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Speaker 1: Welcome to No Ducks. The EuroBasket semifinals are set. Josh

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Speaker 1: Giddy finally signed a contract. Adam Silver said some stuff,

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Speaker 1: but we'll get to that on Friday show. Let's start

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Speaker 1: with some other stuff. I'm Tasmelus. This was my last

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Speaker 1: year for EuroBasket. That's the way we roll in the middle.

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Speaker 1: It's my man, Trey Kirby. Heyo, Hey, Trey, are you

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Speaker 1: excited to talk about Josh Giddy's contract? I know you

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Speaker 1: already talked about it. You dropped a short on it.

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Speaker 1: Have you gotten any more excited because we gotta start

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Speaker 1: with that, man.

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Speaker 2: Have I gotten any more excited to talk about it? No?

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Speaker 2: But I've read a lot of opinions on this Josh

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Speaker 2: Giddy deal, and let me just say I was right.

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Speaker 1: The first time. You were right the first times. I

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Speaker 1: know it right away. Yeah, four years, one hundred million

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Speaker 1: dollars back a few months ago. Seemed to be that

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Speaker 1: Chicago Bulls wanted to pay him eighty while Josh Gaty

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Speaker 1: wanted one hundred and twenty. You said they would meet

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Speaker 1: right in the middle, and that is exactly what happened.

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Speaker 1: All those four years are guaranteed, no options, So here

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Speaker 1: they are one hundred million dollars Josh Katy getting paid

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Speaker 1: twenty five per for the next four seasons, and you

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Speaker 1: don't feel any more excited after talking about it.

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Speaker 2: Uh, Look, people put my opinion on Giddy. He was

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Speaker 2: not my favorite player when he was on the Thunder.

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Speaker 2: Within the first ten games of the twenty three to

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Speaker 2: twenty four season, I said, they're gonna have to bench

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Speaker 2: this guy in the playoffs. Guess what they did. Then

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Speaker 2: they traded him to my favorite team, the Chicago Bulls,

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Speaker 2: and easily won the championship with the return of Alex Caruso.

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Speaker 2: Giddy had an awesome second half of the season last

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Speaker 2: year once Zach Lavine was shipped out. It was basically

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Speaker 2: twenty points, nine rebounds, and nine assists and a ridiculous

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Speaker 2: forty six percent from three. That ain't gonna happen again.

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Speaker 2: But maybe he can shoot thirty seven percent from three.

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Speaker 2: He's only twenty two years old. He'll be twenty three

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Speaker 2: at the start of the season. Definitely coming off his

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Speaker 2: best season ever. I'm just pretty skeptical that you can

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Speaker 2: build a real winning team around Josh Gitty. You have

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Speaker 2: to build a team perfectly around Giddy to succeed, and

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Speaker 2: I don't know if the kind of team that's around

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Speaker 2: him is the kind of team that wins in the NBA.

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Speaker 1: It's not gonna win the next couple seasons. But at

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Speaker 1: the same time, that's why I'm fine with it for

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Speaker 1: the next couple of years. Maybe in year three, in

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Speaker 1: year four of this four year contract, when they do

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Speaker 1: want to build great players when they are a great team,

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Speaker 1: when they do see that Josh Gitty hasn't really improved

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Speaker 1: or is playing well in the first half of the season,

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Speaker 1: then maybe they say, wholl this twenty five million is

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Speaker 1: really setting us back. But you mentioned all the stats.

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Speaker 1: The stats are nice, as you said after the All

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Speaker 1: really really good numbers. But before the All Star Game,

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Speaker 1: when he played fifty one games, he was scoring twelve

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Speaker 1: four percent from three. Not all that great. That being said,

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Speaker 1: they're not paying anybody else, so why not pay a

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Speaker 1: guy who is twenty two years old and could get

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Speaker 1: even better. Literally, next year, Josh Getty will be their

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Speaker 1: highest paid player. Vouch is making less, Collins is making less.

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Speaker 1: Pat Williams making less, and then the following season they

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Speaker 1: are only playing Patrick Williams. They have Isaac Accorro signed.

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Speaker 1: That's it. Vouch's done, Zach Collins has done, herd is done.

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Speaker 1: They're not paying anybody else, So why not have this

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Speaker 1: guy who could honestly get better the next couple years.

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Speaker 1: But as you said in Oka, see when he was

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Speaker 1: playing with better players, it wasn't working all that well.

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Speaker 1: You thought they had to sit him in the playoffs

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Speaker 1: because he wasn't hitting the three all that well and

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Speaker 1: he wasn't handling the ball, and they did that. Now,

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Speaker 1: maybe a couple of years later he would be better

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Speaker 1: playing around Shay and Jalen Williams. But at the same

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Speaker 1: time he was taking away so many opportunities for Jalen Williams.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they really had like the same usage rate

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Speaker 1: the last year that he played in OKC, and then

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Speaker 1: Jalen Williams was allowed to do more when he left.

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Speaker 1: And I just worry about a Bulls team that's trying

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Speaker 1: they have some capable players that he'll be taking away

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Speaker 1: something from them and not making them any better, and

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Speaker 1: you're right that it just seems like they got to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the team they built around him is one

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Speaker 2: that will kind of thrive, like Giddy pushes the pace.

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Speaker 2: He's best playing in transition. He is a good rebounder

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Speaker 2: especially in transition. But in the Thunder series when he

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Speaker 2: smaller extent in the play in tournament this year when

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Speaker 2: it was Bulls against Heat, the game slows down. You

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Speaker 2: have to play half court basketball, and Giddy isn't a

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Speaker 2: very good half court basketball player because either he has

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Speaker 2: in which case they're playing under him on screens and

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Speaker 2: he's not a threat, or he's playing off the ball

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Speaker 2: when he really isn't a threat. Teams are still helping

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Speaker 2: off of him even if he shoots forty percent, because

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Speaker 2: he takes two or three per game and takes them

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Speaker 2: very slowly. So I don't know the Bulls were gonna

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Speaker 2: sign gideyback. That was never a question. They traded Cruso

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Speaker 2: for him, got back nothing else in return, So that

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Speaker 2: makes you think the Bulls think this guy is worth

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Speaker 2: a couple of first round picks. I disagree that was

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Speaker 2: their assessment. They did an okay job. I think this

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Speaker 2: is just like an okay contract. It's not terrible, but

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Speaker 2: it's not good. They could have gotten him on a

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Speaker 2: cheaper deal. I just don't think that this committing to

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Speaker 2: Giddy for four years doesn't do anything for me. It

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Speaker 2: doesn't make the team better. He's not like a major

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Speaker 2: prospect out there. He's a decent starting point guard, but like,

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Speaker 2: is he a top twenty point guard in the league.

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Speaker 2: He's probably in like the fifteen to twenty range. There

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Speaker 2: are so many guys you would take over Giddy, and

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Speaker 2: there are guys you can find like that. I'm encouraged

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Speaker 2: that his deal is probably a little bit better than

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Speaker 2: a guy like a Manual Quickly, like they're in the

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Speaker 2: same sort of tier as players, and Giddy's making five

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Speaker 2: million dollars less for another year later. I'm just worried

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Speaker 2: that when it's not March, Giddy isn't the same player.

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Speaker 2: You can go back and look at his career splits.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't just last year that he had an awesome March.

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Speaker 2: It's every single year. When a third of the teams

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Speaker 2: teams are ready for the playoffs, that's when Giddy thrives.

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Speaker 2: If he's able to play as a twenty point per

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Speaker 2: game triple double for the entire season, then I'll gladly

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Speaker 2: eat my words because the Bulls have an awesome player.

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Speaker 2: If that's the case, I don't know that that is

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Speaker 2: to me, is because what happens we've already seen. Nobody

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Speaker 2: wanted to pay Giddy this summer. The thunder said, we

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Speaker 2: don't want them, so who else is out there? If

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Speaker 2: it doesn't go well in year one or year two,

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Speaker 2: then it's an apotossible contract to trade. And even if

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Speaker 2: it is a cheap ish deal twenty five million dollars

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Speaker 2: per year, though it is different annually, it still matters.

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Speaker 2: Take a look at the Denver Nuggets. Zeke Naji signed

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Speaker 2: a four year, thirty two million dollar deal and everybody's like, ah,

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Speaker 2: who cares just eight million dollars a year? And now

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Speaker 2: it's one of the worst contracts in the league and

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Speaker 2: completely untradable. And part of the reason the Nuggets weren't

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Speaker 2: able to build a bench was because they had a

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Speaker 2: random wasted eight million dollars there. Giddy makes three times that.

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Speaker 2: That's what I'm a little concerned about.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and they have another guy on their contract and

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Speaker 1: Pat Williams, who's also signed to a very bad deal.

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Speaker 1: He's really the only guy who signed long term other

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Speaker 1: than Josh Gitty, other than their draft picks in Noah

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Speaker 1: Sangay and Matus Buzzellus. But really, this is what we're

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Speaker 1: be all that excited. But you also can't be that

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Speaker 1: mad that you're signing a twenty two year old to

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Speaker 1: a contract that ain't all that high. With this new

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Speaker 1: games anymore. We'll get to that on Friday. That'll be

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Speaker 1: a hot debate. But this is what the bulls are

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Speaker 1: and again the next two years, I think it is.

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Speaker 1: It is kind of fine because you're just hoping that

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Speaker 1: But those are drastically different numbers. As you said, it

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Speaker 1: has happened before that he's really good in the first half,

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Speaker 1: or excuse me, just fine in the first half and

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Speaker 1: then takes another level in the second half. But those

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Speaker 1: I don't need to go over those numbers again, but

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Speaker 1: they are what they are really. I do think in

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Speaker 1: a couple of years though, that's that number, considering the

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Speaker 1: I mean, the good are still out there elsewhere.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Kings are still out there, So there's a

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Speaker 2: But other than that, I don't know who it's going

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Speaker 2: to be. Because when you're ranking low opinion front offices,

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Speaker 2: the bulls up come up pretty quickly, so I don't

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Speaker 2: know who's going to be, Like, Oh, we're gonna save

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Speaker 2: Josh Giddy. As for the cap space plan, save me

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Speaker 2: from the cap space plan. I remember the Bulls caps

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Speaker 2: place cap space plan in two thousand. I remember the

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Speaker 2: other one in twenty ten, and guess what, none of

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Speaker 2: the big free name, big free agents come to Chicago.

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Speaker 2: I think we just saw Jeff Tigue was the guy

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Speaker 2: saying nobody wants to sign in Chicago. So they're going

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Speaker 2: to go into next season with all this cap space

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Speaker 2: hoping to sign who Lebron James as a forty two

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Speaker 2: year old Kevin Durant, No, he's going to be back

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Speaker 2: with the Rockets. James Harden as an old man doesn't

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Speaker 2: make sense. So maybe they're hoping for a Yiannis trade.

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Speaker 2: But I don't know. This is not a bad deal,

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Speaker 2: but it just piles up with all the different things

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Speaker 2: the Bulls have done. They're still allegedly rebuilding, and it

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Speaker 2: feels like they're still completely in the same place they

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Speaker 2: were three years ago. I would have rather said goodbye

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Speaker 2: to Giddy completely bottomed out and actually had a shot

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Speaker 2: at a major prospect next year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this team can't can't be bad. They can't be good,

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Speaker 1: but they also can't be bad. They got to stay

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Speaker 1: in that play in tournament space you mentioned in the Sacrament

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Speaker 1: of Kings is the team they could trade Giddy two.

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Speaker 1: The Kings did offer the number thirteen pick in the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four draft win Instead, he ended up going

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Speaker 1: to Okay. See, they decided that sorry that Alex Caruso

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Speaker 1: ended up being Devin Carter. So, you know, Josh Giddy

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Speaker 1: not bad in comparison. He is better in comparison. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and he makes good for good tweets because he makes

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Speaker 1: That's just some raptor talk man. Help quickly plays basketball. Well,

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Speaker 1: Josh Gitty. Let's get to the final four bracket that

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Speaker 1: has been set in the euro Basket world. We've got

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Speaker 1: Luca was looking good in that game, and they will

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Speaker 1: Let's start with that game I just mentioned with Luca

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Speaker 2: Trey, Yeah, it really looked like Slovenia was on the

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Speaker 2: Heaves are good to go, let it fly went in.

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Speaker 2: It was part of a ten to zero run for Germany.

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Speaker 2: That got them back into the game with Slovenia in

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Speaker 2: fouls on oh, Mitch, I believe just on rebounds. Germany

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Speaker 2: They knocked him down. To their credit, I think they

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Speaker 2: were like thirty for thirty five, thirty one for thirty six,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, by they were thirty for thirty seven. They show

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Speaker 2: They had good points. I thought the German team did. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: Slovenia went totally cold, and that includes Luca in the

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Speaker 2: he had twenty two at halftime, was in complete control

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Speaker 2: But in the fourth he was just cold. And when

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Speaker 2: It tilted Germany's way just enough. I didn't think a

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Speaker 2: very impressive performance by the Germans, but they did score

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Speaker 1: Way, You're right. Dennis Schuter six, Franz Wagner five to seventeen,

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Speaker 1: so their top two scorers didn't have efficient nights, but

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Speaker 1: difficult game to watch. I'll never say that about a

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Speaker 1: If you want to blame someone, blame Luca. He got

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Speaker 1: in order. Gives him a technical foul and you can

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Speaker 1: did I say, well, you complained about it, and really

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Speaker 1: it wasn't that bad until you had the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know if the rest were just trying

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Speaker 1: you know, Luca got calls. And yeah, the Germans did

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Speaker 1: end up shooting thirty seven free throws. Slovenia shot twenty

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Speaker 1: five free throws. I mean, I don't know if Luca

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Speaker 1: those those fling passes. He had two full court passes,

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Speaker 1: And then he just started going. Next possession, give me

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Speaker 1: got hot again. He even tapped Daniel Tyson's butt once

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Speaker 1: and I just thought this was a fun EuroBasket so far.

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Speaker 1: But for no complaints. For Germany, obviously they just came

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly right, and you know, I do think

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Speaker 2: they're like, we're not going to disqualify you from a

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Speaker 2: I thought they had the German team for about thirty

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Speaker 2: seven for nine at the free throw line as well.

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Speaker 2: What a free throws do win games? That goes worldwide?

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Speaker 1: And then that's when Germany took a lead. I mean, really,

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Speaker 1: Slovenia led until that point. And then there's just enough

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Speaker 1: just see the Germans were happy. You could see Dennis

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Speaker 2: This guy, I hate this guy. I'm not even gonna

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Speaker 2: but you're right, double chompers performance for Shrewd straight up

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Speaker 2: looked like the Grinch after drawing the charge on Luca early.

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Speaker 1: On, Guy's got big teeth. I don't know if I'm

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Speaker 1: crab on the stream team, sixty plus free throws combined

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Speaker 1: It was. It was difficult to watch much too much

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Speaker 1: Daniel Tye's performance. I didn't know that they just gave

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Speaker 2: I forget trophy, right, Like they give him a tiny

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Speaker 2: little trophy shout out to jo Justin's I don't know

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Speaker 1: Those, Yeah, right, right, Yes, it's Justin's but it was

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Speaker 1: for Daniel Tice. He got it, didn't go to France,

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Speaker 2: He was boreding there at the end he filed out.

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Speaker 2: Dude filed out as well. What that's crazy.

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Speaker 1: I think he didn't foul it. I don't think. But

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Speaker 1: Tice with some aerial artistry. You don't see, you don't

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Speaker 1: So there we are. Germany goes on to the next

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Speaker 1: round two face Finland. We'll get to this one here now.

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Speaker 1: Finland beat Georgia again. Finland going to the EuroBasket semifinals

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Speaker 2: Tray, this is fun, man, I'm all in on the

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Speaker 2: finished team. They're probably the most fun team to watch

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Speaker 2: because they are the most curveball style. They played the

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Speaker 2: to run and gun and shoot threes. Lowry Markinen is

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Speaker 2: But seventeen points, six boards, four blocks for Marketing as

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Speaker 2: yanson In was pretty massive. Nineteen points, three threes, he

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Speaker 1: Forty four to four for their bench, it's absolutely ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, thirty to two after the first half. Everybody

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Speaker 1: isn't your leading scorer in a game, that means yeah,

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Speaker 1: this team is absolutely connected. And I thought, actually to

429
00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:24,080
Speaker 1: start it wasn't looking all that great. I thought Felin

430
00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:28,000
Speaker 1: was just collapsing a little too much. But then some

431
00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:31,200
Speaker 1: of their guys, I thought they're collapsing defensively a little

432
00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:33,000
Speaker 1: too much. But then some of their guys coming off

433
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:36,960
Speaker 1: the bench, Sasu Saleen their captain. I mean he just

434
00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:40,480
Speaker 1: starts faring away from three point land and hitting shots.

435
00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:44,760
Speaker 1: You mentioned Lowry's defense I thought was super super super important.

436
00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:48,200
Speaker 1: Four big blocks for that guy, while everybody else, yeah,

437
00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:52,520
Speaker 1: just kind of kept continuing to help out and hit shots. Literally,

438
00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:56,159
Speaker 1: you can go up and down the list of fins

439
00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:59,160
Speaker 1: that did it. While if you're only getting four points

440
00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:04,359
Speaker 1: from your bench for or you're kind of ft, I

441
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:09,840
Speaker 1: simply yeah, it is. I mean, Tourning Shagalia fun, super fun,

442
00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:13,040
Speaker 1: Shanghilia is really really fun, and he was pulling off

443
00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:17,480
Speaker 1: alprin Shangun like passes, and Mammu was doing some some

444
00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:19,720
Speaker 1: things I've never seen him do before. I mean, it

445
00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:23,560
Speaker 1: was a cool post move, a cool steal of the

446
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,640
Speaker 1: ball from marketing as he was bringing it up. Late

447
00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,160
Speaker 1: in the third quarter. He turned eleven point lead into

448
00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:32,199
Speaker 1: a nine point lead, So they were going, but they

449
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,760
Speaker 1: didn't get enough otherwise from there.

450
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Speaker 2: Guys, Yeah, they're big guys played well. Go Go was good,

451
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:41,040
Speaker 2: Mamu was good, Shangallia was good. But that's about it.

452
00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:43,600
Speaker 2: And the depth of Finland really won out. So here's

453
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Speaker 2: your slim Jesus report. Seven points and nine minutes. One

454
00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:47,879
Speaker 2: of them was a three pointer in one of was

455
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Speaker 2: an allu from Lowry Marketing.

456
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Speaker 1: By your stock.

457
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Speaker 2: That was pretty sick. Yeah, So like his like highlight

458
00:23:55,320 --> 00:24:00,280
Speaker 2: to basket ratio is at this point, and I don't

459
00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:02,119
Speaker 2: think he scored a normal basket, or at least I

460
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:05,199
Speaker 2: haven't seen it. Fun to watch, but that's just kind

461
00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:06,760
Speaker 2: of how it was for Finland. They did a really

462
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:10,119
Speaker 2: good job getting out in transition, built a really big

463
00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:12,520
Speaker 2: lead in the first half, and we're able to get

464
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:15,080
Speaker 2: untracked from three. I think they finished seventeen to thirty one,

465
00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:17,800
Speaker 2: only ten threes for the Georgian side, and I thought

466
00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:21,320
Speaker 2: it was just a factor of Finland racing down the court,

467
00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:25,440
Speaker 2: Georgia scrambling to keep up, and then it was penetration, kick, kick,

468
00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:29,120
Speaker 2: somebody wide open for three. Just good basketball from Finland.

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Speaker 1: It was a team in Georgia just needed help from

470
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:37,520
Speaker 1: their guards, and Kamar Baldwin has been that guy throughout

471
00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:42,520
Speaker 1: this tournament, the local Georgia boy playing for Georgia. Literally

472
00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:44,520
Speaker 1: he didn't hit a shot and they were trying to

473
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Speaker 1: get him going. You could see it in the third quarter.

474
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Speaker 1: Here you go, man, do it, and unfortunately he just

475
00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:53,080
Speaker 1: didn't have it in the fourth quarter do it. Unfortunately

476
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,199
Speaker 1: they just they had their other guys doing it. But

477
00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:57,800
Speaker 1: it wasn't happening out there. Although I do want to

478
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Speaker 1: see what happens on Friday, and Tapio, if you're going

479
00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:05,400
Speaker 1: to Riga. Here on the stream team you're saying you're going,

480
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:10,680
Speaker 1: come on in. Oh no, you didn't say that. My bad,

481
00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 1: my bad, Glass of Kanyak. You said that you might

482
00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:16,959
Speaker 1: go to Riga on Friday. Come give us a report.

483
00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:23,160
Speaker 1: Very very interested to see what Finland does against Germany

484
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:25,959
Speaker 1: on Friday. Should be absolutely a fun one.

485
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:30,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, this should be a great game. The Riga stadium

486
00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:32,000
Speaker 2: has been awesome. I don't know what's going on with

487
00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:34,080
Speaker 2: the acoustics in there, but when it's loud, it sounds

488
00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:35,000
Speaker 2: really really loud.

489
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Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to the other semi final

490
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Speaker 1: that's happening. We'll start with the Greeks taking care of Lithuania.

491
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 1: They started doing a Valentunis. They threw him at Yannis

492
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:52,520
Speaker 1: to goop up with the Greeks persevered. Yanni's a fantastic game,

493
00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:56,000
Speaker 1: as the Greeks did it top to bottom a little

494
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:57,160
Speaker 1: bit like Finland, Trey.

495
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:01,199
Speaker 2: A little bit like Finland. But at the top of

496
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:05,440
Speaker 2: the Greek roster is Giannis Antetokumpo. Twenty nine points, sixteen

497
00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 2: rebounds to assist, four steels, one block, and his mid

498
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:13,520
Speaker 2: range is money right now, Tass, Lithuania was giving him

499
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:16,640
Speaker 2: jumpers in this game, and Giannis was just walking into

500
00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:19,439
Speaker 2: them quite easily. He just had his best mid range

501
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 2: season of his NBA career, but I think he's eleven

502
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,879
Speaker 2: for eighteen in the EuroBasket Tournament right now. He's shooting

503
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:29,440
Speaker 2: it with confidence. It looks super smooth. That's something Milwaukee's

504
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:32,679
Speaker 2: gonna need because honestly, they should play very similar to

505
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:35,439
Speaker 2: the way the Greek team plays right now. Jianis as

506
00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:39,760
Speaker 2: point center, creating for others, also looking for his own offense,

507
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:41,640
Speaker 2: and if that's the case, he's gonna have to hit

508
00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:44,720
Speaker 2: these shots when people are playing underneath him. He's shown

509
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 2: throughout the season into the summer that he can do that.

510
00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:50,879
Speaker 2: But you are a short boy as well, Tass, talking

511
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:54,560
Speaker 2: up costas Onta Takumpo four points and four blocks in

512
00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:57,480
Speaker 2: sixteen minutes. I saw you having to tell people, look,

513
00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:00,000
Speaker 2: he's already got a deal signed with the European team

514
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:02,800
Speaker 2: and he's not coming to the NBA. But could he

515
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 2: come to the NBA. It looks springy tasks.

516
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:12,639
Speaker 1: Feels like you offer this man enough, you never know.

517
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 1: I think you can break that deal with Olympia Coos,

518
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,640
Speaker 1: because yeah, he looks ridiculously good. And he was one

519
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,720
Speaker 1: of those guys to kind of help change the game

520
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:28,280
Speaker 1: because Jannis, honestly, the Jonas Valentiunas in the lineup was

521
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:31,280
Speaker 1: was bugging Yannis a little bit to start. They threw

522
00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:34,960
Speaker 1: him out there along with Redizovich, and you could see

523
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 1: Yanis going at both those guys and he had to

524
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:43,239
Speaker 1: pass out. And you often don't see Janis from like

525
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 1: the mid range when a big hand, a big arm

526
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: forces him to pass out. And Yannis had five turnovers

527
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 1: in this game, and Yonis Valentiunas played thirty one minutes.

528
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Speaker 1: They won every single one of those minutes. They were

529
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Speaker 1: plus four. But he went to the bench after they

530
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:01,640
Speaker 1: got up in the first quarter for a long time,

531
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 1: and Jannis just would not stop running. I mean he

532
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:09,040
Speaker 1: started these fast breaks man over and over and over again,

533
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:12,040
Speaker 1: and he had four steals. He's kicking ass on the

534
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 1: defensive end. The Greeks won the fast break twenty to four.

535
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 1: They started to turn the game, and a lot of

536
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 1: that was coast Us a Didapupo with huge blocks. A

537
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:25,439
Speaker 1: lot of it was Vasilis Tolopolos seventeen points as the

538
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,640
Speaker 1: second leading scorer behind Giannis Is twenty nine, and then

539
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:31,639
Speaker 1: other guys, I mean Costas Slucas on the fast break,

540
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 1: he was eleven and four and four guy that replaced

541
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:38,360
Speaker 1: Thomas Walkup who played there last year. They said, nah,

542
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 1: you're out. We'll bring in the old guy who knows

543
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 1: what he's doing. He was great on the break. Tyler

544
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:45,600
Speaker 1: Dorsey as well. A couple of big steals in this game,

545
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 1: forcing the perimeter players of Lithuania to throw it right

546
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 1: up into his arms instead of Nick Koalathis. We saw

547
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 1: Tyler Dorsey this year. It just goes on and on

548
00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 1: and on and on with this team. They had enough guys.

549
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 1: So does Coastas break his deal and say, nah, I'm

550
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 1: going I'm going to the United States of America. He's

551
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 1: twenty seven. He's in his prime, man, Yeah, he is

552
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:16,200
Speaker 1: in his prime.

553
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 2: I don't know. I was looking at I was looking

554
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:21,040
Speaker 2: at the Bucks roster recently, they're only backup center at

555
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 2: Jericho Simms. You're telling me coastas Onto Takumpo can't outplay

556
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 2: Jericho Sims. Plus bring the brothers three together.

557
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

558
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 2: I think it's the roll of the dice for sure.

559
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:37,480
Speaker 1: It is amazing seeing looking at this Greek team. They've

560
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 1: got three Adetakompo's. They also have three Coastess's and right

561
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 1: now they've got three NBA champions. The three bros have

562
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:52,160
Speaker 1: all won. So yeah, bring them all back together in Milwaukee,

563
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 1: why not? I mean yeah, he would. He is. He's got,

564
00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 1: you know, a tiny bit of a push shot type

565
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 1: of thing on the offense end, but yeah, he's more

566
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:05,719
Speaker 1: of a he He's a rim runner, but he's a shopwalker.

567
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 1: I mean he does it really, really well. So yeah,

568
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 1: take Jericho Simms's job.

569
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 2: That's the dream. That's the new dream for the Anti

570
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 2: Dakoupo family. Take Jericho Simms job, or at least get

571
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 2: a late season call up. Why not. I'll tell you

572
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 2: the next Greek player in the NBA is going to

573
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:25,200
Speaker 2: be Alexandro's Samadorof. I talked him up after their last

574
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 2: game five points four boards in a three and seventeen

575
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 2: minutes who's only twenty years old. I didn't realize that,

576
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 2: but looks like a pretty solid athlete, good size. I

577
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 2: think he's a draft prospect either next summer or summer

578
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 2: at twenty twenty seven. So I think we'll see him

579
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:40,080
Speaker 2: in the NBA eventually.

580
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good call. I didn't know a lot

581
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 1: about him, and I saw sam Udorov that I ain't

582
00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:50,640
Speaker 1: a Greek name, but he was born in Greece. He's

583
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 1: a Georgian background actually, and so yeah, he does look great.

584
00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:59,320
Speaker 1: Although I will just say about the Lithuanian team, they

585
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:01,680
Speaker 1: worked their butts off. As I said, they won Jonas

586
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:05,520
Speaker 1: Valancius Tunes' is thirty one minutes, theyre plus four, that

587
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 1: guy dropped twenty four and fifteen. They played well, but

588
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 1: they were missing it showed in this game. Rocus Yakubitis,

589
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 1: their best guard, and then two Bellis, who I've loved

590
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 1: watching was zero for ten from the field when it

591
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 1: seems like that guy can just score at all times.

592
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 1: So they just were lacking a little bit, kind of

593
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:27,479
Speaker 1: like what the Jordians were lacking with Kamar Baldwin. They

594
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:29,960
Speaker 1: just they didn't have it, so Grease moves on to

595
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: play Turkey. Alpern sheng Gun is in the semifinals. They

596
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:38,880
Speaker 1: have looked impressive trade. They took out Poland in the

597
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 1: first quarterfinal and here we are Alprin Shengun baby Daddy.

598
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 2: Shehngun triple double in twenty five minutes. Youngest player ever

599
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 2: with a triple double in EuroBasket. Fifteen points, twelve boards,

600
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 2: ten assists, some absolute dimes in this one. I know

601
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 2: you posted the one task where he catches the ball

602
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 2: in the short roll, turns backwards and wows himself with

603
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 2: a magic Johnson he kind of pass. That was an

604
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 2: awesome one. But I thought every one of his assists

605
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:12,000
Speaker 2: was pretty He was so patient with his dribble drives,

606
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,480
Speaker 2: often attacking from out on the wing, sometimes in the post,

607
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 2: but then he would find a backdoor cutter. It felt

608
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 2: like every assist was a guy just zooming to the

609
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 2: back after the Polish team was so eyes on Schengun.

610
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:28,800
Speaker 2: It was like he was drawn at least a double team,

611
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:31,160
Speaker 2: if not a triple team. Almost every time that he

612
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 2: was getting into the lane, and then he just had

613
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 2: the wherewithal to find cutters. Every single time. An incredible

614
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 2: performance from him, he would be my pick for MVP.

615
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 2: I know Jannis has an incredible case here as well,

616
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 2: but Turkey's gonna win the euro Basket, so I think

617
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 2: he's gonna go to Shannggun.

618
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 1: Turkey is freaking deep. And even though Alburn cheng Gun

619
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 1: wasn't scorting at all to start this game. He literally

620
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 1: didn't score his first bucket until four minutes into the

621
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:04,560
Speaker 1: second quarter. He was doing all the passing that he

622
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 1: needed to do, whether they started doubling him. He was

623
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 1: finding those cutters on the baseline over and over and over,

624
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 1: so many different guys, Haser Osmond, he was just doing

625
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 1: that and they're so pretty, and then you know, finally

626
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:22,840
Speaker 1: he got one to go when he was on the break.

627
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:26,640
Speaker 1: That was his first bucket, and then he started feeling

628
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 1: it and so after that in the post the deflection.

629
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 1: He literally was scoring in every single way. But he

630
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 1: has no problem not being that guy to start out games,

631
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 1: while on the other side, our guy Jordan Lloyd couldn't

632
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 1: do the same thing. They kind of took Jordan Lloyd

633
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:49,640
Speaker 1: out of the game a little bit. Sea Moose Hawser

634
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 1: was the guy that they put on him and he

635
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 1: took him away a little bit, and Jordan Lloyd kind

636
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 1: of was making passes out. He wasn't moving off the

637
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: ball enough and it literally wasn't happening the same way.

638
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 1: The passes weren't happening the same way as shn Gun

639
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 1: was doing it. It happened occasionally when they gave it

640
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:11,239
Speaker 1: to the corner and the ball started moving, but he

641
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 1: was literally too comfortable to do that, so he started

642
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:15,879
Speaker 1: throwing to the outside and he had a bad game.

643
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:19,759
Speaker 1: It wasn't working because he wasn't working. So that's the

644
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:21,960
Speaker 1: unfortunate part for them. But again it was sort of

645
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 1: a close game, but guys like Shane Larkin came through

646
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 1: again for this team. There's enough of those guys along

647
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 1: with Jeddi osman Urs on his money to get it done.

648
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:35,839
Speaker 1: So I understand why you think Turkey can take this thing.

649
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 1: They literally have a very very strong team. I do

650
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:43,839
Speaker 1: think the Greeks have some weapons that no one's talking about.

651
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:46,800
Speaker 1: They're not the others. I'm kind of tired of saying

652
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 1: that forever. I'm done with that. I know Shack can

653
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:53,319
Speaker 1: say whatever he wants because it's Shack, but I like

654
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,759
Speaker 1: calling them the supporters, and I think the Greeks have

655
00:34:55,840 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 1: some supporters and it'll be a good bat. But I'm

656
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 1: with you in that Turkey is Yeah, they've looked absolutely fantastic.

657
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,160
Speaker 2: Seven guys in double digits in this game. But when

658
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:11,239
Speaker 2: you're looking ahead to the game against Grease Giannis, I

659
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 2: mean of Grease advances. If they are able to pull

660
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 2: off a EuroBasket win, he's obviously going to be the MVP.

661
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 2: He's been completely unstoppable. He will be the best player

662
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 2: on the court. Though, I gotta say Shang Goun is

663
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 2: playing the best defense I've ever seen him play. He

664
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:25,759
Speaker 2: was pretty good, yeah, for the Rockets last year, but

665
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 2: he's a better athlete relatively in EuroBasket than he is

666
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:32,839
Speaker 2: in the NBA, so that really sticks out. He's got

667
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 2: great hands. Three steals in this one, some of them

668
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:37,800
Speaker 2: out on the perimeter, like you're saying, which then unleashed

669
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 2: the fast break for Turkey. He's ended two of the

670
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,680
Speaker 2: games in the wins here for Turkey, one with a steal,

671
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 2: one with the block in a couple of their victories.

672
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:49,760
Speaker 2: So he's making timely plays as well and getting the balance.

673
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 2: They're just a big and well oiled and really deep

674
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 2: and they understand how to play together.

675
00:35:56,440 --> 00:36:00,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought it was just guys were comfortable trying

676
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 1: harder in EuroBasket or in Foba basket. So that's why

677
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,800
Speaker 1: we see shnguon ball. We saw Luka Doncu's best defensive

678
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:12,319
Speaker 1: game last game. You see it all over. But you're right,

679
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 1: in part it is athleticism they don't have to play.

680
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:19,320
Speaker 1: Part of it is just less spacing that's out there.

681
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 1: But Alburn, Chenggun looks like a different player defensively. He

682
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:27,799
Speaker 1: definitely did have his best year with Houston last year.

683
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:32,400
Speaker 1: But yeah, him versus Yannis on Friday, Yeah, I'm sure

684
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 1: they're going to switch it up and not necessarily guard

685
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 1: each other one on one, but it will happen because

686
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:41,400
Speaker 1: they are playing so freaking well. But Turkey is stacked.

687
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:44,879
Speaker 1: They've got other guys that are getting after it defensively

688
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 1: and Shngun. Yeah, it is a debate whether or not

689
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:54,360
Speaker 1: he has been the most valuable player period in EuroBasket.

690
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 1: That's fair, fair comment for sure.

691
00:36:57,239 --> 00:36:59,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I guess I think honest is probably

692
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 2: the other guy who you would put up there with

693
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:05,439
Speaker 2: Luca losing to Germany today, I don't know, exactly who

694
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 2: the player you would pick from the German team. I

695
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 2: guess it would be Franz Wagner. I thought he was

696
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 2: pretty big for them. I think he's their leading score.

697
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 2: He's kind of taken that role from Dennis Shrewder this

698
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 2: time around for the Germans. I'm not knowledgeable enough to

699
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 2: know if the MVP of euro Basket just goes to

700
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 2: the best player al whichever team wins it. My guess

701
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 2: is that that's probably the case a lot of the time,

702
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 2: so we'll probably find out who the MVP is once

703
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:33,360
Speaker 2: the tournament's actually over. But Shngun's got a great choice

704
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 2: or a great chance, Jannis has a great chance, and

705
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:38,800
Speaker 2: then Lowry Market and obviously would be the guy from Finland.

706
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:40,799
Speaker 2: They're all going to be on the All tournament team,

707
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:41,280
Speaker 2: no doubt.

708
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no doubt. Yeah, we'll see when Turkey takes

709
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 1: on Greece. After this fricking great performance where they had

710
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 1: seven guys in double digits, I've mentioned Shane Larkin. I

711
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:53,920
Speaker 1: thought he was having his worst game, a guy who

712
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 1: plays so much, so much for this team. He was struggling.

713
00:37:57,239 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 1: They needed some sort of ballhandler in the fourth quarter

714
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 1: and he was sitting way more than he sat in

715
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:06,360
Speaker 1: the last couple of games where he didn't play forty

716
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:09,240
Speaker 1: seconds against Survey, that's all. He didn't play. In Sweden

717
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 1: he didn't play three minutes, and then this one was

718
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:12,759
Speaker 1: six minutes because he was struggling. But then in that

719
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 1: fourth quarter he turned it on. They are on this

720
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 1: connected way of playing, So them against Greece is going

721
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:22,960
Speaker 1: to be my highlight. Or though, are you looking more

722
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 1: forward to the other semi final or is this the

723
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:27,719
Speaker 1: one to watch?

724
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:31,360
Speaker 2: Well? I mean, I do like the idea of Finland

725
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 2: pulling an upset against the German team who has been

726
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 2: awesome and has been great for the past three international

727
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 2: competitions that we've been watching. You know, the upset potential

728
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 2: is really cool. But I think Greece versus Turkey should

729
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 2: be an awesome game with two guys at the absolute

730
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:48,800
Speaker 2: peak of their powers right now in Jannis and Shnghun

731
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:51,680
Speaker 2: going head to head often matching up, I would think,

732
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:53,880
Speaker 2: if not always matching up, so it should be a

733
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 2: banger for sure. One thing I wanted to ask you,

734
00:38:56,120 --> 00:39:01,440
Speaker 2: Tass I heard this when we were watching Germany versus Slovenia.

735
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:05,479
Speaker 2: The soundtrack to a euro Basket game is a little

736
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:09,439
Speaker 2: bit different. You're hearing basically all wedding songs played through

737
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:13,399
Speaker 2: the intercom. They played Country Road by John Denver. They

738
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:17,879
Speaker 2: played like almost the whole verse. They cut it off. Yeah,

739
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 2: fans just kept on singing like it was Sweet Caroline

740
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:26,319
Speaker 2: at a Boston Red Sox game. Is Country Road by

741
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 2: John Denver a basketball song in any sort of way.

742
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:35,239
Speaker 1: I could not believe that. When I heard it and

743
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:38,879
Speaker 1: I heard the fans continue to sing it, I thought, whoa, whoa,

744
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 1: whoa is this being piped in? Are you telling me

745
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:47,800
Speaker 1: these fans and Latvia no know this song?

746
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 2: They were locked in they sing it for like thirty

747
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 2: seconds straight.

748
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 1: I feel like, yeah, I guess, I guess they'd know

749
00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 1: the song number one, or it's on the maybe the

750
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:02,319
Speaker 1: words are on the jumbo tron a lot. Yeah. Yeah.

751
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:05,239
Speaker 1: I always thought, man, that John Denver is full of shit. Man.

752
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:10,279
Speaker 1: I never thought that you would see that ever, but

753
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:14,080
Speaker 1: it was. It is. It's almost They were also doing

754
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:18,200
Speaker 1: close ups of the players like they often do, you know,

755
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 1: slow mover the players, and they're doing that to take

756
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 1: me home Country Roads, and it was almost like a

757
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:31,240
Speaker 1: little depressing, you know, just to see these faces. I'm like, whoa, whoa.

758
00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:35,480
Speaker 1: But anyways, it was a great song. Jules chiming in

759
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:37,240
Speaker 1: here on the stream team, what do you mean Country

760
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:39,239
Speaker 1: Roads is a banger here in Europe. It's a great song.

761
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:41,319
Speaker 1: It is a great song. I just didn't know it

762
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 1: was a banger.

763
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:45,480
Speaker 2: It's just unly hear it in a basketball context. I

764
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:49,080
Speaker 2: think my buddy Big Nick, you know, every Friday morning

765
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:51,480
Speaker 2: when we play pick up basketball, the first song he

766
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 2: plays is Country Road by John Denver, And every week

767
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 2: I'm like, John Denver, what are we doing? That's that's

768
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 2: that's a baseball song to me. You can tell me

769
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:04,319
Speaker 2: it's a football song, but it deafinitly feels weird inside

770
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:07,640
Speaker 2: to listen to that song. That's an outdoor song.

771
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:13,040
Speaker 1: It definitely feels more like an outdoor song. Although I

772
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 1: mean the tracks that they're playing in these games are

773
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:19,160
Speaker 1: all sort of surprising to me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I.

774
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:21,440
Speaker 2: Want to be my girls multiple times.

775
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 1: Yeah. They play some Moldies, no doubt, even the Kendrick Lamart.

776
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:29,479
Speaker 1: I just didn't think that they play it. I thought

777
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 1: maybe that was band we love Drake here, but nope,

778
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:38,880
Speaker 1: And anyways, maybe I'm just not cultured enough. I consider

779
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:41,440
Speaker 1: my my background Greek. But maybe I just don't know

780
00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:43,960
Speaker 1: here because there's a lot of people in here in

781
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:47,400
Speaker 1: the stream team saying Germans just love this song. Maybe

782
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:48,920
Speaker 1: I just don't know what Europeans like.

783
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:53,360
Speaker 2: The people love Country Road. It's an undeniable hit. I

784
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:57,799
Speaker 2: just didn't know it had a basketball following. Everybody's we're

785
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:00,799
Speaker 2: gonna get canceled off saying Country Roads is okay song.

786
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:05,680
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously it's a good, good song. I will

787
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:09,400
Speaker 1: say one thing that I want canceled is the old

788
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 1: man phone celebration. I saw from the from It just

789
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 1: happens with a lot of athletes, and it happened with

790
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:23,759
Speaker 1: Alan omich Of or Slovenia. Yeah, Slovena, just get rid

791
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:25,279
Speaker 1: of it. Man's Yeah.

792
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 2: I thought that was funny he did. He did the

793
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:30,560
Speaker 2: phone call and then he slammed it like it was

794
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:32,839
Speaker 2: a receiver, like he like he was getting a call

795
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:35,319
Speaker 2: on the landline in nineteen ninety and he did it

796
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 2: for a tip in on an offensive rebound. I'm okay

797
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:41,439
Speaker 2: with it when you're calling long distance, but when you're

798
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 2: calling from the doorstep, I don't think it's quite the same.

799
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:50,319
Speaker 1: Right, that was great stuff, great stuff everybody. Great to

800
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 1: see these comments. I didn't know that Country Roads is

801
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:58,239
Speaker 1: big in Germany and the Netherlands and football stadiums, but

802
00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:02,200
Speaker 1: I do know now after seeing Jay zb Times Trip

803
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:06,239
Speaker 1: say that Country Road is an Octoberfest banger. Actually, I'm

804
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:06,839
Speaker 1: gonna have an.

805
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 2: Putting on my basketball playlists. That's simple as that.

806
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:14,399
Speaker 1: Done and done. All right. We will be back on

807
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:20,239
Speaker 1: Friday after Greece Turkey and Finland Slovenia. Can't wait for

808
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 1: those two games. I'm sure we'll talk about some things

809
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:26,640
Speaker 1: going on in the NBA world as well. Adam Silver

810
00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:31,319
Speaker 1: had his press conference. We've got the rule about heaves

811
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:33,840
Speaker 1: at the end of quarters and how they won't be

812
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 1: given to the player, they'll be get into the team

813
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 1: so it won't lower the percentage. Can't wait to hear

814
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 1: your opinion on that tray. On Thursday, Jurassic World Dominion

815
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:50,680
Speaker 1: will drop. Our Jurassic Pals series continues. This one's dropping

816
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 1: on Thursday, Jurassic World Dominion. Can't wait to see that.

817
00:43:57,320 --> 00:43:58,720
Speaker 1: I'm going to watch it again.

818
00:43:58,880 --> 00:43:59,839
Speaker 2: You're gonna watch it again?

819
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:00,320
Speaker 1: Wow?

820
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:01,719
Speaker 2: Wow wow?

821
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, no sports going on.

822
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 2: That's the one with bugs.

823
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:08,440
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Jurassic World.

824
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:09,320
Speaker 2: We got bugs.

825
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:14,719
Speaker 1: Also, just so you know, a new episode of No

826
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 1: Buffs dropped. The season forty nine cast has been announced,

827
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Speaker 1: so you tray along with Skeats, Nora and JD. You

828
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Speaker 1: talked about it as this show is going. In a

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00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:28,400
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, it starts and you can find No

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00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:31,759
Speaker 1: Buffs on its own feed, find it in the show

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00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:34,640
Speaker 1: notes wherever you're listening or watching if you haven't jumped

832
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:37,400
Speaker 1: over to YouTube or Spotify or Apple, but No Buffs

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Speaker 1: is absolutely everywhere.

834
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Speaker 2: That's exactly right. You get to meet eighteen of your

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Speaker 2: new best friends. It's a great time to get in.

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Speaker 1: Great time to get in. So we will see you

837
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:52,600
Speaker 1: here on Friday. Make sure you watch No Buffs or

838
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:56,800
Speaker 1: our Jurassic World dominion recap. But for now, Clibber Bros.

839
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Speaker 2: You heard it here first. Have a great time. Turn

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