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Speaker 3: All right, I'm gonna serve that was a rocket nice one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, last time we actually like did our MVP candidates.

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Speaker 5: Who you got for winning the weekend?

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Speaker 4: Right, No, they're not going anywhere, absolutely not. They handled

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Speaker 5: But you just love that all three pointers. Hasn't Malik

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Speaker 4: The Brooklyn Nets for a few reasons. On Saturday, they

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Speaker 4: to be happy that they know what their team is

433
00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:56,600
Speaker 4: going forward. Because Ben Simmons, he hasn't been close to himself.

434
00:19:57,119 --> 00:19:59,600
Speaker 4: But now jacque Von doesn't have to worry about implementing

435
00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:02,080
Speaker 4: him because he is very very very very very likely

436
00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:04,600
Speaker 4: out for the season. He's been out since they also

437
00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:06,879
Speaker 4: break with niece Ordness, but now he's been diagnosed with

438
00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:10,040
Speaker 4: a nerve impingement in his back, So no more questions

439
00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:12,240
Speaker 4: about Ben Simmons. They just know who they're rolling with

440
00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:15,000
Speaker 4: going forward. It's been difficult trying to figure out who

441
00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:18,119
Speaker 4: to play around Ben Simmons. Like, for instance, we just

442
00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:20,480
Speaker 4: talked about the Kings. They traded away Kessler Edwards to

443
00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:23,160
Speaker 4: the Kings because he couldn't really play around Ben Simmons.

444
00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:26,320
Speaker 4: But you know, he's helping out the Sacramento Kings there

445
00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:29,840
Speaker 4: and Ben simmons season is likely done forty two games

446
00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:31,960
Speaker 4: when all said and done, six point nine point six

447
00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:34,080
Speaker 4: point three boards, six point one assists. That's the guy

448
00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:34,960
Speaker 4: they got. Harden.

449
00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:37,000
Speaker 1: You don't think he's coming back to play against the

450
00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:38,119
Speaker 1: Sixers in the playoffs.

451
00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:40,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you.

452
00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:44,119
Speaker 4: It's undlikely. Yeah, it looks like it will be the

453
00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:47,760
Speaker 4: three six will be Sixers and the Nets. But you know,

454
00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:49,639
Speaker 4: the Knicks are sort of reeling in the five spots,

455
00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:51,600
Speaker 4: so it's not all done. And obviously the heater are

456
00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:53,680
Speaker 4: in a virtual tie with the Nets, so.

457
00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:54,280
Speaker 2: We don't know.

458
00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:57,440
Speaker 4: But the Nets have done well even if they struggled

459
00:20:57,480 --> 00:20:59,440
Speaker 4: there for a little bit. They went into Miami, took

460
00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:02,359
Speaker 4: care business and yes they lost to Orlando Yees Sunday,

461
00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:06,159
Speaker 4: another tough back to back, the old Florida on the

462
00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:08,120
Speaker 4: road back to back, not quite as tough as Utah

463
00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:10,479
Speaker 4: and Denver, but they got the important game. They went

464
00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:13,760
Speaker 4: into Miami, a team that has been tested in the

465
00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:17,040
Speaker 4: postseason and smacked them and they just they just peer

466
00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:18,840
Speaker 4: out smacked them and outworked them and got out to

467
00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:20,200
Speaker 4: a big lead and didn't give it up.

468
00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:22,720
Speaker 5: Yeah, Bridges had forty four in the loss to the

469
00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:24,520
Speaker 5: Magic too in thirty four minutes, so he had a

470
00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:27,399
Speaker 5: good game. But they sort of got a disappointing follow

471
00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:28,919
Speaker 5: up to that. Big win over there, but it is

472
00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:30,359
Speaker 5: tough to win both those games, especially with the way

473
00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:33,560
Speaker 5: the Magic are playing. Playing pretty solid right now, Yeah,

474
00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:36,760
Speaker 5: we could see a sixers Nets. Can I clarify something

475
00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:39,160
Speaker 5: that I heard on another podcast today that I need

476
00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:43,280
Speaker 5: you to clarify for me. Someone was saying that it's

477
00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:46,000
Speaker 5: more likely the Hawks or the Heat will be the

478
00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:49,000
Speaker 5: sixth seed because of they're gonna one of them will

479
00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:51,840
Speaker 5: win the division. But that doesn't matter.

480
00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:55,040
Speaker 4: No, it's tiebreak then division. Yes, I mean sorry, head

481
00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:59,760
Speaker 4: to head then the division that isak right now? Yes

482
00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:02,960
Speaker 4: in my NBA dot com research, Yeah, okay, when that

483
00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:06,040
Speaker 4: happened because the Heat are the Southeast Division leaders.

484
00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:09,000
Speaker 5: Divisions used to matter a little bit. Remember that was

485
00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:11,040
Speaker 5: a thing there for there was a small window where

486
00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:13,320
Speaker 5: that would get you in or get you higher. But yeah,

487
00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:13,600
Speaker 5: I mean.

488
00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:16,400
Speaker 2: Three seed and have a worse record than the four seeds.

489
00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:17,040
Speaker 4: The olden days.

490
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Speaker 5: But in this case, the Nets in the Heat has

491
00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:22,480
Speaker 5: to have the exact same record. And the Nets sweat

492
00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:24,480
Speaker 5: the season series against the Miami Heat and that's done.

493
00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:26,120
Speaker 5: They took all three against them, So that is why

494
00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:27,920
Speaker 5: they're six and the Heat or seventh. It won't matter

495
00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:30,000
Speaker 5: if the Hawks or the Heat are the you know,

496
00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:32,040
Speaker 5: Southeast Division leaders at all.

497
00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:33,879
Speaker 2: It's not gonna and that's the Hawks aren't going to

498
00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:34,760
Speaker 2: get above five hundred.

499
00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:36,120
Speaker 5: No, no, no, they can't.

500
00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:37,320
Speaker 2: It's simply impossible to do.

501
00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:39,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, Trey, who you got for another Winter

502
00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:40,280
Speaker 5: of the Weekend?

503
00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:41,959
Speaker 2: Let me take you behind the winners here, skeets.

504
00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,840
Speaker 1: I thought the Warriors deserved a winner for their Friday

505
00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:46,200
Speaker 1: comeback against Philadelphia.

506
00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:47,960
Speaker 2: Then they played yesterday.

507
00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:51,080
Speaker 1: At the end of the game, I stood up, flicked

508
00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:54,040
Speaker 1: my phone off, said disgusting. There's no way they can

509
00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:56,119
Speaker 1: be winners of the Weekend. I didn't want to go

510
00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:59,640
Speaker 1: Bulls back to back weeks being winners. But Patrick Beverley

511
00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:03,560
Speaker 1: gets winner because he hit an emphatic too small on

512
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:06,879
Speaker 1: Lebron James in his return late in the fourth quarter.

513
00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:08,840
Speaker 2: Bulls are cruising to victory in this one.

514
00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:13,080
Speaker 1: Beverly drives the lane, hits a poor man's rondo ball,

515
00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:16,600
Speaker 1: fake a little hook shot over Lebron, then goes for

516
00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:19,439
Speaker 1: the too small all the way down to the ground,

517
00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:22,680
Speaker 1: slaps the floor. The guy was grinning ear to ear.

518
00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:25,720
Speaker 1: It wasn't over. He went over to Shannon STARp and

519
00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:29,879
Speaker 1: started making a stinky face, your favorite team stinks.

520
00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:34,560
Speaker 2: He was flexing at the crowd. He had ten points

521
00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:36,400
Speaker 2: in five assists last night.

522
00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:39,520
Speaker 1: But it doesn't matter because back in February on his podcast,

523
00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:42,200
Speaker 1: Patrick Beverly said, we played the Lakers twice.

524
00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:43,720
Speaker 2: We're knocking him out of the playoffs.

525
00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:46,480
Speaker 5: Oh god, I got one.

526
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Speaker 1: They played the Lakers again on Wednesday. Lebron will probably

527
00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:52,720
Speaker 1: have fifty eight points in that one. But the Bulls

528
00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:55,800
Speaker 1: got the win against the Lakers yesterday. I also beat

529
00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:58,320
Speaker 1: the Blazers on Friday. Ye Bulls are ten and five

530
00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:00,760
Speaker 1: with play in pat he called his shot. He says

531
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:03,240
Speaker 1: it's easier to make a playoff run in the Eastern Conference,

532
00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:05,760
Speaker 1: and he's completely right. There only a half game back

533
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:09,040
Speaker 1: right now of the eighth seed. I'm kind of selfishly

534
00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:12,160
Speaker 1: hoping they stick in ten and got the Hawks drop

535
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:17,679
Speaker 1: to nine. We shall see. But a hilarious win for

536
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:20,280
Speaker 1: Patrick Beverly and the Bulls. So there's this photo going

537
00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:22,359
Speaker 1: around of him with a bunch of toilet paper in

538
00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:23,280
Speaker 1: his car too.

539
00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:25,119
Speaker 5: He's a Sharman partner.

540
00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:28,200
Speaker 2: Get your cord ready.

541
00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:32,560
Speaker 1: He's just chilling in the car with toilet paper. He said,

542
00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:34,359
Speaker 1: I got paid a ton of money to post something.

543
00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:36,560
Speaker 1: I think Darnell Mayberry over at the Athletic said it

544
00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:38,880
Speaker 1: was two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for some.

545
00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:40,520
Speaker 2: Decent paper, for some toilet paper.

546
00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:40,960
Speaker 5: Wow.

547
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:42,760
Speaker 1: But he said I was late to posting it like

548
00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:44,919
Speaker 1: a week ago, so I didn't want the whole window

549
00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:48,639
Speaker 1: to close. I'm not out here trying to troll anybody.

550
00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:50,680
Speaker 1: I'm out here to be a basketball player.

551
00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:50,880
Speaker 4: Oka.

552
00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:55,919
Speaker 1: What Patrick Beverly the man said, he needs to start

553
00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:58,320
Speaker 1: trying and he needs to start walking out of the

554
00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:01,240
Speaker 1: shitter dropping the two small the toilet was too small,

555
00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:03,040
Speaker 1: but I took it there.

556
00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:06,960
Speaker 5: There was a joke fart hole in the toilet too small.

557
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:11,360
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, what a weekend for Beverly there. That's he's

558
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:13,800
Speaker 5: dropped stinky before. I think when he was on a

559
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:17,400
Speaker 5: player for sure. Any thoughts on on the Bulls Bely.

560
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:21,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, he went for it with the two small symbol there.

561
00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:24,359
Speaker 4: I hadn't seen the Bulls tweet. What was the emoji that.

562
00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 1: That's like we do That was like a little pinch, Yeah,

563
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,560
Speaker 1: the classic pinch, classic pinch for Lebron.

564
00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:32,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, he went right after Lebron, who came off the

565
00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,120
Speaker 4: bench for the first time. In sixteen years, and I'm

566
00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 4: sure he'll be starting against the Balls on Wednesday to

567
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:38,200
Speaker 4: take care of business.

568
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 2: He will likely be starting.

569
00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:43,359
Speaker 4: I am sure, But yeah, I don't know if it

570
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 4: was somebody in our chat that that sent the message

571
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:48,919
Speaker 4: saying I haven't seen somebody come off the bench and

572
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:52,879
Speaker 4: do the chalk toss in the history, and Lebron pulled

573
00:25:52,880 --> 00:26:00,199
Speaker 4: that off. Only Lebron pull that off, thankfully. For for

574
00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 4: the Lakers, the MAVs had a horrendous weekend. So yeah,

575
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:08,640
Speaker 4: the Lakers are in a playing spot. So Matt Beverly

576
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:11,080
Speaker 4: kind of true knocked them out of the kept them

577
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:14,120
Speaker 4: out of the playoffs picture to this point, but they're

578
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:17,760
Speaker 4: in the play in picture. Yeah, both of the Bulls

579
00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:19,640
Speaker 4: and Lakers basically in the same spot right now.

580
00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 5: Some other mini winners here. Congrats to the Cavaliers for

581
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:27,520
Speaker 5: clinching their first playoff birth since twenty eighteen. I'm surprised

582
00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:30,160
Speaker 5: he didn't go with the Cavs tests their first playoff

583
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:31,200
Speaker 5: Berth Lebron.

584
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 4: They knew they were going to do that, I guess,

585
00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:34,359
Speaker 4: so took care biz.

586
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:36,560
Speaker 5: They had their first time making the playoffs with the

587
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 5: Lebron since nineteen ninety eight. It's a long time ago.

588
00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:43,080
Speaker 5: In their first in twenty eighteen, obviously when Lebron was there.

589
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:45,159
Speaker 5: Many of the mini winner of the weekend to the

590
00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:48,239
Speaker 5: Charlotte Hornets. I know we'll get to the Mavericks and

591
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 5: they'll be our big loser here in a second. But

592
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:55,399
Speaker 5: Hornets played well. They're playing spoiler. Their defense has been

593
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 5: elite since the All Star break, so kudos to them.

594
00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:04,200
Speaker 5: And my final one Kyle Anderson SloMo himself for the Timberwolves,

595
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:07,240
Speaker 5: who had a good weekend. Shout out to Jase Frederick

596
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 5: for tweeting the footage. But Kyle Anderson tallied four steals

597
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 5: last night against the Warriors in the final twelve thirty

598
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:18,680
Speaker 5: of that game, and those four steels turned into eleven

599
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,919
Speaker 5: Wolves points, which were forty four percent of his team's

600
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:25,480
Speaker 5: offense during that span that twelve thirty to end that game,

601
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:27,680
Speaker 5: And the biggest one was the steal off Draymond Green

602
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 5: with about fifteen to sixteen seconds left, SloMo pushes it,

603
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:33,480
Speaker 5: here comes Kat in transition, hands it to him, Bang,

604
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:36,360
Speaker 5: he hits another three. They go up and they pull

605
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 5: off the victory. And you know, Kyle Anderson just a

606
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:41,639
Speaker 5: he's just the ultimate Blue guy. You could put him

607
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:43,080
Speaker 5: on a lot of teams, every team that feels like

608
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 5: could use a guy like him. He played well and

609
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 5: the Wolves had a really good weekend as they stay

610
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 5: in this jumbled race here. I mean, they're like one

611
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:53,120
Speaker 5: and a half back from fourth and two up from

612
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 5: being completely out of the play in. That's how close

613
00:27:55,840 --> 00:28:00,320
Speaker 5: it is. So Kyle Anderson, mister Anderson, was a good weekend.

614
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 4: Yeah. A hilarious pull up three by Karl Anthony Towns.

615
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:07,199
Speaker 4: There shots, very bold steal from Kyle Anderson at his

616
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 4: three point line. They're down one, those two go into

617
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:12,560
Speaker 4: the front court and Clay and Dre and are back

618
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:14,840
Speaker 4: yep to defend those two, and they decide, all right,

619
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 4: this is an open shot.

620
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:20,280
Speaker 5: Yeah step, Yeah, he just hit one. Two yeah.

621
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:23,560
Speaker 4: So and he's just won a game essentially with the

622
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 4: free throws against the Hawks AND's coming back, so essentially

623
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:29,680
Speaker 4: a couple a couple ceiling buckets for Karl Anthony Towns.

624
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 4: And I just love the fact that the Timberwolves are

625
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:33,800
Speaker 4: a different team. I love watching the NBA night in

626
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:36,200
Speaker 4: the night out and seeing a sort of a different squad,

627
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 4: a huge squad, big boys. They're a huge they run

628
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:42,280
Speaker 4: out obviously go Barren Towns. And then nas Reed finds

629
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 4: a way to get in.

630
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 5: The game, had a good game.

631
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 4: Pretty cool that Chris Finch finding minutes for him. He

632
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 4: had seventeen shot attempts in twenty one minutes. And then

633
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 4: Kyle Anderson, who was filling in for Jay McDaniels, who

634
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 4: also is a monstrous guy because he was in foul

635
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 4: trouble with thirty two minutes off the bench for him.

636
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 4: So yeah, he's just playing his best players and they're

637
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:03,920
Speaker 4: hopefully if they're gonna be good, they're gonna keep teams

638
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 4: under one hundred. So we're seeing these these games here

639
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 4: at ninety nine ninety six victory there for the Wolves,

640
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 4: it's a it's a different kind of team and we'll

641
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 4: see if they can manage to squeeze in there. It's

642
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:16,880
Speaker 4: a tough, tough sleddon in the in that part of

643
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 4: the West that we said, God, you know that may

644
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 4: come up and face the Grizzlies, that Warriors, Clippers, Wolves, glut.

645
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,520
Speaker 5: I just can't believe over like a two or three

646
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,240
Speaker 5: game stretch, you could be hosting game one of the

647
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 5: first round of the playoffs or be absolutely out not

648
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 5: even playing a playing game to even get into the

649
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:37,240
Speaker 5: playoffs because of how many teams are. But yeah, SlowMo

650
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 5: twelve ten and seven for the Wolves there, all right,

651
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Speaker 5: let's take over.

652
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 2: I mean the Warriors gave that one way.

653
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:43,480
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I mean game out.

654
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Speaker 1: Draymond didn't need to pass that, Yeah, the one that

655
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 1: Kyle Anderson sole. He could have just stood there and

656
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 1: got fouled. Also, Steph Curry didn't need to pass it

657
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 1: when he passed it up either, a like Mike Conley

658
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:54,960
Speaker 1: was trying to file. You could see him complaining to

659
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 1: the referees, like I tried to file Steph Curry when

660
00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 1: he was driving around me.

661
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:00,440
Speaker 2: But uh, they blew it on that one.

662
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 1: Jordan Poole took a terrible shot with like thirty eight

663
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 1: seconds left on a two for one they were talking

664
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Speaker 1: about on the broadcast. If a two for one shot

665
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 1: comes available, you take it. That's not the one you want.

666
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 1: Couldn't get a shot for Steph Curry on the very

667
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:15,240
Speaker 1: last possession as well. So I don't know, great win

668
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 1: for the Wolves, especially since it gets them only a

669
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Speaker 1: half game back of Golden State, but I do kind

670
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 1: of think that was a Golden State loss.

671
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Speaker 5: So that's why you stood up and closed your computer

672
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Speaker 5: and said disgusting.

673
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Speaker 1: Honestly, like every time the Warriors were ready to win

674
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:32,720
Speaker 1: the game, they just gave it to the timber of Wolves.

675
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 1: They got within two points, back to back to back turnovers.

676
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:38,600
Speaker 2: It was they went out of their way.

677
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Speaker 5: To lose that one, and it felt like, yeah, do

678
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:45,400
Speaker 5: you think they're doing it on purpose where they want to? Yeah?

679
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:47,400
Speaker 5: I mean you can't even say that because it's like, yeah,

680
00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 5: I've heard other people talk about that. It's like, how how

681
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 5: could you like even, oh, we want to be the

682
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 5: sixth seed and not the fifth seeds, so we want

683
00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 5: to avoid the suns. But it's like, okay, you can

684
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Speaker 5: do whatever you want on that particular night. That doesn't

685
00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 5: mean four other teams that are within a half game

686
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:02,720
Speaker 5: the right thing. So yeah, they just botched it. It

687
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 5: was just surprising because it was at home. Yeah, I've

688
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 5: seen a lot of those on the road, but that

689
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 5: one was at home and they snapped their home win

690
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 5: streak there.

691
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Speaker 4: It was kind of like back to back botches because

692
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 4: the Wolves had it at first midway through the fourth

693
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:15,160
Speaker 4: air lead, and then the Warriors took it and then

694
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 4: they botched it. So double Botch in this scenario, just

695
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 4: to shout out to Klay Thompson quietly leading the league

696
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:23,640
Speaker 4: in most three pointers made three pointers this season. It's

697
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 4: kind of surprising. Six seventy threes, six hundred and seventy

698
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 4: one threes. It's uh what, no one, no, no, no,

699
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 4: what that was? That was the wrong number? I guess

700
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 4: grow there.

701
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Speaker 5: That's a big number, man.

702
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, both both two seventy three for six seventy one.

703
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 4: He's leading. He's leading it in both attempts and and

704
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 4: made shots. Two hundred seventy three threes. He's come back

705
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 4: and made the most threes of his career this season.

706
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 4: He will after That's pretty crazy. After a couple of nights.

707
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 5: All right, let's take our first break when we come back.

708
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 5: You know, we got to talk about the Dallas Mavericks

709
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 5: and the losers of the NBA weekend. Don't go anywhere,

710
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 5: all right, back with the No Dunkers here in the

711
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:04,040
Speaker 5: Classic Factory, the stream team chiming in with some other

712
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 5: NBA winners of the weekend. What about the Celtics, you know,

713
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 5: turning things around. They also had Matt Bonner and Brian

714
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 5: Scalabrini on the call. That's fun. The Pelicans staying afloat,

715
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 5: that's a good one. And Caitlin Clark with the forty

716
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:23,760
Speaker 5: point triple double in the women's tournament, My god, that

717
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:27,320
Speaker 5: is a line. She is unbelievable. So good. Good suggestions

718
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 5: there for other NBA or other just basketball winners of

719
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Speaker 5: the weekend. But let's get to the loser's task. You

720
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 5: know where we're going, because this might be rock bottom

721
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 5: I guess for the Dallas Mavericks when it comes to

722
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 5: this season at least.

723
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Speaker 4: Yeah, a nice transition here to a guy who had

724
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 4: a forty point triple double and Luca Dontrich but still lost.

725
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 4: They lost back to back games against the Charlotte Hornets,

726
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 4: who are playing for nothing. The Dallas Mavericks are playing

727
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:53,520
Speaker 4: for a play tournament. They just made the trade for

728
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 4: Kyrie Irving and they can't get wins. Lost of the

729
00:32:56,520 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 4: Hornets Friday, so they bounce back.

730
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 5: Yeah that happens, right, Yeah, And so we always talk

731
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 5: about it is so difficult to lose both games to

732
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 5: the same team in these little baseball series. It's like

733
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 5: really tough. You could never and they did.

734
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Speaker 4: They did. I thought they would come out better because

735
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 4: against Charlotte on Friday, thirty seven points in the first

736
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Speaker 4: for the Hornets. They were still down at half. They

737
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:23,600
Speaker 4: just couldn't fight back, right, so they're gonna come back.

738
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 4: They came out super flat on Sunday afternoon. They'd scored.

739
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:30,600
Speaker 4: Just watching this back, I just couldn't couldn't bear to

740
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 4: watch this offense. Five points in the first, like seven minutes,

741
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 4: this incredible offense, only sixteen in the first quarter. And

742
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:38,480
Speaker 4: they did make it a close one at the end

743
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 4: with Luca just hitting shots thrown behind the back passes

744
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 4: to Maxi Kleeba. But such a strange game. It's really

745
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 4: difficult to put your finger on what's wrong with this team. Obviously,

746
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:52,560
Speaker 4: their defense stinks, but this game where they turned it

747
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 4: over only eight times, six fewer times in the Hornets.

748
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:58,560
Speaker 4: They hit seven more threes than the Charlotte Hornets. It

749
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 4: sure felt like they should win this game, but their

750
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 4: offense was not clicking, only shot thirty eight percent. They

751
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 4: need Kyrie to be a little bit better than he

752
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 4: was on Sunday night. They're just so disconnected, but in

753
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:12,239
Speaker 4: a crazy way, they're not too far off, just because

754
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 4: they are so talented from winning games and they're not

755
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 4: too far away from the plan. They're now fully in

756
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:21,440
Speaker 4: eleventh place, a full game back of the play in tournament,

757
00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:24,120
Speaker 4: and I say they're not too far off. But they

758
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:27,560
Speaker 4: do not have Luca tonight. He had a sixteenth tech

759
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:32,280
Speaker 4: in that Sunday game. Unless it's rescinded for some weird reason.

760
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:35,880
Speaker 5: He can't help himself. He can't help himself, man.

761
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 4: I think the referee should also couldn't help himself in

762
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:42,080
Speaker 4: calling that tech. Obviously he was complaining.

763
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Speaker 5: But that's his whole thing. He just complains all game,

764
00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 5: and so when he goes a little bit more overboard,

765
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:50,480
Speaker 5: they're like, well, that's the accumulation of you non stop

766
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 5: talking all game. I've got to give it to you.

767
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Speaker 4: Yeah. I didn't think that one was too bad. But

768
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 4: at the same time, sure, yeah, it could be a

769
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:59,239
Speaker 4: build up have passive aggressive tea.

770
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Speaker 1: But I think it's Galaxy brain thinking from Luca to

771
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 1: get suspended against the Pacers, Like you would rather get

772
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:08,280
Speaker 1: suspended against the Pacers because the next games are six Ers, Heat, Hawks,

773
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:11,840
Speaker 1: Kings Bowl, Spurs. They played good teams after the Pacers,

774
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:13,839
Speaker 1: So if you're gonna get suspended, that's the one.

775
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 4: And I do think even if he's not going Galaxy brain,

776
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:18,399
Speaker 4: I think it may just work out for them because

777
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:20,880
Speaker 4: I think they'll rally around Kyrie. Those games that they

778
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:25,839
Speaker 4: played without Kyrie or with Kyrie without Luca right off

779
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 4: the bat, they worked out pretty well. I think they

780
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:29,359
Speaker 4: could rally around him. They are five and ten without

781
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:31,919
Speaker 4: Luca this season, so maybe it doesn't work out well.

782
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:34,360
Speaker 4: But also Luca said after the game on Friday that

783
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:36,960
Speaker 4: he's not having as much fun playing basketball, and he

784
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 4: noted that it's something off the court, has nothing to

785
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 4: do with what's going on on the court, so hopefully

786
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 4: all as well in his world. But yeah, seven games

787
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 4: left for this team that made such a giant trade.

788
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:52,600
Speaker 4: And again it's not like it's horrendous, but they just

789
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:55,280
Speaker 4: are disconnected and it's tough to watch at times.

790
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:58,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say the two problems for me are

791
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 1: like basketball, why they get crushed on the glass. Their

792
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 1: best rebounder is their point guard, Luka Doncich is their

793
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:07,879
Speaker 1: best rebounder. Everybody else all their tall guys are skinny guys,

794
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 1: so they get crushed on the glass. Like they would

795
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 1: love to have a Nick Richards, find you a second

796
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 1: round center that can sop up some minutes and be

797
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:17,400
Speaker 1: a big guy inside, and from more of an overall

798
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:19,880
Speaker 1: team concept point of view, the problem to me is

799
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:21,799
Speaker 1: that the team doesn't look any different than they did

800
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,320
Speaker 1: before they got Kyrie, because still it's going to be

801
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 1: we have to try and outscore you, and we have

802
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 1: to get lucky in the clutch. You would think that

803
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:31,960
Speaker 1: adding Kyrie Irving to Luka Doncic, having two of the

804
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:34,279
Speaker 1: best fourth quarter players in the league, would be enough

805
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:35,800
Speaker 1: to get him over the line in a lot of

806
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 1: these clutch games. But they've lost so many games by

807
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 1: a handful of possessions that they were losing before the

808
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 1: trade deadline as well, So it's like you would think

809
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 1: Kyrie coming in would maybe energize the team, would maybe

810
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 1: take a little pressure off Luca to make things easier

811
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:52,759
Speaker 1: for them on the offensive side of the court at least,

812
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:54,640
Speaker 1: and that has not been the case at all. They're

813
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:56,919
Speaker 1: not making each other better, Luca and Kyrie Art.

814
00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, they won last year because their defense prop them

815
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 5: up just enough for them have Luca like take you

816
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:05,440
Speaker 5: home in games, and that was like a surprising defensive

817
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:07,399
Speaker 5: team last year, Like wow, how are they this good?

818
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 5: And it's completely gone away this year. And then they trade,

819
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 5: of course one of their best defensive perimeter players in

820
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 5: Dorian Finny Smith to get Kyrie and they take that

821
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:18,839
Speaker 5: wild swing and it's blown up in their face because

822
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 5: like Ziller went through all like the points here from

823
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 5: after the Kyrie deal. Like remember when Maxi Kleeba's defense

824
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:29,319
Speaker 5: was it was going to solve the Mavericks riddle of

825
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:31,719
Speaker 5: being able to stop anyone for them to survive. Well,

826
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:34,440
Speaker 5: that hasn't been the case. Josh Green, we got excited,

827
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 5: you know, Oh, he's gonna be able to like slot

828
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,640
Speaker 5: in there, fill in the gaps. There's more role for him.

829
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 5: And he was fine, but it's spotty because you're asking

830
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:44,399
Speaker 5: a lot from a guy right away. And then Jade

831
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 5: Hardy he's a rookie, and you know, they thought he

832
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:49,840
Speaker 5: might be a difference maker. Sure some games, some quarters

833
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,400
Speaker 5: he might look like that. Many others he's a nofer.

834
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 5: He's a second round rookie. I mean, he's twenty years old.

835
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:57,760
Speaker 5: So this is not good. I mean there are people

836
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 5: now wondering should they just lean into quote unquote tanking,

837
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 5: lean into keeping their pick making sure it's in the

838
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:08,279
Speaker 5: top ten, because if it's not. I believe it's going

839
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:10,720
Speaker 5: to the New York Knicks, so they do have some

840
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 5: incentive if they really wanted to, it'd be ballsy to like,

841
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 5: you know what, we'll just sit this one out, sit

842
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:18,239
Speaker 5: the playing out, and we'll just keep our pick. Have

843
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 5: like a three percent chance of the number one pick unlikely,

844
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 5: but at least keep keep it to get some talent

845
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 5: to add to this team. But I don't think that's

846
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:27,320
Speaker 5: going to happen because it's pretty risky.

847
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 2: It's pretty risky.

848
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,920
Speaker 5: You already made the risky move. And in training for Kyrie.

849
00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 5: What's terrible is it's like the perfect storm here, or

850
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 5: like the worst storm. I guess, like your team's losing,

851
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 5: Lucas frustrated, and now you get to then get to

852
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:45,160
Speaker 5: asking Kyrie all these questions about what's going on. And Kyrie,

853
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:47,719
Speaker 5: as we've seen multiple times, you can make things even worse,

854
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:50,200
Speaker 5: I think with his explanations and all that. And then

855
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 5: like then people start blaming him, and I don't even

856
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:54,400
Speaker 5: think he's the reason for all this, Like what'd you

857
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:56,400
Speaker 5: think training for Kyrie is gonna help your defense? Like

858
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 5: that's silly, And he's been okay offensively their numbers are

859
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 5: okay when he's out there net rating and all that,

860
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:04,319
Speaker 5: but it's like, oh, I hate what my team is

861
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 5: not doing well. And then Kyrie's up on the podium

862
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:10,560
Speaker 5: and being asked why we're not doing well well. It's

863
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:12,839
Speaker 5: a recipe for disaster, man.

864
00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:15,600
Speaker 4: Another recipe for this bad team is just guys in

865
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:18,319
Speaker 4: and out of the lineup, including Luca and Kyrie, have

866
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:22,319
Speaker 4: been injured, and they haven't been They haven't again, been

867
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 4: far off from winning a lot of these games. They

868
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 4: could go on a little bit of a roll. And

869
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 4: I understand it. It feels extremely bleak right now. But

870
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:33,839
Speaker 4: we've got here Casey Mackin in the stream team saying

871
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 4: they couldn't even beat the Hornets with Luca. What makes

872
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,399
Speaker 4: you think they can beat the Pacers tonight? As soon

873
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:40,240
Speaker 4: as they made the Kyrie trade, they beat the Clippers,

874
00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:42,680
Speaker 4: they beat the Kings without Luca. They had Kyrie in

875
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:46,359
Speaker 4: the lineup. Sometimes when you have Luca in your line

876
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 4: you just rely on him to do everything. At the

877
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 4: beginning of that game, they were just relying on Luca

878
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 4: just do everything on Sunday, especially just just score. Man.

879
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 4: You're the most talented player on this team. I mean whatever,

880
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 4: you and Kyrie, and so I think they do step

881
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:04,240
Speaker 4: up around Kyrie today to have a better game, just

882
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:06,919
Speaker 4: just will feel more part of the offense. And again

883
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 4: the injuries have been a problem, but the heck nos.

884
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:11,160
Speaker 5: Well, they're playing the perfect team tonight and the Indiana

885
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:13,359
Speaker 5: Pacers to just have a shootout. Just score. I mean,

886
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:14,960
Speaker 5: this is like they've built this team to be like,

887
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:17,680
Speaker 5: let's just outscore teams. Okay, I mean you should be

888
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:19,719
Speaker 5: able to outscore the Pacers, Luca or not. They're not

889
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:21,400
Speaker 5: going to play defense like they'd give you up one

890
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:23,320
Speaker 5: hundred and forty. It feels like every game here recently,

891
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:26,320
Speaker 5: so they could win tonight, But you also have no faith,

892
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 5: like even who cares like they get into a play

893
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:29,759
Speaker 5: in do you have any faith they'd get out of that?

894
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:32,360
Speaker 5: Even if they got in through that into a playoff series,

895
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:34,160
Speaker 5: do you have faith that they're going to beat any

896
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:36,040
Speaker 5: of those times? Which comes like this is why the

897
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 5: season's looking like a lost season.

898
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:39,719
Speaker 4: Now, sure, yeah, they made a trade six weeks ago

899
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:42,920
Speaker 4: and they haven't played enough together. I mean it's just

900
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 4: that is a short time window to get things together.

901
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:49,080
Speaker 4: And then Kyrie's got a toe thing Luca goes out

902
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:52,560
Speaker 4: with the thigh thing. They've had multiple injuries and they

903
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:55,359
Speaker 4: don't have any size that's yeah, and then they can't

904
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 4: defend all that wall.

905
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 5: And then it gets even worse when you start going, well,

906
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,279
Speaker 5: what does this mean for Kyrie's long term with this

907
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 5: Mavericks team or not? Okay, there's that with the free agency.

908
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 5: Then there's the frustration of like when does Lucas say

909
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:08,000
Speaker 5: enough is enough? And when does he start saying and

910
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:10,920
Speaker 5: we get the rumors from like, oh I want out

911
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:13,319
Speaker 5: and all that, like that's it. Can I know you

912
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 5: don't want to say that, but it can spiral into

913
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:17,040
Speaker 5: that really quickly, as we've seen in the NBA.

914
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:18,920
Speaker 4: Sure, And that's why I think they should make the

915
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:21,360
Speaker 4: play in and hopefully for them make the playoffs, just

916
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:23,640
Speaker 4: so there's some good momentum going into the playoffs for

917
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:26,280
Speaker 4: Kyrie to say, Okay, I'll sign here.

918
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:26,880
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly.

919
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:29,319
Speaker 1: Missing the playoffs looks bad from a team standpoint, and

920
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:32,960
Speaker 1: I actually think that the Mavericks probably want their pick

921
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 1: to convey to the next this summer so then they

922
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:38,440
Speaker 1: can trade their next couple of picks, because it's it

923
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 1: that's protected. I think for the next three seasons, so

924
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:42,640
Speaker 1: they want that pick. That one gone.

925
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, so they can trade other picks to get some

926
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:45,520
Speaker 2: players who might actually help them.

927
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:47,399
Speaker 4: To a good point, good point and a tiny little

928
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 4: point from the Hornets positive.

929
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:48,879
Speaker 5: Yeah.

930
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:52,480
Speaker 4: Gordon Hayward played his most games in a season for

931
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 4: the Charlotte Hornets this season. Good go wow, weird huh wow.

932
00:41:56,840 --> 00:42:00,120
Speaker 4: Yeah wow. It's weird because it didn't start. He wasn't

933
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:02,000
Speaker 4: the beginning of the season, but yes, come on, since

934
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 4: since there a season has been dead. But he's played

935
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:07,239
Speaker 4: in fifty games in season number three here for the

936
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:09,880
Speaker 4: Charlotte Hornets. His too previous totals.

937
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 5: Did you see his postgame interview yesterday? In the second win,

938
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:16,399
Speaker 5: He's on the floor, it's on court, and suddenly his

939
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:18,760
Speaker 5: little one of his daughters runs up sort of grabs

940
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 5: onto his leg. Oh they get the shot. Oh that's cute,

941
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 5: you know, whatever paths are on the head and then

942
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 5: she takes off and like Gordon's trying to answer questions.

943
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 5: I believe it's with Ashley, and he's like he's very distracted,

944
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:31,400
Speaker 5: and she even notes it. She's like, uh, are you

945
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 5: looking for your kid? Like I don't think he knew

946
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:36,120
Speaker 5: where his daughter ran or where she didn't even run from.

947
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:39,279
Speaker 5: So he was like, you know, it's like this dad

948
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 5: was concerned where my kid go. But I think he

949
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 5: eventually saw her. But even while he was walking off

950
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:46,080
Speaker 5: the floor, he was still doing like I don't know

951
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:48,160
Speaker 5: if he's doing a head count or something. Did she

952
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:49,440
Speaker 5: make it back to mom? I don't know.

953
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,359
Speaker 4: I thought maybe she stole his mouth guard and he's

954
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:54,879
Speaker 4: a germophobe. One of his mouth guard back.

955
00:42:57,160 --> 00:43:00,840
Speaker 5: Good Gord, almighty TK, who you got lose of the weekend?

956
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:01,640
Speaker 2: Tough one here.

957
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:03,799
Speaker 1: Sixers have been one of the best road teams in

958
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:06,240
Speaker 1: the league this season, but they lost to this weekend.

959
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:09,319
Speaker 1: It's their first losing streak two games in a month.

960
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:13,280
Speaker 1: Friday Embiid an absolute monster forty six points, nine rebounds,

961
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 1: eight assists, two steals, and a block. Also, Draymond Green

962
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:18,920
Speaker 1: called him the hardest guy to guard in the league.

963
00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:20,320
Speaker 2: That's a compliment right there.

964
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:23,560
Speaker 1: However, the Sixers were minus twenty one in the ten

965
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 1: minutes that Joel Embiid sat. The offense completely falls apart

966
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 1: when he is on the bench. Also, no James Harden

967
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:34,879
Speaker 1: to assist to play make. Nonetheless, the Sixers blew the lead,

968
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:37,319
Speaker 1: but we're still up to When Embiid checked in with

969
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 1: eight and a half left in the fourth quarter, he

970
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:42,840
Speaker 1: scored fifteen of the last nineteen points for Philadelphia, but

971
00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:47,280
Speaker 1: unfortunately Curry, Thompson and Pool all caught fire scored twenty

972
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 1: seven of twenty nine for the Warriors down the stretch.

973
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:51,799
Speaker 1: That to me just a good win for Golden State.

974
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:55,360
Speaker 1: Like the Sixers played pretty well all things considered. Embiid

975
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 1: was doing what he could in an MVP performance. They

976
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 1: just didn't get over the line. Saturday's loss to the Suns,

977
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 1: I thought was a little bit more on Philadelphia and Embiid.

978
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:08,000
Speaker 1: Twenty eight points, ten rebounds for a SYS, two blocks,

979
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:10,880
Speaker 1: good but not great. The Sixers actually lost his minutes

980
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:13,800
Speaker 1: in this one because he got out efforted by Bismack

981
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:18,080
Speaker 1: Biambo seventeen points, thirteen rebounds and five blocks for Biambo.

982
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:21,080
Speaker 1: He blocked an Embiid fade away at least two times

983
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:23,919
Speaker 1: in this game, which pretty rare to see it ever happen,

984
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 1: let alone twice. The Sun's bench was awesome and this

985
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:30,279
Speaker 1: one completely outplayed Philadelphia once again. Three Suns reserves were

986
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 1: in double digits. You can tell how much the Sixers

987
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:36,640
Speaker 1: are missing James Harden because he really steadies the bench

988
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:38,960
Speaker 1: and makes it so that Max he doesn't have to

989
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:41,640
Speaker 1: do everything out there with the second unit. But I

990
00:44:41,719 --> 00:44:43,840
Speaker 1: kind of thought as a par effort from Embiid in

991
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:46,239
Speaker 1: the first half and couldn't totally turn it on in

992
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 1: the second half, which seemed kind of clearly what he

993
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 1: was trying to do. It was the second night of

994
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:53,040
Speaker 1: a back to back. The Sixers have been very good

995
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 1: for the last three months, but disappointing. I would say

996
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 1: against a couple of finals contenures can change your contenders.

997
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 1: But the real reason to me they get the loser

998
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 1: this weekend, it's cause the Celtics won twice. So now

999
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 1: Philadelphia is two and a half games back from the

1000
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 1: two seed.

1001
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:08,160
Speaker 2: Then they got a.

1002
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:10,279
Speaker 1: Pretty tough schedule the rest of the way here, so

1003
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:12,360
Speaker 1: you would have liked to get one of those to

1004
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:14,399
Speaker 1: keep the race pretty close because it kind of feels

1005
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 1: like Boston should be number two.

1006
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, the the Green Embiid one on one on Friday,

1007
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:23,680
Speaker 4: super fun. And then Green got to the podium and

1008
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:28,520
Speaker 4: he said, yeah, mb told me that he had a

1009
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:31,240
Speaker 4: good game, because I said Joker was the hardest player

1010
00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:32,880
Speaker 4: to defend and he heard that and he took that

1011
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 4: personally and had a big game and then yeah, a

1012
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 4: bit of a dud on Saturday for EMBID.

1013
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 5: He looked a little ghast.

1014
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:41,720
Speaker 4: I mean, I think that's understanding.

1015
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 5: Having this team for a while here, it looked like

1016
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 5: it caught up to him here and maybe this like

1017
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:47,760
Speaker 5: sort of trap game two with the one coming up agains. Yeah, exactly,

1018
00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:51,440
Speaker 5: Joker tonight. So yeah, they're gonna you know, they've had

1019
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 5: a great what three month run here sixers, but yeah,

1020
00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:57,759
Speaker 5: paired with the Celtics winning, and now if they meet

1021
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 5: in a second round of a two three matchup, yeah,

1022
00:46:01,719 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 5: game seven would be in Boston, and you'd rather have

1023
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:04,920
Speaker 5: it in Philadelphia, that's for sure.

1024
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:07,720
Speaker 4: It's kind of understandable that embiads lost a little gas.

1025
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:12,040
Speaker 4: It's a freaking tough march for Philadelphia, So bring that

1026
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:15,359
Speaker 4: up for sure. So seventeen thirty one, that's not really

1027
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:17,440
Speaker 4: embiids thing. But he's got to be looking forward to

1028
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 4: tonight nine thirty Eastern. On playback, I'm.

1029
00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:23,360
Speaker 5: Sure loser of the weekend. My trust issues with a

1030
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:26,680
Speaker 5: few teams. You already brought up the Miami Heat losing

1031
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 5: to the Brooklyn Nets. I keep trying to convince myself,

1032
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 5: heat man, you don't want to play them. You don't

1033
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:32,600
Speaker 5: want to see him in a first round, especially if

1034
00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 5: you're like Philly, I'll be a war. I think you're

1035
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:37,839
Speaker 5: gonna be tested. You know this team has been there,

1036
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 5: done that. But then you know they play the Nets

1037
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:42,799
Speaker 5: and get hammered, like you said, Tass, and it's like,

1038
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 5: why do I believe in this team? Like what it's

1039
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:48,440
Speaker 5: it's bad. And they scored thirty one points in the

1040
00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:50,960
Speaker 5: second half. They had eighteen in the third quarter. That's brutal,

1041
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:53,160
Speaker 5: and then they had thirteen in the fourth where they

1042
00:46:53,160 --> 00:46:55,040
Speaker 5: got spanked. The Nets went on a thirty one to

1043
00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:58,120
Speaker 5: six run. Spoilster after the game saying like, we're not

1044
00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:01,120
Speaker 5: defending at a world class level the way we're capable of,

1045
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:04,120
Speaker 5: and that second half just became an avalanche. And so

1046
00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:06,480
Speaker 5: when your offense already struggles in a half court setting

1047
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:09,359
Speaker 5: and then you're not playing your elite defense, yeah you're

1048
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:11,920
Speaker 5: gonna lose by twenty plus. And now they have that

1049
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:15,799
Speaker 5: same record as as the Nets don't have the tiebreaker

1050
00:47:16,239 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 5: and they might have to win their way in and

1051
00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:19,560
Speaker 5: maybe they don't even play the Sixers. It doesn't matter.

1052
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:21,399
Speaker 5: But I just like, ah, I want to believe in them,

1053
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:24,640
Speaker 5: I really do. And I don't think they're gonna get

1054
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:27,120
Speaker 5: waxed in a first round beat against the Celtics, beat

1055
00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:30,319
Speaker 5: against the Sixers. I think they take a game or two.

1056
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:32,759
Speaker 5: But the more I watch them, I'm like, I don't know, man,

1057
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:36,520
Speaker 5: I think I'm holding on to like previous postseason runs.

1058
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 1: You still remember Game seven of last year they were

1059
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:42,960
Speaker 1: a shot. No, I know they're just gatekeepers this season.

1060
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:45,520
Speaker 1: They're gonna have the hardest first round series, which they're

1061
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:48,520
Speaker 1: gonna lose, but it will be iron sharpening eyes. Yeah,

1062
00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:50,760
Speaker 1: we've talked about the Celtics or the Sixers are gonna

1063
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:52,960
Speaker 1: kind of want to face the heat to get into

1064
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:53,880
Speaker 1: a playoff atmosphere.

1065
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:55,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's a good point to put it. And

1066
00:47:55,719 --> 00:47:57,560
Speaker 5: then in the Western Conference, I'm not as high on

1067
00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:02,719
Speaker 5: them as many other people are. The Clippers, you know,

1068
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:04,880
Speaker 5: you know, you can convince yourself all they could go

1069
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:06,919
Speaker 5: on a run and all that, maybe less so after

1070
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:10,280
Speaker 5: the Paul George injury, but they got hammered by the Pelicans.

1071
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:12,960
Speaker 5: Trey Murphy hit ten threes, he scored thirty two. Brandon

1072
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:15,279
Speaker 5: Ingram had thirty two. They won one thirty one one

1073
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:19,279
Speaker 5: ten over LA and that was lights out shooting from

1074
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 5: the Pelicans, but the Clippers had twenty turnovers too, which

1075
00:48:22,560 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 5: led to twenty eight points for the Pels. And like,

1076
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:26,360
Speaker 5: I mean, I've been off the Clippers for a while.

1077
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:28,560
Speaker 5: Maybe some of you out there can still convince yourself,

1078
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:31,000
Speaker 5: Oh I could drag them to a couple uh, you know,

1079
00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:35,160
Speaker 5: postseason victories, playoff series victories. I don't really see it.

1080
00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:38,879
Speaker 5: So I'm ready to like scratch them from a wide

1081
00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:41,319
Speaker 5: open Western Conference. I get that part, and maybe it'll

1082
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:43,640
Speaker 5: just be all matchups who do they farewell against? Who

1083
00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:46,080
Speaker 5: do they don't? But that was bad and they've had this.

1084
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 5: They just have games like this too, where you're just like, well,

1085
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:50,600
Speaker 5: that's not a championship contender. That's not a team like

1086
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:53,440
Speaker 5: poised to go on a deep run, especially with the PG.

1087
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:56,520
Speaker 5: So that's what I got for my losers. Any thoughts

1088
00:48:56,520 --> 00:48:57,880
Speaker 5: on the Heat or the Clippers.

1089
00:48:57,480 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 4: There, Yeah, I don't see the Heat being a consistent

1090
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:04,879
Speaker 4: enough shooting team. Their offense is so bad and they

1091
00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 4: had a nice little run last year in the postseason

1092
00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:10,799
Speaker 4: where they squashed Tree Young in the first round. Then

1093
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:14,200
Speaker 4: they got a Joel embiidless team there in the sixers,

1094
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:16,840
Speaker 4: you had the broken face there. Came back obviously, but

1095
00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:22,440
Speaker 4: I think they got a nice little schedule last year

1096
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:25,760
Speaker 4: in the playoffs. They ended up taking the Celtics deep

1097
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:29,640
Speaker 4: in that series, for sure, but it's just they're a

1098
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:31,480
Speaker 4: year older. You're gonna you're counting on Jimmy to do

1099
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:35,000
Speaker 4: a lot, and we'll see if Tyler Heron can be fantastic.

1100
00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:37,600
Speaker 4: But I just don't. I can't believe in that offense.

1101
00:49:37,640 --> 00:49:38,799
Speaker 4: It's hard to believe in that offense.

1102
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:41,600
Speaker 5: And Fred Van Vliet said after the game yesterday he's

1103
00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:43,880
Speaker 5: ready to give Kyle Lowry a loss. He just had

1104
00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:47,359
Speaker 5: a birthday. He played the Raptors on tomorrow night. I believe.

1105
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:50,839
Speaker 5: I think it's on TNT unless they changed it. Bleet say, yeah,

1106
00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:52,440
Speaker 5: I can't wait to give that old guy a loss.

1107
00:49:53,719 --> 00:49:55,319
Speaker 5: So it could be another one, so they might drop

1108
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:58,080
Speaker 5: even more. And the Raptors are well. Raptors are probably

1109
00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:00,840
Speaker 5: too far behind the way be Heat in terms of record,

1110
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 5: but they're not far behind the Hawks now or the

1111
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:05,680
Speaker 5: Bulls there obviously trying to say a game to chase

1112
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:07,640
Speaker 5: down then right now, Yeah, especially after they lost to

1113
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:09,880
Speaker 5: the Grizzlies there on Sunday, I got some news here.

1114
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:12,680
Speaker 5: According to Sham's the Blazers are considering shutting down Damian

1115
00:50:12,719 --> 00:50:15,200
Speaker 5: Lillard for the rest of the season. Dame has been

1116
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:18,799
Speaker 5: dealing with a calf injury and missed Portland's last two

1117
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:21,919
Speaker 5: games against the Bulls and then the Thunder, who picked

1118
00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:23,960
Speaker 5: up a quality win there. Got a little too close,

1119
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:26,000
Speaker 5: probably for Thunder fans, but they pulled it out in

1120
00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:28,200
Speaker 5: the end. We've already talked about this a little bit,

1121
00:50:28,239 --> 00:50:32,719
Speaker 5: but this idea of shutting Dame down here for the

1122
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:34,920
Speaker 5: rest of it. Are you surprised if this is the

1123
00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:38,920
Speaker 5: route they take, not at all lean into helping your

1124
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:41,400
Speaker 5: lottery chance? Like, what do you think? What do you

1125
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:41,920
Speaker 5: think of all this?

1126
00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:47,120
Speaker 4: I like the decision to go instead of making this

1127
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:50,440
Speaker 4: declaration eight games left, we're gonna shut them down, just

1128
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:53,279
Speaker 4: I would rather do it quietly. If I was the Blazers,

1129
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:55,880
Speaker 4: I think this seems like a cop out to me.

1130
00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 4: I don't like the decision, but I'd rather go game

1131
00:50:58,640 --> 00:51:02,960
Speaker 4: to game and say, yeah, injured calf questionable, get the

1132
00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 4: illusion that he's playing yes half every day instead of

1133
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 4: this problem. Is I well I'm sure it's been bothering

1134
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:11,680
Speaker 4: him all season because he was out with it earlier

1135
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:15,920
Speaker 4: on in the season. That was his the his problem

1136
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:20,600
Speaker 4: all year long. It just feels like the white flag

1137
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:21,320
Speaker 4: being waved.

1138
00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:24,279
Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't really matter. They're four and twelve

1139
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:27,400
Speaker 1: after the All Star break. Lillard has played all but

1140
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:29,359
Speaker 1: two of those games, I think, so, I mean they're

1141
00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:33,920
Speaker 1: four and ten with him, so I don't know. I

1142
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:36,640
Speaker 1: guess they want to trade there or keep their picks

1143
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:39,640
Speaker 1: top it's top fourteen protected to the Bulls for the

1144
00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:42,000
Speaker 1: next few seasons. So it wouldn't be surprising to me

1145
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:45,359
Speaker 1: to actually see them stay where they're at and not

1146
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:48,239
Speaker 1: bring Lillard back and get their pick and assuming it's

1147
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:50,840
Speaker 1: not doesn't jump into number one or number two or

1148
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:52,920
Speaker 1: into the top four, trade it to the Bulls anyways,

1149
00:51:53,320 --> 00:51:55,960
Speaker 1: to just get that obligation off their books so they

1150
00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:59,000
Speaker 1: can just like who are we talking about earlier they

1151
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:01,560
Speaker 1: think said should keep their pick Dallas. I think they

1152
00:52:01,640 --> 00:52:03,480
Speaker 1: might want to be able to trade their pick as

1153
00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:05,719
Speaker 1: well so they can do moves because this is the

1154
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:07,839
Speaker 1: same season that they had last year. It just took

1155
00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:10,040
Speaker 1: a little bit longer to play out. Lillard went down

1156
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:14,399
Speaker 1: with his abdomen injury in what January February last season,

1157
00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:17,040
Speaker 1: they shut him down early, so the record looked really bad.

1158
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:19,240
Speaker 1: But I mean they've been pretty bad for the second

1159
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:21,960
Speaker 1: half of this entire season, and only now is it

1160
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:23,879
Speaker 1: becoming clear that they're not even gonna have a chance

1161
00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:24,319
Speaker 1: at the play in.

1162
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:24,880
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1163
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:28,879
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I do think that this helps the case

1164
00:52:28,920 --> 00:52:33,440
Speaker 4: for keeping Chauncey Billups around, just limiting Damian Lillard's games.

1165
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:38,600
Speaker 2: Really Yeah, Blazers fans are not happy shocked.

1166
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:41,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, Kid and Billups look like they're dead

1167
00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:42,360
Speaker 5: coaches coaching right now.

1168
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:44,919
Speaker 4: Yeah, those would be. They're definitely both on the hot seat.

1169
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:49,080
Speaker 4: And I just think that the fewer games you play

1170
00:52:49,160 --> 00:52:55,880
Speaker 4: with Damian Lillard, it just it just helps Chauncey Billups

1171
00:52:56,560 --> 00:52:59,920
Speaker 4: reason for sticking around him and Kid. In similar scenario,

1172
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:02,279
Speaker 4: the Rosser ain't going to change that much going into

1173
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:04,080
Speaker 4: next season, so how can you expect it to change

1174
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:07,720
Speaker 4: all that much? So they're both definitely on the hot seats.

1175
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:09,920
Speaker 5: Well, the Blazers are just a half game ahead of

1176
00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:12,719
Speaker 5: the Magic, who currently owned the fifth worst record in

1177
00:53:12,719 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 5: the NBA. So if Orlando surpasses Portland here in the standings,

1178
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:21,040
Speaker 5: the Blazers would gain better odds in the NBA lottery.

1179
00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:22,800
Speaker 5: I think they would go from having a nine percent

1180
00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:25,600
Speaker 5: chance at the number one pick to a ten and

1181
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:29,640
Speaker 5: a half percent chance. So they couldn't lean in here.

1182
00:53:29,680 --> 00:53:31,160
Speaker 5: And I think they are. I mean, I believe they

1183
00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:33,200
Speaker 5: are shutting down Damian Lillard. They're shutting down like half

1184
00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:34,840
Speaker 5: their roster man. They're not gonna win a lot of

1185
00:53:34,840 --> 00:53:37,279
Speaker 5: games down the stretcher, I don't think, because the play

1186
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:39,799
Speaker 5: in is just out of reach. Now, what is fascinating

1187
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:41,279
Speaker 5: to me? I slipped this in last time we talked

1188
00:53:41,280 --> 00:53:43,279
Speaker 5: about this. How are the voters going to deal with

1189
00:53:43,320 --> 00:53:47,120
Speaker 5: all MBA when it comes to Damian Lillard? Because if

1190
00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:50,439
Speaker 5: he doesn't play anymore games, he's at fifty eight, all right.

1191
00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:54,280
Speaker 5: We also have Curry currently have fifty games played, Bookers

1192
00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:56,600
Speaker 5: at forty seven, John Morant's at fifty six. How do

1193
00:53:56,719 --> 00:54:01,520
Speaker 5: voters take into consideration that suspension. I think this is

1194
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:05,480
Speaker 5: going to be a crazy, crazy all NBA vote. I'm

1195
00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:08,719
Speaker 5: not convinced. I'm not convinced Lillard, despite scoring thirty two

1196
00:54:08,719 --> 00:54:11,520
Speaker 5: points per game over fifty eight, is going to make

1197
00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:13,680
Speaker 5: one of these All NBA teams because his team's not

1198
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:14,080
Speaker 5: even in.

1199
00:54:14,120 --> 00:54:15,720
Speaker 2: The damn playing not even close.

1200
00:54:16,040 --> 00:54:18,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's like I got a certain point. It's gonna

1201
00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:20,319
Speaker 5: matter a little bit, right. I know he's gone through

1202
00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:23,640
Speaker 5: this before with like Bradley Beal, but that was maybe

1203
00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:27,600
Speaker 5: when there wasn't as much talented guards too, like at

1204
00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:29,239
Speaker 5: a certain point like well this guy scoring thirty and

1205
00:54:29,239 --> 00:54:32,560
Speaker 5: then it's a big drop off. But you know, hell,

1206
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:35,640
Speaker 5: I guess Luca Luca Convince the playing too. But there's

1207
00:54:35,719 --> 00:54:39,239
Speaker 5: Luca Fox, Mitchell Sga is Jalen Brown a shooting guard

1208
00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:41,480
Speaker 5: or a small forward? Where does he get voted in?

1209
00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:44,600
Speaker 5: That is a big cue. But there's Edwards, there's Brunson,

1210
00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:46,879
Speaker 5: there's Trey, there's hard In. I don't know. I think

1211
00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:50,279
Speaker 5: it's gonna be fascinating how they take into consideration the

1212
00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:54,160
Speaker 5: game's played. When it comes to Dame being probably shut down. Curry,

1213
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:56,480
Speaker 5: he's going to probably finish around fifty five, you know,

1214
00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:58,560
Speaker 5: Booker less than that, and then the jam Moran of

1215
00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:02,880
Speaker 5: it all. It'll be interesting. Lucky we don't have a vote.

1216
00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:08,600
Speaker 4: I'd be up all night, I imagine that. Because there's

1217
00:55:08,640 --> 00:55:11,080
Speaker 4: so many low numbers here, like you said, you went

1218
00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:14,120
Speaker 4: through them. I think it will play a factor because

1219
00:55:14,160 --> 00:55:16,719
Speaker 4: it's just so clear. It's been such a topic of

1220
00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:20,040
Speaker 4: discussion all season long. And yeah, there's going to be

1221
00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:25,000
Speaker 4: a drastic number between some and others. So I think

1222
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:27,800
Speaker 4: at first I didn't think it was going to be

1223
00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:29,560
Speaker 4: a big deal. He got to that fifty eight mark.

1224
00:55:29,640 --> 00:55:30,640
Speaker 2: Fifty eight seems good.

1225
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:31,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's good.

1226
00:55:31,880 --> 00:55:32,719
Speaker 2: It's qualified.

1227
00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:35,160
Speaker 4: You're qualified for the point for.

1228
00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:38,200
Speaker 5: The points per game, Yes, right, that's right. So if

1229
00:55:38,239 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 5: you're qualified for that, you believe you're qualified for all that.

1230
00:55:40,719 --> 00:55:43,279
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, if you can make it there, you can

1231
00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:43,960
Speaker 2: make it anywhere.

1232
00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:46,560
Speaker 5: All right, Well, let's hear from everybody. What do you

1233
00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:49,400
Speaker 5: think about Dame's chances of making All NBA. He is

1234
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:52,880
Speaker 5: third in the league in points pury Am at thirty

1235
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:54,319
Speaker 5: two point three. I think it is.

1236
00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:56,560
Speaker 4: That's the conspiracy. Did he get to fifty eight?

1237
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:03,200
Speaker 5: But that is only a rule right now for being

1238
00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:05,600
Speaker 5: on these leader boards when it comes to scoring third game,

1239
00:56:05,640 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 5: scoring title. Yeah, and this is obviously what we talked

1240
00:56:08,200 --> 00:56:10,840
Speaker 5: about that they might be considering with the Players Association

1241
00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:13,759
Speaker 5: about having a certain number of games played for all

1242
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:18,440
Speaker 5: of these awards, including maybe All NBA, which is fifty eight.

1243
00:56:18,520 --> 00:56:21,640
Speaker 5: The number, I don't know, feels a little low. To me,

1244
00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:23,240
Speaker 5: I'm being completely honest.

1245
00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:26,080
Speaker 4: If they come out with a CBA very soon, if

1246
00:56:26,080 --> 00:56:28,120
Speaker 4: they come to an agreement, which could happen, and fifty

1247
00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:31,240
Speaker 4: eight is the number that is tied to every award,

1248
00:56:31,719 --> 00:56:34,760
Speaker 4: and the voters get their bout, isn't it sort.

1249
00:56:34,560 --> 00:56:37,520
Speaker 5: Of yourself You're saying this new CBA is happening, like.

1250
00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:40,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, in the next ten day, come to an agreement. Now,

1251
00:56:40,920 --> 00:56:43,560
Speaker 4: the new rules don't pertain to this season and the

1252
00:56:43,640 --> 00:56:45,960
Speaker 4: voters this season. But if the voters get their card

1253
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:50,960
Speaker 4: and they say I gotta give it to Lillard, I

1254
00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:51,359
Speaker 4: don't think.

1255
00:56:51,239 --> 00:56:53,640
Speaker 5: He's gonna get enough votes. I don't think he's going

1256
00:56:53,680 --> 00:56:55,560
Speaker 5: to be on an All NBA team.

1257
00:56:55,680 --> 00:56:56,960
Speaker 4: Who's on your ballots?

1258
00:56:57,880 --> 00:57:02,720
Speaker 5: I went through, I mean in no particular order, Luca,

1259
00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 5: what's your balance? You could push back and say, well,

1260
00:57:05,680 --> 00:57:07,200
Speaker 5: if the MAVs are not in the play, and then

1261
00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:10,279
Speaker 5: isn't that the same sort of scenario here? Yeah, you

1262
00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:12,200
Speaker 5: could say that. I guess I'm thinking they will be

1263
00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:16,280
Speaker 5: in the play, and so I'll go in no particular order, Luca, Fox,

1264
00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:21,320
Speaker 5: Mitchell Sga. Those four to me are all NBA guards.

1265
00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:23,120
Speaker 5: I have Jalen Brown as a guard I think he

1266
00:57:23,160 --> 00:57:24,960
Speaker 5: plays forty percent of his minutes as a guard and

1267
00:57:25,280 --> 00:57:26,880
Speaker 5: sixty percent is a small forward. So if you want

1268
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:29,240
Speaker 5: to play a small forward, I get it. And then

1269
00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:32,800
Speaker 5: it just leaves one spot and it's like it's it's

1270
00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:35,640
Speaker 5: the curry. Enough games played and then John Moran of

1271
00:57:35,720 --> 00:57:38,640
Speaker 5: it all like he's going to have played more games.

1272
00:57:38,760 --> 00:57:40,600
Speaker 5: But he does have this weird thing where he left

1273
00:57:40,600 --> 00:57:44,760
Speaker 5: for nine games because of his stupidity. But they're still good.

1274
00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:47,880
Speaker 5: So I guess it's between one of those two. I'm

1275
00:57:47,920 --> 00:57:49,520
Speaker 5: torn on that. One's a good card and so maybe

1276
00:57:49,560 --> 00:57:51,960
Speaker 5: it's maybe it's smarter to put Jalen Brown too small

1277
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:54,480
Speaker 5: forward where there's more, you know, you can make a

1278
00:57:54,520 --> 00:57:56,080
Speaker 5: case a lot easier for the forwards to put him

1279
00:57:56,080 --> 00:57:59,880
Speaker 5: on one of the teams and then go Kourry and Jomeran. No,

1280
00:58:00,520 --> 00:58:03,240
Speaker 5: I don't think so, man. You just he just went

1281
00:58:03,440 --> 00:58:04,640
Speaker 5: like they weren't winning with him.

1282
00:58:04,760 --> 00:58:06,840
Speaker 2: That's the other They weren't winning with him, that's the problem.

1283
00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:11,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I loved him, but that's tough, man, It's tough.

1284
00:58:11,120 --> 00:58:13,720
Speaker 2: Jalen Brown's gonna get bumped up. I think I think

1285
00:58:13,760 --> 00:58:15,160
Speaker 2: he's gonna get bumped up to forward.

1286
00:58:15,560 --> 00:58:19,200
Speaker 1: Yes, not the forward crop this season isn't the forward

1287
00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:21,520
Speaker 1: crop that we're accustomed to. The guard crop is the

1288
00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:23,800
Speaker 1: new forward crops. So they're going to make way. Got

1289
00:58:23,800 --> 00:58:26,240
Speaker 1: to clear your crops and roast, that's true. How to

1290
00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:27,760
Speaker 1: rotate your crops so they grow better.

1291
00:58:27,800 --> 00:58:30,560
Speaker 5: All farmers say, yeah, all right, Look, we'll be talking

1292
00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:32,480
Speaker 5: about all NBA teams over the coming weeks.

1293
00:58:32,480 --> 00:58:32,600
Speaker 2: Here.

1294
00:58:32,680 --> 00:58:34,680
Speaker 5: I'm sure, let's take our final break when we come back,

1295
00:58:34,680 --> 00:58:38,160
Speaker 5: pick the results and tweeter the night. All right, back

1296
00:58:38,160 --> 00:58:42,080
Speaker 5: in the Classic Factory, pick them results. Friday Night Raptors,

1297
00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:44,120
Speaker 5: they were the favorites by twelve and a half points

1298
00:58:44,120 --> 00:58:47,600
Speaker 5: at home to the Pistons and myself in Task because

1299
00:58:47,600 --> 00:58:50,360
Speaker 5: we're Raptors Homers, we had to take them and they

1300
00:58:50,400 --> 00:58:55,280
Speaker 5: finally blew out Casey's Pistons dominant victory there on Friday Night.

1301
00:58:55,360 --> 00:58:57,040
Speaker 5: So that's a win for me. In Task, I'm nine

1302
00:58:57,080 --> 00:58:59,720
Speaker 5: to nine, tast six and twelve. Trey forced to swerve,

1303
00:59:00,400 --> 00:59:03,280
Speaker 5: took the Pistones and took the You're ten and eight,

1304
00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:05,880
Speaker 5: So you and I are tight here in the month

1305
00:59:05,920 --> 00:59:08,400
Speaker 5: of March Tasks. Where are we going, man?

1306
00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:13,440
Speaker 4: We're going to a big one Skeets MVP battle. Yo,

1307
00:59:13,640 --> 00:59:17,600
Speaker 4: kitch em Bead tonight in Denver, not gets favored by

1308
00:59:17,640 --> 00:59:18,440
Speaker 4: five and a half points.

1309
00:59:18,920 --> 00:59:19,640
Speaker 5: That's a big line.

1310
00:59:19,840 --> 00:59:23,840
Speaker 4: It's a big line. I'm guessing Yokic continues this run

1311
00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:27,160
Speaker 4: of beating other MVP candidates. Beat Giannis on Saturday, so

1312
00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:29,480
Speaker 4: I think they'll cover. But who the heck knows. You

1313
00:59:29,520 --> 00:59:32,960
Speaker 4: guys have the sixers and they're plus five point five

1314
00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:36,160
Speaker 4: points this evening again, we will be on playback. Join us.

1315
00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:39,360
Speaker 4: It's free, it's fun. We'll be watching this game tonight.

1316
00:59:39,520 --> 00:59:41,760
Speaker 5: Awesome. Looking forward to that. All right, let's get to

1317
00:59:41,760 --> 00:59:42,360
Speaker 5: tweeted the Night.

1318
00:59:44,680 --> 00:59:50,120
Speaker 4: Tweet out the Night. Wow. Tweet the Night.

1319
00:59:50,120 --> 00:59:55,480
Speaker 5: Comes from at Captain Underscore Underscore Jazz, who tweeted In

1320
00:59:55,960 --> 00:59:59,560
Speaker 5: King's mascot Slamson using his birthday as an excuse to

1321
00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:03,160
Speaker 5: convert his friends to the religion of the Beam. No

1322
01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:05,840
Speaker 5: Dunks need you all to react to this one. We're

1323
01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:08,560
Speaker 5: showing the video to everybody on YouTube. There's a bunch

1324
01:00:08,560 --> 01:00:13,160
Speaker 5: of mascots in town to celebrate Slamson's birthday, and he

1325
01:00:13,400 --> 01:00:19,480
Speaker 5: is converting them into the religion of the Beam. He

1326
01:00:19,600 --> 01:00:22,760
Speaker 5: is holding the lightsaber the Beam there if you will,

1327
01:00:22,840 --> 01:00:25,400
Speaker 5: He's got the robot and they are now on their

1328
01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:30,160
Speaker 5: knees and not worthy. They're bowing to their master, Slamson

1329
01:00:30,760 --> 01:00:33,840
Speaker 5: and the beam itself. So we had to react. What

1330
01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:39,000
Speaker 5: do you think it's not a bad bit. Got nice

1331
01:00:39,040 --> 01:00:42,120
Speaker 5: to see some got the decent showing for his birthday.

1332
01:00:42,120 --> 01:00:45,200
Speaker 5: I would say, having what I count like something like

1333
01:00:45,240 --> 01:00:46,800
Speaker 5: four or five other NBA mascots.

1334
01:00:47,360 --> 01:00:50,000
Speaker 1: We got Benny, you got the Coyote, we got Franklin,

1335
01:00:50,560 --> 01:00:51,880
Speaker 1: and got Blaze.

1336
01:00:52,680 --> 01:00:55,080
Speaker 2: I don't know what the King's G League mascot is.

1337
01:00:55,160 --> 01:00:57,480
Speaker 2: It appears to be a smaller lion.

1338
01:01:00,200 --> 01:01:02,760
Speaker 5: And what's that they got the end of minor league baseball.

1339
01:01:02,760 --> 01:01:07,800
Speaker 1: Duncsan, Slamson and Dunksan. I like that Dinger. I like

1340
01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:10,400
Speaker 1: that Dinger. Dinger's in you don't care.

1341
01:01:10,600 --> 01:01:12,440
Speaker 5: Do you think Blaze is there? Because they got the

1342
01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:15,080
Speaker 5: sasquatch now and he's like.

1343
01:01:17,200 --> 01:01:20,800
Speaker 1: Yeah and a little controversial including Western Conference mass.

1344
01:01:20,560 --> 01:01:23,640
Speaker 5: I agree with that. Bowing to the beam, well, I

1345
01:01:23,640 --> 01:01:26,080
Speaker 5: guess the spurs out of it.

1346
01:01:25,840 --> 01:01:26,920
Speaker 2: That's another point.

1347
01:01:27,640 --> 01:01:30,520
Speaker 1: Probably unlikely that the Sixers and Bulls meet the Kings

1348
01:01:30,560 --> 01:01:31,440
Speaker 1: in the finals, but.

1349
01:01:32,120 --> 01:01:32,760
Speaker 2: It could happen.

1350
01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:35,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, do you think they'll do anything special with the

1351
01:01:35,800 --> 01:01:37,919
Speaker 5: beam on top of the Golden One Center. Tonight, if

1352
01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:41,600
Speaker 5: the Kings win and they lock in their first playoff

1353
01:01:41,600 --> 01:01:44,840
Speaker 5: appearance in sixteen seasons, he does. I don't know. Is

1354
01:01:44,880 --> 01:01:47,480
Speaker 5: it brighter, larger, more beams?

1355
01:01:47,960 --> 01:01:51,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, finally sucks in another life form. Something happens up there.

1356
01:01:51,920 --> 01:01:53,000
Speaker 5: I'm excited to find out.

1357
01:01:53,120 --> 01:01:57,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, what they do they got I don't know. I

1358
01:01:57,320 --> 01:01:58,840
Speaker 4: think it has any more capability.

1359
01:01:59,320 --> 01:02:01,760
Speaker 5: But they didn't make get stronger, remember, yeah, right at

1360
01:02:01,760 --> 01:02:02,200
Speaker 5: the beginning.

1361
01:02:02,440 --> 01:02:03,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, it sucks.

1362
01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:06,360
Speaker 5: Juice it up. Hey, look it's working.

1363
01:02:06,440 --> 01:02:08,920
Speaker 4: You know what often sucks is when the mascots get together.

1364
01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:10,880
Speaker 4: Usually it's All Star weekend. You see them all together,

1365
01:02:11,200 --> 01:02:13,680
Speaker 4: Nothing really happens. They're all kind of doing their own thing,

1366
01:02:13,880 --> 01:02:16,600
Speaker 4: like they don't do anything in uniform, right, there's no

1367
01:02:17,240 --> 01:02:18,440
Speaker 4: coordinated No.

1368
01:02:18,560 --> 01:02:22,560
Speaker 5: They should be building a pyramid, right together, a human pyramid,

1369
01:02:22,600 --> 01:02:26,520
Speaker 5: like we talk about mascot a mascot pyramid. Yeah, okay,

1370
01:02:26,560 --> 01:02:28,280
Speaker 5: there's a question if you were to build a pyramid,

1371
01:02:28,280 --> 01:02:31,480
Speaker 5: who would be your four mascots on the base clutch

1372
01:02:31,560 --> 01:02:34,080
Speaker 5: the bear probably from the rockets. He's a tubby guy.

1373
01:02:34,200 --> 01:02:38,760
Speaker 1: I'm a little worried though about his round posterior. Would

1374
01:02:38,760 --> 01:02:39,600
Speaker 1: you slide off it?

1375
01:02:40,440 --> 01:02:42,120
Speaker 5: You're getting on top.

1376
01:02:42,640 --> 01:02:45,280
Speaker 2: I would be a little worried, but I'm with you.

1377
01:02:45,360 --> 01:02:47,880
Speaker 2: Like the big bottom boys, who are.

1378
01:02:47,720 --> 01:02:49,520
Speaker 5: The four strongest mascots?

1379
01:02:52,520 --> 01:02:55,560
Speaker 1: Four strongest, I mean Sasquatch. You would think it's strong. Yeah, yeah,

1380
01:02:55,840 --> 01:02:57,160
Speaker 1: maybe too tall though.

1381
01:02:57,240 --> 01:02:57,880
Speaker 5: What was his name?

1382
01:02:57,920 --> 01:02:59,080
Speaker 2: What was the Sasquatch's name?

1383
01:02:59,600 --> 01:03:06,080
Speaker 5: Doug for Douglas, Yeah right, and then okay, maybe we

1384
01:03:06,240 --> 01:03:09,080
Speaker 5: uh strongest mask, have Douglas for on one side, have

1385
01:03:09,320 --> 01:03:11,160
Speaker 5: the Bison, the thunder guy.

1386
01:03:12,400 --> 01:03:15,120
Speaker 1: That's a strong mask, a strong guy. Have him on

1387
01:03:15,160 --> 01:03:17,479
Speaker 1: the have them on the corners, and then fill build

1388
01:03:17,520 --> 01:03:18,000
Speaker 1: up from there.

1389
01:03:18,360 --> 01:03:21,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, but anyway you want more, No, I'm saying as

1390
01:03:21,080 --> 01:03:24,160
Speaker 4: far as the coordination goes that, there is usually no

1391
01:03:24,280 --> 01:03:28,200
Speaker 4: coordination for bringing them together.

1392
01:03:29,600 --> 01:03:34,040
Speaker 5: They just got to look at each other, do this,

1393
01:03:34,160 --> 01:03:35,120
Speaker 5: I will do this.

1394
01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:38,280
Speaker 4: I think Coyote might be the top of the pyramid

1395
01:03:38,320 --> 01:03:42,320
Speaker 4: because he'd get up there. He would just be able

1396
01:03:42,400 --> 01:03:47,680
Speaker 4: to screwed on up, okay without any problems. But it's hard.

1397
01:03:48,080 --> 01:03:50,520
Speaker 5: Some of these mascots have tiny versions of them. Do

1398
01:03:50,600 --> 01:03:51,000
Speaker 5: they count?

1399
01:03:51,080 --> 01:03:51,160
Speaker 4: Like?

1400
01:03:51,200 --> 01:03:53,360
Speaker 5: Can we send up the tiny Raptor or the tiny

1401
01:03:53,920 --> 01:03:55,160
Speaker 5: doesn't Benny have a little.

1402
01:03:55,000 --> 01:03:57,200
Speaker 2: Uh, little Benny boy, little Betty boy.

1403
01:03:57,720 --> 01:04:01,080
Speaker 5: I believe I saw that episode where he gave I

1404
01:04:01,120 --> 01:04:01,920
Speaker 5: found out it was his.

1405
01:04:04,440 --> 01:04:05,520
Speaker 2: It was an episode.

1406
01:04:06,120 --> 01:04:08,680
Speaker 1: I'm actually with you Skates now I'm thinking like, okay,

1407
01:04:08,720 --> 01:04:13,640
Speaker 1: we got a clutch clutch bear Bernie. Yeah, oh Bernie,

1408
01:04:13,680 --> 01:04:16,120
Speaker 1: that's a big booty boy as well. For that's what

1409
01:04:16,280 --> 01:04:18,320
Speaker 1: you want in the bottom, I think all stuff the

1410
01:04:18,360 --> 01:04:20,600
Speaker 1: magic Dragon yep, yep.

1411
01:04:20,840 --> 01:04:23,000
Speaker 5: So that's four beause there's solid basis.

1412
01:04:23,360 --> 01:04:25,560
Speaker 2: For Hugo the Hornet.

1413
01:04:25,560 --> 01:04:28,040
Speaker 1: I guess a little bit rounder, so it might might

1414
01:04:28,080 --> 01:04:31,720
Speaker 1: throw off your you go to me's a second or

1415
01:04:31,760 --> 01:04:34,560
Speaker 1: third level? Okay, fly up there?

1416
01:04:34,640 --> 01:04:36,840
Speaker 4: Wow, you got four levels on this pyramid.

1417
01:04:37,320 --> 01:04:38,600
Speaker 5: Classic four four three.

1418
01:04:39,680 --> 01:04:42,360
Speaker 2: You know it's a bowling pin set up.

1419
01:04:44,120 --> 01:04:46,520
Speaker 5: We were talking on a recent episode of Is this good?

1420
01:04:46,640 --> 01:04:50,240
Speaker 5: That the human pyramid what we're talking about. Yes, you

1421
01:04:50,280 --> 01:04:53,120
Speaker 5: don't see it as much anymore. When I was a kid,

1422
01:04:53,680 --> 01:04:58,040
Speaker 5: family get togethers, that was the thing. I'm telling you

1423
01:04:58,240 --> 01:05:02,400
Speaker 5: all the cousins, all the I got photos man of

1424
01:05:02,560 --> 01:05:06,960
Speaker 5: multiple human pyramids being made at different birthday parties and

1425
01:05:07,040 --> 01:05:14,240
Speaker 5: anniversaries like backyard get togethers. It's a great photo, that's

1426
01:05:14,280 --> 01:05:17,040
Speaker 5: the thing. Yeah, I mean an iconic photo.

1427
01:05:17,160 --> 01:05:20,680
Speaker 1: Remember when awkward family photos was like killing it on

1428
01:05:20,720 --> 01:05:23,880
Speaker 1: the internet, they would definitely have some family pyramids.

1429
01:05:23,880 --> 01:05:24,680
Speaker 2: So I agree with you.

1430
01:05:25,000 --> 01:05:26,640
Speaker 1: I can see it being a thing for you back

1431
01:05:26,640 --> 01:05:29,760
Speaker 1: in the day where these more of a lay down

1432
01:05:29,840 --> 01:05:32,960
Speaker 1: pyramids or kneeling squatting.

1433
01:05:32,560 --> 01:05:37,240
Speaker 5: Period classics, classic squatting on fours and like can they

1434
01:05:37,240 --> 01:05:40,160
Speaker 5: hold as the weight gets up? And they hold and

1435
01:05:40,200 --> 01:05:42,840
Speaker 5: then you know the younger the younger kids, the younger cousins,

1436
01:05:42,880 --> 01:05:45,560
Speaker 5: like they're the ones scramble until the top. That was

1437
01:05:45,600 --> 01:05:49,200
Speaker 5: me the great photos, I'm telling you, especially when they

1438
01:05:49,240 --> 01:05:52,040
Speaker 5: fall apart. What a moment. What a moment. But I

1439
01:05:52,080 --> 01:05:54,240
Speaker 5: have a theory, like people started suing each other within

1440
01:05:54,280 --> 01:05:59,439
Speaker 5: the family back so you crushed my head. I can't

1441
01:05:59,480 --> 01:06:00,120
Speaker 5: do it anymore.

1442
01:06:01,040 --> 01:06:03,760
Speaker 1: You can't do it anymore. They made that movie The

1443
01:06:03,800 --> 01:06:10,720
Speaker 1: Descendants about that. Oh yeah, yes, George, George Clooney. That

1444
01:06:10,840 --> 01:06:13,800
Speaker 1: wasn't about that. It was about property in Hawaii, but

1445
01:06:13,880 --> 01:06:17,680
Speaker 1: I don't know. We were talking about lawsuits between family members.

1446
01:06:17,680 --> 01:06:19,160
Speaker 5: Well I was going to throw this out there, but

1447
01:06:19,200 --> 01:06:21,880
Speaker 5: then we would be sued after someone would inevitably get hurt.

1448
01:06:22,600 --> 01:06:26,160
Speaker 5: Build a human pyramid at our live show. Wow, okay,

1449
01:06:26,160 --> 01:06:28,560
Speaker 5: bring some people up on stage. You see where Kelly

1450
01:06:28,600 --> 01:06:31,240
Speaker 5: wants to be in the in the pyramid, Jerome.

1451
01:06:31,440 --> 01:06:34,360
Speaker 2: Ash, Well, I'll volunteer myself as a bass. Okay, I'm

1452
01:06:34,400 --> 01:06:35,160
Speaker 2: a natural bass.

1453
01:06:36,920 --> 01:06:39,600
Speaker 1: Oh you know, I tried to have Scooby balance on

1454
01:06:39,640 --> 01:06:40,640
Speaker 1: my back once.

1455
01:06:40,480 --> 01:06:41,120
Speaker 5: Upon a time.

1456
01:06:41,480 --> 01:06:44,560
Speaker 2: Couldn't get a chihuahua. I'm gonna try a human. I'm

1457
01:06:44,600 --> 01:06:46,560
Speaker 2: not so sure that's a good point.

1458
01:06:46,600 --> 01:06:48,959
Speaker 5: Just because you're a bigger guy doesn't mean you've got

1459
01:06:48,960 --> 01:06:52,960
Speaker 5: the qualities of a strong base man. Be a flat

1460
01:06:53,000 --> 01:06:56,520
Speaker 5: bat hurts me in my heart right here, macor it

1461
01:06:56,600 --> 01:07:00,480
Speaker 5: ain't strong enough to support a chihuahwah. Oh, speaking of bodies,

1462
01:07:00,520 --> 01:07:03,600
Speaker 5: I saw you got a Theorra gun. Yeah, buddy, I

1463
01:07:03,600 --> 01:07:04,920
Speaker 5: got a fair gun. Awesome.

1464
01:07:05,440 --> 01:07:10,520
Speaker 1: Friday cramped up, yep, Friday ordered a gun. Got it yesterday.

1465
01:07:11,240 --> 01:07:13,680
Speaker 1: Gunned for an hour straight, just on my legs. I

1466
01:07:13,720 --> 01:07:16,160
Speaker 1: tried every attachment except for the one that's like a

1467
01:07:16,160 --> 01:07:17,120
Speaker 1: little prong JD.

1468
01:07:17,920 --> 01:07:19,760
Speaker 2: I don't know about that one. What soo weird?

1469
01:07:20,560 --> 01:07:24,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, a vibrating pitchfork sounds like something you'd see in hell.

1470
01:07:25,480 --> 01:07:26,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.

1471
01:07:26,880 --> 01:07:30,880
Speaker 5: So A were you doing it all over? Yeah? I

1472
01:07:30,920 --> 01:07:31,400
Speaker 5: mean good.

1473
01:07:31,480 --> 01:07:31,640
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1474
01:07:31,680 --> 01:07:33,720
Speaker 1: I was doing I was doing hands, I was doing quads,

1475
01:07:33,760 --> 01:07:38,920
Speaker 1: I was doing cabs, I was doing ankles hands.

1476
01:07:39,320 --> 01:07:41,040
Speaker 2: I would I didn't. I didn't do that yet.

1477
01:07:41,200 --> 01:07:41,480
Speaker 4: I mean.

1478
01:07:41,840 --> 01:07:44,280
Speaker 1: The nice thing about a fair gun is you get

1479
01:07:44,880 --> 01:07:46,560
Speaker 1: you get a hand massage just.

1480
01:07:46,520 --> 01:07:49,840
Speaker 5: From holding it. Nice.

1481
01:07:49,880 --> 01:07:50,080
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1482
01:07:50,120 --> 01:07:52,000
Speaker 1: So a lot of people were saying, this has got

1483
01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:53,200
Speaker 1: to be an ad, this has got to be an

1484
01:07:53,240 --> 01:07:54,160
Speaker 1: ad for their gun.

1485
01:07:54,240 --> 01:07:56,880
Speaker 2: But hey, as you'll see here, knockoff thera gun.

1486
01:07:58,800 --> 01:08:01,080
Speaker 1: If anything, it was an add for me to get

1487
01:08:01,080 --> 01:08:03,120
Speaker 1: a fa As soon as I use it, I was like,

1488
01:08:03,200 --> 01:08:05,320
Speaker 1: I have to have this and it worked instantly.

1489
01:08:05,480 --> 01:08:07,480
Speaker 5: Yeah. Make sure you check out that YouTube short that

1490
01:08:08,200 --> 01:08:10,520
Speaker 5: we posted on Friday or on the weekend actually of

1491
01:08:11,200 --> 01:08:14,360
Speaker 5: Trey cramping up on Friday's Drop podcast. It's very serious.

1492
01:08:14,680 --> 01:08:18,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, went stretch for like two hours, just laid

1493
01:08:18,120 --> 01:08:19,240
Speaker 2: on the ground and for you.

1494
01:08:19,439 --> 01:08:21,519
Speaker 5: Yeah, but now you got now you got a their gun.

1495
01:08:21,560 --> 01:08:24,160
Speaker 2: Now I got a their gun. Back to running training

1496
01:08:24,160 --> 01:08:27,640
Speaker 2: for Boston, all right, see you there, Yeah you just

1497
01:08:27,680 --> 01:08:29,160
Speaker 2: you just you just join right Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, got a guy right around the corner.

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Speaker 4: That's the most pain someone's been in on this show,

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Speaker 4: I'd say, in the history of pain. Yea of anything.

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Speaker 5: He was in a you know what suit. Yeah, he

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Speaker 5: was really going through it.

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Speaker 4: Man, for sure didn't know if he was going to

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Speaker 4: make it through.

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Speaker 5: The most pain.

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Speaker 4: Yeah he got what he got his chest waxed and

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Speaker 4: you know, some temporary pain there. He ate some hot

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Speaker 4: hot peppers through eggs at once.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I got cut from eggs, but I was I

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Speaker 5: mean nothing, nothing like you were like, ah, you literally

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Speaker 5: stopped mid show and like we're screaming and trying to

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Speaker 5: stand up and stretch it out.

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Speaker 2: Now, I gotta keep my legs straight.

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Speaker 5: Careful, gets in your head, guys, let's call it there.

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Speaker 5: Join us tonight nine thirty pm Eastern on playback. It's

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Speaker 5: free to join up. You log in with whatever subscription

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Speaker 5: you have, and then we're all watching the exact same

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Speaker 5: screen at the exact same time. You can see our

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Speaker 5: little faces there in the bubble. You guys are like

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Speaker 5: commenting away as the game goes on. It's a lot

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Speaker 5: of fun. So there it is watch Party. Yeah, there's

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Speaker 5: our bubble faces right there. It's sort of what it's

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Speaker 5: like faces. You can drag them around even on the screen.

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Speaker 5: So that's nine point thirty. We'll start with sixers nougets

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Speaker 5: and jumping all around the NBA action and then there

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Speaker 5: it is the updated graphic live in Houston Monday, April third,

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Speaker 5: That is a week from today, Doors at five local time,

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Speaker 5: show at six, special guest Kelly Echo of the Athletic

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Speaker 5: we'll talk some rockets with and I'm sure some big

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Speaker 5: picture NBA topics as well, and then the NCAA Championship

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Speaker 5: game airing after our live show. Come hang out with

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Speaker 5: us if you're in the Houston area or you're coming

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Speaker 5: into town for the Final four weekend, we'd love to

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Speaker 5: see him. Otherwise, we will see it tonight on playback

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Speaker 5: or here tomorrow morning at ten a m. Eastern. Until then,

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Speaker 5: Clipper Brose, you heard it here first, have a great time,

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Speaker 5: turn up, love you guys awesome.

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Speaker 4: Thanks for joining us. And remember, making a pyramid at

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Speaker 4: a family reunion is the equivalent to me of like

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Speaker 4: being in college and just wrestling with guys in a

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Speaker 4: dorm room. It's the same sort of thing. It's just kia.

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Speaker 4: You can't wrestle a lot of human content. Yeah, let's

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Speaker 4: just get together make a pyramid embrace with eight people