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Speaker 2: This is the Drop podcast. We're gonna have some fun today.

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Speaker 2: We are one month in and change to the NBA season,

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Speaker 2: and it's something we usually do here on No Dunks,

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Speaker 2: we look at the front runners for all of the

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Speaker 3: This guys, who's gonna win MVP?

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Speaker 2: So we've got that, and later on we got rapid fire,

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Speaker 2: which is always a fun way to end the drop.

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Speaker 2: But let's get to drafting some of last night's best

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Speaker 2: games is something TK and I did while you were gone.

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Speaker 2: It's a good way to sort of bounce around the

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Speaker 3: There's so many points in the National Basketball Association last night,

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Speaker 2: Warriors gotta win. They improve to nine and ten, four

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Speaker 2: the Clippers, who are eight and ten. I mean these

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Speaker 2: You know, I went to school with a kid that

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Speaker 3: I thought it may have been through a wood cutting class.

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Speaker 2: No, that was Holly. She got her hair cut in

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Speaker 2: Somebody did it. Yeah, I think rob judding, rob judding,

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Speaker 1: Get you with?

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Speaker 3: Got injured? Playing basketball? Severe injury.

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Speaker 2: Kuren Griffin broke his hand in warm ups because he

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Speaker 2: This was a playoff game, high school playoff game, and

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Speaker 2: he couldn't play, you idiot, He's like one of my

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's all I got. I'll leave it there.

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Speaker 3: That was great. That was a great third you with.

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Speaker 2: A Mike Gibb, a Holly Anderson.

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Speaker 3: So I thought every injury came from the what do

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Speaker 3: you call those devices? The woodcutters?

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Speaker 2: Maybe, yeah, the jigsaw. I have told the story for it.

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Speaker 2: But my shop teacher he lost a thumb in the jigsaw.

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Speaker 2: But but like well before he was our teacher, but

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Speaker 2: he had a nub too. Every third person in stravad

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Speaker 3: That's very interesting. I can't believe that somebody would woodworking.

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Speaker 3: That's kind of what I was looking. Just a class class,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's I mean, he was young, he was a kid.

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Speaker 4: Not to be griesome, but did he lose it when

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Speaker 2: I couldn't. I can't remember forty years ago or forty

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. So we have the Warriors victory the

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Speaker 2: Clips with the number one pick by task in our

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Speaker 2: as the Hawks rallied pass the Spurs. San Antonio lost

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Speaker 2: their thirteenth straight. It's okay, the Pistons can't win either,

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Speaker 2: but Tray Young season high forty five and the biggest

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Speaker 2: play from this game was a defensive play from Trey

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Speaker 2: one of those who did he get there? Was he set?

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Speaker 2: Was he leaning? But Pop had no timeouts, He couldn't

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Speaker 2: on a fast break again at the end of regulation,

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Speaker 2: trying to tie it, but he got the charge, and

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Speaker 2: so Trey was doing that to play and he had

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Speaker 2: Sohn like coming behind, chasing behind because he's playing him,

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Speaker 2: and Trey just got around the free throw line, and

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Speaker 2: I'm helping out here, and Trey just ever so casually

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Speaker 3: is shocking. Yeah, buy more. That's true, although Trey was fantastic,

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Speaker 2: But Trey Young already at six, so he's probably got

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's finding his way.

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Speaker 3: All right, Trey Murphy's Law. We'll be back tomorrow. Apparently

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Speaker 3: for the pals. That's big to get Trey Murphy back

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I probably should have went with Trey Murphy's Law.

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Speaker 3: Not enough people are talking about the Minnesota Timberwolves, so

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Speaker 3: the Timberwolves, let so many guys go this offseason. Austin Rivers, No,

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Speaker 2: But what a game, I mean, I was telling everybody

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about it. The boys, business boys. But you've

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Speaker 3: I'm out. I'm out. Okay, I'm out of that. But

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Speaker 2: My final pick here drafting last night's best games, I

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Speaker 2: I'm not really sure why Griffin decided not to foul there.

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Speaker 2: felt like a like, that's just a damn good quality win.

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Speaker 2: And this Northwest Division task. You already talked about the

435
00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:51,600
Speaker 2: Wolves being fourteen and four. It's stacked. Wolves are fourteen

436
00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:53,720
Speaker 2: and four, Nuggets are thirteen and six, and the Thunder

437
00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:56,000
Speaker 2: and now twelve and six, you know, and then it's

438
00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:58,960
Speaker 2: some crappy teams, but the top three there in that division,

439
00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:00,320
Speaker 2: those are all three.

440
00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:02,960
Speaker 3: It's great to see Chet, who got into early foul

441
00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:06,439
Speaker 3: trowl a couple early fouls six minutes in didn't do

442
00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:08,880
Speaker 3: much in the first half. The second half turned off. Yeah,

443
00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:11,960
Speaker 3: he was great eighteen to five, so great for them.

444
00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:14,360
Speaker 3: On the Lakers side, Anthony Davis was really really good.

445
00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:16,720
Speaker 3: But besides him, I don't think they really had anybody.

446
00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:19,720
Speaker 3: And the thing is they're still lacking. I know they

447
00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:22,359
Speaker 3: came together in the second half last season after the

448
00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:24,800
Speaker 3: trade deadline, All right, we got all our guys. They

449
00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:26,960
Speaker 3: got so many guys that are injured. It would have

450
00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:29,920
Speaker 3: been great to have Jared Vanderbilt be able to guard

451
00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:32,560
Speaker 3: Shake Gilders Alexander, who's a monster, just throws some length

452
00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:36,560
Speaker 3: at him, or Cam Reddish who is looking like a

453
00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:38,760
Speaker 3: like a Lonnie Walker from last year. But even on

454
00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:41,720
Speaker 3: the defensive end, just look great. No, Gabe, no Rui.

455
00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:43,560
Speaker 3: They're missing so many guys.

456
00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:46,159
Speaker 2: Yeah, well they might miss Lebron if his son plays

457
00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:48,120
Speaker 2: his first USC game.

458
00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:52,800
Speaker 3: Headline great news that Lebron Brianni James has been cleared

459
00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:56,440
Speaker 3: to play basketball, right, and Lebron put it out there

460
00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:58,959
Speaker 3: that he said, I'm missing my game if he plays

461
00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,160
Speaker 3: and it's on the same night as our schedule, I'm

462
00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:04,399
Speaker 3: going to watch them, Yeah, which is interesting. I mean,

463
00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:05,000
Speaker 3: I'm fine with it.

464
00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:06,480
Speaker 2: You're fine with it. I mean, I think once you

465
00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:09,119
Speaker 2: play twenty one years in the NBA, you're sort of

466
00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:11,520
Speaker 2: allowed one or two of those to go see your

467
00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:13,600
Speaker 2: son playing as first college team. I don't think anybody's

468
00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:15,600
Speaker 2: going to care that much. Well, it's Lebron, so it's

469
00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:18,000
Speaker 2: going to be a huge story. It's already a story

470
00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:21,520
Speaker 2: that was making me laugh the hypothetical. It's not necessarily

471
00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:23,560
Speaker 2: that he's going to miss a game because there are

472
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Speaker 2: some games where USC plays on the same night as

473
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Speaker 2: the Lakers, but there are many other nights where it doesn't.

474
00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:31,080
Speaker 2: So you know, both could happen, is what I'm saying.

475
00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:34,959
Speaker 3: Yeah, I told you Lebron Senior. He wants to go

476
00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:37,240
Speaker 3: to Las Vegas and have a good time. Next week

477
00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:40,320
Speaker 3: in the nd season tournament, they have to win the quarterfinals. Yeah,

478
00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:42,199
Speaker 3: they gotta play the Suns, gotta play the Sons. It's

479
00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:43,640
Speaker 3: going to be a tough win. But if they win,

480
00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:46,879
Speaker 3: he goes to Vegas on Thursday. We'll be playback and

481
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Speaker 3: I'm sure we'll be watching it. Come join us. We

482
00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:51,600
Speaker 3: wants to go have a good time. We don't even

483
00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:53,720
Speaker 3: know when bronni win. He's going to play because he's

484
00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:56,760
Speaker 3: just clear to go play in practice for us. Yeah,

485
00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:59,639
Speaker 3: so yeah, it is a it's a headline now, but

486
00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:02,399
Speaker 3: it's just that question mark when he plays, I'm playing.

487
00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:04,280
Speaker 3: So it is great to hear that he will be

488
00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:05,080
Speaker 3: playing for sure.

489
00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:08,800
Speaker 2: All right, well, let's get to some NBA awards. We

490
00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:11,760
Speaker 2: are somehow already one month in to this NBA season

491
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,680
Speaker 2: almost close. I guess it's closer for five weeks, so

492
00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:16,800
Speaker 2: it's time for our annual, way too early. Look at

493
00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:20,399
Speaker 2: the major award races. You know, this is small sample

494
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:22,800
Speaker 2: sized theater. Get your popcorn here, but it's a lot

495
00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:24,320
Speaker 2: of fun. And one thing I try to make clear

496
00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:26,680
Speaker 2: every time we do this this is not a prediction.

497
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,520
Speaker 2: It's not really us trying to predict who's going to win.

498
00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:31,920
Speaker 2: Where he did that in the preseason, you go listen

499
00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:35,520
Speaker 2: to those. This is more if the season ended today

500
00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:38,680
Speaker 2: and you had a ballot for these awards, how would

501
00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:41,480
Speaker 2: you fill it out? Who would be your obviously your

502
00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:43,280
Speaker 2: winner and then maybe in a lot of these top

503
00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:46,480
Speaker 2: three or with MVP, maybe top five. So let's get

504
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:51,199
Speaker 2: into it. Tasks. You tell me your MVP one month in,

505
00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:54,000
Speaker 2: you know who you have at the top, and let's

506
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:54,920
Speaker 2: do top five for MVP.

507
00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:57,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's do the entire list because it's so much fun.

508
00:23:58,080 --> 00:23:59,960
Speaker 3: This may be boring to you who I'm picking up

509
00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:03,399
Speaker 3: the top but it's Nicola Jokic. He deserves to be

510
00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:06,840
Speaker 3: number one. This is the best Jokic we've ever seen.

511
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,840
Speaker 3: Number two. You're not gonna agree with me whatsoever, but

512
00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:12,199
Speaker 3: I'm shoving him up yet. Goopo is just such a

513
00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:13,439
Speaker 3: fantastic player.

514
00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:16,000
Speaker 2: Holy moly, I don't even have him in my top five.

515
00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:19,240
Speaker 3: I'm lifting him. He's one of the best players in

516
00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:20,480
Speaker 3: the game. Yeah.

517
00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:22,919
Speaker 2: The problem is we have a lot of really good players.

518
00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:25,360
Speaker 3: In the game. Yeah, okay, and he's not up there

519
00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:28,040
Speaker 3: in terms of per if you want to go through

520
00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:32,040
Speaker 3: the numbers of that of PR But anyways, we'll go

521
00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:34,359
Speaker 3: through his numbers and b this is interesting. I'm putting

522
00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:37,439
Speaker 3: him at third one at last year. He's still a

523
00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:41,960
Speaker 3: fantastic player. I say it's interesting because he's missed you

524
00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:46,080
Speaker 3: a couple of games because of injury, and that may

525
00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:48,240
Speaker 3: tick up. It may tick up me.

526
00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:50,760
Speaker 2: Right now, we're supposed to be looking at this right now.

527
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:53,520
Speaker 3: Miss may yeahs too, So yeah, he's missed too. He

528
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:55,760
Speaker 3: hasn't missed that many but I just wonder at the end,

529
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 3: after eighty two games, you can't miss fifteen games? Is

530
00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:01,639
Speaker 3: that what it is? Right? No, it was sixty five. Yes, Oh,

531
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:03,520
Speaker 3: so you can miss eighteen Okay, he might do it.

532
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:06,919
Speaker 3: And then then we're going to the young guys that

533
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 3: everybody loves. Shay Gildris Alexander is my fourth pick, yep,

534
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:12,760
Speaker 3: and then Tyrese Haliburton at five.

535
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:13,240
Speaker 2: Okay.

536
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 3: So I'll take you just through quickly some of the stats.

537
00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:18,200
Speaker 3: When I say this is the best Yo Kich we've

538
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:21,320
Speaker 3: ever seen, it's one hundred percent true. This looks more

539
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:24,960
Speaker 3: like playoff Jokic where he's forced to shoot twenty times

540
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,159
Speaker 3: or shoots twenty times because in the regular season he

541
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:29,040
Speaker 3: chills a little bit. Lets his other guys do it,

542
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:30,520
Speaker 3: and maybe it's Chase Jamal Murray has been out for

543
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:33,800
Speaker 3: a little bit, but he's shooting and boarding and assisting.

544
00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 3: He's averaging twenty nine thirteen point two rebounds, which would

545
00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:39,840
Speaker 3: be a career high for him, and nine assists. You know,

546
00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:43,119
Speaker 3: he has these thirty ten rebound fifteen assists nights. He

547
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:45,920
Speaker 3: does lead the league in pr like he has the

548
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,520
Speaker 3: last three seasons, but it's even better thirty four point

549
00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:54,120
Speaker 3: five this year, which would be a ridiculous ever number. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

550
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:56,320
Speaker 3: start to get those numbers. He's the best.

551
00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:58,959
Speaker 2: I have Yelkitch at number one right now. You know,

552
00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 2: not only does he lead PTE, yard's like wind shares

553
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 2: in your Vorpes in your box plus minuses, like all

554
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:07,440
Speaker 2: your advanced statistics if you get into that, and they're

555
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 2: just Denver is dominant when he plays. I think they're

556
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:14,399
Speaker 2: like a plus eleven point three net rating according to

557
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,159
Speaker 2: NBA Advanced Stats, and they're they're rough when he's off

558
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:20,359
Speaker 2: the floor. You know it's a different team because everything

559
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 2: goes through them. So I have Yoka right now at

560
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:24,639
Speaker 2: the top of the leaderboard for MVP.

561
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a special guy. He's looking like the guy

562
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 3: who won the championship. And maybe he maybe this is

563
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:34,400
Speaker 3: a big maybe, maybe he wins another championship if Murray

564
00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:37,440
Speaker 3: is healthy the day, the year before, or think things

565
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,760
Speaker 3: are a little different or surrounding him. That will all

566
00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:44,120
Speaker 3: be determined in twenty twenty four or twenty twenty five

567
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 3: or twenty twenty six. But he looks the best all

568
00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:48,159
Speaker 3: right now. I will talk very briefly about Yeat. He

569
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:49,560
Speaker 3: said to goomba that you can tell me why he's

570
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:53,000
Speaker 3: not the second best player in the association. Yeah, because

571
00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,359
Speaker 3: his record is still good. As far as the Bucks,

572
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:58,919
Speaker 3: They're still up there in the Eastern Conference. He's scoring

573
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:02,520
Speaker 3: twenty nine point eight points per game on sixty percent

574
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 3: from the field, which would be a career high for him, mainly,

575
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:10,400
Speaker 3: I think because the Lillard factor helps out on that end. Anyways,

576
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 3: ten point eight boards and four point seven iss is

577
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 3: he's still the Yes, you know, other guys are doing

578
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:18,639
Speaker 3: great things. We'll get to embiid and all that, but.

579
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:22,680
Speaker 2: That's that's the issue here, because like you just said,

580
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:24,560
Speaker 2: all his stats and obviously they are still a good

581
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:27,000
Speaker 2: team even if they've fallen off defensively, which is weird,

582
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 2: But like you know, Sga is averaging thirty one, six

583
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:33,679
Speaker 2: and six, Tatum's averaging twenty eight, nine and four on

584
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 2: the best team in the East, Halliburton's averaging twenty seven

585
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 2: to twelve. They don't have the record of some of

586
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:40,760
Speaker 2: these other teams, but you see his importance. He's got

587
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:43,880
Speaker 2: like fifty forty ninety shooting splits. Luke is averaging thirty

588
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:46,600
Speaker 2: one eight and eight, Curry's averaging thirty five and four

589
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:51,120
Speaker 2: with his dumb shooting splits, Durant could be in this conversation. Yeah,

590
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 2: I mean it's nuts that, like it's not it's I

591
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 2: get having the honest number two, but you could easily

592
00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:58,280
Speaker 2: have him number eight.

593
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Right. Some of those guys, for sure, some of

594
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 3: those guys don't play the defense that Gianni's or Shay

595
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:09,479
Speaker 3: gil just Alexander plays or Joel Embiid plays, and and

596
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:12,720
Speaker 3: that's why I have those guys up there. But you

597
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:14,960
Speaker 3: can you can shove it as Shay a little bit higher.

598
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,159
Speaker 3: But anyways, I got mb third. He won last year. Uh,

599
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:20,640
Speaker 3: he's playing so well defensively, and that's kind of why

600
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 3: I bumped him over a couple guys. But his numbers

601
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 3: thirty two points, eleven point three rebounds, six point six

602
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 3: assists as teams double him more, that would be a

603
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:29,880
Speaker 3: career high for him. Teams are really trying to get

604
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:32,119
Speaker 3: the ball out of his hands, and Tyres Maxey is

605
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 3: making teams pay. He's he and the sixers are still good.

606
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 3: So there he goes there, he goes to three, and

607
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:42,000
Speaker 3: I and Shay goes to four. Thirty point six points

608
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 3: fifty four point one percent from the floor that that

609
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 3: is incredible. That is incredible for a guard.

610
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 2: That operates in the mid range.

611
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 3: And yeah, yeah, and that would be his career high.

612
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 3: He's learning and he leaves the NBA and steals and

613
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,520
Speaker 3: he can block the snot out of you if you're around,

614
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 3: but two three steals per game kind of shows how

615
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 3: good he is on the defensive end too.

616
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:09,000
Speaker 2: I went Jokic one in BID two SGA three, I

617
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 2: put Tatum four, uh, and I put Haliburton five, just

618
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 2: for shits and giggles, because you know, really, Luca is

619
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:19,719
Speaker 2: a monster. Curry still a monster, Yannis Durant, but like

620
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 2: this will be I believe. Unfortunately, like if we do

621
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 2: this in another month, I think because of the Pacers

622
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 2: where they'll be in comparison to a lot of these

623
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 2: other teams, they won't quite have the record. So right

624
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,480
Speaker 2: now still being around five hundred, and he's just been

625
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 2: so impressive. You know, everybody's comparing him to Nash and

626
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 2: these type of numbers that I just wanted him in there,

627
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 2: but I get it, that's where that's where I went.

628
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:45,120
Speaker 2: But that's nuts that I'm leaving off Luca Curry, Jannis Durant.

629
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Speaker 2: I mean, you can start even getting into like Anthony Edward, like,

630
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 2: you know, it's it's pretty incredible the talent we have

631
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 2: right now.

632
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:53,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, to leave Tatum off this list, which I did,

633
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:55,720
Speaker 3: which yeah, I was definitely thinking about just put them

634
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:59,160
Speaker 3: on there. They're they're currently the best team in the association.

635
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 3: The defense isn't there compared to some other guys, the

636
00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:06,480
Speaker 3: efficiency isn't there to just compare to some other guys.

637
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 3: And that's why I put Haliburton at five, although their

638
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 3: team is very close to five hundred. Yeah, and so

639
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:13,760
Speaker 3: that's why he's dropping. But twenty seven points leading the league,

640
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 3: and assists at eleven point eight and a career high

641
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 3: from the floor fifty one point nine. Also forty four

642
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 3: point seven from three also a career high fifty forty

643
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 3: ninety club that he.

644
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 2: Should be amazing.

645
00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 3: So he's up there.

646
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 2: And Booker's only played ten games. Otherwise he's in the

647
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 2: conversation here too. You gotta keep him off after one

648
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 2: month in? Okay, Well that's I mean, look, that's incredible

649
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 2: where we're at here again, four or five weeks in,

650
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 2: let's hear your MVP frontrunner and you know who you

651
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 2: have one through five. Let's do Rookie of the Year.

652
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 2: All right, it's it's a two man race. Are you

653
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 2: going Wenby or are you going Chet? I'm going Chet

654
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 2: homeburn at this point of the season too, just because

655
00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:59,640
Speaker 2: the efficiency is unreal. He's shooting, you know, fifty four

656
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 2: percent from the floor, forty one percent from deep for

657
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 2: this big guy eighty seven percent of the line. We

658
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 2: know what he brings defensively. Now, they're both great defensive

659
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 2: players as rooks but I'm having him just eke out

660
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 2: when Mi and Yama, who I have in the second slot.

661
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 2: It's really fun when you fire up there, like they're

662
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 2: comparable stats. You know, it's sort of all Wemby in

663
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 2: terms of like, well he he does more on a

664
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,480
Speaker 2: per game basis, but then it's all home grin that

665
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 2: he does more efficiently. Yeah, and then you know, again

666
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 2: they're both great defensive players. I think I might give

667
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 2: the little slight edge to Chet in terms of the impact,

668
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 2: but you can't go wrong. You're going either Victor or

669
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 2: you're going Chet.

670
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 3: Very fun, Yeah, it's a very fun and both are great.

671
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 3: Chet benefits from being the third fourth best option yes

672
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 3: on his teams because Shay and Jalen Williams and everybody

673
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 3: takes everything, puts the pressure on their shoulders and then

674
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 3: check and have a mediocre game. Or he can have

675
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 3: a great game while victor they're asking him to do

676
00:31:59,280 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 3: a lot.

677
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 2: I do think women Yuma will ultimately still win this.

678
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:07,479
Speaker 2: But there's going to be, like I can see it now, right,

679
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 2: there's gonna be a crazy debate about how much a

680
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 2: team's success should play into this Rookie of the Year,

681
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 2: because usually it means, dick all, we never care, right, Like,

682
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 2: it's a number one guy, a top five guy on

683
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:22,000
Speaker 2: a bad team because that's where he's been drafted, and

684
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 2: they continually are bad, but they have stats and they

685
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 2: look impressive, and we give them Rookie of the Year

686
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 2: and when everybody goes, okay, let's fine, he's on a

687
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 2: twenty two win team. Who cares, right, But it's gonna

688
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 2: be weird if like they're close, which their stats sort

689
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:37,280
Speaker 2: of are, and obviously they play the same position and

690
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:40,320
Speaker 2: all that. For the most part, it's like, will people

691
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 2: be like, well, yeah, but Chets on a winning team,

692
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 2: they're a fifty win team, And then the counter will be,

693
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:46,960
Speaker 2: but you've never cared before, you know, you know, that's

694
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 2: coming yea at the end of the season.

695
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 3: And definitely, hey Chet's not a rookie, people.

696
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 2: Will yeah, yeah, yeah, that's good.

697
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 3: Fair.

698
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 2: We've done that a couple of times before.

699
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're our old Ben Donnovan Mitchell, Donovan Mitchell and

700
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,040
Speaker 3: team saying Ben Simmons isn't a rookie just because he

701
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 3: was injured for a season, which could happen.

702
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 2: So who do you have at the top? You have

703
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:06,760
Speaker 2: Chet right now?

704
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 3: Go Chet? Okay, And that's excuse me. Benefits from again

705
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 3: his supporting cast. But he's just so damn good shooting

706
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,440
Speaker 3: the ball like women Yama is as well, but Chet

707
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 3: shooting forty percent from three, like he's a three point shooter.

708
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:23,600
Speaker 2: A nice tiebreaker in this would have been if one

709
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:25,719
Speaker 2: of them had kicked each other's ass when they're one

710
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:27,320
Speaker 2: game they've played so far, but they both sort of

711
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 2: played like they both like they both shot poorly. Yeah,

712
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 2: so he can't really take.

713
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 3: It any I'm being biased. I saw him play against

714
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 3: Rudy Gobert the other day. That is an established center

715
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 3: in terms of strength, and Chet was solid. Yeah, So

716
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 3: I wonder who's going to get bigger and stronger in

717
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 3: their body, because that's going to play a factory and

718
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 3: in terms of how much they can guard some bigs

719
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 3: in this league.

720
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, well one of these guys hit a wall, you know,

721
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 2: fifty games in and have a bad one, very very

722
00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 2: much in play. So okay, we chat one victor two,

723
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:04,440
Speaker 2: and then I have Himyhawk as junior in the in

724
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 2: the third slot right now. He had an awesome game

725
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,240
Speaker 2: last night, career high twenty four points. This was against

726
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 2: the Pacers, so you know, not a lot of d

727
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 2: going on, but eight to thirteen from the floor, seven

728
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 2: to seven at the line. I love how he plays,

729
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:19,239
Speaker 2: you know, he just looks like a winner. And he's

730
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 2: averaging sixteen to five and three over his last eleven games.

731
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 2: He's getting a little more opportunity there with Spolstra and

732
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 2: he's just efficient. He's like fifty three from the floor,

733
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 2: forty six from deep over that last eleven games.

734
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 3: That's incredible. It's incredible for a rook to come in

735
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,720
Speaker 3: and be so heat culture.

736
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 2: I mean he really he's helped out. He's the older

737
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:41,399
Speaker 2: rook right old, Yeah, and he's so good. He moves

738
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 2: off the ball so well. He's fun to watch, Like,

739
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 2: don't don't ballhawk. Just watch him move around. He's just

740
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,239
Speaker 2: like he's like he's reading the floor, like where to go,

741
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 2: where's the space?

742
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:52,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's good, so I have him third, do you

743
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:54,879
Speaker 3: have anything else? He's been too good not to have him.

744
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 3: Think And defensively he is really good. He's had to

745
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 3: guard some of the t his best players at times.

746
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true too.

747
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 3: That's a lot for a rook but he can handle it.

748
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:07,240
Speaker 2: Honorable mentions Brandon Miller, Jordan Hawkins, Derek.

749
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,359
Speaker 3: Lively, Derekly great too.

750
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:12,759
Speaker 2: Those are who I wanted to show some love to start.

751
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 3: Thompson has been good, but Star Thompson has.

752
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 2: Been good to very very good. Let's do one more

753
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 2: and then we'll take a break and do the other ones.

754
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:21,280
Speaker 2: Sixth Man of the Year tests.

755
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 3: Ah, this is fun for me. I just picked the

756
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:28,720
Speaker 3: guy who scores the best off the bench. That's that's

757
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:33,759
Speaker 3: Tim Hardaway. Although I'm a little reluctant to go with him,

758
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:39,759
Speaker 3: So I'm going with well because I think that's going

759
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 3: to change over time. Here he is coming off the bench.

760
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 3: He's scoring near seventeen points per game off the bench,

761
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 3: which is great, which leads a league, yes in bench production.

762
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:52,919
Speaker 3: I went through all of them, and at some point

763
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:55,120
Speaker 3: I just wonder if he's gonna get a little bit colder,

764
00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:57,879
Speaker 3: shoot a little bit less. He shoots nine threes a game. Yeah,

765
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,759
Speaker 3: it's a lot of threes coming off the bench. So

766
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 3: I think, especially because what happened last year with Emmanuel Quickly,

767
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 3: there was there's a lot of support for him, but

768
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 3: he ended up being second to Malcolm Brogen, I think

769
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:12,600
Speaker 3: Emmanuel Quickly is going to win this thing. But it's

770
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:14,360
Speaker 3: very interesting I have him, you know, one two with

771
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:18,839
Speaker 3: with Tim Hardaway, he is so efficient, he's a little

772
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:22,840
Speaker 3: bit more efficient, and he's averaging near sixteen points and

773
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:25,919
Speaker 3: third fourth, I kind of also have a tie Bob

774
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,840
Speaker 3: dan Bugdanovich is playing well for Wow, he's he's playing

775
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 3: really well for the Hawks. Listen to these stats off

776
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:34,399
Speaker 3: the bench. Another sixteen point per game guy, forty six

777
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:37,400
Speaker 3: point six from the floor is great and forty percent

778
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:40,400
Speaker 3: from three, forty point five percent from three. It's a

779
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 3: great number. And then our man Cole Anthony also the

780
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 3: same sixteen near sixteen points, fifteen point six points off

781
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 3: the bench. And I think Ben Matherin now that he's

782
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 3: coming off the bench permanently with the Indiana Pacers because

783
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:58,239
Speaker 3: he did start this season, they said we're gonna switch

784
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:01,000
Speaker 3: it up and go to Buddy's three point percent in

785
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:04,279
Speaker 3: the starting lineup. Hey could challenge. So this is a

786
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:07,400
Speaker 3: it's just fun. I think it's I think it's all

787
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:09,839
Speaker 3: numbers and so that's why I got Tim Hardaway in there.

788
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 3: But it is going to be a guard because they've

789
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 3: they keep waiting last eleven of twelve years. In terms

790
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 3: of the sixth month, sixth man of the year, it

791
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 3: always goes to a guard. Yeah, Montres Herald Montros Harol

792
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:21,880
Speaker 3: squeaked one in.

793
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 2: There for Bobby Portis deserves some more love. Okay, he's

794
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 2: always good off the bench, big, But you're right, it's

795
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:27,920
Speaker 2: going to go to a guard. So who's your one,

796
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:28,719
Speaker 2: two three in the end?

797
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 3: Tim Emmanuel quickly bog Dad Cole Anthony.

798
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, I've sort of switched that around right now

799
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 2: because I'm not projecting here. I'm going Cole Anthony as

800
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:41,239
Speaker 2: six man of the year four and five weeks into

801
00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 2: the season. You said it sixteen, five and four. This

802
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 2: guy's a highlight reel. They're obviously an incredible team right now.

803
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:49,399
Speaker 2: The Magic are he plays a lot of minutes. Once

804
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 2: he's in there, he is contributing. So I'll I'll go

805
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 2: Cole's world there at number one, Tim Hardaway Junior at

806
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,840
Speaker 2: number two, like you said, leading the league in bench scoring,

807
00:37:58,160 --> 00:37:59,800
Speaker 2: and a whole bunch of three point shots. Give me

808
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 2: that fifty point game to me and then I have

809
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:06,000
Speaker 2: quickly just over Malik Monk. It was a toss up

810
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 2: between those Kentucky guards. And then honorable mentions to Bobby

811
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:13,480
Speaker 2: Portis and Austin Reeves is now back into that sort

812
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:15,200
Speaker 2: of role too, and I could see if the season

813
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 2: goes on, maybe he climbs up the rankings here. But Cole,

814
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 2: I'm six Man of the Year.

815
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, that's very cool. Anthony is very fun for

816
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:24,800
Speaker 3: a great team. Austin Reeves is really good. It's a

817
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 3: huge market. It may be a team and a story

818
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:31,840
Speaker 3: that everybody pushes. At the end of this season, Darvin

819
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:34,560
Speaker 3: Ham said he's our Manu Genobili. We're putting him on

820
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 3: the bench and there are times he's good. But yesterday

821
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:40,640
Speaker 3: he tried to guard Shay. He goes of, so, Alexander,

822
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 3: what are you gonna do? Everybody was killing Nobody can

823
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 3: guard him, man, No, they needed some length to help out.

824
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:48,840
Speaker 2: But anyway, let's take our first break. We've done MVP,

825
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:51,040
Speaker 2: we've done Rookie of the Year, we've done six man.

826
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:53,800
Speaker 2: But we have a whole lot of hardware still to

827
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:55,359
Speaker 2: hand out. So don't go anywhere. We'll be right back

828
00:38:57,160 --> 00:38:59,919
Speaker 2: all right here in the Classic Factory on a fry.

829
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:02,680
Speaker 2: It's the drop. It's a formal Friday, which is why

830
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:05,799
Speaker 2: we're looking sharp. Thanks to everybody joining us live right

831
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 2: now on YouTube. Everybody of course making their cases for

832
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 2: either players we've missed that we did not mention honorably

833
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:19,959
Speaker 2: or maybe didn't even have in our top three US right. Nos, Reed,

834
00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:20,920
Speaker 2: that's right.

835
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:24,720
Speaker 3: Man, Like that shot.

836
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 2: It's great. So we've done a couple of awards. Let's

837
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:30,919
Speaker 2: keep it going. Defensive Player of the Year. Yeah, I'll

838
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:35,319
Speaker 2: get it started. Please, It's pretty easy. Rudy Gobert right

839
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:38,280
Speaker 2: now is your leader in the locker room for Defensive

840
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:39,960
Speaker 2: Player of the Year. He's the best defensive player on

841
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:43,880
Speaker 2: the best defense in the league. Rudy and Kat are

842
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 2: one to two when it comes to defensive rating leaders.

843
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:50,319
Speaker 2: Nas Reed is fifth, Anthony Edwards and Kyle Anderson are

844
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:54,719
Speaker 2: ninth and tenth. Defensive rating individual defensive rating pretty wild there,

845
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 2: But I'm going Rudy one. I'm going Mitchell Robinson two,

846
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:03,399
Speaker 2: and I'm going Anthony Davis three. And I was going

847
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 2: back and forth between.

848
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:05,920
Speaker 3: BAM and a D.

849
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:07,879
Speaker 2: But in the end, I'll put a D there right now,

850
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 2: do you agree or disagree with Rudy as number one?

851
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna argue. He is a very very difficult

852
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:18,680
Speaker 3: person to try and bounce around, to try and shoot around.

853
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 3: He's so tough. He's guarding the three point line pretty

854
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 3: well when when he's asked to. It's a great story.

855
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:28,719
Speaker 3: You know, we talked about before the year, which was

856
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:31,839
Speaker 3: which of the NBA players currently, you know, like you're

857
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 3: Jimmy Butler or Demartin Rosen or your Rudy Gobert are

858
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:38,920
Speaker 3: going to make the Hall of Fame. And Trey was

859
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:41,800
Speaker 3: adamant that Rudy Gobert would be there. I found it

860
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:45,440
Speaker 3: a little difficult at this point not to yeah, not

861
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:48,880
Speaker 3: to throw a guy in there that has some offensive problems.

862
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:53,400
Speaker 3: I think it's sort of changed how guys like Mutombo

863
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 3: or Rodman or Ben Wallace, you know, had defensive holes.

864
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 3: I think it's a little bit different now. But if

865
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:03,800
Speaker 3: you get him another Defensive Player of the Year, that

866
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:06,239
Speaker 3: would be his fourth. Yeah, it would be difficult to

867
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:06,799
Speaker 3: keep him out.

868
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:09,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think a lot of people would have him

869
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:11,320
Speaker 2: top We thought, see, this is the thing, like we

870
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:13,799
Speaker 2: thought this may have been what was gonna go happen

871
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,080
Speaker 2: last year when he went to the Wolves. We thought

872
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 2: the narrative he was my pick for DPOY that year.

873
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 2: It was like, oh, yeah, he's gonna come to Minnesota.

874
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:22,920
Speaker 2: We saw what he did in Utah. They're immediately gonna

875
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,680
Speaker 2: like catapult into a top five defense. He'll be a

876
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:29,360
Speaker 2: big reason why. And it just never slowly material it

877
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 2: never materialized, not to that highest level until and then

878
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 2: it got to the point where it's like, oh, boy,

879
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:36,920
Speaker 2: does this even work him and Kat and are they

880
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:39,480
Speaker 2: gonna have to trade Carl Anthon Towns And even at

881
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 2: the start of this season there was a little whispers

882
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:43,239
Speaker 2: of that, but all this winning, heals everything, and they're

883
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:46,439
Speaker 2: just like a defensive juggernaut and he you just can't

884
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:49,240
Speaker 2: score on this guy at the rim, You just you can't.

885
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:54,760
Speaker 2: He's obviously incredible timing. He's huge like strength like strength

886
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 2: and height, and this is his role and he knows

887
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:01,759
Speaker 2: his role. That's the other part here. But yeah, I've

888
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 2: got Rudy one, Mitchell Rumson two, Anthony Davis. I love

889
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:07,840
Speaker 2: to a couple wing defenders. Not easy to do in

890
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 2: this league. But Ojiannaobi is awesome. He like you see,

891
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:14,480
Speaker 2: like how difficult he makes some of the best scores

892
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 2: in the game's nights, Like he at least makes it

893
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:18,600
Speaker 2: not an efficient night. You know, we just saw it

894
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:20,520
Speaker 2: recently with like Durant.

895
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 3: And did the Booker too, and Booker, Yes, he can play.

896
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 2: That's right, he can put them on anybody. Herb Jones

897
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:28,680
Speaker 2: is like this as well. I really love him. Jonathan

898
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 2: Isaac doesn't play a lot, but holy crap, he's amazing

899
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 2: when he's out there. He racks up defensive stats. And

900
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:37,040
Speaker 2: I like Bam, like his versatility as well. But I think,

901
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:39,400
Speaker 2: I don't know, I feel like Rudy's going to win

902
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:39,799
Speaker 2: this again.

903
00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just like putting one guy at the top

904
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:44,839
Speaker 3: of this list and not really worried about the second

905
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:47,840
Speaker 3: and third people. I'm I'm a little biased when it

906
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 3: comes to defensive player the year. I just go with

907
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 3: the top. We'll see what Bam can do because Bam

908
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:54,000
Speaker 3: has been a great story over the years. But Rudy

909
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 3: also gets super pumped when he does something on the floor.

910
00:42:57,640 --> 00:42:59,439
Speaker 3: He did to chet Holmker in the other day. Just start.

911
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:02,680
Speaker 3: He just starts pumping his arms, And I think that's good.

912
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 2: For the highlights, sure, defensive eyghlights, because.

913
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:08,920
Speaker 3: It's an interesting thing. Like like our man John Krasinski

914
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 3: is written about at The Athletic about you know, Mike

915
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 3: Conley story. It just the Rudy Gobert story. He doesn't

916
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:20,800
Speaker 3: really fit in perfectly to today's game in terms of

917
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:23,440
Speaker 3: like social media, in terms of highlights, in terms of

918
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:26,000
Speaker 3: what he does offensively. So I kind of like him

919
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 3: just getting some of those because he's all pumped. He's

920
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 3: just pumping his fist.

921
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 2: And I will say, when it comes to Defensive Player

922
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:35,000
Speaker 2: of the Year, I feel like guys like Yannis and

923
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 2: Embiid are at a disadvantage because they're in the MVP

924
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:41,440
Speaker 2: conversation that we sort of like skip by them when

925
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:43,680
Speaker 2: it comes to DPOI a little bit, because those guys

926
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:46,280
Speaker 2: are elite defenders like and probably should have been included

927
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:49,680
Speaker 2: in my honorable mentions list. So I just did okay,

928
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:51,840
Speaker 2: but you know, you know what I mean, It's like

929
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:54,560
Speaker 2: they're considered the best of the best in the MVP

930
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:58,239
Speaker 2: runs they win them orphinished second or whatever, and we

931
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:00,879
Speaker 2: like gloss over it. I know Jan has done both

932
00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:04,320
Speaker 2: and all that, and Embiid's been in the conversation for

933
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:06,960
Speaker 2: a DPO y before, but they should all that. My

934
00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 2: point is they should. They're there every year they play

935
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:10,160
Speaker 2: because they're amazing.

936
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, Yannis has won it before.

937
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 2: I'm embiide is like he gets a steal in like

938
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 2: two blocks a game. Yeah, he's a beast inside.

939
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:21,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, he is really tough to go try and do

940
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:24,040
Speaker 3: anything around and that's why I have him up in

941
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:27,080
Speaker 3: my m VP. But we tend to just give defensive

942
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 3: Player of the Year focused players the talk. You know,

943
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:34,120
Speaker 3: guys who aren't both way type guys aren't great offensively.

944
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:35,200
Speaker 2: Okay, I do it.

945
00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 3: I do it too.

946
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:39,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, let's move to most improved task. You do

947
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:40,399
Speaker 2: this one. Who's your one, two, three?

948
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 3: Well, we just mentioned Joel Embiid, the guy beside him

949
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:47,520
Speaker 3: in Tyrese MAXI has improved a lot. Has he improved

950
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:51,120
Speaker 3: because he's gotten better? I think he's just improved because

951
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:54,800
Speaker 3: he's got more responsibility since trading James Harden. He's just

952
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:57,040
Speaker 3: a damn good player. He would have done this last year.

953
00:44:57,120 --> 00:45:00,160
Speaker 3: He's just so so talented. He had a great eight

954
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:02,160
Speaker 3: year last year as a complimentary guy at James Harper.

955
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:03,439
Speaker 3: But now he's got the ball. He went from twenty

956
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 3: point three points last year to twenty seven point zero

957
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:12,600
Speaker 3: points this year. And he's near fifty forty ninety efficiency

958
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:15,319
Speaker 3: that is great. Fifty percent from the floor, forty for three,

959
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:19,200
Speaker 3: almost ninety from the free throw line, six point seven assists,

960
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:22,080
Speaker 3: and he's not turning it over much, which I think

961
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:25,040
Speaker 3: is fantastic, and he just looks super duper fast. So

962
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:27,960
Speaker 3: I say that and explain it because I think he's

963
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 3: going to win this thing no matter what. He's at

964
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:33,200
Speaker 3: number one, But some guys that deserve a little love

965
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:36,319
Speaker 3: Upper and scheng Gun of the Rockets. He's jumped from

966
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:39,120
Speaker 3: fourteen point eight points to twenty one point per game,

967
00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:42,640
Speaker 3: three point nine assists to five point six assists, and

968
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:46,440
Speaker 3: fifty six percent from the floor for a big center.

969
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:49,360
Speaker 3: That is hard to do. And I say all that

970
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 3: because what a Meaoudoka is doing there is sort of

971
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:55,320
Speaker 3: what he did with his Boston Celtics. He's saying to

972
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 3: guys like Jalen Green that used to shoot a lot,

973
00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 3: and guys like Shangu they all just share it. And

974
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:04,600
Speaker 3: although yeah, they're winless on the road, I think that

975
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:07,560
Speaker 3: that's kind of bogus. I think they've had some good

976
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:10,759
Speaker 3: losses on the road. Shng Gun is just dialing in

977
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:14,279
Speaker 3: to what amate Doak is telling them. And then just

978
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:16,080
Speaker 3: because I need to have him on this list, and

979
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:18,160
Speaker 3: because he has gotten better Scottie Barnes's.

980
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:20,759
Speaker 2: Numbers, he's definitely deserving to be a three.

981
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:23,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's ated a three point shot.

982
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:26,600
Speaker 2: He's obviously, you know, more of a playmaker now he's

983
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:28,799
Speaker 2: locking in defensively. He's gotten better.

984
00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:29,719
Speaker 3: He's gotten better.

985
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 2: I don't know if part of that's the new coaching

986
00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:33,680
Speaker 2: staff and where they're putting him. Yeah, but he's the

987
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:34,879
Speaker 2: three points the huge part.

988
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's blowing his previous percentages out of the water.

989
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:42,000
Speaker 3: He's shooting at thirty eight percent from three. It looks

990
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 3: totally different. And yeah, he's he can guard whoever you want.

991
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:46,960
Speaker 3: Who do you want him to guard? One and a

992
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:50,120
Speaker 3: half seals game, one point three blocks, nine rebounds a

993
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:52,839
Speaker 3: game is a big, big number. That'd be a huge

994
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:56,800
Speaker 3: career high for him, and nineteen points per game, so

995
00:46:57,080 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 3: he is, Yeah, he's he's he's helping if he can

996
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:02,560
Speaker 3: shoot the three, if he can keep that three point percentage,

997
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:04,839
Speaker 3: I mean, he's gonna be on this team a long time.

998
00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:07,719
Speaker 3: And that's why those Pascal Siakam rumors are hot.

999
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:10,399
Speaker 2: I have the exact same one two three I thought

1000
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:14,080
Speaker 2: I would with this one. Maxy clearly the front runner.

1001
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:16,800
Speaker 2: I mean, especially he's going the Sixers are going to

1002
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:20,359
Speaker 2: have a good record around selections for the All Star Game,

1003
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:23,400
Speaker 2: He's likely going to be there. We've seen this award

1004
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 2: go from like, yeah, that that jump has to be

1005
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:28,200
Speaker 2: you're a good player, but then you go to that

1006
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 2: level of an All Star of someone who's maybe even

1007
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,440
Speaker 2: getting the odd MVP vote. I mean, he's on the

1008
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 2: MVP tracker top ten. When you're on Basketball Reference, you

1009
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 2: know he's not gonna win it. But that's the level

1010
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 2: we've been seeing with this award, and that's he fits

1011
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:44,480
Speaker 2: that bill perfectly, and he hasn't proved. I mean it's

1012
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:47,480
Speaker 2: doubling up is basically doubling up his assists and obviously

1013
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:50,239
Speaker 2: the just more of a more of a role now

1014
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:52,440
Speaker 2: here for him, and he's doing like an incredible hardened

1015
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 2: impersonation like young Harden with the step back threes and

1016
00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:58,880
Speaker 2: obviously getting inside. So MAXI one, I got Cheng Gun two.

1017
00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:01,640
Speaker 2: He's been awesome for all the reasons you listened. Then yes,

1018
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:04,920
Speaker 2: Scutti Burnes three, a couple honorable mentions. It'd be it's

1019
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:06,600
Speaker 2: a shame that he's only played and I'm just fact

1020
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:08,719
Speaker 2: checking here the he's only played I believe, okay, nine

1021
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 2: games now, Cam Thomas, Yeah, I mean if he had

1022
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:16,719
Speaker 2: played fifteen games and was averaging twenty seven points per game,

1023
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:19,799
Speaker 2: we would have to have him probably on the short list,

1024
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:22,359
Speaker 2: Like what a jump that would be. He averaged ten

1025
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:26,040
Speaker 2: points a game last year. He's averaging twenty seven. Again,

1026
00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:29,759
Speaker 2: he's only played nine, but you know you gotta hit

1027
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:33,240
Speaker 2: that sixty five games played threshold. You could still technically

1028
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:35,440
Speaker 2: get there. So he's one to watch. And then one

1029
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:37,360
Speaker 2: more name. I want to give a shout out to

1030
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 2: Kenny Beacham for this one. I know Kenny just did

1031
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:44,120
Speaker 2: a similar podcast where he was sharing his front runners

1032
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:48,920
Speaker 2: for all these awards. Duncan Robinson Kenny said it. I

1033
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:51,480
Speaker 2: was like, what, well, what are you talking about? We

1034
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:54,719
Speaker 2: talk him Kenny King in the fourth quarter, and he's

1035
00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:57,520
Speaker 2: got a great case because he's got the weird thing

1036
00:48:57,560 --> 00:48:59,720
Speaker 2: where Duncan Robinson was good for a couple of years

1037
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:03,560
Speaker 2: and had a garbage year last year and has bounced

1038
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:06,480
Speaker 2: back and Randall that was a bit of a Julius

1039
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:10,000
Speaker 2: and so yeah, last year, you know, Duncan Robinson, he

1040
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:12,399
Speaker 2: averaged six points per game, like you only played half

1041
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:15,120
Speaker 2: the season. This year he's starting in some of these

1042
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:18,040
Speaker 2: games and he's averaging fourteen points per game and he's like,

1043
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:20,239
Speaker 2: you know, back to shooting forty four percent from deep,

1044
00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:23,040
Speaker 2: letting it fly, tempt seven of them a game, hits

1045
00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:25,080
Speaker 2: three of them a game. So yeah, good call there

1046
00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:26,960
Speaker 2: by Kenny. I think he's an honorable mention at least,

1047
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:27,759
Speaker 2: don't think he's gonna win it.

1048
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's fun looking at Duncan Robinson and seeing what

1049
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:33,040
Speaker 3: he used to be. He used to be a starter

1050
00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:34,880
Speaker 3: on a team that went to the finals in his

1051
00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:38,920
Speaker 3: rookie year and seemed to be great. They signed him

1052
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:41,879
Speaker 3: to a big, long deal and then he just sort

1053
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 3: of fell off a little bit. But he's gotten way

1054
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:46,280
Speaker 3: better at.

1055
00:49:47,719 --> 00:49:51,359
Speaker 2: Not only shooting, he's improved in other facets for sure,

1056
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:52,960
Speaker 2: putting the ball on the ground a little bit. Yeah,

1057
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:53,960
Speaker 2: that's a good point.

1058
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:56,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, so he's pretty well rounded, dude.

1059
00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:59,719
Speaker 2: Okay, mip, who'd we miss? That's always one where you

1060
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:02,360
Speaker 2: can do a whole bunch of what about this guy's

1061
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:04,799
Speaker 2: But I'm not unless you have anyone else you wanted

1062
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:04,960
Speaker 2: to know.

1063
00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:08,800
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm interested that Cam Thomason because mckel bridges. We

1064
00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:11,040
Speaker 3: all thought this guy's gonna be an All Start this year,

1065
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:14,839
Speaker 3: guaranteed his first All Star, right, but he hasn't put

1066
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:17,239
Speaker 3: forward the same numbers as he did last year.

1067
00:50:17,719 --> 00:50:19,440
Speaker 2: No TVD Yeah, TVD on that one.

1068
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:21,120
Speaker 3: He was hot last year when he got traded to

1069
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:23,560
Speaker 3: the Nets, he was a twenty six point per game guy. Yeah,

1070
00:50:23,719 --> 00:50:25,239
Speaker 3: he's like closer to twenty one now.

1071
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:28,160
Speaker 2: Okay. Coach of the Year, it's a bit of a

1072
00:50:28,239 --> 00:50:31,040
Speaker 2: weird one to do just one month in, but I

1073
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 2: have it like this. I have it like this one,

1074
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:35,359
Speaker 2: two three. Jamal Mosley with the Magic Oh yeah, baby,

1075
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:37,120
Speaker 2: he's coach of the Year right now. I have Chris

1076
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:40,759
Speaker 2: Finch with the with the Wolves there at second, and

1077
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:44,280
Speaker 2: then I have Ema Udoka with the Rockets in third.

1078
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:49,080
Speaker 2: Honorable mention always to Eric Spolstra, who's never won this thing.

1079
00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 2: But yeah, Mosley thirteen and five of the Magic car,

1080
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:55,040
Speaker 2: they're on a hot eight game win streak, they're top

1081
00:50:55,120 --> 00:50:59,960
Speaker 2: two defensively. He's getting contributions from everybody on this damn ross,

1082
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:02,040
Speaker 2: you know, especially if there were some injuries that come

1083
00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:04,239
Speaker 2: and play. All right, a couple other guys plug in there.

1084
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:07,439
Speaker 2: You know, we talked about Cole Anthony, but Goga there

1085
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:10,759
Speaker 2: in the starting lineup, and Moe Wagner. Hell, he could

1086
00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:13,000
Speaker 2: have been a dark horse, like an honorable mention for

1087
00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:15,960
Speaker 2: six man like a lot Jonathan Isaac, as we've talked about. Defensively,

1088
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:18,520
Speaker 2: so getting contributions from everybody, and they're just the most

1089
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:21,360
Speaker 2: surprising team. And that's the angle I was going to

1090
00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:24,320
Speaker 2: go with. Nobody had the magic thirteen and five, you know,

1091
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:27,160
Speaker 2: nearly twenty games end of the season, so I assume

1092
00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:28,120
Speaker 2: you have him at number one.

1093
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:30,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a little more fun to go with the

1094
00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:33,600
Speaker 3: surprising coaches. I would say. There's obviously great coaches. You know,

1095
00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:35,640
Speaker 3: in the past, you could always give it to to

1096
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:39,440
Speaker 3: Pop or to Kerr or somebody like that, and to

1097
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:42,399
Speaker 3: the great teams in this league. You can say, hey,

1098
00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:44,080
Speaker 3: that coach deserves it, But it's fun to give it

1099
00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:44,640
Speaker 3: to these guys.

1100
00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:46,680
Speaker 2: I would well hold on the Magic are the I mean,

1101
00:51:46,719 --> 00:51:48,680
Speaker 2: they're one of the best teams in the Chris Finch.

1102
00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:52,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, but the best team in the Eastern Conference is Joe.

1103
00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:55,640
Speaker 3: Let's play that Kazoo Missoula. I would be playing the

1104
00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:59,120
Speaker 3: Joe k Azula for for his for he has been

1105
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:02,080
Speaker 3: really good and his team has been very good. They

1106
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:04,239
Speaker 3: are the best team. But it's nice to give it

1107
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 3: to guys you don't expect. But that's why Digno deserves

1108
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:10,920
Speaker 3: some in oh yeah, in Oklahoma City.

1109
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:13,040
Speaker 2: He got some consideration last year he did. Yeah, but

1110
00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:14,080
Speaker 2: Mike Brown won it. Yeah.

1111
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:16,960
Speaker 3: Sometimes you get it like I have that emmanual quickly

1112
00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:19,239
Speaker 3: that six man. He may win it because of it.

1113
00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:21,839
Speaker 3: Digno may wound it. Yeah, just yeah. Year over year

1114
00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:23,279
Speaker 3: over year, he's been really really good.

1115
00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:25,320
Speaker 2: All right, let's hear from everybody on that one. I

1116
00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:26,959
Speaker 2: think we can move on to the next one because

1117
00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:27,719
Speaker 2: we do have one more.

1118
00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:29,320
Speaker 3: And I nearly forgot about surprising.

1119
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:31,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, you forgot about clutch Player of the Year.

1120
00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:32,040
Speaker 3: I always do.

1121
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:35,600
Speaker 2: It's a Newish award, but it's a technical award, that's right.

1122
00:52:36,239 --> 00:52:39,600
Speaker 2: Dearon Fox was our inaugural winner. So I have one

1123
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:44,640
Speaker 2: month in clutch Player of the Year, the favorite, Damian Lillard. Yes,

1124
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:48,000
Speaker 2: that's right. He has sixty five total points in clutch play.

1125
00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:51,719
Speaker 2: Clutch play, you know, five minutes or less at the

1126
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:54,600
Speaker 2: end of regulation, within five and we get into overtime.

1127
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:56,759
Speaker 2: But dam is shooting forty eight percent from the floor

1128
00:52:56,800 --> 00:53:00,680
Speaker 2: in the clutch, seven to seventeen from deep assists. He's

1129
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:04,560
Speaker 2: a plus thirty four. And the Bucks with Dame in

1130
00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:07,359
Speaker 2: those situations, they're eating two tests, they're winning a lot

1131
00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:10,480
Speaker 2: of these close games, and he's a big reason why.

1132
00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:13,680
Speaker 2: So I have Dame one. I actually have Steph Curry too,

1133
00:53:13,719 --> 00:53:16,080
Speaker 2: and I have Lebron James three. They've been really good

1134
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:18,920
Speaker 2: in the clutch. I have a bunch of honorable mentions.

1135
00:53:18,960 --> 00:53:20,879
Speaker 2: But before I get to that, thoughts on, oh.

1136
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:23,000
Speaker 3: I can't wait for the game time. Yeah, this is

1137
00:53:23,160 --> 00:53:27,360
Speaker 3: truly just Hey, let's look this thing up. What do

1138
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:29,399
Speaker 3: the stats say, Let's go with that guy.

1139
00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 2: It's it's always going to be that, which I think

1140
00:53:32,719 --> 00:53:36,440
Speaker 2: is fair. You have to like actually put the parameters

1141
00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:39,839
Speaker 2: on it. Yes, and then it is, uh, well, who's

1142
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:42,560
Speaker 2: got the game winners, who has those big moments the

1143
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:44,279
Speaker 2: big shots and stuff like that. I think it goes

1144
00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:46,040
Speaker 2: a little bit. You know, Fox had a couple of those,

1145
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:48,279
Speaker 2: which and he had the numbers to back it up,

1146
00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:51,439
Speaker 2: like he was just lights out in the clutch. So yeah,

1147
00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 2: that but but I think right now Dame's he's got

1148
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:57,360
Speaker 2: both of those. Yeah, he's got obviously the numbers I

1149
00:53:57,440 --> 00:53:58,719
Speaker 2: just backed it up with, and he's got a couple

1150
00:53:58,719 --> 00:53:59,719
Speaker 2: of big shots. He's already hit.

1151
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:01,760
Speaker 3: You could do it. And this is why the Milwaukee

1152
00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:04,320
Speaker 3: Bucks traded for him. And we heard those rumors in

1153
00:54:04,400 --> 00:54:07,440
Speaker 3: the offseason. Maybe maybe there's a slight chance that yanistat

1154
00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:09,320
Speaker 3: to Goupo may want to leave. At some point he

1155
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:11,839
Speaker 3: said he's not signing the extension, and then boom, they

1156
00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:13,719
Speaker 3: get Dame out of know where. It looked like he

1157
00:54:13,800 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 3: was going to Miami. Yanni signs the extension and in

1158
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:21,879
Speaker 3: fourth quarter after Dame, unlike his Portland days, Kim allow

1159
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:25,120
Speaker 3: Yannis and other guys to do their thing. He's fresh. Yeah,

1160
00:54:25,239 --> 00:54:27,160
Speaker 3: at the end of game. So that's why he's so money.

1161
00:54:27,239 --> 00:54:30,880
Speaker 3: It's so interesting that team is so good offensively, but

1162
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:33,640
Speaker 3: somehow they haven't found their way defensively. That's that's going

1163
00:54:33,680 --> 00:54:35,000
Speaker 3: to turn at some point they're going to be good.

1164
00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:37,360
Speaker 2: There was a great discourse going on on Twitter about

1165
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:40,120
Speaker 2: how Lillard, you know, you think of just all the

1166
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:44,440
Speaker 2: game winners to end teams in playoff series and the

1167
00:54:44,560 --> 00:54:46,880
Speaker 2: you know, the buzzer beaters and the waves and all that,

1168
00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:48,359
Speaker 2: Like you think of the shots, is what I'm getting

1169
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:52,160
Speaker 2: out here. But he also rarely makes a mistake in

1170
00:54:52,239 --> 00:54:55,000
Speaker 2: the clutch in terms of setting guys up, taking care

1171
00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:57,920
Speaker 2: of the ball. He's a guaranteed free throw for the

1172
00:54:57,960 --> 00:54:59,960
Speaker 2: most part when he steps the line almost never missed it,

1173
00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:02,320
Speaker 2: never missed it throughout the entire game, let alone in

1174
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:05,840
Speaker 2: the clutch. So it's like he's just so smart in

1175
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:08,400
Speaker 2: the pressure packed moments, Like he's sort of built for this.

1176
00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:11,600
Speaker 2: He's like Curry in that sense, which again is why

1177
00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:14,000
Speaker 2: I have him high. But yeah, I got damn right now.

1178
00:55:14,239 --> 00:55:15,759
Speaker 2: I think it checks out. It's a good point about

1179
00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:18,440
Speaker 2: like he's got a little bit of narrative built in, right,

1180
00:55:18,520 --> 00:55:20,520
Speaker 2: Like why they go and get him to like try

1181
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:24,880
Speaker 2: and close out games. Honorable mentions to Trey Young. They

1182
00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:26,400
Speaker 2: don't have a great record in the clutch, but he

1183
00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:29,400
Speaker 2: has a ton of stats. Like Trey Young is like

1184
00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:31,640
Speaker 2: one of the leaders when you look at the actual clutch,

1185
00:55:32,640 --> 00:55:36,040
Speaker 2: you know, points per game and total points. Luca he's

1186
00:55:36,080 --> 00:55:39,960
Speaker 2: always in the mix. Mikail Bridges tasks is one of

1187
00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:42,279
Speaker 2: the leaders in a lot of categories. And then just

1188
00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:44,200
Speaker 2: this is not really an honorable mention, just more of

1189
00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:48,480
Speaker 2: a little weird note. Demonte Sabonis, I don't think has

1190
00:55:48,560 --> 00:55:51,719
Speaker 2: missed a shot in the clutch. Last I checked, he

1191
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:54,120
Speaker 2: was perfect, not a ton. He's like six for six,

1192
00:55:54,239 --> 00:55:56,320
Speaker 2: but still six for six and six for six. So

1193
00:55:56,800 --> 00:55:59,120
Speaker 2: just a weird little fact there. But Dame Steph and

1194
00:55:59,200 --> 00:56:03,120
Speaker 2: lebron on Owen was like, whoa, wow, these are amazing.

1195
00:56:03,520 --> 00:56:07,759
Speaker 3: Yes, it's surprising. And I will just say I think

1196
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:10,839
Speaker 3: the next Clutch Award, since this one was born last year,

1197
00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:15,680
Speaker 3: will be the Clutch Defense Award. WHOA just somebody coming through.

1198
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:18,040
Speaker 3: I see the stream team talking about it. They're doing

1199
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:21,760
Speaker 3: a great job. They're saying clutch defenses ignored. Yeah, because

1200
00:56:21,760 --> 00:56:22,800
Speaker 3: we don't have the stats for that.

1201
00:56:23,160 --> 00:56:26,160
Speaker 2: Well, technically, could just we could see.

1202
00:56:26,239 --> 00:56:29,600
Speaker 3: Opponents percentage, field wal percentage, we could who he guarded.

1203
00:56:29,680 --> 00:56:31,840
Speaker 2: The stats are out there. Schumann's got every stats.

1204
00:56:32,360 --> 00:56:35,239
Speaker 3: I think it just it won't be as concrete. It won't.

1205
00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:39,480
Speaker 3: It won't be correct because it just won't be because

1206
00:56:39,520 --> 00:56:42,520
Speaker 3: the guy. Anyway, it doesn't matter because the defense is

1207
00:56:42,600 --> 00:56:46,359
Speaker 3: just so hard to evaluate. Yeah, but anyway, that's coming.

1208
00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:47,399
Speaker 3: It's coming one day.

1209
00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:49,080
Speaker 2: You're fine with Dame there at the top.

1210
00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:53,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm basically on stats, and I do love watching

1211
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:55,040
Speaker 3: the Milwaukee Bucks when it comes down to the clutch

1212
00:56:55,080 --> 00:56:57,320
Speaker 3: mits and Chris Middleton helping out.

1213
00:56:57,600 --> 00:56:59,680
Speaker 2: And they're winning. That's a big part in those clutch games.

1214
00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:02,799
Speaker 2: The maps with Luca, I think they might be eight

1215
00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:04,640
Speaker 2: and one in those situations as well, led by him.

1216
00:57:04,719 --> 00:57:06,279
Speaker 2: So he's going to be on the on the short

1217
00:57:06,320 --> 00:57:06,680
Speaker 2: list too.

1218
00:57:06,880 --> 00:57:09,200
Speaker 3: Oh, we didn't talk Hustle Award. We're not doing that

1219
00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:11,759
Speaker 3: Hustle Award. Yeah, there's always a Hustle Award. There's an

1220
00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:15,600
Speaker 3: annual Hustle Award. Guy who basically just runs around does

1221
00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:16,760
Speaker 3: good things defensive.

1222
00:57:17,480 --> 00:57:20,600
Speaker 2: That's not a real award. I mean, well like one

1223
00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:23,440
Speaker 2: of the major awards, it's not. This is a secondary,

1224
00:57:23,640 --> 00:57:24,520
Speaker 2: tertiary award.

1225
00:57:25,120 --> 00:57:27,640
Speaker 3: Second day, tell me who's ever won the Who's Yeah,

1226
00:57:27,840 --> 00:57:31,840
Speaker 3: Patrick Beverly's won at the NBA Hustle Award. It's handed out.

1227
00:57:32,040 --> 00:57:33,720
Speaker 3: Marcus smart Is won at the most.

1228
00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:37,800
Speaker 2: Okay, hold on the NBA. The media doesn't vote on this.

1229
00:57:38,840 --> 00:57:41,640
Speaker 3: Well, it's an annual National Basketball Association award given since

1230
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:44,880
Speaker 3: twenty seventeen to players that best utilized hustle to keep

1231
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:47,160
Speaker 3: their teams win on a nightly basis. Okay, who votes

1232
00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:50,920
Speaker 3: on it or has decided using a metric known as

1233
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:52,560
Speaker 3: hustle stats, which is on a dot.

1234
00:57:53,080 --> 00:57:54,120
Speaker 2: It's a Shuman award.

1235
00:57:54,440 --> 00:57:55,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess it's a shoe Okay, So.

1236
00:57:56,040 --> 00:57:58,800
Speaker 2: Marcus Smartest won a bunch. Patrick Beverley's won a bunch.

1237
00:57:59,320 --> 00:58:04,000
Speaker 3: Patrick Bevers one one, Marcus smarts won thrice, Thaddeus Young,

1238
00:58:04,280 --> 00:58:07,240
Speaker 3: Montres Harrel and one of the best raptors in history.

1239
00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:13,720
Speaker 3: He's more number fifteen. No, it's who is Johnson? Amir

1240
00:58:13,800 --> 00:58:16,720
Speaker 3: Johnson one for the Sixers when he played for six

1241
00:58:17,720 --> 00:58:20,640
Speaker 3: It is fascinating. Yeah, it's calculating, if we want to

1242
00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:24,840
Speaker 3: get into It tracks defensive offensive efforts such as diving

1243
00:58:24,920 --> 00:58:29,000
Speaker 3: for loose taking charges of deflections, setting screens, and contesting.

1244
00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:30,160
Speaker 2: Who would be your leader?

1245
00:58:30,240 --> 00:58:30,480
Speaker 3: Right now?

1246
00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:31,080
Speaker 2: I got mine?

1247
00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:34,720
Speaker 3: Who is it? Na?

1248
00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:36,280
Speaker 1: No?

1249
00:58:36,480 --> 00:58:40,640
Speaker 2: No, no? I think Alex Caruso. Yeah, I mean he

1250
00:58:40,640 --> 00:58:41,680
Speaker 2: plays on a shooting team.

1251
00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:45,960
Speaker 3: But who cares need a starter. Okay, that says we

1252
00:58:46,080 --> 00:58:48,240
Speaker 3: have to have a start, but I think I feel

1253
00:58:48,280 --> 00:58:50,920
Speaker 3: like everyone who's one as a starter play more.

1254
00:58:51,880 --> 00:58:56,520
Speaker 2: If that's the case, then I don't know, scutty Bee,

1255
00:58:56,680 --> 00:58:57,720
Speaker 2: I'm not picking a raptor.

1256
00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:01,560
Speaker 3: Homer got you all right, Barndoor, We'll win it.

1257
00:59:01,800 --> 00:59:05,760
Speaker 2: There's the NBA War front runners again. Tell us whether

1258
00:59:05,840 --> 00:59:09,000
Speaker 2: you agree, disagree, who you agree with more, who we missed?

1259
00:59:09,080 --> 00:59:11,160
Speaker 2: Make your case. You are in the stream team, you

1260
00:59:11,240 --> 00:59:13,760
Speaker 2: will in the comments, and you can on Twitter at

1261
00:59:13,880 --> 00:59:17,960
Speaker 2: no dunk sync. Let's start wrapping up this Drop podcast

1262
00:59:18,040 --> 00:59:21,840
Speaker 2: with some rapid fire fun. There's the music, I got

1263
00:59:21,880 --> 00:59:25,080
Speaker 2: the questions. I'll answer along with you guys. First one,

1264
00:59:25,120 --> 00:59:27,840
Speaker 2: Mark Cuban said Wednesday that he still has no plans

1265
00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:32,160
Speaker 2: to run for president in twenty twenty four. Speculation over

1266
00:59:32,240 --> 00:59:35,840
Speaker 2: a potential Cuban White House run mounted this week after

1267
00:59:36,040 --> 00:59:39,760
Speaker 2: Cubes announced he was leaving Shark Tank, as well as

1268
00:59:39,800 --> 00:59:42,040
Speaker 2: amid reports that he plans to sell his majority stake

1269
00:59:42,080 --> 00:59:46,360
Speaker 2: in the Mavericks for three point five billion. What other

1270
00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:50,200
Speaker 2: NBA personality would you like to see run for president

1271
00:59:50,560 --> 00:59:52,080
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four tasks?

1272
00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:57,520
Speaker 3: I'm staying local and I think a great addition as

1273
00:59:57,560 --> 01:00:02,520
Speaker 3: a nomination would be TNTs are an each Johnson? Oh nice, nice, Know,

1274
01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:07,200
Speaker 3: a man who's experienced knows how to talk to the microphone,

1275
01:00:07,840 --> 01:00:11,280
Speaker 3: and he will. I think he just wants the best

1276
01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:14,880
Speaker 3: for people. Maybe the wealthy will be taxed a little

1277
01:00:14,880 --> 01:00:18,240
Speaker 3: bit under Ernie Johnson. This incoming equality is a little ridiculous.

1278
01:00:19,120 --> 01:00:20,840
Speaker 3: Maybe it's fresh in my mind because I read an

1279
01:00:20,920 --> 01:00:26,640
Speaker 3: article about him on the Athletic because his pops was

1280
01:00:26,720 --> 01:00:31,840
Speaker 3: also a broadcaster after he played ball. He is nominated

1281
01:00:31,880 --> 01:00:35,200
Speaker 3: for the Ford C. Frick Award, which will be given

1282
01:00:35,240 --> 01:00:40,800
Speaker 3: out on December sixth to the best baseball broadcasters in

1283
01:00:40,880 --> 01:00:43,880
Speaker 3: their meetings on December six So his father is his pops. Yeah,

1284
01:00:45,040 --> 01:00:46,440
Speaker 3: hopefully Ernie.

1285
01:00:46,280 --> 01:00:47,360
Speaker 2: Johnson, I don't mind that one.

1286
01:00:47,560 --> 01:00:47,720
Speaker 3: JD.

1287
01:00:47,800 --> 01:00:48,280
Speaker 2: Where are you going?

1288
01:00:49,040 --> 01:00:50,959
Speaker 4: I'm also going on the TNT desk.

1289
01:00:51,120 --> 01:00:51,280
Speaker 3: Oh.

1290
01:00:52,240 --> 01:00:57,960
Speaker 4: I'm nominating two people, Shack for president and Berkley vice president.

1291
01:00:58,200 --> 01:01:02,520
Speaker 4: Interesting okay, Oh, he's an interesting guy. He's had a

1292
01:01:03,040 --> 01:01:06,560
Speaker 4: you know, a hard upbringing. He's a fifteen time All Star.

1293
01:01:06,920 --> 01:01:09,439
Speaker 4: He's he went back after he was in the NBA

1294
01:01:09,600 --> 01:01:13,480
Speaker 4: to go get his degree general studies. But still guy

1295
01:01:13,640 --> 01:01:17,920
Speaker 4: was raised Baptist and Muslim, says he's a man of

1296
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:22,240
Speaker 4: the people. This is a really smart guy, great businessman,

1297
01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:23,920
Speaker 4: which Americans seem to like.

1298
01:01:24,720 --> 01:01:25,280
Speaker 2: A good point.

1299
01:01:26,320 --> 01:01:31,320
Speaker 4: So why not? Okay and Barkley, you know, when he

1300
01:01:31,360 --> 01:01:34,480
Speaker 4: ever he's talking about social issues, I'm with him, like

1301
01:01:35,120 --> 01:01:38,320
Speaker 4: I usually agree with him. So give me, give me

1302
01:01:38,440 --> 01:01:39,760
Speaker 4: Shack and Barley.

1303
01:01:39,840 --> 01:01:43,040
Speaker 2: Wow, we've got three quarters here of the TNT TESK

1304
01:01:43,240 --> 01:01:46,040
Speaker 2: Do I have the guts to say? Kenny Smith president

1305
01:01:46,280 --> 01:01:48,560
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four? Are you insane?

1306
01:01:48,840 --> 01:01:49,040
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1307
01:01:49,120 --> 01:01:54,000
Speaker 2: No, wait, I'm gonna go though with an ESPN personality

1308
01:01:54,480 --> 01:01:57,760
Speaker 2: because politics, man, it's basically sports at this point, it's

1309
01:01:57,800 --> 01:02:02,640
Speaker 2: all entertainment. Unfortunately, Stephen A. Smith put that guy on

1310
01:02:02,720 --> 01:02:05,160
Speaker 2: the mic. I like that. Let him talk to the people,

1311
01:02:05,840 --> 01:02:10,960
Speaker 2: let him tell us what he's running on. Be entertaining.

1312
01:02:11,200 --> 01:02:12,840
Speaker 2: You can't argue that, absolutely.

1313
01:02:13,760 --> 01:02:13,960
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1314
01:02:14,120 --> 01:02:16,439
Speaker 3: If you catch some of the clips of his show,

1315
01:02:18,160 --> 01:02:20,080
Speaker 3: I don sp.

1316
01:02:20,120 --> 01:02:22,200
Speaker 2: I sometimes can't believe the real clips.

1317
01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:24,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, they seem fake, you know.

1318
01:02:24,200 --> 01:02:27,040
Speaker 2: Like yeah, like hey, what's the horniest day? And stuff

1319
01:02:27,120 --> 01:02:30,600
Speaker 2: like that, and he just answers so earnestly and breaks

1320
01:02:30,640 --> 01:02:33,080
Speaker 2: it down in his only the way he can. So Yeah,

1321
01:02:33,120 --> 01:02:36,800
Speaker 2: Steven Stephen A. Smith for for President? I can't vote anyway,

1322
01:02:36,840 --> 01:02:40,120
Speaker 2: so it's just a show for me and I.

1323
01:02:40,240 --> 01:02:42,960
Speaker 3: And I potentially would vote for Shack. That's a good one.

1324
01:02:43,360 --> 01:02:45,600
Speaker 3: I was thinking that he isn't because also a.

1325
01:02:45,680 --> 01:02:49,320
Speaker 2: Cop cop train that might be a knock against him.

1326
01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:53,800
Speaker 3: People voting for well, yeahsolutely that's true.

1327
01:02:53,840 --> 01:02:55,880
Speaker 2: It would help help him in the polls, no doubt.

1328
01:02:56,080 --> 01:02:59,400
Speaker 2: All right, next one, you're this is random really has

1329
01:02:59,480 --> 01:03:02,040
Speaker 2: nothing to do with the NBA, but I thought it

1330
01:03:02,120 --> 01:03:06,000
Speaker 2: was a fun story. The Pop Tarts Bowl college football Bowl.

1331
01:03:06,360 --> 01:03:10,640
Speaker 2: It's going to have the first ever edible mascot. Yeah,

1332
01:03:10,760 --> 01:03:14,160
Speaker 2: that's right. When the final whistle blows, the winning team

1333
01:03:14,920 --> 01:03:19,280
Speaker 2: will celebrate by taking a bite of the giant pastry mascot.

1334
01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:22,640
Speaker 3: I mean, this is a high.

1335
01:03:23,560 --> 01:03:26,800
Speaker 2: I know it's when I'm reading this out loud. So

1336
01:03:26,960 --> 01:03:30,040
Speaker 2: my question off of this is what other edible mascot

1337
01:03:30,080 --> 01:03:32,600
Speaker 2: would you love to see or taste?

1338
01:03:33,600 --> 01:03:37,880
Speaker 3: My question is what are they doing? So and a

1339
01:03:37,960 --> 01:03:38,479
Speaker 3: good question.

1340
01:03:38,560 --> 01:03:39,479
Speaker 2: It's a great question.

1341
01:03:41,080 --> 01:03:43,440
Speaker 3: Are people running up to bite the mascot? And that

1342
01:03:43,600 --> 01:03:47,600
Speaker 3: that was what I put. I had to decide do

1343
01:03:47,720 --> 01:03:50,880
Speaker 3: you want to do? I want to go bite right

1344
01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:55,160
Speaker 3: right because if it's a tasty pastry. Yeah, But you've

1345
01:03:55,280 --> 01:03:58,000
Speaker 3: just been I don't know, sweating in it, rolling around

1346
01:03:58,080 --> 01:03:59,880
Speaker 3: in it, like it's more likely to be dirty.

1347
01:04:00,120 --> 01:04:03,640
Speaker 2: I think the mascots the mask the foods that you're.

1348
01:04:03,520 --> 01:04:06,120
Speaker 3: Eating, because I think that's the point of this question.

1349
01:04:07,080 --> 01:04:08,920
Speaker 3: I would want it. I wouldn't want to eat, you know,

1350
01:04:09,000 --> 01:04:10,960
Speaker 3: crappy parts. I don't think I want to eat a

1351
01:04:11,600 --> 01:04:15,720
Speaker 3: pop tart. But anyway, I want things that are wrapped. Yeah,

1352
01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:19,520
Speaker 3: and so I know that they're clean. So I want

1353
01:04:19,560 --> 01:04:27,960
Speaker 3: a fer Okay, they have to and it's a great mascot.

1354
01:04:28,040 --> 01:04:31,720
Speaker 3: I think it's a perfect time for a mascot Christmas time.

1355
01:04:32,240 --> 01:04:32,800
Speaker 4: No, you're right.

1356
01:04:34,760 --> 01:04:36,840
Speaker 3: The rest of it will be a large for chet.

1357
01:04:36,880 --> 01:04:39,200
Speaker 3: And then he comes he or she comes with little

1358
01:04:39,240 --> 01:04:39,720
Speaker 3: balls on it.

1359
01:04:40,560 --> 01:04:42,960
Speaker 2: And so I take the idea of the team, the

1360
01:04:43,040 --> 01:04:46,280
Speaker 2: winning team coming over and basically stripping down this kid.

1361
01:04:46,800 --> 01:04:52,040
Speaker 4: That sounds I don't like that. Well, exactly just ripping

1362
01:04:52,120 --> 01:04:53,600
Speaker 4: the wrapping off this.

1363
01:04:54,680 --> 01:05:00,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, he the mascot I think retains shape. Yeah, well,

1364
01:05:00,280 --> 01:05:01,680
Speaker 3: the pop start is a weird thing.

1365
01:05:01,840 --> 01:05:05,920
Speaker 2: That's my best guess on this pop tart is, of

1366
01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:08,280
Speaker 2: course it's a it's the material of a mascot. But

1367
01:05:08,360 --> 01:05:10,919
Speaker 2: then there's going to be a part at the top. Yes,

1368
01:05:11,120 --> 01:05:16,360
Speaker 2: that's legit pastry okay, and hey, come on over, you know,

1369
01:05:16,480 --> 01:05:17,640
Speaker 2: bite the corner of my head.

1370
01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:21,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's what I think is gonna happen.

1371
01:05:21,360 --> 01:05:24,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, it never occurred to me that, yes, this mascot

1372
01:05:24,560 --> 01:05:26,160
Speaker 4: is going to be working the entire games.

1373
01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:27,640
Speaker 2: The pop tart stick there.

1374
01:05:28,480 --> 01:05:30,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, obviously we all hope.

1375
01:05:32,080 --> 01:05:34,280
Speaker 2: JD. What edible mascot would you like to see?

1376
01:05:34,360 --> 01:05:38,320
Speaker 4: Well, it's an existing mascot, and I think this addresses

1377
01:05:38,520 --> 01:05:41,800
Speaker 4: your problem with the task because it does have a

1378
01:05:42,080 --> 01:05:44,960
Speaker 4: hard outer shell, and it's the peanut M and M.

1379
01:05:45,040 --> 01:05:48,440
Speaker 4: I mean that's a no brainer for like, can you

1380
01:05:48,920 --> 01:05:50,960
Speaker 4: bite deep enough to get some of the peanut? I

1381
01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:54,720
Speaker 4: don't know, hopefully let's assume you can. But that's what

1382
01:05:54,800 --> 01:05:55,320
Speaker 4: I'm going for.

1383
01:05:55,560 --> 01:05:55,960
Speaker 2: That's good.

1384
01:05:56,120 --> 01:05:59,000
Speaker 4: It was either that or the jolly green giant just

1385
01:05:59,080 --> 01:05:59,480
Speaker 4: for healthy.

1386
01:05:59,560 --> 01:06:02,520
Speaker 2: You're saying, you're saying the peanut eminem.

1387
01:06:02,240 --> 01:06:04,080
Speaker 4: Not specifically because I like those bad.

1388
01:06:04,200 --> 01:06:07,800
Speaker 2: Yeah. Is that the green one?

1389
01:06:07,880 --> 01:06:09,120
Speaker 4: Then I think it's the yellow.

1390
01:06:08,920 --> 01:06:09,560
Speaker 2: One, yellow one?

1391
01:06:09,640 --> 01:06:11,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's absolutely.

1392
01:06:11,640 --> 01:06:12,560
Speaker 2: It was the sexy one.

1393
01:06:13,440 --> 01:06:17,760
Speaker 4: That's uh. Is that the peanut peanut butter one?

1394
01:06:18,560 --> 01:06:20,640
Speaker 3: Well, they got rid of the sexy one get rid

1395
01:06:20,640 --> 01:06:23,880
Speaker 3: of such a big god.

1396
01:06:25,600 --> 01:06:29,720
Speaker 2: Rush on anymore. Hey, you want to run for president,

1397
01:06:29,840 --> 01:06:31,640
Speaker 2: say you're going to bring back the sexy em.

1398
01:06:33,200 --> 01:06:33,880
Speaker 3: With the high heels.

1399
01:06:33,960 --> 01:06:36,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, was that the brown Maybe it was a brown one.

1400
01:06:37,560 --> 01:06:42,920
Speaker 2: I did that eyelashes, Yeah, okay. My answer to this is,

1401
01:06:44,360 --> 01:06:49,240
Speaker 2: do you remember when eSPI Nation's Ryan nanny Uh launched

1402
01:06:49,720 --> 01:06:53,920
Speaker 2: and completed a successful Twitter campaign to be the Bloomin

1403
01:06:54,080 --> 01:06:58,360
Speaker 2: Onion mascot in the back bowl coming back back in

1404
01:06:58,400 --> 01:06:59,120
Speaker 2: twenty seventeen.

1405
01:06:59,160 --> 01:07:01,120
Speaker 3: Can you have Ryan on right?

1406
01:07:01,440 --> 01:07:03,000
Speaker 4: Yeah? I think that's good.

1407
01:07:03,080 --> 01:07:05,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well this is what he did. I remember,

1408
01:07:05,240 --> 01:07:06,960
Speaker 2: like this was a hilarious thing that he wanted to

1409
01:07:07,040 --> 01:07:09,680
Speaker 2: be the bloomin onion and he and they they got

1410
01:07:09,760 --> 01:07:13,120
Speaker 2: him out there and eventually was the mascot. So it

1411
01:07:13,200 --> 01:07:15,000
Speaker 2: looks like, I mean, I like a bloomin Onion. I

1412
01:07:15,040 --> 01:07:17,680
Speaker 2: don't have him a lot, And it's like a it's

1413
01:07:17,720 --> 01:07:20,439
Speaker 2: a good one in theory that like I could rip

1414
01:07:20,520 --> 01:07:23,240
Speaker 2: off a part of that right and chomp.

1415
01:07:23,040 --> 01:07:23,680
Speaker 3: Away right on.

1416
01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:27,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, So you don't have to actually, you know, put

1417
01:07:27,480 --> 01:07:29,840
Speaker 4: your mouth on the body so that you rip off.

1418
01:07:29,880 --> 01:07:31,120
Speaker 2: I could just go yeah, yeah.

1419
01:07:31,840 --> 01:07:34,400
Speaker 4: How often do you find yourself in an outback steakhouse

1420
01:07:35,520 --> 01:07:38,080
Speaker 4: from Yeah never okay.

1421
01:07:38,160 --> 01:07:41,240
Speaker 2: But I don't. I've definitely had one at like I

1422
01:07:41,320 --> 01:07:43,480
Speaker 2: want to say, like a Canada's Wonderland or something like that.

1423
01:07:43,920 --> 01:07:46,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they're in many places. Yeah. I thought

1424
01:07:46,160 --> 01:07:48,280
Speaker 3: it was the blooming onion, but I don't know it is.

1425
01:07:48,760 --> 01:07:51,760
Speaker 3: Let's say it's Ryan Noddy. I'm in flashbacks. I'm trying

1426
01:07:51,760 --> 01:07:54,520
Speaker 3: to see him run out. Is it hot? I don't

1427
01:07:54,520 --> 01:07:55,520
Speaker 3: want cold onion?

1428
01:07:56,160 --> 01:07:58,800
Speaker 2: Well no, I mean it's it's first off, it's not

1429
01:07:58,920 --> 01:08:02,880
Speaker 2: hot or cold. It's just made of material felt, I

1430
01:08:02,960 --> 01:08:07,080
Speaker 2: guess foam. Yeah, but it would have to be real. Yeah, like, yeah,

1431
01:08:07,080 --> 01:08:08,600
Speaker 2: you're right, it would be cold. I could eat a

1432
01:08:08,640 --> 01:08:12,120
Speaker 2: cold onion ring. It's done similar.

1433
01:08:12,200 --> 01:08:13,280
Speaker 3: It's stills. Yeah.

1434
01:08:13,400 --> 01:08:17,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. I had crispy crispy, and that's honestly where

1435
01:08:17,080 --> 01:08:19,479
Speaker 2: I do not like a bloomin onion. I don't like

1436
01:08:19,560 --> 01:08:21,600
Speaker 2: when you get to the nub to the base of it,

1437
01:08:22,880 --> 01:08:24,400
Speaker 2: it's not it's not crispy.

1438
01:08:25,200 --> 01:08:27,080
Speaker 3: Yeah you know, yeah, softy for sure.

1439
01:08:27,160 --> 01:08:29,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's hard to get in there with the oil,

1440
01:08:29,880 --> 01:08:30,320
Speaker 4: that's right.

1441
01:08:30,800 --> 01:08:34,880
Speaker 2: The final one here. Spotify wrapped the yearly event that

1442
01:08:34,960 --> 01:08:38,080
Speaker 2: allows users to see and share breakdowns of their listening activity.

1443
01:08:38,439 --> 01:08:41,519
Speaker 2: It's arrived too early for our liking, but it's here,

1444
01:08:42,080 --> 01:08:45,080
Speaker 2: and we thank everybody that's been sharing their lists with

1445
01:08:45,280 --> 01:08:47,320
Speaker 2: no Dunks in their top five. But I want to know,

1446
01:08:47,520 --> 01:08:51,160
Speaker 2: simple enough task, JD. What is your number one song

1447
01:08:51,760 --> 01:08:54,599
Speaker 2: on your Spotify wrapped and or your number one podcast?

1448
01:08:54,600 --> 01:08:55,960
Speaker 2: You can give us both, give us one. What do

1449
01:08:56,000 --> 01:08:56,240
Speaker 2: you got?

1450
01:08:56,880 --> 01:08:59,719
Speaker 3: I truly hope this is the last year where because

1451
01:08:59,760 --> 01:09:03,600
Speaker 3: of my parenthood, all I'm saying is kids songs. My

1452
01:09:03,720 --> 01:09:07,519
Speaker 3: number one artist is Perry Gripp. If you're familiar, Nope,

1453
01:09:07,640 --> 01:09:09,520
Speaker 3: the song is riding on a lama.

1454
01:09:10,520 --> 01:09:14,799
Speaker 5: Riding on alama, wishing about no thinking about my mama,

1455
01:09:16,040 --> 01:09:18,759
Speaker 5: got a million things to do, but I just don't

1456
01:09:18,920 --> 01:09:19,360
Speaker 5: want to.

1457
01:09:19,720 --> 01:09:22,840
Speaker 3: Shouldn't have won a sweat or anyway. It's such as,

1458
01:09:24,320 --> 01:09:26,720
Speaker 3: oh gosh, get out of here, Perry Grip.

1459
01:09:27,360 --> 01:09:28,599
Speaker 2: So that's number one.

1460
01:09:28,880 --> 01:09:30,800
Speaker 3: That's number one, Get out of here, Perry. I truly

1461
01:09:30,880 --> 01:09:33,160
Speaker 3: hope I'm going to record this and come back to

1462
01:09:33,280 --> 01:09:36,240
Speaker 3: it and just hear myself say this better be the

1463
01:09:36,320 --> 01:09:41,400
Speaker 3: last year I'm hearing kids you yeah on the.

1464
01:09:41,479 --> 01:09:45,600
Speaker 2: Record saying get rid of all this music, real music.

1465
01:09:45,439 --> 01:09:48,760
Speaker 4: Exactly, or at least get them their own profiles.

1466
01:09:49,640 --> 01:09:53,160
Speaker 3: You know. Yeah, I played in the car and how.

1467
01:09:53,080 --> 01:09:55,639
Speaker 4: Do you drive around like that? I I don't understand.

1468
01:09:55,800 --> 01:09:56,880
Speaker 3: I'm an insane person.

1469
01:09:57,320 --> 01:09:58,120
Speaker 4: Know you're a good dad.

1470
01:09:58,200 --> 01:09:59,760
Speaker 3: That's what. No, no, no, I don't want to listen

1471
01:09:59,760 --> 01:09:59,920
Speaker 3: to it.

1472
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:02,200
Speaker 2: It sounded like a jam if I'm being honest.

1473
01:10:02,320 --> 01:10:07,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, the paragraph does some good things. Uh yeah, No,

1474
01:10:08,280 --> 01:10:09,320
Speaker 3: nobody wants.

1475
01:10:09,080 --> 01:10:12,080
Speaker 2: It, okay, JD What about you? Number one song, number

1476
01:10:12,080 --> 01:10:12,800
Speaker 2: one podcast.

1477
01:10:12,520 --> 01:10:19,160
Speaker 4: Everyone song is is Guilty by Barbara Streisand and Harry Gibbs.

1478
01:10:19,320 --> 01:10:22,720
Speaker 4: I'm not much better. I love that song. I put

1479
01:10:22,760 --> 01:10:24,519
Speaker 4: it on pretty much every time I go to pick

1480
01:10:24,560 --> 01:10:27,080
Speaker 4: up my kids from somewhere. It's just a great song. Okay,

1481
01:10:27,479 --> 01:10:30,599
Speaker 4: so check it out. And number one podcast is Bad

1482
01:10:30,640 --> 01:10:31,679
Speaker 4: Friends Bobby Lee.

1483
01:10:31,840 --> 01:10:33,200
Speaker 3: And Nice good Way.

1484
01:10:33,439 --> 01:10:37,760
Speaker 2: Yeah good one. My top artists were Jungle Drake and

1485
01:10:37,840 --> 01:10:40,320
Speaker 2: the Black Pumas, so I was happy about that. Yeah,

1486
01:10:40,960 --> 01:10:43,400
Speaker 2: it feels like Drake's on everybody's top five. But my

1487
01:10:43,520 --> 01:10:48,599
Speaker 2: top podcast was The press Box hosted by Brian Curtis

1488
01:10:48,800 --> 01:10:53,000
Speaker 2: and David Shoemaker. That the Ringer. You know, it's the

1489
01:10:53,040 --> 01:10:56,799
Speaker 2: biggest media stories anywhere, from you know, sports to politics,

1490
01:10:56,840 --> 01:10:59,439
Speaker 2: though a little bit of everything in between. I think

1491
01:10:59,439 --> 01:11:02,160
Speaker 2: it's great. I love it. I also think Brian Curtis

1492
01:11:02,280 --> 01:11:07,280
Speaker 2: is the best interviewer in the podcast game Wow. When

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01:11:07,320 --> 01:11:10,840
Speaker 2: he has people on and to interview them, I think

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Speaker 2: he's I think he's incredible. He's like so no nonsense.

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01:11:14,439 --> 01:11:16,519
Speaker 2: It's just like good at asking a question, you know,

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Speaker 2: and getting the hell out of the way and getting

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01:11:18,560 --> 01:11:21,679
Speaker 2: a good response the press box. Check it out. Big

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01:11:21,840 --> 01:11:26,439
Speaker 2: fan of Curtis and Shoemaker there. So there it is

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Speaker 2: Spotify wrapped. That's wrapped, fire wrapped. That's a drop wrapped.

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Speaker 2: And we appreciate you guys joining us. As always, if

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01:11:33,600 --> 01:11:35,760
Speaker 2: you joined us live, hit that like button that is

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01:11:35,840 --> 01:11:38,840
Speaker 2: not asking a lot, just smash it and then make

1503
01:11:38,920 --> 01:11:41,599
Speaker 2: sure you subscribe to No Dunks on YouTube. Podcast listeners,

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01:11:42,240 --> 01:11:44,920
Speaker 2: leave your boys a five star rating and review. Our guy,

1505
01:11:45,040 --> 01:11:47,200
Speaker 2: Trey Kirby is back here in the Classic Factory. We'll

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01:11:47,240 --> 01:11:49,920
Speaker 2: have the whole gang back together, and well that will

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01:11:49,960 --> 01:11:52,680
Speaker 2: mean because we're into December, maybe next week or the

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01:11:52,720 --> 01:11:54,840
Speaker 2: week after, I'm sure we'll do a five star Friday fun.

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01:11:55,280 --> 01:11:58,040
Speaker 2: So get your reviews in. If you are a podcast listener,

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01:11:58,920 --> 01:12:01,240
Speaker 2: you might hear your review you and your name on

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01:12:01,479 --> 01:12:04,519
Speaker 2: this very pot What you got lined up this weekend

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01:12:04,720 --> 01:12:05,200
Speaker 2: anything of.

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Speaker 3: Nope, no, just listening to good musical. It's a goal

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01:12:11,280 --> 01:12:12,880
Speaker 3: every day I wake up and say, I'm not going

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01:12:12,960 --> 01:12:14,120
Speaker 3: to listen to his kids stuff.

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01:12:14,439 --> 01:12:18,519
Speaker 2: Does it come on your like automatically when you get

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01:12:18,520 --> 01:12:20,320
Speaker 2: in the car, Like, does it pick.

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01:12:20,240 --> 01:12:22,160
Speaker 3: Up where you left or where you left off? Yeah?

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01:12:22,560 --> 01:12:24,519
Speaker 2: Left off, so you're probably so it just starts back up.

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01:12:24,560 --> 01:12:26,320
Speaker 2: And every time you get in there, Oh no, I

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01:12:26,600 --> 01:12:29,120
Speaker 2: listen to podcast. Like when you drive in without the kids,

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01:12:29,160 --> 01:12:31,679
Speaker 2: you're listening to something else. You're not sitting there listen

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01:12:31,760 --> 01:12:33,240
Speaker 2: to a lama exactly.

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Speaker 3: If I'm walking into my mailbox, I ain't listening to

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Speaker 3: a kid song.

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Speaker 4: How far away is your mailbox?

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Speaker 3: Good? Thirty seconds.

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Speaker 2: He's actually pretty lucky in comparison to some of your

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Speaker 2: other neighbors.

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Speaker 3: I get a good pot in there, Fire up the pot.

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Speaker 2: Yeah well yeah, sure, all right, guys, thanks so much again.

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01:12:52,439 --> 01:12:54,080
Speaker 2: We will be back on Monday. Like I said, we

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01:12:54,240 --> 01:12:56,760
Speaker 2: might have a happy hour playback later today. I might

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01:12:56,920 --> 01:12:59,800
Speaker 2: jump on there, so make sure you join our playback room.

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01:12:59,840 --> 01:13:02,000
Speaker 2: That link is in the show notes. And Test did

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Speaker 2: say like next week, it's in season tournament time, it's

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01:13:05,200 --> 01:13:07,559
Speaker 2: quarterfinals on Monday. It's the semifinals later in the week,

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01:13:07,600 --> 01:13:09,120
Speaker 2: so we might be doing some watch parties for some

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01:13:09,200 --> 01:13:12,479
Speaker 2: of that. So absolutely, yeah, get in our playback room. Okay,

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Speaker 2: Clipper Rose, you.

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01:13:13,840 --> 01:13:14,559
Speaker 3: Heard it here first.

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01:13:14,840 --> 01:13:16,240
Speaker 2: Have a great time, turn up.

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01:13:16,439 --> 01:13:17,599
Speaker 1: Love you guys, awesome.

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01:13:17,720 --> 01:13:21,240
Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us. And remember telling us all no

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01:13:21,400 --> 01:13:24,680
Speaker 3: games on Sunday in the National Basketball Association because of

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01:13:24,760 --> 01:13:25,640
Speaker 3: the tournament.

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Speaker 2: Coming up this Sunday.

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01:13:27,040 --> 01:13:29,479
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, don't expect your team to be playing on Sunday.

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01:13:30,439 --> 01:13:34,400
Speaker 3: This is the old sandwich. No games on Sunday, QF quarterfinals,

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01:13:34,439 --> 01:13:40,240
Speaker 3: Monday quarterfinals, Tuesday, other games, Wednesday semifinals, Thursday other games,

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01:13:40,320 --> 01:13:44,360
Speaker 3: Friday finals and then this on Saturday. And then it's

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Speaker 3: the end of the sandwich Sunday no games, so it's

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01:13:47,320 --> 01:13:49,200
Speaker 3: just no games of the next two so.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna have some interesting winners and losers of the weekend.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I'll have to be, you know, really locked in tonight.

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01:13:55,720 --> 01:13:58,400
Speaker 2: Got it to happen, and of course on Saturday. Okay, great,

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01:13:58,560 --> 01:14:00,600
Speaker 2: thank you for that little tip there. Uh, embrace the

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Speaker 2: weekend people.

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