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Speaker 1: We got some Lakers, We got some Lakers talking about

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Speaker 1: we finally have a coach. Finally finally have a coach.

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Speaker 1: Talk a little Boston Celtics. We'll talk about the two

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Speaker 1: most important franchises in the NBA, the Lakers and the Celtics.

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Speaker 1: We don't know what's going on with one of the

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Speaker 1: we'll get in all of that, mister Burrs. How you doing, man,

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Speaker 1: Hey man, you know everything is lovely.

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Speaker 3: Man. We got heat waved going over here on the

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Speaker 3: I don't know what's going on, but you know, if

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Speaker 1: So so you'll take that heat wave over that cold

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Speaker 1: is experiencing quote unquote a heat waves, just just a

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Speaker 1: little different the Lakers. The Lakers took a little heat.

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Speaker 1: Many said, Lebron James jj Reddick just kind of out

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Speaker 1: And it took the Lakers a long time to get here.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's number one I like to hire. And

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Speaker 1: And so the Lakers don't have the fire power, they

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Speaker 1: he's going to demand respect. He's not just gonna let

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Speaker 3: And if if the if the Lakers are going through

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Speaker 3: They're going to lose, you know, four or five games

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Speaker 3: you have to consider Philly as a strong candidate. Keeping

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Speaker 3: Yan as healthy as obviously a priority for for Milwaukee

429
00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:22,159
Speaker 3: because if he's not healthy, then we're not even talking

430
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:26,240
Speaker 3: about the Milwaukee Bucks winning the winning the you know,

431
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 3: the Eastern Conference. But I think with this group of guys,

432
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:31,440
Speaker 3: they're going to keep these group of guys together. I

433
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:34,320
Speaker 3: think you're going to see shifting the NBA as far

434
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Speaker 3: as how these teams, uh.

435
00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:38,680
Speaker 1: You know, will will you.

436
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:41,840
Speaker 3: Know, decorate their rosters because you know, just sitting there

437
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:45,440
Speaker 3: watching the Boss and Celtis in the way that they waited.

438
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:49,520
Speaker 3: They share the basketball. Everybody's completely unselfish. They switch everything,

439
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:53,439
Speaker 3: They switch all the screens. On defense, everybody can guard.

440
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:56,359
Speaker 3: They don't double team anybody. And I think that's what

441
00:26:56,640 --> 00:27:00,639
Speaker 3: we do. Shift four dudes that can right defense with

442
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 3: no help. I mean, right, that's crazy. I think that's

443
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:05,680
Speaker 3: one of the things that you know you're going to

444
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:11,159
Speaker 3: see change, you know, you know with these rosters, you know,

445
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:15,000
Speaker 3: moving forward, because they play complete team basketball, man, and

446
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,679
Speaker 3: they don't do you really consider Jason Tatum to be

447
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:22,440
Speaker 3: like a real superstar of this league. I think it's

448
00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:25,719
Speaker 3: the first time where we've seen a team, uh you know,

449
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:31,280
Speaker 3: from a team standpoint, collectively, everybody having an impact on

450
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 3: the basketball game at some point in time.

451
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:34,200
Speaker 1: In every game.

452
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 3: It was Jewe Holliday one game, it was Jason Tatum

453
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:39,600
Speaker 3: one game, Ja Brown one game, Derrick White another, Al

454
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:42,760
Speaker 3: Hall for coming up knocking off threes, and obviously christat

455
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:45,480
Speaker 3: poonzingis the game that he had in Game one. Nobody

456
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:47,399
Speaker 3: expected him to come out and had the kind of

457
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 3: game that he had. But I think for the Boston Celtics,

458
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:54,560
Speaker 3: you know, being with Eddie House and how you know,

459
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 3: Brad Stevens has you know, constructed this team. They have

460
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 3: it where everybody's contract is like staggered, so they don't

461
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 3: they won't be in a situation to where they have

462
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 3: two guys like a Drew Holiday or Derek White coming

463
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 3: at a contract at the same time. You had Jyalen Brown.

464
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Speaker 3: This year is Jason Tatum. The next year is going

465
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:24,239
Speaker 3: to be uh, Derek White. Then then then it's going

466
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 3: to be uh, you know, Jaylen Brown again as far

467
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Speaker 3: as you know staying with the team. So I think

468
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 3: they've done a really good job as far as you know,

469
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Speaker 3: managing this roster and the guys that they have. They're

470
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Speaker 3: gonna keep these guys together for a long time.

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Speaker 1: I'll say this, the Celtics will once again probably have

472
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Speaker 1: the best roster in the NBA because of what I

473
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Speaker 1: said earlier, last five years, five different NBA champions, I'm

474
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Speaker 1: gonna say that Celtics won't repeat. It's hard and the

475
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 1: Bucks will be better if Jannis is healthy. The Sixers

476
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 1: will be better if and b can stay healthy, there'll

477
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 1: be a team. The Knicks will be better. They get

478
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:11,840
Speaker 1: Julius Randall and Tip stop playing forty eight minutes a game.

479
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 1: You know you're talking about run out of gas. You

480
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 1: ain't got no choice but to run out of gas

481
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 1: playing for him, he gonna empty the tank. It don't

482
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 1: matter regular season Playoffs're gonna play the whole game. And

483
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Speaker 1: so just from that perspective, I believe it will be

484
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Speaker 1: a new NBA champion. It's tough to repeat. You have

485
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 1: to have a special team and they you and you

486
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 1: got to have a lot of things go your way.

487
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:38,960
Speaker 1: You gotta have the ball bounce your way off season.

488
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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's possible, but a big congrats

489
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Speaker 1: on the Celtics winning their eighteenth NBA title. And we

490
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Speaker 1: got work to do as Lakers because now we're behind them,

491
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Speaker 1: so we got to make sure a whole lot of

492
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Speaker 1: we belong at the top. You have a lot of

493
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 1: work to do. Yeah, we got a lot of work do.

494
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 1: We'll get there. And the Bulls are they're doing some work.

495
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 1: They traded Alex Cruz, so who many in the league coveted.

496
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Speaker 1: A lot of people wanted this three in d Ability

497
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Speaker 1: trading Oklahoma City Thunder and it was weird. It was

498
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 1: just a player for player swap, which is very very

499
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Speaker 1: rare these days. Alex Caruso for Josh Giddy. That makes

500
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Speaker 1: Oklahoma City a better team because in the playoffs Giddy

501
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 1: kind of he was falling out of it. He was

502
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Speaker 1: a starter. Then they put him on the bench. And

503
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 1: you rarely see this in the NBA. A guy starts

504
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 1: off season, you're starting in the playoffs, and then the

505
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:40,480
Speaker 1: coach is like, you know what, I'm gonna bring you

506
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Speaker 1: off the bench. That's gonna make Oklahoma City better. This

507
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:47,800
Speaker 1: will give This is a good opportunity for Giddy because

508
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 1: Giddy was averaging eighteen points and some He's a playmaker.

509
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Speaker 1: But on Oklahoma City with SGA, you don't get that opportunity.

510
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Speaker 1: Him going to Chicago was good for his career. What's

511
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Speaker 1: Caruso going to Oklahoma City is great for Oklahoma City

512
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 1: because now they're trying to if you look at it,

513
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 1: they can get a big man to help out chat

514
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:12,840
Speaker 1: just just some with some size and some weight. Only

515
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 1: they are almost like Boston, where that whole lineup can

516
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Speaker 1: play defense. SGA can play defense. Jalen Oneers could play defense,

517
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 1: Caruso could play defense. Is get to the point where

518
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:28,120
Speaker 1: you start looking at Oklahoma City and they're very similar

519
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 1: to what the Boston Celtics are doing and have accomplished.

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00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 1: What do you think of the trade Caruso for Josh Getty.

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Speaker 3: I think it's great. I mean, I really do. I

522
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 3: think the Oka see they just got better defensively. You know,

523
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 3: carus who's going to score some points. He's not going

524
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 3: to be, you know, the focal point of the little offense.

525
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:55,960
Speaker 3: Everybody know who that that's SGA Pop probably should have

526
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 3: won the MVP. And I think they are taking a

527
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 3: page out of what I just said with the Boston

528
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 3: celter He's getting better on defense. They gotta find a

529
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 3: way if they can slow teams down. They have one

530
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:08,720
Speaker 3: of the best scorers in the world and that's Ja.

531
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 3: So it's a young group. Caruso is a veteran, he's

532
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 3: one of He's won World championship with the Lakers, so

533
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 3: I think he will come in and have that Drew

534
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 3: Hollway type effect on this basketball team on the defensive ends,

535
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 3: when it comes to you know, effort and competing and

536
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 3: not giving up on plays. I believe he brings that

537
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 3: same type of you know mentality to this team in

538
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 3: which they need. They young, they are going to be, uh,

539
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 3: you know, one of the top teams in the Western

540
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 3: Commerce for for some years to come. So I think

541
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 3: some of the more vetterment leadership that they can get

542
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 3: on this basketball team. I think Adas Carusso is respected

543
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 3: around the league as being one of those guys. He's gonna,

544
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 3: you know what, you know what you're going to give

545
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 3: him every single night. He's gonna come out of compete,

546
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:57,440
Speaker 3: He's gonna score some points on offense. He's gonna, you know,

547
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 3: guard guard your best offensively. And I think it's a

548
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 3: good move for you know, Okay, see, I don't know

549
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,959
Speaker 3: how it's a player to play a trade, but I think, okay,

550
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 3: see one with adding Cruiser to this roster, well.

551
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:15,720
Speaker 1: We gonna see how that plays out. But yeah, I

552
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 1: feel like Oklahoma City is a much better team. And

553
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 1: they still have a draft, and the way Sam Presty

554
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 1: is drafting guys, you just assume he gonna draft a

555
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 1: diamond and a rough and in a couple of years

556
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 1: they're gonna be like, how we miss on this guy?

557
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 1: Sam Presty just know what he's doing. We'll take a break.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back Fox Sports Radio Up on Game.

559
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Speaker 1: That's mister Plexicville Bursts. I'm TJ. Zada. Stay tuned in,

560
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Speaker 1: We'll be right back. Welcome back in to up on Game.

561
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Speaker 1: A love from Tyrek dot Com Studio. I'm TJ. Houshman Zada.

562
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Speaker 1: That's mister Plexico Burst. And before we finish this first hour,

563
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Speaker 1: man money Williams, Money Williams. I just can't signs of

564
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:16,800
Speaker 1: seventy plus million dollar contract with the Detroit Pistons. Wins

565
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:20,760
Speaker 1: fourteen games in his first season. I believe they lost

566
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 1: was it twenty seven or twenty eight games in a row?

567
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:33,800
Speaker 1: They fired him and they owe him sixty five million dollars.

568
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:39,960
Speaker 1: They owe him sixty five million dollars. So he basically

569
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 1: worked for one year and made over seventy million. I

570
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:48,359
Speaker 1: believe it was seventy eight to be exact. What are

571
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:52,400
Speaker 1: your thoughts? And once again, it's what what we were

572
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:56,279
Speaker 1: talking about earlier. I don't care how good the coach is, man,

573
00:34:56,360 --> 00:35:01,240
Speaker 1: you ain't got the players. It ain't happening. Well.

574
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Speaker 3: When Monty was fired from the Phoenix Sons, he was

575
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 3: going to take a break from coaching because his wife,

576
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 3: you know, has cancer, so he would you know, he

577
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:18,359
Speaker 3: wanted to go home and you know, tend to tend

578
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 3: to his wife and beat it for her support, and

579
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 3: you know, beat it for his wife obviously. So when

580
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:28,080
Speaker 3: the Detroit Pistons offered him the job and offered him

581
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 3: the contract, his wife said, you gotta take the job.

582
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:33,239
Speaker 1: He was like what.

583
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:36,400
Speaker 3: And that's the reason why he took the job because

584
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 3: she may said, uh uh, you can't turn on that

585
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:43,719
Speaker 3: kind of money. I know that I'm dealing with some

586
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 3: health issues, but you need to go coach this team

587
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:50,239
Speaker 3: and get this money, So listen to his wife. That's

588
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 3: what Monty Williams did. He didn't want to coach after

589
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 3: he was fired for Phoenix. So they lose twenty eight

590
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:02,760
Speaker 3: games in a row. They're the worst team in basketball.

591
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:10,319
Speaker 1: And he just can't find whatever he's looking for in

592
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:14,399
Speaker 1: his team. They just don't have it. And they've had

593
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,879
Speaker 1: top five picks for the last I don't know, six

594
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:20,799
Speaker 1: or seven years straight and they just have not been

595
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 1: able to put together a basketball team that can compete,

596
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 1: that's even a halfway decent product on a basketball court.

597
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 1: And these guys are high draft picks.

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Speaker 3: So if you're the Detroit Pistons in his organizations, if

599
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 3: you're drafting the best possible guys that are available coming

600
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:41,440
Speaker 3: out of college basketball.

601
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 1: What are they supposed to do? These guys are coming out,

602
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:47,440
Speaker 1: they're not NBA players, and when they get this, it's

603
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 1: already too late. So I don't know.

604
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 3: Maybe they need to do a better job of scouting

605
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 3: or whatever the case may be for an NBA basketball

606
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 3: team to go out there and compete. And these guys

607
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:01,239
Speaker 3: are being paid mellions of dollars and you can lose

608
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:05,760
Speaker 3: twenty eight basketball games in a row. It's not the coach.

609
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 3: The players got to take some kind of accountability of

610
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:14,800
Speaker 3: going out there and performing on the basketball court, because

611
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:18,800
Speaker 3: I don't believe I can remember anybody or any team

612
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 3: losing twenty eight games in a row in the NBA.

613
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 3: So it doesn't matter who you put out there, if

614
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:29,759
Speaker 3: they're going to put the same basketball team out there

615
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 3: that they did last year. And I think the NBA

616
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:35,240
Speaker 3: needs to be like the NFL.

617
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 1: In regards to the if you have the worst record,

618
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:44,320
Speaker 1: you get the first pick. They didn't get the first

619
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Speaker 1: They didn't get the first pick this year, so how

620
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:49,880
Speaker 1: do you expect this franchise to get better if they

621
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:51,720
Speaker 1: have the worst team in basketball?

622
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:54,839
Speaker 3: And I believe that picking fourth or fifth this year,

623
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 3: going into the NBA draft, maybe they can find, you know,

624
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:04,840
Speaker 3: somebody that can come in and lift this organization. Because

625
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:08,480
Speaker 3: of right now, the guys that they have drafted and

626
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:12,760
Speaker 3: who have been the best available basketball players in the world,

627
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:17,280
Speaker 3: they have not panned out to being good NBA players.

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00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is once again, you don't have the players,

629
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 1: it's hard to win. And when you look at the drafts,

630
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:29,920
Speaker 1: because again it's your scouts and your assistant coaches. The scouts, okay,

631
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 1: we should draft this kid. This is the coaches really

632
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 1: develop them. That player development is important. You go to

633
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:39,840
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, they draft Killian Hayes. Where he at now plex,

634
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 1: where he at? Killian as where he at nobody knows,

635
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 1: So that was a waste to pick. The next year,

636
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 1: they draft k Cunningham with the first pick. He's a

637
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:56,400
Speaker 1: good player. Twenty two J Nivey solid player. Last year

638
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 1: Asar Thompson the jury is still out. You don't know,

639
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 1: but he looks to be someone that you can build

640
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 1: I don't know if you can build around, but he's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a solid rotational player in the league. But

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Speaker 1: it's what you said. You have all these picks in

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Speaker 1: the top five. Killian Hayes was the seventh pick. You

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Speaker 1: have yet to hit on one of them to where

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Speaker 1: it's like he's the best player on the team. Many

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Speaker 1: will say that's Kid Cunningham, but you don't know. You

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Speaker 1: don't know, and so it doesn't matter if it's mine.

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Speaker 1: Williams pat Riley from the eighties with the Lakers in nineties, like,

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Speaker 1: if you don't have good players in good player development,

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Speaker 1: it is hard to win. But man, can you imagine

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Speaker 1: being on that Detroit Piston team and losing twenty eight

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Speaker 1: games in a row twenty one They drafted Luca Goalzen,

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Speaker 1: he was the best college playing basketball. Yeah, man, it is.

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Speaker 3: Then you get Jay Navey, you can get them from Purdue,

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Speaker 3: and you draft Marcus Afster, the punk god from the

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Speaker 3: University of Houston. I'm thinking you coming too the league

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Speaker 3: and take off and yeah happened. Get somebody to develop talent.

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