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Speaker 1: The Phoenix Suns beat the crap out of the Warriors

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Speaker 1: interview that Mr Kevin Durant gave where he burned his

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Speaker 1: additional games from tonight, rapid fire style, the Celtics and

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Speaker 1: get your podcasts. Under Hoops tonight. So the Sun's they

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Speaker 1: was false on its head. I do believe he's happy.

430
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Speaker 1: I believe he's happy playing basketball. I believe he's happy

431
00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:08,440
Speaker 1: in his personal life, and actually do think he's happy

432
00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:10,879
Speaker 1: with his legacy. I think Lebron, I think Katie kind

433
00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:13,240
Speaker 1: of has like almost like a defeatist attitude on that front,

434
00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:15,680
Speaker 1: where he just realizes he can't win with the public

435
00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:17,640
Speaker 1: and he can't win with the media. So I don't

436
00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:19,440
Speaker 1: I think he's just kind of numb to it all.

437
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,720
Speaker 1: I disagreed to with his approach to Kyrie. I think

438
00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:26,680
Speaker 1: it's okay to ask your friend, Hey, dude, you're my buddy.

439
00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:30,280
Speaker 1: We partnered on this together. We agreed to come to

440
00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:35,919
Speaker 1: Brooklyn together on a basketball mission, and your behavior is

441
00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:39,080
Speaker 1: sabotaging that. I think it's okay to sit down with

442
00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:41,840
Speaker 1: Kyrie and be like, what the heck, dude, can you

443
00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:44,080
Speaker 1: please just come in here and help me do what

444
00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:47,320
Speaker 1: we promised to do when we embarks down this path. Originally,

445
00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:50,920
Speaker 1: I think that's fair, but Katie disagrees, and I genuinely

446
00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:54,480
Speaker 1: believe that he believes he did the right thing. Even

447
00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:57,479
Speaker 1: with the roster. He's right, Yeah, they're great on paper,

448
00:23:57,560 --> 00:23:59,600
Speaker 1: but Seth Curry has only played in six of their

449
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:02,280
Speaker 1: fifteen games. Kyrie has only played in eight of their

450
00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:05,640
Speaker 1: fifteen games. Ben Simmons is only played in ten games

451
00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:08,320
Speaker 1: and hasn't looked like Ben Simmons, and then t J.

452
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,800
Speaker 1: Warren is what scrimmaging against the coaches right now. God

453
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:15,320
Speaker 1: knows how far he is away from playing. So there's

454
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:19,159
Speaker 1: some legitimate roster limitations right now because of injuries. The

455
00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:23,800
Speaker 1: on paper roster, the dunder Mifflin roster, Zach Low calls

456
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:27,600
Speaker 1: it has not panned out, that's for sure. But despite

457
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:34,760
Speaker 1: all of that, you can't, under any circumstances ever publicly

458
00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:39,919
Speaker 1: diminish your teammates like that, even if it's true, it

459
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:45,520
Speaker 1: undercuts their confidence, which directly affects their performance. It puts

460
00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:48,000
Speaker 1: them in the awkward position of having to face questioning.

461
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:52,960
Speaker 1: There will probably be a reporter that sits down and goes, hey,

462
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,879
Speaker 1: what was it like hearing Kevin Durant say that about you?

463
00:24:57,800 --> 00:24:59,920
Speaker 1: And then it's just a bad look in general. It's

464
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,840
Speaker 1: m Even though I'm sure there are lots of stars

465
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:06,560
Speaker 1: around the league that privately complained about their teammates, when

466
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:09,840
Speaker 1: you do it in public, it's objectively unlikable and it's

467
00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:11,359
Speaker 1: going to turn a lot of people off from you.

468
00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 1: But Katie knows that he's a hundred percent aware of

469
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Speaker 1: the ramifications that come with what he said. He knows

470
00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:24,480
Speaker 1: he's too smart, and he did it anyway. So what

471
00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 1: does that mean? That to me means that this was

472
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:33,440
Speaker 1: effectively passive, aggressively a trade request. Katie may be very

473
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Speaker 1: happy in life in general, and he may be happy

474
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Speaker 1: playing basketball, but he's obviously not happy with his current

475
00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:44,520
Speaker 1: basketball situation playing with the Brooklyn Nets. And I don't

476
00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:50,320
Speaker 1: blame him. He's way too damn good to waste prime

477
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:52,680
Speaker 1: years of his career playing on a team that doesn't

478
00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 1: really have a chance. I don't blame him. I feel

479
00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:58,600
Speaker 1: the same way about Lebron as a fan of the game,

480
00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:01,640
Speaker 1: as a fan of NBA history, you should hate that.

481
00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:04,159
Speaker 1: I hated it when it happened to Step for a

482
00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:06,520
Speaker 1: couple of years there after the Clay Thompson injury and

483
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:10,080
Speaker 1: after Katie left. I hated watching him put up massive

484
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:12,439
Speaker 1: numbers and floundering on a team that had no chance

485
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:15,159
Speaker 1: when he missed the playoffs twice in a row. And

486
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 1: I hate seeing it with Lebron now, and I hate

487
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:19,680
Speaker 1: seeing it with Kad now. I hate it. I do.

488
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:26,160
Speaker 1: But this should be the thing that finally convinces Joe

489
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:29,840
Speaker 1: Sigh to pull the plug on all of this. I

490
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,639
Speaker 1: say that, but they should have done it after all

491
00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 1: the Kyrie stuff this summer and then they did it.

492
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,560
Speaker 1: They should have done it after the Katie trade request

493
00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:43,000
Speaker 1: and then they did it. They should have done it

494
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Speaker 1: after Katie threw the coach and the GM under the bus,

495
00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:49,639
Speaker 1: and then they did it. They should have done it

496
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,480
Speaker 1: after the team came out and didn't defend a rebound

497
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 1: for the first eight games of the season, and they

498
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 1: did it. They should have done it when all this

499
00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:01,520
Speaker 1: Kyrie stuff went down and then they did it. So

500
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:06,399
Speaker 1: conventional wisdom tells us that Katie burning the starting lineup

501
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:08,920
Speaker 1: to the ground should be the time that they finally

502
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 1: do it. But I just I can't make that prediction anymore.

503
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 1: My guess is that what they're looking at it is

504
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 1: they're they're thinking, Hey, Kyrie's coming back this Sunday. We

505
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 1: got t J. Warren coming back. Ben Simmons is gonna

506
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 1: get it together, you know, Seth Curry is gonna start

507
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 1: playing every night when he gets a hundred back back

508
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 1: into shape, and then they're all just gonna compete with

509
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:33,879
Speaker 1: Jacque Vaughan and then they're just gonna rip off a

510
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 1: bunch of wins and we're gonna go compete for a title.

511
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:40,960
Speaker 1: That's my guess as to what they're thinking internally. That

512
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 1: would be completely insane, obviously, But like I said, conventional

513
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:47,359
Speaker 1: wisdom has to go out the window. There's been a

514
00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:51,640
Speaker 1: half dozen reasons, significant real reasons to blow this thing

515
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,359
Speaker 1: up over the course of the last six months, and

516
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 1: they just have refused to do so. So I don't

517
00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 1: know what to make of it. But that's bizarre. I

518
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:02,640
Speaker 1: I mean, k d In the last few months has

519
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 1: publicly called out the coach, publicly called out the GM,

520
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:11,359
Speaker 1: and publicly called out the roster. This is the most

521
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 1: transparent attempt to get out of a basketball team that

522
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:17,879
Speaker 1: I can remember seeing. So for the sake of k D,

523
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 1: for the sake of all of us basketball fans, just

524
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 1: pull the plug already, Joe. Send k D somewhere to

525
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:28,680
Speaker 1: play meaningful basketball. It'll be more fun for us watching him,

526
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:30,560
Speaker 1: and then we don't have to worry about all this

527
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,920
Speaker 1: drama anymore. I think that's what we all want, and I,

528
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 1: for some reason, Joe's the only one who doesn't get it. Alright,

529
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Speaker 1: So we're gonna head into this rapid fire segment. I'm

530
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 1: gonna hit on four games really quickly, and then we'll

531
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 1: get out of here for the night. So the Celtics

532
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 1: beat the Hawks. One Grant Williams was falling. He had

533
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 1: a nasty step back three on the left wing. Um.

534
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny because he kind of bet on

535
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 1: himself this summer, hoping to get a bigger deal, and

536
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:57,720
Speaker 1: with how well he shot the ball, how well he's

537
00:28:57,760 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 1: defended in some of the higher level shop making that

538
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 1: he showed this year, he might be one of the

539
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 1: guys where that pays off for It's gonna be the

540
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:06,480
Speaker 1: opposite of the Dennis Schroder type of situation. How about

541
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:09,960
Speaker 1: Luke Cornett fifteen points and eight rebounds with four blocks.

542
00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:13,680
Speaker 1: With the Rob Williams injury, they desperately needed somebody to

543
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 1: kind of pick things up for them as a bench big,

544
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 1: and he's done a really nice job. He's also got

545
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 1: a knack for these like reverse dunks, which is sneaky,

546
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 1: one of my favorite ways to try to dunk because

547
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:25,800
Speaker 1: your back actually acts as like a battering ram and

548
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 1: people can't actually get through you. Um. I did a

549
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 1: whole thing on the Celtics yesterday if you guys want

550
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 1: to see a deeper dive. But they came into tonight

551
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:37,360
Speaker 1: nineteen and defense. But I had seen plenty of examples

552
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 1: of them hitting the switch right. They hit the switch

553
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 1: for a few minutes, Beat the Grizzlies, hit the switch

554
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 1: for a few minutes, beat the Nuggets, hit the switch

555
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 1: for a few minutes, beat the thunder Right. This game

556
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 1: was just one giant switch flipping. They had defensive rating

557
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 1: in this game. They dominated from the start that held

558
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 1: the Hawks to twenty five or fewer and three of

559
00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 1: the four quarters all Right Bucks, Calves, Bucks Win Bucks

560
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:04,960
Speaker 1: were down three starters because Drew Holidays dealing with an

561
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 1: ankle thing. The Caves were down Jared Allen, and this

562
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:10,000
Speaker 1: was Donovan Mitchell's first game back from his ankle injury,

563
00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 1: so he kind of looked out of rhythm, to be honest, Um,

564
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 1: Janice had eight assists. Brook Lopez made seven threes and

565
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:18,920
Speaker 1: at three blocks. He's been by far the best spacing

566
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 1: rim protecting big in the league, an archetype that doesn't

567
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,200
Speaker 1: have a lot of players in it. And uh, there's

568
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:26,520
Speaker 1: a certain Mr Victor women Yama who I think will

569
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:28,959
Speaker 1: very quickly become the best player who does that when

570
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,080
Speaker 1: he gets into the league. And then Jordan Wara finally

571
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:35,000
Speaker 1: got going. He made five threes, scored twenty one points. Um,

572
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:36,719
Speaker 1: talking a little bit of Calves. You know, I'm not

573
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 1: overly concerned about this specific game, because you're gonna need

574
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 1: Jared Allen to pack the paint to beat a Janice

575
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 1: led team, and obviously you're gonna need Donovan Mitchell at

576
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:47,520
Speaker 1: the top of his game, which he was not. But

577
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,360
Speaker 1: I went on to local radio in Cleveland on Monday night,

578
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:53,200
Speaker 1: and I just talked a little bit about how I

579
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 1: had some concerns about the idea of potentially playing two

580
00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 1: small guards that can't defend, just because fundamentally, throughout NBA history,

581
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 1: we know that that's a flawed concept and that they

582
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 1: usually will get you beat, not just because of the

583
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:09,480
Speaker 1: defensive mistakes that they make, but also matchup attacking and

584
00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 1: the way that that kind of that court can just

585
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 1: be victimized, especially by bigger teams that have lots of

586
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 1: wings that can punish you, teams like the Celtics, right

587
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 1: and I all I said to the guys on the

588
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 1: on the on the radio, there was like, wait till

589
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 1: the deadline, but we've seen lots of examples of how

590
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 1: the Garland thing isn't quite working. Alongside Donovan Mitchell, give him,

591
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 1: you know, a few more months to try to figure

592
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 1: it out, but don't be prideful about it, like you've

593
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 1: got a ton of talent here. Donovan Mitchell has been

594
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 1: one of the best five or six players in the

595
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 1: league to start the season. Evan Mobile and Jared Allen

596
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 1: make this incredible defensive front court. You need another wing, really, right,

597
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 1: Harris Lavert's playing pretty damn well maybe maybe it's it'd

598
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:54,320
Speaker 1: be worthwhile to send a Darius Garland to a someone

599
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 1: like Toronto and exchange for like an O g and

600
00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:58,479
Speaker 1: Obi and the guys on the local radio. We're like,

601
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 1: we don't even want to consider of that until we

602
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:03,280
Speaker 1: see them in the playoffs. And you know what came

603
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 1: to my mind there is like I get it. I do.

604
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:08,720
Speaker 1: He's homegrown, he's super likable, the fans love him, he

605
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 1: is super talented. But you've gotta learn from NBA history

606
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 1: a little bit. Like I mean, when you when you don't,

607
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 1: when you have two undersized guards that can't defend in

608
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 1: your back court, it's damn near impossible to win in

609
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 1: the playoffs against the best teams. That's just a fact.

610
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 1: It's like trying to win in the NFL when you

611
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:29,440
Speaker 1: have two bad tackles. Like we all saw what happened

612
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 1: to Patrick Mahomes two Super Bowls ago when he couldn't

613
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 1: when they couldn't block for it. Right, it's just a

614
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 1: it's like a trenches thing with football that makes it,

615
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 1: you know, impractical. Same thing goes with basketball, Like it's

616
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 1: a trenches thing in basketball. Physically, you're just going to

617
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 1: have way too many problems that you can't fix personnel wise.

618
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,160
Speaker 1: When you have two small guards that can't defend on

619
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:54,160
Speaker 1: the floor. Again, you give him to the deadline. You

620
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 1: try to get Darius Garland and maybe front the post

621
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 1: a little bit. You work on Donovan Mitchell's off ball defense.

622
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 1: You put scheme in place like pre switching and bracketing

623
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:04,480
Speaker 1: in the post and things like that to try to

624
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 1: cover for them, but don't be probably ful about it.

625
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:08,719
Speaker 1: If it's not gonna work, it's not gonna work. If

626
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:12,040
Speaker 1: if if February comes and they're still having issues with

627
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 1: two small defensive guards, they need to consider moving that

628
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 1: moving moving on from Darius, Speaking of o G Nnobe,

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Speaker 1: the Raptors beat the Heat one twelve to one of four.

630
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 1: O G had thirty two and ten and close this

631
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 1: game by just abusing Gabe Vincent, driving to the basket,

632
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 1: drawing doubles in the post, things along those lines. The

633
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:33,880
Speaker 1: Raptors also did a really great job on Jimmy Butler

634
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:37,080
Speaker 1: in this game, holding him to just eight shot attempts.

635
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 1: Good win for the Raptors. Last, but not least, the

636
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 1: Thunder beat the Wizards one to one twenty. Brad Beal

637
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 1: had a really nice step back jump shot on lu

638
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 1: Dort in the in the short corner on the right

639
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:50,400
Speaker 1: side with about seven seconds left, pushed him off. Lu

640
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 1: Dort kind of fell over and brad just rose up

641
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 1: and knocked it down. And as I was watching it live,

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Speaker 1: I was I was sitting there thinking like, hmm, I

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Speaker 1: wonder if s G. A is crazy enough to go

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Speaker 1: for the kill here as the Wizards were up by

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Speaker 1: two and he was. I started on Bradley Beal and

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Speaker 1: got switched on to Monty Morris and and took a

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Speaker 1: really nice step back three and won the game. And

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Speaker 1: he's been shooting like forty seven percent and like ten

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Speaker 1: pull of jump shots per game, So you know that's

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Speaker 1: a shot that that that's not a fluke. That's something

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Speaker 1: he's been knocking down all season. He had forty two,

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Speaker 1: six and seven on only twenty one shots. I love

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Speaker 1: it when I go out of my way to talk

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Speaker 1: about something and then then somebody goes out makes me

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Speaker 1: look right because I'm wrong plenty, and it's it's good

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Speaker 1: for my confidence when I occasionally hit the bell on something.

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Speaker 1: I spent about ten minutes talking about how I thought

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Speaker 1: s G. A was a top ten player in the

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Speaker 1: world yesterday, talked about all the things that he does

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Speaker 1: well defensively, getting to the rim, pull up, jump shooting,

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Speaker 1: catch and shoot, jump shooting, you know, passing the basketball,

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Speaker 1: the change of pace, the shiftiness, the start and stop,

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Speaker 1: the the the ability to place the old man game

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Speaker 1: but also hit the jets and make freak athletic plays.

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Speaker 1: He's one of my favorite young players in the league.

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Speaker 1: And I got roasted last night for saying that I

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Speaker 1: thought he was better than John Morant on Twitter, and

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Speaker 1: Grizzlies fans got on me to a great extent. But man,

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Speaker 1: like that was just that. That might have been the

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Speaker 1: best game that s g A ever played. And if

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Speaker 1: you have not checked out The Thunder yet this year,

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Speaker 1: I highly recommend that you do. Um. They're they're really

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Speaker 1: fun watch. They spaced the floor really well because their

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Speaker 1: biggs can shoot and um, and they've got a lot

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Speaker 1: of young interesting wings and guys that can defend. And

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Speaker 1: just wait till chat Holmegren gets in there and maybe

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Speaker 1: they get one more draft pick as well. But s

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Speaker 1: g A, you know, one last note on the s

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Speaker 1: c A thing. There's a lot of stuff going around like, oh,

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Speaker 1: you know, this was the worst trade ever when the

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Speaker 1: Thunder sent s g A two, or when the Clippers

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00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 1: sent SGA to the Thunder for Paul George. That's where

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Speaker 1: I draw the line, because you can't operate based on

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00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:56,799
Speaker 1: information in two that wasn't available in Sorry, like that's

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Speaker 1: just that's just not how it works. Or I guess

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Speaker 1: it was the summer of nineteen right, like in you

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Speaker 1: had to get Paul George to get Kauai, so really

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00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 1: you were trading s g A and all those picks

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Speaker 1: for Kawhi Leonard and Paul George. Also at the time,

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Speaker 1: that overnight made then the championship favorite, right and it

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00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 1: didn't payan out in the Clippers era has been a disaster.

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Speaker 1: But if that same scenario plays out multiple times, they

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Speaker 1: probably get one. Like they've had some bad luck, They've

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Speaker 1: had injury luck. They had a nightmare performance in the

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Speaker 1: Bubble when they lost to the Nuggets with they which

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Speaker 1: they had no business losing that series. Even in the

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Speaker 1: three games they lost at the end, they had big

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Speaker 1: leads late in each of them, Like you make that

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Speaker 1: deal every single time to try to win the title.

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Speaker 1: S g A over this same span is only now

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Speaker 1: really blossoming into the superstar that he is, and that's

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Speaker 1: just kind of how it goes. Sometimes you send brandon

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Speaker 1: Ingram off with Kyle Kuzma or brandon Ingram off with

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Speaker 1: Josh Hard and Lonzo Ball and you win a title

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Speaker 1: like the Lakers did with the A d. And sometimes

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Speaker 1: you send him off and you don't win the title.

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Speaker 1: But in both cases, brandon Ingram's a superstar and s

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Speaker 1: g A is a superstar. That's just the name of

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Speaker 1: the game. You gotta push your chips and sometimes to win,

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Speaker 1: and when you do so, sometimes you're gonna send off

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Speaker 1: a great prospect. You might thrive somewhere else. But at

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Speaker 1: the end of the day, like you can't win unless

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Speaker 1: you do, you can't win unless you play. You have

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Speaker 1: you have to push your chips in the middle um

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Speaker 1: to put a roster together that's capable of winning an

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Speaker 1: NBA title. All right, guys, that is all I have

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Speaker 1: for tonight. Here's the game plan for the rest of

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Speaker 1: the week. Tomorrow, we're gonna do our bi weekly power rankings,

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Speaker 1: so we'll be diving into the ten best teams in

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Speaker 1: the league as of right now, and then Friday, we'll

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Speaker 1: do one last film breakdown before we get into the

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Speaker 1: weekend and then we'll be done until Monday. As always,

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Speaker 1: I sincerely appreciate your support and I will see you

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Speaker 1: guys tomorrow. The volume