: it's like not even close. It's more like usually flirting

909
00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:57,759
Speaker 2: more with twenty seven to twenty eight. So like that

910
00:41:57,840 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 2: guy's in their prime. That makes sense.

911
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:00,880
Speaker 4: It's been all these yeah recently.

912
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. All right, So okay, see he gets

913
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:06,880
Speaker 2: a little little love there. Let's do some losers of

914
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 2: the NBA Long Weekend traege.

915
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:13,960
Speaker 4: It had started the Lakers. Theaker. They've lost three of

916
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:17,719
Speaker 4: their last four, including the Christmas loss, till the Celtics

917
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:21,360
Speaker 4: had a tragic loss on Lebron's birthday. His thirty ninth birthday,

918
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:24,800
Speaker 4: the most analyzed toe on the line since Kevin Durant

919
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 4: versus the Milwaukee Bucks. Lebron, after a great play by

920
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:32,040
Speaker 4: Anthony Davis, gets the ball up on an outlet. Lebron

921
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:35,120
Speaker 4: catches the ball, takes a step back, knocks down a two.

922
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:37,880
Speaker 4: He called the two, and then they went and I

923
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:40,400
Speaker 4: looked at the replay, and Lebron looked at the replay

924
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 4: and he pointed at his own foot on the replay, say,

925
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:45,880
Speaker 4: wait a second, there, that's my foot coming off the line.

926
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:51,440
Speaker 4: This was a millimeters call. I saw people referencing units

927
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:54,480
Speaker 4: of measurement I'd never seen, like, I know, a micron.

928
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 4: But some of the words I was seeing in the angstrom.

929
00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 4: What is that? I got no idea what was going on?

930
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 4: Incredible scene in the postgame. Lebron said, that was a

931
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:06,480
Speaker 4: clear cut three. Stevie Wonder could see that. Champ. Of course,

932
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 4: they went to review to replay, which goes to secaucus.

933
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:11,759
Speaker 4: So Lebron said, somebody over there was eating a ham

934
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:15,040
Speaker 4: sandwich and made the call. Amazing recall by this guy.

935
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:17,680
Speaker 4: To remember the time. Steve Javy was sitting in the

936
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:20,520
Speaker 4: replay center with the ham sandwich next time. I couldn't

937
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:21,680
Speaker 4: believe this, unbelievable.

938
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 2: This guy doesn't forget anything. That was too good, man, Yeah,

939
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 2: it was too good.

940
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:27,399
Speaker 1: That was really good.

941
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 4: So they lost that one, and then the last two

942
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:34,160
Speaker 4: minute report confirmed that it should have been called the two.

943
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:37,880
Speaker 4: Basically there was not enough evidence return, which is exactly right.

944
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:39,839
Speaker 2: Like if it was called a three on the floor,

945
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:41,840
Speaker 2: it would have been a three and it would have

946
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:42,919
Speaker 2: would have held likely.

947
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 1: But give yourself another zepto second and just chill out.

948
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 1: I saw that unit of time recently.

949
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:49,040
Speaker 4: A second.

950
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:53,759
Speaker 1: There we go. But he's he towed the he towed it.

951
00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 1: He just towed it. Minnesota they had a they had

952
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 1: a nice, nice review of that tape. I mean, he's

953
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:02,759
Speaker 1: toted it. Anyways, who cares.

954
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:05,800
Speaker 2: They love that shot where Lebron is pointing out the

955
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:08,680
Speaker 2: monitor with it up there say look you can see

956
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:11,440
Speaker 2: the little gap, and you can see the gap at

957
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 2: that moment, at that moment.

958
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:17,879
Speaker 4: You couldn't see the release. So so controversial. They lost

959
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:21,399
Speaker 4: another game after that one. They New Orleans Pelicans got

960
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 4: their ist revenge. I guess this was December thirty first,

961
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:26,680
Speaker 4: which is now two days away. They beat LA by

962
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 4: twenty points. If you guys out for the Lakers in

963
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 4: this one. Ruy Hachimura also went out eight minutes into

964
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:36,399
Speaker 4: this game with a cash strain that they say has

965
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:39,360
Speaker 4: caused a high level of concern among the Lakers. I

966
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:41,239
Speaker 4: don't know if I like hearing that because the real

967
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:45,799
Speaker 4: reason they're getting a loser. Those are tough losses, no doubt,

968
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:47,960
Speaker 4: but I get the Lakers a loser because so far

969
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:50,719
Speaker 4: this season, Lebron has missed three games. The guy's playing

970
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 4: at an all NBA level. He has been awesome. Anthony

971
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:55,839
Speaker 4: Davis has missed two games, also playing at an all

972
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:59,040
Speaker 4: NBA level. They've got a top ten defense so far

973
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:03,120
Speaker 4: and they're set venteen and seventeen. That's not good. All

974
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:05,520
Speaker 4: their role guys have been pretty bad. Gabe Vincent we

975
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:06,840
Speaker 4: just found out it was gonna be out six to

976
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:11,439
Speaker 4: eight weeks because he has knee surgery. Obviously, Ruy's gonna

977
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:13,560
Speaker 4: miss a little bit of time. It seems like they

978
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:15,880
Speaker 4: didn't have Cam Reddish against the Pelicans. They didn't have

979
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 4: Dangelo Russell against the Pelicans. A lot of people are missing,

980
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:22,400
Speaker 4: but their two stars are not missing. And that's the

981
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:25,520
Speaker 4: concern for the Lakers is that Lebron's playing awesome. Eighty

982
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:27,799
Speaker 4: is playing awesome. If you're getting MP level seasons from

983
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:29,759
Speaker 4: those guys, you should be better than five hundred. But

984
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:32,359
Speaker 4: if the ist the Lakers have been pretty bad. Six

985
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:34,719
Speaker 4: and zero in the n season tournament, plus the win

986
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:37,680
Speaker 4: in the title game that leads them at eleven and seventeen.

987
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:40,000
Speaker 4: Outside of the games that don't have the extra money kick.

988
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:44,040
Speaker 1: Yes, and they don't shoot the three ball, and so

989
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:46,520
Speaker 1: the Gabe Vincent injury I think is a big problem.

990
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 1: And I think this is just a sign that they're

991
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:50,040
Speaker 1: gonna go for it in the next six weeks to

992
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 1: support Lebron and Anthony Davis. And by what I mean

993
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:55,440
Speaker 1: by go go for it is make it trade. Make

994
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:58,600
Speaker 1: a trade for a star to support those two guys

995
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 1: as much as they poss believe you have.

996
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:02,720
Speaker 2: Anyone that comes to mind, well, the Zach.

997
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:06,400
Speaker 1: Attack could happen, Zach Lavine could happen as the supporting guy.

998
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:09,320
Speaker 1: But Gabe Vincent would help a lot if he was playing.

999
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 1: And just in just in terms of getting the three

1000
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:16,239
Speaker 1: ball up, they don't shoot threes. They're twenty eighth in

1001
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:19,040
Speaker 1: the league in three point attempts, and that's just odd.

1002
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:22,480
Speaker 1: So just to spread the floor, give Lebron and Anthony

1003
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 1: Davis some room would help a lot. But yeah, other

1004
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:29,279
Speaker 1: than Lebron getting some shoe sales for the Lebron twenty

1005
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:32,879
Speaker 1: one New Age of Support this past week, shout out

1006
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:36,879
Speaker 1: to Nick Depaula for snapping those photos and taking those

1007
00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 1: photos and just sharing them because that was a nice shoe.

1008
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:42,439
Speaker 1: James Harden's shoe, very nice, Devin Booker's shoe, very nice.

1009
00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 1: Anthony Otherwise, Yeah, and it's very nice, very nice shoes.

1010
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:51,680
Speaker 2: What do you think about Darvin Ham's starting lineup change

1011
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:53,480
Speaker 2: that we see in the last couple of games where

1012
00:46:53,719 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 2: D'Angelo russell out Vanderbilt in you know, sort of focusing

1013
00:46:57,239 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 2: more on defense. But you guys just said it. I mean,

1014
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:01,920
Speaker 2: we already can't go off to save our life. Yeah,

1015
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:04,480
Speaker 2: and we're clogging it up even more for Lebron and AD.

1016
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:07,279
Speaker 2: I think this was sort of backfired. You get what

1017
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:11,000
Speaker 2: he's thinking, but it hasn't gone well. He may have

1018
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:13,000
Speaker 2: panicked with this one. I don't know if he flips

1019
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:14,520
Speaker 2: it back. I don't know if Reeve's go back in

1020
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:16,040
Speaker 2: the starting line. I think you need a little more

1021
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:20,279
Speaker 2: shooting a little more juice on the offensive side of things.

1022
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:21,520
Speaker 2: To pair with those guys, they.

1023
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 4: Should play a guard. Yeah, so I think Reeves should start.

1024
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:26,919
Speaker 4: He went to the bench because he was struggling early

1025
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 4: in the season. He found his rhythm' shooting fifty percent

1026
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:31,560
Speaker 4: off the bench. He started in the second half of

1027
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:34,120
Speaker 4: this game because Hatch Murrow went out. So I think

1028
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:35,680
Speaker 4: Reeves has got to be the guy because right now

1029
00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:38,640
Speaker 4: it's like Lebron is the point guard. That's good, except

1030
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:42,279
Speaker 4: for he's not a super respected outside shooter, though he's

1031
00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:44,400
Speaker 4: shooting the ball very well, but all the other guys

1032
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:47,480
Speaker 4: outside of Tory and Prince are like, please take it.

1033
00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 4: They want Reddish to shoot it, they want Anthony Davis

1034
00:47:51,239 --> 00:47:54,040
Speaker 4: to shoot it. So I think they got to balance

1035
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:56,280
Speaker 4: things a little, and I think that means Reeves starting.

1036
00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:59,040
Speaker 4: But I know Lakers fans are not happy with Darvin

1037
00:47:59,120 --> 00:47:59,600
Speaker 4: hw what.

1038
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:00,840
Speaker 2: I can tell no, no, no, they're not.

1039
00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:03,440
Speaker 1: It is odd to see that offense work that way.

1040
00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:05,799
Speaker 1: And I think they would be yanking Dangel Russell if

1041
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:08,200
Speaker 1: they had Gay Vincit maybe their starting point guard. The

1042
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:10,480
Speaker 1: guy was a starting point guard on a team that

1043
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:12,040
Speaker 1: went to the Finals last year. Just to be his

1044
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 1: his Mario Chalmers his something that he's been able to

1045
00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:19,800
Speaker 1: help help I mean, just to be tough defensively, but

1046
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:23,439
Speaker 1: be willing to shoot every three ball that he gets

1047
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 1: on the tips of his fingers. So it's fun to

1048
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:29,200
Speaker 1: watch the Western Conference standings in all honesty, because they're

1049
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:31,080
Speaker 1: getting date if.

1050
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 2: They don't go for zach Lavine. Could there be a

1051
00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:37,400
Speaker 2: more of a minor move, I guess for like Malcolm Brogden.

1052
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 4: I thought you're gonna say, buddy, heal, no, no, no,

1053
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 4: get them some guard help, of course, and someone that's

1054
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:45,600
Speaker 4: you know, been around the block a little bit that

1055
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:48,040
Speaker 4: you can trust a little bit more, some point guard duties,

1056
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:51,200
Speaker 4: decent defensively, can shoot, I mean, and Brogden I think

1057
00:48:51,239 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 4: could be gettable.

1058
00:48:52,640 --> 00:48:54,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, imagine the Blazers like, oh, we got a hold

1059
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:58,120
Speaker 2: on him. Just maybe more attainable, but they gotta they

1060
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:00,319
Speaker 2: gotta get something there. I'm with you on the Gabe

1061
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:02,719
Speaker 2: injury really really hurts the especially when he came back

1062
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:04,719
Speaker 2: and it's like, Okay, here he comes, and then he's

1063
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:06,440
Speaker 2: out again for all that time and who knows what

1064
00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:07,319
Speaker 2: this ruined is now.

1065
00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:09,280
Speaker 4: I mean, it could be high level of concern.

1066
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, it could be weeks could be months. Who knows,

1067
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:12,799
Speaker 2: uh tasks who else you have for a loser?

1068
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 1: The weekend, well, the Dallas Mavericks unfortunately lost to the

1069
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:19,320
Speaker 1: Utah Jazz. Kyrie's back missed twelve games. He had a

1070
00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 1: bruce heel. He's back, but they lost. I really want

1071
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:25,040
Speaker 1: to talk about the Utah Jazz though, because they've they've

1072
00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:26,879
Speaker 1: turned around, and I want to talk about the Western

1073
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:31,120
Speaker 1: Conference because it's hard. The Utah Jazz specifically have won

1074
00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:33,360
Speaker 1: five to six eight of eleven. They look like a

1075
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 1: different basketball team. They're just playing to gather. They're playing

1076
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:42,040
Speaker 1: some hardy ball, and the reason for that is they're

1077
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:43,799
Speaker 1: starting some of their old guys as well, and they're

1078
00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:45,879
Speaker 1: playing a lot of zone. If they had thirty seven

1079
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:50,120
Speaker 1: assists in this game, Simoni Fontecio starting over Ochai Abaji

1080
00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:53,239
Speaker 1: because he's taller. He had a steel and block and

1081
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:56,839
Speaker 1: great shots and was the lead scorer for this Utah

1082
00:49:56,920 --> 00:49:59,160
Speaker 1: Jazz in this one. And I think they all did

1083
00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:02,440
Speaker 1: a good job against the lou Uka. He helped against Luca.

1084
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 1: Luca coming into this game six of twenty eight on

1085
00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 1: step back threes to his left, and they were very

1086
00:50:10,239 --> 00:50:12,400
Speaker 1: aware of that. They tried to They tried to make

1087
00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:14,920
Speaker 1: him go left over and over and over again, playing

1088
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:19,200
Speaker 1: that zone. And so they've come together. And I find

1089
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:22,480
Speaker 1: it interesting to talk about this Lowry market and thing

1090
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:24,960
Speaker 1: going up to the trade deadline, because he's damn good,

1091
00:50:25,120 --> 00:50:27,319
Speaker 1: didn't even have to be their leading scorer and they

1092
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:31,719
Speaker 1: get a w what route do they take. I don't

1093
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:34,479
Speaker 1: think they trade Lowry markin. I think he's a good partner.

1094
00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:37,319
Speaker 1: I think this team is good enough because I don't

1095
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:41,239
Speaker 1: think there's a bad team other than the Spurs, who

1096
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:44,279
Speaker 1: have found a little bit away taking Jeremy Sohan out

1097
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:46,839
Speaker 1: of the point guard spot and putting Malchi Brown him

1098
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:50,320
Speaker 1: in there. In terms of the Western Conference, there's not

1099
00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:54,400
Speaker 1: a bad team out there, not one. I think it's

1100
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 1: going to be tough to win against any of these teams.

1101
00:50:56,880 --> 00:50:59,560
Speaker 1: Scooty Scoot is back, Scoot Henderson playing for the Portland

1102
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:03,080
Speaker 1: Trailblade in the fourteenth spot. But look at the standings now,

1103
00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:05,399
Speaker 1: Dallas lost this game. Now they're nineteen to fifteen their

1104
00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:08,799
Speaker 1: seventh the Phoenix Suns behind them by half a game.

1105
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:13,560
Speaker 1: In eighth, they're Houston Rockets behind the Dallas Mavericks only

1106
00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:16,480
Speaker 1: a game and a half. In ninth, the Lakers are

1107
00:51:16,520 --> 00:51:20,120
Speaker 1: five hundred in eighth, and then it's the Warriors, the Jazz, yeah, tenth,

1108
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:22,320
Speaker 1: excuse me. And then then it's the Warriors, the Jazz,

1109
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:27,440
Speaker 1: the Grizzlies, and then the Blazers and Spurs. It's just

1110
00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:29,640
Speaker 1: hard to win a game. All these teams are hard,

1111
00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:32,040
Speaker 1: are coming together. It's hard to win against any Western

1112
00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:34,840
Speaker 1: Conference game. I know, you know, we've talked about the

1113
00:51:34,840 --> 00:51:38,040
Speaker 1: Detroit Bistons being bad in the Eastern Conference, but every

1114
00:51:38,080 --> 00:51:39,719
Speaker 1: team I think is starting to find their way a

1115
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:44,400
Speaker 1: little bit in the West, and even the Pistons are alive.

1116
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:47,680
Speaker 1: So all that to say, the Jazz are just a

1117
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:51,400
Speaker 1: tough team, tough team to win against. And now we

1118
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:53,640
Speaker 1: get some Jazz Pistons again. I think they play a

1119
00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:56,440
Speaker 1: Wednesday night. That's gonna be a battle. Jazz are going

1120
00:51:56,480 --> 00:51:59,120
Speaker 1: to get another way. Jazz are gonna get another win.

1121
00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:03,040
Speaker 1: They're gonna be sixteen nineteen, I think. So they've come together,

1122
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:04,759
Speaker 1: they're playing a lot harder.

1123
00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:07,480
Speaker 2: And Jordan Clarkson came off the bench to record his

1124
00:52:07,640 --> 00:52:12,480
Speaker 2: first career triple double twenty points, ten rebounds, eleven assists.

1125
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:14,839
Speaker 2: I'm sure you guys saw the clip of coach Hardy saying,

1126
00:52:15,719 --> 00:52:18,279
Speaker 2: stay in there and get that final rebound so you

1127
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:22,040
Speaker 2: can get this triple double, which he did, and I

1128
00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:24,960
Speaker 2: couldn't believe it, but it was the first regular season

1129
00:52:25,560 --> 00:52:28,240
Speaker 2: game triple double by a Jazz player since Carlos Boozer

1130
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:32,359
Speaker 2: back in two thousand and eight. That's over five thousand days.

1131
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:34,600
Speaker 4: That's incredible.

1132
00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:40,080
Speaker 2: I know, that's that's wild that Clarkson is the first

1133
00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:41,759
Speaker 2: Jazz players and Boozer and eight.

1134
00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:45,280
Speaker 4: Guess one's on, Gordon Hayward and Donovan. It's crazy, crazy.

1135
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:51,760
Speaker 4: They should have done it. Carlos Boozer, Yeah.

1136
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:55,880
Speaker 1: He had tenn assists. That's quite surprising. He likes to shoot.

1137
00:52:55,960 --> 00:52:59,000
Speaker 1: That is very surprising. Gordon Hayward, you mentioned him. He

1138
00:52:59,080 --> 00:53:02,120
Speaker 1: was on Paul George's podcast talking trash about the Boston

1139
00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:08,120
Speaker 1: Celtics team that he was podcasting. Yeah, everybody's podcasting these days.

1140
00:53:08,239 --> 00:53:11,200
Speaker 1: But yeah, I like watching the Jazz like I watched

1141
00:53:11,239 --> 00:53:13,279
Speaker 1: them last year. They looked a lot better last year,

1142
00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:14,520
Speaker 1: but they've started to come together.

1143
00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:14,799
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1144
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:17,520
Speaker 2: Well, you brought up Gordon Hayward, So let me give

1145
00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:20,280
Speaker 2: a loser of the NBA Long Weekend to the Charlotte Hornets.

1146
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:26,080
Speaker 2: I think they've secretly quietly dropped eleven consecutive games here.

1147
00:53:26,239 --> 00:53:28,520
Speaker 2: That caught me by surprise. I was like, whoa, that's

1148
00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:30,920
Speaker 2: the longest active losing streak now in the NBA by

1149
00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:34,279
Speaker 2: eight games. After the Pistons beat the Raptors, of course,

1150
00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:38,279
Speaker 2: and they are getting punked. The Hornets are on this

1151
00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:41,960
Speaker 2: post Christmas West Coast road trip. They lost to the

1152
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:44,160
Speaker 2: Clippers by nine. Okay, they lost to the Lakers by

1153
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:46,880
Speaker 2: twenty one, the Sons by fourteen, the Nuggets by eighteen.

1154
00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:51,480
Speaker 2: They're severely shorthanded Nolamelo ball for the last what fifteen

1155
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:54,880
Speaker 2: games with his ankle issue. Mark Williams has missed the

1156
00:53:54,920 --> 00:53:57,800
Speaker 2: last ten games due to a back issue, and Gordon

1157
00:53:57,840 --> 00:54:01,120
Speaker 2: Hayward and his beautiful hair has missed the last three

1158
00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:03,000
Speaker 2: games here due to a cast strain. That's why he's

1159
00:54:03,040 --> 00:54:06,440
Speaker 2: going on these podcasts. Even Terry Rozier was a scratch

1160
00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:12,000
Speaker 2: yesterday against the Nuggets due to an illness, and that

1161
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:16,000
Speaker 2: means Ish Smith got to play and start for the Hornets.

1162
00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:18,840
Speaker 2: Fourteen year vet Ish Smith. Now, it was cool he

1163
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:21,719
Speaker 2: got his ring. He was on the Denver Nuggets if

1164
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:24,360
Speaker 2: you remember so. He received his championship ring from his

1165
00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:27,960
Speaker 2: former teammates there before the game. But it was deja

1166
00:54:28,080 --> 00:54:30,919
Speaker 2: vus this Nuggets Hornets game, because the Nuggets pulled away

1167
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:34,120
Speaker 2: after halftime. They outscored the Hornets forty to seventeen in

1168
00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:36,600
Speaker 2: the third quarter. They had a twenty to two run

1169
00:54:36,880 --> 00:54:41,720
Speaker 2: to start the second half. They lost almost the exact

1170
00:54:41,719 --> 00:54:44,080
Speaker 2: same way the last time they played on December twenty third,

1171
00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:47,759
Speaker 2: when the Nuggets ripped off a thirty to nine run

1172
00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:50,080
Speaker 2: in the third quarter on way to a big win.

1173
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:52,319
Speaker 2: So just the same thing here. The Hornets ranked twenty

1174
00:54:52,360 --> 00:54:55,520
Speaker 2: sixth in offensive rating and thirtieth in defensive ratings. They're

1175
00:54:55,520 --> 00:54:58,160
Speaker 2: the worst defensive team in a league full of some

1176
00:54:58,239 --> 00:55:02,239
Speaker 2: pretty bad defensive teams. There's just no resistance from this

1177
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:05,080
Speaker 2: Hornets team defensively. Again, they're missing some key guys, but

1178
00:55:06,239 --> 00:55:09,120
Speaker 2: they their opponents have an effective field goal percentage of

1179
00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:12,879
Speaker 2: fifty seven point seven percent, and you can shoot nearly

1180
00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:15,640
Speaker 2: forty percent from three against this team or score at

1181
00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:17,359
Speaker 2: the rim. You know they give up both of those,

1182
00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:19,960
Speaker 2: pick one or the other to try and stop. So

1183
00:55:20,120 --> 00:55:22,040
Speaker 2: it's bad. I just that caught me by surprise. They

1184
00:55:22,080 --> 00:55:24,080
Speaker 2: had lost eleven straight games. I knew they were bad,

1185
00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:28,920
Speaker 2: but oh, they're they're really really yeah, they're depressing.

1186
00:55:29,320 --> 00:55:32,360
Speaker 4: Nothing interesting the Hornets right now. At least with the Pistons,

1187
00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:35,959
Speaker 4: you're like, wow, NBA history. The Spurs, they're losing eighteen straight.

1188
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:38,640
Speaker 4: You're like, at least they Gotlembon Yama. Yeah, Scooty scoot

1189
00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:41,840
Speaker 4: is back for the pace for the Blazers, you know.

1190
00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:45,560
Speaker 4: With the Hornets, with LaMelo out right now, it's just

1191
00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:47,560
Speaker 4: a slog. It's just slog.

1192
00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:49,680
Speaker 2: It feels like how many years running as we said

1193
00:55:49,719 --> 00:55:52,359
Speaker 2: this about this team though, it's just like, oh, it's

1194
00:55:52,520 --> 00:55:53,280
Speaker 2: just a slog.

1195
00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:53,640
Speaker 3: Man.

1196
00:55:54,080 --> 00:55:57,279
Speaker 2: Steve, you know, Steve Clifford's still there, like God bless them,

1197
00:55:57,680 --> 00:55:59,160
Speaker 2: trying to get them to play defense.

1198
00:55:59,239 --> 00:55:59,680
Speaker 1: But they are.

1199
00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:03,560
Speaker 2: They're tough. They're a tough watch for sure. You can

1200
00:56:03,600 --> 00:56:06,880
Speaker 2: score on them at will. So, Hornets, loser of the

1201
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:11,280
Speaker 2: NBA Long Weekend, who do we miss? Tell us winners, losers,

1202
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:13,480
Speaker 2: let us know in the stream, team, let us know

1203
00:56:13,560 --> 00:56:15,520
Speaker 2: in the comments, and tweet on us at no dunk

1204
00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:18,799
Speaker 2: sank Before we go, let's get to tweet the night.

1205
00:56:21,440 --> 00:56:23,799
Speaker 1: Tweet O the night Wow.

1206
00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:31,239
Speaker 4: To me? Yeah the tweetster. This one comes from at

1207
00:56:31,520 --> 00:56:36,080
Speaker 4: Andy Creed tweet Davidson on Twitter, who says when guys

1208
00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:38,520
Speaker 4: become deads, they're sorted into one of these four houses,

1209
00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:42,400
Speaker 4: like in Harry Potter, along with pictures of various tool bags,

1210
00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:46,440
Speaker 4: the yellow of DeWalt, the neon green of Ryobi, the

1211
00:56:46,560 --> 00:56:49,520
Speaker 4: red of Milwaukee, and the teal of Makita.

1212
00:56:49,920 --> 00:56:50,200
Speaker 1: Wow.

1213
00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:55,640
Speaker 4: Uh, Personally, I am a Ryoby power tools man, but

1214
00:56:56,160 --> 00:56:58,200
Speaker 4: a Dwault bag tools man.

1215
00:56:58,640 --> 00:57:01,720
Speaker 2: Oh wow, a little bit of both. Yeah, the sorting

1216
00:57:01,800 --> 00:57:10,080
Speaker 2: hat wasn't sure exactly the home depot sorting hat. You're

1217
00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:11,320
Speaker 2: a dad? Which one you?

1218
00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:15,320
Speaker 1: Yeah? It's funny because I think I'm also a blend

1219
00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:18,560
Speaker 1: of Ryobi and DeWalt. But I have to look up

1220
00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:21,440
Speaker 1: what my de Walts are. Maybe I don't have the Walts.

1221
00:57:21,640 --> 00:57:23,760
Speaker 1: I'm just so bad with brand names other than my

1222
00:57:24,040 --> 00:57:28,640
Speaker 1: Ryobi Drill tool Center that I have in my head

1223
00:57:29,320 --> 00:57:33,480
Speaker 1: in my garage. De Walt, there's another, there's another brand name.

1224
00:57:33,560 --> 00:57:35,960
Speaker 1: I love the four here, but I think there's a

1225
00:57:36,080 --> 00:57:38,720
Speaker 1: fifth that I'm I'm forgetting.

1226
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:41,520
Speaker 2: Who's the slytherin of this? Uh tool?

1227
00:57:43,560 --> 00:57:44,080
Speaker 1: Interesting?

1228
00:57:46,240 --> 00:57:50,160
Speaker 4: I don't know why. I don't know why Walt has

1229
00:57:50,200 --> 00:57:54,560
Speaker 4: to be hufflepuff colors match as Milwaukee and gryffindor I think,

1230
00:57:55,160 --> 00:57:57,560
Speaker 4: Plus you got the lightning bolt for you know, Harry's

1231
00:57:58,480 --> 00:58:01,240
Speaker 4: has got to be gryffindor Ryobe and Mikida. It's up

1232
00:58:01,280 --> 00:58:03,240
Speaker 4: to you which one's raven Claw, which one's Slytherin.

1233
00:58:05,440 --> 00:58:08,240
Speaker 2: I have to answer your question. I got a little

1234
00:58:08,320 --> 00:58:15,200
Speaker 2: de wault and I have Milwaukee gloves from milwa.

1235
00:58:16,720 --> 00:58:19,720
Speaker 4: If I see you with Milwaukee tools, I'm like that

1236
00:58:19,840 --> 00:58:23,360
Speaker 4: guy's all about the tools seem like the most serious

1237
00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:25,920
Speaker 4: tools to me. I don't know why. I think it's

1238
00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:28,200
Speaker 4: because j D maybe has a couple of Milwaukee tools

1239
00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:31,280
Speaker 4: around here, and anything JD does I give more credence.

1240
00:58:31,720 --> 00:58:36,400
Speaker 4: Like his movie recommendations mean more than his tool recommendations

1241
00:58:36,480 --> 00:58:39,960
Speaker 4: also mean Milwaukee around here.

1242
00:58:40,080 --> 00:58:43,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yes, I got some Milwaukee. All my outdoor

1243
00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:45,440
Speaker 1: tools are Ryote.

1244
00:58:46,120 --> 00:58:46,320
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1245
00:58:46,600 --> 00:58:48,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, like the lawnmower leap.

1246
00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:52,040
Speaker 2: You got all those big batteries, Yeah, exactly interchangeable.

1247
00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:52,360
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1248
00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:54,280
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, my buddy Grish, our buddy Grisch,

1249
00:58:54,280 --> 00:58:56,080
Speaker 2: your buddy Grish, big Ryobe.

1250
00:58:55,800 --> 00:58:59,960
Speaker 1: Guy, big ry He went all in. Yeah, they look cool.

1251
00:59:00,080 --> 00:59:03,000
Speaker 1: Then the color it just pops. That Milwaukee drill doesn't

1252
00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:04,880
Speaker 1: even look like a drill. Can we go back to

1253
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:08,439
Speaker 1: that photo I'm very confused. It looks like a joke.

1254
00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:13,120
Speaker 1: Maybe like that drill. It just looks like a you know,

1255
00:59:13,200 --> 00:59:15,640
Speaker 1: what's that thing in the middle that looks like.

1256
00:59:15,640 --> 00:59:19,240
Speaker 4: A like a jigsaw, some sort of saw. Yeah, that's

1257
00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:19,800
Speaker 4: a saw.

1258
00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:23,400
Speaker 1: Wow, looks like it. The drill has got a tongue

1259
00:59:23,440 --> 00:59:24,040
Speaker 1: sticking out of it.

1260
00:59:26,320 --> 00:59:28,720
Speaker 2: It's not real power tools.

1261
00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:31,600
Speaker 4: That's one of my New Year's resolution is to get

1262
00:59:31,600 --> 00:59:35,880
Speaker 4: a saw, oh kind of saw electric?

1263
00:59:36,080 --> 00:59:37,919
Speaker 1: Yeah, saw.

1264
00:59:38,400 --> 00:59:40,160
Speaker 4: I don't have any power saws. I only got a

1265
00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:42,560
Speaker 4: back breaking Oh yeah, that's good.

1266
00:59:43,320 --> 00:59:43,720
Speaker 1: That's a good.

1267
00:59:45,120 --> 00:59:49,960
Speaker 2: Yeah. Once a year. You tree, that's about But you

1268
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:51,320
Speaker 2: could you don't. You don't have a chainsaw.

1269
00:59:51,640 --> 00:59:53,600
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying. I could use a chainsaw or

1270
00:59:53,640 --> 00:59:55,600
Speaker 4: I really like the ones that like what they call

1271
00:59:55,640 --> 00:59:58,240
Speaker 4: a pole saw. It's like twenty feet tall. It seems

1272
00:59:58,520 --> 01:00:01,000
Speaker 4: not very useful, but to have would be cool, to

1273
01:00:01,080 --> 01:00:02,400
Speaker 4: have very long saw.

1274
01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:05,600
Speaker 2: Well, what we should do, We've said it a million times,

1275
01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:08,880
Speaker 2: is you should get all the Ryobi's, you should get

1276
01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:10,560
Speaker 2: all the golwalkies, you should get all.

1277
01:00:12,520 --> 01:00:12,720
Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Then we can just you know, not don't get don't

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Speaker 2: get every tool piece. Yeah, you just buy one. You

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Speaker 2: buy the circulator saw whatever and then we'll go from there.

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Speaker 1: It's a good call.

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Speaker 2: I'll just share them, bring them in. They just sit here.

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Speaker 2: We just leave them here.

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Speaker 4: Who needs one, Let's take it a tool.

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Speaker 1: I got an axe if you want it. But that's

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Speaker 1: what I was thinking. I was thinking it was gonna

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Speaker 1: get an electric saw as well, because I wanted to

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Speaker 1: go just freestyle into the forest and just and just

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Speaker 1: go cut. But that's what I have an axe for.

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Speaker 2: Lumber Jack, like he's the professor behind his back.

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Speaker 1: Step. Curry that one. Uh but yeah, just like an

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Speaker 1: axe instead. But anyways, electric and electric would be nice

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Speaker 1: because sawing is hard. Oh yeah, the annuals without electricity.

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Speaker 1: That's tough. That's real tough.

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Speaker 2: Great tweet. I thought you were gonna go with the whitlock.

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Speaker 2: Go check that one out. If you have it, get

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Speaker 2: in the same at what I was lasting for that tweet.

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Speaker 2: That's the cell phone on that tweet though, is Chef's kiss.

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Speaker 2: All right, we'll call it there. We will be back

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Speaker 2: here in the Classic Factory tomorrow. Uh, lady this week

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Speaker 2: maybe on drop podcast. You got we gotta do some

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Speaker 2: New Year's resolutions for some players, teams, maybe ourself in

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Speaker 2: the podcast, So start thinking about that, but enjoy the

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Speaker 2: games tonight and we'll see you here at ten am Eastern.

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Speaker 2: Hit the like button, subscribe, leave your boys five star

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Speaker 2: rating a review until then, Clipper brose, you.

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Speaker 4: Heard it here first, have a great time, turn up,

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Speaker 4: Love you guys awesome.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us, and remember all all that tweet talking.

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Speaker 1: Gotta gotta put it to the side just for a

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Speaker 1: sec and go to threads because Google was on threads

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Speaker 1: and he responding to aw that's app thread? What's app? Threaded?

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Speaker 1: The New Year is calling? Where will you be at midnight?

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Speaker 1: Watching fireworks, chatting with family, dancing the night away? Fast asleep?

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Speaker 1: Yannis responded, we got a game tomorrow, and he chose

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Speaker 1: fast asleep. Respect and respect to him taking taking care

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Speaker 1: of business, taking care of his life. Good for you,

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Speaker 1: Good for you joining threads.

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Speaker 2: Well, did you did either of you make it up

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Speaker 2: or stay up till midnight? I mean, you got kids.

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Speaker 4: Until you do that whole thing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, not sure, you're not sure.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna say you did it.

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Speaker 1: If you're not sure, Well, I was in bed, so

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Speaker 1: maybe I didn't. Maybe I didn't.

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Speaker 2: Okay, the house was asleep or in bed?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you have the power tools going oh dad's ound,

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Speaker 2: freestylingrace the people,