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Speaker 1: We gotta I'll sell some trades. The Milwaukee Bucks trade

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Speaker 1: for PJ Tucker, the Miami Heat get Trevor Reza. John

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Speaker 1: Moran hits a game winner, so does Dearon Fox, and

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Speaker 1: Steph Curry goes down with a strange injury. Hopefully it's

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Speaker 1: not too serious. Two trades, two game winners, ten game

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Speaker 1: night in the Association. Let's go. Hey, I'm Tasmelus and

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Speaker 1: this is what you need to know in the NBA

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Speaker 1: for Thursday, March eighteen, It's trade season, baby. The Milwaukee

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Speaker 1: Bucks landed ragged forward PJ Tucker from the Rockets. Let's

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Speaker 1: take a step back to see what's motivating this move

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Speaker 1: for Milwaukee the Bucks. If you remember, they were embarrassed

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Speaker 1: in the Bubble. They were eliminated in five games in

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Speaker 1: the second round after finishing atop the Eastern Conference standings.

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Speaker 1: They couldn't score, defenses were able to clog the lane

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Speaker 1: on two time MVP Yiannis and Chris Middleton, and the

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Speaker 1: team had no counter. So in the offseason they got

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Speaker 1: a ball handler and Drew Holliday to open up the

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Speaker 1: lane by making a play unclog that lane. Call Holiday

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Speaker 1: the plunger. We love talking about plungers here on no dunks.

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Speaker 1: Janni's especially needed more space, and they opened it up

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Speaker 1: further by acquiring three point shooters and developing their own.

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Speaker 1: It's worked. They've got the fourth best three point percentage

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Speaker 1: this season after being eighteenth last year. That's the thinking here.

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Speaker 1: If Giannis has stopped Middleton or Holiday should be able

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Speaker 1: to make a play, or Yannis can find a capable shooter.

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Speaker 1: But many of those shooters aren't great defenders, and they've

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Speaker 1: changed their schemes by switching more which was needed, so

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Speaker 1: their defense has dropped off. Best team in the NBA

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Speaker 1: the last two seasons in defense, down to tenth this year.

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Speaker 1: Enter PJ Tucker. He can do both, but will he

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Speaker 1: be able to He shot just thirty one percent from

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Speaker 1: three point land this season and will his defense hold up.

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Speaker 1: He's going to be thirty six before the playoff, but

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Speaker 1: he is a proven player. Teams are going to continue

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Speaker 1: to load up on Giannis. It's up to Holiday, Dante DiVincenzo.

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Speaker 1: They're starting shooting guard and PJ. Tucker in the corner,

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Speaker 1: who has hit more corner threes the last five seasons

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Speaker 1: than anyone in the National Basketball Association. He can do that.

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Speaker 1: I see Kevin E. Choney in the chat saying, what

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Speaker 1: do the Bucks expect Tucker to do? Well? Hit some

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Speaker 1: shots and play defense. That's all he has to do.

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Speaker 1: That is why he makes his dollar dollar bills, and

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Speaker 1: that playoff plan it manifested itself in a game hours

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Speaker 1: after the trade, Milwaukee saw what their playoff team could

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Speaker 1: be versus Philadelphia. Milwaukee fought back after being down nineteen,

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Speaker 1: and Yanni's personally fought back after being neutralized by Ben Simmons,

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Speaker 1: like he'll have to fight back to get that playoff respect.

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Speaker 1: But late in the fourth the ball started in Yannis's hands.

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Speaker 1: That's the way their plays start. The lane got shut

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Speaker 1: off and he was able to find Drew Holiday for

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Speaker 1: went on a seven to zero run to close out overtime,

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Speaker 1: and then he sat on the floor In Philadelphia. Philly

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Speaker 1: fans that were there booed their asses off as Yannis

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Speaker 1: sat his ass down as a very unique celebration. I

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Speaker 1: can understand why Philly fans were booing, you're disrespecting us.

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Speaker 1: I guess they boo at everything either way. Many people

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Speaker 1: on Twitter calling it a signature win for the Milwaukee Bucks.

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Speaker 1: I don't think so. Joel Embiid was not on the

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Speaker 1: floor for Philadelphia and this one he is injured, so

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't call it a signature win. But a closing

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Speaker 1: lineup of Yannie's Middleton, Holiday, Tucker, and either de Vincenzo

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Speaker 1: rest of the regular season with eight more games against Philly, Brooklyn,

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Speaker 1: couple DJs from Milwaukee, DJ Augustine and DJ Wilson, along

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Speaker 1: with a pick in Milwaukee was able to ship Tory

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Speaker 1: Craig in a separate move to Phoenix. The Rockets did

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Speaker 1: this for the pick, which moves their early second round

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Speaker 1: pick up to the Bucks' late first round pick in

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Speaker 1: the upcoming draft. They moved approximately from thirty three to

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Speaker 1: twenty five. Now it's the worst pick from Milwaukee, but

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Speaker 1: they save money because second round contracts aren't guaranteed, and

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Speaker 1: they still get a selection, not a lot for PJ. Tucker,

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Speaker 1: but at this point of his career, I guess it's

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Speaker 1: line with this move. It's about them, Dalla dalla bills.

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Speaker 1: So that's Tucker to Milwaukee. The team Milwaukee and Philly

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Speaker 1: With Philly's loss and Brooklyn's win over Indy, the Nets

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Speaker 1: Eastern Conference and Brooklyn's big three has only played seven

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Speaker 1: games together. For real, Kyrie, James Harden, and Kevin Durant

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Speaker 1: as long as they possibly can and still know Blake Griffin.

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Speaker 1: In a win over Indiana, Harden did enough for the

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Speaker 1: this line. Forty points, ten rebounds, fifteen assists for James Harden.

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Speaker 1: He and Vince Carter are the only ones to have

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Speaker 1: accomplished a forty point trip dub in Nets franchise history.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to Malik Andrews for that stat Let's take a

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Speaker 1: look at the state of a couple more East teams

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Speaker 1: that hope to be in contention this season. Miami landed

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Speaker 1: Trevor Reza in a trade from OKC on Wednesday. They

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Speaker 1: who is their starting four on their finals run last season.

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Speaker 1: Will Arisa be able to replace Crowder? I don't think so.

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Speaker 1: Arisa is in the twilight of his career, more so

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Speaker 1: than PJ. Tucker is. But Spolstra said, Ariza is in

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Speaker 1: great shape and along with andre Igadala, maybe they can

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Speaker 1: fill that void that Crowder left when he went to

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Speaker 1: Phoenix in the offseason. Arisa and Igodala we're on this

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Speaker 1: and will get moved, and it worked. They both went

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Speaker 1: the most for a single player in NBA history eleven times.

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Speaker 1: The team that traded Igodala, Memphis beat Miami on Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: and John Morant hit a game winner, a beauty layup,

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Speaker 1: he'll call you and let you know. He's a young

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Speaker 1: guy that doesn't text. He'll call yeah with the old

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Speaker 1: phone celebration beautiful to Toronto Raptors. They thought they were

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Speaker 1: three weeks. Norman Powell was He had a career high

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Speaker 1: forty three points, including eight threes and zero assists. Forty

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Speaker 1: three points in zero sists not easy to do. Powell

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Speaker 1: was rumored to be in trades. But he's untradeable. Franchise cornerstone,

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Speaker 1: his value is at its highest. Blake Murphy on the

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Speaker 1: Athletic a great article addressing that possibility. That was the

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Speaker 1: end of the good news for Toronto. The Pistons were

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Speaker 1: Sacramento Washington. Let's spend a little time talking about the

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Speaker 1: Sacramento Kings because they didn't blow a game. Baby, Tyrese

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Speaker 1: small replacing a big. But it's today's NBA. Who cares?

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Speaker 1: I love Halliburton starting. It's the future Whiteside at center.

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Speaker 1: Down the stretch with Bagley out, and that's when Dearon

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Speaker 1: Fox hit the game winner, taken it over as he does.

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Speaker 1: It went swish into the Fox hole after good defense

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Speaker 1: by Bradley Beal Daron Fox. Yeah, that hand up King's win.

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Speaker 1: Warriors Rockets. The Rockets lost their eighteenth straight game, but

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Speaker 1: it was the loss of Steph Curry that was the

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Speaker 1: real headline. A strange injury as Steph took a three

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Speaker 1: a while. He injured his tailbone. No word on X

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Speaker 1: rays as I record here. Steve Kerr throughout a week

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Speaker 1: as a soft return date, but who knows. Friend of

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Speaker 1: the program Dave Defour brought up a good point, is

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Speaker 1: this the first injury caused by a lack of fans?

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Speaker 1: be all right. Christian Wood is all right. He returned

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Speaker 1: for Houston after missing the last seventeen games and looked

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Speaker 1: Eighteen straight losses for them wrap up the night quickly.

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Speaker 1: Ten games in the Association Spurs Bulls. The Bulls had

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Speaker 1: back dribble to seal this game, Luka Doncic ballin a

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Speaker 1: gorgeous play, asking the I think thirty seven hundred fans

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Speaker 1: check out the full Nodunks episode here on Thursday, and

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