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Speaker 1: do every Monday, best and worst to the weekend. Your

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Speaker 1: opportunity to dial us up and tell us what you

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Speaker 1: liked you didn't like from over the weekend, the Lakers

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Speaker 1: worked really hard to get that number one seed in

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Speaker 1: the Western Conference. In their reward was the eighth seed

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Speaker 1: Portland Trailblazers. Now we look at them as an eighth seed,

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Speaker 1: but they're not because had they been healthy, they're probably

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Speaker 1: a four or five seed, maybe a six seed at

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Speaker 1: the worst. But they had injuries. Of course, you know,

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Speaker 1: the season shut down. Then they restart in the bubble.

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Speaker 1: Damian Lillard gets hot. CJ McCollum, who's break playing with

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Speaker 1: the broken bone in his back. And they're a great

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Speaker 1: offensive team. They're not a good defensive team. And maybe

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Speaker 1: this is what the Lakers need. They need some of

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Speaker 1: you who doesn't play defense very well because the Lakers

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Speaker 1: offense has struggled. Vegas thinks so much of the bubble

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Speaker 1: and the play in the bubble. They bumped the Clippers

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Speaker 1: up to the team to beat right now in the

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Speaker 1: NBA for the championship, which is a little bit surprising

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Speaker 1: because nobody's talked about the MAVs being a surprise team

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Speaker 1: to be able to pull off an upset over the Clippers.

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Speaker 1: It's the Lakers. Everybody focuses on the Lakers, even though

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Speaker 1: the MAVs might have a better chance at beating the

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Speaker 1: why I say that is the Clippers are still trying

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Speaker 1: to get you know, it's a great puzzle, but there's

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Speaker 1: a few pieces that haven't been put together. And I think,

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Speaker 1: you know, once they get into the second or third round,

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Speaker 1: Clippers are opening round. That's where the MAVs have played

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Speaker 1: hard maintaining their seed. They got the Clippers. Clippers still

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Speaker 1: trying to bring in all their players, and you might

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Speaker 1: have them giving them a little bit better test than

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Speaker 1: what Portland does with the Lakers. But what we saw

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Speaker 1: And I think that's what's interesting about Portland getting everybody back.

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Speaker 1: felt like after the Memphis game where they won to

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Speaker 1: they look spent now they've had a couple of days

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Speaker 1: mind and body takes over. You get excited, and that

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Speaker 1: so far. The Blazers they know we're playing for their

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Speaker 1: playoff lives every game. The Lakers didn't seem motivated in

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Speaker 1: day stat of the Day. I did see this article

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Speaker 1: he said that he was concerned Luca don Chick did

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Speaker 1: He worried about don Chick's impact on Deerin Fox, whom

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Speaker 1: don't know who he can guard. Some of the greatest

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Speaker 1: you know these players don't have natural positions. That's what

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Speaker 1: I don't understand about vlade, because your European players have

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Speaker 1: you overthink this, Well, we already got somebody at that position. Okay,

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Speaker 1: In fairness to the Blazers. Back then, everybody had their position.

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Speaker 1: we're comparing don Chick to Larry Bird. And you had

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Speaker 1: Divac the rest of his life because Luca don Chick

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Speaker 1: could have changed the Sacramento Kings. Now they might not

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Speaker 1: I like Dearon Fox, but I would think Daron Fox

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Speaker 1: But that would have changed the Phoenix Suns. Imagine if

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Speaker 1: And that's why when I mean, I give Vlade credit

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Speaker 1: long as Luca don Chick is playing. I was going

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Speaker 1: Can you settle debate? Polly and I are having Trevor Lawrence.

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Speaker 1: just saying, you know, can we why didn't we give

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Speaker 1: this a little bit more thought. The presidents are doing

427
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Speaker 1: this because they know there's liability. But once these students

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Speaker 1: go on campus, that's when it's all going to change.

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Speaker 1: And maybe you know, some of these conferences survive, but

430
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Speaker 1: that's where you're going to have the real test by

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Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks, because they're going to play

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Speaker 1: third week in September. But I just don't know how

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Speaker 1: the doctor for the NCAA can he say you shouldn't

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Speaker 1: be playing. How much authority does he have, because it

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Speaker 1: feels like the SEC and ACC in Big twelve are like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's nice stock, but you know, we're gonna take it

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Speaker 1: from here. So he's going to join us, but he

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Speaker 1: says we're not in a place today where we can

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Speaker 1: safely play sports. The return of students could be quote

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Speaker 1: the downfall. He'll join us, coming up next down, and

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Speaker 1: he echoes what I've been saying, students coming back on

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Speaker 1: campus acting as students as they will ill if schools

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Speaker 1: can handle the return of the students amid the COVID

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Speaker 1: nineteen pandemic. Then the doctor says, that'll be the downfall

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Speaker 1: of the entire structure. I mean, that's feels like we're

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Speaker 1: right on the ledge here, and I know that this

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Speaker 1: is and I told you so topic. And the last

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Speaker 1: thing I want to say is I told you so.

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Speaker 1: I'd rather be told no, you were wrong on this.

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Speaker 1: But I've said this from the beginning. I hope I'm wrong.

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Speaker 1: I hope we have college football. I didn't like that

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Speaker 1: the Big twelve or the Pac twelve and the Big

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Speaker 1: Ten kind of, you know, closed up shop quicker than

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Speaker 1: I thought. I don't know how much conversation they had

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Speaker 1: with other commissioners, other presidents here. It just felt like

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Speaker 1: it was Nope, we're not going to do it because

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Speaker 1: of the liability here. And it also depends on what

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Speaker 1: state you're playing into. This is state by state as well,

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Speaker 1: and that factored in. But we're going to have the doctor. Also,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have Armies head coach Jeff Monkin. They're playing.

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Speaker 1: I don't know who they're playing, but they're playing. Because

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at their schedule, I think they have four games,

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Speaker 1: so I don't know who Army is playing. But we'll

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Speaker 1: talk to their head coach. I'll join us next down.

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Speaker 1: Or do you have their schedule, Paul. Yeah, they've got

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Speaker 1: eight games versus TBD and their favorite in all of them.

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Speaker 1: They got they got Rice, they got air Force, they

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Speaker 1: got two Lane and Navy. They've got two open weeks

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Speaker 1: in September, four open weeks in October. They are open

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Speaker 1: for business. Wow. Yeah, that's the thing. You know, how

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Speaker 1: how do you feel in that schedule because you're not

472
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Speaker 1: quite sure who's going to be playing football. If you say, hey,

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Speaker 1: let's line up something with SMU and then all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, SMU's not playing, or what if they line

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Speaker 1: up something with Alabama, Well on September fifteenth, if you

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Speaker 1: can get Alabama to do that, add Alabama because Alabama's

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Speaker 1: not into West Point. Yea, they went. Army went to

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma a couple of years ago, and Navy went to

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Speaker 1: Ohio State. Yeah. They have to travel. Yep, that's the difference.

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Speaker 1: Nobody's coming to them. They got to travel, all right.

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Speaker 1: So what poll question? By the way, we got no

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Speaker 1: response from the Big ten. We wanted to in Ohio

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Speaker 1: State justin fields, you know, we just wanted to ask

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Speaker 1: about this petition, Like, what do you hope to get

485
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Speaker 1: if I'm not surprised that you have a student athlete

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Speaker 1: who says, hey, let's start a petition. I want to

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Speaker 1: play football. Most of the ninety eight percent of these

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Speaker 1: players want to play football. It feels like the coaches

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Speaker 1: want to play, the athletic directors want to play. So

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Speaker 1: I'm not surprised at any of this that justin fields.

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Speaker 1: This isn't a headline worthy in my opinion, it's like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he wants to play. Now, if he said I don't

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Speaker 1: want to play and I want to get ready for

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Speaker 1: the draft, that's a headline. This to me is not

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Speaker 1: a headline. I think it's predictable. But I don't know

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Speaker 1: what the Big Ten does with this. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what their reaction is going to be, like, hey, stop

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Speaker 1: being a student athlete here, Hey shut up, we're not

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Speaker 1: going to play. Yeah. Mcluv probably had a poll question.

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Speaker 1: That's interesting. Who should make the ultimate decision? Players, parents, coaches,

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Speaker 1: athletic directors, university presidents or the governor of the state.

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Speaker 1: Who should decide whether college football players play this fall?

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Speaker 1: Once the presidents, they're the ones that have the most

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Speaker 1: to lose here millions and millions and millions of dollars.

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Speaker 1: I mean players, they're gonna want to play their parents,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Coaches, athletic directors they want to play.

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Speaker 1: Governor probably going to want to play. University presidents They're

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Speaker 1: the ones are gonna have to write checks if somebody

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Speaker 1: gets sick and God forbid, somebody dies. So the presidents,

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Speaker 1: to me, they should be the ones that are deciding

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Speaker 1: on this. I just don't know if they fat they

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Speaker 1: allowed other opinions in here, I don't. I don't know that.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to find that out. And which school or

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Speaker 1: schools were leading the charge to shut down the season

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Speaker 1: in the Big Ten in the Pac twelve, I'd be

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Speaker 1: curious about that as well. Yeah, a lot of people

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Speaker 1: were wondering why Ohio State, in Michigan and Rutgers would

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Speaker 1: have similar voting rights for the Big Ten. You got

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Speaker 1: Rutgers who's been around a minute and a half and

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Speaker 1: has no football credibility or juice and has the same

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Speaker 1: power to vote as a last state. Yeah, but that's

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Speaker 1: like the electoral college. Yeah, where you can go North

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Speaker 1: Dakota you got two votes, and so does the state

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Speaker 1: of California. Not fair, but that's the reality of that.

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Speaker 1: And Rutgers wasn't going to play football, you know, the

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Speaker 1: travel band, I mean, everything going on in New Jersey,

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Speaker 1: they weren't playing football. But I don't know if it

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Speaker 1: was one of those We're either all in or were

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Speaker 1: all out. Keep in mind what shut down the Mid

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Speaker 1: American Conference in Northern Illinois on a Saturday. Came in

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Speaker 1: and said we're not playing and then everybody else said, well,

532
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Speaker 1: we're not playing either. That's how it happens. But we'll

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Speaker 1: talk to the doctor, We'll talk to Army's head coach

534
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Speaker 1: as well about how can you play and who are

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Speaker 1: you going to play? Any concerns there other poll questions

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Speaker 1: that we might be pondering. McLevin. Okay, we want to

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Speaker 1: rank the NBA series. Now, obviously I think you could

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Speaker 1: take out the Lakers Blazers and Clippers Mavericks because after

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Speaker 1: that the first round really kind of So the Blazers

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Speaker 1: Lakers is the best opening round series. That's number one.

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Speaker 1: Second is Dallas in the Clippers based on the way

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Speaker 1: ESPN is televising. Yeah, those are the two primetime games. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so the third best matchup I'll give you the options.

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Speaker 1: I already have my pick. Okay, do you want me

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Speaker 1: to run through them? Don't you want to? Just? I

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Speaker 1: mean you can, but I'll tell you mine right now.

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Speaker 1: Is the Rockets in the thunder. Yeah, but Oklahoma City,

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Speaker 1: Chris Paul's playing great, Russell Westbrook Junior, the third is hurt.

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Speaker 1: I know those feel like it's gonna be Remember the

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00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 1: Rockets game. The Rockets jettison Chris Paul because he was

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00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 1: always hurt. And here they're facing Oklahoma City and they've

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Speaker 1: been sneaky good and now you're not fully assembled? Can't

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Speaker 1: It seems kind of spicy to me, you know, Chris

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Speaker 1: Paul with a chip on his shoulder, that's a little

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Speaker 1: bit spicy. I don't see a lot of flopping and arguing,

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Speaker 1: and Chris Paul is going to do something. Jazz Nuggets,

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Speaker 1: no Celtic Sixers, no Heat Pacers. Is it the heat

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Speaker 1: Pacers or the heat in the Bucks? None of the

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00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:40,480
Speaker 1: Bucks play the magic magic. That's Jimmy Butler against T. J. Warren.

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Speaker 1: That's a hot one. Yeah, that's all right, But Warren's

561
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Speaker 1: a little banged up. He's got planner fasciatus. Yeah, the

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Speaker 1: Pacers don't have to bonus. Yeah, that's not it. But

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Speaker 1: don't you look at the East and it's like Celtic

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Speaker 1: six sixers should be good, it's not gonna be And

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Speaker 1: Raptors Nets should be good, but that's not going to

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Speaker 1: be either because I mean none of the stars are playing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it feels like the Nets will in the first one,

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Speaker 1: like they'll blow it out in a bunch of their

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Speaker 1: bench players who we don't know in the first game.

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's any matchup in the East right

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Speaker 1: now that I'm really interested in, not the opening round matchup,

572
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Speaker 1: but I am you know, the two LA teams, and

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Speaker 1: then after that, I would say the Rockets in the

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Speaker 1: Thunder that I'm curious about that as well. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean Clu the Jazz Nuggets, doesn't I mean that feels

576
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 1: like the one thirty special every day. Yeah, And you

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Speaker 1: know there's a march madness field to this today because

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Speaker 1: these games we got four games and one starts at

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Speaker 1: like one thirty in the afternoon. But I know we're

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Speaker 1: trying to dress up the Nuggets. Man, you gotta watch

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Speaker 1: Michael Porter Junior. You gotta watch Bull Bull. They got

582
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Speaker 1: the joker, all right. They got Jamal Murray, all right,

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Speaker 1: Utah doesn't have Mike Conley Junior the third. His wife

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Speaker 1: just delivered a baby, left the bubble. I don't think

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Speaker 1: that's exciting anything else, McLeman. I got coaching vacancies for

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Speaker 1: you in the NBA. I got a job Moran question,

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Speaker 1: all right. I got a draft question for you. All right,

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Speaker 1: let me let me take a break there. I got

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Speaker 1: a stat of the day that has to do with

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Speaker 1: the Lakers and Blazers and Ethan who does our stats

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Speaker 1: for us. You know Ethan. Yeah, he's got a stat

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Speaker 1: for you all. Have that for you when we return.

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Speaker 1: But when we return, we'll also have the Play of

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Speaker 1: the day right after this. Thanks for listening to The

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Speaker 1: Lakers and Blazers reminiscent of two thousand seven first round.

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Speaker 1: That's when you had the Mavericks the number one seed.

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Speaker 1: They played the eight seeded Warriors, who were led by

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Speaker 1: Baron Davis that was the first round. Golden State was

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Speaker 1: like this year's Blazers, great offensively second in the NBA

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Speaker 1: and scoring bad defensively last in the NBA. Golden State

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Speaker 1: upset Dallas in six games. Baron Davis average twenty points

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Speaker 1: a game in that series. So, whether we have that

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Speaker 1: or not, statistically it is reminiscent of two thousand and seven.

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Speaker 1: What other polls do you have there, mcclevin, Okay, I

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Speaker 1: don't know if you got to watch a lot of

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Speaker 1: John Morant in the annual playing game. If I give

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Speaker 1: you one player now, last week you asked Zion versus Luca,

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Speaker 1: and I foolishly said Zion. Now, i'd say Luca. Who'd

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Speaker 1: take John Morant or Zion Williamson if you had a

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Speaker 1: look at them? Now? I need to see more of

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Speaker 1: Zion now. If this is what Zion's going to be

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Speaker 1: where we're not sure if he's going to be healthy

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Speaker 1: from week to week or month to month or season

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Speaker 1: to season, I would take John Morand I think John

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Speaker 1: Moran is going to fill out and be a Damian

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Speaker 1: Lillard kind of player that he'll and he might be

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Speaker 1: more athletic than him because we know that he attacks

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Speaker 1: the rim. Will he be as good a shooter as Dane, No,

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Speaker 1: but he looks like he's going to add He's gonna

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Speaker 1: be bigger, stronger, and you have to love that aggressive

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Speaker 1: attitude that he has. And he was playing with a

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Speaker 1: broken bone in his hand. I think the last four

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Speaker 1: games of the season, but I don't. I just don't

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Speaker 1: know about Zion right now. Who's the coach going to

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Speaker 1: be and what's the roster going to look like? You know,

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Speaker 1: we thought that there was a chance last week that

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Speaker 1: Alvin Gentry would get fired, and he got fired. Now,

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Speaker 1: if the Rockets don't get past Oklahoma City, I'm hearing

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Speaker 1: that Mike D'Antoni probably will be shown the door. Then

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Speaker 1: do you get D'Antoni who worked with the Pelicans GM

636
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Speaker 1: Griffin before? And maybe that's the coach you bring in.

637
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 1: But what kind of coach comes in? You know? I

638
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 1: go back to it was something so small when I

639
00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:02,040
Speaker 1: found out that Alvin Gentry was getting fired. I went

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00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 1: back to that opening game in the bubble for Zion

641
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:10,319
Speaker 1: and he was on a minute's restriction. Alvin Gentry had

642
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:14,279
Speaker 1: no power there and that told me everything. Like I

643
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 1: look back on that and I go. He was saying, look,

644
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 1: I want him to play, but he's on a minute's

645
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 1: restriction here. And then I realized that the coach had

646
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 1: no jurisdiction here. At least that was the feeling I had.

647
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:32,400
Speaker 1: The first thing I thought of when I saw Gentry

648
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:35,399
Speaker 1: fire to win. He was telling us that he had

649
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 1: no power without telling us he had no power over

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00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:41,279
Speaker 1: this situation. And if you're not going to trust the coach, now,

651
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the GM is telling you what

652
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Speaker 1: you need to do the owner is. That's why I

653
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 1: thought Alvin Gentry was going to be on thin ice

654
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Speaker 1: if they didn't make the playoffs. Ya, it's a great point.

655
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 1: You didn't give the coach a chance to coach to

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00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:55,799
Speaker 1: get into the playoffs, and then you fire him for

657
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:58,280
Speaker 1: not making it. One thing I don't understand, being outside

658
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 1: of this with the Pelicans, is Zio Williamson not in

659
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:04,319
Speaker 1: shape and not handling things correctly himself or is he

660
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 1: being mismanaged because it reminds me a long time ago

661
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 1: of Jaba Chamberlain with the Yankees, that they were so

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00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,360
Speaker 1: concerned about him and overly concerned. It didn't let a

663
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 1: nineteen year old or twenty year old, play basketball, play baseball.

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Speaker 1: I can't tell if he's not ready and not ready

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00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 1: to play, not healthy and not in shape, or he's

666
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 1: being mismanaged by the team. Well, we have been told

667
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:25,279
Speaker 1: that this is the best shape of his life going

668
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:28,399
Speaker 1: into the bubble, and then he gets there and has

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00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 1: to go home because of the family emergency, and then

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00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 1: over a span of two weeks now he's in the

671
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 1: worst shape of his life. Something doesn't add up there,

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00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 1: and maybe the true story. And we reached out to

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00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 1: Alvin Gentry and Alvin's not going to burn any bridges,

674
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: but you know, just how much power did you have

675
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:50,880
Speaker 1: in those decisions? And I'm gonna guess he'll take the

676
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,359
Speaker 1: high road. But I don't think he had any real

677
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 1: power there because he look, are we going to plaim?

678
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 1: Do we want to win? Can I play him? How much?

679
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:02,880
Speaker 1: Can I play? And I still maintain if you play

680
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:08,320
Speaker 1: in two three four minute burst, knowing this from experience,

681
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:12,880
Speaker 1: you try to kill everybody. You try to do everything

682
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,680
Speaker 1: possible because you know you're only going to be in

683
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:19,280
Speaker 1: there three or four minutes. You're diving for loose balls,

684
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:23,000
Speaker 1: you're hustling, and that's when you get hurt if you

685
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 1: said to Zion, you're in for five five minutes and

686
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 1: then we're not going to play you till the third quarter,

687
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 1: where you're in for seven, and then we're going to

688
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:36,800
Speaker 1: play you in the fourth quarter, the final six minutes

689
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 1: of the game. That was my strategy from the beginning.

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00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 1: I don't want you to play in three or four

691
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 1: in the first quarter to three or four here, three

692
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:45,840
Speaker 1: or four here, three or four here, and then the

693
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:48,840
Speaker 1: game is on the line and our best players are

694
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 1: not on the floor. I don't know how it was handled,

695
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 1: who was making that decision, but I think it's pretty

696
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 1: obvious Alvin Gentry was frustrated that he couldn't make a decision.

697
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:02,279
Speaker 1: Here was Zion Williamson. Yeah, mcclem so. My next pole

698
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 1: question is which potential vacancy these jobs aren't all open

699
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 1: yet would you want if you were, say, Tyron Leu,

700
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:17,359
Speaker 1: New Orleans, Houston, Philadelphia, Brooklyn. Chicago is now open too.

701
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 1: I don't want Chicago, man, This is the top four

702
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:23,919
Speaker 1: a pretty good opportunity. Yeah, Brooklyn makes me nervous because

703
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 1: of Kyrie. That's it. If Kyrie wasn't there, I would

704
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:33,240
Speaker 1: think that'd be a great job. I just as as

705
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 1: great a player as he is. I just don't know

706
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:40,680
Speaker 1: if he makes your team better, and you got Durant

707
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:43,799
Speaker 1: there is Buddy, and you got these younger players there.

708
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 1: I don't know yet. It feels a little Boston like,

709
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:57,920
Speaker 1: except for the Durant portion of this. Philadelphia. I'm curious

710
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 1: because I still think you can have those two guys

711
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 1: work together. I wouldn't give up on that. Houston. No,

712
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:10,399
Speaker 1: let's see. If I was going to rank, I'd say,

713
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 1: give me Brooklyn. What you got two MVPs in Houston.

714
00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 1: That's a that's a flat out no. You would consider it. Yeah,

715
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 1: you don't want to coach Russell. I know, God, I

716
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:22,759
Speaker 1: don't want to coach that. I like watching it and

717
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 1: if it goes well or it goes horribly, I love

718
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:28,960
Speaker 1: watching it. Now. I don't want that, Uh, New Orleans.

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Speaker 1: I'd go Brooklyn, New Orleans, Philly, Houston, Chicago, and I

720
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Speaker 1: think Houston. And I said that if I was going

721
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Speaker 1: for my dark horse when the playoffs or the bubble started,

722
00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:44,319
Speaker 1: I said, Houston would be my pick. But with you know,

723
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Speaker 1: lestbrook dinged up a little bit here in Oklahoma City,

724
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Speaker 1: this wouldn't be an upset four fives usually aren't labeled upsets.

725
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: It feels like Oklahoma City beating Houston would be an

726
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:59,480
Speaker 1: upset or should be labeled an upset. Anything else in

727
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 1: there MC of him. Okay, this is just a sort

728
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:04,440
Speaker 1: of make fun of two teams. But what was the

729
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:06,880
Speaker 1: worst miss on a number three pick in the last

730
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:10,320
Speaker 1: four drafts? Is this? The two ones you look at.

731
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Speaker 1: Luca Donts fell below DeAndre Ayton and Marvin Bagley and eighteen,

732
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:17,799
Speaker 1: But in seventeen Jason Tatum fell below markl Fault and

733
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:24,520
Speaker 1: Lonzo Ball. Which one was a more egregious miss? Well,

734
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Speaker 1: the Don Chick situation, because he's going to be he

735
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 1: could be an MVP, multiple MVPs. Embiid was behind Wiggins

736
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Speaker 1: and Jabari Parker in twenty fourteen. But you know what,

737
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:42,719
Speaker 1: there was still a question mark with Ebid because as

738
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 1: great as he showed at Kansas, he also showed, you

739
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:50,800
Speaker 1: know that he was a little bit fragile physically, and

740
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:54,240
Speaker 1: that's what made people nervous. They loved his footwork, they thought,

741
00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:56,879
Speaker 1: you know, there was an Elijah On feel to him.

742
00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:00,320
Speaker 1: But I mean, obviously it's Don Chick, but at m

743
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 1: with Folds and Ball and I tried to help you

744
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:05,719
Speaker 1: leading up to that draft. Nickleven, Remember when I came

745
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 1: in that day and I said, hey, I just talked

746
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:10,880
Speaker 1: to somebody. They said, Tatum is by far the best

747
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 1: player in this draft, and Philly is going to pass

748
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:18,840
Speaker 1: on him. They're going to take Mark Helfolds. McLevin goes, oh, no,

749
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:22,359
Speaker 1: We'll check in with the Army head coach. Who are

750
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:24,839
Speaker 1: they playing this year? Encole's coming up