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Speaker 2: Good morning, sweet world. Welcome to the Not Dumps podcast

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Speaker 2: on the Athletic Network. It's Thursday, April twenty fifth, twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty four. I'm j Ski hearing the Classic Factory and

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Speaker 2: alongside me as always Task Melice.

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Speaker 2: look at your task. I looked like pasted you at

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Speaker 2: It didn't.

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Speaker 4: Look at that.

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Speaker 2: On today's show, we will be getting into the updown report.

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Speaker 2: Got some fun topics within that, and we got a

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Speaker 2: for that tweet of the night. But let's start with

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Speaker 2: the games. Last night, only two on and we had

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Speaker 2: the Miami Heat hitting a franchise playoff record twenty three

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Speaker 2: saying the Celtics are going to run the gauntlet there

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Speaker 2: in the Eastern Conference zone. Right, that's a rap as well,

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Speaker 2: But what a performance here from Miami. Everybody getting in

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Speaker 3: with friends, and that half I thought, all right, these

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Speaker 3: It was the third quarter that the Heat stepped up

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Speaker 3: the Celtics three balls by switching everything. Their switch in

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Speaker 3: He started the game extremely great with fourteen points in

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Speaker 3: allowing Bam to do his thing. That was a huge

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Speaker 4: Only forty points in the second half for Boston and

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Speaker 4: this one was not right. The Heat were switching everything,

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Speaker 4: Everybody said he was going to be the difference literally

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Speaker 4: In the post, they were trying, that's what you're supposed

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Speaker 4: I mean is one team gonna hit twenty plus threes

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Speaker 4: But I thought a great game plan from Spo to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the Heat were very open about their game

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Speaker 2: plan after Game one, like over these last couple of days,

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Speaker 2: Spoe was saying, we got to get up a lot

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Speaker 2: step into open shots. I went back and watched every

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Speaker 2: have touched pain on so many of these. They actually didn't.

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Speaker 2: There was Bam setting big ass screens and just creating

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Speaker 2: you know, Duncan Robinson who was the one that actually

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Speaker 4: It wasn't like I.

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Speaker 2: Think it was seven of their twenty three three pointers,

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Speaker 2: That's fine, they started like that, but a lot of

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Speaker 2: were just on fire. It just became contagious from Miami. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: will they do this again? Twenty three is a hell

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Speaker 4: I think they do it all the time against Boston.

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Speaker 4: Cooper Moore had that had back going around last night.

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Speaker 4: Miami has four playoff games in the past two postseasons

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Speaker 4: with fifty percent shooting from three, only against Boston. No

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Speaker 4: But I also thought Bam was awesome in this one.

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Speaker 4: I thought Tyler Hero was great. No Jimmy Butler, somebody's

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Speaker 4: They took eight shots at the rim, made five of them.

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Speaker 4: They only made eight shots in the paint period. This

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Speaker 3: Obviously, Hero was awesome at passing the ball, as Spolzer

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Speaker 3: the hero was tough defensively. Mentioned him guarding Porzingis, and

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Speaker 3: And he played big. He really did. Kristaps Worzingis. He

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Speaker 3: And that's the beauty of it. So so he's painting

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Speaker 2: Well, this was the wild part from this game. Miami

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Speaker 3: But yeah, it was the defense.

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Speaker 2: It was the defense. It was a great game plan.

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Speaker 4: I would be I would be an ultimate Caleb Martin

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Speaker 4: looking at his numbers between the playoffs last season and

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Speaker 4: hit thirty two three pointers. A quarter of his threes

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's why he closes games. He doesn't necessarily

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Speaker 3: He you know, he was, he was out there to

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Speaker 2: He just loves playing the Celtics. Man, he can't miss

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Speaker 2: when he plays him. I love how quickly things changing

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Speaker 2: not they're not overhelping from those shooters on Boston. They're like, hey,

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Speaker 2: game plan. I can't wait to see game three Saturday,

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Speaker 3: I also saw that's a three on Friday, the old

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Speaker 2: Thirty pm Eastern start time. There is no in Indiana

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Speaker 3: That's right, five point thirty eight, ten thirty Yeah weird. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I got a suggestion for the Mind the Game podcast. Okay,

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Speaker 4: we've heard about the Gortat screen on there, We've heard

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Speaker 4: It should be an offense to foul, but not in

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Speaker 2: That is the master. It led to so many of

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Speaker 2: He sets it in your right and then he's sort

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Speaker 4: Yes, keeps moving doesn't should be a foul. Should absolutely

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Speaker 2: It doesn't. He doesn't grab them. But you're absolutely right.

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Speaker 2: It's the moving, the pivoting of the guy, the defender

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Speaker 3: Absolutely. Before we started to allow defense this season, I

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Speaker 2: Don't stick out your ass or you know, trip someone

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Speaker 3: You just hit the floor. Another thing I thought, going

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Speaker 3: Nobody calls anything in the NBA, but in FEEBA he

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Speaker 3: He got away with the travel before hitting the three.

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Speaker 2: It was a nice play. It was a good angle too,

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Speaker 2: Great game from telling here, a great game from Bam.

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Speaker 2: They tweeted, I saw either last night or this morning.

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Speaker 2: If you want to spend some time rewatching all of

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Speaker 3: I'm just looking at the Celtics sent and what they

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Speaker 3: can definitely say, like skits, you like to say you

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Speaker 2: I like, instead of the cakewalk where you get a

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Speaker 2: it's beneficial if you get maybe tested, maybe a loss,

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Speaker 2: maybe a wake up call, whatever you want to call it.

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Speaker 3: We could be saying that about this Celtics team, this.

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Speaker 3: The heat going to win this is over.

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Speaker 2: In five or do you think it's more likely this

433
00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:50,480
Speaker 2: is a much longer series. I'll ask that. Now it's

434
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Speaker 2: down to the best of five.

435
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Speaker 3: I think the Celtics responding Game three big time, because

436
00:19:56,640 --> 00:20:00,000
Speaker 3: they freaking have to, because they've seen this movie before

437
00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:03,800
Speaker 3: with the Miami Heat TBT. You know, I made a

438
00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:08,879
Speaker 3: dumber prediction after Game one, which was supposed to be

439
00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:11,840
Speaker 3: a bold prediction, so I won't make one. Now, you guys,

440
00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:14,639
Speaker 3: Do you guys think the Miami Heat can possibly beat

441
00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:16,760
Speaker 3: the Boss Celtics. I think that's what it comes down to.

442
00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:17,920
Speaker 4: They can beat them one more time.

443
00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:21,560
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, I think they split. You think maybe we

444
00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:24,000
Speaker 2: have a best of three series in the end. Is

445
00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:25,200
Speaker 2: that possible? Yeah?

446
00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:27,840
Speaker 4: Sure, I think it's too too yeah coming.

447
00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:29,679
Speaker 2: Home to Okay, Well, they're feeling the confidence. I mean

448
00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:32,400
Speaker 2: they obviously without their star Guy and Jimmy, without even

449
00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:35,200
Speaker 2: Terry Rozier, who should return. I think in this series,

450
00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:37,240
Speaker 2: and the longer it goes, more likely he does. From

451
00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:40,360
Speaker 2: the next spasms, they definitely. I mean it's like, well,

452
00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:41,960
Speaker 2: it's similar to last year with the Heat. It's just

453
00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:43,240
Speaker 2: like us against the world.

454
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Speaker 5: Man.

455
00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:46,000
Speaker 2: Nobody believes in this like it's like, oh my god

456
00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:48,840
Speaker 2: again and they're like, yeah again again.

457
00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:52,000
Speaker 4: We beat the Bulls in the playoff, playing again, that's

458
00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:54,480
Speaker 4: the exact same thing. Yeah, some insane hats on the

459
00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:57,880
Speaker 4: Miami Heat. Huh. Terry Rozier was wild and then Bam

460
00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:01,440
Speaker 4: and Tyler Hero. Bam showed up in the stocking hat

461
00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:03,520
Speaker 4: popped up on the top of his head, and Hero

462
00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:07,159
Speaker 4: was in a Gilligan's Island bucket hat. He loves the bucket.

463
00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:09,640
Speaker 4: He loves a bucket hat. Big headwear team.

464
00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:10,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess they are.

465
00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:13,440
Speaker 3: The stocking hat. I didn't see it. I can't wait

466
00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:13,960
Speaker 3: to see it.

467
00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:16,000
Speaker 2: We'll look it up and while you do, let's move over.

468
00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:17,240
Speaker 3: Oh I like it.

469
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Speaker 2: To the second game. Okay, it's like a two because

470
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Speaker 2: your hatt's too.

471
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Speaker 3: Hat all right.

472
00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:28,960
Speaker 2: We had sg a thirty three points leading the Thunder

473
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Speaker 2: past the Pelicans one twenty four ninety two. Okay, see

474
00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:35,640
Speaker 2: he takes the two zero lead. It was the ass

475
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Speaker 2: kicking some of us saw coming.

476
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Speaker 5: This.

477
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Speaker 2: Yeah, look they they were you know again, that was

478
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Speaker 2: the game one jitters, there's no doubt, and Pelicans are

479
00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:46,600
Speaker 2: a good team, but they're not that great without Zion

480
00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:51,240
Speaker 2: Williamson and definitely not without brandon Ingram. Is he playing hobbled, Well,

481
00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:55,840
Speaker 2: yeah he is. Man Lou Dort is all over that game.

482
00:21:56,560 --> 00:22:01,120
Speaker 2: He's in his shorts. It's uncomfortable, the door short. Yeah,

483
00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:04,520
Speaker 2: but yeah, I just expected a much better sort of freer,

484
00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:08,280
Speaker 2: more fast paced, looser game here from OKC. Hence why

485
00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:09,800
Speaker 2: they thought. I thought maybe they would run up the

486
00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:11,520
Speaker 2: score and have a big win, and they did. But

487
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Speaker 2: Sga with thirty three, Chat with twenty six and seven,

488
00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:17,280
Speaker 2: and then j Dubb with twenty one. That's that's their

489
00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:22,440
Speaker 2: big three. Hilarious started this game though, TK with valentoutas

490
00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:26,760
Speaker 2: scoring inside at will, but then Chet just countering it

491
00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:29,160
Speaker 2: by stretching the floor and banging home three after three

492
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Speaker 2: after three.

493
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Speaker 3: There.

494
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Speaker 2: It's fun to watch the big guys do it in

495
00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:32,960
Speaker 2: different ways there.

496
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

497
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Speaker 4: Yeah, And it didn't matter at all, Yeah, because Chat

498
00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:39,879
Speaker 4: out scored him in the first quarter. Yeah, Chat completely

499
00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:42,840
Speaker 4: outplayed him. And that's the problem for the Pelicans. Their

500
00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:45,960
Speaker 4: most reliable offense right now is Valentunis. He's the only

501
00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,600
Speaker 4: guy who can really get his shot because, like you're saying,

502
00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:51,760
Speaker 4: Dort is all over brandon Ingram, picking him up full court.

503
00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:53,360
Speaker 4: There are times when they set like an off ball

504
00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:55,960
Speaker 4: screen for Ingram. He screams around, catches it at the

505
00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:58,080
Speaker 4: free throw line, there's nobody near him, takes the shot.

506
00:22:58,119 --> 00:22:59,919
Speaker 4: They got to do more with that, But then who

507
00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:03,640
Speaker 4: handling the ball? C J McCollum. I'm not a fantasy

508
00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:05,720
Speaker 4: J McCollum in this series so far, but it looked

509
00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:07,800
Speaker 4: like no nerves for the Thunder. This felt like a

510
00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:10,399
Speaker 4: regular season game. They were playing free and easy, forced

511
00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:13,080
Speaker 4: eighteen turnovers, turned that into twenty two points, and somehow

512
00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:16,640
Speaker 4: forced eight offensive fouls on the Pelicans. I mean, part

513
00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:19,199
Speaker 4: of it is that, like Valentunis is just shoulder mode

514
00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:21,480
Speaker 4: the entire time. When you got doored on you, you're

515
00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:23,440
Speaker 4: trying to get them off brandon. Ingram has it tough

516
00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:26,840
Speaker 4: out there as well, but New Orleans looked totally rattled.

517
00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:28,880
Speaker 4: They missed their opportunity in game one to steal one,

518
00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:30,679
Speaker 4: so they got a hope for something a little bit

519
00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:32,840
Speaker 4: better in game two or game three. Pack home.

520
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was wild seeing the beginning of this game

521
00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:38,720
Speaker 3: with it was like old school NBA versus new school

522
00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:43,360
Speaker 3: NBA with Chet lighting it up from three, while Valentunas

523
00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:45,159
Speaker 3: was just going in the post every single time. I

524
00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:50,119
Speaker 3: expected the Pelicans to respond a little bit after that,

525
00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:52,879
Speaker 3: considering they got the first eleven points from their center.

526
00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:56,679
Speaker 3: But it is unfortunate that brandon Ingram isn't himself, and

527
00:23:56,720 --> 00:24:00,560
Speaker 3: I just expected more more moving screens really to get

528
00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:04,120
Speaker 3: him open to lay Dort out or move Dort around.

529
00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:06,440
Speaker 3: But Dort was fighting as much as he possibly could

530
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:09,000
Speaker 3: to get around those screens, and he was doing a

531
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:13,399
Speaker 3: good job of getting to brandon Ingram, while the Thunder

532
00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:16,560
Speaker 3: in general just did a better job. Talking about big

533
00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:19,800
Speaker 3: men rebounding the ball. One thing that they have as

534
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:22,119
Speaker 3: an issue is their defensive rebounding. It is a bit

535
00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:24,880
Speaker 3: of an issue. Chat is their five and obviously there's

536
00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:29,199
Speaker 3: you know, with they're with Gid and Jalen Williams. You know,

537
00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:32,560
Speaker 3: they're they're three to four giddy. I called him giddy giddy,

538
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:34,760
Speaker 3: you know, and Jalen Williams and Lou Dort as their

539
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,199
Speaker 3: two three four. They're undersize. So they allowed eighteen offensive

540
00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:38,879
Speaker 3: rebounds in game one and that dropped to eight in

541
00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:41,280
Speaker 3: game two because they are long, lean guys. Because they

542
00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:44,080
Speaker 3: have all five players that can shoot, and that opens

543
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:46,960
Speaker 3: up the lane for Shay Gilders Alexander's what they want.

544
00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:50,880
Speaker 3: But they fought in game two for those defensive boards

545
00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:51,560
Speaker 3: and that helped a lot.

546
00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:55,000
Speaker 2: All five thunderstarters scored in double digit figures. They shot

547
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:58,040
Speaker 2: nearly sixty percent from the field as a team, forty

548
00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:01,639
Speaker 2: eight percent from deep. Everybody was feeling good and after

549
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:05,440
Speaker 2: a rough Game one start, Chet Holmgren has thirty eight points,

550
00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,840
Speaker 2: thirteen boards, five blocks in his last seven quarters, fourteen

551
00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:11,120
Speaker 2: to twenty from the floor, four of eight from deep,

552
00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:13,119
Speaker 2: and he'd a lot of those early on in that

553
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:16,560
Speaker 2: game where yeah, JV was putting his skinny ass in

554
00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:18,280
Speaker 2: the basket, but Chet was like, it's all right, I'm

555
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:20,560
Speaker 2: gonna get three back on the other end, just stepping

556
00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:22,480
Speaker 2: into it. And like you said, that's sort of as

557
00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 2: much as JV was scoring, it was like, ooh, that's

558
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:28,640
Speaker 2: their best option. Also, he's going to tire. I've seen

559
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:31,880
Speaker 2: this JV story before. He's a big, you know, big

560
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:33,439
Speaker 2: big dude. He's not gonna be able to do this

561
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:36,320
Speaker 2: for forty minutes. And then Chet's just like just splashing

562
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:38,960
Speaker 2: wide open threes because that's a very difficult matchup on

563
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,239
Speaker 2: the other end for JV. And then Larry nance got

564
00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:43,600
Speaker 2: injured in this game as well, with an ankle injury.

565
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:45,720
Speaker 2: We'll see if you know what how severe that is

566
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:47,520
Speaker 2: or game three. It's not like he was lighting it

567
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,200
Speaker 2: up either in this one. But I wonder if Willie

568
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:53,520
Speaker 2: Green needs to get sort of maybe maybe more Jose

569
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:55,560
Speaker 2: Alorado as like just a point guard. You said it,

570
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:58,800
Speaker 2: CJS as the ball handler. Though, there's just with and

571
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 2: without Ingram being able to or just sort of drive

572
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 2: and set up guys me, I know you rolled your

573
00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:09,080
Speaker 2: eyes at Jose Ronald. It ain't I just I just

574
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:13,240
Speaker 2: want somebody to sick, guy, like, go buy somebody. But yeah,

575
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:15,360
Speaker 2: maybe there is no answer without points ion not there.

576
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's unfortunate. Obviously brandon Ingram isn't one hundred

577
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:21,399
Speaker 3: percent of himself because one hundred percent of himself as

578
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,520
Speaker 3: an All Star, he has been good. But in this game,

579
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:27,520
Speaker 3: only shooting ten times it first half, I think, yeah

580
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,440
Speaker 3: ten overall, I ain't going to do it. And that's

581
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:32,720
Speaker 3: why the Kings to me in the play and Tournament

582
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:36,240
Speaker 3: looked like a better option to give the Thunder a

583
00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 3: bit of a push, a bit of a challenge because

584
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 3: Ingram has been hurt and hasn't been himself. He needs

585
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:45,240
Speaker 3: to shoot more. That's obviously Keyan McCollum. Wasn't that help

586
00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:49,840
Speaker 3: in this one? That was a big problem. All do

587
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:50,679
Speaker 3: we hit a million?

588
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:54,240
Speaker 2: Lou? That's Lou Dort Hello, great game last night.

589
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:58,880
Speaker 3: The door's open, come on in, Yeah, no problem.

590
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:02,359
Speaker 2: I think it's Backyard Gear Care company showing up the

591
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:05,320
Speaker 2: take care of the mosquitoes.

592
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, it does. Think that we're just not getting a

593
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:07,640
Speaker 3: good one.

594
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:09,879
Speaker 4: Aid here, we're not getting a good one, aid one

595
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:11,080
Speaker 4: of the one's one one.

596
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,199
Speaker 3: No here, Yeah, I just here. I just mean in

597
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:15,160
Speaker 3: this one, the other the other one, Yes, the other

598
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 3: one is fantastic. Okay, yeah, I just mean this one.

599
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:19,479
Speaker 3: That's why the Kings would have been better, because they

600
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 3: just have their better players are playing well and healthy.

601
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 2: We have a Gordon Hayward cardio update from John Holland.

602
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 2: Fifteen minutes in this series. Zero field goal attempts, Yeah,

603
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:33,440
Speaker 2: zero free throw attempts.

604
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,120
Speaker 3: Hey. I like the maneuver there by Dagnall to play

605
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:36,680
Speaker 3: him less.

606
00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, I know, it's just wild. He's played fifteen

607
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:42,679
Speaker 2: minutes in this series and I think have maybe a

608
00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:44,960
Speaker 2: handful of rebounds. I think that's what he's done.

609
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:46,960
Speaker 3: A whole lot of a second. He played nine and

610
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:49,639
Speaker 3: ten in this He's played nineteen minutes.

611
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 2: I believe was tweeting this during the game.

612
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:56,080
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, that's what happens.

613
00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 4: But he literally looks like a group of teenage had

614
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:02,239
Speaker 4: nine guys to play, so they had to get their

615
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,800
Speaker 4: dad to come and fill in. That doesn't make sense

616
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:07,880
Speaker 4: that he's out there at all, just jogging around trying

617
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 4: not to get hurt.

618
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, so a lot of people are responding to others

619
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 2: tweet like I didn't even know he was on the team.

620
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 2: He's like fair if you didn't know that.

621
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,320
Speaker 3: They've got the youngest playoff team other than Gordon Hayward.

622
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:24,480
Speaker 3: Everybody's young, and no he is. Yeah, he's not one

623
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:26,640
Speaker 3: of them. He's not like the rest of the guys

624
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:30,159
Speaker 3: who are extremely young and athletic. Aaron Wiggins needs to

625
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,639
Speaker 3: play more. He was great. Keyson Wallas was great. He

626
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 3: didn't four shots in this one, was just moving the ball.

627
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 3: And just to say about this youthful team, how they

628
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 3: responded to Game one, which was lights too bright. We

629
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,120
Speaker 3: saw what the Cleveland Cavaliers did last year. They lost

630
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:48,000
Speaker 3: to the New York Knicks in that series because the

631
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 3: lights were too bright, and in this one they responded.

632
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:53,160
Speaker 3: So that's a great response for this team that are

633
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:55,960
Speaker 3: is being questioned ken this team advanced because they're too young. Well,

634
00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 3: it's a great response.

635
00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 2: Yeah. After game one, all I heard was herb Jones

636
00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 2: is the SGA stopper and that's not true because he

637
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 2: kicked his ass last night. That was a good bounce

638
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 2: back from an MVP finalist, a guy that if there

639
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 2: are gonna go far, he's gonna have to have these

640
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,880
Speaker 2: monster games, like the shots that he's hits. I love

641
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 2: like the reaction he gets out of like you know,

642
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 2: Jamal Crawford and guys like that, like they're going like

643
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 2: what Wow, that's tough. Just his ability to stop on

644
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 2: a dime, create space and all that and then to

645
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 2: hit very difficult mid range jumpers. Still in this game,

646
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 2: he was awesome. Awesome. Thirty three have sort of got

647
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:32,360
Speaker 2: overlood there because a lot of talk about chat. Everybody contributed,

648
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 2: well besides maybe Gordon Hayward, but that's okay. He's there

649
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 2: for the vibes. He's there to take everybody out for

650
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 2: pizza after.

651
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, if they had nine guys to stop playing exactly.

652
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 2: You gotta have the subs anything else on this one?

653
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 2: You think this is wrapped up fairly soon? Maybe the

654
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 2: Pels grab one in New Orleans. What do you think?

655
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 3: I don't know.

656
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 2: You're leaning more.

657
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:56,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, we could sweep you get the brooms out. Pelicans

658
00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 3: are a great road team. Not so, No, they have

659
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,640
Speaker 3: a better road record. No, I think. Okay, he feels good.

660
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 2: What would you lean here? Sweep or five? I guess

661
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 2: is where we're getting at.

662
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 4: I would lean sweep. But certainly the Pelicans could hit

663
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:13,720
Speaker 4: twenty threes. It happens. We've seen it every night.

664
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 2: It's every second night in this league. Yeah, all right,

665
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 2: let's get into the up down report. Back to that

666
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:28,240
Speaker 2: Heat game, because after the Heat tied the series with

667
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:31,600
Speaker 2: that pretty impressive game to win, Jimmy Butler went on

668
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:35,720
Speaker 2: Instagram to troll his opponents, and he had the caption

669
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 2: here with a fun photoshop job feeling cute. Might delete later.

670
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 2: He wrote that under a photo of a quote by

671
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:46,440
Speaker 2: Celtics card Jayleen Brown last year and then paych I

672
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 2: ain't deleting shit, and uh yeah it's got Did Jimmy

673
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 2: do the photoshop? Did you get somebody to do it?

674
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,440
Speaker 2: But Jimmy's face on Jaylen Brown's body there. That is

675
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 2: alluding to last year when Boston was down three to

676
00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:02,400
Speaker 2: the Heat in the Eastern Conference Finals and Jayalen you know,

677
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 2: said don't let us get one. And then it got

678
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 2: interesting because they won three straight, but they didn't do it,

679
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 2: and then he beat them on Game seven in Boston. So, uh,

680
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 2: the question is for everybody joining us live, for all

681
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 2: the podcast listeners, and most importantly for you two guys.

682
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 2: Thumbs up, her thumbs down on Jimmy Butler trolling Jalen

683
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 2: Brown and the Celtics on IG.

684
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 4: I gotta go all hard sideways on this one.

685
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 2: I thought you'd be way.

686
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 4: He's not playing. He's not playing this Ben Simmons post.

687
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 4: It's like Ben Simmons holding a glass of wine while

688
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 4: he's watching the game on TV. Okay, but I did laugh.

689
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 4: It was funny, Yeah, exactly, all.

690
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, I too, am both up and down. I'm

691
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 3: up because I like the trash talk. I enjoy it.

692
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,520
Speaker 3: Although I'm down. I don't like seeing Jimmy Butler on

693
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 3: the Celtics jersey. He was wearing a Celtics jersey. Kind

694
00:31:56,640 --> 00:32:00,160
Speaker 3: of strange, kind of strange. He's got a beard there.

695
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 3: It's a bad photoshop. Is that that's not Jimmy Butler's beard,

696
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,640
Speaker 3: that's not as beard. Also, I mean, I do I

697
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 3: do look hilarious. It does look funny, although I do

698
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 3: kind of like the caption feeling cute might delete later. Yeah,

699
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 3: we got something now. I was gonna put it back up,

700
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 3: but it came up there. Well, it came up at

701
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 3: the end after you you recovered. Anyways, the feeling cute

702
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 3: might delete later. Psych. I ain't dealing ship for old people.

703
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 3: The word psych works. Young people don't use that anymore.

704
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 3: I would go, feeling cute my delete later skirt. I'm

705
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 3: deleting that. That's what I would do personally if I was,

706
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 3: if I was writing Jimmy Butler's captions. But you know,

707
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 3: I like it. I like it, but.

708
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 2: As it's brand, this is perfectly on brand for Jimmy Butler,

709
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 2: playing or not playing. He's gonna have some fun on

710
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,600
Speaker 2: social media. And yeah, I liked it. I thought the

711
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 2: photoshop was fine. I want to know if he did it,

712
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 2: and uh, I do like I do like him censoring

713
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 2: himself for some weird reasons. Blankly blagic. Okay, that was

714
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 2: actually in the caption that wasn't us doing it. And yeah,

715
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 2: I mean he's feeling good about his team here. They're

716
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 2: in their heads whether for whatever reason they have the

717
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 2: Celtics number, so to speak, and he's just trying to

718
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:21,480
Speaker 2: pile on here. But it's funny. He's not playing, but

719
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 2: maybe he will, maybe he'll come back.

720
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 3: But this is some flight material that they could talk about,

721
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 3: the Celtics could talk about. You see what Jimmy Butler

722
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 3: put up. They shouldn't need it, obviously, but he's kind

723
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 3: of poking the Celtics with something that they weren't even

724
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 3: able to accomplish, which is kind of strange, you know.

725
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 5: You know.

726
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 3: Anyway, anyway, looking forward.

727
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 2: Well, thumbs up, er thumbs down. I feel like I

728
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 2: thought we'd see them some thumbs up, but we got

729
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 2: some sideways. That's fine. Next one, Timberwolves big man nas

730
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 2: Reed is the NBA sixth Man of the Year. Nas

731
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 2: Read is the first player to win the bench award

732
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:53,200
Speaker 2: for the Wolves. It's also the third player to earn

733
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 2: the honor after not being selected in the draft, joining

734
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 2: John Starks and Darryl Armstrong. Hold On, let me have

735
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:04,959
Speaker 2: a sip of coffee for Ail Armstrong. In his fifth season,

736
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 2: Reid set career highs in points and rebounds per game.

737
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:10,839
Speaker 2: Hit a bunch of three shot forty percent from deep

738
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 2: so he just out eked out excuse me, Malik Monk,

739
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:15,840
Speaker 2: who finished a close second in the voting, and Bobby

740
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 2: Portis who finished third, but very close here between NOAs

741
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:24,759
Speaker 2: Reed and Milik Monk damn near identical in the first,

742
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:26,840
Speaker 2: second and third place votes. I mean, if one person

743
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 2: changes their first place vote to Malik Monk.

744
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 4: It's a tie.

745
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 2: That would have been interesting. It would have been like survivor,

746
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 2: we have to do a revote. Uh one, Yeah, yeah, sure, sure,

747
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:40,200
Speaker 2: Well damn it'd be tough for Monk right now.

748
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm taking nos and injured.

749
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:43,880
Speaker 3: But uh, Malik Monk wasn't on two ballots then, is

750
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 3: what it comes down to, though, because he had a

751
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:49,359
Speaker 3: forty three to thirty nine ten will Yeah, Nazrid had

752
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:50,480
Speaker 3: forty five thirty nine to ten.

753
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's weird.

754
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:53,800
Speaker 3: Who did you? Who did you vote for?

755
00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 2: So are your thumbs up or thumbs down? On NOAs

756
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 2: Reed ultimately ekeing out Malik Monk for six Man of

757
00:34:59,040 --> 00:34:59,319
Speaker 2: the Year.

758
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:02,200
Speaker 4: Okay, I think he absolutely deserved it, but I do

759
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 4: think it's pretty funny that he started fifteen of Minnesota's

760
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 4: last eighteen games, and that's pretty much what won him

761
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,359
Speaker 4: six Man of the Year because that's when Monk went

762
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 4: out of the lineup. Yeah, but he still is way

763
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,799
Speaker 4: under He did average seventeen a game as a starter,

764
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:16,840
Speaker 4: forty six from the field forty two from three, but

765
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,359
Speaker 4: he was also awesome off the bench forty eight from

766
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:22,800
Speaker 4: the field forty one from three, and was the namesake

767
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:27,400
Speaker 4: of the best arena giveaway we've seen in the twenty twenties.

768
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:28,279
Speaker 4: The nas Reed towel.

769
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,239
Speaker 2: I think I think the pr worked helped Nasried in this.

770
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 2: He's a cool guy, he's cool, great towel. Well, he's

771
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 2: well deserving. Malik Monk has an awesome case too, just

772
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:40,840
Speaker 2: brutal timing with him missing the last nine games of

773
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 2: the year. There was some re you know, I think

774
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 2: it's what tipped it in nos Reed's favor, him winning

775
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 2: in a very close vote. The fact that Monk was

776
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:50,359
Speaker 2: out for the final nine and that nas Reed then

777
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:53,440
Speaker 2: got a little more minutes getting the starter's role with

778
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 2: Cat out helped the numbers a little bit, and I

779
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:57,360
Speaker 2: just think that pushed them over the edge here. I

780
00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 2: can't like. I think Malaigemunk was a very deserving three

781
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:01,759
Speaker 2: six minute of YE winner two. But I'm not gonna

782
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:03,759
Speaker 2: be upset because nas was awesome on one of the

783
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:04,719
Speaker 2: best teams in the West.

784
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 3: He was awesome off the bench. It was awesome to

785
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 3: see him start some games as well, because he's just

786
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:12,960
Speaker 3: freaking good in every situation. He deserves it, obviously where

787
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 3: he's come from four years after being undrafted, being them

788
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 3: you're getting the minimum in payment until he signed this contract,

789
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:22,840
Speaker 3: he's great. Yeah. I think it was that he played

790
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:25,920
Speaker 3: a decent amount more games than Monk being injured that

791
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:28,960
Speaker 3: tipped it over the scale. But I wonder who those

792
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 3: two voters were that didn't even have the mons on there.

793
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:32,280
Speaker 2: That's strange.

794
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 3: You did they vote for? There's always some strange votes.

795
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 2: It's not strange to vote for nas Reed or even

796
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 2: Bobby Portis, but to not have Monk in the top three. Yeah,

797
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:44,879
Speaker 2: I don't get that he led the league in bench points.

798
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:46,920
Speaker 2: Monk did. He led the league in bench assists. He

799
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:49,239
Speaker 2: was first in clutch points by a bench player because

800
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 2: he finished a ton of games and was like vital

801
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:53,760
Speaker 2: to their success. He's the first player since Lou Williams

802
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 2: with a thousand points and three hundred and fifty assists

803
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 2: off the bench. In the season, he had twenty five

804
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:00,440
Speaker 2: games of twenty plus points off the bench, which led

805
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:03,400
Speaker 2: the NBA. I mean, he was very important, as we

806
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 2: saw at the end of the year when they lose

807
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 2: him to the injury and don't even get into the playoffs.

808
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 2: But nas Reed joining the fairly rare list of big

809
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:14,799
Speaker 2: men to win the award, at least over the last

810
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:15,399
Speaker 2: twenty years.

811
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 4: Montrez Harrel, we.

812
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 2: Had Montres Harrel, we had Lamar Odom, and we had

813
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:22,399
Speaker 2: Antoine Jamison as the only big man over the last

814
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 2: I believe twenty years to win six man. He used

815
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:26,359
Speaker 2: to have it a lot more back in the day.

816
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:28,439
Speaker 2: But what's that, Kevin?

817
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 3: A bunch of them, Yeah, nas is the biggest out

818
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:32,799
Speaker 3: of those guys you named. I mean, he's the only

819
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:36,799
Speaker 3: like center center, I would say, and he sho's forty

820
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:39,439
Speaker 3: one percent from three this year. That was a big jump.

821
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 2: Just bawling, Yeah, good good win there from nas Reed.

822
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 2: Very close vote, the closest we've ever had when it

823
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:46,360
Speaker 2: comes to this award.

824
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 4: My last two notes on this one are that somebody

825
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:52,319
Speaker 4: accidentally voted for Boyanne Bogdanovitch instead of bug Dan Bogdanovic. Yeah,

826
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 4: there's no reason that Boyanne would have gotten a vote,

827
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:56,880
Speaker 4: but he finished the last in the voting because he

828
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:59,360
Speaker 4: got one third placer. So shout out to whoever that is,

829
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 4: miss click the b Bogdanovic. And also, I think I'm

830
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 4: gonna start saying sixth like that's like that. I feel

831
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:07,960
Speaker 4: like the international pronunciation when you hear it on Formula one.

832
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 4: That's what crafton Brundle always says. Sixth. That's easier to

833
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:14,919
Speaker 4: say than six six six. Yeah, too much, too many

834
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:18,439
Speaker 4: consonants there at the end, six six six.

835
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,920
Speaker 2: Malie Bunk wasn't happy he didn't win this award last season,

836
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:26,640
Speaker 2: so I can't wait to hear what he thinks about

837
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 2: not winning it again in a year. Again, they had

838
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:33,359
Speaker 2: an awesome year off the bench, but Nas just eclipses him.

839
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 2: Let's find those two people that didn't vote for Monk though.

840
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:35,839
Speaker 2: What's going on there?

841
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:36,880
Speaker 3: What's going on that is strange?

842
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 2: That's weird, all right? Next one here in the updown report,

843
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 2: when asked if there was a chance here we could

844
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:44,400
Speaker 2: turn this, he could return this postseason, Zion willimps and

845
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:49,440
Speaker 2: told reporters, quote, that is definitely realistic. That is absolutely realistic.

846
00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:51,480
Speaker 2: But like I said, I got to pass the tests

847
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 2: and get back to baseline and hopefully I'll be out there.

848
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 2: So last Wednesday, it was announced an MRI confirmed Zion

849
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 2: had left ham string strain and he would be re

850
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 2: examined in two weeks. Are you up or down on

851
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:09,759
Speaker 2: the chances of Zion returning this playoffs. I guess you're

852
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:12,239
Speaker 2: down because he just said you think the thunder might sweep.

853
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:15,480
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I do think, just timeline wise, it's unlikely

854
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:21,279
Speaker 3: that he comes back. I am excited positive that Zion

855
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,800
Speaker 3: is taking it so positively. He is trying to get back,

856
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 3: and that's what it's about with Zion. You called it,

857
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 3: you know, his his best year because he did play

858
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:33,719
Speaker 3: a frickin lot of games this year. He played in

859
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:36,400
Speaker 3: seventy games this season. So just as a basketball fan,

860
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 3: I'm all excited for the whole package. That he looks

861
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:40,799
Speaker 3: like he just wants to get back on the court.

862
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:43,759
Speaker 3: Also that it wasn't a major injury like last year.

863
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, he said it was different than last year where

864
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:49,359
Speaker 2: he felt a sharp pain going down his right leg,

865
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 2: and this wasn't the case this time around. He knew

866
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 2: something was off and that it was re injured, but

867
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 2: not as severe.

868
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:57,919
Speaker 3: Its soundingly Yeah, yeah, so that is last year was bad.

869
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,960
Speaker 2: Yeah. Thumbs up or thumbs down on not seeing Zion

870
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:03,000
Speaker 2: here in twenty twenty four playoffs.

871
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:05,680
Speaker 4: I'm going like a three quarters down, I would say,

872
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 4: mostly because the Pelicans are down oh two. They said

873
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 4: he would be reevaluated after two weeks. It's been one week.

874
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:14,800
Speaker 4: Two weeks would be Game five in Oklahoma City, so

875
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:18,280
Speaker 4: they got to steal one at home where they're actually worse,

876
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:20,719
Speaker 4: and then maybe you bring him back for that Game five.

877
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:22,719
Speaker 4: But that's a huge ask come back and save us

878
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:23,360
Speaker 4: in this series.

879
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:24,279
Speaker 3: Ion, But he.

880
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 4: Probably wants to play in the playoffs, So if he's

881
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 4: healthy at all for that game five, if there is

882
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:30,440
Speaker 4: a game five, do it.

883
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 3: Yeah. It literally has never played in the playoffs yet yet,

884
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 3: But I think he does have the right mentality because

885
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:42,279
Speaker 3: I did like this quote saying I was demoralized, but

886
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:43,960
Speaker 3: I took a day or two to get past that,

887
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:46,080
Speaker 3: and now I'm back on what I've been saying all year,

888
00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 3: stacking my days and getting back on the court sack

889
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 3: ind of his days because it feels like this is

890
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:54,440
Speaker 3: the most focused Zion we've seen in the NBA. It

891
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 3: sure feels that way. And just hopefully he doesn't get

892
00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:59,359
Speaker 3: healthy and you can continue to play seventy games a season.

893
00:40:59,400 --> 00:40:59,799
Speaker 3: That's a lot.

894
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 2: Final one. New Brooklyn Nets coach Jordi Fernandez wasted no

895
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:08,480
Speaker 2: time making his feelings known about the roster and specifically

896
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:13,279
Speaker 2: the status of unrestricted free agent center Nick Claxton, who

897
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 2: Fernandez said was a priority to retain in free agency.

898
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:17,840
Speaker 4: Quote.

899
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:20,560
Speaker 2: I believe he'll be defensive player of the year for us.

900
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 2: He's a priority in this summer and the way that

901
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 2: we can play through him. Are you up or down

902
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 2: here on the Nets? Because it wasn't just Jordy Fernandez,

903
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:31,839
Speaker 2: Sean Mark sort of echoed Fernandez's comments of keeping Nick

904
00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 2: Claxton being a priority to sign this guy thumbs upper,

905
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:36,680
Speaker 2: thumbs down. We'll start with you, Trey.

906
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:39,879
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll go up, because I mean, Nick Claxton should

907
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:42,359
Speaker 4: be a priority for this team because they have nobody

908
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:44,880
Speaker 4: else that's coming available, you know, like they already got

909
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 4: Bridges signed up, They've got Cam Johnson signed up. I

910
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 4: guess if you're looking at players who don't have contracts

911
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:53,440
Speaker 4: who could maybe even come back Lonnie Walker as their

912
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:57,239
Speaker 4: other free agent. Dennis Smith like, yes, Nick Claxton is

913
00:41:57,239 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 4: your priority. The problem for them is that he's an

914
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:02,759
Speaker 4: unre stricted free agent because he was a second round

915
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:06,480
Speaker 4: draft pick, first pick of the second round. But that

916
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 4: makes me think maybe if there's a team who's been

917
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 4: eyeing him, you know, from his time playing with Kevin Durant,

918
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 4: when he was actually talked about as a Defensive Player

919
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:15,000
Speaker 4: of the Year candidate, that guy gets traded away. We

920
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:17,879
Speaker 4: never talk about Nick Claxton, but he's still playing, he's

921
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 4: still a good player. He's young, so potentially somebody else

922
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:23,719
Speaker 4: could say we're gonna pay him way, way more than

923
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 4: the Nets really want to, and then it becomes tough

924
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 4: for Brooklyn if they want to play, Like, are they

925
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:31,759
Speaker 4: gonna want to pay ninety percent of their cap to

926
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:35,799
Speaker 4: Bridges Claxton, Cam Johnson and Cam Thomas. That's a playing team.

927
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 4: Maybe maybe, so, I don't know they have to sign him,

928
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 4: but also it ain't changing much for the Nets.

929
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:41,920
Speaker 3: I don't think.

930
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:45,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, they lack matching rights with Claxton, but they have

931
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 2: his bird rights, so the team can exceed the salary

932
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:49,680
Speaker 2: cap to resign. So there is that because of this

933
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:51,640
Speaker 2: weird thing that he was the second round guy. What

934
00:42:51,719 --> 00:42:53,239
Speaker 2: do you think hereum up or down on.

935
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:56,240
Speaker 3: Live Sumbs Up. Yeah, I'm interested to see how both

936
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:58,759
Speaker 3: his next coach and his GM said I think he

937
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:00,400
Speaker 3: should be defensive Player of the year, and how much

938
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 3: they're going to pay the guy that they think could

939
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 3: be a defensive player of the year because he was

940
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:07,759
Speaker 3: under ten million bucks. It wasn't incredible. It wasn't an

941
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 3: incredible season for Nick Claxton, but they want him to

942
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:12,920
Speaker 3: be a big part of it. I like that it's

943
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:16,480
Speaker 3: about the summer. That's what Jordy Fernandez said, be go

944
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 3: be great now, go improve now, because that's when guys

945
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:24,120
Speaker 3: in the NBA always improve and you can see guys

946
00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:27,279
Speaker 3: get better who are especially young in this league. He said,

947
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:30,280
Speaker 3: you know, we will see results right away. Jordy fernand

948
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:33,800
Speaker 3: is about Nick Claxton. So it is a big summer

949
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 3: for Nick Claxton, and I think they should overpay somewhat.

950
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:43,000
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think he's earned anywhere near a

951
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:47,919
Speaker 3: MAX contract, but I think an overpay is totally fine

952
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:50,279
Speaker 3: for a guy like Nick Claxon that another team would

953
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:53,280
Speaker 3: be willing to try and take a chance on because

954
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:54,919
Speaker 3: he could be an incredible player.

955
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:57,440
Speaker 2: He just turned twenty five years old. He's been in

956
00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:00,239
Speaker 2: the league longer than I sort of thought, yea five

957
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:02,239
Speaker 2: years in here, which is fine. But he had a

958
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 2: good year twelve and ten. He basically averaged two blocks,

959
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:07,600
Speaker 2: shot sixty two percent. I mean last year he shot

960
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:09,799
Speaker 2: like seventy percent. You know, he's working around the rim,

961
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 2: he knows what he's good at. But yeah, I'm with you, guys,

962
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:13,520
Speaker 2: I'm thumbs up on this. I think this is like

963
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:15,320
Speaker 2: it's nice boost a confidence for a new coach to

964
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 2: come into and for him to say, yeah, we think

965
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:19,239
Speaker 2: he could be, you know, a defensive player of the year.

966
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:20,600
Speaker 2: That might be a reach. I mean, you're in a

967
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:22,680
Speaker 2: league with Wemby. I think he's gonna win the next ten.

968
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 2: But set that tone and talk him up a little bit,

969
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:29,759
Speaker 2: get the confidence, and you know, hopefully that translates into

970
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:31,839
Speaker 2: something next year. He Jordy said a lot of cool

971
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 2: things about him. I thought, he's like, he's great in

972
00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:35,640
Speaker 2: the pick and roll, he's quick to the rim, he

973
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:38,360
Speaker 2: puts pressure on the rim. But he also has the

974
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 2: ability to play the dribble handoff game, which, as you

975
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:44,520
Speaker 2: guys know lately in the NBA, that style is very efficient.

976
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 2: We just watched it last night with some dribble handoffs

977
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:51,839
Speaker 2: from the heat there to unlock some three pointers there.

978
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 2: So yeah, makes sense that they try and get Nick

979
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:57,480
Speaker 2: Claxton signed to some sort of deal. But they got

980
00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 2: a lot of money on the books for twenty four

981
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:02,520
Speaker 2: to twenty five and for a team that's yeah playing.

982
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:03,960
Speaker 3: Don't forget about I mean they had they had Nick

983
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 3: Claxton this year.

984
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, twelve and ten.

985
00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:07,640
Speaker 4: He seems like a twelve and ten guy to me,

986
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:09,879
Speaker 4: right right, Maybe he can do dribble hand off stuff,

987
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:12,719
Speaker 4: but okay, you're running your offerense there, Nick Claxton, you're

988
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:13,400
Speaker 4: in the same spot.

989
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 3: The ben watch is very very important.

990
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 4: I think he's gonna be healthy for training camp.

991
00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:20,399
Speaker 2: He started early.

992
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:22,719
Speaker 3: Oh no, yeah, not for playing, I mean for moving on.

993
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:27,279
Speaker 3: I mean he's literally they said they're not, Yeah, but

994
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:28,719
Speaker 3: I think it would make sense.

995
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, you just wait until that shirt's off. You see

996
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 2: that body hit some three pointers in a sort of

997
00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:37,440
Speaker 2: smaller gym than you're used to seeing. You're gonna get

998
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:39,759
Speaker 2: You're gonna convince yourself you'll be on the island, He'll

999
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:41,279
Speaker 2: be with me, we'll be ready to go.

1000
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:46,520
Speaker 3: I love being optimistic about NBA players for way too long,

1001
00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:47,759
Speaker 3: way longer than I should be.

1002
00:45:48,239 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 2: But it's even new. Oh, how dare you? It's what

1003
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:55,880
Speaker 2: Ben wants. He wants you to believe it.

1004
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:58,800
Speaker 3: No, I want to believe in his back massages that

1005
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 3: he should be going again. He's got back problems the

1006
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:03,920
Speaker 3: last two years. He should be dealing with that. It's

1007
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:07,160
Speaker 3: very difficult for him to play forty games. So I

1008
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 3: can't buy into it that I had eye expectations of

1009
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:12,960
Speaker 3: this NET team coming into the season. They obviously came in.

1010
00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:15,919
Speaker 2: No, they were fifty to fifteen, and then they sat

1011
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:19,000
Speaker 2: everybody for some weird reason, pulled their other guys that

1012
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:21,759
Speaker 2: played the first quarter, and then it sort of went

1013
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:22,400
Speaker 2: downhill from there.

1014
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:24,680
Speaker 3: Fifteen and fifteen, Yeah, they were.

1015
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:27,120
Speaker 2: Solid, they were decent. It's not lighting up the league

1016
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 2: by any means, but maybe you're a playing team. You

1017
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 2: would be a playing team with that record.

1018
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:32,120
Speaker 3: But yeah, they were fifteen.

1019
00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:36,399
Speaker 2: Things changed to being crap. Coach gone. Jordy Fernandis gets

1020
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:38,520
Speaker 2: a chance, and he still gets the coach team Canada,

1021
00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:40,360
Speaker 2: which we're excited to see. All right, before we go,

1022
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:41,279
Speaker 2: let's get to tweeted the.

1023
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:47,480
Speaker 3: Night tweet out the night Wow twitt Well, I.

1024
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:49,640
Speaker 2: Told you two things. One it was very random, and

1025
00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 2: two you may want to check it out on YouTube

1026
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:53,960
Speaker 2: if you're just a podcast listener, because there's a fun

1027
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:56,760
Speaker 2: little video that goes with this tweet. It's from Kaylee

1028
00:46:56,880 --> 00:47:00,480
Speaker 2: Chung who tweeted last night, the drip on at Black

1029
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:04,880
Speaker 2: Dragon roll is out of control and we are showing

1030
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:09,320
Speaker 2: you a video of Jerome dressed as a pizza pizza

1031
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:14,560
Speaker 2: creamy garlic dipping sauce mask on and he's dancing away.

1032
00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:18,440
Speaker 2: It appears to be some sort of backstage probably at

1033
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 2: the Leaf sort of tailgate last night, is my guess.

1034
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 2: I have a lot of questions, but there was some

1035
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:28,440
Speaker 2: fun responses to this. Somebody wrote having no context to

1036
00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:31,399
Speaker 2: this and just seeing it is a privilege. Somebody else said,

1037
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:34,399
Speaker 2: you didn't have to go that hard, Jerome, so he said, yep,

1038
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:37,239
Speaker 2: that's me. You're probably wondering how I got here. And

1039
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:41,480
Speaker 2: someone else my favorite response, give Jerome the Order of Canada.

1040
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:44,560
Speaker 3: So there he is.

1041
00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 2: That's better.

1042
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:51,360
Speaker 4: Why did they make this? Why did they make a

1043
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:53,200
Speaker 4: garlic sauce container mascot.

1044
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:56,080
Speaker 2: I thought about reaching out to Jerome this morning to

1045
00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:58,239
Speaker 2: get again the contexts and what was going on here,

1046
00:47:58,280 --> 00:47:59,879
Speaker 2: but I was like, you know what, I don't want

1047
00:47:59,920 --> 00:48:03,279
Speaker 2: to know was funnier. It's funnier just seeing our guys,

1048
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:06,480
Speaker 2: Jerome in a mascot of a giant dipping.

1049
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 3: I just noticed this sixth role here, sixth loop of

1050
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:12,720
Speaker 3: watching it, that the package for the cream of garlic

1051
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:14,759
Speaker 3: is right on the floor right there. He just kicked

1052
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:18,759
Speaker 3: it off. Oh wow, it's gotta be Yeah, probably it's

1053
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:21,200
Speaker 3: a basic pizza. Now.

1054
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:24,120
Speaker 2: I don't think he went it, doesn't I never saw

1055
00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:27,879
Speaker 2: footage or a photo of him on stage. They didn't

1056
00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:29,200
Speaker 2: look like they didn't push him out there.

1057
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:30,560
Speaker 3: Where are they?

1058
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:33,479
Speaker 2: I think I think it's at Jurassic Park or whatever

1059
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:35,800
Speaker 2: they call the version of the Leafs. That's where I

1060
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:38,960
Speaker 2: think that is right. They played last night. Yes, I

1061
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 2: believe they lost.

1062
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:42,680
Speaker 3: I wish Alia Samsonov, the goalie for the Leafs, was

1063
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:46,120
Speaker 3: wearing that creamy garlic because he would have stopped that

1064
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 3: shot that went between his blocker and his Oh easily.

1065
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:53,640
Speaker 3: That was a weird goal. But yeah, it looks like

1066
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 3: Drassic Park turned whatever they call that butt.

1067
00:48:57,520 --> 00:48:59,880
Speaker 2: Nation or I don't know that sucks.

1068
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:01,960
Speaker 4: I don't know Nation.

1069
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:06,440
Speaker 3: Because it's sponsored by but oh yes, sponsored bizza.

1070
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:07,920
Speaker 5: Like that.

1071
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:11,560
Speaker 3: It's pizza pizza dying. What's happened do you say that? Well,

1072
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:13,719
Speaker 3: it looks like they're just drying.

1073
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:16,080
Speaker 5: Christ.

1074
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:18,360
Speaker 3: Well, well, number one, what about the pizza. It's not

1075
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:20,279
Speaker 3: that good. Number two, The pizza has never been that.

1076
00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:20,640
Speaker 4: I know.

1077
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:23,040
Speaker 2: It's the dipping sauces what saves the pizza.

1078
00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:27,120
Speaker 3: I think they're promoting it. Yeah, you're right. I think

1079
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:28,000
Speaker 3: they're pushing sales.

1080
00:49:28,680 --> 00:49:31,879
Speaker 2: They they have a really good, like sweet and spicy one.

1081
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:34,160
Speaker 2: I don't like the creamy garlic. But uh oh, the

1082
00:49:34,239 --> 00:49:37,279
Speaker 2: pizza is horrible. It's like, you know, it's cardboard. Yeah,

1083
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:42,040
Speaker 2: but you slather it up that sauce. It's not bad.

1084
00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:44,480
Speaker 3: I guess people aren't having enough sauces or something. I

1085
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:45,680
Speaker 3: don't know. I don't know what's happened to.

1086
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 2: Push on the sauce. They've realized nobody likes our pizza,

1087
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 2: so we got to push the sauces. Pivot. Why not?

1088
00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 4: It doesn't love to dip their crust in a little

1089
00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:56,200
Speaker 4: bit of ranch, all right?

1090
00:49:56,480 --> 00:50:00,759
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, it's just called maple Leaf Square. That's what

1091
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:01,799
Speaker 3: the whole thing is called.

1092
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:03,720
Speaker 2: But what's the what's the nickname?

1093
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:05,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it makes sense.

1094
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:09,000
Speaker 2: They are called they are called we could do better?

1095
00:50:09,040 --> 00:50:10,759
Speaker 2: What would you call it? Do you got any think? Oh?

1096
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:17,359
Speaker 3: I like bud Square or bud Bud Park, the bud Zone,

1097
00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:18,759
Speaker 3: Bud Zone, the bud Zone.

1098
00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:23,120
Speaker 2: That's just like free publicity for Budweiser and weed.

1099
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:28,920
Speaker 6: I guess, yeah, that's what the park forests. Okay, yeah,

1100
00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:33,840
Speaker 6: full of leads, syrup spot.

1101
00:50:34,719 --> 00:50:36,960
Speaker 2: I mean, Jurassic Park was a park.

1102
00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:53,120
Speaker 3: Like forest for the forest. Hill is the neighborhood, neighborhood.

1103
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:55,600
Speaker 3: That's what Drake, That's what I mean. Now you got

1104
00:50:55,719 --> 00:50:58,560
Speaker 3: Drake in for still Drakes because Drake was big than

1105
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:01,520
Speaker 3: the Trassic Jurassic Park era. Yeah, yeah, he loved it.

1106
00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:03,640
Speaker 3: But I don't know if he likes.

1107
00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:05,879
Speaker 2: Bieber is the hockey guy. I think he's a big

1108
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:06,279
Speaker 2: leaf fan.

1109
00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 3: He loves Tim Bibs.

1110
00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:13,200
Speaker 2: Thank you to Kaylee for that tweet. Thank you to

1111
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:15,960
Speaker 2: Jerome for putting on that mascot. Thanks to Pizza Pizza

1112
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:20,320
Speaker 2: for creating that mascot. It's a great look at mascot.

1113
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:22,360
Speaker 2: I love it all right, Tonight's games. We got Calves

1114
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:25,719
Speaker 2: Magic Game three, Calves up to oh, we got Nick

1115
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:28,600
Speaker 2: seventy six ers, Nicks up to oh, and we got

1116
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:33,640
Speaker 2: Nuggets Lakers, Nuggets up to oh. Which of those three

1117
00:51:33,719 --> 00:51:36,600
Speaker 2: games do you like the home team to, you know,

1118
00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:39,440
Speaker 2: get one here to like, let's be honest, to get

1119
00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:42,239
Speaker 2: a must win game for those three teams that are

1120
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:45,760
Speaker 2: now going home and all trailing too. Oh, these chances

1121
00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 2: do you like the most?

1122
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:48,920
Speaker 4: I would say Philadelphia has the best chance because New

1123
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:50,920
Speaker 4: York has been shooting the lights out of the ball

1124
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:54,399
Speaker 4: playing in Madison Square Garden while not getting really good

1125
00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:58,160
Speaker 4: performances from Jalen Brunson. So if you're Philadelphia, you have

1126
00:51:58,239 --> 00:52:01,200
Speaker 4: to be thinking, we're playing in our home barn. We're

1127
00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:04,280
Speaker 4: gonna keep Jalen Brunson shut down, and we're actually gonna

1128
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:06,439
Speaker 4: guard the three point line, and our three point guys

1129
00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:09,040
Speaker 4: are gonna hit some shots. Now, the problem is that

1130
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:13,360
Speaker 4: three guys on the New York Knicks one titles in

1131
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:16,239
Speaker 4: that very arena. So if the closest thing to a

1132
00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:18,359
Speaker 4: home game for them that isn't a home game.

1133
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:19,200
Speaker 2: Good point.

1134
00:52:19,239 --> 00:52:21,200
Speaker 4: But I think Philadelphia has the best chance.

1135
00:52:21,280 --> 00:52:23,279
Speaker 2: To me, and you're talking about the Villanova Knicks there

1136
00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:25,080
Speaker 2: in Philly. That's a great point. Okay, what he likes

1137
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:28,040
Speaker 2: the next excuse me, Philly, who do you like or

1138
00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:28,879
Speaker 2: or none of them?

1139
00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:30,920
Speaker 3: I'm going with the Lakers. I know it sounds a

1140
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:32,000
Speaker 3: little nuts. Is it time?

1141
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:33,040
Speaker 2: I don't mind, this is the time.

1142
00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1143
00:52:33,680 --> 00:52:35,960
Speaker 3: I don't think they're gonna get swept again by the

1144
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:38,520
Speaker 3: Denver Knights. And you have to remember last year's playoffs,

1145
00:52:38,560 --> 00:52:41,360
Speaker 3: the Nuggets only swept the Lakers in their fourth series.

1146
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:44,040
Speaker 3: That was the only one, and so they're about to

1147
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:48,279
Speaker 3: give up a game ish. I mean they We've seen

1148
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:51,440
Speaker 3: the comments between Anthony Davis saying we got to learn

1149
00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:53,520
Speaker 3: some stuff. We don't know how to do things, and

1150
00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:56,360
Speaker 3: uh Darmingham saying, what do you mean we all we

1151
00:52:56,480 --> 00:53:03,200
Speaker 3: all we know how to do it in charge. Yeah,

1152
00:53:03,239 --> 00:53:06,680
Speaker 3: I changed the quote there just because that's how it came. H.

1153
00:53:06,719 --> 00:53:09,839
Speaker 3: It's basically that I think the Lakers, in a good way,

1154
00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:12,640
Speaker 3: will come out and fight in this one. So I

1155
00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:14,080
Speaker 3: want all three to be serious.

1156
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:16,080
Speaker 2: I was just going to say that I'm making another

1157
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:22,000
Speaker 2: prediction tonight. I'm saying all three home teams get that vital,

1158
00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:24,879
Speaker 2: that pivotal, that important Game three win to at least

1159
00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:27,000
Speaker 2: make these series a little more interesting. I'm even taking

1160
00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:29,759
Speaker 2: the Magic who can't score it all? That's right, I'm

1161
00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:32,200
Speaker 2: going Magic, I'm going Sixers, and I'm going Lakers to

1162
00:53:32,239 --> 00:53:35,560
Speaker 2: get a win here tonight in game three to set

1163
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:38,120
Speaker 2: up a look, we want to we got a hope

1164
00:53:38,160 --> 00:53:40,880
Speaker 2: for this, for being honest, because otherwise we're going to

1165
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:43,440
Speaker 2: go into the weekend. We're gonna go in the weekend

1166
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:46,000
Speaker 2: with a lot of three zero series, right, and then

1167
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:49,000
Speaker 2: you're like, okay, well it's over. If it isn't in

1168
00:53:49,080 --> 00:53:50,880
Speaker 2: the weekend, then it's over when we get back in

1169
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:53,360
Speaker 2: game five. It's almost worse that way, because it's like

1170
00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:56,320
Speaker 2: you're just delaying the inevitable. So sometimes I'm talking it

1171
00:53:56,400 --> 00:53:59,040
Speaker 2: into existence. I think, like you guys, I like I

1172
00:53:59,160 --> 00:54:00,600
Speaker 2: like the Sixers in Lake, and I'm gonna go to

1173
00:54:00,600 --> 00:54:02,279
Speaker 2: the Magic as well. But we will find out I

1174
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:08,560
Speaker 2: like the next Oh okay, alright, well later today we

1175
00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:11,160
Speaker 2: like Survivor and we talk about it. No bus has

1176
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 2: on YouTube feeds on podcast feed, we're up to episode nine,

1177
00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:16,000
Speaker 2: running out of episodes of this season, but join us

1178
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:19,879
Speaker 2: at one pm Eastern to break down last night's very

1179
00:54:20,239 --> 00:54:23,320
Speaker 2: interesting tribal Council, so we will see you then and

1180
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:26,520
Speaker 2: can't wait to talk about that with t K and JD.

1181
00:54:27,120 --> 00:54:29,920
Speaker 2: But otherwise we're back here in the Classic Factory tomorrow morning.

1182
00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:34,120
Speaker 2: It's Friday. It'll be the Drop podcast. We'll talk about

1183
00:54:34,160 --> 00:54:37,040
Speaker 2: the games tonight, maybe do some big picture playoff stuff,

1184
00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:40,760
Speaker 2: maybe worse of the week rapid fire. Always a blast

1185
00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:42,680
Speaker 2: of the Drop. So we'll see you at ten am Eastern.

1186
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:43,800
Speaker 2: Until then, Clipper bros.

1187
00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:46,480
Speaker 4: You heard it here first, have a great time, turn up.

1188
00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:49,800
Speaker 3: Love you guys awesome, thanks for joining us, and remember

1189
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:53,040
Speaker 3: we hit one hundred thousand subscribers on YouTube. I got

1190
00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:54,800
Speaker 3: to ask a question for No Buffs, do you have

1191
00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:56,360
Speaker 3: to take it off the wall because they don't have

1192
00:54:56,400 --> 00:54:57,560
Speaker 3: one hundred thousand sucks?

1193
00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:04,160
Speaker 5: While we're almost SAT five, put a little slash, yeah yeah,

1194
00:55:04,239 --> 00:55:08,160
Speaker 5: yeah yeah, we'll cover up the hundred k and just

1195
00:55:08,239 --> 00:55:09,600
Speaker 5: put divided by twenty

1196
00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:13,759
Speaker 2: Right around the sharp brace THET eight people