1
00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:13,200
Speaker 1: You just got crack crack crap. Yeah, you just.

2
00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:20,959
Speaker 2: Got crack crack crash, you just got cry.

3
00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:29,040
Speaker 3: Good morning, sworeld and welcome to the No Dunks podcast

4
00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:32,680
Speaker 3: on the Athletic Network. It's Wednesday, April tenth, twenty twenty four.

5
00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:34,920
Speaker 3: I'm Jay Skeiths here in the Classic Factory and alongside

6
00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:38,199
Speaker 3: me as always Tasmelice Crocked Lovers.

7
00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:39,720
Speaker 4: This one is for you.

8
00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:41,320
Speaker 3: Next to him, it's the bearded one. I'm a top

9
00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:44,199
Speaker 3: shot boy. Trey Kirby out Hey yo, and last but

10
00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:47,440
Speaker 3: not least, making the magic happen, super producer jd. Hello,

11
00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:50,239
Speaker 3: there he he Hello, there he is here. We are

12
00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:54,120
Speaker 3: audio coming through nice and clear. Chrisy, we had a

13
00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:56,240
Speaker 3: WEDG you last night. Let's show it to you. WEDG

14
00:00:56,240 --> 00:01:01,240
Speaker 3: you Number fifty six. Brandon Miller in Charlotte from the corner. Now,

15
00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:04,600
Speaker 3: Dante Exem has quite the reaction there. As you see,

16
00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:07,400
Speaker 3: it wasn't really to do with the weggie. He got

17
00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:09,440
Speaker 3: called for a foul, okay, so he was like, come on,

18
00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:10,960
Speaker 3: I barely touched.

19
00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:14,160
Speaker 1: Your arm, but you would be disappointed not to see a.

20
00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:15,880
Speaker 3: Look at that pace.

21
00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:18,039
Speaker 4: That's a lot of weggies. And I know everybody's talking

22
00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:20,280
Speaker 4: about the playoffs. All the playoffs are counting, playoffs were coming.

23
00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:23,040
Speaker 4: The count for the most weggies ever is coming down

24
00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:26,120
Speaker 4: to the wire here very close. Fifty eight is the

25
00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:28,160
Speaker 4: amount of weggies. So we're only two away, and we

26
00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:30,680
Speaker 4: count into the playoffs because we just make it our

27
00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:33,240
Speaker 4: own record. It's not just a regular season record like

28
00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:34,000
Speaker 4: some people like.

29
00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:35,360
Speaker 1: Some people forget that.

30
00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:36,440
Speaker 4: We're there. We're there.

31
00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:38,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're getting it. We're getting fifty nine at least,

32
00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:41,399
Speaker 3: and we're probably hitting sixty at some point during the postseason.

33
00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:44,759
Speaker 3: Special year. Lots of games on last night. A little

34
00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:46,400
Speaker 3: bit later, we'll do the updown report, but we had

35
00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:47,000
Speaker 3: a lot of games.

36
00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:49,400
Speaker 4: Let's sound tired.

37
00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:51,200
Speaker 3: I am tired. There's too much basketball.

38
00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:52,280
Speaker 4: There's too many games.

39
00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:54,040
Speaker 3: And then you see the schedule tonight, you're thinking it'll

40
00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:56,000
Speaker 3: probably only be three games on no no, no, no,

41
00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,320
Speaker 3: no no, there's like seminar eight games. There's a lot

42
00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:01,360
Speaker 3: of back to back situation. We unfortunately might have more

43
00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:04,160
Speaker 3: injuries because of these back to backs. What a tease,

44
00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:08,400
Speaker 3: It's like a baseball talk. Yeah, because let's start with

45
00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:10,280
Speaker 3: the you know, the wild news from last night. Two

46
00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:13,840
Speaker 3: time Mvpnis Antetokoumpo exited the Bucks one O four ninety

47
00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:17,240
Speaker 3: three win over the Celtics in the third quarter because

48
00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:19,880
Speaker 3: of an injury to his left calf. You can see

49
00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:22,920
Speaker 3: it in the short clip here. He just crumples to

50
00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:26,239
Speaker 3: the floor while running up after inbounding the ball, total

51
00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:29,519
Speaker 3: non contact. Now, the Bucks announced that his injury was

52
00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:32,040
Speaker 3: a left calf strain. We're hearing some good things, I

53
00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:34,960
Speaker 3: guess this morning about the severity of the injury. It's

54
00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:37,640
Speaker 3: you know, not in Achilles or anything like that, but

55
00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:40,359
Speaker 3: you know, an injury like this can still keep a

56
00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:43,800
Speaker 3: guy out a week, two weeks, maybe even longer. We'll see,

57
00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:47,280
Speaker 3: you know, the grade of this sprain. Yeah, what did

58
00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:48,880
Speaker 3: you think here of you honest? And then of course

59
00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:51,160
Speaker 3: we immediately go what does this mean for the Bucks

60
00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:51,640
Speaker 3: moving forward?

61
00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:54,320
Speaker 4: Yeah? Initially I think, yes, said a Goombo doesn't get

62
00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:57,040
Speaker 4: an Achilles injury, that is great news for you as

63
00:02:57,040 --> 00:02:59,320
Speaker 4: set of Goombo not being out for a long period

64
00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:01,960
Speaker 4: of time, and he's going to come back and play

65
00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:05,919
Speaker 4: in the postseason. Like Achilles. The Greek warrior, I said

66
00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:07,960
Speaker 4: to Combo is a Greek warrior. He will come back

67
00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:11,919
Speaker 4: and play basketball. But that being said, it's gonna bother

68
00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:14,600
Speaker 4: him throughout the postseason. I started thinking, well, the twenty

69
00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:17,440
Speaker 4: twenty one playoffs, he hurt that knee, he came back

70
00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:20,520
Speaker 4: after a week, and they win the NBA Finals. Why

71
00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:23,079
Speaker 4: can't they be great again? Well, that was just two

72
00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:25,560
Speaker 4: weeks where they played in the finals. This is two

73
00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:27,799
Speaker 4: months that we're talking about here, and we're talking about

74
00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:31,000
Speaker 4: a team that was feeling good back then. So I

75
00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:32,560
Speaker 4: think there's a lot of difference. There's a lot of

76
00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:34,920
Speaker 4: negatives we can get into, but I think this just

77
00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:38,680
Speaker 4: isn't a good sign for the Bucks this postseason. Yeah.

78
00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:41,560
Speaker 1: I mean, it's been a rough season for the Bucks

79
00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:43,920
Speaker 1: in general, and then for this to happen right as

80
00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:46,560
Speaker 1: we're gearing up for playoff time. Luckily, the Bucks got

81
00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:48,520
Speaker 1: to win, so they probably stay out of the play

82
00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:51,160
Speaker 1: in tournament, which was like a minor concern. But Giannis

83
00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:56,040
Speaker 1: will have another week to rest his leg there, so yeah,

84
00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:58,320
Speaker 1: I mean, we'll see how long he actually is out here,

85
00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:00,000
Speaker 1: Like you're sayings, Skeetz could be a couple of way,

86
00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:03,760
Speaker 1: could be a month, could be who knows, depending on

87
00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:07,080
Speaker 1: the grade of the strain and the actual location of it.

88
00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:09,800
Speaker 1: But the Bucks have had some pretty bad injury luck

89
00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:12,280
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Recently, I saw Frank Madden for Brew

90
00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:16,120
Speaker 1: Hoop tweet that in twenty twenty, Jannis missed the last

91
00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:18,080
Speaker 1: one and a half games of the Heat series with

92
00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:20,200
Speaker 1: an ankle injury. Twenty twenty one, you mentioned it, he

93
00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:22,480
Speaker 1: sprained his knee against the Hawks. Missed the last two

94
00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:24,880
Speaker 1: games of the Eastern Conference Finals, but Brook Lopez put

95
00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:26,839
Speaker 1: the team on his back there. Twenty twenty two, Janis

96
00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:29,240
Speaker 1: was healthy but no Chris Middleton after the first two

97
00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:31,320
Speaker 1: games of the first round. In last year, he missed

98
00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:33,520
Speaker 1: half of Game one, then games two and three in

99
00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:35,359
Speaker 1: the Heat series that the Bucks went on to lose.

100
00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:38,920
Speaker 1: That's pretty bad luck over the course of four seasons

101
00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:41,800
Speaker 1: there for especially a guy like Yannis, who's pretty reliable,

102
00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:44,960
Speaker 1: pretty healthy in general. That being said, he has had

103
00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:47,919
Speaker 1: some left leg problems this whole season. He's been in

104
00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:50,000
Speaker 1: and out of a lineup with hamstring concerns. I think

105
00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:52,359
Speaker 1: there was some CAF trouble earlier than that where he

106
00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:54,440
Speaker 1: just didn't look very explosive at all, which is weird

107
00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:57,240
Speaker 1: for Yannis. So if they were playing a little bit better,

108
00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:01,400
Speaker 1: if they had had a chance to click with him, Middleton,

109
00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:03,559
Speaker 1: and Dame all in the lineup at the same time.

110
00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:05,760
Speaker 1: Maybe he gets a chance to rest this and he's

111
00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:07,760
Speaker 1: not having to play in the last week of the

112
00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:10,679
Speaker 1: season here with their seed completely locked in. That hasn't

113
00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:12,680
Speaker 1: been the case for the Bucks, and it could come

114
00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:14,720
Speaker 1: back to bite him going into the playoffs.

115
00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:16,599
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the other part of this. Let's say he

116
00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:19,680
Speaker 3: comes back miraculously, I don't know, in a week for

117
00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:21,520
Speaker 3: the start of the playoffs with this guy who knows

118
00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:25,040
Speaker 3: it's possible. I guess. Still, this team wasn't playing well

119
00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:27,200
Speaker 3: and they weren't playing together. You said it, Trey, how

120
00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:30,719
Speaker 3: many games have Middleton, Dame and Joannis actually played in

121
00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:33,479
Speaker 3: the same time over the last you know, thirty or

122
00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:36,480
Speaker 3: thirty five games. It's a handful from what I can remember.

123
00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:41,400
Speaker 3: So they just don't have obviously the experience is playing together. No,

124
00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:43,760
Speaker 3: maybe Dame can carry them early on if there's no

125
00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:46,680
Speaker 3: Jannis in the first couple of games. They've done it

126
00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:48,920
Speaker 3: before when Jannis has missed time in some of these series.

127
00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:50,240
Speaker 3: You know, some of those series they did go on

128
00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:54,000
Speaker 3: to win despite missing their superstar. But different scenario. As

129
00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,919
Speaker 3: you started this whole conversation test than that team that

130
00:05:56,960 --> 00:05:59,400
Speaker 3: eventually won the championship over the Suns, where he missed

131
00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:01,200
Speaker 3: that series the end of the series against the Hawks.

132
00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:04,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, and this team just feels old. Let's just put

133
00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:07,159
Speaker 4: it simple as that. It definitely feels that way. Patrick

134
00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:09,840
Speaker 4: Beverley got the start yesterday, which is a good sign

135
00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:12,080
Speaker 4: for Malik Beasley. And I say it's a good sign

136
00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:14,800
Speaker 4: because it's happened before with Malik Beasley. I don't know

137
00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:16,479
Speaker 4: why I didn't call this. I mean, when he was

138
00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:18,680
Speaker 4: with the Los Angeles Lakers yesterday they yanked him, or

139
00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:21,880
Speaker 4: yesterday last year they yanked him out of the starting lineup.

140
00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:25,200
Speaker 4: Patrick Beverley, though he was talking about on his podcast

141
00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:28,919
Speaker 4: that he's got surgery coming, that he's avoiding it to

142
00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:32,640
Speaker 4: play in the postseason, and everybody just in general is

143
00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:34,560
Speaker 4: a little bit older, I will say though. The positive

144
00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:37,440
Speaker 4: also for the Bucks, Chris Middleton fought through it in

145
00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:40,119
Speaker 4: this game and was the reason in the fourth quarter

146
00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:43,400
Speaker 4: that they came back and were able to hold on

147
00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:46,240
Speaker 4: to it as a win. I should say, because he

148
00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:48,839
Speaker 4: was coming back from an injury where he was suffered

149
00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:52,600
Speaker 4: the mouth trauma literally it's called mouth trauma where he

150
00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:54,400
Speaker 4: had to go see the dentist and he had somebody

151
00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:56,560
Speaker 4: fall on his back as well, but he came back

152
00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,240
Speaker 4: and he is a key guy to this team. So

153
00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:02,880
Speaker 4: there's pot a news starting lineup. I think with Patrick

154
00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:05,120
Speaker 4: Beverley as a positive that there's an attitude with that

155
00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:08,120
Speaker 4: defense and the fact that they beat the Boston Celtics

156
00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:10,480
Speaker 4: twice this season and they lost to them twice so

157
00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:13,880
Speaker 4: to two season series not bad at all when you

158
00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:17,880
Speaker 4: look at those losses by a total of six points combined,

159
00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:19,240
Speaker 4: So they can look at it and be like, hey,

160
00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:21,720
Speaker 4: we can play this team. But they also you know,

161
00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:23,840
Speaker 4: they could literally fall down the standing series. They have

162
00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:26,040
Speaker 4: a back to back tonight. I don't know where they're

163
00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:30,000
Speaker 4: going to finish. Who knows they could finish third, So

164
00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:33,040
Speaker 4: that there's lots of pausities, but so many negatives I

165
00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:33,800
Speaker 4: think for this Bucks.

166
00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:37,040
Speaker 3: Extremely weird game last night between the Bucks and Celtics

167
00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:41,280
Speaker 3: combined for a record low two free throw attempts love

168
00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:44,920
Speaker 3: it two in the entire game. The Celtics became the

169
00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:47,960
Speaker 3: first team in NBA history to not shoot a free throw,

170
00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:51,239
Speaker 3: which is insane. That's a record they're just gonna hold

171
00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:53,360
Speaker 3: for the rest of the time. No one will ever be

172
00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:55,720
Speaker 3: able to beat them at that one. I saw Doc

173
00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:58,120
Speaker 3: Rivers after the game say, Adam Silver's got to be

174
00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:01,160
Speaker 3: loving this, you know, to paraphrase, be the happiest one

175
00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:04,040
Speaker 3: fifty seven game time. My goodness, you can go to

176
00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:07,680
Speaker 3: a game and still have dinner. Unbelievable, said.

177
00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:10,280
Speaker 1: Put it on a quotograph.

178
00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:14,200
Speaker 3: I think the previous record was eleven combined free throws

179
00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:17,560
Speaker 3: in a game for two teams. Obviously, I think it

180
00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:19,280
Speaker 3: was maybe a Pacers Magic game where it was like

181
00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:23,000
Speaker 3: six or five two. It was Yannis, right, He was

182
00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:24,800
Speaker 3: the only one that went to the line, and I

183
00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:26,320
Speaker 3: think he split a pair before the injury.

184
00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:27,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Bucks weird.

185
00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:30,440
Speaker 4: The Celtics are a little bit in chill mode.

186
00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:34,000
Speaker 3: Noil porzingis last night, no Horford and yes, chill mode

187
00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:37,719
Speaker 3: I think is to say, don't get injured was their

188
00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:40,920
Speaker 3: game plan, I think, and they successfully did that. Unfortunately

189
00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:43,640
Speaker 3: the Bucks and Yannis didn't. I want to show you

190
00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:45,520
Speaker 3: the East standings. Obviously a ton more games and we

191
00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:47,280
Speaker 3: can talk about some of these Eastern Conference games and

192
00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:49,520
Speaker 3: then we'll move to the West. But you see it there,

193
00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:53,160
Speaker 3: Boston clearly ahead of the Bucks. It was a big win.

194
00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:55,520
Speaker 3: I guess from Milwaukee in the end because you had

195
00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:58,160
Speaker 3: the Knicks also winning. Now the Magic dropped a bad

196
00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:01,800
Speaker 3: one and then it's just bumbled there from the Calves

197
00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:04,439
Speaker 3: all the way down to sort of the eighth seed

198
00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:06,360
Speaker 3: in Miami Heat. It's still very very close here in

199
00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:08,960
Speaker 3: the final week. But any any of those other results

200
00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:12,480
Speaker 3: jump out to you from last night in the East

201
00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:13,200
Speaker 3: at least.

202
00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:16,200
Speaker 4: Well, I will say, just looking at the standings, we

203
00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:18,840
Speaker 4: could have four teams finish forty nine and thirty three.

204
00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:21,840
Speaker 4: How fun will that be? Two through five right now

205
00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:24,439
Speaker 4: they could finish forty nine and thirty three, And I

206
00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:26,840
Speaker 4: just keep thinking about ye, honest, he's going to get

207
00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:29,960
Speaker 4: eleven to twelve days off before the first game of

208
00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:32,760
Speaker 4: round one. He could come back, but I'm still not

209
00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:35,040
Speaker 4: buying it. So I keep trying to be positive about it.

210
00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:37,360
Speaker 4: But Damian Lillard was asked about it by the athletics.

211
00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:40,520
Speaker 4: Eric name, You got injured. Your calf was injured last year?

212
00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:42,880
Speaker 4: How was that? I was freaking irritated, is what he said.

213
00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:46,360
Speaker 4: I came back after two weeks and my soliest part

214
00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:48,080
Speaker 4: of his calf came back, and I was I was

215
00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:50,800
Speaker 4: just irritated all seen and so I think the other

216
00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:52,640
Speaker 4: team's got to feel good. Even though the Knicks are

217
00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:55,959
Speaker 4: playing without Julius Randall. I mean, they looked, well, we'll

218
00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:56,480
Speaker 4: get we'll.

219
00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:58,640
Speaker 1: Get it awesome. Last night we have Jalen Brunton was

220
00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:00,160
Speaker 1: on fire. I think he had forty five point it's

221
00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:02,480
Speaker 1: on twenty four shots and he just couldn't miss. He

222
00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:05,800
Speaker 1: was gonna complete control of the game for New York.

223
00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:07,600
Speaker 1: So getting to win there, they could easily move up

224
00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:11,280
Speaker 1: into the two seed, and that's probably good for them

225
00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:13,440
Speaker 1: if they finished in the two seeds, just because I

226
00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:16,319
Speaker 1: don't know. The Knicks have been playing awesome. They're a

227
00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:18,520
Speaker 1: little bit healthier, obviously no Randall, but at least they

228
00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:21,680
Speaker 1: know that going into the playoffs and og is back.

229
00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:24,560
Speaker 1: That being said, I'm a little concerned about the Knicks

230
00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:26,840
Speaker 1: having an extra playoff gear. I've seen this with Tom

231
00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:29,280
Speaker 1: Thibodeaux teams before, where everybody plays forty minutes a game,

232
00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:31,319
Speaker 1: so you can't play him more minutes when it comes

233
00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:33,320
Speaker 1: playoff time. Like, what more can Jalen Brunson do?

234
00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:35,800
Speaker 4: He can't. He can't do more than what he did

235
00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:38,120
Speaker 4: with forty five points. Did He was getting MVP chants

236
00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:42,080
Speaker 4: in Chicago because that's where he's from. Literally in Chicago,

237
00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:44,040
Speaker 4: he was getting MVP chance. He is a beast. But

238
00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:47,079
Speaker 4: I do think this will be his best postseason ever,

239
00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:49,960
Speaker 4: and that's saying a lot because last year he was awesome.

240
00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:53,240
Speaker 4: He was almost twenty eight points per game. But he's

241
00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:56,120
Speaker 4: making everybody dance. He yead Clyde Fraser, the Knicks broadcaster.

242
00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:59,439
Speaker 4: The Knicks broadcasters say yesterday, well while watching this game,

243
00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:02,400
Speaker 4: said folks, I was a seven time All NBA defense

244
00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:05,800
Speaker 4: You gotta put him on his butt. Talking about Jyalen Brunson,

245
00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:07,840
Speaker 4: I gotta heat broadcasts and say, you gotta put that

246
00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:10,120
Speaker 4: dude on his butt because he is so fricking good.

247
00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:13,800
Speaker 4: It's really up to de Vincenzo and ogn and Obi

248
00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:16,959
Speaker 4: and every single guy that he passes to to hit

249
00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:19,360
Speaker 4: those threes because the doubles are coming and we broke

250
00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:22,160
Speaker 4: them down. Hertenstein's gonna get the ball. That floater is

251
00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:26,160
Speaker 4: freaking on fire right now. Those guys, you're gonna have

252
00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:30,240
Speaker 4: to hit shots for Jalen Brunson to continue what he's

253
00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:32,920
Speaker 4: doing because they're gonna double. Everybody's gonna double this guy.

254
00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:35,480
Speaker 3: Do you think Quinton Grimes will help the Knicks in

255
00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:36,040
Speaker 3: the playoffs.

256
00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:40,800
Speaker 1: Hey, man, I've said things wrong on the podcast before.

257
00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:44,720
Speaker 3: Sure, he is not usually a guy that's not on

258
00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:46,640
Speaker 3: the team, but it's your hometown team. I think you

259
00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:48,240
Speaker 3: usually have the Bulls roster down, Pat.

260
00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:50,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. I think he's trying to talk about

261
00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:55,320
Speaker 1: Miles McBride. But yeah, but Grimes does stink. That's the

262
00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:58,079
Speaker 1: other thing. He stinks. He had one good season last year.

263
00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:01,520
Speaker 1: I thought a Pacers had a nice win. It started

264
00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:03,480
Speaker 1: off ugly. I was like, oh, they cannot lose this

265
00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:05,760
Speaker 1: one to the Raptors, but then they bounced back and

266
00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:07,719
Speaker 1: scored forty in the second quarter, forty one in the

267
00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:09,840
Speaker 1: second quarter, and ended up scoring one hundred and forty

268
00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:12,520
Speaker 1: on a Raptors team that's ready for the draft lottery.

269
00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:14,640
Speaker 1: I would say, but oh we've been ready.

270
00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:16,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I know.

271
00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:18,360
Speaker 1: Raptors fans are happy they chose the direction, and the

272
00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:20,160
Speaker 1: direction is to the draft lottery.

273
00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:23,240
Speaker 3: It absolutely is Oh my god, there's fingers crossed. That

274
00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:26,040
Speaker 3: goes higher than maybe holding on to their pick there

275
00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:27,360
Speaker 3: and not having it go to the Spurs.

276
00:12:27,559 --> 00:12:31,920
Speaker 4: As first sitting guys, officially sitting guys no fines because

277
00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:35,440
Speaker 4: they're not nationally televised games. But literally, it's against the

278
00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:38,480
Speaker 4: whole rule that the NBA made in the preseason. Emmanuel

279
00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:42,000
Speaker 4: quickly is sitting now for rest now doesn't make sense.

280
00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:44,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, for the Knicks to sort of catch the Bucks,

281
00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:46,520
Speaker 3: you guys were talking about that gonna be tough because

282
00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:48,600
Speaker 3: the Bucks you have a head to head tiebreaker, so

283
00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:51,319
Speaker 3: they're gonna have to like make up two games on

284
00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:53,920
Speaker 3: them for the Knicks to get a past Milwaukee there.

285
00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:55,600
Speaker 3: But then, yeah, you guys said, we're talking about that

286
00:12:55,679 --> 00:12:58,200
Speaker 3: sort of six seven eight there. With the results last night,

287
00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:00,760
Speaker 3: Indiana holds a one game lead over philadel for the

288
00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:04,840
Speaker 3: six spot, Miami barely behind them. Two of those three

289
00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:08,720
Speaker 3: teams again, Indiana, Philly, Miami. They feel like they're going

290
00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:11,400
Speaker 3: to be playing in at least that seven to eight matchup, right,

291
00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:13,640
Speaker 3: we know it's going to be Hawks Bowls in nine ten.

292
00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:16,880
Speaker 3: The Heat have three games left, all at home. They

293
00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:19,640
Speaker 3: host the Mavericks tonight, Red Hot Dallas Mavericks, followed by

294
00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:23,199
Speaker 3: two games against the Toronto Raptor, so those could be

295
00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:23,559
Speaker 3: two wins.

296
00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:23,760
Speaker 4: Yeah.

297
00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:26,760
Speaker 3: The Sixers also are at home the rest of the way,

298
00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:29,720
Speaker 3: huge game Friday against Orlando and then a season finisher

299
00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:32,520
Speaker 3: against Brooklyn and then the Pacers have to go to Cleveland,

300
00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:36,959
Speaker 3: who Indiana does trail by half a game or one

301
00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:38,679
Speaker 3: and a half game something like that. Very close, yeah,

302
00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:40,920
Speaker 3: with half game for fifth in the East, and then

303
00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:44,960
Speaker 3: they host the Hawks. So huge next games here, I'm saying,

304
00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,200
Speaker 3: like for the Pacers with that Cleveland one, obviously, for

305
00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:50,360
Speaker 3: the Sixers with that Magic one, the Heat, you know,

306
00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:52,880
Speaker 3: and the Dallas one, Like that's not the hottest team

307
00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:54,960
Speaker 3: in the league right now, and we saw the Heat

308
00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:56,120
Speaker 3: need a double overtime to beat the.

309
00:13:56,040 --> 00:14:00,600
Speaker 1: Hawks tooallasstime, Yeah, both of them. Yeah. Jimmy Butler was

310
00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:03,600
Speaker 1: about as brutal as he could be. I thought he

311
00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:06,400
Speaker 1: was terrible in the fourth quarter overtime, and then in

312
00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:08,960
Speaker 1: the second overtime, they just got lucky that everybody on

313
00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,400
Speaker 1: the court was exhausted by the time second overtime came

314
00:14:11,679 --> 00:14:14,520
Speaker 1: and Kyle sorry Tyler Hero was actually able to score

315
00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:17,000
Speaker 1: a couple of buckets, but Butler like he couldn't get

316
00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:19,160
Speaker 1: by anybody. He was getting eaten the live by DeAndre

317
00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:21,920
Speaker 1: Hunter on the defensive end. And then Hero couldn't get

318
00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:24,800
Speaker 1: a touch for the longest time because Gigante Murray was

319
00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:27,640
Speaker 1: all over him. So yeah, I mean the heat. You're

320
00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:29,840
Speaker 1: supposed to be scared of him going into the playoffs,

321
00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:33,120
Speaker 1: but their clutch offense is really really bad, and it

322
00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:35,400
Speaker 1: kind of comes down to Jimmy, can you hit an

323
00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:38,520
Speaker 1: impossible shot? Last night? He was not able to hit

324
00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:41,160
Speaker 1: impossible shots. So he did go ten for thirteen from

325
00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:42,480
Speaker 1: the free throw line, but I think he missed two

326
00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:44,760
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter as well. Unable to put the

327
00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:46,800
Speaker 1: Hawks away, but they got the dub and now the

328
00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:48,840
Speaker 1: Bulls have. You don't get a magic number when you're

329
00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:50,560
Speaker 1: playing for the nine in ten seed. That's not what

330
00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:53,680
Speaker 1: it's called. It needs something else. But a combination of

331
00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:56,160
Speaker 1: a Bulls win and a Hawks loss. Their number is

332
00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:58,720
Speaker 1: two to clinch the ninth seed. It also shouldn't be

333
00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:03,160
Speaker 1: called clinching starts with the magic number. When you're under

334
00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:06,200
Speaker 1: five hundred playing for the nine tens, what is that called.

335
00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:08,360
Speaker 1: It's not a tragic number. It's not like you're being

336
00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:09,960
Speaker 1: eliminated in no playoffs.

337
00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:12,000
Speaker 3: But it's not magical.

338
00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:12,840
Speaker 1: It ain't.

339
00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:16,880
Speaker 3: No I saw it had John Hollander looking up hotels

340
00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:19,120
Speaker 3: in Chicago because he wanted to stay here in Atlanta

341
00:15:19,160 --> 00:15:20,160
Speaker 3: for that nine ten game.

342
00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:28,640
Speaker 4: It's off, Johnny, It's Orlando tragic for you, man. Yeah,

343
00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:30,840
Speaker 4: those are just a wild night. Will that the Magic

344
00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:33,560
Speaker 4: loss to the Houston Rockets, And they have two more

345
00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:37,200
Speaker 4: games against the Milwaukee Bucks, so that should right the

346
00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:39,360
Speaker 4: way for them going into the postseason. But I am

347
00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:43,000
Speaker 4: interested in to see how teams in the East finish off,

348
00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:45,280
Speaker 4: like the Miami Heat who do not look right, like

349
00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:48,600
Speaker 4: the Cleveland Cavaliers where Donovan Mitchell does not look right

350
00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:50,640
Speaker 4: coming back from that knee injury, sitting out of back

351
00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:54,920
Speaker 4: to back and just everything everything from Donovan Mitchell just

352
00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:59,720
Speaker 4: doesn't look absolutely right. So the Calves, it's just I say,

353
00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:02,400
Speaker 4: it's all complicated, and four teams can finish at forty

354
00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:05,040
Speaker 4: nine thirty three. But yeah, some teams are just playing

355
00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:06,640
Speaker 4: better than the others and that's for sure. And then

356
00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:08,840
Speaker 4: you get to throw a Joel embiad in there.

357
00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:11,760
Speaker 3: I mean, oh, yeah, Sixers are playing the best right now.

358
00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:13,360
Speaker 3: I mean they're on a six game win streak. Again,

359
00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:15,040
Speaker 3: the Celtics are taking their foot off the gas and

360
00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:19,080
Speaker 3: rightfully so. But yeah, Sixers are trying to climb out

361
00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:22,000
Speaker 3: of the play in and maybe even host a first

362
00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:24,560
Speaker 3: round playoff series. It's still in the mix when you look,

363
00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:26,360
Speaker 3: when you look ahead of them there, they're only a

364
00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:28,840
Speaker 3: game and a half behind the Magic, They're only two

365
00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:30,840
Speaker 3: games behind the Knicks, and there's still you know, two

366
00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:33,520
Speaker 3: or three games from most of these teams. Left O right,

367
00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:36,960
Speaker 3: Let's pivot to the to the West here some also

368
00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:39,760
Speaker 3: wild results last night. The Warriors made twenty six three pointers.

369
00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:43,760
Speaker 3: Draymond Green hit five the first half as they beat

370
00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:48,520
Speaker 3: the Lakers No ad for LA one thirty four to

371
00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:51,320
Speaker 3: one twenty. And this is big when yeah, you're looking

372
00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:53,440
Speaker 3: at the play in and who's hosting this is this

373
00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:57,240
Speaker 3: is the West version of Hawk's Bulls. But they have

374
00:16:57,280 --> 00:17:00,680
Speaker 3: a maybe good good team. Teams that have won championship

375
00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:02,920
Speaker 3: cent are actually pretty good with superstar players, yeah, and

376
00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:05,080
Speaker 3: have been playing awesome in the second half of the season,

377
00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:07,640
Speaker 3: but cannot get out of the ninth or tenth seed.

378
00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:09,400
Speaker 1: I guess the Lakers dig get up to eighth over

379
00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:12,800
Speaker 1: the weekend for twenty four hours. But weird one because

380
00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:15,560
Speaker 1: Lebron James didn't show up until like an hour before

381
00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:18,639
Speaker 1: the game started. I saw Davic Menimu was tweeting all

382
00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:21,879
Speaker 1: night like Lebron's not here yet. Lebron just showed up.

383
00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:23,600
Speaker 1: He still doesn't know if he's gonna play, but he

384
00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:26,240
Speaker 1: kind of had to play because Anthony Davis was unable

385
00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:28,000
Speaker 1: to go because the guy keeps getting poked in the

386
00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:30,800
Speaker 1: eye and it is causing problems for him. They don't

387
00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:32,760
Speaker 1: want to say he's in the concussion protocol, but he's

388
00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:35,919
Speaker 1: got headaches and he's got nausea, so who knows what's happening.

389
00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:38,840
Speaker 1: But no ad meant that the Lakers I thought were

390
00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:41,159
Speaker 1: completely overhelping in this one. They wanted to give up

391
00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:43,320
Speaker 1: threes to Draymond Green, just like Draymond wanted to do

392
00:17:43,359 --> 00:17:45,800
Speaker 1: it to Jaylen Brown back in the day, Just like

393
00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:49,720
Speaker 1: Jalen did to Draymond Green. Draymond made the Lakers pay

394
00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:51,960
Speaker 1: five for five, like you said, skeets in the first half.

395
00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:55,080
Speaker 1: At one point, Kevin Harlan screamed, Draymond Green had a

396
00:17:55,119 --> 00:17:59,320
Speaker 1: flame thrower words. I never thought I'd say, that's not

397
00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:02,720
Speaker 1: a national broadcaster, like this guy is Brooke, But he

398
00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:05,600
Speaker 1: was hitting last night and the three pointers were just

399
00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:09,200
Speaker 1: wide open for Golden State because of the leaving people

400
00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:11,879
Speaker 1: open and because anytime there was penetration, it was like

401
00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:13,760
Speaker 1: five guys in the lane. We can't give up a layup,

402
00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,439
Speaker 1: kick it out for an easy one. Thirty five of

403
00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:19,560
Speaker 1: Golden State's attempts were considered open or wide open per

404
00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:22,680
Speaker 1: NBA dot COM's tracking data. They made twenty four of those.

405
00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,600
Speaker 1: That's sixty eight and a half percent. On the night,

406
00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:28,320
Speaker 1: they shot sixty three and a half percent twenty six

407
00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:30,679
Speaker 1: for forty one, which is the best field goal percentage

408
00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:33,320
Speaker 1: from distance in a game in NBA history with a

409
00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:35,800
Speaker 1: minimum of forty attempts. You thought the Warriors were done

410
00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:37,399
Speaker 1: setting three point records. I guess not.

411
00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:40,679
Speaker 3: Yeah, I won't call you by surprise. I was like, whoa, Okay,

412
00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:41,400
Speaker 3: that's a new one.

413
00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:45,160
Speaker 4: Yeah. You have to see Draymond Green hit threes. It's

414
00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:47,120
Speaker 4: been a while he hit five threes. The last time

415
00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:49,640
Speaker 4: he did that was twenty seventeen, as seven years ago,

416
00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:51,800
Speaker 4: the fifteenth time in his career, though he's made at

417
00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:54,960
Speaker 4: least five threes. So surprising. The most the most you

418
00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:57,119
Speaker 4: we all remember when we think about it, is a

419
00:18:57,119 --> 00:19:00,679
Speaker 4: playoff game, Game seven of the twenty sixteen Finals. That

420
00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:03,359
Speaker 4: was a good one. Ye had eight. That being said,

421
00:19:03,359 --> 00:19:06,960
Speaker 4: I think we are sort of over. We're just skipping

422
00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:09,200
Speaker 4: one part of the Golden State Warriors and what they've

423
00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:12,320
Speaker 4: been doing recently. Jonathan Kuminga is out of the starting lineup,

424
00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:14,680
Speaker 4: Trace Jackson Davis and Draymond Green are the five to

425
00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:17,840
Speaker 4: four with Andrew Wiggans sitting beside them, and Draymond Green

426
00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,800
Speaker 4: loves doing that defensively, loves loves being able to take

427
00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:23,000
Speaker 4: a little bit more of a risk because tray Jackson

428
00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:26,320
Speaker 4: Davis is so reliable behind him. And that's a great

429
00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:29,639
Speaker 4: thing for the Golden State Warriors defensively because that's what

430
00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:32,119
Speaker 4: they are, where they are trying to find themselves and

431
00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:34,720
Speaker 4: where they make their money. Really, I know they're a

432
00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:36,400
Speaker 4: great offensive team, but they need to be a great

433
00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:39,119
Speaker 4: defensive team. And this starting lineup that is going to

434
00:19:39,119 --> 00:19:41,760
Speaker 4: go in the playoffs that way with Kuminga coming off

435
00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:45,679
Speaker 4: the bench, which everybody recules Steve Kirk about for a while,

436
00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:48,280
Speaker 4: is different now with a rookie in Trey Jackson Davis

437
00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:50,720
Speaker 4: who can play center, so they control their own destiny

438
00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:53,600
Speaker 4: here for the ninth seed. They should beat the very

439
00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:57,760
Speaker 4: least hosting play in tournament game against the Los Angeles Lakers,

440
00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:00,959
Speaker 4: but in a weird way, some weird math, they can

441
00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:02,879
Speaker 4: even climb up in the play in tournament, but I

442
00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:03,760
Speaker 4: doubt that's gonna have.

443
00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:08,040
Speaker 3: Let's move to the Clippers. They built a thirty one

444
00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:10,880
Speaker 3: point lead in the first quarter. I know you guys

445
00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:13,119
Speaker 3: saw the score going around on Twitter last night. It

446
00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:16,280
Speaker 3: looked fake and they held on to beat the Suns

447
00:20:16,359 --> 00:20:20,320
Speaker 3: one oh five to ninety two. So we also had

448
00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:21,960
Speaker 3: like the Wolves and we'll get to ants big game

449
00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:23,840
Speaker 3: and the Nuggets they won in the thunder one. So

450
00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:27,200
Speaker 3: the Clippers are mathematically out of a top three seed

451
00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:29,679
Speaker 3: in the West. They cannot get into that top three

452
00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:32,640
Speaker 3: because those teams all won last night. But a big

453
00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:35,199
Speaker 3: win still in terms of standings, it's probably even a

454
00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:37,960
Speaker 3: worse loss really for being honest, for the Suns getting

455
00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,120
Speaker 3: down huge and then just where they're sort of free

456
00:20:40,119 --> 00:20:43,080
Speaker 3: following at the wrong time here in the Western Conference standings.

457
00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:45,000
Speaker 3: But any thoughts on this game from the Clips.

458
00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:47,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tough to be the Suns and play the

459
00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:51,399
Speaker 1: Clips after an eclipse. They were destined to lose this game,

460
00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:54,639
Speaker 1: so get your glasses out. Yesterday we were talking about

461
00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:57,600
Speaker 1: teams that the top seeds in the Western Conference want

462
00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,120
Speaker 1: oh avoid, You and I both said the Suns were scary.

463
00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:02,639
Speaker 1: They're not They're not gonna be able to put together

464
00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:06,040
Speaker 1: seven games of reliable basketball. They didn't have I mean,

465
00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:09,119
Speaker 1: they had Bell out there, they had Booker, they had Durant.

466
00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,879
Speaker 1: They should at least compete, and this was a terrible

467
00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:15,040
Speaker 1: loss for them. Fifty points in the paint for the Clippers.

468
00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:17,200
Speaker 1: They shot fifty seven percent on twos, plus they hit

469
00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:20,520
Speaker 1: twelve threes, shooting them at forty six percent. Russell Westbrook

470
00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:22,600
Speaker 1: had a triple double. He was rocking the baby. You

471
00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:24,600
Speaker 1: got beat by a bench guy. This is this is

472
00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:25,520
Speaker 1: terrible for the Suns.

473
00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:28,679
Speaker 3: It was thirty seven to six at one point, the

474
00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:31,840
Speaker 3: score looking like a football game score. They're a big blowout.

475
00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:36,080
Speaker 4: They did fight back, but it's difficult to assess what

476
00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:39,000
Speaker 4: this team will be over a playoff series. It's totally true.

477
00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:43,520
Speaker 4: It's difficult. They do have some fight and Devin Booker

478
00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:46,000
Speaker 4: was a stinky game. Had just had a stinky game

479
00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:47,320
Speaker 4: in the fact that he only hit one shot from

480
00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:52,000
Speaker 4: the floor. Obviously, I am happy that the Clippers are

481
00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:53,919
Speaker 4: playing the Dallas Mavericks in the playoffs. It's a four

482
00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,280
Speaker 4: or five lock. That's what that was going to happen

483
00:21:56,359 --> 00:21:59,160
Speaker 4: in the in the playoffs. Who the Suns will play

484
00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:02,240
Speaker 4: is a miss because they could literally land in the

485
00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:05,639
Speaker 4: plan and it looks like it looks like the Pelicans

486
00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:08,000
Speaker 4: will hold on to that six seed. But TBD still

487
00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:08,240
Speaker 4: on that.

488
00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:11,560
Speaker 3: You're excited though about a Clips MAVs run it back

489
00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:15,560
Speaker 3: where everybody's convinced themselves the Dallas Mavericks and Luca at

490
00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:17,560
Speaker 3: least took one, if not two of those series. But

491
00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:20,120
Speaker 3: as Trey said last week, it's like, no, the Clippers

492
00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:23,480
Speaker 3: actually did advance both times. Just Luca had monster numbers

493
00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:26,920
Speaker 3: and some memorable moments, but La does have Dallas number

494
00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:29,640
Speaker 3: completely different. Dallas Mavericks team here for the most part. Yeah,

495
00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:31,880
Speaker 3: especially since the All Star break and the trade deadline,

496
00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:34,120
Speaker 3: really with the new pieces. But that should be good.

497
00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:36,880
Speaker 3: That might be might be the most Well, there's gonna

498
00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:38,679
Speaker 3: be a lot of great matchups, So that's definitely an

499
00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:41,520
Speaker 3: intriguing one four or five Clips MAVs.

500
00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:43,879
Speaker 4: Yeah, it feels like people are going to be fighting

501
00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:47,520
Speaker 4: in that series, Like people are going to be fighting

502
00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:50,280
Speaker 4: for Luca to win a series against the La Clippers.

503
00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,680
Speaker 4: That's what they have to play for. He just can't

504
00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:56,359
Speaker 4: like the fact that the Clippers own him. He can't

505
00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:59,560
Speaker 4: like that Yeah, him and Kyrie playing together in the

506
00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:03,160
Speaker 4: playoffs for the first time is something for sure. That's

507
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:04,760
Speaker 4: going to be fun. And the Clippers are playing for

508
00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:09,760
Speaker 4: something as well. This Hopefully they're healthy because every single postseason,

509
00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:13,040
Speaker 4: you went through the Bucks injuries every postseason. You could

510
00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:14,400
Speaker 4: do the same for the Clippers, that's for sure.

511
00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:16,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, Harden didn't play last night. I didn't play last night.

512
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:18,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, they still got it done.

513
00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:19,080
Speaker 4: Just hammered the.

514
00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:23,520
Speaker 3: Anthony Edwards scored a career had fifty one points. He

515
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:25,800
Speaker 3: was letting everybody know he scored over fifty with the

516
00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:28,160
Speaker 3: five and the five and the O there, yeah, five

517
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:30,959
Speaker 3: and the fist As the Wolves rallied, I mean they

518
00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:33,040
Speaker 3: were down to the Washington Wizards, but came back and

519
00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:37,600
Speaker 3: won pretty comfortably, one thirty to one twenty one. I

520
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:40,280
Speaker 3: guess the nut Dust Bowl is still not technically over.

521
00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:43,040
Speaker 3: I'm up two games. My Wizards are on your pistons.

522
00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:44,760
Speaker 3: If they had one last night, it was a wrap,

523
00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:48,800
Speaker 3: but Anthony Edward said no, no, let's have some steaks

524
00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:50,760
Speaker 3: still when it comes to the Nut Dust Bowl standings.

525
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:55,199
Speaker 3: But yeah, ant special game and they are looking like

526
00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:58,280
Speaker 3: they you know, huge game tonight between the Wolves and

527
00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:01,400
Speaker 3: the Nuggets for that number one seed. Nan was talking

528
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:03,879
Speaker 3: about it after, like, yeah, the stakes are there, this

529
00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:05,720
Speaker 3: is an important one to have that number one seed.

530
00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:07,159
Speaker 3: But any thoughts their TK.

531
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:11,560
Speaker 1: Yeah in Denver tonight, So advantage Nuggets, and I think

532
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:15,000
Speaker 1: probably advantaged Nuggets because they took care of business last

533
00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:18,680
Speaker 1: night and though the Wolves did eventually take care of business,

534
00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:21,560
Speaker 1: a lot of effort going into beating the Wizards before

535
00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:23,240
Speaker 1: you gotta go play the second night of a back

536
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:24,960
Speaker 1: to back in the biggest game of the season. But

537
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:28,320
Speaker 1: big shout out to Anthony Edwards fifty one points doing

538
00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:29,200
Speaker 1: it for fifty cent.

539
00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:30,800
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, fifty.

540
00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:32,679
Speaker 1: Cent sitting courtside at a Timberwolves kame.

541
00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 4: He got up.

542
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:34,280
Speaker 1: That was weird to me.

543
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:37,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, that has that ever been done? I don't think

544
00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:38,640
Speaker 4: I've seen fifty cent.

545
00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:41,160
Speaker 3: In Minnesota now, not a chance.

546
00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:43,520
Speaker 4: Lize wasn't there. I didn't see her. She's been at

547
00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:46,240
Speaker 4: games before, but he got up for Anthony Edwards. Anthony

548
00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:47,800
Speaker 4: Edwards was doing it for that guy.

549
00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:50,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, which I think is kind of surprising because if

550
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,680
Speaker 1: you're being generous with fifty cents. Career, his last big

551
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:56,560
Speaker 1: hit was Ao Technology, a duet with Justin Timberlake from

552
00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:59,679
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, when Anthony Edwards was six years old. Wow,

553
00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:03,000
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if he's a big fifty.

554
00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:04,400
Speaker 4: Cent fan that long ago.

555
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:06,080
Speaker 1: I mean, we're old man to me.

556
00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:08,760
Speaker 4: His biggest hit recently was being at the super Bowl

557
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:10,120
Speaker 4: last year. That's a hit.

558
00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 1: That's a good point.

559
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:14,560
Speaker 4: That's what he's known for. I would say, yeah, that's.

560
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:16,480
Speaker 1: A great point. Those twenty year old songs he was doing.

561
00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:18,760
Speaker 1: That's being said. I do think Anthony Edwards never thought

562
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:20,880
Speaker 1: about this. He's got a little fifty cent in him.

563
00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:27,200
Speaker 1: He's funny, he's generally good natured despite being a scary guy. Sometimes.

564
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:30,320
Speaker 1: You know, fifty cent has the background of the streets

565
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:32,920
Speaker 1: being shot all those times. They both love to stir

566
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,919
Speaker 1: the pot, but they've got a charismatic smile so that

567
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:38,600
Speaker 1: nobody holds it against them and they're like, oh, doing

568
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:41,119
Speaker 1: it again, Anthony Edwards. Maybe he's the fifty cent of

569
00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:43,280
Speaker 1: the NBA. He was also an MJ mode last night.

570
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:45,919
Speaker 1: I think he had at least three turnaround fadeaways in

571
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:48,480
Speaker 1: the post. The last one even he was impressed with.

572
00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:50,159
Speaker 1: He was doing it to the sidelines. I thought that

573
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:52,040
Speaker 1: was cool. Put the team on his back said we

574
00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:54,119
Speaker 1: need to get this win. If we're staying in the

575
00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:56,119
Speaker 1: mix here, you would have liked it to be a

576
00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 1: little bit easier, I think if you are a Minnesota fan.

577
00:25:58,600 --> 00:25:59,400
Speaker 1: But at least they did it.

578
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:03,520
Speaker 4: We need to beat the Washington Wizards, which, yeah, it

579
00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 4: stinks for them that it comes down to the last second. Basically,

580
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 4: it comes down to the end of the game to

581
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:10,760
Speaker 4: beat the Washington Wizards because you got to go play

582
00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 4: Denver for the number one seed the next night. So

583
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:18,359
Speaker 4: that does stink. It's surprising to see the Washington Wizards

584
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:20,520
Speaker 4: up twenty one points and holding on to a double

585
00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:23,240
Speaker 4: digit lead for a long time in this one. Not

586
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:25,200
Speaker 4: surprising to see Jordan Poole kind of chill out and

587
00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:29,880
Speaker 4: lots of sessions. It's always hilarious. But then Nuggets Wolves

588
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:31,680
Speaker 4: game is gonna be fun tonight, that's for sure.

589
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:35,000
Speaker 3: So let's quickly look at the Western Conference standings. Obviously

590
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 3: I said it's one two, three Minnesota, Denver OKC because

591
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:41,639
Speaker 3: the Thunder did get a win there. Yeah, it's clips MAVs.

592
00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 3: We're looking like that four or five Pelicans hold on

593
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 3: to the six spot. There are game clear the Suns

594
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:49,480
Speaker 3: the Kings. They're down to eighth. It could still get

595
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:51,119
Speaker 3: worse because the Lakers are half game back, and then

596
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 3: the Warriors are intense, but they're half game back of

597
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,160
Speaker 3: the Lakers. If they win out right, they're looking pretty good.

598
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 3: But I do like the top six teams in the

599
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,400
Speaker 3: Western Conference right now. They're all on a nice little

600
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:03,600
Speaker 3: winning streak if you count two games as a streak.

601
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,680
Speaker 3: But everybody's playing well right now, especially the Clippers of

602
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:09,479
Speaker 3: Mavericks having won four straight. Both of those teams, so

603
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:13,120
Speaker 3: playing pretty solid basketball here right now. Any other thoughts

604
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:14,640
Speaker 3: on any of those games or any of the games

605
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 3: last night again fourteen on a lot of them with stakes.

606
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 1: The people are saying that fifty cent does some sort

607
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,239
Speaker 1: of business with the Minnesota Timberwolves with one of his

608
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:29,440
Speaker 1: really things he does well, I don't know what he does.

609
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:31,560
Speaker 4: He does a lot of businesses, that's for sure.

610
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:32,280
Speaker 1: He's a businessman.

611
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 4: At this point, he's done very rapper.

612
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 1: I mean, no, we haven't heard a new fifty cent

613
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:40,360
Speaker 1: song in fifteen years. It sounds like, but I thought

614
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:43,480
Speaker 1: a bad loss for the Kings. They are struggling right now.

615
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 1: They're up twenty at halftime against Oka, see this was

616
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 1: the first half. Leads are not real kind of game

617
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 1: because I ended up being a plus sixty twenty six

618
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,240
Speaker 1: for OKC in the second half, and they just could

619
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 1: not stop Shae Gilles Alexander in the clutch. I think

620
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,680
Speaker 1: he scored the last six points maybe for okay see

621
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 1: hit a crazy shot, grifted some free throws, and then

622
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 1: just made a whole bunch of plays. The Kings could

623
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:09,640
Speaker 1: very easily drop into the bottom half of the play

624
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:11,960
Speaker 1: and bragget here because they play the Pelicans, they play

625
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,120
Speaker 1: the Suns, and then they have the Trailblazers last game

626
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 1: of the season. But Pels and Sons both playing for something,

627
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 1: then those wins would actually mean something against a King's team.

628
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:23,359
Speaker 1: Who are They're all in the same stratosphere of the

629
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:28,119
Speaker 1: standings here, So losing Kevin Herder, losing Malik Monk it

630
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:29,840
Speaker 1: has turned out to be bad for the Kings.

631
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 3: And then like recently they had that game against the

632
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:34,359
Speaker 3: Celtics where they had come back and were even leading

633
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:36,199
Speaker 3: and then they lose. I think was a Tillman right,

634
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 3: you a big shot for Boston to win it. It's like, yea,

635
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:42,280
Speaker 3: all these close either they have big leads and they

636
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:44,240
Speaker 3: give them up or they just lose these close ones.

637
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:46,960
Speaker 3: They all matter here and that's why the Kings have

638
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 3: found themselves in the play in and their season is

639
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 3: just sort of falling apart. Oh, the Sabonis double double

640
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 3: streak even came to it. No, it's over again, it's over.

641
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 3: So yeah, what a run rough rough right now? All right,

642
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 3: unless you have any other their thoughts on those games

643
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 3: last night, let's pivot to the up down report. Yeah,

644
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:11,560
Speaker 3: thumbs up or down. We'll start in Chicago, where the

645
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:14,479
Speaker 3: Bulls served up a shocked in moment for the Ages.

646
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 3: Tory Craig channeling his inner Tracy McGrady on the break.

647
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 3: He tried to throw the ball to himself for a

648
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:24,680
Speaker 3: dunk off the backboard, but Andre Drummond thought the pass

649
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 3: was for him or just really wanted the rebound, And yeah,

650
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 3: they both collide in mid air. Don't score. Blown possession

651
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:37,000
Speaker 3: had Twitter going nuts. So the up down is Drummond

652
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:40,400
Speaker 3: and Tory Craig delivering the low light of the season.

653
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 3: Thumbs up if you believe that's true. Down if you've

654
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 3: got something better, TK.

655
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is two thumbs up for me.

656
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 1: This is pure cinema. This is why we watched these

657
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 1: late season basketball games. I caught this live. I was

658
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 1: so happy to see it. Tory Craig, man, give it up,

659
00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 1: literally passed the ball, not to yourself. I'm watching this

660
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 1: and here's my thought process. Oh, nice steal. He's going

661
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:05,360
Speaker 1: to dish it to Kobe White for the easing playoff.

662
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:05,680
Speaker 4: Yeah.

663
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 1: Then I thought he's gonna take it in himself for

664
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 1: an easy dunk or a layup, which you know, I

665
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 1: think would be a selfish play considering there's a three

666
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 1: on zero fast break. Then I'm kind of with and

667
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 1: Drummond here. When he threw it off the glass, I

668
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 1: thought it was going to Drummond as well, because why

669
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 1: would Tory Craig be throwing himself an alley oop off

670
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 1: the glass down nine in the first quarter. Have you

671
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:28,840
Speaker 1: ever seen Tory Craig do anything like this?

672
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:31,720
Speaker 3: That's why I said he was channeling his interer Trace

673
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 3: and me Grady and like, why would you think that?

674
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 1: Unbelievable? A lot of people were blaming Drummond, but it's

675
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 1: completely on Tory Craig to be here. That being said,

676
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,920
Speaker 1: this was hilarious, breakfast table worthy. I'm like girls you've

677
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 1: been awake five minutes. You need to see this.

678
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 3: Oh and what did they think? Were they laughing?

679
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:48,480
Speaker 1: Oh? They were dying laughing. Yeah, I loved it.

680
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 3: Sums up or somes down?

681
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:52,480
Speaker 4: Oh, of course it thumbs up. Okay, Tory Craig just

682
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 4: wanted to have one of those before he has to retire. Really,

683
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:57,960
Speaker 4: that's what it comes down to. He's thirty three years old,

684
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 4: he's hanging on you know what, We're not playing for much.

685
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 4: Let me just throw it off the backboard to myself.

686
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 4: He's never done that in his NBA group. There's he's

687
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 4: done that, it thinks because Drummond has to do that

688
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 4: and then eventually he gets injured.

689
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 3: I guess he didn't get injured on that particular play

690
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 3: but soon after, right.

691
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, so if it was that one, that was

692
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 4: ridiculously bad. But the internet is great for moments like

693
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 4: that because they break down every little thing, and you

694
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 4: can break down every little thing and no one to

695
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:31,960
Speaker 4: see Kobe White's face watching from the three on zero

696
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:34,640
Speaker 4: wondering what the heck are we doing? Was having to

697
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 4: stare at that thing. The Internet was good.

698
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 3: Last Yeah, there is a photo from the backboard camera

699
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 3: and like Tory Krag realizing that Drummond's reaching for it

700
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 3: behind him is iconic photo. You can zoom it on Kobe,

701
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:50,480
Speaker 3: like you said, as you can zoom on some of

702
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 3: the Dicks players, like what is going on? Pretty pretty funny,

703
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 3: pretty funny, and like, I mean, yeah, I guess they're

704
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 3: like they're in the play in and it's not like

705
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 3: you're moving up into the playoffs, but they are playing

706
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 3: still technically for home court advantage in the nine to

707
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 3: ten So pretty wild to bust that out at this part.

708
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 1: He said, he's trying to get the crowd back into it. Yeah,

709
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 1: I guess it wor man, it would have went crazy

710
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 1: if you throw that one down.

711
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 4: I guess he didn't really know Andrea Drummond was behind him,

712
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,160
Speaker 4: or just thought Drummond would just.

713
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 3: I assume he didn't realize he was right behind him,

714
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 3: and then he might be thinking, you're throwing it off

715
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 3: the glass day stuff to the big penguin. Oh, iconic

716
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:33,719
Speaker 3: stuff there. While sticking with the Bulls, coach Billy Donovan

717
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:35,960
Speaker 3: said he has not had any contact with the University

718
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 3: of Kentucky about its men's basketball coaching gig and reiterated

719
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 3: his commitment to the Bulls prior to last night's game.

720
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 3: Maybe he's thinking differently after that Drummond Craig play. But

721
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 3: John Calipari's sudden departure after fifteen seasons as coach over

722
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 3: the weekend left Kentucky without a without a head coach,

723
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 3: and Donovan's name has been speculated as one of the

724
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 3: Wildcat's top targets. So upper Down's start again with you,

725
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 3: tre because this is your team here, up and down

726
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 3: on Billy Donovan potentially leaving the Bulls for Kentucky after

727
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 3: this season.

728
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 1: I guess I would say like a three quarters up

729
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 1: here because you can understand why Billy Donovan is a

730
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 1: target for Kentucky. He's got two NCAA championships with Florida,

731
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 1: the previous team to go back to back. He's obviously

732
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 1: got a Kentucky pedigree. He got his start coaching with

733
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 1: Rick Patino as an assistant for the Wildcats from eighty

734
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 1: nine to ninety four. There's maybe not a lot keeping

735
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 1: him in Chicago, as he has a four to eighty

736
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:34,440
Speaker 1: nine winning percentage with the Bulls and they're you know,

737
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 1: he had back to back championships in college, back to

738
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 1: back play in appearances here in Chicago.

739
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 3: Put the banner up.

740
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 1: Put it right up there next to the six titles,

741
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 1: back to back, play it appearances not even getting out.

742
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 1: But he did sign an extension before the twenty two

743
00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 1: to twenty three seasons, so before last season. There is

744
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: a ton of pressure in Chicago's Darnell Mayberry pointed out

745
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 1: at the Athletic He also said prior to this game

746
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:08,840
Speaker 1: that nobody's been in contact from Kentucky yet. But I

747
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 1: guess the Calipari stuff is supposed to happen. I guess

748
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:12,840
Speaker 1: it was supposed to happen yesterday.

749
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, he officially announced it on social media yesterday.

750
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So maybe it happens. But I think what

751
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 1: would have to happen is that Kentucky overpays Billy Donovan.

752
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 1: I think Calipari at one point was like on a

753
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:28,759
Speaker 1: ten year contract eight point six million every year, and

754
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 1: Billy Donovan has basically been on like six million dollar

755
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:34,360
Speaker 1: contracts since he's been coaching with the Bulls. So maybe

756
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 1: if Kentucky says we'll give you six years, sixty million,

757
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:41,279
Speaker 1: ten yeah, ten million, ten million a season, maybe that

758
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:43,760
Speaker 1: lures him away. But I think Billy Donovan will probably

759
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 1: be the Bulls coach again next year.

760
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 4: It's all about the dollars to me, if he wants

761
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 4: to go get paid more. It sure seems like that's

762
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 4: the thing, because it's not all Billy's fault that this

763
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 4: team has fallen apart here with Zach Lavin out. If

764
00:34:56,160 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 4: Lonzo Ball plays a couple of years ago, this whole team, this,

765
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,279
Speaker 4: this whole thing could be different for Billy Donovan. And

766
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 4: they started five and fourteen this year obviously turned it around.

767
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:09,759
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's whether Billy wants a new job really

768
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 4: is when it comes out to it's Billy's life. I

769
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 4: have no idea what the status is. But as far

770
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:17,439
Speaker 4: as him in Chicago, I'm sure his team likes.

771
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 3: Him, yeah, they said. In that ESPN article about this,

772
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 3: sources told ESPN Bulls are happy with the coaching job

773
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:27,879
Speaker 3: that Billy Donovan has done all season after the rough

774
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:32,200
Speaker 3: start there at five and fourteen to now potentially host

775
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 3: a playing game in the nine to ten. The record

776
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:35,839
Speaker 3: is better, it's better, and they've had some big wins

777
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 3: against good teams. But yeah, I guess it's pretty rare.

778
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 3: I guess I'm down on this likely happening because pretty rare.

779
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 3: Once a college coach with a pedigree and maybe titles

780
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:47,360
Speaker 3: or whatever, final four appearances comes to the NBA and

781
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 3: gets one of those only thirty jobs in the world,

782
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,840
Speaker 3: very rare for them to then return and go back

783
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 3: to a collegiate program, even if it was, you know,

784
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,200
Speaker 3: one esteemed as Kentucky. So yeah, Billy, what do you.

785
00:35:59,200 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 1: Want to do?

786
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:02,440
Speaker 3: Too? Left on this deal here too, like you were

787
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:04,239
Speaker 3: talking about Trey, So probably not.

788
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 1: I've had a coach go back to college they did

789
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 1: Fred Hoiberg.

790
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:10,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's true. How long did he coach the Bulls?

791
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:13,960
Speaker 1: Wiki for three seasons? Yeah?

792
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 3: I thought it was quicker. All right, We'll see what

793
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,799
Speaker 3: Billy decides to do. There's obviously a bunch of other

794
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:21,880
Speaker 3: names in the running for that Kentucky job. Okay, moving on.

795
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:24,759
Speaker 3: According to the Athletics Tim Kawakami, the Orlando Magic are

796
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:29,840
Speaker 3: reportedly interested in acquiring Klay Thompson this summer. The veteran

797
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 3: sharpshooter is currently in the final months of his contract

798
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 3: and will become an unrestricted free agent once a season end.

799
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 3: So up or down, we'll spin it this way. Upper

800
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 3: down on the Magic again reportedly eyeing Klay Thompson in

801
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:44,319
Speaker 3: free agency. And I would add to that, like being

802
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 3: aggressive in trying to get Klay Thompson from the Warriors

803
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 3: in free agency.

804
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 4: I'll go up on that. This is exactly the type

805
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:54,760
Speaker 4: of player that they need, a guy who is willing

806
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 4: and ready and welcome to shoot every three he gets.

807
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 4: They're Atlanto Magic are last in the NBA in terms

808
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:04,319
Speaker 4: of threes made per game. They're below average and the

809
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 4: percentage that they make. They need a three point shooter. Yeah,

810
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 4: Klay Thompson, I know, is getting up there in age

811
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:15,880
Speaker 4: and isn't incredible defensively, it's just not what he does anymore.

812
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:19,759
Speaker 4: He's still solid and you put that together with a

813
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 4: really really really good defensive team that means he'll be

814
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:25,840
Speaker 4: even better. I think that's just a good guy to

815
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 4: go get because you just want a guy you can shoot.

816
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:30,879
Speaker 4: And the Golden State Warriors in their future, I am

817
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 4: not convinced is going to be the same big three

818
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 4: going forward, the same same thing that they're going to

819
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:39,319
Speaker 4: roll back again, even though they look a lot better now.

820
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:41,479
Speaker 4: And I mentioned Tray Jacks and Davis at the five

821
00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:44,280
Speaker 4: with Kuminga at the three. If he takes over for Wiggins.

822
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:46,720
Speaker 4: It looks like the best that they've been all season.

823
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 4: But I don't know if they roll back Draymond Green

824
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:53,840
Speaker 4: again Chris Paul's that would mean sorry that dray Mungreen

825
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 4: would have to be dealt because he is under contract.

826
00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:58,880
Speaker 4: Chris Paul's money is not guaranteed next year for thirty

827
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 4: million dollars. Maybe they change it up a little bit.

828
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 4: It's possible. It is possible. Do they want to go

829
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:07,439
Speaker 4: back again with the same thing. I'm not one hundred

830
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:11,319
Speaker 4: percent convinced, So I think there's there's two sides to it.

831
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 4: I think it makes sense for the Magic and it

832
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 4: may make sense for the Golden State Warriors.

833
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 3: What do you think?

834
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:18,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think two sides to it, which is why

835
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:20,720
Speaker 1: I'm sideways, because I think the Magic should completely overpay

836
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 1: Klay Thompson to try and get him. For all the

837
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 1: reasons Tass said. He's a great shooter. He'shooting forty one

838
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:27,239
Speaker 1: percent from three in the second half of the season here,

839
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:30,360
Speaker 1: He's still obviously a scary shooter as well, and he

840
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily need the ball in his hands, which is

841
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 1: going to be the case playing in the for the Magic,

842
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: where Big Rig Paolo Banko will be handling the ball

843
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 1: a whole bunch. Franz Wagner will be handling the ball

844
00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:42,600
Speaker 1: a whole bunch. You don't necessarily need your guard to

845
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 1: be a creator, but you do absolutely need him to shoot,

846
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 1: and you need his veteranship. I think would help. He

847
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 1: would be like bringing in Joe Ingles this season for

848
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:52,920
Speaker 1: the Magics, except for Clay is still better than Joe

849
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,400
Speaker 1: ingles Is at this point in their careers, and I

850
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 1: think the Magic would completely be able to cover up

851
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 1: Clay's defensive weaknesses because everybody else on the court plays

852
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 1: really solid defense, and Clay at least buys in. He

853
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 1: just doesn't have the lateral quickness he used to have.

854
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:08,240
Speaker 1: That being said, I think it's more likely he sticks

855
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:10,400
Speaker 1: with the Warriors because they just seem to be running

856
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 1: a back steph Curry's got two years left on his contract,

857
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:15,480
Speaker 1: Draymond Green's got two years left on his contract and

858
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:20,720
Speaker 1: then player option for the third season after that. Wiggins

859
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 1: has two years left on his contract, then a player

860
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:25,400
Speaker 1: option after that. So my guess is that Klay Thompson

861
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:27,319
Speaker 1: is getting a two year contract from the Warriors with

862
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 1: a slight pay cut to stay around.

863
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:30,920
Speaker 3: Before the start. Before the start of the season, I

864
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 3: think Shaan's reported that the Warriors offered Klay a two year,

865
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 3: forty eight million dollar contract extension, So maybe that's the

866
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:40,920
Speaker 3: starting point TK And yeah, how much more are they

867
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:43,320
Speaker 3: willing to offer? Do they get scared of a number?

868
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 3: Do the do the magic come in way over the

869
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:46,440
Speaker 3: top with their offer?

870
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 4: So it was forty eight for two years?

871
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, Yeah, that was at the start of the season,

872
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:52,560
Speaker 3: and then Clay looked pretty bad for a while, has

873
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:54,799
Speaker 3: got it going recently. The fact that he's even played

874
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 3: this many games is pretty astonishing for a guy with

875
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:59,360
Speaker 3: two years of like really bad injuries.

876
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:01,759
Speaker 4: But but that's what he said is the thing he's

877
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:03,439
Speaker 4: most pride about is that he's coming out and playing

878
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:06,720
Speaker 4: and he's shooting it ridiculously well. So for twenty four million,

879
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:08,880
Speaker 4: I know, it sounds like a lot of money, but

880
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 4: in the NBA, it's not a lot of money, and

881
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:13,120
Speaker 4: it's not a lot of money for what he's coming from.

882
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:16,399
Speaker 4: He's forty three million this year. Yeah, and yeah, he's

883
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 4: an I got I mean, he's All of Famer. He

884
00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:20,520
Speaker 4: is what the Golden State Warriors will probably pay for

885
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 4: if they get for twenty four, I think that they

886
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:23,840
Speaker 4: would be extremely happy.

887
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 3: But Joe Lacob has said that the Warriors want to

888
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:28,280
Speaker 3: get all the way out of the luxury tax this summer,

889
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:32,880
Speaker 3: which is possible, but you gotta get creative or be

890
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:35,440
Speaker 3: disciplined with a Clay contract, you can't go crazy with

891
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:37,919
Speaker 3: that payment. Obviously, the Chris Paul equation of it all

892
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 3: that he would probably be likely gone, That's what he said.

893
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 3: You know, maybe he changes his tune if they suddenly

894
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 3: make another you know, run here or get out of

895
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 3: the plane and win in first round or two. Who knows.

896
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:51,560
Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm with you guys on the Magic being

897
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 3: the team that should be really aggressive and trying to

898
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:56,040
Speaker 3: get him on a short term deal. I think that's

899
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:58,360
Speaker 3: the important part. I saw Sam Quinn at CBS Sports.

900
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:00,719
Speaker 3: He noted that the Magic are basically in a use

901
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 3: it or lose it phase of having cap space because Franz,

902
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:08,879
Speaker 3: Wagner and Suggs become extension eligible this offseason, but those

903
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:11,360
Speaker 3: deals don't kick in until twenty five twenty six, so

904
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:14,640
Speaker 3: that gives you this twenty four offseason just sort of

905
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:17,200
Speaker 3: spend a little bit of that cap space for a

906
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:19,240
Speaker 3: guy like him that could help obviously with your shooting.

907
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 3: Just a guy that's been through a million playoff series

908
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:23,839
Speaker 3: as they try and take the next level. As long

909
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 3: as this is, we're not talking, you know, and I

910
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:28,279
Speaker 3: don't think we are here like three four type deal

911
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:31,839
Speaker 3: years for Clay. If it's just more money than two

912
00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:33,879
Speaker 3: for forty eight, they could do it. And it's not

913
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:37,400
Speaker 3: like gonna kill their future and some of their building

914
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:38,240
Speaker 3: blocks moving forward.

915
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:38,719
Speaker 1: So we'll see.

916
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,279
Speaker 3: We'll see final one here. We addressed it briefly on

917
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 3: Yesterdays show, but let's show it to you now. During

918
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:46,360
Speaker 3: the Total Eclipse on Monday, Nike unveiled the new logo

919
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:51,399
Speaker 3: for the alien Victor Webben Yama design. You see it there,

920
00:41:51,719 --> 00:41:54,799
Speaker 3: it's an alien inside of basketball. I'm convinced those are

921
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 3: two little feet, but maybe not. And we got the

922
00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 3: Nike checks there as well. On the side. Up or down, gentlemen,

923
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 3: on Nike's new Wemby alien logo. We like it, we

924
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 3: hate it? Indifferent?

925
00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:12,240
Speaker 1: I like it? Yeah, Like, I think this is maybe

926
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:15,680
Speaker 1: the best new NBA logo since Derrick Rose got a

927
00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:19,040
Speaker 1: logo from Adidas that was that one was sick, That

928
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 1: one like came I was.

929
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:25,759
Speaker 2: Like, whoa, look, it's a rose with one whoa, whoa,

930
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 2: it's an alien in the basketball put it on an

931
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:31,239
Speaker 2: airbrush T shirt. But it's not his number or his name,

932
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:34,120
Speaker 2: just like smashed together. It's not a VW like there's

933
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:36,279
Speaker 2: like a Volkswagen exactly right.

934
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 1: They're like, oh Van Wilder scooped us with Ryan Reynolds

935
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 1: wearing that backwards hat. But yeah, this looks nice. Alien

936
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:45,280
Speaker 1: is gonna stick as a nickname for Victor Webbinil.

937
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, okay, tasks you you agree like it?

938
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 4: Yes, I do like it. And I know that people

939
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:55,360
Speaker 4: are going to basically design his face into that logo.

940
00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:58,839
Speaker 4: They're going to meld Webbama's face into that logo. It's

941
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 4: going to happen a lot. Gonna call him the Alien

942
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 4: over and over and over again. I get that he

943
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:08,240
Speaker 4: does things differently. He is a huge He will pull

944
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:11,320
Speaker 4: every single move on a basketball floor that a guard

945
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:13,919
Speaker 4: would not. A seven foot four, seven foot five guy,

946
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 4: as we saw yesterday with the sham.

947
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,839
Speaker 3: We've got that him dropping the sham God into the

948
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 3: spin and he keeps doing that. Go go, gadget arm

949
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 3: layup like this and traffic in the paint basically yeah,

950
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 3: I mean all season long, every game. Now it's whoa

951
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:31,680
Speaker 3: never seen that from a guy that big? Who never

952
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:33,560
Speaker 3: seen that box score from a guy that big? You know,

953
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 3: It's it's wild the amount of things they can do

954
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:39,360
Speaker 3: with the alien sort of motif too. Like you, I

955
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:40,880
Speaker 3: don't know, you have a lot of fun with the

956
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:43,600
Speaker 3: commercials and obviously the advertising and stuff like that.

957
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:47,200
Speaker 1: They should like gorilla marketing where they go out and

958
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:50,200
Speaker 1: literally do crop circles with the big alien thing.

959
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:53,120
Speaker 3: They should have done that before. Ye oh man, that

960
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 3: wouldn't really they just start appearing. What does it mean

961
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 3: are those Nike checks? Do you think it's for we aliens?

962
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:03,919
Speaker 4: Where Nikes?

963
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 1: Right?

964
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 3: All right, so thumbs up her thumbs down on on

965
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 3: the Wemby logo.

966
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:14,840
Speaker 4: Any other thoughts, Well, they're gonna also put an alien

967
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 4: on the basketball floor, like they I mean, every single

968
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:22,439
Speaker 4: person who is going to create anything using basketball play

969
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 4: will make him an alien. I mean yesterday, yesterday, the

970
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 4: Grizzlies were on a three on one and Weben Yam

971
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:31,880
Speaker 4: was just in the middle right and they should literally

972
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:34,360
Speaker 4: go to the rim, they should shoot over him, and

973
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:37,279
Speaker 4: they decide, no way we're doing that. We're going for

974
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:39,799
Speaker 4: a three point shot, Like, someone will just make that

975
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:42,480
Speaker 4: Wemby an alien? You know they are, We're gonna have

976
00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 4: there's gonna be so many aliens on a basketball floor.

977
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 4: Why would you want to go near an alien? Well,

978
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:49,839
Speaker 4: because he's freaking awesome, So that makes sense. There's just yeah,

979
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:53,200
Speaker 4: the logo will be an alien, will be Wemby. There's

980
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 4: just gonna be a lot happening. The dude now the

981
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:58,360
Speaker 4: fourth player with a thousand points, two hundred fifty assists,

982
00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:00,880
Speaker 4: and two hundred fifty blocks in a season, joining Kareem,

983
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:05,719
Speaker 4: David Robinson and Akeem. Andrew Lopez tweeted that, I mean

984
00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:07,799
Speaker 4: he is just like he's just a special man.

985
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:12,160
Speaker 3: He said before that he does remind me of the

986
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:15,680
Speaker 3: movie Signs. When we get that video footage from like

987
00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:20,879
Speaker 3: the Mexican Birthday party, remember that, like down the hall

988
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:24,320
Speaker 3: and the alien goes through. He's got the same legit

989
00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:28,919
Speaker 3: body shape as that alien. So maybe they'll just remake Signs. Okay,

990
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:32,360
Speaker 3: just place him in it as the actual alien. Phoenix

991
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:34,200
Speaker 3: will have to take a baseball bat to a cent

992
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:37,920
Speaker 3: and so yeah, it's gonna say you can beat him

993
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:38,360
Speaker 3: with water.

994
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 1: Wow, have we ever seen him drink, figured it out how.

995
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 3: To stop him? All right, let's see uh here from

996
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:47,319
Speaker 3: everybody watching live listening later, Thumbsuper thumbs down on all

997
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:50,200
Speaker 3: four of those talking about the Bulls low Light, Billy

998
00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:54,799
Speaker 3: Donovan possibly coaching Kentucky Klay Thompson maybe Aggressive League being

999
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:59,240
Speaker 3: pursued by the Magic and then women Yama's logo before

1000
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:00,200
Speaker 3: we go tweet.

1001
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:07,879
Speaker 4: Tweet o the night. Wow, Wow, I.

1002
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:10,440
Speaker 3: Have a doozy for you guys. This is a story

1003
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:14,080
Speaker 3: tweeted the night. Somebody paid for the blue check for

1004
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 3: this one because there's a lot of characters, but uh,

1005
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:21,760
Speaker 3: it's sort of funny, okay. From at Jake and Ball,

1006
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:25,799
Speaker 3: An average man gets stuck in a time loop and

1007
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:28,319
Speaker 3: the only way to escape is to beat Lebron James

1008
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:30,880
Speaker 3: at basketball in a one on one game to eleven points,

1009
00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:34,799
Speaker 3: ones and twos. Make it take it how long until

1010
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:37,839
Speaker 3: he gets out? Now, the average man has never played basketball.

1011
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:42,319
Speaker 3: Each time he loses, the loop resets, and Lebron will

1012
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:46,920
Speaker 3: not remember any of the previous games, but the average

1013
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:50,880
Speaker 3: man will, so in theory, could get better. Cheating is

1014
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:55,120
Speaker 3: utterly impossible. He will not age or die, he will

1015
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:57,719
Speaker 3: not go insane, and you can play as many times

1016
00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:00,279
Speaker 3: or he will play as many times as needed to win.

1017
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:04,680
Speaker 3: And then the question on this is how many times

1018
00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:08,759
Speaker 3: does he need to play to win? And escape the

1019
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 3: time loop win.

1020
00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 4: You're asking how many times he play to win? Joe

1021
00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:16,560
Speaker 4: was thinking how many times I have played to score once?

1022
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 3: Score once?

1023
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's never gonna win never, it's infinity infinity wow. Especially,

1024
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:24,920
Speaker 4: I think the negative is Lebron will never remember a

1025
00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:29,279
Speaker 4: previous game, so he's going to play to win like

1026
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:33,120
Speaker 4: he might screw with the guy who can't play basketball.

1027
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:35,759
Speaker 3: There was a follow up question about like, yeah, does

1028
00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:39,080
Speaker 3: Lebron at any point like just like not care give up?

1029
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 3: But the thinking was, no, that's not true. He's always

1030
00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 3: giving a damn enough to play at his level of Lebron.

1031
00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:48,879
Speaker 4: James infinity level. For me, I think he'll ever win.

1032
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:54,239
Speaker 4: He's Lebron's gonna care, I assume. So this guy's not

1033
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:54,680
Speaker 4: gonna win.

1034
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:58,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he's gonna be this average man, my good friend.

1035
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:01,560
Speaker 1: Average man will be learning from the best possible teacher.

1036
00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:04,359
Speaker 1: Every game he plays is against Lebron James. Who better

1037
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:07,560
Speaker 1: to learn from. Okay, they beat the Aliens and Edge

1038
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:11,000
Speaker 1: of Tomorrow. Eventually Tom Cruise eventually hacks the system and

1039
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:13,759
Speaker 1: figures out the problem. So, Lebron, he's been one of

1040
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:16,600
Speaker 1: the best basketball players in the world since two thousand

1041
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:18,719
Speaker 1: basically right, Like I mean, he was still a high

1042
00:48:18,719 --> 00:48:20,640
Speaker 1: schooler back then, but he was one of the best

1043
00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:24,400
Speaker 1: basketball players on earth. He's played sixty eight and seventy

1044
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:27,759
Speaker 1: two minutes in the NBA between the playoffs and the

1045
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:31,440
Speaker 1: regular season. He played in high school, he played international competitions,

1046
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:34,280
Speaker 1: and he's obviously practiced a lot. So I'm estimating Lebron

1047
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:37,880
Speaker 1: has played at least one hundred thousand minutes of basketball. Sure,

1048
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:40,040
Speaker 1: if these games take five minutes, I think it takes

1049
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:43,040
Speaker 1: a minimum of twenty thousand games until you're as good

1050
00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:44,160
Speaker 1: as Lebron James.

1051
00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:46,840
Speaker 4: I don't think so. I don't think he's going to

1052
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:50,320
Speaker 4: improve like Tom Crius can learn how to use a computer.

1053
00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:53,640
Speaker 4: This guy, especially because I'm influenced by this photo or

1054
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 4: this man, is half of Lebron's size. He literally looks

1055
00:48:57,040 --> 00:49:02,399
Speaker 4: like he's Christalk. Yeah, Chris Hardwick, Okay, half is an exaggeration.

1056
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:05,600
Speaker 4: Chris Hardwick I would say is five to ten or something.

1057
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 4: I'm guessing, Yeah, that's that looks like his hair is

1058
00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:10,480
Speaker 4: puffed a little bit, but I assume that's about a

1059
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:14,959
Speaker 4: foot difference between Lebron James. Like Tom Cruise with your comparison. There,

1060
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:17,000
Speaker 4: a guy can learn how to play a computer. This

1061
00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:20,520
Speaker 4: guy is not gonna be My apologies to Chris Hardwick,

1062
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 4: but he's not gonna learn how to be anywhere close

1063
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:25,720
Speaker 4: to half as good as Lebron James. I don't think.

1064
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, the the issue with the learning part is it's

1065
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:30,920
Speaker 3: not like an average man gets to show up an

1066
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:34,080
Speaker 3: hour before I guess Lebron plays him so he could

1067
00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:36,480
Speaker 3: work on his game, work on his handles, like he'd

1068
00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:39,520
Speaker 3: have to add all that within the game of playing

1069
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 3: Lebron James on one, which is gonna be much more difficult.

1070
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:44,760
Speaker 1: True, I agree on that.

1071
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:48,800
Speaker 3: So I mean, yeah, really, it's like, how many times

1072
00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:51,319
Speaker 3: is it gonna take for this average guy to I

1073
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:56,720
Speaker 3: think just hit six? Two's just like bombs from like, yeah,

1074
00:49:56,840 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 3: thirty five feet where Lebron is not even coming out.

1075
00:49:58,920 --> 00:49:59,480
Speaker 1: To check him yet.

1076
00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 4: Why wouldn't he?

1077
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:00,319
Speaker 1: Ye?

1078
00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:03,120
Speaker 3: Why wouldn'ty? Is the thing? Yeah, Well, right after he

1079
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:04,719
Speaker 3: hits two or three, going.

1080
00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 1: To press off on him, make him drive? You to

1081
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:10,640
Speaker 1: drive you would learn that in about game fifteen thousand,

1082
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:12,239
Speaker 1: you're like, Okay, when he steps out on me, I

1083
00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:14,440
Speaker 1: know how to get around him. Now, Yeah, and Lebron

1084
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:17,399
Speaker 1: blocks you at the rim. We're going back.

1085
00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:22,520
Speaker 3: Oh. I guess this was pulled from this idea, the

1086
00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:25,799
Speaker 3: same idea with like a chess master and how many

1087
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:29,800
Speaker 3: times it would take an average chess player to eventually

1088
00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:32,399
Speaker 3: beat a chess master. But that I mean that one.

1089
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:35,040
Speaker 3: You can almost convince yourself more because you're removing the

1090
00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:37,560
Speaker 3: physical part of it. It's all mental, and it's all learning,

1091
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:39,880
Speaker 3: and you're picking up on what that chess master may do,

1092
00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:42,840
Speaker 3: and you're going to adapt in theory. But this this

1093
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:46,120
Speaker 3: is a whole other level with foot and a half

1094
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:48,920
Speaker 3: in difference to height, one hundred and fifty pounds whatever.

1095
00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:52,200
Speaker 3: It is like if you're an average guy, but Trey

1096
00:50:52,239 --> 00:50:54,560
Speaker 3: believes that one day average man.

1097
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:56,760
Speaker 1: Wins, one day average man wins.

1098
00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:01,280
Speaker 4: You disagree, I do. I hope. I hope Twitter improves

1099
00:51:01,640 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 4: over twenty thousand conversations between one person and another person.

1100
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:07,160
Speaker 4: I hope it gets better because I.

1101
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:08,760
Speaker 3: Think we've seen definitely getting worse.

1102
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:11,080
Speaker 4: Well, that's what I'm saying, we've seen Pete Twitter. It

1103
00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:12,920
Speaker 4: was a great time. It was a great time to

1104
00:51:12,960 --> 00:51:14,439
Speaker 4: be there. A long time ago.

1105
00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:17,160
Speaker 3: I was just checking how many tweets I had? How

1106
00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:19,000
Speaker 3: many tweets do you have? Do you know off the

1107
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:19,239
Speaker 3: top of.

1108
00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:21,000
Speaker 1: Your head, I've got over one hundred thousand?

1109
00:51:21,239 --> 00:51:22,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, the hell do you find that? I thought it

1110
00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:23,600
Speaker 3: was right there.

1111
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:23,920
Speaker 1: But it's not.

1112
00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:25,279
Speaker 4: There's a lot of things there.

1113
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:28,480
Speaker 3: On My point is it's going in the opposite direction.

1114
00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:31,360
Speaker 3: It's just getting worse. I'm actually going now I'm in

1115
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:34,759
Speaker 3: hell when I'm just like this average man. All right,

1116
00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:38,359
Speaker 3: great stuff there. Thank you to at Jake and Jake

1117
00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:42,440
Speaker 3: and Ball, not Jake Paul, Jake and Ball for the tweetnight. Okay,

1118
00:51:42,440 --> 00:51:46,719
Speaker 3: make it Jake paula man? How many times would take

1119
00:51:46,719 --> 00:51:50,400
Speaker 3: for Jake Paul to beat Lebron James? He's an athlete?

1120
00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:54,680
Speaker 1: Does he have access to Prime energy drink? Yes?

1121
00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:58,400
Speaker 3: The court is branded Prime, so it takes it out.

1122
00:51:58,239 --> 00:52:03,560
Speaker 4: A little for me. Do you say prime prime logan Paul? Yeah,

1123
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:07,120
Speaker 4: that's is a Prime hydration Yeah, with the Toronto Raptors,

1124
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:09,520
Speaker 4: with the Toronto Yeah, with the turn Raptors.

1125
00:52:09,560 --> 00:52:11,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, that's right. I mean he's also he

1126
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:13,239
Speaker 3: has Prime in the We didn't tell you when we

1127
00:52:13,239 --> 00:52:16,200
Speaker 3: were talking WrestleMania. That's Prime is now on the mat

1128
00:52:17,239 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 3: and there's Prime. There's a hydration station that's always gets

1129
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:21,240
Speaker 3: knocked over in every match.

1130
00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:23,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, and guy and then a mascot.

1131
00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:26,360
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, a lot of Prime.

1132
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:28,399
Speaker 1: Okay. Who would win in a one on one game

1133
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:33,240
Speaker 1: between Chris Hardwick and Tom Cruise. I think Chris Hardwick

1134
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:35,960
Speaker 1: has the size on Cruise, is a better athlete and

1135
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:38,560
Speaker 1: has great running fitness.

1136
00:52:38,520 --> 00:52:41,280
Speaker 3: And seems has he's he's like a little more psycho

1137
00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:43,200
Speaker 3: like in a good way for a game of one

1138
00:52:43,239 --> 00:52:43,560
Speaker 3: on one.

1139
00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:46,680
Speaker 4: Eventually one years of age. I don't want to question that.

1140
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:49,799
Speaker 4: I shouldn't. I shouldn't question that because yeah, he looks great.

1141
00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:51,680
Speaker 4: He's just admission of give me Cruise. Yeah.

1142
00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:57,279
Speaker 3: See like we've got AI now, can't we just like

1143
00:52:57,320 --> 00:52:59,680
Speaker 3: plug that in and say, hey show me, hey a,

1144
00:52:59,880 --> 00:53:03,600
Speaker 3: I make me a game one on one chriss Tom

1145
00:53:03,640 --> 00:53:05,319
Speaker 3: Cruise and we should have We should have that on

1146
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:06,520
Speaker 3: tomorrow show, is my point.

1147
00:53:08,040 --> 00:53:10,319
Speaker 1: Tom Cruse would never do that. Insist on doing his

1148
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:14,959
Speaker 1: own stuff. He hates AI. That's what the new inste

1149
00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:17,320
Speaker 1: Impossible was all about. Actually dead record.

1150
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:19,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, but after Tom Cruise beats Chris Hardwick in one

1151
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:22,839
Speaker 3: on one check check to see who's under the mask, Becau,

1152
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:25,680
Speaker 3: it's probably Lebron James, because that's all he's doing in

1153
00:53:25,719 --> 00:53:28,520
Speaker 3: that movie too. I finally did watch it very disappointed.

1154
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:31,520
Speaker 3: Oh really, I was disappointed. And I love the Mission

1155
00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:34,880
Speaker 3: Impossible series. I just thought it was I don't know.

1156
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:37,200
Speaker 1: I didn't like it as much as the previous one,

1157
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:41,080
Speaker 1: which is either Road rub Nation and Ghost Protocol, which

1158
00:53:41,080 --> 00:53:43,560
Speaker 1: I thought that were better. But I loved how many

1159
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:46,280
Speaker 1: references to first Mission Impossible. There were a dead record.

1160
00:53:46,320 --> 00:53:48,320
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and this is a part one, so it

1161
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:52,680
Speaker 3: ends a little odd, right, yeah, ending on just like

1162
00:53:52,719 --> 00:53:56,040
Speaker 3: this podcast is, let's call it there incredibly lots of

1163
00:53:56,080 --> 00:53:59,359
Speaker 3: games on still tonight, back to backs, knock on wood

1164
00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:01,520
Speaker 3: that nobody else gets hurt. We'll wait to see this

1165
00:54:01,719 --> 00:54:04,480
Speaker 3: verity of Giannis's injury and one impact that has on

1166
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:07,040
Speaker 3: the Eastern Conference playoffs, but we'll be here tomorrow at

1167
00:54:07,080 --> 00:54:10,200
Speaker 3: ten a m. Eastern to break it all down. Get

1168
00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:11,880
Speaker 3: your questions in No Dunks at the Athletic dot Com,

1169
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:13,919
Speaker 3: drop him in the YouTube comments, tweet them in at

1170
00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:17,520
Speaker 3: No dunk Sinc. And we'll also have a survivor on tonight,

1171
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:20,319
Speaker 3: so we'll be doing No Buffs tomorrow as well, two

1172
00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:23,800
Speaker 3: shows tomorrow till then Clipper Brose. You heard it here first.

1173
00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:27,360
Speaker 1: Have a great time, turn up. Love you guys, awesome.

1174
00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:30,640
Speaker 4: Thanks for joining us. And remember Tom Cruise and whatever

1175
00:54:30,680 --> 00:54:33,799
Speaker 4: he did, he had Solius. I just wanted to make

1176
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:42,920
Speaker 4: a Solius connection, you know. Yeah, that's the connection. He

1177
00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:45,840
Speaker 4: was great, he was, he had the top gun. He

1178
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:46,359
Speaker 4: hit it all.

1179
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:46,560
Speaker 1: Man.

1180
00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:49,279
Speaker 3: You think Tom Cruise has sold well?

1181
00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:50,320
Speaker 4: Yes to.

1182
00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:54,360
Speaker 1: I thought he was declared clear with regards to the

1183
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:54,719
Speaker 1: soul