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Speaker 3: This is and this is stupidity. Here we go jump aladly.

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Speaker 3: All right, welcome into stupidity. Billy, I have an interesting question,

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Speaker 3: really for you and then for Mikeya, because my feeling

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Speaker 3: of a hockey playoff run at an NBA playoff run

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Speaker 3: at the same exact time, but we are annoying the

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Speaker 3: rest of the country. And so Billy I asked you,

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Speaker 3: are you enjoying this run kind of taken away from

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Speaker 3: the Marlins who have won six of ten playing pretty

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Speaker 3: Do you love this run, and how do you think

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Speaker 3: the rest of the country is experiencing this run? And

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Speaker 3: then we'll get to Mikeya, because I feel like we're

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Speaker 3: annoying the hell out of Mikeya and everyone else's show

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Speaker 3: went particular Mikey a the rest of the country. I

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Speaker 2: Okay, by the way, we're just cutting straight to the

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Speaker 3: Huh.

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Speaker 2: None of the biggest podcasts in the world business thanks

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Speaker 2: to you, presented right drafting. Yeah, you took all of

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Speaker 2: that out. You just skipped right past all of that.

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Speaker 2: This week we have kind of nailing it in. I mean, oh, okay, well,

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Speaker 3: Would you to do the whole open again, none in

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Speaker 2: I mean, you did it last week. I think it's fine.

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Speaker 3: That's because I was left to my own devices. That's what.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's we don't need to get into that. But

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Speaker 2: here's the thing I wouldn't say if I was you,

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't say I'm mailing it in. I'd say, we

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Speaker 2: to do all the pleasantries and all the biggest podcasts

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Speaker 2: You know what I mean.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Welcome in to another episode of Stupotty, the biggest

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Speaker 3: Do it again? Do it? No? Yeah, Lord knows I

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Speaker 3: needed all right, Billy. Back to the question I asked

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Speaker 3: you beforehand.

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Speaker 2: Well, I got no. I do I know your question.

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Speaker 2: But I'm also I have a question for you. And

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Speaker 2: I would think maybe the next week or the week after,

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Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Yeah, you want me to

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 2: I think I told you who it was already. It

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Speaker 2: doesn't matter, but I do wonder today. Okay, Well, would

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Speaker 2: Barklay it's not, but you're really really close to who

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Speaker 2: Definitely not Shack. I don't think two.

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Speaker 2: No, well now the jet Yeah, now, well you've named

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Speaker 2: Who are you even flexing for with that?

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Speaker 2: Who are you even joining?

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Speaker 3: He was a guest on Stupidity, he was just elected.

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Speaker 3: He was just billy. He's going to the birth of

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Speaker 3: the Basketball Hall of Fame. He's a legend, man alter j.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's Ernie. Ernie sitting in your seat right now.

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Speaker 2: Well, okay, so like I could be like, who do

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Speaker 3: Ernie's But Ernie is smelling me right now, and that

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Speaker 2: No, man, I'm telling you, he's a pro. He looks

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Speaker 3: Well hes for me, That's what I mean.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he he walked in. When he walked into the studio,

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Speaker 2: No, you know, you'd be stuff if Dan was speaking

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna I can hear that interview, you know, I'm gonna.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I'm gonna go out after this and I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: The first time Koogs booked someone and out affiliated with

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Speaker 3: Let's go Coog's. I guess your book and just happened

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Speaker 2: That's not fair. EJ's here today, but he's he's across

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Butj's in town right.

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Speaker 2: Someone saw him a McDonald's downstairs and they asked him

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Speaker 3: We have McDonald's downstairs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's one like a building over a thing.

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Speaker 2: I'm a drive through guy, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 3: Any food shows up, you don't like that. I mean,

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Speaker 2: Whatever happened to human human interaction? Mikey, you know what

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Speaker 2: I mean. That's a good point anyway. So is America

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Speaker 3: I forget it. We passed on that. Tim Legler is

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Are we annoying the hell out of the rest of

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Speaker 5: The problem is the problem is you keep winning and

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Speaker 6: Those two teams are, but then they just keep winning

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Speaker 3: I gotta tell you, Billy. In the last couple of months,

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Speaker 3: we have had two teams in the NCAA tournament Final four.

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Speaker 3: One women's team went to the final four as well,

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Speaker 3: the PGA champion and it was born in West Palm Beach.

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Speaker 3: We have the heat up three to zero. We have

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Speaker 3: the Panthers up, we own sports. I mean, is that Florida?

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Speaker 2: What I will say this, by the way, the women

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Speaker 2: I think made it to the Elite eight and not

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Speaker 2: here's the thing that's gonna sound like super ungrateful. And

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Speaker 2: I don't mean it to be like ungrateful or spoiled

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Speaker 2: or Brady or whatever, but like.

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Speaker 5: You're gonna go full Boston on us.

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Speaker 2: How about a little less sports, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: Like it's to every night we're up until one in

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Speaker 2: the morning watching these games. How about a night off?

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Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Like why do we have

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Speaker 2: to watch the Eastern Conference finals every single night? In

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's how the schedule and that's because we're in

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Speaker 3: them usually. You're right, we're not accustomed to talking sports

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Speaker 3: this late on the calendar.

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Speaker 2: It's not that it's the staying up, it's the watching.

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Speaker 2: It's the carrying. Like I was programming myself to not

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Well, the Panthers have done that to us. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I can't imagine why we hate you guys right now?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, out the heat. Yeah, we've always had the heat.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 3: We have another playoff game tonight, might and we might.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, they're doing the whole. Yeah, come out here. We

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Speaker 2: Why do you guys still at the airport? I don't

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Speaker 5: These people buy it? Because but who's.

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Speaker 2: Well, because I didn't think I didn't think that we

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Speaker 3: So as you do the whale of a job.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. So do you root for or against the Hurricanes?

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Speaker 5: Mikey me, I'm not from Connecticut.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean like presumably if you were like a

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Speaker 8: Anyway, Carolina Hurricane, I know around here it's it's very divided.

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Speaker 5: They hate that the whalers left.

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Speaker 5: As if your life wasn't bad enough.

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Speaker 3: Mikey a mentioned no one wants to go to Connecticut,

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Speaker 4: My pleasure, my pleasure. His playoffs have bit something Melee. Guys,

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Speaker 3: What's amazing to be it is amazing. What's also amazing

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I know, I hear you. You know it's

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Speaker 4: if you really truly love hoops, you're not gonna mind

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Speaker 4: it because Jokicic is just incredible, one of a kind

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Speaker 2: Knowing that you have a bunch of hits scheduled, I

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Speaker 4: To be honest with you, when I get to this

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Speaker 4: Like I would find it more likely for the Lakers

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Speaker 3: Totally a great legs. Let's stay with the Heat and

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Speaker 3: the Eastern Conference Finals. What were your thoughts and just

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Speaker 3: What were your thoughts of Jimmy Butler as a player

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Speaker 4: Foto. My thoughts to Jimmy Butler were probably he was

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Speaker 4: I respected. I really liked about Jimmy Butler was I

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Speaker 3: Okay, so what the hell has happened? Because now Jimmy

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Speaker 4: There's no bs about Eric spolser. Players appreciate that. But

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Speaker 4: a game. I didn't see it coming, so, but I

442
00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:09,359
Speaker 4: do believe that if you had to put your thumb

443
00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:11,879
Speaker 4: on it, it would be that relationship between he and

444
00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:15,360
Speaker 4: ericxpos and respect level that he has for him has

445
00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:17,919
Speaker 4: forced him to challenge himself to be this great.

446
00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:20,640
Speaker 2: How incredible do you think it is that we've seen

447
00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:22,920
Speaker 2: I guess the Heat role players stepping up the way

448
00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:25,800
Speaker 2: that they have because I believe I saw the stat

449
00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:28,520
Speaker 2: that the highest drafted player on the Heat's roster is

450
00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:31,920
Speaker 2: Cody Zeller, who was drafted in twenty thirteen. So they've

451
00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:34,240
Speaker 2: kind of just put this together with a mass unit.

452
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's crazy. Look, it's Eric Sposa's greatest quality as

453
00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,680
Speaker 4: a coach. Well, I'd say two greatest one. I've already

454
00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:44,960
Speaker 4: mentioned the details. What I mean by that is there,

455
00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:46,960
Speaker 4: believe it or not. Even at the NBA level. It's

456
00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:48,920
Speaker 4: not like every guy that's running a team, that's coaching

457
00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:51,000
Speaker 4: a team, is seeing all ten players at the same

458
00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:54,919
Speaker 4: time and can absolutely process everything that's going on. With

459
00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,119
Speaker 4: all ten guys to know that this is the appropriate

460
00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:00,639
Speaker 4: angle of the screen, This is the I'm on the

461
00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:04,720
Speaker 4: ball reversal, Right, Little things like that that make all

462
00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:08,640
Speaker 4: the difference in execution. Eric's sposor sees it all happening

463
00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:12,200
Speaker 4: in real time, and he's processing things at a faster

464
00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:15,200
Speaker 4: rate than the guys he's coaching. Again, so that's that's

465
00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:17,840
Speaker 4: probably his greatest quality because that is just, I think

466
00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:20,600
Speaker 4: something that a lot of that is innate. He's born

467
00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:23,240
Speaker 4: with a mind like that and then just years of

468
00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:25,679
Speaker 4: honing it at this level. But the other thing he

469
00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:31,200
Speaker 4: does better than anybody else. He takes guys role players,

470
00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:33,920
Speaker 4: and he looks at what they do well. Because every

471
00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,880
Speaker 4: player outside of your top guys, the stars, because they're

472
00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:38,520
Speaker 4: supposed to be able to do a little bit of

473
00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:41,560
Speaker 4: everything right the everybody else in the NBA. I was

474
00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:43,840
Speaker 4: one of these guys. You have a lane that you

475
00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:47,879
Speaker 4: stay in, you better do something exceptionally well. Whether it's rebounds,

476
00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:49,880
Speaker 4: you know, whether you're your point guard, he can run

477
00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:53,000
Speaker 4: a team, a shooter, whatever it may be. You better

478
00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:55,520
Speaker 4: do something at an elite level to find minutes on

479
00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:59,520
Speaker 4: an NBA roster case, everybody's got their lane. He looks

480
00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:02,240
Speaker 4: at what you do and knows that there are franks

481
00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:05,280
Speaker 4: and there are weaknesses. His job is to value you

482
00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:08,360
Speaker 4: for what you do, utilize you for that, to help

483
00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:11,320
Speaker 4: the team, empower you to do it, give you confidence

484
00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:13,520
Speaker 4: to do it, and then he looks at it like

485
00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:17,360
Speaker 4: it's his job to protect you from your weaknesses. If

486
00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:19,119
Speaker 4: you're not a guy that's got a great handle and

487
00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:21,520
Speaker 4: you don't handle ball well against pressure, he's going to

488
00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:23,000
Speaker 4: figure out a way to make sure when you're on

489
00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:24,720
Speaker 4: the court you don't have to do those things. If

490
00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:27,120
Speaker 4: you're not a great defender, he's going to make sure

491
00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:29,720
Speaker 4: you're not hung out on an island to guard guys

492
00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:32,680
Speaker 4: and then focus on the negative aspects of your game.

493
00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:34,520
Speaker 4: And believe it or not, there are too many coaches,

494
00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:38,760
Speaker 4: not just in the NBA college basketball, AAU high school

495
00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:42,520
Speaker 4: coaches that dwell on what you don't do well, and

496
00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:45,280
Speaker 4: they're going to look for an excuse of why that

497
00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:48,040
Speaker 4: gives them insecurity and why they can play you because

498
00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:51,040
Speaker 4: that's what they're focusing on. Eric spos is the exact opposite.

499
00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:53,240
Speaker 4: I'm going to focus on what you do well and

500
00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:55,280
Speaker 4: we are going to utilize that. And now We're going

501
00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:58,040
Speaker 4: to figure out a way that you're not for your

502
00:22:58,080 --> 00:22:59,720
Speaker 4: weaknesses and that's what you do.

503
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Speaker 2: Is this his best coaching job because before he's had

504
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,919
Speaker 2: obviously superstars on his team, So it's easy to overlook

505
00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,879
Speaker 2: him as a coach when he's coaching Lebron, Dwayne Wade,

506
00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:13,680
Speaker 2: Chris Bosh. You know, it's Jimmy who's having an incredible postseason.

507
00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:15,600
Speaker 2: But this his best coaching job.

508
00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:19,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think every year's kind of like that.

509
00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:21,080
Speaker 4: I started saying this guy was a top five coach,

510
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:24,119
Speaker 4: you know, back in the days he was at Miami,

511
00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:28,159
Speaker 4: because I always understood watching them play, the imprint that

512
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:31,399
Speaker 4: he had on the way they played offensively and you know,

513
00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:34,520
Speaker 4: the cuts of the ball movement that was him. Yeah,

514
00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:36,360
Speaker 4: you had great talent, but you have to get those

515
00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:38,560
Speaker 4: guys to play a certain style of that you're gonna

516
00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:40,840
Speaker 4: win with. So I always recognized in him early on,

517
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:42,720
Speaker 4: and I coming down there in the summers a few

518
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:44,400
Speaker 4: years in a row, I was working at Dwayne Made

519
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:46,439
Speaker 4: Fantasy camp and Eric was always there and I got

520
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:48,639
Speaker 4: a chance to kind of just talk with him, but

521
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:51,399
Speaker 4: casually just picked his brain and just talk about stuff,

522
00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:53,639
Speaker 4: and you're like, man, this guy's just so sharp. So

523
00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:55,879
Speaker 4: I've always felt he's a great coach. But yeah, this

524
00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:58,480
Speaker 4: will be a job in which he'll get that kind

525
00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:01,040
Speaker 4: of credit because look for they came from. Look at

526
00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:05,080
Speaker 4: their regular season, and look at how they barely, you know,

527
00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:07,560
Speaker 4: eke their way through to get into a best of

528
00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:12,600
Speaker 4: seven series, and boom, you take out the number one seed.

529
00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:16,360
Speaker 4: You're about to take out the number two seed. And

530
00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:19,280
Speaker 4: you also, you know, in the meantime, get a team

531
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Speaker 4: that was I thought gonna you know, give them fits

532
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:24,280
Speaker 4: in New York because of the year they had, how

533
00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:27,080
Speaker 4: physical they were, and you're going to dispatch these teams

534
00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:29,639
Speaker 4: and you know, get me playing for an NBA championship.

535
00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:31,920
Speaker 4: So there, you're not going to get me to argue

536
00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,119
Speaker 4: with you if you say this is the best coaching

537
00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,280
Speaker 4: job of his career. I just think we don't want

538
00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:38,760
Speaker 4: to short change other years that he hasn't led to

539
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:40,840
Speaker 4: a finals appearance. Because the guy's just the great coach

540
00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:42,000
Speaker 4: period legs.

541
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Speaker 3: I'm glad he's finally getting his due because he lives

542
00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:47,280
Speaker 3: underneath the shadow of an all time great Hall of

543
00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:49,760
Speaker 3: Famer and pat Riley. So I am wondering here, I'm

544
00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:53,240
Speaker 3: not in a hypothetical world. I am certainly not trying

545
00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:56,080
Speaker 3: to kick Eric's foulsterra out of town because we love

546
00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:59,719
Speaker 3: him and he's fantastic. But if he decided he won

547
00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:02,880
Speaker 3: the it out from underneath of pat Riley and said

548
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:05,840
Speaker 3: I want to go elsewhere, would he be number one

549
00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:09,040
Speaker 3: on everyone's coaching list right now? Because there are some

550
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:11,200
Speaker 3: plum jobs open right now, as you.

551
00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:16,840
Speaker 4: Know well, without question, without question, And look, the league

552
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:21,320
Speaker 4: has never seen three jobs the caliber of which are

553
00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:23,440
Speaker 4: open right now at the same time. And I'm talking

554
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:25,880
Speaker 4: about the talent at the top of these rosters. You've

555
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:29,199
Speaker 4: got a team right now with Gianna Santetekupo on it

556
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:31,800
Speaker 4: that's open. You've got a team with Kevin Durant and

557
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:36,919
Speaker 4: Devin Booker that's open. Right. You've got these jobs that

558
00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:40,760
Speaker 4: are ready to win now. Philadelphia's got the current MVP

559
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:44,120
Speaker 4: and James Harden on it. Anti respect like, you've never

560
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:47,080
Speaker 4: seen jobs like this open at the same time. So

561
00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:49,960
Speaker 4: if he chose it, there is no question in my mind.

562
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,320
Speaker 4: And look, I don't think anybody thinks that some part

563
00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:56,119
Speaker 4: of me thinks that Eric Sposa is just one of

564
00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:59,160
Speaker 4: those guys that will spend his entire life with one organization.

565
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 4: Just see was like, that's what he wants to do. Look,

566
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:06,160
Speaker 4: I know that, you know, I'm not gonna be surprised

567
00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:09,080
Speaker 4: by anything and decisions that people make at the at

568
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 4: a given time, I'd be shocked. But if Eric Spolsa,

569
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:14,399
Speaker 4: you know, none of these jobs were filled and the

570
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,719
Speaker 4: Heat you know, won or lost the NBA Finals regardless

571
00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:20,439
Speaker 4: the next day, if Eric Polster made it clear that

572
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:22,240
Speaker 4: he was looking, he'd be the first guy hired.

573
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Speaker 3: I think the Celtics would fire Joe Mizzula to get

574
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:26,280
Speaker 3: Eric Spolser, don't you.

575
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Speaker 4: I think I think that the Celtics would would would

576
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:34,160
Speaker 4: would like they'd make that trade right now, like right

577
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:36,879
Speaker 4: before the game, like he was just see Eric Bolster

578
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:40,680
Speaker 4: walk down, you know, put on the Celtics years the

579
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:43,680
Speaker 4: question of mind and look, look, Miszola's going to get

580
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:49,040
Speaker 4: beat up probably disproportionately right now because look, and you're

581
00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:51,920
Speaker 4: in start contrast to the guy you're going up again.

582
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:55,680
Speaker 4: But also look, this was a young guy throwing it

583
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:57,399
Speaker 4: to a tough situation at the start of the year,

584
00:26:57,440 --> 00:26:58,920
Speaker 4: getting that team and went to the finals, and that

585
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:02,720
Speaker 4: you're the head coach under controversial circumstances. Here you go.

586
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 4: They're expecting win the title this year, and it was

587
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:08,040
Speaker 4: great for the first two three months. There was very

588
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 4: little pressure. They looked like a team that was destined

589
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 4: to win a championship this year. They were heading shoulders

590
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:14,880
Speaker 4: the best team in the league in the first two

591
00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:16,639
Speaker 4: and a half months of the season. It's been a

592
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:19,040
Speaker 4: rocky road ever since, and they have had some real

593
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,560
Speaker 4: head scratching moments in the postseason in each series. And

594
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:29,159
Speaker 4: now he's just getting obviously blasted in Boston with with talk, radio, print, media,

595
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:32,399
Speaker 4: fan base, you name it. They are they are. They're

596
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:35,239
Speaker 4: going at him hard, and it certainly doesn't help when

597
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 4: you got a chance to win a game and get

598
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,040
Speaker 4: into a series and they get beat the way that

599
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:43,119
Speaker 4: they did last night, because they were dismantled from start

600
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:46,159
Speaker 4: to finish in that game. And like I said earlier,

601
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,480
Speaker 4: I don't see belief in their eyes. I just they

602
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:51,679
Speaker 4: had they had that blank stare expression on their face.

603
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:56,440
Speaker 4: The two star players played horribly and just all the

604
00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:59,919
Speaker 4: way across that roster, they looked like an absolutely beaten

605
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,399
Speaker 4: team that just had their heart taken from them. And

606
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:04,640
Speaker 4: when if they continue that for another game in Game

607
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:07,639
Speaker 4: four and they lose another one decisively. That's the taste

608
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:09,440
Speaker 4: you get at the end of this year. I don't

609
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 4: think there's anything that's safe right now. Even a guy

610
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:15,720
Speaker 4: that they gave a ringing endorsement to midseason. I think

611
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:17,359
Speaker 4: they were revisiting that as we speak.

612
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:19,240
Speaker 3: He's not going to make it, Like if they get

613
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:21,840
Speaker 3: swept there, he's not going to make it. There's no way, right, Yeah.

614
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:24,600
Speaker 4: It doesn't. It doesn't look like it because you got

615
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 4: other things going on with that team as well, Like

616
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:29,760
Speaker 4: it's not just the fact, oh they got outplayed. This

617
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,920
Speaker 4: doesn't look like the same team that you saw a

618
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 4: year ago in the finals, you saw earlier in the year,

619
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:36,680
Speaker 4: which is a lot of ways you think about it.

620
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 4: The first half of the season, he didn't touch much

621
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 4: and it was just like an extension of lost in

622
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 4: the finals. Usually those teams in the Shosho, when they've

623
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:47,680
Speaker 4: got youth and stars, they come out of that and

624
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:50,080
Speaker 4: they're just kind of they're so hungry at the start

625
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 4: of the year because they're disappointed they had a taste,

626
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:54,960
Speaker 4: they didn't get it done. They think this is their year.

627
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,840
Speaker 4: They come sprinting out of the gate. Well after you've

628
00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:00,000
Speaker 4: been with a team calling the shots for a few

629
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 4: months now, it really starts to permeate who you are

630
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,080
Speaker 4: as a head coach coming out in your team every night.

631
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:09,440
Speaker 4: And since that point in the season, this has been disappointing.

632
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:13,000
Speaker 4: And if they get swept by a Heat team that

633
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 4: was an eight seed, when you think you're gonna win

634
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 4: a championship and the bucks have been taken out for you,

635
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,240
Speaker 4: you don't even have to deal with the Bucks anymore

636
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 4: now you now you're gonna have serious question marks about

637
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 4: is it just too much for him? Is the job

638
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 4: too big for him with this particular group, despite the

639
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 4: fact he's obviously very sharp, very respected in NBA circles

640
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 4: and if this, if that were to happen, he will

641
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 4: get another head coaching job. But people might just deem

642
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:42,200
Speaker 4: this particular job a little bit too big for him.

643
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 3: Belly, I don't know how you feel about this, but

644
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 3: it seems like Spoe stock will never be higher.

645
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:49,320
Speaker 2: I mean, what do you what do you think you

646
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:51,720
Speaker 2: can get legs on the open marketspo.

647
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 4: Whatever he wants, yeah, pretty much, whatever, whatever, whatever the

648
00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:58,600
Speaker 4: top dollar is going to anybody out there, because think

649
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:00,440
Speaker 4: about it, I don't know if the gonna win a

650
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,480
Speaker 4: championship or not. I have a feeling Denver would be

651
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 4: favored in that series. You know, maybe they maybe they

652
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 4: come up a little bit short, but look, look at

653
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 4: now what this guy has done, look at his career,

654
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 4: at his resume, and getting a chance to do this again.

655
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 4: Because this group, you got three undrafted players that outscored

656
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 4: the Celtics two stars last night. I mean that's coaching.

657
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 4: That is coaching, and that's individual league guys wanting to

658
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 4: get better and working on their games. Due still give

659
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:28,600
Speaker 4: those guys that Gabe Vincent, you know, a lot of credit,

660
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 4: Martin Duncan Robinson, give those guys credit for where they

661
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,120
Speaker 4: came from and wanting it and fighting through. But there's

662
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 4: no questions, it's a reflection of coaching to get those

663
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 4: kind of contributions out of this roster. So yeah, name

664
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 4: it whatever that whatever the top figure is in the league.

665
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:47,920
Speaker 4: Just tackling a million per year, Eric expulsive.

666
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 3: Billy's coming around. I could see it tack on a

667
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 3: million extra exposure. Tim Wegler is with us legs. Can

668
00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:58,080
Speaker 3: you explain to us my wife walks around the house

669
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 3: with the Western Conference finals are on. She refuses to

670
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 3: believe Nicola Jokis is the best player in the NBA.

671
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 3: What can you explain to people just how great this

672
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 3: man is.

673
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 4: That's hard, man, It is hard. And there's times I

674
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 4: watched this guy and say, is there is there some

675
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 4: reason why we don't just all universally accept that this

676
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 4: is the best player in the NBA. Like every every

677
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 4: day this debate comes up, and we're always looking for

678
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 4: a reason to say it's someone else. No, it's be honest,

679
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 4: it's you know, it's it's Curry, it's Lebron, it's k

680
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:38,280
Speaker 4: D whoever take your pick and be this year with

681
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 4: the MVP because athletically they can do things that he can't.

682
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 4: But what what what he what he is doing right now?

683
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 4: The way that he is controlling the game is really

684
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 4: unlike anything we've ever seen in his spot for a

685
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 4: big guy to control the game the way he does

686
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:57,320
Speaker 4: with his passing, his rebounding, his scorning, and his he's

687
00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:00,040
Speaker 4: to me, he's a lot like Compare him if I

688
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 4: could cross sports to like a Wayne Gretzky type in

689
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 4: that he always felt like when you're watching Gretzky, you know,

690
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 4: hockey's a fast sport and there's all kinds of stuff

691
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 4: going on. It's very chaotic who you watch the game,

692
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 4: and it just felt like Wayne Gretzky was seeing everything

693
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 4: significantly ahead of what everybody else in the court was.

694
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 4: And that's kind of what Yokic is doing. The way

695
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 4: that he reads the floor and his IQ for the

696
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 4: game and then having the size to be able to

697
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,520
Speaker 4: make any pass on the court. That's what gives him

698
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 4: such an advantage because it's one thing to see it,

699
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 4: but if you're a six or two guard and you

700
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 4: see the game exactly the same way Yoki does, doesn't

701
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 4: mean you can get the ball where it needs to

702
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:45,480
Speaker 4: because there's too many long arms in the way and

703
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 4: it's difficult to get the right angle or the right

704
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 4: velocity on a ball. He doesn't have that issue because

705
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 4: he's six', eleven so he can get the ball anywhere

706
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 4: he needs, to exactly when it needs to be, delivered

707
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 4: and he is seeing exactly where it needs to, go

708
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 4: and he reads that almost, flawlessly and that is what

709
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 4: is so brilliant about the guy to. Watch you can't

710
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,880
Speaker 4: speed him. Up he's obviously stronger than he, looks despite

711
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 4: the fact that he doesn't have one ounce of muscle

712
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:14,240
Speaker 4: definition on his. Body he's clearly stronger than he looks

713
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 4: because he's fairly immovable on both. Glasses and even when

714
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 4: he backs the guy, down he gets where he wants

715
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:21,920
Speaker 4: to and he's Got the last part of it is

716
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:26,360
Speaker 4: he's got just an insane touch for a guy that,

717
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:29,320
Speaker 4: big how soft his ball is up on the glass

718
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 4: or on the, backboard on the rim is just. Incredible

719
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:34,760
Speaker 4: you can't teach. It it's something he was born. With

720
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 4: and Give devra all the credit the world, man because

721
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 4: they drafted this guy in the second round and they

722
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:41,719
Speaker 4: had no idea what they were, getting but they had

723
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 4: to have some inkling that they thought he could be pretty.

724
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:45,920
Speaker 4: Good and look what he has turned into. There so,

725
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 4: yeah just the joy, it joy. IT i get the same.

726
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 4: Questions my own family asked me that. Too my, daughter

727
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 4: who played college shops he's like, that wait a, minute

728
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 4: always calls him Dad, bod his Dad, bod and they

729
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 4: still they still, play and they still a lot in the,

730
00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 4: playoffs because that's that's kind of what looks. Like people

731
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 4: can relate to him, athletically and he's special, man he's specially.

732
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 4: Fun we're lucky the league is lucky to have a

733
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:08,799
Speaker 4: guy like that because he is just so fun to.

734
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,880
Speaker 3: Watch Cody zellawa's drafted a full round ahead of. HIM i,

735
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,439
Speaker 3: mean this is. Amazing what the hello are we? Doing

736
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 3: two quick, Things legs and we'll get you out of.

737
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:20,880
Speaker 3: Here Carmelo anthony retires. Today sum up his career FOR

738
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 3: Us LEGS a guy who great, scorer never won a.

739
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 3: Title not certain he met the expectations we had for,

740
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:30,880
Speaker 3: him but also not certain the expectations weren't unfair To Carmelo.

741
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 3: Anthony so how would you sum up his? Career obviously

742
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:34,400
Speaker 3: go into The hall Of?

743
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 4: Fame, yeah, YEAH i. AGREE i think, ultimately for a

744
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 4: guy that is on that level coming out and then

745
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:42,879
Speaker 4: puts up those kind of, numbers you're, in you're. Out

746
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:45,400
Speaker 4: ultimately you're going to be judged by were you the

747
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:47,920
Speaker 4: best player on a team that won a? Championship? Right

748
00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 4: and that's unfortunately going to be the standard by which he's.

749
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:53,880
Speaker 4: COMPARED i think he's going to go down in most people's.

750
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:56,200
Speaker 4: Mind the way you're going to view him is as a.

751
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 4: Scorer and there's been a lot of those guys in

752
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:01,359
Speaker 4: the league that have played and that was primary role

753
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 4: on teams and was to go get, buckets and he

754
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,319
Speaker 4: did it as well as any player in his. Generation but,

755
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 4: ultimately it takes more than that if you're the best

756
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:11,919
Speaker 4: player on the team to win a. Championship and that's

757
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:13,799
Speaker 4: where he came up a little bit. Short there is

758
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 4: one THING i feel bad For, Carlo carmel And anthony.

759
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:19,880
Speaker 4: About there was a stage of his career that should

760
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 4: have come next that he didn't. Get and that is

761
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 4: WHAT i mean by. That when he left The, knicks

762
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 4: you AND i start bouncing around From Oklahoma city And.

763
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 4: Houston he's going making these. Stops he wasn't really ever

764
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:35,320
Speaker 4: allowed to be, himself but just in a more limited

765
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:38,720
Speaker 4: number of, minutes, right he wasn't He they were asking

766
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:42,759
Speaker 4: him to be a pick and pop, player stand on

767
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:47,319
Speaker 4: the perimeter and spot up around great offensive. Players that's

768
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:50,400
Speaker 4: not Who Carmela anthony. Is and now you're gonna get

769
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 4: a guy that's. Unhappy you're gonna get a guy with

770
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:54,799
Speaker 4: the ministry. Turns you're gonna get a guy that's not

771
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 4: very efficient at all because he's not like a pure

772
00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:59,480
Speaker 4: catch and shoot. Shooter he's a rhythm. Player AND i

773
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:02,319
Speaker 4: felt like because of his age and what he could still.

774
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 4: DO i felt like there was a role for him

775
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 4: if you would have accepted. It twenty five minutes a

776
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 4: night off the bench and go get. Eighteen but while

777
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:10,799
Speaker 4: you're out, there we're gonna let you be. Mellow you

778
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 4: just play the way you've always, played because our team eat.

779
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:16,240
Speaker 4: That but we can't have you out there for thirty

780
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:19,239
Speaker 4: eight minutes playing like that because that's not running our

781
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 4: offense through. You but in twenty twenty five minutes a

782
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:26,320
Speaker 4: night with a second unit mostly you have tremendous value

783
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 4: on a really good. Team AND i felt like that

784
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:31,319
Speaker 4: that role was skipped over and they just sent him

785
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 4: to stand around spot up when he still had a

786
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:36,400
Speaker 4: lot more to do. Offensively SO i actually felt sorry

787
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:38,719
Speaker 4: for him in some of that. Stops.

788
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:41,959
Speaker 3: Tim last thing, here we HAD Jj reddick on the show.

789
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,480
Speaker 3: Today we've had some fun WITH Jj redick because you,

790
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:47,920
Speaker 3: know he goes on first take and he likes to

791
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 3: tell you That Steph curry was better Than Larry. BURDEN

792
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,280
Speaker 3: i don't doubt like he was okay or he. Is Steph,

793
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 3: curry the modern day player is better than the guy that,

794
00:36:56,239 --> 00:37:00,400
Speaker 3: played you, know twenty thirty years. Ago Tim legler is

795
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 3: a sharp, shooter a, sniper one of the great shooters

796
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 3: we've ever seen in THE nba won THE nba three Point.

797
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:10,360
Speaker 3: Contest so we like to play a little game to. Me,

798
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 3: okay it's called shot for your. Life, okay your life

799
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:17,399
Speaker 3: is depending on whether or not this ball goes, in

800
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:20,319
Speaker 3: and you only have two choices as to who could

801
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:23,720
Speaker 3: take the, shot and one of those choices is not. You, Okay,

802
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:28,879
Speaker 3: legler you only have two reddick or bird shot for your?

803
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:29,800
Speaker 3: Life who you.

804
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 4: Taken i'm taking, bird But i'm. Not, Yea i'm taking.

805
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:39,359
Speaker 4: BIRD i. WAS i was BECAUSE i thought you were

806
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:43,279
Speaker 4: gonna say me for somebody. Else And i'm always gonna take. Me,

807
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:46,400
Speaker 4: yes BECAUSE i Know i'm invested in my own life

808
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 4: more than any other person that's gonna take that.

809
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:51,480
Speaker 3: Shot you're gonna try harder to make it the bird will.

810
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 4: Right i'm gonna care a little bit more LIKE i don't.

811
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:56,239
Speaker 4: KNOW i don't know. You if a person's shooting for

812
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 4: my life and for whatever, reason they got something else

813
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 4: going on in their own life that distracted, him that's

814
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 4: a problem for.

815
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 3: Me the, hate right or, yeah whatever.

816
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 4: Reason they just just GENUINELY i Could, OH i could

817
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 4: NAIM a lot of PEOPLE i would have step up

818
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 4: and take that.

819
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:15,600
Speaker 2: Shot who would want you? Dead who would?

820
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 3: Miss who would just clim it on?

821
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:21,359
Speaker 4: Purpose oh, god that's a tough that's a good. One

822
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 4: that's A i don't even know IF i could do,

823
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 4: that because now we've got to get very very personal

824
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 4: on the, air so breaking up family members and. WHATNOT

825
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 4: i don't THINK i need to do that.

826
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 3: Today all, right but next time you come, on if

827
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:34,400
Speaker 3: you can give us a top five list OF nba Players,

828
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 3: okay not, wheah JUST nba players who would clik one

829
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:40,319
Speaker 3: just because they Want legs to go?

830
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 4: Away all, right you give, me you give me time

831
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 4: to think about. That next TIME i come, On i'll

832
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:45,160
Speaker 4: have a great list for.

833
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 3: You all. Right we'll do it during the, finals, okay all,

834
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:51,440
Speaker 3: right all, right we appreciate. It we know it's a busy.

835
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:54,959
Speaker 3: Time safe travels to, you and, yeah we look forward

836
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 3: to your top five top five people who would want

837
00:38:57,719 --> 00:38:59,880
Speaker 3: him leg they're? Dead next time he's, hey, hey AND i.

838
00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 4: WILL i want a real quick, FINISH i, Said Larry,

839
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 4: bird so quickly you're talking about that is my favorite

840
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 4: athlete of all.

841
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:08,200
Speaker 2: Times that was that was the same.

842
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 4: Problem you could have gone a different. DIRECTION i would

843
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:13,400
Speaker 4: have maybe PICKED. JJ i can't PICK Jj redick Against Larry.

844
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 3: Bird, no of course you, can't even if he wasn't

845
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:18,840
Speaker 3: your favorite athlete of all. TIME i, mean the object

846
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 3: is to stay, Alive, Legs, okay right. Exactly you know

847
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 3: those duke. Guys they only care about duke. Guys that's,

848
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:30,719
Speaker 3: it you, know all, right, man safe. Travels we appreciate. It,

849
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:35,400
Speaker 3: well annals all, right all, right sounds, good, Thanks. Legs

850
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 3: so there's a McDonald's right. Downstairs, huh there's a.

851
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:45,160
Speaker 2: McDonald's i think if you go down turn the. CORNER

852
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 2: i think it's at the building right next to us.

853
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 2: DOWNSTAIRS i.

854
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 3: Believe all, right walk me there. Tomorrow WHEN i say you, okay,

855
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 3: WELL i MEAN i probably.

856
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:59,239
Speaker 2: MUCH i feel bad because someone we had dude that

857
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:01,440
Speaker 2: don't get me start on the dog things from the

858
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:04,400
Speaker 2: dollar menu. Again now the dollar menu right, now McDonald's

859
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:06,799
Speaker 2: i went on the weekend says, one two or three

860
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 2: dollars for the dollar. Menu that's not a dollar.

861
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:10,040
Speaker 3: Menu there's not.

862
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 2: A item on there that is one. Dollar not a single.

863
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 2: Item there's something that's like one, something AND i think

864
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 2: it's like a. Napkin there's nothing that is a dollar

865
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 2: at McDonald's. Anymore it's. CRAZY a McChicken used to be

866
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 2: a dollar AND i was like two thirty. Something have

867
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 2: you seen people outraged about hash? Browns hashbrons are like

868
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:30,919
Speaker 2: three nineteen or. Something, now it's, insane that's.

869
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 3: Crazy those. MCCHICKENS i used to load up on those

870
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 3: off the dollar. Menu they're so, good so, good little

871
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 3: spicy mao on. There oh, Fantastic. Billy, hey are you

872
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:46,080
Speaker 3: feeling What i'm? Feeling after talking to two legs? There

873
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 3: what are we?

874
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 2: Feeling? Yes but what are we? Feeling just So i'm

875
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 2: on the.

876
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 3: Same point what we're feeling is AND i think it's

877
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 3: a good laying for you AND i to run with

878
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:56,399
Speaker 3: on the. Show, okay because if for no other reason

879
00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:59,960
Speaker 3: it will piss everyone off on the, show it's time.

880
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 2: For bo to. Go oh, wow.

881
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:09,840
Speaker 3: It rhymes and everything must. Go, yes, both let's. GO i,

882
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:13,040
Speaker 3: mean he'll never have more value than he has right

883
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:16,840
Speaker 3: now because he's doing it With Jimmy butler as his best,

884
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:19,560
Speaker 3: player And i'm not certain who the second best player.

885
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:22,439
Speaker 3: Is it changes night. Tonight most people will say it's,

886
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:25,640
Speaker 3: bad But i'm not certain It's. Bam on any given,

887
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:27,879
Speaker 3: night it could Be Gabe, vincent it could Be Max,

888
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:32,440
Speaker 3: drews it could Be Duncan. Robinson if this guy Takes Duncan,

889
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:35,479
Speaker 3: Robinson Max drews and Gave vincent to THE Nba final

890
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:37,840
Speaker 3: Th Tyler herro by the, Way, Yeah i'm telling, You,

891
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 3: scott he could name his, team name the, price and

892
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:43,879
Speaker 3: name his. Role he could be head coaching, president get

893
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 3: rid Of. Riley how about?

894
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:49,280
Speaker 2: That do you Think Tyler hero wants The heat to lose?

895
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 3: Eventually?

896
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 2: Yeah a? Game how far do you will think he

897
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 2: wants them to? Go because if you win a title without,

898
00:41:57,719 --> 00:41:59,360
Speaker 2: you you feel kind of like, Crappy like what do

899
00:41:59,360 --> 00:41:59,960
Speaker 2: you want to do with that?

900
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:02,799
Speaker 3: Ring? Right do you bring him back in THE Nba

901
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:05,279
Speaker 3: finals if he's? HEALTHY i don't think he is?

902
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:05,840
Speaker 2: Healthy is?

903
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:06,000
Speaker 4: He?

904
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 3: Yeah but you get a long break between. Now if

905
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:10,399
Speaker 3: they can close it, out you get a long break

906
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:14,400
Speaker 3: before THE Nba. Finals and so they played pretty well without.

907
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 3: Him he cannot be enjoying. THIS i don't care what he.

908
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:21,280
Speaker 2: Says you have to say, yes but there's no way right.

909
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:24,920
Speaker 3: You have to say yes while secretly being like are

910
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 3: you kidding? Me like there's a glaring, Absence so that

911
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:31,920
Speaker 3: glaring absence is, Me and, yeah they are on the

912
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:35,080
Speaker 3: verge of sweeping The, celtics like man Ste.

913
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:37,440
Speaker 2: Gotts the way That dan's looking AT ej right, now

914
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:40,600
Speaker 2: the smile he, HAS i haven't seen that face in, years.

915
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 3: Right it's the WAY i used to make him. Feel, yeah,

916
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 3: stupidity