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Speaker 1: by team breakdown with the Southwest Division with Spurs analyst

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Speaker 1: Tom Petrini on today's episode, I'm Miles.

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Speaker 2: Great and I'm Jack O'Brien and this.

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Speaker 2: Give it, Davis.

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Speaker 3: Look up, there's your dad driving spinning Curry a three punter.

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Speaker 1: What's again, guys, Welcome Tom Petrini, Spurs.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to episode seventy seven, which I believe is the

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Speaker 2: win over under from Vegas for the Los Angeles Lakers.

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Speaker 2: So seventy seven right now, that feels fair? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I felt we got short changed a little

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Speaker 4: Do what you can do, your Italian. I didn't realize

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Speaker 1: Oh hey, Bysano, great to see you, Michi Uh, it's

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Speaker 3: In the ancestral homeland. You know.

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Speaker 3: But uh, yeah, it was fantastic. It was fantastic, Tom,

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Speaker 3: Really quick, you grew up in Long Island, did you say?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So I grew up in New York, went to

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Speaker 2: Okay, I got to go see about a girl, am

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Speaker 4: It it took a while, but we got down here,

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Speaker 2: I feel like we should read your You provided a

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Speaker 2: here real quick. This is you, Tom Patriny. Haven't played

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Speaker 2: organized basketball since like kindergarten, but I've put a lot

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Speaker 2: I grew up in New York. In my early basketball

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so you got it like that?

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Speaker 4: I ran out of contact, so I have like the

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Speaker 4: I think he had that thing where like you hang

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Speaker 2: and talk about san Antonio's over?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's get into it angle. We're going to find

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Speaker 1: we found it. We're gonna talk about it's a normal

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Speaker 3: I know, I know, I know, Jack, it's normal sized.

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Speaker 3: It's very normal sized.

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Speaker 2: Normal. It was on Victor Webbing Yama.

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Speaker 3: That is true. That is true. Okay, we'll credit to him.

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Speaker 2: I wear it and suddenly it looks huge like a

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Speaker 4: He is going to the Tim Duncan school of being

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Speaker 2: Just got to sell your clothes out of hockey bags.

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Speaker 4: It's been twenty years, so I guess like baggy stuff

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Speaker 1: Or is he just going through Tim's like wardrobe and

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Speaker 2: Lot better dressed than Tim.

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Speaker 2: he has like five of the biggest Tivas that have

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Speaker 1: And the sixth one is hanging in Tiva headquarters just

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Speaker 3: This is the biggest Eva on earth.

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Speaker 2: All right, So Southwest Division, we got San Antonio, we

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Speaker 2: got Memphis. Folks. Don't we love them? Folks? I love them.

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Speaker 2: Let's kick off with San Antonio. Their their win total

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Speaker 2: last year was twenty two, they're expected to gain by

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Speaker 2: I would go I would go over on this one.

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Speaker 4: Somebody said, I forget who said this, but it stuck

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Speaker 2: Yeah that was probably me.

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Speaker 1: You European geography tweet that run here at Summer League

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Speaker 3: We're calling him Pythagoras.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's an entirely different subject of school, but.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, No, he the defensive impact is going to be

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Speaker 4: it's just different. You have to do different things entirely

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Speaker 4: I'm interested to see everything. Like there's there's no game

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Speaker 2: I don't care how the seven foot four guy who

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Speaker 4: Not a concern. I saw. Yeah, I think it's going

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Speaker 4: to be over I know, shocking. The guy who covers

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Speaker 4: the team is a little bullish, but last year I

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Speaker 4: know if they're going to get twenty one winsanz, how

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Speaker 3: How old are you going? Tom?

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Speaker 4: So it's it's set at what.

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Speaker 2: Twenty nine and a half?

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Speaker 4: I think they went thirty thirty four to thirty six games.

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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, So just just to shade under playoff contents

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Speaker 4: It, like they might make the playing game and like

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Speaker 4: they they might do well in that environment. I don't know,

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Speaker 4: like if they if they played a first round playoff series,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that would be fun, all right. So I

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Speaker 2: would have expected San Antonio having a generational number one

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Speaker 2: top of like predictions for most wins gained. However, they

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Speaker 2: sixty this year thirty one point five games. I'm slightly

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Speaker 2: confused by this, not that I don't think they're going

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Speaker 2: take the Fred van vliep Ah, I'm done trademark trade

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Speaker 2: mark And yeah I wrote that in the dock and

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Speaker 3: It's all chat GBT from here on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but what like does this surprise anyone else? I

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Speaker 2: guess Dylan Brooks also, you know, yeah, he can he

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Speaker 1: Mean specially if team added a Dylan Brooks right now,

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Speaker 1: because he looks he looks, I mean, he looks as

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Speaker 4: I guess Houston is tough for me because, like you know,

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Speaker 4: nice about him. But like their draft this year phenomenal, Like, yeah,

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Speaker 4: get that slid to like twenty five I've forgotten now,

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Speaker 5: The last few years, and I like the roster that

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Speaker 4: Know, you know part of why he's struggling is I'm

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Speaker 4: I don't know, I really think bringing in Emadoka is

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Speaker 2: A lot of time now that I mentioned it, I

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Speaker 4: If you know thirty two wins like that's that's kind

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Speaker 2: Spurs fans are mean. I thought they were nice.

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Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, they a while back. I was

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Speaker 4: Anthony Davis and Tim Duncan are like like Anthony Davis better.

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Speaker 4: that you you.

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Speaker 2: Know, like, well the grammar in that sentence was a mess. Yeah. Yeah, First,

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Speaker 4: Obviously, I feel like Rockets fans have like really leaned

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Speaker 2: Like gave a little fist pump.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, oh, you just pissed off an entire city. For

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Speaker 4: And that was before he knew he was coming to

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Speaker 4: He was just stoked to not be going on.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't even realize that. So it was Houston

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Speaker 4: It was Spurs, Portland and Charlotte.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's pretty that's pretty bad, man. It's really cruel.

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Speaker 4: cool place in Houston, Texas. But yeah, I think I

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00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:24,359
Speaker 4: think all of those games you know in Houston and

438
00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:26,240
Speaker 4: San Antonio fans are gonna get up. It's gonna be

439
00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:28,760
Speaker 4: fun to watch. I mean this whole division, Like we're

440
00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:30,880
Speaker 4: gonna go through the whole thing. But like, the young

441
00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:33,440
Speaker 4: talent in this division is really really cool.

442
00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:35,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a fun division.

443
00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:38,560
Speaker 4: Every every team has has young guys who are like

444
00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:43,520
Speaker 4: either already you know, stars in the league or like

445
00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:45,520
Speaker 4: look like they could be the future. So it's it's

446
00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:46,200
Speaker 4: fun to watch.

447
00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:49,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, every every team they have going up and wins

448
00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:54,160
Speaker 2: other than Memphis, who you know, Memphis is a real

449
00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:58,159
Speaker 2: question mark. They're going to be interesting, adding markets, smart

450
00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:03,160
Speaker 2: d Rose, recent Desmond Bane you know, and then job

451
00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:07,600
Speaker 2: being suspended. But I feel like they they have them losing,

452
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:12,080
Speaker 2: going from fifty one wins last year to forty five

453
00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:14,480
Speaker 2: and a half and five and a half back. I

454
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:17,439
Speaker 2: wouldn't be surprised if they if they're like somewhere between

455
00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:19,880
Speaker 2: those two. I don't think they're going to drop off

456
00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:25,399
Speaker 2: that much, but everybody else is up. The line goes up. Uh,

457
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:30,200
Speaker 2: we got nhlins going from forty two wins to forty

458
00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:30,879
Speaker 2: three and a half.

459
00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:36,159
Speaker 3: Not a huge leap, but an improvement. Nonetheless, It just

460
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:38,880
Speaker 3: I'm like, it's the health part.

461
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Speaker 1: I'm always just wondering, like they I just a Tray

462
00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:45,200
Speaker 1: Murphy the third he went down with a moniscus injury

463
00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:46,640
Speaker 1: like earlier this week, So.

464
00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:49,000
Speaker 3: You're I feel bad those fans. I bet, I'm sure

465
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:49,400
Speaker 3: are wondering.

466
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:53,919
Speaker 1: It's like, can we have one just moment in the

467
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:57,320
Speaker 1: sun where the health sun shines on this team? But

468
00:24:57,400 --> 00:24:59,480
Speaker 1: I feel like everyone's kind of gonna come into this

469
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:01,359
Speaker 1: season with something to prove too, So part of me

470
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:03,840
Speaker 1: does feel optimistic. But I don't know if that's also

471
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:07,360
Speaker 1: the sort of cycle of watching this team go into

472
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:10,440
Speaker 1: a new season, Like Zion looks good, he's looking good,

473
00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:15,080
Speaker 1: putting the Mountain dew down. We'll see what happens. But yeah,

474
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Speaker 1: I mean I'd love to see them actually, you know,

475
00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:20,320
Speaker 1: because we were pretty big on them last year going

476
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Speaker 1: into last season.

477
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 2: Yeah. Man, well they had a great year the year

478
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 2: before and then had Zion was healthy, liked a great

479
00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:32,320
Speaker 2: year without him, and then Zion was in quotes healthy

480
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:34,920
Speaker 2: but you know now now he's missed one hundred and

481
00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:37,399
Speaker 2: ninety four games over his career while playing in just

482
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:42,720
Speaker 2: one hundred and fourteen. So yeah, it's just New Orleans

483
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,639
Speaker 2: for me is always just like hope Spring's eternal. I

484
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,440
Speaker 2: want them to be healthy. I want to see what right,

485
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:50,800
Speaker 2: I want the whole league to be healthy. And they

486
00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:53,640
Speaker 2: in particular seem like one of the most fun teams

487
00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:59,000
Speaker 2: when they're healthy, so it would be cool. Zion seems

488
00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:02,560
Speaker 2: like he's physically and then Ingram has like a whole

489
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:04,359
Speaker 2: different look. He looks like a different person.

490
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 4: It seems like they could be anywhere from like thirty

491
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:11,359
Speaker 4: five to like fifty wins depending on health almost entirely,

492
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:15,920
Speaker 4: you know, but like, like again, what a fun young group,

493
00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:21,400
Speaker 4: Like yeah, like Ingram playing with a healthy, explosive Zion

494
00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:25,639
Speaker 4: is just like because Ingram was really coming into his

495
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:29,680
Speaker 4: own last year, I mean really really solid player and

496
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:33,080
Speaker 4: fun to watch and at that wing position, great size,

497
00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:39,360
Speaker 4: just incredible scoring ability, you know, and McCollum. Right, they've

498
00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:44,399
Speaker 4: got McCollum. Yeah, yeah, you know, they they're they're built

499
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:51,160
Speaker 4: for being a playoff team. And I think they can

500
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,200
Speaker 4: get there again provided they're healthy.

501
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, re signed Herb Jones, So there's there's a lot

502
00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:58,000
Speaker 2: of fun guys on that team.

503
00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:00,359
Speaker 3: And Zion's liking some really cool dragon Ball.

504
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 2: Memes too, a lot of dragon Ball memes.

505
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:06,119
Speaker 1: Yeah you liked this vegeta account about remembering who you

506
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:10,960
Speaker 1: were before dating or and you're like, okay, get focus.

507
00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:18,919
Speaker 2: Or Dallas is the big question mark for like, not

508
00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:23,360
Speaker 2: not regarding health, just like regarding how they fit together.

509
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 2: This is the same person who was asking that question

510
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 2: earlier about Houston, who's phone got blown up because it

511
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 2: was a dumb question because they don't know how words work.

512
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 2: The So they re signed Kyrie, acquired Grant Williams, signed

513
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:43,200
Speaker 2: Seth Curry, Derek Jones junior people. People are pretty impressed

514
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,639
Speaker 2: with what they did in the off season, but they

515
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,439
Speaker 2: should have been better than they were last year. And

516
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:52,800
Speaker 2: I don't have a full explanation for what happened. I asked,

517
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:56,560
Speaker 2: I said, Hey, what happened, but I haven't gotten the

518
00:27:56,640 --> 00:28:01,720
Speaker 2: good explanation for it. How are you guys feeling about

519
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:05,400
Speaker 2: the Dallas Mavericks And they're over under a they're expected

520
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 2: to go from thirty eight wins to forty five and

521
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 2: a half, which is a big jump.

522
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 3: And I don't know, I mean, can they do it

523
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 3: without Javelle McGee?

524
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,120
Speaker 2: That is the number one question on everyone had mind.

525
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,679
Speaker 1: That's that's a number one question on my mind. But

526
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:22,240
Speaker 1: I mean, I seven, are they going to be that

527
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:22,960
Speaker 1: much better?

528
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,440
Speaker 2: It's a lot to put on Grant Williams and Seth

529
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:29,680
Speaker 2: Curry and like you be one thing to be like, well,

530
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 2: Kyrie like needed some time to adapt and like they

531
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:35,879
Speaker 2: need to adjust to one another's games, but like it

532
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 2: felt like they were getting worse as the year was

533
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 2: going along. Is that Yeah, maybe I'm wrong about that,

534
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 2: but they just didn't like by the end of the season,

535
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 2: it seemed like, oh, this has not gone well. Those

536
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 2: two on the court together, Kyrie and Luca, even though

537
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:52,160
Speaker 2: they're both like so fun to watch and like some

538
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,239
Speaker 2: of the best shot makers of all time, it's like

539
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:59,479
Speaker 2: a confusing like it's confusing that they're not better. They

540
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 2: weren't better than they were when they were on the

541
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 2: court together.

542
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 4: It feels like a really like you know, make or

543
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 4: break year for Dallas as constructed, Like I mean, and

544
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 4: it feels like going into that you don't have a

545
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:20,960
Speaker 4: really good foundation in terms of understanding how those pieces fit, right.

546
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 4: I think I think, like you said, they made some

547
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:29,240
Speaker 4: good offseason moves. I like sort of the pieces they

548
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 4: brought in. But I'm also sitting here wondering, like, Okay,

549
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 4: so how is how is it going to work? Who?

550
00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:41,800
Speaker 4: You know? Because I see Mark Cuban talking about Kyrie

551
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 4: standing in the corner, I don't know how Kyrie feels

552
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 4: about that, you know, right, Yeah, it just it seems

553
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 4: I feel like if you went down the list of

554
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 4: players that you could have potentially paired with Luka Doncic,

555
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 4: Kyrie Irving would have been kind of low on the

556
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 4: list in terms of, you know, fit, What do you

557
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 4: need next to a guy like Doncic to not just

558
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:06,800
Speaker 4: win regular season games, but to make a deep run,

559
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 4: which is a goal when you have a player as

560
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 4: good as Luka Doncic. And I still don't really see

561
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 4: how Kyrie helps you achieve those goals. So it is

562
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:25,800
Speaker 4: kind of up in the air. I do think they're

563
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 4: going to win. I'd say, like over forty games, I

564
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 4: expect them to be around five hundred maybe a little better. Yeah,

565
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:39,880
Speaker 4: but it also could turn into a very messy situation there.

566
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 4: That one seems like the most volatile, you know, situation

567
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:46,200
Speaker 4: here in this division.

568
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, that one was totally volatile, totally interesting to see,

569
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 2: Like where this this really feels like make or break

570
00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 2: year for Luca, where it's like do we you know,

571
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 2: but what do we have here? Like I've seen, I've

572
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 2: seen comparison people being like, he's I think the general

573
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 2: consensus is he is MVP caliber every season. We should

574
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 2: expect him to be an MVP candidate this next year.

575
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 2: That's been the way it has been for the past

576
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 2: couple of years. I feel like there's also like a

577
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 2: quiet conversation happening in the back where people are like,

578
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 2: maybe he's like more of a Trey Young figure, like

579
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:33,600
Speaker 2: really great shot maker and you know, had some like

580
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 2: deep playoff runs, but overall, like we shouldn't have like

581
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 2: MVP level aspirations for him. I don't know about that.

582
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 2: I think everybody in the league basically would take Luke

583
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 2: over Trey Young. But I am starting to hear those

584
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 2: conversations for the first time in my life.

585
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 3: And repeating them out loud, yeah, and.

586
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 2: Then repeating them yeah, I'm saying they're not I'm not

587
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 2: saying that Dallas fans I don't tell other people are

588
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 2: saying that.

589
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 1: Don't put the Dallas mafia on me. Do you know

590
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:07,680
Speaker 1: who runs the Dallas twitter mafia? If you could put

591
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 1: a protective order over Jack.

592
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 4: I don't think they have one. Okay, Dallas seems fairly

593
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 4: tame to me.

594
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 2: Okay, Ruby, maybe.

595
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 4: There's a second tweeter.

596
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 2: All right, let's should we take another quick break? I

597
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 2: think we are, and come back and get some bold

598
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:32,560
Speaker 2: predictions and get into the fastest segment in podcasting.

599
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 3: Miles, Oh, yeah, we do all of that. I think

600
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 3: we'll do it all all.

601
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 2: Right, We'll be right back and we're back and we're

602
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 2: gonna get into Phoba like once the tournament's over. You know,

603
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:57,479
Speaker 2: it's been some great games. There's been the big shocking lass.

604
00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 2: According to headlines by the tam USA to Lithuania, it

605
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 2: was a game that did not matter, which I didn't

606
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 2: realize at the time when I was reading them headlines.

607
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 2: It was they knew they were coming out of their

608
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 2: Division one two, just a matter of who was coming

609
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 2: out first. And the US has since bounced back against Italy,

610
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 2: so they're they're looking good. They are in the final

611
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 2: four of FOBA. I did not know all of that

612
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:24,240
Speaker 2: based on the headline, so I wanted to do the

613
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:26,640
Speaker 2: service to people of letting them know.

614
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 3: Yeah.

615
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 1: I was also of that because I've been following so closely.

616
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, so we're out, No, no.

617
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 2: Bunch of gotcha bums.

618
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, you might need superstars.

619
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 4: Put some respect on Jones val Man. Yeah, Like he's

620
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 4: a great litmus test for like ball knowledge. If somebody

621
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 4: has a high opinion of Jones Valence's like value in

622
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:53,560
Speaker 4: today's like basketball game, Like you know, he does so

623
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 4: much at the center position that is like super duper valuable,

624
00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 4: just like pick and pop, pick and roll beast on

625
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 4: the boards, and he sets about like five hundred screens

626
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:07,400
Speaker 4: that are just made of granite every single game. Yeah,

627
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:09,600
Speaker 4: just absolute Like.

628
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 2: It looks like he hurts to play against.

629
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:18,800
Speaker 4: Yes, right, those have typically been the types of dudes

630
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 4: that give say trouble, right, So yeah, yeah, we'll.

631
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 3: See what happens.

632
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 2: Should we get into it my house, we're going bold?

633
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:27,879
Speaker 3: Are we going quick?

634
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:30,080
Speaker 2: Should we get the let's get the bold in the quick?

635
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 4: Wow?

636
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 3: Wow, changing the form. I like this, Okay, let's do

637
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:34,759
Speaker 3: what it takes.

638
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 4: With a little explanation or context.

639
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's our favorite.

640
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:39,719
Speaker 4: Cool all right.

641
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 1: Our latest segment called Wild Irresponsible Speculation with People Who

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643
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646
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653
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Speaker 1: keep this thing moving.

656
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:29,720
Speaker 2: Okay, what's happening.

657
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 4: I I'm very vibe spased, So if the conversation flows

658
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:35,880
Speaker 4: into a happy spot.

659
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 3: I hear you, I hear you.

660
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 4: And a people pleaser, it's going to be tough for

661
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 4: me to do that same.

662
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:42,239
Speaker 1: First of all, the amount of therapy that Jack and

663
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 1: I have gone through for trying to get over our

664
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Speaker 1: people pleasing.

665
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 3: I mean we could, we could heal the world. Okay,

666
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:48,799
Speaker 3: the amount of.

667
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 4: Our debrief after this and we can just you know,

668
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:54,200
Speaker 4: just work with each other. Yeah, do the hard work.

669
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:55,359
Speaker 3: This is what I'll say.

670
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:59,440
Speaker 1: Sometimes pleasing the people requires you to just be honest.

671
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:02,760
Speaker 4: Right, they're already doing it. Stop ask the questions.

672
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:06,280
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, you're right. Fine, here we go, Brian.

673
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 4: Start o'clock.

674
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 2: To Brian. So he wants to please everybody except Brian.

675
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:13,759
Speaker 1: He's played in a lot of bands, he's played a

676
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 1: lot of live shows. Sometimes he's hard of hearing, so

677
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:17,399
Speaker 1: I have to raise my voice. That's what that's It's

678
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 1: an anchor, Okay, because I'm because I like to he

679
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 1: raise my voice of people with hearing issues.

680
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 3: Uh, do you want to go.

681
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:25,840
Speaker 2: First or first? M that's a great question, myles. How

682
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 2: about you go first?

683
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 3: Thank you so much.

684
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Speaker 1: I will Tom. I have to ask you who's the

685
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:36,720
Speaker 1: best player you've ever witnessed in person? And what they do?

686
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 1: You know, like, what were they doing? That impression so much?

687
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,440
Speaker 1: And also who's the person you pay the most to

688
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 1: see in person if you haven't already.

689
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:49,960
Speaker 4: Hmm, I've seen Lebron in person and what do you do.

690
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 4: The thing about watching him that's crazy is you're watching

691
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:57,240
Speaker 4: him and you don't realize quite the impact he's having,

692
00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 4: just because it feels regular, like he makes he makes

693
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:08,759
Speaker 4: spectacular production feel almost you know, routine and expected, and

694
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:15,799
Speaker 4: within that also like these incredible plays and you know,

695
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 4: beautiful moments. But it's the kind of thing where you're like, oh, man,

696
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 4: he's been kind of quiet, and you look up at

697
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 4: the at the board and he's got thirty eight. You're like, damn,

698
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 4: all right, yeah, I guess it's not that quiet. I

699
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 4: really want to Like, I love watching Jokic play. Like

700
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 4: my view at the arena, you just see all of

701
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 4: the reads that he's making at the top of the

702
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:39,719
Speaker 4: key and sort of the lanes that he's looking at

703
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 4: and so so watching from that angle is is pretty incredible.

704
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 2: Lebron's my answer to just because you see you get

705
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:52,440
Speaker 2: a sense of speed and size. Like in person, he's

706
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 2: just wild, crazy crazy to see.

707
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:59,320
Speaker 4: Every NBA player the scale is crazy, but Lebron in particular.

708
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 2: Is, yeah, scale, I don't see it.

709
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,399
Speaker 3: I don't see then why do we lose to the Nuggets?

710
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:09,919
Speaker 2: Well because of those lanes? Baby ah ah, Tom you got,

711
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 2: you got to keep moving in.

712
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 4: I'm really sorry.

713
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 2: What is your absolute baldest prediction for the upcoming NBA season?

714
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:18,920
Speaker 3: Hrectly lose your credentials right now.

715
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:22,719
Speaker 4: I think, uh, Victor women yam a rookie All Star.

716
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:25,760
Speaker 2: Wow, that'd be a lot of fun.

717
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 4: Okay, it would be so fun even if it's just

718
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 4: fan vote, because the entire nation of France votes him.

719
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 4: In Georgia for Zaza Petulia, that's four million people. France

720
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:38,799
Speaker 4: has got like seventy million. Yeah, you know, and and

721
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 4: I do. I do think he's going to be like

722
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:44,839
Speaker 4: better than expected and fun and super impactful and get

723
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:46,360
Speaker 4: a lot of eyeballs. I think there's gonna be a

724
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:49,320
Speaker 4: lot of people who become fans of his game very quickly,

725
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 4: so you know, by by popularity contest or by merit.

726
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:55,479
Speaker 4: I think he I think he makes an All Star team.

727
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:58,400
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, Tom, which team is going to have the

728
00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 1: biggest increase in wins over last year?

729
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:02,880
Speaker 3: And maybe you could surprise us with the one. But

730
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 3: who is that team?

731
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 4: I love what the Orlando Magic are doing. I love

732
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 4: what the Oklahoma City Thunder are doing. I think adding

733
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 4: Chet to that team is going to be really quite something.

734
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:25,839
Speaker 2: Damn dropping firebars quite something? Yeah, hold on, next question,

735
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:32,320
Speaker 2: hold on now drop the quite something. Yeah, it's quite

736
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 2: quite quite good, quite good. If you could have any

737
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 2: players skill set for a day, who are you choosing

738
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 2: and what skill set are you taking from them?

739
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 4: This is so easy, and it's so like, it's so easy.

740
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 4: I feel like I'm breaking the rules. But it's Vince Carter.

741
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 2: Vince Carter dunking.

742
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 4: I'm thinking Vince Carter's jumping in dunking ability, and I'm

743
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,879
Speaker 4: going to like the rucker and I'm becoming an urban

744
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:58,839
Speaker 4: legend like Paul Bunyan, or like Will Chamberlain, like.

745
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:01,759
Speaker 1: Earl Manigolt get change off the top, being like, oh

746
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:03,239
Speaker 1: you want me to break that five for you?

747
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:05,640
Speaker 3: Bow switching took it off the top of the backboard.

748
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:08,839
Speaker 4: Right, I'm just spending the entire day until I tear

749
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:09,759
Speaker 4: every ligament in my.

750
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:15,760
Speaker 2: Knees being wheeled off. Now here's the thing we doing first?

751
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going I'm going elbow in the rim m.

752
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,360
Speaker 4: Interested that on an eight footer when I was young,

753
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:25,279
Speaker 4: and same I still have a scar. Yeah.

754
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 2: Now that feels like you're going to injure yourself, right,

755
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 2: away to that.

756
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:32,719
Speaker 1: Tendon by your bicep, like on the inside of your arm.

757
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:36,800
Speaker 1: I remember damaging it terribly doing that on a foot.

758
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:39,720
Speaker 3: Body weight off of it. Yeah.

759
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:42,000
Speaker 2: But here's the other thing, because L three sixties my

760
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:44,920
Speaker 2: answer in case anybody that's my favorite I think of

761
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 2: all time, or on France and it was I don't know,

762
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 2: there's something about it that really did it for me.

763
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:53,440
Speaker 1: But what if you could dunk like you were jumping

764
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:55,880
Speaker 1: over Wemby like how he did in that game against

765
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 1: France or who was how tall was that dude that

766
00:40:57,560 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 1: he dunked over?

767
00:40:58,440 --> 00:40:59,480
Speaker 3: Was like a seven footer, wasn't he?

768
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,880
Speaker 4: Yeah? I don't know if I would do it to

769
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:05,560
Speaker 4: Wemby because then I don't know if the relationship could

770
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:06,239
Speaker 4: recover from that.

771
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 5: Yeah.

772
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:08,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's a mad guy. He's a made guy.

773
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:09,879
Speaker 1: You don't go ahead there and respect you man.

774
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:11,080
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, well.

775
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 4: That's that's a good point. But I mean, I've listened

776
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:17,440
Speaker 4: to the show before and people always say Steph's shooting, right. Yeah,

777
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:21,920
Speaker 4: here's the thing theoretically, and I'm pretty close already. I

778
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:24,279
Speaker 4: could practice enough to be as good as Steph Curry

779
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:26,560
Speaker 4: is shooting, you know. Yeah, I could get there.

780
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.

781
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:30,520
Speaker 1: The guy was a scrub before he really drilled, drilled down,

782
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:31,800
Speaker 1: you know in high school and college.

783
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:33,160
Speaker 3: So I think you got something.

784
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:35,359
Speaker 4: And you know, if you have that skill for a day,

785
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 4: then what you shoot hot for a day? That definits

786
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:40,399
Speaker 4: a you know, twenty four hour fitness all the time,

787
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 4: right right, they know you you don't go go home

788
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:44,759
Speaker 4: and tell your family about it. But if a five

789
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:50,319
Speaker 4: ten Italian guy jumps over somebody and dunks it, that's

790
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:52,840
Speaker 4: something that people are talking about forever. You know, those

791
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:53,759
Speaker 4: highlights live on.

792
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:56,200
Speaker 1: But follow up though, because we've talked about this, is

793
00:41:56,360 --> 00:42:00,319
Speaker 1: could your body handle being able to jump high if

794
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 1: you had the same same fitness except you just had

795
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 1: that lift.

796
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 4: I just had crazy bounce.

797
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:08,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you like, yeah exactly, But coming down you're like.

798
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:11,959
Speaker 4: Ah, I would have to learn how to land, and

799
00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:15,760
Speaker 4: I like, you know people who jump that like Lonnie Walker.

800
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 4: I would show up early to Austin Spurs game just

801
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 4: to watch him in the layup lines jumping because he's

802
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:23,279
Speaker 4: like crazy athlete. But he would he would land so

803
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:26,239
Speaker 4: awkwardly and it was like dude, two feet you know,

804
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 4: soft be respond, get pack and you.

805
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:32,720
Speaker 3: Just yeah, work style.

806
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 4: I get it, So I don't know, but I would.

807
00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:38,719
Speaker 4: I would try. And if I flew too close to

808
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:41,239
Speaker 4: the sun and died, you know, if I if I die,

809
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 4: I die.

810
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:44,719
Speaker 2: Landing is an athletic thing in and of itself, you know,

811
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:48,440
Speaker 2: so maybe your athletic skills that allow you to jump

812
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:51,760
Speaker 2: that high and dunk so good.

813
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 1: Okay, we got to move on, Tom, and shame on

814
00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 1: you for not keeping this segment. You know, I won't

815
00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 1: forgive you with this with this question. That's a just

816
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:05,080
Speaker 1: just a nice easy underhander for you, ultimate peak, prime

817
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:09,440
Speaker 1: admirable And I said almost said admirable, prime admiral or

818
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:10,840
Speaker 1: prime ewing.

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00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:12,880
Speaker 3: For you? For you?

820
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 4: I mean, I've got to go David, because David Robinson

821
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:20,719
Speaker 4: that he's one of the nicest people you could ever

822
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:23,280
Speaker 4: hope to meet. But he also did something so petty

823
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:27,640
Speaker 4: and savage by scoring like seventy one points in the

824
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:30,280
Speaker 4: last game of the season to take the scoring title.

825
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:34,839
Speaker 4: That's the funniest thing I've ever seen. And there's no

826
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 4: footage of this game, like it's just like they had

827
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 4: no cameras. It's against the Clippers, it's in LA, and

828
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 4: they were like no cameras and he was like, give

829
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:47,279
Speaker 4: me the ball again and just.

830
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:50,680
Speaker 2: Crammed it anyone to see what happens here tonight.

831
00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:51,319
Speaker 5: Yeah.

832
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 4: I do have a lot of love for Patrick Ewing.

833
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 4: I actually met him on an airplane one time, and

834
00:43:57,239 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 4: you know, I was a fan and I was like,

835
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 4: excuse me, mister Ewing, have your autograph?

836
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:01,400
Speaker 2: Uh?

837
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 4: And he goes, sorry, kid, that's against my religion. And

838
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:07,760
Speaker 4: I'm like, whoa, I didn't know that. I'm so sorry,

839
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:09,520
Speaker 4: and he's like, I'm just messing with you. Give me

840
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:14,240
Speaker 4: that hearing story. He's a funny guy. But yeah, I'm taking.

841
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 4: I'm taking. I'm taking, David.

842
00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:18,759
Speaker 1: I love that canned response that like athletes have to

843
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:21,480
Speaker 1: mess with, like autograph seekers, Like there's that one and

844
00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:23,840
Speaker 1: another one where they just deny being the person that

845
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:24,920
Speaker 1: you've identified them to be.

846
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:27,360
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, Patrick Ewing, Like I'm not Patrick Ewing.

847
00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 2: Sorry, that's crazy. I get this all the time.

848
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:33,879
Speaker 4: I'm just a seven foot tall guy right now.

849
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:40,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's sweating so much. Yeah all right. And finally,

850
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 2: most importantly, Jack were Miles, I gotta.

851
00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:51,120
Speaker 4: Go with my persano, man, it's nothing against you. You

852
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:54,240
Speaker 4: got you got some some irish I'm assuming Jack O'Brien.

853
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 2: Oh, oh, you put that together yourself.

854
00:44:59,880 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 4: We part of my gene pool is also Irish, so

855
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:04,600
Speaker 4: I feel something can ship toward you as well.

856
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:05,919
Speaker 2: I appreciate it, man.

857
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:07,480
Speaker 4: But yeah, I gotta go with my person.

858
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:13,200
Speaker 2: That's cool, and I won't make Miles anymore insufferable. Now

859
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 2: that's back from Italy and Bragel constantly telling me about there.

860
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 1: You have it, folks, you know that's that's that was

861
00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:21,799
Speaker 1: that was just the word on the streets, as we say,

862
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:24,319
Speaker 1: or the alto Where did.

863
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:27,480
Speaker 4: You say your family was from? Miles? Yeah?

864
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 2: Making us up? Man, he's lying. I don't Tom, I

865
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 2: don't think so many a.

866
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 4: Pretty heel of the boot to me, you know, off

867
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:44,040
Speaker 4: the ends of the words, you know, it sounds almost

868
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 4: anything you know that's more Northern Italian.

869
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:50,600
Speaker 2: Wow, do you see?

870
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 4: Do you see gaul is cola? It's the same word.

871
00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 4: It's just butchered by the Southern Italians. And I love

872
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:01,799
Speaker 4: that about them. I got I got both, I got it.

873
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:03,440
Speaker 4: All of Italy isn't here.

874
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:04,399
Speaker 3: You got it all all? Well.

875
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 1: Look, I'm a jealous man and someone who's merely a

876
00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:11,359
Speaker 1: poser who loves who loves the boot, you know, I'm

877
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:13,399
Speaker 1: I'm the good kind of boot liquor, as it were.

878
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:21,200
Speaker 3: So much for joining us.

879
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:25,359
Speaker 2: Has anybody ever done like a like a travel show

880
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:29,279
Speaker 2: called boot Liquor and leisure and travel show called Lick

881
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 2: the Boot, Lick the Boot traveling all the way to

882
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:40,000
Speaker 2: the toe. Oh man, Well, Stanley Tucci free idea, Yeah,

883
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:40,239
Speaker 2: I get.

884
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 4: I gotta believe you guys can get me in trouble.

885
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:44,160
Speaker 3: They call me Stanley's Tucci Maine.

886
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:47,400
Speaker 1: Okay, Tom, where can people find you?

887
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:48,120
Speaker 3: Follow you?

888
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:50,719
Speaker 1: Uh and and support you in and read all your takes,

889
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 1: see all your takes, all things like that.

890
00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:55,279
Speaker 4: I am on Twitter at real Tom Patrini. A lot

891
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:57,600
Speaker 4: of fakes out there. Gotta people watch.

892
00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:01,799
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly the snakes out great man, Well, thank you

893
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:04,480
Speaker 2: so much for coming on. Yeah, Miles, where are you at?

894
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:08,440
Speaker 1: Find me at Miles of Gray and Jack where are

895
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:08,919
Speaker 1: you at?

896
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:14,279
Speaker 2: Oh me, Miles, I'm at Jack Underscore, O'Brien, the only

897
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:19,000
Speaker 2: thing get extreme. All right, that's gonna do it. We're

898
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:24,240
Speaker 2: back next week with more NBA and basketball action.

899
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:25,920
Speaker 3: Exactly. You heard it here.

900
00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:34,960
Speaker 2: Bye bye