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Speaker 1: Oh, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, good

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Speaker 1: morning to everybody except those.

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Speaker 2: In Philadelphia. Uh, you guys gotta bear with me today.

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Speaker 2: Good morning is we are the Fellows. I'm Anthony Gargano,

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Speaker 2: and if you listen to the show, you know that

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Speaker 2: I am an eight from Philadelphia. So grew up like

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Speaker 2: a major obviously sports fan in the shadows of the

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Speaker 2: stadium and the arenas, the whole thing, and the.

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Speaker 3: Sixers hold a special place for me.

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Speaker 2: Uh, you know, Sixers and Eagles and the whole thing

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Speaker 2: and Phillies and uh, I'm stunned because their losses, uh,

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Speaker 2: and their losses and last night's Game three, which was

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Speaker 2: like all important Game three between the Sixers and the Celtics.

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Speaker 3: Now, just FYI. I grew up hating the Celtics.

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Speaker 2: Like when I was a kid, Julius Serving and Larry

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Speaker 2: Bird got in a fight. I was a little boy

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Speaker 2: watching this thing. It just hated Boston, man. Boston was

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Speaker 2: like our biggest rival growing up. So Sixers are playing

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Speaker 2: Celtics and last night and Bet gets his MVP and

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Speaker 2: it was a very special, uh you know, very emotional

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Speaker 2: evening and it began and just ended inexplicably. So You're

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Speaker 2: gonna have to just bear with me today as I

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Speaker 2: sit here and I'm at Dispelie, and we've all had

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Speaker 2: sports people and as sports fans, we all know it's

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Speaker 2: part of the part of the deal. Are these excruciating losses. Now,

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Speaker 2: my line has always been you must bleed to no bliss.

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Speaker 2: I will say that people who have followed the Sixers

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Speaker 2: have bled for forty years.

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Speaker 4: It's been forty.

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Speaker 2: Years since they have won a title.

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Speaker 3: Nineteen eighty three. I was a little.

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Speaker 2: Boy and as the last time they won the title,

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Speaker 2: and so it's forty years since that happened. It's been

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Speaker 2: a hell of a just a torturous ride, and during

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Speaker 2: their process, the whole thing, and last night's game was

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Speaker 2: just one of these one of these games you shake

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Speaker 2: your head out and you go, what the hell was

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Speaker 2: James hard to do it out.

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Speaker 4: There last night? Oh my god.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I've seen bad play and guys having bad games.

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Speaker 3: He single handedly lost the game for them.

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Speaker 2: And listen, you know, Tadum had some big buckets at

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Speaker 2: the end, but James Harden was just horrendous. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I don't remember a guy playing that poorly in that

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Speaker 4: Hello figure, good morning.

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Speaker 5: Good morning Anthony. I don't want to have to say

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Speaker 5: it again, but playoff. James Harden strikes again. I mean,

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Speaker 5: how many times does the guy have to tell you

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Speaker 5: who he is or show you who he is before

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Speaker 5: you believe it? You know it's he had a great game.

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Speaker 5: One he teased everybody looked amazing, no Joel in the lineup,

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Speaker 5: and then these last two games there's James with the spotlight.

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Speaker 5: Here you go goes all the way back to his

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Speaker 5: days in Oklahoma City in that NBA Finals against the God.

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Speaker 2: He is a torture, the freaking cookie monster. I mean,

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Speaker 2: he's just scortreus torturous. I mean, listen, you play you

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Speaker 2: shoot two for fourteen game two, after you put up

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Speaker 2: forty five in game one, I mean easily forgivable, right,

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Speaker 2: like you go right, you know whatever. Yeah, but last night,

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Speaker 2: it wasn't he in his horrific shooting that was a problem.

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Speaker 2: Even though it was was part of the problem. It

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Speaker 2: was the turnovers. It was the the mindless, inane passes

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Speaker 2: to nobody. It was it was the turnovers, like I

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Speaker 2: swear to God, Jersey the movie Blue Chips.

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Speaker 4: It's been a while, but yes.

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Speaker 2: Yes, okay, you know the character Tony from Blue Chips,

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Speaker 2: which one was Tony?

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Speaker 4: Tony was delighted.

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Speaker 2: It was that was one of the mainstay players who

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Speaker 2: got caught thrown a game or shaving points and the

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Speaker 4: Tony, what are you doing? Don't tell me you did it? Tony?

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Speaker 4: You do you shaved points? Tony?

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Speaker 2: Right right, I'm watching the way Hard played last night.

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Speaker 2: I thought he was Tony from James.

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Speaker 5: Was on the take, Huh, I mean what James James

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Speaker 5: Harden's hanging out with the Alabama baseball coach.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I know. You know. The thing with him too

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Speaker 5: Especially in these playoff games, if he gets off to

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Speaker 5: slow starts, because by the way, in Game one, he

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Speaker 5: got off to a fast start and he just just

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Speaker 5: took off, like they get into his head or he

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Speaker 5: this has been a trend for him throughout his career

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Speaker 5: in the postseason. I don't know if the moment's too

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Speaker 5: big for him or however you want to describe it,

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Speaker 5: but he just couldn't get it done. Like and Joel

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Speaker 5: Embiid had some comments after the game that I'm sure

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Speaker 5: he didn't name anybody by name, but somewhat directed towards

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Speaker 4: We got to show up. We got to do our thing.

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Speaker 5: I mean, this guy's out here playing on one knee

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Speaker 5: and he's getting thirty and thirteen and four blocks and

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Speaker 2: I have to tell you, if you have it, I'd

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Speaker 2: like to hear it. We see if I did get

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Speaker 2: up for it. You know why I didn't listen to it.

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Speaker 2: I turned it. Actually, I take it back. I couldn't

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Speaker 2: even go to any kind of news, cond I couldn't

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Speaker 2: look at anything six year related. I watched the Sons

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Speaker 2: and the Nuggets, right, yeah, and I watched it with

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Speaker 2: the Son's Nuggets game. But you know I'm watching, you know,

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Speaker 2: Durant go to the bad Like Durant didn't shoot the

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Speaker 2: what did he do? He just went to line, tottacked

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Speaker 2: case thirty nine, like just shows up in a big way.

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Speaker 5: And he was much better in the second half, by

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Speaker 5: he was twelve for thirty one after he started one

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Speaker 2: Right, and I don't I don't even think I think

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Speaker 2: going and you're right, like we have talked about this

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Speaker 2: playoff James Harden before. But I'm thinking, you know, all

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Speaker 2: he's got to do now is she just really play

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Speaker 2: point guard right Like you know, listen, I'm nobody's asking

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Speaker 2: you to score thirty.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you don't have to have Game one performances forty

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Speaker 5: five points or whatever. It is, just right, give me,

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Speaker 5: give me eighteen and twelve and you know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, nobody's saying score thirty. Just go eighteen twelve like

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Speaker 2: you said eighteen twelve.

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Speaker 5: Because even I said before the series, if you remember,

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Speaker 5: I said, there's gonna be game there have to be

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Speaker 5: games where James Harden is going to have to go

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Speaker 5: off and score points for you, but not every game.

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Speaker 5: So there's gonna be some nights where he's gonna have

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Speaker 5: to you know, not necessarily game one, but pour in

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Speaker 5: thirty four. You he has that in him. I didn't

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Speaker 4: I'll be it.

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Speaker 5: There's still games left, obviously, but these last two games.

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Speaker 5: If I were a Philly a Philly fan, I'd be

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Speaker 5: uh be real nervous and upset. Right now, fellas, I

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Speaker 5: got something to say, what he got, he got he

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Speaker 5: You know, he was six sixteen and eleven tonight. I

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Speaker 5: know you start three for fourteen from the field, but

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Speaker 5: you know sixteen points on fourteen attempts is not the best.

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Speaker 5: Uh bio there? Yeah, he had sixteen points to night.

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Speaker 4: What does that mean?

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Speaker 5: I mean, he's stunk.

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Speaker 4: But you know, we got to give the guy some credit.

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Speaker 4: We gotta we got to build some confidence. Do not

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Speaker 4: bring this up to me now. You don't want to

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Speaker 4: stay positive?

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Speaker 2: Well you last over here, dude, dude, dude, he was horrendous.

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Speaker 2: He had seven turnovers last night. He's supposed to be

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Speaker 2: the point guard. He was so bad. Doc took him

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Speaker 4: Yep, I know, I honestly turned it off. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 4: just trying to say team and eleven, all right.

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Speaker 5: The only positives you can take out of that game

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Speaker 5: is Joel and b looked good.

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Speaker 4: That was it. He looked really good on that bad

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Speaker 4: You know what I say? On the game four? Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I'm not ready to do that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm mighty mark, I'm not ready to do that.

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Speaker 4: Dude. I mean, I don't know what you're talking, but

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Speaker 2: There's no way I'm ready to go to Game four

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Speaker 2: right now, that was that's the series.

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Speaker 3: You know how hard you make it now for yourself,

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Speaker 3: you really do, and it's not even and I you know,

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Speaker 3: it's funny, Figgie, I had uh I.

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Speaker 2: I do a thing with Tim Legler throughout the throughout

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Speaker 2: the playoffs every other day, and so Legs and I

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Speaker 2: were talking about the split and how all splits are

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Speaker 2: not equal, right, Like sure, when you win the first

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Speaker 2: game and you come back and you lose by you know, thirty,

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Speaker 2: it does give a little momentum. So you had to

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Speaker 2: be all notice last night, and last night was an

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Speaker 2: important night because it was going to be an emotional

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Speaker 2: tributes and it was the building was insane, the whole thing,

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Speaker 2: the the the just the energy that you had to win,

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Speaker 2: like just you had to win. There was no other

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Speaker 2: There was no other thing because by the way, all

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Speaker 2: the emotion and the fact that you gotta go up to.

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Speaker 3: One, even if you lost game four and you go.

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Speaker 2: Back to the Boston's two to two, that's the three

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Speaker 2: and you know, the home courts kind of out the

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Speaker 2: window anyway.

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Speaker 5: But all the pressure is back on you. You have

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Speaker 5: to win this next game.

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Speaker 3: Correct.

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Speaker 2: And here's the thing fake that this team and I

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Speaker 2: said this before the game yesterday, that this team's is

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Speaker 2: a front runner team. They're like a horse that needs

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Speaker 2: to be in the lead because if they're not in

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Speaker 2: the lead, they fold. And I just don't see I

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Speaker 2: don't see the car. I don't I don't see them

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Speaker 2: getting off the met not with the way hard it

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Speaker 2: is not when you're poor guard. And by the way,

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Speaker 2: and I love Tyrese Maxey and he's one of my

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Speaker 2: favorite kids. And he's going to be he's a hell

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Speaker 2: of a plier now and you're going to get even better.

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Speaker 4: This is just a young group of guys.

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Speaker 2: Anyone had balled out from from jump and shape was

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Speaker 2: you know danfy Mountain played well, yeah, you know there was.

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Speaker 2: They got some Niang who was unplayable, playing terrific in

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Speaker 4: The whole game.

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Speaker 3: I mean, my god, and oh my god, it was horrible.

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Speaker 5: Well, I still don't think all is lost to your point,

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Speaker 5: it just puts extra pressure on It basically makes this

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Speaker 4: But look, they certainly can.

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Speaker 5: Look if you're if you want to play the average,

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Speaker 4: Three, even if he's somewhere in between.

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Speaker 5: I mean, look, it was what a six to seven

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Speaker 5: Is Maxic going to be four of sixteen again, you'd

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Speaker 4: That's more than norms.

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Speaker 5: You're right, and you've brought this up going into the series,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's amazing.

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Speaker 2: He's a great player, great defender. He's just in your face.

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Speaker 2: You know, he's the kind of guy that you hate

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Speaker 5: And that's the thing about Boston just in general, there

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Speaker 2: Devin Booker was no Chris Paul, Ye had you had

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Speaker 2: a weird feeling?

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Speaker 2: Of playoff disasters and uh, Devin buoker Man was just

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Speaker 2: I mean, they get for the other night. At least

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Speaker 2: you got to split in Golden State. So that's your squad. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you gotta you know, you gotta, you gotta good punchers.

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Speaker 3: Chance and me.

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Speaker 2: You kind of had to expect the Warriors to come

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Speaker 5: That was the thing, like we talked about that, you know,

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Speaker 2: I guess Looney was sick, but you know, the switch

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Speaker 5: Even as good as Looney has been for them, you know,

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Speaker 5: I don't know, Well, he's really streaky, as we know,

437
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Speaker 5: he's a very volatile sort of kind of player. But yeah,

438
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Speaker 5: to only play sixteen minutes the other night is a

439
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Speaker 5: little puzzling.

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Speaker 4: He was he did have five. I think they went

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Speaker 4: by thirty.

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Speaker 2: Like I mean, like I'm honestly, I know he was

443
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Speaker 2: in foul trouble, but I mean, you know, I really

444
00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:56,280
Speaker 2: he's been limited, and I like, I love Jordan Poole.

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Speaker 3: I think pulled the helm a player, and I get it.

446
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Speaker 3: You got your veterans, so.

447
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Speaker 2: You know, there's no there's no real room because you

448
00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:04,520
Speaker 2: have Wiggans who's gonna play a lot of minutes too.

449
00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:09,400
Speaker 2: So you're really heavy in your you know, in your

450
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Speaker 2: guards and wings, you know, so it's hard for him

451
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Speaker 2: to kind of get you know, to kind of get

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Speaker 2: a lot of playing time.

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Speaker 3: But nah, yeah, I just think he's a hell of

454
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Speaker 3: a player.

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Speaker 4: He is, but he's so erratic.

456
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Speaker 5: I mean, look, go back to Game one, which by

457
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Speaker 5: the way, Golden State easily could have won. I mean

458
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Speaker 5: that game, that game was tied in the final what

459
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Speaker 5: forty five seconds whatever it was, and he takes this

460
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Speaker 5: forty footer. I'm exaggerating, but not by much. With time's

461
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Speaker 5: still on the clock to work for a better look

462
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Speaker 5: for somebody, and he just took a giant with Clay

463
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Speaker 5: and Steph and even if he look if he was

464
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Speaker 5: a little bit closer, fine, but that's the problem. It's

465
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Speaker 5: the good and the bad with Jordan Poole, who, by

466
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Speaker 5: the way, did not have a good series against Sacramento. Yeah,

467
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Speaker 5: and so I think all of that is kind of

468
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Speaker 5: weighing on Steve Kurr. So there's positives and negatives with him,

469
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Speaker 5: and you just kind of have to figure out, you know, which,

470
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Speaker 5: you know, how you want to ride it on that

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Speaker 5: particular night. I do not believe that the Warriors are

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Speaker 5: gonna end up winning this series unless Jordan Poole makes

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Speaker 5: a giant stamp, unless he plays better, They're not gonna

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Speaker 5: win the series of Jordan Poole's as bad against the

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Speaker 5: Lakers as he was in the first round against Sacramento.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with that. I think you're I think

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Speaker 2: you're spot on who for the Lakers fig really needs

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Speaker 2: to step up. I mean, I mean, obviously we're talking

479
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Speaker 2: about you know, Anthony Davis and the whole thing, but

480
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Speaker 2: who else really needs is kind of the lynch pin

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Speaker 2: to the Lakers now coming home and you know, trying

482
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Speaker 2: to make de fend off this team.

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Speaker 4: D'angela Russell when he's played well. You know, I talked

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Speaker 4: about a D.

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Speaker 5: But on a smaller scale, when D'Angelo Russell plays well,

486
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Speaker 5: the Lakers win because it gives you another offensive dimensions

487
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Speaker 5: someone else. I can create their shots, someone else, because

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Speaker 5: when he starts going off, you know, teams now start

489
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Speaker 5: taking paying more attention to him and it opens things

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Speaker 5: up for a D and for Lebron even more.

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Speaker 4: Uh So as well as Austin Reeves.

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Speaker 5: Struggled the other night too, but he's been mostly consistent

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Speaker 5: stint this postseason. D'Angelo Russell is someone who what he

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Speaker 5: have thirty one points in the closed out game against Memphis,

495
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Speaker 5: played well in game one, but then he's five for twelve,

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Speaker 5: you know in Game two against Golden State. They just

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Speaker 5: need him to be a little bit more consistent. They

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Speaker 5: would rather have him with you know average, you know,

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Speaker 5: sixteen to night sixteen points and five to seven assists.

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Speaker 5: They have thirty one night and have ten the next

501
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Speaker 5: and throughout the postseason so far for him, that's that's

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Speaker 5: kind of been what it's what it's been. He's been

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Speaker 5: very inconsistent. So he's the lynch pin for me. When

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Speaker 5: D'Angelo Russell from a role player standpoint, when he plays well,

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Speaker 5: that's when the Lakers are ready.

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Speaker 2: That's a good one because yeah, like you can't count

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Speaker 2: on Schroe there. Like you know, there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: talk about, hey, I think you're spot on. I think

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Speaker 2: I think you need de Angelo.

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Speaker 5: Shruder has his moments, but he's not going to be

511
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Speaker 5: able to give it to you every seas strud can

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Speaker 5: you get. You get your sixteen seventeen on a night

513
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Speaker 5: here and there, but not consistently. You need more consistent

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Speaker 5: production out of D'Angelo Russell. He has to be the

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Speaker 5: third guy. He's not a third star quote unquote, but

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Speaker 5: lebron ad the next most important guy is DeAngelo Russell

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Speaker 5: with a little sprinkle of Austin Reeves after that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, I think you're I think you're spot on. Hey,

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Speaker 2: why don't you hey us with some trending my brother all.

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Speaker 5: Right, well, talking about the NBA two games on Friday night,

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Speaker 5: We'll start out West where Devin Booker was absolutely on

522
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Speaker 5: fire for the Suns forty seven points twenty of twenty

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Speaker 5: five from the field. Kevin Durant struggled from the field

524
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Speaker 5: but still scored thirty nine points as Phoenix picked up

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Speaker 5: the one to twenty one to one fourteen victory, cutting

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Speaker 5: the Nuggets lead to two games to one. Boston now

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Speaker 5: up in their series over the seventy six ers two

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Speaker 5: games to one. One fourteen to one oh two was

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Speaker 5: the final there, twenty seven points and ten boards for

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Speaker 5: Jason Tatum. NHL Carolina steamrolling New Jersey six to one.

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Speaker 5: They take a two games to none lead in their

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Speaker 5: semi final series. Major League Baseball Padres have won five

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Speaker 5: of their last six. They defeat Clayton Kershaw and the

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Speaker 5: Dodgers five to two, snapping LA's six game winning streak.

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Speaker 5: Giants beat Corbyn Burns and Milwaukee six to four. He

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Speaker 5: was h six in Seattle four Arizona, the three to

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Speaker 5: one victory over Washington. The Angels picked up a five

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Speaker 5: to four victory and extras over the Rangers. You had

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Speaker 5: victories for the Mets, Rays and the Red Sox. Back

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Speaker 5: to the Fellas, all right, that's us. We are the

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Speaker 5: Fellas is uh.

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Speaker 2: We hang out from the ti iraq dot com studios

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Speaker 2: talking NBA playoffs, thrilling NBA plus. You know, it's been

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Speaker 2: an amazing I think playoff season.

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Speaker 3: I have enjoyed these playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Last night was a little rough, but when it comes

547
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Speaker 2: from IW was like to look at things from a

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Speaker 2: basketball from a sports standpoint first and fake.

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Speaker 3: I've enjoyed these plus. The playoffs have been incredible.

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Speaker 4: I'm with it, yeah, because it's been so unpredictable.

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Speaker 5: You know who would to saw, you know, the Bucks

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Speaker 5: being eliminated in the first round, Kings and Warriors going

553
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Speaker 5: seven games. You know, it's it's been a lot of

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Speaker 5: drama on a night in, night out basis, And like

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Speaker 5: why you don't want to have one of the faces

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Speaker 5: of the league. Gianni's not in It doesn't make it

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Speaker 5: any less compelling. How about the Knicks one series victory

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Speaker 5: away from making it back to the Conference finals. I

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00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 5: mean storylines on top of storyline.

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Speaker 3: Heat for the NBA to float throwback.

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00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 2: Uh huh to the nineties, yeah, throw back to Van

562
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:24,200
Speaker 2: Gundy versus righty hm, the pupil, Jimmy and the whole thing,

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Speaker 2: and uh he's got to come back today, yes too, right,

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Speaker 2: I mean they can't do it. I mean's shape. I

565
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Speaker 2: mean even even with Jimmy. You know, all those injuries

566
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Speaker 2: have just killed a hero and the whole thing.

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Speaker 5: Now their speculation and I think Jimmy even said it,

568
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Speaker 5: he wanted to go. But the Heat staff, I don't

569
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Speaker 5: think it was even the medical staff. I think it

570
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Speaker 5: was the coaching staff that said, you know no, or

571
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Speaker 5: the front office, like you get to this point, you

572
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 5: load managed so many of these guys throughout the regular season.

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Speaker 5: I thought Darvin Ham said it perfectly well. They talked about,

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Speaker 5: you know, Anthony Davis forty four minutes in Game one

575
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:05,320
Speaker 5: against the Warriors, played the entire second half. They asked

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Speaker 5: about his minutes going into Game two and he was like.

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Speaker 4: There's low.

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Speaker 5: Management is over, Like we sat him on back to

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Speaker 5: back games the last month of the season for this Yeah,

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Speaker 5: like we're gonna we're gonna ride these guys. I'm paraphrasing,

581
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,400
Speaker 5: but essentially, you know, we load manage the right. So

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Speaker 5: if a guy is able to go and there's unless

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Speaker 5: there's like a serious chance that he might reinjure himself,

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Speaker 5: and maybe there is, the only people that know that

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Speaker 5: are Jimmy and maybe even more so the Heat. But

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Speaker 5: the idea that you would even contemplate potentially load managing

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Speaker 5: somebody in the postseason will be ridiculous to me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, I'm with playoffs, man, That's all comes down

589
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Speaker 2: to the playoffs. I mean, you know, this is why

590
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Speaker 2: you do that in the regular season. Regular season. Nobody

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Speaker 2: likes it, but we all understand it. It's part of

592
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Speaker 2: the Beast. Part of the Beast is you know, you

593
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Speaker 2: got to deal with it, right. It is low management.

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Speaker 2: But I will tell you, and I think you're spot

595
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Speaker 2: on with this. I mean absolutely spot on that. I

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Speaker 2: mean that whole, that whole. Jimmy's a warrior. He is

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Speaker 2: just a warrior.

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Speaker 3: You know, he plays a night and he probably pops

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Speaker 3: off tonight.

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Speaker 5: Oh, I can absolutely see him going for forty tonight. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: I would almost expect it. Yes, Yes, I'm with you.

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Speaker 3: I don't. I just I just got that taste in

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Speaker 3: my mouth from last night.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, it's just unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: Because it's the it's here he is and be coming

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Speaker 2: off of he's got another injury, right like this is

607
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Speaker 2: this was the frustration going into last night. Right now,

608
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Speaker 2: it's so funny. So Game one happens and Harding pops off.

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Speaker 2: It goes all forty five it it's hardened a beard.

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Speaker 2: And if I told you how many people, then the

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Speaker 2: game two happens and it beats. You know, he's he's

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Speaker 2: having trouble fitting in. He's gassed. Right, you know that's

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Speaker 2: what bigs. You don't play in twelve days? You at Yourophy, right?

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Speaker 2: You also, you know you also have to get react

615
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Speaker 2: on me because you missed two games. So the other team,

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00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:12,080
Speaker 2: the other players, his teammates got to get reacclimated with

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00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 2: him because he's such a focal point for on offense yep,

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Speaker 2: and obviously defense as a rent protector. But the ball

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Speaker 2: moves differently when he's in a game, and so it

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Speaker 2: was ugly. You blow out the whole thing. And if

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Speaker 2: I told you how many people I had to chastise

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Speaker 2: about well, are they better without embiid? And I'm like, dude, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: And when you do a talk show in town, you

624
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Speaker 2: know it works, right, And I'm going now, now, come man, stop,

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Speaker 2: he's the MVP for a reason.

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Speaker 5: It's not important. That's not to cut you off. But

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Speaker 5: do you know what their record is without him in

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Speaker 5: the lineup?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they had to have a winning record.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so people will appoint to that sort of thing, which.

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Speaker 2: Is yeah, which you and I know that that means

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Speaker 2: nothing because talking about regular season throwaway games, so who cares?

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Speaker 5: Who are they playing? Who was missing from the other teams?

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Speaker 5: There are so many factors exactly.

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Speaker 2: And the point is they and they just see here's

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00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 2: what they see in their mind. They see an offense.

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00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 2: When it's good, it moves a lot. It just moves fast, right,

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00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 2: So it moves fast, so you you know, you had

639
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 2: heart and Maxi's streaking down the floor, so it moves fast.

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Speaker 3: And I try to explaining to them.

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00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 2: Like listen, you know it don't work that way, right,

642
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:28,960
Speaker 2: Like that's your mind playing tricks on you.

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Speaker 4: They're they're they're clearly not a better team.

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Speaker 2: Clearly had they have no chance winning, no chance beating

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Speaker 2: the Celtics in a seven series without indeed.

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Speaker 4: Yeah none, yea.

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Speaker 5: You all love Paul Reid, who's the back up, right,

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00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 5: you know right? It was a great inspiring story. People

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Speaker 5: love to get behind him. I'm all for it, fine,

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Speaker 5: but uh no, Game one is the Game one was

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Speaker 5: the anomaly. Look, if this was a seven game series

652
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 5: and say Joel and b was gonna be out for

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Speaker 5: the entire series, maybe they get one, maybe they get

654
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 5: another one somewhere. But I think Boston wins the series

655
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 5: easily going away, and it's not even close.

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00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're talking about playing.

657
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 5: A quality opponent, having to beat them four times without

658
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 5: one of the great players in the league, without the

659
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Speaker 5: MVP of the league this year.

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00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 4: Come on, people, Yeah, let's get realistic here.

661
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 2: Until last night when he's out of his you know,

662
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Speaker 2: I mean, I just felt I felt bad for him

663
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 2: because I thought he came to play. Man, he came

664
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Speaker 2: to play, And I had an argument with there's a

665
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 2: there's a one of my buddies is in He's it's

666
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 2: not any antient beat as much as that he doesn't

667
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 2: like Biggs. They don't get these You get these guys

668
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 2: that teachers loved, They fall in love with the three

669
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:44,000
Speaker 2: and movement, and I got to hear about team ball

670
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 2: and he's like, oh, he's playing hero ball. Was the

671
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 2: end of the third quarter. I'm going hero ball. You

672
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 2: got a point guard who's playing like he's on the

673
00:33:54,720 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 2: you know, on allergy medication, right, and who who's completely

674
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 2: around me. He had to take him off the ball.

675
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 2: The Maxie's not a point guard, so you know, the

676
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:11,040
Speaker 2: thing's going off the rails. He's the only one that

677
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 2: could score or on a regular basis, on a consistent basis,

678
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:17,800
Speaker 2: because there's no one who can guard.

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00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:20,319
Speaker 4: Him, and he's keeping it in the game. How is

680
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:21,320
Speaker 4: that bad?

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00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:21,839
Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Who else were you going to go to? Is what

683
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 5: I would have asked him, Like, who was it gonna

684
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 5: be gardened? Mister four for sixteen? You mentioned Maxie wasn't

685
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:34,440
Speaker 5: balling out. I mean Tobias Harris was in foul trouble

686
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 5: and he's not really a shy creation guy.

687
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:38,359
Speaker 2: He's a catching shit guy. Yeah, or get a guy

688
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:39,799
Speaker 2: that you should get on. He killed that being in

689
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:41,839
Speaker 2: foul trouble gave really killed. But he never got any

690
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:45,280
Speaker 2: kind of rhythm offensively, and you need those all the points,

691
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:49,759
Speaker 2: Like it's great that Melton gave you some points, and

692
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:55,440
Speaker 2: it's good that you got some points from Uh yeah,

693
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 2: but you needed you need you had to have that

694
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:01,560
Speaker 2: all the especially when the guards are shooting the way

695
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:03,400
Speaker 2: they shot somebody else.

696
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:05,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, you needed to buy us to be a factor,

697
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,759
Speaker 5: and he just wasn't. Like, the only reason you're in

698
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 5: that game is because of how well Joel and being played.

699
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:12,799
Speaker 5: But people want to sit here and hate on him

700
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:15,320
Speaker 5: and say because the pace is too slow or something.

701
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 3: Really, it's horrible, it's harrd.

702
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 5: Like, look at the it's I know it's different to

703
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:21,880
Speaker 5: a degree, but I mean, look at the impact Anthony

704
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 5: Davis is having on the Lakers right now. They don't

705
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 5: even make the playoffs obviously if he's not there. He's

706
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:29,000
Speaker 5: their best player, exactly, and he's been one of the

707
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 5: better players, you know, one of the top five players

708
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:31,839
Speaker 5: in the postseason.

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00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:34,279
Speaker 4: Yep. So you telling me that bigs don't matter?

710
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:37,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, really, I know We've got the bigs matter.

711
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 2: We got to start a new uh I guess so,

712
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 2: a new a new role, a new movement. All right, Well,

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00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 2: well let's take quick tillo. We'll come right back and

714
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 2: continue our conversation. Hopefully you guys are having a good morning,

715
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:55,239
Speaker 2: just getting started in the East and maybe just go

716
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:58,239
Speaker 2: to bed or hanging out in the West where the

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Speaker 2: fella is hanging out very Saturday morning right here on

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Speaker 2: From the tairaq dot com studios. Derby Day in on

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Speaker 2: it Figgie.

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Speaker 5: I don't know are there any horses left to run?

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Speaker 3: I know how about that?

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Speaker 2: He's pretty crazy. We got our manin remember Dickchirardi, our

736
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:55,240
Speaker 2: horse expert. Don't give you join us today?

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Speaker 4: I uh to answer a question? Not really Yeah?

738
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 5: Up in the backyard horse racing at Hollywood Park not

739
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:04,879
Speaker 5: too far in Englewood when I was a kid where

740
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:07,319
Speaker 5: I grew up. But uh, I don't know. The horse

741
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 5: racing thing was just now. I was never really into it,

742
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:11,400
Speaker 5: to be honest with you. I watched the Derby. I

743
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:15,879
Speaker 5: do watch the Triple Crown just because, I mean, come on,

744
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:19,320
Speaker 5: who doesn't. But right, it's not something that I necessarily

745
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:21,320
Speaker 5: follow closely or even moderately.

746
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:22,759
Speaker 4: If I'm to be totally honest with you.

747
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:26,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, I've never been the biggest, you know, horse

748
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:29,920
Speaker 2: racing guy either, So I like I follow you, but Derby.

749
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 2: You know, I'm a bandwagon guy. I like what everybody

750
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:34,840
Speaker 2: does their thing. I had never liked to get to

751
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:35,920
Speaker 2: miss out on a party.

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00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you know, I think it's Fino.

753
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 3: Bucks on a on a trifecta and see what happened?

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00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 4: Why not? It's fascinating.

755
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:46,879
Speaker 5: There's like a four hour pregame or pre race show

756
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 5: for a race that last two minutes in fact, you

757
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:51,360
Speaker 5: know why credit?

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00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, and maybe that's kind of like I think I'm

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00:37:54,640 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 2: with you in that I had this weird uh like

760
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 2: it's it's the race is over.

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Speaker 3: It's just a race.

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00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:07,359
Speaker 4: It's like a blink of an eye and it's done.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's like like I like it. I like

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00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 2: a story. A game like football to me is the

765
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 2: perfect game because you have, you know, four quarters, you

766
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:25,440
Speaker 2: have the whole thing play out over three hours, and

767
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 2: it just it just has this whole up down, you know,

768
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Speaker 2: you have an ending. You know, there's a there's a

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00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:35,920
Speaker 2: climax to it sometimes, you know, so it's it's just

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Speaker 2: the way it is.

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Speaker 3: The race is just you know, like you said, it's

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Speaker 3: two minutes.

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Speaker 5: It's two It's very anti climactic, even like you know

774
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:47,319
Speaker 5: baseball or bad. You know, baseball pitcher goes through the

775
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:49,880
Speaker 5: lineup a couple of times, third time around. What adjustments

776
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 5: to people make? There's a strategy to it, you know.

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00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:53,960
Speaker 4: It's just that.

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00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's something to being able to see something unfold,

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00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 5: uh and see adjustments be made and see how the

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00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:02,840
Speaker 5: athletes you know, react to each other. And with the

781
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 5: horse racing, it's just and they're off and and they're done.

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Speaker 3: They're off and they're done. I love that. You're you're

783
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:11,280
Speaker 3: you're spot on. It's funny.

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Speaker 2: And I maybe it's because I like teams. I like

785
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 2: it's sport or the ball, right, or a Puck and

786
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 2: I and I think that's that's where that's my favorite.

787
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 2: Like you know, listen, I get track of fields incredible

788
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:31,360
Speaker 2: and human achievement and all that stuff is is is amazing,

789
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 2: you know, and it's it's great.

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Speaker 5: I would even say, like from an individual sports standpoint,

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Speaker 5: I can get into tennis a big tennis matchupsolute. It's

792
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,840
Speaker 5: a game, yeah, not practice. Yeah, that's why I just

793
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 5: said team sports. I was like, I'm thinking if I'm

794
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 5: an individual sports standpoint out absolutely, but tennis has.

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Speaker 3: One that I would absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 3: I love box and.

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Speaker 4: Black of boxing is amazing, yes, yeah.

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Speaker 3: But I mean golf, you know, like that's like I like.

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Speaker 2: I like it because it's it plays out over four days, right,

801
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:01,279
Speaker 2: like you know, you get you've got a major, and

802
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:04,920
Speaker 2: it plays out and it's dramatic, and you know, if

803
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,359
Speaker 2: you're in it and then Sunday it's the last day,

804
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:11,200
Speaker 2: it's eighteen holes and you know, the inherent drama of

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00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:13,360
Speaker 2: it is is awesome.

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00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: You just want if you're going to make a commitment

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00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:16,839
Speaker 5: to something, you kind of want to get something out

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Speaker 5: of it. And yeah, if I'm going to commit all

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Speaker 5: this time to research and watching the pregame and doing

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Speaker 5: all this stuff. I'd kind of want you to hold

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Speaker 5: my attention for at least a half hour half an hour, right.

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Speaker 2: But you get the guys, these horse guys, man, they're

814
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:31,759
Speaker 2: in it, are in on it.

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Speaker 1: Bro.

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Speaker 4: It's it's like big money too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're we'll come back where the fellas right here?

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Speaker 2: Fox Well, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning,

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Speaker 2: good morning everybody. Happy happy Saturday to all across the nation.

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Speaker 2: It is Saturday, May six, It is Derby Day. Derby

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Speaker 2: Day is upon a big deal going on. Uh, we'll

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Speaker 2: have our Derby expert coming up at right around eight

823
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 2: o'clock eastern five am. So two hours from that we'll

824
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 2: have our Derby expert. I want to give you some

825
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:18,640
Speaker 2: picks for the Derby. We'll do that. I'm still you

826
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 2: have to bear with me because I'm gonna be a

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Speaker 2: little off today because my squad is a heartbreaking squad.

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00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 3: So all sports fans can relate to this.

829
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:39,400
Speaker 2: It is the heartbreak of all heartbreaks, right, the team

830
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 2: that takes you to the brink only to disappoint you.

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00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:50,600
Speaker 2: So my Sixers are that team, that heartbreak team. It's

832
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:56,359
Speaker 2: been forty years since they won a title. They went

833
00:41:56,400 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 2: through a thing called the Process, which is a reset

834
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:06,399
Speaker 2: of the franchise, and that included Tank and everything else.

835
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:10,560
Speaker 2: And then what happened is they proceed to get to

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00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 2: the playoffs and then they lose in the second round

837
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:18,719
Speaker 2: five straight years. And here they are winning game one

838
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 2: of this series in the sixth iteration of this team,

839
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:27,200
Speaker 2: and they lose the next two, including the huge game

840
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:31,359
Speaker 2: at home where your star player gets the MVP award.

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00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 3: That figure is called torture man.

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00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's you feel like you're a snake bitten franchise

843
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:40,880
Speaker 5: to a certain degree. Well, yeah, every time you come

844
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:44,239
Speaker 5: knocking on the door, something happens. And you mentioned all

845
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 5: the iterations of this team. I mean, my god, the

846
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:49,439
Speaker 5: the Ben Simmons saga that you've been through the last

847
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 5: few years, had Jimmy Butler and you lost. You lost

848
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:56,439
Speaker 5: the series on the Kawhi Leonard bouncing shot.

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Speaker 2: It's all the injuries to embat and beats being sure

850
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:03,279
Speaker 2: he's broken his face twice? Yeah, now, who breaks your

851
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:06,720
Speaker 2: face twice? All right, it's hard to do twice.

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00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:10,319
Speaker 3: He broke his face if the year one and year

853
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:11,120
Speaker 3: last year?

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00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:11,760
Speaker 4: Yeah? Five?

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00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 5: And the unfortunate part is, you know, First of all,

856
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 5: like the shelf life for big guys is already a

857
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:20,440
Speaker 5: little short, I would say, especially in today's game, considering

858
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:22,840
Speaker 5: how fast the pace is. And he's been dealing with

859
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:26,279
Speaker 5: injury since literally day one when he got drafted. He's

860
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 5: had injury issues. So you wonder, you know, how much

861
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:33,120
Speaker 5: longer is he going to be playing at this level?

862
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:36,279
Speaker 5: How much longer can he be the primary building block

863
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:39,879
Speaker 5: for a championship contender? At what point when you're Philadelphia

864
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 5: as a fan, are you saying we're running.

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00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 4: Out of time here? Yeah?

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00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, because wealth, But you know, no, he's toughic.

867
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Speaker 2: So I think what's going to happen is all sides

868
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:55,720
Speaker 2: kind of point to hard in returning to Houston.

869
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:56,680
Speaker 4: Which is still odd to me.

870
00:43:56,960 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think it's more of a personal situation,

871
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 2: maybe a family situation.

872
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:06,840
Speaker 3: Okay, So if that does.

873
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:08,839
Speaker 2: Happen, that again, I don't know, you know, but there's

874
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 2: a lot of there's a lot of talk about it.

875
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:16,400
Speaker 3: If that does happen, then from there, what.

876
00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 2: Do you do if you're the sixties, right, you're looking

877
00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:23,040
Speaker 2: now the only guy that could save who they are

878
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 2: and their championship aspirations because you're not going to rebuild it.

879
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:32,360
Speaker 2: You've already gotten you know, you're already there and you

880
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:34,759
Speaker 2: have no picks and you trade for hard and the

881
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:36,759
Speaker 2: only way you can do it because you'd have the

882
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:40,560
Speaker 2: money to do it. I don't know how you package

883
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 2: it whatever you got, but you go.

884
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 4: I gotta go after Dame.

885
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I guess the only selling point you would

886
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:51,400
Speaker 5: have at that point in time is if you're Portland

887
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 5: and do you want to rebuild, then maybe you end

888
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:57,080
Speaker 5: up taking the contract of a Tobias Harris who's gonna

889
00:44:57,080 --> 00:44:59,520
Speaker 5: be making about thirty nine forty million dollars next year

890
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:02,640
Speaker 5: as an ex iron contract. But to your point, they

891
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:04,920
Speaker 5: don't have us like draft picks to really sweeten it

892
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:07,000
Speaker 5: up with either, because they've traded so many of them away.

893
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:09,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, what you'll wind up doing is you wind up

894
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:14,520
Speaker 3: trade or whatever picks you have left. Yeah, and you.

895
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:16,480
Speaker 2: Know you're gonna be like you're gonna get the game,

896
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 2: will go all in for a title. I mean, that's

897
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:24,400
Speaker 2: just bottom line, because you can't you can't not you

898
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:27,440
Speaker 2: can't go status quo because there will be nobody in

899
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:28,200
Speaker 2: the seats and.

900
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 5: Well you'd be awful, Like if James Harden leads like,

901
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:32,359
Speaker 5: as much as we rag on him, you know, at

902
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:34,799
Speaker 5: least for at least for a regular season, he's you know,

903
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 5: he's excellent. He's going to be your your second best player,

904
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:40,319
Speaker 5: your point guard. All that you lose him. I don't

905
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:41,960
Speaker 5: think you had to have enough money to go out

906
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:44,920
Speaker 5: and free agency to sign somebody else of note, you

907
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 5: know what I mean. So the really the only way

908
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 5: to do it will be via trade, and as we mentioned,

909
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:52,640
Speaker 5: Tobias would be really the only trade asset that you

910
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 5: would have.

911
00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:55,360
Speaker 4: So what do you do?

912
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:57,080
Speaker 3: Let me ask you question. Let me ask you a question.

913
00:45:57,200 --> 00:46:02,279
Speaker 2: If you're them, and hard it comes You're and you're

914
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:06,040
Speaker 2: losing this series and hard it comes back, I mean,

915
00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 2: what do you do?

916
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:07,400
Speaker 4: You run it back?

917
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:12,960
Speaker 3: I mean, you change coaches, you get rid of Doc Well.

918
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 5: I like Doc as a person, you know, covering him

919
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:18,040
Speaker 5: a little bit when he was with the Clippers. Great guy,

920
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:21,640
Speaker 5: nice guy, all that, But is just the record kind

921
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 5: of speaks for itself. Outside of a year in Boston

922
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:27,440
Speaker 5: when they won the championship. I mean, all the blown

923
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:32,759
Speaker 5: leads strange to you know, rotations in the postseason, it

924
00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:34,799
Speaker 5: would not surprise me. Look, it's like one of those

925
00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:37,360
Speaker 5: like coach budd got it in Milwaukee earlier this week.

926
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:40,560
Speaker 5: So if, like the if it keeps crumbling and things

927
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:43,359
Speaker 5: don't go the way you want, somebody ends up having

928
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:45,720
Speaker 5: to pay for it, And usually it's the coach first,

929
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 5: because that's kind of the easiest situation to replace when

930
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:53,440
Speaker 5: you're dealing with these high inflated salaries. So look, if

931
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:55,759
Speaker 5: James Harden feels that he can get a ginormous deal

932
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:57,799
Speaker 5: in free agency from Houston or somebody else, that I

933
00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:01,840
Speaker 5: think he'll opt out. I don't know if his performance

934
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:04,440
Speaker 5: in this postseason or this series, but in particular, if

935
00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:06,840
Speaker 5: it continues going the way it's gone the last two games,

936
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 5: will affect his free agency at all. But I do

937
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:12,800
Speaker 5: wonder if he ends up playing terribly for the remainder

938
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:13,360
Speaker 5: of the series.

939
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:13,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know.

940
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:16,839
Speaker 2: Why would people usually go like what, like, wait, you're

941
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 2: gonna you're gonna spend how much money?

942
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:20,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, to bringing it back to Houston for what?

943
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:21,560
Speaker 4: Yeah?

944
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:23,879
Speaker 5: And then well then if you're him, it's like would

945
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:26,319
Speaker 5: you even opt out? It's like the Draymond Green thing.

946
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:27,759
Speaker 5: People are like, Oh, he's gonna opt out and try

947
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:29,879
Speaker 5: to get this giant extension from the Warriors or somebody else.

948
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:33,160
Speaker 5: I'm like, why paying him twenty eight thirty million dollars

949
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:36,680
Speaker 5: a year forge that's declining, That's not you.

950
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:39,239
Speaker 2: Know, I started the thing to goo to watch it

951
00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 2: last night. Please opt out?

952
00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, of course to get stuck with that, sure, one

953
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:45,840
Speaker 4: hundred percent.

954
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:48,880
Speaker 5: The only way you say opt in if he opts

955
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:51,120
Speaker 5: in and there's somebody out there willing to take him.

956
00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:53,719
Speaker 5: Like if you're Portland and you say, all right, we'll

957
00:47:53,719 --> 00:47:56,680
Speaker 5: do a some sort of a sign and trade situation

958
00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 5: or whatever it is. Maybe we'll tack on one additional

959
00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:02,080
Speaker 5: year to James's con tract just to have some sort

960
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:05,360
Speaker 5: of draw to Portland. And maybe if you want to

961
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 5: ship out to Bias and Harden and bring in a

962
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:09,920
Speaker 5: third team and make it a multiplayer deal or something

963
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:12,960
Speaker 5: like that, maybe that's kind of how you work around it.

964
00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:14,640
Speaker 5: But you have to have, you know, hard and be

965
00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:15,640
Speaker 5: an agreement to do that.

966
00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:18,240
Speaker 2: By the way, this is where you know the eel

967
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:23,000
Speaker 2: Daryl Morey needs to make this thing work. Yeah, you know,

968
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:27,120
Speaker 2: because if they lose, like I'll tell you this, if

969
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 2: they lose in this series, people are are gonna just

970
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:35,439
Speaker 2: You're gonna flip jump off.

971
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:37,680
Speaker 4: They're gonna jump off.

972
00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:40,680
Speaker 2: They're gonna, you know, and you know it's funny you

973
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:45,200
Speaker 2: bring up coach Bud and coach Bud wins it. Like

974
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:48,160
Speaker 2: this is the thing that I go is the inequity

975
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:51,880
Speaker 2: of it all? Did he deserve now? Again, I don't

976
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:55,320
Speaker 2: file like I watched Milwaukee closely, but I don't. I

977
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:57,759
Speaker 2: don't live with him, right, And there's a difference when

978
00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:00,480
Speaker 2: Bucks fans who were complaining about in the year they won,

979
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:04,200
Speaker 2: you know, they live with him. You live with the guy,

980
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:07,480
Speaker 2: you know, a coach better when you live with him,

981
00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:09,920
Speaker 2: and I don't. Ever, I always I believe in that.

982
00:49:10,560 --> 00:49:14,880
Speaker 2: And so when the national pundits come in and offered opinion,

983
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:17,359
Speaker 2: weig you know, on it like they don't know because

984
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:20,400
Speaker 2: they don't live with him. And again they had to

985
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:25,479
Speaker 2: fit the playoff failures leading up to the title run

986
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:30,160
Speaker 2: in Milwaukee. I just go just just on the face

987
00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:33,279
Speaker 2: of it, when you look, when you go, this guy

988
00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:36,280
Speaker 2: wins the title and he's out this soon.

989
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:39,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean we'll look to your point.

990
00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:40,440
Speaker 3: I mean Nick Nair, same thing.

991
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:43,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, he was on he was on thin ice leading

992
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:45,200
Speaker 5: up to that. I mean people were saying, if they

993
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:47,400
Speaker 5: don't win the championship, in twenty twenty one. He was

994
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:50,680
Speaker 5: going to be fired that year, so I istically won

995
00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:52,240
Speaker 5: the title to save his job.

996
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:55,040
Speaker 2: Can I ask you a question. I don't even understand it.

997
00:49:55,600 --> 00:49:57,800
Speaker 2: Like he's a good coach. Like he's a good coach

998
00:49:57,840 --> 00:49:58,040
Speaker 2: to me?

999
00:49:58,400 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I mean, look, what do you do with

1000
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:02,439
Speaker 5: the Hawks? Had some deep playoff runs with him. Ain't

1001
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:05,880
Speaker 5: no kid knows what he's doing. Yeah, I just don't understand.

1002
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:09,719
Speaker 5: A guy knows what he's doing, then why are you

1003
00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:13,160
Speaker 5: blowing him out. It's unfortunate and I hate it, and

1004
00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:16,080
Speaker 5: I think it's ridiculous. But a lot of times they

1005
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:19,239
Speaker 5: do it for show or for pr It's for the

1006
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:22,920
Speaker 5: organization to say we're doing something. We had the best

1007
00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:28,080
Speaker 5: record in the NBA this season and we got routed

1008
00:50:28,120 --> 00:50:32,920
Speaker 5: in the postseason by the eighth seed. This isn't acceptable.

1009
00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:34,719
Speaker 5: We got to do something different. You guys want to

1010
00:50:34,719 --> 00:50:37,280
Speaker 5: accept this, and neither will we, et cetera, et cetera,

1011
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:40,920
Speaker 5: et cetera. I don't think that's the best method. I

1012
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:43,320
Speaker 5: think one thing that softens it, it only softens it

1013
00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:46,040
Speaker 5: a little bit, is because of what we just said,

1014
00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:47,960
Speaker 5: the fact that Bud was on the hot seat before

1015
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:50,360
Speaker 5: they won the championship anyway, and that kind of saved

1016
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:54,960
Speaker 5: him a little bit. So you know, we've seen things

1017
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:58,799
Speaker 5: like that happen before. A coach saves his job but

1018
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:00,520
Speaker 5: they really wanted to get rid of them, but they

1019
00:51:00,520 --> 00:51:03,160
Speaker 5: feel like they couldn't, and then he hangs on for

1020
00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:04,680
Speaker 5: another year or two and then they let him go.

1021
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:07,200
Speaker 4: So maybe maybe that's what it was.

1022
00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:10,600
Speaker 5: But I think coach Budd's a good coach and he'll

1023
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:13,000
Speaker 5: have he'll have another job tomorrow if he wants it.

1024
00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:16,200
Speaker 2: He's one of those Yeah, I listen, I agree with that.

1025
00:51:16,280 --> 00:51:18,120
Speaker 2: I just look at those two guys and I go, wow.

1026
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:20,319
Speaker 2: So the nick Nurse three. Ye, by the way, you

1027
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:23,160
Speaker 2: brought up mcnurse, Yes, same situation. Yeah, And so I

1028
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:26,480
Speaker 2: bring up so that goes full back to Doc who

1029
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 2: I think he's done a really good job this year.

1030
00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:32,719
Speaker 2: I have to tell you, you know, I think he's

1031
00:51:32,920 --> 00:51:36,480
Speaker 2: coached really, really well. I don't think I don't think

1032
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:39,839
Speaker 2: this is his fault. I think if they lose, it's

1033
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 2: a hardened problem.

1034
00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:42,640
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1035
00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:44,799
Speaker 5: And i' and this just what we said a second ago.

1036
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:46,319
Speaker 5: You know, you you live and die with the team.

1037
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:47,799
Speaker 5: You watch him on a night in a night out

1038
00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:50,400
Speaker 5: basis look, I will say at least one thing that

1039
00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:52,880
Speaker 5: Doc is not hill he's not dying on now is

1040
00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:54,800
Speaker 5: Mantres Harrold, because that's something that killed them with the

1041
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:55,680
Speaker 5: Clippers in the bubble.

1042
00:51:55,719 --> 00:51:58,160
Speaker 4: I'll say that. Yeah, So you.

1043
00:51:58,120 --> 00:51:59,839
Speaker 5: Know, he's riding with the guys that have at least

1044
00:51:59,840 --> 00:52:01,120
Speaker 5: got I don't.

1045
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:04,480
Speaker 2: Rotation, I really don't. I gotta tell you. I think

1046
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:08,440
Speaker 2: his rotation has been right. And he's helped Max, he

1047
00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 2: brought him along, he's given he's made Joell to an

1048
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:14,640
Speaker 2: m v P player. I mean, I really I thinkink,

1049
00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:18,360
Speaker 2: I think he's done a good job. I have no qualms,

1050
00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:21,000
Speaker 2: you know. And I didn't. I didn't like I said

1051
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:23,120
Speaker 2: the same thing the leads, and I hated the way

1052
00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:26,360
Speaker 2: he coached when he first got here, and it was

1053
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:31,400
Speaker 2: the Simmons and that horrible season, that horrible ending where

1054
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:34,960
Speaker 2: he you know, the he passes up the dunk and

1055
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:39,360
Speaker 2: that that series, Doc coach, I thought erratically, And I

1056
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:41,480
Speaker 2: don't think he knew was players well enough, and he

1057
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:45,759
Speaker 2: like he would play guys who didn't play all game

1058
00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:47,920
Speaker 2: and start the fourth quarter with him like, well what

1059
00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:48,479
Speaker 2: are you doing?

1060
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:50,520
Speaker 4: And last year, you.

1061
00:52:50,440 --> 00:52:53,319
Speaker 2: Know, Hard's on one leg and then and then you know,

1062
00:52:53,360 --> 00:52:57,080
Speaker 2: and Beads got the broken face, and so you know,

1063
00:52:57,239 --> 00:52:59,160
Speaker 2: I go whatever, And now this year I think he's

1064
00:52:59,200 --> 00:52:59,960
Speaker 2: done a really good job.

1065
00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:03,839
Speaker 3: But like you said, you got to pay for the sims.

1066
00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:06,360
Speaker 5: You know, and there's just there's no one else that

1067
00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:09,480
Speaker 5: you can punish for it. And that's that's the unfortunate pain.

1068
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:12,840
Speaker 2: The truth is people get tired, right, Like, sure, this

1069
00:53:13,080 --> 00:53:16,839
Speaker 2: is I told you the sixth iteration of this team, right,

1070
00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:19,799
Speaker 2: you know, the eyes a playoff contender. Before that, it

1071
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:24,520
Speaker 2: was all process. They were horrible on purpose. So now

1072
00:53:24,560 --> 00:53:29,239
Speaker 2: it's the sixth iteration. So if you have a team

1073
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:32,120
Speaker 2: that had six different tries at it and have failed

1074
00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:35,319
Speaker 2: to get out of the second round every year, he

1075
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 2: needed to do something drastic.

1076
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:40,320
Speaker 4: You do. I mean things could be worse.

1077
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:42,880
Speaker 5: You could have Ben Simmons for four more years at

1078
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:44,239
Speaker 5: thirty six million dollars a year.

1079
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:48,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, so have nothing else. It sucks if you don't

1080
00:53:48,200 --> 00:53:48,799
Speaker 4: win this year.

1081
00:53:48,800 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 5: You didn't win last year obviously, but if you if

1082
00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:53,480
Speaker 5: you lose, there's an out with James Harden and you

1083
00:53:53,520 --> 00:53:55,720
Speaker 5: can kind of revamp this thing and start from scratch.

1084
00:53:56,200 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 5: But I mean, had you waited to trade Ben Simmons

1085
00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:02,600
Speaker 5: one more year, you'd have no takers and you're stuck

1086
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:05,520
Speaker 5: paying this guy, you know, one hundred plus million dollars

1087
00:54:05,560 --> 00:54:08,160
Speaker 5: for the next four years with no end in sight. Yeah,

1088
00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:10,960
Speaker 5: so I guess that's a fixer fans you, I'm sure

1089
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:13,799
Speaker 5: you don't want to hear it right now, but that

1090
00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:14,920
Speaker 5: is a silver lining.

1091
00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:19,200
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, all right, we got a lot to get to.

1092
00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:23,799
Speaker 2: Nick's heat is awesome. I mean, it's just it's great

1093
00:54:23,840 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 2: having those two franchises back. We'll get back to the

1094
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:31,000
Speaker 2: Lakers and Warriors because that's another monster monsters serious.

1095
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:32,239
Speaker 3: It's like incredible, It's great.

1096
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:34,840
Speaker 2: U And I also want to get in some football

1097
00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:44,040
Speaker 2: and Aaron Rodgers with the Jets. I'm curious at what

1098
00:54:44,120 --> 00:54:46,640
Speaker 2: you think and how this thing's going to turn out.

1099
00:54:47,160 --> 00:54:52,160
Speaker 2: I'm fascinated by it, fascinated by this whole thing. And

1100
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:57,759
Speaker 2: is it just far two point zero? We'll discuss that

1101
00:54:58,080 --> 00:55:02,760
Speaker 2: little football coming up next is well, right here Fellas

1102
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:03,800
Speaker 2: on Fox.

1103
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:08,680
Speaker 4: All right, welcome back the Fellas.

1104
00:55:11,320 --> 00:55:21,480
Speaker 2: Live fromthti IRAQ dot com studios. All right, uh, figure,

1105
00:55:21,840 --> 00:55:27,720
Speaker 2: it's just Rogers thing. So he's playing part GM, he's

1106
00:55:28,120 --> 00:55:33,080
Speaker 2: doing it all and here he comes, and.

1107
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:35,800
Speaker 3: It's big news splashed everywhere.

1108
00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:39,640
Speaker 2: It's Manhattan, it's the Jets, and it reminds me of

1109
00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:42,879
Speaker 2: the farm situation when he came there. I think Rogers

1110
00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:49,520
Speaker 2: has more left than Farv does. But I look at

1111
00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:52,000
Speaker 2: this team and I go, how's this going to be

1112
00:55:52,040 --> 00:55:52,640
Speaker 2: any different?

1113
00:55:54,520 --> 00:55:56,560
Speaker 5: It'll only be any different. It will be different because

1114
00:55:56,600 --> 00:55:58,680
Speaker 5: to your point, he does have more juice left. I mean,

1115
00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:01,120
Speaker 5: Brett Fahr was a turnover. I mean he was throughout

1116
00:56:01,120 --> 00:56:03,640
Speaker 5: his entire career. He had one year with the Jets,

1117
00:56:03,680 --> 00:56:06,439
Speaker 5: right like, one career that was decent, and then then

1118
00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:08,680
Speaker 5: he just falls off the tape. Well then he remember

1119
00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:11,080
Speaker 5: he left the Jets, he retired again. Then he came

1120
00:56:11,120 --> 00:56:13,320
Speaker 5: back with Minnesota and had that phenomenal.

1121
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:15,640
Speaker 3: Year youah, right, right, yeah, yeah, But he.

1122
00:56:15,640 --> 00:56:17,240
Speaker 4: Had the one year with the Jets and it was terrible.

1123
00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:20,200
Speaker 5: I think he threw twenty nine interceptions or something ridiculous.

1124
00:56:20,719 --> 00:56:20,799
Speaker 1: Uh.

1125
00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:22,359
Speaker 4: Now, one thing I'll say about the Jets.

1126
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:25,000
Speaker 5: You know, you remember they won seven games last year,

1127
00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:28,040
Speaker 5: and that was with Brisall getting injured. I think by

1128
00:56:28,640 --> 00:56:31,680
Speaker 5: eight or nine, the quarterback issue was just up and

1129
00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:34,880
Speaker 5: was in shambles all throughout the season. I mean, and

1130
00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:38,319
Speaker 5: you know, outside of Buffalo in the division. You know

1131
00:56:38,480 --> 00:56:40,600
Speaker 5: what is newingling going to be? You don't really know.

1132
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:43,040
Speaker 5: There's not they don't have talent. They have a solid defense.

1133
00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:43,719
Speaker 3: I do.

1134
00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:46,080
Speaker 4: Look, we love Garrett Wilson. That's a legit.

1135
00:56:46,239 --> 00:56:48,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, no threat that Aaron Rodgers has to throw to

1136
00:56:49,520 --> 00:56:51,920
Speaker 5: the best weapon he's had since he had DeVante Adams

1137
00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:54,040
Speaker 5: in Green Bay a couple of years ago. Some of

1138
00:56:54,040 --> 00:56:56,680
Speaker 5: these other guys, I mean, they're you know, Randall Cobb

1139
00:56:56,760 --> 00:56:59,400
Speaker 5: is in his you know, year fifty, but he has

1140
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:03,320
Speaker 5: familiar already. Lazard has some familiarity with uh with with

1141
00:57:03,320 --> 00:57:05,319
Speaker 5: with them as well. So and look, not just with

1142
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:07,400
Speaker 5: Aaron Rodgers. And I think Joe Douglas said this the

1143
00:57:07,440 --> 00:57:09,919
Speaker 5: other day too. He got a little bit defensive, saying

1144
00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:12,480
Speaker 5: like it's not just him. You know Nathaniel Hackett's system.

1145
00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:15,040
Speaker 5: All these guys are familiar with it. So don't sit

1146
00:57:15,040 --> 00:57:16,880
Speaker 5: here and act like Aaron Rodgers is running the team.

1147
00:57:16,920 --> 00:57:19,600
Speaker 5: But obviously we know we know who's pulling the strings.

1148
00:57:19,600 --> 00:57:22,200
Speaker 5: That's not Joe. You know, I love you, Joe, come on, man,

1149
00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:25,280
Speaker 5: So it's not as and I was I was coming yeah,

1150
00:57:25,320 --> 00:57:27,760
Speaker 5: and Anthony we talked about this, you know, maybe three

1151
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:29,960
Speaker 5: weeks a month ago, you know, when all this these

1152
00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:32,400
Speaker 5: rumors were floating around and the trade wasn't official yet.

1153
00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:34,240
Speaker 5: It didn't move the needle much for me. I didn't

1154
00:57:34,240 --> 00:57:35,640
Speaker 5: think it would make much of a difference. But the

1155
00:57:35,680 --> 00:57:37,880
Speaker 5: more I thought about it, I'm like, you know, yeah,

1156
00:57:37,960 --> 00:57:41,120
Speaker 5: the Jets can compete for a wildcard spot, and if

1157
00:57:41,120 --> 00:57:44,360
Speaker 5: that's what their goal is, then sure, But I don't

1158
00:57:44,360 --> 00:57:46,400
Speaker 5: think anything beyond that they're not gonna win.

1159
00:57:46,520 --> 00:57:48,520
Speaker 2: Say, I guess that's kind of my point why I

1160
00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:52,000
Speaker 2: bring it up, Where I go, Hey, listen, ah, it's

1161
00:57:52,080 --> 00:57:54,840
Speaker 2: it's a good it's a good story that you go

1162
00:57:54,920 --> 00:57:58,120
Speaker 2: get a quarterback and Rogers and it's interesting and Rogers

1163
00:57:58,120 --> 00:58:00,280
Speaker 2: go to New York. And I love that Ron, like

1164
00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:02,520
Speaker 2: I do. I have to say I do. I enjoy

1165
00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:06,080
Speaker 2: watching him play. I enjoy him as a quarterback, and

1166
00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:10,120
Speaker 2: I think if he's on a better a little bit

1167
00:58:10,120 --> 00:58:14,160
Speaker 2: better team, that you probably have a chance to win.

1168
00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:17,160
Speaker 3: But I look at this Jets team, I go, it's good,

1169
00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:17,560
Speaker 3: it's not.

1170
00:58:17,840 --> 00:58:21,560
Speaker 2: It's not on the precipice, and I just don't think

1171
00:58:21,600 --> 00:58:24,480
Speaker 2: it truly matches up with Rogers. And if you're building

1172
00:58:24,560 --> 00:58:26,840
Speaker 2: something there and they have some good building blocks out.

1173
00:58:26,880 --> 00:58:29,160
Speaker 3: Like you said, there's a lot of stuff that we

1174
00:58:29,400 --> 00:58:31,080
Speaker 3: like with the Jets.

1175
00:58:32,520 --> 00:58:35,680
Speaker 2: I think you're trying to skip too far ahead, and

1176
00:58:36,040 --> 00:58:40,320
Speaker 2: a franchise like that needs to build it and sustain.

1177
00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:43,360
Speaker 5: Yeah, and if it was possible and we can't go

1178
00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:45,880
Speaker 5: back in time, this would have been a move to make,

1179
00:58:46,440 --> 00:58:49,360
Speaker 5: you know, right after you drafted Zach Wilson and have

1180
00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:53,760
Speaker 5: Zach Wilson sit behind Aaron Rodgers too, before throwing him

1181
00:58:53,760 --> 00:58:56,880
Speaker 5: in there too early and just destroying his confidence. I

1182
00:58:56,880 --> 00:58:59,080
Speaker 5: don't I mean, I don't know about you. I don't

1183
00:58:59,080 --> 00:59:00,560
Speaker 5: think the guy can play. To me, honest with you.

1184
00:59:00,600 --> 00:59:02,520
Speaker 5: I try not to pass judgment on guys too early

1185
00:59:02,520 --> 00:59:05,640
Speaker 5: in their careers, but I just don't see it. So

1186
00:59:06,040 --> 00:59:09,360
Speaker 5: it's not like you have a natural successor behind Aaron Rodgers.

1187
00:59:09,920 --> 00:59:11,520
Speaker 5: You know that's the problem too. It would make so

1188
00:59:11,600 --> 00:59:13,560
Speaker 5: much more sense if you had somebody behind him that

1189
00:59:13,600 --> 00:59:15,400
Speaker 5: you knew you could bring in a year or two later.

1190
00:59:16,040 --> 00:59:18,160
Speaker 5: Right now, it just seems like, well we haven't made

1191
00:59:18,160 --> 00:59:20,040
Speaker 5: the playoffs in a while. We got to show the

1192
00:59:20,040 --> 00:59:22,480
Speaker 5: fan base that we're doing something. We have good young pieces.

1193
00:59:22,840 --> 00:59:25,320
Speaker 5: Let's just try to make an incremental step, and an

1194
00:59:25,360 --> 00:59:28,040
Speaker 5: incremental step would be us competing for the playoffs or

1195
00:59:28,040 --> 00:59:30,560
Speaker 5: making a playoff spot in the wildcard, and then just

1196
00:59:30,600 --> 00:59:32,520
Speaker 5: figuring it out the year after that, which I don't

1197
00:59:32,520 --> 00:59:34,040
Speaker 5: think is the best way to run a franchise.

1198
00:59:34,080 --> 00:59:36,240
Speaker 4: I think you always have a I don't either.

1199
00:59:36,400 --> 00:59:38,560
Speaker 2: I go, well, you know, it's a great story any Rogers,

1200
00:59:38,560 --> 00:59:40,400
Speaker 2: like I get the lore of them, but is it

1201
00:59:40,520 --> 00:59:44,160
Speaker 2: really the best for your franchise to go all in

1202
00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:49,320
Speaker 2: on Rogers? When by the way, and I know Joe

1203
00:59:49,360 --> 00:59:51,240
Speaker 2: a little bit, and I think Joe Dougle's a really

1204
00:59:51,240 --> 00:59:54,400
Speaker 2: good football man, coming from the from the age, from

1205
00:59:54,440 --> 00:59:59,520
Speaker 2: the the owner or what. But you look around at

1206
00:59:59,560 --> 01:00:03,040
Speaker 2: the af see, now's not the time to go all right,

1207
01:00:03,120 --> 01:00:06,400
Speaker 2: let's go big boys, right, I don't see it. I

1208
01:00:06,400 --> 01:00:09,080
Speaker 2: mean I I look at the the rest of that

1209
01:00:09,080 --> 01:00:11,439
Speaker 2: that conference, can't see's going is still there?

1210
01:00:11,520 --> 01:00:15,240
Speaker 4: They're going nowhere. Buffalo is going to be back.

1211
01:00:16,880 --> 01:00:20,200
Speaker 2: The Charges if they ever get a coach, will be there,

1212
01:00:21,360 --> 01:00:24,640
Speaker 2: right like you just go through you know that whole

1213
01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:26,040
Speaker 2: AFC North.

1214
01:00:26,400 --> 01:00:28,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're all gonna They're all gonna be in it,

1215
01:00:28,400 --> 01:00:29,600
Speaker 5: every last one of them.

1216
01:00:29,800 --> 01:00:35,920
Speaker 2: Right, I mean, I mean this is really really good conference.

1217
01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:38,520
Speaker 2: I mean I was funny somebody did the power rankings

1218
01:00:38,560 --> 01:00:40,360
Speaker 2: of the NFC quarterbacks.

1219
01:00:41,160 --> 01:00:41,960
Speaker 4: I mean, you take a.

1220
01:00:41,960 --> 01:00:43,760
Speaker 3: Look at the quarterbacks in the NFC.

1221
01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:47,680
Speaker 5: There are a few and far between. It's say quality

1222
01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:49,680
Speaker 5: quarterbacks in the NFC, to say the least.

1223
01:00:49,680 --> 01:00:53,040
Speaker 2: Right, So look at the AFC. It's all the talent

1224
01:00:54,440 --> 01:01:01,120
Speaker 2: and is that is it for a franchise like that

1225
01:01:01,120 --> 01:01:05,440
Speaker 2: that had been through it and through it and through it.

1226
01:01:06,960 --> 01:01:10,080
Speaker 3: To go all in Now? I just think it's a mistake.

1227
01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:14,520
Speaker 5: You may have been better off just punting on Zach

1228
01:01:14,560 --> 01:01:16,840
Speaker 5: Wilson and taking a look at one of these quarterbacks

1229
01:01:16,840 --> 01:01:19,080
Speaker 5: that came out this year, Yes, and just doing that

1230
01:01:19,120 --> 01:01:22,520
Speaker 5: instead of going after Aaron Rodgers, or if you were

1231
01:01:22,520 --> 01:01:25,240
Speaker 5: going to go after Rodgers, take a closer look at

1232
01:01:25,240 --> 01:01:27,080
Speaker 5: one of these guys that was coming out this year,

1233
01:01:27,120 --> 01:01:29,640
Speaker 5: and maybe you'd use a second round pick and maybe

1234
01:01:29,640 --> 01:01:31,920
Speaker 5: you try to trade up for a Will Levis or

1235
01:01:31,960 --> 01:01:33,800
Speaker 5: you take a flyer on a Hinton Hooker who's not

1236
01:01:33,800 --> 01:01:35,840
Speaker 5: going to play much this year anyway, you know.

1237
01:01:36,120 --> 01:01:38,000
Speaker 3: Like Hendon Hooker would have been perfect for them.

1238
01:01:38,040 --> 01:01:41,439
Speaker 2: I thought, yeah, agree, you gotta have a you gotta

1239
01:01:41,480 --> 01:01:44,360
Speaker 2: have a what's my backup plan?

1240
01:01:44,600 --> 01:01:46,560
Speaker 4: Yes? And a plan for the future.

1241
01:01:46,760 --> 01:01:47,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, He's the thing.

1242
01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:50,840
Speaker 2: If you're you're a Jeff fan, you're now at the

1243
01:01:50,920 --> 01:01:56,080
Speaker 2: mercy of Aaron Rodgers wins the all franchise the future

1244
01:01:56,160 --> 01:01:59,280
Speaker 2: now you know, the first year he's all in. Yeah,

1245
01:02:00,280 --> 01:02:06,280
Speaker 2: Now what happens if things go a little sideways? How

1246
01:02:06,320 --> 01:02:09,680
Speaker 2: soon would you put it past him? And he goes, eh, no,

1247
01:02:09,880 --> 01:02:10,920
Speaker 2: might need this headache?

1248
01:02:11,040 --> 01:02:12,600
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, and that was part of the hold

1249
01:02:12,680 --> 01:02:15,360
Speaker 5: up with the trade to begin with, because he was

1250
01:02:15,440 --> 01:02:18,000
Speaker 5: noncommittal with how long he was willing to play. I

1251
01:02:18,000 --> 01:02:19,800
Speaker 5: think the Jets were looking for at least a two

1252
01:02:19,840 --> 01:02:21,960
Speaker 5: year commitment and for the longest time he could. And

1253
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:24,640
Speaker 5: I still don't think they really agreed to it. I

1254
01:02:24,640 --> 01:02:26,520
Speaker 5: still don't think Aaron Rodgers said for sure, I'm.

1255
01:02:26,360 --> 01:02:27,360
Speaker 4: Going to be here for two years.

1256
01:02:27,760 --> 01:02:31,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like, I just don't. I think it's a mistake.

1257
01:02:31,520 --> 01:02:34,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just it's difficult when you're trying to play

1258
01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:36,720
Speaker 5: multiple sides here, You're trying to play cad a fan

1259
01:02:36,800 --> 01:02:39,960
Speaker 5: base which is frustrated and angry, and I get it,

1260
01:02:40,800 --> 01:02:43,400
Speaker 5: but to the detriment of the team and the organization

1261
01:02:43,560 --> 01:02:47,120
Speaker 5: moving forward, because I think if you if you consider

1262
01:02:47,200 --> 01:02:50,880
Speaker 5: making the playoffs progress while acknowledging you're probably not going

1263
01:02:50,960 --> 01:02:51,800
Speaker 5: to make much noise.

1264
01:02:52,600 --> 01:02:53,360
Speaker 4: Then Okay.

1265
01:02:53,480 --> 01:02:56,919
Speaker 5: The problem is if and when Aaron Rodgers retires after

1266
01:02:56,960 --> 01:03:00,760
Speaker 5: this year most likely or maybe after this year, then

1267
01:03:00,800 --> 01:03:02,680
Speaker 5: what do you have. You're right back in the same

1268
01:03:02,720 --> 01:03:05,520
Speaker 5: situation you were going into this offseason with no plan

1269
01:03:05,640 --> 01:03:08,600
Speaker 5: in place, right, So you made the playoffs of one year,

1270
01:03:09,040 --> 01:03:11,960
Speaker 5: maybe two years with an early exit and you have

1271
01:03:12,080 --> 01:03:14,840
Speaker 5: nothing to show for it. But yay, we got we

1272
01:03:14,920 --> 01:03:16,160
Speaker 5: got extra playoff revenue.

1273
01:03:16,240 --> 01:03:16,600
Speaker 4: Yay.

1274
01:03:16,760 --> 01:03:19,200
Speaker 5: That does nothing for the fans. No, it's good for

1275
01:03:19,240 --> 01:03:20,960
Speaker 5: Woody Johnson, does nothing for Jet fans.

1276
01:03:21,640 --> 01:03:23,880
Speaker 2: I think you're spot on, my brother spot on. That's

1277
01:03:23,920 --> 01:03:25,800
Speaker 2: why you look at this whole move and go all

1278
01:03:25,920 --> 01:03:31,360
Speaker 2: this talk, all this noise for what where'sy gore to

1279
01:03:31,400 --> 01:03:35,800
Speaker 2: get you? The whole goal is to be a Super

1280
01:03:35,840 --> 01:03:38,040
Speaker 2: Bowl contender and didn't win.

1281
01:03:37,920 --> 01:03:39,760
Speaker 4: It, or it's a build towards it if you're not

1282
01:03:39,800 --> 01:03:40,920
Speaker 4: gonna do it this year.

1283
01:03:40,880 --> 01:03:41,680
Speaker 3: Yes, exactly.

1284
01:03:42,520 --> 01:03:44,760
Speaker 2: I'm a big believer in the build and not going

1285
01:03:44,800 --> 01:03:47,840
Speaker 2: on like I don't like what the Rams did, Like,

1286
01:03:47,960 --> 01:03:49,080
Speaker 2: I just don't like it.

1287
01:03:49,560 --> 01:03:52,440
Speaker 5: I thought the only reason I didn't mind it was

1288
01:03:52,520 --> 01:03:55,360
Speaker 5: because their situation was unique. Because you're entering you're re

1289
01:03:55,520 --> 01:03:58,480
Speaker 5: entering into a market that didn't have football for twenty years,

1290
01:03:59,200 --> 01:04:00,960
Speaker 5: so they kind of feel like they had to make

1291
01:04:00,960 --> 01:04:02,960
Speaker 5: a splatch and try to be as competitive as they

1292
01:04:03,000 --> 01:04:05,640
Speaker 5: could and make, you know, and try to win a meeting.

1293
01:04:05,800 --> 01:04:08,000
Speaker 5: But it's hardly speaking, I agree with you, though.

1294
01:04:07,800 --> 01:04:10,880
Speaker 2: Correct, Like that's all I'm saying, generally speaking, when it

1295
01:04:10,880 --> 01:04:14,640
Speaker 2: comes to the NFL, I prefer with Howie Roseman's doing

1296
01:04:14,840 --> 01:04:18,120
Speaker 2: mm hm, and how you just continue to build stack

1297
01:04:18,360 --> 01:04:21,880
Speaker 2: and and build along the offensive lines. I mean, that's

1298
01:04:21,920 --> 01:04:25,600
Speaker 2: why the Eagles are going to be good for a while.

1299
01:04:25,720 --> 01:04:29,240
Speaker 2: And that's amazed. You give yourself as many shots at

1300
01:04:29,280 --> 01:04:30,760
Speaker 2: it as possible.

1301
01:04:30,800 --> 01:04:32,760
Speaker 3: I mean, that's the that's New England.

1302
01:04:33,520 --> 01:04:35,720
Speaker 2: All those years, they're just you know, you're around, you're

1303
01:04:35,840 --> 01:04:37,080
Speaker 2: in the conversation.

1304
01:04:37,400 --> 01:04:39,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, and even like you know, the Saints only won

1305
01:04:39,320 --> 01:04:41,200
Speaker 5: one Super Bowl, but I mean for the better part

1306
01:04:41,240 --> 01:04:43,560
Speaker 5: of you know, twelve thirteen years, they've.

1307
01:04:43,320 --> 01:04:44,400
Speaker 3: Been in the conversation.

1308
01:04:44,600 --> 01:04:47,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, because they've they build up front on the lines,

1309
01:04:47,440 --> 01:04:49,960
Speaker 5: and if they if they run into a quarterback that's

1310
01:04:49,960 --> 01:04:53,200
Speaker 5: good enough who I think car is certainly solid, you know,

1311
01:04:53,440 --> 01:04:56,080
Speaker 5: then they're good enough to be a playoff contender. You know,

1312
01:04:56,160 --> 01:04:58,480
Speaker 5: I agree you build the infrastructure around it, and then

1313
01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:00,000
Speaker 5: you try your best to try to find the right

1314
01:05:00,120 --> 01:05:03,200
Speaker 5: quarterback in the right situation who's not forty years old,

1315
01:05:03,280 --> 01:05:05,360
Speaker 5: and him and hall in every two weeks about whether

1316
01:05:05,480 --> 01:05:06,400
Speaker 5: or not he wants to play.

1317
01:05:06,920 --> 01:05:12,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, spot on, man ah I fake his something training.

1318
01:05:12,120 --> 01:05:15,520
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, We'll go to the Phoenix Suns picking up

1319
01:05:15,560 --> 01:05:18,160
Speaker 5: their first victory in the Western Conference semi final series

1320
01:05:18,160 --> 01:05:22,080
Speaker 5: against Denver back home Derek Devin Booker forty seven points.

1321
01:05:22,280 --> 01:05:24,000
Speaker 5: By the way, he also had nine assists, so not

1322
01:05:24,160 --> 01:05:26,960
Speaker 5: just you know, chucking it up there, ditshoot twenty of

1323
01:05:27,000 --> 01:05:30,360
Speaker 5: twenty five from the field, ridiculous. Kevin Durant not as efficient,

1324
01:05:30,400 --> 01:05:32,840
Speaker 5: but still scored thirty nine points. One twenty one to

1325
01:05:32,840 --> 01:05:36,040
Speaker 5: one fourteen was the final Nuggets lead that series, now

1326
01:05:36,080 --> 01:05:38,960
Speaker 5: two games to one. Earlier in the night, Jason Tatum

1327
01:05:38,960 --> 01:05:41,959
Speaker 5: scored twenty seven points for Boston. They actually got double

1328
01:05:41,960 --> 01:05:44,520
Speaker 5: digit scoring efforts from all five starters. They even got

1329
01:05:44,520 --> 01:05:47,400
Speaker 5: fifteen points off the bench from Malcolm Brogden. One fourteen

1330
01:05:47,440 --> 01:05:49,480
Speaker 5: to one oh two was their final score and their

1331
01:05:49,560 --> 01:05:52,640
Speaker 5: victory over Philadelphia two to one series lead there for

1332
01:05:52,880 --> 01:05:56,200
Speaker 5: the Celtics. In baseball, Fernando Tatis Junior two home runs

1333
01:05:56,200 --> 01:05:58,600
Speaker 5: off of Clayton Kershaw. YOUU Darver's getting the victory for

1334
01:05:58,640 --> 01:06:02,000
Speaker 5: San Diego they beat the Dodgers five to two, Houston

1335
01:06:02,040 --> 01:06:04,480
Speaker 5: snapping Seattle's four game win streak with a six to

1336
01:06:04,520 --> 01:06:07,760
Speaker 5: four victory, Angels walking off the Rangers five to four,

1337
01:06:07,760 --> 01:06:10,880
Speaker 5: and ten innings wins for Arizona, Baltimore and the Red Sox,

1338
01:06:11,080 --> 01:06:13,320
Speaker 5: who won their seventh straight game. They beat the Phillies

1339
01:06:13,480 --> 01:06:15,720
Speaker 5: five to three. The long game in the Stanley Cup

1340
01:06:15,720 --> 01:06:18,200
Speaker 5: playoffs saw the Hurricanes hammer the Devils six to one,

1341
01:06:18,600 --> 01:06:20,880
Speaker 5: taking a two games to none lead in their semi

1342
01:06:20,880 --> 01:06:21,680
Speaker 5: final series.

1343
01:06:22,120 --> 01:06:26,280
Speaker 2: Back to the Fellas, Yeah, fig I got my age

1344
01:06:26,360 --> 01:06:28,440
Speaker 2: kicked by Ballston Sports.

1345
01:06:28,560 --> 01:06:31,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, Chris Sale of all people putting it on you.

1346
01:06:31,240 --> 01:06:32,840
Speaker 4: Oh that's terrible.

1347
01:06:33,000 --> 01:06:35,160
Speaker 5: I can't find the strikes home king strike out anybody

1348
01:06:35,160 --> 01:06:36,320
Speaker 5: for the last year and a half. And all of

1349
01:06:36,360 --> 01:06:38,640
Speaker 5: a sudden he turns into the Hall of Famer Chris

1350
01:06:38,720 --> 01:06:39,200
Speaker 5: Sale again.

1351
01:06:39,520 --> 01:06:40,760
Speaker 4: I know, I know.

1352
01:06:41,760 --> 01:06:45,280
Speaker 2: Now that's some good swinging mid stuff I'm showing, you know.

1353
01:06:46,160 --> 01:06:47,880
Speaker 2: I guess it was only a matter of time before

1354
01:06:48,400 --> 01:06:51,360
Speaker 2: he was able to do something. But yeah, rough night

1355
01:06:51,600 --> 01:06:55,480
Speaker 2: for my for my hometown. So I gotta share with

1356
01:06:55,520 --> 01:07:00,400
Speaker 2: you because I am in love with something. Okay, I'm

1357
01:07:00,440 --> 01:07:04,440
Speaker 2: a completely I'm adulterated love.

1358
01:07:06,280 --> 01:07:06,640
Speaker 4: Figgy.

1359
01:07:08,120 --> 01:07:11,520
Speaker 3: Did you see the college football news this week?

1360
01:07:13,280 --> 01:07:15,840
Speaker 4: I'm assuming you're talking about the playoffs?

1361
01:07:17,720 --> 01:07:25,400
Speaker 2: Yes, Figgy, the playoffs. There's going to be a week

1362
01:07:25,480 --> 01:07:30,320
Speaker 2: in the future where it may be the greatest week

1363
01:07:32,160 --> 01:07:34,000
Speaker 2: ever in mankind history.

1364
01:07:35,480 --> 01:07:41,680
Speaker 4: Ever. I don't even know what could rival, Figgi.

1365
01:07:42,640 --> 01:07:45,400
Speaker 5: I mean some could think of a few things, but

1366
01:07:45,680 --> 01:07:51,480
Speaker 5: like what landing on the moon? Landing on the moon,

1367
01:07:53,160 --> 01:07:54,800
Speaker 5: depending on what side of the eye you follow on

1368
01:07:54,920 --> 01:07:59,600
Speaker 5: certain situations. The birth of Jesus, yeah, you know, and

1369
01:08:00,040 --> 01:08:01,760
Speaker 5: there's there's a there's a few things.

1370
01:08:02,000 --> 01:08:06,160
Speaker 3: Well, Jesus one, but it's as a number two.

1371
01:08:07,760 --> 01:08:10,640
Speaker 4: I mean, the abolition of slavery. I don't know, Like alright,

1372
01:08:10,680 --> 01:08:18,840
Speaker 4: it's a number three. As a number three. This is unbelievable.

1373
01:08:18,960 --> 01:08:24,160
Speaker 5: I it's something you ready campaigning for for years, Yes,

1374
01:08:24,360 --> 01:08:25,799
Speaker 5: for the part of a decade.

1375
01:08:26,280 --> 01:08:32,439
Speaker 2: This week it will take place. The first will take

1376
01:08:32,479 --> 01:08:42,200
Speaker 2: place Thursday, January ninth. On Thursday, January ninth, college football

1377
01:08:42,280 --> 01:08:51,480
Speaker 2: semi final number one on Friday, January tenth, College Football

1378
01:08:51,680 --> 01:09:01,520
Speaker 2: Semifinal two on Saturday January eleventh, two FELL playoff games,

1379
01:09:02,080 --> 01:09:09,479
Speaker 2: on Sunday, January twelfth, three NFL playoff games, and on Monday,

1380
01:09:09,960 --> 01:09:17,960
Speaker 2: January thirteenth, the final NFL playoff game. If you're counting

1381
01:09:18,000 --> 01:09:23,240
Speaker 2: at home, that is the golden five days of life

1382
01:09:25,400 --> 01:09:33,400
Speaker 2: heighten playoff football. In fact, we get eight games in

1383
01:09:33,800 --> 01:09:36,479
Speaker 2: five glorious days.

1384
01:09:38,160 --> 01:09:41,439
Speaker 5: Hey, hey, I love the excitement, and I hope you

1385
01:09:41,439 --> 01:09:45,080
Speaker 5: will be just as excited when Alabama, you know, beat

1386
01:09:45,160 --> 01:09:48,240
Speaker 5: San Diego State in the quarterfinal fifty five to eight.

1387
01:09:50,200 --> 01:09:52,160
Speaker 5: I eight because they eight bex because they went for

1388
01:09:52,160 --> 01:09:54,200
Speaker 5: two in the firing garbage time.

1389
01:09:54,640 --> 01:09:55,439
Speaker 4: I'll be watching.

1390
01:09:55,600 --> 01:09:59,200
Speaker 5: We all will watch. I'm being facetious. But the problem

1391
01:09:59,280 --> 01:10:04,439
Speaker 5: is I love the expanded playoffs. It gives no I said, no,

1392
01:10:04,520 --> 01:10:07,520
Speaker 5: it's fine. They It gives other schools from other conferences

1393
01:10:07,520 --> 01:10:09,720
Speaker 5: more opportunities to make it in and play meaningful games

1394
01:10:09,760 --> 01:10:12,439
Speaker 5: as opposed to these meaningless bowl games. I do like

1395
01:10:12,520 --> 01:10:16,120
Speaker 5: the fact that there are beg games, meaningful games played

1396
01:10:16,160 --> 01:10:20,800
Speaker 5: on campus. For for the higher rated teams, you get

1397
01:10:20,840 --> 01:10:24,320
Speaker 5: to host a home game, a home quarterfinal, which would

1398
01:10:24,320 --> 01:10:27,280
Speaker 5: be phenomenal, something that's never happened before in college football.

1399
01:10:27,280 --> 01:10:29,519
Speaker 5: So I think that will be amazing for a lot

1400
01:10:29,520 --> 01:10:32,720
Speaker 5: of these football mechas, particularly in the SEC and the

1401
01:10:32,720 --> 01:10:36,400
Speaker 5: Big Ten, which will probably which will probably populate you know,

1402
01:10:36,560 --> 01:10:40,880
Speaker 5: ninety percent of the playoff anyway, so you know, you'll

1403
01:10:40,880 --> 01:10:42,960
Speaker 5: probably have some rematches or something in the first round

1404
01:10:43,040 --> 01:10:45,760
Speaker 5: or second another semi final when it comes to that, which,

1405
01:10:45,760 --> 01:10:47,160
Speaker 5: by the way, isn't a bad thing either.

1406
01:10:48,479 --> 01:10:48,640
Speaker 4: You know.

1407
01:10:48,720 --> 01:10:52,000
Speaker 5: Imagine imagine Michigan and Ohio State facing off twice in

1408
01:10:52,040 --> 01:10:54,559
Speaker 5: a season outrighteous, you.

1409
01:10:54,479 --> 01:10:57,400
Speaker 3: Know, college football first round games.

1410
01:10:57,479 --> 01:11:00,960
Speaker 2: Just for the everybody didn't hear it and didn't say it,

1411
01:11:01,800 --> 01:11:04,559
Speaker 2: college football first round games will be played, las Figgi

1412
01:11:04,640 --> 01:11:10,040
Speaker 2: said on campus Friday, December twentieth one game.

1413
01:11:10,439 --> 01:11:14,360
Speaker 3: I love a freaking Friday, freaking awesome.

1414
01:11:15,160 --> 01:11:20,280
Speaker 2: Three games on Saturday, December twenty first, all right, yep,

1415
01:11:20,760 --> 01:11:26,520
Speaker 2: which will be awesome. The quarterfinal round will then proceed

1416
01:11:26,560 --> 01:11:31,880
Speaker 2: with one game on New Year's Eve and three on

1417
01:11:32,080 --> 01:11:38,439
Speaker 2: New Year's Day, thus bringing back New Year's Day and

1418
01:11:38,680 --> 01:11:46,120
Speaker 2: college football that great union, making it matter once again, Figgie.

1419
01:11:45,640 --> 01:11:49,200
Speaker 5: And doing away with the god awful tradition of the

1420
01:11:49,240 --> 01:11:51,759
Speaker 5: last few years in the playoff of having these having

1421
01:11:51,760 --> 01:11:55,719
Speaker 5: both games on New Year's Eve, which is awful hard,

1422
01:11:55,760 --> 01:11:58,320
Speaker 5: I mean, that Georgia, Ohios Day game ended, but was

1423
01:11:58,320 --> 01:12:01,280
Speaker 5: it just after midnight or something thing in January.

1424
01:12:01,320 --> 01:12:03,080
Speaker 4: It's like, come on the end of the game.

1425
01:12:03,160 --> 01:12:05,160
Speaker 2: It was a great game. It was it's a great game.

1426
01:12:05,240 --> 01:12:08,439
Speaker 2: And then in my house it was they all got

1427
01:12:08,439 --> 01:12:11,880
Speaker 2: the pots and the pants ready, and I'm trying to

1428
01:12:11,880 --> 01:12:14,400
Speaker 2: watch the game, and they got Dick Clark on the

1429
01:12:14,400 --> 01:12:17,920
Speaker 2: main TV, and I got the playoff game on my

1430
01:12:18,240 --> 01:12:21,679
Speaker 2: phone and I'm trying to watch the game, but I'm

1431
01:12:21,760 --> 01:12:23,160
Speaker 2: you know, I mean, I want to be with the

1432
01:12:23,160 --> 01:12:26,920
Speaker 2: family shows the Year's Eve and they got the rocket

1433
01:12:26,920 --> 01:12:30,719
Speaker 2: New Year's Rocket Eve going on, and and I'm trying

1434
01:12:30,760 --> 01:12:32,840
Speaker 2: to watch the game, and the kids are bagging pots

1435
01:12:32,840 --> 01:12:34,479
Speaker 2: and pants and it's like, you know.

1436
01:12:35,520 --> 01:12:39,080
Speaker 5: So they're having now just the one standalone solo game.

1437
01:12:39,600 --> 01:12:41,280
Speaker 5: You think that's probably going to be like a you know,

1438
01:12:41,360 --> 01:12:44,160
Speaker 5: a four thirty Eastern one thirty Pacific kick or something

1439
01:12:44,200 --> 01:12:46,200
Speaker 5: like that, something that can end in plenty of time

1440
01:12:46,200 --> 01:12:47,760
Speaker 5: for people to go out and do their thing on

1441
01:12:47,800 --> 01:12:50,439
Speaker 5: New Year's Eve. So yeah, and you got the schedule.

1442
01:12:50,479 --> 01:12:52,240
Speaker 5: That was one of the thingsing like that. That was

1443
01:12:52,280 --> 01:12:55,040
Speaker 5: one of the things I was most excited about. So

1444
01:12:55,400 --> 01:12:56,320
Speaker 5: people like I.

1445
01:12:57,479 --> 01:13:02,160
Speaker 2: Show even you start the game and you know seven, sure,

1446
01:13:02,400 --> 01:13:04,920
Speaker 2: yeah right, because the peop will be over by at

1447
01:13:05,040 --> 01:13:08,679
Speaker 2: least by tenhat eleven the latest.

1448
01:13:08,800 --> 01:13:10,880
Speaker 5: Well, now with the rules changes, you know, who knows

1449
01:13:10,880 --> 01:13:12,599
Speaker 5: how fast these college games are going to go. Now

1450
01:13:12,680 --> 01:13:16,519
Speaker 5: that was two weeks ago. Oh not stopping the clock

1451
01:13:16,560 --> 01:13:17,880
Speaker 5: on first downs, which I know you're.

1452
01:13:17,720 --> 01:13:20,920
Speaker 3: Out of that I hate because you're taking away plays and.

1453
01:13:20,880 --> 01:13:23,559
Speaker 5: You're taking away potential comebacks. That was one great thing, especially,

1454
01:13:23,600 --> 01:13:25,760
Speaker 5: I mean if I got the big twelve games, you know,

1455
01:13:26,120 --> 01:13:28,200
Speaker 5: teams would get down by four touchdowns and sit that

1456
01:13:28,240 --> 01:13:29,960
Speaker 5: a second quarter, but they were never out of it

1457
01:13:30,000 --> 01:13:31,880
Speaker 5: because you had time to get back to come back.

1458
01:13:32,880 --> 01:13:35,760
Speaker 3: Incredible stuff. Hey, let's take a quick to you, but

1459
01:13:35,880 --> 01:13:36,200
Speaker 3: come back.

1460
01:13:36,400 --> 01:13:40,080
Speaker 2: I want to continue the conversation because I just think

1461
01:13:40,080 --> 01:13:44,080
Speaker 2: this is heavenly Yes, of all the bad news going

1462
01:13:44,120 --> 01:13:48,439
Speaker 2: on in the world or just the Philadelphia of the world, Well,

1463
01:13:48,479 --> 01:13:51,799
Speaker 2: I'm talking about the big stories, you know, beyond sports

1464
01:13:52,520 --> 01:13:55,519
Speaker 2: that you worry about, you know, the el nin yo,

1465
01:13:55,800 --> 01:13:59,679
Speaker 2: that's about the hit and raise temperatures and across the planet,

1466
01:14:00,200 --> 01:14:07,040
Speaker 2: all kinds of things we can take solace in football, football,

1467
01:14:07,080 --> 01:14:13,200
Speaker 2: figure football, welcome back. In just a moment, the Fellas

1468
01:14:13,479 --> 01:14:18,879
Speaker 2: right here on Fox Sports Radio. Ah, welcome back, Fellas,

1469
01:14:19,080 --> 01:14:22,639
Speaker 2: Seize Kevin Figures. I'm Anthony gargantto together. We are the

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01:14:22,800 --> 01:14:28,040
Speaker 2: Fellas on Fox Sports Radio, comingy live from theti iraq

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Speaker 2: dot com studios.

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Speaker 3: We were just kids. You just joined us. We were

1473
01:14:33,800 --> 01:14:38,880
Speaker 3: talking about the new college football schedule. Not I've been

1474
01:14:38,920 --> 01:14:41,640
Speaker 3: in love with this whole thing and expanding the playoffs.

1475
01:14:41,960 --> 01:14:44,439
Speaker 3: I just think it makes the most sense to have

1476
01:14:44,479 --> 01:14:49,920
Speaker 3: some organization to it, let them play for it. And

1477
01:14:50,840 --> 01:14:52,640
Speaker 3: I look at it, and I just look at the

1478
01:14:52,720 --> 01:14:56,519
Speaker 3: schedule and I just think it's perfect. And I guess,

1479
01:14:56,680 --> 01:15:04,479
Speaker 3: just imagine Thursday, January ninth, college football Semifinal one, Friday

1480
01:15:04,600 --> 01:15:11,080
Speaker 3: January tenth, college football Semifinal two, Saturday, January eleventh, two

1481
01:15:11,280 --> 01:15:17,599
Speaker 3: NFL playoff games, Sunday January twelfth, three NFL playoff games,

1482
01:15:17,840 --> 01:15:21,880
Speaker 3: and then Monday, January thirteenth, one NFL playoff game.

1483
01:15:22,080 --> 01:15:28,160
Speaker 4: Oh figgie football football football football football?

1484
01:15:28,240 --> 01:15:28,400
Speaker 2: Right?

1485
01:15:29,080 --> 01:15:29,360
Speaker 4: Oh?

1486
01:15:29,479 --> 01:15:33,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, man, you're always pining for You're gonna get Yeah, Yes,

1487
01:15:34,600 --> 01:15:37,120
Speaker 5: I love it. Yeah, there's something to be said for

1488
01:15:37,320 --> 01:15:40,280
Speaker 5: I do wonder how this is going to affect and

1489
01:15:40,360 --> 01:15:42,760
Speaker 5: maybe to no large degree it will because you know,

1490
01:15:43,080 --> 01:15:47,479
Speaker 5: the the regular Bowl schedule, because not all they're gonna

1491
01:15:47,560 --> 01:15:49,240
Speaker 5: use some of the many of these balls for these

1492
01:15:49,280 --> 01:15:52,240
Speaker 5: playoff games, but there's gonna be less viewership. And I

1493
01:15:52,240 --> 01:15:54,599
Speaker 5: feel like viewership for balls in general have been down

1494
01:15:54,640 --> 01:15:57,280
Speaker 5: pretty much since the playoff began, if not a little

1495
01:15:57,320 --> 01:15:59,840
Speaker 5: bit before that. As we're in an era now where

1496
01:16:00,000 --> 01:16:01,640
Speaker 5: every game has to have meaning and it has to

1497
01:16:01,640 --> 01:16:03,600
Speaker 5: mean something, and just like the playing for pride or

1498
01:16:03,640 --> 01:16:06,040
Speaker 5: playing just to make it to the such and such,

1499
01:16:06,080 --> 01:16:07,439
Speaker 5: ball doesn't matter as much.

1500
01:16:07,600 --> 01:16:10,600
Speaker 2: No. I mean, we've seen it with the advent of

1501
01:16:10,800 --> 01:16:14,639
Speaker 2: kids who don't play in the game, right they go,

1502
01:16:14,880 --> 01:16:17,479
Speaker 2: I'm out, yeah, I'm not gonna play. And you know,

1503
01:16:17,600 --> 01:16:20,479
Speaker 2: I can never blame a kid that's got an NFL career.

1504
01:16:21,360 --> 01:16:26,679
Speaker 2: But it's almost like college basketball right where kids go, well,

1505
01:16:27,000 --> 01:16:30,040
Speaker 2: you know, I don't need to play. You know, I'm

1506
01:16:30,040 --> 01:16:32,000
Speaker 2: gonna go to the NBA and blah blah blah and

1507
01:16:32,040 --> 01:16:35,120
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna play. And now with the end, I

1508
01:16:35,240 --> 01:16:37,240
Speaker 2: let me ask you a question. With the nil money

1509
01:16:38,720 --> 01:16:42,479
Speaker 2: and it's more of a job like you're getting paid, yep,

1510
01:16:43,920 --> 01:16:44,760
Speaker 2: is it is?

1511
01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:45,360
Speaker 3: Does that?

1512
01:16:45,439 --> 01:16:47,120
Speaker 4: Can that save the balls?

1513
01:16:50,360 --> 01:16:54,760
Speaker 5: Maybe the problem is if you're let's say Michigan has

1514
01:16:54,760 --> 01:16:57,360
Speaker 5: a down year. A down year for their standards is

1515
01:16:57,400 --> 01:17:00,000
Speaker 5: like nine wins or something, so they don't make the playoff,

1516
01:17:00,080 --> 01:17:01,880
Speaker 5: but they go to like the Capitol One Bowl or

1517
01:17:01,920 --> 01:17:04,040
Speaker 5: whatever it is. I'm not sure whatever whatever you want.

1518
01:17:03,920 --> 01:17:04,360
Speaker 4: To call it.

1519
01:17:05,160 --> 01:17:08,840
Speaker 5: So with the if a if a star player is

1520
01:17:08,880 --> 01:17:11,200
Speaker 5: getting in I O money for being on TV and

1521
01:17:11,280 --> 01:17:14,880
Speaker 5: playing and all that. With the with the nil person

1522
01:17:14,920 --> 01:17:17,160
Speaker 5: in charge of his account care more about him playing

1523
01:17:17,160 --> 01:17:19,040
Speaker 5: in that game against Ohio State or more about the

1524
01:17:19,040 --> 01:17:21,519
Speaker 5: bowl game because there's gonna be more eyeballs on the

1525
01:17:21,520 --> 01:17:25,519
Speaker 5: Ohio State game or even like probably State game, Like,

1526
01:17:25,600 --> 01:17:26,360
Speaker 5: so will they care?

1527
01:17:26,880 --> 01:17:27,679
Speaker 3: I agree?

1528
01:17:27,920 --> 01:17:32,400
Speaker 2: But if is there a bonus or is there something

1529
01:17:32,439 --> 01:17:35,640
Speaker 2: that says you get to a bowl game or and

1530
01:17:35,680 --> 01:17:39,040
Speaker 2: you know you have to play, if you're playing the

1531
01:17:39,040 --> 01:17:41,679
Speaker 2: bowl game, you get you know, you get a stipend

1532
01:17:41,800 --> 01:17:43,800
Speaker 2: or whatever you get, you get paid for it.

1533
01:17:44,040 --> 01:17:45,920
Speaker 5: I'm not sure how that works. I don't even know

1534
01:17:45,960 --> 01:17:49,639
Speaker 5: if that's doable with the ni L and how how

1535
01:17:49,640 --> 01:17:50,519
Speaker 5: it's currently structure.

1536
01:17:50,520 --> 01:17:52,439
Speaker 4: I mean, it's the what was let me ask you question?

1537
01:17:52,560 --> 01:17:55,479
Speaker 2: Now, I'm again I don't I have to ask this

1538
01:17:55,560 --> 01:17:59,559
Speaker 2: question because I know somebody who is who actually works

1539
01:17:59,560 --> 01:18:04,960
Speaker 2: with this for a big time program. But what if

1540
01:18:05,080 --> 01:18:09,040
Speaker 2: Capitol One is a sponsor, what's them to say that

1541
01:18:09,080 --> 01:18:12,559
Speaker 2: to the to the star players on both teams, We're

1542
01:18:12,560 --> 01:18:15,760
Speaker 2: going to sign you to a three day you know,

1543
01:18:16,040 --> 01:18:20,840
Speaker 2: social media influencer deal where you have to tweet and

1544
01:18:21,000 --> 01:18:28,000
Speaker 2: instagram and do videos for you know, Capital One to

1545
01:18:28,120 --> 01:18:31,519
Speaker 2: play in the game. I got to play the game. Yeah,

1546
01:18:31,840 --> 01:18:35,840
Speaker 2: But and I'll pay you to play the game. And

1547
01:18:36,080 --> 01:18:38,160
Speaker 2: I don't know what the number is. You know, I'm

1548
01:18:38,200 --> 01:18:40,720
Speaker 2: gonna give you fifty grand for three days, right, and

1549
01:18:40,800 --> 01:18:43,280
Speaker 2: I'm only going to get listen, I'm only going to

1550
01:18:43,320 --> 01:18:45,840
Speaker 2: give it to like the five best players on each

1551
01:18:45,880 --> 01:18:49,839
Speaker 2: of the teams to ensure that they're playing.

1552
01:18:51,400 --> 01:18:53,600
Speaker 5: Oh, you absolutely, Because then what you do is you

1553
01:18:53,680 --> 01:18:56,240
Speaker 5: roll those guys into you know, ads that are running

1554
01:18:56,320 --> 01:18:58,519
Speaker 5: during the game. Maybe there's a cut in or something,

1555
01:18:58,520 --> 01:19:01,599
Speaker 5: who knows, So yeah, yeah, that will be a way

1556
01:19:01,640 --> 01:19:04,000
Speaker 5: to incentivize guys to be able to play. Now, the

1557
01:19:04,000 --> 01:19:06,320
Speaker 5: interesting thing is if you're you know, if you were

1558
01:19:06,320 --> 01:19:08,320
Speaker 5: going to be c J. Stroud this year or something,

1559
01:19:08,960 --> 01:19:12,439
Speaker 5: is that potential fifty grand worth getting injured in a game?

1560
01:19:12,479 --> 01:19:14,200
Speaker 5: That doesn't matter when you know you're going to be

1561
01:19:14,200 --> 01:19:15,800
Speaker 5: a top three pick in the draft, and it's going.

1562
01:19:15,800 --> 01:19:18,479
Speaker 4: To far supersede what you'd make for nil.

1563
01:19:18,800 --> 01:19:22,080
Speaker 5: That's where if you're a guy who's fledgling second round

1564
01:19:22,120 --> 01:19:23,840
Speaker 5: pick or something like that, then there's no decision to

1565
01:19:23,840 --> 01:19:24,080
Speaker 5: be made.

1566
01:19:24,120 --> 01:19:25,400
Speaker 4: You're obviously going to take the deal.

1567
01:19:26,520 --> 01:19:31,280
Speaker 2: But even if your first round player fifty grand, fifty grand,

1568
01:19:31,320 --> 01:19:32,360
Speaker 2: my man, fifty grand.

1569
01:19:32,439 --> 01:19:34,559
Speaker 5: No, Okay, I'm not mad at you, but I mean,

1570
01:19:34,600 --> 01:19:36,759
Speaker 5: if you're that kind of player, you're probably right.

1571
01:19:36,920 --> 01:19:37,400
Speaker 4: Like CJ.

1572
01:19:37,560 --> 01:19:41,360
Speaker 2: Stroud is the you know, the quarterbacks, but he'd even

1573
01:19:41,479 --> 01:19:43,760
Speaker 2: you know, with the rookie deal that the big the

1574
01:19:43,840 --> 01:19:47,000
Speaker 2: monu the moment the gigantic rookie deal is.

1575
01:19:47,000 --> 01:19:50,240
Speaker 4: Gone, yeah, I would still still slotted.

1576
01:19:50,600 --> 01:19:53,040
Speaker 5: Yeah you're I mean, you're slotted, but you're you're still

1577
01:19:53,080 --> 01:19:56,839
Speaker 5: making pretty solid money. Like you're not making fifty million guarantee,

1578
01:19:56,880 --> 01:20:01,840
Speaker 5: but you're probably making fifteen day one, you know. I

1579
01:20:01,920 --> 01:20:04,639
Speaker 5: just it's it's an interesting Usually guys of that ILK

1580
01:20:04,680 --> 01:20:07,920
Speaker 5: are not playing your meaningless games anyway usually, so it

1581
01:20:08,720 --> 01:20:09,360
Speaker 5: us a mood point.

1582
01:20:09,400 --> 01:20:11,720
Speaker 4: But every now and then that does happen. So that's

1583
01:20:11,720 --> 01:20:13,000
Speaker 4: an intriguing thing. You bring up.

1584
01:20:13,800 --> 01:20:16,320
Speaker 2: All right, well, we gotta take quick to you we'll

1585
01:20:16,360 --> 01:20:20,080
Speaker 2: come back big hour ahead where the fella is right

1586
01:20:20,120 --> 01:20:24,920
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1587
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1589
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Speaker 2: took place.

1590
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Speaker 2: we were talking college football. I brought this idea about

1610
01:21:45,479 --> 01:21:51,479
Speaker 2: incentivizing players to play in these meaningless ballgames through NIL

1611
01:21:51,560 --> 01:21:56,000
Speaker 2: money and allowing them to play saying hey, look, we'll

1612
01:21:56,000 --> 01:22:00,439
Speaker 2: make your social media influences if you're capital one and

1613
01:22:00,840 --> 01:22:04,479
Speaker 2: you could actually, you know, make a difference in these games.

1614
01:22:05,479 --> 01:22:09,559
Speaker 2: And you go, hey, a star linebacker instead of sitting

1615
01:22:09,560 --> 01:22:12,000
Speaker 2: down to so you get ready for the draft, come

1616
01:22:12,080 --> 01:22:16,040
Speaker 2: play and I'll give you, you know, fifty grand and

1617
01:22:16,160 --> 01:22:20,920
Speaker 2: so real quick before we get to the basketball, back

1618
01:22:20,960 --> 01:22:23,320
Speaker 2: to the playoffs. I talk to a buddy of mine

1619
01:22:24,240 --> 01:22:30,680
Speaker 2: who is in this world for a major program, and

1620
01:22:30,720 --> 01:22:34,559
Speaker 2: he said, nothing like that is set. There are talks

1621
01:22:34,680 --> 01:22:40,800
Speaker 2: of revenue distribution to participants, but right now it's only talk.

1622
01:22:42,520 --> 01:22:43,960
Speaker 2: I gotta believe it's going to happen.

1623
01:22:44,000 --> 01:22:48,080
Speaker 5: FAG has to write, Look, these sponsors are paying so

1624
01:22:48,200 --> 01:22:51,840
Speaker 5: much money for naming rights for all these balls and

1625
01:22:51,880 --> 01:22:54,840
Speaker 5: not getting viewership. You know, is that the least they

1626
01:22:54,840 --> 01:22:56,479
Speaker 5: can do is try to get as much engagement. So

1627
01:22:56,520 --> 01:22:59,519
Speaker 5: every time about putting a social aspect into it, you know,

1628
01:22:59,800 --> 01:23:02,639
Speaker 5: that just adds more reach, and especially as these kids

1629
01:23:02,640 --> 01:23:05,000
Speaker 5: continue to have nil and as you know, social media

1630
01:23:05,080 --> 01:23:09,240
Speaker 5: grows on Instagram and Twitter and everywhere else, TikTok, especially

1631
01:23:09,760 --> 01:23:11,840
Speaker 5: you know they're gonna even probably even care less about

1632
01:23:11,840 --> 01:23:13,519
Speaker 5: the game itself. I just care more about the promotion

1633
01:23:13,560 --> 01:23:16,080
Speaker 5: from the individual athletes. So this is going to be

1634
01:23:16,160 --> 01:23:21,080
Speaker 5: just making yeah, yeah, absolutely for them. So I think

1635
01:23:21,080 --> 01:23:23,360
Speaker 5: it's a great idea, that's a phenomenal idea, And I

1636
01:23:23,400 --> 01:23:25,360
Speaker 5: do think to your point, it's it's on the horizon,

1637
01:23:25,600 --> 01:23:27,960
Speaker 5: if it's not already started, you know, happening for a

1638
01:23:27,960 --> 01:23:31,120
Speaker 5: lot of these companies talking about adding these as aspects

1639
01:23:31,240 --> 01:23:34,679
Speaker 5: or add ons to their bold deals with the TV networks,

1640
01:23:35,360 --> 01:23:37,200
Speaker 5: then it definitely is something that's going to be in

1641
01:23:37,240 --> 01:23:37,960
Speaker 5: the pipeline soon.

1642
01:23:38,600 --> 01:23:38,880
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1643
01:23:39,040 --> 01:23:44,559
Speaker 3: I totally see that, totally totally see that. All right,

1644
01:23:44,600 --> 01:23:46,360
Speaker 3: let's get back to the NBA playoffs.

1645
01:23:47,040 --> 01:23:48,960
Speaker 4: Phoenix stays alive.

1646
01:23:49,360 --> 01:23:54,160
Speaker 2: No Chris Paul, but the Suns are able to beat

1647
01:23:54,280 --> 01:23:59,679
Speaker 2: Denver and they look pretty strong. Great game by Booker

1648
01:23:59,760 --> 01:24:05,120
Speaker 2: was of his mind forty seven. He shot twenty of

1649
01:24:05,200 --> 01:24:08,200
Speaker 2: twenty five from the field. I mean, you want to

1650
01:24:08,240 --> 01:24:12,400
Speaker 2: talk about a superhuman effort. Maybe one of the greatest

1651
01:24:12,479 --> 01:24:17,760
Speaker 2: games ever. He shot twenty and twenty five for the field.

1652
01:24:18,040 --> 01:24:19,320
Speaker 2: He made five.

1653
01:24:19,240 --> 01:24:24,599
Speaker 5: Threes in Cincinnati, nine dimes nine as sis.

1654
01:24:25,320 --> 01:24:28,360
Speaker 4: Right, Typically when a guy goes off like that.

1655
01:24:28,479 --> 01:24:31,639
Speaker 5: He might have an assister too, but to damn near

1656
01:24:31,680 --> 01:24:34,560
Speaker 5: score fifty points and have almost ten assists, that's incredible.

1657
01:24:35,720 --> 01:24:39,280
Speaker 5: And uh it's And the sad part is, I mean

1658
01:24:39,280 --> 01:24:41,760
Speaker 5: it's good for Phoenix. They're back in the series. I

1659
01:24:41,840 --> 01:24:44,360
Speaker 5: just don't know how sustainable this style of play is

1660
01:24:44,360 --> 01:24:47,240
Speaker 5: for them. They you cannot rely. And Booker, by the way,

1661
01:24:47,640 --> 01:24:50,240
Speaker 5: from an individual standpoint, has probably been the best player

1662
01:24:50,240 --> 01:24:50,920
Speaker 5: in the postseason.

1663
01:24:51,280 --> 01:24:52,679
Speaker 4: I agree, he's been dominant.

1664
01:24:53,160 --> 01:24:56,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, It's just it's too much to ask for him

1665
01:24:56,160 --> 01:24:58,200
Speaker 5: and Kevin Durant to have to drop both of them.

1666
01:24:58,240 --> 01:25:00,400
Speaker 5: I dropped forty every single night for them to win.

1667
01:25:00,479 --> 01:25:02,439
Speaker 5: And that's what they've had to do. It was gonna

1668
01:25:02,439 --> 01:25:04,479
Speaker 5: be tough with Chris Paul and now with him out

1669
01:25:04,560 --> 01:25:08,040
Speaker 5: at least for another game, I feel like just attrition

1670
01:25:08,200 --> 01:25:08,880
Speaker 5: is gonna get to them.

1671
01:25:08,920 --> 01:25:09,840
Speaker 4: They don't have any depth.

1672
01:25:10,439 --> 01:25:12,760
Speaker 5: The highest the next highest scoring player after those two

1673
01:25:12,880 --> 01:25:17,200
Speaker 5: the other night or last night had to open seven points.

1674
01:25:16,920 --> 01:25:18,799
Speaker 3: And then nuts nobody else in double figures.

1675
01:25:18,800 --> 01:25:23,280
Speaker 2: You can't win a chance Ran thirty nine, Booker forty seven,

1676
01:25:24,280 --> 01:25:28,920
Speaker 2: and campaign and TJ Warren seven piece.

1677
01:25:29,680 --> 01:25:32,920
Speaker 5: You're not winning a championship that way, agree, And look

1678
01:25:32,960 --> 01:25:34,680
Speaker 5: I and I think some people kind of set this

1679
01:25:34,760 --> 01:25:36,479
Speaker 5: up when the trade was made. They were like, look,

1680
01:25:36,479 --> 01:25:38,840
Speaker 5: it's the trade. Won't be a failure if they don't

1681
01:25:38,880 --> 01:25:41,320
Speaker 5: win the championship this year. I think they're going to

1682
01:25:41,360 --> 01:25:43,439
Speaker 5: try to go all in, have a full training camp,

1683
01:25:43,479 --> 01:25:45,479
Speaker 5: bring some enforcements in next year, and make a run

1684
01:25:45,520 --> 01:25:47,240
Speaker 5: at No. Obviously their goal is to try to win

1685
01:25:47,280 --> 01:25:49,800
Speaker 5: this year. But it was just as much as we

1686
01:25:49,840 --> 01:25:51,960
Speaker 5: loved Phoenix and we you know, our eyes bulged out

1687
01:25:52,000 --> 01:25:55,120
Speaker 5: because of all the talent you realize behind beyond the

1688
01:25:55,120 --> 01:25:59,200
Speaker 5: top four guys, Like who do they have? I mean,

1689
01:25:59,600 --> 01:26:01,479
Speaker 5: like literal really who else? Who else do they have

1690
01:26:01,560 --> 01:26:03,240
Speaker 5: that you would even be somewhat afraid of?

1691
01:26:03,880 --> 01:26:04,520
Speaker 4: Nobody?

1692
01:26:04,720 --> 01:26:08,559
Speaker 2: I mean your point is spot on, spot on. It's

1693
01:26:08,600 --> 01:26:11,519
Speaker 2: just you look at him and you go, you.

1694
01:26:11,680 --> 01:26:15,280
Speaker 5: Just don't have enough fig super teams of eyes, super

1695
01:26:15,320 --> 01:26:17,600
Speaker 5: teams of the past always had solid role players at

1696
01:26:17,680 --> 01:26:21,600
Speaker 5: least that can make an open shot, defend somebody. They

1697
01:26:21,720 --> 01:26:23,760
Speaker 5: just have just a bunch of guys. They just have

1698
01:26:23,800 --> 01:26:25,240
Speaker 5: a bunch of guys filling out the roster.

1699
01:26:25,720 --> 01:26:30,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, by the way, the Joker.

1700
01:26:31,800 --> 01:26:37,360
Speaker 2: Thirty seventeen rebounds seventeen.

1701
01:26:37,479 --> 01:26:40,840
Speaker 3: It sits Oh my god.

1702
01:26:42,560 --> 01:26:45,559
Speaker 2: I mean, that's just that, that's just that you want

1703
01:26:45,600 --> 01:26:46,960
Speaker 2: to talk about numbers.

1704
01:26:47,160 --> 01:26:49,000
Speaker 4: My god, insane.

1705
01:26:49,680 --> 01:26:53,800
Speaker 5: I mean that's because I know, I know you're not

1706
01:26:53,840 --> 01:26:54,920
Speaker 5: his biggest fan, but.

1707
01:26:55,400 --> 01:26:58,160
Speaker 3: Ah, I mean he's a great play great great great play.

1708
01:26:58,000 --> 01:27:01,599
Speaker 5: For someone to be as athletic looking as he is.

1709
01:27:02,400 --> 01:27:04,040
Speaker 5: The kind of plays he makes his ridiculous.

1710
01:27:04,080 --> 01:27:06,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's ridiculous. No, he's a great, great player. I

1711
01:27:06,720 --> 01:27:08,720
Speaker 2: get on him with because I'm in a bead man.

1712
01:27:09,160 --> 01:27:09,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, and.

1713
01:27:11,680 --> 01:27:15,400
Speaker 2: You know the MVP thing, But I mean, this dude's

1714
01:27:15,800 --> 01:27:18,000
Speaker 2: one of the greatest. I don't think you can play day,

1715
01:27:18,040 --> 01:27:21,559
Speaker 2: but who cares if you can? Those numbers are ridiculous.

1716
01:27:21,560 --> 01:27:24,559
Speaker 2: Thirty seventeen seventeen. It's for a for a big man,

1717
01:27:24,720 --> 01:27:28,120
Speaker 2: the offense goes true. Yeah you do. I mean he's ridiculous.

1718
01:27:28,160 --> 01:27:32,000
Speaker 2: He's a great, great player. And Mary had a great night.

1719
01:27:32,160 --> 01:27:33,920
Speaker 2: He scored thirty two last night.

1720
01:27:33,800 --> 01:27:35,879
Speaker 4: And even Porter had a solid night. Yeah.

1721
01:27:35,920 --> 01:27:39,000
Speaker 5: Defensively, I don't even know if they played terrible defense.

1722
01:27:39,040 --> 01:27:42,320
Speaker 5: I just think you have you of the KDS, arguably

1723
01:27:42,320 --> 01:27:43,360
Speaker 5: the best basketball guy.

1724
01:27:43,360 --> 01:27:47,200
Speaker 2: I gotta tell you you're right. I mean, Booker gives

1725
01:27:47,240 --> 01:27:50,080
Speaker 2: you twenty out of twenty five from the field. That's

1726
01:27:50,160 --> 01:27:52,320
Speaker 2: just great, Baul. I mean that's just where you go,

1727
01:27:53,120 --> 01:27:56,200
Speaker 2: you know. But I agree with you. It's all about

1728
01:27:56,280 --> 01:28:01,160
Speaker 2: Dever game in a game four Yeah, no, away that

1729
01:28:01,800 --> 01:28:04,320
Speaker 2: I can't see. There's no way in the world I

1730
01:28:04,360 --> 01:28:05,960
Speaker 2: could see Phoenix Stein this series.

1731
01:28:06,160 --> 01:28:09,400
Speaker 5: No, no, at this this thing is at best it

1732
01:28:09,439 --> 01:28:12,320
Speaker 5: goes six and quite honestly, I think it probably goes five.

1733
01:28:13,960 --> 01:28:14,160
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1734
01:28:14,200 --> 01:28:16,600
Speaker 2: I could see just Denver just running the table now, right,

1735
01:28:17,360 --> 01:28:19,040
Speaker 2: especially when they go back to Denver.

1736
01:28:20,800 --> 01:28:25,200
Speaker 5: How raucous that crowd is, the altitude, and again just

1737
01:28:25,240 --> 01:28:27,760
Speaker 5: the amount of work that kd who, by the way,

1738
01:28:27,920 --> 01:28:31,439
Speaker 5: is still working himself back into shape. He missed time

1739
01:28:31,439 --> 01:28:34,360
Speaker 5: with the ankle injury and missed time before that, so

1740
01:28:34,439 --> 01:28:37,080
Speaker 5: I mean he hasn't had a solid, you know, twenty game.

1741
01:28:36,920 --> 01:28:40,720
Speaker 2: Run in months. Yeah, this is a lot for him.

1742
01:28:40,760 --> 01:28:42,960
Speaker 2: He came up small again eight.

1743
01:28:44,400 --> 01:28:44,639
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1744
01:28:45,880 --> 01:28:47,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's about doing nothing.

1745
01:28:48,520 --> 01:28:52,560
Speaker 5: He'll have those when there's peers. Yeah, and there's I

1746
01:28:52,600 --> 01:28:57,080
Speaker 5: mean there's used to a degree, but defensively yeah, yeah,

1747
01:28:57,160 --> 01:28:59,840
Speaker 5: but this is kind of where you have to hold

1748
01:28:59,880 --> 01:29:01,680
Speaker 5: your look. You look, you're going up against one of

1749
01:29:01,720 --> 01:29:03,320
Speaker 5: the best players in the league, and yo, kitch, I

1750
01:29:03,360 --> 01:29:06,519
Speaker 5: get it. But also make him work on the other end,

1751
01:29:06,880 --> 01:29:09,000
Speaker 5: try to be a defensive presence, which is what you

1752
01:29:09,000 --> 01:29:10,640
Speaker 5: were drafted for ghost.

1753
01:29:11,920 --> 01:29:14,160
Speaker 4: And you can't have that. That's the problem.

1754
01:29:14,400 --> 01:29:16,479
Speaker 5: No, they were able to, you know, to weather through

1755
01:29:16,520 --> 01:29:19,559
Speaker 5: it because you just had other worldly performances by Booker

1756
01:29:20,439 --> 01:29:20,840
Speaker 5: and Kad.

1757
01:29:22,160 --> 01:29:23,439
Speaker 4: But that's the issue.

1758
01:29:23,439 --> 01:29:25,240
Speaker 5: On a night in a night out basis, more often

1759
01:29:25,280 --> 01:29:27,120
Speaker 5: than not, you need all of their stars to.

1760
01:29:27,120 --> 01:29:30,480
Speaker 4: Hit and that's just not realistic.

1761
01:29:30,680 --> 01:29:36,080
Speaker 5: It's not so very short lived run for Phoenix, agree,

1762
01:29:36,200 --> 01:29:38,200
Speaker 5: But I don't know if I can say it's the

1763
01:29:38,200 --> 01:29:40,160
Speaker 5: emergence of a star. I mean, Devin Booker has had

1764
01:29:40,200 --> 01:29:41,880
Speaker 5: some great games, they went to the finals a couple

1765
01:29:41,920 --> 01:29:44,720
Speaker 5: of years ago, but I mean for these the individual

1766
01:29:44,760 --> 01:29:49,840
Speaker 5: performance he's put on in these playoffs is spectacular. Yeah,

1767
01:29:50,000 --> 01:29:53,719
Speaker 5: other world spectacular, completely spectacular for a guy that doesn't

1768
01:29:53,720 --> 01:29:55,120
Speaker 5: even shoot a lot of threes. You talk about like that,

1769
01:29:55,240 --> 01:29:57,679
Speaker 5: you know, not shooting threes and all that. He primarily

1770
01:29:57,800 --> 01:30:01,400
Speaker 5: kills you going to the basket and in the mid range. Yah, yeah,

1771
01:30:01,520 --> 01:30:03,120
Speaker 5: it's you've seen more of it.

1772
01:30:03,240 --> 01:30:05,960
Speaker 3: He goes in a basket. He's a beautiful player.

1773
01:30:06,040 --> 01:30:06,200
Speaker 1: Man.

1774
01:30:06,600 --> 01:30:09,879
Speaker 2: When he goes to the basket, he's just so fast,

1775
01:30:10,439 --> 01:30:15,320
Speaker 2: he's got such great body control he attacks. Wow, he's

1776
01:30:15,400 --> 01:30:19,000
Speaker 2: such a grow offensive player. Man, he is a beautiful player.

1777
01:30:18,840 --> 01:30:20,639
Speaker 5: And one of the beautiful, like one of the more

1778
01:30:20,680 --> 01:30:22,479
Speaker 5: beautiful jump shots you'll ever see.

1779
01:30:22,600 --> 01:30:24,439
Speaker 4: It's pure, it's all it is.

1780
01:30:25,120 --> 01:30:32,879
Speaker 2: It twinkles the net perfectly like that, that perfect rotation.

1781
01:30:33,960 --> 01:30:35,080
Speaker 4: It's beautiful. Man.

1782
01:30:35,160 --> 01:30:37,479
Speaker 3: He's just a shooted. He's a great shooter.

1783
01:30:38,439 --> 01:30:41,040
Speaker 2: Even even his you know, he made a couple a

1784
01:30:41,160 --> 01:30:43,439
Speaker 2: great dries Man where he was falling away from the

1785
01:30:43,520 --> 01:30:47,120
Speaker 2: basket and you're like, dude, how did he make that shot?

1786
01:30:47,800 --> 01:30:51,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's easily and I think without question if you

1787
01:30:51,120 --> 01:30:52,960
Speaker 5: ever want to argue before, like one of the he's

1788
01:30:53,080 --> 01:30:55,679
Speaker 5: at least top ten in the league at the moment

1789
01:30:55,800 --> 01:30:56,439
Speaker 5: and rising.

1790
01:30:58,120 --> 01:30:58,320
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1791
01:30:58,320 --> 01:31:00,759
Speaker 2: And he's a great kid too, by the way. Yeah,

1792
01:31:01,160 --> 01:31:05,160
Speaker 2: like great dude. Like he's just he's a highly routable guy.

1793
01:31:05,320 --> 01:31:07,880
Speaker 2: Like just in every which way. I do feel sorry

1794
01:31:07,880 --> 01:31:09,360
Speaker 2: for Chris Paul. I'm a Chris Paul.

1795
01:31:09,320 --> 01:31:11,280
Speaker 4: Fan, same and Chris was.

1796
01:31:11,520 --> 01:31:14,200
Speaker 5: He's polarizing for a lot of people. But you know,

1797
01:31:14,439 --> 01:31:17,040
Speaker 5: and you know, covering the Clippers a little bit out

1798
01:31:17,040 --> 01:31:21,439
Speaker 5: here and having very few interactions with him, but nice guy,

1799
01:31:21,640 --> 01:31:24,800
Speaker 5: family man, you know, works, works his tail off to

1800
01:31:24,920 --> 01:31:26,640
Speaker 5: be in shape and put himself and his team in

1801
01:31:26,640 --> 01:31:28,640
Speaker 5: a position to be able to win, and he just

1802
01:31:29,439 --> 01:31:31,920
Speaker 5: his body just fails him at the worst possible time

1803
01:31:32,080 --> 01:31:37,120
Speaker 5: in the playoffs. I know It's happened multiple times over

1804
01:31:37,160 --> 01:31:37,679
Speaker 5: his career.

1805
01:31:38,479 --> 01:31:39,240
Speaker 4: It's really sad.

1806
01:31:40,600 --> 01:31:42,880
Speaker 3: It is sad, dude. I think you're right on man,

1807
01:31:42,960 --> 01:31:44,000
Speaker 3: it's very sad.

1808
01:31:43,880 --> 01:31:46,320
Speaker 5: Because he's one of those guys whose legacy will be

1809
01:31:46,840 --> 01:31:49,720
Speaker 5: completely different if he just wins one ring.

1810
01:31:50,400 --> 01:31:55,679
Speaker 2: Oh my god, yes, if he wins one, just one oh,

1811
01:31:56,080 --> 01:31:57,200
Speaker 2: you know, forget about it.

1812
01:31:59,000 --> 01:32:01,320
Speaker 3: It would mean such a be such a big deal

1813
01:32:01,400 --> 01:32:01,720
Speaker 3: for him.

1814
01:32:01,760 --> 01:32:03,400
Speaker 4: I mean, his nickname is the point god.

1815
01:32:03,640 --> 01:32:05,080
Speaker 5: Like it's like they tell you he's already in the

1816
01:32:05,080 --> 01:32:08,719
Speaker 5: conversation of you know, one of the best quarterbacks point

1817
01:32:08,720 --> 01:32:11,280
Speaker 5: guards might as well be the same thing of all time.

1818
01:32:11,760 --> 01:32:13,599
Speaker 3: Could fruity and slip? Yeah, exactly.

1819
01:32:15,120 --> 01:32:17,160
Speaker 5: And for the majority of his career has been the

1820
01:32:17,160 --> 01:32:19,799
Speaker 5: head of the snake on a lot of really good teams,

1821
01:32:21,640 --> 01:32:23,760
Speaker 5: so it'd be and that would just be the one

1822
01:32:23,800 --> 01:32:27,560
Speaker 5: thing on his resume that's missing is the championship. And unfortunately,

1823
01:32:27,600 --> 01:32:29,439
Speaker 5: it doesn't look like he's gonna get it this year either.

1824
01:32:29,920 --> 01:32:33,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, and here's the other problem. The other problem.

1825
01:32:32,720 --> 01:32:37,479
Speaker 2: Is that they'll be the detractors that take him, that

1826
01:32:37,560 --> 01:32:39,080
Speaker 2: take the take away from him.

1827
01:32:39,280 --> 01:32:42,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, they'll say, you know, yeah, yep, they'll say he

1828
01:32:42,080 --> 01:32:44,000
Speaker 5: didn't win a championship, so it doesn't matter.

1829
01:32:44,479 --> 01:32:48,200
Speaker 2: Right, And they'll and they'll and that'll be even the

1830
01:32:48,280 --> 01:32:54,800
Speaker 2: bigger like staying on him because they're waiting to give

1831
01:32:54,840 --> 01:32:57,320
Speaker 2: you a stand. You know, there's a bigger blemish on him.

1832
01:32:57,560 --> 01:33:01,040
Speaker 2: It's different with hard Heart. It has been absolutely terrible

1833
01:33:01,120 --> 01:33:07,000
Speaker 2: at times in the playoffs, right and Chris Hardy, you go, hijo, dude,

1834
01:33:07,520 --> 01:33:10,639
Speaker 2: he came up small man like last night.

1835
01:33:11,120 --> 01:33:13,679
Speaker 4: He was invisible to.

1836
01:33:13,600 --> 01:33:15,960
Speaker 2: The point where I'm going, he looks like Tony from

1837
01:33:15,960 --> 01:33:20,080
Speaker 2: Blue Chips who got caught through thrown the game. I

1838
01:33:20,200 --> 01:33:24,200
Speaker 2: was like, boy shaving, dude, what are you doing? Where's

1839
01:33:24,240 --> 01:33:27,160
Speaker 2: those pants is going? I felt like I went back.

1840
01:33:27,200 --> 01:33:30,280
Speaker 2: I was rewatching it like Pete Bell and like the movie,

1841
01:33:30,280 --> 01:33:32,800
Speaker 2: like the character in the movie Nick Milty go wait

1842
01:33:32,800 --> 01:33:34,320
Speaker 2: a he second, what's he doing there?

1843
01:33:34,479 --> 01:33:35,479
Speaker 3: Why'd he throw that ball?

1844
01:33:36,840 --> 01:33:38,160
Speaker 4: What's he doing? What?

1845
01:33:38,880 --> 01:33:39,679
Speaker 3: Oh my god?

1846
01:33:40,800 --> 01:33:43,679
Speaker 5: And it was like the mark right by great and look,

1847
01:33:43,960 --> 01:33:48,400
Speaker 5: Harden's been a great player throughout his career, he'll be Yeah,

1848
01:33:48,600 --> 01:33:52,000
Speaker 5: but it's just like I juxtapoles his performance with Steph Curry.

1849
01:33:52,600 --> 01:33:55,360
Speaker 5: Like Steph was took twelve shots in Game two. The

1850
01:33:55,439 --> 01:33:58,280
Speaker 5: Lakers were crowding him, but he had twelve assists. He

1851
01:33:58,439 --> 01:34:00,839
Speaker 5: was moving the ball, kept him off as a decoy,

1852
01:34:00,880 --> 01:34:02,719
Speaker 5: as a threat. He could have gone off for forty

1853
01:34:02,760 --> 01:34:04,360
Speaker 5: and shot more, but he didn't. He did what was

1854
01:34:04,400 --> 01:34:07,000
Speaker 5: best for the team. If they take something away from you,

1855
01:34:07,040 --> 01:34:09,160
Speaker 5: a great player will find a way to get something else.

1856
01:34:09,840 --> 01:34:12,880
Speaker 5: So if you're Harden and you're three for fourteen, maybe

1857
01:34:12,920 --> 01:34:15,240
Speaker 5: you turn into a decoy and maybe you try to

1858
01:34:15,240 --> 01:34:17,120
Speaker 5: get some assists, and maybe you actually passed the ball

1859
01:34:17,200 --> 01:34:18,840
Speaker 5: to an open team. May not throw it into the

1860
01:34:18,840 --> 01:34:21,280
Speaker 5: eighty row. Change your focus.

1861
01:34:22,080 --> 01:34:22,559
Speaker 4: I don't know.

1862
01:34:24,280 --> 01:34:26,280
Speaker 2: Let me ask you a question, because one of the

1863
01:34:26,320 --> 01:34:30,960
Speaker 2: things I saw was Boston just played up on them

1864
01:34:31,240 --> 01:34:34,439
Speaker 2: right like David Game one. He had switches with bigs

1865
01:34:34,439 --> 01:34:36,640
Speaker 2: and was able to go around guys and he was

1866
01:34:36,680 --> 01:34:41,519
Speaker 2: able to get space to shoot over him. It's seven threes, right, yep.

1867
01:34:42,360 --> 01:34:47,240
Speaker 2: Now they're picking him up three quarter court. You're up

1868
01:34:47,320 --> 01:34:52,600
Speaker 2: in his grill and he can't. He's frustrated.

1869
01:34:52,560 --> 01:34:55,280
Speaker 5: You could see it, which is surprising that they would

1870
01:34:55,360 --> 01:34:58,080
Speaker 5: switch on him to begin with, because that's part of

1871
01:34:58,120 --> 01:35:00,120
Speaker 5: his game that he's kind of lost to. Hisn't have

1872
01:35:00,120 --> 01:35:02,639
Speaker 5: as quick a step as he used, right, So I mean,

1873
01:35:02,760 --> 01:35:04,679
Speaker 5: and you have any number of guys you can throw

1874
01:35:04,680 --> 01:35:09,880
Speaker 5: at them on any possession in Boston. So unfortunately for

1875
01:35:09,960 --> 01:35:12,000
Speaker 5: the Sixers, unless they find something else and you say

1876
01:35:12,040 --> 01:35:14,280
Speaker 5: about taking them off the ball, that might be their

1877
01:35:14,280 --> 01:35:17,840
Speaker 5: best strategy, because otherwise I would just man him up

1878
01:35:18,520 --> 01:35:20,479
Speaker 5: and force him. And by the way, another reason why

1879
01:35:20,479 --> 01:35:22,080
Speaker 5: he struggles in the playoffs is because a lot of

1880
01:35:22,080 --> 01:35:24,599
Speaker 5: those calls where he's baiting guys and pump faking and throwing,

1881
01:35:24,840 --> 01:35:27,760
Speaker 5: flailing all these shots, not getting those calls in the playoffs.

1882
01:35:28,520 --> 01:35:31,080
Speaker 5: So those games where you shoot, you know, you know,

1883
01:35:31,160 --> 01:35:33,960
Speaker 5: eight field goals and then twenty eight free throws, you're

1884
01:35:33,960 --> 01:35:35,920
Speaker 5: not getting those in the postseason and he hasn't. And

1885
01:35:35,960 --> 01:35:38,000
Speaker 5: that's been that's part of a big reason as any

1886
01:35:38,360 --> 01:35:40,320
Speaker 5: that he struggled in the playoffs over these this last

1887
01:35:40,360 --> 01:35:40,880
Speaker 5: decade or so.

1888
01:35:42,240 --> 01:35:43,360
Speaker 3: I agree, All right.

1889
01:35:43,320 --> 01:35:45,639
Speaker 2: Let's take quick t oh, we'll come back and we'll

1890
01:35:45,640 --> 01:35:50,799
Speaker 2: look at today's action. Because you got heat and Knicks,

1891
01:35:51,760 --> 01:35:57,360
Speaker 2: Lakers and Warriors. So two fun games in the playoffs.

1892
01:35:57,400 --> 01:36:00,439
Speaker 2: We'll get into that a little more. Football is well,

1893
01:36:00,479 --> 01:36:07,880
Speaker 2: where the fella's right here on Fox Sports Radio. Hang

1894
01:36:07,920 --> 01:36:11,840
Speaker 2: it out with you guys on this Derby day. People

1895
01:36:11,840 --> 01:36:14,800
Speaker 2: love the Derby Derby parties. You ever go to a

1896
01:36:14,800 --> 01:36:15,479
Speaker 2: Derby party?

1897
01:36:16,040 --> 01:36:20,400
Speaker 4: Fake? I have not you neither? Fig No, never been

1898
01:36:20,479 --> 01:36:23,599
Speaker 4: in the derby party? Yeah, not up my alley.

1899
01:36:24,040 --> 01:36:26,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, would you ever go do a little Mitch jullup

1900
01:36:26,360 --> 01:36:27,320
Speaker 3: in the big hat.

1901
01:36:28,160 --> 01:36:29,479
Speaker 4: I'd go to the Derby.

1902
01:36:29,600 --> 01:36:31,639
Speaker 5: I don't know if i'd go to a Derby party.

1903
01:36:32,160 --> 01:36:38,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, that's a whole world like that. It's

1904
01:36:38,400 --> 01:36:41,720
Speaker 2: a fascinating world. Yeah, it's a different planet. Yeah, it

1905
01:36:41,800 --> 01:36:45,599
Speaker 2: really is. It's really interesting. The I have a buddy

1906
01:36:45,640 --> 01:36:47,760
Speaker 2: of mine in fact, who he's going to be calling that, Well,

1907
01:36:47,920 --> 01:36:50,080
Speaker 2: he could come calling up at about thirty five minutes

1908
01:36:50,080 --> 01:36:52,759
Speaker 2: give us a pick and break down the derby. Dick Girardi.

1909
01:36:52,840 --> 01:36:55,960
Speaker 2: We always talked to Dick. He's a big racing guy.

1910
01:36:56,840 --> 01:36:59,200
Speaker 2: Good basketball, got to you. But he's been a horse

1911
01:36:59,280 --> 01:37:02,920
Speaker 2: racing journalist a long time. And he goes down and

1912
01:37:02,960 --> 01:37:06,160
Speaker 2: he actually he hangs with Rick Patino and there's a

1913
01:37:06,200 --> 01:37:12,240
Speaker 2: whole crowd of these private jets that fly in to

1914
01:37:12,240 --> 01:37:16,080
Speaker 2: to the Derby, right, and they fly in and there's

1915
01:37:16,120 --> 01:37:20,080
Speaker 2: all the wealth. They're all this at the the clubs

1916
01:37:20,160 --> 01:37:24,040
Speaker 2: and the all the whole thing, and they're all you know,

1917
01:37:24,080 --> 01:37:28,320
Speaker 2: they're all this like well dressed and the big parties

1918
01:37:28,400 --> 01:37:31,840
Speaker 2: and there's all the celebrities. Michael Jordan is a mainstay,

1919
01:37:32,160 --> 01:37:35,960
Speaker 2: and they all go And it's so fascinating, brother, because

1920
01:37:37,080 --> 01:37:41,080
Speaker 2: I've covered in my career, I was a sportswriter before

1921
01:37:41,640 --> 01:37:45,960
Speaker 2: being on the air. I've covered just about every major tournament.

1922
01:37:46,520 --> 01:37:49,080
Speaker 2: Never did European soccer, which I would love to do,

1923
01:37:49,960 --> 01:37:51,080
Speaker 2: and I've.

1924
01:37:50,920 --> 01:37:53,360
Speaker 4: Never done the Derby. Wow.

1925
01:37:53,640 --> 01:37:54,040
Speaker 8: And uh.

1926
01:37:54,240 --> 01:37:58,960
Speaker 2: And I always like, I can imagine it's more it's

1927
01:37:59,120 --> 01:38:03,000
Speaker 2: more cultural then it's sport, right.

1928
01:38:04,520 --> 01:38:05,599
Speaker 4: Sure seems like it.

1929
01:38:06,479 --> 01:38:08,479
Speaker 5: Because then there's also you have you have your small

1930
01:38:08,520 --> 01:38:11,040
Speaker 5: time you know, gamblers too, who will go to the

1931
01:38:11,120 --> 01:38:15,800
Speaker 5: racetrack on a random Wednesday at noon, you know, and

1932
01:38:16,000 --> 01:38:18,240
Speaker 5: bet on a couple of races too, and obviously they'll

1933
01:38:18,240 --> 01:38:21,479
Speaker 5: get into the bigger races for you know, there for

1934
01:38:21,520 --> 01:38:23,400
Speaker 5: a lot of people, it's something to do. It's a

1935
01:38:23,400 --> 01:38:25,200
Speaker 5: way to you know, put a couple of shekels and

1936
01:38:25,240 --> 01:38:27,720
Speaker 5: see what you can, you know, spend some time, chout out.

1937
01:38:27,760 --> 01:38:31,120
Speaker 5: Some people have a few drinks. So it's it's odd

1938
01:38:31,120 --> 01:38:34,320
Speaker 5: how there's just a dichotomy. There's like just a wide spectrum.

1939
01:38:34,360 --> 01:38:37,679
Speaker 5: On one end, to your point, you have the private

1940
01:38:37,760 --> 01:38:39,800
Speaker 5: jet crew, and then all the other end of the

1941
01:38:39,840 --> 01:38:43,320
Speaker 5: spectrum you just have your general, every day degenerate gambler

1942
01:38:43,320 --> 01:38:45,960
Speaker 5: that has you know, very little, little else to do.

1943
01:38:46,360 --> 01:38:48,200
Speaker 5: So it's like, oh, yeah, I'll go to the casino

1944
01:38:48,240 --> 01:38:49,400
Speaker 5: for a little bit and then I'll hop out and

1945
01:38:49,400 --> 01:38:51,040
Speaker 5: go over to the racetrack and see what I can do.

1946
01:38:51,320 --> 01:38:53,360
Speaker 2: And I was I did to show you today from

1947
01:38:54,000 --> 01:38:57,720
Speaker 2: a big this big restaurant, and inside the restaurant is

1948
01:38:57,720 --> 01:39:00,639
Speaker 2: a is a sports buck. It's a race and sports book.

1949
01:39:01,640 --> 01:39:04,720
Speaker 2: And there had to be I guess a bus came

1950
01:39:04,800 --> 01:39:09,519
Speaker 2: up or whatever it was, but there were scores of

1951
01:39:09,720 --> 01:39:14,320
Speaker 2: people standing in line waiting to place their Turby bets.

1952
01:39:15,160 --> 01:39:16,720
Speaker 2: And I guess yesterday was a big day for the

1953
01:39:16,800 --> 01:39:19,880
Speaker 2: Kentucky Oaks and a lot of people were there betting

1954
01:39:19,920 --> 01:39:22,479
Speaker 2: the Kentucky Oaks and it was just wild, like you know,

1955
01:39:22,520 --> 01:39:25,719
Speaker 2: they're all ready to row a lot of older people.

1956
01:39:26,000 --> 01:39:28,479
Speaker 4: Yep, you know, I'm not surprised by that.

1957
01:39:28,600 --> 01:39:31,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, interesting, I mean, I still don't even know how

1958
01:39:31,880 --> 01:39:35,080
Speaker 2: I You got people that are really good at handicapping

1959
01:39:35,120 --> 01:39:35,599
Speaker 2: and stuff.

1960
01:39:35,720 --> 01:39:37,719
Speaker 3: I don't know how you hand animals.

1961
01:39:37,720 --> 01:39:38,800
Speaker 4: I don't know how you figure it out.

1962
01:39:39,240 --> 01:39:44,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, beautiful people, man, I'm beautiful. Beautiful animals. I love horses,

1963
01:39:44,120 --> 01:39:44,880
Speaker 2: They're beautiful.

1964
01:39:44,960 --> 01:39:47,040
Speaker 4: But I don't know what do I know? Yeah?

1965
01:39:47,360 --> 01:39:49,320
Speaker 5: Like the insane part too, is like a lot of

1966
01:39:49,320 --> 01:39:52,960
Speaker 5: times they recognize when they're the star, you know, now,

1967
01:39:53,040 --> 01:39:54,920
Speaker 5: when it's time to turn it on, and they don't

1968
01:39:55,439 --> 01:39:57,000
Speaker 5: preeing for the cameras and all that.

1969
01:39:57,120 --> 01:39:59,840
Speaker 4: It's very interesting, it is, right, it really is.

1970
01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:02,960
Speaker 2: By the way, fellas brought to you by Discover at

1971
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1972
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1974
01:40:15,400 --> 01:40:18,720
Speaker 2: Discover dot com slash match. All right, well we'll be

1975
01:40:18,800 --> 01:40:23,160
Speaker 2: watching you and I will be watching who because Nick's

1976
01:40:23,280 --> 01:40:28,880
Speaker 2: Heat game three with that series shifting to Miami, and

1977
01:40:28,920 --> 01:40:35,960
Speaker 2: then Golden State Lakers tied one one shifting to La.

1978
01:40:36,520 --> 01:40:39,599
Speaker 2: So let's start with Nix and Heat. Looks like, Jimmy,

1979
01:40:39,640 --> 01:40:42,920
Speaker 2: you'll be back for Miami. You know you could see him.

1980
01:40:43,720 --> 01:40:47,880
Speaker 2: I think the Knicks are the better team. I think

1981
01:40:47,960 --> 01:40:52,640
Speaker 2: Jimmy plays otherworldly again off the sprained ankle, but I

1982
01:40:52,680 --> 01:40:53,920
Speaker 2: do think the knixture the better.

1983
01:40:54,040 --> 01:40:55,200
Speaker 3: I'm curious what you think.

1984
01:40:55,400 --> 01:40:57,639
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I didn't think that I would say that,

1985
01:40:58,280 --> 01:40:59,920
Speaker 5: But I also didn't think that either of these things

1986
01:41:00,120 --> 01:41:03,960
Speaker 5: be here. So but I agree, just from a top

1987
01:41:04,000 --> 01:41:08,000
Speaker 5: to bottom just the way that they play, I agree. Yeah,

1988
01:41:08,080 --> 01:41:10,240
Speaker 5: I think the Knicks are are a better team overall.

1989
01:41:10,360 --> 01:41:13,200
Speaker 5: And you know, not having Tyler Hero is a big

1990
01:41:13,240 --> 01:41:16,360
Speaker 5: loss for Miami. I just I struggle to find where

1991
01:41:16,360 --> 01:41:19,679
Speaker 5: they're gonna be able to score points other than from Jimmy.

1992
01:41:20,280 --> 01:41:23,120
Speaker 5: Bam will help you every now and then, but they

1993
01:41:23,200 --> 01:41:25,280
Speaker 5: just don't have a lot of offensive production from from

1994
01:41:25,280 --> 01:41:28,320
Speaker 5: a lot of guys. You know, I can't expect Max

1995
01:41:28,320 --> 01:41:30,519
Speaker 5: Strus to score, you know, twenty five points a night,

1996
01:41:30,920 --> 01:41:34,960
Speaker 5: you know, And the Knicks had such an advantage, you know,

1997
01:41:35,160 --> 01:41:37,839
Speaker 5: in the front court in the previous series against Cleveland,

1998
01:41:38,320 --> 01:41:39,960
Speaker 5: and you've seen a little bit of that here in

1999
01:41:39,960 --> 01:41:42,640
Speaker 5: this series too. Mitchell Robinson has been a revelation for them.

2000
01:41:42,680 --> 01:41:46,919
Speaker 5: This year has been amazing. So when you have Brunson

2001
01:41:46,960 --> 01:41:49,679
Speaker 5: who can go off offensively, and then Julius Rando back

2002
01:41:49,720 --> 01:41:51,160
Speaker 5: healthy and he could play.

2003
01:41:51,240 --> 01:41:53,280
Speaker 4: He playing played well the last game.

2004
01:41:53,320 --> 01:41:57,639
Speaker 5: It's it's it's it's tough sledding. It really is from Miami.

2005
01:41:58,360 --> 01:42:02,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know it's interesting because they Knicks haven't

2006
01:42:02,120 --> 01:42:05,080
Speaker 2: really played well. No, I mean even the game without Jimmy,

2007
01:42:05,240 --> 01:42:08,080
Speaker 2: they struggle and they need a big fourth quarter to

2008
01:42:08,120 --> 01:42:10,920
Speaker 2: win the game, which is odd to me. I mean,

2009
01:42:10,960 --> 01:42:15,080
Speaker 2: look at that too, like you mentioned it, right, Struce, Gabe, Vincent,

2010
01:42:15,880 --> 01:42:18,320
Speaker 2: Caleb Martin, Kevin Love.

2011
01:42:18,680 --> 01:42:20,439
Speaker 3: I mean, are you kidding me? With that team?

2012
01:42:20,600 --> 01:42:23,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, Bam is one thing, but I mean

2013
01:42:24,000 --> 01:42:26,840
Speaker 2: even with Jimmy and Bam out of Bayou, I mean

2014
01:42:26,960 --> 01:42:29,400
Speaker 2: you look at it, you go, how the hell is

2015
01:42:29,400 --> 01:42:33,519
Speaker 2: this team, you know, being able to play with the Knicks.

2016
01:42:33,960 --> 01:42:35,439
Speaker 2: I don't men, like you said, I don't think the

2017
01:42:35,520 --> 01:42:39,120
Speaker 2: Knicks are any special. I mean, you're a good team,

2018
01:42:39,400 --> 01:42:42,479
Speaker 2: but this Miami team is just really I did not

2019
01:42:42,560 --> 01:42:43,920
Speaker 2: expect this kind of run from them.

2020
01:42:44,080 --> 01:42:45,439
Speaker 4: Yeah, very blase.

2021
01:42:45,680 --> 01:42:48,559
Speaker 5: And then by the way, knocking out the the top

2022
01:42:48,600 --> 01:42:49,520
Speaker 5: seeded Bucks.

2023
01:42:49,240 --> 01:42:52,280
Speaker 4: In the first round with this unit amazing. I mean

2024
01:42:52,320 --> 01:42:53,040
Speaker 4: it's incredible.

2025
01:42:53,320 --> 01:42:55,720
Speaker 5: Yeah, really, so it's an incredible testament to Jimmy is

2026
01:42:55,720 --> 01:42:58,400
Speaker 5: a testament to Spoe and his coaching.

2027
01:42:58,520 --> 01:43:01,719
Speaker 4: Great coach he really is. It's a great, great coach. Now.

2028
01:43:02,479 --> 01:43:05,080
Speaker 5: So, uh, it's a very it's a it's a different

2029
01:43:05,120 --> 01:43:07,720
Speaker 5: type of entertaining series. It's a I know this. The

2030
01:43:07,760 --> 01:43:10,040
Speaker 5: scorers are a little bit higher, but I still see

2031
01:43:10,040 --> 01:43:13,160
Speaker 5: some remnants of the old of the old heat Knicks

2032
01:43:13,240 --> 01:43:15,960
Speaker 5: from the nineties that you had a front row seat

2033
01:43:16,280 --> 01:43:19,160
Speaker 5: to be able to witness many of those games in series. Yeah,

2034
01:43:19,439 --> 01:43:22,320
Speaker 5: two teams that are really physical, defensive minded head coaches,

2035
01:43:23,160 --> 01:43:30,000
Speaker 5: really tough, you know, get tough up front. It's I

2036
01:43:30,000 --> 01:43:32,240
Speaker 5: I personally, you know, some people love like the guys

2037
01:43:32,320 --> 01:43:34,799
Speaker 5: running up and down and shooting threes and nobody playing defense.

2038
01:43:35,360 --> 01:43:37,479
Speaker 5: I kind of like a series like this to be

2039
01:43:37,520 --> 01:43:40,120
Speaker 5: I too, I more fall on the side of this.

2040
01:43:40,200 --> 01:43:42,280
Speaker 5: It doesn't it doesn't have to be ugly beat them up,

2041
01:43:42,400 --> 01:43:44,800
Speaker 5: you know early two thousands where the final scores were

2042
01:43:44,840 --> 01:43:48,280
Speaker 5: like fifty eight to fifty two. But you know, teams

2043
01:43:48,280 --> 01:43:50,519
Speaker 5: that care about playing defense, that take pride in playing

2044
01:43:50,560 --> 01:43:52,320
Speaker 5: defense and are just really tough in the way that

2045
01:43:52,360 --> 01:43:52,880
Speaker 5: they're built.

2046
01:43:53,760 --> 01:43:55,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, I listen, I agree with you. I think the

2047
01:43:55,760 --> 01:43:57,680
Speaker 3: same thing. I look at it and I.

2048
01:43:58,120 --> 01:44:03,880
Speaker 2: Enjoy goodes like hard nose basketball where you're you're you're

2049
01:44:03,920 --> 01:44:07,760
Speaker 2: you're playing some defense like listen. I mean, I'm not

2050
01:44:07,800 --> 01:44:10,400
Speaker 2: taking anything away from Booker because I love Devin Booker.

2051
01:44:10,479 --> 01:44:13,559
Speaker 2: I thought he played one of the most amazing games

2052
01:44:13,560 --> 01:44:14,840
Speaker 2: you ever want to play.

2053
01:44:14,680 --> 01:44:16,320
Speaker 3: A right twenty out of twenty five.

2054
01:44:16,439 --> 01:44:16,679
Speaker 4: Yep.

2055
01:44:17,240 --> 01:44:21,200
Speaker 2: But let me just say this one caveat. It's not

2056
01:44:21,320 --> 01:44:23,679
Speaker 2: like that Devon team plays any kind of defense.

2057
01:44:24,760 --> 01:44:28,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, they've well they've been, they've been better since after

2058
01:44:28,240 --> 01:44:29,080
Speaker 5: the All Star break.

2059
01:44:29,120 --> 01:44:30,040
Speaker 4: They're still not great.

2060
01:44:30,920 --> 01:44:33,720
Speaker 5: Uh, they've been so good offensively, they just need to

2061
01:44:33,760 --> 01:44:36,960
Speaker 5: become like a half a moticum better on defense, uh,

2062
01:44:37,080 --> 01:44:39,000
Speaker 5: to really be to really really make a difference and

2063
01:44:39,040 --> 01:44:41,400
Speaker 5: be a threat. And I think they have so they're

2064
01:44:41,400 --> 01:44:42,920
Speaker 5: not as bad as they were to start the year.

2065
01:44:42,960 --> 01:44:44,680
Speaker 5: They're still not great, but I think they're good. I

2066
01:44:44,680 --> 01:44:47,160
Speaker 5: think they're I think good team. But they just played.

2067
01:44:47,160 --> 01:44:48,080
Speaker 4: No, they're not.

2068
01:44:48,000 --> 01:44:50,880
Speaker 5: Gonna lock you down. They don't have those those kind

2069
01:44:50,920 --> 01:44:51,880
Speaker 5: of players on their roster.

2070
01:44:51,920 --> 01:44:55,040
Speaker 4: They played no date whatever. I mean. So the looks

2071
01:44:55,040 --> 01:44:57,720
Speaker 4: that that Booker was getting, yeah, I.

2072
01:44:57,680 --> 01:44:59,600
Speaker 3: Mean, I mean, think about it.

2073
01:44:59,600 --> 01:45:03,439
Speaker 2: It's here Durant and nobody else and how do you

2074
01:45:03,560 --> 01:45:06,639
Speaker 2: allow the looks that he gets.

2075
01:45:06,960 --> 01:45:09,120
Speaker 5: Now, some of them were tough, I mean, and some

2076
01:45:09,160 --> 01:45:11,040
Speaker 5: of them are just chalking up to, you know, a

2077
01:45:11,040 --> 01:45:14,400
Speaker 5: great player just going off offensively because they have some

2078
01:45:14,439 --> 01:45:17,000
Speaker 5: solid individual defensive players. You know, Aaron Gordon is a

2079
01:45:17,000 --> 01:45:20,479
Speaker 5: solid perimeter defensive player as his Contavious Calwell, Pope and listen.

2080
01:45:20,760 --> 01:45:23,599
Speaker 2: I think Aaron Gordon played these hard out again. He

2081
01:45:23,760 --> 01:45:27,679
Speaker 2: has this whole series against Durant. Yeah, play it's hard

2082
01:45:27,680 --> 01:45:29,360
Speaker 2: out of it, but he's the only one who plays

2083
01:45:29,360 --> 01:45:29,880
Speaker 2: defensive the.

2084
01:45:30,000 --> 01:45:32,960
Speaker 5: Correct He and KCP are the only two pretty much.

2085
01:45:33,560 --> 01:45:35,320
Speaker 5: Now that's it. Two guys.

2086
01:45:35,640 --> 01:45:36,080
Speaker 4: Uh oh.

2087
01:45:36,120 --> 01:45:38,320
Speaker 5: By the way, before we move on to off of

2088
01:45:38,320 --> 01:45:40,559
Speaker 5: the Knicks and heat, props to RJ. Barrett, a guy

2089
01:45:40,600 --> 01:45:43,760
Speaker 5: who I was like, maybe a bust. He's been great

2090
01:45:43,800 --> 01:45:47,599
Speaker 5: for them, almost underratedly being been great for them. He's got,

2091
01:45:47,640 --> 01:45:49,920
Speaker 5: you know, twenty six and twenty five. I think the

2092
01:45:50,439 --> 01:45:52,880
Speaker 5: first couple of games of this series. Yes, was huge

2093
01:45:52,880 --> 01:45:55,200
Speaker 5: in the close out game against Cleveland with some big shots.

2094
01:45:55,760 --> 01:45:58,719
Speaker 5: So he's kind of unofficially turned into like the third

2095
01:45:58,760 --> 01:46:02,599
Speaker 5: guy behind runs In and Julius Randall and very as

2096
01:46:02,640 --> 01:46:06,240
Speaker 5: quietly as somebody in New York can be. He's turned

2097
01:46:06,240 --> 01:46:08,080
Speaker 5: out to have a really good postseason for them.

2098
01:46:08,400 --> 01:46:12,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great point, man. You're right, Big props

2099
01:46:12,920 --> 01:46:15,400
Speaker 2: to Barrett. I agree with you. Do me favorit, Hit

2100
01:46:15,439 --> 01:46:18,200
Speaker 2: us with some trending, and then we'll move on to the

2101
01:46:18,200 --> 01:46:20,479
Speaker 2: little Lakers Warriors.

2102
01:46:20,760 --> 01:46:24,320
Speaker 5: All right, Well, those Nuggets defense, as you mentioned, didn't

2103
01:46:24,360 --> 01:46:26,479
Speaker 5: really show up on Friday Night. Now, they do leave

2104
01:46:26,560 --> 01:46:29,360
Speaker 5: the series two games to one, but Phoenix picking up

2105
01:46:29,360 --> 01:46:31,840
Speaker 5: their first victory in this series with a one twenty

2106
01:46:31,840 --> 01:46:34,559
Speaker 5: one to one fourteen victory Friday Night. Devin Booker forty

2107
01:46:34,600 --> 01:46:38,120
Speaker 5: seven points and as we mentioned, Kevin Durant scored thirty nine.

2108
01:46:38,520 --> 01:46:41,639
Speaker 5: Nicolea Jokic did have a triple double in a losing

2109
01:46:41,720 --> 01:46:44,519
Speaker 5: effort for the Nuggets. Celtics lead the seventy six ers

2110
01:46:44,560 --> 01:46:46,360
Speaker 5: two games to one after a one fourteen to one

2111
01:46:46,400 --> 01:46:49,160
Speaker 5: oh two victory, Jason Tatum and Jyallen Brown combining to

2112
01:46:49,160 --> 01:46:50,120
Speaker 5: score fifty points.

2113
01:46:50,160 --> 01:46:50,479
Speaker 4: There.

2114
01:46:50,680 --> 01:46:52,960
Speaker 5: And baseball, the Padre snapped the Dodgers six game winning

2115
01:46:52,960 --> 01:46:56,280
Speaker 5: streak with a five to two victory over La Fernando

2116
01:46:56,360 --> 01:46:59,120
Speaker 5: Tatis Junior a couple of home runs off of Clayton Kershaw.

2117
01:46:59,360 --> 01:47:01,479
Speaker 5: You're on Alva As went deep for Houston. They snapped

2118
01:47:01,479 --> 01:47:03,920
Speaker 5: Seattle's four game win streak with the six to four victory.

2119
01:47:04,120 --> 01:47:06,439
Speaker 5: The Angels throwed four nothing in the eighth inning, they

2120
01:47:06,520 --> 01:47:08,720
Speaker 5: rallied for a five to four walk off victory over

2121
01:47:08,840 --> 01:47:11,400
Speaker 5: Texas in the tenth two home runs, including a grand

2122
01:47:11,400 --> 01:47:14,400
Speaker 5: slam for Anthony Santander as Baltimore roughed up Max Freed

2123
01:47:14,479 --> 01:47:15,920
Speaker 5: in Atlanta nine to four.

2124
01:47:16,000 --> 01:47:17,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't see that coming. Yeah, who did?

2125
01:47:17,880 --> 01:47:18,639
Speaker 3: He got rocked?

2126
01:47:18,760 --> 01:47:19,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, he did well.

2127
01:47:19,800 --> 01:47:22,360
Speaker 5: He had a couple of bad errors too, didn't help

2128
01:47:22,400 --> 01:47:24,360
Speaker 5: his own calls. He was mad himself after the Game's

2129
01:47:24,439 --> 01:47:26,360
Speaker 5: and I'm going to remember this, this will never happen again.

2130
01:47:26,479 --> 01:47:27,800
Speaker 4: He's like, well, you're a.

2131
01:47:27,760 --> 01:47:29,479
Speaker 5: Pretty young dude. I don't know if I want to

2132
01:47:29,520 --> 01:47:30,960
Speaker 5: throw that out there. I mean, things happen. You have

2133
01:47:31,000 --> 01:47:33,719
Speaker 5: a bad game, here are there. By the way, Baltimore

2134
01:47:33,760 --> 01:47:36,800
Speaker 5: has been spectacular this year. Break up the O's, the

2135
01:47:36,880 --> 01:47:40,360
Speaker 5: O's and the and the Buccos. Yes, the O's, the

2136
01:47:40,400 --> 01:47:43,799
Speaker 5: Pirates have been amazing. And by the way, one again.

2137
01:47:44,280 --> 01:47:45,880
Speaker 4: Friday night, too ridiculous.

2138
01:47:46,280 --> 01:47:48,240
Speaker 5: And then one game in the NHL, a six to

2139
01:47:48,240 --> 01:47:51,120
Speaker 5: one victory for Carolina. Scored four goals in the second period.

2140
01:47:51,479 --> 01:47:53,799
Speaker 5: They have a two to nothing lead over the Devils

2141
01:47:53,960 --> 01:47:54,880
Speaker 5: in their semi finals.

2142
01:47:54,920 --> 01:47:58,360
Speaker 2: How about that kid de goalie Schultz, who was supposed

2143
01:47:58,400 --> 01:47:59,960
Speaker 2: to be you know it was all that play.

2144
01:48:00,040 --> 01:48:04,240
Speaker 5: He's so great, you know, it takes one game for

2145
01:48:04,360 --> 01:48:06,080
Speaker 5: the ravitation to change it, for he to fall, for

2146
01:48:06,200 --> 01:48:07,200
Speaker 5: it to fall fall apart.

2147
01:48:07,720 --> 01:48:10,759
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, that's.

2148
01:48:13,320 --> 01:48:16,719
Speaker 2: He got pulled. You got Schmidt pulled the game. Yeah,

2149
01:48:18,240 --> 01:48:20,240
Speaker 2: it's two games in a row. You pull the rookie

2150
01:48:20,840 --> 01:48:24,840
Speaker 2: and he Schmid's big, he's big, he's quick, and man,

2151
01:48:26,520 --> 01:48:27,280
Speaker 2: I don't know, what do you do?

2152
01:48:27,320 --> 01:48:28,040
Speaker 4: You go back to him.

2153
01:48:29,000 --> 01:48:31,280
Speaker 5: I mean, he's been so good so far thus far,

2154
01:48:31,560 --> 01:48:33,880
Speaker 5: I mean you to go home, So maybe you bring

2155
01:48:33,960 --> 01:48:36,280
Speaker 5: him back home. I don't know how to games you

2156
01:48:36,320 --> 01:48:39,640
Speaker 5: get shelled. Yeah, and it's rare that you have a

2157
01:48:39,680 --> 01:48:41,479
Speaker 5: short leash on a guy when you put him out

2158
01:48:41,479 --> 01:48:43,840
Speaker 5: there to start, Like you go down two goals in the.

2159
01:48:43,760 --> 01:48:47,400
Speaker 2: First goalie like one time. All right, but you want

2160
01:48:47,400 --> 01:48:49,519
Speaker 2: to get into that pull the goalie thing because then

2161
01:48:49,560 --> 01:48:50,640
Speaker 2: they really get screwed up.

2162
01:48:50,960 --> 01:48:53,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a that's a tough spot to be in.

2163
01:48:54,000 --> 01:48:57,320
Speaker 5: So I would probably go back to him, try to

2164
01:48:57,360 --> 01:49:01,120
Speaker 5: show some confidence in him. But I will certainly understand

2165
01:49:01,160 --> 01:49:02,720
Speaker 5: if they if they wanted to try to change it

2166
01:49:02,760 --> 01:49:04,080
Speaker 5: up a little bit, because, like I said, you're already

2167
01:49:04,120 --> 01:49:06,880
Speaker 5: down to well, you're you're in must win territory. Now

2168
01:49:07,320 --> 01:49:10,640
Speaker 5: you can't take his people's feelings don't matter at this point.

2169
01:49:10,880 --> 01:49:13,280
Speaker 2: No, I but you just need if you're gonna get

2170
01:49:13,320 --> 01:49:18,000
Speaker 2: past the series. Yeah, you know, I mean, I guess

2171
01:49:18,000 --> 01:49:19,920
Speaker 2: you gotta cut, you gotta come back. We come back

2172
01:49:19,920 --> 01:49:22,599
Speaker 2: with him at home, and you see what he's got.

2173
01:49:22,760 --> 01:49:24,960
Speaker 4: These guys are so fragile too.

2174
01:49:25,200 --> 01:49:27,280
Speaker 5: Like you just wonder if he's he's had such a

2175
01:49:27,280 --> 01:49:29,920
Speaker 5: great year, if you put him out there, he gets

2176
01:49:29,920 --> 01:49:32,640
Speaker 5: shelled again, if it destroys his confidence. We see this

2177
01:49:32,680 --> 01:49:36,200
Speaker 5: happen with pitchers in baseball. They'll have a phenomenon. Remember

2178
01:49:36,240 --> 01:49:38,720
Speaker 5: Brad Lidge, He well he came back in winn of

2179
01:49:38,720 --> 01:49:41,880
Speaker 5: World Series at the Phillies. But before that, uh, well,

2180
01:49:41,920 --> 01:49:44,080
Speaker 5: he was with Houston. He gave up that tower ring

2181
01:49:44,080 --> 01:49:47,479
Speaker 5: shot to Albert Poohols and the NLCS all those evers ago, yep,

2182
01:49:47,600 --> 01:49:50,240
Speaker 5: and he wasn't the same for like four years. It

2183
01:49:50,360 --> 01:49:53,400
Speaker 5: was terrible for like four years, and then finally revived

2184
01:49:53,400 --> 01:49:55,080
Speaker 5: his career and came back with the Phillies and was.

2185
01:49:55,080 --> 01:49:58,000
Speaker 4: Good, but I mean funny, this nuts.

2186
01:49:58,000 --> 01:49:58,280
Speaker 8: It was.

2187
01:49:58,680 --> 01:50:03,559
Speaker 2: He comes back, has a which perfect and save opportunities right,

2188
01:50:03,600 --> 01:50:06,519
Speaker 2: perfect the whole season, they win a World Series. The

2189
01:50:06,680 --> 01:50:10,400
Speaker 2: next year he's terrible, right, and he just can't get

2190
01:50:10,400 --> 01:50:11,040
Speaker 2: anybody out.

2191
01:50:11,760 --> 01:50:15,960
Speaker 5: That happens with goalies. I remember covering John Sebastian Jaguar

2192
01:50:16,080 --> 01:50:20,519
Speaker 5: with the Ducks years ago and had a great run

2193
01:50:20,560 --> 01:50:23,160
Speaker 5: in the postseason, made a couple of great, good runs

2194
01:50:23,200 --> 01:50:25,080
Speaker 5: in the postseason and then just fell off the face.

2195
01:50:24,880 --> 01:50:25,280
Speaker 3: Of the earth.

2196
01:50:26,240 --> 01:50:30,759
Speaker 4: It was just terrible after that. Yeah, it was really weird. Jiggy, Yeah,

2197
01:50:30,880 --> 01:50:32,400
Speaker 4: I remember that. Its nuts.

2198
01:50:32,640 --> 01:50:36,840
Speaker 2: They're like kickers too, though they are leave pictures goalies

2199
01:50:37,040 --> 01:50:41,040
Speaker 2: kickers like guy you get guys you can candle, candle, cantling,

2200
01:50:41,840 --> 01:50:44,160
Speaker 2: and then and then for some reason they go off

2201
01:50:44,160 --> 01:50:45,320
Speaker 2: the reservation.

2202
01:50:46,200 --> 01:50:49,040
Speaker 5: They just they lose their confidence at times and they

2203
01:50:49,120 --> 01:50:50,320
Speaker 5: just can't you know.

2204
01:50:50,439 --> 01:50:50,920
Speaker 4: I had uh.

2205
01:50:51,520 --> 01:50:53,960
Speaker 5: We talked to h to Steve Sachs, the former Great

2206
01:50:54,000 --> 01:50:57,280
Speaker 5: Dodger earlier this week a local on our local show,

2207
01:50:57,680 --> 01:50:59,320
Speaker 5: and talked about you know, when he when he couldn't

2208
01:50:59,360 --> 01:51:01,960
Speaker 5: throw the first base, yeah, and that whole issue that

2209
01:51:02,000 --> 01:51:05,240
Speaker 5: he had and he was like there was nothing physically wrong.

2210
01:51:05,840 --> 01:51:07,599
Speaker 5: I just had a loss of confidence as I saw

2211
01:51:07,640 --> 01:51:09,439
Speaker 5: all these therapists and all these other people. It was

2212
01:51:09,720 --> 01:51:11,519
Speaker 5: ultimately I just arrived to the fact that I just

2213
01:51:11,600 --> 01:51:14,800
Speaker 5: lost confidence, Like you have to find a way to

2214
01:51:14,960 --> 01:51:16,880
Speaker 5: you know, dig down deep and get it back. And

2215
01:51:16,920 --> 01:51:19,360
Speaker 5: then ultimately I went from you know, not being able

2216
01:51:19,400 --> 01:51:21,400
Speaker 5: to throw throw to first base to winning the Gold

2217
01:51:21,400 --> 01:51:23,759
Speaker 5: Glove or having the best fielding percentage in the American

2218
01:51:23,840 --> 01:51:26,360
Speaker 5: League when I went to the Yankees. So these guys

2219
01:51:26,360 --> 01:51:29,000
Speaker 5: can turn things around. I think it's just different methods

2220
01:51:29,000 --> 01:51:29,719
Speaker 5: for different people.

2221
01:51:29,880 --> 01:51:30,360
Speaker 4: It's weird.

2222
01:51:31,040 --> 01:51:34,519
Speaker 2: It is it is. I I listen to your spot on.

2223
01:51:35,560 --> 01:51:41,519
Speaker 2: So let's discuss this Game three in Los Angeles. First

2224
01:51:41,520 --> 01:51:45,040
Speaker 2: of all, what's the mindset. I'm curious what's the mindset

2225
01:51:45,040 --> 01:51:45,960
Speaker 2: in LA right now.

2226
01:51:47,520 --> 01:51:52,080
Speaker 5: I wouldn't say Laker fans are happy, but I look,

2227
01:51:52,120 --> 01:51:53,599
Speaker 5: I'll say that I think they were surprised that they

2228
01:51:53,640 --> 01:51:55,719
Speaker 5: actually won Game one and the way that it went.

2229
01:51:56,040 --> 01:51:58,160
Speaker 5: I think many people were expecting Golden State to come

2230
01:51:58,200 --> 01:51:59,640
Speaker 5: out and take Game one. And if they like, if

2231
01:51:59,680 --> 01:52:01,320
Speaker 5: the Laker we're gonna have a shot to win one,

2232
01:52:01,880 --> 01:52:04,400
Speaker 5: maybe it be two. The advantage the Lakers did have

2233
01:52:04,479 --> 01:52:06,080
Speaker 5: I will say going into Game one is they had

2234
01:52:06,160 --> 01:52:09,679
Speaker 5: extra rest, so they had an additional day while Golden

2235
01:52:09,720 --> 01:52:12,840
Speaker 5: State had to play Sacramento for Game seven. So at

2236
01:52:12,920 --> 01:52:15,600
Speaker 5: least they had that working in their favor. But I

2237
01:52:15,600 --> 01:52:18,320
Speaker 5: think the Laker fans are actually confident. To actually see

2238
01:52:18,320 --> 01:52:22,400
Speaker 5: them get a victory in Golden State in a playoff

2239
01:52:22,400 --> 01:52:25,760
Speaker 5: game was very inspiring for fans. So they know that

2240
01:52:25,760 --> 01:52:28,120
Speaker 5: the Lakers can't do it. It's just a matter of

2241
01:52:28,200 --> 01:52:29,760
Speaker 5: them finding a way to get back at it in

2242
01:52:29,800 --> 01:52:33,040
Speaker 5: Game three. So the interesting thing is how the Lakers

2243
01:52:33,080 --> 01:52:36,439
Speaker 5: adjust to what the Warriors did in Game two. We

2244
01:52:36,560 --> 01:52:39,320
Speaker 5: know what the Warriors did. They pulled Looney out of

2245
01:52:39,320 --> 01:52:41,599
Speaker 5: the starting lineup. Maybe it was health related. I think

2246
01:52:41,640 --> 01:52:44,479
Speaker 5: they were gonna do it anyway for Jamichael Green or

2247
01:52:44,520 --> 01:52:47,599
Speaker 5: somebody that can bring Anthony Davis away from the basket

2248
01:52:47,640 --> 01:52:49,800
Speaker 5: and make them respect them. So, now what do the

2249
01:52:49,880 --> 01:52:53,479
Speaker 5: Lakers do to adjust to the Warriors adjustment will be

2250
01:52:53,520 --> 01:52:55,200
Speaker 5: the story in Game three coming up tonight.

2251
01:52:56,680 --> 01:52:57,919
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be interesting.

2252
01:52:59,479 --> 01:53:02,200
Speaker 2: I'm kind of looking I'm kind of looking at it.

2253
01:53:02,439 --> 01:53:06,400
Speaker 2: Who's still well? Kind of who steps up in your mind,

2254
01:53:07,280 --> 01:53:09,479
Speaker 2: you know, other than they we talked about it earlier

2255
01:53:09,479 --> 01:53:11,799
Speaker 2: about curious. I want you to talk about D'Angel Russell.

2256
01:53:11,800 --> 01:53:14,000
Speaker 2: I'm going to lead you back into it that you

2257
01:53:14,120 --> 01:53:17,000
Speaker 2: said D'Angel Russell has to be the guy obvious other

2258
01:53:17,040 --> 01:53:20,960
Speaker 2: than the obvious, which is Anthony Davis. But that D'Angelo

2259
01:53:21,080 --> 01:53:26,040
Speaker 2: Russell for the Lakers, they fare so much better when

2260
01:53:26,120 --> 01:53:27,040
Speaker 2: he's playing well.

2261
01:53:27,479 --> 01:53:29,680
Speaker 5: They do because it's another person that you have to

2262
01:53:29,720 --> 01:53:32,400
Speaker 5: account for, that the that the defense has to you know,

2263
01:53:32,760 --> 01:53:35,280
Speaker 5: basically focus in on. And then when he's going, it

2264
01:53:35,320 --> 01:53:37,920
Speaker 5: opens things up, and then he becomes a better passer.

2265
01:53:37,960 --> 01:53:40,120
Speaker 5: He's already a good passor he becomes a better passer

2266
01:53:40,479 --> 01:53:44,360
Speaker 5: when he's aggressive and he's actually making his shots. So

2267
01:53:44,360 --> 01:53:46,040
Speaker 5: so that I think he's the big key for them,

2268
01:53:46,200 --> 01:53:49,200
Speaker 5: And honestly, I think Lebron James too, Like Lebron James

2269
01:53:49,200 --> 01:53:51,479
Speaker 5: was efficient in Game two. The good thing for the

2270
01:53:51,520 --> 01:53:54,680
Speaker 5: Lakers too, I guess it was probably even more advantageous

2271
01:53:54,680 --> 01:53:57,519
Speaker 5: for them that they got blown out because those guys

2272
01:53:57,520 --> 01:54:00,439
Speaker 5: didn't play in the fourth quarter. So you know, Lebron

2273
01:54:00,479 --> 01:54:02,880
Speaker 5: played twenty eight minutes, Anthony Davis played I think just

2274
01:54:02,960 --> 01:54:06,559
Speaker 5: over thirty minutes, So I mean they those guys got

2275
01:54:06,560 --> 01:54:09,000
Speaker 5: a little bit of extra rest, So it's almost as

2276
01:54:09,000 --> 01:54:10,760
Speaker 5: if you were going to lose, you would probably rather

2277
01:54:10,800 --> 01:54:13,000
Speaker 5: lose that way than lose on a buzzer beater or something.

2278
01:54:13,000 --> 01:54:15,920
Speaker 5: Where these guys played forty plus minutes, so they kind

2279
01:54:15,960 --> 01:54:17,880
Speaker 5: of have that to lean on too. What I would

2280
01:54:17,880 --> 01:54:19,160
Speaker 5: do if all other the Lakers, I would try to

2281
01:54:19,160 --> 01:54:21,080
Speaker 5: find a way to attack lay Thompson and force him

2282
01:54:21,080 --> 01:54:23,840
Speaker 5: to play defense. He's not the same defender he was

2283
01:54:23,920 --> 01:54:26,840
Speaker 5: three years ago before the knee and the ACL injury.

2284
01:54:26,920 --> 01:54:29,640
Speaker 5: He's not He's not a sief. He's not terrible, But

2285
01:54:29,800 --> 01:54:32,400
Speaker 5: I mean there was a couple of sequences the other

2286
01:54:32,520 --> 01:54:35,440
Speaker 5: night where he guarded Lebron James Lebron was backing him

2287
01:54:35,480 --> 01:54:37,120
Speaker 5: down and he faded away, and I said, why would

2288
01:54:37,160 --> 01:54:37,680
Speaker 5: you fade away?

2289
01:54:37,720 --> 01:54:39,760
Speaker 4: Attack him? Force him to play defense?

2290
01:54:42,880 --> 01:54:45,200
Speaker 5: Spot on that, And the best way to take an

2291
01:54:45,200 --> 01:54:46,960
Speaker 5: offensive player out of the game is to keep him

2292
01:54:46,960 --> 01:54:49,360
Speaker 5: in foul trouble. By the way, another reason that Steph

2293
01:54:49,400 --> 01:54:51,200
Speaker 5: Curry wasn't really in the game as much. And look,

2294
01:54:51,240 --> 01:54:52,960
Speaker 5: he still scored twenty points in at twelve assists, but

2295
01:54:53,080 --> 01:54:54,960
Speaker 5: he was in foul trouble. I think he had three,

2296
01:54:55,320 --> 01:54:59,160
Speaker 5: three or four fouls at halftime. Yeah, yeah, you know so,

2297
01:54:59,200 --> 01:55:01,360
Speaker 5: I think the one of the best things the Lakers

2298
01:55:01,360 --> 01:55:03,720
Speaker 5: could do was find a way to try to get

2299
01:55:03,800 --> 01:55:06,480
Speaker 5: Klay Thompson and pick and rolls and attack him offensively

2300
01:55:06,840 --> 01:55:08,200
Speaker 5: and try to see if they can pick up some

2301
01:55:08,200 --> 01:55:10,040
Speaker 5: fouls on him. And that would I think that would

2302
01:55:10,200 --> 01:55:11,440
Speaker 5: that would work in their favorite too.

2303
01:55:12,360 --> 01:55:16,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, spot on. All right, let's say quick t o.

2304
01:55:16,320 --> 01:55:17,120
Speaker 4: We'll come right back.

2305
01:55:17,160 --> 01:55:21,520
Speaker 2: We'll continue kind of susten this one out Fellas right

2306
01:55:21,560 --> 01:55:29,920
Speaker 2: here on Fox Sports. Welcome back Fellas. He's Kevin Figures.

2307
01:55:29,960 --> 01:55:33,960
Speaker 2: I'm Anthony Gargano, IM Cauz. He's figure. We got my man,

2308
01:55:34,040 --> 01:55:39,760
Speaker 2: Mighty Mark Chicago. Mark is our fine engineer and the

2309
01:55:39,840 --> 01:55:47,360
Speaker 2: big e Ethan, who is my compatriot from Philly. E.

2310
01:55:48,120 --> 01:55:52,960
Speaker 4: Hey, feeling me. You're quiet, you alive? Feeling pretty good?

2311
01:55:53,800 --> 01:55:54,160
Speaker 3: You are?

2312
01:55:54,560 --> 01:55:59,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, just another Saturday morning with the boys, feeling.

2313
01:55:59,000 --> 01:56:01,600
Speaker 3: Good, good about trying to be positive.

2314
01:56:01,840 --> 01:56:04,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm just trying to be this morning. Positivity in

2315
01:56:04,880 --> 01:56:08,360
Speaker 4: the mist. I gotta bust the Stones cause wants nothing

2316
01:56:08,360 --> 01:56:10,040
Speaker 4: to do with positivity. I understand.

2317
01:56:10,080 --> 01:56:13,440
Speaker 3: No, not today. I mean, the game's only hours old.

2318
01:56:13,720 --> 01:56:14,200
Speaker 4: I got it.

2319
01:56:14,360 --> 01:56:17,400
Speaker 2: I watched I watched James Harden. I'm looking at him like,

2320
01:56:17,480 --> 01:56:20,600
Speaker 2: who was that guy? Oh, it's James Harden. Playoff.

2321
01:56:21,000 --> 01:56:24,200
Speaker 4: It's playoff James. Hopefully we get a bounce back.

2322
01:56:25,680 --> 01:56:27,880
Speaker 2: Cooluse you got to go back to a cookie monster outfit?

2323
01:56:27,960 --> 01:56:31,160
Speaker 2: He at all pre game? Come on, bro, I.

2324
01:56:31,200 --> 01:56:32,600
Speaker 5: Like, you know, like Lebron had to tweet it for

2325
01:56:32,720 --> 01:56:34,880
Speaker 5: years ago when he said playoff mode activated and turn

2326
01:56:34,960 --> 01:56:36,800
Speaker 5: it off for the playoffs. Same thing for James Harden.

2327
01:56:37,240 --> 01:56:40,240
Speaker 5: Playoff mode activated. Here I go, shooting twenty nine percent

2328
01:56:40,240 --> 01:56:42,200
Speaker 5: from the field in eight turnovers.

2329
01:56:42,240 --> 01:56:43,840
Speaker 4: There you go. You're welcome, Philly.

2330
01:56:44,520 --> 01:56:48,520
Speaker 3: Oh I can cry you like that.

2331
01:56:50,120 --> 01:56:50,720
Speaker 4: I love it.

2332
01:56:56,680 --> 01:57:00,320
Speaker 2: And to make matters worse, you you're a you'reorry about

2333
01:57:00,320 --> 01:57:02,000
Speaker 2: the Phillies. I go, dude, I can't worry about the

2334
01:57:02,040 --> 01:57:05,360
Speaker 2: Phillies right now. I can't worry about Baseball's You never

2335
01:57:05,360 --> 01:57:09,520
Speaker 2: worry about baseball in May, especially early May, right, fake?

2336
01:57:09,960 --> 01:57:12,240
Speaker 5: No, I mean unless you're like, you know, the White

2337
01:57:12,280 --> 01:57:14,480
Speaker 5: Sox and have like eleven wins and twenty eight losses

2338
01:57:14,560 --> 01:57:15,200
Speaker 5: or whatever it is.

2339
01:57:16,880 --> 01:57:20,000
Speaker 2: You know what, I don't understand what happened to them?

2340
01:57:20,520 --> 01:57:23,400
Speaker 2: They went sideways? Fat White Sox, Right?

2341
01:57:25,520 --> 01:57:26,160
Speaker 4: I like that.

2342
01:57:26,240 --> 01:57:28,960
Speaker 2: I like the White sop I'm like, I'm looking at them,

2343
01:57:29,000 --> 01:57:30,720
Speaker 2: and it just went sideways.

2344
01:57:30,240 --> 01:57:32,400
Speaker 5: And before so before the south Side comes after me

2345
01:57:32,480 --> 01:57:33,400
Speaker 5: eleven and twenty two.

2346
01:57:33,480 --> 01:57:36,000
Speaker 4: I embellished a little bit. Still not a great start.

2347
01:57:36,360 --> 01:57:39,920
Speaker 2: No, really disappointed, to be honest with you, and what

2348
01:57:39,960 --> 01:57:40,879
Speaker 2: happened to you, Alito?

2349
01:57:41,960 --> 01:57:45,440
Speaker 5: I talk about pictures falling off? Yeah, my god, and

2350
01:57:45,480 --> 01:57:47,400
Speaker 5: they're line up. But I thought their lineup was going

2351
01:57:47,480 --> 01:57:50,680
Speaker 5: to be good or at least solid. Thought they'd be

2352
01:57:50,720 --> 01:57:53,000
Speaker 5: you know, hold their own a little, right.

2353
01:57:53,240 --> 01:57:55,480
Speaker 4: I thought that. I didn't have super high expectations for him,

2354
01:57:55,520 --> 01:57:56,160
Speaker 4: to be honest, but.

2355
01:57:56,560 --> 01:57:58,800
Speaker 3: I like their lineup. I thought their lineup would be good.

2356
01:57:59,000 --> 01:58:01,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't think I didn't. I certainly didn't think

2357
01:58:01,080 --> 01:58:01,920
Speaker 4: they'd be this bad.

2358
01:58:03,080 --> 01:58:06,920
Speaker 2: My god, but it's but it is crazy. I mean,

2359
01:58:07,080 --> 01:58:09,720
Speaker 2: just look when you look at the al East, which

2360
01:58:09,760 --> 01:58:14,600
Speaker 2: is an awesome division by the way, because everybody's above

2361
01:58:14,680 --> 01:58:18,440
Speaker 2: five hundred, the Rays are just lapping the field twenty

2362
01:58:18,520 --> 01:58:20,760
Speaker 2: seven and six and you're just a blast to watch.

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01:58:22,320 --> 01:58:25,760
Speaker 3: Wander Froco. How about that? That play was awesome?

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01:58:25,880 --> 01:58:27,400
Speaker 4: Yeah?

2365
01:58:27,600 --> 01:58:29,200
Speaker 3: Could people really complain about that?

2366
01:58:30,520 --> 01:58:30,800
Speaker 4: Yeah?

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01:58:30,880 --> 01:58:35,360
Speaker 5: I mean it was unnecessary, wasn't it. I loved it

2368
01:58:35,640 --> 01:58:37,800
Speaker 5: so well, that's the thing. So I will say the

2369
01:58:37,880 --> 01:58:40,200
Speaker 5: old folky's are like you show off, you were like

2370
01:58:40,320 --> 01:58:42,680
Speaker 5: word and then part of me in that situation I

2371
01:58:42,760 --> 01:58:45,480
Speaker 5: kind of understand it. Did I have a large issue

2372
01:58:45,480 --> 01:58:48,839
Speaker 5: with it? No, but it was definitely unnecessary.

2373
01:58:48,800 --> 01:58:52,320
Speaker 2: One minute, I guess, I don't know. I yeah, it

2374
01:58:52,320 --> 01:58:55,240
Speaker 2: was it unnecessary. I agree with you, but I loved it.

2375
01:58:55,360 --> 01:58:56,800
Speaker 2: I'll be honest with if you could do it, you

2376
01:58:56,880 --> 01:59:00,480
Speaker 2: got flair? Sure, I mean, roll with a baby. I'll

2377
01:59:00,480 --> 01:59:02,840
Speaker 2: bring some flair to the game. Randia rose Arena, I

2378
01:59:02,920 --> 01:59:03,520
Speaker 2: love you know.

2379
01:59:03,640 --> 01:59:06,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got to tell you. I love those Rays. Yeah,

2380
01:59:06,920 --> 01:59:07,520
Speaker 4: they're fun.

2381
01:59:07,560 --> 01:59:09,840
Speaker 5: They're super fun to watch, I will say, by the way,

2382
01:59:09,920 --> 01:59:11,160
Speaker 5: and I like the Orioles too.

2383
01:59:11,320 --> 01:59:12,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, Baltimore is great.

2384
01:59:12,520 --> 01:59:14,840
Speaker 5: But I will second Brian Cashman, like, can we not

2385
01:59:15,080 --> 01:59:17,840
Speaker 5: write the Yankees off thirty games into the season or

2386
01:59:17,880 --> 01:59:19,960
Speaker 5: whatever it is? What all the injuries they have? Can

2387
01:59:20,000 --> 01:59:21,720
Speaker 5: we stop saying the Yankees are dead?

2388
01:59:21,960 --> 01:59:25,200
Speaker 2: Except here's the one problem with them is that that's

2389
01:59:25,240 --> 01:59:27,920
Speaker 2: a long climb in a really good division.

2390
01:59:27,920 --> 01:59:29,879
Speaker 4: Like I didn't see the Red Sox at twenty and fourteen.

2391
01:59:29,960 --> 01:59:31,880
Speaker 5: No, and they've been hot recently too. They said they

2392
01:59:32,000 --> 01:59:33,720
Speaker 5: need to climb the last two weeks.

2393
01:59:33,640 --> 01:59:34,760
Speaker 3: Because I like the Jays.

2394
01:59:34,840 --> 01:59:38,160
Speaker 2: I think the J's are dasty, are good. I mean

2395
01:59:38,160 --> 01:59:41,600
Speaker 2: they're nineteen to fourteen, right right, you know? Yeah, all right,

2396
01:59:41,880 --> 01:59:46,320
Speaker 2: big hour of betting coming your way. Next Derby and Sports.

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Speaker 2: obviously doing a lot of NBA the playoffs, a little

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Speaker 2: football and baseball. But of course it's Derby Day and

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02:00:49,200 --> 02:00:52,200
Speaker 2: uh it's a monster day. Today was always a lot

2413
02:00:52,200 --> 02:00:54,600
Speaker 2: of fun. And I like to pick the brain of

2414
02:00:54,640 --> 02:00:58,360
Speaker 2: a good buddy of mine who is a.

2415
02:00:57,400 --> 02:00:59,480
Speaker 3: An amazing horse racingman.

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02:00:59,560 --> 02:00:59,880
Speaker 4: Fig.

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02:01:00,760 --> 02:01:04,520
Speaker 2: We've had him on before, and uh, you know all

2418
02:01:04,560 --> 02:01:08,280
Speaker 2: about him. His name is Dick Girardi, one of the

2419
02:01:08,360 --> 02:01:12,040
Speaker 2: pre eminent voices in horse racing, and.

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02:01:12,080 --> 02:01:17,040
Speaker 4: Uh brought to you by bet ag my man DJ.

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02:01:17,600 --> 02:01:20,560
Speaker 4: Good morning, Good morning, Panthony.

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02:01:20,640 --> 02:01:21,240
Speaker 9: Are you all right?

2423
02:01:21,320 --> 02:01:22,880
Speaker 8: Have you recovered from last night?

2424
02:01:23,760 --> 02:01:27,560
Speaker 2: So how about a fake? He the salutation starts with

2425
02:01:27,680 --> 02:01:30,320
Speaker 2: last night. So let me just also say that Dick

2426
02:01:30,440 --> 02:01:34,560
Speaker 2: is also a great basketball mine. Okay, yes, and I

2427
02:01:35,000 --> 02:01:37,440
Speaker 2: told you that before. You know, he's a great basketball man.

2428
02:01:37,600 --> 02:01:41,520
Speaker 2: So yesterday we're talking about the series and he's like, dude, listen,

2429
02:01:41,480 --> 02:01:44,280
Speaker 2: then you know, bols is just a better team, right,

2430
02:01:44,400 --> 02:01:45,720
Speaker 2: That's what he says to me yesterday.

2431
02:01:46,200 --> 02:01:49,440
Speaker 3: You know, like you know, Bulls is just a better team.

2432
02:01:49,560 --> 02:01:54,640
Speaker 2: Now, Dick, I didn't expect Harden to act like he

2433
02:01:54,840 --> 02:01:58,520
Speaker 2: was Tony from Blue Chips and he was point shaving

2434
02:01:59,240 --> 02:02:00,280
Speaker 2: all right.

2435
02:02:02,760 --> 02:02:04,280
Speaker 4: I mean, are you kidding me?

2436
02:02:04,320 --> 02:02:04,920
Speaker 1: With that game?

2437
02:02:05,440 --> 02:02:07,880
Speaker 4: I mean, my god, I've never.

2438
02:02:07,800 --> 02:02:10,160
Speaker 2: Seen the worst game as fad as he's been in

2439
02:02:10,200 --> 02:02:10,920
Speaker 2: the playoffs.

2440
02:02:11,280 --> 02:02:12,800
Speaker 4: That was beyond bad.

2441
02:02:14,120 --> 02:02:17,440
Speaker 8: Yeah, that was. That was a sad effort there. And

2442
02:02:17,760 --> 02:02:21,560
Speaker 8: it's the worst two games stretch field goal percentage wise

2443
02:02:21,640 --> 02:02:25,560
Speaker 8: of his career, uh after going off for forty five.

2444
02:02:25,760 --> 02:02:28,560
Speaker 8: So yeah, it was. It was not pretty last night.

2445
02:02:28,760 --> 02:02:31,360
Speaker 2: Well even listen, even I don't mind the hard and

2446
02:02:31,440 --> 02:02:33,240
Speaker 2: go to you know, even the shooting percentage, all right,

2447
02:02:33,280 --> 02:02:37,160
Speaker 2: whatever is what it is. But the bad passes to

2448
02:02:38,080 --> 02:02:43,600
Speaker 2: like inane lazy passes some horrible decisions and then he's

2449
02:02:43,600 --> 02:02:46,560
Speaker 2: afraid to shoot and he gets himself in trouble and

2450
02:02:46,640 --> 02:02:50,640
Speaker 2: he's dominated the basketball. I mean, gond the Boston was

2451
02:02:50,760 --> 02:02:52,360
Speaker 2: right to be beaten last night.

2452
02:02:52,640 --> 02:02:53,680
Speaker 4: If he doesn't.

2453
02:02:53,320 --> 02:02:56,000
Speaker 3: Play historically bad days, Sixers win the game.

2454
02:02:57,040 --> 02:03:00,280
Speaker 8: Yeah, I felt fair, I felt pad for you last night. Yeah,

2455
02:03:00,320 --> 02:03:03,520
Speaker 8: it was there. The Celtics could never put the game away.

2456
02:03:03,720 --> 02:03:06,160
Speaker 8: But you know, in watching it, I never got the

2457
02:03:06,240 --> 02:03:08,760
Speaker 8: sense that the Pixers could win. They just didn't look

2458
02:03:08,760 --> 02:03:10,360
Speaker 8: confident Anthony and well.

2459
02:03:10,520 --> 02:03:11,680
Speaker 4: Because of the point guard.

2460
02:03:12,000 --> 02:03:14,040
Speaker 3: At the point guard is a frank.

2461
02:03:13,840 --> 02:03:16,120
Speaker 4: To shoot or afraid to pass.

2462
02:03:16,600 --> 02:03:19,320
Speaker 2: My god, you can't wind to take him off the

2463
02:03:19,360 --> 02:03:22,200
Speaker 2: ball and put Maxim on the ball. Oh my god,

2464
02:03:22,240 --> 02:03:24,400
Speaker 2: this guy, we get tort your buy these dudes for

2465
02:03:24,680 --> 02:03:26,800
Speaker 2: Ben Simmons and that it's Harden.

2466
02:03:27,040 --> 02:03:28,800
Speaker 4: Oh my god, Dick.

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02:03:29,840 --> 02:03:32,760
Speaker 8: Put on the good side, Anthony Hardness such a great

2468
02:03:32,760 --> 02:03:34,200
Speaker 8: defender that he makes up for.

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02:03:34,560 --> 02:03:37,800
Speaker 4: Ah.

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02:03:37,800 --> 02:03:42,000
Speaker 2: If you don't know the great sarcasm, great sarcast the

2471
02:03:42,280 --> 02:03:43,080
Speaker 2: DJ is.

2472
02:03:45,480 --> 02:03:47,880
Speaker 3: I know, well, Liten, you're right. When you're right, you're right.

2473
02:03:48,040 --> 02:03:50,040
Speaker 3: He's a horrible perimeterive defender.

2474
02:03:50,880 --> 02:03:53,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you have no guard.

2475
02:03:53,240 --> 02:03:57,280
Speaker 2: So when when when he's in that kind of weird place,

2476
02:03:57,760 --> 02:03:58,240
Speaker 2: you can't eat.

2477
02:03:58,320 --> 02:04:00,400
Speaker 3: He's got to play because nobody else could think you

2478
02:04:00,440 --> 02:04:00,960
Speaker 3: can put in.

2479
02:04:01,800 --> 02:04:04,680
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's not it's not good, and I'm not sure.

2480
02:04:04,480 --> 02:04:05,360
Speaker 9: It's gonna get better.

2481
02:04:06,160 --> 02:04:08,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, thanks.

2482
02:04:10,800 --> 02:04:15,280
Speaker 2: Let's talk Derby because it is the big day. It's

2483
02:04:15,320 --> 02:04:18,160
Speaker 2: the day that it's your super Bowl. You know, we

2484
02:04:18,240 --> 02:04:21,360
Speaker 2: begin the Triple Crown. This is all the all the

2485
02:04:21,400 --> 02:04:23,880
Speaker 2: work you do all year long. This is is this

2486
02:04:23,960 --> 02:04:25,120
Speaker 2: your favorite time.

2487
02:04:24,960 --> 02:04:25,360
Speaker 3: Of the year.

2488
02:04:26,360 --> 02:04:26,560
Speaker 10: You know?

2489
02:04:26,720 --> 02:04:28,760
Speaker 8: I actually like the Breeders Cup at the end of

2490
02:04:28,800 --> 02:04:31,080
Speaker 8: the year, Anthony, because it's you know, it's not just

2491
02:04:31,160 --> 02:04:34,680
Speaker 8: one big race, it's the whole two days a big races. Yeah,

2492
02:04:34,800 --> 02:04:36,640
Speaker 8: this is still a great card. I mean, it's like

2493
02:04:36,680 --> 02:04:38,920
Speaker 8: a mini Breeders Cup. It's not just the Derby. There's

2494
02:04:38,960 --> 02:04:41,920
Speaker 8: good races all day long, starting at ten thirty in

2495
02:04:41,960 --> 02:04:44,080
Speaker 8: the morning and ended at eight o'clock at night, So

2496
02:04:44,360 --> 02:04:46,960
Speaker 8: ten hours worth of action better than.

2497
02:04:49,120 --> 02:04:52,320
Speaker 2: Well, let's look at let's start with the big race.

2498
02:04:52,760 --> 02:04:54,920
Speaker 2: Who you like, and then you know we'll get into

2499
02:04:54,960 --> 02:04:56,640
Speaker 2: the other other races as well.

2500
02:04:57,240 --> 02:05:01,120
Speaker 8: Yeah, now I like I like two pills. That's this

2501
02:05:01,280 --> 02:05:04,360
Speaker 8: is not one of those derbies where I'm supremely confident.

2502
02:05:04,480 --> 02:05:07,880
Speaker 8: It's just hard. There's nineteen horses. I could probably make

2503
02:05:07,920 --> 02:05:10,360
Speaker 8: a case for a half a dozen of them. But

2504
02:05:10,480 --> 02:05:13,960
Speaker 8: I thought, on the way this particular horse is coming

2505
02:05:14,000 --> 02:05:17,160
Speaker 8: to the race, I think everything is pointing to a

2506
02:05:17,200 --> 02:05:21,840
Speaker 8: max performance tonight around seven o'clock Eastern, and it's going

2507
02:05:21,920 --> 02:05:24,160
Speaker 8: to need a max performance because it's a pretty heavenly

2508
02:05:24,240 --> 02:05:26,720
Speaker 8: matched race. But yeah, I ended up falling on two

2509
02:05:26,800 --> 02:05:31,320
Speaker 8: pills free. I think you'll probably be about maybe ten

2510
02:05:31,480 --> 02:05:33,800
Speaker 8: eleven twelve to one would be my guest when we

2511
02:05:33,880 --> 02:05:36,000
Speaker 8: get when we get to it at the end, when

2512
02:05:36,040 --> 02:05:38,080
Speaker 8: the odds are finalized.

2513
02:05:37,840 --> 02:05:40,080
Speaker 5: Who do you think Dick will be a good long

2514
02:05:40,120 --> 02:05:42,880
Speaker 5: shot play If you're looking to, you know, throw some

2515
02:05:42,920 --> 02:05:44,520
Speaker 5: extra money and see if you can make get it

2516
02:05:44,560 --> 02:05:46,160
Speaker 5: big who is who will be the best long shot

2517
02:05:46,160 --> 02:05:46,560
Speaker 5: in the race.

2518
02:05:46,720 --> 02:05:51,160
Speaker 8: Yeah, that would be number seven Reincarnate for me. I

2519
02:05:51,320 --> 02:05:55,800
Speaker 8: think that if he can get loose on the lead,

2520
02:05:55,840 --> 02:05:57,600
Speaker 8: and that's a big if, if you can get out

2521
02:05:57,640 --> 02:06:00,600
Speaker 8: there by himself, I think he has a ants at

2522
02:06:00,640 --> 02:06:03,320
Speaker 8: a big price. He could be forty to fifty to one,

2523
02:06:03,960 --> 02:06:06,080
Speaker 8: but he's going to have to have things out there

2524
02:06:06,400 --> 02:06:08,920
Speaker 8: by himself. He's not going to need any aggravation because

2525
02:06:08,960 --> 02:06:11,000
Speaker 8: he's not the kind of horse that's going to get braved,

2526
02:06:11,040 --> 02:06:13,640
Speaker 8: I don't think. But if he could get there in front,

2527
02:06:13,760 --> 02:06:16,120
Speaker 8: so you'll know after about a quarter mile whether he's

2528
02:06:16,160 --> 02:06:19,960
Speaker 8: got a chance. But yeah, Reincardinate is my best long

2529
02:06:20,000 --> 02:06:20,560
Speaker 8: shot chance.

2530
02:06:20,680 --> 02:06:23,560
Speaker 5: Dig With all of the horses that fell out this

2531
02:06:23,640 --> 02:06:26,840
Speaker 5: past week for you know, tragic reasons, obviously, how did

2532
02:06:26,880 --> 02:06:29,000
Speaker 5: that affect the odds? Was two Phil's going to be

2533
02:06:29,560 --> 02:06:32,760
Speaker 5: your favorite regardless or did that affect how you saw

2534
02:06:32,800 --> 02:06:34,560
Speaker 5: this thing playing out with the horses that fell out

2535
02:06:34,600 --> 02:06:35,800
Speaker 5: earlier this week?

2536
02:06:36,560 --> 02:06:39,640
Speaker 8: It really didn't. Because one of the horses that came out,

2537
02:06:40,280 --> 02:06:42,320
Speaker 8: one of the Japanese horses. They took him out because

2538
02:06:42,320 --> 02:06:45,080
Speaker 8: he just wasn't training well. He didn't have a chance anyway,

2539
02:06:46,400 --> 02:06:49,800
Speaker 8: Practical Move certainly was a contender. He wasn't on my

2540
02:06:49,960 --> 02:06:53,560
Speaker 8: top list, and I didn't particularly like the worst of

2541
02:06:53,600 --> 02:06:56,600
Speaker 8: spread yesterday. So I don't think it's going to affect

2542
02:06:56,600 --> 02:07:00,640
Speaker 8: the price that much. Maybe a little bit low because

2543
02:07:00,720 --> 02:07:03,920
Speaker 8: Practical Move would have taken money. Uh And the horses

2544
02:07:03,960 --> 02:07:07,000
Speaker 8: they came into the race, for the four that came out,

2545
02:07:07,160 --> 02:07:09,640
Speaker 8: some of them are gonna be long shots anyway. So yeah,

2546
02:07:09,760 --> 02:07:11,600
Speaker 8: I don't think it's gonna affect it too much.

2547
02:07:12,680 --> 02:07:16,320
Speaker 2: So what's your strategy kind of going into today? Like

2548
02:07:16,360 --> 02:07:18,720
Speaker 2: you and you're you're gonna look at today as a

2549
02:07:18,880 --> 02:07:23,240
Speaker 2: total right, Like what's your Yeah, Like what's your strategy?

2550
02:07:24,200 --> 02:07:26,600
Speaker 3: For those people like me who would tell you? Because

2551
02:07:26,760 --> 02:07:27,320
Speaker 3: I know nothing.

2552
02:07:28,080 --> 02:07:29,840
Speaker 8: So I got a couple of things going on. I'm

2553
02:07:29,840 --> 02:07:33,800
Speaker 8: playing in the Kentucky Derby contest. Uh, So I play

2554
02:07:33,880 --> 02:07:36,840
Speaker 8: the contest with one particular strategy. I just have like

2555
02:07:36,920 --> 02:07:40,080
Speaker 8: a goal, a money goal. You start with two thousands

2556
02:07:40,080 --> 02:07:41,920
Speaker 8: and you try to get to like twenty or twenty

2557
02:07:41,920 --> 02:07:44,400
Speaker 8: five thousand plus there's prize money. That's why you play

2558
02:07:44,440 --> 02:07:47,640
Speaker 8: these contents, So that that's one thing, and I just

2559
02:07:47,760 --> 02:07:51,600
Speaker 8: have several races in mind to get me there. Uh.

2560
02:07:51,840 --> 02:07:54,160
Speaker 8: And then but if I have the right number, I'll

2561
02:07:54,280 --> 02:07:56,280
Speaker 8: bet post or all of it on two fills in

2562
02:07:56,320 --> 02:07:59,720
Speaker 8: the derby to win. So that's one thing. And then

2563
02:07:59,760 --> 02:08:02,800
Speaker 8: they're going through the day. There's maybe four or five

2564
02:08:02,960 --> 02:08:07,080
Speaker 8: races where I have some opinions on and I'll try

2565
02:08:07,160 --> 02:08:09,920
Speaker 8: to play exact is. Maybe some doubles meeting play that

2566
02:08:10,520 --> 02:08:12,400
Speaker 8: say if I like the fourth race, play with the

2567
02:08:12,440 --> 02:08:15,840
Speaker 8: fifth race, something like that, and mostly Anthony look at

2568
02:08:15,840 --> 02:08:19,080
Speaker 8: the you can look at the probable payoffs and then

2569
02:08:19,120 --> 02:08:21,320
Speaker 8: you get a sense of do I really want to play?

2570
02:08:21,600 --> 02:08:24,320
Speaker 8: Is this worth playing? How much do I want to play?

2571
02:08:24,640 --> 02:08:27,840
Speaker 8: All that kind of stuff, And the biggest issue people

2572
02:08:27,880 --> 02:08:30,480
Speaker 8: have on derby days, Look, it's the super Bowl. It's

2573
02:08:30,520 --> 02:08:32,880
Speaker 8: it's everybody that's in the game. It's the super Bowl.

2574
02:08:32,920 --> 02:08:35,600
Speaker 8: And you want to play because there's more dumb money

2575
02:08:35,640 --> 02:08:40,000
Speaker 8: in play today than there's on any day. You really

2576
02:08:40,080 --> 02:08:42,760
Speaker 8: want to take advantage of that because you have all

2577
02:08:42,840 --> 02:08:46,400
Speaker 8: these people betting colors and names, and hey, I like

2578
02:08:46,480 --> 02:08:48,640
Speaker 8: that jockey and I'm Brady, don't an athy to watch

2579
02:08:48,640 --> 02:08:52,560
Speaker 8: he's got no chance. So you do want to play,

2580
02:08:52,640 --> 02:08:54,520
Speaker 8: but you got to And I know friends of my

2581
02:08:54,560 --> 02:08:57,160
Speaker 8: good players who have gotten caught up in the insanity

2582
02:08:57,160 --> 02:08:58,800
Speaker 8: of it all. If you're having a bad day, you

2583
02:08:58,800 --> 02:09:01,760
Speaker 8: can get slaughtered. So you just gotta be you gotta

2584
02:09:01,800 --> 02:09:04,360
Speaker 8: be smart about it and buy that what are your

2585
02:09:04,360 --> 02:09:05,960
Speaker 8: best plays and then fire away.

2586
02:09:06,160 --> 02:09:08,480
Speaker 5: So I shouldn't put my bet my house on raised

2587
02:09:08,520 --> 02:09:10,440
Speaker 5: Cane because I like his name, is what you're saying.

2588
02:09:11,160 --> 02:09:13,440
Speaker 8: Not only should you not bet your house, you shouldn't

2589
02:09:13,440 --> 02:09:14,120
Speaker 8: bet anything.

2590
02:09:18,800 --> 02:09:19,560
Speaker 9: You know what you should do.

2591
02:09:19,560 --> 02:09:22,200
Speaker 8: You should put a sign around yourself do not let

2592
02:09:22,200 --> 02:09:23,520
Speaker 8: me bet on race case.

2593
02:09:23,600 --> 02:09:27,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, I need it because I bet on cyclone mischief too.

2594
02:09:27,960 --> 02:09:28,440
Speaker 4: Was like, oh that.

2595
02:09:28,400 --> 02:09:32,760
Speaker 8: Sounds great, use that exactly. I can see it now.

2596
02:09:32,840 --> 02:09:36,160
Speaker 8: I will say this, If the race cane cyclone mischief

2597
02:09:36,240 --> 02:09:39,000
Speaker 8: exactly comes in and do you have it, You're you're

2598
02:09:39,040 --> 02:09:40,840
Speaker 8: not gonna be seen for a while because you're gonna

2599
02:09:40,840 --> 02:09:41,800
Speaker 8: have all the money.

2600
02:09:42,600 --> 02:09:42,920
Speaker 4: Wow.

2601
02:09:43,040 --> 02:09:46,640
Speaker 2: Interesting, that's it. That's that is that's fascinating. Is there

2602
02:09:46,680 --> 02:09:49,720
Speaker 2: anyone that like in a double Do you like it?

2603
02:09:49,800 --> 02:09:51,280
Speaker 2: Do you like the Daily double day.

2604
02:09:51,680 --> 02:09:56,280
Speaker 8: With the Yeah, it's interesting. Anthony, yesterday I played I know,

2605
02:09:56,320 --> 02:09:57,920
Speaker 8: I told you I like the Tan and the Oaks,

2606
02:09:57,920 --> 02:09:59,520
Speaker 8: And she was in front of the top of the

2607
02:09:59,560 --> 02:10:03,680
Speaker 8: stretching attired I played a pick three yesterday that the

2608
02:10:04,280 --> 02:10:07,480
Speaker 8: Kentucky Oaks, and then I played all of the turf

2609
02:10:07,640 --> 02:10:11,960
Speaker 8: rays prior to the derby to two fills. It was

2610
02:10:11,960 --> 02:10:13,680
Speaker 8: like a one hundred dollars bet I've put up is

2611
02:10:13,800 --> 02:10:17,200
Speaker 8: ten dollars a pop, and it did hit. There was

2612
02:10:17,240 --> 02:10:19,200
Speaker 8: a chance I could have gotten back at five or

2613
02:10:19,240 --> 02:10:22,520
Speaker 8: six thousand for auds. Those are my kind of bets,

2614
02:10:22,520 --> 02:10:24,680
Speaker 8: and that's what's cool about the racetrack. You know, it's

2615
02:10:24,680 --> 02:10:26,520
Speaker 8: not like bett and sports. You bet a team, you've

2616
02:10:26,520 --> 02:10:28,600
Speaker 8: bet a hundred, they win, they lose, they cover, they don't.

2617
02:10:28,680 --> 02:10:31,040
Speaker 8: You went a hundred, you lose hundred. The cool thing

2618
02:10:31,080 --> 02:10:33,040
Speaker 8: about the track is you put up not a huge

2619
02:10:33,160 --> 02:10:36,240
Speaker 8: number and potentially turned it into a wild one. I

2620
02:10:36,240 --> 02:10:39,440
Speaker 8: mean I finished third in that. In the Breeders Cup

2621
02:10:39,480 --> 02:10:43,240
Speaker 8: betting challenge in twenty nineteen, it was some friends of

2622
02:10:43,240 --> 02:10:45,760
Speaker 8: mine has the partners in it. But in the second

2623
02:10:45,760 --> 02:10:49,040
Speaker 8: to last race, I had a cold exact. I put

2624
02:10:49,120 --> 02:10:52,040
Speaker 8: up two thousandn't exactly was playing one hundred and thirty

2625
02:10:52,040 --> 02:10:53,920
Speaker 8: seventh bucks, so we got back one hundred and thirty

2626
02:10:53,920 --> 02:10:56,720
Speaker 8: seven thousand. That's my kind of bet.

2627
02:10:57,400 --> 02:11:01,480
Speaker 4: Oh my god.

2628
02:11:00,880 --> 02:11:03,560
Speaker 8: They're few and far between. They don't happen very often.

2629
02:11:03,600 --> 02:11:05,840
Speaker 4: You gotta hold what does that mean? A cold?

2630
02:11:06,200 --> 02:11:09,160
Speaker 8: A cold meaning? I had one number. It was a

2631
02:11:09,280 --> 02:11:12,320
Speaker 8: nine to three. A couple of my partners said, did

2632
02:11:12,360 --> 02:11:14,000
Speaker 8: you have a three nine? I said, I didn't like

2633
02:11:14,040 --> 02:11:16,840
Speaker 8: a three nine. I like a nine tree And they go.

2634
02:11:16,840 --> 02:11:19,600
Speaker 3: Oh my god, you didn't even a box and that's.

2635
02:11:19,520 --> 02:11:22,520
Speaker 8: Not a sonoapbox. That was the favorite over a fifty

2636
02:11:22,560 --> 02:11:25,800
Speaker 8: to one shut. And I don't win by much. I

2637
02:11:25,800 --> 02:11:27,760
Speaker 8: think I went by like a bed night horse about

2638
02:11:27,760 --> 02:11:28,560
Speaker 8: a hit or a neck.

2639
02:11:28,680 --> 02:11:29,280
Speaker 3: Who cares?

2640
02:11:29,480 --> 02:11:33,840
Speaker 2: I mean, whatever you know doesn't matter. When you when

2641
02:11:33,840 --> 02:11:36,240
Speaker 2: you got all agreed, it doesn't matter. You got all

2642
02:11:36,280 --> 02:11:37,560
Speaker 2: agree in right.

2643
02:11:37,600 --> 02:11:40,160
Speaker 8: I like to find one or two things that I

2644
02:11:40,320 --> 02:11:42,160
Speaker 8: like and they just go for it. Because a lot

2645
02:11:42,200 --> 02:11:44,640
Speaker 8: of people at the track where they go wrong is

2646
02:11:44,680 --> 02:11:47,080
Speaker 8: they start second guessing themselves. They said, well, it could

2647
02:11:47,080 --> 02:11:49,480
Speaker 8: be this, it could be that. Yeah, it could be anything.

2648
02:11:49,560 --> 02:11:52,040
Speaker 8: But at some point you got to make a decision.

2649
02:11:52,160 --> 02:11:54,080
Speaker 4: You got to make a stand right. You got to

2650
02:11:54,080 --> 02:11:54,840
Speaker 4: make a stand right.

2651
02:11:54,880 --> 02:11:58,040
Speaker 8: And if you're right, you know the possibility is there.

2652
02:11:58,080 --> 02:11:59,600
Speaker 8: Like I said, even for a hundred dollars.

2653
02:11:59,400 --> 02:12:02,720
Speaker 2: Bet you can make ice score Yeah, yeah, no, I

2654
02:12:02,720 --> 02:12:07,520
Speaker 2: I hear, so two pills and and that's kind of

2655
02:12:07,520 --> 02:12:09,840
Speaker 2: where you're anything else during today that we should look

2656
02:12:09,880 --> 02:12:11,400
Speaker 2: at like.

2657
02:12:11,480 --> 02:12:14,040
Speaker 8: A couple of Yeah, there's a couple of races during

2658
02:12:14,040 --> 02:12:17,600
Speaker 8: the card that I like. There's a uh, there's a

2659
02:12:17,840 --> 02:12:20,400
Speaker 8: turf race in the middle of the card. There's a

2660
02:12:20,440 --> 02:12:24,720
Speaker 8: Philly named Spenderella, uh that I think she has a

2661
02:12:24,800 --> 02:12:27,240
Speaker 8: chance to be the best Philly turf force in the

2662
02:12:27,280 --> 02:12:30,720
Speaker 8: country this year. She hasn't run since last August at

2663
02:12:30,760 --> 02:12:34,120
Speaker 8: Del Bar, but I think she has star written all

2664
02:12:34,120 --> 02:12:36,600
Speaker 8: over that. That'd be kind of what we would call

2665
02:12:36,600 --> 02:12:39,320
Speaker 8: on a business as single. So like if you're playing

2666
02:12:39,360 --> 02:12:41,280
Speaker 8: so you're playing a pick three or a pick four,

2667
02:12:41,320 --> 02:12:43,840
Speaker 8: which means three or four races in a row, you

2668
02:12:44,120 --> 02:12:47,600
Speaker 8: just only use her in that race. So basically it's

2669
02:12:47,600 --> 02:12:50,680
Speaker 8: a it's what's owned as a free space. Gotch doesn't

2670
02:12:50,680 --> 02:12:56,720
Speaker 8: cost money, like like one times one times five is five, right,

2671
02:12:56,880 --> 02:12:59,880
Speaker 8: two times five is ten you start doubling the number

2672
02:12:59,880 --> 02:13:01,800
Speaker 8: of horses you use, that it just brings up the

2673
02:13:01,840 --> 02:13:04,360
Speaker 8: cost of bet. So when you can find what we

2674
02:13:04,480 --> 02:13:07,800
Speaker 8: call free square like Spenderella, that's the time to dive

2675
02:13:07,840 --> 02:13:10,080
Speaker 8: there and then go for it. But yeah, she probably

2676
02:13:10,080 --> 02:13:13,000
Speaker 8: be my best bet on the car. There's a terrific

2677
02:13:13,040 --> 02:13:15,280
Speaker 8: billy running early in the car Da good Night Olive

2678
02:13:15,880 --> 02:13:18,360
Speaker 8: who won the Breeders Cup Philly Murry Sprint last year.

2679
02:13:18,520 --> 02:13:22,440
Speaker 8: And she's gonna win the race, Anthony. But she's also

2680
02:13:22,480 --> 02:13:24,360
Speaker 8: going to be like everybody in the world knows she's

2681
02:13:24,360 --> 02:13:26,320
Speaker 8: gonna win the race. You know. It's like it's like

2682
02:13:26,520 --> 02:13:28,720
Speaker 8: it's like the football team that's favored by twenty one.

2683
02:13:28,800 --> 02:13:29,000
Speaker 10: Yeah.

2684
02:13:29,160 --> 02:13:32,440
Speaker 8: Great, yes they won, but did so everybody did they

2685
02:13:32,440 --> 02:13:32,840
Speaker 8: were winning?

2686
02:13:32,960 --> 02:13:33,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, Alabama.

2687
02:13:33,920 --> 02:13:36,440
Speaker 10: Bet brings back to Alabama versus Vanderbilt.

2688
02:13:36,520 --> 02:13:37,480
Speaker 8: Yeah. I like Alama.

2689
02:13:37,880 --> 02:13:44,440
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, Well I appreciate it. Dick Girardi courtesy

2690
02:13:44,440 --> 02:13:46,320
Speaker 2: of Betonline Dot a g.

2691
02:13:47,360 --> 02:13:50,520
Speaker 4: He's just the greatest. And oh, I don't know.

2692
02:13:50,640 --> 02:13:54,040
Speaker 2: I mean I think the Stixers are like that front

2693
02:13:54,120 --> 02:13:58,240
Speaker 2: running horse that they needed to be out in front tomorrow.

2694
02:13:59,360 --> 02:14:00,320
Speaker 8: Yeah.

2695
02:14:00,600 --> 02:14:00,920
Speaker 10: Percent.

2696
02:14:01,040 --> 02:14:03,480
Speaker 8: And they've been playing from behind the whole series. I

2697
02:14:03,560 --> 02:14:05,840
Speaker 8: just looked it up this morning. Out of one hundred

2698
02:14:05,840 --> 02:14:08,240
Speaker 8: and forty four minutes so far, they've been ahead for

2699
02:14:08,240 --> 02:14:09,400
Speaker 8: only fifteen minutes.

2700
02:14:10,560 --> 02:14:11,480
Speaker 9: That's a problem.

2701
02:14:11,640 --> 02:14:12,440
Speaker 3: That's a problem.

2702
02:14:12,760 --> 02:14:17,080
Speaker 2: It's a problem going into tomorrow because Joel left it

2703
02:14:17,120 --> 02:14:18,560
Speaker 2: all out on the floor.

2704
02:14:18,840 --> 02:14:20,960
Speaker 8: Absolutely, Oh my god, he can't.

2705
02:14:20,960 --> 02:14:21,720
Speaker 4: What can he have left?

2706
02:14:21,800 --> 02:14:24,520
Speaker 8: And they got to play in the afternoon, making it

2707
02:14:24,560 --> 02:14:26,840
Speaker 8: even worse. They got less time to get ready. Hard

2708
02:14:26,920 --> 02:14:30,400
Speaker 8: looks like he's one hundred years old. Yeah, yeah, Joel,

2709
02:14:30,720 --> 02:14:32,640
Speaker 8: I just felt so bad for him because you could

2710
02:14:32,720 --> 02:14:34,640
Speaker 8: just see the heart he was playing with and he

2711
02:14:34,680 --> 02:14:38,720
Speaker 8: obviously is not one hundred percent. But and you know what, Anthony, also,

2712
02:14:39,240 --> 02:14:41,880
Speaker 8: they have figured out how to guard him. All teams

2713
02:14:41,920 --> 02:14:43,640
Speaker 8: all year have been guarding him with the wrong people

2714
02:14:44,160 --> 02:14:46,920
Speaker 8: because he plays out at the elbow. You can play

2715
02:14:47,000 --> 02:14:49,600
Speaker 8: him with a small guy, yeah right, and don't let

2716
02:14:49,720 --> 02:14:51,760
Speaker 8: him move. And you know, if I'm the Sixers and

2717
02:14:51,800 --> 02:14:53,520
Speaker 8: I don't know that they can do this at this point.

2718
02:14:54,080 --> 02:14:56,560
Speaker 8: If they do that again, you better start posting them up.

2719
02:14:57,200 --> 02:14:59,120
Speaker 8: But he doesn't post up anymore.

2720
02:14:58,840 --> 02:15:01,000
Speaker 2: No, he doesn't. He's got to get close in the basket.

2721
02:15:01,160 --> 02:15:04,240
Speaker 2: Been saying it. When you when you're looking at those guys,

2722
02:15:04,240 --> 02:15:07,760
Speaker 2: when Marcus Smart or or Jalen Brown is on you,

2723
02:15:07,760 --> 02:15:10,080
Speaker 2: you gotta you gotta take him down low and post up.

2724
02:15:10,280 --> 02:15:12,400
Speaker 2: He doesn't use his body that way like he doesn't.

2725
02:15:12,720 --> 02:15:17,760
Speaker 2: He doesn't twirl and and and turned towards the basket.

2726
02:15:17,880 --> 02:15:19,600
Speaker 3: And established position.

2727
02:15:20,760 --> 02:15:24,080
Speaker 10: Like rotate because yeah, because he's become a mid range

2728
02:15:24,160 --> 02:15:26,800
Speaker 10: jump shooter and obviously very good at it. In a

2729
02:15:26,840 --> 02:15:29,680
Speaker 10: game where he's physically not at his best, those shots

2730
02:15:29,680 --> 02:15:31,080
Speaker 10: are you're not making.

2731
02:15:30,920 --> 02:15:33,520
Speaker 8: Those shots at the forty He's just not. And the other,

2732
02:15:33,640 --> 02:15:36,960
Speaker 8: the other master stroke was been putting Brown on one

2733
02:15:37,040 --> 02:15:40,520
Speaker 8: Harden in games two and three. He's just he's bigger,

2734
02:15:40,720 --> 02:15:43,120
Speaker 8: he's younger, he's stronger, he's he's.

2735
02:15:42,960 --> 02:15:46,840
Speaker 2: Picking him up three quarter court, which is really bothering him,

2736
02:15:46,880 --> 02:15:49,720
Speaker 2: and you're getting getting up in his grill and he's

2737
02:15:49,760 --> 02:15:50,000
Speaker 2: got to.

2738
02:15:49,960 --> 02:15:51,680
Speaker 4: Mean, he freaked hard.

2739
02:15:51,720 --> 02:15:55,960
Speaker 8: It was completely freaked absolutely. Yeah, no, I mean it's

2740
02:15:56,000 --> 02:15:57,760
Speaker 8: the last thing he wanted to see. He wants look,

2741
02:15:57,800 --> 02:16:00,560
Speaker 8: everybody in life wants to be comfortable. Well, they made

2742
02:16:00,640 --> 02:16:02,200
Speaker 8: him a really uncomfortable.

2743
02:16:02,760 --> 02:16:04,680
Speaker 4: I gotta give him a zool a lot of credit. Man,

2744
02:16:04,800 --> 02:16:05,280
Speaker 4: he coached.

2745
02:16:05,720 --> 02:16:08,080
Speaker 8: He done a good job. Yeah, he's done a good job.

2746
02:16:08,160 --> 02:16:10,320
Speaker 8: You'll be young. And we said that yesterday, Membory something

2747
02:16:10,320 --> 02:16:14,080
Speaker 8: about the coaches. It comes down to the players they jumped.

2748
02:16:14,120 --> 02:16:15,840
Speaker 8: I think I better players.

2749
02:16:15,840 --> 02:16:17,640
Speaker 4: And more of them.

2750
02:16:17,720 --> 02:16:21,000
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, that's a great point. That great stuff. Many Joey,

2751
02:16:21,040 --> 02:16:23,080
Speaker 2: good luck today. I hope you take all the money.

2752
02:16:22,800 --> 02:16:24,360
Speaker 10: Brother, I appreciate it.

2753
02:16:24,440 --> 02:16:27,480
Speaker 8: I will be trying we get two fills home in

2754
02:16:27,560 --> 02:16:29,400
Speaker 8: the Syrpy. If I have any paper in my pocket

2755
02:16:29,440 --> 02:16:31,760
Speaker 8: at that point, I will be very dangerous.

2756
02:16:33,080 --> 02:16:34,240
Speaker 4: I love it. I love it.

2757
02:16:34,480 --> 02:16:37,720
Speaker 2: He's the great Dick Girardi and uh we love him,

2758
02:16:37,720 --> 02:16:38,320
Speaker 2: tax buddy.

2759
02:16:38,360 --> 02:16:39,280
Speaker 4: We'll talk to you soon.

2760
02:16:39,920 --> 02:16:44,879
Speaker 2: Here he is, uh derby and uh hopefully two pills

2761
02:16:45,160 --> 02:16:47,440
Speaker 2: fig two figgies, two.

2762
02:16:47,360 --> 02:16:49,160
Speaker 4: Phills, two figgies. All right.

2763
02:16:50,120 --> 02:16:52,720
Speaker 5: Once I once I start hitting these bets like Dick,

2764
02:16:52,760 --> 02:16:54,080
Speaker 5: and I can buy my own racehorse.

2765
02:16:54,120 --> 02:16:57,160
Speaker 4: That's gonna be the name two. I like two figgies.

2766
02:16:57,240 --> 02:16:58,520
Speaker 4: That's rules. All right.

2767
02:16:58,760 --> 02:17:01,160
Speaker 2: It's a betting hour for you guys because we always

2768
02:17:01,200 --> 02:17:06,440
Speaker 2: talk to our our betting analysts, Sports betting analyst Brad Feinberg,

2769
02:17:06,520 --> 02:17:08,160
Speaker 2: the big brain on Brad.

2770
02:17:08,640 --> 02:17:09,720
Speaker 4: He's coming up next.

2771
02:17:09,760 --> 02:17:12,160
Speaker 2: We'll take a look at the NBA playoffs, the NHL

2772
02:17:12,360 --> 02:17:15,720
Speaker 2: baseball from a betting standpoint. Coming up next with the

2773
02:17:15,800 --> 02:17:19,200
Speaker 2: Fellas right here on Fox Sports Radio.

2774
02:17:20,520 --> 02:17:23,800
Speaker 3: Fellas figgi cuz.

2775
02:17:25,520 --> 02:17:33,400
Speaker 2: Ah Fellas on a Derby day, Derby Saturday, how about that?

2776
02:17:34,680 --> 02:17:36,920
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2777
02:17:37,000 --> 02:17:42,680
Speaker 2: the tire Rack Dot com Studios, and we are also

2778
02:17:42,879 --> 02:17:48,160
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02:17:49,080 --> 02:17:50,160
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2780
02:17:50,200 --> 02:17:53,360
Speaker 3: We'll tell you more about to play today coming up next, but.

2781
02:17:53,440 --> 02:17:57,800
Speaker 2: First we got our man, the big brain, Brad Feinberg

2782
02:17:57,879 --> 02:17:59,119
Speaker 2: are betting analysts.

2783
02:17:59,400 --> 02:18:00,600
Speaker 4: Good morning, Bradley.

2784
02:18:01,800 --> 02:18:04,200
Speaker 9: I wish I had some progressive insurance on James Harden

2785
02:18:04,320 --> 02:18:06,880
Speaker 9: having the worst game of all time, getting him whatever

2786
02:18:06,920 --> 02:18:10,920
Speaker 9: the odds would have done. But that was that was

2787
02:18:11,800 --> 02:18:15,039
Speaker 9: full last night, Anthony Jesus, I.

2788
02:18:15,000 --> 02:18:19,440
Speaker 2: Know, I mean as great as like Durant played last night,

2789
02:18:19,520 --> 02:18:22,320
Speaker 2: even though he'd shoot well right, he did shoot well

2790
02:18:22,360 --> 02:18:26,000
Speaker 2: from beyond the arc. A. Booker was ridiculous last night,

2791
02:18:26,840 --> 02:18:31,240
Speaker 2: right indeed was incredible last night. Joker was great on

2792
02:18:31,360 --> 02:18:36,080
Speaker 2: the loss last night. All your stars showed up except

2793
02:18:36,520 --> 02:18:40,920
Speaker 2: one who was beyond Bett, who was might have been

2794
02:18:41,680 --> 02:18:46,040
Speaker 2: the most embarrassing performance. I keep talking about Tony from

2795
02:18:46,040 --> 02:18:49,039
Speaker 2: Blue Chips, who was point shaving, and.

2796
02:18:51,400 --> 02:18:54,160
Speaker 9: I to you ed because we're in the same error.

2797
02:18:54,320 --> 02:18:58,360
Speaker 9: He reminded me when Fred Brown and Georgetown against North

2798
02:18:58,360 --> 02:19:00,959
Speaker 9: Carolina when they were down sixty three sixty two, he

2799
02:19:01,080 --> 02:19:04,959
Speaker 9: just threw the battle worthy like he did that like

2800
02:19:05,200 --> 02:19:10,160
Speaker 9: five times. It was unbelievable. But you know what I

2801
02:19:10,160 --> 02:19:12,119
Speaker 9: thought was the best player in that game who didn't get,

2802
02:19:12,120 --> 02:19:14,880
Speaker 9: in my opinion, enough credit last night. And I look,

2803
02:19:14,920 --> 02:19:16,320
Speaker 9: I'd watched this guy playing a lot. I thought it

2804
02:19:16,360 --> 02:19:18,160
Speaker 9: was the best Gaveniversity in playing. He's got a really

2805
02:19:18,160 --> 02:19:23,520
Speaker 9: good career. Jalen Brown, I thought was absolutely sensational. And

2806
02:19:23,560 --> 02:19:25,959
Speaker 9: I thought his defense, actually, I will say this, I

2807
02:19:26,040 --> 02:19:28,880
Speaker 9: was at four throw seats. I thought he was his

2808
02:19:29,560 --> 02:19:31,760
Speaker 9: defense on hard and I thought was really really good.

2809
02:19:31,760 --> 02:19:33,640
Speaker 9: He didn't make any threes last night, Jalen Brown, but

2810
02:19:33,640 --> 02:19:36,760
Speaker 9: I thought he pressured hard and he clearly bothered him

2811
02:19:37,120 --> 02:19:39,520
Speaker 9: and he made a nice couple of nice three point plays.

2812
02:19:39,760 --> 02:19:41,760
Speaker 9: I thought he was really really good last night. And

2813
02:19:41,800 --> 02:19:44,119
Speaker 9: Horford was obviously sensational making five threes.

2814
02:19:44,760 --> 02:19:46,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Horford.

2815
02:19:46,560 --> 02:19:48,920
Speaker 2: Horford was big because he hadn't shot well at all

2816
02:19:49,000 --> 02:19:52,920
Speaker 2: in the first two games and he had some big

2817
02:19:53,120 --> 02:19:57,040
Speaker 2: threes on them. And then I agree with that Tatum,

2818
02:19:57,560 --> 02:20:00,360
Speaker 2: who had been a little skin to Boston. It's weird

2819
02:20:00,400 --> 02:20:03,080
Speaker 2: because you look at Boston and you go and how

2820
02:20:03,080 --> 02:20:05,040
Speaker 2: about a fig You look at Boston at the end

2821
02:20:05,080 --> 02:20:08,080
Speaker 2: of games, they look tight, and I've looked Katey been

2822
02:20:08,080 --> 02:20:09,039
Speaker 2: a couple of big shots.

2823
02:20:10,400 --> 02:20:13,560
Speaker 9: Yeah, and that was interesting. And Boston strategy. You know,

2824
02:20:13,680 --> 02:20:17,600
Speaker 9: they're putting Marcus Smart on Jillell and b They're putting

2825
02:20:17,600 --> 02:20:20,320
Speaker 9: Grant Williams. They're putting some of these smaller guys on them.

2826
02:20:20,959 --> 02:20:23,080
Speaker 9: And I will say this again, not that they stopped them,

2827
02:20:23,120 --> 02:20:26,000
Speaker 9: they certainly didn't. But those guys, I will give them credit.

2828
02:20:26,040 --> 02:20:28,600
Speaker 9: They pay take the challenge. They get right up on them,

2829
02:20:29,000 --> 02:20:32,160
Speaker 9: like in his face, and they play hard. I look, Boston,

2830
02:20:32,760 --> 02:20:34,600
Speaker 9: they're gonna I think they're gonna win the final.

2831
02:20:34,680 --> 02:20:35,040
Speaker 1: I really do.

2832
02:20:35,160 --> 02:20:36,240
Speaker 9: But we'll see how it plays out.

2833
02:20:36,720 --> 02:20:37,240
Speaker 4: Yeah.

2834
02:20:37,320 --> 02:20:39,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll tell you what fig why it's with some

2835
02:20:39,440 --> 02:20:43,120
Speaker 2: trending and then we'll get some picks and some analysis.

2836
02:20:43,560 --> 02:20:46,560
Speaker 5: All right, Well, we're talking NBA playoffs. We mentioned the

2837
02:20:46,920 --> 02:20:52,039
Speaker 5: Sixers picking up another loss. Unfortunately for our Philly faithful.

2838
02:20:52,040 --> 02:20:55,000
Speaker 5: Here all the line Boston up two games to one

2839
02:20:55,200 --> 02:20:57,520
Speaker 5: one fourteen to one. H two was the final score.

2840
02:20:57,640 --> 02:21:00,720
Speaker 5: Twenty seven points and ten boards for Jason Tatum. Jaylen

2841
02:21:00,760 --> 02:21:03,840
Speaker 5: Brown scored twenty three. In the Western Conference, Devin Booker

2842
02:21:03,920 --> 02:21:06,320
Speaker 5: lit up the Nuggets twenty of twenty five from the field.

2843
02:21:06,360 --> 02:21:09,560
Speaker 5: He scored forty seven points. Kevin Durant chipped in, chipped

2844
02:21:09,600 --> 02:21:13,959
Speaker 5: in thirty nine points. One. Yeah, that's awesome, one twenty

2845
02:21:14,000 --> 02:21:16,680
Speaker 5: one to one, fourteen the victory four Phoenix. They cut

2846
02:21:16,680 --> 02:21:19,400
Speaker 5: the Nuggets lead to two games to one. Baseball, the

2847
02:21:19,440 --> 02:21:22,480
Speaker 5: Dodgers lose. The Padres win five of the last six.

2848
02:21:22,560 --> 02:21:25,480
Speaker 5: Dodgers had a six game losing a winning streak. They lose.

2849
02:21:25,600 --> 02:21:27,959
Speaker 5: Five to two was the final score in San Diego,

2850
02:21:28,280 --> 02:21:31,600
Speaker 5: as Fernando Tazzis Junior went deep on Clayton Kershaw twice,

2851
02:21:31,840 --> 02:21:34,280
Speaker 5: Giants beating up Corbyn Burns and Milwaukee six to four,

2852
02:21:34,400 --> 02:21:38,840
Speaker 5: Houston six, Seattle four, snapping their four game win streak.

2853
02:21:38,879 --> 02:21:40,000
Speaker 4: Arizona a three to one.

2854
02:21:39,959 --> 02:21:42,520
Speaker 5: Victory over Washington Andels picking up a five to four

2855
02:21:42,520 --> 02:21:45,959
Speaker 5: comeback victory over Texas and extra innings Red Sox, Mets,

2856
02:21:45,959 --> 02:21:48,880
Speaker 5: and raised with wins in the NHL. Carolina steamroll New

2857
02:21:48,920 --> 02:21:51,040
Speaker 5: Jersey six to one, taking a two games to none

2858
02:21:51,120 --> 02:21:52,879
Speaker 5: lead in their semi final series.

2859
02:21:53,080 --> 02:21:54,360
Speaker 4: All right, back to the Fellas.

2860
02:21:54,879 --> 02:21:58,000
Speaker 2: Oh that's as siye, Brad Lee, He's got a couple

2861
02:21:58,080 --> 02:22:03,039
Speaker 2: games on tap today. Let's begain Nick's heat. You gotta

2862
02:22:03,120 --> 02:22:07,080
Speaker 2: believe that Jimmy is back for this game. How do

2863
02:22:07,120 --> 02:22:08,640
Speaker 2: you how do you kind of look at it?

2864
02:22:09,920 --> 02:22:12,800
Speaker 9: You know, it's interesting, Anthony. Before this series, I really

2865
02:22:13,959 --> 02:22:16,080
Speaker 9: liked a big bet on New York. I got out

2866
02:22:16,120 --> 02:22:19,040
Speaker 9: of my bed after Game two. I really thought New

2867
02:22:19,080 --> 02:22:21,520
Speaker 9: York was gonna win the series easily watching the first

2868
02:22:21,520 --> 02:22:25,480
Speaker 9: two games. It's just look, be honest, Jimmy Gating play

2869
02:22:25,520 --> 02:22:28,840
Speaker 9: game two. Miami should be up one zero. I mean sorry,

2870
02:22:28,879 --> 02:22:30,640
Speaker 9: it should be a deserved one. Game one.

2871
02:22:30,680 --> 02:22:31,959
Speaker 4: In Game two was.

2872
02:22:31,959 --> 02:22:34,280
Speaker 9: Fifty to fifty and they pulled away at the way end.

2873
02:22:35,400 --> 02:22:38,280
Speaker 9: I will say today's game getting four points, I still

2874
02:22:38,360 --> 02:22:41,039
Speaker 9: lean New York. I'm gonna dare Miami to beat me

2875
02:22:41,080 --> 02:22:43,760
Speaker 9: by five points because it's they are team that me

2876
02:22:43,920 --> 02:22:48,039
Speaker 9: still struggles to get margin, the tough defensively, Jimmy's incredible,

2877
02:22:49,440 --> 02:22:51,520
Speaker 9: but I think that's still just a hair or two high.

2878
02:22:51,560 --> 02:22:54,039
Speaker 9: I made it closer to two and a half. I

2879
02:22:54,160 --> 02:22:56,920
Speaker 9: lean here in New York. Getting the four points, yeah,

2880
02:22:56,959 --> 02:22:57,680
Speaker 9: I like the Nicks.

2881
02:22:58,040 --> 02:23:00,560
Speaker 4: Say you like the Knicks? I do?

2882
02:23:00,600 --> 02:23:02,960
Speaker 5: I would ask Brad, like from a player prop standpoint

2883
02:23:03,000 --> 02:23:05,720
Speaker 5: of Jimmy Butler is expected to be back into the lineup,

2884
02:23:06,520 --> 02:23:08,680
Speaker 5: what the what the numbers are saying for him? And

2885
02:23:08,720 --> 02:23:10,920
Speaker 5: what the over under from a scoring standpoint, will be

2886
02:23:10,959 --> 02:23:13,440
Speaker 5: for him. Yeah, of course the great closeout game in

2887
02:23:13,440 --> 02:23:16,000
Speaker 5: the first round, and had a heroic effort in Game one.

2888
02:23:16,120 --> 02:23:18,480
Speaker 5: So what's what's the individual look like?

2889
02:23:18,480 --> 02:23:20,560
Speaker 9: Forty seven and a half? Okay, pay seven and a

2890
02:23:20,560 --> 02:23:24,280
Speaker 9: half for Jimmy Butler. But you know, listen, that's you know,

2891
02:23:24,280 --> 02:23:26,320
Speaker 9: he averaged like twenty three during the year. Like I'd

2892
02:23:26,360 --> 02:23:28,920
Speaker 9: be I'd lean over just because of how tremendous he's

2893
02:23:28,959 --> 02:23:31,720
Speaker 9: been and whatnot. But they look, they're making these numbers

2894
02:23:31,720 --> 02:23:33,800
Speaker 9: certainly a lot higher than they were during the regular season,

2895
02:23:34,040 --> 02:23:35,840
Speaker 9: justifiably so for someone like Jimmy Butler.

2896
02:23:36,240 --> 02:23:36,800
Speaker 4: This was a game.

2897
02:23:36,840 --> 02:23:38,400
Speaker 9: Again, it was only by the way I wrote down

2898
02:23:38,440 --> 02:23:41,720
Speaker 9: the props I played only believe it or not, Anthony,

2899
02:23:41,760 --> 02:23:44,120
Speaker 9: there's only one NBA prop I played, And I had

2900
02:23:44,160 --> 02:23:47,600
Speaker 9: a bunch last night. They did great last night. But

2901
02:23:47,800 --> 02:23:52,560
Speaker 9: today I have Wiggins, which I played this a bunch

2902
02:23:52,920 --> 02:23:55,600
Speaker 9: over one and a half threes, thirty six and fifteen

2903
02:23:55,640 --> 02:23:58,959
Speaker 9: his last fifty one games. I'm gonna take my chances with.

2904
02:23:58,920 --> 02:24:02,480
Speaker 3: That Wiggans over one over one of.

2905
02:24:02,400 --> 02:24:05,440
Speaker 9: The Yeah, I like that, and I like in that game.

2906
02:24:05,480 --> 02:24:08,080
Speaker 9: I did bet the Lakers minus two and a half

2907
02:24:08,440 --> 02:24:11,760
Speaker 9: I again, I think these teams are, like, you know,

2908
02:24:11,800 --> 02:24:14,360
Speaker 9: closer to even. And you know, Golden State was laying

2909
02:24:15,560 --> 02:24:17,360
Speaker 9: seven in Game two, I think it was, and they

2910
02:24:17,360 --> 02:24:19,040
Speaker 9: were laying I believe four and a half in Game one.

2911
02:24:19,400 --> 02:24:22,200
Speaker 9: I have these teams power rated even, like I really do,

2912
02:24:22,640 --> 02:24:26,520
Speaker 9: so they're still cheering a little bit towards Golden State.

2913
02:24:27,360 --> 02:24:29,840
Speaker 9: I think the Lakers are team that probably will play

2914
02:24:29,879 --> 02:24:32,760
Speaker 9: better at home. I think both these teams have some

2915
02:24:33,280 --> 02:24:35,280
Speaker 9: bugziness to them where I think if they play a

2916
02:24:35,320 --> 02:24:38,000
Speaker 9: really good team, they'll be exposed. But they're playing each other,

2917
02:24:38,040 --> 02:24:40,039
Speaker 9: so that's really probably not gonna happen. But I do

2918
02:24:40,200 --> 02:24:42,039
Speaker 9: like the Lakers. I bet the Lakers minus do and half.

2919
02:24:42,240 --> 02:24:46,240
Speaker 2: Do you do you look at the lineup change that yeah,

2920
02:24:46,240 --> 02:24:49,440
Speaker 2: Steve kurb made I think, you know, putting Green in

2921
02:24:49,480 --> 02:24:52,280
Speaker 2: there really helped them, make them make them look different.

2922
02:24:53,080 --> 02:24:55,440
Speaker 2: So that would be the only thing to give me

2923
02:24:55,480 --> 02:24:58,840
Speaker 2: a little pause because I like that matchup for Golden State.

2924
02:25:00,360 --> 02:25:03,160
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm not gonna overrat Jamichael Greedon though, Anthey, I'm

2925
02:25:03,160 --> 02:25:04,240
Speaker 9: just not gonna go there.

2926
02:25:04,400 --> 02:25:04,720
Speaker 1: I'm not.

2927
02:25:05,000 --> 02:25:07,400
Speaker 9: I still think he's a very limited guy that didn't

2928
02:25:07,400 --> 02:25:09,600
Speaker 9: do much during the year, doesn't know much his entire career.

2929
02:25:09,680 --> 02:25:13,160
Speaker 9: Quite frankly, I don't think that's gonna Look, that was

2930
02:25:13,200 --> 02:25:16,119
Speaker 9: a game where the second third quarters they blitzed them.

2931
02:25:16,160 --> 02:25:18,280
Speaker 9: It happened. It was a musk game for them. Again,

2932
02:25:18,320 --> 02:25:20,400
Speaker 9: as I said, I think I think the Lakers are

2933
02:25:20,400 --> 02:25:21,119
Speaker 9: going to win this game.

2934
02:25:21,440 --> 02:25:23,240
Speaker 4: You like Anthony Davies have a big day.

2935
02:25:24,600 --> 02:25:26,520
Speaker 9: Well, look, it's funny you think he kind of pulled

2936
02:25:26,520 --> 02:25:29,120
Speaker 9: a little bit of a James Harden too. Game one

2937
02:25:29,280 --> 02:25:30,959
Speaker 9: was one of the best games I've ever seen.

2938
02:25:32,080 --> 02:25:32,720
Speaker 4: Rebounds.

2939
02:25:32,840 --> 02:25:35,200
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, I think I think he will. He will

2940
02:25:35,200 --> 02:25:37,600
Speaker 9: bounce back at home again. I think the Lakers are

2941
02:25:37,600 --> 02:25:40,560
Speaker 9: one of those teams that at home they will play

2942
02:25:40,560 --> 02:25:41,680
Speaker 9: better than they do on the road.

2943
02:25:42,800 --> 02:25:47,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you. All right, let's go to So

2944
02:25:48,080 --> 02:25:51,960
Speaker 2: what about tomorrow? Now, let's go back to the off series, right,

2945
02:25:52,400 --> 02:25:56,440
Speaker 2: So tomorrow, what's the does Celtics got you wat one too?

2946
02:25:56,600 --> 02:25:57,800
Speaker 4: Tomorrow? What are they to?

2947
02:25:58,080 --> 02:26:01,160
Speaker 9: It's I bet the six Ers. I did. I think

2948
02:26:01,200 --> 02:26:03,200
Speaker 9: the sixth arga. Look, I was at the game, and

2949
02:26:03,320 --> 02:26:06,640
Speaker 9: I'm gonna say this. Boston deserves to win, no question

2950
02:26:06,720 --> 02:26:08,840
Speaker 9: about it. Two things that really stood out for me,

2951
02:26:08,879 --> 02:26:13,200
Speaker 9: whereas Harden was it doesn't show in the stats, but he,

2952
02:26:13,280 --> 02:26:15,920
Speaker 9: to me was a minus twenty okay, and I mean

2953
02:26:15,959 --> 02:26:19,720
Speaker 9: that like that's not me exaggerating. I thought he I've

2954
02:26:19,760 --> 02:26:21,959
Speaker 9: never seen an NBA player have a more adverse effect

2955
02:26:22,000 --> 02:26:24,959
Speaker 9: on the team in a game than that. I can't

2956
02:26:24,959 --> 02:26:28,920
Speaker 9: imagine it'll be that bad again. And every single loose

2957
02:26:29,000 --> 02:26:33,960
Speaker 9: ball and I've never every break consumably win Boston's win.

2958
02:26:34,040 --> 02:26:35,760
Speaker 9: Now they also give him credit, and.

2959
02:26:35,879 --> 02:26:38,840
Speaker 2: They hustled him again. They got fifty to fifty balls. Way,

2960
02:26:38,879 --> 02:26:40,879
Speaker 2: you're right, fifty to fifty yeah.

2961
02:26:41,160 --> 02:26:44,640
Speaker 9: One, I'm talking everyone, and then they seemingly make a

2962
02:26:44,680 --> 02:26:47,000
Speaker 9: three point play on it. I think Philadelphia does win

2963
02:26:47,080 --> 02:26:49,320
Speaker 9: the game. I do. I took him plus a dollar

2964
02:26:49,400 --> 02:26:52,680
Speaker 9: twenty five and then the other game after me. Look,

2965
02:26:53,000 --> 02:26:54,720
Speaker 9: and I quick before.

2966
02:26:54,520 --> 02:26:56,960
Speaker 2: You that the game, before you deal the game. The

2967
02:26:57,000 --> 02:27:00,600
Speaker 2: only thing that worries me from a six or standpoint

2968
02:27:00,640 --> 02:27:07,520
Speaker 2: tomorrow would be EMBD played so well. He was so

2969
02:27:07,800 --> 02:27:12,520
Speaker 2: good thirty twelve, I mean blocks. Now he's got to

2970
02:27:12,560 --> 02:27:15,840
Speaker 2: come back short rest in the afternoon.

2971
02:27:17,200 --> 02:27:20,320
Speaker 3: What's his what's the status of his knee gonna be?

2972
02:27:20,320 --> 02:27:23,720
Speaker 2: Can it can well allow him to play because they

2973
02:27:23,760 --> 02:27:27,160
Speaker 2: I think they need him to play that way for

2974
02:27:27,280 --> 02:27:29,039
Speaker 2: him to win, and I don't know that he is

2975
02:27:29,120 --> 02:27:31,040
Speaker 2: able to do that back to back games.

2976
02:27:31,879 --> 02:27:33,119
Speaker 4: That's that closest I'm.

2977
02:27:32,959 --> 02:27:35,320
Speaker 9: Gonna I'm gonna say that he can because again he's

2978
02:27:35,360 --> 02:27:37,880
Speaker 9: he won the MVP Awards and he needs to do that. Look,

2979
02:27:37,920 --> 02:27:38,680
Speaker 9: he played really well.

2980
02:27:38,760 --> 02:27:40,600
Speaker 2: Well, No, I'm talking about the injury. I'm not talking

2981
02:27:40,600 --> 02:27:42,960
Speaker 2: about I know he's capable of doing that. I'm just

2982
02:27:42,959 --> 02:27:46,320
Speaker 2: talking about the injury. The knee injury. When you're playing

2983
02:27:46,320 --> 02:27:49,520
Speaker 2: it like on that leg. Will that hurt him?

2984
02:27:49,680 --> 02:27:52,480
Speaker 9: I get it, I get it. I mean, look again,

2985
02:27:52,520 --> 02:27:54,959
Speaker 9: they're gonna need that. I'm kind of giving him that.

2986
02:27:55,000 --> 02:27:59,240
Speaker 9: He's going to have a productive game. As I said,

2987
02:27:59,440 --> 02:28:02,920
Speaker 9: I felt like a lot of just fifty to fifty

2988
02:28:03,000 --> 02:28:06,920
Speaker 9: breaks all went Boston's way. There's probably like thirteen fourteen

2989
02:28:07,240 --> 02:28:09,920
Speaker 9: plays I can remember, and all thirteen or fourteen went

2990
02:28:09,959 --> 02:28:13,400
Speaker 9: Boston's way, not even one went Philadelphia's way. And again

2991
02:28:13,480 --> 02:28:16,320
Speaker 9: the James Harden thing, I just I don't think I've

2992
02:28:16,360 --> 02:28:19,080
Speaker 9: ever seen a player play that bad. I think Philadelphia

2993
02:28:19,080 --> 02:28:21,520
Speaker 9: wins this game. I do. I get total. Look, Boston

2994
02:28:21,560 --> 02:28:24,119
Speaker 9: I think will win the series. I think Philadelphia can

2995
02:28:24,200 --> 02:28:28,840
Speaker 9: win that game. And then it's interesting, Look Booker and Durant.

2996
02:28:28,879 --> 02:28:31,000
Speaker 9: I mean what they did last night. I mean, you know,

2997
02:28:31,040 --> 02:28:36,160
Speaker 9: without Chris Paul, them just carrying this team. You talk

2998
02:28:36,200 --> 02:28:39,520
Speaker 9: about pressure. I think it's just going to be extremely

2999
02:28:39,560 --> 02:28:42,600
Speaker 9: hard for them. Those guys again scored a combined like

3000
02:28:42,680 --> 02:28:45,600
Speaker 9: eighty five points or whatever it was. I think Dever

3001
02:28:45,640 --> 02:28:47,000
Speaker 9: wins the game outright, I do.

3002
02:28:47,120 --> 02:28:49,600
Speaker 4: I think, yeah, got about it. We said the same thing,

3003
02:28:49,720 --> 02:28:51,400
Speaker 4: YEP said. We said the exact same.

3004
02:28:51,200 --> 02:28:53,879
Speaker 9: Thing for you need very hard. I think it's made

3005
02:28:54,000 --> 02:28:57,040
Speaker 9: very very hard for Phoenix to muster that up. Again,

3006
02:28:57,280 --> 02:28:59,760
Speaker 9: are just with the team that they have right now

3007
02:29:00,120 --> 02:29:03,440
Speaker 9: and they're getting nothing from DeAndre eight and again I like, again,

3008
02:29:03,480 --> 02:29:06,440
Speaker 9: I actually like Denver to win the game out right.

3009
02:29:06,480 --> 02:29:07,879
Speaker 9: Let themone getting the three and a half points.

3010
02:29:07,920 --> 02:29:10,160
Speaker 5: Brian, just on a macrovi You looking at the NBA

3011
02:29:10,200 --> 02:29:12,560
Speaker 5: playoffs now that we're a couple of games into the

3012
02:29:12,959 --> 02:29:16,360
Speaker 5: second round the final eight, who is favorite at the

3013
02:29:16,400 --> 02:29:17,920
Speaker 5: moment to win the NBA title?

3014
02:29:18,200 --> 02:29:18,600
Speaker 4: Curious?

3015
02:29:19,000 --> 02:29:22,200
Speaker 9: Oh, Boston is a prohibitive favorite, which they deserve to

3016
02:29:22,240 --> 02:29:25,920
Speaker 9: be because first of all, you know, they they're beating

3017
02:29:26,000 --> 02:29:29,560
Speaker 9: probably the team that's considered to be the second best team, Okay,

3018
02:29:29,720 --> 02:29:32,039
Speaker 9: and you know they're like plus a dollar fifteen area

3019
02:29:32,040 --> 02:29:34,840
Speaker 9: to win the championship. Denver second around four to one.

3020
02:29:34,879 --> 02:29:36,959
Speaker 9: Then you're looking at Lakers and Golden State are both

3021
02:29:37,000 --> 02:29:38,640
Speaker 9: around six to one area and they go all the

3022
02:29:38,680 --> 02:29:41,080
Speaker 9: way with the Phoenix in around ten to one. But look,

3023
02:29:41,360 --> 02:29:44,560
Speaker 9: you figure if Boston wins this David Cakewalking theory to

3024
02:29:44,680 --> 02:29:48,240
Speaker 9: the finals, and to me again, they're certainly the favored

3025
02:29:48,280 --> 02:29:50,560
Speaker 9: in the finals. To me, you're basically getting plus one

3026
02:29:50,720 --> 02:29:54,880
Speaker 9: fifteen on them to get past Philadelphia. Two more games

3027
02:29:55,200 --> 02:29:58,920
Speaker 9: and you know, and to you know, beat whoever it is,

3028
02:29:58,920 --> 02:30:01,160
Speaker 9: Miami or New York deserve to be the favorite, and

3029
02:30:01,160 --> 02:30:03,920
Speaker 9: they justifiably are. Philadelphia is now around twenty two to

3030
02:30:03,920 --> 02:30:05,880
Speaker 9: one to be the Bacon. I will say this that

3031
02:30:05,920 --> 02:30:09,440
Speaker 9: Piladelphi can somehow come back in the series, they would

3032
02:30:09,440 --> 02:30:11,200
Speaker 9: be again, I think these are the two best teams playing.

3033
02:30:12,600 --> 02:30:15,039
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I listen, I hear.

3034
02:30:15,320 --> 02:30:19,760
Speaker 2: I think it's sound and certainly in the Eastern Conference

3035
02:30:19,840 --> 02:30:22,640
Speaker 2: without a doubt. Hey, let me ask let me ask

3036
02:30:22,680 --> 02:30:26,080
Speaker 2: you hockey real quick, because the playoffs have been wild,

3037
02:30:26,240 --> 02:30:29,840
Speaker 2: the Golden Knights able to beat the Oil in a

3038
02:30:29,920 --> 02:30:30,640
Speaker 2: great game.

3039
02:30:30,720 --> 02:30:30,920
Speaker 9: Man.

3040
02:30:31,040 --> 02:30:34,800
Speaker 2: Game two is tonight, and I'm curious if you like

3041
02:30:34,840 --> 02:30:38,280
Speaker 2: admitton the Vegas I mean, Vegas is just tough, man,

3042
02:30:38,360 --> 02:30:38,959
Speaker 2: they really are.

3043
02:30:39,120 --> 02:30:43,000
Speaker 9: Yeah, I bet Vegas plus a dollar ten and I

3044
02:30:43,040 --> 02:30:45,920
Speaker 9: look again, I'm gonna I'm gonna say here, I don't

3045
02:30:46,040 --> 02:30:50,840
Speaker 9: understand why they're again, I don't get anything really for

3046
02:30:50,879 --> 02:30:52,400
Speaker 9: home ice. I will say that, even though they do

3047
02:30:52,440 --> 02:30:55,080
Speaker 9: have a great home ice, but I don't understand why

3048
02:30:55,200 --> 02:30:58,440
Speaker 9: Edmonton is really favorite here. During the year, Vegas had

3049
02:30:58,440 --> 02:31:02,360
Speaker 9: a slightly better record. Look again, you can't tell me

3050
02:31:02,480 --> 02:31:04,400
Speaker 9: that Vegas doesn't win this game at least fifty percent

3051
02:31:04,440 --> 02:31:05,840
Speaker 9: of the time. And you want to give me plus

3052
02:31:05,840 --> 02:31:09,800
Speaker 9: one ten over time after time after time, you know,

3053
02:31:10,160 --> 02:31:12,320
Speaker 9: in essence making me the bookie here getting a dollar

3054
02:31:12,400 --> 02:31:14,800
Speaker 9: ten to the Langa dollar ten. I'm gonna take it again.

3055
02:31:14,840 --> 02:31:15,600
Speaker 9: I think I.

3056
02:31:16,920 --> 02:31:20,199
Speaker 3: Think that's all about the admitted stars.

3057
02:31:20,520 --> 02:31:20,720
Speaker 4: You know.

3058
02:31:20,920 --> 02:31:23,520
Speaker 9: Yeah, well, look I you're saying Ricidle and Connor McDavid,

3059
02:31:23,520 --> 02:31:25,280
Speaker 9: that's arguably the two best players in the league.

3060
02:31:25,320 --> 02:31:25,760
Speaker 4: I get that.

3061
02:31:26,120 --> 02:31:28,360
Speaker 9: But Vegas, to me, Anthony is a you know, just

3062
02:31:28,560 --> 02:31:30,680
Speaker 9: it's been a great team for a few years now.

3063
02:31:30,720 --> 02:31:32,640
Speaker 9: This has been a they've been that They've actually I

3064
02:31:32,720 --> 02:31:36,360
Speaker 9: think the better pedigree team than Edmonton. Look again, I

3065
02:31:36,680 --> 02:31:38,440
Speaker 9: think Vegas wins. It was last night team thing. I

3066
02:31:38,480 --> 02:31:42,000
Speaker 9: bet uh Caroline against New Jersey. That line was picked

3067
02:31:42,040 --> 02:31:44,480
Speaker 9: them to again, same kind of exact same thing. Those

3068
02:31:44,720 --> 02:31:47,279
Speaker 9: series to be mirroreored each other, where Carolina was slightly

3069
02:31:47,280 --> 02:31:49,480
Speaker 9: better during the regular season. You want to give me them,

3070
02:31:49,480 --> 02:31:51,680
Speaker 9: pick them at home. I'm gonna take it. I took

3071
02:31:51,760 --> 02:31:53,160
Speaker 9: him in game one, I took him in game two.

3072
02:31:53,640 --> 02:31:56,120
Speaker 9: Same thing with with with Vegas, I took him in

3073
02:31:56,160 --> 02:31:58,600
Speaker 9: game one, I took them in game two. I think

3074
02:31:58,640 --> 02:32:01,040
Speaker 9: that they deserve to be more like a our thirty

3075
02:32:01,040 --> 02:32:03,920
Speaker 9: favorite Dour thirty five somewhere in that area. So if

3076
02:32:03,920 --> 02:32:05,440
Speaker 9: you want to give me plus one ten, I'm gonna

3077
02:32:05,440 --> 02:32:05,840
Speaker 9: grab it.

3078
02:32:07,200 --> 02:32:11,240
Speaker 2: How about Florida Toronto series goes back to Florida up

3079
02:32:11,320 --> 02:32:15,640
Speaker 2: to oh As the leaf are raillan.

3080
02:32:17,600 --> 02:32:20,680
Speaker 9: Yeah, look, this is a tougher one for me. Florida

3081
02:32:20,680 --> 02:32:22,640
Speaker 9: broke my heart. I had the Bruins at over thirty

3082
02:32:22,640 --> 02:32:24,200
Speaker 9: to one. I was thirty three to one on if

3083
02:32:24,240 --> 02:32:26,520
Speaker 9: I had the Bruins at to win the Stanley Cup

3084
02:32:26,760 --> 02:32:29,720
Speaker 9: before the year, and that ticket went up and smoke

3085
02:32:30,000 --> 02:32:32,080
Speaker 9: with what Florida did coming back from thirty one. Now,

3086
02:32:32,520 --> 02:32:36,440
Speaker 9: looky during the year, Toronto is a much better team,

3087
02:32:37,120 --> 02:32:39,160
Speaker 9: but they're laying again here, they're laying at dour thirty.

3088
02:32:39,160 --> 02:32:43,160
Speaker 9: I actually think that is the right price. I can't

3089
02:32:43,440 --> 02:32:45,200
Speaker 9: you know, this is not again, I don't bet just

3090
02:32:45,240 --> 02:32:47,680
Speaker 9: to bet. I think Toronto wins the game, but I'm

3091
02:32:47,680 --> 02:32:51,119
Speaker 9: not anxious to lay at dollar thirty here. I played

3092
02:32:51,160 --> 02:32:54,360
Speaker 9: Flarida getting a dollar seventy and a dollar eighty in Toronto.

3093
02:32:54,800 --> 02:32:56,800
Speaker 9: I much prefer those games, giving me in a game

3094
02:32:56,840 --> 02:32:58,440
Speaker 9: that I think are kind of closer to quin flips

3095
02:32:58,560 --> 02:33:01,400
Speaker 9: taking Florida. I'm not what is excited taking toronod laying

3096
02:33:01,440 --> 02:33:02,760
Speaker 9: at dollar thirty, but that would be my name.

3097
02:33:03,360 --> 02:33:04,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, now I'm with you.

3098
02:33:04,800 --> 02:33:08,920
Speaker 2: And then finally cracking Dallas, game moves to Seattle.

3099
02:33:08,959 --> 02:33:10,600
Speaker 4: It'll be wild in Seattle.

3100
02:33:12,080 --> 02:33:14,480
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean again, look, I do think that again

3101
02:33:14,520 --> 02:33:18,600
Speaker 9: in this series, Seattle has been great, made one hundred points.

3102
02:33:18,879 --> 02:33:21,640
Speaker 9: But to me, Dallas actually was the better team. This

3103
02:33:21,680 --> 02:33:24,440
Speaker 9: one is still a little bit more expensive. You play

3104
02:33:24,440 --> 02:33:28,800
Speaker 9: about a dollar forty with Dallas. Look again, that's about

3105
02:33:28,800 --> 02:33:30,840
Speaker 9: what I would have priced it like. I would have

3106
02:33:30,879 --> 02:33:34,400
Speaker 9: meet Dallas right around at dollar thirty area a dollar forty. Again,

3107
02:33:34,520 --> 02:33:36,600
Speaker 9: this to me is a tough game as well. I

3108
02:33:36,640 --> 02:33:38,360
Speaker 9: do think Dallas wins the game, though I do think

3109
02:33:38,400 --> 02:33:41,240
Speaker 9: Dallas is actually better than Seattle on Seattle's had a

3110
02:33:41,280 --> 02:33:43,920
Speaker 9: couple of injuries as well on top of it. If

3111
02:33:43,920 --> 02:33:45,680
Speaker 9: you could shop it and get a closer to dollar thirty,

3112
02:33:45,680 --> 02:33:47,400
Speaker 9: that much better. But I do think Dallas wins.

3113
02:33:47,720 --> 02:33:52,279
Speaker 2: Gotcha, Hey, big brain, great stuff, buddy, I'd shake it

3114
02:33:52,000 --> 02:33:52,800
Speaker 2: off with me.

3115
02:33:54,080 --> 02:33:54,959
Speaker 4: I'll see you later.

3116
02:33:55,400 --> 02:33:59,920
Speaker 2: Here he is Brad Feinberg, the big brain our betting addle.

3117
02:34:00,760 --> 02:34:03,160
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3118
02:34:03,280 --> 02:34:06,160
Speaker 2: want to hang with you guys for the segment right

3119
02:34:06,200 --> 02:34:17,600
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3120
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3121
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3122
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3123
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3126
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3128
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3129
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3130
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3136
02:35:32,200 --> 02:35:34,680
Speaker 2: Tatum highlight in there. Absolutely could have been.

3137
02:35:34,920 --> 02:35:36,840
Speaker 4: Would have done that to you guys, So thank you

3138
02:35:36,920 --> 02:35:37,200
Speaker 4: for that.

3139
02:35:37,280 --> 02:35:39,920
Speaker 5: And shout out to Al McCoy retiring after fifty one

3140
02:35:39,959 --> 02:35:42,000
Speaker 5: seasons as the voice of the Phoenix Suns on radio.

3141
02:35:42,080 --> 02:35:44,440
Speaker 5: So that was him on the call there, been doing

3142
02:35:44,440 --> 02:35:45,360
Speaker 5: it for a long time.

3143
02:35:45,480 --> 02:35:49,360
Speaker 2: So yeah, he's fantastic man. Legend, Yes, legend, complete legend.

3144
02:35:50,120 --> 02:35:52,840
Speaker 2: I love those old I love those old guys, those

3145
02:35:53,560 --> 02:35:54,920
Speaker 2: veteran broadcasters.

3146
02:35:55,000 --> 02:35:57,480
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Shazziam Shaws I am.

3147
02:35:57,760 --> 02:36:01,920
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you know it's funny.

3148
02:36:01,920 --> 02:36:05,039
Speaker 4: It's so uh like.

3149
02:36:06,520 --> 02:36:11,400
Speaker 2: Those phrases are just sweet almost, you know, like they're

3150
02:36:12,120 --> 02:36:13,120
Speaker 2: they're so homey.

3151
02:36:14,320 --> 02:36:16,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, they feel good in a sense if that makes sense.

3152
02:36:17,120 --> 02:36:19,080
Speaker 4: No, And it feels almost feels like comfort.

3153
02:36:19,400 --> 02:36:21,800
Speaker 2: You know, Yes, that's what I mean, homie, And yeah

3154
02:36:21,800 --> 02:36:25,160
Speaker 2: it's nice. It's like, oh yeah, simple.

3155
02:36:24,800 --> 02:36:27,959
Speaker 3: And you know main Street, that's what it feels like.

3156
02:36:28,040 --> 02:36:29,959
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like allers right in the world. You used

3157
02:36:29,959 --> 02:36:32,680
Speaker 5: to hear the late Vincecully at the time for a

3158
02:36:32,760 --> 02:36:38,199
Speaker 5: Dodger baseball Yeah, yeah, that's hard to beat, you know. Yeah,

3159
02:36:38,520 --> 02:36:41,040
Speaker 5: yeah we had you have the great Hell, Harry Kallis

3160
02:36:41,080 --> 02:36:47,200
Speaker 5: out there for a long time time. Ruby are still

3161
02:36:47,240 --> 02:36:47,800
Speaker 5: doing this thing.

3162
02:36:48,120 --> 02:36:51,960
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, those guys. That's baseball, man. I appreciate

3163
02:36:52,000 --> 02:36:54,440
Speaker 4: these legends while we have them. Yeah, I love it.

3164
02:36:54,800 --> 02:36:55,680
Speaker 4: I love that at all.

3165
02:36:56,040 --> 02:36:59,840
Speaker 3: So, uh today, are you one of the game tonight?

3166
02:37:00,160 --> 02:37:01,959
Speaker 5: I am not going to the game tonight. I'm actually

3167
02:37:02,320 --> 02:37:03,879
Speaker 5: celebrating my anniversary weekend.

3168
02:37:04,200 --> 02:37:08,520
Speaker 2: So uh heymerger to you and the and the bride.

3169
02:37:08,560 --> 02:37:11,080
Speaker 4: Appreciate it, Thank you, brother, appreciate it. So that Suice,

3170
02:37:11,120 --> 02:37:13,400
Speaker 4: what are you doing? You get little romance?

3171
02:37:13,480 --> 02:37:15,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm gonna have just gonna have some dinner. Nothing

3172
02:37:15,440 --> 02:37:17,800
Speaker 5: too crazy. Both of us are pretty low key. Uh So,

3173
02:37:18,000 --> 02:37:20,480
Speaker 5: just gonna just gonna have dinner tonight. For the most part,

3174
02:37:20,480 --> 02:37:22,240
Speaker 5: that's pretty much it. Nothing too insane.

3175
02:37:22,920 --> 02:37:26,560
Speaker 2: Ah, that's beautiful man that I can't believe it already

3176
02:37:26,600 --> 02:37:27,080
Speaker 2: flew by.

3177
02:37:27,240 --> 02:37:29,560
Speaker 5: You're telling me, I don't know. You were just in

3178
02:37:29,600 --> 02:37:32,680
Speaker 5: Italy for a honeymoon. Sure it was, That's right. That

3179
02:37:32,959 --> 02:37:35,640
Speaker 5: is not gonna go back sooner than later, that's what damn.

3180
02:37:35,640 --> 02:37:35,879
Speaker 4: Sure.

3181
02:37:36,200 --> 02:37:39,640
Speaker 3: Ah, that's beautiful. Well are you gonna h Will you

3182
02:37:39,959 --> 02:37:41,120
Speaker 3: be able to watch the game?

3183
02:37:41,160 --> 02:37:44,199
Speaker 5: Because I know that's you know, part of your Oh yeah,

3184
02:37:44,320 --> 02:37:48,440
Speaker 5: oh absolutely definitely. As as important as the anniversary is,

3185
02:37:48,480 --> 02:37:51,480
Speaker 5: she realizes how important, you know, this game is tonight

3186
02:37:51,520 --> 02:37:53,240
Speaker 5: as well. So we were able to work it around

3187
02:37:53,240 --> 02:37:55,080
Speaker 5: the schedule to make to make sure that we can

3188
02:37:55,560 --> 02:37:57,080
Speaker 5: keep an eye on the Laker Warrior game.

3189
02:37:57,120 --> 02:37:58,720
Speaker 4: For sure, this is a big one.

3190
02:37:58,600 --> 02:38:01,160
Speaker 5: As big as it was for Philadelia and Boston last

3191
02:38:01,200 --> 02:38:03,480
Speaker 5: night when you talked about Philly had to win that game.

3192
02:38:03,520 --> 02:38:05,840
Speaker 5: I do think in some senses, this is a must

3193
02:38:05,879 --> 02:38:06,920
Speaker 5: win for the Lakers tonight.

3194
02:38:08,320 --> 02:38:13,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very Actually, it's incredibly similar, right, you know,

3195
02:38:13,920 --> 02:38:16,840
Speaker 2: where Lakers take Game one against Golden State, the Sixers

3196
02:38:16,840 --> 02:38:21,080
Speaker 2: took Game one against Boston and then both teams, both

3197
02:38:21,360 --> 02:38:24,600
Speaker 2: Golden State and Boston win by blowout in Game two,

3198
02:38:25,360 --> 02:38:29,240
Speaker 2: which sets the stage for Game three and last night,

3199
02:38:29,320 --> 02:38:32,440
Speaker 2: the Sixers could not defend their home court. And I

3200
02:38:32,480 --> 02:38:34,440
Speaker 2: agree with you. That goes back to what we said

3201
02:38:34,440 --> 02:38:38,840
Speaker 2: early the show with my man Tim Legler, and he said, look,

3202
02:38:38,879 --> 02:38:42,640
Speaker 2: all splits are not equal. So when you lose game

3203
02:38:42,720 --> 02:38:45,760
Speaker 2: two after winning Game one, you get blown out. You know,

3204
02:38:45,920 --> 02:38:49,240
Speaker 2: sometimes you gotta make sure that you punch back.

3205
02:38:49,920 --> 02:38:51,959
Speaker 3: I think you're right. I think the Lakers have to.

3206
02:38:52,000 --> 02:38:54,920
Speaker 5: Win tonight, especially coming back home. It means so much

3207
02:38:54,920 --> 02:38:56,840
Speaker 5: to be able to make a statement and protect your

3208
02:38:56,920 --> 02:38:59,360
Speaker 5: home court. Because if you come home tonight and you

3209
02:38:59,440 --> 02:39:02,240
Speaker 5: lose the goal state, I mean, the momentum is car

3210
02:39:02,440 --> 02:39:04,440
Speaker 5: already on their side because they won Game two, but

3211
02:39:04,480 --> 02:39:06,240
Speaker 5: now they would have taken one on your home floor

3212
02:39:06,240 --> 02:39:09,240
Speaker 5: with another chance to steal one a couple of nights later. Uh,

3213
02:39:09,360 --> 02:39:11,520
Speaker 5: that's something the Lakers can't can't allow to happen.

3214
02:39:12,000 --> 02:39:15,000
Speaker 2: No, I think you're You're just you're spot on there.

3215
02:39:15,520 --> 02:39:17,640
Speaker 2: I mean, I think they have to win the night

3216
02:39:17,720 --> 02:39:20,279
Speaker 2: and it goes it's going to be back to Anthony Davis.

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02:39:20,400 --> 02:39:23,360
Speaker 2: I mean, that's the day. He has to dominate down low.

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02:39:24,120 --> 02:39:25,200
Speaker 2: No one could guard him.

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02:39:25,560 --> 02:39:27,920
Speaker 5: No, he has to be more assertive. He missed some

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02:39:27,959 --> 02:39:30,600
Speaker 5: of the shots that he was making in game one. Uh,

3221
02:39:30,640 --> 02:39:32,480
Speaker 5: he has to get get back to it and be aggressive.

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02:39:32,480 --> 02:39:33,000
Speaker 4: And that's it.

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Speaker 3: Everybody. We love you, guys, See you next week.