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Speaker 1: podcast on the Athletic Network. It's Wednesday, February seventeenth.

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Speaker 2: I'm J. E.

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Speaker 1: Skee. It's rolling this morning with my top shot hot

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Speaker 3: the vibes were incredible last night because the Nets did

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Speaker 1: Do they still play in the Talking Stick resort in Phoenix?

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Speaker 3: I don't think it was. It still the Phoenix Suns Arena.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but Kyrie did have the walking Stick.

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Speaker 1: Look you brought up the Deander eighton sort of problem there.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes he was scoring, sometimes it was a step back,

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Speaker 2: I just feel they have to keep winning. That that's

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Speaker 2: So not only is he taking Luca's lunch on the court,

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Speaker 1: Oh, he's actually taking his food from the MVP table.

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Speaker 3: Are you saying that the MVP table is for lunch.

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Speaker 3: I assumed it was a dinner, twanky dinner.

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Speaker 1: but at least maybe it's a lunch Okay, Yeah, Litl's

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Speaker 1: there though, no doubt. Special special player And this is

430
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Speaker 1: what I mean, like, you have Harden doing what he's

431
00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:33,240
Speaker 1: doing last night, you have Lillar doing what he's doing.

432
00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:36,159
Speaker 1: And then I'll keep it going here, Zion Williamson. Yeah,

433
00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:38,560
Speaker 1: Zion already you know, sort of in the mix with

434
00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:42,359
Speaker 1: these guys, special special player, a force inside. Last night, again,

435
00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:45,920
Speaker 1: Pelicans kill the Grizzlies, as they always seem to do.

436
00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:49,200
Speaker 1: I know, Chris Vernon was going crazy on Twitter. Pelicans

437
00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:51,840
Speaker 1: just have the Grizzlies number for whatever reason. One forty

438
00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:55,879
Speaker 1: four to one thirteen was the victory. And Zion another

439
00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:58,879
Speaker 1: thirty plus point game, a thirteen to sixteen from the

440
00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:01,640
Speaker 1: field last night, seven six assists. That's nice to become

441
00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:05,480
Speaker 1: a bit more of a playmaker. Just special stuff here, Trey.

442
00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:08,359
Speaker 1: You know, look, we had a lot of fun joking

443
00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:10,920
Speaker 1: earlier in the year about the NBA trying to shove

444
00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,239
Speaker 1: Zion down our throats with the highlights that weren't all

445
00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:17,720
Speaker 1: that special. Who cares forget all that? This guy thirty

446
00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:20,760
Speaker 1: plus points now three times while shooting eighty percent or

447
00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:23,240
Speaker 1: better from the field. It feels like these are becoming

448
00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:26,960
Speaker 1: like regular normal box scores for Zion. This like thirty

449
00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:30,280
Speaker 1: point game with like two misshots, right, I mean, it's

450
00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:31,400
Speaker 1: happened a handful of times.

451
00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:34,920
Speaker 3: Now. He's awesome, He's unstoppable. I told you January twenty ninth,

452
00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:37,359
Speaker 3: I think I'm gonna have to stand Zion Williamson for

453
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Speaker 3: the All Star Game here because he was starting to

454
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Speaker 3: kick up his activity. He was starting to get these

455
00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:45,240
Speaker 3: twenty point games. But the guy has been unreal lately.

456
00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:49,359
Speaker 3: He's scoring like Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Kevin McHale

457
00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:51,840
Speaker 3: and barely not Shack. If you saw last night, he

458
00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:54,119
Speaker 3: was at like, what twenty nine points per game but

459
00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:57,320
Speaker 3: fifty nine point nine percent shooting, So Shad barely doesn't

460
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Speaker 3: make the cut for these Zion accomplishments. But I heard

461
00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:04,479
Speaker 3: stan Ban Gundy say that Zion isn't a big despite

462
00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:05,760
Speaker 3: the fact that you look at him. You're like, that

463
00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:08,200
Speaker 3: guy has no doubt about it. Maybe a small ball five,

464
00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:10,719
Speaker 3: maybe he's a big he's actually a wing who can

465
00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:13,119
Speaker 3: post up, and that really out unlocked things for me

466
00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:14,840
Speaker 3: the way I look at Zion, and it feels like

467
00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:16,920
Speaker 3: it sort of unlocked things for Zion too, because, like

468
00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:19,399
Speaker 3: you're saying, he's making a bunch more plays off the dribble,

469
00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:23,080
Speaker 3: now he's coming at you rather than posting up every

470
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Speaker 3: single time he's bringing the ball up the court. He

471
00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:28,760
Speaker 3: has fifty one assists in his last eleven games. He

472
00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:31,600
Speaker 3: had fifty assists in his entire rookie season twenty four games.

473
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Speaker 3: When Skeats was hating on this guy, saying he has

474
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Speaker 3: no highlights and now he's trying to move past this take,

475
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Speaker 3: which may go down is the worst take in No

476
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Speaker 3: Dum's history. I feel bad for Skeets because Zion's gonna

477
00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:44,439
Speaker 3: make the All Star team before John Moran, and I

478
00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:46,359
Speaker 3: know he's dug in on Ja Moran.

479
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Speaker 1: That's funny you said that because the best highlight from

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Speaker 1: the game was Joam Moran.

481
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Speaker 3: When they were down twenty.

482
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just saying, I'm just sick. My take was

483
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Speaker 1: never Zion Willimson wasn't gonna be an All Star. The

484
00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,480
Speaker 1: take was about highlights specifically, and uh yes, zidon't even

485
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Speaker 1: like that job ran dunk. But you're right. They were

486
00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:03,440
Speaker 1: getting hammered and they owned them. The Pelicans just owned

487
00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:06,679
Speaker 1: the Grizzlies. It's really really weird bad news from this

488
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Speaker 1: one too.

489
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Speaker 3: Lee GJ.

490
00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:09,560
Speaker 1: Redick missed his first free throw.

491
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and Brian Anderson wasn't it.

492
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, that's right on the cool Yeah. Yeah,

493
00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:18,639
Speaker 1: so I'm sorry. I'm sorry about that. I know you

494
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Speaker 1: love a free throw streak.

495
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I do know this. This was another fun game

496
00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:24,520
Speaker 2: to watch, and you know, just quickly on Zion, he

497
00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:26,760
Speaker 2: hit another three last night. He hit a couple this season,

498
00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:29,000
Speaker 2: which is good, Like he doesn't shoot him all that often,

499
00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:31,120
Speaker 2: but he stepped into one last night and knocked it down.

500
00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:33,600
Speaker 2: Only took the one. But he has got an ability

501
00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:35,879
Speaker 2: to just float through the air, Like it's incredible for

502
00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:38,199
Speaker 2: someone that big and that heavy that he can just

503
00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:40,640
Speaker 2: get up there and just sort of cruise through without

504
00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:43,120
Speaker 2: anyone getting near him. Jarm Aran, on the other hand,

505
00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:45,960
Speaker 2: I don't think he makes the same basket two times

506
00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:49,119
Speaker 2: in a row. He's falling he's stumbling, he flips the

507
00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:52,399
Speaker 2: ball up. It's it's almost like he's got a Tony

508
00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:54,399
Speaker 2: Parker sort of floater in the lane that doesn't quite

509
00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:56,560
Speaker 2: look like Tony Parker. But he gets in there and

510
00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:59,320
Speaker 2: he almost doesn't know what to do. But yeah, great

511
00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:03,600
Speaker 2: impressive win here from from the Pelicans. And yeah, I mean,

512
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:04,320
Speaker 2: is there something there?

513
00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:05,919
Speaker 3: I'm not sure. I'm not sure if I believe in.

514
00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:08,400
Speaker 2: The Pelicans just yet. But but but.

515
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Speaker 1: Certainly point about Zion being an All Star, Like, I

516
00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:13,639
Speaker 1: think that's fair, Like is he is? He has he

517
00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,080
Speaker 1: inched ahead of Brandon Ingram if you are picking the

518
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Speaker 1: Pelicans All Star because we're not getting two Pelicans Ulstars, No,

519
00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:19,879
Speaker 1: we definitely not.

520
00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:23,360
Speaker 2: Definitely, that's a that's a great one. I certainly think

521
00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:27,159
Speaker 2: Brandon Ingram started the season much better, but Zion has

522
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,000
Speaker 2: started to get a little bit more traction in the

523
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Speaker 2: last few weeks. Probably I'm not sure who they get.

524
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Speaker 2: I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I mean, I'll probably

525
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Speaker 2: probably go Ingram just because a little bit more of

526
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Speaker 2: you know, he's been there. He was one last year

527
00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:45,240
Speaker 2: and he started off right, but it's it's this is

528
00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:47,160
Speaker 2: the last year. We don't see Zion, if he doesn't

529
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Speaker 2: make it in the All Star team, he's going to

530
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Speaker 2: be there and going to go on a long run,

531
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Speaker 2: because yeah, he's incredible, and the NBA certainly wants him

532
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Speaker 2: in there. I wonder if he's going to be in

533
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Speaker 2: the dunk contest or anything at the I.

534
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Speaker 1: Mean, look, that was always the rumored when they were rookies,

535
00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:04,480
Speaker 1: before injuries and stuff like that, that Zion and John Morant,

536
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:06,440
Speaker 1: we're gonna yeah in Chicago. But now we got the

537
00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:08,400
Speaker 1: no fans this night.

538
00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:11,120
Speaker 2: Rookie sort of sophomore whatever that that game. No, no, no,

539
00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:14,560
Speaker 2: Now it's the International America. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we probably.

540
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:16,520
Speaker 1: I don't think we're going to get that one, but man,

541
00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:17,800
Speaker 1: oh my god, you would think.

542
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:19,800
Speaker 2: The NBA would want him there in that that weekend.

543
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Speaker 1: I think he's going to be there. I think Trey's right.

544
00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:23,320
Speaker 1: I saw a task talking about it on What you

545
00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:25,800
Speaker 1: Need to Know. I think he is going to get selected.

546
00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:26,480
Speaker 3: And deserve it.

547
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,400
Speaker 1: I mean, these are crazy things he's putting up your numbers.

548
00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:32,320
Speaker 1: It would be a no brainer if the Pelicans had

549
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,960
Speaker 1: a better record, but they still even't have time to

550
00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:37,080
Speaker 1: like sort of get around five hundred, get right, back

551
00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:40,080
Speaker 1: in the mix. You know that's not not implausible. So uh,

552
00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:43,280
Speaker 1: I think he's there. I think the coaches ultimately do

553
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Speaker 1: select him, and I think if I were picking between

554
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,080
Speaker 1: the two, I like, I like it like this for

555
00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:48,760
Speaker 1: the Pelicans, by the way, I want Zion to be

556
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Speaker 1: the star, and I want Brandon Ingram to have like

557
00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:53,480
Speaker 1: a really solid game that he had last night. Yeah,

558
00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:55,720
Speaker 1: he was contributing like he wasn't like a zero by

559
00:24:55,720 --> 00:25:00,760
Speaker 1: any means, but he's for them. Yeah, absolutely absolutely. Josh

560
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:02,240
Speaker 1: Hart continues to play well off the bench for them

561
00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:04,359
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. And Lonzo is a hell of

562
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:06,160
Speaker 1: a bell Weather for this team. It's like, what type

563
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,160
Speaker 1: of lawnzo are you getting? Oh, you're getting good Lonso

564
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:08,399
Speaker 1: to night.

565
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Speaker 3: Oh.

566
00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:11,959
Speaker 1: I like the Pelicans chances, but yeah I would if

567
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:13,679
Speaker 1: I was betman, I'd say Zion does make it. And

568
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:14,919
Speaker 1: I think a part of that. And I brought this

569
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Speaker 1: up the other day. With the ad injury, that might

570
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:20,679
Speaker 1: help his chances too, right, especially a big likely not

571
00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:22,040
Speaker 1: playing in the game. We don't know that for sure

572
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 1: with Anthony Davis, but that opens up a spot and

573
00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:28,840
Speaker 1: sometimes the coaches go, oh, big is down, so let's

574
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:33,520
Speaker 1: replace it with another big and Zion Williamson is definitely big, So, like.

575
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Speaker 2: Trey says, you look at them a little different.

576
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Speaker 1: Maybe he's not a maybe he's not a five. He's

577
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:39,840
Speaker 1: a big, small guy. That's what he is. So yep,

578
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Speaker 1: I'm with you, Trey. I think he will be in

579
00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:43,640
Speaker 1: there and yeah, he's gonna be John Moritt to the game.

580
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 1: I mean, I love these two going at it. I mean,

581
00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:48,240
Speaker 1: I hope we just see this for a decade. I

582
00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:49,760
Speaker 1: hope they're on these teams for a decade. If I'm

583
00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:52,440
Speaker 1: being honest and they're battling, could they be the next

584
00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:53,359
Speaker 1: Magic and Bird?

585
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:57,200
Speaker 3: Wow? Wow, it sounds ridiculous, But the guy's played together

586
00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:59,400
Speaker 3: on an AAU team in high school, as you heard

587
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,960
Speaker 3: fifty thousand times on the broadcast last night. Obviously they're

588
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:06,480
Speaker 3: still buddies. They are. You know, you saw Zion cheering

589
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:08,880
Speaker 3: for John Moran's dunk before he realized, oh wait, that's

590
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,520
Speaker 3: not my team. Yeah, oh wait, we're not in AAU anymore.

591
00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:15,760
Speaker 3: So they're both incredible players who seem to have I mean,

592
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:17,600
Speaker 3: who knows what's gonna happen with the Pelicans. It feels

593
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:19,359
Speaker 3: like they're going to be their franchise is going to

594
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,080
Speaker 3: be pointing the right way. It felt like that with

595
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:23,520
Speaker 3: Anthony Davis as well. But at the very least you're

596
00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:25,640
Speaker 3: seeing the impact that Zion could have. We've already seen

597
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:28,080
Speaker 3: the impact that Jock can have. Two guys who are

598
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,520
Speaker 3: going to be leading their teams in the same conference.

599
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:32,520
Speaker 3: That's different. They're not going to be meeting in the finals,

600
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:34,760
Speaker 3: but hopefully we at least get some playoff series between.

601
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Speaker 2: These two the next Yeah. Just actually, I'm just looking

602
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,840
Speaker 2: at those fan returns too from the Western Conference, and

603
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,760
Speaker 2: uh yeah, there's actually not a ton of competition there

604
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 2: in that front court. I mean, Paul George is gonna

605
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 2: make it, I think, even though he's out injured right now.

606
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:50,080
Speaker 2: But then in terms of just the votes of the

607
00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:52,520
Speaker 2: front court here, you've got obviously Anthony Davis there, then

608
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 2: you've got Wiggans, Christian wood Ingram and Carmelo Anthony, uh

609
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 2: and just looking down there like the team's there. I mean,

610
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:02,199
Speaker 2: Lasers aren't going to at a forward the Spurs, I

611
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,359
Speaker 2: mean DeRose and I guess is possible there, but but

612
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 2: you know, I think Zion's probably in over him. The

613
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 2: Nuggets are going to get Yoki but that'll be about it.

614
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,639
Speaker 2: Draymond Green, I doubt it. I doubt he gets in.

615
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:15,360
Speaker 2: And then you got you know, Paul Zingis won't make it.

616
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:20,200
Speaker 2: Harrison Barnes won't make it. So yeah, actually, on second thought,

617
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:24,159
Speaker 2: I think Labe and Ingram might actually get into just

618
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 2: by the way, No, possibly it's pussibly because it just

619
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,399
Speaker 2: doesn't look like it's super deep at that position in

620
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,680
Speaker 2: the front court in the west right now, Okay.

621
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, all the love is for the birds in the West.

622
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:35,800
Speaker 1: You sort of not right about that? All right? The

623
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 1: final games from last night, I'll just list the other

624
00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 1: three games because we had one postponed and something our best.

625
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:45,119
Speaker 1: Everybody in Texas, anybody in America right now getting blasted

626
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 1: with this this snow. I feel like in Georgia. Here

627
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:48,959
Speaker 1: are like one of the rare spots in this country.

628
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 1: There's not like you know, in a in a deep,

629
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: deep freeze, even though I got very cold here. Of course,

630
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,119
Speaker 1: we're not getting killed with snow and power dropping, but

631
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:58,080
Speaker 1: everyone stays safe. Lebron and the Lakers fanned off the

632
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:01,560
Speaker 1: Wolves one twelve, one or four classic Lakers victory there.

633
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 1: Anthony Edward's good though Celtics snapped a losing streak with

634
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:06,440
Speaker 1: the one twelve ninety nine win over the Nuggets, despite

635
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:10,040
Speaker 1: Yolkic having a monster game and Camposo getting the start

636
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 1: there really well, Uh, Scalabrini was loving him on the broadcast.

637
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 1: I watched a lot of that one, Oh my god,

638
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 1: and the Raptors beat the Bucks one twenty four despite

639
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:20,320
Speaker 1: losing Lowry in that one to a bit of an

640
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:23,639
Speaker 1: ankle injury. Og was back, though I can't contractually talk

641
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:26,919
Speaker 1: about that game much. But of those three, uh, is

642
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 1: there anything that jumps out to either of you guys

643
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:31,959
Speaker 1: that you were dipping into last night when you were

644
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:32,920
Speaker 1: bouncing around these games?

645
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:38,240
Speaker 2: Lee, does Mike budenhols Up survive this season? The way

646
00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:38,800
Speaker 2: things going?

647
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 1: Oh boy, hey, hold on. Yanna said, don't panic, okay,

648
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:46,320
Speaker 1: now you're Panickings came out after their four straight loss. Yeah,

649
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:49,360
Speaker 1: I said, don't panic, Okay, we have no true holiday.

650
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 1: The Raptors is obviously a decent team, but you're panickingly.

651
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 2: I'm not panicking, but it is your voice. And they

652
00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:02,160
Speaker 2: lost to the Thunder was their last loss before last

653
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 2: night against the Raptors. There there's sixteen and twelve we

654
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:13,240
Speaker 2: know in the playoffs, you know, Budenoles's that that's his weakness.

655
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, we were surprised he was still there week. I

656
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 1: don't know, but then once he was.

657
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 2: Once he was, and once Yanna signed, it was like, okay,

658
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 2: well this is where they go on for the rest

659
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:25,480
Speaker 2: of this season. But I just wonder I just wonderful.

660
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 1: What would it Teap like just up this losing streak

661
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:30,719
Speaker 1: to continue and get to like out of hand and

662
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:33,520
Speaker 1: in a row, and they're like, well, we gotta do something.

663
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 2: I mean, they played the Raptors again tomorrow night, and

664
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 2: maybe Larry plays, maybe he doesn't. I'm still not sure

665
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 2: about Drew Holiday when he's back. I mean, yeah, like

666
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 2: he's missing Drew Holiday. But everyone's dealing with some sort

667
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 2: of loss at the moment. Yeah, I don't know, But

668
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,760
Speaker 2: I just don't know if if the Bucks decide, listen,

669
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 2: this season is getting away from us a little bit.

670
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 2: You know, we maybe want to make a change now.

671
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 2: But again, because Yannas did sign that contract, they have

672
00:29:57,280 --> 00:29:59,479
Speaker 2: a little bit of a safety net there. It's not

673
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 2: like we've got to make sure we can be honest, happy,

674
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:03,640
Speaker 2: you know, specifically this season.

675
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:08,280
Speaker 1: But I don't know that the Bucks were doing it perfectly.

676
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 1: Because the Bucks have a dominant regular season. We all

677
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 1: get it, all get super excited. They're an elite team

678
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 1: on both ends. And then they get to the playoffs

679
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 1: and they obviously get figured out by whatever team be

680
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 1: it the Heat or the Raptors, whoever wins a bunch

681
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:23,080
Speaker 1: of games off them, and then they're out. They flipped

682
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:24,600
Speaker 1: it around. We keep something we talked about the Jazz,

683
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 1: Hey don't play too well too early. Well, the Bucks

684
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 1: are taking that to heart. They're like, all right, we'll

685
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:32,720
Speaker 1: stop doing that, We'll play better come to the playoffs.

686
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 1: I agree with you, Lee, I mean, I was shocked

687
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:36,000
Speaker 1: that he was still there, but I think that all

688
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 1: came down to be honest, and for being honest, that

689
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 1: he still believed in them, still liked them, still saw

690
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 1: obviously a path to success, and Johannist had to have

691
00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 1: given them the okay to, you know, continue with him

692
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 1: or or they could have moved on and we'll see.

693
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:50,680
Speaker 1: But yeah, he says, not to panic, Tray, are you

694
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:52,480
Speaker 1: panicking at all about the Bucks? Are they playing it

695
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 1: cool here?

696
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:55,479
Speaker 3: They're doing the right thing, They're playing a cool man.

697
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 3: I'm not panicking because yeah, like you're saying skates. We've

698
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 3: said almost the entire season. Doesn't matter what the Bucks

699
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:05,720
Speaker 3: do in the regular season. All that matters is the playoffs.

700
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 3: You gotta keep that same energy when they're struggling, because

701
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 3: they're struggling right now, There's no doubt about it. But

702
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 3: it seems unlikely that in a season with championship aspirations

703
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 3: that they would change course mid stream, because what are

704
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:20,680
Speaker 3: they gonna do bring in a new coach. Doubtful they're

705
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 3: gonna call up Vin Baker or Darvin Ham. I would

706
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:26,040
Speaker 3: love to see it, but Baker and Ham, well, they

707
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 3: got a lot of food going on on that bench there,

708
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 3: popping a bud with Mike Kevin Aham, Bacon's a pizza,

709
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 3: good stuff. But I don't think they're gonna change course

710
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 3: in the middle of the season when they're trying to

711
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:38,479
Speaker 3: win a championship. Obviously, they brought in Drew Holliday, they

712
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 3: re signed Giannis. It's important to the Bucks to get

713
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 3: to the championship or at least get to the Eastern

714
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 3: Conference finals, if not the finals. After the season, though,

715
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 3: I think you're certainly talking again, and that's gonna be

716
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:51,960
Speaker 3: the case, depending on what happens come playoff time.

717
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 1: If the Bucks go down in the second round again,

718
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 1: Budenholzer is gone. You lock that in. Uh yeah, they

719
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:01,240
Speaker 1: have plans to obviously go deeper than that, and he

720
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 1: would have to be the fall guy. The good thing

721
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 1: with the Bucks despite this losing streak, to compare them

722
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:09,680
Speaker 1: again to the Jazz of last year, Mike Conley came in.

723
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 1: We got all excited last year, right, We're like, oh,

724
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 1: this is awesome, what an addition. And Mike Conley struggled,

725
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: you know, for whatever reason injuries, trying to find that

726
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 1: new role with the Utah Jazz, trying to fit in

727
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 1: there with other stars around him. I don't think we

728
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 1: can really say the same with Drew Holiday. You know,

729
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 1: before the injury lead Drew Holly was playing really well

730
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 1: and I was thinking making like a hell of a

731
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 1: lot of sense for that team. There wasn't like this

732
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 1: long sort of figuring it out sort of process. Was like,

733
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I felt like Drew Holiday just played for

734
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 1: the Bucks for the last couple of years again before

735
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 1: the injury, So that to me is a positive. He's

736
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 1: very important, of course on both ends for them. So

737
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 1: you know, Middleton again, I can't talk about the Raptors

738
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 1: until they're back to five hundred or to make a trade.

739
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 1: But they did a great job of, you know, shutting

740
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 1: down Middleton last night, who has had a phenomenal season.

741
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:54,560
Speaker 1: I mean, we were all saying he's an All Star lock.

742
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 1: He might be All NBA for crying out loud. So

743
00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 1: I'm not too too worried.

744
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 2: I'm not. To me, history is repeating a little bit.

745
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 2: You know, the Hawks when he was there, had that

746
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 2: incredible season the sixteen twenty two. Then I think they

747
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:08,560
Speaker 2: only won forty eight the next season, and it just

748
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 2: sort of it's like Bud's got like a really good

749
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 2: sort of year or two there where he can get

750
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 2: things effective. And the Bucks basketball they played, you know,

751
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 2: in the last two season during the regular season was incredible.

752
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 2: But just seems that they're sort of going down a

753
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 2: similar Bud path here. So they need they need to

754
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 2: be they need to get back on track.

755
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:26,720
Speaker 1: Though. You know, can you please drink a bud on

756
00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 1: tomorrow Happy hour? Please please? For me crack of mud

757
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 1: during happy hour, especially with the Raptors Bucks.

758
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:36,480
Speaker 2: Scheme, Come on, you know, I can't lower myself to

759
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 2: walk into a you know, I walk into the bottle shop,

760
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 2: and you know they know me in there. You know

761
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 2: they know I'm getting to be They know I'm getting

762
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 2: the left Fears or the Peronis, you know something a

763
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 2: little bit more.

764
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 1: You would blow their mind if you just a pack

765
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 1: of buds.

766
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 2: Should you go in and you get one of those

767
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 2: like massive cans you know that? Those yeah of bard

768
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 2: And I'm like, God, who would want to drink all this? Then?

769
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 3: Not? You?

770
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,959
Speaker 1: We know that? What will you be drinkingmorrow night? Then

771
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 1: tease me?

772
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 2: I'm actually uh, I'm actually out of beer at the moment.

773
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 2: But I'll get some red wine, so I might have

774
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 2: a little loss of I think he's been drinking the

775
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 2: red wine on the stream, so I said it a

776
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 2: couple of times. Yeah, yeah, I might have a little

777
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:24,239
Speaker 2: sip of that sickness.

778
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 1: He said some guinness too. Okay, we have some news

779
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 1: here just to touch on guys. First up, Timberwolves guard

780
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 1: D'angela Russell will undergo arthroscopic surgery UH today to remove

781
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:38,840
Speaker 1: a loose body in his left knee and is expected

782
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,759
Speaker 1: to miss four to six weeks. Russell is not having

783
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,400
Speaker 1: a great year, averaging under twenty points per game about

784
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:46,719
Speaker 1: five assists in the twenty games. He did play for

785
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 1: the Western Conference warse Wolves, who are seven and twenty one.

786
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 1: My question off of this tray, it's not a not

787
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 1: a kind question, but has anyone had a more disappointing

788
00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 1: season than D'angela Russell that you can think of?

789
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 3: Only guy that I would certainly have ahead of D'Angelo

790
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:07,080
Speaker 3: Russell if we're talking disappointing seasons, would be Russell Westbrook.

791
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,320
Speaker 3: He has just not looked great and that's a large

792
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:12,279
Speaker 3: part of the reason why the Wizards have had a

793
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:14,799
Speaker 3: poor season, because to me, they should not be the

794
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:16,399
Speaker 3: worst team in the league or one of the three

795
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:17,759
Speaker 3: worst teams in the league if you've got a guy

796
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:20,719
Speaker 3: average in thirty five points a game. So yeah, I

797
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 3: think Westbrook is a little bit more disappointing, but I

798
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,960
Speaker 3: think D'Angelo Russell might be having the most anonymous season

799
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 3: in the day. He's been fine, Like you're saying, the stats,

800
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 3: they're not great, but they're not terrible. He's hit some

801
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 3: game winners, but he really just seems like a guy

802
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:36,440
Speaker 3: right now. Wolves haven't had a chance this season basically

803
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:39,400
Speaker 3: due to COVID, but Russell hasn't really given them a

804
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:43,600
Speaker 3: chance to outperform the low expectations they have. Lucky for

805
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:46,879
Speaker 3: the Timberwolves, Anthony Edwards is straight up balling right now

806
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 3: since he's been a starter. Seventeen points, five rebounds, three assists,

807
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:53,960
Speaker 3: pretty decent percentage, just forty four from the field, thirty

808
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 3: six from three. They're three to eight. Obviously they're not

809
00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:59,440
Speaker 3: a good team. But he is looking alright. He had

810
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:01,520
Speaker 3: a career high twenty eight last night. He was smiling

811
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:04,279
Speaker 3: after hitting one in Lebron's face. Seems to have quite

812
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 3: a personality in postgame interviews. If he wasn't having a

813
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:11,400
Speaker 3: great season, it would be pretty bad there in Minnesota

814
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 3: because we would be talking a whole bunch about LaMelo

815
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:16,839
Speaker 3: ball regrets, because a big part of the reason that

816
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 3: the Timberwolves didn't draft LaMelo was because they already had

817
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:22,760
Speaker 3: Dangelo Russell there. Obviously, Russell and Towns are close friends.

818
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:26,280
Speaker 3: That was the big deal that was consummated the previous

819
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 3: season with the Warriors. Hard to remember Dangelo Russell playing

820
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:31,399
Speaker 3: with the Warriors. He had a fifty two point game,

821
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 3: I think though, right, something like that, Yeah, for the Warriors. Yeah,

822
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 3: So that was the big deal. Last year. We were

823
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,200
Speaker 3: waiting to see maybe Towns in Russell can put something together,

824
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 3: at least offensively. Obviously, Towns hasn't been able to be

825
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 3: on the court for the majority of this season, which

826
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 3: is submarine the Timberwolves chances, really, but Russell hasn't picked

827
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:50,880
Speaker 3: him up. And now you're thinking, Wow, they could have

828
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,239
Speaker 3: had LaMelo ball if they didn't have Edwards. If he

829
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 3: wasn't looking like a success story, then you know, I

830
00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:59,400
Speaker 3: think Minnesota would be pretty upset. But at least Edwards

831
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 3: is balling, and you know, it's looking like another good

832
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 3: draft pick for Timberwolves fans.

833
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 1: Again, Yeah, at least at least you're right about him

834
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 1: playing well and that was fine. Can't wait for that

835
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 1: top shot moment Edwards hit the three over Lebron. Yeah,

836
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:13,799
Speaker 1: I mean that'll be a good one. But I'll ask

837
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 1: the same question to you, Lee, Has anyone disappointed more

838
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 1: than d'angela Russell and you'd have the fact check me

839
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 1: on this. Trey said the whole thing of like him

840
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 1: coming to play with Karl Anthony Towns. They just haven't

841
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:26,240
Speaker 1: played together. I think they played five games total.

842
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:28,920
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, that may be right, because the Towns has

843
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 2: missed a ton of games. Yeah, Ironically, di'angelo's fifty two

844
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:37,439
Speaker 2: point game came against the timber Wolves in Minnesota last Yeah,

845
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:41,120
Speaker 2: that's why they traded for him. I mean, like the

846
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 2: Timberwolves coming into the season, I just didn't think they

847
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:46,400
Speaker 2: were going to be much better because D'Angelo Russell. He

848
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 2: can score the ball, but defensively, there's just not much there.

849
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 2: And even as a scorer, like he's middle of the

850
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 2: pack as far as a point guard, you know, he's

851
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 2: nowhere near the elite, the elite level like a Lilard

852
00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 2: or a Steph Cut or anything like that. So he

853
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:01,560
Speaker 2: can score okay, but you know he was he deserved

854
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 2: his All Star spot a couple of years ago. He

855
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:05,719
Speaker 2: played well in that great system in Brooklyn. But since

856
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 2: then he just you know, he's going to be sort

857
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:09,400
Speaker 2: of passed around a little bit, I think in the

858
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 2: NBA because he's just it's he's not super athletic, it

859
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 2: doesn't defend, and he's you know, he's just a scorer,

860
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 2: which is fine, but the Timberwolves need something better I

861
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 2: think at that position. So yeah, I think overall, you know,

862
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:27,880
Speaker 2: Westbrook hasn't really sort of changed Washington around too much either.

863
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 2: Out there, I mean, they're sort of still they just

864
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:31,880
Speaker 2: made that trade just the hell of it as well.

865
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 2: That wasn't really like we need this because we're going

866
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:37,879
Speaker 2: to vault ourselves up the standings. John Ware wanted out

867
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,279
Speaker 2: and the contracts match and was like, all right, why not,

868
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:42,400
Speaker 2: let's take him, so I.

869
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,640
Speaker 1: Would do one other name in the mix, and Tassa

870
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:47,480
Speaker 1: sort of reminded me of sort of how poorly he's playing,

871
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:50,280
Speaker 1: though he has built in excuses too with obviously missing

872
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:52,440
Speaker 1: a bunch of games with COVID and the health and

873
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:56,279
Speaker 1: safety protocols. Michael Porter Jr. Has that a bad bad

874
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 1: year because and we were excited about Mike Porter Junr.

875
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 1: Being like the second or third and the Nuggets taking

876
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 1: them to the next level. He is a He started

877
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 1: over the last six games for them and is playing

878
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 1: like close to thirty minutes per game. He's averaging under

879
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:10,879
Speaker 1: ten points per gamely, I mean, this guy shooting thirty

880
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 1: five percent from the floor twenty four from three. He

881
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:15,360
Speaker 1: was zero for eight versus the Celtics last night, so

882
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 1: it even got somehow worse. That's disappointing. I mean, again,

883
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 1: he's not he's not yet an All Star, like a

884
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:23,400
Speaker 1: D'Angel Russell was or Westbrook. I get that Russell and

885
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 1: Russell are great answers, but he's disappointed just because I

886
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,239
Speaker 1: you know, we all had a I hope for him

887
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 1: and he has tons of time to figure it out,

888
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:32,440
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong. And he's had a weird season,

889
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:34,319
Speaker 1: like I said, like a lot of people have. But

890
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:37,320
Speaker 1: that sucks. Yeah, I mean that guy should be a

891
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:39,960
Speaker 1: scoring like we've said, like twenty in his sleep though,

892
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:41,839
Speaker 1: with his athleticism, but.

893
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 2: He's I think he just is, uh, he needs to

894
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:46,360
Speaker 2: grow up a little bit myself. I think he's just

895
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:48,799
Speaker 2: a young player trying to figure it out. Because you know,

896
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 2: the criticisms I've had of him in the past is

897
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:54,800
Speaker 2: he just seems to be like he's not really fully

898
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:57,239
Speaker 2: engaged in the team concept right now. He knows he's

899
00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:59,400
Speaker 2: a scorer. He can score at any time, and he

900
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:01,799
Speaker 2: sometimes just like I'm just I just want to shoot

901
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 2: and score some points here. I don't really care what

902
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:05,719
Speaker 2: the what role we're running here for the team? What

903
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:07,279
Speaker 2: are we run in here? You know, if I get

904
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 2: the ball, I'm shooting. But that's a that's a time thing,

905
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:12,759
Speaker 2: you know, because he here's no doubt the talent is there,

906
00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:15,600
Speaker 2: and and Jamal Murray hasn't been all that good.

907
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:16,839
Speaker 1: I know he's gotten me going.

908
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 2: He started, he started to get it together a little bit,

909
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:21,440
Speaker 2: but he's had a slow start again. So you know,

910
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 2: the Nuggets in general outside of Yokich have been a

911
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:25,319
Speaker 2: little disappointing to this point.

912
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:27,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I watch the York highlights in their last to

913
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 1: the Celtics last night. I want to talk about a

914
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:34,360
Speaker 1: guy not taking the same shot. Yeah, every possession. Holy crap,

915
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:37,800
Speaker 1: some of the shots he was hitting are unreal. You know,

916
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 1: a monster game. Obviously it was all for or night

917
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:42,279
Speaker 1: in the last, but go check those out, all right,

918
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:44,680
Speaker 1: final one here, I want to slip this in. According

919
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 1: to Bett MGM, one Better in Las Vegas has placed

920
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 1: a ten thousand dollars wager on the Wizards to win

921
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:55,560
Speaker 1: the NBA Championship this season. Somebody believes in Russell Westbrook. Guys,

922
00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:59,879
Speaker 1: this bet would win this person five million dollars. All right,

923
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 1: ten k to win. Five minute. Now, Washington hasn't advanced

924
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:05,400
Speaker 1: past the second round of the postseason since nineteen seventy nine.

925
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:08,480
Speaker 1: So look, if you're listening, Joe House, this is a

926
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:11,280
Speaker 1: bold bet. My man crazy stuff.

927
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 3: But U for ye lesson Jack co God lessons, he

928
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:15,919
Speaker 3: lessens and he's a Wizards fan.

929
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jack co God, but he's a smart Wizards fan.

930
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:19,719
Speaker 1: I'm not sure he's putting down ten k on them

931
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:22,440
Speaker 1: to win the title. Forget the favorites though, and forget

932
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:26,680
Speaker 1: the Wizards. Who's a better dark horse to try and

933
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:27,880
Speaker 1: win the twenty one title?

934
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 3: All right?

935
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:30,799
Speaker 1: If you hit up bet MGM little title odds there,

936
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:32,920
Speaker 1: which I put the link in our rundown guy, so

937
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 1: you click through. I'm sure Lee get us started again.

938
00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 1: Not the favorites, Yeah, not the Wizards. But you know,

939
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 1: talk me into a team that I can make some

940
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:41,480
Speaker 1: coin on to win the title?

941
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 2: Say yes, I had deep. You want to go on

942
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 2: a dock horse here, I thought, guy, if you give

943
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:47,359
Speaker 2: if you give me one hundred bucks and I put

944
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 2: it on this team, I'll win five grand back. I'm

945
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:55,000
Speaker 2: going with the Raptors. I'm going with the far I

946
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 2: just there's lots of things that I like about the

947
00:41:57,600 --> 00:41:59,800
Speaker 2: Raptors as a dock horse. This team has got super

948
00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:02,400
Speaker 2: to around it. It's deep, it's well coached, they've been

949
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:05,680
Speaker 2: there before. I just feel that Kyle Lowry as well

950
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 2: could just drag this team, Like if you look at

951
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:10,319
Speaker 2: that Eastern Conference, you look at the Eastern Conference, I

952
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:13,360
Speaker 2: don't think they fear anybody. I mean, if Kevin Durant

953
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 2: is playing and healthy for the Nets, I think the

954
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 2: Nets are favorite. But outside of that, I think they

955
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:20,440
Speaker 2: can beat the Sixers. I think they can beat the Bucks,

956
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:24,239
Speaker 2: and the Nets just still have to get it together.

957
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 2: This team hasn't played together. And then if you look

958
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:30,400
Speaker 2: in the Western Conference, I mean, you know, the Lakers

959
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:34,080
Speaker 2: are the favorite, deservingly so. But the Raptors beat the

960
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 2: Warriors when they won it. Then the Warriors were favored

961
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:38,439
Speaker 2: in that series even though the Raptors were at home.

962
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:41,279
Speaker 2: No Kevin Durant, of course, But I'm just saying, if

963
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:43,480
Speaker 2: you want a dark horse, I'd rather have a hundred

964
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:46,560
Speaker 2: bucks on the Raptors and the Wits. I mean anyone

965
00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:48,319
Speaker 2: right now. But I mean I was going to say

966
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:51,279
Speaker 2: the Jazz, but because they're at plus twelve hundred right now,

967
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:56,839
Speaker 2: but I mean that's still me, I mean right now, Yes.

968
00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:59,160
Speaker 1: That's pretty long arts though for them. Yeah, okay, so

969
00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:03,000
Speaker 1: Raptors plus five thousand to win the title. Lea can

970
00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 1: squint and see a path for allowing to take them

971
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 1: to the prom that'd be incredible. Lee. I hope that happens, Trey,

972
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:10,200
Speaker 1: what's your answer for this one?

973
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 3: Come on, Lee, you got to go deeper than that.

974
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:14,839
Speaker 3: The Bulls are plus fifty thousand. You bet one hundred bucks.

975
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 3: You're winning five million dollars. That's a great investment. How's

976
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,240
Speaker 3: you know the Bulls are back? When there's a Democrat

977
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:24,239
Speaker 3: in the White House, the Bulls win championships, lock them in.

978
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 3: I'm kidding. But the Jazz are a good one. You know,

979
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 3: they've got what they're tied for the fifth best odds

980
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:31,719
Speaker 3: right now, which is a little bit too low. They've

981
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:34,279
Speaker 3: been the best team in the league so far. With

982
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 3: Anthony Davis out, you know, there's certainly a path for

983
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 3: the Jazz to at least get to the finals. We'll

984
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:42,080
Speaker 3: see what happens with Anthony Davis and how healthy the

985
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 3: Lakers can be come playoff time. But I'm done ruling

986
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:48,960
Speaker 3: out the Jazz as for actual maybe dark horse sort

987
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:52,160
Speaker 3: of deep picks here. The Heat are plus three thousand,

988
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:55,880
Speaker 3: the Warriors are plus sixty six hundred. They're both good teams,

989
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 3: and they're both teams that seem like they're going to

990
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:01,239
Speaker 3: be active at the trade deadline. If you're getting in now,

991
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 3: the team might be different. Come, I don't know when

992
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:06,719
Speaker 3: are we actually playing the finals? July? Is that right?

993
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:09,520
Speaker 3: The finals are in July? I think this season. But

994
00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:13,360
Speaker 3: both of those teams, you know, maybe it's Blake Griffin

995
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 3: makes his way to the Warriors, maybe it's Andre Drummond,

996
00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:18,839
Speaker 3: maybe the heat figure out of Bradley Beal trade. Both

997
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:21,719
Speaker 3: of these teams could certainly improve in the next month

998
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 3: or so. So those are decent dark horses.

999
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:26,880
Speaker 1: Yep, that's where I went with this too, Trey. I

1000
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 1: had the Warriors written down plus sixty six hundred and like,

1001
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:32,359
Speaker 1: even if they did it, make a move and this

1002
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:35,600
Speaker 1: is all long shot, but we do the classic in

1003
00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 1: a series. Well, who's got the better player? Who's got

1004
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 1: the best player out there? I like them, I like

1005
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:42,120
Speaker 1: their chances to advance. Well, I mean, you got Steph

1006
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 1: Curry playing the way he's playing at this point. You know,

1007
00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:47,360
Speaker 1: there are a few guys in the league where you

1008
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 1: can actually say, oh, that guy is better. So again,

1009
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:55,080
Speaker 1: could they win four rounds without Klay Thompson? But hey,

1010
00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:58,560
Speaker 1: who knows? Who knows? Could Clay come back? Clearly it's

1011
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:03,200
Speaker 1: whoa ah plus sixty six hundred and sure, why not

1012
00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:05,400
Speaker 1: if you got the coin, throw it down on that.

1013
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 1: Good luck let's do from you guys. Check that out?

1014
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:10,280
Speaker 1: Do you bet? MGM? Total lines? And are you with uh?

1015
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:13,759
Speaker 1: Are you with this? This anonymous Wizards fan and have

1016
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:15,759
Speaker 1: faith in them. Maybe they're making a big move, Maybe

1017
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:17,640
Speaker 1: they're gonna treat and they're like, Wow, we're gonna have

1018
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:18,240
Speaker 1: all this depth.

1019
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 3: We're gonna rebuild.

1020
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:23,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, Lee, time for tweet love.

1021
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:28,959
Speaker 3: Tonight, tweet over night, Wow, Twitter.

1022
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:32,799
Speaker 1: What do you got, Lily?

1023
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:38,839
Speaker 2: Uh, Well, here we are. Yeah. So you know, we've

1024
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 2: got some great fans out there and people who are

1025
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:43,960
Speaker 2: really passionate about the show. And a few weeks ago,

1026
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:46,560
Speaker 2: we were talking about our Clippers sign off and we

1027
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:49,240
Speaker 2: were talking about you know what they were saying at.

1028
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:51,320
Speaker 1: The end of it, you guys ask them.

1029
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:54,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, And we were talking about turnips. And then someone

1030
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:57,960
Speaker 2: got some artwork done of a turn up and then

1031
00:45:58,040 --> 00:46:02,280
Speaker 2: got themselves tattooed with that turn up and it comes

1032
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:06,239
Speaker 2: in from the Life of Kate w Here it says

1033
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 2: shout out to No Dunk's Ink for the inspiration turn up,

1034
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 2: Love you guys, awesome and.

1035
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 1: There turn up that looks awesome.

1036
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:17,200
Speaker 3: Fire.

1037
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:23,040
Speaker 2: Now, Kate is not the first fan of ours to

1038
00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 2: have a tattoo something related to one of our works.

1039
00:46:26,239 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 2: We've had a couple of others. This was from where

1040
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:30,879
Speaker 2: you can see you can see my friend old eight

1041
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:35,719
Speaker 2: toes there. And then another longtime fan in Chicago last

1042
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:36,799
Speaker 2: year has a tattoo with me.

1043
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:42,840
Speaker 3: I love the lay on the couch poles yea, I love.

1044
00:46:42,719 --> 00:46:44,920
Speaker 1: Everything about both of those. So we got to get

1045
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:46,839
Speaker 1: a photo of you with Keate now and the turn

1046
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:47,920
Speaker 1: up turn up.

1047
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:51,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean when we're allowed to see people again,

1048
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:53,200
Speaker 2: I guess we'll try to make that happen something.

1049
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:54,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got to say, like, I don't want to

1050
00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:56,879
Speaker 1: rank them, but I do like Keat's the most because

1051
00:46:56,880 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 1: it's not your face. Say that. He's gonna get some

1052
00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 1: questions though, people what what is that?

1053
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:05,600
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1054
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 1: Why do you have that? And then you're talking about

1055
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:09,440
Speaker 1: no dunks? I love it, great stuff.

1056
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:11,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, but the people in the stream team they're saying,

1057
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:14,279
Speaker 3: even if you don't get no dunks, which you know,

1058
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:17,600
Speaker 3: eventually everybody's going to know about no dunks on the

1059
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:19,799
Speaker 3: entire globe, but right now that's not the case. But

1060
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:22,640
Speaker 3: even if you don't, that's still a baller tattoo. Yeah, yeah,

1061
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:24,560
Speaker 3: you're gonna have to explain that it is a turn up,

1062
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:27,839
Speaker 3: that's a basketball. But thing's gorgeous and you know there

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Speaker 3: can't be a lot of turn up basketball tattoos out there,

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Speaker 3: So one to three of a kind.

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Speaker 1: How far far do you go with the explanation when

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00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:38,719
Speaker 1: people ask, like you say, like you gotta have it's

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00:47:38,719 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 1: a basketball, But then there's these Clipper bros. That's a

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00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:45,000
Speaker 1: turn up, and then these guys were joking about it's turnip. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know, but maybe you just say, oh, yeah,

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00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:51,040
Speaker 1: it's a it's a commemorative tattoo in honor of the

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00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:52,480
Speaker 1: no dunks. So you just keep it simple.

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Speaker 2: It just gets weird when you start having to explain

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00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:57,719
Speaker 2: the clip of bros sign off because sure, you know

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00:47:57,800 --> 00:47:59,960
Speaker 2: you're not you're not saying turn up, you're saying turn up,

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00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:03,960
Speaker 2: but it's become to so anyway, yeah, anyway, let us

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00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:05,680
Speaker 2: know how that guy's kay, let us know how that guys.

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00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:08,440
Speaker 2: Next time at a body or something and someone says,

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00:48:08,239 --> 00:48:10,200
Speaker 2: I explained that tattoo for me and say you how it.

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Speaker 2: Guys from there yeah, it does.

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Speaker 1: I love again. Just put it up one more time,

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Speaker 1: Jad if you can, because I don't I like that.

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00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:19,319
Speaker 1: It's like it's just enough of a turnip, you know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, mostly of basketball.

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Speaker 1: Right right. Uh, that's really well done. Kudos to your

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Speaker 1: tattoo artists or that too. I think that's phenomenal work.

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Speaker 1: I don't know a lot about the tattoo game, but

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Speaker 1: that looks damn good to me. That's popping. I'll say

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00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 1: that colors are are fire. There, great stuff, Kate, Okay,

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00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 1: pick the results from last night. It was the Nugget

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00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:42,759
Speaker 1: Celtics game. A lot of us took the Celtics. They

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00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 1: were favored by three and a half, they had lost

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00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 1: a couple. Denver was playing, well, what's going on here?

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00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:50,080
Speaker 1: Task took the Celtics. Lee took the Celtics. I took

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00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:52,880
Speaker 1: the Celtics, got the victory. They pull it off in

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00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:57,240
Speaker 1: the end quite easily. Covered Trey unfortunately had the nuggets

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00:48:57,239 --> 00:48:59,960
Speaker 1: he had pre swerved. He took Denver first and drop

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00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 1: trade a four and eight. You got tascin, Lee's six

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00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:05,319
Speaker 1: and six and I'm seven and five, so obviously still

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00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:08,719
Speaker 1: fairly close. We got basically half the month still going.

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00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:12,080
Speaker 1: What are we in February? Yeah, let's go to say

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00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:15,560
Speaker 1: March for a second. But tonight's game, there's a lot

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00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 1: of games on. Oh boy, there's a whole lot of

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00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:21,080
Speaker 1: games on. Jazz versus the Clippers is the one we're

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00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:26,360
Speaker 1: picking from Utah roll in of course one nineteen twenty

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00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:28,320
Speaker 1: favored by three and a half.

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Speaker 3: That's it.

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00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:33,000
Speaker 1: On the road, Trey get a start, Actually, good le,

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00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:33,799
Speaker 1: you get a start tonight?

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00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:35,800
Speaker 3: We got Yeah, the Jazz.

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00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:38,640
Speaker 2: It just you first, Dinka, But I like three and

1111
00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:41,520
Speaker 2: a half points in La. I'm not sure Paul George is.

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00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:43,640
Speaker 2: I'm not sure about Kawhi. I'll take the Jazz to

1113
00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:44,280
Speaker 2: keep rolling.

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Speaker 1: This would be a bold pick. I gotta say for

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00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:51,000
Speaker 1: somebody to go against the Jazz right now, to not

1116
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:53,880
Speaker 1: roll with the team that hot, Trey, are you gonna

1117
00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:55,000
Speaker 1: do it? Are you going to Utah?

1118
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:57,840
Speaker 3: No, I'm playing some horns. Tonight's scheme. See, you gotta

1119
00:49:57,880 --> 00:49:59,799
Speaker 3: go with the Jazz. They're a little bit better rest

1120
00:49:59,840 --> 00:50:03,719
Speaker 3: than the no Paul George factor. Now that you're saying it,

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00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:07,320
Speaker 3: it feels too much like and maybe I should swerve

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00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:08,399
Speaker 3: no sticking with the Jazz.

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Speaker 1: Nice. Let's find out who tests us.

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00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:15,240
Speaker 3: This game's on lead pass. Let's get it on national TV.

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00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:18,279
Speaker 3: Let's do a little flexing. I think the Clippers will

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00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:20,400
Speaker 3: keep it close. They're a pretty good team at guarding

1127
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:23,759
Speaker 3: the three point line. Three and a half points. Kawhi

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00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:24,680
Speaker 3: Leonard should be back.

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Speaker 2: I'm taking the clip.

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Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, I was gonna do that swerve, but I

1131
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:31,759
Speaker 1: won't anymore. I'm sort of happy I went to test

1132
00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:33,520
Speaker 1: there first. I'll take the Jazz, but Tass is the

1133
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:35,840
Speaker 1: one swerve and I don't mind it. I don't mind it.

1134
00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:37,839
Speaker 1: So he's got the Clippers keep it close enough. We

1135
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Speaker 1: have the Jazz to win by four or more points

1136
00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:43,719
Speaker 1: on the road. All right, fun, fun show. Thanks to

1137
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:46,719
Speaker 1: everybody joining us live on the stream. Team emails your

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00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:49,520
Speaker 1: questions and comments for the next Beach Step In podcast

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00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:23,560
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1152
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:25,480
Speaker 1: And if you're out there and you decide to get

1153
00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:28,160
Speaker 1: a no Dunk tattoo, let us know and we will

1154
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:31,840
Speaker 1: absolutely show it here on the show for sure. Doesn't

1155
00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:34,279
Speaker 1: have to be uh Lely's face. I'm waiting from a

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Speaker 1: first Tray Kirby tattoo from the world out there. I

1157
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:38,719
Speaker 1: think one's coming. I mean, you already got a hoodie

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00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:40,040
Speaker 1: saying Ho Ho Ho dunks.

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:43,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, So maybe like Sally Kirby, Sallykby's gonna.

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00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:47,600
Speaker 3: Get my mom does already have a tattoo with a

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Speaker 3: three and a Z. Trey and McKenzie.

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Speaker 1: We'll look true true love, all right. So yeah, go

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00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:55,000
Speaker 1: get a tattoo of no ducks guys, and let us know.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back later today. Clipper bros.

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Speaker 3: You heard it here first. Have a great time turn up.

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Speaker 3: Love you guys awesome, thanks for joining us, and remember

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Speaker 3: you turn up for basketball. Gotta turn up basketball tattoo.

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Speaker 1: Embrace the day.

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Speaker 3: People, you could stay boom every day and you happy

1171
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:24,840
Speaker 3: every minute. It's been so long that you're the mona

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Speaker 3: wait for it's happened already. It's gonna be grevy