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Speaker 2: our season preview series. Here a couple more questions to

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Speaker 2: Our first question in part five, surprise Eastern Conference playoff team.

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Speaker 2: We've talked about the Bucks and the Sixers being at

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Speaker 2: the top likely of the Eastern Conference, but I want

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Speaker 2: to surprise East playoff team. Who wants to get us started.

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Speaker 4: I'll get us started with the Atlanta Hawks. And it's

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Speaker 4: not just because we live here, although that's the prime

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Speaker 4: obviously really really bright in Atlanta, but quite often when

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Speaker 4: the future is bright, the president can be a little

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Speaker 4: dim because they're a little bit too young. Trey Young

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Speaker 4: Cam Reddish from Duke, which has got to be very exciting.

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Speaker 4: DeAndre Hunter, Kevin Herder. That's starting five. Let's say that

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Speaker 4: is really really sexy. But the reason why I believe

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Speaker 4: That pick and roll combo with Young and John Collins.

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Speaker 5: I yeah, they were talking themselves up as Stockton and Malone.

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Speaker 5: I was like, dream bigger guys. You guys are so

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Speaker 5: The dead isn't there right now, but it's easy to

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Speaker 6: John Collins has got the John Stockton short shorts too.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, dray Young's kam alone. But looking through the teams

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Speaker 5: but now everybody's on the Bulls. He slights him for

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Speaker 6: The Wizards, I mean the Wizards, as long as they

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Speaker 6: I think it has to be the Hawks in this case.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that wouldn't be necessarily a surprise. I went under

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Speaker 4: Pistons should be there as well. They could. It could

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Pistons, magic and the Heat should be in there,

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Speaker 2: But I think it's the Hawks. That's fair. But I

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Speaker 2: am going to go with the Baby Bulls, Trey, I'm in.

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Speaker 2: I'm in on the Bulls. I've talked them up a

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Speaker 2: ton here on our previous series. Well, you've always been

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Speaker 5: I'm like, yeah, let's go Bulls. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to repeat myself too much. You can

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Speaker 2: go check out the previous podcast here, the season preview podcast,

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Speaker 2: where we did talk a lot about the Bulls here

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Speaker 2: and there. But the main takeaway for them, it's sort

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Speaker 2: They just weren't three of their best guys, Zach Lavine, Marknnen,

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Speaker 2: you know, if they're healthy. They got what appears to

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Speaker 2: love that Kobe White is in there. I got a

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Speaker 2: point guard, he's got the hurky jerky style. He needs

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Speaker 2: a jack SLINKs like beef Jerky endorsement ASAF or something

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Speaker 2: like that. I think Towns had one. Give it to

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Speaker 2: Kobe White. He's the real hurky jerky. But I like

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Speaker 2: that that sneaky underrated offseason two where they signed Thaddeus Young.

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Speaker 2: You got a wizard there in Saturnski. There's something there

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Speaker 2: I am. I will admit now I'm starting to get

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Speaker 2: a little worried that everyone seems to be that there's

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Speaker 2: they could be good, but I'm leaning all into it

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Speaker 2: with you, Trey. They're gonna get into the playoffs and

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Speaker 2: would be a great first step. Obviously, the Hawks and

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Speaker 4: They could be people's number one team in the Eastern

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Speaker 4: Conference because there's just a lot of young likables.

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Speaker 5: Yeah right, that's right, the Likabules, the Lika Bulls. I

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Speaker 5: will tell you one thing that's got me feeling a

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Speaker 5: little hesitant. They put out a hype video. Apparently they

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Speaker 5: now have a championship belt for this this one on

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Speaker 5: one competition they have. Okay uh And at the very

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Speaker 5: first day of camp, Ryan Archie Diacino battled his way

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Speaker 5: to the finals, the lowest seed, taking on Zach Levine.

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Speaker 5: Zach comes out roasts him for a couple of baskets.

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Speaker 5: All the other Bulls are standing on the side of

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Speaker 5: Zach Levine. This guy's gonna win. And then Ryan Archie

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Speaker 5: Diacano starts gritting it out, hitting stops Hitton big shots,

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Speaker 5: takes home the championship belt. I'm thinking, man, this is incredible,

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Speaker 5: and then I'm thinking.

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Speaker 4: Wait, that's bad.

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Speaker 5: Ryan Archie Diakano is the third string point guard and

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Speaker 5: he just roasted our best player one on one with

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Speaker 5: every camera to see. Is this that message you want

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Speaker 5: to be sending the very first week of camp? Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Is everybody eats on the likables.

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Speaker 4: The likabules are. They're hot. They're so hot. Right now,

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Speaker 4: I think it seems like we've got a battle here,

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Speaker 4: Hawks v. Bulls.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a little two on two. Yeah, and ta

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Speaker 2: legal with the Hawks and Trey and I go with

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Speaker 2: the Balls.

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Speaker 3: I like it.

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Speaker 2: I like it. What a battle we've got between the

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Speaker 2: Hawks and Bulls. We got to go to that game

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Speaker 2: for sure and definitely play I'm back in time.

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Speaker 4: It's also funny because they could both make the playoffs,

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Speaker 4: and they also could both be like fourteen.

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Speaker 5: For sure, definitely.

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Speaker 4: But I'm buying the Hawks because I think they're going

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Speaker 4: to be dedicated to to defense, which is dumb to

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Speaker 4: say because Alex Lenz probably their starting center. That's not

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Speaker 4: a good sign.

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Speaker 5: Lockdown len Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Their best defensive player could be a rookie, right, That's tough.

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Speaker 2: That's a lot to ask for, But.

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Speaker 6: I think they've got a good coach who understands that

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Speaker 6: this is going to take time. That he's not trying

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Speaker 6: to rush the process, Lloyd Pierce. He knows that these

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Speaker 6: You know, Trey Young, especially this season, I'm interested to

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Speaker 6: see just how teams defend him, you know, because we

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Speaker 6: know he's got that in credible range, So teams are

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Speaker 6: probably gonna push him back further and further will you

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Speaker 6: be able to go inside and score? So that's on

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Speaker 6: one end of course that you know, defensively, things do

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Speaker 6: just take time. The guys need to get bigger and

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Speaker 6: better at it.

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Speaker 4: So and I think part a big part of defense

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Speaker 4: enough to do it. You know, That's that's a huge

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Speaker 4: part of it. And you know, I'm kind of high

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Speaker 4: on Trey Young because he's got a lot of swagger.

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Speaker 4: He's talking about a potential All Star campaign this season,

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Speaker 6: There is no no option for them this season to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're not even helped that the other team

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Speaker 5: And their players are under huge amounts of pressure. This

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Speaker 5: People have questions about Lebron. People obviously have questions about

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but aren't those two guys just walking on the

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Speaker 4: Those highs this year.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, definitely, any other teams I'll throw into Rockets.

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Speaker 4: He doesn't want to do that. We've already seen Gerald

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Speaker 4: which is really strange. And Mike Dantoni's last year of

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Speaker 5: And they traded so many picks to bring in Westbrook

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good one. I'm going to go with

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Speaker 2: They won sixty games last year. Yeah, they won their

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Speaker 2: to suddenly just keep being great. And again that Yiannis

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 2: He was basically saying it's disrespectful to his teammates to

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Speaker 2: and we're gonna see how that works out. Maybe it's

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Speaker 2: but maybe not. So there's pressure because that championship window

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Speaker 6: I think last season with Milwaukee, like all of a sudden,

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Speaker 4: So I think the adjustment is Jannis get better, get imperfect.

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Speaker 4: Jannis has never told the lay he's used to sell

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Speaker 6: Pretty funny that the Bucks have already been fine for

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Speaker 6: fair enough. Now you can't say that we're going to

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, John Horson, general managers, Yeah, that doesn't really

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Speaker 5: to him. He's like, uh, thirty four, you're.

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Speaker 2: In the best wall to build around him, though, I

431
00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:48,760
Speaker 2: truly believe is to prove to him again like a

432
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Speaker 2: back you know, a back to back season here of

433
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Speaker 2: of that sixty win mark of a team that should

434
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Speaker 2: you know, be in contention for a title. As long

435
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Speaker 2: as that keeps happening, I'm I totally buy what Jannis

436
00:18:58,960 --> 00:18:59,280
Speaker 2: is saying.

437
00:18:59,320 --> 00:18:59,679
Speaker 5: I get it.

438
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Speaker 2: It would it makes sense to stay there, for crying

439
00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:03,639
Speaker 2: out loud, if you really truly believe you could win

440
00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:05,760
Speaker 2: a title. And that's it does feel like that's what

441
00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:07,960
Speaker 2: that guy wants to do, so that's going to be

442
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Speaker 2: their best plan. But if they take a step back here,

443
00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:12,520
Speaker 2: like Lee was saying, and and and you know, it's

444
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Speaker 2: just it's not as smooth sailing as it was, then

445
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Speaker 2: you know, like the then you start thinking of like, well,

446
00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:19,840
Speaker 2: maybe that that team over there is a little bit

447
00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:21,760
Speaker 2: better for my chances to win a title. That's just

448
00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:24,439
Speaker 2: what happens with these guys. But yeah, again, hopefully he

449
00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:27,080
Speaker 2: does stay in Milwaukee for the long run. Trade Do

450
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Speaker 2: you have an answer for this one or are you

451
00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:30,879
Speaker 2: sort of going either a Rockets, Lakers or Bucks.

452
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Speaker 5: I'm with you, guys, though, I do think something Lead

453
00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:36,479
Speaker 5: touched on earlier this week was the Nets traded culture

454
00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:38,520
Speaker 5: first start them. How does that payoff? You gotta have

455
00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:40,359
Speaker 5: talent to win big in the NBA. The goal is

456
00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:42,400
Speaker 5: to win big in the NBA. So I think it's

457
00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:45,360
Speaker 5: the right move to lose your death, to lose the

458
00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:49,280
Speaker 5: homegrown flavor. I get a guess that was that made

459
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Speaker 5: everybody such big Nets fans last year. If you're going

460
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Speaker 5: to be one of the best teams in the league,

461
00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:57,520
Speaker 5: you can't necessarily just rely on rehabilitating guys. So you

462
00:19:57,520 --> 00:19:59,120
Speaker 5: got to bring in Kyrie Irving, You got to bring

463
00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:00,920
Speaker 5: Kevin Durant, even if you're going to miss a season,

464
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Speaker 5: but it will have an impact for sure. How how

465
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Speaker 5: strong is the culture in Brooklyn? Is Kenny Atkinson that

466
00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:09,240
Speaker 5: great of a coach that he's getting everybody to buy

467
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Speaker 5: in immediately like Eric Spolstro was eventually able to do

468
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Speaker 5: in Miami.

469
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Speaker 2: We will see, We will see, all right. Our next question, Oh,

470
00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:22,800
Speaker 2: this one's always fun. Who's the best player in the league.

471
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Speaker 2: We're not talking MVPs here, just straight up, in your opinion,

472
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Speaker 2: who is the best player in the league as we

473
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Speaker 2: either as we enter the twenty nineteen twenty season or

474
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Speaker 2: you know, by the end of it, if you want

475
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Speaker 2: to project that who will be the best player?

476
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Speaker 4: I think he got to set some criteria. Regular season

477
00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:40,480
Speaker 4: is important. I think when it comes to the best

478
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Speaker 4: player in the league, right sure, to me, Lebron is

479
00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:47,399
Speaker 4: you know one A or one B. If we're just

480
00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:49,760
Speaker 4: talking a playoff series and it's just one guy, then

481
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Speaker 4: he's a lot closer to the best player or the

482
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Speaker 4: best player. But because if we're talking with regular season,

483
00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:56,960
Speaker 4: we've seen he drops off a little bit on the

484
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Speaker 4: defensive end. He needs to chill out a bit, so

485
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Speaker 4: he drops off to me below the Kawhi and Yannis level. Okay,

486
00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:07,919
Speaker 4: right now, right now, that's I'd pick Kawhi because he

487
00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:10,520
Speaker 4: can carry a team offensively and defensively when he wants.

488
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Speaker 4: Because he missed twenty games, are you gonna have a

489
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Speaker 4: qualm about that, I'm fine with it. Because he can

490
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Speaker 4: play seventy games, he can carry a team on both ends,

491
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Speaker 4: and a little bit more skilled offensively than Yannis. So

492
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Speaker 4: I would go with him, and then in a playoff series,

493
00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:26,880
Speaker 4: it's a totally different scenario. But you're going and Kevin

494
00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:30,360
Speaker 4: Durant not being around eliminates him, so that that's.

495
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're taking Yeah, we're taking Katie out of the

496
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Speaker 2: equation here.

497
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Speaker 5: So you go, you go.

498
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Speaker 2: Kawhi won, Yannis two and then Lebron three. Yeah, with

499
00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:41,080
Speaker 2: your criteria, like you're saying, Okay, everybody.

500
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Speaker 4: The regular season matters agree or disagree with that.

501
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Speaker 5: I got Kawhi for sure. I think Lebron made his

502
00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:48,000
Speaker 5: case as being the best player in the league the

503
00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:51,440
Speaker 5: last five seasons on the strength of his playoff performances.

504
00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:53,359
Speaker 5: Everybody knows, like Tasa say, and he would take breaks

505
00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:55,600
Speaker 5: during the regular season. He took a two week break,

506
00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:58,080
Speaker 5: then performed in the playoffs. Everybody still considers him the

507
00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:00,000
Speaker 5: best player in the league. We just watched Kawhi Leonard

508
00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,800
Speaker 5: dominate the playoffs single I mean single handedly, but he

509
00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:04,880
Speaker 5: dragged the Raptors to a championship. If he's not there,

510
00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:06,959
Speaker 5: it's not a title. So to me, he is easily

511
00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:08,600
Speaker 5: the best player in the league, even if he doesn't

512
00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:11,280
Speaker 5: play close to eighty two games. If he's playing seven,

513
00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:13,919
Speaker 5: if he's performing and just being Kawhi the way that

514
00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:16,840
Speaker 5: we're expecting, I think he is the guy after that, though,

515
00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:18,680
Speaker 5: I'm still back to Lebron. I assume he's going to

516
00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:21,600
Speaker 5: be performing in the playoffs. I assume he'll make the playoffs,

517
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Speaker 5: and like we've been saying, he actually has a chance

518
00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:26,439
Speaker 5: to rest here. We've never seen Lebron coming off an

519
00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:29,159
Speaker 5: entire summer of rest. I imagine he's going to be energized,

520
00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:31,119
Speaker 5: especially to be playing with the guy like Anthony Davis

521
00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:32,800
Speaker 5: has never played with. He's going to show up big

522
00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:33,600
Speaker 5: time in the playoffs.

523
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Speaker 6: It's pretty funny to see what Kawhi did last season

524
00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:38,680
Speaker 6: where he basically just said I'm just not even playing

525
00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:40,720
Speaker 6: for these twenty games, and then he goes out and

526
00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:43,160
Speaker 6: wins a championship because he's setting himself up to really

527
00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:45,719
Speaker 6: be killed if the Raptor is Let's say when though

528
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Speaker 6: down one zero against the Magic, Let's say they lose

529
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Speaker 6: that series, and it'll be like, I mean, Kawhi just

530
00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:51,760
Speaker 6: didn't even want to play this season, you know, and

531
00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:54,199
Speaker 6: look what happened that the team couldn't get any continuity.

532
00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:56,560
Speaker 2: He said this before Lee it's because the Raptors had

533
00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:58,879
Speaker 2: a good record when he wasn't playing. Yeah, it would

534
00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,040
Speaker 2: have been a huge story. Oh for sure if the

535
00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:03,439
Speaker 2: Raptors were, you know, a five hundred or below five

536
00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:05,520
Speaker 2: hundred team in those games, Kawhi wasn't playing for the

537
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:07,360
Speaker 2: load management, but they weren't. They were awesome.

538
00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:09,840
Speaker 6: Yeah, and then and then and then if you look,

539
00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:11,879
Speaker 6: you know, further into the playoffs, that Game four in

540
00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:14,760
Speaker 6: Philadelphia was huge where he hit that big shot right

541
00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:16,240
Speaker 6: at the end of the game that kind of won

542
00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:18,080
Speaker 6: them that game. And then of course the game seven

543
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:20,880
Speaker 6: he hits that big shot against the Bucks. He looked

544
00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:23,000
Speaker 6: a little gas in those first two games, particularly in

545
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,639
Speaker 6: Game two when Milwaukee killed them, and then basically he

546
00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:28,080
Speaker 6: was the difference in that series by playing defense on

547
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Speaker 6: Yarnis and then even that even then, I still remember

548
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,879
Speaker 6: task saying on the show last season the Raptors won

549
00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:36,440
Speaker 6: their championship by beating the Bucks because nobody really thought

550
00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:37,720
Speaker 6: they were going to be able to go all the

551
00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:40,280
Speaker 6: way and knock off the Warriors, and they did. And

552
00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:43,640
Speaker 6: obviously it got great contributions from Marcus sol and Kyle

553
00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,320
Speaker 6: Lowry in s Yakam, but Kawhi was the difference. He

554
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:48,040
Speaker 6: was the difference at both ends of the floor. So

555
00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,600
Speaker 6: I agree, I'm the same I thinking about this question

556
00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:53,639
Speaker 6: I thought, is anyone not going to say Lebron because

557
00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:55,959
Speaker 6: it's still he still sort of has that you know,

558
00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,040
Speaker 6: that power and that draw that it's like you want

559
00:23:58,080 --> 00:23:59,600
Speaker 6: the ball in his hands at the end of the games.

560
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Speaker 6: But I think given his age and given the sort

561
00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:04,240
Speaker 6: of situation, and from what we saw from Kawhi last season,

562
00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:06,800
Speaker 6: I think Kawhi. I think Kawhi, I mentioned earlier in

563
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:08,400
Speaker 6: one of these shows, if he wants MVP, he could

564
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:10,639
Speaker 6: go out and win it. That's you know, That's what

565
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:11,920
Speaker 6: I think he can do. But I just don't think

566
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:14,040
Speaker 6: he wants to win to give a speech at the

567
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:17,800
Speaker 6: exactly as much as But he's also sacrificing Defensive Player

568
00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:19,479
Speaker 6: of the Year by not playing twenty games a year,

569
00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:22,639
Speaker 6: and we know he actually does value that award. So

570
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Speaker 6: I think Kawhi overall season championship, he goes out and

571
00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:28,280
Speaker 6: wins it, wins finals, MVP, it's hard to go past

572
00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:30,280
Speaker 6: him as the best player. If Yannis can do that

573
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:32,200
Speaker 6: this season, perhaps he overtakes him.

574
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Speaker 2: Right, how many how many games do you think Qui under

575
00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,960
Speaker 2: plays this season? Like, does he play more than sixty?

576
00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:40,600
Speaker 2: His play similar her to sixties? Does he do they

577
00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:41,879
Speaker 2: aim to play sort of more.

578
00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:44,280
Speaker 4: Plays over seventy. I think it goes over seventy for me.

579
00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:46,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he plays seventy spot on actually something

580
00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:47,840
Speaker 2: like that right around there.

581
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:51,399
Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought seventy one, I mean sixty seventy.

582
00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:53,040
Speaker 2: No, it feels like he's going I'm with you, he's

583
00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,960
Speaker 2: going to play more than last season. And why you're

584
00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:57,080
Speaker 2: removed from the jury.

585
00:24:57,240 --> 00:24:59,960
Speaker 6: You know that whatever he wants to plays is how many?

586
00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:00,480
Speaker 4: Yeah?

587
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:03,320
Speaker 6: Right, So if he's feeling good, maybe he does play

588
00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:05,639
Speaker 6: a few more. If he feels that he's gonna have

589
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 6: to play twenty odd games in the playoffs to get

590
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 6: to that eighty point mark, then maybe he doesn't only

591
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:12,399
Speaker 6: play sixty again. I mean, it worked for him last season.

592
00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:14,760
Speaker 6: Maybe he just thinks I'm gonna do that again.

593
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:18,200
Speaker 4: He probably has. Maybe it's up to twenty games already

594
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:22,200
Speaker 4: on the schedule circle because of how the previous week

595
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:23,159
Speaker 4: of games affects him.

596
00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 6: Right.

597
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,199
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's the science behind everything that they're doing, and

598
00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:28,639
Speaker 4: that's that's what happened to. How many you played last year?

599
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:30,680
Speaker 5: Sixty again, sixty sixty?

600
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Raptors were seventeen and five, aren't.

601
00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:33,320
Speaker 4: They without a team?

602
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:33,760
Speaker 2: Yeah?

603
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:34,600
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right.

604
00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:37,320
Speaker 2: And you know, Kui is only twenty eight. I'm gog

605
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:38,680
Speaker 2: with you. I'm agreeing with you guys, by the way,

606
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:41,800
Speaker 2: I do think until proven otherwise, he is right now

607
00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:44,640
Speaker 2: the best player in the league because when he's out there,

608
00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:49,040
Speaker 2: he's efficient on offense. He just gets whatever shot he

609
00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:51,879
Speaker 2: sort of wants and can knock it down with some

610
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:56,320
Speaker 2: pretty solid consistency. And then he he ish when needed.

611
00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:59,040
Speaker 2: He can be that lockdown defender. He can take out

612
00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:02,000
Speaker 2: some of the best players in the NBA or at

613
00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:05,480
Speaker 2: least at least neutralize them when he's given that task.

614
00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:08,480
Speaker 2: And he just never fouls. I mean, he never fouls

615
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:11,960
Speaker 2: these guys, which is a really underrated part of his defense,

616
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,119
Speaker 2: I think. So yeah, I'm agreeing with you guys here.

617
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:15,520
Speaker 2: I want to throw this at you because I've been

618
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:18,879
Speaker 2: thinking about it with Kawhi. If this guy wins a

619
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 2: third title and even a third finals MVP with his

620
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 2: third different team, where does he start landing on the

621
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 2: NBA's all time list, Like that is he goes flying

622
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:32,880
Speaker 2: up for sure, right like really really high, I think.

623
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:35,600
Speaker 6: And no one's won three from three different teams in

624
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:36,679
Speaker 6: the finals MVP.

625
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:40,639
Speaker 2: Not Finals MVP. No, And you know I can't like

626
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:42,359
Speaker 2: and sort of this goes hand in hand with this.

627
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,320
Speaker 2: The All Star Game heads to Cleveland, and I believe

628
00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, right, because we've got Chicago, then it's

629
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,040
Speaker 2: Indiana and then Cleveland twenty twenty two. It's back there.

630
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:52,359
Speaker 2: That's going to be I think the seventy fifth anniversary

631
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:56,679
Speaker 2: of the NBA. They did the fiftieth anniversary in Cleveland,

632
00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:58,280
Speaker 2: they did the top fifty players of all time. You

633
00:26:58,280 --> 00:26:59,840
Speaker 2: would assume we're going to get the top seventy five

634
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:04,200
Speaker 2: of all time, like we'll get like an updated lists

635
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:06,159
Speaker 2: or obviously adding twenty five players. I don't know how

636
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:08,560
Speaker 2: they're going to do it, but I was like, which

637
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,159
Speaker 2: if that happens, it's in Cleveland again. Halftime of the

638
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,960
Speaker 2: All Star Game they bring out all the legends and I.

639
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:17,160
Speaker 6: Was like legends, well, jacket right right.

640
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:19,919
Speaker 2: But I was like, who are going to be the

641
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 2: current players represented there? Like like will Kawhi be there?

642
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 2: You know, Lebron is a lock if he's still playing,

643
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 2: no doubt. Durant probably a lock if he's still playing,

644
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,600
Speaker 2: He's there, steph Is Westbrook and Harden. Like I was like,

645
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 2: how many how many current players in a couple of

646
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,720
Speaker 2: years if they're still going, are on that top seventy

647
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:43,880
Speaker 2: five of all time? And and where does Kawhi sort

648
00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:45,359
Speaker 2: of like, is Kawhia given?

649
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 5: I think yeah, yeah, I imagine there are going to

650
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:52,080
Speaker 5: be quite a few guys. Shaq was in the top

651
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:53,960
Speaker 5: fifty players of all time, right and he played I

652
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:57,439
Speaker 5: think seas at that point. Yeah, they definitely like to

653
00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 5: look to the future while while looking at the current league.

654
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:01,880
Speaker 5: So I would imagine they'll be there.

655
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they'll be hopefully we get that in twenty

656
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:07,320
Speaker 2: twenty two. But yeah, he's going If Kaui does this,

657
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 2: I mean especially I can't imagine if he becomes the

658
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,200
Speaker 2: Mercenary and and does it in back to back seasons,

659
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 2: you know, going from Toronto and then going to going

660
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:18,680
Speaker 2: to the Clippers and winning a title and probably winning

661
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:21,600
Speaker 2: finals MVP. That is, he's got to fly up the list.

662
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 2: I don't know where he falls. I'm not gonna Bill Simmonson.

663
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:25,399
Speaker 2: I'm not going to throw him at some crazy numbers.

664
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:27,080
Speaker 2: I just don't know right now, but man, is it

665
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 2: going to be high.

666
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,879
Speaker 4: Quick question? Is there a home court advantage in the

667
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 4: LA playoff series LA versus l A I mean, there's

668
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:38,080
Speaker 4: home playoff advantage diminished a little bit because you're playing

669
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:40,520
Speaker 4: in the exact same arena. Are you forced to change

670
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:42,719
Speaker 4: locker rooms? Locker room?

671
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 5: They have to have a Clippers Lakers and a visitor.

672
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:49,840
Speaker 5: The big change is like the banners, right, like Doc

673
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 5: Rivers made it a point to cover up the Lakers

674
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 5: banners when it's a Clippers home game zone. If the

675
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:57,160
Speaker 5: Lakers catch sight of that, they might be upset.

676
00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,800
Speaker 2: So right, you're saying if on the schedule and I

677
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 2: don't know off the top of my head that first game,

678
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:04,720
Speaker 2: like who actually has home court advantage?

679
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 6: It isn't it?

680
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:07,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, but who's got the home court advantage?

681
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 4: And the clip is.

682
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 2: Okay, So shouldn't the Lakers have to get ready in

683
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,480
Speaker 2: the visitors locker room and not their own locker room?

684
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 4: Yeah?

685
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 3: They should, right, absolutely, just have.

686
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 2: To lock the doors of their Lakers locker room and

687
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:22,719
Speaker 2: you got to go into the straight up visitors locker room.

688
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:24,480
Speaker 5: It's only fair, that's fair.

689
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 4: The playoffs.

690
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh that's good. Yeah, that's exactly right. Look ahead,

691
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 2: all right, so let's hear from you guys with that

692
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:33,880
Speaker 2: one best player in the league, you think it's Kawhi.

693
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 2: Do you think it's you still think it's Lebron. Maybe

694
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 2: it's honest, maybe it's maybe it's one of these bigs

695
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:40,760
Speaker 2: like Joel Embian or Anthony Davis or so on. Let

696
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 2: us know hashtag no dunks or on Twitter at no

697
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,239
Speaker 2: Dunks I n C. That's no dunks inc. Let's get

698
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:49,440
Speaker 2: to our little intermission break here. We've been having fun

699
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 2: with these. Get some story, some summer stories from all

700
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 2: of you guys. JD you're up here today. I want

701
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 2: to know what you got up to this summer.

702
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, not much, to be honest. I mean, you know,

703
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,600
Speaker 1: we didn't know where we were going to be living

704
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 1: or if we were going to have jobs, so you know,

705
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 1: we just kind of took it easy at the old

706
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 1: Doyle House.

707
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 3: I didn't go anywhere, but.

708
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 1: I uh, the previous summer, I had a little melanoma

709
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 1: taken off of my belly, right, So so this so

710
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:24,400
Speaker 1: because of that, I had to go back every three

711
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:28,000
Speaker 1: months to get checked for you know, the full body exam.

712
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:30,280
Speaker 3: Wow, right, which is always.

713
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 1: An awkward situation. The good news is there's been nothing.

714
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 1: So now I go to six months. But on my

715
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 1: last visit there you know the guy, doctor Chris.

716
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 3: Good guy. That's his first name, last name, that's his

717
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 3: first name. I have no idea.

718
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:47,880
Speaker 2: It was wow. First name doctor Chris, Doctor Chris.

719
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 1: All right, it's a young guy, good looking guy. We

720
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 1: have pretty good rapport anyway. So done this four times.

721
00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:59,280
Speaker 1: He knows he knows me, he knows my body better

722
00:30:59,280 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 1: than you do.

723
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 3: Yes, but uh, this.

724
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 1: Time, this last time, we're going through everything. I'm in

725
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 1: my boxers.

726
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 7: He he, he doesn't touch me, but he's just really close,

727
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 7: looking at every single square inch of my body and

728
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,959
Speaker 7: looking for he's look very strange looking moles.

729
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 3: And I got I got a million. You should get

730
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 3: I mean, you should get chipped. You gotta get checked.

731
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 1: My head on my feet, so I'm face down on

732
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:30,719
Speaker 1: the table.

733
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 3: At one point he's doing my back.

734
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 1: He's you know, he's cambing through my beard, which is

735
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:37,520
Speaker 1: weird and a bit of.

736
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Speaker 3: A pain in the ass. Uh.

737
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 1: So he gets down to my butt and he had

738
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 1: not done this the four times before.

739
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 3: He takes my boxers and.

740
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 1: Eases them down right, and then he says, got a

741
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 1: look between the cheeks.

742
00:31:56,040 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 3: Like this is new started out the of a that's right.

743
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 6: So he's still in the doctor's office at this time.

744
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 3: I'm still in still in doctor's He's on the lobby.

745
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:11,959
Speaker 6: So I just I just said, of zonged out there.

746
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 3: It's in the backseat of visitor f one fifty. Uh.

747
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 3: So he goes, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta have

748
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 3: a look. So he spreads my cheeks and he just

749
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:27,480
Speaker 3: sort of leaves him for a minute. And it was

750
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 3: just not a minute. It was merila. It felt like

751
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 3: an hour. Yeah, and uh it was very odd and

752
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:35,960
Speaker 3: odd sensation.

753
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 2: I was like, because you because you had already done

754
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 2: this scuple times, you definitely weren't expecting.

755
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, the first one is the fourth time, and it

756
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 1: was just like, why why hasn't he checked yet?

757
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 3: And why is this all of a sudden a thing?

758
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 6: Right?

759
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:52,000
Speaker 1: Uh So basically he told me that some he's like

760
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:55,480
Speaker 1: because I said, hey, uh, the sun doesn't shine there,

761
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 1: it's never shut never Like He's like, oh, oh no, no, no, no,

762
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 1: that doesn't matter.

763
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 3: It does not matter. You can get it anywhere.

764
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 1: We had a woman in here who had a melanoma

765
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:12,040
Speaker 1: one centimeter from her anus. That made me feel weird

766
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 1: that he said that to me, this violation of.

767
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 2: Old account.

768
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, you actually.

769
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 1: And he's like, I was pretty serious. But anyways, I was.

770
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 1: I was thinking, like, I've had the prostate thing way better.

771
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 1: That's way better than having a grown man stare at

772
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 1: your anus like up close. It's just I was I've

773
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 1: never felt more self conscious in my life.

774
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was like, but he said nothing there, well,

775
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 3: no cancer there. I don't know if he's signed it.

776
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 3: I was gonna rush that morning. I was late for

777
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 3: the wife.

778
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:58,560
Speaker 4: You're more self conscious about him looking at your us

779
00:33:58,640 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 4: than your front.

780
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 3: I am actually good for you. I'm proud of it. Yeah, man,

781
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 3: he walks in, I've already got it.

782
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 2: Dan, what a sum summer story.

783
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:14,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's the highlight, literally, the highlight of my summer.

784
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:20,959
Speaker 2: How about you stay well mine's honestly, it's not much

785
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 2: better now that I think about it. Just a couple

786
00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 2: of quick things that happened this summer. This is TM

787
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:29,080
Speaker 2: I no doubt, but I lost both of my big toenails.

788
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:33,360
Speaker 6: There gone memoriam.

789
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:35,720
Speaker 2: We can put it in a memorial, that'd be great.

790
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 5: This whole thing is a live read for a WebM.

791
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:40,120
Speaker 5: What's going on here?

792
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 2: And you know it's a like people know that I'm

793
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:45,240
Speaker 2: a big runner, and people think, oh, it's from running

794
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 2: all the time, your shoes don't fit. It's never from running.

795
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 2: It's always from basketball. So it's the way I play basketball,

796
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,319
Speaker 2: the Kobe White herky jerky stop and go. I don't

797
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 2: know what it is.

798
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 4: But in your narrow feet, you're no, don't help you.

799
00:34:58,320 --> 00:34:59,280
Speaker 4: They don't stay.

800
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:02,200
Speaker 2: Secure exactly, thank you, tass. They definitely don't. What's the

801
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 2: I gotta try that tie technique? What's your what's it called? Again?

802
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:05,759
Speaker 2: What do you call it?

803
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 3: When you go around.

804
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 2: He'll lock? Yeah, maybe I try the heal.

805
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:11,439
Speaker 4: The technical term.

806
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 2: But right right, so though those are gone, I mean,

807
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:16,919
Speaker 2: what happens is, you know, like they get they get

808
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:18,920
Speaker 2: smushed or they get stepped on, and then the blood

809
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 2: forms underneath, and then there's the the nail just doesn't

810
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 2: grow and then it just eventually falls off.

811
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,719
Speaker 3: So they're gone wait forever.

812
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:27,319
Speaker 2: No, they will go back. You know, I've had this

813
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:29,279
Speaker 2: like six times now. This happens all the time.

814
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 3: It's crazy.

815
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:32,600
Speaker 2: The other thing is I was pretty bored, I gotta

816
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 2: be honest this summer because we were off a little

817
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:37,719
Speaker 2: earlier because we were looking for the new job and

818
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:40,319
Speaker 2: all that, and I was like running out of NBA

819
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:43,439
Speaker 2: podcast to listen to and another podcast that I'm into,

820
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:47,320
Speaker 2: So I started listening to a Dungeons and Dragons podcast,

821
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:50,880
Speaker 2: uh called not another D and D podcast by our

822
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:54,279
Speaker 2: good friends at Headgum. Actually Jake from Jake and Emir Fame,

823
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:56,880
Speaker 2: he's one of the guys on it. I've never played

824
00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 2: Dungeons and Dragons. I don't know how to play it.

825
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:03,400
Speaker 2: I have a rough idea of what it is. Obviously

826
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 2: a board game and all that and the dice sort

827
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 2: of game and role playing. But it's fascinating this podcast.

828
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 1: It's just like it's like a bunch of grown men's

829
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 1: setting around.

830
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 2: Yeah sorry yeah yeah, but it's actually.

831
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 3: Never played with a girl. But it's pretty it was.

832
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:24,359
Speaker 2: I got like fifteen episodes in these are like three

833
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:30,360
Speaker 2: hour episodes, like I was putting them back now. Character exactly,

834
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:33,839
Speaker 2: shout out to hard one. Surefoot that's Jake's character, big,

835
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 2: big giant guy.

836
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:37,440
Speaker 4: He doesn't lose his nails.

837
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:44,279
Speaker 2: No, he does, Surefoot, sure toenails. So but I think

838
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 2: i'm unfortunately probably now that the season is starting, it's

839
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:49,160
Speaker 2: like I just don't have time, so I've got to

840
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 2: pick up like they're like episode seventy five, like eighty

841
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:53,880
Speaker 2: something like that. Though I did go to see a

842
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:55,759
Speaker 2: live show as well too. They were in Atlanta. That's

843
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:57,279
Speaker 2: why he sort of inspired me. I wanted to go

844
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 2: support Jake. Saw the live show, I was like, this

845
00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:02,600
Speaker 2: is actually pretty pretty funny, and it was you know,

846
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 2: they're really creative in regards to building this story that

847
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:08,759
Speaker 2: they're just making up for the most part on the spot.

848
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 3: So I got to get into that.

849
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 1: My son listens to the Adventure Zone, which again is

850
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:15,719
Speaker 1: four hours three It's unbelievable.

851
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:19,480
Speaker 2: It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. So yeah, I'll have to pick

852
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 2: that up again. Next summer, I went to Guatemala for

853
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 2: a week. The only thing, you know, great time. It

854
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:26,680
Speaker 2: was my buddy Grisha's fortieth birthday party. We had a blast.

855
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,800
Speaker 2: But I've never been to Guatemala and I saw an active,

856
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:33,720
Speaker 2: active volcano go off for the first time. That scared

857
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 2: the sh out of me. It's it's scary like at

858
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,919
Speaker 2: night seeing like a red lava come out, and you're

859
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 2: just like, I don't know. I'm just like should we

860
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 2: be scared? Like are we worried?

861
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:45,279
Speaker 5: Here?

862
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 2: Like I love is slow and we probably got time

863
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 2: to get out of here, but like, how do we

864
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 2: know where it's going. But it's like it is one

865
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 2: of those ones that like is generally always going. Yeah,

866
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 2: it's amazing. It does look incredible and just finally, this

867
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 2: is a very recent development. I guess it's not really

868
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 2: a summer story, more of a fall story. Since we've

869
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 2: been here in Toronto and most of you guys know

870
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:07,759
Speaker 2: the setup here. JD and I are in Toronto because

871
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:09,879
Speaker 2: of our visas. We gotta wait till our work visa

872
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:11,160
Speaker 2: is clear so we can go back to the States

873
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 2: and team up with the guys in Atlanta. But we're here.

874
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 2: I'm staying with my buddy Ken, Ken and Marge and

875
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 2: they have they are deep into rewatching I guess actually

876
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:24,680
Speaker 2: for the first time, so watching Fraser. They're on season

877
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 2: six right now with Fraser. So I've never watched Fraser.

878
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:30,320
Speaker 2: I obviously know I know what the show is.

879
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:32,759
Speaker 5: Of course, a lot of people consider him the original podcaster.

880
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:36,919
Speaker 2: Oh oh yeah, I can see that. So I'm now

881
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,880
Speaker 2: watching Fraser and I've picked it up at like season six.

882
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 2: I gotta say, pretty entertaining. It's pretty it really was

883
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:50,319
Speaker 2: for definitely like that that type of sitcomy show. It's

884
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:53,840
Speaker 2: really well written. It's not bad. But I will say,

885
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 2: and I'm sure I'm not the first to like note this,

886
00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 2: but they're always wearing backrobes on Free I swear to god,

887
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 2: I've watched four or five episodes and there is always

888
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:06,480
Speaker 2: a scene or two.

889
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 3: Where multiple people are in bathrobes.

890
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:11,800
Speaker 2: So just keeping it very casual.

891
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 4: So that's what I always ready to get examined.

892
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 2: That's what I've guess, So I guess.

893
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:20,239
Speaker 6: So anyway, I just I've just got one question for you.

894
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:24,399
Speaker 6: Then summer you said you lost two tonil. Yes, yes,

895
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:26,360
Speaker 6: I mean your nickname is now.

896
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 2: Yeah for a little bit until they go back. Yes

897
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:33,359
Speaker 2: you can call me.

898
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 1: That, okay, But talking about D and d uh, the

899
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:42,799
Speaker 1: the biggest fight my kids ever had was over D

900
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 1: and D. It was because my youngest son wanted to

901
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:53,160
Speaker 1: call his character David Brent. He insisted on probably like

902
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:54,919
Speaker 1: I'm calling like David Brent.

903
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 3: It's gonna be hilarious because that's always your other son, wasn't.

904
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 1: He's like, as not as the D name is, you

905
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 1: can't do that, And oh my god, it almost came

906
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:04,239
Speaker 1: to be.

907
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 2: As I'll say, like again, listening to that. It is amazing.

908
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:10,839
Speaker 2: The game master that runs it, just like.

909
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 3: I know, it seems like exhausting. Yeah, it's a dungeon master.

910
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 3: It's before all four people.

911
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:19,400
Speaker 5: Thank you.

912
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 2: Oh Jesus, I'm embarrassed. I'm embarrassed. Okay, let's get back

913
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:23,720
Speaker 2: to the questions.

914
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 4: Wow.

915
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's get back to questions.

916
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:27,640
Speaker 4: Hold on, hold on, one last thing, one last thing.

917
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:29,640
Speaker 4: I know, we're trying a lot of new things this year,

918
00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 4: a lot of new shows.

919
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 2: No, we're not starting a Dungeons and Dragons.

920
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:33,040
Speaker 5: No.

921
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 4: Actually, some details on a show that we're dropping very

922
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 4: very soon will come a little bit later in the show.

923
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:42,880
Speaker 4: But all I can see right now is, just like

924
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,200
Speaker 4: Zach Alvinak is between two ferns, I can see j

925
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:49,880
Speaker 4: D having people come in and give their medical situation

926
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:57,240
Speaker 4: for medical stories, between two cheeks, two huge bum cheeks.

927
00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 4: If we get back to video, we gotta do it,

928
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 4: or you know, Skeets comes on, we can make them

929
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:03,520
Speaker 4: two toenails.

930
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like that, and well and JD way back

931
00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:09,959
Speaker 2: in the day when we were at Ryerson was the sports.

932
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 3: Doctors, True sports. But there's some tie there. Yeah, sure,

933
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:17,640
Speaker 3: all right, let's try it.

934
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:22,120
Speaker 2: Okay, new podcast coming later this year between two cheeks.

935
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:23,400
Speaker 3: All right, let's get to you.

936
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's get to the next question.

937
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:24,839
Speaker 3: Drop.

938
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 2: All right, guys, I guess I'm pretty sure this is

939
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 2: our final awards question. Who wins Rookie of the Year?

940
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:34,480
Speaker 2: Is it is?

941
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:34,960
Speaker 5: It? Is?

942
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 2: Everybody going Zion Williamson? Is it a no brainer? Or

943
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:39,759
Speaker 2: are you gonna convince this of someone else?

944
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 4: I can't.

945
00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 6: No, neither can I.

946
00:41:43,719 --> 00:41:46,320
Speaker 5: Yeah? It's Zion here. Who's the second rookie of the

947
00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 5: year is almost a bigger question.

948
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 2: I feel like, yeah, wells great, yeah, okay, before yeah,

949
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:53,160
Speaker 2: before we do that, I mean. Chris Herring at five

950
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:56,359
Speaker 2: three eight uh, he had a great article on what

951
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 2: Zion Williamson is even doing in the preseason? Yes, it's preseason,

952
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:00,479
Speaker 2: who cares?

953
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:00,880
Speaker 3: I get it.

954
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 2: But over the past twenty years, Chris Herring wrote, no

955
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:06,680
Speaker 2: rookie has finished their preseason campaign averaging more than twenty

956
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 2: points per game. Steve Francis was the closest back in

957
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:12,640
Speaker 2: ninety nine. He was the closest with like nineteen point six.

958
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 2: But Zion is averaging in the presest so far twenty

959
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 2: three points per game, six boards to assist in twenty

960
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:20,920
Speaker 2: seven minutes a night. That's across four games, and he's

961
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 2: shooting seventy one percent right now from the field. It

962
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 2: is pretty amazing.

963
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:29,320
Speaker 4: Seventy one Yeah. Yeah, it's fifth in scoring apparently. Yeah,

964
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:33,560
Speaker 4: and I saw this. John Schumann would be the only one,

965
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:37,600
Speaker 4: crazy one crazy enough to do this throughout the preseason,

966
00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 4: but he's been tracking lineups. Zion at the five has

967
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 4: some ridiculous plus minus numbers and not rather than the

968
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 4: four and the three. That kind of worries me for

969
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 4: the Pelicans playoff chances if they're tinkering, if they're trying

970
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:52,920
Speaker 4: to figure that out. But Zion at the five is very,

971
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:55,880
Speaker 4: very interesting. Rather than him playing with Derek Favors clogging

972
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:59,080
Speaker 4: up the lane, just imagine Zion Williamson with an open

973
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:03,200
Speaker 4: lane every single night, Like you like those numbers say,

974
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:06,920
Speaker 4: the guy is absolutely unstoppable with the finesse and the

975
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:08,520
Speaker 4: touch of a guard.

976
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:10,399
Speaker 2: And you're not getting great odds if you are going

977
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:13,399
Speaker 2: Zion Williamson. Yeah, minus one thirty. So he is by

978
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:16,360
Speaker 2: far the favorite. But let's if he doesn't get injured.

979
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 2: It's tough, it really sort of is tough not to

980
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:20,719
Speaker 2: see him winning this thing. But who is I like

981
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:24,399
Speaker 2: that Trey Who's who's second? Who's gonna be the Trey Young?

982
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:28,359
Speaker 5: Really this year, I'm fired up about Tyler here at

983
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 5: getting buzz as the next Clay Thompson. He just recently

984
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 5: had a game where he scored the first fourteen for

985
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 5: the Miami Heat. Who knows if he's gonna be able

986
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:38,879
Speaker 5: to keep getting open throughout the NBA season, if he's

987
00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 5: gonna be able to have the confidence playing as a

988
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 5: rookie pulling up off the dribble hitting these d threes.

989
00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 5: But his jumper looks nice. That's like a severe wrist

990
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 5: flick he's got. You must love it, lay dude. That

991
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:51,759
Speaker 5: thing's snapping down. The guy looks like he's gonna be

992
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:54,520
Speaker 5: a flamethrower from day one. So looks like a fun

993
00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 5: guy to watch.

994
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 6: Speaking of flamethrowers, the rookies, the Celtics rookie last night

995
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:00,160
Speaker 6: Costid with h threes in a quote.

996
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:03,160
Speaker 2: That was really that was you can't keep track of

997
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:05,360
Speaker 2: the ds man. That was a couple of yeah, was

998
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 2: it ye?

999
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 6: Yeah, right, it's flying, it's yeah, yeah, that's right. Yeah. Yeah.

1000
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:13,960
Speaker 6: He looked great, but he's not gonna win. Rooie the year.

1001
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 6: He's not gonna he's not gonna light up that sort

1002
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:18,440
Speaker 6: of stuff. But yeah, I guess that jar mourant In.

1003
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:21,239
Speaker 6: I'm having a tough time saying his name because it

1004
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 6: looks like there's a letter missing from his first name,

1005
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:26,399
Speaker 6: you know, like you think crowd j Crowd has got

1006
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:28,840
Speaker 6: Jane Williams has got a y. So it's like it

1007
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:29,680
Speaker 6: said jars a j.

1008
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:33,279
Speaker 4: Just think Joel was back, Okay, just.

1009
00:44:33,239 --> 00:44:35,280
Speaker 2: Think like Julia Loca for basically.

1010
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, yeah, but I'm excited to see him. He's

1011
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:40,480
Speaker 6: got a nice handle already. It's pretty explosive. I think.

1012
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:42,520
Speaker 6: I think he he's the sort of guy who, yeah,

1013
00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:44,600
Speaker 6: takes zion out of it, and I think he would

1014
00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:46,640
Speaker 6: be a red hot favorite to win this award.

1015
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 4: A lot of great names in this class, Nikhil, Alexander Waker.

1016
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:52,000
Speaker 4: As you said, Lee, what was his nickname the other day?

1017
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:54,640
Speaker 4: What nickname? Did you give him?

1018
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 6: Long name?

1019
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 4: Nikki was the other one.

1020
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:01,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, he got nicky. I saw people on Twitter

1021
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:04,880
Speaker 2: saying nick Oh. Yeah, I was trying to push now

1022
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:08,799
Speaker 2: people were calling him Nicky Dimes. It's got a nice

1023
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 2: little ring to it because yeah, yeah, and that's that's exactly.

1024
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 2: I forgot, Sorry, I forget that. I don't have the

1025
00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:17,240
Speaker 2: two in front of me right now, but yeah, exactly,

1026
00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 2: that's where it was from.

1027
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:21,160
Speaker 6: It's good to see ball ball in the league too.

1028
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:23,839
Speaker 6: I'm interested to see how he'll play this season. You know,

1029
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:25,479
Speaker 6: oh bowl, that's another bowl?

1030
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:30,359
Speaker 2: Okay, So yeah, Zion Jaw. I won't no no love

1031
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:32,480
Speaker 2: for for an RJ. For another Canadian boy, r J.

1032
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:35,240
Speaker 2: Barrett or what about Michael Porter Jr. He is technically

1033
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:35,760
Speaker 2: a rookie.

1034
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:39,319
Speaker 4: How much is he gonna play? That's that's a fair question.

1035
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 4: I think in Denver, with the rotation so deep, is

1036
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 4: even going to be in the rotation to start? I

1037
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:48,799
Speaker 4: would I wouldn't sprinkle. I wouldn't sprinkle the dollars on.

1038
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 4: You can sprinkle on Jaw. That's totally fair. He's got

1039
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:53,239
Speaker 4: the ball in his hands a lot. Sprinkle on r J.

1040
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 4: If you're crazy, sprinkle on r J.

1041
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:57,479
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's probably gonna put up big numbers. Would imagine

1042
00:45:57,520 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 5: they'll give him every opportunity to have the ball in

1043
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:01,880
Speaker 5: his hand, which is where it seems like Barrett thrives.

1044
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 5: I don't know if he's gonna enjoy creating for your

1045
00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:07,400
Speaker 5: Julius Randalls and Taj Gibson. So just let it fly.

1046
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:09,680
Speaker 5: Get some buckets. If you're in New York score in

1047
00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:12,120
Speaker 5: eighteen points a game as a rookie, you're gonna get

1048
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:13,359
Speaker 5: a lot of hype for Rookie of the Year.

1049
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:16,720
Speaker 2: I guess I sort of have to lean into putting

1050
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:19,160
Speaker 2: a little bit on Kobe White as well, because I'm

1051
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:20,880
Speaker 2: all in on the bull Have you sprinkled?

1052
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:22,400
Speaker 3: I boil and winning coach.

1053
00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:23,920
Speaker 2: Of the Year for crying out loud, I'd better have

1054
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:26,120
Speaker 2: the rookie point guard playing well if I do think

1055
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:27,840
Speaker 2: the Bulls are going to go from twenty two wins

1056
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 2: to something like forty two wins. So yeah, Kobe White

1057
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:33,160
Speaker 2: will get a little bit of love, and hopefully he

1058
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:35,680
Speaker 2: does get that beef Turkey endorsement that I'm pushing for already.

1059
00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 2: I gotta become his agent, I think.

1060
00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:38,120
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1061
00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:40,840
Speaker 2: But Zion is a probably gonna run away with this,

1062
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:43,440
Speaker 2: which is great, which is great. I am so so

1063
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:47,239
Speaker 2: excited for Opening Night. You know, Pelicans Raptors and then

1064
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:50,160
Speaker 2: Lakers Clippers. Oh my god, I love it. I love it.

1065
00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 2: It's first off, it's pretty cool that the Raptors, of

1066
00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:55,640
Speaker 2: course getting the rings and getting to celebrate the championship.

1067
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:56,640
Speaker 2: That will be damn there.

1068
00:46:56,680 --> 00:46:58,040
Speaker 6: Bruh, Yeah, I'm thinking about it.

1069
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 2: I think what's happening is obviously here in Toronto a

1070
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:04,319
Speaker 2: lot of friends being Raptors fans. During the playoffs last year,

1071
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 2: they had the big thing where they were meeting up

1072
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:08,960
Speaker 2: in bars to watch the games, like huge viewing parties,

1073
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 2: and they're going to continue it, at least for opening

1074
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:15,240
Speaker 2: night here with the Raptors. So no, I might might.

1075
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:17,240
Speaker 3: Instead go to the bar to watch the games.

1076
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:19,279
Speaker 6: Well, going to a bada. What's your sporting event?

1077
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:23,200
Speaker 5: That's they're doing that up there in Toronto. That's crazy.

1078
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:26,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, Lee, I might even have a Budweiser. I know

1079
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:30,160
Speaker 3: you can't have a bloodweiser bar, but I'm just crazy.

1080
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:34,480
Speaker 6: Yes, Well, listen, you'll spoil your night then, br I mean,

1081
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:36,960
Speaker 6: you know, if you go with the idea, you're not

1082
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:38,279
Speaker 6: having a Budwise, you know we.

1083
00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 3: Are drinking budweisers.

1084
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:45,400
Speaker 2: Alright, So yeah, zionways said lean heavily. But there's a

1085
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:47,040
Speaker 2: It should be a pretty good rookie class by the

1086
00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:52,120
Speaker 2: looks of it. Again, Okay, next question, we're looking ahead.

1087
00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:56,800
Speaker 2: I don't know some two hundred and fifty plus podcasts. Here, guys,

1088
00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:00,719
Speaker 2: what is your finals prediction? Who you got? What two

1089
00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:01,480
Speaker 2: teams you got.

1090
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:01,719
Speaker 5: In the end?

1091
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:04,440
Speaker 4: Clippers over sixers?

1092
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:06,439
Speaker 2: For me, Clippers over sixers.

1093
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:11,360
Speaker 6: I'm saying Bucks over I want to say the Nuggets.

1094
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:14,440
Speaker 6: Let me say the Nuggets. Bucks over Nuggets?

1095
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:14,840
Speaker 3: Wow?

1096
00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:18,920
Speaker 5: What a crazy stupid are you kidding?

1097
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:23,600
Speaker 6: Just kawhi. I'm just like, it's very very hard.

1098
00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:24,920
Speaker 3: I never shows up on the.

1099
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 6: And I just I'm just thinking they like Paul George

1100
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:30,680
Speaker 6: is already injured last season when he came back, he

1101
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 6: wasn't able to really recapture that form. He's had a

1102
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:36,080
Speaker 6: long time to get ready and he's still not right,

1103
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:38,680
Speaker 6: so that may be a factor. But yeah, I I

1104
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:41,719
Speaker 6: uh yeah, give me Bucks and give me the nuggets.

1105
00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:46,520
Speaker 3: We've given you the Bucks and we've given you the

1106
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:48,160
Speaker 3: nuggetsus your blood too.

1107
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:51,920
Speaker 6: I know there's people going on the TV ratings wouldn't

1108
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:53,839
Speaker 6: be great. I don't care. Man, give me bucks, give

1109
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:55,640
Speaker 6: me nuggets, fantastic.

1110
00:48:57,719 --> 00:49:00,000
Speaker 2: You won't drink a budways? Will you eat a chicken McNugget?

1111
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:00,800
Speaker 2: Though by yourself?

1112
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 6: Every once in a while I preferred not to.

1113
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:04,480
Speaker 2: Have you ever tried?

1114
00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:04,880
Speaker 3: Uh?

1115
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 2: Have you ever eaten deer.

1116
00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:11,839
Speaker 6: Yes, I have yes, and dear innocent excuse me. Yeah, yeah,

1117
00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:14,279
Speaker 6: you know what. Just the other day in Marietta here

1118
00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:18,440
Speaker 6: in Atlanta, Georgia, I was driving back and honestly, for

1119
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:22,360
Speaker 6: deer ran across the road really crazy, like we stopped

1120
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:24,640
Speaker 6: the car, showed the kids. So I looked there's deer.

1121
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:27,759
Speaker 2: Questions from the back seat, what are they doing here?

1122
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:30,680
Speaker 6: And I'm like, yeah, I don't know. I didn't know

1123
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:33,239
Speaker 6: they were hanging around here, but so what are you

1124
00:49:33,239 --> 00:49:33,759
Speaker 6: guys doing?

1125
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:33,960
Speaker 5: Well?

1126
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:38,839
Speaker 2: There must be must be hungry coming into the city. Yes, yeah, around, Yeah,

1127
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:43,120
Speaker 2: I haven't seen a deer. Goodness, Okay, sell me out

1128
00:49:43,120 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 2: to Marietta. Will Yeah, Marrietta Brown, jeal And Brown. Do

1129
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:49,560
Speaker 2: you got Trey, we got the fire.

1130
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:54,279
Speaker 5: I'm clippers over sixers as well. Wow, yeah, I don't know. Lee,

1131
00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:57,040
Speaker 5: Now that you mentioned Paul George is super heavily involved,

1132
00:49:57,080 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 5: and I love picking against that guy. But it's an

1133
00:50:00,480 --> 00:50:02,400
Speaker 5: it's a new era in the NBA. It's a new

1134
00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:05,320
Speaker 5: era for your boys. Gotta see things differently.

1135
00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:08,680
Speaker 2: Clippers over sixers, Okay, I've got a new one or

1136
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:10,400
Speaker 2: a different one from you guys a little bit at

1137
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:14,600
Speaker 2: least give me the books. I'm also a box and

1138
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:17,319
Speaker 2: uh I got them taken on the Lakers.

1139
00:50:17,719 --> 00:50:19,439
Speaker 3: Lakers.

1140
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:22,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going on the Lakers. Last year, I was like,

1141
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 2: they're not even gonna make the playoffs. It was like, yeah,

1142
00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:26,719
Speaker 2: right now I'm saying they're in the finals, because yeah,

1143
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:29,759
Speaker 2: I love it. This is uh the best tray. You

1144
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:32,200
Speaker 2: said it earlier. You said they are the best duo

1145
00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:34,360
Speaker 2: if healthy, theyre the best to hands down to me,

1146
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:37,400
Speaker 2: Lebron and ad Will, these other guys like like Danny

1147
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:39,359
Speaker 2: Green and Davie Is called Will Pope and Kuzmo when

1148
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:40,879
Speaker 2: he's back from injury and all that, Like, can they

1149
00:50:41,239 --> 00:50:45,440
Speaker 2: can that supporting cast give them enough? Obviously I think yes,

1150
00:50:45,560 --> 00:50:48,680
Speaker 2: Obviously I think yes. But man, is this is it's

1151
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 2: very very difficult, more than any other year to actually,

1152
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:53,839
Speaker 2: I think, get this right or or have any real

1153
00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:56,520
Speaker 2: confidence in your finals picks, because it feels it feels

1154
00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:58,760
Speaker 2: like they're seven or eight teams that I think you could,

1155
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:01,360
Speaker 2: uh you could talk yourself into to being there in

1156
00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:04,040
Speaker 2: the finals, unlike other previous seasons or the last couple

1157
00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:06,000
Speaker 2: years where it's like, yeah, that one team at least

1158
00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:07,919
Speaker 2: or maybe even both these teams are there. All right,

1159
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:10,000
Speaker 2: we are almost done here. A few more questions before

1160
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:15,239
Speaker 2: we go, we'll learn with these two guys. First off,

1161
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 2: what are you least looking forward to about this coming season?

1162
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 6: Well, it started off, it started off with all this

1163
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:27,640
Speaker 6: controversy with China, and I know there's a lot more

1164
00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:30,239
Speaker 6: important things rather than basketball to stay here, but I

1165
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:32,480
Speaker 6: just I hope this is not something that sort of

1166
00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:36,120
Speaker 6: clouds the entire season, you know, whatever, whatever sort of

1167
00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:38,600
Speaker 6: the situation is, because no one really knows the right answer,

1168
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:40,839
Speaker 6: no one really knows the right thing to say. But

1169
00:51:41,239 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 6: I think it's sort of started the season off on

1170
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:46,759
Speaker 6: the wrong foot, and I just hope it's not something

1171
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:49,880
Speaker 6: we're still talking about later in the season without without

1172
00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:53,120
Speaker 6: trying to brush under the carpet what the actual issue

1173
00:51:53,160 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 6: is there, if you know what I mean.

1174
00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, what did you think of Lebron's comments? Did you

1175
00:51:57,160 --> 00:51:59,879
Speaker 2: find them clumsy?

1176
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:00,319
Speaker 4: Yes?

1177
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:02,160
Speaker 6: I don't want to put hell no, I know, I know,

1178
00:52:02,239 --> 00:52:03,840
Speaker 6: And that's why I'm trying to be delicate with my

1179
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:07,440
Speaker 6: words here, because I don't think anyone can say something

1180
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:09,440
Speaker 6: that's like everyone going right, that person's got it right,

1181
00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:12,240
Speaker 6: because right, of course, you know, when when money is involved,

1182
00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:16,160
Speaker 6: it clearly changes people's opinions and attitudes. And that's that's

1183
00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:19,200
Speaker 6: really what's what it is here. It's like, is money

1184
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:23,200
Speaker 6: more important than human rights? And that's why I just

1185
00:52:23,239 --> 00:52:25,120
Speaker 6: think it's it's a delicate issue.

1186
00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:27,040
Speaker 2: But say the answer to that is no, that's what

1187
00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:27,520
Speaker 2: I believe.

1188
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:30,719
Speaker 6: Well, I agree, I agree, you're right, But when you're

1189
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:33,960
Speaker 6: asking people who have got enormous financial interest in that country,

1190
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:36,839
Speaker 6: then then clearly their answer is compromised.

1191
00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:40,680
Speaker 2: Lebron says he's done now, after sort of saying his

1192
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:43,440
Speaker 2: remarks that I do truly believe we're a little clumsy

1193
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:45,319
Speaker 2: and and to the point where you had to then

1194
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:49,200
Speaker 2: tweet sort of clarification immediately after, he now says I'm

1195
00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:51,359
Speaker 2: not talking about it. Yes, I'm done. And I think

1196
00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 2: that is now that they're not in China, now that

1197
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:58,200
Speaker 2: the season is starting, Your your worry, I guess to

1198
00:52:58,239 --> 00:53:00,840
Speaker 2: call it. That lead I think is I think this

1199
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:04,000
Speaker 2: is going to be I get it's going to be

1200
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:07,000
Speaker 2: forgotten in regards to the NBA season. I think that

1201
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:10,160
Speaker 2: I think once the games start and these guys just

1202
00:53:10,239 --> 00:53:13,120
Speaker 2: will not be being asked about it, then that's it's

1203
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 2: gonna be like sort of back to normal, And I'm

1204
00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:17,279
Speaker 2: not saying that is the good the right thing.

1205
00:53:17,520 --> 00:53:19,800
Speaker 6: That's the way human nature tends to be. Is we

1206
00:53:19,960 --> 00:53:22,200
Speaker 6: sort of just something is kind of an issue and

1207
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:24,440
Speaker 6: then it just kind of fights a white That's what

1208
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:24,680
Speaker 6: I think.

1209
00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:27,000
Speaker 2: At least, what are you guys least looking forward to?

1210
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:32,880
Speaker 5: Well, foddle that up. I've been stuck in Dumbo mode

1211
00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:36,320
Speaker 5: for the entire season previous podcast, so I'm not looking

1212
00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:39,120
Speaker 5: forward to listening back to this podcast when the Bulls

1213
00:53:39,120 --> 00:53:41,960
Speaker 5: start the season four and twelve and Jim Boilin's looking

1214
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:45,440
Speaker 5: like a fool. I'm picking Kawhi Leonard and Paul George

1215
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 5: over Lebron James. I'm saying the MAVs are going to

1216
00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:49,200
Speaker 5: be terrible.

1217
00:53:49,239 --> 00:53:49,480
Speaker 4: I may.

1218
00:53:49,680 --> 00:53:51,359
Speaker 5: I'm trying to go out on a limb a little

1219
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:53,320
Speaker 5: bit more here, and I feel like I'm gonna regret

1220
00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:56,759
Speaker 5: it in the future, but I'm not gonna stop letting

1221
00:53:56,800 --> 00:53:59,680
Speaker 5: it fly. We're getting dumb boled all season longer.

1222
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:02,960
Speaker 2: Dumb bold. I kept thinking you were saying, dumbo.

1223
00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:04,719
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I did, I did. I did.

1224
00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:05,400
Speaker 3: That's awesome.

1225
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:07,400
Speaker 5: My way to introduce a new term out here in

1226
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:10,440
Speaker 5: our in our preview podcasts, Dumbo. I love it short

1227
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:12,359
Speaker 5: for dumb bold.

1228
00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:14,879
Speaker 2: You're being a real Dumbo with that. I like that.

1229
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:17,560
Speaker 2: That's a dumb bold prediction. Okay, that's ours. Yeah, people

1230
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:20,680
Speaker 2: got the hot take. We got Dumbo. Okay, there we go.

1231
00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:21,279
Speaker 2: What do you got.

1232
00:54:21,920 --> 00:54:23,640
Speaker 4: I don't have a good answer for this. I gotta

1233
00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:26,600
Speaker 4: be honest, Bill, I'm just I'm just so optimistic right now.

1234
00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:27,440
Speaker 3: You got nothing.

1235
00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:31,839
Speaker 4: Okay, listen, Okay, I mean I'm gonna say something that

1236
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:34,440
Speaker 4: makes me sound old, but I think I may go

1237
00:54:34,560 --> 00:54:39,040
Speaker 4: full throttle watching broadband games this year the first time

1238
00:54:39,239 --> 00:54:41,320
Speaker 4: in my in the history of my life.

1239
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:42,000
Speaker 6: Floor it.

1240
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:43,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, just go for it.

1241
00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:45,279
Speaker 5: Yeah, do it. Man.

1242
00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:47,719
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna miss I'm gonna miss the old the

1243
00:54:47,760 --> 00:54:49,600
Speaker 4: old tube.

1244
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 2: He's looking for it to t I'm gonna miss my television.

1245
00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:57,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, totally. I gotta miss that experience.

1246
00:54:57,600 --> 00:54:58,760
Speaker 5: You gotta just can't flick.

1247
00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:02,200
Speaker 4: You just can't flick the same where working is huge. Yeah,

1248
00:55:02,680 --> 00:55:04,879
Speaker 4: I'm not going to be comfortable. You lean forward looking

1249
00:55:04,880 --> 00:55:05,600
Speaker 4: at a computer.

1250
00:55:06,080 --> 00:55:08,440
Speaker 6: You lean that right, and I.

1251
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:09,200
Speaker 3: Don't know, I don't know how.

1252
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:09,680
Speaker 5: You know.

1253
00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:11,560
Speaker 4: Obviously, you can navigate, you can put it on it,

1254
00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:13,319
Speaker 4: you can mirror it, you can do whatever you can.

1255
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:15,319
Speaker 4: You can just look, you can find an app on

1256
00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:19,200
Speaker 4: your TV that works. But I don't know. I'm just

1257
00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:19,640
Speaker 4: not ready.

1258
00:55:19,719 --> 00:55:22,560
Speaker 5: I'm that beautiful projector down here, hook it up. Maybe

1259
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:24,359
Speaker 5: you can do that like four game thing, you can

1260
00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:27,680
Speaker 5: really live in it.

1261
00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:32,040
Speaker 6: Photo looking at furniture to try to make my viewing

1262
00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:36,360
Speaker 6: experience more palatable this season, because I hate to lean forward,

1263
00:55:37,080 --> 00:55:39,479
Speaker 6: especially after you've eaten and you're like you're on the couch.

1264
00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:41,600
Speaker 6: You're like, this is just not comfortable.

1265
00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:43,960
Speaker 5: A little bit more required.

1266
00:55:44,040 --> 00:55:45,440
Speaker 6: Yeah, so I definitely want to climb, but then I

1267
00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:47,040
Speaker 6: need the portable table so that I can put the

1268
00:55:47,120 --> 00:55:47,719
Speaker 6: laptop there.

1269
00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:49,920
Speaker 2: Well, you don't you generally watch on your computer?

1270
00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:50,120
Speaker 4: Right?

1271
00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:52,640
Speaker 6: Yes? I do. I do, but it's it's it's not

1272
00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:56,520
Speaker 6: the most you know, pleasing experience because of that reason,

1273
00:55:56,600 --> 00:55:58,640
Speaker 6: and sometimes you get that little lag as well.

1274
00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:00,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, forget you're going to get if you got a

1275
00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:04,359
Speaker 4: lean back couch, yeah, I mean nine pm, good night.

1276
00:56:05,080 --> 00:56:08,280
Speaker 6: Yeah, I can usually get to nine thirty with it

1277
00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:10,280
Speaker 6: starting to starting.

1278
00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:12,320
Speaker 5: To Maybe you could get like one of those cool

1279
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:15,480
Speaker 5: gamer chairs that comes up really supports your body upright

1280
00:56:15,520 --> 00:56:16,960
Speaker 5: for hours and hours of gaming.

1281
00:56:17,080 --> 00:56:20,359
Speaker 6: I mean something, I need something economically designed like that.

1282
00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:22,880
Speaker 5: It's gonna keep me into it. Yeah, I gotta consider

1283
00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:23,680
Speaker 5: the real The real.

1284
00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:25,359
Speaker 6: Problem is that late night snack too. If you're too

1285
00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:28,560
Speaker 6: far reclined, it's very tough to pull yourself off that

1286
00:56:28,680 --> 00:56:30,000
Speaker 6: couch and go and have kid.

1287
00:56:30,680 --> 00:56:33,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is hard, man, it's hard to watch the

1288
00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:36,120
Speaker 2: basketball got so tough.

1289
00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:38,440
Speaker 5: I mean not not the not the hours that you're

1290
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:41,799
Speaker 5: putting in. The literal physical exhaustion of watching a game

1291
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:42,640
Speaker 5: and snacking.

1292
00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:46,080
Speaker 6: It's it's tough, but not over snacking. That's also key

1293
00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:46,839
Speaker 6: for sure.

1294
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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I was going to do what you're doing task or

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00:56:50,040 --> 00:56:51,759
Speaker 2: it sounds like you're gonna do, and just sort of

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00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:54,360
Speaker 2: maybe stick with the computer, go broadband, get rid of

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00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 2: watching on TV. But then, and I know you don't

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00:56:56,520 --> 00:56:57,880
Speaker 2: have this problem because I think you have a different

1300
00:56:57,920 --> 00:57:01,480
Speaker 2: cable provider. But my cable provide, I believe, is finally

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00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:04,400
Speaker 2: getting these games in HD. They didn't have them in

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00:57:04,520 --> 00:57:06,439
Speaker 2: HD for the longest time. I'm talking like League Pass

1303
00:57:06,440 --> 00:57:09,640
Speaker 2: on television, which is incredible that that was happening in

1304
00:57:09,640 --> 00:57:13,360
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen. But they said, I got that letter in

1305
00:57:13,400 --> 00:57:15,760
Speaker 2: the mail, say hey, you're good to go. You're already subscribed.

1306
00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:18,720
Speaker 2: Don't worry we'll just take your money right away, but

1307
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Speaker 2: it will be an HD. So I think I'm going

1308
00:57:21,960 --> 00:57:23,320
Speaker 2: to stick with it. I'm going to stick with it

1309
00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:25,720
Speaker 2: because I gotta you know, that's a lot better, because

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00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:27,840
Speaker 2: that was infuriating half the time. I ended up just

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00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:29,680
Speaker 2: watching it on the computer because it was like basically

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Speaker 2: it was better quality. Yep, I'm not looking forward to

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00:57:33,160 --> 00:57:35,720
Speaker 2: this NBA coaches challenge either to take it back to

1314
00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:38,440
Speaker 2: the actual game. If I have this right, the challenge

1315
00:57:38,480 --> 00:57:41,720
Speaker 2: can be made in three situations, so they can question

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00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:45,360
Speaker 2: a foul call against the team's player, they can dispute

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00:57:45,360 --> 00:57:48,000
Speaker 2: an out of bounds decision, or you can question like

1318
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:51,560
Speaker 2: a goaltending or basket interference ruling against that team. The

1319
00:57:51,600 --> 00:57:54,200
Speaker 2: first one applies to the entire game, so like you

1320
00:57:54,240 --> 00:57:57,959
Speaker 2: can question a foul call. The other two, those latter

1321
00:57:58,000 --> 00:58:01,880
Speaker 2: two are only to the first forty six minutes of

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00:58:01,920 --> 00:58:03,640
Speaker 2: the game or the first three minutes of overtime, so

1323
00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:06,360
Speaker 2: in the final two minutes of regulation or overtime you

1324
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:09,080
Speaker 2: can't do those. But I don't know, like I get

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00:58:09,120 --> 00:58:12,320
Speaker 2: it like this, we've we've seen this in other sports

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00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:15,160
Speaker 2: at MLB and NFL. I don't think it's great in

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00:58:15,160 --> 00:58:17,480
Speaker 2: either of those sports. To be completely honest, I'm a

1328
00:58:17,520 --> 00:58:19,959
Speaker 2: little worried what we're gonna get here in the NBA.

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00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:22,600
Speaker 2: If the challenge is unsuccessful, you'll lose your time out

1330
00:58:22,640 --> 00:58:25,439
Speaker 2: if it's upheld, no timeouts charged, and you only get

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00:58:25,480 --> 00:58:27,400
Speaker 2: it once. So I like that at least, like even

1332
00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:29,480
Speaker 2: if you get it right, like you get it overturned,

1333
00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:31,200
Speaker 2: you don't get it again, you don't get to keep it.

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00:58:31,640 --> 00:58:32,520
Speaker 2: So I do like that.

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Speaker 3: But I just just let these guys officiate the game.

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00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:39,680
Speaker 2: I don't know, I let them out.

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00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:40,240
Speaker 5: Honestly.

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00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:42,440
Speaker 2: It's it's just with all sports truly, it's like just

1339
00:58:42,480 --> 00:58:44,360
Speaker 2: getting a little two in the weeds.

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Speaker 5: For me.

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Speaker 6: The only sport that has had a successful challenge I

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00:58:48,160 --> 00:58:49,440
Speaker 6: think is tennis because it's like.

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Speaker 2: Quick, Yes, that's that's good, and.

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00:58:51,360 --> 00:58:53,440
Speaker 6: That's what that's what the key is here. If people

1345
00:58:53,440 --> 00:58:55,040
Speaker 6: throw a challenge, you want it to be over in

1346
00:58:55,120 --> 00:58:56,800
Speaker 6: like ten seconds. Yeah, broad or wrong.

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00:58:56,840 --> 00:58:59,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it's just one again. You know it's done

1348
00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:02,400
Speaker 4: as soon as it's done. It happened with the Golden

1349
00:59:02,400 --> 00:59:05,440
Speaker 4: State Wars. They actually had a successful challenge this preseason.

1350
00:59:06,320 --> 00:59:08,800
Speaker 4: The entire arena and everybody at home we're kind of

1351
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:11,240
Speaker 4: watching together. There's something that's about it, like it's a

1352
00:59:11,240 --> 00:59:13,640
Speaker 4: group experience, sort of weird in a weird way that's

1353
00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:16,760
Speaker 4: different than an official checking if it's out of bounds

1354
00:59:16,880 --> 00:59:19,880
Speaker 4: or not. And then Steve Kerr and Mike Brown and

1355
00:59:19,920 --> 00:59:21,800
Speaker 4: Steph Curry they all jump for joy. It was kind

1356
00:59:21,800 --> 00:59:23,480
Speaker 4: of funny. Well, if they do that, I think that

1357
00:59:23,520 --> 00:59:24,440
Speaker 4: should be mandatory.

1358
00:59:24,720 --> 00:59:27,280
Speaker 5: You have to you have to be about right, play celebration.

1359
00:59:28,120 --> 00:59:28,680
Speaker 4: It's funny.

1360
00:59:28,760 --> 00:59:31,200
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, it's going to be like when you think

1361
00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:33,040
Speaker 2: about it though, like there's going to be a foul

1362
00:59:33,120 --> 00:59:36,640
Speaker 2: called against a player and then the coach can like

1363
00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:38,720
Speaker 2: do the little twirl the finger and say no, no, no,

1364
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:41,440
Speaker 2: go look at that again, and like how often is

1365
00:59:41,480 --> 00:59:44,680
Speaker 2: it really going to be overturned? Like the officials are

1366
00:59:44,720 --> 00:59:46,120
Speaker 2: just going to be like, no, I guess we were

1367
00:59:46,120 --> 00:59:50,440
Speaker 2: wrong on that one. You're right, maybe it happens. They

1368
00:59:50,480 --> 00:59:52,320
Speaker 2: seem to be pretty honest. But I do like the

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00:59:52,360 --> 00:59:55,200
Speaker 2: one thing they did do though, the replay center is

1370
00:59:55,200 --> 00:59:58,080
Speaker 2: going to take over determinations of two pointers versus three pointers,

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00:59:58,400 --> 01:00:01,800
Speaker 2: like operating automatically. I like that, Like they can do that.

1372
01:00:01,880 --> 01:00:04,000
Speaker 2: We we don't need the officials on the floor to

1373
01:00:04,080 --> 01:00:05,959
Speaker 2: like worry about like, oh did he step on the line?

1374
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:08,160
Speaker 2: Was it a two or three? That that is a

1375
01:00:08,360 --> 01:00:11,360
Speaker 2: I like that little uh, little addition there that maybe

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01:00:11,400 --> 01:00:12,080
Speaker 2: will help a little bit.

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01:00:12,120 --> 01:00:13,600
Speaker 5: But yeah, a little tennis style right there.

1378
01:00:13,640 --> 01:00:15,680
Speaker 2: Well, let's end with uh, let's end with a little

1379
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:18,360
Speaker 2: positive here. You know you want to drop the bomb

1380
01:00:18,440 --> 01:00:19,919
Speaker 2: or no, jat go drop the bomb?

1381
01:00:19,960 --> 01:00:20,240
Speaker 4: Why not?

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01:00:22,480 --> 01:00:25,480
Speaker 2: Guys, what are you most looking forward to? What are

1383
01:00:25,520 --> 01:00:26,960
Speaker 2: you most looking forward to?

1384
01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:27,440
Speaker 6: Sea?

1385
01:00:27,720 --> 01:00:30,040
Speaker 5: The big thing is that it's a Sheryl Crow season.

1386
01:00:30,160 --> 01:00:32,080
Speaker 5: A change is gonna do us good.

1387
01:00:33,680 --> 01:00:35,280
Speaker 2: You mean us with podcasting daily.

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01:00:35,920 --> 01:00:40,160
Speaker 5: With podcasting daily, the entire NBA is different. Every it

1389
01:00:40,240 --> 01:00:42,840
Speaker 5: just seems like a different league. Everything just feels different.

1390
01:00:42,840 --> 01:00:45,400
Speaker 5: I think that's gonna be exciting for everybody, but specifically

1391
01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:48,760
Speaker 5: one thing throw back Stephen Curry is gonna be fun.

1392
01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:51,360
Speaker 5: It's weird to see D'Angelo Russell out there running around

1393
01:00:51,400 --> 01:00:54,000
Speaker 5: on the Warriors. You kind of forget that, Oh yeah

1394
01:00:54,040 --> 01:00:56,240
Speaker 5: he joined the team. But it's gonna be the step

1395
01:00:56,360 --> 01:00:59,600
Speaker 5: show if he is, if the Warriors are gonna be

1396
01:01:00,360 --> 01:01:02,520
Speaker 5: even a dark horse contender. We got to see the

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01:01:02,640 --> 01:01:05,840
Speaker 5: unanimous MVP Steph Curry, and I think that he knows

1398
01:01:05,880 --> 01:01:08,080
Speaker 5: that everybody knows that he came out and shot a

1399
01:01:08,200 --> 01:01:10,959
Speaker 5: half court airball as the very first shot from Chase Center,

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01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:13,760
Speaker 5: So you know he's aware of the eyeballs and what's

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01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:16,280
Speaker 5: going on with his reputation right now. If he's able

1402
01:01:16,280 --> 01:01:19,040
Speaker 5: to maintain his status as a top five guy, that's

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01:01:19,080 --> 01:01:19,880
Speaker 5: gonna be fun to watch.

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01:01:21,080 --> 01:01:23,360
Speaker 6: Just following on from that a player, I'm really looking

1405
01:01:23,360 --> 01:01:26,320
Speaker 6: forward to his Luca. I think he was just outstanding

1406
01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:28,920
Speaker 6: last year and already in the preseason, I've enjoyed him

1407
01:01:28,920 --> 01:01:31,000
Speaker 6: so much, you know, doing a couple of little tricks

1408
01:01:31,040 --> 01:01:32,680
Speaker 6: under his legs and around the back, and a couple

1409
01:01:32,720 --> 01:01:36,040
Speaker 6: of those wild passes, cross court passes, hitting threes from

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01:01:36,080 --> 01:01:39,400
Speaker 6: all over the place. He's got superstar potential, this guy.

1411
01:01:39,400 --> 01:01:41,240
Speaker 6: And now there with Kristaps, I think it's going to

1412
01:01:41,280 --> 01:01:43,320
Speaker 6: take a little bit of time, and defensively they're not

1413
01:01:43,360 --> 01:01:46,160
Speaker 6: great the mass, but Luka is like a league past Luca.

1414
01:01:46,320 --> 01:01:48,280
Speaker 6: You know, you just want to watch him because he's

1415
01:01:48,280 --> 01:01:51,040
Speaker 6: going to do something pretty special. So I'm very, very

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01:01:51,080 --> 01:01:53,800
Speaker 6: excited to see him. I mean, it's so hard for

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01:01:53,840 --> 01:01:56,200
Speaker 6: a European guy to live up to the hype and

1418
01:01:56,240 --> 01:01:59,240
Speaker 6: the reputation, but so far he's absolutely done that, and

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01:01:59,520 --> 01:02:01,440
Speaker 6: I think he's only going to be even more fun

1420
01:02:01,480 --> 01:02:02,240
Speaker 6: to watch this season.

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01:02:02,480 --> 01:02:04,680
Speaker 5: Supposedly he lost a bunch of weight too. I wonder

1422
01:02:04,720 --> 01:02:06,400
Speaker 5: if he we're going to look back at him in

1423
01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:08,479
Speaker 5: like five years and the way we do with Kevin

1424
01:02:08,520 --> 01:02:10,840
Speaker 5: Love where he looks completely different when he was in

1425
01:02:10,880 --> 01:02:12,520
Speaker 5: his first couple of years. Kevin Love used to have

1426
01:02:12,560 --> 01:02:15,320
Speaker 5: that color me bad Beard was a little beefy Nicola

1427
01:02:15,400 --> 01:02:17,080
Speaker 5: Jokic sort of shape guy, and now he's like a

1428
01:02:17,120 --> 01:02:20,120
Speaker 5: GQ cover model. Yeah, perhaps Luca's going the same way.

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01:02:20,640 --> 01:02:22,840
Speaker 4: I hope so. I hope so. Because his little avatar

1430
01:02:22,880 --> 01:02:26,000
Speaker 4: and basketball reference is too full for my life. It

1431
01:02:26,040 --> 01:02:29,600
Speaker 4: goes eight. I need a little space on the side.

1432
01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:33,640
Speaker 4: I won't get too cute with mine. I'm just excited

1433
01:02:33,680 --> 01:02:35,919
Speaker 4: about parody in the NBA. For the first time since

1434
01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:40,560
Speaker 4: we've started recording this podcast over a decade, there's no

1435
01:02:40,720 --> 01:02:43,800
Speaker 4: chance that there's been this many teams that could legitimately

1436
01:02:43,800 --> 01:02:47,520
Speaker 4: win the championship. And so every night, you know, night

1437
01:02:47,560 --> 01:02:50,120
Speaker 4: and night. I we kind of talked about the MVP race,

1438
01:02:50,320 --> 01:02:53,120
Speaker 4: you know, throughout the year and that kind of thing. Legitimately,

1439
01:02:53,240 --> 01:02:55,720
Speaker 4: after every night, it's going to be a new team

1440
01:02:55,880 --> 01:02:57,680
Speaker 4: is going to win the championship. A new team looks

1441
01:02:57,720 --> 01:03:00,760
Speaker 4: like that, right, the sort of the foothold it, and

1442
01:03:01,560 --> 01:03:03,960
Speaker 4: it's going to be legitimate. That sort of feeling of

1443
01:03:04,040 --> 01:03:08,160
Speaker 4: being into the regular season hasn't you know, permeated through us.

1444
01:03:08,200 --> 01:03:11,520
Speaker 4: I think even as podcasts we love this game, but

1445
01:03:11,600 --> 01:03:13,280
Speaker 4: it's going to be a different feeling. And I wonder

1446
01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:16,600
Speaker 4: how ratings, whether it's on the Tube or on broadband,

1447
01:03:16,720 --> 01:03:18,880
Speaker 4: is going to is going to play out because of that.

1448
01:03:18,920 --> 01:03:21,120
Speaker 4: How many people will just be tuned in because the

1449
01:03:21,160 --> 01:03:23,440
Speaker 4: regular season means so much. I'm very pumped.

1450
01:03:23,640 --> 01:03:25,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I would even add to that, not only

1451
01:03:25,480 --> 01:03:27,560
Speaker 2: the teams right now heading into the season where it's

1452
01:03:27,600 --> 01:03:30,120
Speaker 2: like seven eight nine, however you believe could maybe go

1453
01:03:30,160 --> 01:03:32,680
Speaker 2: all the way to the finals. There could be teams

1454
01:03:32,720 --> 01:03:35,840
Speaker 2: that because of a trade or something like that, you

1455
01:03:35,880 --> 01:03:38,160
Speaker 2: know add or are added to that sort of squad

1456
01:03:38,280 --> 01:03:39,560
Speaker 2: of like, oh, they could win a title. Be it

1457
01:03:39,600 --> 01:03:41,360
Speaker 2: the Celtics, make a big move, be it the Heat,

1458
01:03:41,400 --> 01:03:44,320
Speaker 2: like get Chris Paul or something like that. There's moves

1459
01:03:44,360 --> 01:03:47,800
Speaker 2: to happen where you know, you add another star player,

1460
01:03:47,840 --> 01:03:50,160
Speaker 2: so to speak, and suddenly you're in the mix and

1461
01:03:50,200 --> 01:03:52,560
Speaker 2: maybe a real title contender. So yeah, I have parody

1462
01:03:52,560 --> 01:03:55,320
Speaker 2: written down as well. Every Western Conference game, it honestly

1463
01:03:56,000 --> 01:03:58,480
Speaker 2: has the potential to actually mean something later in the

1464
01:03:58,520 --> 01:04:02,040
Speaker 2: season in regards to like play off tie breakers and matchups.

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01:04:02,320 --> 01:04:04,600
Speaker 2: And just like you look at the opening night or

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01:04:04,640 --> 01:04:06,840
Speaker 2: opening week, I should say, you know, Lakers Clippers on

1467
01:04:06,920 --> 01:04:11,320
Speaker 2: opening Night. Wednesday nights you got Nuggets, Blazers, Thursday's Clippers, Warriors, Fridays,

1468
01:04:11,360 --> 01:04:14,280
Speaker 2: the MAVs, Pelicans, Jazz, Lakers, hell, even the Blazers Kings.

1469
01:04:14,320 --> 01:04:16,880
Speaker 2: Like feels like there's one of those type of really

1470
01:04:17,560 --> 01:04:21,520
Speaker 2: important Western Conference games you know, every night, every second night,

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Speaker 2: which hopefully we'll make you know, daily podcastings for us

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01:04:26,800 --> 01:04:28,800
Speaker 2: more enjoyable, like you were, like you were saying, there tests.

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Speaker 2: That's all the questions, guys. Let's hear your answers. Hit

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Speaker 2: listen to No Dunks podcast. So and thanks to everyone

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Speaker 2: that has done so already. We really really hope you

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Speaker 2: enjoyed these season preview shows. We are excited to get

1484
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Speaker 2: to the real games Tuesday night, opening night in the NBA,

1485
01:05:04,560 --> 01:05:07,200
Speaker 2: but we'll be there on Monday to really kick off

1486
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Speaker 2: the Daily Show. We're going Monday through Friday. We're gonna

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Speaker 2: try and get the show up around you know, noon

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01:05:12,680 --> 01:05:15,520
Speaker 2: Eastern every day. We'll try and get into that rhythm,

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Speaker 2: but bear with us at least at the start.

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Speaker 3: We're also gonna have a bonus.

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Speaker 2: Podcast coming to you this weekend, so keep an eye

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01:05:24,320 --> 01:05:25,920
Speaker 2: for that. I don't want to go ahead and give

1493
01:05:26,040 --> 01:05:29,439
Speaker 2: too much away, but it's something a little different than

1494
01:05:29,520 --> 01:05:31,280
Speaker 2: what we're gonna have with the Daily Show. And then

1495
01:05:31,280 --> 01:05:33,120
Speaker 2: even stepping on the beach and said we're gonna try

1496
01:05:33,160 --> 01:05:36,240
Speaker 2: this out. That'll drop on the weekend, so make sure

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Speaker 2: you subscribe and keep an eye for it. I think

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Speaker 2: you're a hopefully think you're gonna really enjoy it. So

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Speaker 2: that's it for us.

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Speaker 6: You heard it here first, have a great time, turn up,

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Speaker 6: love you guys awesome.

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Speaker 4: Thanks for joining us, folks, and remember No Dunks is

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Speaker 4: looking forward to being the best part of your NBA season.

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Speaker 2: Embrace the day people