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Speaker 1: Good mornings, sweet world, and welcome to the No Dunks

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Speaker 1: podcast on the Athletic Network. It's Friday, November twelfth, and

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Speaker 1: this is the drop on j E.

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Speaker 2: Skeets alongside me as always Test.

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Speaker 3: Mellie, what's up? Everybody?

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Speaker 2: What's up? Tests?

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Speaker 1: Got our top shot, hot boy, Trey Kirby, hiout, a

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Speaker 1: international man, a mystery taking it to the max, Leellis Frey,

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Speaker 1: last but not least, making the magic happen, always finding

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Speaker 1: these incredible cold opens. It's No Dunk super producer JD.

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Speaker 4: Hello, that was courtesy of Lincoln Doyle.

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Speaker 1: Incredible for everybody here joining us live on the stream

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Speaker 1: oh okay, okay, great stuff there, like and that was

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Speaker 1: a few programming notes. If you're a Survivor fan, I

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Speaker 1: hope you check out last night's what nearly two hour

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Speaker 1: long episode of No Buffs. That one caught me by surprise.

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Speaker 1: episode of Survivor, talking about Heather's big moment about whether

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Speaker 1: Jeff Probe smells his own farts, and so anyway, it

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Speaker 1: was a long episode, but it's a lot of fun,

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Speaker 1: So go to check that out. No Buffs has its

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Speaker 1: if you're a top shot hot boy or girl, well

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Speaker 1: spaces today to hear Trey and I shoot the shit

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Speaker 1: that's scheduled to happen around twelve thirty pm Eastern. I

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Speaker 1: think I have that right Is that right, Trey. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's hope we don't go two and a half hours today.

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Speaker 1: I mean only three games last night, but who knows. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so you can join us there on Twitter spaces again,

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Speaker 1: That's soon after this show and then later today, I'm

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Speaker 1: not done, maybe even creeping into tonight. You'll want to

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Speaker 1: keep your eyes and ears on the No Dunk's feeds

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Speaker 1: because we're gonna have an interview with our newest athletic teammate, Tasks,

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Speaker 1: Michelle Beetle. A little one on one with Beetle there,

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Speaker 1: talking about her joining the athletic I'm sure her new

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Speaker 1: for the last couple of years.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, she's been doing her thing. Can't wait to talk

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Speaker 3: to her. It's gonna be really, really fun. I heard

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Speaker 3: her actually on the Matt Bonner podcast. Matt Bonner has

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Speaker 3: a podcast. Did you know that?

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Speaker 3: It was good. I think our conversation with Michelle will

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Speaker 3: be better. Just kidding. I've been looking forward to our chat. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: she's had a very very storied career, and she spent

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Speaker 1: us a little bit later here on Friday, like I said,

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Speaker 2: Okay, fun show, because it's a drop podcast.

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Speaker 1: Rapid Fire Fun obviously tweeted the night we got some

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Speaker 1: news from the NBA world. We'll get to the games.

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Speaker 1: All you Pacers fans out there, don't you worry. We're

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Speaker 3: If you drink wine and you're an NBA player, you're great. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: apparently Draymond Green, in all seriousness, took him under his

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Speaker 3: he turned that athleticism into being a very good player.

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Speaker 3: I just I just think that after watching these really

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that where they benefit is they have

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Speaker 1: So the Bulls, so we're good. Basically, what you're saying is, yes,

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Speaker 1: in the mix there. Like Test said, like top six or.

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Speaker 3: I ed to go higher, go higher.

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Speaker 5: First place the Wizards. I can't believe the Wizards are

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Speaker 5: They traded Russell Westbrook for a whole team and that

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Speaker 3: All right, fair enough, I really expect Yeah, well last

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Speaker 3: Ali LaForce reported that he's doing explosive box jumping, just

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Speaker 3: box jumping. He's looking explosive out there.

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Speaker 5: And oh the boxes aren't exploding, jumping so hard on

431
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Speaker 5: the boxes they're exploding.

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Speaker 3: It is weird. If you're standing next to Kawhi and

433
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Speaker 3: you know you're watching this exercise. You're just jumping on boxes.

434
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Speaker 3: That's what box jumping is. You got a five foot box,

435
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Speaker 3: you jump on that thing. So you look at me

436
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Speaker 3: and you think, wow, man, you're doing that explosively.

437
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, how high is the box?

438
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Speaker 3: Yeah, part I guess. I mean that should have been

439
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Speaker 3: part of the report that if it's because because how much.

440
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Speaker 1: Alliel of force is he putting into these jumps.

441
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Speaker 3: I figured I figured that it was. It looked explosive.

442
00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:15,720
Speaker 3: It could be the same box, but it's just a

443
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Speaker 3: different jump, you know what I mean.

444
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Speaker 1: I was going to ask you, can you if it

445
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Speaker 1: was the same height and you had two guys, let's

446
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Speaker 1: say twins jumping side by side, can one can one

447
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Speaker 1: do an explosive looking box jump and can one do

448
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Speaker 1: a lazy looking box jump or a non explosive.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a good question, I'd say. I would say

450
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Speaker 3: if you can barely make the jump, then that's a

451
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Speaker 3: non explosive, Like if you're just if you're barely getting

452
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Speaker 3: it five feet, you know that's a that's high. I

453
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Speaker 3: don't know why this five foot number has come up,

454
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Speaker 3: but anyways, Yeah, if.

455
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Speaker 5: You're getting it's vertical, that's explosive.

456
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Speaker 3: You can bend you you can bend your legs.

457
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Speaker 5: You can bend your legs.

458
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Speaker 3: Fair point, fairpoint.

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Speaker 5: I would like to see, uh, Vince Carter versus Tracy McGrady.

460
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Speaker 5: That seems to me like a perfect explosive box jump

461
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Speaker 5: versus calm box jump. I don't know, I was gonna say, Lee,

462
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Speaker 5: have you ever tried.

463
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Speaker 1: To do the thing where you're in the shall end

464
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Speaker 1: of a pool and tried to jump out of the

465
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Speaker 1: pool like it was like NFL linebackers do Are you

466
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Speaker 1: ever giving it a go?

467
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Speaker 6: Yeah, but not successfully.

468
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

469
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Speaker 6: It's hot, it's hot.

470
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Speaker 2: Very difficult.

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Speaker 1: We have a friend, well, Ken's brother Nate Angelis, could

472
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Speaker 1: do it. Seen them Wow really I mean he's built

473
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Speaker 1: like a break Yeah. Yeah, yeah, but holy crap, it's yeah. Yeah,

474
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Speaker 1: you don't even come close. You just usually bite it

475
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Speaker 1: on the cement.

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Speaker 3: Sorry, test, yeah, right, right, Well, it was just like,

477
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Speaker 3: there's a there's actually a competition. Let's get back to

478
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Speaker 3: box jumping. The box jump in this in this competition,

479
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Speaker 3: it's like this local competition by my house. It's only

480
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Speaker 3: thirty inches, it's two and a half feet where you

481
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Speaker 3: have to do like fifty of right, this competition, you're

482
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Speaker 3: getting it. It's doable. No, I can't. I'm not explosive.

483
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Speaker 1: There's a there's a pie eating competition down at the

484
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Speaker 1: local park tomorrow if you want to get into that instead,

485
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Speaker 1: I'm going down.

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Speaker 2: I want to see this.

487
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Speaker 5: Explosive coming out the other end.

488
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Speaker 1: A couple of hours and a contest automatically becomes explosive.

489
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Speaker 3: Let's circle back to the Clippers. They have they have

490
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Speaker 3: the third ranked defense and eighteenth best offense. Now Kawhi

491
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Speaker 3: Leonard according to Marcus Morris, not just the reporting. Marcus

492
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Speaker 3: Morris said he could be back within a week or two.

493
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Speaker 3: Wo yeah, I mean this is Marcus Morris. He's not

494
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Speaker 3: the team doctor. But he said it. And and the

495
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Speaker 3: fact that I don't know, combined with that Kawhi is

496
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Speaker 3: working out fairly hard. If he if he is jumping around,

497
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Speaker 3: he's not just he's not just shooting around. I think

498
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Speaker 3: that bodes extremely well for me. This is a championship contender.

499
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Speaker 3: The way that they're playing coming off their conference finals run.

500
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Speaker 3: They're serious. Paul George said it a couple of weeks

501
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Speaker 3: ago that you know, we're not a young team. This

502
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Speaker 3: is our window right here, right now. Kawhi re signed

503
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Speaker 3: for this very reason, and I'm buying this Paul George

504
00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:12,680
Speaker 3: MVP like season he's had to start. I'm just buying

505
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Speaker 3: this team working together like they did last year, and

506
00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:18,000
Speaker 3: you know, they got Kawhi coming back at some point.

507
00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:20,280
Speaker 3: It's a great sign that he is working out hard.

508
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Speaker 3: Whenever it is, even if it's a month, I think

509
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Speaker 3: it bides well that they've started well and can take

510
00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:26,919
Speaker 3: it easy with him and he can come back, you know,

511
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Speaker 3: thirty games in if he has a fifty game season,

512
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Speaker 3: you know, from game thirty to game eighty and then

513
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Speaker 3: going to the playoffs. I mean, that's that's amazing for them.

514
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Speaker 3: You've got Serge Ibaka taking the long term. Look, if

515
00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:41,080
Speaker 3: you don't remember, Sergebaca is on this team. He played

516
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Speaker 3: a couple of games this week and he didn't look good.

517
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Speaker 3: So he said, you know what, I'm going to go

518
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Speaker 3: play for the Agua Caliente Clippers in the G League.

519
00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:51,080
Speaker 3: And he's okay with that. He's going to play for

520
00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:54,040
Speaker 3: the Hot Water Clippers, and I think he could be

521
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Speaker 3: a big part of this team later on. There's a

522
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Speaker 3: lot of things called Agua Caliente. I just this is

523
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:05,480
Speaker 3: just a strange dream to me. But anyway, that guy

524
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Speaker 3: could be a big part of this team. And yeah,

525
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Speaker 3: I think this team is for real, even though they're

526
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Speaker 3: sort of flying under the reader.

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Speaker 2: Okay, what about you.

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Speaker 6: Well, I'll just piggy off that because I had Reggie Jackson,

529
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Speaker 6: who in this six game winning streak is really shooting

530
00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,080
Speaker 6: the ball very, very nicely, because he started off pretty

531
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Speaker 6: slowly this season. His first five games weren't good, and

532
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Speaker 6: now he's shooting forty five percent from the field thirty

533
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:30,200
Speaker 6: nine percent from downtown ninety at the free throw line

534
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Speaker 6: doesn't matter, he doesn't get there all that often. But

535
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Speaker 6: twenty one points and five assists in this little winning

536
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Speaker 6: streak they've gone on, and I think that just shows

537
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Speaker 6: how important it is to him. That Paul George has

538
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:41,679
Speaker 6: been great. He is the star of the team. But

539
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Speaker 6: when they do get contributions, and Eric Bledsoe's had his

540
00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:46,800
Speaker 6: moments as well, the Clippers are a decent team. Again,

541
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Speaker 6: this schedule that they've won these six games hasn't been

542
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Speaker 6: super tough. I think last night's was probably the toughest game.

543
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Speaker 6: They played the Blazers as well the other night, so

544
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Speaker 6: you know a few decent teams in there. But definitely

545
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Speaker 6: it's Paul George's team. But when he does get that

546
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Speaker 6: support and Aggie Jackson, remember was very good for them

547
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,960
Speaker 6: in the playoffs last season, they are a much better

548
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,040
Speaker 6: team they look, and I mean Zobats in the middle.

549
00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:09,040
Speaker 6: I think that's a thing. If you can get Sergei

550
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Speaker 6: Buka as another big to back him up and give

551
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Speaker 6: them any sort of contribution in ten minutes fifteen minutes

552
00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:16,639
Speaker 6: a night. That also just solidifies their bench, which I

553
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Speaker 6: think is probably a little bit of a weak spot

554
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,399
Speaker 6: Forden right now. But yeah, if Kawhi comes back, if

555
00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:25,000
Speaker 6: Surge is there, this team is pretty good on paper.

556
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:27,160
Speaker 6: We know they've had some chemistry issues in the past,

557
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:29,040
Speaker 6: but this is now their third season together with the

558
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Speaker 6: big Will, certainly with Kawhi and Paul George, so you

559
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:34,439
Speaker 6: start to would think that those sort of things now

560
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:36,680
Speaker 6: their chemistry would improve and be better. And I think

561
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Speaker 6: Tyler is a fantastic coach. He's doing a great job

562
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Speaker 6: with this team.

563
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Speaker 2: What about you, tre which players started are we not

564
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:42,840
Speaker 2: paying enough attention to?

565
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Speaker 5: Will Barton is having the best season of his career,

566
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,000
Speaker 5: and I think his name has come up in passing

567
00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:51,280
Speaker 5: like twice so far this season. He's got a career

568
00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:53,560
Speaker 5: high in points seventeen and a half a game. He's

569
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 5: got career highs and assists, steals, field goal percentage, three

570
00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:00,720
Speaker 5: point percentage, has advanced stats are really good. So he's

571
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Speaker 5: really filling the Jamal Murray void for the Nuggets. Had

572
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,760
Speaker 5: thirty six and three in the win versus the Pacers

573
00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 5: with Jokic suspended. There, he's clearly like the Nuggets best off.

574
00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:15,280
Speaker 5: The dribble guy gives them a little unpredictability, a little athleticism.

575
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:17,760
Speaker 5: Just got to hope he stays healthy for the entire year.

576
00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:20,920
Speaker 5: Will Barton hasn't played a full season since twenty eighteen.

577
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Speaker 5: He missed all of the twenty twenty playoffs, only played

578
00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:27,560
Speaker 5: three games in the twenty twenty one playoffs. You know,

579
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,920
Speaker 5: Michael Porter Junior's out right now. Obviously Jamal Murray is out.

580
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:34,520
Speaker 5: They cannot afford to lose Will Barton at this point.

581
00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:36,280
Speaker 5: He's been too good for him and he's their only

582
00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:38,960
Speaker 5: guy who's really going to be making things happen from

583
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:42,200
Speaker 5: the outside. So Will Barton feels like an X factor

584
00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:44,320
Speaker 5: to me for the Nuggets every single season when he's

585
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:46,320
Speaker 5: playing well, they look so much better just because he

586
00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:48,480
Speaker 5: gives them something that nobody else on the roster does.

587
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:51,359
Speaker 5: So great start to the year for him. Let's just

588
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 5: see it for eighty two games, Bud.

589
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and just stay healthy too, That's always his thing.

590
00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:57,520
Speaker 1: He always picks up a weird injury and then he's

591
00:26:57,520 --> 00:26:59,520
Speaker 1: out for a couple weeks. That's a great one stream

592
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Speaker 1: team love in the name Will Barton. That's right, all right.

593
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Speaker 1: Our final question here sort of with our one month

594
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Speaker 1: in assessment, which NBA Awards race is most competitive to you,

595
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 1: or another way to look at it is like which

596
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:16,880
Speaker 1: one intrigues you the.

597
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:18,919
Speaker 2: Most for whatever reason. Trey get it started.

598
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 5: Most valuable player you ever heard of it. We got

599
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 5: ourselves quite the table right now, skeets. Probably three guys

600
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 5: sitting there for being honest, right now. Steph Curry twenty

601
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:32,400
Speaker 5: seven six and six, forty three from the field, thirty

602
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:35,880
Speaker 5: eight from three, ninety five at the line, actually low

603
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:38,879
Speaker 5: percentages for Steph Curry. They got the best team in

604
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 5: the league until they lose tonight. Probably the favorite right

605
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 5: now Curry is and he can still get better. So

606
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:46,880
Speaker 5: that's super impressive to me. Kevin Durant as a guy

607
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,320
Speaker 5: who could have come up for player we're not talking about.

608
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:54,640
Speaker 5: Thirty points, eight rebounds, five assists, honestly ridiculous shooting stats,

609
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,840
Speaker 5: fifty eight from the field, forty from three a week,

610
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,399
Speaker 5: eighty three percent from the line. He's probab probably the

611
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:02,960
Speaker 5: best player in the league. Just a slow start for

612
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 5: the Nets. They won five of six. They're turning it around,

613
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:08,240
Speaker 5: but the Nets, we're kind of just waiting to see

614
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 5: what they look like at the end of the season

615
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:11,560
Speaker 5: and how they look in the playoffs. But Durant has

616
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:13,920
Speaker 5: been a baller, and then Nikola Jokic has been great

617
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 5: as well this season. Twenty five, thirteen and six. He's

618
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,680
Speaker 5: sixty forty eighty. He's first in like every advanced stat

619
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:22,640
Speaker 5: out there. The Nuggets are seven and four despite him

620
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 5: being suspended a game, despite injuries to their number two

621
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 5: and three players, even though Will the Thrill is doing

622
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 5: his thing. Then you get even further down to the

623
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 5: people who were invited to the table. We're not sure

624
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 5: if they'll show up. Paul George a Player of the

625
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 5: Week already underneath his belt. He's certainly in the mix,

626
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 5: like task said Jimmy Butler, having a career season. But

627
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 5: the Heat are kind of struggling this week. Giannis, he's

628
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,840
Speaker 5: at twenty six, twelve and six. Feels like he's just

629
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 5: in like fifty percent effort mode so far right now.

630
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:52,440
Speaker 5: And then of course DeMar de Rosen and Zach Lavine

631
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:54,320
Speaker 5: are trying for co MVP, So there's a lot of

632
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 5: people to invite here, and it doesn't feel like we

633
00:28:57,320 --> 00:28:59,280
Speaker 5: have a title favorite, doesn't feel like we have an

634
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 5: MVP fait. But we do have a favorite pizza, and

635
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 5: that's a pee Quad's pizza meat. Who's taking home that

636
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 5: last slice at the end of the season is what

637
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:09,440
Speaker 5: I want to know.

638
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,640
Speaker 7: I never really realized we are like presenting that one

639
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 7: slice there in the pan. It's like we're waiting for

640
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:20,480
Speaker 7: the actual MVP to show up and sit next to

641
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 7: JD and have that last pie.

642
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 2: That's the real honor.

643
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:27,239
Speaker 8: Of winning MVP is you get to come join us

644
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 8: for a pizza party and get this by JD but

645
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Speaker 8: for the entire night.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I like that one.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's a pretty obvious one. It does feel

648
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Speaker 1: pretty wide open. I couldn't believe I tweeted this out

649
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Speaker 1: this morning. I'm always checking that basketball reference MVP tracker.

650
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Speaker 1: I love it, and Paul George is not on it. Yeah,

651
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Speaker 1: and I don't really get why. Like a lot of

652
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Speaker 1: the names you mentioned are there. Of course, then you

653
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 1: got like a montrez Harrell in there. Okay, Like I

654
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 1: get it, it's all numbers base He plays very little minutes.

655
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Speaker 1: The numbers he puts up it's incredible, but he's not

656
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Speaker 1: MVP guy. But yeah, no, Paul George, Like what up

657
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 1: with that basketball reference? Like, I don't know how he's not.

658
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 1: I don't know how he's not on there. It's just

659
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Speaker 1: weird to me, especially with the Clippers now winning games,

660
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Speaker 1: which is is pretty important in this MVP tracker there.

661
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Speaker 2: On Basketball Reference. But he'll get there. Yeah, I'm sure.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So MVP race very competitive, very intriguing. Is there

663
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Speaker 1: any other ones lead? Go to you next?

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Speaker 6: Yeah? Just before we get to that, I will say

665
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Speaker 6: my pick for Trey Young is still alive because there

666
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Speaker 6: isn't someone running away with it right now. That's good,

667
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Speaker 6: that's good. He just needs to turn things around. This

668
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Speaker 6: is the great thing. The Wolk's getting off to a

669
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Speaker 6: bad start. When they do turn it around, I'm just

670
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Speaker 6: gonna join the crowd there.

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Speaker 2: So I'm still you had you had Trey Young for MVP.

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Speaker 1: I believe I had him bid for m VP, and

673
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Speaker 1: so he's not on the tracker, but he's obviously still

674
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Speaker 1: a monster and the Sixers sort of impressed people.

675
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Speaker 2: But he's out. Now, who did you guys have tasks?

676
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Speaker 3: And?

677
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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 2: Trey was? Were you guys?

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Speaker 1: Durant bro Yeah and tasting Yeah, okay, okay, so you guys,

680
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Speaker 1: you guys are looking pretty good with your picks right

681
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Speaker 1: now through ten or eleven games. But sorry, Lee, what

682
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Speaker 1: other awards used to go your own.

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Speaker 6: Well, we've actually got a race for six Man of

684
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Speaker 6: the Year this year. I think there are several candidates

685
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Speaker 6: who have thrown their hat into the ring earlier. I

686
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 6: think Tyler Hero. I think Carmelo Anthony coming off the bench,

687
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 6: that would be the nostalgic award if he was to

688
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 6: win that. Montrez mentioned him already on a winning team,

689
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 6: playing really, really well. And then you've even got last

690
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 6: year's winner, Jordan Clarkson, who's gotten off to a bit

691
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Speaker 6: of a slow start, but he's he's always in it

692
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Speaker 6: because you know, he just comes off the off the

693
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Speaker 6: bench and gives them buckets. And then Kelly you Bray,

694
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Speaker 6: who had the thirty seven the other night, maybe he

695
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Speaker 6: can make a bit of a run for it as well.

696
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Speaker 6: Buddy Heels also in the mix there. So there's you know,

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Speaker 6: this is ten Caruso. Caruso as well thrown he's lean

698
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Speaker 6: right now. The thing is, it tends to be the

699
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Speaker 6: guy who just scores the most points off the bat

700
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Speaker 6: who wins this award, So he may not, you know,

701
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Speaker 6: may not factor into that point. But I think I've

702
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Speaker 6: got probably Tyler Hero right now as the as the leader,

703
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 6: but I think it's down to him in Montrez or Camelo. Actually,

704
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Speaker 6: Carmelo's been really good for the Lakers off the bench.

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Speaker 6: So this is not an award that a lot of

706
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Speaker 6: people care all that much about. Because it did it

707
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Speaker 6: tends to be a repeat winner and a guy, as

708
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Speaker 6: I say, he just scores a lot. But actually this year,

709
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Speaker 6: I think there's probably half a dozen legit candidates right now,

710
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Speaker 6: and be interesting to say who comes away with it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 1: And then always what happens sometimes with these the six

713
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Speaker 1: man Award is like because of an injury to somebody

714
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Speaker 1: in the starting lineup right, that person is then inserted

715
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Speaker 1: and it sort of hurts their chances to win. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: they remain on the bench. But yeah, there are a

717
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Speaker 1: lot of guys. Any other awards tasks that you're intrigued by.

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Speaker 3: No, I was gonna jump on the sixth man train

719
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Speaker 3: because I love the diversity because Lee, as we said,

720
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Speaker 3: usually just a hooper guy who just gets in is

721
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Speaker 3: a bucket like Jordan Clarkson. But now you got a

722
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Speaker 3: little diversity in there. You got a guy like Mellow

723
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Speaker 3: who's just a three point specialist, has to be off

724
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Speaker 3: the ball, type of guy. While you got your classics

725
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Speaker 3: Jordan Clarkson and Tyler Herroll sort of on the ball.

726
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 3: Montres Harrel you're big. Alex Caruso, you're defensive, sort of juggernaut.

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Speaker 3: So it's different this year in the six man race.

728
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 3: At this point, it's like, you know, pick the the

729
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Speaker 3: type of player that you want. But all those guys

730
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Speaker 3: impacting in different ways. And yeah, the MVP one is awesome.

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Speaker 3: I just yeah, we aren't talking about Kevin Durant. As

732
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 3: Trace said, he's hitting nearly sixty percent of his shots.

733
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Speaker 3: This is the best Kevin Durant we've ever seen. And

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Speaker 3: I think he is putting a stamp on the best

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Speaker 3: player in the game, no disrespect staff, And yeah, and

736
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Speaker 3: Lebron when he comes back, and then you know the

737
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Speaker 3: Paul George Kawhi thing, but he is number one. He's

738
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Speaker 3: playing his best ball. It kind of reminds me of

739
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Speaker 3: you know, later years Lebron as he got better and better.

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Speaker 3: This is Kevin Durant at thirty three, coming into his own.

741
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Speaker 3: And maybe it helps that Kyrie's not around and hard

742
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Speaker 3: and stinky, but I think either way he would be

743
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Speaker 3: doing what he's doing a fifty eight point five percent

744
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Speaker 3: from the floor, Like that's it's probably not gonna hold up,

745
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Speaker 3: but to be able to do that, man, this is

746
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Speaker 3: this is the best one. This is the best season

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Speaker 3: I think we've ever seen from Katie.

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Speaker 1: I thought you were gonna go with the Rookie of

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Speaker 1: the Year if I'm being honest, I know you love

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Speaker 1: Talking Mobley. I know you're loving Scotty Barnes on the Raptors.

751
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 1: I think those two guys are the leaders right now,

752
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 1: sort of neck and neck, but you know, you never

753
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Speaker 1: know if Kate Cunningham or Jalen Green they have a

754
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:15,359
Speaker 1: hot month or two and they're suddenly back in the mix.

755
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 1: And other guys have played well too, Like I don't

756
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Speaker 1: think they're gonna win the award, but like Wagner and

757
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:23,040
Speaker 1: Kitty's had his moments and Duarte for the Pacers and

758
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:26,320
Speaker 1: Mitchell and his defense there, So I think it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be like I feel like Kate or Jalen will get

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Speaker 1: into the sort of race. I think it's gonna eventually

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Speaker 1: be like a three man race between the Scotty Barnes,

762
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Speaker 1: Evan Mobley and then one of those two guys. Hopefully

763
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Speaker 1: everybody stays healthy and you never know when they hit

764
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Speaker 1: that little thirty to forty game mark.

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Speaker 6: Lee.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes you see the.

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Speaker 1: Rookies fall off because they're used to the college season

768
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 1: or whatever. They're like, whoa, geez, we got fifty games

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Speaker 1: to play still, and takes a toll on their body,

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Speaker 1: even if they're really young, and just like their mentality,

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Speaker 1: even of like, oh my god, this is a long

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Speaker 1: this is a grueling season. But I think it'll be

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Speaker 1: those two and then probably joined by one of those guys.

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Speaker 1: I still I have high hopes for one of them

775
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:01,279
Speaker 1: popping up.

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00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 2: Yah.

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Speaker 6: Winning usually has zero impact on this award. Yeah, if

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Speaker 6: Evan Mobley's team remains in the playoffs and the Pistons

779
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 6: and the Rockets, you know and no way neither playoffs,

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Speaker 6: that will certainly strength for Evanley's case.

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00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:13,759
Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: I think the same could be so with Scotty Barnes too.

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Speaker 1: Ye's been like, at times the most consistent Raptor this

784
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:22,440
Speaker 1: season for a real Yeah, yeah, all right, we'll take

785
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 1: our first break care when we come back, we'll get

786
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Speaker 1: into the Gobart Miles Turner dance a little Tessa.

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Speaker 2: We'll get to the other games from last night. Got

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Speaker 2: some NBA news.

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Speaker 1: Tweeted the week a whole bunch of stuffs that don't go anywhere.

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Speaker 1: All right, back with No Dunk's here on a Friday

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Speaker 1: drop podcast. Show it to everybody joining us live here

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Speaker 1: on the stream team, and of course everybody listening or

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Speaker 1: watching later, let's touch on last night's games, and then

794
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Speaker 1: we got some NBA news and then we'll have some

795
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Speaker 1: fun later on with rapid fire and tweeted the night

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Speaker 1: the first headline, I mean, the Jazz lost the game

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Speaker 1: to the Pacers, but the headline is Rudy Gobert and

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Speaker 1: Miles Turner tussle in four ejections tasks. You know, I

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Speaker 1: was already joking about it, hustle. I mean, I guess

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Speaker 1: they got tossed those soda ingles and soda. Donovan Mitchell,

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Speaker 1: what'd you think of this incident? And of course the

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Speaker 1: actual game if you have comments on that as well.

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, let's start with the It's adn't a lot

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Speaker 3: of fun here. Yeah, people in the stream team saying,

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Speaker 3: you know, maybe Miles Turner just wanted to get some

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Speaker 3: airtime on No Ducks, so he started a little brew haha,

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Speaker 3: which was hilarious because if there was ever a moment

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Speaker 3: in the NBA where two guys could actually throw some fists.

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Speaker 3: This was it because everybody else was on the other

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Speaker 3: side of the floor. Eight guys were on the other

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Speaker 3: side of the floor. This was one on one, mono

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Speaker 3: on mono, But they decided, let's wrestle. Let's pretend we're

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Speaker 3: in singlets in the ninth grade and we are just

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Speaker 3: going to get down on our knees in a matt

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Speaker 3: and just just hold each other. Really yeah, yeah, it was.

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Speaker 3: It was like Judo esque. I think that's what they

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Speaker 3: do in Judo. Uh, because Rudy Gobert just grabbed Myles

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Speaker 3: Turner's shorts and yanked him down, and Miles Turner said,

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Speaker 3: all right, that's hug. I mean, it's it's great that

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00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 3: there wasn't fisticuffs thrown, but it was just hilarious. These

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Speaker 3: guys didn't like each other and so they It's also.

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Speaker 2: Really funny when they're seven feet tall.

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Speaker 1: So just like a bunch of two gangly dudes wrapping

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Speaker 1: each other up there. Yeah, Lee, I mean, what did

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Speaker 1: you think of ultimately all like four people getting tossed

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Speaker 1: in this. I know it was late in the game,

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Speaker 1: still a ten point game, I believe around that time

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Speaker 1: after after the incident. But yeah, any thoughts on this

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Speaker 1: or a bunch of nothing, and there'll be no obviously

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Speaker 1: suspensions and stuff like that.

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Speaker 6: Oh, I think there'll be any suspensions because no one

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Speaker 6: did throw a punch. No one wanted to throw a

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Speaker 6: punch that I would just come.

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Speaker 1: Gobert said that, he said, nobody wants to throw a

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Speaker 1: punch in the NBA. And there's and you're right, task

836
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Speaker 1: like if there ever was a time they were alone.

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Speaker 2: But even then, you know, you.

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Speaker 1: Watch the clip, there's a security guard there like pretty

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Speaker 1: damn quick, like everybody jumps in on these.

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Speaker 2: They don't let them. They don't let them. Goalie.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Rudy's Rudy's boxing coach was in the crowd, and

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Speaker 6: I think he was like, if you want to actually fight,

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Speaker 6: let's go and fight afterwards in the ring and do

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Speaker 6: it properly. So no one really wanted to.

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Speaker 1: This was four hounds spend.

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Speaker 5: They got to suspend both these guys for the weakest

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Speaker 5: fight in NBA history.

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Speaker 2: It's pretty well, come on, there are the.

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Speaker 5: Two biggest guys out there and all they're doing is

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Speaker 5: hugging week week Sas this was a fight from two

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Speaker 5: guys who don't want to fight. What's doing the boxing

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00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 5: ring and put on some gloves. That's what you're saying

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Speaker 5: when you don't actually want to get in a fight.

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Speaker 5: So I say suspend them just because this was embarrassing.

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Speaker 8: So this comes down with a one game suspension for

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Speaker 8: embarrassing the league for hugging.

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Speaker 6: This was kind of brewing though. It was a bit

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Speaker 6: of a tense game and really really good performance from

859
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:50,360
Speaker 6: the Pacers on the second night of one of the

860
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 6: toughest back to backs in the league. Bonus as well

861
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 6: was in foul trouble, so he wasn't really a factor.

862
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 6: It was t J McConnell and Miles Turner hit some

863
00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:59,920
Speaker 6: good big three but also the blockshot. He was talking

864
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,880
Speaker 6: bit of trash to Rudy on that and then Rudy

865
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 6: pulled his short to Miles, was like, that's a foul.

866
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,839
Speaker 6: But it was also the game wasn't over, but the

867
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 6: Pacers were certainly in control at that point. It was

868
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:12,040
Speaker 6: a bad performance by the Jazz, who were, you know,

869
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 6: not playing on a back to back, so you know,

870
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 6: that's that's just sort of happened. It wasn't really anything

871
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 6: much Joe Ingles actually came in and gave it my lawyer,

872
00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 6: good old shove, but and he got ejected, right That's

873
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 6: why he got ejected rightfully. So he didn't he wasn't

874
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:28,719
Speaker 6: you know, he had no intention to hurt edn Lloyd,

875
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:30,799
Speaker 6: But you can't go and shove a referee, so he

876
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 6: got tossed. And then Donovan Mitchell was playing the Jimmy Butler.

877
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 6: I want to fight everyone, knowing damn well, there's no

878
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:38,799
Speaker 6: way I have to actually go through with it, So

879
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:40,960
Speaker 6: you get tasked. The game's over. It's easy to throw

880
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:41,440
Speaker 6: people out.

881
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 5: No.

882
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:43,960
Speaker 6: I'm sure there'll be tons of fines in this one,

883
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 6: you know, for the for the scuffling, but no one

884
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:49,319
Speaker 6: I expect will get actually suspended for it.

885
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 1: I am a little worried Trey about. Okay, so we

886
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 1: have the Yeo Kitsch Morris thing go down. That was

887
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,799
Speaker 1: definitely more of a that wasn't not really a fight,

888
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 1: but you know what I mean, it was more severe

889
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:04,600
Speaker 1: than this two guys hugging. But I'm concerned that we've

890
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 1: been loving the game this year because they are letting

891
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 1: them play more. They're you know, they're they're they're you

892
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 1: get away with some contact. As a defensive guy, if

893
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 1: necessarily they're driving into you, you can you can get

894
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:15,520
Speaker 1: away with a bump, you can get away with the hit.

895
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:16,319
Speaker 2: They're letting them play.

896
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:16,759
Speaker 3: We love it.

897
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:18,920
Speaker 1: It's the game's like moving a little quicker, and it

898
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:20,560
Speaker 1: feels like a little bit more like the basketball that

899
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:22,439
Speaker 1: we all sort of play. If we're being honest, there's

900
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:24,759
Speaker 1: not a whistle every five seconds. But I say, I'm

901
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 1: concerned if this continues. I wonder if we're gonna hear

902
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 1: from the league to the officials saying maybe we do

903
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:36,279
Speaker 1: have to start blowing the whistle again. Because Mitchell blamed this,

904
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 1: this whole thing on the rest's just allowing too much contact.

905
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 1: This is what he said, quote that whole thing could

906
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:44,240
Speaker 1: have been avoided just draw the line early, as opposed

907
00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 1: to letting it build up for the whole game and

908
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:48,360
Speaker 1: then go bare. Echoed that, saying, you know, they're allowing

909
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:51,399
Speaker 1: guys to do way too much shit. And I hope

910
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 1: I'm not overreacting. I just I don't want to come

911
00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:55,279
Speaker 1: back on Monday and have like three more of these

912
00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:57,920
Speaker 1: incidentss And it's like, I know what will happen. The

913
00:40:58,000 --> 00:40:59,719
Speaker 1: league will be like Okay, well we got to go

914
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:01,879
Speaker 1: back calling everything because we.

915
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:02,480
Speaker 2: Don't like this.

916
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:05,880
Speaker 1: We don't like these headlines and guys not even fighting,

917
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:07,400
Speaker 1: they're just hugging. But it's still, I guess not a

918
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:09,839
Speaker 1: good look. Is there a Am I overreacting?

919
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:13,720
Speaker 5: Maybe no, you're not overreacting because there's no doubt that

920
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 5: there is gonna be less contact as the season goes on.

921
00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 5: And maybe you're right, maybe a couple of incidents with

922
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 5: huge guys getting into fights. I mean, Marcus or Markis

923
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 5: Morrison Yoki are also huge guys, right, Like, so you're

924
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:30,279
Speaker 5: seeing the biggest guys on the court constantly smashing into

925
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:34,160
Speaker 5: each other because there's a lot more contact allowed inside,

926
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 5: and just as a point of emphasis, it just goes

927
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:40,800
Speaker 5: away over the course of the season. But I don't

928
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:43,359
Speaker 5: I don't know. I think keep it as long as

929
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:47,920
Speaker 5: there's not actually injuries here, And honestly, like the league

930
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:50,320
Speaker 5: is probably fine with a fight like this. I'm having

931
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 5: a laugh at it because like, come on, literally, come on,

932
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 5: this was barely a fight. This was hugging out there.

933
00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 5: But that's the way you fight. You don't break you hands.

934
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 5: Nobody gets hurt, even Miles Turner's bump on Gobar was

935
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:07,880
Speaker 5: like the weakest of bumps I've ever seen, like not

936
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:11,440
Speaker 5: even close to a Morris bump. But I think that's

937
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:14,799
Speaker 5: a fair way to have a confrontation. Nobody's really getting hurt,

938
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:16,839
Speaker 5: nobody's scared that they're gonna get hurt.

939
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:21,239
Speaker 6: It's fine, okay, yeah, just I mean, people complain about

940
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 6: fouls and the referees forever. They're gonna do it no

941
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:24,440
Speaker 6: matter what.

942
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:27,360
Speaker 1: So but my point is Lee, I mean, look, the

943
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 1: Yokich one only happens, remember, because I think Morris sees

944
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 1: his guy, his giant guy in bam Adebayo get hit

945
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:38,359
Speaker 1: by yo Kich underneath the rim. Nothing's called great, let

946
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:41,319
Speaker 1: him play, and then Morris like retaliates, He starts the

947
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:43,239
Speaker 1: whole thing with the little take body check, and then

948
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:45,960
Speaker 1: of course retaliates, and now he misses a game as

949
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:47,799
Speaker 1: the reigning MVP. That's not a good look for the league.

950
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 1: I'm just saying if this continues, because what happens is

951
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:53,960
Speaker 1: like they're just pissed off. It sounds like these guys like, okay,

952
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,360
Speaker 1: now now I can't get a call or I'm getting slapped,

953
00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:58,759
Speaker 1: I'm getting pushed, and it just like boils up, boils up,

954
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 1: boils up. You'll maybe have more of these incidents, and.

955
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:03,880
Speaker 2: Now I love it. I want to see more of this,

956
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:05,200
Speaker 2: but I don't know if the league does.

957
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 6: Maybe, but Rudy Gobert has been fine for criticizing referees

958
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:10,879
Speaker 6: in the past, So he's not happy when there's too

959
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:13,120
Speaker 6: much card and he's not happy when there's not enough card.

960
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:15,279
Speaker 6: So that's what it comes down to to me. It's

961
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 6: like it's easy to just point at the referees if

962
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:20,520
Speaker 6: you lose a game and say, yet they either called

963
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:23,600
Speaker 6: too much or not enough one or the other. You know, skeezee.

964
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:26,320
Speaker 6: I don't know if if Tasentree, I've ever refereed, I've refereed.

965
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 6: There is the worst job in the world because everyone

966
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:32,880
Speaker 6: hates you for every single call you make. And you know,

967
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:35,800
Speaker 6: without the referees, we wouldn't have a league, wouldn't have

968
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:38,920
Speaker 6: any sports. So I think I think we need to

969
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 6: sit the players down and say, show a little bit

970
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:42,960
Speaker 6: more respect. They're not always going to get it right.

971
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:45,719
Speaker 6: They're not always going to get it right. But it's

972
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:48,200
Speaker 6: the easiest thing in the world to say, oh, well,

973
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:50,840
Speaker 6: that's not a foul, but you know that's not a

974
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 6: foul when I do it, but when the guy hits me,

975
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:54,839
Speaker 6: that's clearly a foul. What are you talking about? How

976
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:57,200
Speaker 6: can you separate the two? So that's what it comes

977
00:43:57,280 --> 00:43:57,840
Speaker 6: down to for me.

978
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 2: Sorry, it's fantastic.

979
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:03,160
Speaker 3: The refs should be paid more. They were the most

980
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:04,880
Speaker 3: important people on the floor.

981
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:07,720
Speaker 6: If there's no refs, there's no games.

982
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:10,239
Speaker 2: I mean, what are you talking about? I played five

983
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:11,160
Speaker 2: on five all the time with.

984
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 6: I Remember when I was like twelve years old and

985
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:20,520
Speaker 6: I came home basically crying one day losing a game,

986
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:22,680
Speaker 6: and I said, the rest did this? Rest is that?

987
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:24,799
Speaker 6: And Dad was like, well, okay, if they're not there,

988
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:27,839
Speaker 6: who's playing? Who's reffing? And I was like, well, yeah,

989
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:30,600
Speaker 6: I mean nobody, But that's still they cost us the

990
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:32,400
Speaker 6: game tonight. And Dad was like, if you're going to

991
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 6: keep playing in the refs, then you're never going to

992
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 6: win anything. So just get out there and play.

993
00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:39,440
Speaker 1: So I was going to say Turner was feeling himself too,

994
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:40,960
Speaker 1: in the good way, Like he had hit three three

995
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:44,320
Speaker 1: the third quarter, he was like, arguably, playing Gobert in

996
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:45,320
Speaker 1: last night's game.

997
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:48,080
Speaker 2: Absolutely pulls them down. He pulls them down.

998
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:50,120
Speaker 6: And on that block on that particular play. It was

999
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 6: a beautiful block and he got blocked. Go bet they're

1000
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:56,960
Speaker 6: losing the game and it. Turner gave talk to little

1001
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 6: trash and then Gobert pulled him down.

1002
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:01,080
Speaker 3: So you know, yeah, I think we're good. I think

1003
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 3: we're in a good spot with how much physicality there is.

1004
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:05,399
Speaker 3: I think the three guys that have complained the most

1005
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 3: are Trey Young, Damian Lillard, and Donovan Mitchell in this game.

1006
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:11,360
Speaker 3: I know Harden's talked about it, but I think Mitchell

1007
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 3: was frustrated. You mentioned his line skeets. He said, yeah,

1008
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:18,000
Speaker 3: that guys are playing through physical contact and it's leading

1009
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:23,240
Speaker 3: to an uptick in physical confrontation. Well, I mean not really.

1010
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:26,160
Speaker 3: I like that was a block on Miles Turner, and

1011
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:29,759
Speaker 3: I think if Donovan Mitchell's upset, I get it. He

1012
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 3: was upset. That's why he came into the scrum. I

1013
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:36,400
Speaker 3: think he's just frustrated with the physical play. But I

1014
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 3: really don't see a problem. I think the Miles Turner

1015
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:42,480
Speaker 3: Jokic one, not Miles turn the Jokic mark. If Morris

1016
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:45,239
Speaker 3: one could be avoided, if there's no take fowls, That's

1017
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 3: what happened there. You know he didn't. He didn't. It

1018
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:50,200
Speaker 3: wasn't just a scrap because yeah, Bam got blocked. But

1019
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:52,120
Speaker 3: if you eliminate the take fowls, I think that should

1020
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 3: be number one on the agenda. And then maybe that

1021
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 3: doesn't happen. But the physical play, I.

1022
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 1: Mean, I'm loving it.

1023
00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 3: I'm loving the product right now.

1024
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:02,880
Speaker 2: I think it's great.

1025
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:06,279
Speaker 1: My concern is this weekend, another one of these goes

1026
00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:09,839
Speaker 1: down and somebody actually throws a punch and whatever, there's

1027
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:12,759
Speaker 1: an explosion that spills into the fans whatever, because in

1028
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 1: their mind, I'm over this bullshit. You're not calling anything.

1029
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 1: So now I have to like stick up for myself

1030
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:20,359
Speaker 1: and for my team. And I'm just saying this, what

1031
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:23,560
Speaker 1: could happen? And then and then the league will.

1032
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:27,120
Speaker 3: I get it? Sure? Yeah, yeah, but these are like

1033
00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:29,560
Speaker 3: two centers playing. I think Donovan Mitchell is talking about

1034
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:33,959
Speaker 3: something totally different. And yeah, take Fowls is another thing

1035
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:37,840
Speaker 3: we're I think we're looking good right now. Less whistles,

1036
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:39,560
Speaker 3: no refs needed to get him out of here.

1037
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 1: I will add to this game, Mike Conley got exposed

1038
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:47,600
Speaker 1: in this game. Brogden and then McConnell was cooking him

1039
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:49,799
Speaker 1: every time he looked his age. I got to see

1040
00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:51,919
Speaker 1: you last night, Mike Conley, and I know you got

1041
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:55,120
Speaker 1: go bear behind you. And hell, maybe it's even the

1042
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:57,120
Speaker 1: game plan half the time, try and funnel the guy

1043
00:46:57,120 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 1: the right way, the dribbler and all that. But oh

1044
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:01,520
Speaker 1: my god, like any guy Conley was on, he was

1045
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 1: getting scored on. It was pretty rough. Broughton had a

1046
00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 1: fantastic game. McConnell did too, And that was a good victory.

1047
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:08,960
Speaker 1: Like you said, I think Lee in a back to

1048
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 1: back situation to bounce back and to not only keep

1049
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 1: we thought maybe they'll keep it close and lose, but

1050
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:16,800
Speaker 1: in the end they pull out a pretty pretty dominant

1051
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:20,640
Speaker 1: victory down the stretch, Like they really drove the nail

1052
00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 1: into the coffin at the end there after that incident. Okay,

1053
00:47:23,719 --> 00:47:27,760
Speaker 1: another game from last night, fun fun ending. Clippers rallied

1054
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:30,560
Speaker 1: to beat the Heat one twelve, one oh nine. They

1055
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:32,719
Speaker 1: won their six in the row. I know we've talked

1056
00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 1: a little bit about the Clippers already, Trey, but the

1057
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:39,000
Speaker 1: playmaking here between Paul George and Kyle Lowry and the

1058
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:40,160
Speaker 1: fourth was awesome.

1059
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:43,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, wild stuff down the stretch from Paul George and

1060
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 5: Kyle Lowry. George was good on the night twenty seven,

1061
00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 5: four and five, and Kyle Lowry, though, was hilarious in

1062
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:52,359
Speaker 5: the fourth quarter twenty two points in the fourth quarter.

1063
00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:55,279
Speaker 5: He ended up with thirty scored the last nine for

1064
00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:58,080
Speaker 5: the Heat and Miami still had a chance to win

1065
00:47:58,120 --> 00:47:59,799
Speaker 5: this like they could have easily pulled this one out

1066
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:03,400
Speaker 5: out against the Clippers. Down one with fifteen seconds left,

1067
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:06,880
Speaker 5: Duncan Robinson had a tough shot, but pretty open three pointer.

1068
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:11,000
Speaker 5: Just didn't have it going last night and he bricked it.

1069
00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:13,760
Speaker 5: Hasn't shot well to start the season. Down three, last possession,

1070
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:16,080
Speaker 5: the Clippers get a steal, so they made a couple

1071
00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 5: of nice plays there to kind of dodge a bullet

1072
00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 5: with regards to Lowry bringing the Heat back. But the

1073
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:25,239
Speaker 5: best part for the Clippers is that Reggie Jackson and

1074
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:28,800
Speaker 5: Eric Bledsoe both played incredibly well when Paul George was sitting.

1075
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 5: The Clippers are a driving kick team. They're a perimeter

1076
00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:34,239
Speaker 5: based team. They're trying to get as many threes up

1077
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:36,880
Speaker 5: as they can. The percentages are starting to climb up.

1078
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:40,720
Speaker 5: They shot forty one percent from three last year. Unsustainable

1079
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:42,880
Speaker 5: for sure, but they're only about league average right now.

1080
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 5: I assume that'll continue to tick up. But both of

1081
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:48,239
Speaker 5: them were really great. In the third Jackson was penetrating

1082
00:48:48,239 --> 00:48:50,600
Speaker 5: in half court, like you mentioned earlierly, he was just

1083
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:53,120
Speaker 5: living in the lane, and Bledsoe had his best game

1084
00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:57,200
Speaker 5: since probably Opening night at the very least, probably maybe

1085
00:48:57,200 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 5: his best game with the Clippers in period. He was

1086
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:00,960
Speaker 5: pushing it in transition, and they were both really good.

1087
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:03,600
Speaker 5: And then Paul George another great game twenty seven to

1088
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:05,960
Speaker 5: four and five, and like you're saying, skeets going back

1089
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:08,560
Speaker 5: and forth with Kyle Lowry down the stretch, making every

1090
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:11,359
Speaker 5: kind of big shot that he needed to make right

1091
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:14,480
Speaker 5: until the end, and then the Heat just came up

1092
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 5: short a couple of times. So fun game. That's what. Now,

1093
00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:20,640
Speaker 5: six straight wins for the Clippers. They're starting to look

1094
00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:21,359
Speaker 5: all right right now.

1095
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:23,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I believe three losses in a row here

1096
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:25,399
Speaker 2: for the Heat on this sort of tough road trip.

1097
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:28,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Lowry got the back in the game,

1098
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:33,279
Speaker 1: and then he got like unselfish and fine. I mean,

1099
00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:35,480
Speaker 1: like you said, found Duncan Robinson. That was after the

1100
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:38,839
Speaker 1: steal that Lowry came up with, and he didn't feel

1101
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:40,920
Speaker 1: like he had a you know, a good look to

1102
00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:44,480
Speaker 1: pull up Duncan's trailing. He bricks it and then they

1103
00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 1: still have a chance or down three. And I think

1104
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:47,719
Speaker 1: it was Tucker right in bounding the ball on the

1105
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:51,080
Speaker 1: side and you're like, come on, Lowry's got to shoot it.

1106
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:52,680
Speaker 1: The guy's on fire here in the fourth. He should

1107
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:55,239
Speaker 1: be shooting it, and Tucker just didn't put enough height.

1108
00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:57,120
Speaker 1: I think on the pass, like the skip pass over,

1109
00:49:57,680 --> 00:49:59,279
Speaker 1: Lowry's open. He's gonna get a look at it if

1110
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:01,520
Speaker 1: he catches it. And I think it was Batum that

1111
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:04,160
Speaker 1: sort of popped his hand in there, because again Tucker

1112
00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:06,960
Speaker 1: put no arc on that thing. You needed Kyle Lowry

1113
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 1: throwing that past to Kyle Lowry unfortunately, but anyway, really

1114
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 1: entertaining game.

1115
00:50:11,239 --> 00:50:12,560
Speaker 2: We I don't know if anything to add to it.

1116
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 6: Not really only the Duncan Robinson twenty eight percent from

1117
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:19,240
Speaker 6: three this season, really struggling. He got the big contract

1118
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:21,279
Speaker 6: in the off season. No Jimmy Butler, as you guys

1119
00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:23,279
Speaker 6: mentioned there last night, So Tyler hero got the start

1120
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 6: and played well, but couldn't actually hit a three last night,

1121
00:50:25,760 --> 00:50:29,720
Speaker 6: zero for six from him and reading the recap, first

1122
00:50:29,719 --> 00:50:32,759
Speaker 6: time in Heat franchise history they've played the Lakers and

1123
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 6: the Clippers on a back to back in Los Angeles,

1124
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:36,040
Speaker 6: first time ever.

1125
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:38,919
Speaker 2: Wow, on a back to back.

1126
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:41,080
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, yeah, but you would just think because that,

1127
00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:43,080
Speaker 6: you know, those teams that have to travel so far,

1128
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:45,520
Speaker 6: you know, they try to knock out all those Western

1129
00:50:45,560 --> 00:50:47,880
Speaker 6: Conference teams in one hit, first time ever, the Lakers

1130
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:49,759
Speaker 6: and the Clippers, So I thought that was unusual. But

1131
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:52,800
Speaker 6: Nicholas Batum playing really well too for the Clippers this season.

1132
00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:55,400
Speaker 6: He's been he's been good for them. So things are

1133
00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:58,279
Speaker 6: going pretty nicely for LA. Will they keep it up,

1134
00:50:58,280 --> 00:50:59,759
Speaker 6: that's the big question. I think they can.

1135
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:03,200
Speaker 3: Duncan Robinson yet, very very bad start. He should have

1136
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:05,120
Speaker 3: come on No Ducks. There was discussion that he was

1137
00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:06,480
Speaker 3: going to be a guest on our show. We know

1138
00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:08,640
Speaker 3: everybody gets the starters, no dunks bump when they come

1139
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:11,920
Speaker 3: on the show, they start playing well. He made a mistake. Yeah,

1140
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:12,800
Speaker 3: that's what happened.

1141
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:14,560
Speaker 2: That's on you. Duncan's right.

1142
00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:16,759
Speaker 1: The other game from last night, we can just touch

1143
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:19,359
Speaker 1: on this quickly. Van Vliet Gary Trent Junior hitting late

1144
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:22,839
Speaker 1: threes as the Raptors got past the seventy six ers,

1145
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:26,920
Speaker 1: who are still shorthanded one fifteen one nine. Nice bounce

1146
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:30,400
Speaker 1: back win here tasks from the Raps after a really

1147
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:33,040
Speaker 1: deflating performance in Boston where they they got they got

1148
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:34,799
Speaker 1: embarrassed and they could have even won that game because

1149
00:51:34,840 --> 00:51:36,520
Speaker 1: it's not like the Celtics played all that great. But

1150
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:38,760
Speaker 1: this was huge. This one was fun down the stretch.

1151
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:41,400
Speaker 1: Van Vliet was awesome, giving us his best Kyle Lowry

1152
00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:43,719
Speaker 1: and you know impersonation. Really he had six threes, thirty

1153
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:46,799
Speaker 1: two points. Trent added twenty. They played hard, They threw

1154
00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 1: a zone at Philly. This is what we want to

1155
00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:52,800
Speaker 1: see from Nurse. They scored in transition and O G. Really,

1156
00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:55,240
Speaker 1: I mean the guys hit the shots in the corner,

1157
00:51:55,239 --> 00:51:58,480
Speaker 1: but it was og creating both of those, which is

1158
00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:00,680
Speaker 1: nice to see as if you're a Rap fan him,

1159
00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:03,200
Speaker 1: you know, adding that, I think to his game a

1160
00:52:03,239 --> 00:52:05,440
Speaker 1: little penetration. He got drumming switched on on the one time.

1161
00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:06,680
Speaker 1: He's like, come on, you gotta be able to blow

1162
00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:08,279
Speaker 1: by Drummond out there on the perimeter, and he did

1163
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:10,600
Speaker 1: and drew the defense and kicked to the corner. And

1164
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:12,320
Speaker 1: it was a good win from the from the Raptors

1165
00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:14,560
Speaker 1: here again despite sixers being shorn handed.

1166
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:18,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, they they found something out of nothing there with

1167
00:52:18,239 --> 00:52:22,320
Speaker 3: Og doing a really really good job creating not really

1168
00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:25,200
Speaker 3: his his mo o to create, to be that guy,

1169
00:52:25,239 --> 00:52:28,399
Speaker 3: but he made those shots happen. And yeah, just an

1170
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:31,560
Speaker 3: exuberants around this team. It felt good watching this team.

1171
00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:34,640
Speaker 3: You know, my my fandom as a as a guy

1172
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:36,960
Speaker 3: who talks about basketball kind of wanes. But this team

1173
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:40,880
Speaker 3: I can get behind. I've got some irrational love for

1174
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:43,319
Speaker 3: some of these guys, like precious that you uh oh,

1175
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:50,879
Speaker 3: it makes billions of mistakes forever. I don't care a game.

1176
00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:55,080
Speaker 3: He was good, he was phenomenal. He is he said.

1177
00:52:55,080 --> 00:52:57,640
Speaker 3: He told Kali Grave TSM that he listened to some

1178
00:52:57,719 --> 00:53:01,080
Speaker 3: Soca music before the game got him feeling good. Of course,

1179
00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:03,839
Speaker 3: it gets you feeling good, it gets you moving those hips. Yeah,

1180
00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:06,520
Speaker 3: but he didn't look like that guy that was amazing

1181
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:08,440
Speaker 3: last year at all. I mean, he's come back from injury,

1182
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:10,200
Speaker 3: so let's be expected. They've got a lot of guys

1183
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:15,040
Speaker 3: that are really up and really down, and I think

1184
00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:17,600
Speaker 3: it's easy to sort of get behind them though. They've

1185
00:53:17,600 --> 00:53:20,840
Speaker 3: got a lot of personality. John Hollander keeps saying about

1186
00:53:20,840 --> 00:53:23,080
Speaker 3: this Kyle Lowry trade that you know, it's the old

1187
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:25,120
Speaker 3: thing in the NBA, a guy's gonna leave as a

1188
00:53:25,160 --> 00:53:27,000
Speaker 3: free agent. If you can trade him for something, you

1189
00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:29,800
Speaker 3: might as well trade him for something. And they traded

1190
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:33,439
Speaker 3: for Goran Dragic and Precious Atua and Hollingerer always says,

1191
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:35,319
Speaker 3: you could have used that thirty million dollars in cap

1192
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:39,239
Speaker 3: room instead of Dragas and Precious at you And I was,

1193
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:42,560
Speaker 3: you know, I was of the opinion that I'll take

1194
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:44,279
Speaker 3: a chance on Precious to you, but he is. He's

1195
00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:46,360
Speaker 3: been bad and they are not even playing Gordon Dravis.

1196
00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:48,719
Speaker 3: But they kept playing Prescious in this game, and it

1197
00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 3: paid off at the end. He made he made big

1198
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:54,239
Speaker 3: energy plays. If he you know, they're they're they're just

1199
00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:56,799
Speaker 3: letting him go and seeing what he can become, and

1200
00:53:57,120 --> 00:53:58,920
Speaker 3: then they'll rain him in one day. I think that

1201
00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:01,600
Speaker 3: that's what this year is about. Air Karen wrote about it.

1202
00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:05,200
Speaker 3: This year is about just letting it fly, seeing what

1203
00:54:05,239 --> 00:54:08,040
Speaker 3: these guys can do, and then and then you know,

1204
00:54:08,040 --> 00:54:10,600
Speaker 3: maybe they become a better team later on. But it's

1205
00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 3: fun to watch, you know, the highs and the lows.

1206
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:15,680
Speaker 3: It's it's one of those years with the Raptors. It's

1207
00:54:16,239 --> 00:54:18,080
Speaker 3: it's a little painful of times, but it can be

1208
00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:19,160
Speaker 3: some good highs too.

1209
00:54:19,280 --> 00:54:21,200
Speaker 1: It's always fun to see somebody pull out the big

1210
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:23,840
Speaker 1: balls dance too, like man Fleet did. We'll be waiting

1211
00:54:23,920 --> 00:54:26,160
Speaker 1: to find out how much he gets fined here today,

1212
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:29,520
Speaker 1: Lee and he guesses on the number of the NBA

1213
00:54:29,640 --> 00:54:31,200
Speaker 1: is going to slap on him because you're not supposed

1214
00:54:31,239 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 1: to do this, you know, Sam Cassell major league type

1215
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:34,920
Speaker 1: big balls dance.

1216
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:37,520
Speaker 6: Yeah, I can't remember who lost it, but I think

1217
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:39,520
Speaker 6: it's a thirty thousand dollars sort of stance.

1218
00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:42,000
Speaker 2: Oh fifteen per yeah, I think.

1219
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:45,360
Speaker 6: But honestly, I mean you hit the corner three and

1220
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:48,080
Speaker 6: Sam's on the benches and I in Philadelphia's right, Yeah,

1221
00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:51,400
Speaker 6: I mean I think it's yeah, this is where Adams

1222
00:54:51,400 --> 00:54:53,200
Speaker 6: it was just gonna say, it's all right, this isn't

1223
00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:56,120
Speaker 6: out of control. I mean, let's just let's just have

1224
00:54:56,239 --> 00:54:58,600
Speaker 6: some fun with it. But yeah, great shot. And what

1225
00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:00,879
Speaker 6: about the shot not quite the of course it didn't

1226
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:03,520
Speaker 6: bounce up, but the rattler in from the corner there

1227
00:55:03,560 --> 00:55:07,160
Speaker 6: against Philadelphia, I thought, oh, yeah, there's some hot breaking

1228
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:08,840
Speaker 6: memories after six as fans.

1229
00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:11,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, I will say, Philly fans gotta be happy with

1230
00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:13,959
Speaker 1: Tyrese MAXI as He was awesome again in this one.

1231
00:55:14,239 --> 00:55:17,640
Speaker 1: After what thirty one in the last game for Philadelphia,

1232
00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:19,680
Speaker 1: he went for thirty three in this one and was

1233
00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:22,759
Speaker 1: I mean, he makes you, He makes you forget about

1234
00:55:22,760 --> 00:55:25,680
Speaker 1: the Ben Simmons sort of controversy for a little bit

1235
00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:28,280
Speaker 1: because he looks it looks great. A lot of confidence

1236
00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:30,320
Speaker 1: in that guy. I mean, we've seen these flashes before

1237
00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:32,839
Speaker 1: from him. But to put two games like that back

1238
00:55:32,840 --> 00:55:34,640
Speaker 1: to back, and I get it, they're shorthanded, so he

1239
00:55:34,680 --> 00:55:36,560
Speaker 1: maybe has to take more of these shots. Like that's good.

1240
00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:37,680
Speaker 1: That's good for Philly fans.

1241
00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:40,800
Speaker 5: Seventeen points for the game right now, fifty shooting thirty

1242
00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:43,399
Speaker 5: eight from the field, gets in the lane basically any

1243
00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:45,719
Speaker 5: time he wants to. If the jumper is dropping, he's

1244
00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:46,760
Speaker 5: going to be a solid player.

1245
00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:48,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, that's the thing he was doing.

1246
00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:50,439
Speaker 1: Like Van Vliet was on him a lot of the time,

1247
00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:54,040
Speaker 1: and he was like Van Vliet's a good defender at

1248
00:55:54,440 --> 00:55:57,160
Speaker 1: the point guard position on the perimeter. Oh crap, he

1249
00:55:57,280 --> 00:56:00,400
Speaker 1: was flying by him. It wasn't even like close. And

1250
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:02,239
Speaker 1: then finishing for the most part inside last night. So

1251
00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:04,279
Speaker 1: a great game from him. Fun fun game. We'll wait

1252
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:06,440
Speaker 1: to see, uh how much he gets fined for the

1253
00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:08,960
Speaker 1: big balls dance because he is. I'm sorry, Lee, You're right.

1254
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:11,239
Speaker 1: I wish I wish silver Balls would let it go,

1255
00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:13,080
Speaker 1: but he will not.

1256
00:56:13,640 --> 00:56:17,800
Speaker 5: Nineties are back, Skates balls are back, Knicks are back.

1257
00:56:18,040 --> 00:56:21,440
Speaker 5: I saw they're selling Jinkos again. Now they are the

1258
00:56:21,440 --> 00:56:24,000
Speaker 5: big ball balls dance come back? Why not?

1259
00:56:24,760 --> 00:56:28,480
Speaker 3: Fighting back? Fouls are back? Yeah?

1260
00:56:28,600 --> 00:56:29,640
Speaker 2: Do you think he did it?

1261
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:32,200
Speaker 1: Did he do it well enough for you task, I'll

1262
00:56:32,239 --> 00:56:35,680
Speaker 1: just show more time. Yeah, his balls are heavier, I

1263
00:56:35,680 --> 00:56:38,200
Speaker 1: guess than Sam exactly.

1264
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:41,359
Speaker 2: He went real loone on it.

1265
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:45,920
Speaker 3: But yeah, I think he's trying to one up Sam.

1266
00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:49,080
Speaker 3: And these balls are bigger like the CF.

1267
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:54,399
Speaker 1: There it is, okay, well, we have some more Simmons news.

1268
00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:58,360
Speaker 1: Let's throw it in here. Ben Simmons feels that the

1269
00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:04,760
Speaker 1: Philly organization is worsening his mental health through fines, targeting,

1270
00:57:04,800 --> 00:57:08,000
Speaker 1: and negative publicity. This is according to simmons agent and

1271
00:57:08,080 --> 00:57:11,239
Speaker 1: Clutch Sports CEO Rich Paul. In a report from the

1272
00:57:11,280 --> 00:57:15,080
Speaker 1: Athletics sham Sharanya. Paul insists that the seventy six ers

1273
00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:18,280
Speaker 1: are attempting to force Simmons to play despite him informing

1274
00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:21,000
Speaker 1: the team that he is not mentally prepared to return

1275
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:24,880
Speaker 1: to the court. Quote here, either you help Ben or

1276
00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:27,840
Speaker 1: come out and say he's lying, Rich Paul told the

1277
00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:31,000
Speaker 1: Athletic told Champs. Which one is it? He continued, Now,

1278
00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:34,480
Speaker 1: a seventy six Ers team official denied the report. You know,

1279
00:57:34,720 --> 00:57:37,640
Speaker 1: they're saying, we're not forcing Ben's return and we are

1280
00:57:37,680 --> 00:57:40,920
Speaker 1: not accusing him of lying. So they've you know, obviously

1281
00:57:40,960 --> 00:57:42,600
Speaker 1: Sham's reached out to the seventy six ers and that's

1282
00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:45,360
Speaker 1: what they said. So I don't think any of us

1283
00:57:45,360 --> 00:57:48,320
Speaker 1: have probably a lot to add to this very messy situation.

1284
00:57:48,440 --> 00:57:52,480
Speaker 1: We've talked about it in great detail. Task Am I

1285
00:57:52,520 --> 00:57:55,000
Speaker 1: wrong or do you have something because like this is

1286
00:57:55,080 --> 00:57:59,000
Speaker 1: just it's just this sparring between really Rich Paul and

1287
00:57:59,760 --> 00:58:02,880
Speaker 1: more in the Sixers organization here he said, he said,

1288
00:58:02,880 --> 00:58:03,600
Speaker 1: I guess a little bit.

1289
00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:07,800
Speaker 3: Well, I guess the one positive is Simmons is talking

1290
00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:12,800
Speaker 3: to a Sixer sanctioned doctor and they seemingly are trying

1291
00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:15,400
Speaker 3: to get to a resolution. Now, the words in this

1292
00:58:15,520 --> 00:58:18,760
Speaker 3: article doesn't make it seem like that. But are they

1293
00:58:18,760 --> 00:58:20,680
Speaker 3: on the same page. Are they trying to get Ben

1294
00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:23,800
Speaker 3: Simmons back into a state where he feels comfortable playing?

1295
00:58:23,920 --> 00:58:27,840
Speaker 3: I hope so, And by saying that he is seeing

1296
00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:30,480
Speaker 3: a team sanctioned doctor that sort of means yes. Now,

1297
00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:34,760
Speaker 3: there was a schedule handled handed to Ben Simmons according

1298
00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:37,120
Speaker 3: to this article which said, hey, there's a Thursday game

1299
00:58:37,120 --> 00:58:40,280
Speaker 3: against the Toronto Raptors. This is part of your schedule now,

1300
00:58:40,320 --> 00:58:43,400
Speaker 3: and Rich Paul and Ben Simmons did not like that

1301
00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:46,000
Speaker 3: because in the past, if there's something on a schedule

1302
00:58:46,040 --> 00:58:48,320
Speaker 3: like a game, that means he'll be fine if he

1303
00:58:48,360 --> 00:58:52,560
Speaker 3: does not attend. So there is still a gap in

1304
00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:56,919
Speaker 3: this in this communication, I would like to see him

1305
00:58:57,560 --> 00:59:01,760
Speaker 3: closer to playing, obviously for him and further for the

1306
00:59:01,800 --> 00:59:04,080
Speaker 3: Sixers to resolve this issue as well. I think as

1307
00:59:04,080 --> 00:59:06,160
Speaker 3: soon as he steps on the floor it bodes well

1308
00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:09,520
Speaker 3: for both Ben and him getting traded and the Sixers

1309
00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:12,680
Speaker 3: and their ability to trade him. And again, this is unprecedented,

1310
00:59:12,880 --> 00:59:15,400
Speaker 3: not only the mental health part, but that a guy

1311
00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:18,080
Speaker 3: will just sit out for this long and won't play

1312
00:59:18,120 --> 00:59:20,480
Speaker 3: for this long, because, as we've said, Anthony Davis and

1313
00:59:20,520 --> 00:59:22,840
Speaker 3: New Orleans, at least he's suited up for the team,

1314
00:59:22,880 --> 00:59:26,240
Speaker 3: so it's a different scenario. Jimmy Butler, he told everybody,

1315
00:59:26,280 --> 00:59:28,720
Speaker 3: you mfors need me, and then he at least suited

1316
00:59:28,800 --> 00:59:31,320
Speaker 3: up for the team. So either this is where we are.

1317
00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:36,240
Speaker 3: I just I hope we're going towards a resolution. Are we?

1318
00:59:36,400 --> 00:59:39,040
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know, But it's funny you brought up

1319
00:59:39,040 --> 00:59:42,800
Speaker 1: guys not playing because within this report from Schaum's Rich

1320
00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:45,800
Speaker 1: Paul himself brings up John Wall and what's going on

1321
00:59:46,520 --> 00:59:49,680
Speaker 1: with the Rockets tray and people are going, how can

1322
00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:53,200
Speaker 1: you possibly be comparing these two because he's you know,

1323
00:59:53,600 --> 00:59:56,040
Speaker 1: I'm paraphrasing here, but Rich Paul, who I think reps

1324
00:59:56,320 --> 01:00:00,600
Speaker 1: John Wall as well. It's like the Rockets they're paying him,

1325
01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:03,680
Speaker 1: they don't want him to play, and that's like within

1326
01:00:03,720 --> 01:00:06,160
Speaker 1: the right sort of the CBA. But then the flip

1327
01:00:06,160 --> 01:00:08,280
Speaker 1: of this is the Simons situation. It was sort of

1328
01:00:08,320 --> 01:00:11,439
Speaker 1: a I don't know, I wasn't really following how they

1329
01:00:11,440 --> 01:00:12,760
Speaker 1: were similar.

1330
01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:14,600
Speaker 2: Enough, But maybe I'm missing something. What do you think?

1331
01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:20,120
Speaker 5: I wasn't following a lot of this one, this report

1332
01:00:20,200 --> 01:00:23,840
Speaker 5: a lot of words and it at so sad, like,

1333
01:00:24,040 --> 01:00:27,560
Speaker 5: come on, I don't know, I don't know Skeets. It's

1334
01:00:27,560 --> 01:00:29,520
Speaker 5: hard to have a take like I'm surprised to see

1335
01:00:29,560 --> 01:00:32,120
Speaker 5: John Wall sitting on the Rockets bench as well, right,

1336
01:00:32,360 --> 01:00:35,240
Speaker 5: like they're paying him to not play, but he's still

1337
01:00:35,240 --> 01:00:38,920
Speaker 5: there at least sitting and perhaps advising. I don't know. Literally.

1338
01:00:38,920 --> 01:00:40,640
Speaker 5: The only thing I thought that was interesting in this

1339
01:00:40,680 --> 01:00:43,240
Speaker 5: one was when Rich Paul said, I want Ben on

1340
01:00:43,280 --> 01:00:45,880
Speaker 5: the floor. Whether that's in a seventy six ers uniform

1341
01:00:45,960 --> 01:00:48,200
Speaker 5: or any other uniform, that's not up to me. But

1342
01:00:48,280 --> 01:00:50,600
Speaker 5: I want him in a state where he can resume play.

1343
01:00:51,280 --> 01:00:53,240
Speaker 5: All we've heard from their camp is that Ben Simmons

1344
01:00:53,280 --> 01:00:55,640
Speaker 5: will not play for the seventy six ers again. This

1345
01:00:55,760 --> 01:00:59,200
Speaker 5: maybe opens the door. That's the only thing I thought

1346
01:00:59,240 --> 01:01:02,640
Speaker 5: was interestingwise, this is more of the same. Ben Simms

1347
01:01:02,720 --> 01:01:05,480
Speaker 5: is not playing, but the Sexers want him too, and

1348
01:01:05,520 --> 01:01:06,280
Speaker 5: Ben doesn't want.

1349
01:01:06,200 --> 01:01:08,880
Speaker 6: To lee take us home on this any final thoughts,

1350
01:01:09,560 --> 01:01:11,280
Speaker 6: I'm going to go to the John Wall side, and

1351
01:01:11,480 --> 01:01:14,640
Speaker 6: I think it's quite simply that no one wants to

1352
01:01:14,640 --> 01:01:17,200
Speaker 6: trade for that contract and that's why he can't get

1353
01:01:17,200 --> 01:01:19,280
Speaker 6: out of Houston. And the ruckster said, well, you're not

1354
01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:21,320
Speaker 6: a part of our future, so we'll keep paying you,

1355
01:01:22,040 --> 01:01:23,840
Speaker 6: but you're not a part of the team. So if

1356
01:01:23,920 --> 01:01:26,840
Speaker 6: John Wall says all right, you know I'm not going

1357
01:01:26,840 --> 01:01:29,760
Speaker 6: to opt into that final year of his contract, potentially

1358
01:01:29,760 --> 01:01:32,760
Speaker 6: he can go somewhere else, but you know, it's you know,

1359
01:01:32,760 --> 01:01:35,360
Speaker 6: he's o like eighty five million dollars, so he doesn't

1360
01:01:35,360 --> 01:01:38,000
Speaker 6: want to walk away from that, which is understandable. But

1361
01:01:38,240 --> 01:01:40,600
Speaker 6: it's also understandable that no team wants to really trade

1362
01:01:40,600 --> 01:01:42,479
Speaker 6: for a guy who we just don't know what he's

1363
01:01:42,520 --> 01:01:45,360
Speaker 6: capable of either at this point of his career, So

1364
01:01:46,120 --> 01:01:50,080
Speaker 6: I'm not sure what the resolution is for him. And

1365
01:01:50,760 --> 01:01:53,560
Speaker 6: on the Sixer side, it's yeah, I just think until

1366
01:01:53,560 --> 01:01:56,080
Speaker 6: Ben gets on the court so teams can at least

1367
01:01:56,080 --> 01:01:58,120
Speaker 6: see what he's like, it's going to be a lot

1368
01:01:58,120 --> 01:02:00,000
Speaker 6: harder for a trade to happen.

1369
01:02:01,360 --> 01:02:03,560
Speaker 1: You still think Ben Simmons is going to play for

1370
01:02:03,560 --> 01:02:05,640
Speaker 1: the seventy six ers. I know Test does, and it

1371
01:02:05,680 --> 01:02:07,919
Speaker 1: feels like you do too, And I think, I think,

1372
01:02:08,080 --> 01:02:09,760
Speaker 1: I think, I don't see it has to.

1373
01:02:10,040 --> 01:02:11,920
Speaker 6: I just think he has to just to just to

1374
01:02:11,920 --> 01:02:14,960
Speaker 6: get out on the court again, because I just think

1375
01:02:15,040 --> 01:02:17,320
Speaker 6: right now, this is not a good look at all

1376
01:02:17,520 --> 01:02:20,520
Speaker 6: obviously either for other teams. Who again, teams will take

1377
01:02:21,200 --> 01:02:23,680
Speaker 6: a low ball offer to the Sixers. I say, we'll

1378
01:02:23,720 --> 01:02:25,440
Speaker 6: give you, you know, play a twelve thirteen and in

1379
01:02:25,520 --> 01:02:27,400
Speaker 6: a draft pick, but we're not giving you any of

1380
01:02:27,400 --> 01:02:29,080
Speaker 6: our good players for a guy. We just don't know

1381
01:02:29,120 --> 01:02:31,600
Speaker 6: what state he's in right now. So that's what I think.

1382
01:02:31,680 --> 01:02:33,680
Speaker 5: Okay Simmons for a while, do it?

1383
01:02:34,560 --> 01:02:35,600
Speaker 6: Yeah?

1384
01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:38,480
Speaker 1: Final piece of news ear Muff's here, Trey. Yesterday, Bull

1385
01:02:38,520 --> 01:02:42,360
Speaker 1: center Nikolavucevich tested positive for COVID nineteen and entered the

1386
01:02:42,480 --> 01:02:46,120
Speaker 1: NBA's health and safety protocols. The positive test means that

1387
01:02:46,160 --> 01:02:47,840
Speaker 1: the two time All Star here is going to be

1388
01:02:47,880 --> 01:02:51,040
Speaker 1: sidelined for ten days or until he has two negative

1389
01:02:51,320 --> 01:02:54,560
Speaker 1: PCR tests in a twenty four hour period. The Bulls

1390
01:02:54,640 --> 01:02:57,760
Speaker 1: begin a five game road trip through the West tonight.

1391
01:02:57,840 --> 01:03:01,080
Speaker 1: They start in Golden State in the there versus the Warriors,

1392
01:03:01,120 --> 01:03:04,160
Speaker 1: so that would be a fun game. This sucks, obviously

1393
01:03:04,160 --> 01:03:07,840
Speaker 1: for him. People are wondering, did he actually get this

1394
01:03:07,920 --> 01:03:09,880
Speaker 1: by playing Dwell and Beid and the Sixers who've had

1395
01:03:09,880 --> 01:03:12,880
Speaker 1: a ton of guys in health and safety protocols because

1396
01:03:12,880 --> 01:03:13,240
Speaker 1: of COVID?

1397
01:03:13,280 --> 01:03:13,720
Speaker 5: Who knows?

1398
01:03:13,880 --> 01:03:14,680
Speaker 2: But who steps up?

1399
01:03:14,720 --> 01:03:17,720
Speaker 1: You think here in Vuc's absence and can the Bulls

1400
01:03:17,760 --> 01:03:20,800
Speaker 1: remain back and hot while Vouch isn't there?

1401
01:03:21,880 --> 01:03:25,440
Speaker 5: The double bummer timing honestly for Voujie here because he

1402
01:03:25,560 --> 01:03:28,200
Speaker 5: just had his best game in weeks against the Mavericks

1403
01:03:28,240 --> 01:03:29,920
Speaker 5: kind of felt like he was finding his rhythm and

1404
01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:32,680
Speaker 5: I love seeing Billy Donovan and the Bulls get him

1405
01:03:32,680 --> 01:03:34,520
Speaker 5: a ton of post up touches late in that game

1406
01:03:34,520 --> 01:03:38,160
Speaker 5: against Porzingis and Dwight Powell. We've said for a couple

1407
01:03:38,200 --> 01:03:39,760
Speaker 5: of times, like he can't just be a spot up

1408
01:03:39,800 --> 01:03:42,360
Speaker 5: shooter out there. They need his three point shooting. The

1409
01:03:42,400 --> 01:03:45,200
Speaker 5: Bulls just don't take a lot of threes. Obviously Booch

1410
01:03:45,240 --> 01:03:48,000
Speaker 5: hasn't been hitting them this season, but he takes them,

1411
01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:50,440
Speaker 5: which is certainly valuable, and he moves the ball from

1412
01:03:50,520 --> 01:03:53,200
Speaker 5: side to side, from DeRozan to Levine off These short

1413
01:03:53,280 --> 01:03:55,480
Speaker 5: rolls are just kind of al forfeiting it, turning it

1414
01:03:55,520 --> 01:03:58,320
Speaker 5: over to the other side. That little continuity is something

1415
01:03:58,360 --> 01:04:00,960
Speaker 5: that the Bulls are gonna miss, no doubt. And it's

1416
01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:03,680
Speaker 5: coming right before the road trip where it would be

1417
01:04:03,800 --> 01:04:05,520
Speaker 5: just a great test to go out on the road

1418
01:04:05,520 --> 01:04:07,880
Speaker 5: for five games and play a bunch of really solid teams.

1419
01:04:07,880 --> 01:04:11,480
Speaker 5: They got the Warriors, Clippers, Lakers, Blazers, Nuggets. That's a

1420
01:04:11,520 --> 01:04:15,160
Speaker 5: lot of good big guys as well. Right, you got Jokic, Nurkic, Zubats,

1421
01:04:15,640 --> 01:04:18,600
Speaker 5: Anthony Davis, Draymond. I mean, those are probably not who

1422
01:04:19,160 --> 01:04:21,800
Speaker 5: vuch would have been Garden anyways, but you would like

1423
01:04:21,840 --> 01:04:24,880
Speaker 5: to have a big guy around, especially for that Jokic game.

1424
01:04:24,960 --> 01:04:28,760
Speaker 5: So my guess is that this will be a Tony

1425
01:04:28,800 --> 01:04:31,920
Speaker 5: Bradley steps into the starting lineup as the only other

1426
01:04:32,040 --> 01:04:35,120
Speaker 5: real big guy that's around for the Chicago Bulls right now.

1427
01:04:35,440 --> 01:04:37,480
Speaker 5: I think he'll get a lot of minutes against the

1428
01:04:38,640 --> 01:04:41,600
Speaker 5: teams that play big, like the Blazers and the Nuggets,

1429
01:04:41,640 --> 01:04:43,320
Speaker 5: and then Derek Jones Junior. I think we'll get a

1430
01:04:43,360 --> 01:04:45,280
Speaker 5: lot more minutes. He's been really solid for the Bulls

1431
01:04:45,280 --> 01:04:47,440
Speaker 5: in the past couple of games, playing with a lot

1432
01:04:47,440 --> 01:04:49,600
Speaker 5: of effort. Obviously, he doesn't give the three point shooting

1433
01:04:49,600 --> 01:04:53,040
Speaker 5: that Vucevich does, but he runs the court and he

1434
01:04:53,360 --> 01:04:56,360
Speaker 5: at least tries to defend Alisee Johnson, probably playing small

1435
01:04:56,360 --> 01:04:58,280
Speaker 5: ball five off the bench. I think those kind of

1436
01:04:58,760 --> 01:05:00,680
Speaker 5: those guys are gonna step in and play a few

1437
01:05:00,720 --> 01:05:03,120
Speaker 5: more minutes here. But the Bulls are now down there

1438
01:05:03,360 --> 01:05:06,600
Speaker 5: starting front court. Yeah, they're starting front court with Pat

1439
01:05:06,640 --> 01:05:09,800
Speaker 5: Williams gone and Vooch out now, So it's kind of

1440
01:05:09,800 --> 01:05:11,720
Speaker 5: a bummer. You know, they've been playing really well through

1441
01:05:11,760 --> 01:05:13,400
Speaker 5: the first eleven games. But this would have been a

1442
01:05:13,480 --> 01:05:16,040
Speaker 5: huge test because they've had some easy games on the schedule,

1443
01:05:16,120 --> 01:05:19,160
Speaker 5: for sure. You know, the Pistons twice, they beat up

1444
01:05:19,200 --> 01:05:24,720
Speaker 5: on the Pelicans, the Raptors, of course, nothing nothing anyways,

1445
01:05:24,720 --> 01:05:27,919
Speaker 5: but they've played it. They've had an easier schedule, very

1446
01:05:27,960 --> 01:05:29,800
Speaker 5: home heavy. Now they're going out west to see where

1447
01:05:29,800 --> 01:05:32,560
Speaker 5: they really stand. Missing two starters, so that's a bummer.

1448
01:05:32,640 --> 01:05:36,320
Speaker 5: But hopefully he is able to get healthy by the

1449
01:05:36,360 --> 01:05:37,600
Speaker 5: time to get back from this road trip.

1450
01:05:38,480 --> 01:05:41,720
Speaker 3: I thought their road trip was going to Europe. Jokic, Nurkic,

1451
01:05:41,880 --> 01:05:48,480
Speaker 3: zubach Ay, dad joke right there. Yeah, it's a it's worrisome,

1452
01:05:48,560 --> 01:05:50,520
Speaker 3: I think, Yeah, you're right. I mean, let's bring it

1453
01:05:50,560 --> 01:05:52,680
Speaker 3: back to Earth. Their schedule has been a little softy,

1454
01:05:52,800 --> 01:05:55,160
Speaker 3: especially against the Raptors. No, I guess it has it

1455
01:05:55,200 --> 01:05:58,440
Speaker 3: has been. But yeah, they're proven that they're a very

1456
01:05:58,440 --> 01:06:01,360
Speaker 3: good team. Yeah, this would be nice for them tonight

1457
01:06:01,800 --> 01:06:06,080
Speaker 3: Zach against his wine drinking buddy Draymond Green's I think

1458
01:06:06,120 --> 01:06:08,440
Speaker 3: you know the Warriors are gonna try and bother the

1459
01:06:08,480 --> 01:06:10,640
Speaker 3: hell out of Levigne. I can't watch. I can't wait

1460
01:06:10,680 --> 01:06:13,120
Speaker 3: to watch, I can't watch, I can't wait to watch

1461
01:06:14,240 --> 01:06:17,160
Speaker 3: that because they are just gonna go at him, I think,

1462
01:06:17,200 --> 01:06:20,400
Speaker 3: and the Warriors are such an incredible defense. It's gonna

1463
01:06:20,400 --> 01:06:21,040
Speaker 3: be fun.

1464
01:06:21,520 --> 01:06:24,560
Speaker 1: Good tease for our pickham game later. We're gonna be

1465
01:06:24,760 --> 01:06:28,000
Speaker 1: deciding on that one Warriors and Bulls on.

1466
01:06:27,880 --> 01:06:28,400
Speaker 2: A Friday night.

1467
01:06:28,440 --> 01:06:30,479
Speaker 1: But let's take our final break and when we come back,

1468
01:06:30,760 --> 01:06:32,760
Speaker 1: we got tweeted the night fun. We'll get to those

1469
01:06:32,800 --> 01:06:36,440
Speaker 1: pick them results and our picks and then some rapid

1470
01:06:36,440 --> 01:06:37,120
Speaker 1: fire questions.

1471
01:06:37,120 --> 01:06:40,800
Speaker 2: We'll be right back, all right back with no dunks.

1472
01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:42,960
Speaker 2: It's not really an ad read unless we screw up the.

1473
01:06:42,920 --> 01:06:46,880
Speaker 1: Brands two for two.

1474
01:06:45,920 --> 01:06:49,280
Speaker 2: They're not easy to say some of these, are they?

1475
01:06:49,360 --> 01:06:51,680
Speaker 2: All right? Let's get to tweet of the night.

1476
01:06:54,080 --> 01:07:01,320
Speaker 3: Tweet of the night. Wow, let's circle back discussion we

1477
01:07:01,400 --> 01:07:04,360
Speaker 3: had on Thursday's show. We discussed former NBA player Darren

1478
01:07:04,400 --> 01:07:08,880
Speaker 3: Williams getting into the ring. Darren's gonna fight Frank Gore.

1479
01:07:09,000 --> 01:07:10,960
Speaker 3: Now that's gonna be a real fight. As Trey said,

1480
01:07:10,960 --> 01:07:13,720
Speaker 3: you don't want to fight a guy named Gore. But

1481
01:07:14,040 --> 01:07:16,760
Speaker 3: I can't wait to watch that. I think that's happening.

1482
01:07:16,760 --> 01:07:17,720
Speaker 3: Do we say this weekend?

1483
01:07:17,960 --> 01:07:20,720
Speaker 1: No, it's in Uh, it's it's late December.

1484
01:07:20,720 --> 01:07:22,440
Speaker 2: I want to say. I think it's right before Christmas.

1485
01:07:22,720 --> 01:07:26,360
Speaker 3: Jettn has hyped. Yeah, December eighteenth. That was November eighteenth, Yeah,

1486
01:07:26,360 --> 01:07:31,360
Speaker 3: December eighteenth. Anyways, we discussed NBA players and if they

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Speaker 3: were on a card, how the boxing the card would

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Speaker 3: all shake out. Well. Nick Boucelli sent us a sweet

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Speaker 3: fight card poster. Very well done. Wow, headliner. You guys

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Speaker 3: want to start with the headline, I'll start with the headliner.

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Speaker 3: Yoki chen Is Bros. Against the Morris Bros. With Jimmy

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Speaker 3: Butler three on three. I guess we're going yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: you never know, maybe one of these guys is a

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Speaker 3: manager and will just join it. Like Jimmy Butler is

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Speaker 3: the manager. He likes to talk. Sure, yeah yeah, and

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Speaker 3: then maybe he'll jump in either way. Three on three?

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Speaker 3: Who guys taken here? Let's say it was a three

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Speaker 3: on three a wrestling wrestling dual. Yeah, wow, I'm.

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Speaker 5: Going Morris Brothers, three professional athletes versus one. So I'm

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Speaker 5: going I'm going Morris Is here.

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Speaker 6: I'll take the Yo Kitch Brothers for craziness factor. They've

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Speaker 6: already bought tickets apparently for the rematch in Miami and

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Speaker 6: South Beach, so you know they're up for it. I'll

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Speaker 6: take the Kitches, I'll take a d q A no

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Speaker 6: ending to this.

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Speaker 1: The plumb leaves, the Zellers, they both storm in. It's

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Speaker 1: like that weird scene and Anchorman where all the news

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Speaker 1: channels throw down turns into like a fatal four way match.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, nobody, nobody's leaving here with the belt because

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Speaker 1: the Plumb Dogs and the Zellers show up.

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Speaker 2: Maybe the Holidays too.

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Speaker 3: The Holidays underrated, I think.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, scrappy bunch, yeah, size.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, but they never miss games. We've got a

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Speaker 3: lot of iron Man in that family. So let's go

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Speaker 3: a little bit further down. Nick Buccelli's card well done here,

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Speaker 3: very well presented. He went with Diamond Dallas Page and

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Speaker 3: Karl Malone versus Dennis Rodman, Halcoke and classic NBA and

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Speaker 3: w O days. Ye, those are the classics. And you

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Speaker 3: know some deeper cuts here Matt Barnes versus Derek Fisher,

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's personal. And Robin Lopez versus the Raptor.

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Speaker 1: See that should be like a gauntlet match for Roez.

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Speaker 1: He should fight like ten mascots like they you know,

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Speaker 1: they come in one at a time. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if that's what a gauntlet match is called, but it

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Speaker 1: makes sense to me.

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Speaker 5: How about a Robin rumble where he has to fight

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Speaker 5: all mascots all out of the ring. I would sign

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Speaker 5: out to watch that. I see he's still doing his

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Speaker 5: bitch huh he's he has befriended Stuffed the Magic Dragon

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Speaker 5: down there in Orlando. Can't wait for the heel turn though.

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Speaker 3: Okay, that's a French mascot would put up the best

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Speaker 3: fight an actual.

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Speaker 1: Uh, well, lucky the Leprecha is a man, small man,

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Speaker 1: pretty small man.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Gorilla Gorilla still just for the Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Is the Brooklyn Knight's still around.

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Speaker 2: He's got a lot of protection.

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Speaker 5: Rip to the Brooklyn Knights.

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Speaker 3: You get retired? I mean Cleveland Cleveland man. Does he

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Speaker 3: have a sword?

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Speaker 5: Oh, that's a good point. He does have a sword.

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Speaker 5: The cab does. And I remember moon Dog. I remember

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Speaker 5: he got jacked in the face by David West once

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01:10:44,360 --> 01:10:47,280
Speaker 5: was like an introduction. David West just jacked him in

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Speaker 5: the face. He took it pretty well. Moont Dog can

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Speaker 5: take a punch. Moon Dog's not a chin I think.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Cavs have like two mascots, don't they they

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Speaker 1: have they have moon Dog, and then they have that

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Speaker 1: sword guy.

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Speaker 2: I don't what his name is, sword Guy.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's his name.

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Speaker 1: So they could team up on somebody, I guess, is

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Speaker 1: what I'm getting. That hair grill is a great answer, Lely.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm really I'm struggling to think of somebody else,

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Speaker 1: Like who's the who's.

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Speaker 2: The biggest mascot? Is it like Bernie or Lunch is

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Speaker 2: pretty Yeah?

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Speaker 5: I can't punch in the stomach either.

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Speaker 1: Very Oh yeah, people are saying, sir ceci is that

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Speaker 1: other calves sword Guy's name who cuts my hair as well?

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Speaker 3: So that coyote and Santoni is just gentle ain't rough anybody?

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Speaker 5: I think.

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Speaker 1: I think you know who's the most conniving, Like who'd

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Speaker 1: be the dirtiest to win? Like if this was an

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Speaker 1: actual wrestling match. Benny the Bull is he would do.

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Speaker 2: Anything to get the victory.

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Speaker 1: He's not he's not lovable and I love him, but

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Speaker 1: yeah he would. He would do some low blows like

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Speaker 1: we saw in the cold Open Rick Flair style, and

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01:12:04,120 --> 01:12:06,400
Speaker 1: he would you know, trip guys and put his foot

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Speaker 1: up on the rope get out and stuff like that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I saw him in a boxing match with Matt Austin.

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Speaker 5: Once upon a time it was Mango. Does Bengo still

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Speaker 5: do the jump where he like climbs up the ladder

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Speaker 5: and does a flip for a dunk, because that's a

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Speaker 5: risky stunt there, So you gotta think a reckless kind

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Speaker 5: of performer inside those antlers.

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Speaker 1: This, this is the this is the real, the real.

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Speaker 2: Best answer, it's from m h a q.

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Speaker 1: It's it's Kinkick baby, No, I know kick maybe not

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Speaker 1: a real NBA mascot, but the NBA affiliated mascot. And yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's who I'm terrified of. So good, good answer.

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Speaker 3: That's a good answer. Just to add on to Tray's

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Speaker 3: point about Matt boxing the bowl areas, there's Matt what

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Speaker 3: a hole, oversized gloves, No mention of the Raptor, I

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Speaker 3: mean not one.

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Speaker 6: He's pretty crazy actually you think about it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I dig the Raptor versus Benny the ball mascot

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Speaker 1: mascot fight.

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Speaker 3: At the inflatable Raptors that I don't know manager, Maybe

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Speaker 3: get Todd in there as the manager.

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Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, so who's that dick right putting together

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Speaker 1: that fight card? I guess we got Miles Turner and

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Speaker 1: go Bert got to be added to it.

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Speaker 3: They gotta ad him laid ad great stuff.

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Speaker 2: Great photoshop work there, Nick. Okay, pick the results brought

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Speaker 2: to by Bett MGM.

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Speaker 1: Last night Pacers Jazz game, as we said, and uh

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Speaker 1: Jazz were favored by nine and a half.

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Speaker 2: Pacers are in a back to back situation. Didn't look

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Speaker 2: all that great versus Denver and they win the NBA.

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01:13:49,479 --> 01:13:50,040
Speaker 2: It's crazy.

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Speaker 1: And that's a victory for Tasks and myself lost for

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01:13:53,479 --> 01:13:55,559
Speaker 1: Trey and Lee and we are tight. We're tight, tight,

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01:13:55,640 --> 01:13:57,599
Speaker 1: tight right now, Lee and Tass in the lead at

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01:13:57,600 --> 01:13:59,240
Speaker 1: six and three. I'm five and four and Trays right

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01:13:59,240 --> 01:14:02,320
Speaker 1: there at four and so Tasks. I believe there are

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01:14:02,360 --> 01:14:05,799
Speaker 1: twenty five games on this weekend, but we're only focusing

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Speaker 1: on Friday night. There's a lot on tonight. Which one

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Speaker 1: we go in with, Well, we told you Bulls Warriors,

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Speaker 1: But what's the line.

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01:14:10,600 --> 01:14:14,280
Speaker 3: That's too juicy? I guess a tiny bit surprised by

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01:14:14,320 --> 01:14:16,320
Speaker 3: the line. Okay, at five and a half point favorite

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01:14:16,320 --> 01:14:20,839
Speaker 3: at home, the Golden State Warriors aren't. Can the bullscape

1616
01:14:20,840 --> 01:14:24,360
Speaker 3: it close? You three say a yas, yes you do?

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01:14:25,680 --> 01:14:29,280
Speaker 3: Bulls for Trey, Skeets and Lee. Yeah, I am taking

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01:14:29,560 --> 01:14:33,160
Speaker 3: the Golden State Warriors. Who the heck knows. How do

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01:14:33,160 --> 01:14:37,160
Speaker 3: you see this game going down? Trey being the Bulls man.

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01:14:37,479 --> 01:14:39,599
Speaker 5: Well, I think that this is not a game that

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01:14:39,640 --> 01:14:42,880
Speaker 5: the Bulls are necessarily going to be missing Vucivic, which

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01:14:43,040 --> 01:14:45,960
Speaker 5: is a which is good for them. I mean, he

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01:14:45,960 --> 01:14:48,280
Speaker 5: hasn't been great this season, but he is their big guy.

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01:14:48,760 --> 01:14:50,639
Speaker 5: I think that the Bulls will be able to get

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01:14:50,640 --> 01:14:54,000
Speaker 5: by with their small lineups here because theoretically the Warriors

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01:14:54,040 --> 01:14:56,280
Speaker 5: will do the same once it really comes down to it.

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Speaker 5: Derek Jones Junior has been playing well obviously, Caruso and

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01:14:58,960 --> 01:15:01,080
Speaker 5: Lonzo have been solid. I just like what I've seen

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01:15:01,120 --> 01:15:02,720
Speaker 5: from the Bulls, and there's no way I'm ever going

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01:15:02,760 --> 01:15:05,360
Speaker 5: to pick against them in a pick them payoffs. I mean,

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01:15:06,240 --> 01:15:08,120
Speaker 5: if you ever want to swerve on me, throw the

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01:15:08,160 --> 01:15:10,000
Speaker 5: Bulls in the pick them payoff, because you know where

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01:15:10,040 --> 01:15:10,519
Speaker 5: I'm going.

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01:15:10,840 --> 01:15:13,560
Speaker 1: Oh, been there, done that with the Raptors over the

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Speaker 1: last couple of years.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's tough.

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01:15:15,920 --> 01:15:17,520
Speaker 5: You can get in trouble for sure.

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01:15:17,520 --> 01:15:20,800
Speaker 1: Yep, yep, okay, But I found this to be the

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01:15:20,800 --> 01:15:22,960
Speaker 1: most difficult game to try and figure out. I mean, look,

1640
01:15:22,960 --> 01:15:26,080
Speaker 1: I've had a garbage record, so whatever that means. But

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Speaker 1: I was like, when you shared this one this morning,

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01:15:28,040 --> 01:15:31,320
Speaker 1: task is like, God, I don't know, I really don't know.

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01:15:31,360 --> 01:15:33,320
Speaker 1: I can see the Warriors winning by twenty year. I

1644
01:15:33,360 --> 01:15:37,040
Speaker 1: can see the Bulls winning the game outright, But ultimately

1645
01:15:37,080 --> 01:15:40,160
Speaker 1: I decided to go with the Trey Kirby bullser back,

1646
01:15:40,160 --> 01:15:40,720
Speaker 1: and so did Ley.

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01:15:41,000 --> 01:15:43,559
Speaker 2: So good luck to us, I guess I know, luck

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01:15:43,600 --> 01:15:45,320
Speaker 2: to you.

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01:15:44,560 --> 01:15:47,360
Speaker 3: No, none to me. It was very tough. So I

1650
01:15:47,680 --> 01:15:49,920
Speaker 3: assigned it to my daughter. I asked her who's going

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01:15:50,000 --> 01:15:53,280
Speaker 3: to win this game? She was out of it. The

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01:15:53,360 --> 01:15:55,920
Speaker 3: Golden State Warriors, And I said, by how many points?

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01:15:56,640 --> 01:15:58,120
Speaker 3: You gotta tell me the line?

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01:15:57,840 --> 01:15:58,000
Speaker 5: Yeah?

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01:15:58,520 --> 01:16:01,519
Speaker 3: What if they went by five? She said, by one hundred? Oh,

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01:16:01,680 --> 01:16:03,920
Speaker 3: it's your favorite.

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01:16:03,800 --> 01:16:04,200
Speaker 1: Yeah.

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01:16:05,160 --> 01:16:08,640
Speaker 3: The fact that it's on national TV for the Warriors,

1659
01:16:08,840 --> 01:16:11,439
Speaker 3: you know they like to show up. It's on ESPN.

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01:16:12,280 --> 01:16:16,439
Speaker 3: So looking forward to this baby of late life, it's difficult.

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01:16:16,000 --> 01:16:17,960
Speaker 1: Because the Warriors have a great record, but as we've

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01:16:17,960 --> 01:16:21,320
Speaker 1: talked about, they haven't played all that many great teams,

1663
01:16:21,320 --> 01:16:23,000
Speaker 1: and we know the Bulls are a good team. So

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01:16:23,040 --> 01:16:24,840
Speaker 1: it's like, well, which one is it? Are the Warriors

1665
01:16:24,920 --> 01:16:27,320
Speaker 1: legit and are for real? And it doesn't matter who

1666
01:16:27,320 --> 01:16:28,880
Speaker 1: they're going to play, and they're going to kick their

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01:16:28,960 --> 01:16:31,760
Speaker 1: especially at home, which I think this is our last

1668
01:16:31,800 --> 01:16:34,960
Speaker 1: game of their eight game home stand wherever the heck

1669
01:16:35,000 --> 01:16:37,439
Speaker 1: they're at, or is it the opposite where it's like, oh,

1670
01:16:37,439 --> 01:16:38,920
Speaker 1: now they're playing a really good team and maybe it's

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01:16:38,920 --> 01:16:40,519
Speaker 1: a lot closer or maybe they even lose.

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01:16:40,520 --> 01:16:42,160
Speaker 2: So that's why it was difficult for me. But let's

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01:16:42,160 --> 01:16:44,000
Speaker 2: hear from everybody in the stream. Team get you picks in.

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01:16:44,520 --> 01:16:46,880
Speaker 1: Taken the Bulls or the Warriors. They got to win

1675
01:16:46,920 --> 01:16:49,720
Speaker 1: by six points or more. Don't forget that. Okay, Well,

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01:16:49,800 --> 01:16:52,720
Speaker 1: let's wrap up this very fun drop podcast with a

1677
01:16:52,720 --> 01:16:53,960
Speaker 1: little rapid fire fun.

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01:16:54,120 --> 01:16:56,719
Speaker 2: Tass has the questions. J D Lee and Treyhart answering,

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01:16:56,800 --> 01:16:58,040
Speaker 2: let's go there.

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Speaker 3: We go, got some tough questions for you, gentleman. New

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01:17:01,560 --> 01:17:05,400
Speaker 3: Orleans Pelicans writer Mason Ginsburg reported that court side seats

1682
01:17:05,479 --> 01:17:10,320
Speaker 3: cost a mere one hundred dollars when OKAC visited New

1683
01:17:10,400 --> 01:17:13,120
Speaker 3: Orleans this week. When's the time you came across something

1684
01:17:13,160 --> 01:17:15,479
Speaker 3: that was unexpectedly cheap? JD.

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01:17:15,800 --> 01:17:19,960
Speaker 9: Well, it wasn't exactly cheap, but it was way cheaper

1686
01:17:19,960 --> 01:17:22,280
Speaker 9: than I thought it was going to be. We recently

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01:17:22,680 --> 01:17:24,840
Speaker 9: as you know, we've been doing some work around the

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01:17:24,840 --> 01:17:27,000
Speaker 9: house here and part of the work was getting our

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01:17:27,120 --> 01:17:32,320
Speaker 9: driveway expanded, so basically making it double the size. And

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01:17:32,400 --> 01:17:35,240
Speaker 9: if you asked me, you know, three or four weeks ago,

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01:17:35,320 --> 01:17:38,800
Speaker 9: I'd be like, how much would it cost, I'd be like,

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01:17:38,960 --> 01:17:42,280
Speaker 9: I don't know, between fifty thousand and a million dollars,

1693
01:17:42,320 --> 01:17:46,719
Speaker 9: you know, like a like no clue how much. Something

1694
01:17:46,920 --> 01:17:48,760
Speaker 9: like it was just it seemed like out of the

1695
01:17:48,800 --> 01:17:52,679
Speaker 9: realm of possibilities because you know, yeah, it involves bringing

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01:17:52,680 --> 01:17:55,879
Speaker 9: a cement truck, which here's a picture of it happening,

1697
01:17:56,200 --> 01:17:59,000
Speaker 9: which was like so awesome, man, Like to have a

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01:17:59,040 --> 01:18:03,360
Speaker 9: cement truck on your property just and guys just pouring

1699
01:18:03,439 --> 01:18:06,680
Speaker 9: cement was like the highlight of my month, I think.

1700
01:18:06,840 --> 01:18:07,000
Speaker 7: You know.

1701
01:18:07,080 --> 01:18:08,839
Speaker 4: So it's like a few thousand dollars.

1702
01:18:08,840 --> 01:18:11,360
Speaker 9: I mean, it wasn't cheap, but it was so much

1703
01:18:11,400 --> 01:18:13,320
Speaker 9: cheaper than we thought it would be. And here's the

1704
01:18:13,439 --> 01:18:18,280
Speaker 9: finished product, and like it's just like it's like magic

1705
01:18:18,360 --> 01:18:20,920
Speaker 9: to me. It's just like these guys are awesome. And

1706
01:18:21,160 --> 01:18:23,800
Speaker 9: you know, Rachel would have like the entire property paved,

1707
01:18:23,880 --> 01:18:26,040
Speaker 9: like she was so thrilled with how it turned out.

1708
01:18:26,080 --> 01:18:30,680
Speaker 9: But it's crazy like, uh, it's so cool. Just a

1709
01:18:30,800 --> 01:18:33,200
Speaker 9: couple of thousand bucks and you got a new driveway.

1710
01:18:33,240 --> 01:18:33,799
Speaker 9: It's awesome.

1711
01:18:35,280 --> 01:18:38,120
Speaker 5: But you won't watch Tough as Nails after Survivor.

1712
01:18:38,840 --> 01:18:41,599
Speaker 9: That's exactly right. I'm not gonna watch a TV sha.

1713
01:18:42,680 --> 01:18:47,720
Speaker 9: These guys were tough and real. It's so emasculating too,

1714
01:18:47,760 --> 01:18:50,599
Speaker 9: because it was like, I mean, this is me working

1715
01:18:50,760 --> 01:18:56,000
Speaker 9: like poop boop. It's like, let me know if you

1716
01:18:56,040 --> 01:18:57,880
Speaker 9: need anything, guys, I'll be right over here.

1717
01:18:57,920 --> 01:18:59,520
Speaker 4: And they see they like see.

1718
01:18:59,240 --> 01:18:59,920
Speaker 6: Me in the girl.

1719
01:19:00,000 --> 01:19:05,240
Speaker 4: I was going, oh, please, please, don't disturb my husband.

1720
01:19:05,280 --> 01:19:07,960
Speaker 4: He's a what time is intruted too becoming because.

1721
01:19:07,720 --> 01:19:12,600
Speaker 9: He's he's doing his very important work in the garage. O,

1722
01:19:12,840 --> 01:19:15,479
Speaker 9: my god, give me a shovel, get me out there.

1723
01:19:18,439 --> 01:19:20,200
Speaker 5: I like to imagine they show up and you're like,

1724
01:19:20,240 --> 01:19:22,160
Speaker 5: if you need me, I'll be in the classic factory,

1725
01:19:22,240 --> 01:19:23,000
Speaker 5: working hard.

1726
01:19:22,840 --> 01:19:29,760
Speaker 3: In here, very very good. I do get excited seeing

1727
01:19:29,760 --> 01:19:32,200
Speaker 3: a cement truck work, So that would have been that

1728
01:19:32,200 --> 01:19:34,919
Speaker 3: would have been a blasting. You have paving your whole property,

1729
01:19:34,960 --> 01:19:38,640
Speaker 3: that would be nice. Some people do it. I mean

1730
01:19:38,880 --> 01:19:41,240
Speaker 3: some people down here put in artificial grass. You never

1731
01:19:41,320 --> 01:19:44,880
Speaker 3: have to touch it ever again that's expensive.

1732
01:19:45,160 --> 01:19:49,799
Speaker 1: I think anyway, probably a dollars to a million dollars

1733
01:19:50,080 --> 01:19:51,599
Speaker 1: somewhere somewhere in the.

1734
01:19:51,560 --> 01:19:55,720
Speaker 3: Whole part lee unexpectedly cheap. What what was it? Yeah?

1735
01:19:55,880 --> 01:19:58,040
Speaker 6: I think I have mentioned this story before, but I

1736
01:19:58,080 --> 01:20:00,799
Speaker 6: was walking around the sunny streets of London one beautiful

1737
01:20:00,840 --> 01:20:03,479
Speaker 6: summer's day, and all of a sudden, this guy out

1738
01:20:03,479 --> 01:20:07,439
Speaker 6: of nowhere just started hawking like all these great men's

1739
01:20:07,560 --> 01:20:10,160
Speaker 6: colognes like c K one and David Off cool Water,

1740
01:20:10,280 --> 01:20:12,599
Speaker 6: and it was like these were selling for like fifty

1741
01:20:12,640 --> 01:20:14,800
Speaker 6: pounds in store and he was selling for like ten pounds.

1742
01:20:14,840 --> 01:20:16,880
Speaker 6: And I was like, oh my god, give me some.

1743
01:20:16,920 --> 01:20:18,800
Speaker 3: Of that cash, cash cow.

1744
01:20:18,840 --> 01:20:21,280
Speaker 6: I'm just throwing money at him. I came home to

1745
01:20:21,280 --> 01:20:22,720
Speaker 6: my brother and said, look at all this stuff we

1746
01:20:22,880 --> 01:20:24,439
Speaker 6: just picked up off the street. And he's like, where

1747
01:20:24,439 --> 01:20:25,880
Speaker 6: did you get that? And I said, oh, this guy

1748
01:20:26,000 --> 01:20:29,240
Speaker 6: was just selling so oh I just tiped that down

1749
01:20:29,280 --> 01:20:33,000
Speaker 6: the sick. That's garbage and it was. But yeah, so

1750
01:20:33,680 --> 01:20:36,160
Speaker 6: it was. It was a cheap lesson, but it was

1751
01:20:36,160 --> 01:20:36,599
Speaker 6: a lesson.

1752
01:20:36,600 --> 01:20:40,400
Speaker 4: Nonetheless, did it smell like anything or just spray it on?

1753
01:20:40,520 --> 01:20:44,360
Speaker 6: And like, I definitely didn't spray it on me, because

1754
01:20:44,479 --> 01:20:46,559
Speaker 6: you know, those you know, the cologne bottles, they're they're

1755
01:20:46,640 --> 01:20:49,439
Speaker 6: you know, really beautiful, high quality bottle. This was just

1756
01:20:49,560 --> 01:20:52,640
Speaker 6: like any old spray bottle full of stuff. And my

1757
01:20:52,680 --> 01:20:54,439
Speaker 6: brother was like, do put that?

1758
01:20:55,280 --> 01:20:57,479
Speaker 2: Well, my god, I didn't realize it didn't look like it.

1759
01:20:58,120 --> 01:21:01,599
Speaker 6: Packaging. The packaging was legit. The cardboard packaging was all legit,

1760
01:21:01,680 --> 01:21:03,599
Speaker 6: and it was all plastic wrapped and everything. So I

1761
01:21:03,640 --> 01:21:05,360
Speaker 6: was just like, oh, yeah, I mean it's hot, but

1762
01:21:05,400 --> 01:21:08,880
Speaker 6: it's pure. And then the bottles were just like it

1763
01:21:08,920 --> 01:21:11,960
Speaker 6: was just full of rubbish. So yeah, it cost me, yeah,

1764
01:21:12,400 --> 01:21:17,880
Speaker 6: and I was on I was on my I was

1765
01:21:17,880 --> 01:21:20,840
Speaker 6: on my Australian currency at the time, which like it

1766
01:21:20,880 --> 01:21:23,120
Speaker 6: was like two dollars fifty for one pound, and this

1767
01:21:23,240 --> 01:21:25,400
Speaker 6: was like it ended up cost me about sixty pounds

1768
01:21:25,439 --> 01:21:27,720
Speaker 6: or something like that. So it cost me about one

1769
01:21:27,800 --> 01:21:31,280
Speaker 6: hundred and fifty Australian dollars to just pour junk down

1770
01:21:31,320 --> 01:21:31,799
Speaker 6: the sinks.

1771
01:21:32,000 --> 01:21:39,320
Speaker 3: Wow, that's cheap. All right, it's hot, but it's pure.

1772
01:21:41,920 --> 01:21:43,559
Speaker 5: I thought the same thing when I bought a pair

1773
01:21:43,600 --> 01:21:46,080
Speaker 5: of ten dollars folkally is on a class trip at

1774
01:21:46,120 --> 01:21:49,040
Speaker 5: eighth grade to Washington, DC for me. Though the answer

1775
01:21:49,439 --> 01:21:52,720
Speaker 5: I accidentally ran an awesome scam on eBay. Once I

1776
01:21:52,760 --> 01:21:56,000
Speaker 5: bought a pair of Timberlin boots for twenty five dollars

1777
01:21:56,240 --> 01:21:58,479
Speaker 5: a pair of beef broccolis. I was like, okay, great,

1778
01:21:58,479 --> 01:21:59,880
Speaker 5: I'll try them out and see if I like them.

1779
01:22:00,400 --> 01:22:02,280
Speaker 5: Had them for a couple of weeks and the souls

1780
01:22:02,479 --> 01:22:05,400
Speaker 5: just fell off, like they started disintegrating while I was

1781
01:22:05,439 --> 01:22:08,479
Speaker 5: walking around. So I emailed Timberland. I said, hey, I

1782
01:22:08,560 --> 01:22:11,280
Speaker 5: got these boots, the souls are following off. They said,

1783
01:22:11,360 --> 01:22:13,200
Speaker 5: send them in and we'll send you a free pair.

1784
01:22:13,920 --> 01:22:15,679
Speaker 5: So I bought a pair of boots for twenty five

1785
01:22:15,680 --> 01:22:18,519
Speaker 5: bucks off eBay. They broke, sent them in, got a

1786
01:22:18,560 --> 01:22:21,679
Speaker 5: brand new pair of Timberland's back half size too small,

1787
01:22:21,680 --> 01:22:24,840
Speaker 5: but still that's why.

1788
01:22:25,720 --> 01:22:28,400
Speaker 1: But so were they real Timberlands? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,

1789
01:22:28,439 --> 01:22:31,320
Speaker 1: Oh okay, they were just older. So I mean that'll

1790
01:22:31,320 --> 01:22:32,160
Speaker 1: happen to a boot.

1791
01:22:32,400 --> 01:22:34,120
Speaker 5: I feel like a boot will be one hundred percent

1792
01:22:34,200 --> 01:22:38,320
Speaker 5: sturdy when you're out there poor in driveway cement for

1793
01:22:38,360 --> 01:22:40,519
Speaker 5: ten years and then suddenly one day they just fall

1794
01:22:40,560 --> 01:22:42,920
Speaker 5: apart and your shoes fall off, and then hopefully the

1795
01:22:42,960 --> 01:22:43,800
Speaker 5: company hooks you up.

1796
01:22:45,080 --> 01:22:48,720
Speaker 3: Awesome great answers, guys, Oh I didn't really have a

1797
01:22:48,760 --> 01:22:50,400
Speaker 3: lot of faith when I wrote these ones, but you

1798
01:22:50,439 --> 01:22:53,080
Speaker 3: guys came through all right. Next one, this one comes

1799
01:22:53,080 --> 01:22:56,080
Speaker 3: from Faithful No Dunk's listener, Robbie. I thought of this

1800
01:22:56,120 --> 01:22:58,559
Speaker 3: one after hearing you guys talk Mario Kart. What's a

1801
01:22:58,640 --> 01:23:02,920
Speaker 3: video game where you're at about playing with a specific character? JD.

1802
01:23:04,479 --> 01:23:07,280
Speaker 9: It actually is. Mario Kart is the video game. And

1803
01:23:07,320 --> 01:23:11,920
Speaker 9: I have never not played as Warrior always. Wow, it's

1804
01:23:12,080 --> 01:23:15,400
Speaker 9: gotta be Warrior. I just love I'm a Warrior.

1805
01:23:18,920 --> 01:23:20,679
Speaker 4: It's just awesome. Man, it's awesome.

1806
01:23:20,880 --> 01:23:23,080
Speaker 9: And you know, the kids get pissed off because they

1807
01:23:23,120 --> 01:23:25,559
Speaker 9: sometimes want to play with Warrio, but I just put

1808
01:23:25,560 --> 01:23:28,720
Speaker 9: my foot down and they I'm Wrio and I'm gonna win.

1809
01:23:30,600 --> 01:23:33,320
Speaker 3: Hey, I'm Warrior. You can't play with the same guy.

1810
01:23:33,560 --> 01:23:34,360
Speaker 3: I thought you could.

1811
01:23:34,560 --> 01:23:36,960
Speaker 9: No, two guys at the same time. I don't think

1812
01:23:37,000 --> 01:23:40,160
Speaker 9: you can. Oh, I mean we wouldn't even like they

1813
01:23:40,200 --> 01:23:43,519
Speaker 9: we like, even if you could, that's still.

1814
01:23:43,280 --> 01:23:46,559
Speaker 1: Not I thought you could, like you're different, like sort

1815
01:23:46,600 --> 01:23:47,599
Speaker 1: of colors a little bit.

1816
01:23:47,680 --> 01:23:50,639
Speaker 2: But yeah, well I'm with you in principal. You can't

1817
01:23:50,680 --> 01:23:52,080
Speaker 2: have like three Warriors out there.

1818
01:23:52,160 --> 01:23:55,240
Speaker 3: No, Yeah, no, all right, leap.

1819
01:23:56,360 --> 01:23:58,400
Speaker 6: When I was living with my old Night Benny in Canada.

1820
01:23:58,439 --> 01:24:00,600
Speaker 6: We bought NBA Live in two thousand one, and you

1821
01:24:00,600 --> 01:24:02,479
Speaker 6: know at the start, you sort of you just picked

1822
01:24:02,479 --> 01:24:04,240
Speaker 6: teams and then you just pick another team until you

1823
01:24:04,240 --> 01:24:07,160
Speaker 6: find your guy. Well, I loved Eddie Jones on the

1824
01:24:07,160 --> 01:24:10,720
Speaker 6: Miami Heat and Benny hated him, so every single game

1825
01:24:10,760 --> 01:24:12,920
Speaker 6: Benny would choose other teams. I would always be Eddie

1826
01:24:13,000 --> 01:24:14,760
Speaker 6: Jones for the Miami Heat, and I'd always try to

1827
01:24:14,760 --> 01:24:17,040
Speaker 6: get a triple double more than i would try to

1828
01:24:17,080 --> 01:24:19,400
Speaker 6: win the game, because that would drive him crazy. And

1829
01:24:19,479 --> 01:24:21,240
Speaker 6: it worked a few times where I'd get the triple

1830
01:24:21,240 --> 01:24:22,680
Speaker 6: double and a lost, but I'd be like, oh, I

1831
01:24:22,720 --> 01:24:24,280
Speaker 6: was trying to get a triple double, so it doesn't

1832
01:24:24,280 --> 01:24:26,479
Speaker 6: matter I won what I was trying to do, but

1833
01:24:26,520 --> 01:24:28,000
Speaker 6: if I got a win on top of it, it

1834
01:24:28,040 --> 01:24:31,679
Speaker 6: was even better. So yeah, Eddie Jones, he was awesome, awesome.

1835
01:24:31,880 --> 01:24:35,080
Speaker 6: So hard to get a triple double on a twelve

1836
01:24:35,120 --> 01:24:37,840
Speaker 6: minute NBA Live back in two thousand and one, but

1837
01:24:38,000 --> 01:24:39,000
Speaker 6: I did it a few times.

1838
01:24:45,360 --> 01:24:52,120
Speaker 5: Russell Wesbrocker, I always would choose Scorpion anytime I played

1839
01:24:52,160 --> 01:24:55,880
Speaker 5: Mortal Kombat, just because I love the spear. Come here,

1840
01:24:56,640 --> 01:24:59,080
Speaker 5: get over here. I feel like he was the most

1841
01:24:59,200 --> 01:25:04,840
Speaker 5: tarkative amongst the Mortal Kombats out there, So yeah, I was.

1842
01:25:04,960 --> 01:25:06,280
Speaker 5: I was a Scorpion guy. I don't know if he

1843
01:25:06,320 --> 01:25:09,000
Speaker 5: was the best. He felt a little limited to me, actually,

1844
01:25:09,000 --> 01:25:11,280
Speaker 5: because you know, you would experiment with others. I think

1845
01:25:11,360 --> 01:25:13,640
Speaker 5: Lou Kang was probably my favorite to play with, but

1846
01:25:14,160 --> 01:25:16,400
Speaker 5: Scorpion the most fun for sure, the bloodiest.

1847
01:25:16,439 --> 01:25:18,559
Speaker 1: I would say, did you have a street fighter guy too?

1848
01:25:19,000 --> 01:25:21,840
Speaker 1: I would go for Gile love the haircut gyle.

1849
01:25:22,000 --> 01:25:24,680
Speaker 5: So I kind of feel like he's very similar to Scorpion.

1850
01:25:24,840 --> 01:25:27,519
Speaker 5: Like I keep picking these characters that like the in

1851
01:25:27,720 --> 01:25:30,360
Speaker 5: close combat when in reality I'm more of a sniper

1852
01:25:30,360 --> 01:25:31,080
Speaker 5: from the outside.

1853
01:25:31,280 --> 01:25:31,680
Speaker 2: There you go.

1854
01:25:32,439 --> 01:25:35,800
Speaker 9: I just played Mortal Kombat with Jackson and just had

1855
01:25:35,840 --> 01:25:39,799
Speaker 9: my ass handed to me. Oh yeah, and he was Rambo.

1856
01:25:40,680 --> 01:25:44,840
Speaker 4: That made it even worse. Yeah, you can play as

1857
01:25:45,000 --> 01:25:47,120
Speaker 4: Rambo and RoboCop.

1858
01:25:46,520 --> 01:25:48,400
Speaker 3: And what Yeah?

1859
01:25:48,640 --> 01:25:49,559
Speaker 2: Oh I didn't know that.

1860
01:25:49,720 --> 01:25:53,000
Speaker 9: And it's so it's hole. They've played the latest version

1861
01:25:53,040 --> 01:25:56,559
Speaker 9: of it. It's hilariously gross, Like it is so over

1862
01:25:56,600 --> 01:25:59,560
Speaker 9: the top violent, like, uh, it's it's incredible.

1863
01:25:59,560 --> 01:26:02,599
Speaker 4: But I'm like just mashing buttons and he's just.

1864
01:26:02,960 --> 01:26:05,360
Speaker 3: Destroying me on the switch.

1865
01:26:06,560 --> 01:26:08,120
Speaker 4: No, on the PS four.

1866
01:26:08,600 --> 01:26:13,040
Speaker 3: Oh interesting, all right? What's something new every day? All right?

1867
01:26:13,120 --> 01:26:15,760
Speaker 3: Last one? The Milwaukee Box visited the White House this week,

1868
01:26:15,760 --> 01:26:19,360
Speaker 3: and President Biden surprised everyone when he addressed guard Dante

1869
01:26:19,520 --> 01:26:23,479
Speaker 3: de Vincenzo. First. Both of them did grow up in Delaware.

1870
01:26:24,200 --> 01:26:29,599
Speaker 3: When's the time you remember someone receiving unexpected praise? JD.

1871
01:26:30,960 --> 01:26:34,559
Speaker 9: It's actually our man, Trey Kirby, and I'm I had

1872
01:26:34,600 --> 01:26:36,840
Speaker 9: to hit him up on the DMS to just to

1873
01:26:36,920 --> 01:26:40,320
Speaker 9: confirm this story. But it was way back you guys

1874
01:26:40,400 --> 01:26:42,840
Speaker 9: probably remember with the first time we ever had our

1875
01:26:43,200 --> 01:26:46,120
Speaker 9: a meeting with NBA, and it was at NBA E

1876
01:26:46,200 --> 01:26:50,200
Speaker 9: in Soccacus, New Jersey, and uh, one of the guys

1877
01:26:50,240 --> 01:26:55,160
Speaker 9: there randomly said, oh, Trey Kirby, guys.

1878
01:26:55,240 --> 01:27:02,240
Speaker 4: He has this awesome pow Gasol impersonation, right, and.

1879
01:27:02,640 --> 01:27:05,120
Speaker 9: He was like We were all like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Eliza,

1880
01:27:05,160 --> 01:27:08,639
Speaker 9: if we knew what he was talking about, and I did, Trey,

1881
01:27:08,800 --> 01:27:10,559
Speaker 9: you didn't have any idea what he was tiring or

1882
01:27:10,560 --> 01:27:11,880
Speaker 9: did you know what he was talking about?

1883
01:27:11,920 --> 01:27:13,759
Speaker 5: But it was I didn't know what he was talking

1884
01:27:13,800 --> 01:27:18,439
Speaker 5: about except for that, like literally probably like five years prior,

1885
01:27:18,479 --> 01:27:21,000
Speaker 5: I had tweeted something about pau Gasol always having hoof

1886
01:27:21,040 --> 01:27:23,639
Speaker 5: hands anytime you would want to complain. But I didn't

1887
01:27:23,680 --> 01:27:26,600
Speaker 5: think it was like an impersonation. But I felt the

1888
01:27:26,640 --> 01:27:29,439
Speaker 5: pressure though, like you better do it, you better do that.

1889
01:27:30,560 --> 01:27:32,480
Speaker 5: I don't know you want to see my hoof hands

1890
01:27:33,280 --> 01:27:34,120
Speaker 5: went over though.

1891
01:27:34,000 --> 01:27:37,200
Speaker 2: I do remember that. Yeah, we were all confused.

1892
01:27:37,760 --> 01:27:42,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, talking about all right, it's crazy.

1893
01:27:42,240 --> 01:27:46,120
Speaker 6: When the Toronto Raptors won the championship in twenty nineteen,

1894
01:27:46,320 --> 01:27:49,280
Speaker 6: it was fairly obvious who the finals MVP was going

1895
01:27:49,360 --> 01:27:52,519
Speaker 6: to be. All to everyone except for Huge Brown, who

1896
01:27:52,600 --> 01:27:55,920
Speaker 6: went with Freddy van v Lead over Kawhi Lenit.

1897
01:27:55,800 --> 01:27:57,479
Speaker 2: To win Finals MVP.

1898
01:27:57,640 --> 01:28:00,799
Speaker 6: Kawhi won ten of the eleven votes from the media,

1899
01:28:00,880 --> 01:28:03,920
Speaker 6: but there's just that one voted there, fred van Vliet

1900
01:28:03,960 --> 01:28:07,240
Speaker 6: from Hube Brown. He played well, Hey he did. He

1901
01:28:07,320 --> 01:28:09,360
Speaker 6: did offensively and defensively.

1902
01:28:09,439 --> 01:28:10,599
Speaker 2: But yeah, that was a bit of a stretch.

1903
01:28:11,360 --> 01:28:13,000
Speaker 3: All right, Trey take us home.

1904
01:28:13,520 --> 01:28:17,280
Speaker 5: I'm loving this synergy we have between answers here because

1905
01:28:17,360 --> 01:28:21,960
Speaker 5: my answer involves me and us getting unexpected praise. At

1906
01:28:22,000 --> 01:28:24,720
Speaker 5: the twenty nineteen finals, had to sit down for an

1907
01:28:24,800 --> 01:28:28,679
Speaker 5: interview with andre Iguidala, the last like sit down interview

1908
01:28:29,360 --> 01:28:32,479
Speaker 5: that I did with during the starters, and I was

1909
01:28:32,520 --> 01:28:36,000
Speaker 5: super nervous going into it because you know, andre Iguidala

1910
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Speaker 5: can be a surly guy. He's definitely sarcastic with the media.

1911
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Speaker 5: But he also said one of the nicest things of

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Speaker 5: all time about our show, take a look, best.

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Speaker 3: Of look in the future.

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Speaker 6: I know you're getting canceled up.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry to hear that.

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Speaker 3: When I retire, I may bring a showback when I

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Speaker 3: when I run the channel.

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Speaker 5: All right, sounds good, I'll get you my information. Thanks

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Speaker 5: a lot. Man didn't follow up. Still not retired, but

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Speaker 5: but we'll see what happens in the future.

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Speaker 3: Here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah he's still playing. He still play, Yeah, give him,

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Speaker 1: givehim a couple more years. Hell, he might win another

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Speaker 1: ring for all we know.

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Speaker 2: And then then hit us up.

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Speaker 3: I forget.

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Speaker 5: He said that with too much of a smile on

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Speaker 5: his Oh yeah, yeah, he was excited to say it.

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Speaker 5: As soon as it was over, he was like, I'm

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Speaker 5: not that bad, am. I he knew. I was nervous

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Speaker 5: coming into the interview. I guess I don't know who

1932
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Speaker 5: who told him that, but I definitely was. But then

1933
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Speaker 5: he completely won me over.

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Speaker 3: There you go, compliment.

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Speaker 1: All right, great answers to some I'm with you, test,

1936
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Speaker 1: I saw those in the docks say these are tough ones,

1937
01:29:45,800 --> 01:29:47,960
Speaker 1: these are tough rapid fire accues, but these guys knocked

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Speaker 1: it out of the park like they always do. That's

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Speaker 1: the drop podcast showed out to the stream team for

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Speaker 1: joining us live. Thank you so much. Take a second.

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Speaker 1: If you haven't already liked the video, subscribed to Not

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Speaker 1: Dunks on YouTube, Share the show with your friend. Let's

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Speaker 1: get to fifty thousand subs no buffs. If you're a

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Speaker 1: survivor fan, it's available. We had a long podcast last

1945
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Speaker 1: night talking with Jason Conception on about that. Later today

1946
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Speaker 1: we're talking to Michelle Beadle here on No Dunks, So

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Speaker 1: keep your eyes and your ears open for that one.

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Speaker 2: Again. You'll probably drop this.

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Speaker 1: Afternoon, maybe a little bit into the night. Earlier into

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Speaker 1: the night. Michelle Beadle talking to I believe Tacin Lee.

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Speaker 1: You guys are hopefully gonna be able to have a

1952
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Speaker 1: little sit down with her and talk to her here

1953
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Speaker 1: on the podcast.

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Speaker 2: Keep your eye over that.

1955
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Speaker 1: Trey and I are jumping on the top shot Twitter

1956
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Speaker 1: spaces in about forty five minutes. If you want to

1957
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Speaker 1: hear us talk a little bit more about hoops and

1958
01:30:37,240 --> 01:30:40,320
Speaker 1: about top Shot. Go to at NBA top Shot to

1959
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Speaker 1: find that. If you're listening to this later, sorry it's

1960
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Speaker 1: already over and I don't think they record these things,

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Speaker 1: so whoops. Gott to join us live for that one.

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Speaker 1: Keep your questions coming, No dunks at the Athletic dot com.

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Speaker 2: Merch No dunks dot com.

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Speaker 1: And that's it. Jad, I'm happy you have a new driveway.

1967
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Speaker 1: Does this mean we're getting closer and closer to where

1968
01:31:01,160 --> 01:31:02,520
Speaker 1: I think? We're getting closer.

1969
01:31:02,200 --> 01:31:05,960
Speaker 9: And closer We're getting We're getting closer and closer and closer.

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Speaker 4: It's happening.

1971
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Speaker 1: It's happening. Guys, who will leave it at that? Everybody,

1972
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Speaker 1: have a great weekend, enjoy all twenty five games. We'll

1973
01:31:12,560 --> 01:31:15,320
Speaker 1: be back on Monday to break them all down until

1974
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Speaker 1: the Cliver Rose.

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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 3: Thanks for joining us. And remember I think that Andrea

1978
01:31:24,479 --> 01:31:27,040
Speaker 3: Goudala lesson is a good one. Never judge a book

1979
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Speaker 3: by his cover. Just like when our friend James Borbath

1980
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Speaker 3: interviewed Reggie Evans back in the day when he had

1981
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Speaker 3: to go to a raptors camp up in Ottawa. He

1982
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Speaker 3: was a little worried. Reggie Evans, big guy, but he

1983
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Speaker 3: handled it well. Never judge a book by its cover.

1984
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Speaker 2: Embrace the weekend.

1985
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Speaker 9: People, you could stay every day.

1986
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Speaker 2: I dang you happy every day.

1987
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Speaker 6: It's been so long with Yoana, It's happened already.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna be a great meeting.