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Speaker 2: Winds up with a whole lot of nothing in the tournament. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and uh, you know, we may have an Avenger style

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Speaker 1: Well now, I except prefer Paul Tron.

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Speaker 2: We'll get into that and conclude our team by team

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Speaker 2: prediction series with the Southeastern Division with writer and podcaster

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Speaker 2: Dampa Valley.

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Speaker 1: On today's episode, I'm Miles.

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Speaker 3: Ray and I'm Jack O'Brien, and this is.

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Speaker 1: Uh David. There you go, driving spinning Curry, a three

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Speaker 2: Guys, damp valume, you're right for bleacher for it. You

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Speaker 3: Mostly known for having been on this podcast before as

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Speaker 3: a wonderful guest. Yes, thank you for returning.

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Speaker 2: Yes, thank you so much for blessing us, allowering yourself

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Speaker 1: But yeah, how you been man?

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Speaker 4: I have been great. Thank you guys so much for

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Speaker 2: I had a sign, but wow, you got man. I

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Speaker 2: Should we touch on Team USA before we get into

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Speaker 1: Why not?

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Speaker 3: Someone's gonna have to do it. Yeah, so what's our

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Jamal Murray and Wiggins were not playing, right Canada

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Speaker 2: So Dan, what do you think of? But what do

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Speaker 4: What if they tried to like build and you could

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Speaker 3: Because Steve Kerr is dumb and bad, and I think

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Speaker 5: I'd be curious if they'd be favored. I think i'm too.

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Speaker 4: There's like the stain of how they just played his

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Speaker 1: But right like that collection.

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Speaker 2: Right, So shall we move into the Southeast Division and

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Speaker 3: I think we should after we take a little break,

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Speaker 3: You're exactly ninety seconds. Yeah, yeah, all right, tell me

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Speaker 1: Okay, forty go.

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Speaker 3: Shoot and we're back.

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Speaker 2: We're back, Oh Southeast, baby, Yeah, first one up the

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you want a forty one division team? Over

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Speaker 3: under predictions won the division year that everyone the division

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm glad Dan is here to help us

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Speaker 4: I could see a scenario where this team ends up

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Speaker 4: have too many fatal flaws. But the top end talent,

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Speaker 2: Shall we switch it over to Florida? Sure, let's switch

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Speaker 1: Are they? I actually don't know which one. Orlando's Central? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: Let's go South Floridaay, the one that's higher or lower

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Speaker 2: than Miami. Let's go to the one that's Miami bouncing

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Speaker 3: Yeah, let's do that one.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Miami.

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Speaker 2: They went forty four and thirty eight, lost of the Nuggets

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Speaker 4: What do you think, Dan, if that forty eight and

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Speaker 4: and you lost, you know, gave Vincent Max streuce were

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Speaker 1: You didn't get it.

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Speaker 4: You didn't get anything for them, Like they're just gone,

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Speaker 4: they just not only did they not edit, they actively

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Speaker 2: So far, Right, what do you what kind of season

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Speaker 4: Yeah, just without Dame, Like if you again, if you

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Speaker 2: No, I Mean that's why I was like saying as

444
00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:49,640
Speaker 2: it is without Dame. I'm like, how are you doing

445
00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:51,840
Speaker 2: four and a half better? I'm like, at best you

446
00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:53,840
Speaker 2: kind of net out where you were.

447
00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:58,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, but when you said the phrase Josh Richardson was

448
00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:02,159
Speaker 3: a really good pick up for them that made me

449
00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:05,639
Speaker 3: have a physical reaction. I feel like I've heard that

450
00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:08,879
Speaker 3: every every place that he's been for the past six years.

451
00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:11,679
Speaker 4: He's on a minimum now at least, though, so it's

452
00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:13,600
Speaker 4: kind of hard to with on expectations.

453
00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:17,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, yeah, this feels high to me if the

454
00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:20,560
Speaker 3: Dame thing isn't happening. It really feels like a lot

455
00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:24,720
Speaker 3: of the people who know things around the league are

456
00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:26,200
Speaker 3: just like, yeah, but Damn's gonna be there.

457
00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:29,320
Speaker 1: Come on, like like this is a done deal. It's

458
00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:31,320
Speaker 1: just it's just we just.

459
00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:33,919
Speaker 3: Need to wait for Portland to do the thing that

460
00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:36,560
Speaker 3: they've chosen not to do up to this point. It's like,

461
00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:41,160
Speaker 3: I don't I don't understand why it would happen if

462
00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:44,879
Speaker 3: it hasn't already. But people seem confident. They almost had

463
00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:50,680
Speaker 3: him on Miami in two k I feel like, so, oh.

464
00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:52,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was that screen cap that Jabari was saying

465
00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:56,080
Speaker 2: was out there dameless already on the heap okay, but

466
00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:57,440
Speaker 2: so do they know.

467
00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:03,200
Speaker 1: Something at two K sports already? Yeah, Apacea Vegas is

468
00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:04,800
Speaker 1: usually pretty smart about this stuff.

469
00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:08,679
Speaker 4: So right, Look, Nikolaiovitch had a good World Cup, so

470
00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:11,159
Speaker 4: just like he's clearly going to be the difference in

471
00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:13,440
Speaker 4: the state. That's what people I got a kick out

472
00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:14,719
Speaker 4: of them for me, like, oh, look at how good

473
00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:16,560
Speaker 4: of a piece Nikolaiovich would be for Portland.

474
00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:19,320
Speaker 5: Look at what he's doing in And so we've.

475
00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:21,919
Speaker 4: Reached that point of the the negotiations where it's like

476
00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:24,359
Speaker 4: every little thing has to have this big impact on

477
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:25,720
Speaker 4: how have.

478
00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:29,560
Speaker 1: Any more picks? Like are they pretty light on picks

479
00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:29,880
Speaker 1: for the.

480
00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:34,160
Speaker 4: Next there's if they do, they have to renegotiate something

481
00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:36,639
Speaker 4: with the Thunder, but they can give up three first

482
00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:40,919
Speaker 4: round picks plus swaps, Like the offer isn't nothing. I

483
00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:42,960
Speaker 4: just don't know if Portland's trying to like I don't

484
00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:45,879
Speaker 4: know if YouTube. I'm assuming YouTube given some thought. This's like,

485
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:47,400
Speaker 4: what is the team that's going to come and give

486
00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:49,960
Speaker 4: you more than let's just say the equivalent. I know

487
00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:53,240
Speaker 4: they don't want Tyler Hero, but Tyler Hero and three

488
00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:57,080
Speaker 4: first round picks and maybe a couple of swaps. The

489
00:23:57,119 --> 00:23:59,280
Speaker 4: heat trying to lowball this where it's like we'll give

490
00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:01,680
Speaker 4: you Tyler hero End a pick, because then that's obviously

491
00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:05,560
Speaker 4: a different discussion. But their offer, their best theoretical offer

492
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:08,159
Speaker 4: to me, is at least a real offer. And I

493
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:11,080
Speaker 4: don't know who necessarily would be right, but.

494
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:13,560
Speaker 2: Do we know how close or far we are still

495
00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:15,080
Speaker 2: with this whole deal? Like I think the last thing

496
00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:17,440
Speaker 2: I saw was like Sham's tweet and it's like, I mean,

497
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:20,600
Speaker 2: he'll go to another team, but the second he's there,

498
00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:22,440
Speaker 2: Dame will want to be going to Miami.

499
00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:25,320
Speaker 1: That sounds like a good deal for that team.

500
00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:29,680
Speaker 2: I'm like, WHOA, Okay, that's pretty aggressive pr right there,

501
00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:33,920
Speaker 2: but doesn't like or is or is it an inevitability?

502
00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:36,280
Speaker 2: And is Portland going to be petty and be like

503
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,280
Speaker 2: we're gonna hold you before so you can't go to

504
00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:40,080
Speaker 2: camp and then he.

505
00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:42,240
Speaker 3: Doesn't help them?

506
00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:44,960
Speaker 1: Right? I mean maybe it does, but it seems like

507
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:45,560
Speaker 1: that hurts up.

508
00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:48,720
Speaker 4: Do you guys buy that Dame wouldn't show up to

509
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:50,720
Speaker 4: I think the report was he'd only show up to

510
00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:53,720
Speaker 4: camp in Portland or Miami and nowhere else, Like do

511
00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:55,679
Speaker 4: you buy that he's that type of like could he

512
00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:56,359
Speaker 4: do the Harden.

513
00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:58,399
Speaker 5: I just can't buy it.

514
00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:02,880
Speaker 2: If you'll like, he's not built like that, but yeah, yeah,

515
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:06,160
Speaker 2: I feel like he would show up, but it's a

516
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:10,000
Speaker 2: lot to risk for an NBA team, right because I

517
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:12,040
Speaker 2: think I think the follow up was, I mean, he'll

518
00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:16,119
Speaker 2: go to another camp, but just no.

519
00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:16,480
Speaker 1: He's not gonna like it.

520
00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:19,320
Speaker 2: He'll be there, but his his whole mind will be

521
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:23,159
Speaker 2: on getting to Miami the second he's there. So I

522
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:24,880
Speaker 2: think that is a way of saying, like, look, he's

523
00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:27,680
Speaker 2: gonna do what he's obligated to do, but you don't

524
00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:30,000
Speaker 2: want him unless you know it's Miami.

525
00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:32,520
Speaker 1: But hey, we shall see.

526
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:38,600
Speaker 3: Miami is also not the shocking under from this division.

527
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:39,240
Speaker 1: People.

528
00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 3: People are just on the edge of their See, I

529
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 3: can't about the nive that Miami and Atlanta were not

530
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:48,199
Speaker 3: the surprising under for me.

531
00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:50,240
Speaker 1: Okay, what about this next one? What about this next one?

532
00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:56,119
Speaker 3: Is next the Orlando Magic. They are being predicted to

533
00:25:56,600 --> 00:26:00,560
Speaker 3: go up two and a half games from thirty four

534
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:04,160
Speaker 3: and forty eight to thirty six and a half wins.

535
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:06,880
Speaker 3: It's a little more light to me if we're if

536
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 3: we think Paolo is really gonna be that dude. This

537
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:16,159
Speaker 3: is usually from rookie to second year is usually a

538
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:19,640
Speaker 3: pretty big step up, and they have a lot of

539
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:26,720
Speaker 3: fun young pieces around him. They signed Joe Ingles, they

540
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 3: drafted a couple of sixth and eleven pick like, those

541
00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:34,159
Speaker 3: are not insignificant talents to add.

542
00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:36,000
Speaker 1: I don't.

543
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,320
Speaker 3: I don't know, but sure two and a half sounds

544
00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 3: about right like that that feels that feels reasonable to

545
00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:45,119
Speaker 3: me that they would go up two and a half wins.

546
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:46,359
Speaker 3: What's everybody feeling?

547
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:47,159
Speaker 1: I don't know.

548
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:51,200
Speaker 2: I feel like thirty five years anniversary maybe that I

549
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:55,080
Speaker 2: always like an anniversary for a team, you know that anniversary?

550
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:58,119
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, wow. So I'm like, I think of like

551
00:26:58,160 --> 00:26:59,120
Speaker 1: how old I am, Like.

552
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:02,800
Speaker 2: Wow, I was, I were but a boy when they

553
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 2: entered the league. But yeah, like I mean, Paolo and

554
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:09,760
Speaker 2: like Franz, they're all they seem like they keep evolving

555
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 2: in the proper direction. So I don't know, I mean, like,

556
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,440
Speaker 2: pardon me. I get excited when I hear Magic fans

557
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:18,359
Speaker 2: talk about the Magic and when I hear their enthusiasm,

558
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 2: like they could do more than two and a half games.

559
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:21,919
Speaker 2: But I don't know, Dan, am I fully off on this?

560
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:24,639
Speaker 1: No? This one to me right now? Anyway?

561
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 4: Feels like I don't know, if you guys remember last

562
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:27,920
Speaker 4: year the Kings over under you looked at it and

563
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,640
Speaker 4: you were like, that's way too low. They were at

564
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:32,439
Speaker 4: like thirty five or something, and this kind of feels

565
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:35,399
Speaker 4: like that. Where they played their defense was elite for

566
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 4: most of last year. I don't know if they have

567
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,760
Speaker 4: enough like offensive juice in them yet, but as you

568
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:44,160
Speaker 4: already mentioned Polo and Franz, they showed great growth throughout

569
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,440
Speaker 4: the course of the season. I think Jalen Suggs actually

570
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,199
Speaker 4: made some steps forward on that end as well. And

571
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:52,359
Speaker 4: if you can just get enough extra shooting from Jet

572
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,760
Speaker 4: Howard who they drafted, or Joe Angles, if he can

573
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:58,119
Speaker 4: play like a real role, if Gary Harris is as good,

574
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 4: I worry about Anthony blacks fit a little bit just

575
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 4: because he can't shoot either. So there's a lot of

576
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:05,400
Speaker 4: shooting question marks here, but on the defense, and then

577
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 4: just like sort of the talent alone when you look

578
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:09,959
Speaker 4: at their top you know, five to six guys. I

579
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 4: know the East is pretty wide open, but this feels

580
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:14,159
Speaker 4: like a team that should probably be flirting with like

581
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 4: in the thirty nine win range East, And so I'm

582
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,119
Speaker 4: a little bit maybe I've listened to Magic fans too

583
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 4: much myself. Hype up this team because where was it?

584
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:24,400
Speaker 4: Thirty six and a half? Thirty seven and a half

585
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:28,359
Speaker 4: just feels low. Yeah, they love Franz, don't they down

586
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 4: there aggressively?

587
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 1: So yeah, character and your boy Markel too, Jack.

588
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, Markel is like the they they we we're all

589
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:42,280
Speaker 3: rooting for Markel Man, We're all rooting for yeah.

590
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 1: Yeah.

591
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 3: So yeah, I could see that they're going to be

592
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:51,080
Speaker 3: interesting to watch. Yeah, all right, they are not mine

593
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 3: surprising under. Up next, we have the Washington Wizards, who

594
00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 3: last year won thirty five games five and forty seven,

595
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:05,120
Speaker 3: didn't qualify for the postseason. This year, they are expected

596
00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:10,320
Speaker 3: to win twenty five and a half games. They're expected

597
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,800
Speaker 3: to drop ten and a half and a half or

598
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 3: nine and a half, nine and a half. Man, it

599
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 3: was ten and a half before and then and then

600
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:21,760
Speaker 3: it just went up one.

601
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 1: Did it just change?

602
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 3: This is my This is my shocking under. I don't

603
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 3: know why what has changed, other than everyone being like.

604
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.

605
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 3: These guys stake. It just feels like their fans just

606
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 3: kind of quit on them. They got Jordan Pool, they

607
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 3: lost Porzingis I guess Porzenis was pretty good last year,

608
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 3: Pool was not great last year, So maybe people are

609
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 3: just like his this is bad, bad, bad vibes here,

610
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 3: but ten wins. I'm not saying I would take the

611
00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 3: over here necessarily, but it's a it's a big shift.

612
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 3: But who hurts people who who they brought in, like,

613
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:08,520
Speaker 3: you know, an interesting piece and lost a piece that

614
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:10,840
Speaker 3: like is not It's not like one of the top

615
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 3: twenty players in the league. It's not a ten win

616
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 3: swing on the surface. But what am I missing here?

617
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 2: Dan?

618
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 4: I mean, I think the two things are just like

619
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 4: you lose what were your two best players last year,

620
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 4: and then the other thing is and I would fall

621
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 4: into this camp. This feels like it's pricing in that

622
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 4: their new president of basketball Ops, Michael Winger, is not

623
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 4: going to let them hit the over on this. And

624
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,560
Speaker 4: it's like Kyle Kuzma's deal feels like it was signed

625
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:41,560
Speaker 4: just to be traded. Tias Jones, will he finish the season?

626
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:41,800
Speaker 1: There?

627
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:43,760
Speaker 4: Are you going to see them start to maybe if

628
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 4: they keep these guys shut them down in March or something.

629
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:49,840
Speaker 4: And I think you also get into like, well, what

630
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 4: team in the East could they feasibly be better then,

631
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 4: and I think you kind of start to run out

632
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:58,600
Speaker 4: of runway after Detroit and maybe Charlotte, who we've yet

633
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 4: to talk about in this vision. And I think that's

634
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 4: a big part of it, is that they're clearly starting over.

635
00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 4: Twenty five is aggressive, and I think there were only

636
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:08,560
Speaker 4: what were there two teams that only won fewer than twenty.

637
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 1: Five last year or whatever it was.

638
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, but like this feels like a team that's gonna

639
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 4: do their darnedest to win fewer than twenty five games.

640
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess that's true if they're tanking for whoever flag?

641
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, for flag, Like yo, man, just just get rid

642
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 2: of them, trade pool, give me the flag.

643
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:30,880
Speaker 3: Get get rid of them all, lose them all, all right? Yeah,

644
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:36,240
Speaker 3: I can see that. It's Bill was Beal did play

645
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 3: a lot last season and they Yeah, all right, all right,

646
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 3: I'm I'm on board. Forget what I said about this

647
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 3: being a surprise and under.

648
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna stink harder.

649
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 3: I think I'm under on the watch Charlotte Hornets. Yeah,

650
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 3: have you seen these guys? You heard about these guys.

651
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 3: I heard they're expecting to pick up four and a

652
00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 3: half wins basically from the return of Lonzo. I mean

653
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 3: LaMelo the return of Lamello. But this is a thing

654
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 3: we were talking about, how we want them together.

655
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 1: We're like they're always hurt. Yeah, I don't even know

656
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 1: if he's coming back, Like, oh right, LaMelo is.

657
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 3: Melo is a different human being. He's very good. He's

658
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:22,000
Speaker 3: a lot of fun. Actually, we'll say drafted Brandon Miller

659
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 3: passed on a chance to draft Scoot Henderson. This is

660
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 3: I think they will be haunted by that throughout this season.

661
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 3: But yeah, four and a half, Like going up to

662
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 3: thirty one and a half wins doesn't seem crazy to me.

663
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 1: I could see it.

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00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, especially because you mentioned LaMelo missed a ton of

665
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 4: time last year, where he's played like thirty games or something. Yeah,

666
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 4: so if you get relatively good health from him, and

667
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 4: you get even like Cody Martin missed a bunch of

668
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 4: time last year, Mark Williams should be better. Brandon Miller

669
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 4: I think was the wrong pick, but like there's also

670
00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:58,560
Speaker 4: a chance that Brandon Miller is good.

671
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, just not right.

672
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 4: And I think their defense improved a lot last year

673
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 4: under Steve Clifford. So like that feels just like better

674
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 4: health from LaMelo and you know, having maybe better health

675
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 4: like surrounding him, like that should be worth In the East,

676
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 4: I would think like four or five wins, especially when

677
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:17,440
Speaker 4: you're working off such a little baseline. It's not like

678
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:20,320
Speaker 4: we're saying they're going from thirty seven to thirty one.

679
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 2: Yere right right, yeah, yeah, I mean, I like, I

680
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:28,720
Speaker 2: love the confidence of like yeah, wait till wait till

681
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 2: b Miller got that Rookie of the Year.

682
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 1: Though, are they feeling? Are they are? People?

683
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 2: I mean I have I have, I know some some

684
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 2: well I know one Rabbit Charlotte fan in my circle

685
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 2: and they're like, trust me, we did we made the

686
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 2: right decision.

687
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:47,959
Speaker 3: People are always wrong, Like in the immediate aftermath, like

688
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 3: everyone was like Mathurin like what were they thinking. It's

689
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:56,880
Speaker 3: just the people who the obvious mistakes in the draft

690
00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 3: are don't always turn out to be the case. So

691
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 3: we'll see, Yeah, Keegan Murray was supposed to be like, well,

692
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 3: they're going to be looking back on that one and

693
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:10,480
Speaker 3: oh wait, Keegan Murray is really good. Never mind, all right,

694
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:12,879
Speaker 3: So there you have it. We have completed our team

695
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 3: by team run down. Oh, Who's who's going to be

696
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 3: good this year? Yeah, and you have it, the the

697
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 3: official facts of.

698
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:29,719
Speaker 2: You can take the take all of our picks to

699
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:33,839
Speaker 2: the bank. Well not look like you said. This isn't

700
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 2: a financial advice podcast. B don't take it to the

701
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:39,319
Speaker 2: bank literally, but you know, use it to.

702
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:41,359
Speaker 1: Take it to Las Vegas, and then you take your

703
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:43,840
Speaker 1: winnings to the bank. Thank you, thank you, exactly.

704
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 3: I still have Phoenix and Okay, see if either of

705
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:51,880
Speaker 3: them wins.

706
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:54,319
Speaker 1: The title this year. You really went big on that one.

707
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:58,479
Speaker 3: I went big on Okay. See if Okay See wins

708
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:02,160
Speaker 3: the championship this year? Am I in the money?

709
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 5: What were their odds that you don't like?

710
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:05,280
Speaker 1: Twenty seven?

711
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:07,880
Speaker 5: I get it, I get it.

712
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:09,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I know it was.

713
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:12,799
Speaker 3: I had just seen a chet in another Summer League

714
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:14,839
Speaker 3: game for the first time in a year.

715
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 2: I was like, man, he's tall and very smooth, but

716
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:22,320
Speaker 2: this is going the right way.

717
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:24,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll see he's going on the right way. I

718
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:27,319
Speaker 3: don't think it's going that way that fast. But yeah,

719
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 3: it's a it'll be a fun one. It's a team

720
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 3: that I'm excited to watch, and I'll be even more

721
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 3: excited to watch them because I got.

722
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 2: A little ticket in my wallet broken dream. Can't she

723
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 2: Let's take a break, should.

724
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 1: We Yeah, let's do it. We'll be right back. We'll

725
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:55,800
Speaker 1: be back by.

726
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:57,760
Speaker 3: And we're back, and we're back, and we're back.

727
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 1: I'm sundowning, all right. Is it time? It's time, It's time, Jali, Yeah,

728
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:06,799
Speaker 1: it's time.

729
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:09,840
Speaker 2: Now for the fourth quarter rapid fire round of Questions,

730
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:12,880
Speaker 2: Dan Favel, you are not a stranger to this segment.

731
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:15,920
Speaker 2: You answered correctly most of the questions last time, if

732
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 2: I recall, but here it is is the fastest question

733
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:22,280
Speaker 2: answer segment in podcasting history. We're gonna ask you a question.

734
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:25,319
Speaker 2: Don't think too hard, just react respond, give us an

735
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 2: answer right back. Don't let Jack or I drag this

736
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:31,279
Speaker 2: segment on. This up to you to say, hey, get

737
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:33,439
Speaker 2: it together, keep this thing moving. Is the fourth quarter

738
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:36,400
Speaker 2: round of rapid fire questions. So are you ready to

739
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:37,439
Speaker 2: have fa Valley to enter?

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00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 5: I'm probably not ready, but let's do it.

741
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:40,720
Speaker 1: Okay, I love the confidence.

742
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:43,759
Speaker 3: Are ready Ryan start the law?

743
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:48,759
Speaker 1: Here we go. Do you want to go first or

744
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 1: go first? I'll go first.

745
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 3: That's great, Thank you so much for offering. You can

746
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 3: take two players from all the history to create your

747
00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 3: Mad Boosey's Edition. NBA jam team. Which two players are

748
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:02,800
Speaker 3: you taking?

749
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 5: I'm taking Glenn Rice and Glenn Rice.

750
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:10,280
Speaker 1: Glenn Rice.

751
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:14,600
Speaker 3: I love that Glenn Rice. Yeah, favorite Steph.

752
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 1: Glenn Rice, justies.

753
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:18,920
Speaker 5: I used to go on fire with Glenn Rice a lot,

754
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:20,120
Speaker 5: one of my favorite players.

755
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 1: NBA Jam player. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah exactly, and jam

756
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 1: player I don't actually don't remember. You can probably don't

757
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:31,319
Speaker 1: from half more than that. Yeah, put the cheeks on,

758
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 1: you know obviously.

759
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, like Ja Bryce Sa shout out to the two

760
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:36,920
Speaker 2: thousand Lakers with the dual ankle braces.

761
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 1: You know what I mean.

762
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 2: I was always rid of like, Glenn are you okay?

763
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 2: But look he's just doing doing what he has to

764
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:45,840
Speaker 2: do to stay out there. Dan, what is your absolute

765
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:49,799
Speaker 2: boldest predictions, oldest for the upcoming NBA season. I'm talking

766
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 2: about like, put your whole put your integrity on the

767
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 2: line right now with a while. Wow, that reckless take

768
00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:58,799
Speaker 2: go good.

769
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:02,320
Speaker 1: Pelicans are gonna make the Western Conference line. Wow, you're consistent.

770
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:04,919
Speaker 1: That was your pick last year? Bro? Was it?

771
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 3: Yeah?

772
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 1: You were going hard for the Pelas.

773
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 2: I remember, and afterwards you kind of I was like, well,

774
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 2: damn kind of convinced me with his pells confidence.

775
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:15,759
Speaker 3: But I put a lot of money up on that

776
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:19,080
Speaker 3: man lost a lot of money.

777
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:22,000
Speaker 1: Hey send me that group behind you.

778
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 5: Didn't we premise it that this wasn't financial advice?

779
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:28,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess that you should have known. You should

780
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 1: have known.

781
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:30,800
Speaker 3: No, I don't leave anything that Miles says.

782
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:33,719
Speaker 2: But like, yeah, I mean so again this year, what

783
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:38,359
Speaker 2: we're seeing, we're seeing Zion healthy, We're seeing Bingie healthy.

784
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:40,800
Speaker 5: Right, I mean Trey Murphy's already injured.

785
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 2: That doesn't I know? Well that's big? So can I ask?

786
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:47,320
Speaker 2: This is Trey Murphy the third a little bit redundant.

787
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 1: Like as a player on this team or no.

788
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:53,560
Speaker 2: Name, his name being Tray is trade like people get

789
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 2: Trey as like as a nickname if you are the third?

790
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:58,480
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, there's also I don't know if you guys

791
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:00,440
Speaker 4: been in Collis like New Orleans. Fans don't like when

792
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 4: you call him Trey Murphy the third.

793
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:04,920
Speaker 2: I know I've never because I never see it. It's

794
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 2: always Trey Murphy. But then when you look at other

795
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 2: reports like Trey Murphy. Ai, is that what they would

796
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:12,840
Speaker 2: have us call him?

797
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 1: Trey Murphy? AYII? Yeah? Is that what it is? Yeah?

798
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:21,280
Speaker 1: Fans say, yai yai Yai yai. I don't know anyway,

799
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 1: Mama call him the third. I'm gonna call him the third.

800
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jabari. But yeah, I mean like, so this

801
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 1: is this is it this, it's this year. It wasn't

802
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 1: last year. It's this year.

803
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:35,400
Speaker 4: It could have I mean if Zion was healthy. I

804
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 4: mean that's that's a big if. At this point, I'm saying,

805
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 4: what if Ben Simmons had a jumper, what if Zion

806
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 4: was healthy? But like they were near the top, they

807
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:45,520
Speaker 4: were second in the West, like leading into the new year.

808
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's legit.

809
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:47,839
Speaker 5: I still think.

810
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 4: That's like the only team that I'm prepared to say, Oh,

811
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 4: they're definitely better than New Orleans.

812
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:57,279
Speaker 1: Okay, I like that. I like that. I like that.

813
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:00,839
Speaker 4: Props though, remembering what I saidlast year, because I clearly

814
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:02,239
Speaker 4: didn't remember what I said last year.

815
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 2: No, it's god, that was Jabari because we were talking

816
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:05,920
Speaker 2: because we're trying to remember the last time you're on

817
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,400
Speaker 2: and they were like, oh right, Dan was going hard

818
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:11,359
Speaker 2: for the Pels. And that's when I remember too, because

819
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:13,360
Speaker 2: I think that was that was the beginning of me

820
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:15,239
Speaker 2: getting on that boom bus cycle again.

821
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:17,520
Speaker 1: We're like, this is this year, this year, Yep.

822
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:20,720
Speaker 3: The beginning of me writing your name on a list

823
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 3: of people who have wronged me.

824
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, then he prank calls you it puts lipstick on

825
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:27,799
Speaker 2: after you resolved.

826
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 3: Your is the who's the best player you've ever witnessed

827
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:31,240
Speaker 3: in person?

828
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:32,440
Speaker 1: And what did you see them do?

829
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:35,880
Speaker 4: Uh? It was Kevin rant was in person. And it

830
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:37,120
Speaker 4: was when he was on the thunder.

831
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 2: Uh.

832
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,759
Speaker 4: He was playing the Knicks and they went into overtime

833
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:43,840
Speaker 4: and he hit some Truly, I was sitting behind the basket.

834
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:48,279
Speaker 4: He hit some of the most ridiculous jumpers I've ever

835
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 4: seen in my entire life. Like the nixt weren't good then,

836
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 4: so it's not like they were defending him with peak level,

837
00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:57,680
Speaker 4: but his ability and control just when he's spinning and

838
00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:00,919
Speaker 4: turning with the ball and the rain that he had

839
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:03,600
Speaker 4: on it. And I was like, not an old man

840
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 4: like I am now at the time, I'm marveled at

841
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:08,920
Speaker 4: what he was doing in in person. I think as

842
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:10,320
Speaker 4: you get older and go to more games, do you

843
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 4: become numb to some of the stuff Like that was

844
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:16,360
Speaker 4: just like it was a revelatory moment watching him go

845
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:16,839
Speaker 4: to work.

846
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 2: But Okay, I got to ask you this one and please, Dan,

847
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 2: we got to keep this moving. Like I appreciate that

848
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 2: answer is very thorough, but sometimes we're about speed and

849
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:26,760
Speaker 2: not quality.

850
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, we're about quantity.

851
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:30,280
Speaker 3: So that's too poetic, too good an answer.

852
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:32,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, when he said revelatory, I was like, this guy's

853
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:34,359
Speaker 2: a poet and don't he know it?

854
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 5: But that's not the best play I ever saw was

855
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 5: the Neil Gallinari.

856
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:42,160
Speaker 3: And because he was wearing his blue or his green,

857
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 3: Saint Patty's Dan Jersey, Dampa Valley.

858
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,719
Speaker 2: If you could have any player's skill set for a day,

859
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 2: Who's whose is it and what skill set is it?

860
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 2: And we do add the caveat that it's in your body,

861
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:57,879
Speaker 2: whatever condition to your body is. So if you think

862
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:00,719
Speaker 2: you're gonna get you know, just Matt boost these and

863
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 2: be taking change off the top of the backboard.

864
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 1: Can your body handle coming around in earth? Yeah? So

865
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 1: they take that into mind, or if you're willing to

866
00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:11,360
Speaker 1: risk it all, take it into mind. As the saying

867
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:12,719
Speaker 1: take it into mind.

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00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:18,239
Speaker 6: I want Steph Curry's handles. Then Steph Curry's handles. We've

869
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 6: heard Shooter's handles. Wow, okay, you said no elaboration. I

870
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:23,280
Speaker 6: want Steph Curry's handles.

871
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:27,719
Speaker 1: Okay, well this time I do want you to elaborate why, because.

872
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:29,960
Speaker 4: The way my body is built like it would do

873
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:32,919
Speaker 4: more for me if I could actually be elusive and

874
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:35,760
Speaker 4: rather than just chucking up threes where I would probably

875
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 4: easily get blocked. Even if I had Steph Curry's touch

876
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 4: and range, my shot would easily get blocked.

877
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 2: Right, And Dan, like I said, we have to keep

878
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:44,840
Speaker 2: this second, you know, and I appreciate that answer, But

879
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:46,080
Speaker 2: that was a setup.

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Speaker 3: All right, Dan, you can place any former New York

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Speaker 3: great on next year's roster. Which former grade are you

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Speaker 3: adding to the mix?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 5: Man, I uh just throw Prime Patrick Ewing?

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Speaker 1: Prime Ewing? Thanks years, Nick, Yeah, yeah, I would love that, man.

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Speaker 1: And what is it about Prime Patrick Ewing?

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Speaker 5: We got to keep this moving, so I don't care.

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Speaker 2: I like that, Which brings us to our next question

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Speaker 2: and the most important question of all, Dan fora Valley,

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Speaker 2: Jack or Miles.

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Speaker 1: Both right, Okay, we'll take that. We'll take that. We'll

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Speaker 1: take that, we'll split them. That's okay, we'll do that.

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Speaker 1: We'll do that. Oh well, Dan for Valley, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for joining us on.

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Speaker 2: Miles and Jack got Matt boost teas man, where can

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Speaker 2: people find.

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Speaker 1: You and follow you and read you and all that

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Speaker 1: and support you? How do they do that?

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Speaker 4: They can follow me on any social media app at

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Speaker 4: dan FA Valley fav A l E. And they should

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Speaker 4: consider checking out the Hardwood Knox podcast spelled like it sounds.

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Speaker 4: It's an NBA pod and if you like sub mediocre

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Speaker 4: basketball takes and bad jokes, it's the podcast for you.

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Speaker 3: All right, amazing. You can find us on Twitter. I'm

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Speaker 3: at Jack Underscore. O'Brien Miles is currently indisposed. He's at

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Speaker 3: Miles of Gray and you can hit us hashtag mad

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Speaker 3: Boosties for show links and updates. Also shout out to

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Speaker 3: our listeners of the week at dan be tweeting and

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Speaker 3: at side show James.

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Speaker 1: Shout out to y'all. Thanks thanks for listening. Give us

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Speaker 1: a rating review.

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Speaker 3: If the rating is five stars, of course, if it's

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Speaker 3: less than that, keep listening and then listen to your heart.

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Speaker 3: That is going to do it for this week's episode.

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Speaker 3: We are back next week with more NBA action and

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Speaker 3: we love it. It's fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Yeah,